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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07
PUT A WITNESS TO SLEEP.
She Causes an Insane Asylum
Attendant Some Peculiar
Feelings.
WAS A WITCH FROM WICHITA.
Remarkable Testimony From Wit
ness Under the Spell Of the
Feminine Lawyer.

KANSAS CITY, No., May GA special
to the Journal from Topeka, says:
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, orator and politi-
clan, has assumed a new role. She is a
hypnotist, and a first-class one, as shown
by an exhibition given by her to-day dur
ing the progress of a petty investigation
now proceeding against certain officers of
the State Insane Asylum. During the
proceedings Mrs. Lease, without announc-
ing her purpose, walked across the COM
mittee-room to where ]. l.. Flint, an at
tendant at the asylum, was sitting, and re-
marked, with a pass of her hand before
his eyes:
"Mr. Flint, you look weary. Your tes-
timony of yesterday must have been
trying on you"
Mr.. Flint attempted to disclaim any
WEAKNESS, but Mrs. Lease made another
pass of her hands and Flint went "dead
asleep"
"Mr. Flint" said Mrs. Lease, "did you
read the report of your testimony in the
Capital?"
"No," said Flint, 81 did not"
"WeH, you did not testify to any such
things as the Capital said you did, did
YOU? (handing him sheet of writing
paper containing merely list of names).
mo; that's all wrong. 1 didn't testify
to anything of the kind. The Capital got
it all mixed up"
"See," said Mrs. Lease, chow stiff your
arm is getting"
Flint's arm drew up and became as rigid
as tent pole.
"And your limbs too" said the Wichita
witch, and straightway one of his legs was
sitter than it really ought to be. For ten
or fifteen minutes Mrs. Lease played with
her subject. She made him do all sorts Of
things, ridiculous and otherwise, and
finally brought him out of his trance with
few passes of her hands.
As Mrs. Lease proceeded with her black
art the committee and witnesses looked on
dumfounded, and only gained their com
posure when she declared the performance
over for the day.
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BIG TEMP ERANCE PETITION
1t Contains Two Million sigma
lures of Men of All
Nations.
DR.. Lunn Will Convey 1t to England
Where 1t Will Be Presented
to Harcourt.

LONDON, Eng, May 6.-The third bien-
NAL convention of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union will open in this city
June 16 next. Arrangements have been
made for $50 women preachers and speak
ers to address the same number of audi
ences in London on the date. A unique
demonstration will take place in Albert
Hall on Tuesday, June 16, when the great
polyglot petition, which will be here from
New York, will be festooned around the
great hall.
This petition, which is 1928 yards long,
bears over 1900, 600 signatures, asking for
the prohibition of the sale of alcohol and
opium and will be presented to the repre-
sentatives of the British Government. AS
each National contingent enters the hall it
will be preceded by flag of its own ma
ton, each woman carrying National flag
At the same time the national anthem Of
the nation in question will be played.
After the conclusion of the London con-
vention the delegates will go to Grindel-
valid, where a temperance convention is
being organized by Lady Henry Somerset
and other leaders of women's movements.
In August it is proposed to visit the north
ern capitals OF Europe. A steamer Will be
chartered to convey the petition and the
delegates to Christiania, Stockholm and
Copenhagen and st. Petersburg.
In the late autumn third charter will
be arranged for vessel to carry the dele
gates and their petition to various coun-
tries on the Mediterranean, visiting
Naples, Rome, Athens, the Holy Land,
Constantinople and Egypt. At later
period it is intended to visit the central
capitals of Europe, India and the countries
of the East, Australia and Africa.
DR.. L. Lunn, in response to the request
of Miss Frances E. Willard, has agreed to
convey the great petition from New York
to Southampton on the steamship Berlin,
in which the white-ribboned excursion is
to come over to the w. c. T. U. conven-
ton. A delegation will present the petit
ton to Sir William Vernon Harcourt,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and author
of the temperance bill now pending in Par.
lament, and which will soon pass to Sec
ond reading with good prospects of being
adopted before Parliament adjourns.
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FEDERAL CRIMINALS.
Biz Batch of Them to Be Heard at For
smith, ArE.

smith, DIRK.
FORT SMITH, ARK, May 6.-The May
term of the United States court, which
began to-day, will be an unusually inter
esting one. The docket is not as heavy as
usual, but the number of murder cases set
for trial is large. There are thirteen
already set and about ten more to be in
vestigated by the Grand Jury.
The most important one, of course, is
that of Henry Starr, the young bandit
chief, whose career as train and bank
robber followed and eclipsed that of the
Dalton boys. Cherokee Bill will also have
to answer for the fiendish butchery of his
brother-in-law, Joe Brown. The other de.
PENDANTS are: Famous Smith, Thomas
Thompson, Mrs. Mary A. Keten.
ming. Richard Calhoun, George Wash
ington, William McLemore, John Allison
J. S. Davenport, Amos Mcintosh, Bill
Ansel, Buz Luckey, Bud Caps and Ell
Lucas Of these Smith, Starr and Thomp-
son have previously been convicted and
granted new trials by the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Another very interesting trial will be
that of Buz Luckey, Wade Chamberlee
and Nathan Reed for robbery of a NJ. K
& T. train at Blackstone Switch las
October,
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the body and face at close quarters and Jake
was very weak. Jake was very nearly gone
when the gong rang.
Round 14-O'Donneu led and landed twice
on the face and placed vicious right in the
wind. Jake put his right on the face. Steves
right went hard on the ribs and it made Jake
grunt. O'Donnell jabbed his right on the wind
three times and then went twice to the face
with the left and once with his right. Kilraln
was clearly winded.
Round Is O'Donnell landed heavy right on
the body. Both countered on neck steve then
smashed right and left on face and body. He
jabbed his right and left on face and body. iJake
countered lightly on the neck. This was all
O'Donnell's round.
Round 16-Steve slapped Jake's face and
after light interchange he put his rlgnt
heavily on Jake's jaw. Kilrain tapped him on
the neck, and while Steve kept up tattoo on
the face with his left he placed his right fire.
quently on the ribs and stomach.
Round 17-Steve led off with hard right on
the body and again on the mouth. He kept
up jabbing his right on the body. Jake landed
lightly on the face, bat was heavily countered
on the neck. Jake put in good right-hand
body blow, but O'Donnen finally reached his
face, damaging the left eye badly.
Round 1S-Steve landed on chin and again
on neck He put his right hard over the heart
| and then countered on the face and neck.
Jake put in his left on body and received a
crack on the jaw in return. Steve put q right
smash on body and Jake countered on the
head. O'Donnell hit Jake on the badly bruised
| eye and nearly closed it.
Round 19-Both jabbed with left on the face.
| Steve landed left on Jake's face four times.
Jake put left back on neck once in return.
| O'Donnell sailed in and punched hard without
| q return until the end of the round.
| Round 20-Jake sent his left twice for the
/ face, but was easily stopped and O'Donnen
planted right swing on the ribs. He kept
| jabbing Kilrain, who attempted to get back.
but without effect. Kilrain was very groggy
when the gong sounded.
Round 21-Jake's face showed evident signs
of his punishment, but he was still very game
| He led off with LETT on the neck. O'Donnell
fought him around the ring. When at close
quarters he put his right on the body and sent
his left over on the jaw. Kilrain fell like log
to the floor, and although he managed to gel
up within the required ten seconds the referee
Tim Hurst, stopped the bout at the request Of
| the police. Jake would have been put out with
one more punch. Time of the last round one
minute and nineteen seconds. Time of the
fight one hour twenty minutes and ten seconds
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they heard the remarkable news, they
burst into the Chiefs office breathless and
with look of incredulity.
where's that man with the cork leg?"
demanded Fyke. "It's joke, isn't it?"
Condor assured him that it was no Joke.
He rolled up his trousers on his right leg,
and the Commissioners fairly groaned.
otis too true" said Mr.. Shelly mourn
fully. 81 guess all the boys will be guying
US now"
The appointment of Condor will prob
ably be reconsidered. A museum freak,
an ex-candidate for Congress and a prize
fighter were also placed on the rolls. The
local papers have been making strong
fight against any change in the Police
Commissioners and the Police Department,
but Governor Stone appointed men whom
the newspapers opposed, and criticisms of
all their actions is not wanting.
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o0RK-IEGGED POLICEMAN.
Strange appointments Made by the Ne,
Kansds Cttu Police Commits ioners

Strange appointments Made by the Ne,,
Kansas CITY Police Commissioners.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May GA smile
was upon the face of every citizen in
Kansas City this evening when they read
in the evening papers of the doings of the
new board of Police Commissioners only
recently appointed by the Governor of
Missouri. One of the most ludicrous of
the appointments of the police force was
the appointment of man with cork leg.
and the best part of the joke is the fact that
the cork-legged man hobbled into Chief
Twins office to-day for his commission as
patrolman. The mans name is William
Gender. Gender got tired of the merri-
ment unwittingly made at his expense, and
going into Chief Twins office he ex-
claimed:
I'm the man with the cork leg. Guess
I'll have to own up to it."
Chief Irwin, who also is new appointee,
was thunderstruck. He sent tidings to
Commissioners Fyke and Shelly. When
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A COMPROMISE,
Senator Carter Succeeds in
Settling the HirSchfield
Divorce Suit.
The Montana Wife VIII Secure ALI
mony In a Heavy Sum by
HirSchfield's Consent.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, May GA special
to the Tribune from Helena says:
The celebrated Hirschfeld case is settled.
A compromise was effected to-day, and to-
morrow the final steps will be taken to
settle the litigation.
In January, 1894, Aaron Hirschfeld,
cashier of the Merchants National Bank,
married Miss Dell Hogan, who was a
cashier in dry goods store in this.city.
A week had scarcely passed when he de-
serted her and removed to Fargo, N. D.,
and after acquiring a residence there
brought suit in the courts of that State for
a separation from his wife. After sensa-
tional trial he lost his case, the marriage
being declared binding.
Mrs. Hirschfeld then brought suit in the
Montana courts against the wife of Aaron's
brother, L. H. Hirschfield, president ofthe
Merchants National Bank, for SIS, 900 fol
alternating the affections of her husband.
When the case was called to-day, g
motion for a continuance was requested on
the ground that it had been settled out oil
court. The confirm nance was granted, and
it is learned that the compromise was
effected on the basis of $50, 600. Tomorrow
Mrs. Hirschfeld will apply for divorce Oh
the ground of desertion. 1t will be granted
and the court will allow her $50, 900 ali
mony.
Senator Carter is generally credited with
bringing about the settlement.
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Newfoundland Federation.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., May cit is an,
nounced that the Whiteway party is plan
ming to abandon the negotiations for con-
federation with Canada. The official press
voices proposed plan to reorganize the
public service on a more economical basis
and by an increased duty on luxuries to
provide means for keeping up the interest
on the public debt and maintaining the
present Government.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07
library for Colu,ubia CoIeo,.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May 6.-At a meet.
ing to-day of the trustees of Columbia
College, President Seth Low formally Of
fered to assume personally the cost OF
erecting the new library building, the
estimated cost of which is 81 900 900. Pres
ident Low said he desired the building to
be memorial to his father, the late Apsel
Abbott Low. whom President Low de-
scribed as ga merchant who taught his
son the value of the things for which Co.
lumbia College stands.'
Trustee William g. Schermerhorn an.
nounced that he would be responsible for
the erection of natural science building,
to cost $500, O00
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The President Sends a Check.

DECATUR, IND, May Ga few weeks
ago the wife of Albert Zerkles, a poor
farmer living three miles north of here,
gave birth to triplets, all girls. Acting on
the suggestion of friend they were named
Ruth, Frances and Esther, and the father
wrote to President Cleveland, telling him
of the event and the christening of his
daughters and asking him to buy them
each a new dress Mr.. Zerkles has now
been greatly surprised and gratitied at re-
ceiving check for $500, signed by Grover
Cleveland.
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HAS HEAVY LIABILITIES.
Assignment of the Lumber and Banhts.
Firm of N. z. Clark d Co.

Assignment of the Lumber and Bd7,Et9ag
Firm of N. z. Clark d. Co.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, May 6.-The
lumber and banking firm of N. P Clark e.
Co. of ST. Cloud, Mimi, and Minneapolis
filed an assignment at st. Cloud Saturday
evening to Lucas Kells, the Sank Centre
banker. The fact was kept secret until
to-day.
Deposits in the bank at ST. Cloud
amounted to s125,OO0 and other local cred
itors make the total S150,000 or SITS, 900.
During the past week a hundred or more
deeds and mortgages have been recorded
in st. Cloud as securities to depositors and
private creditors.
There is doubt in legal circles whether
these transactions will hold. The Mime
apolis liabilities will not exceed $500, 900
and the assets are variously estimated as
high as $1,500Oo0, but owing to recent
transfers $1,000,000 is probably nearer the
correct figure.
n. P. Clark did not make a personal
assignment. He has practically entrusted
the whole business of the firm to his
nephew, Fred H. Clark.
The rumor of the failure was due to
flyers" in wheat and corn. f. II. Clark
denied it emphatically.
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Great Quantities of 1t Shipped to Ed stern
Cities and to This Coast.


CHICAGO, ILL, May GA special from
Philadelphia, Pa, says: In the reappraise-
ment of the decorated china and cut and
decorated glassware shipped to this port
by London firm, undervaluations have
been discovered by special treasury
agents.
Some idea of the loss to the National
treasury may be gathered from the fact
that on one invoice alone the London ship
pers were compelled to hand over $500 ad-
ditional duties. Other invoices were set
tied in the same way.
The Board of General Appraisers re-
viewed the case in New York, and without
difference of opinion the appraisements
were advanced 25 per cent, and notification
was forwarded at once to the Collector of
Port at Philadelphia.
It is believed that the undervaluations
have involved losses Of $150, 900 per annum
and that the fraud has been going on for
at least ten years past.
Very little of the merchandise came to
Philadelphians, but was consigned to Chi
cago, Milwaukee, st. Louis, Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, and as far west as San Fran
cisco.
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Discriminate and insist upon the best
Prices Cream Baking Powder
st. John for Si[rer

TOPEKA, KANs., May GA story comes
from New York that Ex-Governor John P.
st. John has laid aside prohibition pend
ing settlement of the money question,
aud will advocate free silver as the one
remedy for all the ills which aff1ict the
country. 1t is said that he even will dis
courage the nomination of Prohibitionist
electoral tickets in 1896, in order that the
free silver vote may be sweled.
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Ds,,.,on on the Monev Question.

HARTFORD, CONN, May 6.-Clinton B.
Davis. chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, will call public con-
vention to sit in the Hyperion Theater,
New Haven, for the first week in June, in
the interest of sound money. The chair
mans determination in this respect is
opposed by certain members of the COM
mittee, but he is strongly supported by
the Monticello Club of New Haven, an in
fluential Democratic organization. Thu
official call will probably be issued this
week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07

THE official food analyses by the United
States Government show the Royal to be a
pure cream-of-tartar baking powder, the
highest in strength, evolving 1906 cubic
inches of leavening gas per single ounce of
powder. TheIe were eight other brands OF
ream-of-tartar powders tested, and their
average strength was less than Ill cubic
inches of gas per ounce Of powder.
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NICARAGUA1AND COMMISSIONERS
Departure of the Officers Forming 1t for
Alabama,


alabama.
NEW YORK, N. Y, May 6.-The COM
mission appointed some time ago by the
President to examine the plans and route
of the Nicaragua canal left for Mobile,
Ala, last night. There were in the party
the commissioners, Colonel Ludlow of the
United States army, Commodore Endicott
of the navy and Alfred Noble and Assist
ant Engineers Davis, Wood, Stamford and
Park of the navy, who will verify the sur
veys.
A stenographer and cook accompanied
the party, and Naval Surgeon Stitt went
along to look after the health of everybody
connected with the expedition.
Mr.. Noble said that it was expected that
the Montgomery would land the commits
sion at their destination by May u, and
that fully two months would be required
to do the proposed work.
The party will reach Mobile on Tuesday.
and will at once go aboard the cruiser
Montgomery and proceed to Greytown.
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STEEL Raj DISoRTMINATIoN.
Celebrated Complaint to Be Heard by hhe
Itterstate Commerce Commission.

Celebrated Complaint to BE Heard by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
CHICAGO, Ill, May 6.-Most of the
members OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, who have been travelling through
the West for several days, have arrived in
this city. They are Chairman William R.
Morrison of Illinois, W. g. Veazey of YER
mont, Secretary M. D. Decker of Washing
ton, and ]. II. Fishback OF Washington.
The session of the commission began at
II o'clock this morning. The session to-
day and tomorrow will be occupied with
taking testimony and hearing arguments
in the cases of George L. Castle, who COM
plains that the Baltimore and Ohio has
been discriminating against him and in
favor of his competitors in the matter of
freight rates and transportation facilities
in hauling sand, gravel and other con-
tractors supplies from Indiana points to
Chicago, and of the Illinois Fruit-growers'
Association, which complains of unjust
discrimination on the part of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company.
Two important cases carried over from
the Denver session will be heard Wednes-
day. One of them is ''cause celebre' in
current railroad litigation. 1t is the case
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
which has a plant for making steel rails at
Pueblo and which has been forced by the
railroads to pay 81 80 a hundred on its
product from Denver to the Pacific Coast
when the charge on similar freights from
Chicago via New Orleans and the South
ern Pacific is only so cents. The rest of
the week will be devoted to hearing some
important cases from Omaha, Kansas City,
Kearney and st. Louis.
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Spain VIZ Not Join.

MADRID, SPAIN, May Gall reports to
the contrary, it can be stated no decision
has yet been arrived at in Spain in respect
to joining Russia, France and Germany in
their protest against the terms of the Chi
nese-Japanese treaty of peace.
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BUTTE, MONT, May 6.-Simon Jacobs,
City Treasurer of Butte for five years and
clothing merchant, blew his brains out in
mineshaft house. His term expired to-
day. 1t is understood there is shortage
in his accounts of between $4,000 and
$4,000.
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Hotel Clerk Murdered and Robbed

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 6.-Isaac Jones,
the night clerk at the First-avenue Hotel,
was found murdered in the basement of
the hotel this morning. He had been
beaten on the head with an iron bar and
robbed
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Gold for the Syndicate.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May 6.-The steam
ship Umbria brought 81 100000 in gold for
the account of the syndicate and the Nor
mandie brought 3,123,0OOf gold, in transit
to Cuba. The steamship Lain will take
out tomorrow $4,000 ounces of silver.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07
Dro,c,ed In Wood River.

BOISE, IDAHO, May 6.-John Gehrig and
Alexander Strutchen were drowned on
Saturday near Shoshone while attempting
to ford Wood River. Gehrig's body has
been recovered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07
French Losses in Madaoa,cnr.

PARIS, FRANCE, May 6.-The French
losses at the capture of Marovovay, NADIA
gascar, the taking of which place was an
nounced yesterday, was one killed and four
wounded. The losses of the Hovas were
severe.
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Bra Sflfna, Presfdent Criticized.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, May e.
The message of President Moraes on the
opening of Congress on Saturday last, is
severely criticized. Members of the di-
plomatic body will probably protest
against certain statements in the message.
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Condition of the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 6.-To-day's
statement of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, SITS, $685.
54S; gold reserve, $91, 1854, 1913.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07

Government in the late trials, is on the
island of Maui, and he has not been idle
since leaving Honolulu.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07

Children are happy always when mothers
use DR.. Prices Baking Powder in pastry.
biscuit and cake.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07

DR.. Adam Smith wrote of '"The Wealth of
Nations" DR.. Prices Baking Powder
looks after their health.