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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
HOLMES ACCUSES HATCH,
The Insurance SWindler Yet
Declares That He Is
Innocent.
Says That the Pitzels We're All
Murdered by the Mystic
rfOuS Man.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. Claw
yer w. A Shoemaker had a long confer
ence in Moyamensing prison with his
client, the alleged wholesale murderer,
II. II. Holmes, during which the prisoner
protested his innocence of completely in
the killing of Howard Pitzel, whose bones
are said to have been found in a dwelling
near Indianapolis. Holmes states that he
is almost certain that the fragments of
human bones unearthed by the detectives
are those of the missing lad, but declares
that the boy was murdered by the mystic
rious Hatch. He further positively asserts
that Hatch killed both of the other Pitzel
children. When Detective Geyer returned
from the West he called upon Holmes and
was furnished with clew that led him to
Indianapolis.
Holmes appeared to be willing and anx-
ious to aid the detective in locating How
ard Pitzel, and gave Geyer valuable infor-
nation that led to the finding of the bones.
Mr.. Shoemaker says that his client can
prove beyond a shadow of doubt that he
could not possibly have killed young
Pitzel. He admits that he was in Indian
apolis with the boy. but says Howard was
turned over to the care of Hatch, and that
he (Holmes) was not in indianapolis at the
time the crime is said to have been COM
mitted.
Holmes said that he met Hatch in Chi
cago, and that he was given to believe that
Howard and Miss Williams had gone to
Buffalo. No steps have been taken by the
District Attorney in reference to the new
developments, and nothing will be done
until Detective Geyer returns.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Aug. 29.-The
drug with which Howard Pitzel was killed
before his body was burned in the big stove
in the Irvington cottage was found buried
in the barn. 1t was given 10 the Coroner,
who remarked that if there is any killing
to be done, that was the drug with which
to do it.
Boys digging under the Holmes house,
in an unfinished portion of the cellar,
found the two feet of Howard Pitzel. They
had been burned, but not destroyed, and
were evidently too bulky to put into the
chimney. With the feet was found buried
five-quart can. There was some coal oil
in it.
All of the witnesses were before the Cor
oner and the Grand Jury to-day. The
Coroner will undoubtedly corroborate the
conclusions already reached by the detec-
tiyes and reporters
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
RANSOM rs MINISTER.
Once More He Assumes the Duties of the
Mission.

OHCc luOTe LzS Assumes tic LWttcS VI "c
Mission.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 29.-Hon.
Matt w. Ransom arrived. in Washington
last night, and bright and early this morn
ing appeared at the State Department,
where he took the oath of Office before a
notary public to enable him to reassume
the duties of the Mexican mission. Mr..
Ransom's suspended salary will be re-
sumed from the date of the oath.
Minister Ransom will remain in Wash
ington day or two and then go to North
Carolina, whence he will take his departure
for Mexico week or ten days later.
1t transpired to-day that when the ques-
ton of Mr.. Ransom right to hold the of
fee of Minister to Mexico was raised in
the Treasury Department he at once for
warded his resignation to the President in
order that the latter might not be embar
raised. 1t is understood that both the
President and Mr.. Ransom believed the
appointment was not completed until the
latter accepted the position and qualified,
which was not done until after his term as
Senator had expired. The fact that Mr..
Ransom resigned the Office dlsposes of all
speculation regarding the manner of the
payment of his salary from July ] to Au-
gust a. the date of his reappointment. 1t
will not be paid at all.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
FOR A GREAT UNIVERsITY.
Plans to Erect Fine Institution for
MGS0ns' Children,

Plans to Erect Fine Institution for
MGsons' Children,
BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 29.-In tn cir pur-
suit of methods for putting into practical
effect the principles of their order-fra-
ternity, fidelity and charity--some of the
prominent embers of the Knights
Templar are developing a project which,
if realized according to the ideas of its
originators, will prove to be one of the
grandest and most commendable out
growths of the closing years of this GEN.
fury.
They are planning the establishment of
a great National university for both sexes,
to be controlled by and in the interest of
all Masons, with permanent endowment
of not less than $50000,000 at which the
children of all Master Masons, whatever
their means, can secure complete edu-
cation from the age of 10 years and up
ward, along any line of instruction which
they may desire.
The scheme contemplates the erection of
a sufficient number of freproof university
buildings to accommodate 10000 students,
specially designed for the purpose and
equipped with every facility and appliance
known to be necessary or desirable for the
pleasure, exercise or education of the
same, including its own electric plant,
water works, ETC.. the establishment, and
maintenance under the most competent
instructors to be secured of preparatory
or academic department, and departments
of liberal arts, law, medicine, science,
theology and technology and the indus
trial school, thus being true university,
in which each student can secure an edu-
cation and training along any line which
he may desire to pursue. While the child
of no living or dead Master Mason will be
refused admission to the institution on ac-
count of lack of means, it will be in no
sense home or charitable institution, but
is expected to be self-supporting after the
first construction from tuition fees, the
products of the industrial workshop and
other revenues.
The plan contemplates further uniform
OF all students, boarding and rooming
them within the university grounds, and
the leasing of the grounds for a nominal
sum for the erection of homes to such
parents as are not willing to be separated
from their children during their term Of
education, such houses to be transferred to
other parents when no longer needed. The
location agreed upon for the institution is
beautiful tract of elevated land on the
Ohio River, near the West Virginia line,
facing the river for three miles.
The projectors anticipate no difficulty in
securing the necessary endowment. In
fact, they assert that the idea has met
with such an enthusiastic reception from
all Knights that have been consulted that
four times the amount necessary could be
secured.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Small arms for the Nara.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. %. = A
contract has been signed by the Navy De-
partment between Samuel G. Lemley,
Judge encouragement of the navy, and
John P. Lee of Hartford, by which, for a
bonus of $4,000, the department. is given
the right to manufacture the Lee small :
bore rifle, recently adopted as the small
arm for the naval service.
Before the contract is completed by the
payment of the money Lee will be obliged
to give a quitclaim of the Lee Arms Com
pany, which has also the rights of manu-
facture, or an indemnity bond of S20,0
that the company will not continue to
make the weapon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
DURRANT WILL TESTIFY.
Outline of Testimony to Be Pre-
sented by Counsel for the
Defense.

The defense will claim that on the after
noon of April Durrant attended the lee
ture on the Feeding of Infants" at
Cooper Medical College; that at the con-
clusion of the lecture, about 4 o'clock, he
walked across the City to the Mission, and
that he could not therefore have been on
Powell street at 3:15 o'clock; that he en-
tered the Emmanuel Church and repaired
the electrical apparatus in the loft over the
auditorium, but that he could not have
reached that editice until at least half an
hour subsequent to 4:20 o'clock, at which
time Mrs. Leek claims to have seen him
enter the church gate; that the gas and
electrical apparatus was out of order, and
that on the following Friday workmen
employed by the church trustees rene
died the defects; that Durrant was over
come by gas.
Durrant himself will be placed on the
stand in his own behalf. He will testify
to his presence at DR.. Cheney's lecture and
will relate under oath his movements after
leaving the college. He will tell of his
walk across the City, how he passed along
Webster street to Golden Gate avenue and
thence down that thoroughfare to Octavia
or Cough street, passing on the way the
Office OF veterinary surgeon, in whose
operations he had been much interested.
He will tell how he proceeded to the Mis-
sion along Valencia or Guerrero street,
and how he finally entered the church.
The accused will testify to meeting one
acquaintance, to overtaklng and passlngaa
second and to walking and talking with a
third for at least three blocks. Still
another person will be mentioned who met
Durrant in the Mission at nearly the end
of his long walk. All these persons will be
summoned to corroborates the testimony
of the accused.
The names of the witnesses who will
testify to the truth of Durrant's story have
not yet been revealed, nor will they be
until they are called in court.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR QUAY.
There Remain Pennsylvania Factions t.
EinLf Him.

There Remain Pennsylvania Factions to
Fight Him.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 29.-Sena-
tor Quay's victory yesterday at Harrisburg
over his opponents in the Republican
party may not be the absolute triumph
that it appeared in the bout that followed
the defeat of the administration forces.
In fact, Yesterdays battle may be but the
first of long and desperate campaign.
Senator Quay had no more determined adj
versary during the late struggle than the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. AL
though routed, the Telegraph was as def
ant as ever yesterday in its editorial col
umns and scored Quay severely. This
afternoon the Telegraph has long story
in its news columns which declares that
yesterday seeming harmony between the
two factions was more apparent than real
and that truce, and not peace, was
patched UP.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
SEVERAL HELD RESP ONSIBLE.
Terdict of a Coroner's jury on the Ireland
BU{Idina Disaster.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 29.-The jury
in the Ireland building disaster inquest
came in at 6:15 o'clock this evening and
held the following men responsible for the
death of those who were killed in the col
lapse of the Ireland building at West
Broadway and West Third street: John
Parker, Thomas Walker, Charles r..
Behrens. Thomas Murray, Edward j. YOU
dale and Dennis A. Buckley.
Joseph Guiaer and John e. Selleck were
exonerated by the jury. The collapse, the
jury says, was caused by insufficient found
alton, and the middle column was
weakened by being above the old cistern.
The ironwork of the old building was de-
fectiye.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30

story telegraphed from Ell Reno, Okla
homa, that Captain Baldwin of the Fifth
Infantry, acting Indian agent of the Co
manche and Apache agency, has been
killed by Indians as flake" pure and SIM
pie. If there was any truth whatever IN
the story they think that the department.
would have been notified of it long before
this. Captain Baldwin is considered very
able officer. He has had no trouble with
the Indians, and the only enemies he has
in the region, as far as is known, are the
whisky men,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
.Adrice Ero,,, The Pone.

ROME, ITALY, Aug. 29.-The Pope has
declined to receive at the present time
several personages who desired an audience
of him. His Holiness intimated his desire
that they visit him on September 90, their
visit to be taken as protest against the
national fetes in honor of the occupa-
ton of the City of Rome by Italian troops.
that day
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Sentenced In Gern,ann.

DECATUR, IND, Aug. 29.-Word has
just been received here that FL. M. Rom
berg, a prominent citizen and member Of
the Democratic Central Committee. has
been captured in Hamburg, Germany,
where he was visiting his old home, and
sentenced to twelve years, imprisonment
for whipping an officer in the German
army before coming to this country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Fatai Erplosio,, of a Boiler.

WARSAW, IND, Aug. %. = By the ex-
plosion of boiler at the oar factory here
at noon to-day, Quincy Nebruner, the fire.
man, was scalded to death, and James
Hoffman. teamster, was struck by fly
ing missile and killed. The explosion oc-
Cured while the men were at dinner, or
the list of fatalities would have been larger.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
PROCEEDINGS IN CoNCLArE.
Eminent Sir Warren Larue Thomas
Elected Grand Muster.

BOSTON, MASS, Aug. 29.-At the morn
ing session of the Knights Templar it was
voted that the next conclave be held in
Pittsburg. Pa. Deputy Grand Master
Warren Larue Thomas of Maysville, KY,
was elected to succeed the Most Eminent
Sir Hugh McCurdy as grand master.
When the conclaye opened this morning
it was decided to suspend the reading Of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
VIII Fight ia Dallas.

AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 29.-Scott Collins
and Jim Cavanagh have announced that
they will fight in Dallas September 81.
This is looked upon as an effort upon the
part of the Corbett-F itzsimmons com bina-
ton to make test case of this fight with
a view of carrying the matter to the higher
courts and getting the law on pugilism de-
clared null and void in time for the Cor
bett- FitZsimmons fight
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
-Bisseu VIII Not Accept.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 29.-It is learned
on reliable authority that ex-Postmaster-
General Wilson S. Bissell has been offered
the place on the Supreme Court bench,
left vacant by the death Of Justice Jackson.
Bissell will not accept.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Raised the Reserve.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 29.-The
Treasury Department is informed that the
Belmont Morgan syndicate to-day depos-
tied $780, 600 in gold in New York in ex-
change for greenbacks. This raises the
treasury gold reserve to $101, 100000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
One child Burned to Death.

LA CROSSE, WIS, Aug. 20.-Late to-
night an explosion of lamp set fire to
Architect Andrew Roth's house. Their
little child, sleeping in the room where the
explosion occurred, was burned to death
before it could be saved. A couple of dress
makers occupied the upper story, and one
OF them jumped from window, breaking
her leg
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Fin1ayson Appointed.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 29.-The
Acknowledgement to-day appointed Frank
G. Finlayson of Los Angeles Assistant
United States Attorney for the Southern
District OF California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Nortbe rn Indian Troubles.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 29.-The
Indian Office has received no advices con-
corning the alleged troubles between the
settlers and the Indians in Kalispell VAL
ley. as reported in the dispatches from
Spokane, Wash.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Ttco Fights Postponed.

BOSTON, MASS, Aug. 29.-The Choynski-
Godfrey and the Garrard-Connelly fights,
announced for tonight under the auspices
of the Farragut Athletic Club, have been
indefinitely postponed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
Regarded as 80 Pure Fake"

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. 29.-Officers
on duty at the War Department regard the
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
Highest Of al in Leavenng Power-Laest u. Govt Report
R@:a!!! q! Rskassz RRskiaRs
ARkNHQ HQJTEuX DRlRE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
All Circus Rings Alike.

A circus is circular arena of four
teen yards nine inches in diameter,
surrounded by benches, says the Inter.
Ocean. Fourteen yards nine inches
is the regulation size. The uuvarying
dimensions OF the arena respond to o
double necessity-the exigency of the
man and the exigency of the animal.
The performer is instinctively nomad,
both through disposition and interest.
1t IS therefore m ost important that,
although he continually changes his
locality, he should find the scene Of
his performance unvaried.
This rule is extremely convenient
for men, but it is indispensable for
animals. A performing horse must
find in whatever spot he appears be.
fore the public ring of fourteen
yards nine inches, sanded to depth
of three inches and quarter, sur.
rounded by palisade opening in two
places only and low enough to enable
it to walk around with the fore hoofs
on the red cushion and the hind legs
in the arena. This is in Difference to
the horses one great faculty of mem.
ory, which dominates all the methods
of the trainer in handling HIM,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
The Lapw,nss, Drill.

Don Felix de Azara, Spanish gen.
eral and naturalist, describing o small
finch, which he aptly named Oscil-
ador, says that early and late in the
day it mounts vertically to a moderate
height; then flies off to distance of
twenty yards, describing perfect
curve in its passage. Turning, it flies
back over the imaginary line it has
traced, and SO on repeatedly, reap
pearing like pendulum swung rapid
ly in space by an invisible thread.
The display of the lapwings, called
by the natives OF La Plata its
''square" or "serious dance, requires
three performers The birds indulge
in it all the year round,- and at fre-
quent intervals during the day, and
also on moonlight nights. One bird
leaves his mate and approaches two
others, who welcome him with notes
and signs of pleasure. Advancing to
the visitor, they place themselves be-
hind him, and all three, keeping step.
begin rapid march, uttering reso-
nant drumming notes in time with their
movements, the notes of the pair be-
hind being emitted in stream like a
drum roll, while the leader utters
loud single notes at regular intervals.
The march ceases, the leader elevates
his wings and stands erect and mo-
tionless, still uttering loud notes,
while the other two. with puffed ont
plumage and standing exactly abreast,
stoop forward and downwards until
the tips of their beaks touch the
earth, and sinking their voices to a
murmur, remain for some time in this
posture. The performance is then
over, and the visitor returns to his
own ground and mate, to receive a
visitor himself there later on during
the dance. New York Advertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
WHAT TO FEED YOUNG TURKEYS.

The food for young turkeys, like
all other young poultry, should be
thoroughly cooked and given in a
crumbly condition. Feed little and
often the first two weeks. Turkeys
have small crops but they digest their
food rapidly. Give variety.
Turkies soon tire of any kind of food
If given too often, and will refuse to
eat it. 1t will not do to let them go
hungry. Hunger causes Indigestion,
and indigestion will produce bowel
trouble.
Eggs are natural food for all
young poultry, but too much hard.
boiled egg will cause bowel trouble /;
it is q better plan to moisten their
food with raw egg. Once OF twice a
day for week or ten days feed stiff
mush made Of equal parts of fine oat-
meal, cornmeal and bran or middlings
add little salt and tablespoonful
OF bone meal one day, and little
finely chopped meat the next.
Chopped onions, cabbage or other
garden greens should be given Us soon
rs they will eat them. Bone meal,
meat and vegetables are necessary for
the health and growth of young tur-
keys. They feather earlier than any
other fowl, and this demand on the
system must be supplied by judicious
feeding. Cooked potatoes and rice
are excellent and will help make up a
variety. When a week or ten days
old begin to teach them to eat grain,
either ground or whole. As soon as
they are given a range the number of
meals per day may gradually be re-
duced. Farm, Stock and Home.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
WHAT A SUNBEAM CAN DO.

A sunbeam is o small thing, yet it
has power to fade tho carpets and
curtains, to rot the blinds, and for
this reason some folks carefully ex.
clude the sunshine. What is the re-
suit? The family is always ailing, the
young girls have waxen white skin
and weary, pinchod expression of
countenance. Their appetites fail.
they fall into such n bad state of
health that the doctor is called in. In
olden days he would have shaken his
head, perhaps, and friends would have
whispered that dreaded word, de
cline!" Nowadays he notes tic pale
gums and waxen skin aud says "anae-
mia;" prescribes iron and milk, fresh
air and exercise, and often change.
If he knows nothing about the dark
ened rooms he will be puzzled as to
why no permanent Improvement mani
tests itself, and, probably, the patient
will seek other advice. New York Ad-
vertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
VALUE OF s1AKEp LIME.

Lime, either air slaked or unslaked,
is used as fertilizer where there is
large amount of vegetable matter that
only slowly decomposes. Such land
Is always wet and cold. Dry land has
enough warmth in summer to prevent
the accumulation of much vegetable
matter, and on such land the lime can
only Tact by directly supplying this
mineral to plants that lequire it.
When used to make vegetable matter
decompose more rapidly as many as
seventy to 100 bushels of lime per
acre are sometimes plowed in. This
puts such land in good shape for a
number of years, but it is at the ex-
pense of future fertility. If your
wet land is near good market, we
should advise to underdrain it, as a
better way to make its vegetable
matter decompose. In fact, if there
is stagnant water near the surface
most of the year not oven an applica-
tion of lime would do it much good.
On your dry land, Lo large application
of lime will pay, but you might try
some as an experiment. hut not as a
substitute for manure. Lime should
not be used on land intended for po-
tatoes. The potato does not require
it and it's caustic effect on the tuber
makes the skin tender and predis-
poses it to scab fungus attacks. -Bos-
ton Cultivator.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-05-31
HOW TO DUST.

The ideal maid is the maid who dusts
properly. But where do we find our
ideals? Not in our own parlors, as d
rule, but in parlors OF other women
who do the dusting themselves. The
careful housekeeper will have faded
upholstery, dull woodwork and badly
defaced carving unless she is willing
to pay the price of eternal vigilance.
She must give her feather duster,
soft silk old handkerchiefs for the
piano and the polished mahogany and
chees-cloth duster for ordinary use.
The marbles and ornaments must have
separate duster from the furniture
and large, soft piece of muslin can
be used to polish the picture glasses
with. A caamojs and little oil do
for finishing touches for the mahogany
and polished oak and soft brush
must be used to penetrate the crevices
of carving. A whisk broom is also
necessary for the upholstered furni-
turc, and cane dust beater is we'll
used twice week. Boston Herald.