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END OF Il FRESNO QUARREL.
The Terry Block Rejected as the Site fo1
Hi0h- School BatiIdin9.

FRESNO, CAL, April 23.-At a meet ng
of the recently elected Board of Education
tonight all negotiations for the purchase
of the Terry block as a site for the pro-
posed 100000 high-school building were
ended
The question as to the location of the
building has been warmly contested one
among the citizens of this city for a year
or more and it was the chief issue upon
which the members of the board were
elected. Those opposed to the purchase
of the Terry block on the ground that it is
too far from the center of town carried the
election by a large majority. The first
meeting of the new board was held to-
night and it was voted to build on another
site. The Terry block belongs to Mrs.
Sarah Althea Terry and owing to the
changes in her guardian the title could not
be cleared as soon as wished.
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HARRISON Is HIS CHOICE.
Governor Matthews of Indiana Comes
Out as q Prophet.

Governor Matthews of Indiana Comes
Out as a Prophet.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April 23.-Gov-
ernor Matthews said that in his opinion as
an outsider the signs point to the nomina-
ton of Harrison next year as the Republic
can candidate for President.
Reed" he said, ''does not know where
to jump on this question and Mckinley is
closely connected with another subject
which will not cut much figure in the next
compaign. Harrison has better reputa-
ton as bimetallist and say what you
please about his administration it was a
safe and clean one, and from a Republican
standpoint 1 don't know how you could
ask BETTER
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Blaze at Hest Seattle.

SEATTLE, WASH, April pa fire in
West Seattle last night destroyed Knights
of Pythias Hall. The total loss is $1,000;
insurance $265O. The loss of the Knights
of Pythias on regalia, etc., is $1,000; in
sured for $3.50. The loss of Magee &
Wood, occupying the basement, is $1,000.
The loss on the building is $500; insured
for $1,000. Mr.. BoswelPs house, adjoining,
caught fire and was damaged $500. The
fire was started by mice and matches.
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federate general, and formerly of Virginia
will deliver an address on Washington,
Our First President" Corporal Tanner of
Washington, D. c., will speak on Home,
Country and Flag"
Invitations have been sent to large
number of distinguished citizens, includ-
ing Governor Levi P. Morton, Lieutenant
Governor Saxton, Mayor Strong, Mayor
Schieren of Brooklyn, Senator David B.
Hill, General Swayne, Colonel Fred D.
Grant, General John Porter and Chauncey
M. Depew.
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FURNACES LEFT BURNING.
0tc'iers and Clerks Compelled to Worl
bu O. Strike.

Otcners and CLERKS Compelled to York
by q Strike.
NEWCASTLE, Pa, April 23.-Every
furnace in Newcastle shut down this even
ing, but for how long no one knows. The
men have asked the employers to make
the wages of year ago and they have
given the owners twentyfour hours to
determine the matter. The latter declined
to take the time, but decided to close at
once. The. men refused to cool down the
furnaces and the clerks and owners were
obliged to do the work. The old wages
gave the keepers 81 25 per day and they
now receive 81 rs. Other hands were paid
proportionately. The owners claim when
the old wages were paid iron was selling at
$13 per ton. 1t now sells at $40.
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KILLED NEAR KENNEWICK.
A San Francisco Man Meets Death I'm
der the Cars.


TACOMA, WASH, April 23.-A Ledger
special from North Yakima says:
Francis Lebahn, supposedly represen-
tative of the San Francisco Examiner, was
killed by a passenger train near Kenne-
wick on Monday morning, and brought to
this city this morning by the Coroner.
Lebahn hailed from San Francisco, but
had lived in Seattle and Portland, in which
city he leaves widow, Sadie Lebahn, Ev-
ing on Morrison street. He was without
money, 20 cents being all that was found
on him. He had been writing up Ellens-
burg for San Francisco papers evidently,
as his pockets were full of notes about Kit
titas farms.
Lebahn was a man 80 years OF age,
smooth shaven and very well dressed. His
father, August Lebahn of Newark, N. j.,
telegraphed instructions to give the body
a decent burial.
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My LOSE THE CHARTER.
Ertdence of a Combination Bettceen
BridGe Companies.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 23.-The Post
Dispatch announces that suits will soon be
brought against the bridge company to
secure the forfeiture of their charters and
punish their officers for participating in an
unlawful combination. The action in the
courts will be based upon evidence of the
existence of pool, which has been brought
out before the Illinois Senate Investigating
Committee sitting in East st. Louis. Be-
fore the committee adjourned Monday evil
dence was secured establishing the exist
ence of the combination between the two
bridge companies and the Virgins Ferry,
and the advancement of rates in conse-
quence thereof
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antitrust law, said he had observed that
none of these antitrust laws seem to have
amounted to anything in this country, ex-
cept to hit the workingman over the head
with them that the corporations go right
on forming trusts. As to the beef combine
he did not know yet what evidence can be
produced to form basis for prosecution.
He will vigorously prosecute all violations
of law wherever he can find it possible.
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Atomso Wnttman,s Foraertes.

NEW YORK. N. u, April 23.-Alonzo
Whitman, who was arrested last Friday on
information that he is wanted in San Fran
cisco for forgery, and who was committed
to the Toombs to await examination to-
day, is in further trouble. Sheriff Mcneil
of Danville, N Y, came to the Tombs to-
day with warrant for Whitman's arrest
for an alleged forgery committed at that
place. If Whitman is discharged on the
San Francisco charge he will be rearrested
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Santa Rosa Footpads Bound Deer.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, April 23.-The of
ficers think they have strong case against
Frank. Reed, Frank Cummings and Otto
Vogel, the three men arrested here on
Sunday for knocking down and robbing a
man named Smith. They were examined
before Justice and held for trial at the
Superior Court. 1t is also believed that
they were interested in a number of burg
laries committed in Sonoma County dur
ing the past few weeks.
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Identf,v of a Dro,cned Roman.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 23.-The police
this afternoon identified the woman who
drowned herself and child yesterday, as
the wife OF man named Root. She re-
Gently came from the West. The theory
is that she found him with another woman
and they quarreled.
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TOLD AT THE INQUEST.
Mrs. Blair Killed Because She
Had Renounced the
Ex-Waiter.
STABBED HIMSELF TEN TIMES
The Suicides Heart Pierced by TWO
Knife Thrusts-Wayward Career
of His Victim.

SAN JOSE, CAL, April %. - Large
crowds of the curious thronged the morgut
to-day to gaze upon the bodies OF Alice
Blair. alias Annie Davis, and Albert An.
derson, who stabbed her to the heart ano
then killed himself in the Hensley House
shortly after midnight last night. AT the
autopsy held this morning it was shown
that Anderson had plunged the knife
twice in the woman's breast and once IN
her neck, and had then stabbed himself
ten times, two of the thrusts piercing his
heart.
Young Anderson first met Alice Blair
about year and half ago, while he was
employed as a waiter in the Plaisance.
They were very intimate until two months
ago, when they quarreled. Since then An
derson had been trying to effect recon-
Citation, but the woman would have moth
ing to do with him. Anderson went to
her room last night determined to kill her
and then end his own life.
From the testimony introduced at the
inquest to-day it is supposed that Ander-
son went to the room and tried to get in.
Being refused admittance, he broke win
dow opening into the hall, when the
woman became frightened, and opened the
door. Leaving the window, he went
around to the door, drew his revolver and
fired three shots at her. One of the bullets
lodged in the wall and the other two went
through the window. His revolver refused
to work and he drew his dagger, and at
tackled the defenseless woman. Three
times he plunged the blade into her body
and then turned the weapon upon himself.
Mrs. Blair ran down to the landlady' s
room, screaming: II am shot! 1 am
shot! Anderson has killed mel' and then
fell to the floor. A doctor was hastily sum-
moned, but she expired before he arrived.
Alice T. Blair, the murdered woman,
came to San Jose about two years ago,
after she had deserted her husband in
Woodland. She had a weakness for fine
dresses and jewelry, and, although pos
sessed of good home, persisted in leading
a hayward life. Several months ago her
husband applied for a divorce and she
allowed it to go by default. Mr.. Blair,
who is prominent business man of Wood
land, did all in his power to turn the
woman from the downward path she had
chosen, but without avail. As last re-
sort he sought the courts and obtained a
separation.
But little testimony was introduced at
the inquest, and the jury brought in a
verdict in accordance with the evidence.
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RECEIYE A VENERABLE MAN.
Christian Students Pay HOnors to Arc1s-
bishop KenricE.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April pa reception
was rendered the venerable Archbishop
Kenrick yesterday by the students at the
Christian Brothers College. Four hun
dred students received the aged prelate.
He was accompanied by Archbishop Ryan
of Philadelphia and Coadiutor Archbishop
Kahn of st. Louis. An address of welcome
was made by William Gilmore, class of
'95, which was responded to by Coadiutor
Archbishop Kahn, owing to Archbishop
Kenrick's feeble condition.
Archbishop Ryan then made a brief
address. Following the reception came
dinner to the three Archbishops, at which
were present Brother Paulian, president
of the Christian Brothers College of st.
Louis; Brother Justin, president of the
Christian Brothers College of New York,
and Brother Maurelian, president of the
Christian Brothers College of Memphis.
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Killed bu q Fall.

SAN JOSE, Call, April %. - Macco
Anatto an Italian employed in vineyard
on the Stevens Creek road, fell from a
wagon while driving along the road last
evening near the Fathers Villa and frac-
tured his skull. He died in short time.
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SHIPMENTS OF FRUIT AND VINE.
4 Failing of an the Output During the
Post Ueek.


Past Heek.
SAN JOSE, CAL, April 23.-The eastern
shipments for the week ending April 20
were light, but 1;000,735 pounds were sent
out, as against &C, 030 for the same period
last year, decrease of $50, 295 pounds.
The slow movement OF dried fruit is the
cause of the decrease and tends to show
that, although prices are good, the fruit is
being held in anticipation of a raise. Dur
ing the week ending April 81, 1894, the
shipments of dried fruit amounted to $780,
700 pounds, while last week only 455, 1926
were shipped. 1t is estimated that the
amount of dried fruit still in the valley is
about $500, 900 pounds, while at this time
last year not more than 100000 pounds
remained, the whole of which went east
during the latter part of April and the first
of May.
Wine shipments fell off 23S275 pounds,
the shipments last week being 800, 665,
against 630,940 during the corresponding
week last year. The shipments of canned
fruit last week amounted to 84,470 pounds.
OF the 455, 1926 pounds of dried fruit shipped
2S7, 4S5 were prunes, 106.575 peaches, 5000
apricots, 3075 pears and 2160 plums. The
total shipments for the first three weeks of
April were 1891 ,405 pounds.
The local shipments on the narrow gauge
reached S55,710 pounds, being mostly mer-
chandise, fruit, produce, -four and mill
stuffs. The same road handled 101, 040
pounds of eastbound fruit, most of the
shipments being from Campbell Station.
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Severe Fire at st, Paul.

ST. PAUL, MINI, April 29.-At o'clock
a fire broke out in the McQuillan building,
on East Fourth street, in the factory of
Lanpher, Finch & Co. A general alarm
was turned in. The department managed
to confine the flames to one building. The
loss will exceed $780, largely caused by
water. It is covered by insurance.
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The Roya, Arthur Expected at Victoria.

VICTORIA, B. c.. April 23.-The rumor
that the Royal Arthur, flagship of the
British Pacific squadron, is to lombard
Corinto, Nicaragua, is not credited in
naval circles here. Officers of the Nymphe
say they heard the same thing at San
Francisco and laughed at it. The Royal
Arthur is expected here shortly, orders
having been received to hold her mail
here
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CRIED By HIS INJURIES.
A Man Run Over By Hagon Become
n 7fdUtnO Maniac.

A Man Rst1t Over bU Wngon Bec07neS
kaUtnO Maniac.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, April 23.-Wil-
liam Coy, teamster, while watering his
horses near the Buffalo brewery, in this
city, to-day, was kicked and knocked
down by one of the animals. His fall
frightened the other horses and they ran
away, one of the wheels of the heavy farm
wagon passing directly over Coy's head,
inficting severe scalp wound and other
injuries that may result seriously. When
Coy recovered consciousness he was raw
ing maniac, and. despite the utmost en-
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on1n HIT the uorkingn.am.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, April 23.-Gov-
ernor Altgeld, talking on what he intended
doing in the way of prosecuting the al
legged beef combine for violation OF the
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Captsre of the Cauaha, Murderer.

YREKA, CAL, April 23.--W. M. Null,
the murderer of Henry Hayter at Gala
han, was captured by Deputy Sheriff Rad
ford at Etna this morning, and is now con-
fined in the County Jail.
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deavors of two men to restrain him, ran
headlong into telegraph pole, again fall
ing unconscious to the ground. 1t is
thought he cannot recover his reason.
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James +. Wilson was born in Newark,
Ohio, in the year 1928. He received the
usual academical education given wherever
possible to all Western lads by their
parents, studied law, and after admission
To the bar began practice in Iowa, the State
of his adoption. His growth in public esti-
nation as careful lawyer and forcible
speaker was rapid. Like a large proper
tion of the members Of the legal profess
sion he gradually drifted into politics. In
1856 he was a member of the constitutional
convention of Iowa. The following year
he was elected a member of the State Leg
lsiature, serving in that capacity in 1857,
1859 and 1861. In the last-named year he
was President of the Senate.
The same year began his career in ma
tional political life. He was elected as
member Of Congress from Iowa to fill out
the unexpired term of Hon. s. R. Curtis,
and reelected by large majority on the
expiration of that term. Mr.. Wilson was
member of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congresses, serving
from December 2, 1861, to March ., 1909.
In 1883 he was elected to the United states
Senate to succeed Hon. James Wilson NC
Dell, Republican. Senator Wilson TOOK
his seat and oath on December 4, 1858. ne
was reelected for the term which expired
March q last
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wAsHINsToNs INA GURATIoN.
The One Hundred and iSiDtb .AnnSvcS
sdry to Be Suitably Celebrated.

SUTy 70 DC otttuUtD CFteUTuteU'
NEW YORK, N. Y, April 23.-The one
hundred and sixth anniversary of the
Inauguration of George Washington, first
President of the United States, will be
celebrated by the National Provident
Union at Lennox Lyceum, this city, on
April 30.
General John Palmer, Secretary of State
of New York and past commander-in-chief
of the G. A. r., will preside. Judge Roger
A. Pryor of New York City, q noted Con.
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SAN DIEGO, CAL, April 23.-The rev.
enue cutter Commodore Perry sailed this
morning for San Francisco and Bering Sea.
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MARK HOPKINS Institute of Art, spring ex-
hibition, open daily, admission 20 cents, and
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tain View this morning, and it was devel-
oped that in the dark Anatto had run over
a large rock, throwing him from the Sc at
The jury rendered verdict of accidental
death
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AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS ILLNESS.
Death of Ec- United States Senator Ellison
of Iotcd.

FAIRFIELD, Iowa, April Sex United
States Senator James F. Wilson died at
late hour last night after an illness of
several weeks.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-01-17
MARRIAGE IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Some Reasons Why Yankee Women Have
 Long Outnumbered the Men,.

Some Reasons Why Yankee Women Have
 Long Outnumbered the Men,.
 The excess of women over men has long been feature of the population statistics of Massachusetts, and since Mormonism is not permitted to flour ish in that progressive state the natu- ral effect of this feminine surplus has been an unusual number of old maids. The cause, says the New York Press, is probably Horace Greeley's advice to young men on the subject of going west. The Massachusetts young man has been going west ever since, but we decline to believe that it is his fault that the Massachusetts young woman has not gone west with him. She stayed behind, not that sl1e loved the Massachusetts young man less, but that she loved Massachusetts more, especially Boston. But as the Massa- chusetts young woman who did not go west with the young man of Horace Greeley's day became an old maid she missed the young man. She was left to lavish the wealth of affection upon cats, birds and ether pets. And thus it happened that Massachusetts old maid, having nobody else to leave her fortune to, recently left it to her pet cat
 There are those who think the ten dency of our time is toward reduction in the ratio of marriages to the popu- lation of the marriageable. In one sense this is result of the continual improvement in the independence and general social condition of women. Not only are they no longer the slaves of men, but they are not obliged to tie themselves to men in order to get living. As civilization increases the number of occupations in which skill and tact and passive endurance make success, women, being often superior in these respects, take possession of greater number of places and crowd men out. The tables seem to be turned against the inquiry of Miss Mona Caird: ''Is Marriage Failure?" This question caused Q great deal of discus sion in print a few years ago. If it Is to be answered in the affirmative which heaven forfend-thcn it must also be declared, on the strength of tie latest returns from Massachusetts, that singleness is failure too. This leaves the relative merits of marriage and of singlencss just where they were before Miss Mona Caird dared to prick the alleged bubble of matrimony with her pen. If an old maid who died rich was, nevertheless, so circumscribed in the wealth of affection and home life as to be obliged to endow cat, what can be said of the success of old maids who never get rich, even in money?
The St. Johns herald., 1895-01-17
SWARMS OF WILD GEESE.
One Of the Terrors 5Thich Beset the Wheat
 CroIEcr fin California.

One Of the Terrors 5Thich Beset the Wheat
 Grower in California.
 ''l had an experience with wild geese in California, and it is so big that few. except those who are familiar with then. can readily believe it." said State Senator Dare to a San Francisco Examiner reporter. ''I own ranch of fourteen thousand acres at Knights Landing, on the Sacramento-the Yolo ranch. l raise great deal of wheat, and every year as soon as the wheat comes up the country is overrun with geese. have seen droves of them two or three miles long, and so thick that when you shoot into them with rife you are bound to hit some of them. They are so plentiful that am obliged to hire herders to keep them off. They settle in great bands. 4 band will set tie down on five acres, say, and you won't hear quack nor squawk, but the geese are there and very industri- ous, and before you know it they have pulled up and eaten every bit of the grain. They have @ skillful way of grasping the tender shoots in their mouths and pulling and relaxing and pulling again till they get the swollen grains with the blades and then eat the whole. A storm is almost sure to bring them in large numbers, but they often come in entirely fair weather. I keep many herders to drive them away. If it were not for this I wouln't have any o1 h sounding Winchesters and they keep shooting among them all the time. At night the geese don't bother, but early in the morning and all through the day they literally swarm. The herd CTS go out very early in the morning and stay all day. It is continual bat tie. The geese must be kept going all the time or the wheat is gone. When the men are blowing they get very close to the geese. Take fourteen or sixteen teams. each with a big blow that turns four furrows. They come along in .tring. The first one is a good way off. The next is little closer, and so on till the last one is fifty feet or more nearer than the first one was. The geese don't notice this and a man cah knock them over as he goes by. 1 saw one man take a monkey wrench and bowl away and kill one. In fact, if anyone wants geese he may easily kill them by thousands, and l was almost going to say millions, up there. I have killed them myself many time. The annual visitation of the geese at Knights Landing is not joke. It is the sternest kind of reality and means heavy loss if war fare is not kept up against them"
The St. Johns herald., 1895-01-17
Elevators for the Queen.

Since Queen Victoria met with an accident at Windsor castle eleven or twelve years ago, when one of her knees was injured, she has found it very troublesome and sometimes painful either to ascend or descend a staircase. This difficulty has lately increased so much that an elevator has j1st been placed in the private apartments of Windsor castle for her majesty's use, and another is to be fitted up at Os- borne. The queen has greater num- Der of steps to ascend ct Osborne than at any other oi tho palaces, as her own apartments are in the pavilion near the top of the house. Elevators are also being made for Buckingham pal ace and Ecl-ao- : which will be ready for use i1 tily There was one in Duc l2Clia. .r some years, whicl. wo3 --a -ta1c Of Al52- ny. although al-or 4.io death t was re- noTed. ---.-