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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-13

-, here are Underwear Bargains that Put Halves
ana Quarters In your pocket rS ut along Scriven,s
Patent Elastic Seam Drawers stan lard price avsrv
where ont here. 81. The Stock Relief Bargain Price
only zoe. Drop Stitch BalbrGgan Underwenr for the
ped ped Underwear Mt Doc Big Leaders Coo! Lace
nuershrts only Quarter. Light Gauze Undcrsbirts
only l5c. IS
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-13

Here are Mems and BOYS Sweaters
samples in the East Window, actual
value Twenty-Five Cents everywhere
under the sun. Save your dimes. Here
they are and here they 90 The Stock
Relief Bargain Price names them only nc
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-13
TIL CRAZE Fob SILVER Y

Belt Buckles Of Sterling Silver Not the kind of
STERLING that the authorities stopped the from sell
ing IN New ork but the pure stuff fine SOC each
instead of the 81. 30.
Sterling Silver Belt Pins each. Waist Sets of
stefng silver these consisting of Collar Button three
STUDS and one pair link cuff buttons 4zc.
Shlrt WAIST sets plated with silver gold Ioc
New and Beautiful Plated Belt Buckles Ioc &C and
BABY Pins, Gold and Silver Plated, with cham, / &C;
Baby Button Sets Ioc. -
Mems and Ladies' Link Cuff Buttons, new ones, very
pretty ones Ioc.
Big Pearl Button for Duck Suits, Pure White, also
smoked sc and SOC dozen.
Cosmo Buttermilk Soap, the real 2,c a box. Pears
Scented Soap. sc cake.
Cogates Bay Rum Soapthree cakes for 2oc; Coeate's
Florida Water 2oc bottle
Remnants Garter lengths frilled silk elastic &C in
stead OF SOC. - ~
WATT, RET"TEN s. CLAY.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-13

Here are Mens and Boys Straw Hats OF Fnabion.
no'e 9nhpes ana III every particular first class goods
samples IN both windows and RATS inside impossible
10 sho" III the windows Some 49, per cent. less than
ne pfb'na price, others Mt hnlf their actual value.
Each and everyone n Genuine Money Saving Rar~ain
LOOK EN- over If the size is righ, the price is surely
right: The East Window shows bang up Straw Hats
only Soc
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-13

Here are Boys Knee Pants, samples in the New
Annex window Atlantic street. All sizes, including
ago 10 Knee Pants OF stuff That shows Big Value for
the price and makes 1t possible every boy to wear
tidy Knee Pants at small outlay OF cash Here
they are and here they ut tine Stock Relief Bargain
fFlce OIL Len Cents pair, ms long AS they lust.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
SANTA ROSA GRADUATES
Taking of Evidence Concluded
in the Murder Case
at Redwood.
WOES OF ENsENADA SUSPECTS.
Bandit Breckenridge Bound Over
at Napa-Suicide of Stock
ton Chinaman.

CLOVERDALE, CAL, May 22.-Colonel
j. B. Armstrong; residence, the hand
soonest structure in Cloverdale, was burned
to the ground shortly after o'clock this
morning. The fire caught from the
chimney near the tower. 1t was discovered
at l o'clock and was thought to be smoke
escaping from the chimney, but shortly
afterwards the whole roof of the tower was
ablaze.
The alarm was Immediately sounded.
The fire had gained so much headway that
an attempt to save the building was use
less. Colonel Armstrong who has been
an invalid for several years, was safely
removed to neighboring house.
The house was one of the most
luxuriantly furnished in Sonoma County,
being fitted throughout with California
redwood of choice pieces from the Colonel
Armstrong; mills near Guerneville. Many
valuable collections of Colonel Armstrong
were destroyed. Most of the furniture and
a valuable collection of paintings from the
brushes of Strauss, the San Francisco
artist, and of Miss Kate Armstrong were
saved, as also was the valuable library.
Nothing on the second story was saved.
Two hundred dollars in coin was also
burned.
The loss will amount to SIS, 900; insur-
ance S5000
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

grounds. In parts the roof is torn off COM
pletely and all the shingles are loose and
blackened. The weatherboards are
wrenched and torn from the frame, and
parts of the heavy frame itself are
and nearer in the foreground, is the chemi-
cal laboratory, where things were badly
smashed by the concussion and the dam
age was considerable. ALI this is on the
west side of a high hill on the east side OF
which the explosion took place.
One gang of men has been repairing the
windows over here all day, and another is
employed collecting debris that was scat
tered as far as 500 feet from the explosion.
Huge chunks of lead and iron pipe, some
of them weighing as much as twenty
pounds, were found fully quarter of a
mile distant.
AS to the cause of the explosion no one
at the works has even favorite theory to
advance. 1t was picked crew in both the
nitro-glycerine house-where the concus
sion occurred-and in the mixing-house
adjacent, and Acting Superintendent Pol
lock will not listen to a breath of sus
picion as to the probable or possible care
lessness of any OF the men now dead.
otis part of the business" is the
philosophical comment of the workmen
"And when you come to think of it eight
men in fourteen years is not such bad
record. The mines and railroads kill more
men than that"
Of course he spoke only of white men
The sixty and odd Mongolians destroyed in
these fourteen years are of - well, are
mourned most in the Chinese camp.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
HIGGINS GETS THE CASH,
Attorney General Fitzgerald
Decides That He Is Entitled
to a Salary.
But Congressman McLachlan VIII
Not Draw Pay as Treasurer or
the Whittier School.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, May 22.-Attor-
ney-General Fitzgerald has furnished
written opinion to the State Controller in
the case of M. R. Higgins, Insurance Com
missioner.
When III. G. Gesford was appointed In
surance Commissioner by Governor Budd
and confirmed by the Senate he brought
suit to GUST Higgins, who declined to re-
sign. The Controller was in doubt as to
who was entitled to draw the salary for the
Office and declined to pay Higgins his
salary. The Attorney General is of the
opinion that, under section 93S of the
Political Code, which provides that the
one who holds the position and fulfills its
duties is entitled to the pay, Mr.. Higgins
should be paid his salary pending the liti-
cation in the Superior Court of San Fran
cisco.
The Attorney General has also given his
opinion upon the case of McLachlan, who
was elected to Congress last fall, his term
commencing on March last. He was
treasurer of the Whittier State School, and
the Controller refused to draw warrants
for his salary as such on the ground that
he is holding lucrative office under the
United States Government, and, therefore,
is prohibited from filling the position of
treasurer during his Congressional term.
The Attorney-General sustains this view of
the case, and McLachlan will not drew his
salary.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
OPPRESSION OF ENsENADA.
American Visitors to Prisoners Stripped
to Prerent Correspondence.

American Visitors to Prisoners Stripped
to Prevent Correspondence.
SAN DIEGO, CAL, May 22.-A telegram
has been received here from one of the
prisoners confined at Ensenada for the
robbery of the $4,000 gold bar, asking
friends not to write to him direct, as all
his letters are scanned by officials and
anything suspicious results in more severe
treatment and closer confinement. Such a
close watch is kept on the visitors that a
Chinaman carrying meals to the prisoner
was stripped naked in search for secret
correspondence and American friends of
the prisoners were subjected to the same
indignity.
1t is not known yet how the prisoner
managed to smuggle the telegram out of
Jail. All four charged with the robbery
are American citizens, though Pratt and
Garratt are British born. Jackson, a
British subject charged with bank robbery,
is moving through friends in England but
without success. Authorities are re-
doubling efforts to find the bar, but if they
have any clew it is kept secret Meantime
there is as yet no sign of any trial for the
prisoners.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

master of arms-W. F. G. Morosco of San
Francisco, Fred Doud of San Francisco
and W. H. Lehman of Santa Ana. The
ballots were cast and W. 81. Lehman was
elected by big majority.
The election of supreme representatives
was then in order This is next in import
ance to that of grand chancellor. Superior
Representative-atL Large Stanton L. Carter,
Superior Judge of Fresno County, was un-
animously reelected. Each State is al
lowed one supreme representative for each
10000 mem bers, and as California has over
that number an additional representative
was balloted for. There were three can
didates-Sena ator Frank MCGOWAN of
Eureka, A. J. Buckles of Suisun and
George E. Church of Fresno. Senator Nc
Gowan was elected after two ballots
Stanton l.. Carter is candidate for
supreme chancellor of the world, and it is
thought by many that he will be elected.
The trustees for the Grand Lodge were
then appointed as follows: Alfred Perrier
of San Francisco, J. w. Guthrie of Sacra-
mento and Sigmund Steiner OF Escondido.
The meeting adjourned at 4 As to allow
the delegates of the Uniform Rank to repair
to Camp Ritchie to participate in the dress
parade and grand supper rendered them at
the camp. The bill OF fare was a sump-
tuous one and highly appreciated.
After the spread grand open-air con-
cert was rendered at the camp, when the
crowd moved toward Mariposa Hall,
whence strains of dance music were al
ready issuing.
Tomorrow the main feature of the ay
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
BRUTALITY OF a SHIPS COOK.
Il Cabin Roy on the Duke of Argyll Re-
cefues a Dangerous Hound.

Il Cdbin-B0y on the Duke of argyll Re-
ceives q Dangerous Hound.
SANTA BARBARA, CAL, May o.
John Southern, cook on the English
bark Duke of Argyll, now unloading coal
in port, became incensed at the cabin-bov,
named Priest, for some fancied grievance,
this morning, and struck him on the head
with a broken steelyards, cutting deep
cash two and a hall inches long over the
right temple. Young Priest is an English
lad, 19 years old, simple-minded, but of
gentle disposition. Sailors aboard the
bark are indignant over the outrage, and
assert that this murderous attack is but
one of a sequence of brutal abuses of the
lad by Southern, who has frequently
struck and beaten him without provoca-
ton.
An attempt was made to secure war
rant on shore for Southern's arrest, but
District Attorney Oglesby has decided that
the State of California has no jurisdiction
over case of simple assault committed on
foreign ship in port, and unless heavy
steelyards are decided to be murderous
weapons nothing will be done, unless Cap
tain Golightly himself takes steps toward
the culprit's punishment. 1t is thought
Priest will recover.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

nese quarter this evening, and fell dead.
He first fired two shots from his pistol
through door to hit an enemy, and then
turned the pistol on himself. The police
first thought it was case of murder. but
later found a white man who saw the Celes-
tial shoot himself 1t is believed he
thought he had killed the man he shot at,
and then killed himself
The dead Chinese was named Tom
Yuen. He was a cook recently employed
at the Pacific Hospital near town. The
police arrested Chinese who was pointed
out by white man as the shooter of the
dead man, but powder marks on the cloth
ing and the testimony of reputable white
man prove it case of suicide.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
SANTA ROSA GRADUATES.
Diplomas Atcarded Students of the Pt
ciTfc Methodist College.

AtptOUtuS dtcUTdeu StuuentS OF tRe fd-
ciffc Methodist College.
SANTA ROSA, CAL, May 22.-The grad.
uating exercises of the Pacific Methodist
College closed tonight The auditorium
of Ridgeway Hall was filled. The stage
was prettily decorated with flowers and
vines.
The graduating class comprised: Walter
w. Percival, w. C. Howard, P. M. Howard,
C. P. Hessel, j. NJ. Booher Kate ]. Potter
and Essie NJ. Austin. c. p Hessel, w. C.
Howard and Miss Potter received the A. B.
degree, and ]. NJ. Booher, P. NJ. Howard.
w. w. Percival and Miss Austin the de-
gree of B. s.
The gold medals contested for Monday
night were awarded by the judges and the
announcements made tonight. The awards
were as follows:
Defamation medal, given by E. w. Davis
Contestants: Todd Clark, Henry Atkinson and
Henry Fay; won by Henry Atkinson.
Recitation medal, given by DR.. J. w. Jesse
Contestants: Lulu Booher, Rosa Miller
George Swank, Jeanette Grojean and Minnie
Cotton; won by Rosa Miller.
Grafton medal, given by Colonel ]. A. Har
din-Contestants: W. Vaughan and P. NJ
Howard; won by P. NJ. Howard.
Scholarship medal, given by ex-Mayol
Brooke, all the pupils in the school contest
ing-Won by John Cornet and Lulu Booher.
Faculty recitation medal-Won by Minnie
Cotton.
1t is noteworthy that Miss Kate Potter
has during her course taken the scholar
ship prize in two years and was the vale.
dictorian of her class. President Austin
delivered short, practical baccalaureate
address and conferred the degrees.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
FIRED UPON a sE4LER.
The Schooner Directors Sails Ripped BIZ
Grapeshot IN Southern Waters.

The Schooner Directors Sails Ripped By
Grapeshot in Southern Waters.
VICTORIA, B. c., May 22.-One of the
crew of the schooner Director, which ar
rived here few days ago with 610 seal
skins, is authority for the statement that
the schooner had some difficulty in getting
skins. He says the skius were obtained off
the coast of Patagonia, and that the
schooner was fired upon, her sails being
ripped by grapeshot. No one was hurt,
and the schooner escaped without receiv-
ing any injury.
big potlatch is being held on the Son.
ghees' Indian reservation near this city to-
day. Several thousand Indians are here
from all over the coast. Hundreds of
blankets, guns and trinkets were given
away by female relatives of the men lost
in the wreck of the schooner Earl. The
potlatch will last week.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

has been ascertained almost to a@certainty a
that only nine Cinnamon wee killed by
the explosion. In the first place only nine
OF them were employed in the mixing house
at the time, and then the time-keeper has
accounted for all the remaining afifty-nine
Cinnamon employed atlthe works. Hong
Quong, who is the boss of the Cinnamon,
also says that all have been accounted fol-
except the nine.
But the number came very near being
ten. Lee. Long was put to work wedding
the ground Immediately surrounding the
| Westinghouse. He went on at o'clock,
and was instructed to remain there all day.
About o'clock he was needed elsewhere,
SO Hong Quong came around and relieved
him of that task. To-day Lee came to the
Chinese camp, packed up all his belongings
| and bid adieu to the camp forever. One
| other Chinese also deserted the ranks, but
beyond these all the others will return to
| work Friday morning.
| Twenty new men were put to work to-
| day, and probably half that number in ad-
dition will go on tomorrow morning. AL
ready the lumber for rebuilding the de-
molished and repairing the injured
buildings has been ordered and much of it
will arrive on the grounds to-day. The
new men have been put to work clearing
up the debris and making preparations for
the carpenters.
The ruins of the collapsed acid and gly-
cerine warehouses were nearly cleared
away to-day, but no further finds were
made in the way of missing bodies or parts
thereof. Several gunny-sacks were filled
with very small fragments-pieces of bone
and flesh ranging in size from as small as
ones little finger to as large as ones hand.
But nothing that could possibly be iden-
titled has been discovered, and it is not
likely that there will be-.
The identity of the leg found is still a
mystery, and though some of the workmen
are set on giving it an ownership, there is
no possible way in which this could be
done to certainty.
The rebuilding and repairing of the
works will be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible.
'We can't afford to lie idle" said Acting
Superintendent Pollock, ''and we will try
our best to get in shape inside of three
weeks. No; none of the men will be idle
in the meantime. We have work enough
IOr Ill OF tnem, anu, III TACT, Will need
twenty or thirty extra men for few
weeks, including carpenters and builders
Mr.. Pollock went down to the City this
afternoon. Tomorrow he will attend the
funerals of the only two men whose
mangled remains could be identified
Glare Taylor and Harry Minugh. The lat
ter's funeral will be held at Browns un-
dertaking establishment in Oakland at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Johnson s
remains were taken to his fathers home at
Giant station. Here his comrades will
meet at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and
accompany the cortege to the Baptist
church at San Pablo. Both men will be
buried at Mountain View Cemetery.
Standing on the summit of the hill where
the superintendent s Office is located one
gets good view of the amount of wreck
age occasioned by the explosion that oc-
Cured at the base of the second hill.
Away over gully can be seen the great
frame structure known as the sulphuric
J chambers, the largest building on the
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

things were Just the reverse. Colonel
Nichols became seriously i'll last night, and
the competitive drill had been postponed.
This, of course, was big disappointment
for the; crowds that had arrived to witness
this interesting part of the programme.
The Grand Lodge convened at $50 A. M.
in Bagbys Opera-house. The grand pre-
late led the regular devotional exercises.
Business was quickly resumed, as each
delegate knew that if certain work would
be accomplished the election of officers
would take place this afternoon.
The grand chancellor conferred the Grand
Lodge degree on several more delegates
who arrived to-day. Fern Leaf Lodge of
Forest Hill was refused permission to elect
additional past chancellors. The Kings
burg Lodge was changed to Fowler Lodge,
and will be removed from Kingsburg to
Fowler
The question as to where the next
Grand Lodge session would be held
caused considerable excitement The
Truckee delegates were confident and
the Needles men were backing them,
for it was promised to Needles in
1897 should Truckee get it in 1896. San
Francisco put in some good words for the
honor. Los Angeles, Riverside and Eureka
wanted it. After an hours discussion the
lodge could come to no definite agreement,
and the question was laid over until to-
morrow.
THE Grand Lodge then took up the revi-
sion of the constitution. Several changes
were approved, but none were adopted.
Among those likely to be adopted to-mor-
row was the one against prohibiting saloon
men and bartenders from becoming men,
bers of the ort;er.
The government for the Grand Lodge of
California will be in three coordinate and
independent branches, the legislative body
(the Grand Lodge), the executive grand
chancellor and the judicial. They will be
called the grand tribunal, and will be COM
posed of three members, who shall be ap-
pointed by the grand chancellor. Here
after all the appeals from the subordinate
lodges that formerly went to the grand
chancellors will be brought up before the
tribunal which will be to the knights
the same as the State laws are to the citi-
zens. In the composition of the legisla-
tive body, all past grand chancellors and
rigadier-generals of the Uniform Rank
are made active members of the Grand
Lodge.
Every one was electioneering when the
afternoon session was called to order The
first candidate and the only one for grand
chancellor. was George Samuels of Oak
land, whose election was greeted with long
and hearty applause. For grand vice
chancellor, Colonel G. F. McGIashan of
Truckee was elected, there being no oppo-
sition.
For grand prelate there was hard fight.
Many candidates were in the field and four
we're nominated-Dr. Fl. r. Arndt of San
Diego by Past Supreme Prelate E. T.
Blackmer; Judge w. H. Grant of Wood
land, by George E. Church OF Fresno; G. g.
Patton of San Francisco, by Past Grand
Chancellor Walker c. Graves of San Fran
cisco, and w. A. Mackinder of St. Helena
by Past Grand Chancellor Frank McGowan.
The voting was very close, and after three
ballots, IN which Judge Grant was always
in the lead by two or three votes, he was
unanimously elected.
There were three candidates for grand
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
CoLMA MURDER CASE.
Defense of John u. Clancy Charged With
KILLING His Father.

REDWOOD CITY, CAL, May 22.-The
defense in the trial of John ]. Clancy for
the murder of his father near Colma, tends
to show that the father made threat to
kill the mother and children while living
IN San Francisco six years ago. The father
was sent out of the State and the jurisdic-
ton of the court, and remained at Seattle
five years. He then came back, and was
given home by the defendant, the mother
being afraid to live with him.
While drunk the father used vile Ian
guage to the sons wife, The defendant
tried TO make him stop. A scuffle ensued,
ind the elder Clancy struck against an old
stove standing in a corner and then fell
lace downward on stove leg that. had
nropped out on the floor, the defendant
falling on top of him. The fathers cheek
oone and nose were broken, and he died of
soncussion of the brain.
The testimony is all in, and the argu-
ment will commence Thursday morning.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
DAMAGIsG EVIDENCE FOUND.
Developments In the Trial of William
UiIcor for Jfurder


Hitcor for Murder.
SEATTLE. WASH, May 22.-The second
trial of William Wilcox for the murder of
Charlotte Fetting on Labor day, 1898, de-
veloped some startling new testimony to-
day. 1t shows that the State will endeavor
to prove that Wilcox and James King, the
womans son-in-law, who was afterward
murdered in Tacoma, conspired to rob her,
and one OF the principal witnesses against
them was Kings own son Charles.
1t was shown that the two men were
scheming in the Hunters Home saloon at
Tacoma to get the woman's money; that
they left there on the evening of the muir
der to come to Seattle; that King engaged
Ernest Fetting, the woman's son, iii vari-
GUS ways all day, and that Wilcox was
seen here by two persons on that day-a
fact which could not be proved at the first
trial. One of the latter witnesses was a
woman from whom some damaging ad-
missions were extorted under cross-exam-
ination.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
FIRE 1T SANTA BARBARA.
The Romantic Barger Canyon Castle De
strOyed by Fire.

The ROmdntic Barger Canyon Castle De-
stroyed by Fire.
SANTA BARBARA, CAL, May %. -
Word has just been received that the beau
tiful residence belonging to Mr.. Barger,
and lying in the isolated canyon bearing
his name, four miles from Santa Barbara,
has been destroyed by fire. Mr.. Barger is
a wealthy Cleveland gentleman, formerly
chief owner of the waterworks in that
city, who lives in retirement with his
nephew and servants alone in this roman
tic spot and his residence was known as
the Castle. 1t was costly and handsome
structure, hidden from sight in the can
yon's depths. The building was valued at
$4,000
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
NAPA BANDIT HELD.

Breckenridge Must Anstcer In the Sss-
Perior Court for Ri0htcay Robbery.
NAPA, CAL, May 22.-The preliminary
examination of Breckenridge, the stage
robber, was completed to-day. Under
Sheriff Robert Brownlee, John Williams
and Jack True, all members of the captur-
Ing party, gave testimony, and here the
prosecution rested. No defense was made,
and Justice Bradford held Breckenridge to
answer before the Superior Court under
$40, 900 bonds, which were not given.
English is worse to-day, having caught q
cold.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23
Suicide of a Los Anoe,e. Mnn

LOS ANGELES, CAL, May 22.-Joseph
Roesel, chief decorator of the Los Angeles
Furniture Company, committed suicide
this morning. He was in mourning for his
wife, who died a few months ago. He sold
his property for $50, 900 a few days ago and
put the money in a bank. and this morning
he went to the house OF friend where his
two children had been staying and took a
big dose of strychnine.