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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
DENIES ASTOR'S CHARGES,
EX.Editor Gust of the Pail Mall
Gazette Assails the
American.
Declares That His Former Employer
Falsified in His Letter of
Dismissal.

LONDON, ENG, Feb. 9.-Dr. Henry
Cockayne Gust, formerly editor of Mr..
Astor's paper, the Pail Mall Gazette, has
sent to the Times the correspondence be-
tween himself and Mr.. Astor prior to his
dismissal from the editorship of the Ga
zette. Mr.. Astor complains that he had
always found Mr.. Gust unwilling to carry
out his wishes as regarded the course of
the paper.
Mr.. Astor's letter of dismissal was dated
February 3, 1885, In it he alludes to the
habitual disregard of his instructions IN
December, 1893, and March. 1894, and COM
plains of the sneers at and the disparaging
comments on the United States appearing
In his paper, which, Mr.. Astor said, were
in bad taste and extremely offensive to
him.
Mr.. Gust replies by stating that the files
OF the Pail Mall Gazette conclusively dis
prove the charges, and adds that Mr. Astor
on February 1, after layishly praising the
conduct of the journal, especially in the
recent American crisis curtly asked him
to resign in week. Mr.. Gust refused as
he preferred to be dismissed. Mr.. Gust in
stances instructions received from Mr..
Astor to wrote strongly in favor of the res
toratlon OF the empire in Brazil, which in
structions were duly complied with.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
MAGUIRE SEES
VICTORY AHEAD,
Huntington Deserted by
the Vanderbilts and
GouldS.
ARE NOW HIS RIVALS.
q II
Seeking to Purchase the Union
and Central Pacific at
Foreclosure Sale.
DEATH TO THE FUNDING BILL.
Their Opposition Would Mean the
Defeat of the Octopus in
Congress.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 9.-Judge
Mcguire was asked by CALL correspon-
dent tonight how the fight on funding
looked, and said:
"It begins to lock now as though the
Vanderbilt and Gould interests have de-
serted the refunding scheme They were
potent factors in its support heretofore
1t now seems that the Vanderbilts, at least,
are looking for a chance to buy the Union
and Central Pacific roads at foreclosure
sale, and thus secure through line from
New York to San Francisco. If this be so
the funding bill will be beaten, the mort
cages foreclosed and the road either held
by the Government or sold to representa-
tives of the Chicago and Northwestern sys-
4em.
"If the minimum price fixed by the Gov
eminent should be considered too high,
private companies will refuse to bid above
II and the Government will either hold
and operate the roads or hold them as pub
lie highways open to traffic and the COM
petition Of all who may desire to put roll
ing-stock upon them. 1t is my hope that
this may be the result. If, on the other
hand, the Northwestern people should
purchase the roads a most powerful and
uncompromising competing line will be
established, and California will be corre-
spondingly enriched"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
BLOWN FROM The RAILS,
Mail Train on a Colorado Road
Toppled Over by a High
Wind.
Engine and Cars Are Lifted From the
Track and Plunged to the Bottom
of a Canyon.

GEORGETOWN, CoLo., Feb. 9.-The
regular Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf
mail train from Denver was blown from
the track at Fishers Gulch, two miles be-
low this place, at IL o'clock to-day, and
was completely wrecked; but fortunately
no one was seriously injured beyond a
few cuts and bruises. The most seriously
injured were Fred Van Sicklen and wife,
of Chicago the former being cut on the
scalp and forehead, the latter cut on the
face and left hip.
They were in the aisle at the time the
coach turned over, and were thrown to the
roof as it struck the ice in the stream be-
side the embankmenr Mr.. Van Sicklen is
editor of Fowler Truth.
The others injured are H. G. Hill, Bos-
ton; Mrs. P. B. Hill of Chicago; Stanley
Gillard, Dunlap Tire Company, Chicago !;
w. f. Goudy, Union Manufacturing Com
pany, and Percy Dasey of the Referee,
Chicago. All were taken to Denver on a
relief train.
The train, consisting of a parlor car,
day coach, baggage car and locomotive,
was proceeding up the heavy grade toward
Georgetown. when the high wind roaring
down the canyon lifted the cars from the
track. The parlor car turned completely
over and landed in the creek; the others
were turned onto their side, including the
tender and locomotive.
The injured were members of the bicycle
delegation which attended the bicycle
show in Denver and were making the tour
of the Loop to-day.
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HURLED BY WAVES
into THE SURF.
Seamen of the New York
Schooner Florida
Lost.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
Life-Savers Vainly Try to Res
cue the Crew of a Stranded
Vessel.
CARRIED FROM THE RIGGING.
The Doomed Men Are Swept Over.
board After They Had Sought
Safety Aloft.

+ NEWBURYP0RT. MASS, Feb. 9-The
three -masted schooner Florida of New
York went ashore this afternoon on Sails
bury Beach. When first observed by two
Seabrook fishermen, seven men were seen
on the schooner. They attempted to
launch boat, but it was smashed to
took to the rigging and lashed themselves
to the main and mizzen masts.
There is no life-saving station at Sails
bury Beach, the nearest one being at Plum
Island, but the Merrimac River separa tes
this station and the schooner, and there is
no means of communication except via
Newburyport. The telephone station is
three miles distant, and to this point one
OF the fishermen fastened. He communi-
Gated with this city and the station at
Plum Island was notified.
Shortly after. s o'clock the life savers
started to throw a lifeline to the vessel
but owing TO darkness and the heavy
wind no definite aim could be taken.
About o'clock one body was washed
ashore, and shortly afterward second
body was observed in the surf. At 10
o'clock the life-savers were endeavorine to
continue their efforts through the night in
the hope OF rescuing the five men who are
supposed to be on the schooner. It is
highly probable, however, that all have
perished.
The papers of the vessel washed ashore
tonight. The Florida's crew consisted
of Captain Arthur Brown of New York
Mate r c. McCullo of Maine, Steward
Albert Williams of St. Johns, Gustayus
Smith, Walter Bell, John e. Johnson.
William e.. Wells and another whose
name could not be ascertained.
The three-masted schooner Glendon
which was in company with the Florida
all day, was driven upon Hampton Beach.
a few miles to the northward. The seas
broke over her deck and the crew of seven
men were forced to take to the rigging
whence they were rescued three hours
later by the Straus Point life saving crew
by means of the breeches buoy. The Glen
don was coal laden, bound for st. John.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
The Diplomatic Corps Follows
the Lead of the American
Minister.
RELATIONS ARE STRAINED.
Evidence That Cleveland Wants No
Dealings With the Present
Government.

HONOLULU, HAWAII, Feb 1.-For two
weeks past relations have been strained
between this Government and United
States Minister Willis in consequence of
the course taken by the latter in reference
to the observance of January IL last as a
Government holiday. 1t was the anniver-
sary OF the overthrow of the monarchy in
1898, from which event the republic of
Hawaii derived its birth. According TO
custom, on Government holidays the
various diplomatic representatives were
notified and invited to participate, as is
usually done, by display of flags and by
salutes of warships.
Minister Willis at once proceeded to con-
fer with his colleagues of the diplomatic
corps, the British, French and Japanese
commissioners. Being longest in service
here he was able to influence them all to
decline the invitations of the Government,
assigning as their reasons that their Gov
ernments had never recognized the Pro-
visional Government, whose birthday was
to be celebrated.
Since. however, the Provisional Govern
ment had been formally recognized by
President Harrison, and Messrs. Blount
and Willis had been accredited to it by
President Cleveland, Minister Willis was
debarred from assigning similar reason.
Accordingly he replied by simply inform
ing Minister Cooper that he would submit
the matter to his Government. At the
same time he suppressed the invitations
sent to Consul Mills and to Captain Pig
man OF the cruiser Bennington, who would
have fired salute.
Some correspondence ensued liz which
Mr.. Cooper asked for Mr.. Willis reason
for demurring TO the Observance of the
Government holiday. This Government
is unwilling to concede to the representa-
tives here of other Governments the right
to question the proprieLy of observing any
holidays which it is seen fit to appoint.
Minister Willis made no definite reply,
and relations are not as pleasant as is de-
sirable.
The real reason for the attitude taken by
Mr.. Willis seems plain. His record seems
to forbid his honoring the 18th of January.
Two years ago he officially announced TO
the Provisional Government President
Cleveland's formal condemnation of the
overthrow of the Queen as a nefarious act.
effected by a conspiracy OF Minister Ste
vens and the United States naval forces,
and demanded in the Presidents name
that the great wrong should be redressed.
He cannot now consistently join in honor
ing the event which he then denounced.
1t is known that British Commissioner
Hawes afterward fastened to express his
very cordial sentiments towards the Gov
ernment, and in an indirect way TO convey
the impression that he regretted the course
he had taken. The other diplomats are
said to hold the same view of the case.
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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
KNOCKS HIMSELF sEHsELEss.
A Defauihng Express AGENTS Way of
adding Weight to a Fictitious Ac-
count of q Robbery

. ? ;
TOLEDO, Ono, Feb. a.-Frank Specher,
agent at Dunbridge, Ohio. for the United
States Express Company and the Ohio
Central Railroad, was found unconscious
in his Office Friday evening. When he re-
vived he said he had been slugged by two
robbers, who had taken an express pack
age containing $110, which he had just
made up. Clinton r. Bell was arrested OH
suspicion and locked up at Bowling Green
charged with the robbery. Specher to-
day confessed that he had not been
robbed, that he was short in his accounts
$500 and that he had invented the robbery
story, hoping to cover up his defalcation.
To lend plausibility to the story he had
hit himself over the head with a stove
poker.
Specher is the third defaulter in the
Dunbridge Office in as many years.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
MILLIONS FOR A UNIVERSITY.

Masons Purchase SITE for the I,,stitu-
tion They Will Endoty.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 9.-The directors
of the National University, which is an
enterprise of the Masonic fraternity, on
Saturday purchased 132 acres of ground at
Beaver, Pa, on the Ohio River, about
twenty-five miles from this city, and took
options on 800 additional acres for site
for the university. Masons all over the
country are interested, and the success of
the university, which, with its endow-
ments, will cost upward of 5000, 900, is
assured.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
PICKED Up At. SEA.
Thrilling Adventure of the Joseph NJ.
Fosters Cre,c.

.
Fosters Cre,c.
CEDAR KEYS, Fla, Feb. 9.-Captain
J. B. Wheaton, Mate D. w. Duncan. and
six members OF, the crew of the schooner
Joseph w. Foster of Philadelphia were
brought to this port to-day by the
schooner Bessie A. Fish which picked them
up at sea.
The Foster left Pensacola for Rio Janeiro
on February lumber laden. On Tuesday
fire was discovered in the forward hold.
The flames spread rapidly and the crew
abandoned the vessel, taking to the yawI.
On Wednesday their food and water gave
out, and on Thursday the yawl was can.
sized. They escaped drowning by clinginp
to the upturned boat.
They drifted in this manner from Thurs
day till this morning, when they were
rescued by the Bessie A. Fish and brought
here.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT-GENERALs OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c. Feb. 8, 1867
General Orders-The following order has
been received from the War Department.:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 8, 1896.
The death at Baltimore, Nd, on the after
noon of Thursday, the 9th of February, OF
Brevet Ma ior-General John Gfbbon, brigadier-
general, is announced to the army. AS cadet
and commissioned officer he had served his
country well for over half q century.
In the late war as commander of the noted
Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac,
whose fame and name came to it upon is
battlefelds, he early gained distinction. Sub
sequently, in due succession as division and
corps commander. he served till Appomattox
closed the conflict. He was wounded at Fred
ericksburg, at Gettysburg and, after the Civil
War. in the indian engagement at Big Hole, in
Montana. He was five times breveted for gal
liant services in battle. He continued in active
service till, by operation of law under the
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
1HREArENED By FLOODS.
Farmers on an Island in the Platte
Rire4. re in Duunes.

Farmers on Island in the Platte
Rirer Are in Danger.
CLARKS, NEBR., Feb. 9.-An extensive
ice gorge in the Platte River here has
caused dangerous overflow. The bottom
lands are under water for miles. num-
Der of farmers who occupy an island near
here are threatened, with their entire
families. The river is higher than ever
known, and SO full of ice that no boat can
be fioated.
Much stock has perished, but so far no
lives are known to have been lost.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10

British schooner Aliianza. from New York
for st. John, n. B., went ashore on Plum
Island about o'clock tonight and is a
total wreck. Three of the crew, including
the captain, were drowned. The dead are
Captain Mealnso of st. John, John Reid of
Calais, Me-, and Andrew - of ofSpringhill,
Me. The captain attempted to make
Salem, but was blown off his course.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
OIL STEAMER ASHORE.

The British Vessel Aureole Is Ia a Dam
gerous PosSti on.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 9.-The
British oil-tank steamer Aureole. Captain
Crosby, en- route to Rouen, France, with a
cargo of 1,622,634 gallons of petroleum,
went ashore on Buikhead Shoals while
proceeding down Delaware Bay from this
port last night. She went ashore at high
tide and is in dangerous position. Her
cargo will have 20 be lightered.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
Royalty Speaks.

Queen Victoria. the Prince of Wales, the
German Emperor and other monarchs
have appointed G.. H. Mumm & Co. Pur-
veyors to their courts for the excellence of
their Extra Dry. In the United States
this brand is also the favorite, its importa-
ton in 1895 equaling one-third of the total,
or 49, .049 cases.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
NEW TO-DAY.

If Eric is in ro-
bust health, and has
slept well, and is at
the top of his con-
dition at his depart.
ure from Greenland.
his ships will reach
Newfoundland. But,
take out Eric and
put in a strong
er man - Biorn or
Thorfn and the
ships with just as
IN u ch e ase will
reach Labrador and
New England. +"
E m erson was
right. The stronger
a man is the fuller
his chest is, the
sounder his hear
and brain and lungs
are, the further he
will sail on the
ocean, the higher
he will sail IN hia
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
Perru AIlen Nnned.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 9.-Perrv
Allen of this city, the private secretary OF
Justice Harlan, has been appointed as
sistant secretary to the Venezuelan Com
mission.
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limitation of age, he passed to the retired list.
His remains will be inferred in the National
Cemetery at Arlington on Monday, the 10th of
February, with the military honors due to his
rank as general officer. DANIEL s. LAMONT,
Secretary of War.
BY command of MAJoR-GENERAL MILES.
GEORGE d. RUGGLEs, Adjutant-General
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
THREE ARE DROWNED.

The Captain and TsCo Scan,en of the
AlIianxa Lost.
NEWBURYP0RT, MASS, Feb. 9.-Ths
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
Death ofa noted sc,.,Dto~.

Oedut OF Noteo sculptor
PARIS, FRANCE, Feb. 9.-Jean Auguste
Barre, the distinguished French sculptor,
is dead. He was born in Paris on Septem.
ber 25 1911
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
A Warrior Who Had Served His
Country for Over Fifty
Years.
HIS GALLANTRY AppLAUDED
Famous as the Commander of the Iron
Brigade of the Army of the
Potomac.

WASHINGTON, D. D., Feb. 9.-The
War Department has announced the death
OF Brigadier-General John Gibbon ire
tired4 in the following official order:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-11
Free silver and Wages.

A correspondent attempts to explain
how wages would be increased under
Grades unions, through strikes and
other means. would force the price of
labor to a higher Standard This is
sheer nonsense.
Experience has conclusively demon
strated that wages, under debased sys-
tenn of currency, never increased in the
same degree as the money cost of COM
modities. If there was ever condition
Of affairs which was favorable to such
an increase it was during the Rebellion.
We were not only on a cheap money
basis, but the ranks of labor had been
enormously depleted to send men to the
front to battle for the republic. Yet,
what actually occurred? Judged by the
purchasing power of his wages the la
borer in 1868 received only 76 cents
where he had received gold dollar in
1850: in 1864 he received about 81 cents
and in 1865 little over 66 cents.
But how do workingmen fancy the idea
of being compelled to resort to Strikes
in order that their wages may have the
same purchasing power that they do
now? 1t will occur to sensible toilers
that if free silver coinage is going to
precipitate strikes, not really for higher
wages, but simply to keep the wages
that already exist, it will be the part of
wisdom to let well enough alone.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-11

1t is a plea for bimetallism and In strong
opposition to the gold monometallists.
He says, though. as every other true BIZ
metallist says, that the attempt on the
part Of this country to coin silver in
unlimited quantities free, without an un-
derstanding. with. other nations, would
be an assault on the cause of bimetallism
and practical suicide for the finances of
the United States. In 1873 Gen. Walk
er said: "For us to throw ourselves
alone into the breach, simply because
we think silver ought not to have been
demonetized and ought now to be re-
stored, would be piece of Quixotism un-
worthy the sound practical sense of our
people. The remedy of the wrong must
civilized states, under an increasing con-
viction of the impolicy of basing the
worlds trade on q single money metal"
This is his opinion today.
As to the possibility of free coinage
without an immediate fall to a silver
basis. and the strident claim that this
country is big enough to "legislate for it.
self. sell Gen. Walker points out two facts.
greatly Increased h in the world ar's and I com. ~
munication and transportation are so
much more rapid than of old. that even
France found it impossible in 1873 to
continue free silver coinage. Since there
Is vastly less money metal used in the
United States than in France, the in
tiuence which this country can exert
upon the money market of the world is
yet no one accuses Gen. Walker Of be-
ing less patriot or less proud of the
country for which he fought than the
youngest orator of the far West. The
difference is that he is student and
man OF sense.-Syracuse Post.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-11
Mills, Not Nfints.

More truth cannot be crowded into an
equal number of words than is found in
this passage of Maj. McINinley's speech
in reply to congratulatory address from
some of his old comrades in arms:
I do not know what you think about 1t.
but believe 1t is good deal better to open
bor Of America than to open up the mints Of
This goes hard and straight to the
root of the matter.
Times are not dull in Pittsburg because
there is no mint coming silver or gold
dollars in that city, but because the
great iron works are not running on full
time. There was no mint at work in
South Chicago when the rolling mills
were at work by night and by day. but
there was q wage roll of $6.00O,OO0 a
year. 1t was not because of the activity
of the mints that Louisiana nearly dou-
bled its sugar output. but because of the
Mckinley bounty. 1t was not because
the mints were more active in 1891 than
in 1893 that in the. first year men were
striking because they could not earn
more than $3 per day, and in the last
were hunting for work ut 75 cents. and,
for the most part, not finding it. The
mints were turning out as much money
in 1893 as in 1891. But the mills were
not turning out SO many yards Of cloth
or tons of iron.
Start the mills and the mints will be-
come active. Return to protection, and
the currency will settle itself.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-11
The Difticulty is the Tariff.

In a recent speech ut La Grange Ind.
Senator Burrows said:
with all the vagaries Of the three
Bryan platforms they all unite in the de-
Of silver at 16 to ], and to that question
Mr.. Bryan devoted goodly portion Of
his time in his speech of acceptance. He
declared that times are hard, prices are
low, and something is vitality wrong II
il not the crime of '73, however. but the
folly of '92, when Harrison was defeated
and the prosperity of the United States
nj; WhitRRsy says: .Su ,,,;1; Don't talk about
day is tariff. When Mckinley is nresi1ent %
the money question will settle itself.
More silver dollars were coined dur.
ing Republican administrations than dnr.
ing all Of the other eighty-three years Of
our history.
"Panic always accompanies free trade.
During the thirty years from 1851 to
1892 we had unbounded prosperity:
wealth advanced; this republic took n
all other nations until March 4, 1893.
The public debt was reduced during Re.
publican administrations, and Increased
under Democratic. There is not a single
day but the government is running Re.
hind. The deficiency during juIv. fsSe
alone was $4,000, 900. o'
1.-THE results of the Democratic noIicv
are SO evident that new issue was nee
essary to give them even a fighting
gaign, and so they say that in 1873 the
demonetizing silver. If that is so VIZ
did 1t not show itself before 1893? W.
were prosperous in '02, and the crime had
been committed before then"