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BUG" HOLIDAY.
The Ex-Baseball Player Brutally AS
saults a Woman.


LOS ANGELES, March 9.-"Bug''
Holiday, the well-known ex-baseball
player of Cincinnati, Des Moines and
other Eastern cities, was arrested to-
night for assaulting an unknown
woman, whom he kicked down a flight
of stairs. and upon whose prostrate
form he jumped and kicked in the most
brutal manner before he was seized by
police officer.
The woman's wounds are serious, but
she refuses to give her name, and de-
clines to make any complaint against
Holiday. She claims to be a respectable
lady who called on the Holidays and
was kicked down stairs by Bug" who
was beastly intoxicated.
Holiday was charged with drunken
ness, and locked up until he will have
sobered up.
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PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
Thomas Fox Named for the Postmas-
tership at Sacramento.


tership at Sacramento.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-The Pres
ident to-day sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations:
Postmasters - California, Thomas
Fox, Sacramento; Mary Bryce, Win
ters; Josephine ]. Gaffney, Los Gatos;
Lizzie M. Calder, Willows. Montana
Daniel H. Brooks, Bozeman.
United States Consuls-Clement j..
DIETRICH of Maryland, at Nantes,
France; Richard L. Miller Of Virginia,
at Hull. England; Ethelbert Watts of
Pennsylvania, at Horgen, Switzerland.
To be Indian Inspector-Joseph Lane
of Washington.
ergeants-Joseph Dripps, Eighth
Cavalry, and William f. Creary, Third
Infantry, and Corporals Edward Thart-
man, Seventh Infantry, and Howard
w. French, First Cavalry, to be Second
Lieutenants.
The Senate in executive session to-
day confirmed the following nominal
tions Of Postmasters: Montana oseph
Sullivan, Fort Benton; wyoming
Louis Schalk, Rawlins
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Ex-ChanceIIor bismarck.

LONDON. March 9.-Persons who
have recently visited Prince Bismarck
at Friedrichsrhue describe the ex-
Chancellor as being in unusually good
health. His conversation is as ami
mated and as witty as ever. He has
accepted the proposition of the resi-
dents of Hamburg to hold the custom
ary torchlight procession in his honor
on the occasion of the eighty-first an
niversary of his birth, which falls on
April 1st
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The Monadnock.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.-The
coast defense vessel Monadnock to-day
performed her first actual service since
her keel was laid twenty-one years ago
The big fighter steamed down from
Mare Island Navy-yard and cruised
about the bay, behaving splendidly
She is provisioned and coaled, and may
proceed to sea tomorrow for trial trip
and test of her guns
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Baltimore and ohio Road.

BALTIMORE, March 9.-Judge Har-
Ian to-day signed an order requiring the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
to show cause by March 23d why it
should not pay into court all the funds
held in trust for the Baltimore. and Ohio
Employees Relief Association, amount
ing to something like 100000, and
why a new trustee should not be ap-
pointed. 1t is alleged that the com
pany, instead of investing the money
for the benefit of the association, has
turned it into its own Golfers, and now
accounts for it with the floating debt
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Bank Failure at san Jose.

SAN JOSE, March 9.-The CONNER
eial and Savings Bank did not open this
morning. A notice was posted on the
door stating that the directors consid-
cred it wise to go into liquidation. The
assets are reported to be far in excess
of the liabilities, and it was said that all
depositors would be paid in full. The
banks capital is S1.000,000; capital paid
up. $500, COO. The surplus fund is S255,
600. Bernard D. Murphy is President
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OREGON SHORT LINE.
Plan for the Reorganization of the
System.

Plan for the Reorganization of the
System.
BOSTON, March 9.-The Boston
News Bureau says: The plan for the re-
organization of the Oregon Short Line
and Utah Northern Railway Company,
which plan has been agreed to by all
the contending interests. will be Off
cially issued tomorrow.
1t calls for foreclosure and new
company, to be known as the Oregon
Short Line Railroad Company. 1t pre-
serves the entire system, and also the
control of the block of Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation stock which Sc
cured the $13,000,000 collateral trust
bonds. the new Short Line Company
paying the assessment on the Naviga-
tion stock.
The annual fixed charges of the new
company will be 81 .S53, ,270, as COM
pared with $2.7SS, ,2T0 of the old COM
pany.
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Germany-Austria-ItaIy Treaty.

BERLIN, March 9.-Count Goluch-
owski Austrian Minister of Foreign At
fairs, arrived here from Vienna at 8
O'Clock this evening. On Wednesday he
will take luncheon with Emperor Will
lam at the Schloss. The object of the
Austrian Premier's visit to Berlin at
the present time is to confer with
Prince HohenIohe, the German Imperial
Chancellor, in regard to the situation in
Italy as affecting the alliance between
Germany. Austria and Italy.
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Pardoned bv the President.

WASHINGTON, March 9.-The Pres
ident has granted pardons in the cases
of Nathan Bloom, Oregon, who pleaded
guilty of smuggling, and of M. Sails
bury, Oregon, sentenced in January,
1896, to $500 fine for using a penalty
envelope to avoid the payment of post
age
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1NGLESIDE RACES.
The Weather Fine and the Track Fast
Yesterday.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 9.-The
weather was fine and the track fast.
Four furlongs, selling, Mary K won,
Gordon second, Ingleside third Time
0:501a
One and one-quarter miles. selling,
Rey Del Bandidos won, Red Root sec
ond, Foremost third. Time-2:10A
Five furlongs, William Pinkerton
won, Veragua second. Fleet third. Time
-1:031a.
Six furlongs, selling, Crafty won,
Tobey second, Pique third. Time
1:15A-
Seven furlongs. DerfargiIla won
Vinctor second, Lobengula third Time
Il :2S3I.
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tempted to shoot Ralph Farnsworth,
another employee, and also said he in
tended to kill William Brown, the head
nurse.
Mackay was overpowered and taken
to Jail at Stockton. Cook is seriously
wounded and may die.
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COMUS AND PHEASANT.
Unexpected Orders Received by the
British Warships.

British Warships.
VICTORIA (B. CO, March 9.-Unex-
pected orders were received by officers
of her majesty's ships Comus and
Pheasant on Sunday. The Comus is now
in dry dock being overhauled. Work
is being rapidly pushed to completion,
it being expected that they will start
on Saturday next for Honolulu. Their
object in proceeding to that port is un-
known except to the Admiral, who re-
ceived cable advices Sunday on which
immediate action was required. It is
understood that the vessels work will
simply be to protect British interests in
case of revolution. The Pheasant had
intended going to Behring Sea in a
short time
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Cardinal Gibbons En- Route to St. Louis.

BALTIMORE, March 9-Cardinal
Gibbons, accompanied by Rev Father
Fletcher Of the Cathedral, left on the
limited express over the Baltimore and
Ohio for ST. Louis this afternoon. His
| eminence will attend the obsequies of
the late Archbishop Kenrick, which will
take place Wednesday.
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Receptions at the White House.

WASHINGTON. March 9.-President
Cleveland resumed his tri-weekly after
noon receptions to-day after an interval
of two years. The reception began at
] p. m. and about 100 visitors, mostly
strangers, called on the President
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retary, after a careful examination Of
the additional evidence submitted to
him, has decided that no alteration
should be made on the sentence imposed
on Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the Ameri-
can woman who is undergoing life i'm
risonment on conviction of having poi
Soned her husband
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Floods in Germany.

BERLIN. Maroh 9.-F'loods are re-
ported in the Rhine, Saar and Neckar
Rivers. At Freiburg, the hereditary
Grand Duke, accompanied by Council
or Siegat and Director Sonntag. was
watching the work of salvage from q
bridge over the river when the bridge
collapsed. Herren Siegat and Sonntae .
were drowned.
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Highest Of all IN Leavenng Power-Laes Us Report
R!1!!Aa!l! a. Rskdssl: RRskiias
ABSOLUTELY PURE

financial views was a request that they
stand by their sound money principles
to the last. The promise was given to
the dying Senator, and whatever hope
the free silver Democrats may have
been cherishing of the election of Sem
ator Blackburn will never be realized.
Senator Weissinger's friends look upon
him as a martyr, and will never desert
the cause for which they claim he died.
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Tore the FIae Into shreds.

LINCOLN (Neb), March 9.-Students
in the eighth grade of the Park School
to-day at a supposed prearranged sig
nal made a rush for the Spanish flag
which hangs on the walls, pulled it
down and tore it into shreds. The
teachers were hardly given time to in
terpose objections, even were they so
disposed.
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General Booth Arrives in London.

LONDON, March General Booth,
Commander of the Salvation Army, ar
rived in London this morning from In
dia, where he has been visiting in the
interest of the army. He was met at
the railway station by the chief officers
OF the organization, and after the ex
change of greetings he proceeded to a
hotel
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Banks Doors Closed.

OMAHA (Neb), March 9-The State
Bank of Bloomfield, at Bloomfield,
Knox County, Neb., closed it's doors to-
day.. No statement was obtainable, but
the failure was probably caused by
slow collections.
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Two CHILDREN KILLED.
Run Over by an Electric Car While
Crossing a Street at Oakland.
Both Dead Before Their Bodies Were
Picked Up.

Senator Goucher Continues to AssaiI,
Through the Editorial Columns of
His Paper, the Big Ofice-HoIders
of the Present Democratic Admin
istration, National and State, for
Denying a Fair Proportion of
Patronage to Fresno Democrats.
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FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.
A Maniac With a Gun Gets Loose on the
Streets Of BrOCkYille, Ontario,
Opening Fire on AL Who Come Within
Range.

One Man Shot Dead, Two Are Fatally,
Three Seriously and Several Others
slightly wounded Before the Crazy
Man Was Brought Down With
Bullet, overpowered and Landed
In Jail.
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No Hope for Mrs. Maybrick.

LONDON, March 9.-The Daily
News will say tomorrow that Sir
Matthew White Ridley, the Home Sec
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SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFRAY.
A Discharged Cooks Attempt to XII
Two Men at French Camp.

STOCKTON. March 9.-This morning
Walter G. Mackay, formerly cook at
the County Hospital at French Camp,
went there and shot Bernard. the cook,
IL the back The latter had recently
taken Mackay's place. He then at
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Suggestions From the Exhibit in the Occidental Hotel Pror
Yesterday of the Artistic Handiwork of the Women
of the Dresden Keramic Cub

| he charged himself with committing, or
the one he felt impelled 10 commit. He
admitted that he was without funds, and
that was another reason why> he wanted
to be locked up.
II could put a charge of vagrancy
against YOU" said the captain, ''and you
would be sentenced for six months"
II am no vagrant," said Duncan, as he
drew himself up.
IF / lock you up for day or two as a
ledger, do you think yoI will be all right
tben?" asked the captain.
Eyes, think this feeling will wear
away in day or two," replied Duncan.
Duncan was placed in cell and later
Detective cambridge had talk with
him. He told cambridge that he came
from Omaha, whore he had been clerk
for several years. He said he was 40
years of age, although he looks much
younger. He refused to say anything
about the crime. He was troubled with
insomnia and suffered with nervous pros
tration.
Balm bridge, after leaving him, expressed
the opinion that Duncan was laboring I'M
der a hallucination brought on by his
nervous condition. But with the object
of finding out if there was any truth in
his statement of having committed a
crime, dispatch was sent to the Chief of
Police at Omaha.
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POULTRY EXHIBIT.
Domestic Fowl and Pigeon Dealers te
Have a Grand Display.

Domestic Fowl and Pigeon Dealers to
Have a Grand Display.
The directors of the Pacific Poultry and
Pigeon Association held meeting at their
headquarters, Alt Sacramento street, last
Tuesday evening. There is great deal of
enthusiasm being shown by the fanciers
of poultry and pigeons, and the association
expects to have over 5000 birds on exhibit
ton at this their second annual show, to
be held in the exposition buildings in Oak
land January % to 81 inclusive. They
have secured the services of J. K. Fetch of
Matte. Mass. better known as 1.-THE sage OF
Matte" TO place the ribbons.
There will be very keen competition In all
classes, especially the Plymouth Rock,
Minorcas and Leghorns, the Specially
clubs of these varieties having offered
some very handsome trophies, such as
cups and medals. New York and Massa-
chusetts will be represented in the show
room, also some birds from the Crystal
Paace show in England. The egg and
broiler exhibit will be recognized very
handsomely by cash and special premi-
ums, prizes having been offered for the
best white eggs and the best brown eggs
and for the heaviest broilers.
The object of this exhibition is to edu-
cate the poultrymen on this coast to the
fact that if Pacific Coasters can increase
the size of the broilers by specia! feed, ETC.,
and in less time, it will not be necessary
to SEND East to supply the home market.
California sends over So, 900, 600 10 the East
annually for poultry and eggs.
The management has also offered some
handsome prizes to the pigeon fanciers.
The homers will have chance to show
their qualities the last day of the show.
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McCALLA is H0AORED,
California Homing Club Elected
Him an Honorary
Member.
Naval Comm ander Thanked for Estab.
fishing Homing Pigeon Servics
at Mare Island

Commander McCalla of the United
States navy is very popular with the Cali
fornia HON ing Club, on account of what
he has done to introduce the use of hon.
ing pigeons into the naval service on the
Pacific Coast. Last evening the California
Homing Club held meeting at 632 Mar
ket street ard projected to unanimously
elect Commander McCalla an honorary
member of the club.
Commander McCalla was proposed for
mem bership by A. Carlisle, who remarked
that the commander, sagaciously foresee-
ing and vigorously acting, Lad adopted
measures which would be of material as
sistance in calling attention to the valu-
able uses to which homing pigeons may
be applied. Mr.. Carlisle also predicted
that Commander McCalla's Endorsement
of and partic patton in the work IN which
all the members of the club were con-
cerned would result in eventually aug
menting the mem bership of the club.
The nomination was seconded by j.
WEIGH, and the election went through
with rush.
The secretary of the club was instructed
to send communication TO Commander
MeCalla notifying him Of his election.
The com muDication which Was for
warded was in part as follows:
The California Homing Club at regular
meeting held this evening has unanimously
e.ected you an honorary member OF the club
in token of appreciation OF the practical assist
ance which you have rendered 10 those VIII are
seeking to have the merits of homing pigeons
more widely recognized on the Pacific Coast
Please be assured that this club viii always be
ready to cooperate with you, in view OF the
public benefit which you have in mind
through the use of homing pigeons upon YES
sells OF the United States navy to carry mes
sages, in any movement calculated to perma-
nently establish and extend the scope of the
arryin
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MADE A BREAK
FOR LIBERTY
George Taylor and George
Williams Escape From
Custody.
They Were Being Taken to
Court to Receive Taeir
Sentences.
Taylor Was Recaptured by Special
Officer, but Williams Was
More Fortunate.

Two prisoners who were being taken from
the City Prison TO Judge Conlan's court
room yesterday morning to be sentenced
made their escape, but one OF them was
recaptured.
The prisoners were George Williams, a
welt-known bunko steerer, who was con-
victed of stealing ham from A. Harrlng-
ton, butcher on Fourth street, and
George Taylor, convicted of petty larceny
and carrying concealed weapons. Taylor
Is the man who was arrested early Tues
day morning by Policeman George Doug
lass on Post and Jones streets, and when
searched piece of iron bar sixteen inches
long and revolver were found in his peck
cts. He said he carried them because he
wanted to be arrested. but the police be-
lieved that he was out with the intention
of com uniting robbery.
Bailiff Kelly and Policeman Maurice
Behan left the prison shortly before 10
o'clock with nine prisoners. Six, who
have to answer to felony charges, were
handcuffed together, and Taylor, Will
liams and another prisoner, who were
charged with misdemeanors. were not
handcuffed. Behan walked in front and
Kelly behind.
Judge Conlan's court Williams and Tay
lor made break for liberty. AT that hour
there is always q crowd in the corridor
waiting for admittance TO the courts, and
Williams went through the crowd to the
north entrance to the hall from McAllister
street and made his escape.
Taylor ran along the corridor to the hail
entrance from Larkin street, next to the
Chief of Policies office. He rushed down
the steps into Larkin street and ran along
to Birch avenue, between Fulton and
Grove streets.
Special Officer Levin of the Southern
Pacific Company was in Judge Conlan's
court on Friday when Taylor was con-
which proved very fortunate. Levin was
walking along Ash avenue TO the hall
when he saw Taylor rushing down
the steps. He concluded at once
that Tayl or had made his escape and
gave chase. He gradually overhauled
Taylor, and as the latter turned
into Birch avenue he was not many yards
behind him. Levin pulled out his re-
volver and called upon Taylor to stop or
he would shoot. Taylor stopped AMI
threw up his hands.
levin took Taylor back to the court
room. By this time Judge Conlan was on
the bench and he at once sentenced Tay-
lor TO one year in the County Jail, SIX
months on each charge.
Every effort is being made to capture
Williams, and it is expected thai he will
be behind the bars soon.
The escape OF the two prisoners was re-
ported to Chief Crowley by Captain Rob-
inson and thorough Investigation will be
made so as to shoulder the responsibility
upon the proper rerson.
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ACCUSES HIMSELF
OF A CRIME
Strange Story Told by
Ralph Duncan From
Omaha.
Wanted to Be Restrained From
Committing a Greater
Offanse.
He Was Locked Up in the City Prison
Pending the Receipt of Adv.cas
From Omaha.

A man giving his name as Ralph Dun
can was locked up in the City Prison
yesterday after telling an extraordinary
story.
Justice of the Peace Barry occupied the
bench in Judge Conlan's court for short
time yesterday afternoon to hear the ies-
timony of some witnesses in case that
came before him during Judge Conan
vacation after the elections.
After he adjourned court, Duncan, who
had been sitting in the rear of the court
room, followed him along the corridor to
his chambers.
Il noticed you in court said Duncan,
sand your face shows me that 1 can talk
with you and trust you. Now, supposing
you had committed a crime and you felt
that you would commit greater crime
unless you were restrained, what would
you do2"
THAT is peculiar question replied
the Judge "You don't suppose that am
going to give you advice as to committing
a crime?"
"Wen," said Duncan, that's my posi-
ton. / committed crime. and | feel
that unless am restrained | will commit
greater. l will either kill myself or kill
somebody else. Now, what can do?"
The Judge took Duncan into Chief
Crowley's office, and Bailiff Kelly, who
was there al the time, escorted him to the
City Prison.
Captain Robinson questioned him and
he told the same story. He said he had
been once confined in an asylum in the
East. He came here about ten days ago
In search of work, but had been unable to
procure any. He was a clerk by occupa-
ton. He declined TO say where he came
from or what was the nature of the crime
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FREDERICK STREET CARS.
The Disused Line Suddenly Revived
and Brought Into Active
Operation.

Operation.
The Market-street Company astonished
the residents of the Ashbury Heights by
placing electricians on Masonic avenue
and Frederick street yesterday morning.
The first intimation the people on these
two streets had that the Market-street
Railway Company remembered them was
when they saw half dozen laborers with
brooms and scrapers removing sand and
dirt that had accumulated over the rails
during the past twelve months.
The next surprise in store for the people
on the south side of the parE panhandle
was yesterday morning, when two trans
formed horsecars belonging to the old
Fourth-street line hove in sight over the
Oak-street hill, and meandered around
until they eventually brought up on
Masonic avenue at its junction with Page
street.
Thence the car went up the hill and
succeeded in rounding the mound into
Frederick street, where car and man sped
along TO First avenue.
A similar performance was gone through
by car 2, and thus Masonic avenue and
Frederick street were at last brought into
direct communication with town.
Those cars run, or are supposed to run,
every five minutes. 1t takes eighteen
minutes to make the round trip. At pres
ent the transfer points are at Oak street
and Masonic avenue and Haight street and
Masonic avenue.
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and controls about 6, 548, 900 acres OF these
forest lands that regulate and conserve
the water supply of the State, and upon II
rests the responsibility OF providing the
proper means for the preservation and
management of these reservations. Inc
Yosemite. Sequoia and General Grant
National parks comprise in all about
l,l14,OOO acres, leaving about 5,434, oOO
acres of these grand forests without any
practical protection against timber
thieves. sheepherders and their natural
sequence, destructive forest tlres.
The report mentions that over 200 stands
OF arms have been taken from persons
entering the park by the two main
thoroughfares, and as possible resultant
young broods of quail and grouse abound
throughout the park. The deer, bear,
lynx. fox. coon, tree squirrel and chip
munk, although not scarce, are not so
plentiful as they should be in their natural
home in the park. If firearms, hunters
they will multiply and become plentiful,
and their instructive fear of man will
gradually so lessen in few years that
visitors will be enabled to see and study
them in their natural state
The report states thatth stakes set by
the trespassers employed by the manage
ment of the Yosemite Valley and MERGED
Runway company, to survey route up
the MERGED River from the western bound
airy line of the PARK TO the State grant
line have all been pulled up and destroyed.
Colonel Young urges the necessity of
congressional measures toward the &C.
quirement of title by the Government to
all lands within the park boundaries. He
says: $50 long as settlers own lands in
the park and live thereon trespass cannot
be entirely prevented"
Colonel Young, to clinch his argument,
sends to the Secretary OF the Interior this
apt remark from John Muir's Sierra Club
bulletin Z:
THE smallest reserve and the first ever
heard of was in the Garden of Eden, and
though its boundaries were drawn by the
Lord and embraced only one tree yet the
rules were violated by the only two set
tiers that were permitted on sufferance to
live in it."