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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-06

ian having been thu smade up by putting
his time back four minutes for every de-
gree. he travelled.
"Reversely passenger travelling east
ward puts his time forward four minutes
for every degree travelled and thus will on
reaching the 1S0th meridian be twelve
hours ahead of Greenwich time. Instead
of dropping a day he adds day to the
calendar, and presuming he crosses the
180th meridian on Monday. April 1, the
following day will again be Monday, April
/, this case being exactly the reverse OF
the former"
Uncle Sam has promulgated a new list
of punishments for use in the navy. The
circular arrived here last week. Murder
Is the only crime which carries the death
penalty. An officer using profane lam
guage may be sentenced 10 lose two num-
bers-that is he must remain in his present
position until two Juniors have been
passed over his head. A sailor gets thirty
days in irons on bread and water.
An officer who lies can be dismissed, a
sailor dishonorably discharged.
An officer of the deck found drunk
loses ten numbers, while a sailor gets
language will be publicly reprimanded,
while sailor will get six months impris-
onment.
Any enlisted man who at rollcall shall
answer for a shipmate may get six months.
ANY officer guilty of maltreating his men
will be dismissed. Smuggling liquor is
punishable with a six months imprison-
meut and dishonorable discharge, while
an officer found gambling will be dis
missed and Jack will get six months and
be dishonorably discharged.
Going to sleep on the lookout means a
years imprisonment and discharge, white
"irreverant or unbecoming beheavior dur
ing divine service" means the loss of
three mum bers for an officer and three
months for Jack. Mutiny means ten
years, and dueling means dismissal to an
officer and years imprisonment for a
sailor. Thus it goes on through every de-
linquency for which sailor can be pun
ished, and every one of the punishments
are just as heavy AS those quoted.
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THE FIFTH ARTILLERY.
Troops Will Go to New York via Ogden
Omaha and Chicago.

Troops VIII Go to New York via Ogden,
Omaha and Chicago.
Officers and enlisted men of the Fifth
Artillery will go from San Francisco to
New York via Central Pacific to Ogden,
Union Pacific to Omaha and Chicago and
Northwestern to Chicago. From Chicago
to New York the troops will go over the
Nickel Plate and West Shore lines.
Colonel J. G. G. Lee, depot quartermas-
ter, received proposals from the trans
portation companies last Saturday and
finished the computing of bids yesterd ay.
The Government will not pay out money
directly for the service between San Fran
cisco and Omaha. The amount charged
by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific
will be placed to the credit of these roads
on their account with the Government.
The Chicago and Northwestern having re-
ceived Government subsidy In the shape
of a land grant must place portion OF
the amount charged for transporting the
soldiers to the roads account with the
United States. The Nickel Plate and
West Shore get full payment in cash for
carrying the troops.
The hrst battalion of the regiment, in
charge OF Lieutenant Colonel Sinclair, will
leave here on the 18th inst. 1t will con-
sist of thirteen officers and eighteen mem
bers of officers families, 1S4 enlisted men
and nine members of enlisted mems fami-
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pieced together, and is the largest that ha
ever been attempted.
DETERMINED TO DIE.
OdiIon Lefebvre, Love1orn Youth,
Makes Two Attempts by Gas
AsphyxiatiOn.

Odilon Lefebvre, collector for the I'm
perisl Tea Company, living with his
mother at 978 Howard street, twice at
tempted within twenty-four hours to end
his life by gas asphyxiation. The cause
was disappointment in love.
Sunday night he was discovered in his
room in an unconscious condition with
the gas turned on. A physician was sum-
moned, and after working on him for
some time he was brought back to con-
sciousness. Yesterday afternoon he was
again found in his room in similar con-
dition. This time the ambulance was sum-
moned and he was taken to the Receiving
Hospital, where he soon drew out OF
danger.
Odilon is % years Of age. Some month s
ago he met and fell in love with May
Kelly, pretty girl 16 years OF age. May
was for time hattered by his attentions,
but his mother forbade him keeping COM
pany with her as she was too young, and
he had not sufficient income to keep a
wife.
He planned scheme to hire tug and
be married at sea- but the scheme fell
through, and recently May refused to keep
company with him any longer. Lille was
not worth the living without May, so
when his mother went to the country on
Saturday for few days be determined to
seek consolation in death. He has not yet
succeeded.
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They TORE UP FENCES,
A Gang Of Tough Young Hood.
lums Returning From
Harbor View.
An 0ld.Time Sunday Picnic Crowd
of Roughs Break the Union.
Street Car Windows.

The residents along the line of Union
street, near Steiner, are cherishing fond
hope that the picnic season will come to
an early close. There is not Sunday
that bas passed in the last two months
that they have not been made the victims
Of vandal hoodlums returning from Har-
Dor View Park or the Germania Gardens,
the men filled with whisky and desire to
make themselves particularly obnoxious.
Sunday night. hours after the better
element had returned home from the
Austrian picnic, crowd of roughs, about
twelve in number, boarded the cars in
ward bound and, in their usual insulting
way, intimidated and browbeat the other
passengers and refused to pay their fares.
This necessitated the joint action OF the
gripman and conductor armed with an
iron hook and crowbar to eject the
rowdies.
They were not put off. however. without
breaking the car windows and the gang
would then adjourn to celebrate at the
nearest saloon. Quarrels among them
selves as they became drunker were more
frequent but these fsticuffs were forgot
ten as soon as the next car hove in sight,
when a recurrence of the 'fun" was in
order. Without paying cent for trans
portation the crowd, in this manner,
reached Steiner and Union streets and
began drinking again.
By this time they had become tired of
being put off the cars and decided to arm
themselves against the carmen. One van
dal. worse than the others, led them to the
picket fence surrounding the Pixley lot
and in short order each tough had secured
sharpened board, leaving wide gaps in
the fence. Not content with this, they
ripped up seven-step stairway and
landed it on the car-tracks.
In the meantime the first two cars that
had been visited by the ruffians had tele-
phoned for police assistance, which was
promptly furnished. As the club WELD
ers came in sight there was general
scampering of hoodlums, who dropped
their pickets and n,ixed in the crowd
homeward bound, annoying them only
with their profanity
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Also Embraces an English and
Australian Combine in
the Deal.
GUSTAV WALTERS MOVE.
Sufficient Options Secured and Enough
Capital in Sight to Insure
Success.

Gustav Walter, proprietor Of the Or
pheum, is approaching the elimination
of grand scheme which he has bad in
view and in preparation for some time.
THIS is nothing less than the establish
ment of chain of theaters under one
management from New York to the Pa
cifc Coast, this theatrical chain being part
of system of which the two ends will be,
respectively, in England and Australia.
Mr.. Walter has put in much time making
the arrangements and carrying on the ne
gotiations necessary and preliminary to
perfecting this extensive and somewhat
Napoleonic move.
The information is given out at the Or
pheum that Mr.. Walter has negotiations
pending for one of two theaters in New
York, that he has options upon places Of
amusement in Chicago, Cincinnati and st.
Louis, and that he has entered into pre-
liminary negotiations for theater in
Denver. The alliance necessary to the
success of an English-Australian circuit
has already been perfected upon the basis
of an exchange of stock of the Orpheum
circuit with the general company, the
name of which is not furnished, at the
head of the En- glish part OF the deal. Mr..
w alter has made a deal at Los Angeles
for control.
The real advantage OF this, as it is ex-
planned. is that company can be booked
for the English circuit, the American cir.
cult and the Australian circuit and make
an uninterrupted progress from one end of
the line to the other, without long skips
and without being compelled to make
long stands at any one place to recoup for
the large expenses en- route which would
have been incurred under the old and
more diffuse system. This measure of
economy and long engagements will en-
able the management to give rotation of
frst-class companies and to put on sue
ceeding attractions every week.
Mr. Walter will not finally close deals In
the East until he can go there and per-
sonally attend to the matter. The option
that he has secured leaves no doubt in his
mind that the arrangements can he closed
up with very little delay. This will be the
largest circuit upon earth when it is finally
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SHE WAS JEALOUS.
Annie Conroy QuarreIs With Her Lover
and Swallows a Dose
of Poison.

Annie Conroy, % years of age, swal-
lowed a dose of poison yesterday after
noon, and in all probability 1t will prove
fatal.
The girl and her sister Jennie lived with
Mrs. Ferral, 532 Jessie street. ALI the par
ties interested are reticent as to the rea-
son of the girls action. Her friends say
she did 1t as ''josh," but it is sus pected
that jealousy was the real cause.
She had been using mixture of choral
and camphor as face wash and it was
this mixture that she swallowed. She was
sick in bed yesterday and about O'Clock
in the afternoon ]. G. st. John, ass slant
general manager of the Medical and Dem
tai Protective Association, and her sister
were in the room. She asked for the mix
ture and wine glass and filled the glass
about full. Before st. John and her sister
could realize what she was to do she
Iaughingly said, 81 am going to take this"
and swallowed il. She soon became un-
conscious and DR.. Fitch was mmoned.
He advised that she should be taken to
the Receiving Hospital and the ambu-
lance was sent for. Her chances of recoy-
cry are doubtful.
st. John said be was friend of the
family and took an interest in the girls, as
heknew their father as a miner in Reddine.
He finally admitted that the girl had
taken the poison through jealousy after
she had quarreled with her lover.
The girl did not regain consciousness
and died about o'clock last night. Her
body was taken to an undertaking estab-
lishment by consent of the Coroner, but
an inquest will be held.
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streetoar Men and MoKin1sv.

The streetcar Employees Mckinley Club
met at Native Sons Hall, on Seventeenth
street, last evening, and enjoyed social en-
tertainment after brief business session. It
was decided to engage the Auditorium for
grand rally on the evening OF the 10Th. The
following was the programme Of the enter
banjo accompaniment, by William Kellard:
trio, Messrs. Hoyt, Mcintyre and Evans; song
by Ralph Marsh recitation, 1.-THE Hold-up at
Ingleside," by William Kelso; humorous
stories by F. N. Fairchild; song and dance by
Senator William Delaney.
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Kings Daughters Entertain.

The musicales to be held at the Kings
Daughters Home on the first and third Satur-
days of each month were successfully In
augurated yesterday, with the programme in
charge of Mrs. Eliza Wilson, one of the resi-
dents of the home. The following numbers
were rendered: Fancy dance and recitation,
httle Tilda Wendell; song. ben Bolt" Arthur
Miller; piano, "Kammenoi Ostrow" rubin
stein), Miss Isabelle Williams; recitations, "In
the Usual Way" "a Dudes sol1loquy," Miss
Reeves Coghlan; song. "The Holy City" Duval
Williams; song, Miss Coghlan; piano, "Bal-
laden (Chopin), Miss Ida Diserens; hymns
Arthur Miller and Duval williams
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At sutro Baths.

very large crowd spent Labor day at the
sutro baths and an excellent programme was
rendered by the California Swimming Club.
Bayly Schultz and Milos, champion high
divers, gave daring high dives, and trapeze-
diving was given by the California Swimming
Club. A 50-yard race was won by Morris Stark
OF Alameda. match game of water polo was
won by Captain HinkePs team of the Cali
tornia Swimming Club. A fine musical pro-
grsmme was rendered BY the Gauioise band.
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For Sacred Heart Parish.

The ladies in charge of Sacred Heart booth
have prepared the following programme for
the entertainment of visitors this evening 10
the fair in aid of Sacred Heart parishs new
church, Piano duet, Mrs. Siebelich and Miss
Ida mythe; barytone solo. William T. o. Brien;
recitation, Mrs. William Lowry; vocal solo,
Miss Ida Smythe, accompanied on the piano
by Mrs. Siebelich and Professor Schernstein on
the violin.
The tair is now open in the armory of the
First Regiment, corner Page and Cough streets.
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lies. In, addition there will be 10000
pounds of freight and nine horses.
The second battalion will leave on the
18th inst. This will consist of twelve off.
GERS, with eight mem bers of officers fami.
lies, 239 enlisted men and twenty men,
bers of mems families. In addition there
will be $50, 600 pounds of freight.
The Southern Pacific submitted a bid to
take the troops via New Orleans, but the
Government preferred a direct route.
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Auction SALEs

By INDIANA AUCTION Co-This day (Tuesday),
Furniture, ETC.. at 1867 Market ST. at IL O'Clock.
BY EAsToN Il ELDRIDeE.-Saturday October TO-
Real Estate, at Murphy Station, Santa clara
Co. at ] O'Clock.
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New Charter Mass-Meetinp.

The West of Castro Street Imp ovement
Club will hold charter mass-meeting thi,
evening at Judson's Hall, Twenty third and
Douglass streets The following citizens will
address the meeting upon the merits of the
new organic law: F. w. Dohrmann, James d.
Phelan, NJ. H. Hecht, Henry n. Clement, A. P.
Van Duzer and ]. Richard Freud. The resi-.
dents of the neighborhood as well as the
public in general are invited to attend.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

CoIuMsIA THEATER-''Tril5y.p
BA1Dwr~ THEArER 1.-THE Prisoner Of zenda-
MoRosco's OPERA-HoUsE The Big Bonanza"
TIvoII PFPA-H ousE.-- AMELIA
ORPHEUM- High Glass VRudevills.
AIcAzAR THEATER.--"M Married Life"
SUTRo BATHs-Bathiag and performancez
SHOOT THE CHUTEs-Daily at Haight street,
one block east of the PARK.
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Crowds at sutro Raths.

Thousands of men, women and children
crowded to the ocean yesterday, throngine
the Cliff House and Sutro baths. The Califor.
MIA Swimming Club gave an interesting exhi.
bition, and there was IN usic.
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BORROW on sealskins, silks and Jewels at Uncle
Harris. l5 Grant avenue
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Trunks Moved rs Cents.

Commercial Transfer Co.. 43 Sutter street.
Telephone Main 40. Keep yourcnecks or US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-25

Wrapped about him from the decorated
stand Of a Fourth of July picnic
'tBut, father
''Wait At first-supposing that you
are going to war to fight England-you
will look pretty on dress PARADE
81 should always be neat soldier
"Um-huhl At first. Then you will
get ragged
But L would keep my clothes in re-
EXACTLY, Bushrodl Then you will get
dirty, very dirty
''Father, this is slanderousl Me dirty?"
ooh, it is the fortune, or misfortune, of
war;
"My father, this sounds unpatriotic''-
f'But it isn't. And, my son, while you
will never cease to be a gentleman you
will eat your meat raw, get booty on ap-
pie jack, play seven up for a stolen pig or
chicken
''ImpossibleI''
"And all this time you will be ready at
the word to fight and whip any foe that
ever loaded gum
''And this miserable, dirty fellow you
describe is the greatest of soldiersf''
Precisely, Bushrodl 1t is the irony of
war that men must so through neglect,
filth, hunger, suffering and sorrow, all the
time keeping the great principle and the
old flag uppermost =
''But why should this be necessarily
''A part of our destiny, Bushrod He
who came to teach men peace became a
man of sorrows. How much moro appro-
pirate that men who seek to administer
violent death should suffer by the way2'
Then Bushrod retired to his room, read
again of Bunker Hill, Concord and Now
Orleans and decided that, dirt, hunger,
sickness and all, he would go in a twin
king if occasion offered And he would.
And he would fight, too, and whip the
enemy.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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TON REEDS coon HUMoR.
His Opponents Were Very Angry, but His
Audacity Made Them Smile.

His Opponents Were Very Angry, but His
Audacity Made Them Smile.
While the Democratic minority in the
house of representatives of the Fiftieth
congress was at white heat over Speaker
Reeds alleged arbitrary rulings and high
pressure methods, and the air was rent
every day by denunciations of the speaker
as usurper, tyrant and revulutionist,
Mr.. Reeds good nature and self possession
IN private intercourse with members of
the opposition were phenomenal.
lone day" said Democratic member
of the committee on rules, "a special meet
ing of that committee was called, and we
went, wondering what new deviltry was
on foot. happened to be tho last MEM
Der to reach the committee room. When
I got there, Reed sat at the head of the
table, with Mckinley and Cannon one
side of it and Blount of Georgia, looking
very downcast, on the other.
g Hello, MackP drawled the speaker as
he sprawled, with extended arms, ON the
end of the table, You are just in time.
Mckinley and Joe and havo just resolved
to perpetrate the following additional out
rage And then he read the resolution pro-
viding for closing the debate and taking a
vote on the tariff bill.
'What was proposed made us as mad as
March hares, but Reeds language and
manner no less than his audacity, were
such as to impress US with the humor of
the situation above all else, and we all
burst out laughing and went to the floor
of the house to do our fighting there. -
Chicago Times Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-25
In The Reginmimg

OF new year, when the winter season
of close confinement is only half gone,
many find that their health begins to
break down, that the least exposure
threatens sickness 1t is then as we'll as
at all other times, and with people even
in good health, that the following facts
should be remem bered, namely: that
Hoods Sarsaparilla leads everything in
the way of medicines; that it accom-
plishes the greatest cures in the world;
has the largest sale in the world, and re-
quires the largest building in the world
devoted exclusively to the preparation of
the proprietary medicine. Does not this
conclusiveiy prove, if you are sick, that
Hoods Sarsa pariIla is the medicine for
Won tn taka9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-25

What He Feared.
fKeep close to me, Arthur he said in
an undertone as tall, stately young
woman entered the reception room.
whats the matter?'' inquired Arthur,
looking around for an explanation of his
evident alarm.
''There comes Miss Hauton,' explained
the fearful youth.
COZ course. What of it?''
ftShe has been trying to land me for the
last six months, and have refused to be
landed"
''Oh, know that, but don't see''-
81 have been attentive to her and have
enjoyed her society,"" interrupted the
troubled youth. "but have kept clear of
all entanglements.
''In other words, you have declined to
be brought to the point of proposing?'
''That's it exactly
'sWelI, don't see what there is to worry
you about it now. She can't force you to
propose, can she?''
Certainly not.''
"And she's still as pleasant and enter
tanning rs she ever was?"
"Of course"
"Then why not
t'You forget that it is leap year now,
and 1 haven't seen her since December.
For heavens sake don't leave us alone. 4"
CHICAGO Post.
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Broom Covers,

A broom cover of cotton flannel in
any dark color is veritable boon to a
tired housekeeper. Fit the cover closely
over the broom in bag fashion, tying it
closely on with a string run in the upper
hem. The best colors for these covers are
dark gray, red, or any color that does
not crock after sweeping off the kitchen
floor or any painted or hard wood floor.
Go over it with a covered broom, and
every particle of dust can be easily taken
up and the floor polished almost as
bright as if it had been rubbed with
cloth by the hand. A covered broom is
valuable for sweeping piazzas as we'll as
for sweeping down walls.
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Observation-Disclosures
The War Hero of Bushrod's Fancy and the
Hero of Fact,

The war Hero of Eushrod's Fancy and the
Hero of Fact.
t'There are few points, my son, - said
quiet old Mr.. Bunker to Bushrod as the
ycungster was reading the paper and grit
ting his teeth, THAT it might pay you to
think about
Bushrod-But, father, the spirit of the
Bunkers is in me. You forget that am
a grandson of the Revolution
''Bushrod, your ideas are on the right
line, but they need toning. AS you paint
life in your mind, tho blending brush has
not been carefully handled, and some
points are hidden that ought to be devel
oped-some stand out too prominently'-
s'But shall not, my father, smite my
country'S enemies as our ancestors did?
Shall not bear, through the smoke and
fire of conflict, the glorious banner of the
free Old Glory'-and shake it triumph
antly in the face of the British bullies''-
"Good, Bushrodl Well spokenl And
like a Bunker too. Now, your idea of
war, Bushrod, is a great army of men in
neat uniforms
"Aye, with banners flying''-
''And bands playing
eyes, father and with bayonets g1eam-
ing in the sunlight"
SOL That bursts upon the field before
the startled gaze of the clustering redcoats
and with crashing volleys and wild cheers
sweeps as q wave of fire and smoke across
the ramparts''-
t'Aye, fatherI can see them now! Up,
up the hill they gol Hear the roar of the
musketry See the battle smoke lifting
like halo above our brave boys! They
charged Their bayonets glitter in the sun
hghtl Now they drip with blood 1t is
too muoh-the enemy ny-the fields ours!
Its ours! Whoo-o-o-pee!''
After this effort of imagination Bush
rod sat down on the side of tho chair he
haG just kicked over and began to blow
from sheer exhaustion.
CHOW, my son, that is one kind of war
the kind placed upon canvas and told
about by the colonel who did not serve in
the Mexican war. But no patriot is shot,
my son, SO that he falls dead with the flag
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SOME ARE sWINDLEs.
Foreign "Ests.tes' to Which You srs Your
Ne1shbOr Falls Heir.

Foreign Estate" to Which You err Your
NelshbOr Falls Heir.
Mrs. DR.. Z. a. Stultz of 1862 Van Bu-
rem street has received Information that
she is one of the heirs of Anneke Jams,
who died in Holland a short time age,
leaving an estate valned at over So 0,000,-
600. There are numerous heirs and many
of them are in the United States. Mrs.
Stultz is Informed that she will receive
about $4,000 as her share.
Another Shawnee county woman is
one of the heirs. She is Mrs. Mary
Curry, the wife of a farmer at Elmont
The heirs in the United States held a
meeting at Omaha last week and made
an organization, so it is said.
People should be warned against es-
tate swindles of this kind. Some of the
estates may really exist, but most of them
are swindles as utter and complete as
the gold brick racket. They are gotten
up in plausible manner, and each per
son who is notified that he or she is an
heir is asked to contribute $40 in order
that certain legal steps may be taken to
secure the proper partition of the es-
tate" The SO is forwarded and that is
she last heard of the matter.