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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

CLINTON, ILL.,. April S-Ed. Pollen
shot his wife and mother-ln-law in the
head with a shot gun. killing them In
stantly. Domestic trouble was the
cause, Pollen then attempted 10 COM
mit suicide by throwing himseu ~
front OF train, but was only sllsnslS
injured and is now IN tait; Greg s..,.S,, 81
element prevails and lynching Is lreeiy
AnlEnh Of
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04
wREoK NFAR PgrRoLEuM.

Engineer lucas Madly Hurt ond lie May
Die.
PARRERsBURG, W. Va, April s.
The Baltimore & Ohio accommodation
from here to Grafton, w. Va. was
wrecked two miles east OF Petroleum
Ills morning. The wreck occurred on
n grade where part OF q hillside had
cayed In on the track. Albert Lucas
engineer was badly hurt and may die
The engine was badly wrecked. II
was running Mt hlgh speed but re,
Versed too late. Trains were delayed
three hours.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

EAsToN, Pa. April 5.-The Eighth
congressional district Republican COM
ferees met here to-day and elected
Gen. Frank Reeder. Of Northampton
county. and j. NJ. Driesbacf, OF Carbon
county, delegates to the rational con-
ventIon. They were instructed to vote
for Senntor Quay for president. John
Fritz, OF Bethlehem, was chosen presi-
Dental elector for the district.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04
CUBAN CAUSE
Up Before the House for Final
Action at Last.
CHAIRMANHIITSGREAT SPECIE
In Its Support Vigorously Ap.
plauded Throughout.
FULL REVIEWoP THE QUESTION

And a Strong Argument in Behalf OF
RssOsnuiOa-Beiiss Expressed that the
Prssldsnt wiz Heed the RseommsndA-
ton OF Congress and Issus ProslAmA-
tion-Mr. Boatslls solitary and Alone In
oppoSltOn-Hs Makes oharastsriStio
speech.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

BATAVIA, N, Y. April S.-At the
Republican convention for the Thlr-
tleth congressional district held In Ba.
tavIa to-day. Archie D. Sanders, of
Genesea county, and Irving N. rhomp-
son, OF Orleans, were unanimously
elected delegates to the St Louis con-
ventIon. Resolutions were adopted In
structing the delegates to support Gov
ernor Morton for President.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

LONDON. April 2.-.atf lhnliher-
lain. the colonial secretary - igshed
n statement calculated to elIr appre-
hcnslon regarding the 1lli ION In
South Africa, to the effect 1t BE- eX-
pects the force of 500 men ull lQIning
al MafetlnF with the fuf nuV IN
Mataboleiand TO be Suliieltn 90 crush
the rebellion. -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

TAMPA, Fla. April s.-I.ctters rr-
celved from Cuba to-day state that last
Tuesday seventeen political prisoners
We're shot IN the fortress CabAnas, in
Havana, md that twenty-five were 10
he executed on wednesday. The plan
tatlon Esperanzn. de Cespades in Santa
Clarn, has been totally destroyed II
was valued at half million
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s,--m.l,In Arrival.

pRENfEN-Aachen, New York.
GENOA-FuldA, New York.
ITVERPOoI-Campanla ana NO
r,a,IIc New York.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Boston.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Bremen
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04
SIXTEEN PRRISH.
Terrible cloudburst In Two cour.
ties In Kentucky,
THE REPORTS OFIOSS OF LIFE

Yaly, ba4 ths Numhsr supposed tobp
slztssn, with nIany Iplussa-How tAs
waters BWersd ursshs Inte Bread
Rivsss ana ths Victims Haa No ChAase
1sr Thslr Liv,s-Partlsl nltt % ~
pssa-BuaAlo ana strtun crosAa - .
High.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

For west virginia, fair; warmer;
westerly winds. shifting TO eaAterly.
For Western Pennsylvania ana Ohlo,
fair, except light turiies Q. snow ,., ~
the lakes; not so coldi OIlSN "Ss'S'4S y
Winds, decreasing In force
I,oeal ToinporatHFs.
Tho temperature. yesterday g. o. ooSssTSa Sso,,,
sSenth and Market streets, was as tot.
IA, ul.,..,.,,,,''' s,Is p m''''''''''''''' 4
y m,.,,,.,. ,,...'. ..,..... AlWeather-ChAnElss
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04

ALTOONA. Pn.. April l.--Dr. Rowan
Clarke. one NJ the most prominent phy-
siclans In this region. died Mt nus hoilie
In Tyrone, this evening. Ho was uetlNc
In Democratic politics,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-04
20. the SIo,t Eeonolnicni Method.

WASHINGTON. April S--Thc total
amount appropriated by the rivers and
harbors bill Is IN round numbers SO.-
10000, add provision Is made for con-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
THE CASE COMPROMISED
Paderewski's Secretary Acknowl.
edges an Old Debt and
Squares Accounts.
The Action of ]. S. Reid Against
Hugo Gorlitz Settled Satisfac.
torily to All Parties.

The case of j. S. Reid against Hugo Cor
litz, which was ON trial before Justices
Barry and Kerrigan, has been settled sat
isfactoriIy to all parties. The action was
on an assigned claim of G.. Verdier & Co.,
proprietors of the "City of Paris store.
II was claimed that this firm gave credit
to Mr.. Gorlitz some seventeen years ago
for certain dresses and other material to
be used in the production of ''Pinafore, -
in which opera the wife of Mr.. Gorlitz
took part.
Mr.. Gorlitz, being obliged to. leave the
State about that time in the pursuit of his
business, d d not have an opportunity to
settle the bill until his recent arrival here
as the secretary of the great Paderewski.
A question OF law was presented as to
whether this old account bore interest and
the suit, which was yesterday dismissed
was the result. AT the trial of the case
the defense was that the goods had been
furnished at the request of Fred Lister.
the manager of the "Pinafore" opera. and
that he, not Mr.. Gorlitz. was liable for the
bill. The memories of the witnesses were
not of the best after the lapse of seventeen
years, but the production of several letters
of MIR. GorlitZ, in which he recognized the
debt as his own and promised to ad Just it,
recalled the old transaction and presented
the case In new light to the defendant.
In spirit of fairness and with a desire
to do full justice to a firm hat had treated
him kindly Mr.. Gorlitz made overtures
after the case had been tried and submit
ted to pay the principal in full, and also
offered to pay portion of the accrued in
terest.
Messrs. Verdier & Co. promptly ac-
cepted the offer and the annoying litiga-
ton ended. While on the witness-stand
Mr.. Gorlitz testified that he had always
been treated with the utmost fairness by
the ''City of Paris" and that put at rest
any rumor of harsh treatment suffered by
him at the hands of the proprietors.. He
said that he still entertained for the firm
the "City of Paris expressed himself as
entirely satisfied with the settlement.
The incident closed with the best of feel
ing on the part of the principals and their
attorneys.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
WOULD NOT ACQUIT.
A Jury in the Haskell Case Would Not
Obey the Courts
Order.

B. G. Haskell was before Judge Bahrs
yesterday on trial for embezzlement.
The complaining witness, William II.
Young, alleged that Haskell collected
$1,000 upon compromise of case in which
he was interested; and that he turned over
no part of it to its rightful owner. Haskell
was retained for % per cent of the receipts
of the case, and so of the $1,000 he should
have turned over $3.50 to Young.
The defense or cross-eXamination drew
out the fact that the complaining witness
had on May 13 accepted HaskelPs note for
the $3.50. The compromise had been made
on February IA This acceptance, the
de tense contended, was an admission on
the part of the defense that Haskell was a
debtor and not an embezzler OF Young's
money.
When the prosecution had closed its
case counsel for defendant moved for an
instruction to acquit upon the theory, as
stated, that Haskell was not an EN- beZzler.
The jury was ordered out, but the Jurymen
did not agree. They refused to acquit
upon the instruction of the court and they
were finally taken back into court TO listen
to the testimony of the defense. The case
will, therefore, continue to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

ance of an armory, and the bank-robb bbers
who attempt raid there will meet with
reception that will be the reverse of peace
able.
Heavy sawed-off slotpuns, such as are
used by express-messengers and treasure
guards, all capable OF throwing murder
Gus charges of buckshot, stand behind the
counters in places where they come per-
fectly handy to the clerks, but are invisi-
BILE to those outside, while navy revolvers
of the latest pattern and carrying heavy
rife cartridges are equally available on all
sides. All are fully loaded and ready for
an emergency, which, while it is hoped
will not arise, has been fully prepared for.
Shortly after the daring robbery of the
Market-street Savings Bank, when the
highwaymen succeeded in getting away
with $780, and which warned the police
begun operations in this City, an intima-
ton was received that suspicious-looking
characters had been seen spying about the
City treasury.
Not long after, through one of those
mysterious sources which is such q puzzle
to the average man, information was re-
| ceived that an attempt would be made 10
loot the treasury and carry away the con-
tents of some of the many trays of shining
! gold which can be seen through the mar
row windows where the cashier holds
! forth.
Information of this kind seldom comes
| to the authorities first hand, but often
hlters through dozen mouths before it
reaches the ears that are ever eager for
such matters and then the silent, unassum-
/ ing looking men of the detective force be-
gin to trace the stories through their
devious wlndings until they are shown to
have foundation or to be mere rumors.
How the story Of the contemplated raid
on the treasury finally reached the police
will perhaps never be known, but it did
come to them, and within one hour trusted
men were quietly at work on the case.
That the detectives found good grounds
for a belief that the desperadoes were con-
tenn plating a raid is evidenced by the
prompt action of Treasurer Widber in
preparing to give them warm reception.
Within a day or two of the time when the
warning was received he visited the estab-
| lishment of R. Liddie & Co., the Mont
gomery street gun dealers, and purchased
| a small arsenal
He first picked out two 10-gauge shot
guns OF modern pattern. These weapons
are capable, with a charge of five drams
OF powder and an ounce and half OF
buckshot, OF tearing human body in a
frlghtful manner at any distance up to
thirty yards. The charge would be calcu-
lated to kill at even three times that dist
ance. and not only are these guns cruel
weapons but they are handy and wonder
fully accurate. Next Mr.. Widber picked
out i've reyolvers, four of 3s ca:iber and
one OF al. The latter is fully as effective
as a rifle at short distances, and the others
are handy weapons for close range fight
ing. Cartridges, holsters and other acces
sories made up the array that was at once
| installed in the treasury.
The details obtained by the officers oi
] would naturally follow fusiIlade Of pisto.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

of the Association of Students addressed
the squads drawn up under their respec-
tive officers. He told them in stirring
words that from the tops of yonder coast
range twice forty centuries were looking
down at them. The eyes of the Republic,
of Stanford, of Llliuokalani, of the COM
ing Legislature, of Salisbury and of the
Transvaal were on them.
He concluded his effort when Cicer-
Dian clod of earth struck him between
the shoulders and the students sailed in.
The dirt flew. One gang worked on the
main road.leading across the campus and
the larger company shoveled into the un-
even ground in front of the north build
ing. Some of the soil there is exceedingly
rocky and the young fellows soon found
that working on the grade is rot play.
But they stuck industriously to their job
and their snovels began to make a show
ing. The unusual spectacle of the stu
dents doing real old-fashioned work on
their campus attracted large number of
visitors, who were as amused at the gro-
tesque costumes of the laborers as at the
gravity of their manners.
President Kellogg, Regent Reinstein and
Professors Soule and Randall made their
rounds among the labOrers, and the class
IN civil engineering took grade sights
around the grounds. Lieutenant Colonel
Bush, the brand-new officer on the staff of
OoNcIHOr Duuu, III DIOWu jumper anu
overalls, looked anything but military
among the dump carts and wheelbarrows.
At 4 O'Clock the bugle sounded the ire
treat" and work stopped for the day.
However, the laborers were not quite salts
fed with their exertions. A freshman was
seen walking across the campus with a
broken shovel handle in his hand. The
cry of "a freshman with a camel" was
raised, and score of sophomores pounced
upon him.
His class in turn charged down to his
rescue, and soon the hottest kind of a
''cane rush" was in evidence. The two
rival classes tugged and tackled and fought
for that shovel like savages. Other classes
formed flying wedges and flung themselves
into the mass of struggling students with
irresistible force. Regent Reinstein, fear
ing that some one would be injured as the
young fellows rolled and foundered over
their prize, tried the power of the regency
upon the boys and endeavored to get the
broken shovel away from them but a
flying wedge struck him and he was lost III
the confusion. Finally the rush ended
and the first Labor day" at the State Uni
versity was over.
To-day and to-m orrow the work will &c
on, unless the threatening rainstorm makes
labor impossible.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
REQUIEM Mass in Memory OF
Soldiers Who Fell IN
Africa.
cATAFALQUE UNDER THE FLAG
The Officers of the Colombo Were
Present and Crowds Filled
the Church.

The Italian church on Dupont street
was crowded yesterday morning at the
solemn requiem mass in memory OF the
Italian soldiers who fell at Am ba Alagi, IN
Abyssina, fighting for their country.
So great was the crush that those who
could not obtain seats stood in the rear OF
the church, and when no more standing
room was to be found people stationed
themselves on the steps leading to the
building.
No special decorations had been pre-,
pared in the church. On the main door Of
the building was an inscription stating
that the Italians of San Francisco prayed
to the God of armies for the peace and
eternal repose of their departed brethren
who fell ike heroes for their country and
for civilizat tion at Amba Alagi.
Near the high altar was a catafalqIe
surrounded by candles and adorned with
the Italian flag.
Professor Spadina directed the musical
part of the mass, which was by Decio
Monti. Miss Adele Rottanzi and William
Ladd sang the solos, and Signor Rosa
Laraja, the vioiinlst, played some OF the
instrumental parts. Mrs. l.. Stefani, Mrs.
Spadina, Miss w. Spadlna, Miss Catherine
Daneri Miss Gleason and other yioiinists
also assisted.
Among those present at the mass were
Commander Bertolino of the Colombo,
Lie utenant Commander Presbitero, Cav.
Freigerio, DIR. Belli, Lieutenants Resio and
De Filippi, and Second Lieutenants
Shaghek, Winspeare, Frenzi and Ayme-
rich, all in full-dress uniform. A COM
pany of marines was also detailed to at
tend.
There were also present.: Consul Bruni
Grimaldi, Cav. Calegarts, J. F. Fugazi and
Drs. Caglieri, Vaccari, Ollino and Barsotti.
Father de Carolls otficiated.
BY IL O'clock the mass was finished and
the officers adjourned TO the house of Cav.
Calegaris, where they lunched.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
State University Students at
Work on Their Campus
Yesterday.
THE PICK.AND-sHovEL BRIGADE
An Exciting "Cane Rush" for the
Possession Of a Broken Shovel.
Handle.

"Rah! rah! s-h-o-v-e-ll Rah, for Rein
stein! Where's me pick?''
These were some of the variety of yells
heard on the university campus yesterday
afternoon when the entire corps of stu
dents lined up for "dirt rush, as they
called it. Regent Reinstein looked over
his noisy army of laborers, then at the
carts. wheelbarrows and other grading i'm
plements and wondered if the Varsity
athletes would tackle the banks OF
earth to be moved as they would have
tackled Stanford team on the foot
ball field. He had called upon
them to expend some surplus mus
cular energy upon improving the grounds
and they had responded four or five
hundred strong. But Falstaff never
looked over SO motely an array as greeted
the regents eye. Each young fellow had
ransacked closet, garret, basement, wood
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

shed and even the dreary precincts of the
cold clo' man" for a suitable and odd cos
tune for the occasion.
The old battered plug hats, bearing the
dents of hard-fought rushes, tattered ten
mis- suits and even the everalls and jun per
of the legitimate laborer were brought out
for this extraordinary occasion. There
were recitations in the forenoon, but many
OF them were cut short, so anxious were
the members of the classes to get into
their ia bor-day" regimeutals.
Many of the students provided them
selves with short clay pipes, which they
inverted between their teeth as they piled
pick and shovel, as the proper thing for
wurkin' on the grade"
A few sweet ''co-eds' ventured out to
look at their Varsity brothers, but the ap-
pearance of that burlesQue battalion was
not imposing in it's beauty. They were
wise in their generation when they de-
clined to provide luncheon for that gang.
Dainty sandwiches and foamy coffee
handed around by lovely scholastic wait
resses would have been out of place in that
mob. Beans and bacon and f1apjacks
would have been a fitting fare for them so
they themselves said, and they were proud
OF their rough eXteriors.
Captain Ransome of the Varsity foot
ball team appointed himself the chief of
the crowbar gang, and during the day
drilled deep holes in the globe to encour-
age his squad in prying powders out of
! their primal bed. He had an able coad-
jutor in ex-Captain Sherman, whose
knowledge of geology made him valuable
in the rock-lifting line.
Wittenmeyer, also of the football team,
was the big king of spades, and his gang
of shovelers went at tie banks Of earth
like the Light Brigade against the Russian
batteries at :Balaklava. Fred Koch, cap
tain of the track athletics, was chief OF the
a 6
in seeing that none of the wheel barrows
were broken by the too enthusiastic work.
men.
Clay Gooding, prize baseballist, drove
dump-cart with the skill of Grecian
charioteer in the Olympian games. He
was gotten up in pair of duck trousers,
a fuzzy Dan Mccarthy white hat and a
tennis jacket that was louder than col
| lege yell.
Editor Hirst of the Daily Berkeleyan
was chief of the engineers and pointed
out grades to the workmen. Lieutenant
Nee of the University Battalion epptied
the dump-carts, and Captain johnson OF
| the baseball team instructed him in his
duties. Brick Morse, one of the musical
| prodigies of the Glee Club, was the Hebe
of the day and passed around the water.
bucket with unhagging zeal. Walter
Magee was the jehu of cart No. l, with
Editor Fisher of the University Magazine
as his understudy. Athlete Dorm of ham
mer-throwing fame was the boss of the
| barrows.
At / o'clock the battalion, headed by
the band playing the "Hopeymoon
March," tramped down to the scene of
/ their laSors, where Superintendent Nc
Laren of Golden Gate Park had the picks,
| shovels, barrows and carts awaiting them.
| To get their hands in the classes immedi-
| ately improvised a number of exciting
wheelborrow races. Then President Friend
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
BOTH FOUR YEARS OLD.
Two Birthdays That Occur on Wash
ington's Birthday.

On the occasion of their anniversary,
which occurred on Washington s birthday,
Raphael Brothers, the Kearny-street
clothiers, received the photograph of a
wee morsel of humanity who, it happens,
was born on the same day as the father of
her country, and with the picture was a
letter from the father of the little beauty.
Alice Martha Sage is the name OF the lat
ter.
Alice is native daughter, born at Mo-
desto, Stanislaus County, in 1892, but lives
now with her parents at Pacheco, Contra
Costa County. Little Alice sends her
greetings to Raphael's and wishes, very
naively, both herself and the clothiers,
"lots of happy birthdays" She sends her
picture for good luck, and the recipients of
it prize both it and the ingeniously worded
epistle accom- panying it very highly.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

and forearmed the chances of failure
would lot have been greater than those
taken by the robbers VINO looted the Mar
ket-street establishment.
The proceeds of success would have been
great, for each day when the vaults are
opened heavy trays of golden eagles,
double and half eagles are carried out and
placed within reach of the cashiers hands.
These aggregate many thousands of dol
lars, the total in the treasury being more
than million dollars, and the loot would
only be limited by the ability of the rob-
bers to carry their burdens.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28
THE RAILROAD SCORED.
Wells, Fargo Co. Says 1t Has Been
Overcharged.

Overcharged.
At meeting of the Harbor Commission
ers yesterday r. R. Swain. the new archi-
tect, filed his bond and the contract was
signed by the Commissioners. Swain's
bondsmen for the faithful building of the
new ferry depot are the members OF the
American Surety Company of New York
Z: Mason Cooper and Henry w. Titus of
Wells, Fargo & Co. appeared before the
board in regard to the charges made by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Tor the
accommodation given the express COM
.pany. Mr.. Cooper said plainly that the
railroad was charging them tolls on more
goods than they shipped. Il have looked
into the matter" said Commissioner Cole,
and have come to the conclusion that
the Southern Pacific is charging Sl25 for
goods that should not have aggregated
more than $40 or $50 in tolls"
Alter Mr.. Titus had explained that
they were paying rent to the commission
Tor space and also had to pay tolls to the
railroad the Commissioners decided to
take the matter under advisement. Presi-
dent Colnon, however, told Messrs.
Cooper and Titus that the matter of tolls
would have to be arranged by themselves
with the Southern Pacific, but that for the
space. occupied by Wells-Fargo charges
would be regulated so as to give exact JUS
lice 10 all.
The Boulder Creek Labor Exchange
wrote asking the board to do all in its
power to promote free fruit market.
The secretary was told to reply that the
commission had set apart section of the
seawall for fruit market and that as soon
as the fruit men got together and formed
an organization the board would all in its
power to assist them.
Cotton Bros bill for $3.50 for work on
Howard Streat W.T. no rf NC aIlnWod
An electric storm at sea is one of the
alarming experiences to which Q mariner
is exposed, but, as matter of record, it is
one that is least fruitful in disastrous re-
suits. AS rule, few precautions are
taken TO guard against stroke OF light
ming, especially in the merchant service.
Rear-Admiral Dale, commander Of the
Britlsl flying squadron, first saw active
service at the capture of the Peiho forts
in the Chinese war Of 1853 1t is said that
his superiors look upon him as a man who
may be depended upon to do nothing rash
| or inconsiderate.