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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09

Big Structures in the Pathway
of the Fire Quickly Reduced
to Ruins.
Large Establishments That Suffer
Loss of Nearly Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars.

MONTREAL QUEBEC, Dec. s. - The
most disastrous fire Montreal has expert
enced for a long time broke out shortly
before 8 o'clock this evening in one of the
upper stories in the center of the Barron
. block, on St. James street, extending from
John street to st. Francis Xavier street
facing ST. Lawrence Hall. The fire was in
the most dangerous locality in the very
heart of the city, and in the immediate
vicinity of the Temple building, the
Standard Life Insurance building, the
postoffice Carsley's big department store,
the Canada Life Insurance and other great
business structures.
The upper stories of the Barron block
are occupied by offices of various kinds,
o while the ground floors are occupied by
Fulton & Richards, Freeman's restaurant
A. w. Ross & Co., Gibbs &, Cape, the Gen.
trail Vermont and Intercolonial Railway
ticket Offices, and other smaller offices.
The fire spread with alarming rapidity,
and when the fire brigade reached the
scene the flames were shooting out of the
middle OF the block, while dense clouds of
sparks rose and fell on ST. Lawrence Hall,
the postoffice and other structures, plac-
brigade was called out and the fremen
made desperate efforts to stop the prog
ress of the flames. The water-towers and
other apparatus were brought into requi-
sition, but at first the volume of water did
not seem to have much effect and the
flames rose with increasing fury.
The FIRE spread to the old Bank of
Toronto building, at the corner OF St. John
and st. James streets, and it was soon
. a mass OF flames. While the fremen were
working on this building the corner wall
fell out, sending a wave of flames across
. the street.
: After burning for three hours with ter
rible fury, the fire was got under control
shortly after 10 o'clock. The Barron
block, valued at $500, 600, is a complete
: wreck
Among those who occupied the offices
in the burned block and who lose all their
effects are: The Union Life Insurance
Company, Montreal and Western Rail way,
the Commercial Gazette, the Pontiac juno
q ton Railway, the Ottawa and Gaineau
Railway offices, the Dominion Alliance
offices, the Manufacturers Life Insurance
Company, the Manufacturers Guarantee
Company. the Ward Commercial Agency,
the Mutual Investment Company, the
smaller offices. The premises OF John
Parslow, stationer, Freeman's restaurant
and Fulton 81 Richards, publishers, on
the ground floor, are also totally wrecked.
The total lose will reach nearly $500, 900.
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To Re TnIn.nge's Bride.

NEW YORK. n. Y. Dec. SIN Sing
Sing to-day the engagement of Miss Susie
Mangam of that village to the Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage of Washington was an
nounced. Miss Mangam is daughter of
Daniel h. Mangem. who is reputed TO be
a millionaire. Daniel G. Mangam Jr.,
brother of the future Mrs. Talmage, two
years ago married DR.. Talmage's daugh-
ter. This will make Miss Mangam, after
her marriage. the stepmother of her sister
in-la ond step mother n-law to her own
brother. DR.. Talmage will be his daugh-
ter's brother-ln-law. The date of the
wedding is not announced, but the
preparations are under way and it is
thought it will take place in holiday
week or shortly after the new year begins.
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OF lnterest to TIE onnaL

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. S.-Repre-
sentative Johnson to-day introduced bill
for the relief of Caroline Felsenthal OF
California.
Pensions have been granted as follows:
California: Original-August Williams,
Los Angeles.
Oregon: Increase - Henry l.. Stone,
Myrtle Point.
Patents for the Pacific Coast: McKen-
dree F. Bishop, Alameda, axle and axle
box; Samuel P. Bliss. Pasadena raisin
seeder; Rosalind H. Bower, San Francis
CO, strike plate for locks; Joseph A. Cav
ALI, San Francisco, mailing machine for
boots or shoes; Giles E. Chittendon. Niles,
ladder; Michael Dillen burg, San Francis
co, trolley way; Max CRUDE. San Fran
cisco, machine tor fixing threads in envel-
opes; Jesse E. Hathaway, Santa Fe
Springs, gas generator; George C. Thomp-
son and I. c. Edwards, Salinas, thill coup
ling: Allen W. Towne, Pomona, irrigat-
ing plant.
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TEDDY HALE YET LEADS.
Progress of the Sir- Day .WheeI Race al
Madison kQnnre ardes.

Progress of the Str- Day Wheel Race at
Madiaon- square Garden.
NEW YORK, n. Y, Dec. S.-Of the
twenty seven men who were dispatched
on their journey at 1906 o'clock on Mon
day, sixteen passed the starting line when
the second twenty-four hours of the six
day bicycle race at Madison-square Gar
den was com pleted six minutes after mid
night tonight. Teddy Hale, the irish
champion, still held the lead. Reading.
the Soldier Boy" whose wonderful en-
durance kept him in second place for so
long, was ousted to-day by Rice, but Read
ing was steadily regaining the time lost
by taking much-needed rest, and was in
fourth place at the forty-sixth hour.
Schoch, the winner IN 1898. by steady
plodding, worked up into third position,
think he can reach the victory.
Forster kept close on Reading and OF
the next division, Moore, Taylor, Smith
and Pierce were fighting on even terms.
The third lot, Asninger, Elkes, Click,
Maddox and Cassidy, kept plugging away
with Cannon whipping in. Mcleod was
the tail ender and practically OUT of the
contest.
There were between five and six thou
sand present in the evening, when a
match race and exhibitions enlivened the
tension of the. six days performance.
Tom Linton made u fve-mie exhibition
in 1904 4 5, which is new worlds indoor
record. The score at o'clock was: Hale
772 miles, Rive 762, Schoch 724, Moore
6S8, Forster 701. Reading Tie. Taylor 6S4,
Pierce 691, Smith 708. Rikes 696, Click 500,
Ashinger GAS, Maddox 635, CASSIDY 500
Cannon 500, Mcleod 4e5.
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Twelve Workmen Reported Dead
and Nearly as Many
Injured.
Corps of Physicians Dispatched From
Red1ing to Care for tn,
Unfortunates.

REDDING, CAL, Dec. s.-A terrific ex-
plosion of gasoline and coal oil occurred at
Keswick, five miles from this city, tonight
at o'clock. The scene of the disaster
was the oilhouse of the Mountain Mines
Company, situated about 300 yards from
the company's big smelters and about 100
yards from its office and store. Meager re-
ports received by telephone stated that of
the twenty men at work around the oil
house twelve were killed outright and all
OF the others more or less injured. Eight
physicians were at once dispatched from
Redding to care for the injured.
The cause of the explosion is not known
here. Except for the first information re-
ceived by telephone nothing could be
learned. At the mines there was the wild
est excite IN emit, and the men in charge at
the companys office refused TO give any
information in answer to anxious inquiries
from this city.
The explosion was not heard in Red
ding, but several persons saw great sheet
of fame shoot into the air ana illuminate
the country for miles around. The dis
aster occurred in small wooden house,
in which was stored large quantity OF
gasoline, coal oil and oil used at the
smeIter. The building was completely
wrecked, and tin; bers, cans and pieces of
debris were thrown hundreds Of feet from
the spot. None of the other buildings of
the company were destroyed or damaged,
though the buildings containing the rock.
breakers were badly shaken, these struc-
lures being just across sixty-foot street
from the wrecked oilhouse.
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VITALITY THAT
DEF|ES DEATH
Physicians in Three Cities
Puzzled by Strange
Cases.
Portland Woman Drives a Steel
Spike Into Her Temple
and Lives.
With Cleft Skull Workman Is
Sowy Dying-Kelly's Bullet.
Pierced Brain.

PORTLAND. Or, Dec s.-The strangest
come under the observation of the surgical
fraternity here is that of Mrs. Benjamin
L. Jones of 513 East Eighteenth street.
who in a novel way attempted suicide last
Wednesday night. The woman drove a
steel spike into her brain to depth of five
inches, but will recover.
The entire family was busily engaged at
O'Clock in dressing fowls for the market.
Watching her opportunity, Mrs. Jones
quietly arose from the group and made
her way out of the room to the kitchen
pantry. She had evidently prepared for
what followed, for usually the implements
used by the unfortunate woman were in
different parts of the house.
Grasping an ice pick and Ratchet the
demented woman placed the point of the
former against her right tenn pie and with
successive blows from the Ratchet drove
the steel inch by inch through her skull
and into the brain until the haft of the
wooden handle of the ice pick stopped its
further progress.
The woman was taken to the Good Sa-
marian Hospital, where the spike was
taken out of her head. A nurse says that.
despite the fact that the five inches of
steel had penetrated Mrs. Jones' skull
into the brain, she has had several COM
paratively lucid moments. She would in
quire as to her family, where she was and
what allied her. Then she would relapse
into an unconscious state of perhaps forty
eight hours duration.
Tonight Mrs. Jones is in a more critical
condition than at any time since her sui
cidal attempt and her death before mid
night is expected.
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BULLET FOUND IN HIS BRAIN
John p. KeIty's SWicidc Accomplished
dffer DAYS of Rnfttno.

dffer Days of Rnttino.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. SAN autopsy
to-day upon the body of John P. Kelly,
the jeweler who tried to kill his wife and
then turned a revolver upon himself
about ten days ago, showed that 80
callber bullet had penetrated the brain
about three inches. That Kelly lived for
ten days. with bullet in his brain is
remarka bic. The calber of the ball is
proof that the wound was inflicted by
Kelly and not by Officer Prindiville, as at
first supposed. An inquest will be held
tomorrow. Kelly will be buried by Mrs.
Kelly, who is rapidly recovering.
Kelly's will was filed for probate this
afternoon by Policeman John Haley, who
is named as executor. The value OF the
estate is placed at $5OOO 1t consists of
lot of jewelry stored in San Francisco,
valued at $4,000; fixtures and tools in a
store in this city, wearing apparel worth
1866, and real estate near San Diego of
unknown value. The property is left to
John Haley in trust for Mary and Nellie
Kelly, his two small children, with the
exception of 10 cents. which is equally
divided between James Kelly and Mrs.
Annie ,Micnall. children by former wife
residing in San Diego. Mr.. Kelly is
totally ignored.
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chances for the refunding scheme were so
favorable as they are now.
ALTGBLD MAY BE DEPOsED.
All the Illinois Democrats HiH Not Fol-
LOtp his LeadershIp.

All the Illinois De4nocrdts HiH Not rot
LOtU His Leadership.
CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. 8.-Secretary
Robert E. Burke of the Cook County DEM
ocratic Central Committee, and Joseph
Martin, memb Der of the executive COM
mittee, left tonight for Lincoln. Nebr..
for the purpose of inviting William }.
Bryan to be the guest of honor at the
Jackson day banquet of silver Democrats
to be held here January 8, and to receive
his answer. A banquet, at which many
National leaders will be present and speak,
is also being arranged by the National
Democratic Committee for the same even
ing here.
1t is said that Mr.. Burke will also repre-
sent Governor Altgeld in aconterence with
Mr.. BRYAN 10 obtain his advice aud views
on the question on uniting the Democratic
forces OF the city for the municipal cleo
ton next spring. There is sharp divi.
sion among the silver Dem ocrats, the Gov
ernor and his followers IN the party ma
chine advocating an independent course,
so as to keep up the silver agitation for the
campaign of 1900. His supporters, how
ever. are said to be in the minority and
there is strong talk of deposing the Gov
ernor from the leadership OF the party in
the State and city unless q compromise
agreement is reached.
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SHORTSTOP HANDICAP
Tom Gallagher Defeated by John Thatcher
In the Opening Game.

Tom Gallagher DeTedtcd by John Thatcher
In the Opening Game.
CHICAGO, ILL, Dec. 8-The first and
opening game in the Bensinger-Siler
shortstop handicap tourney was played at
Bensinger Hall tonight between Tom
Gallagher 400, and on scratch, and John
Thatcher 900, and resulted in favor of the
latter by score of 900 TO 346.
Thatcher opened up well and banging
the worries hard, relying principally on
general results, had at the end OF the
eighth inning 81 to Gallagher's 9. The
latter then got them rolling to his liking
and gathered So before he walked TO his
chair. This was his highest run. He went
along at ten gait during the next four
teen innings ard was in fair way of win
ming. But he fell down considera bly, in
his work during the last nine innings by
losing whatever chance he had.
Thatcher in the meantime kept ham,
mering away knocking out runs of from
to Is. and eventually ran out with a
break of ten. The contest was largely at
tended.
The score: Thatcher 900, average
5 rs 80; hi run 20. Gallagher 346, aver.
ages 1913; high run SO.
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LIVES WITH CLEFT SKULL.
FrighffuI Injury 10 Nan Uho Tried TO
Stop "a Runaway Horss.

Frighff"I Injury TO Man Uho Tried TO
Stop Runaway Horss.
LOS ANGELES. CAL, The voices OF a
man and woman are pathetically min
gled in the Receiving Hospital mere to-
night. The former is a crazrd, helpless,
dying man, who in a heroic attempt TO
stop a runaway horse attached to street.
car received a blow at the base of the
brain which cracked his skull open from
ear to ear.
This happened on Main street this fore
noon, where the hapIess victim was work
ing upon the track of the railway COM
pany.
The man is A. A. Allen. His agonizing
but muff1ed groans may be heard through
out the building. He retains his physical
powers in a remarkable degree, and two
strong laborers have all they can do to
hold him upon the hospital cot, while he
calls out in heartrending tones tor his
wife and children.
While his utterances are remarkably
distinct, and he seems at times to possess
his senses impaired, he does not recog.
nize his distressed but faithful companion,
who has remained Sy his side every mo-
ment since the accident, crying aloud as
he shrieks in torture.
Allen, the doctors say, must die before
sunrise. The wonder is that he should
have lived thirty minutes after the acct
dent. with his skull reft in twain. The
agony of the grief-str cken wife, who can
do nothing to relieve his agony, has rem
dered the hospital any thing but cheerful
place tonight. Neither opiates nor pal
liatives of any kind seem to have any
effect in alternating the distress of the
dying laborer.
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ANoTHEK BODl hECoVEKED.
Belief That Seren Men Instead of Sir
Here Lost from The San Benito.

Belief That Sepen Men Instead of STA
Here Lost From The San Benito.
FONT ARENA, CAL, Dec. S.-The sea
has given w one more of its victims. A
body was seen last night, but owing to the
rough nature of the coast it was not re-
covered until this morning. 1t was found
about three miles north of the wrecked
San Benito. Justice Ainslie held an IN
quest upon the body, and the jury found
that it was that of boy about 16 wears
about 125 pounds. The face and head
were badly mutilated. A flannel under
shirt and a pair of light shoes ard stock
ings were all that remained OF the cloth
inc.
The description does not tally with
that OF any of the crew lost, and the
body is believed TO be. that of a, boy who
was not on the ships books, but who
was working his way down. This con-
firms the opinion that seven lives were
lost instead of six.
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DEBTS OF PACIFIC RAILROADS.
Although the RefU1ding Bill Cannot Pass
Huntington and HIS Crowd Are
nm fbe EIerf

NEW YORK, n. Y, Dec 8.-A Times
special from Washington says: A careful
canvass and weighing OF probabilities sat
isfios the Pacific Railroads crowd that
there is small prospect of the passage of
the refunding bill this session. Too many
big interests are arraying themselves in
opposition.
A strong attempt to secure the needed
legislation will be made, however, and it
is reported that the Union Pacific reor-
ganization committee will make definite
alternative proposition to pay the Govern
ment lump sum Tor it's equities in that
property. How Huntington stands with
regard to that proposition is not known,
the companies standing on a somewhat
different basis.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec SIT is
the purpose of Powers (R. of Vermont,
chairman of the House Com mittee on Pa
ci5c Railways, to arrange with Speaker
Reed for an early consideration of the bill
reported at the last session to adjust the
Indebtedness of the Pacific roads to the
Government. This falls due within few
weeks. and settlement of the matter was
deemed OF sufficient importance by Presi-
Q6uB O1cF6idHQ W JUSTLY a TeIeTeHC6 10 II
in his annual message which was laid be-
fore Congress. Mr.. Powers said to-day
that he did not doubt the Committee on
Rules would report an order setting aside
a few days for consideration of the meas
ure. He is we'll satisfied that the urgency
OF the case is such that the House will
pass the bill as it is not party meas
ure nor one in his judgment on which
there should be difference of opinion in
Tn House.
Senator Per kins, a member of the Sem
ate steering committee, says a desperate
effort will be made this winter to pass the
Pacific roads refunding bill. The matter
was brought up in caucus this morning
and discussed at considerable length.
Senator Perkins is, of course, not at lib
ertv to divulge caucus secrets, and was re-
luctant to talk at all. but 1t is well known
here tonight that the caucus referred the
matter of the refunding bill to the steer
ing committee and it is altogether
probable that the bill will soon come up
in the Senate and will pass that body in
spite of the fight that will be led by SEN
ator Morgan, backed by Senators White
and Perkins. Senator Whites absence
may delay action for while at least.
Senator Perkins says the opponents OF the
bill could occupy the time of the Senate in
a discussion of the measure and this would
give the Los Angeles Senator time to
reach Washington.
Representative Powers chairman OF the
House Committee on Pacific Railroads.
said to The CALL correspondent tonight
that the committee would ask the Ru'es
Committee TO allow three or four days Tor
the bills consideration, but he did not
know vet whether the time asked Tor
DE before or after the holidays. He ex-
pressed the opinion that the bill would
pass the House. This is the opinion OF
nearly every one familiar with the situa-
tion. 1t will also probably pass the Sen
ate and be signed by President Cleveland.
There has never been a time when TIE
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an Accidental Hano,no.

OMAHA, NEBR., Dec. S.-Bernon S.
White, the 13-year-old son of F. w. White
of the Steel-Smith grocery-house. COM
mitted suicide by hanging some time this
afternoon. His mother discovered the
body about o'clock, but life had been
extinct for some time. The boy is thought
to have been simply experimenting with
a towel tied around his neck. He made a
moose and hung this, by means OF chair.
over the door. Swinging off into space
he was unable to regain his foothold, lit is
supposed, and was strangled to death.
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Lady Brooke Not Guilty.,

PERRY, o. T., Dec. 8.-This morning
the jury in the perjury case of Lady Brooke
brought in verdict of not guilty. The
case grew out of contest in the General
Land Office, and has attracted unusual in
terest. Mrs. Brooke, formerly Miss Law
renee of Elm City, Kans., was charged
with swearing she was an unmarried
woman, when the contrary was alleged.
She first welded E. E. Parker, travelling
salesman of Chicago, and claims he de-
serted her after ten days. She married K.
T. Brooke, an English nobleman of reputed
great wealth, secretly, at CARRIER, o. T., a
wear ago.
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Srfsed on Attachments.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, Dec. 8.-Willis A.
Meyers large department store, known as
the Boston Store, was seized to-day on
attachments aggregatlng $58.921. Meyers
made a voluntary assignment to George
Koch, who furnished bonds in the sum of
$3.50 600. Attorney Killilea. representing
Meyers, said that the assets were from
$4,000 to $500, 600, and the liabilities
about 100000 Dizziness in trade is as
signed as the cause of the failure.
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Cuoi.r Metnrlana Rnnauet.a.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. s.-Floyd Nc
Farland, the well-known bicyclist of this
city, who has just returned from the East
ern circuit, was rendered n reception on
his arrival here this evening. He was met
at the broad-gauge depot by large num-
Der OF friends and old club mates ana
escorted to his home. Later he was ten
dered banquet at the Larrioile House.
Justice w. H. Dwyer presided as toast
master. Speeches were made by McFar-
land and a large number OF thoss present.
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The shoottnq J..stuan bic.

CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa, Dec. ST. F.
Benedict, the station agent at Fairfax,
who shot and killed one of three men who
attenr pied a train hold-up last night, and
wounded another, was exonerated from
all blame to-day by the coroner's jury.
The escape of the wounded man is believed
10 be impossible. The identity OF the
dead man is unknown. He was about 10
wears old
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DIED FROM THE INJURIES.
An Old Grmdge and a Fight Result
Fatally.

At UId UTNUyF UWU U LtVItI 1leBWIL
Fatally.
CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 8.-Louis W. Herr
mann, travelling salesman for Appleton &
Co., the publishers. died at his home this
afternoon as the result of injuries rece lived
in fight with Dorsey D. O. Conner, tray
cling salesman for the Sheldon Publishing
Company, in a room at the Clifton House
last Saturday night. George P. Hamilton,
in whose room the trouble occurred, made
full statement of the affair TO the police
tonight. Half a dozen other travelling
men were in the room at the time of the
fight between Hermann and O'Connor,
which is said to have resulted from n long
standing grudge. Hermann was able to
go home, and died from brain hemor-
rhage OConnor is believed to be in Min
neapolis
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Rnctna nt Ne,p Orlenn..

NEW ORLEANS. La, Dec. S.-six furlongs,
Fannie Rowena won, O'Connell second, Anna
Mayes third. Time, / :17X.
Six furlongs Viscount won, Pat Morrissey
second, Otto II third. Time, 1S
seven furlongs, Pitfall won. Mollle second,
Cherrystone third. Time, :3331
Six furlongs, Maggie won, senator Morrill,
second, Issie o third. Time 1913
One mile and twenty yards, Bridgeton won,
Frank Jaubert second, Cotton King third
Time, 1:4S.
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when years old, struck on her head and
has been blind ever since. On November
% she was examined with the X-ray in
Euison's laboratory. 1t was found that
her skull was pressing on her brain. An
operation was performed and the doctors
no " believe that she will recover h.r eye
sipnt.
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FRANKFORT. KY, Dec. 8.-The Court
of Appeals to- day affirmed the decision OF
the lower court in the case of Scott Jack
son, sentenced 10 be hanged for the MUIR
der OF Pearl BRYAN.