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the minority, that Boatner was entitled
to hold his seat
1t was explained that at the sugges-
ton of the contestee, Boatner, it had
been agreed to submit the case to the
Hous for decision to-day without ar
gument. The reason for this was that
in case the House should concur in the
report of the committee and unseat
Boatner, tomorrow was the last day on
which the Governor of Louisiana could
give notice of new election in the dis
trict, to be held at the general election of
the State on April 21st.
Taylor (Rep) of Ohio read from the
report of the committee. which substan-
TALLY charges that the election in ques-
ton was permeated with fraud, violence
and intimidation, and the committee
had resolution declaring therefore the
seat in Congress from the Fifth Con-
gressional District of Louisiana to be
vacant.
Boatner presented to the House por-
tions of the resolution of the minority,
after which Benoit, the contestant. was
accorded the privilege of the floor for
ten minutes. In that time he briefly
sketched the condition of things in the
district asserting that the negroes were
either prevented from voting at all or
compelled to vote the Democratic ticket.
The resolution of the minority was re-
jected-yeas SO, nays 131-and then.
without division, the resolution of the
majority was agreed to.
At ) o'clock the House took a recess
under the rules until o'clock for regu-
lar Friday night session for pension
bills
AT the evening session no question of
a quorum was made upon the motion to
go into Committee of the Whole. and
several bills were ordered to be reported
favorably to the House. Among them
was one granting a pension of 500 a
month to Joseph A. Cook, a Brevet Ma
jor- General in the War of the Rebellion.
He was veteran of the Mexican War.
and as such has been drawing a pension
of So month. More recently he has
been in receipt of pension of $12 a
month under the general law of 1890.
In the course of the evening Loud
(Rep) of California antagonized a bill
tc pension the widow of Captain Gran
dali, for some years an employe of the
Senate, anu III COIilCCliO0 with MS re-
marks read a protest from Sedgwick
Post, G. A. r. of San Francisco, against
the granting of large pensions to wild
ows of deceased officers. He said he
was surprised that the old soldiers had
not risen in rebellion against the action
of Congress in regard to some Of these
cases. (Applause)
Blue Rep.) of Kansas also warned the
House that the old soldiers were watch
ing them, and would intelligently make
up their minds whether or not they
acted with equity in the cases brought
to their attention in these Friday night
sessions.
A 1870 o'clock the House adjourned
until Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.-A hor-
rible murder at sea was reported to-day
from Shanghai. Captain Philip Dryer,
who has a wife and three children in
Oakland, was killed on February 25th
by the Chinese cook on the schooner
Lyman w. Foster, which sailed from
this port last December.
The Chinaman, who was native of
San Francisco and known as Ling, be-
came suddenly crazy, and before he
could be prevented, fell upon Captain
Dryer and sIashed him to death with a
knife
The schooner Lyman W. Foster sailed
from San Francisco on the 1st of last
December for Bellingham Bay, Puget
Sound to load lumber for Shanghai.
She sailed from Bellingham Bay on the
21st of December last. Captain Dryer
has been master of the vessel for years
and was we'll known in this port and at
Oakland, where his family has resided
for years.
Soon after the murder First Mate An
derson placed the insane cook in irons
and took the vessel safely to her desti-
nation.
The news of the crime came to-day
from Anderson, who sent a brief dis
patch to w. G. Hall of this city, who is
managing owner of the Foster.
Captain Dryer was native of Den
mark, aged 40 years.
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CONDITIONS OF TRADE.
Review of the Situation of the Week
Just Ended.
General Tendency of Industrials and
Prices Not Encouraging. Though
There is Better Feeling.

NEW YORK, March 20.-R. G. Dun &
Co. will say tomorrow in their weekly
review of trade:
| Failures for two weeks of March cover
liabilities of So, 799, ,397, against $7,372,-
| All last year. Failures for the week
] were 261 in the United States, against
27S last year, and 40 in Canada, against
50 last year.
Movement toward better things is
still the exception. There is better bust
ness in shoes and small industries, and
there has been a squeezing of short sell
ers in cotton, but the general tendency
of industrials and prices is not encour-
aging, and those who were most hope
full month ago are still waiting. not so
! hopefully, for the expected recovery
| Distractions to recovery are not to be
sought either in the investment or the
money market, but in the industrial re-
action after the unnatural expansion of
demand and prices last year.
! 1t is a striking fact that the only great
industry which is now rapidly gaining
in business is the one in which prices
have been generally cut down to last
years lowest figures. The boot and
shoe manufacturers had a reason for
|
still averages 6 per cent. higher than
year ago, though hides are 10 per cent.
lower, having again declined the past
| week about 3 per cent. If the manu-
| facturers get narrow profits or none.
they are at least doing a business which
will keep most of the works in opera
tion.
| The wooden mills have different con-
n
below last years lowest average, and
wool 5.3 per cent. higher than it was
| then, they are not getting business to
keep works in operation. Sales of
wool were the smallest III any week for
years.
sharp decline in the price of cotton
goods is the comment of the mills on
rising cotton. Goods now average lower
than since May, 1895, having declined
d. per cent. for the week.
The iron industry shows but a slight
average decline in prices, as combina-
tions still insist upon the highest prices
of last year, and the demand is natu-
rally curtailed. Quotations are decep-
tive, because lower prices are constantly
made to secure business Minor metals
change little, but aluminium, quoted err
roneously last week, sells at 80 cents.
Speculation in cotton has caught short
dealers in trouble, and just because they
thought prices must go lower, the shorts
are forced to put them up.
The market in wheat has been weak
though rather stagnant, hut the weight
of facts is felt, as Western receipts for
three weeks Of March have been $685.
4S1 bushels, against 1924 .929 last year.
Atlantic exports, -four included, also
show a decrease amounting to 4, 4,04S. .O64
bushels for three weeks, against $685.
600 last year.
The movement of corn continues very
large, and prices have declined one cent
for cash.
A troublesome feature OF the situation
is the stringency in commercial loans.
not because of scarcity of money. but
because banks are disturbed by failures
of some Importance.
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TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROADS
Arrangements Nearly Completed fo1
Traffic ReoroaniZatfon

Arrangements Nearly Completed for
Traffic REORGANIZATION.
NEW YORK, March 20.-The traffic
managers of the transcontinental rail-
roads have been meeting at the Wind
sor Hotel for three days and have near
ly completed arrangements for the re-
organization of the Transcontinental
Traffic Association. It is expected that
the association will so into effect by
April 1st. After June 1st any line may
withdraw after ninety days notice.
1t is proposed to renew the old allow
ance of $72,500 month by the rail-
roads tc the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. For this sum the Pacific
Mail Company will give up to the rail-
roads room on each ship it sends out
from San Francisco for 600 tons Of
freight consigned to New York. Under
it's contract with the Pacific Mail Com
pany the Panama Railroad will receive
for itself and it's steamers between
Colon and New York 55 per cent. of the
allowance by the railroads to the Pa
cific Mail Company.
The traffic managers will try to COM
plete their work tomorrow, but 1t is
doubtful if they can do so. One result
of the new arrangement will be an ad-
vance in rates.
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GOSHEN TRAIN ROBBERS.
How the Officers Learned That q
Hold-Up Was to Take Place.

Row the Officers Learned That a
Hold-Up Was to Take Place.
vISALIA, March 2O.-The feeling of
Indignation over the attempted rob-
berry of the Southern Pacific train near
Goshen on Wednesday night last is
very great in this city.
The gentleman who was first apprised
of the attempted robbery gave out the
following facts tonight with the stip-
ulation that his name should not be
used:
About ten days ago I was approached
by man named Britt, who unfolded
the alleged details of a plot by which a
Southern Pacific train was to be held
up and looted. His story was in sub
stance that Dan McCan, 81 Lovern and
Charley Ardell had conspireo to effect
the hoId-up, and had asked him to par
ticipate, which he consented to do in or
der to ascertain the details of the plot
and give them away TO the police. Britt
also told me that il was Mccall who
tried to hold up Ben Hicks a short time
ago. He (McCalD also talked about
robbing DR.. Patterson. Britt further
stated that ST Lovern and Charley Ar
dell furnished the guns and ammunition
for the hold-up. They stiffened Nc
Calls courage by telling him that the
best detective in the Southern Pacific
(Hickey) was dead, and that the job
could be done without fear of detec-
tion''
Other important facts which have
been ascertained tend to strengthen
Britt's story. The ownership of the gun
used by Mccall has been traced to
Lovern. Several other suspicious Incl
dents calculated to condemn the ac-
cused men have been brought to light,
but the majority of them are somewhat
gauzy, and cannot be stated as facts.
MEN WHO PUT THE JOB.
SANTA CRUZ, March 20.-Mrs.
Frank Mccall, sister-In-Iaw to Dan
Mccall, who was killed in the attempted
train robbery near Tulare, said to-day
Charles Ardell, the Visalia saloon
keepers, now under arrest, were the
men who put up this train-robbing job.
He told her two years ago that these
men were trying to persuade him and
a woodchopper to rob the Angels Camp
stage. On that same night they offered
to supply himself and the woodchopper
with ammunition and arms. They were
to bury some money so they could get
away in case there was a raid made
on them. Dad did not consent to the
scheme, and when the stage was
stopped there was but one man known
in it. He was the woodchopper Lovern
and Ardell were not suspected.
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BRITISH SHIP GROUNDED.

The Glenmorag Goes Ashore on the
Washington Coast-Two Lives Lost.
ASTORIA (Or.), March 20.-The Brit
ish ship Glenmorag went ashore on the
Washington coast a few miles south
OF the entrance to Shoal Water Bay
during a dense fog on Thursday after
noon. In an effort to make a landing
two seamen, James Adams and Will
lam Readdie, were crushed to death,
and four others seriously injured.
The Glenmorag was bound from Cal
lao to Portland, Or, in ballast to load
wheat for Europe. She had a fair pas
sage until a few days ago, when she
struck fog bank which prevented OBJ
servations being taken. Captain Cur
RE lost his reckoning, and figured him
self off the mouth of the Columbia
River, well outside. He was looking for
a pilot boat, when breakers were re-
ported ahead. Before the ship could be
weared she struck on the sand bank.
and huge seas began to break over her.
A life boat was lowered, but the
breakers smashed it to atoms. and the
surviving members of the crew were
dragged aboard, after James Adams
was instantly killed by having a row
lock driven into his head, and William
Readdie suffered death through hav-
ing his skull crushed between the life
boat and the side of the ship. It was
found that four other seamen wore
seriously injured, one having his lee
broken They are expected to survive
After considerable effort the re-
mainder of the crew, including the in
jured men, succeeded in reaching land
which was only few yards distant
This morning at low tide the Glen
morag was surrounded by but six
inches of water, and showed but little
effect from the pounding of the break
ers. A quiet sea prevails, and the yes
sci stands fair show of being f1oated
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Davis VIII Case.

BUTTE (Mont), March 20-Eliza-
beth S. Boudoin of Springfield, Mass,
sister of the late Andrew j. Davis, to-
day instituted new contest in the
famous Davis will case by filing a petit
ton to revoke the probate of the will
which was admitted to probate about a
year ago. She sets up the charge that
the will was forgery, and if genuine
had been expressly revoked by a subse-
quent will which was afterwards de-
stroyed by Mr.. Davis. The petition will
reopen the entire case
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FALL OF A METEOR.
Strikes the Side of Mountain Near
Hindman. Kentucky

/ StHAACS tH0 SlOG Ol h MOunDa1n Near
Hindman, Kentucky.
HINDMAN Ry), March 20.-The
people of this vicinity are much ex-
ercised over the report just received
here that large mass of stone and
cinder-looking substance has fallen on
the side of Pine Mountain, which is To-
Gated on Greasy Fork of the Kentucky
River, few miles from this place
Persons living in the vicinity say they
were startled by a whizzing sound and
then crash. Large stones and then
black substance came rolling down
the side of the mountain, scattering in
every direction for hundreds of yards
along the valley.
The house of Mrs Hester Yates on
the mountain side was demolished and
the logs scattered in every direction.
Mrs. Yates and family, consisting of
several small children, were buried be-
meath the debris.
The hard substance was over half
buried in the mountain side, but strik-
ing a solid rock had burst into hundreds
of pieces.
People for miles around have turned
out and are now searching for the bodies
OF Mrs. Yates and her children.
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CHASTITY DISCOVERY.
Bodies of Two Men Found in Barn
Near HolIister.

Bodies of Two Men Found in Barn
Near Hollister.
HOLLISTER March 20.-A CHASTITY
find was made by Otto Schultz in
barn near town this morning. Lying on
it's back in the straw was the body OF
man, the features contorted and the
limbs drawn up. From manger pro-
truded the arm of another body, also
contorted in agony. Neither could be
identified. The men had never been
seen in this vicinity. There were no
marks of violence, but diligent search
revealed no poison in the vicinity. The
bodies were brought to town, and au-
topsies are now being made by Coroner
Black and County Physician O'Bannon.
A tramp was seen to enter the barn
at sunset and leave hurriedly in the
direction of the San Joaquin, and the
supposition is that he was frightened
at the sight of the corpses.
One body is that of an American, tall,
spare, with iron grey hair and a mus
tache. He was about 40 years of age.
The other is that of an Irishman, with
close cropped red hair, and about 40
years of age. Both were dressed as
farm laborers.
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81 LvER-PRoTEoTIoN CONFERENCE
Some of Those Present Dissatisfied
With the Peport Published.

some OF Those Present Dissatisfied
With the Peport Published.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2O.-Some
of the Philadelphia members who were
present at the conference last night in
Washington with the silver Republi-
can Senators are dissatisfied with the
report of the meeting as it appeared in
to-day's papers. They all agree that
the report furnished of the conference
was in the nature Of an ex-parte one.
and did not fairly represent the views
of all present.
Among the gentlemen who took ex-
ception to the report of the conference
in Charles Fl. Harding, of the firm of
Erben, Harding & Co., yarn manufac-
turers. Mr.. Harding to-day gave out
the following letter:
'The account given of the conference
in Washington yesterday between the
silver Senators and some gentlemen
from this city and elsewhere is not a
complete statement of facts, and several
persons are thereby placed in a false po-
sition. My own experience is the
| simplest illustration. A gentleman said
to me: Mr.. Clark has a letter from
the Republican Senators who voted
against the consideration of the Ding
ley bill, in which they say they would
like to see some of the Philadelphia
manufacturers and business men. He
does not know what they have to say.
but they particularly wish to have some
gentlemen who have been known not
to have been silver men in the party.
Mr.. Dolan, Mr.. Dornan, Mr.. Dobson
and Mr.. Search are expected to go.
will you go?'
Il agreed to go, and met the party at
the train. No one on the train was nre
pared to say what was to be expected
When the conference begun the silver
senators stated their reasons for their
treatment of the Dingley bill; said that
was final; gave their present attitude
toward all tariff legislation. and an
nounced that 1T was not to be changed
1t must be Protection and free silver
hereafter for them, and that by virtue
of the position of their constituents the
gentlemen present were invited to speak
their minds on the situation. Besides
what was said (and is reported) by
those manufacturers whose names are
given supporting the proposition. there
were remarks made in dissent. more or
less vigorous, by Mr.. Crow. Mr.. Croft,
| Mr.. Miller, Mr.. Vrooman. Mr. Camn-
bell, Mr.. Holmes and myself. Others
| shared our opinions, and Mr.. James and
Mr.. Fisler authorize the use of their
names as among them.
''The absolute suppression in the
account given to the press of these ex-
pressions, and of the fact that we made
such protest, discredits all the con-
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FIRE AT CHICAGO.
1t Causes a Panic Among Guests In a
Hotel.

CHICAGO, March 20.-Fire, which
started from gasoline stove in the
first flat at 403-405 North Clark street.
this morning, caused panic among the
boarders in the Empress Hotel, ad-
joining the building. Mrs. Olive Condee.
in whose fiat the fire started, tried to
smother the flames at first, but she and
two of her boarders, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
NJ. Golden, were compelled to reach
the ground by ladder in the rear in
order to escape death. Mr.. and Mrs.
Golden had their hair singed while try
ing to escape. Many of the hotel guests
had narrow escapes from serious in
jury. Many of the guests We're forced
to run to the street in their night
clothes.
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JOHNSON MINING BILL.
The Measure VIII Undoubtedly Pass
In the House.

The Measure VIII Undoubtedly Pass
In the House.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-Tirey l..
Ford appeared before the House Com
mittee on Mines to-day and argued in
favor of the Johnson bill amending the
Federal mining laws, laying particular
stress on the provision transferring the
contest as to the agriculture or mineral
character of the land from the Land
Office to the local courts.
1t is understood the committee will
report in favor of this feature of the
bill
Representatives Johnson and Barham
were also present and earnestly Sec
onded Fords statements.
The committee this afternoon favor
ably reported the Johnson bill making
the California Debris Commissioner an
ex officio member of the United States
Commission. The bill will undoubtedly
be passed.
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Conrsfnp at ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, March 20 The turnstile
count at the fair grounds to-day showed
that 5,611 persons passed the gate to
witness the coursing. The weather was
ideal, the racers in good fettle and the
Jacks full of life Ten pairs were
first slipped for the unfinished Missouri
cup The st. Louis cup was then con-
tested for with four entries. The cours-
ing closes tomorrow with the finals.
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TAKING RAILROAD LANDS.
A Case Which Is Now Before tn
United States Supreme Court.

A Case Which Is Now Before the
United States Supreme Court. =
WASHINGTON. March 20.-Wheeler
H. Peckham of New York appeared to-
day in the Supreme Court as counsel
for the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany in the litigation with the State
of Nevada over the attempt to collect
taxes from the railroad corporations for
1888 upon certain tracts of land within
the United States grant made to the
railroad.
The District Court for Nevada held
that the State was entitled to recover
taxes upon lands patented and un-
patented that had been surveyed, but
not entitled to taxes upon unsurveyed
lands.
Mr.. Peckham contended that the judg-
ment should be reversed, with instruc-
tions to the court below that only
patented lands can be taxed, or at least
patented lands and surveyed lands on
which the fees have been paid can be
assessed and taxed under the existing
land law of Nevada
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family have kept a watch upon his

movements.
This morning the old gentleman took
his rifle in hand and going outside the
door he announced his intention of in
dulging in a little hunt. His son Haz-
ard objected, whereupon the old man
fired bullet through the heart of the
boy, killing him instantly. He then
turned the gun upon his wife, but was
disarmed by a younger son before he
did any further damage. He was bound
with a rope and turned over to the
officers.
Randall is about 60 years DID, we'll
to-do, and has always borne a good
name.
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THE VANDERBILTS SUED
A Chfcagoan Seeking to Recover So
100000 From Heirs.


000,O00 From Heirs.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Commodore
Vanderbilt and William A. Brown en-
tered into an agreement on March q,
1851, by which eight steamers belonging
to Brown were to run from San Fran
cisco to San Juan Del Sur and connect
with the Commodore's steamers run
ming to this city. 1t is claimed that
these steamers earned S4S0,000 a year
under. this arrangement. Brown bor-
rowed $120, 900 from the Commodore, to
be paid out of the earnings of the ves-
sells, and gave bill of sale of them.
William H. Brown of Chicago, admin
istrator of his father, brought suit in the
Supreme Court here to recover $1,000
COO from the heirs of Commodore Van
derbilt. To-day Justice Mclean grant
ed by default an order to Browns coun-
sci requiring the Vanderbilts to show
cause why Brown should not have ac-
cess to the books and papers Of the
Commodore
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clusions that may be drawn about the
harmony and influence of the meeting.
There was perfect frankness, and every
thing was done, of course, in courtesy
and good humor. But to muzZle so
many as is done by the published re-
port, and to put large number in the
apparent position of supporting move
ment which they positively repudiate.
is to do us serious wrong.
&C. H. HARDING"
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Fruit Train wreckad

Los ANGELES, March 20.-Passen-
gers on the train from San Francisco
to-day state that special fruit train
on the Southern Pacific was wrecked
last night at Palmdale, delaying pas
senger trains both ways. 1t is reported
that the entire train was overturned
by running on a soft switch, and
that two cars with their contents were
completely demolished.
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Pnhlic buildings.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-At a
meeting of the House Committee on
Public Buildings to-day the following
bills for public buildings were reported
favorably by the sub committees: Boise,
Idaho, $4,000 (additionaD; Reno, New,
0,000; Santa Rosa, Cal, $4,000; Salt
Lake City, Utah, $350,000; Alameda,
Cal, 100000; Tacoma, Wash, $500, 600;
Stockton, Cal, $175,000.
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Destructive Hurricane.

HUNTINTON CIV. Va), March 90
The Hart's Creek region, fifty miles
south in Lyon County was visited by
one of the most destructive hurricanes
ever known in that section last night.
Trees and fences were carried before the
mighty wind, and the large store build
ing of r. A. Lewis was torn from its
foundation and totally wrecked. No
lives were lost, but the property loss
will be heavy.
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General weyler Burned In Efirv.

TRENTON On. j., March 2O.-Gen-
eral Weyler, the head of the Spanish
army in Cuba, was tonight burned in
effigy by fifty students of the State
Model School They met on the banks
of the Assapink, near the school, and
held a mock trial of the General. He