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The herald., 1896-02-03
THE NEW CRUISER
The BattIeshlp Oregon Will Be Completed Ia
May

The BattIeshlp Oregon Will Be Completed Ia
May
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2.-It is expected
that the battleship Oregon will have her
official trip some time in the latter part Of
April or early in May, and Immediately
after that she will be ready to be commits
stoned as first class battleship of the
United States avy. All that now remains
to be do ne to the vessel is to place the
armor plates of the after turret and mount
the two 13-inch guns that it is to shelter.
Three of the six plates have arrived and
workmen are engaged in placing them.
The other three are due to arrive in o few
days.
The finishing touches were put to the for
word turret yesterday. when the second Of
the guns it contains was put in position.
The guns are of the same size as those that
will go in the after turret, and each of
them, with Its mounting, weighs sixty-eight
tons. The turrets are SO constructed that
in mounting them the whole piece must bs
placed at once. The gun is set up on the
dock alongside the ship, and yesterday
morning at low tide, when the deck of the
vessel was lined with the wharf, tackle
from huge shears was fastened to the mon
ster cannon and forty-hve minutes later it
was in its place on the battleship.
All the guns of the secondary battery and
the armor plate protecting them have long
been in place. The machinery has been
thoroughly tested, and on trials the big
vessel has easily attained the speed of
fifteen knots required by the CONTRACT.
The herald., 1896-02-03
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
Results In the Destruction Of the Coal Ship
Parthia

Results In the Destruction Of the Coal Ship
Parthia
PoRT TOWNSEND, Wn., Feb. 2.-The ship
Louis Wash from Callao, brought two of
tho crew, Steward Chase and Cook Mitch
ell, from the ship Parihia, which burned at
sea several weeks ago 500 miles southwest
of Juan Fernandez island. Tho Parthia
was coal laden from Liverpool TO San
Francisco. The first intimation that the
ship was afire was when dense volume of
smoke burst through The main hatch.
Knowing the coal was full of gas. and ap-
prehensive lest an explosion should occur,
three boats, in charge OF Captain Carter
and frat and second mates, were launched
and we'll proyisioned. The same after
noon, when the boats were three miles die
tant, the chip blew up and sunk. Sponta-
neous combustion was the origin of the
fire.
-Four days the tor ee boats remained to-
gether. when storm came on and the Sec
ond mates boat was lost sight of. The
seas filled the boats and all the crew could
do was to keep them bailed out. Then it
was necessary to throw overheard all the
msn's clothes and nearly all the provisions.
The captsin and first officers boat reached
Juan Fernandez island and from ihere
they were taken to Valparaiso by Chilean
man-of-war. The second mates boat had
a severe test and was fourteen days reach
ing Valparaiso. For six days they were
without water or food. David Jones, an
American actor, who was passenger, be-
came insane and was tied down for two
days, when he died and was buried at sea.
The other occupants almost despaired of
reaching shore and were considering the
advisability of resorting to extreme nea-
SUES when a gentle wind sprang up and
quickly carried the boat to Valparaiso,
where the crew was taken ashore uncon-
scicus and nearly dead.
The herald., 1896-02-03
DR.. BROWN DID NOT PREACH
But Explained His Position to the Con-
gregati0n
Tie Refrained Out of Difference to the Opinion of
Small Minority of the
Church

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-The Rev. C. o.
Brown presided today at the morning SER
vices in the First Congregational church,
but he did not preach the sermon. He took
occasion to address the congregation, how
ever, and to make it plain that, in inviting
Prof. r. r. Lloyd to occupy his pulpit, he
reserved his right to resume his place at
any time he saw tlt.,
The doctor was precise and clear in ex-
planation OF his position. He knew, he
stated, that some portion of the church. "a
small minority" was shaken in it's faith in
him. For this he did not blame them and
had no rancor in his heart toward them,
but be wished it understood that his present
abstention from preaching was only out of
Difference to their opinion, not waiver of
his right to preach. He, and he alone, he
concluded, was responsible for the invita-
ton to Prof. Lloyd. Then Dr.. Brown
stepped from the rostrum and took his seat
in the body of the church.
A greas many were disappointed at this
turn of affairs, but very few of them were
members of the church. number of
strangers had been attracted to the SER
vices in tho full! expectation that DR..
Brown " ould insist OH exercising what he
claimed was his right to preach, and many
members of the congregation had an
nounced their intention to, and did remain
away in the expectation that the pastor
would do as he had announced that he
would.
Noticeable in the congregation were sew
eral persons who had expressed their unal-
terable and powerful opposition to the pas
tors reappe arance in the pulpit. Mrs.
Sarah Cooper was one of these. She came
early in the full expectation that Dr..
Brown would carry out his decision d
Wednesday night.
The herald., 1896-02-03
me that he is determined to resign i'm

me that he is determined to resign i'm
mediately.
The correspondent Of tho Times at Ber-
lin says:
"As confirming the intrigue against
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe, there appears
the following semi-o1ficial statement: The
emperor's speech OF January 18th has
been used by the agrarians, bimetallists
and Bismarckians as the starting point for
au intrigue to compass Chancellor Won Ho.
henlohe's fall. The names of General
Count Won Waldersee and Won Tai
ensleben are advanced as possible
SUCCESSORS, because it is feared the prena-
ture disclosure of the real candidates
name would jeopardize the success OF the
scheme. There is not the slightest indica-
ton that Chancellor Won Hohenlohe's posi-
ton is shaken, but these hopes are based
on the emperor's desire for a larger navy,
which The chancellor disfavors."
The Times correspondent adds that the
naine of the secret candidate above re-
ferred to is believed to be Count Herbert
Won Bismarck, but it may be that his name
is advanced only as means to defeat the
intrigue by connecting with it the name OF
parsonage distasteful TO the emperor.
"Despite the assertion that Chancellor
Won Hohenlohe's position 10 unshaken,"
says the Times, "the admission that he OPP
poses the emperor on naval affairs looks
threatening for his position"
The Chronicles Berlin correspondent
learned that n stout demand is made for the
expulsion of DR.. Stoecker from the Conser-
vative party, on account of the disagree
ments on the score of Christian socialist
reform, DIR. Stoecker will resign his seat in
the Prussian diet.
The herald., 1896-02-03
Stuck In the i1ud

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-For an hour and a
half tonight the Cunard steamship Unbria
was q prisoner in the mud of the North
river. The vessel had reached her pier
and was being warped into the slip. The
strong westerly wind, and for that reason
when the Umbria had been headed in, she
was caught in the soft mud. The vessels
engines were reversed but she refused to
bulge. After four iugs had hauled away
for an hour the steamer slipped into her
berth. In the strcnebox of the Umbria
there was a gold consignment of $780,
$50 sterling, equal 10 Sl,90l,755. The
gold is consigned to half IA dozen firms. S.
flexing, the purser, said he did not know
where The gold was going. 1t is understood
it is for the purchase of bonds.
The herald., 1896-02-03
For the Destruction of Americas
Missions
ZEITOUN STILL HOLDS OUT
And the Turkish Beseigers Suffer Heavy
Losses
Set AfIoat to Increase Distrustf =
Among the Powers

Associated Press Special Wire
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Feb. 2'-The United
States minister, Mr.. Terrill, has demanded
an idemnity of 100000 for the burning
and pillaging of the American missions at
Marash and Kharput. He also asked for
the immediate granting of frmans for re-
building them.
ZEITOUIN NOT CAPTURED.
LONDON Feb. "a dispatch from Com
stantinopIe to the Daily News says:
The reports from Turkish sources, b.
lieved to be fairly accurate, states that Il
is believed that the Zeitounlis are still
holding out. The Turks have made sev-
eral different attacks upon the town, but
all have failed, and their losses are re-
ported to amount to 10000. It is alleged
that $4,000 troops will be needed to cap
ture Zeitoun. 1t is believed the Zeitounlis
number from 15 900 to 10000 well armed
and provisioned for year.
There is q doubtful report that a, 900 Rus
sian Armenians crossed the Persian frontier
and defeated the Turks at Six, eighteen
hours from Zeitoun, and have now joined
the Zeitounlis.
THE REPORTED ALLIANCE
LONDON, February 3.-A Constantinople
dispatch to the Times says:
Careful inquiry convinces mo that the
palace party set afloat tthe rumors of the
Russo-Turkish alliance in order to increase
the distrust among the powers.
Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador at
Constantinople, writes to the Daily News,
denying published statement that he was
kept waiting for an hour in a cold ante
room when he went to deliver the Queens
letter to the Sultan.
The herald., 1896-02-03
THE LUMDERMEN'S COMBINE
The Biggest Pacific Coast Trust
Ever Formed
CAPITAL, SEVENTY MILLION
Includes United Ststes and British
American Manufacturers
The First Evidencs Of the Trust Is O Notice
of Advance of So
Per Thousand
Associated Press Sneclal Wire,

Associated Press Sneclal Wire.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wn., Feb. 2.-The big
gest trust ever formed on the Pacific coast,
and representing a capital of over $7O.-
100000, has been consummated and went
into effect last night. 1t is the Central
Lumber company of California and it's
membership includes every lumber mill,
all ship owners, wholesale and retail deal
ers of the western coast of the United
States and British Columbia. All charters
of vessels and sales of lumber must be
effected through the Central Lumber conf
pany, which regulates freights and puts the
buying and selling price on all lumber,
regulating, also, the product Of each mill
and the proportion of lumber each vessel
shall carry during the year. Not only the
markets of the Pacific coast are thus con-
trolled, but the lumber shipments to foreign
countries are placed under the same re-
strictions. Every mill on the coast has its
product regulated. On Puget Sound the
daily output is 100000 feet. In the
same proportion every other lumber mill
on the coast is regulated but the regula-
tions do not apply to shipments by rail to
eastern points. The first invoice issued by
the company was to advance the price of
lumber 50 per thousand. Last year the
estimated product of the coast was 600,-
100000 feet, and this advance will ell
hance the profits to mill owners the COM
ing year over 81 600. 900.
The deal was made to irclude manu-
facturers, dealers and freight carriers.
Members of the trust claim they have been
manufacturing lumber for several years at
actual cost and that the dealers in foreign
and coastwise markets were reaping all
the profits. Under the new prices they
say the employees will be paid better wages
and the timbermen receive higher prices
for their logs. Although capitalized at
$4,000 no other corporation on the
facitic coast contracts such vast interests
as the Central Lumber company. More
than $50 ocean sailing vessels come under
their control.
ORDERS FROM THE ORIENT
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Feb. 2.-The
agent of the Chinese government has come
to the coast to place an order for 5O.O0O,-
600 feet of lumber. Most of the timber is
intended for the construction and repair OF
government buildings, The agent says in.
dications are good for healthy revival OF
the lumber trade throughout China and
Japan this ant next year.
The herald., 1896-02-03
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
The Weights Are For the Suburban
Handicap
st. Louis-Comment on the Defender
Decision-Notes

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The weights for the
Suburban handicap to be run at Sleeps
head Bay June 23d are announced as fol-
lows:
Henry of Navarro, 129; Clifford, 125
Domino, 1872; Keenan,, 1872; Lazzarone,
12O; Dorian, 116; Counter Tenor, 115;
Halrna, 100; Bright PhGbus, ia; Sir
Walter, 113; Nanki Pooh, 1 IL; Hornpipe,
Ill; Belmar, no; Primrose, 40; The
Commoner, 100; Senator Grady, 100;
Dutch Skater, lOS; Vinctor, 1O7; Hand
JO4; Connoisseur. 1O2; Emma c., 100;
Stephen j., 9S; Flora Thornton, %; King
Arthur IL, 95; Claudius, 93.
oRMoNDE's SON
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-St. Louis Is to
be favored by the first appearance on the
American turf of son of the mighty Or
monde. w. OBJ. Macdonough, the owner
Of Ormonde, has decided to race in the
East this year, and will take with him q
small but select stock.
The stars of the stable will be Orestes
the two-year-old,- SON. of Ormonde. and
Santa Bella, the crack three-year-old t1lly
Mr.. Macdonough will take his horses first
to St. Louis, where they will race during
the spring meeting. Orestes has never yet
been tried in q race, but is said to be a
most promising two-year-old.
THE DEFENDER DECISION
LONDON, Feb. 2.-The Post, in an edi.
torial ON the Dunraven inquiry, says:
1.-THE limitation of the inquiry into the
Dunraven charges requires explanation,
and it is regretted the cup committee was
not represented at the inquiry. II The re-
suit of the inquiry is satisfactory to the
New York Yacht club, there is nothing
more to be said, but it is to be hoped we
have heard the last of this regrettable
episode"
SICK THURMAN
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-At the residence of
Col. W. P. Thompson, the turfman, to-
night, it was said Mr.. Thompson's condi-
ton was unchanged. No grave fears are
entertained,
The herald., 1896-02-03
STRUCK BY A TRAIN

An Unknown Man Killed the Santa fe,
Near South Pasadena
An unknown man was struck by train
on the Santa Fe road, near South Pasa-
dena, late yesterday afternoon, sustaining
injuries from which he died last evening.
The injured inau was brought to this city
on the train arriving at 6:3O o'clock, and
was at once sent to the Sisters hospital,
where he was attended by The company's
physician. He was unconscious and moth
ing could be done for him. The body was
removed to Kregelo d Bresee's undertake
ing establishment on South Broadway,
where the inquest will be held today.
The man was apparently about SIS years
of age and evidently n laborer. No one
knew anything about the particulars Of the
accident at the hospital. The head was
crushed in, and one of The legs broken be-
tween the knee and ankle. The man wore
q graysh chin whisker, quite long, the bal
auce of the face being covered with a
short Grayish stubblo of three OF four
weeks growth.
The herald., 1896-02-03
THE PHOENIX CARNIVAL
Preparations Made for Brilliant Display.
Great Crowds Expected


Great Crowds Expected
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 2.-Colonel j. Roe
Young, agent of the Maricopa and Pima
Indian reservation, is in this city making
arrangements for an encampment on the
outskirts of Phoenix during carnival week
of several hundreds of his wards. They
are to be cared for by the carnival COM
mittee, and in return will aid in The cele-
bration by sham battles, races, dances and
other exhibitions. Contrasted with them
will be the evolutions of pupils from the
Indian school, near the city, who have been
drilled to high degree of excellence in
white mems ways.
Three companies of the Eleventh in
fantry have been ordered from Whipple to
Phoenix, to go into camp from the 10Th to
the 23d, inclusive. furnishing an additional
attraction to the carnival season here. At
the same time there will be an encamp-
ment of half dozen companies of the ter
ritoriai militia. the work of decoration of
the city has already commenced. Thous-
an6s of visitors are eXpecred. Today
arrangements were perfected for the fire.
mems tournament and preliminaries set
tied for day of cycle racing.
The herald., 1896-02-03
MEXICAN MATTERS
Progress of Exposition Plans-Extension Of the
Gulf Road

Progress of Exposition Plans-Extension Of the
Gulf Road
MEXICO, Feb. 1.-THE Mexican Interna-
tional Exposition company expects this
week to conclude arrangements with the
government for national exhibit, and q
national committee to cooperate with the
exposition managers were to be appointed.
The land on which the exposition will be
held was yesterday formally conveyed to
the New York syndicate organized to carry
out the exposition project.
The capital of the Gulf, Rio Grande and
Pacific Railroad company of Mexico will
be $SO,0UO,OO0 in silver. The headquar-
ters of the company will probably be fixed
at Cleveland, Ohio. II is hoped to COM
plete $50 miles of the road this year be-
tween Trevino and Eneterio de la CARA.
The total length of the lines will be over
1000 miles. Lines are 10 connect the towu
of Trevino at the terminus OF the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf with some point on tho
Pacific and to run line to the United
States frontier east OF Laredo.
The herald., 1896-02-03
BOUND FOR THE SOUTH POLE
Money Collected for Explorer Borch.
grevin's Pleasant Little Jaunt
lie Expects to Find Continent Three Times
as Large as Europe-Engiand
Claims II

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.=C. E. Borchgrevin,
the Norwegian explorer, arrived here on
the Umbria today. Borchgrevin has taught
the world pretty much all it knows about
the great continent which lies in the south.
ern polar seas and if his plans now ar
ranged are carried out he will be able to
tell much more after he gets back from an
expedition which he is to undertake next
winter.
The scheme that the explorer has in
hand is to travel 100 miles on snow shoes
and sledges, with three Norwegian COM
panions, that he may reach the south mag
netic pole. He estimates that it will take
him more than two years to do so, but he
talks of the undertaking as il such trip
was to him nothing more than little jaunt
through Europe to an ordinary man.
Speaking OF the proposed expedition, he
said:
"The most difficult part of the matter
has already been accomplished. That is
the raising of the money. A commercial
company has been formed in England fol
the purpose of whaling and getting car.
goes of guano from the Antarctic regions.
This company has agreed to send out an
expedition next September. Eleven scien'
have chartered the auxiliary steamer Ja-
son, the whaler which took DR.. Nansen
into the Arctic regions.
1--WE shall sail right for Cape Adare,
which is OIL the new continent. We ex-
pect to get there by November 1. We will
have another 74-ton steamer and a nap
tha launch with us. Tne two steamers
will leave us and return to Melbourne
after whaling for time.
with Norwegian friends, all experts
with snowshoes, l will start inland from
Cape Adare and traverse a country that
has never been entered by human being,
as far as we know. We will go from Cape
Adare to Culman island over the SNOW,
and from there we contemplate two and
a half months journey over the mainland,
travelling across the plateau of ice and
SNOW ON sledges. We want to locate the
south magnetic pole.
ION my previous expedition I reached
"a degrees and 10 minutes south latitude,
bus we shall get much farther south this
the expedition succeeds the results to
science will be the most important i'll
many years."
"Do you think there is a great continent
there or merely an island?''
II am quite sure it is q continent, and
one probably three times as large as all
Europe" he said very positively.
"Rock specimens which have brought
up have satisfied scientists that it is a con.
tinent and not an island"
ITO whom does it belong?"
"Well, England claims it," he replied.
"NNhen Capt. Sir James Clarke Ross landed
on Possession island, which is Off the coast
of the new land, more than half a century
ago, from her majesty's ship Erebus and
Terror, he took possession of the mainland,
which he never stepped upon, in the name
Of the queen"
The herald., 1896-02-03
GOLD BULLION

Cripple Greek Miners VIII Kcsp All They
Can Get
ATcHisoN, Kas., Feb. "A few weeks
ago story was published that the owners
of gold mines at Cripple Creek had offered
gold bullion in return for silver dollars, but
that the government had declined the
offer.
A prominent Atchison democrat wrote
Secretary Carlisle some sine ago and re-
ceived the following reply:
"rhere is not a word of. truth in the
statement that the owners of the gold
mines at Cripple Creek, or any other place.
have offered to give the government gold
bullion in exchange for silver dollars or in
cxchaoge for any other kind of currency.
The herald., 1896-02-03
RAILROAD STNlKES
Texas Men Want More Paw, India lians De.
raond Wares Earned

Texas Men Want More Paw, India lians De-
rnand Wages Earned
LEBANON, Ind, Feb. 2.-The entire force
of the Chicago and Southeastern railroad
shops struck yesterday for past wages.
EARLY today the shops were found OH fire
and saved with difficulty, a number of
freight and passenger cars being de-
stroyed.
The strikers deny any hand in the fire
and in mass meeting passed resolutions
condemning mob violence. 1t is rutnored
tonight the train men will join the strikers
unless a settlement is reached in the next
twenty-four hours.
EAGLE Pass, Tex, Feb. 2.-Three hun
dred and fifty boilermakers and machin-
lists of the Mexican International Railroad
company are out on strike. They de.
mand 25 per cent increase in wages and
reinstatement of several men, which has
not been granted, bat negotiations are in
DrOgrcSS.
The herald., 1896-02-03

rem on the Reed farm. The rivers have
united between Navasota and Allen farm,
making stream a mile wide. Traffic,
though ipterfered with, will not be sus-
pended.
cedented rains in the lower Mississippi
valley during the past ten days have raised
all streams to overflowing and the low
lands in Arkansas and Mississippi are one
vast sea of water. Bridges have been
washed away on several of the railroads
sas the damage from the flood will reach
high figures. The Ouachita rose thirty feet
within thirty-six hours, and the torrent of
water swept everything before it. Many
of the plantations and farms in that fertile
valley have been submerged and outhouses
falling almost steadily during the past
forty-eight hours, and the water will 60 still
higher.
The herald., 1896-02-03
SOUTHERN FLOODS
Heavy Rains In mississippi Wash Ont Roads
and Bridges

Heavy Rains in mississippi Wash Out Roads
and Bridges
MADISON, Miss, Feb. IA terrific rain
fell here last night, washing away bridges
and roadbeds all through this section. The
water at Calhoun station was the highest
for thirty years.
TERRY, Miss, Feb. 2.-Heavy rains here
the past forty-eight hours caused a general
overflow of streams. Bridges were carried
away in all directions, causing loss of
many thousands of dollars to the county.
CANTON, Miss, Feb. 2.-Rains in the
past 4S hours have caused the most disas-
trous overflow in this section for twenty
years. The entire western portion Of the
city is inundated from two to five feet.
The people of the overtlowed section have
been taken by boat to other sections OF the
merged and many bridges destroyed:
News was received here this morning of
the drowning OF an entire family of child
The herald., 1896-02-03
A DOUBLE MURDER
Two Old Frenchmen Killed, Presumably for
Their Money.

Their Money.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb "a special to
the Times from Perry, Oklahoma, says:
A horrible murder came to light southwest
of here, near Wewoka. Two Frenchmen,
aged 65 and 20 years, were found dead in
their homes.
The men, John and Jacob Mauntz have
never been married. They have fne
tract of land and lived in an ordinary
house. 1t is said that they had great
wealth and the theory is that they
we're murdered for their money. John
Ezell was passing the Mauntz homestead
and saw the elder Mauntz hanging in the
yard and was astonished to find him dead.
The old man was hanging by a rope, q
piece of which was around his neck, and
was also shot. Further investigation
showed that the other brother was dead in
the house with several bullet holes through
him.