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The record-union., 1897-11-28
WHALING FLEET.
But Few Vessels Will Make the
Cruise This Winter

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 27.-Next
Tuesday the whaling bark Horatio. now
fitting out, will sail for winter cruise
in the South Pacific. She will be the
last or the whalers to leave port until
spring.
only four whalers will make the win
ter cruise this year These are the Ho-
ratio and Alice Knowles, which are
bound for the Arctic, and will call at
Honolulu. and the Charles W. Morgan
and California, which will winter along
the japanese coast, and spend the sum-
mer in the Okhotsk Sea. Others of the
former fleet are being fitted out for the
Alaskan trade, leaving but seven whal-
ing craft to be fitted out here next
spring-the barks Andrew Hicks. CAV
head, Hunter, John and Winthrop. Ly-
dia, Mermaid and Northern Light Two
years ago ffty-one whaling vessels
cleared from this port
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BLANTHER'S CONFESSION.
Judge Meriman of Little Rock
Believes 1t is Genuine,

LITTLE ROCK (Ark.), Nov. 81
Judge e. M. Meriman of this city, who
in 1893 defended J. f. Blanther in a
case in which he was charged with
swindiing a Chicago concern, and who
afterward had an extensive business
acquaintance with the murderer, says
he can positively identify Blanther's s
handwriting. He believes the alleged
confession is genuine and will help to
prove Theodore Durrant innocent of
the charge of murder.
IF L can help DulTant," said Meri-
man to-day, Il want TO do so. know
Forbes or ]. E Blanther quite we'll,
and believe he told the truth when he
wrote that letter cosfessing TO the
murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie
Williams at San Francisco. of which
Durrant is accused. / believe sincere
ly that DurTant is innocent, and if
can be of any service in establishing
that fact by proving the authenticity
of the confession l shall do so gladly"
The record-union., 1897-11-28
ROBBERS APPREHENDED.
The Men Who Held Up the Train
at Grants Arrested.

DENVER, Nov. PA special to the
."Republican" from Albuquerque, N.
NJ, says:
District Attorney Finical of this city
to-day received a telegram from Dalma
Graham. the Constable at Bisbee, Ariz
saying that he had apprehended the
train robbers who held up the Santa
Fe passenger train at Grants three
weeks ago There are three of the
robbers, Jesse Williams, Tom Ander-
son and an unknown man.
The crime was committed in Valen-
cia County. in this judicial district, ard
District Attorney Finical is now pre-
pairing the papers to have the robbers
extradited from Arizona to this Ter
ritory.
While the exact amount of the booty
secured by these robbers is not known
II is very large. and has been estimated
at between $25. 900 and 100000.
Train robbery is capital offense in
this Territory, so that if the men now
arrested are proven guilty they will
have to answer with their lives.
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The Steward Of the Rush Kills the
Captains Boy.
Outcome of a Quarrel Between Two Japs
on the Revenue Cutter.
The Shooter Exonerated by the
Coroner's Jury, but Afterward
Arrested and Locked Up In the
County Jail on Charge Of
Murder.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-As the
outcome of a quarrel betweentwo Japan
ese employed on the revenue cutter
Rush. K Imaya, the Captains boy, was
shot and killed this morning, and the
ships steward Charley Wishimura, is
in jail at San Rafael charged with mur
der.
The two had been on bad terms for
several days, and each had notified the
Captain that unless the other was dis
charged the complainant would leave
the ship.
The cutter was lying across the bay,
near Sausalito, this morning, and Wish
imura was scrubbing the Captains s
bathroom, when Imaya, who had had
shore leave over night, returned, and,
according to the stewards story, en-
tered the bathroom, locked the door and
pointed pistol in Wishimura's face.
The steward wrested the pistol from
the boys hand and shot Imaya three
times in the face and neck. Imaya fell
dead, and Wishimura reported the af-
fair to Cpatain Roberts, who notified the
Coroner.
At an inquest held this afternoon the
Coroner's jury exonerated Wishimura,
en- the ground of self-defense. Th1s
evening, however the steward was ar
rested and lodged in the Marin County
Jail booked for murder
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RENToN's EXPEDITION.
The Reports Of It's Failure Are
Confirmed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-The
schooner La Ninfa arrived tonight.
after quick passage from Copper Riv
er, Alaska She brings reports confirm
ing the news of the failure of the eX
pedition she carried north, under the
management of H. T. Renton. Fifteen
members of the party are at Eyak pre-
pairing for an overland expedition into
the valley of the river, and twenty
eight others are headed in the same di-
rection.
Renton came down on the La Ninfa,
and Immediately went to his home in
Oakland. Members of the crew to-
night denied the story of the attempt
ed lynching of Renton. but admit that
it might have been true. They admit
that there was trouble between Rem
ton and the passengers.
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GOLD FROM ALASKA.
The City of Topeka Brings Down
Seventy Thousand Dollars.


SEATTLE, Nov 27.-The steamer
City of Topeka arrived to-day from
Sitka and Juneau, Alaska Among her
passengers was John G. Brady, Gov
ernor cf Alaska, who is on his way to
Washington, D. c., to attend the COM
ing session of Congress for the pur-
pose of urging reforms in the Govern
ment of Alaska.
The Topeka brought down $4,000 in
gold the property of the Treadwell and
NOVEL; Mining Companies. The gold
was put ashore at Port Townsend, to
be shipped to San Francisco on the
next trip of the steamer Umatilla.
E. O. Otis Smith, editor of the ''Alask-
an" published at Sitka, who came down
on the Topeka, claims to have bonded
marble mine located in Sitka basin to
some Eastern capitalists for $500, O0O
When the Topeka left Juneau a jury
had just been secured in the United
States District Court TO try Slim
Burch for the murder of Deputy United
States Marshal Watt, committed year
ago. Intensely cold weather was pre-
va!ling.
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CALIFORNIA; WINE CROP.
PRODUCE THIS YEAR GREAT
Err THAN USUAL.
The Yield Amounts to Nearly
Twenty-six Millions Of Gal
Ions Of Wine.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-The
California vintage for 1897 has been
the most extraordinary in the history
of the industry. With less acreage than
some years ago, the vines have been
so prolific that the dry wine product is
greater by far than usual, and has been
exceeded in only one or two seasons.
The counties of Sonoma and Santa
Clara have surpassed all former yields.
and the quality of the wine promises to
be among the best for many years.
At the same time the producers and
the merchants are confronted with the
problem of its disposition. The cessa-
ton of the friendly relation which ex-
listed during 1895 and 1896 between
these two classes adds gravity to the
situation.
On Wednesday next the members Of
the California Winemakers' Corporation
will meet in this city to decide for
their part what course shall be pursued
and what price shall be fixed. Presi-
dent Henry j. Crocl1er has just re-
turned from New York, and will en-
tighten the producers on the state of
affairs in the East, and the opportuni-
ties presented of establishing direct
I1ldTketS III lIldt pOIllOI VI the cOuI-
try, while Manager Hotchkiss will re-
port on the vintage of the season and
the volume of dry wines which will
have to be cared for.
As thus far compiled Manager Hotch-
kiss returns of the dry wine vintage
of this season are as follows: Sonoma
County, 100000 gallons; Santa Clara
County. 7,75O.O00 gallons: Napa Coun-
ty, 4.500,O 900 gallons; miscellaneous, A.
SOC, 900 gallons. Total, 25,75O,OOO gall
Ions.
OF the 1897 vintage it is estimated
that the California Winemakers' Cor
poration holds 10. $50, ,0O0,and the deal
ers and outside growers the remaining
10, 100000 gallons.
In considering the marketing of the
crop the leftover stock from former
years will have to be taken into ac-
count.
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Double Tragedy in Michigan.

MASON CMich) Nov. 21.-Scott A.
Bowdish shot his 9-year-old daughter
last night, fatally wounding her, and
then killed himself. The tragedy was
not discovered until this morning. Ac-
cording to the little girl. her father
awakened her, kissed her and asked
her where her heart was. He felt about
her breast and after locating the girls
heart, shot her twice. After this he
located his own heart, and shot him
self dead. Bowdish was hard up and
discouraged.
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STEER CLEAR OF THE KL0NDIKE.
THAT IS THE ADVICE OF JOHN
G. BRADY.
Man Needs Experience to be Sue
cessful in Mining in the
Northern Territory.

KOKOMO 0nd), Nov. 27.-John G.
Brady, who was raised in this vicin-
ity, has written a letter of advice to
the editor of the Union Dispatch of
this place that he wishes all Indianans
and others interested to read and profit
by.
The letter is under date of Novem-
Der 7th, from Sitka, and is full of in
terest. The writer says:
Before coming TO Alaska to seek for
gold consider Well the dark side. The
country is mountainous, immense gla-
ciers fill many of the valleys. most all
the streams have swift currents,
large part of the surface is covered
with moss and thaws out but little
more than a foot in summer. In win
ter everything becomes solid, and pros
pecting must be done with fire. Scrape
off the moss and start fire; when it
dies out scrape out the thawed earth,
repeating the operation indefinitely.
This country affords no food. The
means of transportation are few and
costly. Remember that the mosquito
comes TO full development in northern
ATTITUDES
Man needs experience to be success
ful in mining. My advice to the man
who has made up his mind to come
TO Alaska is to bring years supplies,
and II he is not experienced in mining,
TO work for wages the first year He is
then in school and will receive wages
enough TO save a good sum beyond ex-
penses. When the next strike is re-
ported he will be able to buy his outfit
and secure a ctaim for himself
1T is not worth while to try this ven
ture unless you can give it from three
TO five years. 1t is best for men to
come in small earties-not over four
together Parties coming in the spring
should arrive in Juneau with nothing
but cash and buy their outfits there.
The stores are now we'll supplied and
everything necessary can be bought
there cheaper than to bring it.
The Cabinet of Canada is threaten
ing TO drive the Americans from British
territory. A large force OF mounted
police is on the way here The Cana
dians have been exacting tribute in all
manner Of ways that viii add to the
Government revenue. Yours truly,
JOHN G. BRADY"
The record-union., 1897-11-28
ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAK.
Los Angeles Prisoners Have Out
side Friends.

Los ANGELES. Nov 27.-An at
tempt to assist some of the prisoners in
the County Jail to escape has Just
come to light. The details of the plan
have been jealousy guarded by the Off
Gals of the jail. but Sheriff Burr this
morning reluctantly admitted that there
had been cakes loaded with muriatic
acld sent TO some of the prisoners. but
that they had been detected before get
ting into the hands of the prisoners.
A cake recently sent to the Jail con-
tanned four bottles of muriatic acid, as
well as several files. The evident pur-
pose of the acid was to eat away the
bars SO that watch spring saws could
readily cut them. 1t is known that p
woman is implicated in the plot. and
sensational developments are exnected
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DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT.
San Francisco Police Searching for
Andrew Satto.

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 1.-THE po-
lice are searching diligently for some
cIew Of Andrew Satto, recent arrival
from New York, who disappeared un-
der suspicious circumstances last Mon
day afternoon. Satto. accompanied by
his wife. took up their abode in a
Montgomery avenue lodging house on
Monday morning. Later in the day
Satto went to a transfer office to ar
range for the delivery of his trunks. He
had $40 in his possession when he
started He did not reach the express
Office until late in the afternoon, and
the theory of detectives Is that he must
have visited some saloon and exhibited
his wealth and that he fell into the
hands Of sharpers. He visited the ex-
press Office, accompanied by a sleek
looking man. and since that time moth
ing has been heard of him. In the
pursuit Of the theory that sharpers
have waylaid him, every confidence
man In the city will be placed under
surveillance. The police unearthed a
slight clew late this afternoon.
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FUMIGATIoN OF ORCHARDS.
An Appeal Taken From Judge Van
Dykes Decision.

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 27.-Deputv
District Attorney James has filed an an
peal from the decision of Judge Van
Dyke In the case of Los Angeles Coun-
ty VS.. w. D. Spencer ct al.
Judge Van Dykes decision declared
that the Act giving the horticultural
Commissioners the right TO fumigate
private orchards without the consent Of
the owner was unconstitutional. The
court held that the decision as to what
constituted public nuisance lay with
in the province of the court.
The District Attorney maintains that
there Is no attempt to confer judicial
power on the Commissioners; that they
are simply exercising the police power
vested in bodies delegated to perform
certain functions by the Legislature.
The record-union., 1897-11-28
COURSING AT INGLESIDE.
Result Of the Hare Chasing at San
Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.-The
races at the Ingleside Coursing Park
to-day resulted as follows:
Occidental beat Fireman, Nelly 3.
beat Jimmie Cook, Black Prince beat
Move On, Granuale beat Fireball Lady
Geraldine beat Best Trump, Sarcastic
beat Big Buck, Vida Shaw beat Othel-
10, Sly Boy beat Captain Morse, White
Lily beat Oakwood, Systematic beat
Susie. Emerald beat Lady Harkaway,
White Chief beat Mountaineer Bend
Along beat Snow Bird, Right Bower
beat Capasoni, Senorita beat Tessie
Fair, Laurelwood beat Flashlight Mo-
hawk beat Hazel Glen, Swinnerton beat
Gladiator.
The first ties will be run off to-mor-
row, and there will also be a consola-
tion stake.
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His Neck Broken.

RED BLUFF, Nov 27.-News was
brought here to-day by George Ash
ton Of the peculiar death of Amos Nc
Taggart, prominent ranch owner of
Cottonwood Creek. McTaggart had been
drinking heavily, and going to the Cald-
erwood ranch tried to pick a quarrel
with the men there. He followed Ash
ton about, challenging him to fight,
and suddenly tripped and fell, breaking
his neck. Ashton says he had no idea
McTaggart was dead until some time
afterWard
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SETTLERS REJOICE.
A Desperate Shot and Killed in
Ontario.

MATTAWA tOnt.). Nov. 27.-Samuel
Tongue and William Dow. prominent
citizens of this place, who went 10
Lake Teillen week ago on a hunting
expedition, returned yesterday and re-
ported that they had shot and killed
James Mcconnell, a desperate, who has
terrorized the settlers of Nippissing
district many years. Mcconnell at
tackled them While they We're crossing
the lake, and in self-defense Tongue
shot him through the stomach. Nc
Connell died a few minutes later Set
tiers are rejoicing over his death.
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Pugi1ist Griffin.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-Johnny
Griffin, known in the world of sports as
the "Braintree lad appeared before
Judge Campbell to-day, charged with
being a common drunkard. Martin
Murphy and other friends addressed
the court, and informed his honor that
they had purchased ticket and in
tended TO start the pugilist on his way
East on Mondays steamer Judge
Campbell then made an order commit
ting the defendant to the Receiving
Hospital until the time for his depart
ure
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ARCHBISHOP CHAPELLE.
Credence Placed in the Report of
His Future Residence.

DENVER, Nov. PA special to the
News from Santa Fe, N. NJ, says:
Archbishop Chapelle, whom the press
dispatches announce has been appoint
ed Archbishop at New Orleans, is ex-
pecteJ to arrive here tomorrow from
Baltimore He has been absent at Rome
and elsewhere for five months. 1t has
long been known that he sought the
position at New Orleans, his former
homo, hence no surprise is expressed
over his appointment. AS to his sue
cessor here, there is much speculation,
though it is probable that Vicar-Gen~
eral Anthony Fourchegue, for twenty
five years a resident of New Mexico,
will be made administrator of the prov
ince, which includes Colorado and Ari-
zona, and may eventually succeed to
the Arch bishopric.
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Steamer Launched.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.-The
Hawaiian steamer Maui was success
fully launched to-day at the Union Iron
Works. The Maui is a first-class
steamship of 700 net tons burden She
is 10 feet in length, 80 feet beam and
IA feet inches depth of hold. She
will be fitted with an engine of 400
horse power, which is expected to drive
her ten knots an hour She will be
taken to Honolulu Immediately after
her completion, and put on the island
trade. The Maui is owned by the
Wilder Steamship Company.
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WENT TO THE BOTTOM.
A Lloyd Steamship Sunk in Col
lision OFF Galatea.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27-The
Austrian Lloyd steamship Diana has
been in a collision off Galatea with the
British steamer Antonio. The Diana
sank. One hundred and fifty passen
gers and forty members of the crew of
the Diana were saved. She was built
in Humbart in 1866. registered LOG
tons gross, was 2S2 feet long, had 30
feet beam and was 2312 feet deep. She
sailed from Trieste, the headquarters of
tn Austrian Lloyd Steamship Company.
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An Ocean Race.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-The
British ship Montgomeryshire and the
bark Blairhoyle started to-day on an
ocean race. They are bound for Great
Britain, and are laden with grain and
Before starting their
Captains made a wager dependent on
the result of their long voyage, and each
was confident of beating former trans
oceanic records. ~
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MRS. ALDRICH DEAD.
Was a Daughter Of the Last Span
ish Governor Of California.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-Mrs.
Marcelina Pico de Aldrich. a daughter
of the last of the Spanish Governors of
California, died suddenly this afternoon
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Jose
phine Pico de Gottliebson.
Mrs. Aldrich was 40 years of age, but
was in good health until yesterday.
Yesterday the other members of the
family We're absent a short time. Mrs
Aldrich and a 4-year-old daughter re-
naming at home. When the family re-
turned in the evening Mrs. Aldrich was
dead.
Her father was the last Spanish Gov
ernor of California. General Vallejo
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The Golden Jubilee.

SAN FRANCISCO, No 27.-The
committee of eleven appointed by Jacob
Neff to represent the California Min
ers Association in the approaching eel
ebration of Californias golden jubilee
met to-day. 1t was decided that the
association should take entire charge of
the exhibit and fair, and a committee
was appointed to confer with the Di-
rectors of the Mechanics Institute re-
garding the details of the proposed ex-
position.
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Two Burglars Arrested.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.-Two burg
lars who turned a trick at Prescott,
A. T., on the night of the 1th instant,
when they secured about ST 600 worth
of jewelry from H. Lemons store, have
been arrested here, and about $4O0
worth Of the stolen property recovered.
The men gave their names as James
Miller and George Leander.
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Sawmills for Alaska.

SEATTLE, Nov. 81. The A S.
Kerry Lumber Company announced to-
day that it would construct three saw
mills in Alaska this winter to meet the
large demand for lumber
for boats to ascend the Yukon next
spring. One mill will be located on
Tagish. one on Lake Bennett and one
on Marish Lake. The material for the
mills will be carried in on sleds. The
daily output Of the mills will be 5000
feet
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Fires in Portland,

PORTLAND, Nov. 27.-Between 8
O'Clock and midnight tonight seven
fire alarms were turned in in various
sections of the city. In all cases the
fires We're in cheap lodging houses, and
the police believe they were started by
the same person. The damage was
nominal, except at the old Occidental
Hotel, which was damaged about ST.
OOO
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Fort Townsend.

PORT TOWNSEND, Nov. PA tele-
gram received here to-day from Wash
ington states that Major-G General Mel
son A. Miles has submitted to the Sec
retary of War a letter in which he rec
ommends that Fort Townsend be occu-
pied by troops Immediately.
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VOTE IN COLORADO.
Result Of the Official Canvass for
Supreme Court Justice.

DENVER, Nov. 27.-The official can
vass of the vote for Justice of the Su-
preme Court at the recent State cleo
ton was made to-day.
The result was as follows: w. HI.
Gabbert, Populist and Democrat. 6S.-
SSS: Charles D. Hayt, Administration
and silver Republican, 64,947.
The vote for Bryan for President in
1896 was 15S, $50. and for Mckinley &c.
279. Nc proper comparison can, how
ever, he made. as the vote for Bryan
included that of the Democratic. Popu-
lists and Silver Republican parties.
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A Woman Commits Suicide.

MODESTO, Nov. 27.-The Coroner
was notified to-day that Mrs. Thomas
j. Crispin had shot and killed herself
at the Horr ranch. twenty miles distant
1t is supposed that she was temporar-
lily insane. Her husband is a we'll
known ranch owner
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Gets a Place in the Mint.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 27.-W. H. Decker
of this place has been given a minor
appointment at the Mint in San Fran
cisco. He will commence work Decem-
Der 1st. He was formerly connected
with the Mint.
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Runaway Boys Arrested.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 21.-Two boys who
ran away from their homes in San
Francisco last Tuesday were arrested
here last night about midnight. They
are Charles Bradley, residing at III
Tehama street. aged IA, and Lawrence
Estes. aged 16, residing at Ali Fell
street. They will be returned to their
homes
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Football at Irvington.

IRVINGTON (Cal), Nov. 27.-The
Oakland Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation football eleven, claiming the
State championship, was to-day defeat
ed by a team of the Centerville Ath-
letic Club on the grounds of the latter,
the score being % to q.
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Bicyclist Haley Arrives.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Teddy Haley.
the long distance bicycle rider Of the
world, arrived to-day on the Cunard
liner Etruria, and will be one of the
starters in the six days bicycle race
to begin at Madison Square Garden
on December 9Th.
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AT EUREKA.
sma1Ipox in New Mexico.

DENVER, Nov. PA special to the
News from Santa Fe, n. NJ, says:
A visitor from San Marcial states that
thirty cases of small pox exist among
the Mexican residents there. The mat
ter has been kept very quiet, and the
attention has not been called of the
Territorial Board of Health.
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Parkhurst is Sad.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-The Rev. DR..
c.. H. Parkhurst, who has been travel
ing in Europe, arrived in this city to-
day He has fully recovered his health.
He said it made him "unspeakably sad
to come hack to New York and find
Tammany in power
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tered hits. Stahl made the only run for
the All-Americans, crossing the plate in
the last inning. Score-Baltimore .,
hits 8, errors 2; All-Americans l, hits .,
errors 3. Batteries-Horton and Dona-
hue; Powell and Smith. Umpire-Mc-
Donald
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Reported Trouble Denied.

LAGOS (West Coast of Africa, Nov.
27.-The report of a collision between
the British and French troops near
NilSki is unfounded. The French ex-
petition from Porto Novo has reached
Nikki without any trouble.
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pendent upon charitable assistance He
says they are partly provided for out
of the $4,000 appropriated by Con-
gress. General Lee says that in max
ing provision for the relief of these cit
izens more than 81 800 week must be
expended.
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Comptroller Eck1es.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The resig-
nation of Mr.. Eckles as Comptroller of
the Currency will take effect the last
of December, and he will assume the
duties of President of the Commercial
National Bank of Chicago on January
1St