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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18
AN OLD SETTLERS DEATH.
He Laid Out PierceviIle, in Castro
Valley, Years Ago.

He Laid Out PierceviIle, in Castro
Valley, Years Ago.
OAKLAND. CAL, April II. William
Pierce. one of the oldest residents in Cas-
tro Valley. is dead, after living there for
thirty years. In early days he was
farmer, and owned a large tract of land
near Lake Chabot. He was also engaged
in the hotel business in San Lorenzo
Years ago he purchased some land on
Castro street, Haywards, and the section
became known as "PiercevilIe."
The pioneer cut his property up into
town lois and built four houses, which he
owned at the time of his ueath. The de.
ceased was born in England sixty-six
years ago, and leaves widow, but no
children.
Train Robber in Jail.
OAKLAND, CAL. April Thames. ].
True, the Utah train robber, is now
lodged in the County Jail, awaiting trial
in the Circuit Court. He declares he is
ianocent, and looks like a very mild des-
perado. The State believes il has a very
strong case against toe prisoner, and is
practically certain of conviction.
Easter Picnic.
OAKLAND, CAL, April 1.-THE open.
ing picnic OF the season will be that of the
Easter Social Club OF San Francisco. This
club will hold its annual gathering to-
morrow at San Lorenzo Grove.
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DIRECTOR BELL
WANTS TO MOVE
Annual Meeting of the
Board of Trade Next
Tuesday.
The Organization Is Now Strong
Enough to Do Great
Good.
A Plan Proposed That Will Proiucs
Good Results During the
N,Xt Year.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, F.,

sos Broadway, April II. {
The annual meeting of the Board of
Trade will be held next Tuesday night and
new directorate will be elected. Since
the last annual meeting the organization
has made rapid strides, and it is now in a
position practically TO accomplish any,
thing that it undertakes.
1t is the opinion of many of the men,
bers that something definite should be
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was not notihed. An alarm was sounded
and the Beacon Fire Company responded,
but Mr.. Brennan did not wake. No one
thought to tell him OF the blaze, and he
was this morning expecting to do day IS
business at the old stand. only to find a
heap OF ashes where he had locked up his
store the night before. The loss was about
Sl4G0, with $500 insurance.
Work Delayed.
BERKELEY, CAL. April 1.-THE new
annual report of the agricultural depart
ment was III have been completed next
month. The destruction of records at the
fire yesterday will cause a considera bic
delay in sending the manuscript to the
printer and may result in no report being
issued until next year. Professors Hill
gard and Wickson spent the day in en-.
deavoriug SO disentangle the confusion of
rescued property. but it is impossib BILE as
yet 10 ascertain how complete the losses
are.
Easter Music.
BERKELEY, CAL, April 17.-Special
Easter services will be held in all the local
churches tomorrow. the day will be the
first anniversary OF the organization of
the vestal choir at st. Marks church and
an aborate programme OF music will be
rendered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18

The most extensive cemetery in the
world is that of Rome, in which over
6,0UO, 900 human beings have bean Inferred.
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Brief News Notes.

Brief News Notes
The Oakland and Berkeley High schools
played baseball to-day on the university cam
pus, the former winning by score Of Ii to 8.
The pipe and machinery have arrived for
A. A. Richardson's test well, TO prove his
theory of the existence OF artesian water
Work will be begun on well behind the
Shattuck block,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
He Eloned WIth a white Girl.

BIRMINGHAM. March ia special
to The State Herald from Kennedy,
Ala. says: News reached here
this afternoon that the negro, Andy
Beard, who eloped with the white
girl Iona Baines, who lived about
ten miles south of this place 10
Pickens county, was killed Saturday
evening in the highway near Olney
township, Pickens county. The
couple were overtaken by body of
25 mounted men, and as they discov.
cred that they were being pursued the
negro began TO run, whereupon
the pursuers opened fire, killing
him instantly. The girl Iona cried
out to the slayers of her paramour
to treat aer in the same manner that
they had him, but the body rode
away, leaving her near the scene OF
the killing. Her father and brothers
afterward took her back home and it
is not known in what manner her
punishment was inflicted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Less Exclusive Than Grover.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-President
Mckinley has issued an order that un.
doubtedly will increase his popu'
larity among a large portion of the
citizens of the District. 1t is that the
road back of the While House and
running through the White House
grounds be restored to its former func'
ton as a public thoroughfare. 1t is
part of the Presidents grounds and is
subject to his orders. Up to within
the last four years it has always been
open to the use of the public. Dur
ing the excepted period the grounds
were given over to the use of the
Cleveland children and the gates were
closed to the general public. During
the past administration the only times
the grounds were open to the public
were on Easter Monday for egg roll
ing, and on Saturdays when the Ma.
rine Band gave its concerts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Lively Meeting.

DENVER, COL, March 1.-The mid.
dle-of-the.road Populists met here yes
terday and adjourned after three hours
of fighting. Women were in the
thick of the melee and they were in
several instances instigators of the at
tack. The first assault was provoked
by the remark OF a woman that she
would not sit in convention with the
hirelings of corporations, indicating
one Of the delegates. The latter re.
piled that the accuser was liar and
her husband flew to the rescue, while
his wife and her women companions
stood by and cheered the fighters.
Mrs. L. w. Reed started another row
by saying that she had seen too much
of politics to blush any more, that was
a perfunctory effort that did the party
no good. Mrs. Alice Faulkner took
hand in the row and eulogized Grand
old man Waite" She grew excited
and some one made a sighting re-
mark that precipitated further trouble.
The event of the afternoon was when
Miss Holmes replied to the attack of
the boiler inspector, w. r. Frazier.
He said that the corprat:ons were
more powerful than Populists. "Thats
lie," shouted half a dozen, and men
and women were on their feet making
for the speaker. IF the shoe fits put it
on" retorted Frazier, bracing him
self for the rush. He was no match
for the crowd and was driven from
his position, but fought desperately to
the door. Mr.. Akers next came in for
rough treatment. On being asked by
Mrs. Reed if it was not 'time for him
to 60 out and choke himself to death"
A.kers reported that Mrs. Reed had not
added anything to her reputation by
going out as a street singer. Miss
Holmes demanded why the men stood
silently by and saw the women in
suited. None responded and then
Mrs. Reed and Miss Holmes admins
tered the punishment themselves and
tore most of Mr.. Akers' beard out OF
his face.
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he Fell Quickly.

COLUMBIA. 8. c.. March 18.-When
Governor Ellerbe reorganized the
constabulary a few days ago he an:
nounced that he would use his official
broadaxe to chop off the head of the
very first appointee who got drunk.
Under such circumstances he little
dreamed that he would have to use mis-
axe in less than q week. But he did,
all the same. One of the members oi
the new force got on spree after
getting his commission. 1t was
promptly reported to Governor Ellerbe
and yesterday he chopped the offend,
er's official head off without q word.
Another man will be selected to fill
the place. The man was one Of the
members of the former force who had
been retained. Governor Ellerbe says
that he expects to take similar action
in every case of such character that is
brought to his attention and the con-
stables may as we'll understand it
State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
The Constitutional Tax

COLUMBIA. March 1S.-It looks now
as if the supplementary school tax
provided for in the State Constitution
to make up an amount sufficient to
give the enrolled pupils in the public
schools of the State So per capita is 60
ing to be levied by the comptroller
general. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Gage of Chester introduced a res
olution at the recent session of the
general assembly to compel the comp
troller to levy this tax. He took the
position that this amount must be
provided in each individual county
and not for the State at large and that
it would take $4,000 to do it. The
comptroller says he is looking into the
matter carefully and proposes to have
q test case made in order to have the
constitutional provision construed -
State.
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Pianos by the Mile.

See Ludden and Bates new adver-
tisment of one thousand Mathushek
pianos. Suppose them all loaded on
to wagons in one grand procession,
allow Is feet for each wagon and
team and the line would be nearly
three miles long. That is just the
wholesale way this great southern
house does business. Having acquired
an interest in the noted Mathushek
Piano factory, they are now supply
ing purchasers direct and saving all
intermediate profits. This means
saving of from $50 to $100 on each
piano, and the securing of one of the
oldest and most reliable instruments at
a remarkably low figure. Better write
them at Savannah, Ga, or at SO Fifth
Ave-, New York City.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Ploughing Land When Too Wet.

The Southern Cultivator says: No
matter how much a farmer has been
delayed by the heavy rains of Febru-
ary, or how much hurried he may
feel in consequence of these delays, he
should beware of putting the plow in
his land before it is sufficiently dry.
We know the temptation, when work
is pressing and the sun is shining, to
60 on with the plowing, but we also
know. from experience, that there is
no injury to land or to crops which
is more disastrous or more lasting in
its efforts than plowing too soon after
heavy rains. The injury, to stiff clays
more especially, when plowed too wet,
is not confined to one crop or one sea-
son, but extends to following years
and future crops, causing cul-
tivation to be attended to many neces.
sarily difficulties. Unfortunately such
an error cannot be remedied at least
during the same year. The mistake
of preparing land when too wet, will
invariably cause loss in the cultivated
crops and much vexation of spirit in
our vain efforts to escape the results OF
our lack of Judgment. Let us keep in
mind that on this work of careful and
judicious preparation hinges the COM
parative success or failure of our crops
and let us therefore abstain from put,
ting the plows in the land until it is in
proper condition for the work. Thor.
ough preparation is much more impor.
tant than early planting, and even il
we have to reduce the intended areas
of our different crops, the sacrifice is
we'll made, if by it we ara enabled to
put the remainder of our land in first
class condition for the reception OF the
seed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
A Big Defalc8tion

RICHMOND, March 1.-THE board of
directors of the old Mutual Assurance
society of Virginia made public this
afternoon a defalcation of some $35,-
600 as the result of the examination
of the books of the association by an
expert bookkeeper. Mr.. +. D. Stegar,
the assistant secretary, in whose &C
counts the defalcation occurs, was
sent for to explain the matter, but did
not appear and is said to have left the
city. Ali the securities of the corpo-
on, which is one of the oldest and
ongest in the State are intact, the
IS being on collections.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Cotton Meal Seized.

COLUMBIA March 19.-Fertilizer In.
spector Croswell has seized at Ben
nettsville eighty tons of cotton
seed meal shipped to merchant in
that town, which did not have the
required tags on it showing that the
privilege tax of twenty-five cents per
ton had been paid. The strange part
of it is that the meal is said to have
come from New York, while there
are oil mills all over the State which
could have furnished it. An oil mill
man said yesterday that the meal was
really bought In the West through
New York brokers', and that as a mat
ter of fact this particular brand was
worth very little. Governor Ellerbe
instructed Assistant Attorney General
Townsend to proceed against the firm
for violating the fertilizer law. 1t is
provided that the State may sue to re-
cover the value of all fertilizers with
out the tags and as cotton seed meal
sells for SIS. 50, the amount in this case
foots up 81, ,4SO, quite a sung SUM for
the State if she gets it. 1t is not often
that dealers are caught mapping in re.
gard to paying the tax and such seiz
ures are few and far between.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Mall Carrier Arrested.

LYNoHBURG, Va, March 17.-Post-
Office Inspectory Gregory arrived here
today, having in custody Grier Bar
ker, s. mail carrier on the run between
Chatham and Pullens, who had been
arrested on the charge OF robbing the
mails. For several months past let
ters containing money have been re,
ported missing and Barker's arrest
was the result of an Investigation by
the postoffice authorities. Barker
was taken before United States Com
missioner and committed to Jail to await
trial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
Daring Attempt at Kidnapping.

HOUSTON, Tex, March 1S.-The
most daring attempt at crime eve4
known here was frustrated this morn.
ing at o'clock when detectives killed
Walter Hughes as he was in the act
of entering the house OF Frank Dunn,
wealthy resident of this city. The
police received information some time
ago that scheme was on foot to kid
nap Dunn's little daughter. The pur
pose of the kidnappers was to keep
the girl in captivity and demand S40,.
900 ransom for restoring her to her
parents. Detectives have been on
guard at Mr.. Dunn's house for several
nights, but no developments occurred
until this morning, when it was dis
covered that man was attempting to
force one OF the windows of the Dunn
residence. One of the officers mad,
vertently attracted the attention OF
the marauder, who, finding he was
discovered, drew a revolver and fired
twice at the detective. The detectives
then opened fire and the intruder fell
dead. Hugh was a railroad mar, but
has lately been working as a carpen'
ter. He had rented a house near
Dunn's and under the floor of one oil
the rooms had dug a cave in which
the kidnapped child was to be secreted
until the ransom was paid. At point
some distance from the city Hughes
had arranged a number OF tia boxes
where he intended to direct that the
ransom money be deposited. Hughes
also intended to give notice that il
any watch was kept over these deposi
tories 1T would result in the death OF
the child. When Hughes body was
searched a revolver, a keen edged
butcher knife and q bottle of chloro
form was found. An immense crowd
has gathered in and around the NOR
que where the body lies. Mrs. Hughes
has been arrested, but will not talk.
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Wholesale POisouing.

BUDAPEST, March 16.-The trial of
twelve women and two men was COM
menced at Vasarhely, On Lake Hodos.
to day. The prisoners are charged
with poisoning their husbands, or
others Of their relatives, in order TO
obtain insurance money. Some Of
the prisoners are accused OF four or
five murders. The chief prisoner is a
midwife, named Marie Jajer, who is
charged with supplying the poison
with which the murders were COM
mitted. About 200 witnesses have been
called.
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Lynchel u Preacher.

SCoTTsBoRo, Ala, March 1S.--John
D. Smith, negro preacher, was shot
to death by mob, which broke into
the jail here. Smith was arrested
yesterday charged with outraging the
wife of a white farmer living near
here. This morning mob broke into
the jail and despite the pleadings of
the preacher, filed him full of bullets.
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AppoIntm ants Confirmed :.

WASHINGTON, March 17.-The SEN
ate committee on foreign relations
today ordered favorble report to be
made on the nominations of John
Hay to be ambassador to Great Brit
ain, Horace Porter to be ambassador
to France and Mr.. White, present
secretary at London. to be secretary
of the embassy at London.
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It Is Said

That of all the diseases that affect
mankind, diseases of the kidneys are
the most dangerous and fatal. Il this
be so, how important it is that the
kidneys be kept in healthy condi-
ton. The use of Hilton's Life for the
Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is
The ''ounce of prevention" in these
troubles,
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aeneraI Ham ntnu MI,

WASHINGTON, March 16.-General
Wade Hampton is seriously i'll at
his apartments at the Metropolitan
Hotel. lie is suffering from heart
trouble and as he is now nearly 30
years of age, it is feared he has not
sufficient recuperative power to with
stand the attack.
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a DroD Too Much.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, March H.
Brodie Williams, the high diver,
jumped last night in a ball of fire
from a rs foot tower into Lake Worth
at Palm Beach, struck the bottom,
broke his neck and died within few
hours.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-24
The Cubans Active.

HABANA, March II via Key West,
March 17.-From Sagua La Grande
comes the news that on the 18th inst,
the parties of Anic sto Hernandez, Ro-
bau and Julio Dominguez surprised 8
section of volunteers belonging to the
Sixth company of that city, the ma.
jority of them being negroes who
were protecting the cane cutters Of
the estate Salvador at mile distance
from the place. Seven were killed on
the spot and two have disappeared.
Many large cane fires are reported all
over Matanzas province, the rebels ap-
plying the torch to the fields in order
to prevent grinding. They also set
fire to a great section o. the Matanzas
railroad, burning the crossties for q
long distance. The rebels fired on
Guanabacoa on the nights of Sunday
and Monday. The city was much
alarmed and the garrison under arms
during the two nights. No losses re-
ported. Another attack is expected
tonight and the government is send
ing troops. Several Cuban leaders in
Matanzas province have received
orders from Gomez to march to ward
Las Villas or Santa Clara province.
The last information locates Gomez at
Dagamal, pear Arroyo Blanco on the
borders of Puerto Principe.
It is reported at the last moment
that the rebels have blown up train
near Union, Matanzas province, but
details are lacking. Advices received
from Sancsi Soiritus detail the attack
made by the rebels on the town OF
Paroles on the railroad line from Tu-
mas to Sancti 5piritus. On the nigh
of the 9th inst, about 10 p. m. the
rebels, after taking possession of the
town attacked the railroad station
which had been converted into fort
and protected by detachment COM
manded by Capt. Huertas, two ser.
geants, a corporal, 100 soldiers and
about so volunteers. The insurgents
fred on the fort from all sides, thrust
ing their guns into the very loopholss
of the same. The firing then became
intense and the defenders, despite their
stout resistance, were forced to aban.
don the fort, leaving their dead and
wounded with their arms and anlmu-
nitions which were all taken away.
Only few volunteers managed TO es
cape. A sergeant and % soldiers were
killed. The captain and Is soldiers
vera seriously wounded. The tele'
graph operator was also wounded in
the act of wiring for assistance, but
this did not come as the wires had
been previously cut. While this was
taking place at the station fort, another
party of rebels attacked another fort
named Fiel, at the extremity OF the
town. The garrison, composed of
sergeant and IS soldiers was soon over
powered. All perished except one,
who was carried away as pris oner.
All the arms and ammunition we're
captured and the fort destroyed. The
Cubans were commanded by Jose
Miguel Gomez, a brave leader in COM
mand of that district, but their num-
bers are not stated. 1t is said three
were killed in the attack, a private
named Enrique Canizares; Spanish
deserter and the other one unknown.
Near the town of Paredes occurred
the explosion lately reported.
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