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Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
MINOR NEWS I7EMS,

Negotiations are in progress for
combination of hard rubber manufac-
turers of the United States.
Cannibals killed and ate a belgian
official named Nuehaus at Lukolela, on
the Congo, west Of Leopold II. lake.
The ten per cent. cut in wages of
employees of the Louisville & Nashville
railway system, made in 1898, will be
restored in short time
The steamer Oregon has reached
Nanaimo, B. c., from Alaska points,
with number Of passengers return
ing home disgusted with the country.
The Sioux Indians on the Lower Brule
agency in South Dakota have agreed
to cede to the government seven town.
ships of land in the western part of
their reservation.
DR.. Mary Walkers famous pension
case has been decided against her. 1t
has been pending many years, and was
for an increase of pension from $3.50
to $50 per month.
The supreme court has decided that
United States official cannot take ad-
vantage Of his position tc secure ad-
vantage over others in the location of
government land.
Herman Liebcs, founder in San Fran
cisco Of the fur house Of II. I,iebes &
Co., which is said to be the largest of
the kind in the United States, died in
London, aged Sc years.
George D. Cragin, ex~president of the
New York produce exchange and one
of the founders of the packing busi-
ness in New York and Chicago, died
| in New York at the age of 80.
The Garfield corrupt practices law
was sustained by the Ohio supreme
court. The law limits the amount of
money which candidates for public Of
fees may spend to secure election.
The discoverers of 1uinine and
strychnine, NM. Pelletier and CacentDu,
are to have a monument erected for
them in Paris. Pharmacists in every
part Of the world are invited to SUBJ
scribe.
Hon. George R. Sage, judge of the
United States court, southern district
of Ohio, who has served continuously
IS years and is entitled to retire, has
fixed August 26 next, as the close of
his term of service .:'~'
e 1t fas developed upon full investiga-
ton that both Indians burned to death
:by'a mob for the murder of Mrs: Laird,
at. Maud, I. T., were innocent. It has
been proved they were 10 miles away
at the time of the murder. SO.
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f. China has agreed to lease Port Ar
years.
Chairman Cannon of the appropria-
tions committee, the nth, introduced q
bill in the house providing for the ma
tonal defense. It is as follows: THAT
there is hereby appropriated out Of
any money in the treasury, not other
wise appropriated, for the national de-
fense and for each and every purpose
connected Herewith to be expended at
the discretion of the president, and to
remain available until June 80. 1899,
$50, 900, ,O00."
The naval authorities have ordered
the cruiser Montgomery to proceed to
Cuba with supplies instead of the Fern.
T. Mabel Heating, known from coast to
coast as the "Queen Of Piclspockets, -
was shot and fatally wounded by Jerry
Sullivan in San Francisco.
Spain has withdrawn her request for
the recall of Consul General Lee, and
it is now believed the incident is prac-
tically closed The withdrawal came
in the shape Of an official communica-
tion from Minister Woodford.
The bill increasing the artillery
arm of the service by two regiments
passed the lower house of congress.
The Peoples Sgvings bank of Akron,
O., has asked for the appointment of Il
receiver.
James Ivey, a school teacher, was
killed by VIM. H. Davis, principal Of
the public schools at Colon mbia, Mo.
They quarreled over a woman.
Two separate commissions of Spanish
officers were in London PURCHASING g
am mu unition.
The available cash balance in the
United States treasury the, 7th was
1924, Sj4, 297; gold reserve, $16s, ST.. 277.
The president has obtained options
upon several warships building in this
and other countries.
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
FOREIGN,

The governments OF Japan, Germany
aid Sweden have asked the state de-
rartment in Washington for names of
their subjects who were among the
victims of the Maine disaster.
Reports from Havana show that the
divers have secured further proofs that
the Maine was destroyed by an external
explosion. The naval board may not
be able to name those who committed
the outrage, but it is declared the mat
ter is now in such shape that Spain will
be required to show who was respon-
s;ble.
Rebel chiefs in the Philippine islands
are said to be plotting for another re-
bellion against Spanish rule. e'' ..
Japan is said to be ready to seize the
Philippine islands should the Cuban
question result in hostilities between
Spain and. the United States. -. :,
The Anglo-German loan of 216,Qo0,-
600 has been ratified by Chinese i'm
perial DECREE .a. .e@s.1 :~.a =: 70
Ghiatz Arabs pillaged> the Jewish
quarters, at .Tatza, Morocco, =: killing
many of the men and abducting the
The naval court of inquiry reached
Havana from Key West, and went to-
work promptly to finish what business
remains to be done at the earliest DOS
sible date. ~---~----~-.--- ----
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
MARKETS.
MinneapOliS. March

- Minneapolis, March 7.
Wheat--No. northern, 80 &c to ST. 90;
No. northern, 9619 to SIC; May, 96%c.
Corn-No. 3, CSC.
Oats-No. white, 25 to 26c.
Cattle-steers, $3.50 to aa5; cows,
So CO.
Hogs-$35O so to $3. 90.
Sheep-Muttons, So. 10 to $50; lam bs,
$685.
Poultry - Turkeys, z to SC; spring
chickens, 7 to Sc.
Butter-Creamery, extras, 10 to zoe;
creamery, frsts, 1S to 19c; dairy, fancy,
II to 1Sc; dairy, choice, Il to 15c.
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

Rev. DR.. John Fulton, aged 80 years,
pastor of the First Baptist church in
Abilene, Kan., died suddenly of paraly-
sis.
John Charlton, for nine years men,
Der of the board of United States In
dian commissioners, died at his home in
Nyack, N. Y, aged 6s years.
Judge John Newton Hendren, ex-
treasurer of the confederate states, died
in Staunton, Va, aged rs years.
Hugh J. Jewett, the famous railroad
fnancier, died in New York, aged 81
years. -.
Aaron Hendricks died at Blue Springs,
Ark. He was born ia years ago on the
farm where he lived his entire life.
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
Gen, Merritt has returned to Wash

Gen. Merritt has returned 10 WdSu-
ington from his tour Qfsinspection of
the southern coast fortfcati0hs, great
ly pleased with the conditions he found
prevailing. H. a @s #
There were 251 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 233 the week
previous and 246 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
81 ,541 1856, ,2OS, against $1,201, 1884, ,156 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1897
was CSC.
In all portions of the country all
signs point to an unprecedented vol
ume of business being done.
Advces from Tacoma, WASH, say
that 10000 persons are moving across
Chilkat and White passes> toward Klon-
dixie.
"Kid" Mccoy, of Indiana, champion
rlidtlle-wcight pugilist of the world,
defeated Nick Durley, of California, in
Hot Springs, Ark, in the second round.
At cabinet meeting in Washington
a reward of ST, 500 was offered for the
arrest OF the murderers of Postmaster
Baker at Lake City, S. C.
VIII Jones (colorcd) was lynched at
Lake Cormorant, Miss, by mob for
assaulting colorei woman.
At Biddeford, Me-, the strike of the
$500 employees of the Pepperel and La
COMA cotton manufacturing corpora
tions, which began January II, has been
declared off.
President Mckinley has refused a re-
quest from the Spanish government
that Consul General Lee be recalled
from Cuba, and also request that the
American war shi ps which have been
designated to carry supplies to Cuba
for the relief of the sufferers there be
replaced by merchant vessels.
The tug Underwater, reported to
have been lost while en- route to Ta-
vana, has reached the Charleston Is.
CO. harbor after rough passage.
Adolph Kraus, ex-piesdent of the
civil service commission; Dudley Win
ston, Hcnpstead Washburne and Rob-
crt Lildblom, members of the commis-
sion, were indicted by the grand jury
in Chicago on charges of violation of
the civil service law.
Alfred S: Hea]y, 25-year-old stem
ographer, killed 16-year-old Libbie
Brauschand at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
then killed himself. No cause for the
tragedy is known.
In a tenement house fire in Pitts
hurgh, Pa, Mrs. John 12nriello was suf-
focated and four persons were fatally
burned.
1t is announced that 80: United
States war ships wiH.be at Key West
and vicinity within the next.3O days.
Crazed by jealousy C. w. Wood muir
dered Mrs. Irene BREEDER ndafterward
sent bullet through his own brain at
Ottawa, III.
Adolph L. Luetgert was taken from
the Jail in Chicago to the state prison
at Joliet under a life sentence for the
murder of his wife.
DR.. Edwin INlebs, professor of pathol
ogy and bacteriology in a Chicago med
ical school, has discovered the cause of
yellow fever.
Fred Fivecoats and Frank Jackman
were sentenced at Creston, Ia, to i'm
prisonment for life at hard labor for at
tempted trainwrecEing. Both are
young men,
Adrian Braun, convict in Sing Sing
On. W prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him a visit.
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
BIG MILLS TO RESUME.

ih1rty-hive Hundred Employees at
Biddeford, Me-, Return to Work.
Biddeford, Me-, March 1.-THE strike
OF the $500 employees of the Pepperell
and Laconia cotton manufacturing cor
poratlons, which began on January II.
when a general reduction Of ten per
cent. In wages went into effect, was de-
clared off Saturday afternoon, and the
big mills, which have been silent since
that date, will start up this morning.
The operatives have lost nearly $21O 900
IN wages since they came out on the
strike and business has been paralyzed.
Warren sheaf., 1898-03-10
DOMESTIC,

The national pure food and drug
congress met in Washington.
The alleged filibuster, Dauntless, I'M
der guard at Jacksonville, Fla, has
slipped away to Cuba, carrying recruits
and 1000 rifles.
BY the bursting of an engine boiler
near Brewton, Ala, William Kelso, An
drew J. Enirght, Arthur Atkins, Peter
Thomas, David Alston and G. w. Thom
as Qaborers) were killed.
The main buildings of the TRANSMITS
sissippi. exposition atOmaha are nearly
ready and exhibits have begun to ar
rive.
A concurrent resolution declaring for
biennial sessions Of the legislature was
passed in the New York assembly.
Martial law has been declared at
Skaguay, Alaska, and United States
troops are enforcing law.
The Ohio Legislature passed bill au-
thorizing the governor to appoint wom-
en- notaries public and it is now law.
AS the Bostonia steamed out from her
wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville eight
colOred rOnstabouts were thrown into
the river and four were drowned.
An attempt was made to wreck the
south-bound passenger train of the At
lanta, Knoxville e. Northern railway
near Canton, Ga.
A large dry kiln fell in at Texarl1ana,
Ark, killing five persons.
Large shipments of supplies are being
sent to Cuba for the relief of the thou
sands now starving there. The condi-
tions are declared much worse than in
Armenia by w. w. Howard, who has
visited both countries.
a Judgment of custer was pro-
nounced against Mayor John NJ. Good
IN the circuit court at Springfield, o..
election practice act.
The schooner Speedwen capsized off
Marquesas, Fla, and the three children
OF Capt. Collier and the entire Nichols
family, consisting Of father, mother,
grandmother and three children, all of
bridgeport, Conn.,, were drowned.
SheP Wood, prominent young farm
er at Cordele, Ca, shot and killed his
brother Thomas in a quarrel and then
killed himself
Diamond, the largest elephant in cap
tivity, died at Peru, Ind. He was valued
at $4,000.
Twenty head of valuable Guernsey
COWS were burned to death on a stock
farm near Berwyn, Pa.
The Seventh national bank and the
Fourth street national bank in Philadei-
Ihia have consolidated.
Secretary Long received dispatch
from Admiral Sicard Informing him
that the court Of inquiry into the Maine
disaster will be unable to reach any
conclusion as to the cause of the explo-
sion until after further investigation
by the divers now at work upon the
wreck. The court has returned to I{a-
vana to resume the investigation there.
Four tramps were asphyxiated in a
refrigerator car at Fort Worth, Tex.
They builta coal fire in stove and were
overcome by the gas.
The navy department. has been in
formed Of the arrival of the gunboat
Newport at Aspinwall with the Mic
araguan canal commissioners on board.
The Nicaragua canal commission es-
Inmates that the cost Of the work will
be $100,00o,ooo. -.
After serving as United States judge
in the Norfolk (Va.) district "a years
Judge Hughes has retired.
Secretary Long said at Washington
that while the United States is not seek
ing war the government is preparing g !
for anv emergencies that NAV arise
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Four fishing vessels belonging to
Memet, Prussia, were were ;wrecked in a
storm and tendshermenW enWere drowned.
Walter B. Baker, United States con-
sui at sagua la Grande, Cuba, has re-
signed. -. >. =.
Americans are making hurried
preparations to leave Havana. Conster-
nation prevails among them on account
of the rumors of the warlike attitude
of Spain and the United States.
Over 80 persons lost their lives in a
burning mine in Breslau, Prussia.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
THE IRISH FAIR.
Many Novel Attractions Provided
for the Closing Week.

This is the last week of the Irish Fair
at the Mechanics Pavilion and the at
tendance will be commensurate with the
attractions. Beginning with to-day,
which is a legal holiday, and with extra
attractions, there will be something of
big Importance each day until the close
next Saturday night. The Celtic Union.
under whose auspices this fair is being
held. will realize considerable sum Of
money.
For the holiday-seekers to-day there
will be souvenir Irish Fair spoons given
out to ladies buying tickets at the box
office. These spoons were made for the
management and are put in separate
boxes packed in cotton. They have made
Dig hit with all visitors.
The military spectacle and musical
composition known as the Battle of
Gettysburg" which always draws to the
Pavilion large crowds Wien produced by
BENEFITS band, will be given tonight.
Two companies from the First Tennessee
Regiment, with 800 rounds of ammunition,
Will be present and will handle the mill
tary part. There will be two bands pres
celebration of all Aeinster Province men
and women and the boys and girls of the
Irish dancing school will give fine pro-
gramme on the stage in the main hall in
he/evening.
For Tuesday evening a splendid enter
tainment will be given. 1t will consist of
the aSSemblage OF all the military bands
now at the Preside and in Oakland.
There will be present ~ invitation the
bands of the Seventh California, Fifty
first Iowa, Eighth California, Twentieth
Kansas, First Tennessee and many local
bands, together with the cadets band
and Benefits exposition band and as a
fitting conclusion to the seven or eight
separate band concerts the united bands,
numbering nearly 250 musicians, will play
the national airs. 1t will be the most
original as well as the grandest musical
festival ever held on the coast.
The sale of sods of turf brought from
Ireland has been enormous and will be
continued to-day. There will be an Irish
minstrel show tonight and tomorrow
night in the Art Gallery Theater, and this
is sure to attract many to the fair, for
1t will be very novel and entertaining.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
THE LINE OVER
THE PASS IS
NOW CERTAIN
A Private Corporation
Will Build 1t.
LOCAL CAPITAL INTERESTED
INCORPORATION PAPERS TO BE
FILED SOON.
The Beginning Of Transcontinental
System of Which the Valley
Road Is to Be

The line over the mountain pass south
of Bakersfield will be built without the
shadow of a doubt. Within a few days
incorporation papers will be filed with the
Secretary of State by a private corpora
ton formed for the purpose of building
railroad over the celebrated TETON Pass.
This will be the first step in the way OF
another transcontinental system with San
Francisco as the western terminus.
Everything is in readiness for the new
company to begin work at once. The
articles of incorporation are already
drawn up, the officials named and all the
minute details necessary to be perfected
before the final stroke have received the
most careful attention. The members of
the corporation are all business men of
this city.
When the Valley road wished to extend
it's line some time ago before the present
terminal was reached 1t was decided to
issue new bonds. The people most inter
ested in the Valley roads success feared
that these bonds could not be floated on
this coast and that they would be forced
to place them in Eastern markets to eff
feet sale. A great surprise was in store
for the Valley road promoters when they
discovered that the local financiers were
eager and even anxious to purchase these
them up with avidity. This was an in
dication of what might be expected in
case of the extension of the road south
of Bakersfield.
Shortly after the completion of the
road to Bakersfield some of San Fran
cisco's prominent capitalists came to-
gether and decided to form corporation
for the building of a road over the pass.
The magnitude of this undertaking is inr
comparable with any other railroad con-
struction in the State. The road over the
mountains from Bakersfield south to con-
nections with an Eastern line is seventy
miles long, and the heaviest problems Of
railroad building will have to be met in
the construction of the line. The capital
that will of necessity have to be invested
must also be great. The fact that the
necessary capital is forthcoming for the
building of this road bespeaks COM
bination of big and wealthy investors
The line over the mountains will GER
tainly have Eastern connections. With a
terminus in San Francisco and chain Of
road to the East, the Valley road is des-
tined to become one of the greatest roads
of the West; The, officials Of the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Railway have
known of the formation of the private
corporation to build the road over the
pass for some time. When it leaked out
there was a general reaching for Valley
stock and they then notified the holders
not to sell unless at par.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
A SERMON ON THE
DOVER MURDERS
Rev. w. E. Dugan Draws a Lesson
From the Life Of Mrs. Botkin
and the Charges Against

So keen is the popular interest in the
murder of Mrs. J. P. Dunning in Della
ware by the sending of box of poisoned
candy from this city, that even the pull
pit has taken the facts in hand and made
them the theme of discourse. us Mrs.
Botkin Guilty?" was the subject of an
eloquent sermon by Rev. w. E. Dugan
pastor Of the Stewart Memorial United
Presbyterian Church, on Guerrero street,
near Twenty third, last evening.
Rev. Mr.. Dugan seems to favor the
theory that Mrs. Botkin is the guilty per-
son, though Withholding judgment until
more definite proof is obtained. In
dramatic language he pictured the story
of the murder and the clewS leading to
Mrs. Botkin's arrest, and drew the in
ference that 1t was the mysterious work
OF God that brought the facts to light in
order to show sinners the thorns in the
pathway Of evil. In part the sermon was
as follows:
Mrs Botkin has not yet been proved to be
guilty of the Dover tragedy, but 1t is begin
ming to look in her case If truth is really
stranger than fiction. Clrcumstantial evidence
is the strongest kind of evidence If 1t is of the
right sort. While human eye saw the
slim arm of deceit stretch across the continent
to lay its finger of death on Mrs Dunning, yet
the circumstances seem to be rising and point
Ing with frey fingers of justice at Mrs. Botkin
and saying, Thou art the gui1tysone The provi-
Dental circumstances of God seem to have
thrown their threads around that dark and
tighter and tighter, are about to lead the guilty
one to justice. The fact that the police can
trace the sale of that candy box to the tndi-
vidual clerk month after the sale. when
millions of boxes of candy are sold daily, is
wonderful evidence of God who works in the
affairs of men, and IL 1t is shown that Mrs.
Botkin purchased that box who will dare to say
there is not God of justice whose all-seeing
eye looks out along every thread of circum-
stance upon which the actions of men are
strung?
. We have in the of Mrs. Botkin an Illus
tration of the futility of selfish carnality to
give real lasting pleasure, and especially of
the tremendous guilt of trifng with the sane
tity of the married life. There are three
divine institutions. the State, the church and
the home or married life and to trife with any
of these incurs the wrath of the heart that
drives the resources of the universe. We shud-
der at the presumption of the anarchist who
would destroy our State and give instead a
bowling mob of cutthroats; are Mortified at
the falsifier and fiend who would pull the
foundations from our churches, but to be
equally dreaded is the enemy of mankind that
would destroy the third divine instltution-the
family. If Mrs Botkn is innocent she is to
be pitied,. but If guilty the punishment of per-
dtion is too sweet her
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-05
POISON USED
TO BLEACH
HER HATS
SAYS Three Witnesses
Will Corroborate Her
Statement.
REOUISITION PAPERS ARE
HERE.
Character Of Toxic in the
Candy a Fateful Point.
Knight Has Fun
With Lees.

Calmly and without a shadow of hest
lance Mrs. Cordelia Botkin yesterday ad-
mitted she bought two ounces of arsenic
at the Owl Drug Store on June l.
Suspected and almost morally con-
demned, of tie wickedest, wanton double
murder of the century, she makes this
admission without reserve, although ii
assists the crime sleuths in welding a
chain which may lead her to the gallows
To this damning acknowledgment she
vehemently reiterates her innocence OF
any completely in the awful death of Mrs
John P. Dunning and Mrs. Joshua D.
Deane, who unsuspectingly ate arsenic
laden sweets sent over 5000 miles to &C
complish the devillsh purpose of a flend.
Sitting in the warm rays Of the bright
Sabbath sun which streamed through the
barred window of her cell, C1sting broad
shadows on the cemented floor, the &C
cused woman related the circumstances
and details of the purchase and use of
the poison. She said she went to the
Owl Drug Store to get arsenic because she
knew Frank S. Grey, the clerk who waited
upon her; that she was accompanied by
a friend and that she gave her true name
and address for entry on the poison reg
ister
This fact alone she thinks, exonerates
her from the accusation that she plan
ned to murder SiXty-five days before the
death package was started on its fateful
journey to Dover. She told the clerk she
wanted the poison to bleach a straw hat,
and solemnly swears she used 1t for that
purpose, and further that two witnesses
were present at the cleansing operation.
The names of these two witnesses are
now jealousy guarded by Attorneys
Knight and MCGOWAN.
The requisition from the Governor of
Delaware asking the Governor of Cali
fornia to surrender Cordelia Botkin to an
officer now here arrived yesterday at
noon. In a few days, when Chief Lees
has completed his search for evidence
and Joined 1t with that forwarded from
the place the crime was committed, Gov
ernor Budd will be asked to issue a war
rant which will send the alleged murder
ess to Dover, that she may be placed on
trial for her life.
Experts skilled in chemistry and toxi-
cology will have much to do in deciding
the fate of the accused woman. Eastern
dispatches have said the arsenic in the
bonbons was crystalline the form which
is used only for medicinal purposes. The
arsenic which Mrs. Botkin bought was
the adulterated powder used by taxider-
mists and for vermin poisons.
Mrs Botkin's admission that she bought
the arsenic obviates the necessity of
Clerk Greys Identification of her.