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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-17
CONCERT AT MORRIS COVE TO-
 NIGHT


 A very attractive concert has been ar ranged for this evening, to be given at the Morris Cove chapel. Mrs. George Belcher, one of the leading members of the chapel and regular resident at the Cove, is in charge.
 The modest admission fee asked will be small return for the musical and literary treat offered. The proceeds will go towards the needs of the chapel. The programme is as follows The hour for the concert is set at 8:15 o'clock:
 Pianola Selection ......................
 Rudolph Steinert. a. Song ......'.....'.....' .oelecteo b. Fl Capitan .....................S .Sousa
 Frank S. Hamilton. Reading-In the Cataconibs. ........... ....... ............ .... H. H. Ballard
 Miss Mabel Hepburn. Song-I Cannot Help Loving You..... ...,....S Sldy JOH JO1lHS Mrs. c. w. Vishno. Accompanist, Miss
 Alice Shoninger. Mandolin Selection .................... Miss Grace O. Holbrook. Accompanist,
 Miss Lillian R. Holbrook. Reading ........ ................ Selected
 Miss May Dixon Hyde. violin-a Kuwiak ......... Wieniawski
 b. Wiegenlied ......... Hausa Miss Katherine Churchill, Brooklyn. Accompanist, Miss M. Louise Tillou Song ........... .........-..... Selected
 Eugene Willis. Song, with violin obligato-Answer.
  Mrs. Vishno. Rudolph Steinert, violin; Miss Alice Shoninger, accompanist.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
CASES DELAYED "
 THE SUPREME COURT.
PoStDonemeHt Of the Confirmation Of Nc KennG Said 10 Hare Caused Justice
 to Sc Retarded.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Delay in the confirmation of the nomination of Attor- ney-General McKenna will compel a post ponement of cases assigned for re-argu- ment in the Supreme Court this week. These included several cases that have been before the court for long time, and the justices found it impossible to dispose of them. 1t is presumed. for the reason that eight members, who for some months past have comprised the actual working body of the court, could not agree. It was supposed when the assign ments were made last month that by the 17th inst Judge McKennas appointment would have been confirmed and he would be a member of the court. Under the agreement to take a vote in the Senate on his nomination next Friday, he cannot enter upon the discharge of his duties un- til January 24.
 A rumor was current last week that the announcement of the opinion and judg- ment of the court in the now long overdue Nebraska minimum freight rates case was being delayed for the completion of a dissenting opinion. The same authority fixes the division of the court at six to two.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
The AnneXatiOniStS Show Their w eakneSS by
 Further Delay.
Senators Will Enter a Discuss sion of the Innigra-
 ton Bill.
In the House There Is Prospect of Considerable Argument on For
 eign Relations.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,

Washington, Jan. 10.
 The Hawaiian annexation treaty will this week again occupy the major DOT tion of the time Of the Senate. It ap- pears improbable, however, that the treaty will be taken up on Monday There is an unanimous agreement to vote on the immigration bill during the day, and 1t is altogether probable that this vote will be preceded by some dis CuSSfOn of the merits of the bill. The friends Of the measure are confident or it's passage, but they are not very hope full of getting 1t through without 1ur- ther debate.
 Senator Wolcott has given notice of his intention to address the Senate on Monday, when he will make a report of the transactions of the recent interna- tiCnaI bimetallic commission. Wolcott has never given extended public utter ance concerning the commissions s work, and there is very general interest man. ifeSted as to the course he may pur- sue in his speech on Monday.
 When the Senate resumes considera- tion of the Hawaiian treaty Senator Morgan will take the floor, and 1t is expected will consume at least another day in the presentation Of his views in favor of annexation. He will be fol- lowed by Senators Pettigrew and White in opposition to the treaty and by other Senators for and against it.
 
 will be concluded during the week. A great many Senators wish to speak, and as long as the result of the vote Is as uncertain as it is at present, neither side will be disposed to allow the vote to be taken.
 The Senate has agreed to vote on the confirmation of Attorney General Me Kenna as Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court on next Friday, and the probabilities are that this vote will be preceded by some discussion as to Mir. McKenna's merits.
 The urgent deficiency appropriation bill will in all probability be reported on Monday, and there may be an effort to secure it's consideration during the week.
 The House is likely to become the arena for a general discussion of our foreign relations in connection with the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill during the present week. The Cuban situation the annexation of Hawaii and the de- signs of the European powers toward China will, of course, be the principal topics to attract attention. The House managers do not want an extended de- bate on Cuba precipitated at this time, but the minority is determined to press the question during the consideration Of this bill.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
GREAT BRITAIR'S SHARE
 OF THE CHINESE PUDDIRG.
Concessions to Be Acquired Through the Proposed Loan to the Imperial
 GoEerUO7eDf

LONDON, Jan 16-The Peking cor respondent of the Times says Yester- day Saturday, Sir Claude Macdonald, British Ambassador to China, in the course of an interview with the Tsung Li-Yamen (Board of Foreign Control, stated that England was willing to as sist China to liquidate the Japanese in demnity, and would provide a loan Of G12,000,000 at par, to run fifty years. the service to be { per cent net. including sinking fund conditions, as follows
 First-The opening of three treaty ports, the Talien-Wan. Siang-In and Nan-Ning, thereby increasing the GUS toms revenues; second; declaration that no portion of the kiang Valley shall be alienated to any other power. third. the right to extend the Burmah railway through Human prov ince (the most southwestern in China).
 In the event of her default China is to place certain revenues under the control of the imperial customs. On this basis the negotiations will proceed. China re- gards them as advantageous, but fears the threatened opposition of France and Russia, especially to the opening of Tali-en-Wan and Nan-Ning.
 The Times, commenting on the report. suggests that Siang-In. which the cor respondent describes as in Human prov ince" is a telegraphic error and means either Slang Yang in Hu-Pei province, or Slang-Tang, in Hu-Nan province.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
SABBATH RIOTS
 DISTURB PARIS
Students Parade the Streets Crying Out Against
 M. ZOla.
Police Finally Disperse the Mob and Make Number of
 Arrests.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Jan. 16.-There was 8 popular . demonstration to-day, with a procession ~of military officials, soldiers, veterans and gymnastic and other associations, in honor of General Felix Saussier, now re- ttring from the military governorshlp of Paris and the commander-ln-chief of the French army. General Saussier, who was in full uniform and surrounded by his staff, stood in the window of his resi- dence. responding assiduously to the sal utatiOns of enormous crowds.
 Ultimately bands of students paraded the streets, shouting perpetuallly, Con spueZ Zola!" Death to the Jewsr' and the like. Tn several cases cafe win doWs were smashed, and the windows of a house mistaken for Lola's was broken. The police finally LIspersed the rioters ana Sebastian Faure addressed q social ist meeting this evening and denounced the secrecy attendin@ the trial of Comte Esterhazy. There were shouts of "A bas Brumont!' and "A bas Rochefort?' but there was no further disorder
 The IlSt Of persons signing the petition clrcu!ated by NJ. ZOla and others on Fri day last for q retrial O. former Captaln Alfred DreyfuS is becomin- increasingly significant. Numerous members of inc Institute and other prominent persons are signing, which shows that the movement is daily growing in respectability and in- fuence. On the other hand the anti ZOla campaign, started by the students, Is extending to Marseilles Toulouse, Lyons, Nancy and other large towns
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
DEMANDS F0R LUMBER 0H
 THE TRAILS TO DAWSON
Indications That the Rush in the Sprinq Will Discount That Of fast
 Autumn.

SEATTLE, Jan. 16.-The steam schooner Noyo arrived here tonight from Skaguay and Dyea. Alaska Among her passen- gers was Hans Larsen of Circle City, who came out to Dyea with a dog train by way of Dawson City. He said there was plenty of food at Circle City. He also confirmed previous reports that there would be no suffering at Dawson this winter from lack of provisions, as the exodus had removed danger of famine. He did not think that the government relief expedition was feasible at this time
 J. A. Lacy of San Francisco, who took a cargo of lumber to Skaguay on the Noyo, says so great is the demand for lumber that the people can hardly wait until 1t Is unloaded. Lacy says that but a small part of the hundreds of people ar irving at Dyea and Skaguay intent on pushing on to Dawson, have any con- ception of the difficulties before them. He predicts that the congestion on the trails will be greater than 1t was last season.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
VESSELS IN NEED
 OF AMMUNITION
Navy Lacks Sufficient Powder for Use in Case of
 Emergency.
Officers Agree That the Batteries on Commissioned Warships Should
 Be MOdernized.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
 Call Office. Riggs House,

Call Office, Riggs House,
 Washington, Jan. Is.
 Naval officers generally agree with the statements made by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt that steps should be taken to modernize the batteries of many vessels now in commission. I un- derstand that MT. Roosevelt informed the President yesterday that the navy was also badly in need of ammunition. MT Roosevelt appreciates that every ship in the navy has a supply of powder suffi- cient for peace purposes, but in case of emergency, he thinks, there IS not enough powder to rapidly replace that now in the magazines of the men-of-war.
 Naval officers generally say Congress should lose no time in apprOpriat1ng the $500 900 required by Secretary Long for the purchase of reserve ammunition. The only recent contract made by the depart ment for powder was that entered into several months ago for 100 900 pounds of siX-inch smokeiess powder.
 It is desired by Captain Charles O'Neill, chief of the bureau of ordnance, that ne be given authority to convert all Of the Six-inch guns of ordinary type now in ser vice into rapid-fring guns. He has eStt- mated that S25 600 will be needed and has urged that Congress make an appropria- tion without delay. There are ninety-five ships of the navy, and their conversion, Captain ONeil says, will double their eff ficiency The cost of converting a siX-inch gun is about $l000 and the time required would be from five to six months for each lot of twelve guns undertaken at the same time
 Eight six-inch guns have already been converted, and work on nineteen was commenced some months ago. Eighteen of these are for the Newark and Atlanta.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17

Hampton Roads for the past ten weeks, the flagship New York and the battle ships Indiana, Massachusetts and Iowa left Old Point at 10 a. m. and two hours later passed out the capes. south bound. They put to sea in the teeth of a north easter which is blowing off HatteraS tonight. It is Admiral Sicards inten- tion to keep well away from the stormy cape. The fleet will proceed directly, at ten knots speed, to Dry Tortugas, their headquarters for the Gulf evOlutions. This point is within such easy reach of Havana that the ships could be sum- moned in a few hours should their presence be necessary. The Texas will join the flagship off the South Carolina coast. The torpedO-boat FOote was forced to take the inside route owing to the heavy weather off Hatteras. The ships are equipped for a long voyage and their magazines are well stocked.
 HAVANA. Jan. 16.-No "disagreea- ble incidents" have occurred to-day, and complete calmness" exists. Gen eral Morroto, General Bernal and Gen. eraI Salcedo have arrived, and are as sisting General Blanco in maintaining order
 Yesterday while Senor Marcos Gar cia, Governor of Santa Clara, was at tending a baseball match, a hospital employe tried to shoot him. General Urrier and his aid-de-camp frustrat- ed the attempt.
 General Pando arrived at Manzanil- To on Tuesday last. According to the official reports. there has been only ''unimportant skirmishing" in that di- rection.
 MADRID, Jan. 16.-Seuor Romero Robledo, presiding at a meeting of his friends tonight, attacked the autono- my scheme, and sought to magnify the significance of the recent demonstra- tions at Havana. The meeting decid- ed to reassemble on Tuesday next, in order to draft an address to the Queen Regent protesting against the dissolution of the Cortes. and request ing that they be conVoked.
 General Weyler was invited to at tend the meeting, but excused himself on the ground of "scruples arising from his military position"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
REDUCTION OF WAGES
 W THE COTTON MILLS.
Many Thousands Are to Be Affected by the Cut, and the loss Will Be Oyer
 Million q Year.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 16-The cut in the cotton mills throughout the State will go into effect tomorrow, the only exceptions being one or two small fac tories whose owners, for reasons of their own, have not decided to cut wages and a few in which. owing to their paying monthly or for similar reasons, 1t is not convenient to make the reduction until later.
 The reduction will affect to a greater or less degree the earning of nearly 20 900 operatives in this State and those of Knight and Goddard in Massachusetts. Between 10000 and b 900 employees in Connecticut mills controlled by Provi- dence agents will be affected also. As the aggregate earnings of the operatives will approximate S9 900 annually, the loss in wages and purchasing power in consequence of the reduction to opera tives and business men in the communi- ties in which they spend their money will be nearly a round million if the cut averages; as expected, about 10 per cent.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Went to a Georgia Resort to Recuperate From an At
 tack of Pneumonia.
MOST NOTABLE CAREER
Distinction Gained as a Lawyer, Sol- dier and Statesman by the
 Talented Quaker
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BROWNSVILLE, Ga, Jan. 16.-Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, United States Commissioner of Patents, who has been i'll at Piney Woods Hotel here several weeks, died at 3:I5 o'clock this afternoon. The end was peaceful, and when 1t came his wife and children were at his bedside. He came here to recuperate from an attack of pneu- monia and recovered rapidly until two weeks ago, when he suffered from ure- mic convulsions. From that relapse he never recovered. His body will be sent to Washington tomorrow.
 Benjamin Butterw0rth was what is known as "birthright Quaker" Those who knew him best during .Ills busy career are unanimous in saying of him, His daily life was as eXem- plary of the tenets of that good old faith as that of any public official could be"
 He was born in Warren County, Ohio, October 9. 1S37; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio from War ren and Butler counties in 1S73-74; was elected from the First Ohio District to the Forty sixth. Forty seventh, Forty y-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and was reelected to the Fifty-first Congress as q Repu bncan.
 Ben" ButterWorth, as he has all ways been best known, spent his earl fer years round about Maineville and Fosters Crossing-the latter a little station on the Little Miami Railroad. His father was William Butterworth, his mother a Linton, a family noted throughout the entire line for their keenness of intellect, powers of percep- tiOn and strength in speech and de- bate. Both parents were of Quaker ancestry. Major Butterworth's keen perception were inherited from his mother.
 Butterworth's first acquaintance with law was made in the office of Durbin Ward, then a successful prac- titiOner in Cincinnati.
 q During the war he attained the rank Fof major in an Ohio regiment. He was Commissioner of Patents first during the administration of Garfield and Ar thur, and his record made then and subsequently, had great weight with President Mckinley in selecting him for that position.
 He was made secretary of the Worlds Fair project early in the in- ceptiOn of that great enterprise at Chi cago during the early ,90s and worked along in that capacity with honor to himself and profit to the company until it's close. His widow and four children survive him. His wife was Miss Mary Schuyler of Penn sylvania. The children are Mrs. HOwt of Washington, D. C., a widow: Will liam, who married Miss Deere. ot Moline. H.; young Ben, who was in jured in Q college game early in life and Frank, whose prOwess as a foot ball coach and fullback is almost inter national
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
FIRE RACES M 4
 BUTTE BUILDING.
Smoke Drifts Into the Mcguire Opera House and There Is q Stampede Among
 fbe Audience

BUTTE. Mont. Jan. 16.-Fire. supposed to be of incendiary origin, broke out in the Boston dry goods store in the Odd Fellows building on Broadway, adjoin ing the Mcguire Opera House, about 9 o'clock tonight. Before the fire was eX- tinguished the stock was practically a total loss. It was insured for $25,000. The dense smoke penetrated to the upper Steef, a paralytic. and his family live. They were rescued with difficulty. Smoke also penetrated the opera house, where Under the Dome" was being given. As Manager Hagan started for the stage to advise the audience to withdraw quietly some one rushed into the gallery and gave an alarm. There was a rush for the doors. and several women tainted and were slightly injured.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
TERRIFIC TORNADO
 SWEEPS OKLAHOMA.
Owing to the Thin Population Of the Area Visited by the Storm the DqmGge
 Was Not Very Extensive

CHICAGO. Jan. 16.-A special to the Chronicle from Guthrie, O. T.. says: A terrific tornado, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed across Pottawatto- mic County, near Maud postoffce, last evening. Men from that part of the Coun- ty say that the path of the storm was about half a mile wide and that timber was blown down and broken off so as to almost completely block the roads.
 A part of the country over which the storm passed has been almost deserted by the families living there on account of the Indian scare.
 The tornado travelled in a northeaSterly direction and passed over into the Semi noie nation where, on account of the thin ly populated country, but little damage was done.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
GRADUATED MYTH GRANTS
 CLASS AT WEST POINT.
General Christopher Colon Auger, Veteran
 Of Two Wars, Dies Of Old Aoe.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 16-GeneraI Chris topher Colon Auger, U. s. A, retired, died of old age at his home in West Washing ton. tonight. General Auger was one of the three surviving members of the class of 43 at West Point-the class with which General Grant graduated General Auger was with Grant in Mexico and served with distinction through the civil war. After the civil war he saw considerable active service in the Indian uprisings on the frontier, and was later in command of various departments of the army. He was retired in 1885, and has since lived in Washington.
 Subsequent to his retirement he was shot by a negro desperado in the door way Of his home, but, though seriously wounded, recovered. He had two sons, now in the army-Captain Colon Auger stationed at Fort Riley. Kan, and Major J. A. Auger, at Leavenworth, Kan.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Ruried Under Sacks of Wheat.

VISALIA, Jan. 16.-Elljah Allen, young man of l9 years, working on the Fulgham ranch. had a narrow escape from death yesterday. He was soaking wheat in bluestone liquid before sowing in the field when large pile of wheat in sacks fell, covering him completely. It was probably an hour before he was dis covered by his employer, as he failed to report for dinner. With all haste the tllnbled sacks were thrown aside and the poor fellow rescued. He could neither speak nor walk, and nearly two hours passed before he was able to realize what had happened. Another half-hours im- nrisonment would have been fatal.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
PASSES CLOSE TO 4 VESSEL
 HEAVILY LISTED TO STARB06RD.
6TItSh Steamship Willow Branch Sights q Craft That Has Evidently Encoun-
 fered n G0Io
tered q GaIe.
DuTA 7c

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16-Captain Ritson, commanding the British steamer Willow Branch, which arrived in port to- day. stated that on January '. to the westward of the Grand Links, he passed close to an unknown steamship that was heavily listed to starboard but she did not signal that assistance was needed. He describes the vessel to have been a large, deeply laden craft. with a red funnel win black top and red band around 1t, and believes it to have been one of the Allan line feet
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Cotton for the Orient.

TACOMA, Jan. 16.-Seven trainloads, amounting to 4T50 bales. of Texas cotton, have arrived in Tacoma for shipment to c ina and Japan. The cotton came by way of St Louis and St. Paul. A great deal of this cotton is standing in cars on the track Heavy shipments of cotton are arriving at all Pacific Coast ports having Oriental lines. An important phase of the movement arises in the question as to whether the cotton is sub feet to insurance while standing in the
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
EntnL Shootino AfrnY.

OKLAHOMA, Jan. 16.-In a row early this morning Fred Jones. a barkeeper, shot Chief of Police G. w. Jackson through the thigh. As he fell Jackson fired at Jones. but missed him and shot Pishop Armstrong. a deputy sheriff. in- ficting a fatal wound. Jones is a brother of Miit Jones, the city marshal who was killed in an affray at Oklahoma City two wears ago by the Christian brothers, out laws. Armstrong is said to have come from TexaS
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Najogu Postomce Burned.

LOS OLIVOS, Jan. 16.-The postoffice at Najoqui with all fixtures, and the resi- dence of the Postmaster, B. F. Nosser, were burned last night. Nosser's place has been sort of headquarters for coast travellers for many years, chiefly on ac- count of its proximity to the famous Ma joqui Falls.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
seunen From q Wrecked Bngantine.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-On board the steamer Antilla, which arrived here this evening from Nassau, were the mate and nine seamen of the crew of the Italian brigantine Celestina, which was lost on the south side of Watling'S Island while on a voyage from Venice to Savannah. The vessel was total loss. No lives were
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Brazil Pleased With Bryan.

BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 16.-The Her aids correspondent in Rio Janeiro. Bra gil, says that the Government has de- clared it's pleasure at the appointment of Charles Page Bryan as United States Minister to Brazil.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Illness of an En,nress.

BERLIN. Jan. 16-The condition of the health of the Empress Augusta Victoria excites comment. She will go in the spring to some southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms,
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17

great a discovery seems to have been made not to finish the work by giving 1t a thorough and extensive test"