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The herald., 1898-11-06
LOS ANGELES HERALD. SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 8,

election, has had charge Of the Democratic
legislative campaign. The Republicans are
disposed to concede a reduction of the ma
jority in the legislature, but profess a con-
fidence that they will have = working ma
jority in both houses.
Democrats confidently expect to gain
three or more congressman in districts be-
low the Harlem river and possibly as many
in up-the-state districts. The Republicans
do not feel sanguine of maintaining the pre-
ponderance of twenty-eight as against six
Democrats in the New York delegation.
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia-Massm meetings all over the
state tonight closed the most heated polit-
ical campaign that Pennsylvania has ex-
perienced in many years. There are four
full state tickets in the field.
The total vote in the state will approx
mate 100000. The present delegation in
congress comprises ~ Republicans and
three Democrats. 1t is generalyl believed
the Democrats will regain few of the dis.
tricts lost by them in the congressional
election of 1896.
The state chairman tonight claims that the
Republican candidate for governor will have
at least 100000 plurality.
The herald., 1898-11-06
THREE THOUSAND
fA1HOMS DEEP
CONTINUED From Page One.)

and Leonidas deserted the Merritt, which
put into Charleston with the rescued.
Captain Crittenden and Captain Lacade
of the Merritt had arms sprained. The
crew left this afternoon for Norfolk.
Looking at the chart it was not difficult
for the officers at the department to see
how the ship had foundered under the in
fuence of heavy northeast gale as reported.
sci lies in about 26O0 fathoms of water, OF
nearly three miles below the surface.
The location is "a degrees north latitude,
by "a degrees 30 minutes west longitude,
about 235 miles distant from Nassau, and
80 miles distant from Caimanera, the port
from which she started a little over two
days before.
She had just emerged from the Crooked
Passage, and to make her course was OBJ
liged to lay with her head about north
west. This would bring the heavy sea
over her forward side, and under such Sc
we're pounding the vessel must have soon
succumbed. There was no alternative. On
her lee lay the rock Bahamas and innumer
able shoals with shadows between and with
shallow water in every direction, except
straight ahead or direct astern.
To have turned about and sought an
other passage would have been an extremely
perilous undertaking to begin with, and
even after getting safely about, the vessel
would have been obliged to travel many
hundred miles more than intended, in order
to have picked up another course, this time
closer to the North American continent and
with the added dangers that proximity ia
the Florida shoals might bring.
The herald., 1898-11-06
Park Band Concert

Following is the program of the concert
by the Santa Catalina Island Mexican band
at Westlake park at 2 p. m. today:
March, "Margery" Daniels.
Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song"
(Strauss).
Selection, "Ernani" (VerdD.
"Trocha," Cuban dance, by request (Ty-
ers).
Overture, Oriental (Bleger).
Indian War Dance" characteristic BELL
stedt).
Gust One Girl" new UdalD.
Song, "When Lovers Part" (Kammer-
meyer.
Trombone solo, Edgar Harrison
"Tone Pictures of the North and Southa
(Bendix).
Largo" (HandeD.
March, Liberty to Cuba" Examiner.
meyer.
"Star Spangled Banner"
The herald., 1898-11-06
FAULTY BEAMS ON IRON
WRECK A BUILDING FILLED
WITH MEN
Fifteen LIVES ARE LOST
Many of the Bodies Still Lying Buried
in the Ruins Of the
Structure
Associated Press Special Wire

| @AScOSAdtCo hSSS oPSSi"A ''~-
DETROIT, Nov. 5.-The new five-story
Wonderland theater building is tonight IN
a state of hopeless collapse and fifteen or
more lives have been sacrificed by the ap-
palling accident Shortly before o'clock,
when some 35 men were at work IN various
parts of the half-fnished theater portion
of the structure, the roof fell in, without
seconds warning. Nearly every workman
was carried down into the theater PIT; the
top gallery was crushed down upon the
lower gallery, forming sort OF fatal hill
slide, down which slid broken steel girders,
planks, timbers, bricks and great quantity
of cement from the roof, and carrying along
a struggling company OF men into the PIT
below, very few of whom escaped INJURY.
The front wall of the building remained
practically intact, but the east side wall
bulged and buekled threateningy. Not
withstanding the danger, the work OF res,
was rushed and good progress was made till
Sis, when the upper portion OF the east
wall fell, a shower of bricks striking around
the crowd of laborers, officers and newspa-
per men, extingushing the temporary cleo
trio lights, and causing stampede Tor the
street. Fortunately, none OF those who
were struck by the second downfall were
seriously injured.
Mayor Maybury and other city officials on
the scene thereon decided not to imperil
further lives in order to save dead bodies,
and work was suspended until tomorrow.
When the second crash occurred two more
bodies were visible in the debris, but they
were abandoned for thepresent. The dead
are:
AUGUST SALLACH, laborer.
GEORGE w. WHITE, timer.
THEODORE MERTELS, laborer.
MARTIN SHAFER, painter.
CORNELIUS MARROY, laborer.
JAMES MEGERSCHKE, laborer.
AUGUST JANUSCHOWSKI, laborerj
JOHN GRESELSkI, laborer
Five men are missing. Twelve other men
were seriously injured, two, it is feared,
fatally.
The disaster is supposed to have been due
struotion of the supports for the very heavy
roof. The property is owned by Patrick
Virgins, partner of J. H. Moore in his the
atrical and museum enterprises.
The herald., 1898-11-06
Observation-Disclosures

the ship herself, only loses the amount per
diem Of $500 through the sinking of the
vessel, because the contract appears to have
required the delivery by the wrecking com
pany of the vessel at the navy yard at Nor
folk. According to the contract, salvage was
to consist of such further compensation over
and above the per diem and stipulated ex-
penses as might be awarded byfa board APP
pointed for that purpose, consisting of q
representative of each party and a third
party, their survey to be made after the ves-
sells delivery at Norfolk.
The first thing in order now is court Of
inquiry, SO, in fact, the department has no
der such conditions. This court is required
to fix the responsibility for loss. Upon its
conclusion will depend whether or not z
court-martial shall be held.
The herald., 1898-11-06
PERSONAL

Fred Dodd of Hughes hotel, Fresno, is in
the city.
Mrs Robert w. Haynes has returned
from few weeks visit in San Francisco
Frank r. Scott left yesterday for San
Francisco for ten days visit with relatives.
Norwood Howard of Avalon is spending
a few days in Los Angeles with his parents.
j. B. Lankershim, owner of the Lankcr-
SHIN block, returned yesterday from Chi
cago.
w. S. Hancock, master mechanic of the
Santa Fe-Pacific, is in the city from the
Needles.
The herald., 1898-11-06
Privileges Of English Peers

A peer can demand private audience of
the sovereign to represent his views on mat
ters of public welfare. For treason or felony
he can demand to be tried by his peers; he
cannot be outlawed in any civil action, nor
can he be arrested unless for an indictable
offense and he is exempt from serving on
iuries. He may sit with his hat on in courts
of justice and should he be liable to the last
penalty of the law he can demand silken
cord instead of a hemp rope
The herald., 1898-11-06
Where the Ocean Is Deepest

A little more than thirty miles from the
found to be more than 4643 fathoms deep.
Some officers who We're surveying for a
telegraph cable found their wire broken at
this depth without reaching the bottom.
This is said to be the deepest sounding
ever made, and so deep that the two highest
mountains in Japan, placed one over the
other in this abyss, would leave the sum-
init Of the upper two-thirds of mile below
the surface of the water.
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head. She fell into the sea and shuddered
as she rose. There was no water aft. The
vu'aP da Hsr hAS Ifss t Dis fSsR s Isl
Every man did his duty. About 4;3o the
signal was made, Hang on to the wreck u un.
til you are sure she is sinking, to which the
Vulcan replied: "We will hold on until she
sinks or parts the tow line" The last sig;
nal was ''The small boats will take all"
About 5 o'clock we were all off. 1t was
perhaps $50 when we reached the Merritt.
While she was getting the surf boats, the
Vulcan slipped the hawser of the Teresa. l
expect that the wreck, dragging off to port,
brought all the strain on the port bridge,
and started the bits. When the boats
were in, the Merritt, at my request, started
to speak to the Vulcan, but was unable to
reach her, and she apparently did not hear
our whistle. The Merritt then returned to
find the wreck, but could not do So. The
search continued until p. m. the following
day, when she headed for Charleston;
(Signed) lRA HARhlS,
Lieutenant Commander.
The herald., 1898-11-06
New Wheel Records

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5. -" Major
Taylor, the colored bicyclist today lowered
the two-mile and quarter-mile bicycle rec
ords on the Woodside track. He went two
miles in 3:l3 3-5, and the quarter of mile
in 20 2-5 He was paced by quintet in
the two-mile event.
The herald., 1898-11-06
A Cleveland Fire

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 5.-The works
of the Standard Car Wheel Company were
destroyed by fire early today. Three thou
sand@ar wheels were damaged and the total
loss, according to the owners, will foot u!
hy Insurance.
The herald., 1898-11-06
A Consul's Funeral

BERLIN, Nov. 5.-The funeral services
over the remains of Julius Goldschmidt, the
late United States Consul-General here, who
died on November2 took place today. Many
American Consuls from various places in
Germany were present.
The herald., 1898-11-06
Taking It Out in This Life

a." said the philosophical young man,
"cannot take my money with me when l
die"
Certainly not" said the other.
"And since / cannot take my money there
I mean to have that kind of time with it
while here Cincinnati Enquirer.
The herald., 1898-11-06

New Castle Inn, T41 Central Ave-, 74I
Just opened, f1rst-class In every respect,
with modern conveniences. Being anxious
to fill my house at once will make the most
reasonable terms for room and board. NJ
z. Kline, Manager.
The herald., 1898-11-06
Union Reform League

BY request, F. d. Jones will repeat his
address on Business and Socialism" at the
Union Reform league, Vincent hall, GA
Hill street, this afternoon at o'clock.
Judge Variel will address the league on
the new city charter Sunday, November ID,
at the same place. The lecture will be illus
trated with diagrams and charts.
The herald., 1898-11-06

Auditor Walter II. Calvert of the Diamond
Match company arrived yesterday to spent
the winter.
The herald., 1898-11-06

Mrs A. b. Harbin of Galveston, Tex, is
visiting her sisterin-law, Mrs. Blagge OF
Scarf street.
The herald., 1898-11-06

All prices Of wall paper greatly reduced
A. A. Eckstrom, IA South Spring street,
The herald., 1898-11-06

II. r. Warner, proprietor of the Re
dondo hotel, is in the city.
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BRISTOW in 1T.
Campaign Sway Couldn't Get
Away From Him.
Was he Rewarded with His Present
Fat Omce For This Kind Of Ser
vice?

The Morrill, administration was a
thrifty one. 1t not only paid out
state money freely, but in many cases
payments were made which were clear
ly unauthorized. This disposition per-
vaded nearly all departments. Gov
ernor Morrill, set very bad example
very early in his administration. AS
is usual in such cases the governor
has about as much work to do prior to
his Inauguration as he has in the same
length of time duriug his administra-
ton. It's customary for the govern
or and force of assistants to open an
Office at the state capital some weeks
before his term begins in order that
the preliminary work may be done
more expeditiously. Governor Morrill,
did this and had assisting him his fu-
ture assistants, ]. L. Bristow, private
secretary, Chas. Hull and Miss Kate
Adams, stenographers. 1t has always
been supposed to be customary to pay
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chance sometimes intervenes in the
lot of individuals is true enough. and
no doubt, many unworthy men are
favored by fortune, while others,
more deserving, are unduly harassed.
But it is the same for everybody, the
law holds good for every rung of the
social ladder. And the only perfectly
general law, the only just law, is the
law of labor for all, sor a1l.''
"But you caunot be satisfied" said
l, with the actual state of things
which necessitates so many thousands
OF men working all their lives through
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of one partic-
ular individual. The shares are not
at all fair
Kothschild's voice rose little as he
replied: "If the shares are not fair,
if the workers don't think that they
are well enough paid, can't they
strike? They have the right to refuse
to work, which is perfectly legimate
right no one ever dreams of taking
away from them. They can strike,
and don't they do so? But, after all,
isn't it perfectly natural and right
that the man who risks his capital,
and brings, at the same time, into a
business all his ability, all his powers
of organic alton, not to speak of his
other faculties, is it not to be expected
that he should have more remunera-
ton and more enjoyment than the
gross and brutal workmen who only
bring to the work the mere brain1ess
strength of their arms? Besides,
wasn't it Socialist, Saint Simon,
who said: TO each according to his
capacity, to each according to his
work l am absolutely of this opin-
ION myself. The principle embodied
in these words is possessed of wis
dom which is applicable everywhere,
and in free country verifies itself
every day."
"Do you think, then, Baron, that
there will always be rich and poor?"
Sedate1y, in his ordinary tone,
Rothschild made answer: "Is is pos
sible to do away with disease, will
there not always be the sick and the
well?'
I smiled and went.
By JULES HURET.
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An examination of the records fail to
this amount was ever refunded to the
State. If the clerks, who according to
Mr.. Morrill's story worked so hard,
ever got any pay for their services. it
is known only to Mr.. Morrill, and the
clerks themselves, as neither the state
nor the public has ever been apprised
of it. That it was proper that they
should be paid admits of no doubt; but
there was no good reason why their
pay should come out of the state treas
ury. The fact that the money was re-
paid does not lessen the ground for
just centure which Mr.. Morrill, inyited
when he approved the vouchers. This
is one of the cases to which the atten-
ton of the fellows who are talking so
much about ex-Auditor Cole as the
watchdog of the treasury" should be
called.
At the time that this affair was
brought to the attention of the public,
papers were prepared and sworn to for
the prosecution of Governor Morrill,
for misappropriation of public funds,
but owing to the fact that the Repu b.
lican County Attorney of Shawnee
county indicated disposition to re-
fuse to file the suit the matter was
dropped.
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Bristow was Governor Morrill's chief
adviser and that it is fair to presume
that he was as intimately connected
with this deal as the Governor himself,
he was selected as sample of the sort
of material with which Mr.. Mckinley
desired to fill the Offices of chiefs of
the departments at Washington. Mr..
Mckinley will doubtless be excused in
this matter on the theory that he did
not know Mr.. Bristow as we'll as Kan
sas people do.
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ON A SPANISH SHIP BY MISTAKE.

Here's where the funny part comes
in. We had been told that there was
only one steamer in the harbor and
what do you suppose we did? Ran
smack up against a Spanish steamer,
the Saturnina, and had part of our
baggage and ourselves on board be-
fore we found out our mistake.
The captain was not on board and
we only saw two sailors, but you may
be sure that we got off that ship with
out losing any time. We finally got
safely aboard the Jarlsberg and at
midnight steamed out of the harbor
and then all breathed sigh of relief.
Had there been an inkling that we
were going to leave every one of US
would have been corpses.
BRITISH CONSUL TO GIVE OUT FOOD.
81 turned over all my papers to the
British consul, John J. de Costa, be-
fore leaving, and also placed in his
hands the authority to continue the
distribution of the supplies / had been
unable to dispose of. brought the
American flag that we used at the con-
sulate with me, however"
Mr.. Brice said that there were $50
Americans left behind in Mantanzas,
and that their lives were in the great
est peril.
81 asked for ship to come and take
them away" he said, "but none was
sent, and God knows what will become
of them. Relief ought to be sent them
at once. The day before 1 left twenty
five of them, men and women, came
to me and begged me for Gods sake
to take them out of the country. I
told them 1 could do nothing for them,
for had spent all my money in help
ing the reconcentrados, and had to
borrow some to come rway with"
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Edlson,s Torpedo Boat scheme.

Thomas A. Edison has made dis
covery, or, rather, applied a principle
that will revolutionize modern naval
warfare. AT present night and fog
are the greatest enemies war feet at
sea can know. 1t is under cover of
the darkness that the torpedo boats
sneak up to within haiiing distance of
the great ships and aim deadly blows
at them.
BY day nothing is so feeble as tor
pedo boat. 1t must get within half
mile of its mark ere it can spit its
venom, and this it cannot do. 1t is as
swift in flight and as harmless in Of
tense as a rabbit. It's sides are so
frai1 that the smallest rapid-firing
gun will riddle it. When it was point
ed out to Mr.. Edison that many fears
were felt on account of Spain's topedo
fleet, he said it was easy to do away
with their possibilities for harm.
81 would suggest" said he, "that in
addition to the searchlights now en-
p1oyed canisters of calcium carbide,
with small quantity of calcium phos-
phide mixed in, be placed near the
scouting boats or fired into the water
at distance from a mortar. These
canisters, being provided with buoy
ant chambers and water vents, would
give off acetylene gas, and also spon-
taneously infiammative phosphoretted
hydrogen, which would serve to ignite
continuously the acety1ene gas. The
result would be powerful lights, very
cheaply produced, in great numbers
over an area of several square miles.
Any torpedo boat coming nearer than
one of these lights would be thrown in
silhousette, which, to the eye, would
be at least so times more powerful
than the small reflection from the
Notwithstanding surface of a torpedo
boat illuminated by the most power
full electric light
In a word, the light would be behind
it, instead of on the nearer side of it.
Not only can the chemical combiua-
ton be employed to keep torpedo boats
away, as already shown, but canisters
of it, being very light in weight, can
be hurled for several miles from a
pneumatic gun.
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these assistants for their ante-inaugu-
raj work out of private funds, but
Governor Morrill,, although able to do
so, let the matter go until March,
when he gave each of the three per-
sons named voucher against his con-
tingent fund for a months time.
These vouchers were presented and
audited in March, 1895. One is No.
l230o and is for S65.75. 1t is itemized
as follows: Office supplies $3.50, table
$12, foom rent $30.90, telegraph ''toles''
$9.9l. This was the expense account
for operating the establishment where
promises of places were made and ad-
vance distribution of patronage was
arranged. Another voucher was No.
1854. 1t was filed and audited March
z, 1895, and was for $l66 65 for services
of ). L. Bristow from December IS,
1894, to January IA, 1895. During
this time the State was paying Fred
]. Close, Governor Lewelling's private
secretary, the same amount for actual
ScTNlCC W NhC NOhShSAS WIZ
also made and audited for Miss Kate
Adams and Chas. Hull as stenogra-
phers;each being equal to the amount
of one. months pay in the State posi-
tions which they afterward held.
These vouchers were all approved by
Governor Morrill, and were ordered
paid from his contingent fund. The
Bristow voucher, which is in all ma
terial respects the same as the others,
Is reproduced in Photographic fac
simile In, this issue.
At the time these payments became
known to the public Republican papers
apologized for the proceeding by say.
ing that they were made for the ex'
pense attending the transaction OF
state business, but it was not explain
ed how these men could be attending
to State affairs when their terms had
notyet begun.
che fact that these vouchers were
executed, approved and paid was ac-
knowledged by Governor Morrill, in
the weak apology offered for his ac-
tion In his interview published IN the
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Topeka Journal independent Repub-
lican), May 7,-18o5: ~sE
"There is nothing about the issu-
ance of these vouchers but what is all
straight as far as 1 am concerned.
The employees in the Office came to me
and said they thought they ought to
be paid for the work they did for the
State prior to inauguration. 1 agreed
with them and proposed to pay them
out of my own pocket, as we did vast
amount of work during that time.
Petitions and letters poured in on us
without end and the work was hard.
| They would not listen to my proposal
to pay them, but insisted that the
work was done for the State and the
State should pay for it. They asked
that vouchers be made for that work
for extra services during the Leg isla-
ture.' l would not listen to that.
said, No, don't propose to have a
voucher go through this office while
am Governor that does not show ex-
actly what the money is for sup
pose that if 1 had made out those
vouchers for extra services we
would never Eave heard of it again,
but don't propose to do business that
way"
The public press made life so bur
densome for the Governor that the
April salaries of these clerks were
drawn and turned into the contingent
fund, but nothing was done about the
$65.z1 paid for general Office expenses.
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In 1892 the two-year old child of Mr..
and Mrs. A. S. Prewitt was run over
near Towanda, Butler county, by
Missouri Pacific train. The parents
brought suit for 5000 against the
company in the district court of But
Ter county, charging negligence, and
Judgment was awarded in their fav-
or for $3.50. In 1853, the company ap-
pealed the case to the Supreme court
and it remained on the calendar until
1895, at which time it was turned over
to the central division of the southern
department of the Court of Appeals.
The Court of Appeals has now certified
the case back to the Supreme court
and it will have another hearing, prob
kably this year.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20

Bud Alexander, of fLeavenworth, be-
coming jealous of his wife, who had
left him, secured shot gun and shot
his brother-in-law Ed Bailey, through
the heart, then turned the gun on his
wife and broke it over her head. The
murders career was cut short by q
policeman.who filled him full of lead.
Mrs. Alexander will probably die.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-20

Kansans have been granted the
pleasure the past ten days of witness
ing the spectacle of the Commissioner
to the Omaha Exhibition running off
to Omaha with the notorious c. A.
Fellows, mayor of Topeka by virtue
of the republican party, and specially
prominent for his connection with the
State House steal. The fellow seems
to have been the guest" of the COM
missIoners and was wined and dined
as befitt:ng MAN.