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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

Tho ROYAL Arcanum Wheelmen hold house
warming last night at Alexander Schwal hach's. In
Brooklyn. There was large attendance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
TIE BASEBALL FIELD.
THE RECORDS.

THE BROOKLYN TEAM WINS FROM THE oUAKERs
RY Squirt IN THE EIGHTH INNING
What appeared to be certain defeat for the
Brooklyn team at tho hands OF the Quakers at
Washington Park yesterday afternoon, was turned
into victory by the home players In the eighth
inning. Score:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
urn, rOURTH- CLASS POSThASTERS.

washington May 1.-The following following, were Go among
.,s fourth-class postmasters appointed ,0uas y,o,
ew-Jersey-Biackwers M"S, " Townsend:
N.w-York-North Hector. n 1o'' '"
o..S stockton, Jessie E. James,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

The League Cycling club, ~ Philadelphia. pro
poses 10 have now feature in lts coming century
run through Delaware county. The riders will
parade before the cn"matograph captain NJ. A
Fryer Will have charge Of the run.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
NETWORKS BEATEN AGAIN.

baltimore May THE orioles touched UP Meekin
for seven hits FOR a total OF fifteen bases and TOOK
n winning lead in tho fret two innings. The held-
Ing OF both teams was fine. Atendance Zl"'
Score.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

E< oerts believe that tho programme arranged FOR
the big track tournament of the Associated Cycling
Clubs Of New-York for May 20 Is the most atrac-
tive Offered IN the metropolitan district. II Is
made UP follows: Onc-mile handicap for nov
ices. one-mIie open. 'wo-mie handicap Invitation
int 'rclIb team pursuit race unlimited: unlimited
tandem pursuit match race. Sager-SwanbrOuSh
against Gougoltz L1mberjack ard one-me tam
dem handicap This programme. with tho possible"
addition Of n match race between Bald and Cooper.
viii mako A gt-edged attraction for Decoration
Day at Berkeley oval. Entry blanks for the tour
namont Will be issued to-day. Trainer Webb is
anxious to have Cooper. the Detroit flyer. meet
Champion Bald at the Associated clubs tourna-
mont and 4 match may be arranged for that day.
Webb believes that his charge will this season
prove TO be Bald's peer on the track
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
RACING AT AQUEDUCT.
LITTLE TO COMMEND THE SPORT.
CONSIDERABLE FAULT FOUND WITH THE WORK
OF THE STARTER.


There was little to commend about yesterdays
racing Aqueduct and regrets were heard
when the last Even the fact that
J. Tod Sloane had decided - don six for the hrst
time since the season opened failed to BRING any
bright spots into the afternoons results. Coi
and raw the weather was. II did not cause hal Il
the discomfort that Starter Fizgerad's work with
the flag did in the second and fourth contests. both
OF which were for two-year-ods
In the first OF these races Charmante, Sloane up,
and Ninety Cents. plotted by Maher, were left at
the post In the betting the two were rated IA
vorites. The starters friends excused him on the
ground that the pair could not be made TO break.
They did refuse to 80 with the barrier. yet the
starter Insisted that they should, and this caused
all the trouble
In the fourth Sloane on Alpen. another
or the Fleischmann string. and an oddson favorite
he. like his stable mate. refused to break with the
barrier brt IL was the old story refusal 10 start
without II, and again was the public ; money
Dogsett pilo,ed three Of the six winners Sanders.
Icn f0n2.d and Rotterdam. In eaeh cas- ne Wa Wa
journey.
Hamburg was GU, at Brighton YESTERDAY morn.
Ing with the others under William 1akclands
G GG h ends the story OF ~ hs n having broken
That ne Is as sound to-day as at any tim" since nc
Ben Hrush IS lame. and Is not likely to start at
the Morris Par. .n6rting. he hit himself in his
Ornament saopc I'd mile over the withcrs course
on Sunday in s. which indicates that b" VIII be
dangerous competitor in the early spring handi-
caps
FIRST RACE For three year dds allowances. SIX fur
r5,d pTy:T, Sanders by Hanover cqp' .s.5
T. 4 Mage br. + raboi-c ioi .'.....'..'..oc'1l-
black bnis oG xa"5 Io AMI Frs, rui. loo
Netting Sander. to : ms ! - rAeouI.,. to ana
HaSo5 70 al e. 3 Tr a rT . ana a D'"' ~ ANU
Won cieyerly by length. a head between second and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

Tho annual dinner Of the Associated Cycling
Clubs Of Long Island will take place al tho Argyle
No. 3CS Fulton-st. Brooklyn. on Saturday evening
at 7'o o'clock All members Of clubs that are
members Of tho association are invited The prize
winners Of the bowling tournament Just ending Will
receive their trophies. The committee In charge u
composed OF Robert J. Mullins ir chairman. Ron
ert W. Dye, NJ Furst. benjamin Anchell. niamin
clipper a. G. Bolton and II. Gl,nsqcr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
wooLLEy MANUFACTURERS ASSIGN.

Pittsheld. Mass. May wilson q Horton large
voollen manufacturers. assigned to-day Liabilities
not known, but heavy; asses about equai.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
NO LUCK IN NUMBER THREE FOR PITTS
Ht'PG

Plt,sburg May 2-Plt'shu-g los, its 'h'rd gam,
or ~. homo grounds 10 Cincinnati to-day. by the
nnc~ so. Score.
p.
f.r',.r'., .O 0 II 10
p.,,-s'c. Yin.n and schriver. va an; Dammnn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

The new cycle path through Battery Park. from
Bowling Green 10 South Ferry. will he completed
sufficiently 10 he used on Sur day regt. Yesterday
the curbs cut down flush with the path, and
the rest OF the work will be rushed fol ward rap
idly a. possible. Tie path will be seventeen feet
wide. from pillar TO pillar and about thousand
feet long. not counting the crossings The Park
Department Is doing the work OF lowering the
curbstones caring away the dirt and levelling tho
turned over to the local con ulate OF the League Of
American Whcemen. who will complete It. The
expense Of completing the path will be about sfr,
and tho consulate sorits contributions from its
friends. Money should be sent to ". s Bull. So =
rctary-treasurer. NewYork State Division. Room
No 80. Vanderbilt Building. No. 1872 Nassau-s...
New-York City. While tho path will not he en-
trey finished by Sunday. wheeling on II will be far
easier than on the cobbestones OF the adjoining
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
TERRA GOTTA WORKS DESTROYED BY FIRE

TERRA GOTTA WURkN UENTRUTEU 1T TINT
Descronto. Ont May Fire destroyed the plant
Of the Deseronto Terra Gotta Works on Saturday
night The works were owned by the Rathbun
Company The loss Is $4,000. partly covered BY In
surance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

r,or-r-II RACE THE ROrkAWNY STAKES. for three

FIFTH RAcE-Tvo- -ar-oh FLIES -Four and hall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
S2s. 224.s46 20
Exec. over constitutional limit. ..
STATEMENT

v,a,ca r. these figures shows tha. II the Con-
troer had not drasgel IN ne d 'em he old
civ vas nearly 50 600 90 below the DEBT limil.
clear 100 ths i ne be w boa3 e in the N 'e
nent OF IN the amoaris which he has giYen i0r tle
em aen ,e his 51 rs i shoos t compSe is ire
and water supply. asphalt it, streets carry out its
syvss impToSe ana add 10 IFS parks and play:
grounds and manage its aNars IN the sane anu
sied on since III by men Of various parties
DO not care 10 argue AZ the present t!nle ana
In this way the question OF law which he mas rtlSed
The blockade which It may place on New ork lor
psny years ,d w be fully d!stussed and
heard r. the courts. where It belongs.
MP. GOLFERS OWN FIGURES.
Blu, tho figures are the Controllers own He
works them out on the contract laOiiity item 10
C5lZS5l6c To any one who knows that the con-
tracts which he IS considering arc over one hundred
r. number that work has not been commenced on
many OF them. that others have been In progress
for rany years that some OF them are not to be
fulfilled for years 20 that the amounts 10 De
paid under them depend 81 the quantities OF rock OF
o. earth found below the surface, much OF "hich
Will be reached in the Controllers term OF ONCE
and on other uncertainties. that these contracts are
s3ected b. disputes between the city and the con-
tractors and by litigation often OF long duration,
ard by ali the contingencies OF human life and Of
business, It IS plain that there must have been a
settled determination behind CALCULATION 80 daring
as THIS. Against ms statement Of the citys liabl
fies on these contracts down 10 % cents; desire
respectfully 70 put my statement founded on four
years experience with these public works that no
man alive can tell now. for ten years TO come
VIVA. the city really Will ever owc OF pay on these
Contracts
Now ie, US see what the Controller - obliged 70
Sey himself as 70 this. on Page ne admits. In
many o. the ctys largest contracts the estimated
POST based upon fixed prices for uncertain quanu-
S0 o' work 20 be performed. such quantities hay
ng been estimated by department engineers. This
- ht case In the large aquedVCt contracts Tor
ue Cornell Dam and the jerome Park Reservoir
e., 80 much a cubic yard for rock excavation ana
20 mucn for earth u f. manifest that these en-
sEetring estimate. constitute the only method ~
,~hca the oity's liability can be determined until
e completion Of the contracts. and that the actual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

The Lenox Golf Club has announced tho week
beginning September for Its annual open tourna-
r,ert The officers OF the club for the ensuing year
ora. President William D. Sloane: president,
r. Rowland Robbins: treasurer. J. W. Burden. and
secretary, John S. Alexander
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03

Wellesley College girls are taking much interest
In golf this season and the inks there are sau 10
- ,,,o, cordi,ion Miss Harriet Noyes Ran
dan il giving regular instruction 10 tho freshmen
ak Of whom are learning the game IN squads
~ echt PLAYERS each.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
FROM OGDEN TO
 THE PACIFIC Rio Grande Western to
 Be Extended. GENERAL MANAGER'S PLANS INCALCULABLE MAGNITUDE OF
 THE PROJECT. Vast Amount of Capital and Labor to Be Employed Should Amer
 ica Hold On to the
 Philippines.
GENERAL MANAGER'S PLhNS
INCALCULABLE MAGNITUDE OF
 THE PROJECT.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

DENVER, July 12.-The Times says to-day: According to present plans the Rio Grande Western Railroad Is to be- come one of the greatest railway sys- tems In the world. The idea has been formulated by Colonel D. C. Dodge, general manager of the road, to extend it's lie from ogden to the Pacific Coast and south through California with possibility of its being extended into Mexico.
 The only proviso which enters into the arrangements is that the United States become possessor of the Philip pines. It Is believed that the com merce that will result from the annexa- tion of the Philippines reaching this country by way of the Pacific Coast will necessitate increased railroad fg- cilities. This consideration led Colonel Dodge to plan the extension of the Rio Grande Western.
 Tt will not be started this year." said he. but I am positive that the extension will le made within the next five years and possibly work will be commenced In 1899. It Is a great under taking and one that will require an al- most inconceivable amount of labor and capital. At the present time our plans are so indefinite that I can hardly say just how things will come out"
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13

and although he gave her plenty of money, he never visited her Ennis streak Of good fortune then commenced, and he displayed diamonds galore and had money to burn" He introduced Mrs. Hammersmith as his wife, and among her new acquaintances she passed as Mrs. Ennis. The woman and her erstwhile coachman were greatly devoted to each other and were out rid- ing every afternoon and evening"
 Ennis longed to be a man of inf1u- ence and dabble in politics. In order to gratify his wish Mrs. Hammer smith started him in the saloon busi- ness at Pleasant and Santa Clara streets, this city. The venture was a. losing one, and after few months was discontinued. Mrs. Hammersmith had plenty of money and the couple still enjoyed life to its fullness.
 Their home on Wilson avenue with its elegant fittings was insured for $2000 in the Globe Insurance Company of Liverpool. On the night of July the place was nearly destroyed by fire. The policy had been made in the name of John A. Hammersmith. and a few days later he and Adjuster Mead of the company visited the place for the pur- pose of settling the losses. Instead of traces of costly draperies, bric-a-brac and furniture. it could be seen that in tIlS pIdCS llltIe IldQ DGen OIiy the com monest of furniture and mating on the floor Mead refused to adjust matters and detectives were employed to dig up evidence for a charge of arson. The case was reported to the District At torney. and Constable Haley began to work on it.
 It was found that all costly fixtures. furniture and Brussels carpets were removed from the house to Mrs. Ham mersmiths mothers home at Santa Clara. In their place were substituted the cheapest kind of furniture and mattings. This moving was done on July and 8, and the fire occurred on
 James Murray. who was engaged to help do the moving, says five gon- loads of goods were removed fl J.n the house on those days. Ennis told him he was going to the Yosemite for the summer, and thev did not like to leave such fine goods In the house. Murray asked if there was no insurance. and Ennis said there was not
 Mrs. Hammersmith was seen at her mothers home at Santa Clara to-day. She intimated the insurance company was causing trouble to get out of pay ing the loss. She said Ennis was out in the country working. She stated that at the proper time everything would be cleared and that the matter was now in her attorneys hands.
 Her mothers home gave evidence of being overcrowded with bric-a-brac and pretty pieces of household furni- ture, and looked as though several wagon-loads of these goods had been but recently dumped in the house.
 Ennis, who is a Portuguese, is fine appearing young fellow of about 25 years Mrs Hammersmith is probably ten -ears his senior, but is pretty, plump and attractive.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13

the Associated Press with Captain Flu late of the armored cruiser Nizcaya He said:
 The entire squadron was ordered to devote the fire of their guns to the cruiser Brooklyn, because 1t was be- lieved that she was the only ship in the American squadron that could overtake us. When we got out of the harbor our ship was second In line and I saw our flagship was getting a terrible baptism of fire. It wa frightful. The Texas and Brooklyn were 'rst riddling her. and in fifteen minutes I saw she was on fire. The Iowa and Oregon were firing on the Oquendo, and as yet I had not been badly hit The Brooklyn was a half mile closer to us than any other ship and I decided to try to ram her so that the Colon anu Oquendo could get away, and 1 started for her. She was a good mark, with her big broadside and as l started I thought surely would get her, but she had evidently seen us. Very quickly she turned about and, making a short circle, came at our port side so that 1 thought she would ram us. l moved in toward shore, so that 1 could avoid her, and then I saw that the Oquendo had gone ashore also, her steam pipes evidently having been severed by a shell.
 The maneuvering of the Brooklyn was beautiful. We opened a rapid fire at her with our big guns, but she re- turned it with terrible effect. The Ore gon also hit us several times, but the Brooklyn's broadside crashed into our superstructure and simply terrorized the men, We worked all our guns at her and I don't see how she escaped us She ~imply drove us into shore, at one time fighting us at HOO yards. One shell went along the entire gun deck killing half thr men on 1t and wounding nearly all the rest. A shell from the Oregon hit the superstructure and it was then that, wounded and knowing that we could not get away, l struck the flag and started for the beach. did not instruct the men to load the guns and do not know why they were loaded.
 We were on fire badly and when those men who were alive started to swim for shore the Cubans on shore shot at us until the American ships ar rived and stopped them. The Brooklyn had prevented me from getting away for I could have beaten the Oregon out, as I had a two-mile lead of her. My orders were to try and sink the Brooklyn, and I tried to carry them out. I did not think that her battery could be so terrible as 1t was"
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
ENDS HER LIFE BY
 WHALING GAS
Domestic Troubles Lead a Woodland Wife to Seek Death by
 ACnbuviation
AsphYXiation.

WOODLAND, July 12-One of the sad dest tragedies in the history of Woodland occurred at the residence of F. Praet some time last night Mrs. Emma Georgiana Goe turned on the gas in her bedroom and perished by asphyxiation. After removing her clothing and donning her night dress, she had closed the doors and windows, taken rubber hose from a water bag in the bathroom and fastened one end over the gas jet. When all preparations were complete she must have turned on the gas, went to bed, adjusted the clothing and began to inhale the gas. When found the lower end of the rubber hose was in her mouth.
 Mrs. Goe is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Praet. She was born in San Francisco on October 22 1876 When a mere child her parents removed to New ada, where they resided until about four years ago. They then removed to Oak land and after short residence came to Woodland, where they have since resided
 On February 20, 1897, the deceased wa, married to Charles Goe, who is in the em ploy of an insurance company In San Francisco. They took up their residenc, in San Francisco. In December of the same year a babe was born to them, bun it was in delicate health and after finger ing a little over five months, died on Apr, q. Domestic infelicities, i'll health and the loss of her child affected the mind ol Mrs. Goe. Extreme nervous prostratio,, was succeeded by melancholia which fin- ally terminated in last nights tragedy.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
There Is Additional Reason to Believe That Many DoDs Have
 Retreoted rom Santiago.
OD Monday General Wheeler Visited ToroI and Demanded Surrender for the Third
 and Last Time.

minute intervals, using her forward and after guns. These shells just cleared the summit of the hills and then went crashing into the city. Gen eral Shafter sent word that the shells were we'll placed and that all were bursting and doing good execution.
 Signal stations had been established along the shore to Siboney, and from there the military telegraph completed the line of communication to General Shafters headquarters. This joint attack from land and sea was answered by volleys of fire from the enemy's trenches. When Spanish heads ap- peared above the rifle pits the Ameri- can troops fired at them. From the improved position of our troops they were able to send an accurate and deadly fire into the enemys trenches, and the Spaniards, with the exception of a few desultory volleys, soon aban- doned all efforts to return our fire.
 To the surprise of the Americans, the Spaniards did not use their artillery, although the batteries apparently are still in position. These might be dummy guns. No signs of life were visible whereabouts. It Is known that two of the enemys batteries on the left are dummies.
 AS the morning wore away the i'm pression became general that Toral had succeeded in getting the greater part of the Spanish troops out of the city. General Shafter and his subordinate of fiCers could not account for the enemy's strange silence under our fire. It was not characteristic of the Spaniards One suggestion I heard was that the enemy might be running short of am- munition, and that General Toral, ex- pecting an assault on the city, was saving what ammunition he had left to be used then.
 General Wheelers division advanced this afternoon and took a Spanish blockhOuse, capturing twenty-five pris- oners. including two officers. Captain Powell of Company A, Second Infan- try, was killed in this engagement.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
LOVE, ARSON
 AND DIVORCE WOman'S Acts Wreck a
 Home. C0ACHMAN IN THE CASE SENSATIONAL ESCAPADES OF MRS HAMMERSMITH.
Wife of the San Francisco Jeweler Implicated With a Former Roustabout in an AL
 legged Crime.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, July 12.-A woman's fickleness and duplicity have again been the cause of the wrecking of a good home, with all the comforts and luxuries that money could buy This time the actors in the domestic drama are John A. Hammersmith of the firm of Hammersmith & Field, wholesale jewellers at 118 Sutter street. San Francisco, and his pretty wife Besides the usual threatened suit for divorce, Mrs. Hammersmith may have to face a graver charge in the courts that of arson. The third In the dra- matis personae is Peter Ennis, who un- til about year ago was a ragged roustabout In San Jose and Santa Clara. Now he bids fair to become CO., respondent in divorce proceedings
 Hammersmith and his wife lived for years at 2S30 Bush street, San Francisco. There well-appointed home was kept up. Mrs Ham mersmith's mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Quince, live at Santa Clara, and she generally spent the spring months at their home. Her hus- band made her liberal allowance, and she had stylish horse and phaeton.
 This last luxury neceSsitated the em- ployment of a hostler and coachman, and Peter Ennis secured the place. In their daily drives a mutual attach ment sprung up and this ripened into love Mrs. HammerSmith declined to return to San Francisco, and moved to this city. A house was rented on Will son avenue, near the Alameda. The place was fitted up elegantly. Ennis was brought along, and instead of be- ing coachman he arose to a more in- f1uential position.
 About this time a coolness sprang up between Hammersmith and his wife.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13


 don Bennett.
 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY BEFORE SANTIAGO, July Il, by The Call-Herald dispatch boat Men dora to Port Antonio, Jamaica, July 12.-The firing on the city Of Santiago was resumed by the Ameri- can forces at daybreak this morning. The enemy's position was obscured by a mist which hung heavily over the city and its defenses. Even before it was light enough to make out the To- cation of the Spanish lines shells fired by the Hinds battery on the extreme right were whizzing through the air toward Santiago. Other batteries quick ly joined in the firing. and during the morning hours they sent a continual hail of shells and shrapnel into the city. Twice before noon our men with a Gatling gun swept the exposed part of the enemy's trenches.
 Soon after the land forces got yell at work a part of the fleet joined in hammering Santiago from off Agua- dores. The Brooklyn, Indiana and Texas were with the New York, but all of the firing was done by Admiral Sampson's flagship and the Brooklyn. The admiral declares that he can de- stroy Santiago without the aid of the army. if ordered to do so.
 General Wheeler, whose health Is somewhat improved, went into Santi- ago this afternoon under a flag of truce He had a conference with Gen eral Toral and told the Spanish com mander that our forces could utterly destroy the city. He asked Toral to surrender on the ground of humanity. The Spanish general requested to be allowed three hours in which to -eply. General Wheeler, in taking his leave, reminded TOral that General Shafter now had demanded the surrender of the city for the third and last time.
 It was a little after o'clock this morning when the New York began sending shells over the hills at five