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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11

Messageries Imperiales would call at this port
 The man-of-war is ordered to remain here for an indefinite stay. The Gov ernment cannot understand this move, and has cabled to-day to Washington for instructions and advice.
 The Duguay Trouin sailed from Cal lao on the 7th ult., and used her can vas a good part of the way up, expe- riencing good weather all the way.
 There have been no changes In her complement of officers since she was here last year. Following is the full list: Commodore Fort, Commander Pugiblet, Flag Lieutenant McGuckin de Slane Surgeon Labadens, Paymaster Ranch and Chief Engineer Lennox, Lieutenants Fromy, Guthgsell, Tenier, Forsey, Allemamot, Mondot and O'Neill, Aspirants du Brossay, Brossier, Bemoit, Brousse, Lecannis and Rhobt.
 When the Duguay Trouin called in here in September last, on her way from Tahiti to San Francisco, she re- mained fourteen days in port, and her officers, in appreciation Of courtesies shown them by the shore folks, gave a big party aboard, which was largely attended. The officers on their arrival here to-day found several bags of mail awaiting.
 The Duguay Trouin has been sta tioned on the Pacific about seven years. When she sailed from here the last time, the officers expected that she would cruise along the coast of South America until summer and then go home, to be replaced next year by a modern 40OO ton cruiser. She went from San Francisco direct to Callao and remained there until she received her Dresent orders.
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PITTSBURG'S GREAT
 LOSS BY THE FIRE.
Eleven People Dead, Twenty-seVen Missing and Eighteen Injured
 Is the Terrible Record

PITTSBURG, Feb. 10.-Eleven people dead. twenty-seven missing and eighteen injured, and property loss of S1 800 900. is the awful record of the big fire of last night. Following is a revised list of the dead and missing:
 The dead: Police Lieutenant A J. Berry, John McHanna, William Scott Jr., Stanley Stitz, John Dwyer, George Loveless, William Smith, Albert Wolfe. Thomas Claffey, William R. Wallrhaben- stein, an unknown man supposed to be John Scott, the youngest son of the president of the Chautauqua Ice Com pany.
 The missing: George Newman, fire in- spector of the Philadelphia Gas Com pany; William Doran William Finch, Ed ward Donnelly, Christie Schriver, James P Morrison, Professor James Moxan tan Pal, ID. B. Weickerly, John Gerry, Geo Mcdonald, Jack Farrell, Samuel Mo Laughlfn.
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VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 10.-Captain
 Goodall has had an awkward experi-
 ence with the international coasting and wrecking regulations. which has interfered considerably with the plans for saving the Corona, which he cher
 ished upon leaving San Francisco. When the captain arrived at Victoria, he wished to employ the steamer Cleve- land, then shortly to sail for the north, to do the necessary work upon the Corona, and with this in view applied to Collector Milne for the necessary authority, the wreck being in Canadian waters This the collector refused on the ground that wrecking in Canadian waters can be performed only by a Canadian vessel.
 Then Captain Goodall determined to proceed to the scene of the wreck on his company's steamer, Queen, and. thereupon, applied for permission for her to call at Lewis Island, some few miles distant from where the Corona lies. Again he was met with a refusal from the collector. this time the coast ing regulations standing in the way. Captain Goodall then fell back upon the only resource available, obtaining the services of the local steamer Maude |" take himself pumping apparatus, and timbers The Maude was to have sailed on Saturday, but experienced Ge- lay in slowing the unusually heavy cargo, ard then was detaIned by weather rather rough for craft of her size, so it was only yesterday that she got away from Victoria.
 The steamship City of Topeka came into port about II o'clock tonight, hav- ing left Sitka on the 4th inst. and Juneau two days later The Topeka brings the news that the body of a dead man has been discovered on board of the wrcked steamer Corona AL though floating about in the hold of the vessel 1t had not been recovered. It is now believed that another dead body is also on the Corona, as it is known that there were two stowaways aboard. They were in the coal hole when last heard of, and when the steamer struck. the hatchway leading into this part of the vessel was closed down One of the stowaways was a addressed man. and Is supposed to have come from the East.
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Hickey, who several years ago pro- claimed himself James I of Trin- idad," who had fought duels in France. who married Miss Anna Flagler. daughter of John H. F'lagler of the Standard Oil Company. was found dead by his own hand to-day in the Pierson Hotel in this city It was not until his papers were examined that his identity became known.
 The Baron arrived in this city from Mexico on February 3 and haS been staying since at the Pierson Motel. He was last seen alive at half-pAst ' o'clock last evening by the hotel cl&rk, when he retired to his room. His ab- sence from breakfast was noted. and at half-past II this morning an effort was made to arouse him. AS no re- sponse to the knock was received the door was forced.
 His body was found stretched across the bed. It was evident at a glance that the man was dead and that he had died by poison.
 Policemen and physicians were hastily summoned, and an examination of the dead mans effects was made Among them was found enough poison to have effected the death of A repi- ment. There was also a letter. ad- dressed to his wife, which was written on Tuesday night. It was directed to the Baroness Harden Hickey, Corona Riverside County, Cal, and read as follows:
 My Dearest: Non from you. aIthouoh you have had plenty of time to answer my last letter. l expect to leave this hotel tomorrow or the day after. Harvey has written me that he has no one in view in buying my land at present Wal I shall have drained the cup of h,tter' ness to the very dregs; but do not cow plain. I prefer to be a dead eentIeman +o a living blackguard like - Good-hv forgive your conduct toward me. and trust you will be able to forgive yourself Evsr HARDEM
 An examination of the body by pbv- sicians showed that the baron died from morphine poisoning, and that life had been extinct for many hours Very little money was found among bis effects. and 1t is presumed that nov erty, together With family troubles hinted at in a letter, was the moving IdClOI III CduSiHS tilc suicide.
 Among his effects were found dozens of medals and insignia and paners of much interest. Many of them hore ~, his scheme for establishing a military colony on the island of Trinidad of which he was to be dictator. His na- pers also disclosed that he had heen in other and more ambitious projects-notably a plot to place him at the head of the royalist Government In Hawaii. Among these papers is tho following from Ralston J. Markoe which speaks for itself:
 San Francisco, Aug. 2s. 1se5 Baron Harden Hickey, Los Angeles rsal
 Monsigneur-Your favor of Aupust Is has been received. First-I am the dulv authorized agent of Royalist party in so far as is possible for any one to occunv that position under the existing circum- stances With the Queen in her prison and absolutely cut off from all communi- cation with her friends it is, of course put of the question for me to carry any, thing like formal credentials
 Second-Alienating any part of terri
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Spanish Governments De- lay Not Satisfactorily
 to the President/
Unless There Is an Expression of Regret There May Be a Serious Breach Between
 the Two COuh htries.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-The Herald's Washington correspondent telegraphs: Although Spain has accepted the res- ignation of Senor de Lome as Minis ter in Washington, the incident will not be considered closed until Spain has disavowed his letter or made some ex- pressiOn of regret concerning the con- duct of her late Minister. The author ities here have been anxiously wait ing all evening to hear from Madrid, through Minister Woodford, that some disavowal had been made. Up to late hour tonight the President had not been advised of the character of the response made by Spain to the demand for Senor de Lome's recall.
 Assistant Secretary of State Day re- ceived a cipher dispatch from Minister Woodford tonight, but he would make no further statement concerning 1t than that it confirmed the press dispatch concerning the acceptance of Senor de Lome's resignation and announcing the appointment of Senor Dubosc, first sec- retary of legation, as Charge dAf- faires ad interim. It was apparent the reply was not what Assistant Secre- tary Day expected, and that some ad- ditional information is desired from Minister Woodford before the incident will be regarded as at an end.
 At any rate, the authorities will not consider the matter disposed of until the Cabinet meeting tomorrow. The whole subject will then be discussed and the course of future action decid- ed upon. I can state authoritatively that President Mckinley expected either compliance with his request for the recall of Senor de Lome or some expression of regret on the part of Spain accompanying the announcement of the acceptance of his resignation,
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 which would show that the Spanish Government repudiated his conduct. It is possible that the new Charge d'Af- faires of the Spanish legation will call at the State Department tomorrow, and will accompany the formal notifi- cation of his appointment and the ac- ceptance of the resignation of Senor de Lome, with an expression of regret of his Government on account of the oc- currence. It is also possible that be- fore the Cabinet meets tomorrow fur ther dispatches from Minister Wood ford of satisfactory nature will be re- ceived. This is what the authorities hope for. It is what they consider they have right to expect.
 Spain's new Ministry has thus far dealt with all pending questions be- tween the two countries with decorum.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
PRESIDENT CUESTAS
 DISSOLVES CONGRESS.
Establishment of Provisional Gov ernment in Uruguay Followed
 by a Manifesto.

BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 10.-President Cuestas of Uruguay and his ministers have signed a decree dissolving Congress and establishing a provisional govern ment, says the Herald's correspondent in Montevideo. This decree was followed by a manifesto justifying the measure. The Uruguayan officials admit that the situa- panies of the national guards occupy the principal points of the city. Members of the dissolved Congress are preparing manifesto to be issued tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
BOTHERED BY
 THE CANADIAN
 REGULATIONS
CaDtain GOOdall Not Permitted to Use an American Steamer
 in Saving the Corona.

the young wheat to a great extent, and the farmers are becoming so alarmed that they are soaking wheat in strychnine and throwing 1t over the fields. Dead geese are laying around in profuson, but for ever. one killed ten more seem to come.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
JOHNSTON CANYON
 TUNNEL RE0PENED.
Long Stoppage of Traffic That Has
 Hurt the Santa Fe Com nanU
panV.

ASH FORK, Ariz, Feb. 10.-The John ston Canyon tunnel repairs were com pleted this afternoon and the first train nas gone through. Everything Is in ex- celIent condition, and there is every as- surance that the tunnel will be kept open rom rom this date on. It has been closed for eaactly e,, month, entailing enormous loss on the Santa Fe Company.
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< NEW YORK, Feb 10.-A spe- 4 cial to the World from Washing
 4 ton says: A member of the dip
 4 lomatic corps, who had just
 4 called on the ex-Minister from < Spain, to-day said: De Lome 4 says the effect of his resig- < nation will be that the Liberal < Ministry under Sagasta will be 4 forced out of office almost at $ once. In the new Ministry hewill \ be either Prime Minister or Min ' ister of Foreign Affairs. Either ' position will give him the scope Y he needs"
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
STARTLING
 MISSION OF
 4 WARSHIP Letter Carried by the Duguay TrOuin to
 Hawaii. It Has Thrown President Dole's Government
 Into a Flutter.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

HONOLULU, Feb. S.-The French cruiser Duguay Trouin entered port this morning, and the usual salutes were exchanged. The Cabinet is be- wildered, as the vessel brought a let ter informing the Government that the French cable from Tahiti, touching at Honolulu, was to be immediately laid. and that in future the steamers of the
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11

FIRST PAGE. French Take a Hand in Hawaii. Canadian Pretensions Increase. Baron Harden Hickey Takes Poison. Madame Dreyfus Seriously III. Spain Must Apologize to Mckinley.
 SECOND PAGE. Bikers Elect Potter President. Politics Simmer in the Interior. A Tragedy of the Desert. Los Angeles Water Fight. A Royal Hawaiian Betrothal.
 THIRD PAGE. skaguay Wants Martial Law. Relief Ship for Klondike. Rich Strike on American Soil. Defective Ammunition Scandal Breckinridge Will Not Fight,
 FOURTH PAGE. Belew Will Fight for Life. Why Barrios Was Slain. No Annexation This Session Swift Runs to Honolulu. Fighting Rebels in Formosa Senator Allen Assails Reed.
 FIFTH PAGE. The Hammam Baths Fire. Two Coming Stars. It Was Babies Day. Williams Wanted Tips.
 SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. The De Lome Incident. Corporation Nerve. An Interesting Contemporary. Still Cropping in Error. Excessive Canadian Enterprise The Hornicidal Suicide Stories From the Corridors.
 SEVENTH PAGE. The Harbor Board Trial. The Trial of Figel. News of the Water Front.
 EIGHTH PAGE. The Commercial World.
 NINTH PAGE. Oakland Wins Its Water Fight An Unbidden Guest Came. News From Across the Bay.
 TENTH PAGE. Three Battling Rounds. Racing at Oakland.
 ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
 TWELFTH PAGE. Director Waller Indicted. Camarinos' Mysterious Death. Preparing to Fix Rates. From Telephone to Title.
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Wild Geese Become a Pest.

STOCKTON, Feb. 10.-The wild geese are remaining along the sloughs and riv- CTS so long this year that they have be- come dangerous pest. They are nipping
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
ONE OFFICER
 NOT AFRAID
 TO TESTIFY General Pellieux Does Not Plead Profess sional Secrecy. Relates the Story of the Esterhazy Court of
 Inquiry. He Denounces the Conduct of Colonel Picquart as Most
 Disgraceful. DREYFUS' CASE KEPT OUT. By Skillful Vancouver Zola's Attor- ney Gets Some Information
 Before the Court.
He DenOunceS the Conduct of Colonel Picquart as Most
 Disgraceful.
DREYFUS' CASE KEPT OUT.
By a Skillful Vancouver Zola's Attor- ney Gets Some Information
 Before the Court.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

8 8 8 8 s so s. 8. s s 8 s s. g s. s g
 g LONDON. Feb. 1O.-According g to a special dispatch from Paris
 8 Mime. Dreyfus is so seriously III, g owing to worry, that she is un- s able to appear on the witness g stand in the Zola trial, and in g any case she refuses to furnish
 g any further testimony.
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; FEAR A WAR :. WITH SPAIN

< Copyright, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett < t MADRID, Feb 10.-The Gov < Y ernment feels severely the blow 4 Y which has fallen upon 1t in the < Y indiscretion of Senor de Lome, Y whose resignation was accepted Y to-day at the council held in the 4 Y Palace, but the broad-minded at- 4 titude taken by MT. Mckinley, 4 f that between the fault of its 4 Y Minister and the Spanish Gov 4 < ernment there can be no connec- < tion or responsibility, it is felt 4 4 will be shared by all unpreju- 4 4 diced Americans.
 The Spanish Ministry contin- < ues to talk most hopefully and Y peacefully. 4 4 General Woodford refuses to %- Y say anything, but the best in- 4 Y formation I can get is that the 4 4 situation is becoming very 4 strained. I have further excel 4 < lent authority for saying that 4
 the recent note of Spain to the N United States was not in any 4 way in the nature of a demand 4
 or an appeal for a sign of friend 4 Illness from the United States < Government, and not in any way 4 < meant to impede the progress of <- Y negotiations or open out new 4 4 series of exchange notes between 4 4 the governments. It will not 4 4 even call for a reply.
 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 < < 4 4 4 4 Failure to in some way publicly dis claim responsibility for the indiscre- tion of her Minister here by an answer to note to Minister Woodford may be considered in the nature of an affront.
 The authorities here consider that they took the mildest course possible under the circumstances, and that Spain, unless she wishes to assume re- sponsibility for Senor de Lome's letter, cannot but disavow it. It makes little difference to them what becomes of Senor de Lome after he leaves here or what form the Madrid Government adopts in withdrawing him. All that will be insisted upon Is that the Span- ish Government shall not tacitly ap- prove his course.
 IL has been the earnest wish or the President to have the incident closed as promptly as possible, and to avoid that would cause irritation. If Spain declines to repudiate the ac- ton of her Minister, the authorities will consider that his letter can no longer be treated as a mere private communi- cation from Senor de Lome to Senor Canalejas, but as letter from a Min- ister of Spain, for which Spain assumes full responsibility. Upon the nature of the reply that the Sagasta Ministry has made to the note delivered by Min- ister Woodford the whole situation de- bends. Until this has come before the President and he has had an opportun- ity to discuss 1t with his Cabinet, the with whom I talked to. night were reluctant to speculate about the future course of the United States,
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Weather forecast for San Fran cisco: Cloudy on Friday. with con- ditions favorable for showers in the afternoon; northwesterly. changing to southeasterly, winds.
 Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours:
 San Francisco ..........5S degrees Portland ............4S degrees Los Angeles ............70 degrees San Diego ............62 degrees
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SUICIDE OF 4
 REMARKABLE
 ADVENTURER Baron Harden Hickey Ends His Life
 With Poison. His Poverty and Trouble Cause Him to Take a Dose of Morphine. Noted as a DueliSt in France and Later as the "king
 of Trinidad" HE WEEDS MISS FLAGLER. His Latest Scheme Was to Become the Sovereign of the Hawaiian
 Islands.
 Special Dispatch to The Call. FL PASO,. Oct. 10.-Baron Harden

Special Dispatch to The Call. FL PASO, Oct. 10.-Baron Harden
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Continued on Second Page.
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Noted as a Duelist in France and Later as the "king
 of Trinidad"
HE WEDs MISS FLAGLER.

His Latest Scheme Was to Become the Sovereign of the Hawaiian
 Islands
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-14
Bread Riots.

Nhe world has seen many bread
riots. In 1856, when harvests all over
the world were short, wheat went up,
and in England there were many in
surrections on account of the scarcity
of bread In 1767, when the price of
wheat rose in Mark Lane to the equiv
alent of S1.80 a bushel, there were
serious disturbances all over England,
and great violence was done by the
starving populace. In 1775, when the
price of wheat again went to an almost
prohibitive price to the poor, it was
necessary, in France, for the troops
to guard the markets, and general
insurrection was only kept down by
the prompt massing of troops in the
disatfected and suffering places. The
world we'll knows what a formidable
part was played on the eve of the
French revolution by the rise in food
stutfs, and it will be equally recalled
how frequent, since that revolution,
were the expressions of popular hun
ger and despair up to the time of the
enormous expansion of the American
grain production and the fall in agri-
cultural prices. 1t is most pitiful to
think of people, driven by want to the
cry for bread, cry which, if made too
insistently, is answered with bullets.
Indianapolis News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-14
Attendance at the worlds Expos,t,ons.

Attendance at the Worlds Expeditions.
Attendance at the great expositions
of the world was as follows: French
exposition of 1866, total attendance,
200 days, 5, 152, $50; London's second
international exhibition, 1862, total
attendance 6,225, 900, daily average
SO, 1913; Paris exposition of 1867, total
attendance 10,200,000, opened lit
days; Vienna exposition, 1873, total
attendance 4,1OO,00O; Centennial ex-
position at Philadelphia. 1876, total
attendance 9,910,966, daily average
62,333; first international exhibition
in Paris under the republic, 1878,
total paid attendance 16, 032, 725, daily
average S2,650; Paris exposition of
1889, total paid attendance $4,000, 900
(the exposition opened May 9th and
closed November 6th); Worlds Colum-
bian exposition, Chicago, 1898, total
attendance 81, ,477,2 ,21S, daily average
1884. The total attendance, in
Guiding exhibitors and others holding
passes, was 27, 529, 400, which exceeded
by nearly million the total, 26,53S,-
SAB, claimed by the Paris exposition.
Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, 1894,
total paid attendance $3.50, 900; open
ing day 72,24S paid admissions, At
lanta exposition, 1895, from Septem-
18th to December 31st, total paid at
tendance 6, ,1S0,0 600.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-14

For small change the Abyssinians
use the amole, or bar of salt. This is
block OF hard crystallized salt, about
ten inches long and two and q quarter
inches in breadth and thickness,
slightly tapered toward the end; five
60 to the dollar at the capital, but it's
value varies according to the distance
it has to be brought from Lake Arral,
q salt lake near the entrance to the
Red Sea. People are very particular
about this, too; if it does not ring
like metal when f1icked with the finger
nail. or if it is cracked or chipped,
they won't take it. 1t is token Of
affection, also, when friends meet, to
give each other lick of their respec-
tive amoles, and in this way the ma
terial value of the bar is also de-
creased.
For still smaller change cartridges
are used, of which three go to the
salt It does not matter what sort
they are. whether ''scatter-gun" or
rifle cartridges, nor, in the latter
case, does it matter whether they are
Berdan, Gras, Remington or any other
ammunition. Some sharpers use
their cartridges in the ordinary way,
and then put in some dust and a
dummy bullet to make up the differ
ence, or else they take out the powder
and put the bullet in again, so that
possibly in the next action the unhap-
py seller will find that he has nothing
but miss-ires in his belt; but this is
such common fraud that no one takes
notice of it, and bad cartridge seems
to serve as readily as good one.-
New York Times.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-14
WAR COST TO DATE.
About S3,OOO,OO0 a Day the Average
Expense of Fitting ARMY and Navy.

About s3,OoO,O00 a Day the Average
Expense of Fitting ARMY and Navy.
WASHINGTON, D. G. Especial. The first
twenty-nine days of the war which the
United States is waging against the king
dom of Spain cost this country about $780,
900 900, or nearly $3,000,000 a day.
The cost OF operations in the future will
probably not beso great, as quite one-half
Of the expenditures so far have been In
the way Of preparation, the requirement
of warships, guns and equipments. The
ordinary cost should run about 81 900, 900
aday. 1t Is estimated that more than
200 600 persons are actively employed
helping the nations land and sea forces to
get into fighting trim.
The persons who derive the most profit
from contracts with the Government are
those that have ships, guns, commissary
supplies, boots, shoes, uniforms, tents, cut
lery, tinware and fiannels to sell, and the
railway companies.