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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
READY FOR THE FRAY.


CHARLESTON CIV. va.), Jan. S.
The Legislature assemblies next Wed
nesday and party leaders are already
here for the preliminary work in the
organization Of that body.
Although the balloting for a successor
to Senator Faulkner does not begin un-
til Monday, January 23d, two weeks
hence, the most important action af-
fecting the Senatorship as we'll as both
parties in the State, will be taken
within the next three days The Leg
islature is so close politically that its
control will depend on its organization.
as that will carry with it the proba-
BILE settlement of contested seats.
Among the contests are two for the
seats of Republican members who
served in the army during the Spanish
war. Although they did not resign,
the Democrats elected members in their
places and entered proceedings in the
courts to secure the seats. There are
many candidates for Senator, but the
contest this week is first and solely
on issue of organization to determine
which party will have the Senator.
ship.
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Reports That Affairs. Are Practically
Unchanged.
Streets Are Barricaded and Insur-
gents Threaten to Destroy the
Business Portion by Fire at the
First Shot Of Bombardment-
United States Troops Will
Probably Land on the Island Of
Gimaras.

MANILA, Jan. S.-Colonel Potter, the
special emiSSary of General Otis be-
tween Manila and Iloilo, arrived this
afternoon With dispatches from the lat
ter point. The situation when he left
there was practically unchanged The
streets were barricaded, and it was re-
ported that the principal buildings had
been 'kerosened," the insurgents hav-
ing threatened to destroy the whole
business section by fire at the first shot
of bombardment. The banks were ship
ping treasure to the United States by
the transport Newport and other YES
sells. The family of the American Vice
Consul has gone aboard the Newport.
Colonel Potter reports that President
McKinley's proclamation had to be
typewriter aboardship, as the printers
on shore declined to do the work, and
when the text of the proclamation was
read to them ridiculed the notion that
Cancellation was possible.
Privates Harry Silvey and Frank
Kirkpatrick of the Sixth United States
Artillery, while guarding a water boat,
were attacked by the natives of the
crew. Private Silvey's skull was frac-
tured, fatally, and Private Kirkpatrick
fell overheard, but escaped with a flesh
wound.
The United States gunboat Para ar
rived at Iloilo on Friday, and Colonel
Potter reports that the United States
troops will probably land on Gimaras
Island, about midway between the ISL
and of Panay and the island of Ne
gros, where camp will be established.
Both sides, Colonel Potter says, have
been impressing the local shipping for
military purposes, and the Francisco
Reines had landed $50 natives The
foreigners were taking refuge on the
British cruiser Bona Ventura.
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OR1(JINAI Defective

it on the dresser in the bath room and
DR.. Douglass took it away with him.
He afterwards said it contained mer-
curry. AT the time of his death there
were in the room DR.. Douglass, myself
and Miss Jennie Calender, the other
nurse. His brother had been there,
too, but at the particular time he died
he was not there. During Mr.. Bar
nets entire illness he was In such a
condition as a man suffering from
diphtheria. At no time was I suspic-
ious that his illness was due to another
cause. He was uncommunicative
through all his illness. paid no at
tention to the sores on his mouth and
sprayed his throat.
The most important part of the in
terview with the nurse is that which
relates to the sending of the flowers to
Barnet and the note which accompa
MED them.
This is supposed to be the note signed
blanche" about which SO much has
been written and about which there
has been much speculation as to the
identity of it's sender.
Captain McClusky now has this note
in his possession.
He will not permit it to be seen, or
tell whether 1t is now in the hands of
the handwriting experts.
He would not admit thai the note
was signed Blanche" but when in dis
cussing some point, one of his listeners
asked if the note referred to was the
one signed Blanche, the Captain re-
piled in the affirmative.
He quickly corrected himself, how
ever
He said that Miss Bates could not re-
call the name Of the man who had sent
flowers to Barnet at the club on two or
three occasions.
When asked as to the time when Mr..
Kinsley, the expert in handwriting,
might make his report, upon the spec
linens in his possession, Captain Nc
Clusky said that it might be in forty
eight hours. With relation to the pos
sible elimination of the body of Bar
net, the Captain said that that matter
was in the hands of the District At
torney ard the Coroner.
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The Victims Were Suffocated BY the Dense
Smoke.
The Catastrophe Caused by the
Explosion Of Gas-Wreck on the
Southern Railway in Tennessee,
With Four Men Killed and
Others Injured-Barnet's Nurse
Tells the Story Of His Illness.

PITTSBURG, Jan Sat a fire which
broke out in the Hotel Richelieu at
3:15 this morning three of the guests
lost their lives and five people were
badly hurt.
Dead-Amos j. Lands, Grapeville,
Pa; George A. Waters, Camden, N. j.;
Mrs. Katherine Boyle, Pittsburg.
The victims We're suffocated by the
dense smoke
Injured-Dr. Robert Blacksley of
Plymouth, Pa, fracture of vertebrae.
caused by falling from third-foor win
dow, will probably die; Henry Painter,
Grapeville, Pa, small blood vessels of
lungs ruptured by inhaling smoke, may
recover; John L. Mills, proprietor of
the hotel, face and body badly burned;
Miss Mills, his daughter, cut by glass
while breaking through the window;
William Garretson, Clearfeld, Pa,
painfully burned about back and hips.
The fire originated on the second floor
from an explosion of gas, and within
few minutes the building was mass
Of flames and binding smoke. The
noise of the explosion awakened most
Of the guests, about twenty in number.
and a frantic fight for life ensued-
Robert N. Thompson of Kalaska,
Mich, a salesman for the Cadillac
Lumber Company, was the means of
saving at least six lives. In the first
moments after the explosion he rushed
into the hall of the second floor and
stumbled over the unconscious form
of a woman, whom he dragged into the
reception-room. Five others, three
men and two women, who had been
driven back from the stairway by the
flames. were shrieking and fighting for
some exit. Thompson forced them all
into the big room and locked the door,
Knowing that it meant death to go
into the hall, he fought the desperate
men back until the arrival of the fire
men, when all were rescued. Pecuniary
loss but $4,000.
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FATAL COLLISION.
Freight and Passenger Trains Col
Ide in Tennessee.

Hde in Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE (Tenns), Jan. S.-Four
dead, two injured, one of these per-
haps fatally, and the loss of property
of the Southern Railway to the amount
of about 100000 is the result of a
wreck which occurred this morning on
the Knoxville and Ohio branch Of the
Knoxville Division Of the Southern
Railway. one and one-half miles west
of Elk Valley.
The dead: Engineer j. D. Maxey
Fireman Frank Readily (colored),
Brakeman Ionza Hoover (colored),
F1agman W. A. Dillon.
The injured: Engineer Goff badly, if
not fatally. cut on head and bruised:
Fireman George Huskisson, badly
burned and may die.
Maxey, Readily, Hoover and Dillon
We're burned to death or killed under
meath the ruins of the engines and a
number Of cars and coaches of the two
wrecked trains.
This morning at 11:30 o'clock
double header freight train loaded with
coal and merchandise crashed into a
mixed local passenger train while both
were running at the rate of thirty-five
miles per hour. The engines met head
on, the force of impact being terrific.
The trainmen did not have time to
jump. The passenger train was fifteen
minutes late and had the right of way.
All the freight trains on the Knoxville
and Ohio Division had been notified
the passenger train was on late run,
and the only cause for the accident
that can be given is that Engineer
Maxey of the freight train misread his
orders.
The passenger train carried about
twenty passengers. None of these were
injured.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
GALE AT ST. JOHNS.
The Steamer Anglican Arrives. Tow
ing the Disabled Hestia.

ST. JOHNS, Jan. S.-The British
steamer Anglican, London for Boston.
arrived here to-day towing the British
steamer Hestia, twenty-four. days out
from Glasgow in ballast for Baltimore.
The Hestia encountered terrific
weather crossing the Atlantic and on
Sunday last her tail shaft broke. Short
~ afterward the Anglican came along
side, stood by her three days and nights
and then took her in tow. The Hestia
was constantly swept by heavy seas
and her upper works were almost bat
tered to pieces.
When the steamers anchored in the
harbor to-day a severe gale was blow
ing. The Hestia drifted ashore on the
south side of the harbor striking stern
on, in which position she still lies. The
Anglican endeavored to tow her off but
she also struck, though after hard eff
forts she got off.
The gale is still raging, accompanied
by binding snowstorm. 1t is feared
shipping in the harbor may suffer Sc
verely during the night.
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Will Extend at Once.

Ell PASO, Jan. SC. B. Eddy, Pres
ident and General Manager of the Ell
Paso and Northeastern Railway, wired
to-day from New York to the contract
ors here to proceed at once with the
work of preparing to grade the extern
sion of the main line of the road from
Laluz to Salado, near White Oaks, New
Mexico, distance of ninety miles. At
Salado are located the extensive coal
fields which were discovered about
twelve years ago. The extension is
to be completed by May Both next.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
ADAMS POISONING CASE.
Miss Bates Tells the Story Of Bar
nets Illness.

NEW YORK, Jan. S-No apparent
progress was made to-day in the solu-
ton of the mystery attached to the
Adams poisoning case. Miss Bates,
the trained nurse, who attended Henry
c. Barnet. the Knickerbocker Club
member who is alleged to have died
Clusky to-day.
According to Miss Bates statement,
she was sent for by Dr. Henry B..
Douglass on November LIST to take care
of case. She called at DR. Doug
lass office and was directed by him to
go to the Knickerbocker Athletic. Club
to attend q diphtheria patient, man.
The patient had sore throat and Dr.
Douglass came in the afternoon and
give directions for giving medicine and
spraying the throats. The doctor also
told her to admit no one to the patients
room during his illness. She gave him
medicine at different times and re-
fused to let any one see him. MANY
messages came to him but they were
answered by her over the telephone.
cat different times,'' the statement
continued, "a gentleman having a room
on the same floor in the club. called
to inquire for him and also sent him
flowers. On Monday afternoon before
he died Che died on Thursday. Novem-
Der 10TH some flowers came to Mr..
Barnet with a note. He was sleeping
at the time. When he awoke 7 told
him some flowers were there. also a
note. He told me to read the note and
I did so. After reading the note he
closed his eyes and said: T wonder
how she knew I was Hip
After I had been there two or three
days DR.. Douglass asked me if I had
seen a box marked 'Cutnow.'
Il answered that had and we found
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
WRECK IN COLORADO.
A Cattle Train Rolls Down a Steep
Embankment.

DENVER, Jan. S.-A special to the
News" from Salida, Colo, says: A
Denver and Rio Grande freight train,
loaded with ore and cattle, jumped the
track near Mears Junction to-day and
rolled down steep embankment,
smashing the cars to pieces. All the
train crew were more or less injured,
but no one was killed.
Engineer Edward Somerville and
Brakeman Thurman are the most seri-
ously injured, the former. 1t is thought
being in dangerous condition. A num-
Der of the cattle were killed. The train
was going down a grade when the air.
brakes gave way, giving freedom to the
motion OF the cars. All the injured
were. brought to Salida, but only the
two above mentioned are in the hospital
now.
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COLONEL PARSONS DEAD.
Was Once Speaker Of Ohio House
Of Representatives.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 8.-Colonel Rich
ard G. Parsons died to-day, aged e
years. Colonel Parsons, as a young
man, was member Of the Ohio House
of Representatives and Speaker of that
body. Later he was appointed by
President Lincoln Consul to Rio JAM
GIRO. Subsequently he was Marshal
of the United States Supreme Court.
He served one term in Congress and
was instrumental in inaugurating the
harbor Improvements at this port. For
a time he was editor Of the Cleveland
Herald" At the time of his death
Colonel Parsons was Referee in Bank
ruptcy. Deceased was a fine orator
and a writer Of force.
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carried out in them putting them into

carried out in them putting them into
condition.
1t is also announced that a Bremen
firm intends to establish with steamers
now being built for that purpose a
steamship line on the Yangtse Kiang
in China, to ply between Shanghai and
Hankow. BY the aid of the line, which
will connect with the subsidized lines
running from Hamburg to Shanghai,
German dealers and German interests
will be in direct communication not
only with Shanghai, which has two
thirds of the import trade of China,
but also with Hankow, one of the most
important commercial cities Of China
and having a population of about L.
100000.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
MEMPHIS JOCKEY CLUB.
Entries for the Montgomery Handi-
cap to be Run in April.

MEMPHIS (Tenn.). Jan. S.-The
Memphis Jockey Club announces the
entries for the Montgomery handicap
which will be run on April 9Th. the
opening day of the meeting, as follows:
Tom Collins, Fireside, J. H. c., Ban
ished, Remp, High links. Airblast, Kit
ty B., George B. Cox, Millstream, Wins
low, Nobleman, Onamastus, De Blaze,
Algol, Macy. Presbyterian, Leiber Karl,
Sea Lion, Ordnung, w Overton, Albert
Swind, Simon W., Basquil, Belle of
Memphis, Peak, Sailor King, Handsel,
Crockett, Opaque, Lennep, The Star of
Bethlehem, Leo Planter, Forget Not,
Manuel, Kentucky Colonel, The Ken
tuckian, F. F. ", jolly Roger, Imp,
Fervor, Cherry Leaf, Clay Pointer.
Ulysses, George Kratz, DIR. Willmsley,
Hittick, Buckvidere, Chantilly, The Ro-
man, The Pride, ST. Simonion, Dunois
and Golden Link.
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INVENTION OF PRIESTS.
Spaniards Have Not Been Massa-
cred on Balabac Island.

HONGKONG, Jan. S.-According to
statements of people who have just ar
rived here from the island of Balabac,
south of the island of Palawan, there
is no truth in the report that the Span
iards there have been massacred by
the Filipinos.
They say the story is an invention
of priests to prejudice the Filipino
cause, declaring also that there are not
more than half dozen Spaniards in
the island, and that all who have been
killed fell in warfare
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VIII Resume Work.

MIDDLESBOROUGH (Ky.). Jan. g.
G. P. Perrin has hoated bonds for $780,
600 on the Watts Steel Plant and the
plant resumes at once. This is the
largest basic steel works in the South
and employs 700 workmen It was
built in 1898, at cost of $3.50. 600.
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MADRID, Jan. S.-Advices were re-
ceived here to-day from a leading mer-
chant at Iloilo to the effect that agri-
cultural operations in the vicinity of
Iloilo have not been interrupted, and
that all the insurgents respect the Eu-
ropeans, both at Iloilo and on the ISL
and of NegrOS.
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Colonel Dickinson Dead.

EASTON Pa.), Jan. S-Colonel Asa
w Dickinson Of Hackensack, N J.,
died to-day at the home of his mother.
Mrs. Jacob Hay, IN this city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-17

600, 900 bushels. The crop will certainly be
less than it was last year, but the state
ment that will fall to s2O,OO00O0 bushels
has yet to be verified. Abundant rains in
Ohio, Indiana Illinois. Missouri and Kan
sas will lift the crop out very handsomely.
The joint crops of winter and spring wheat
were, last year, 6sS. 600 600 bushels, and
yield of 600,080,O0O this year will meet all
demands, and keep prices down to com
Portable level. The foreign demand will be
much lighter, and COO millions will so as
far this year in supplying the wants OF
the world as 67S millions did last year. There
will be less wheat, and less outside demands
for it this year. The all dispensable grain
is worth about seventy cents in Chicago,
and the indications are that it will not go
above that figure during the coming year.
Trade conditions continue to show i'm
provement. Bank clearings and railroad
earnings are increasing; business failures
are crowded with orders. Bradstreet's
shows that the larger percentage of prices
are either steady or advancing. Corn, raw
silk and flax, live animals. pig iron, steel
bilets, silver, copper and tin, nails, glass
and lumber are all higher than they
were during. the month just past. OF the
stapled quoted, one-fifth declined during
the month of April, two-fifths remained UNI
changed and. one third were advanced The
tendency is still upward.
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The Remarkable Carter Case.

The secrecy and peculiarties. of the
Dreyfus case in France are parallelled to
some extent ythe secretly conducted and
held-ups Carter case in this country. Cap
tain Carter of the engineer corps had
charge of the work in Savannah harbor,
and he was courtmartialedt and found gull
tysof embezzlement to the extent of a large
sTm-said to be up in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and he was SEN
fenced to dismissal and Imprisonment.
This was seventeen months ago, but it
seems that the noble Alger is his friend,
and through the great war secretary-the
greatest, it seems, the world has ever
known-President Mckinley. has. also be-
come his friend, and the sentence has not
been approved. 1t is hung up, and it has
been hung up seventeen months, and in
the end perhaps Captain Carter may be
permitted to join Eagan in his vacation,
frolic on full pay.
The very curious story is now published
that the bank books and check books of
Mr. Westcott, Captain Carter's father-in-
law, have at length been produced, West
colt having returned from Europe, and it
is claimed that these books explain the
dark and shady transactions of Captain
Carter, and practiclly exonerate him. Just
how this could be, no one sees or is per-
nitted to see. 1t is darkly given out that
the new evidence requires the reference of
the case to Acknowledgement Griggs, who
will perhaps report that the members of
the courtmartial and the judge advocate
should be-. censured instead Of Garter
ment under the redoubtable Alger.
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Carneuie's Retirement.

There are many theories as to the rea-
son of Mr.. Carnegie's retirement but the
chances are that he sold out beeauso he
could get big round price, and because
he could thereafter be free to indulge
his taste for leading and guiding public
controversial English at. least. He has
book-making aspirations even He claims
to know tho world little better than any
one else does. His retirement means,
therefore, continuous crop of theories,
expressed in interviews and letters; with
now and then a book. The sum total will
not be hurtful, while some of 1t may add
to the gaiety even of nations.
Mr.. Carnegies ostentatious announce
ment that he is about to become a pro-
fessional philanthropist. should perhaps be
taken with some grains of allowance. He
seems to prefer gifts that stand out before
the public. He not only let's his left hand
know what his right hand doeth, but he
lets all the rest of the world know about
1t. The matter IS, however, one OF taste
simply for Mr.. Carnegle's gifts have in
every instance been praiseworthy. They
may be monuments, but they are useful
monuments.
Mr.. Fricl1, who win hereafter be the chief
ironmaster of the country does not share,
it is said, Mr. Carnegie's belief in comps
tition and Independent action. He thinks
the ironmasters of the land should act
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES practically become one
concern Whether the Frick policy will
admit of growth and progress as the Car
negle policy has done, is the real important
question in the case, and nothing short of
actual experience can decide which plent Is
the better for the great industry, and for
the country. Under the Carnegie plan this
country would soon have become the mas
terfal and afl-powerful iron and steel con-
ter of the world, and 1t may be the FriclS
programme will not cripple the industry,
but the chances largely are that it will.
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erals Armstrong. Wright, Hunter. John
son, Pryor, Ransom, Shelly, and Cosby
Among the Federal soldiers stil1 in active
service in the army are General Mics, Cen
eral Merritt and General Brooke.
Many Of the veteran generals served in
the United States regular army with les
ser rank until they we're debarred by age.
Among the names of the retired officers
which are carried on the army register are
many distinguished veterans, such as Scho-
field SiclSles, Howard, Wright. PaIlle. Get
ty, Stanley, Wilcox, Baird, MoCook, Thorn
as j. Wood, Fitz John Porter, Ruger, Carr,
Long, Wheaton, FORSYTH, Ratch Com
stock, Grierson, Cariin, Palmer Badly
Smith, Averell. Dana, William D. Whip
pie, and others. The retired list contains
663 officers of all grades, over Geo of whom
participated in the civil war.
AS the general officers have gradually
passed away, so have the lesser lights. The
army register of 1898 dscloses the fact that
there remain but 45I officers in the regular
army before the beginning Of hosilities
with Spain. This is only about one-fifth
of the entire number. Ten years ago two
thirds of the officers had seen service in
the civil war; 1t is estimated by compe-
tent authority that in five years time the
number of these veterans will fall below
one hundred, and 1t Is safe to say that at
the termination of the first decade of the
twentieth century not a single name of a
Union soldier will be carried on the regular
army POLL