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The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22

The mere cutting OF weeds, says
horticulturist, enhances the growth of
grass. Simply dropping undesirable
companions gives many a young per-
son start upward.
The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22

1t has been some time since Cen
eral Funston has actually been in the
swim.
The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22

Gen. Maxine Gomez opposes "au-
tonomy" for Cuba. 1t now remains
for the cuckoos to demonstrate that he
is scapegrace.
The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22

Colombia government troops report
having killed 1000 and wounded 1000
rebels in recent battle. The British
censor at Alden would better let
through few more native" reports
of British victories" or the Trans
vaal war will begin to appear insig-
nificant.
The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22

II boys mother admits he is tritie
wild he must be pretty tough.
The Springfield herald., 1899-12-22
The Latest Devices for Swift Luxurious

East and West, are found on Union Pa
cifc trains. The best line for Kansas
city, Omaha. st. Louis. Chicago, ST Paul,
San FRANCISCO and the Pacific Northwest.
Ticket Office, 9i1 Eth street.
Barber-"Are YOU for England in this
war. sir?m Men In I.ather-"Who arc
you for?' Barher-''What difference
does that make, sIr?" Man in Lather-
I've got sense enough not to want to ar
quo with man who has razor"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
FINE STREET RAILWAY
SYSTEM FOR SAN JOSE

SAN JOSE, April 29.-The sale of the
F'irst-street electric railway system on
May 10 to satisfy a mortgage indebted
ness of 5000 900 to the German Savings
and Loan Society of San Francisco prom
ises to bring out some spirited bidding.
There are two parties already in the
field who want to acquire the franchises
and equipment of the line and it is ru-
mOred that San Francisco capitalists also
have an eye on it. The system is about
fifteen miles in length and fully equipped
1t runs the entire length of First street
to the cemetery, with feeders leading into
each of the four quarters of the city
Messrs. Henry and Burke, owners of
the San Jose and Santa Clara Electric
Railway, have been conducting negOtia-
ttons with the German Savings and Loan
Society looking to its purchase. Now an
other buyer has appeared in the person
of A. Greeninger, who is at the head of
a company of local capitalists. Greenin-
ger has an application before the Board
of Supervisors for a franchise for an cleo
trio road out First street from the north
erly city limits to AlViso. These men pro-
pose to bid on the Ffrst-street road In
the combine is Hugh center of the Alum
Rock motor road. If they are successful
they propose to make the Alviso road a
part of the Ffrst-street system. The Alum
Rock road will then be changed to an
DelmaS avenue will be extended to Camp
bell and perhaps to Los Gatos.
The purchase of the F'irSt-street road
by either of these two parties of capital
lists will give San Jose one of the finest
street car systems in the West
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

in such a high spirited body of men as
the officers and sailors of the American
navy. An exposition of this feeling
was bound to come sooner or later.
The Saturday Review, in an article
characteristic of it's treatment of any
thing concerning Americans. said:
Had an English captain made Cap
tain Coghlans speech, if such thing
is conceivable, or had a German officer
made it about England. there would
have been war; but the Americans are
treated by the world like spoiled chill
dren. We. however, do not envy the
position. of Captain COghlan, from
which he can only escape by accepting
an imputation upon his sobriety."
The Speaker takes a more common
sense view of the matter and rejects
the brutal and insulting suggestion
of the German papers that Captain
Coghlan was intoxicated"
The Speaker assumes that Captain
Coghlan thought he was talking in cOn>
fidence to personal friends and mem
bers of the Union League Club and let
himself go" His heaviest punish
ment," the Speaker adds, will not be
any that the Secretary of the Navy can
inf1ict, but the consciousness that he
has unwittingly done an injury to his
own country"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

and containing the mysterious passage:
Perhaps it was due to negotiations
on the part of Germany in order to OBJ
tain, if possible, coaling station in
the Philippines, that a number of our
vessels We're sent to Manila. If this
presumption is correct, those who sent
instructions to Admiral Won DiedrichS
without the knowledge of the Foreign
Office received a bitter lesson. The
Foreign Office has since been engaged
| in repairing the blunder and has sue
ceeded with the American Government,
but not yet with the people of the
United States, as the COghlan incident
again demonstrates.
The force of this editorial article is
heightened by the fact that the paper
in which 1t was published was in the
outbreak of the war with Spain, one
of the most virulent enemies of the
United States. The Volks Zeitung and
other newspapers advise Germans not
to undervalue the Importance of hos
tile demonstrations accompanying the
Coghlan incident, putting them on par
allel lines with similar incidents on
both sides in the period preceding the
F'rancOGerman war.
The jingo Agrarian press seizes the
opportunity to attack the Cabinet and
particularly the Foreign Minister,
Baron Won BulOw, and to reiterate the
Charge lHdl lie Is pun lSulHS d NdClleillLS s
policy.
The North German Gazette, for ex-
ample says: advancing at the wrong
time and then retreating at the wrong
time-that has been our foreign policy
for a decade past"
Other newspapers continue the cam
paign for a larger navy, insisting that
| if Germany wishes to remain a world
power she must have many more ships,
so as to be able to interfere at any
time and anywhere. The great ma
jority of the newspapers, however, pre-
serve a calm and reasonable tone over
the Coghlan incident.
| The correspondent of the Associated
Press learns that Emperor William has
! taken a deep interest in the Coghlar
incident and in affairs that have beer
developing in Samoa. While visiting al
Wartburg the Emperor had full reports
sent to him in regard to both matters
| including a copy of the satirical ditty
which Captain COghlan recited at the
conclusion of his speech at the Union
League Club in New York and which
his Majesty read with great amuse-
ment.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

T. ". Carr had a difficult and dangerous
rupture. which failed TO yield 10 a number Of
different kinds Of trusses. And ne tried the
much alked-Of Rice method. the discovery of
DR.. W S. Rice, AS G. Main St. Adams n Y
His cure was perfect. the opening through
which the rupture pr0truded having grown
together. Surgeons claim that the only radf-
cal cure for hernia or breach or rupture all
OF which names the malady is known under. is
t. cut orcn the outer skin and tnen sew the
muscles together. IT is a dangerous operation
kills as often as It cures, and is not a GER
tainty Or. Rice obtains all the benefit OF an
oneratiOn, but knife. The fact Is
his system is a home cure. without pain, dan
ger operation or hour detention from
work 1t is marvellous. He cured a man cut
IN Ricevile, Iowa. VIM. Blandin by name
whose case was apparently hopeless. He also
restored Geo. F. Mulford. 4S4 e. 5th St. Bos-
ton. Mass who had been rutured eighteen
years Geo Bell of 81. Charles. Mimi. is
another remarkable case. There are probably
q thousand others who have all been perma-
nently cured by DIR. Rice.
Mr.. Carr was cured two years ago. end his
muscles have grown beyond the possibility Of
return OF rupture. Write to DR.. Rice for his
free book rupture. Write to-day DO not
delay, since to do may cause you to forget
the address. Write 10 DIR. w. S. Rice, 41S g.
Main St. Adams, n Y.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
ENGLISH LENIENT AS TO
COGHLAN'S INDISCRETI0N

Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 29.-The Coghlan in
cident has caused a great deal of stir
on this side of the Atlantic and has
furnished the press of England and the
Continent with fruitful topic of dis
cussion throughout the week. The
English papers have taken a lenient
view of Captain Coghlan's indiscretiOn
and except in the case of one or two
notoriously anti-American journals,
have been disposed to find excuses for
him.
The Spectator in an article which is
typical of English comment, says
Though we must join in the censure of
Captain Coghlan for his indiscretion.
we must not forget that what he said
was substantially in accordance with
the facts. The Germans behaved at
Manila in most irritating and un-
friendly way to the United States. 1t
was absurd for them to expect to play
the part they played without raising a
feeling of the most intense bitterness
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
YOUNG ATHLETES COMPETE.
University of the Pacific Wins at
Field Sports.

SAN JOSE, April 29.-The interscholastic
field sports held here to-day were at
tended by about 1900 people. The Uni
versity of the Pacific won with 55 points.
Santa Clara High School SO, San Jose
High School a. Los Gatos II, State Nor
NAL II. The events and winners were:
Fifty-yard dash-Hamilton, U. P, 2-5
seconds.
Half-mile bicycle race-Lace Downing,
San Jose, 2. minutes 2-5 seconds.
SS0-yard run-Steeves, Santa Clara, 2:15.
One mile walk-Tie between Nichols
and Hyde, T., P. Time. S:51.
100-yard dash-Hamlcon, L. p. 10 2-5.
Mile run-Wiley, Santa Clara, 5:22.
One mile bicycle race-Lace Downing.
2:36.
220-yard dash-Hamilton, u. P, no time.
220-yard hurdle-Plank. Santa Clara n.
440-yard run-Hamilton. L. P, "a
Broad jump-Narramore, Santa Clara.
20 feet inches.
Pole vault-Bassett. feet inches.
Hammer-throw-Estes State Normal.
149 feet.
Running high jump-Wilder. Los Gatos.
3 feet l inch.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
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of iron dropping below the periphery
of the wheels would prevent their run
ming off the rails.
But stead of making it go with
handles, like a real handcar, I'd jest
push it and JUMP on. Mother feller
up here put a piece of iron on the track
and the cars split it in two and he fixed
a handcar with it; but 'twasn't piece
of rail it cut in two"
That he did not expect to wreck the
train, as would seem from the plausible
story he told, is not credited He has
repeatedly shown himself capable of in.
venting equally plausible stories to
cover up other mischievous pranks. He
has stolen small things and seemed to
know intuitively what course would be
pursued in an effort to defect him, so
that it was almost impossible to secure
a statement from him that would in
any way implicate himself He never
lacks for an answer to any question
and replies with great celerity. delib-
erately falsifying and at the same time
framing his answers so as to make a
likely story, as though the whole thing
had been carefully planned before.
Would you do this to wreck a
train?"
oh. no! That'd be wrong and papa a
not like 1t. My papa asked me to tell
him everything. 1 do and always tell
him things like that-when he asks
me-"
His father said in court that he had
asked Harry all about it and endeav-
ored to get at the truth and he could
find out nothing. The boy seemed to
know nothing of it,
SO 1t was with other questions. He
spoke without any reference to the
facts in the case. Veracity has no place
in the child's makeup
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

BERLIN. April 29.-Universal atten.
tion has been attracted in political cir
cles by the prominence given in III,
semi-otficial North German Allege
meine Zeitung to an Endorsement of the
late Prince Bismarck's recommenda
tion Of German, British and Italian
alliance
Ihe hreuz Zeitung gives the subject
equal prominence, but takes exception
10 the recommendation, saying that be
fore such an alliance can be thought Of
Samoa and other troublesome points
must be out of the way.
The Reichstag, during several recent
sessions, has suffered from absentee
ism. This has been much worse dur
ing the present session, when, with few
EXCEPTIONS the attendance has been
less than One-fifth of the total mem
DerShlp and has often dWindled TO a
score. AS, under the rules, a half of the
members constitute a quorum. the sit
ungS have been continued only by the
good VIII Of the members present. This
condition Of affairs has been the sub
Ject Of great deal of complaint in the
newspapers and the old scheme of
granting a per diem allowance. which
has been defeated in the Bundesrath
several times in the last twenty years.
has been again revived.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learns from an authoritative
source that Englands unfriendly atti-
tude is likely to have considera BILE in
Huence upon the AngIO-German Della
goa Bay agreement. Some curious
events preceding this agreement have
now been made public. The agreement
only goes into force if Portugal volun-
1ac
not yet been done. although English
ana Portuguese fnanCiers are working
10 that end. The moving spirit in the
matter was Cecil Rhodes. who man
aged TO make the King of Portugal he
HeNe that he could secure his throne
against the attacks of Republicans by
English arms if he relinQuishes Por-
tugueSe African possessions to Eng
land. Germany had nothing to do with
these Vaccinations, but only tried tc
safeguard her interests. There has
been such revulsiOn Of public feeling
regarding England, due to her un-
friendly attitude in Samoa and China
inat the Government feels obliged tC
yield to this sentiment There is a
suspicion in England that Count vor
Hatzteldt, the German Embassador t.
Great Britain, has been instructed that
Germany is no longer ready to carry
out the Delagoa Bay agreement
The Agrarian Deutsche Tages lei
tung claims that during the canned
beef investigation. it was proved that
Western packing company had i'm
ported into Germany, under the guise
OF beef, canned horse meat. The news
paper named demands that the Govern
ment stop this 'swindling traffic"
Labor day in Berlin will be celebrated
by twenty-nine public meetings. In the
afternoon the Socialists will hold nam
},
Reichstag districts
Major General Frank Wheaton. L. s
A, retired, and his family are here tc
spend some time
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
ON EASTERN TRACKS.
Crockett Wins the Peabody Handicap
at Memphis.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 2g-The Mem
phis Jockey Clubs annual spring meeting
ended to-day The Peabody handican wa q
the banner race. Dunois was scratched
and six horses faced the starter. Crock
EFT, the favorite, won handily by a length.
Crockett was the only winning favorite.
weather cloudy; track fast Results:
Six furlongs selIing-Troopia won. Idle aour
second. Ben Frost third. Time, 1:1612
Halt miie-Maydine won. Atlantic second.
Mile and sixteenth-Miss Patron won Our
Nellie second, Jimp third. Time ISL
Mile and an eighth Peabody handicap
Crockett Won Basquil second, Peat third.
Six furlongs-Galathea won, Lennep second,
Little Jack Horner third. Time. 1:15&4
one mile, selling-Patron won, Traveller sec
ond Colonel Frank Waters third. Time, 1:43A
port to-day was one of the largest in the his
tory of the Queen City Jockey Club The
weather was beautiful and the track at its
best Results:
One mile, selling-L w won, Vanessa second.
Jack Martin third Time. 1:45
Four and half furlongs-Beldon won. High
land Lad second. Nina B L third. Time :54Ib
Mile and a sixteenth, handicap-Raffaelio
won. Gold Fox second, Flop third Time,
six furlongs. selling-Horace won. Bertha
Nell second. Kenmore Queen third. Time.
Six furIongs. selling-violet Parsons won.
Scrivener second, Rem Campbell third Time,
1:4
Mile and sixty yards-Prosecutor won, Tranby
second. Eitholin third. Time. 1:45A
NEW YORK, April 2s.-Results at Aqueduct
About seven furlongs-Great Land won Dr.
Parker second. Roysterer third Time, :25 2-5.
Four and half furlongs. selling-Lottie She
vile won. Aibonita second. Be-So third.
Time. 81.
One mile-Dan Rice Won AL Fresco second,
Kirkwood third. Time 1:422
Six furlongs, selling, Rockaway-Gaze won.
Tallahassee second, Duke of Middleburg third.
Time. 1:14.
Five furongs. selling-Shoreham won. Queen
Anne second. Big Gun third. Time 1:02
About seven furlongs. selling-Harry Reed
won, Ordeal second, Leando third. Time,
125 40
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
GENE LEIGH A BENEDICK.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, April "a very
pretty double wedding occurred at the
Grand Hotel this evening H. Eugene
Leigh, the turfman, and William c.
Schrode. the theatrical man. who has lust
completed an engagement at the Foun-
tain Theater, We're married to two of
Kentucky's fairest daughters, Viola
Wilkes and Lillian Wilkes, daughters OF
Henry w Wilkes of Louisville The
ceremony took place in the parlor of the
Grand Hotel. Dr. Henry Melville Curtis
pastor Of Mount Auburn Presbyterian
Church, officiating. and Judge Jackson
Smith acting as best man. After. the
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh and Mr. and Mrs.
Schrode will remain In Cincinnati until
Monday when they. will leave for New
York. Mr. Schrode intends to retire from
the stage. and engage in other business IN
New York.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
Transferred to YoIo County.

WOODLAND. April 29.-The case of
Mrs. Garfield against 1. NJ Bedell ct al.
will be transferred from the Superior
Judge Hebbard granted the motion for a
change of venue Friday upon. the appli-
cation of Arthur c. Huston, attorney for
defendant The action is to recover a lot
of diamond jewelry which is now in the
possession of the defendant, j. B. Wright.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
Nealy Found Not Guilty.

WOODLAND, April 29.-The jury in the
case of Thomas Nealy, which has been
on trial in the Superior Court for two
days, has rendered a verdict finding the
defendant not guilty. Nealy was charged
with having interfered with Constable
Johnson of Davisville in the discharge Of
his duties
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

from Dublin says: ''The Irish land
Court will shortly offer the most admired
RT9Srtio,4 RTS N Of the Lakes of Killarney for sale
Inc Muckross estate has already been
park, etc, will be offered with the lakes,
The sum mentioned as likely to be the
price asked is $150,000. 1t is feared the
the lakes f 0iii
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
Spain's Minister Coming

MADRID. April 29-The Duke de ARGOS
the newly appointed Spanish Minister to
the United States. will leave for the
United States next week
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
LEADERS TAKE SECOND
GAME FROM PIRATES
Pair of Errors Give st. Louis the Vic
tory by Score of Two to
One

PITTsBURG, April 29.-Pittsburg met its
second defeat at the hands of St Louis after
a hard-fought battle. Williams tumble in the
fourth and Bowerman's wild throw in the
eighth contributed largely to the visitors two
runs Attendance, 54O0 Score:
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

BALTIMORE. April 29.-To-day's game was
a pitchers battle and the Orioe twirler had all
the better of the argument. The Champions
were on their mettle and the Baltimoreans were
full of ginger. The result was a number of
startling plays, both teams sharing in the
honors. For the first time this season the
umpires' decisions were not combated by either
side Attendance, 1850, Score:
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
OPPOSE ALLIANCE
WITH ENGL AND
Germans at Present Do
Not Like Britain.
ALL RIGHT AS TO ITALY
THAT PART OF BISMARCK'S SUG-
GESTIoN APPROVED.
Owing to the Recent Unfriendly At
titude of John Bull the Anglo
German Delagoa Bay Agree
ment Is in Danger.

Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
ADVERTISEMENTS.
A Young Man Who Can Now Face
Life With the Courage Of
Sound Body.

In Gloversville. N. Y. a resident of that
bustling town is facing life with a bodily free
dom which means everything to a young man
who has his greater successes before him. Mr.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

Lakes of Killarney to Be Sold.
NEW YORK, April ga Journal cable
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

MISUNDERSTANDING ana DOIdhue, fnlllps anu
Peitz Umpires-Swartwood and Warner.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Senators beat
the Brookyns by hard hitting. aided by the
visitors errors. Dineen not hit as hard
as Kennedy and the hits off his delivery were
so timed to do the most good. Attend
ance 1000. Score:
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

The Indianas men arrived in San Fran
cisco on the Grant yesterday. Their con-
tract expired on April "a while al sea. and
it's terms -
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED IN COL
LISION AND FIFTY INJURED.

l
Qy Telegraph to Virginian- Plot.)
Reading. Pa, May 12.-Shortly before
10 o'clock tonight II collision of pas
senser trains occurred on the Philadel-
phiaA and Reading at Exeter Station, six
miles below Reading
y number of persons are reported
killed.
Philadelphia. Pa. May 1.-THE Potts
vile eNpress. which was run into at
Exeter. arrived here after midnight
with four of the injured.
The passengers could give no connect
ed story OF the wreck. and the num-
Der of dead ana injured was not known
10 any of them. 1t was generally be-
hevcd that six passengers we're killed
TWENTYFOUR KILLED.
AT midnight the railroad officials her
mad received no information as to th,
number of killed and injured, or any list
of the names.
Shortly before midnight n train bear
ing nurses and doctors was sent to the
scene of the wreck. Exeter is n flag
station and has no telephone commun!-
cation. 1t is stated that the passen-
gers on the second train were mostly
from Morristown, and several from that
borough were killed and many injured.
Tho number of dead is fully twenty
i've and the injured fifty
The first train ploughed through three
cars or the forward train, completely
wrccking them. Eight dead were
brought Were at a. m
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13

14-Paleologue and M.tChanion.
CHEERS and prolonged uproar.) 1t was
this statement, NJ. Delcasse continued.
which the Foreign Office sent TO the
Ministry of War, and. therefore, Major
Cuignets charges was a gratuitous
falsehood, Is he had himself admitted
the correctness OF the Foreign ONCE
translation by countersigning 1t.
The impression gained from NJ Del
cassc's speech was that NJ de Frev-
cinet resigned the war portfolio instead
of making PREPARATION.
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
The discussion i'll the Chamber of
Deputies ended with Il vote or CONT
dencc in the Government or 50 TO ca
The Nationalist deputy Lasies has
sent seconds to NJ. Delcasse TO demand
explanations of the latter's statement In
the Chamber of Deputies on yesterday
with reference to NJ. LaSies' attacks. TO
the effect that he spurned them with
his toes. although that was more than
they deserved.
NJ. Dclcasse informed NJ. Lasies' sec
onds that heshad nothing to add to his
previous remarks. and that he declined
to appoint seconds.
a JUDGE MUST EXPLAIN.
NJ. Grosjean. Judge of the Versailles
Court and an intimate friend of Major
Cuignet, has been cited to appear be-
fore the Superior Council of the Mag
istracy tomorrow. to explain his par
ticipation in the divulging of the let
ters published in the Petit Journal.