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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-09

HOUSEWORK on farm by a women
with a child. Address Homework. Spy
Office.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-09

GIRL WOULD LIKE SITUATION taking
care of children or second work. Call
159 Vernon st.
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ON COAST DIAMONDS.
San Francisco Beats San Jose and
jacksonville Beats Santa Cruz.

SAN FRANCISCO, May THE San
Francisco team won two victories from
the San Jose team to-day. The morn
ing game was played in Oakland, the
score being IL to against the Garden
City nine at the end of the eighth in
ming. when the game was called, so
the players could cross the bay in time
for the game here.
In the afternoon about 5000 spectat-
ors saw San Jose again beaten by to
3. Scores:
Morning game: San Francisco IL,
hits II. errors /: San Jose 4, hits D, er-
rors 8. Batteries-Iberg and Swindells;
Stefano and Kent.
Afternoon game: San Francisco D,
hits 10, errors 3; San Jose 3, hits q,
errors 3. Batteries-Fitzpatric and
Swindells; Borchers and Kent.
WATSONyILLE. May THE Wat
ancient rival, the Santa Cruz team, to-
day by a score of 6 to .. The home
pitcher was disabled in the third in
ming and Wheelan, who pitched yester
days game, took his place. Several
men We're hurt during the play, but
managed to keep in the game to the
end. 1t was spirited game from start
to finish, and was attended by about
1.500 persons. Score: Watsonville q,
hits 8. errors L; Santa Cruz 2 hits 4.
errors 4 = Battefies-Santa} Cruz, Balsz
and Pace: Jacksonville. Harper, Vince
Ian and Hansen. Umpire-Levy.
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THE MAJORS BOYS.
Their Mother VIII Not Believe
They are the Utah Robbers.

OAKLAND, May 7.-Mrs Majors H.
Wagner, the mother of Abe and Archie
Majors, two young men believed to
have been the highwaymen recently op-
Grating in Utah, will not believe her
sons to be the guilty pair unless she
hears that Abe has confessed.
The two boys have been missing from
home for several weeks, and Abe, who
is out of the Folsom penitentiary on pa
role, should have reported to the police
authorities on April LIST, but failed to
do So His career as one of the So
called hoy burglars four years ago is
well known. when, in company with
Bert Whitmore, they raided score of
stores in this city before being cap
tured.
As soon as Mrs. Wagner was told
of the suspicious that the murdered ban
dit was one of her sons and the bandit
charged with the murder was the other,
she went into Mysteries, and was under
medical attendance for hours. She
thought that when Abe failed to, report
on April 1st that he had enlisted and
gone to Manila.
1t is feared that the shock she has
sustained may end fatally. It is said
that Archie who married a Salvation
Army lassie. left her in Seattle.
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It Was Thought He Had Escaped to
Europe.
Said to Have Secured Large Sums
by Guaranteeing Big Returns
and Safe Investments-A British
CAPTAIN to Present a $4,000
Claim at Washington for the
Detention of His Ship-Sailors
Will Also Sue for Damages.

LOS ANGELES, May THE city
detectives here arrested DIR. Hans Ho-
gelsberg to-day. He is wanted In New
York City to answer charges OF Wnole-
sale swindling in connection with the
mana cement of the Investors Guaran-
tee and Trust Company, which com
pany was an Incorporation with ofnces
on williams street, New York.
Dr.. Hogelsberg left New York on
April 18th, and it was thought that
he had fed to Europe with his wife,
who had acted as his stenographer.
The detectives here thought they had
learned of his being in this city in the
latter part of April, and that he had
gone to Mexico.
s. The detectives refuse to say how he
WAS apprehended here, and whether his
wife is with him or not. She is not in
custody at any rate.
DR.. Hogelsberg is about IS years OF
age, and was formerly an oculist OF
Wilmington, Del He is said to have
secured large sums of money from
people all over the United States to be
invested, he guaranteeing big returns
and safe investments.
= The Chief of Police wired Chief Nc
sCloskey of New York of the arrest,
and received reply to hold the man
on charge of grand larceny, pre-
.ferred by Earnest May. 1t IS alleged
that May lost $500 through the
scheme of DR.. Hogelsberg.
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A $4,000 CLAIM.
British Captain Has Trouble About
Shipping Sailors.

PORTLAND (Or.), May IA special
to the "Oregonian' from Astoria says:
1t was announced to-day that Captain
Corning Of the British bark Howard D..
Troop, will present a claim to the Brit
ish ambassador at Washington for
$4,000 damages against the United
States Government for detention of his
vessel and the removal of his sailors
from his ship by force Friday last.
The papers for this demand are being
prepared and will be forwarded to the
British ambassador before the vessel
sails.
1t is also said the sailors who are in
Jail will bring suit against Captain
Green of the steamship Columbia and
the o. r. and N. Company to recover
damages for having been forcibly re-
moved from the Columbia to the How
ard d. Troop and for alleged indigni-
ties. Upon the arrival OF the Columbia
down the river tomorrow morning the
papers are expected to be served.
When the steamer Columbia arrived
from San Francisco Friday she was
met by a launch having on board Cap
tain Corning of the Howard D. Troop
and United States Marshal Houser.
Houser was armed with a United States
process issued under the admiralty law
by United States Commissioner Thomp-
son of this city, directing him to appre-
bend fourteen sailors aboard the CO.
lumbia who had signed shipping papers
in San Francisco for the Troop and to
transfer them to the ship. The steamer
was taken alongside the Troop and all
but two sailors forcibly delivered on
board ship. Two sailors could not be
found
Thwarted in. their purpose to hold the
men, the boarding-hous people OBJ
tanned a warrant for the arrest of Cap
tain Corning on charge of kidnapping.
The warrant was served and Captain
Corning appeared before a magistrate
and his hearing set for tomorrow.
Meantime a writ of habeas corpus
was procured by the attorney for the
boarding housekeepers and the sailors
removed from the ship and lodged in
the County Jail pending a hearing on
the writ set for tomorrow. The attor-
ney for the habeas corpus petitioners
says the sailors are American citizens
and under the treaty of 1892 with Great
Britain cannot be forced to serve on
English ships.
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THE SANTA CRUZ FIRE.
Many Fraternal Societies Lost All
Their Paraphernalia.

SANTA CRUZ, May THE fire
brigade worked all night on the fire
which broke out in I. Fledsig's clothing
store. on the ground floor of the Odd
Fellows building, at midnight, and 1t
was daylight before the flames We're ex-
tinguished. 1t was a wooden structure,
erected quarter of a century ago. but
the f1renen managed to save tise walls,
although the building was Quilted. A
brick addition. which contains a large
hall, was not destroyed, but to-day
there was a heavy explosion of gas in
the hall, knocking down. although not
seriously injuring, a dozen men who
We're in the place at the time. The
tower OF the Odd Fellows, Hall con-
tained the town clock, but this fell with
crash early in the confia grafton. The
building was the headquarters for a
number of fraternal societies. including
the Odd Fellows. Daughters of Rebekah,
Drlids, Red Men, Knights of Pythias,
Rathbone Sisters and the Portuguese
Union. All of these organizations lost
their furnishings and parapherna.ia. al
though they will save their charters.
Had the fire broken out i'm the rear
the City Hall, which is an adjoining
building, would undoubtedly have been
destroyed. The total loss is estimated
at $40, 900, covered by insurance. The
heaviest losers are the. T. o. o. F.. 500
GEO; /. Fleisig, $4,000; J. Brazer. sta
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A FRENCH DEMAND,
What Missionary's imprisonment
Is Worth to France.

PEKIN, May 1.-THE French Minis
ter, M. Pichon, has demanded mining
concessions to the value of 1,200, 900
taels in the province of SEE Chuan, one
of the largest in China, and trayersed
by the Yang Use Kiag, as indemnity for
the recent Imprisonment of a French
missionary. The demand Is considered
exofbitant
The Chinese say that the existing con-
ditions of rebellion are not due to any
lack of energy on the part of the Gov
eminent, which has frequently consult
ed the French Minister regarding the
best means of obtaining the freedom of
the priest in question.
According to advices from Hankau,
capital of the province of Hope the
Russians contemplate taking definite
action with reference to property now
owned by British subjects in the Rus
sian Jardine concession
The Russian Consul refuses to recog-
nize the titles of the claimants. The
affair threatened to interfere seriously
with the Pexin- Hankow railway pro-
ject, and the dismissal of the Russian
official is considered to be the only
remedy.
PORTO RICo,s RESOURCES.
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China's First Railway,

The first railroad constructed In
! China was a narrow gauge line from
Shanghai to Woosung put down in
1876, and intended chiefly as an ocular
demonstration to the Chinese. At the
end of twelve months it was sold to
Chinese official, who straightway tore
up the rails and deported them to For
mosa- The single dummy engine of
the line now reposes peacefully in the
mud of some Formosan harbor together
with the wreck of the junk in which
it was transported. During these
twelve months Of it's existence the
Shanghai Woosung Railroad, with its
single dummy engine and its train of
small cars which, by the way. were
of American pattern, carried 100000
passengers. The Chinese came from far
and wide to see and experiment with
this new barbarian curiosity, and the
people in the neighborhood, soon find
ing it an institution Of great practical
utility, became regular patrons The
predicted uprising of the people against
the construction of the road never ma
terialized, and, as for the graves along
the route, every farmer would manu-
facture as many graves as he could
get dollars for permission to traverse
acknowledgements Magazine.
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A BAD MAN.
Chief Glass Of Los Angeles Says He
Should Be Taken Care of.

SAN FRANCISCO, May Chief of
Police Lees to-day received "a letter
from Chief Glass of Los Angeles in re-
ply to inquiries he made regarding Tam
Gee. highlander, who is now being
held at the city prison on charge of
vagrancy, and is suspected of several
murders
Chief Glass writes that All Kee, or
Tam Gee, Is highlander of the worst
type and should be kept where he can
do no harm, but it was found impossi-
BILE to convict him in Los Angeles
Chief Glass adds that there is another
hatchetman much wanted there for
murder committed on account of the
tailors' union. Ng Loon by name Ng
Loon killed Lung Sing at Los Angeles
June 30 1897, for which, SO Chief Glass
writes, the tailors' union paid him
5000.
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APPROPRIATIONS.
Volume Relating to Them Has Now
Been Completed.

WASHINGTON, May THE volume
relating to appropriations, new officers,
ETC., ordered by law to be prepared and
published at the end of each session of
Congress under the direction of the
Committee on Appropriations Of the
Senate and House, has been completed
for the third session of the fifty-fifth
session by Thomas P. Cleaves and
James c. Courts, Chief Clerks, respect
lively of those committees. A summary
of the appropriations shows the grand
total of S674, 9S1 ,022
In addition to the specific appropria-
tons inside, contracts are authorized
to be entered into for increase of the
naval establishment and for various
public works throughout the country
requiring future appropriations by Con-
gress in the aggregate sum of ST. O47.-
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TWO MEN DROWNED.
One of Them Son of the Late J. E.
Edwards.

Edwards.
! SAN FRANCISCO, May Z. - Frank
Grimm and Herbert G.. Edwards, tive
Rowing Club, lost their lives this after
noon In the bay off Sausalito through
lack of knowledge of the currents that
sweep around Belvedere Point. Ac-
companied by DR.. H. G. Allen and FL
d. Hadenfeldt, they had rowed over
from Belvedere in a 16-foot yawl to
inspect the yacht Twilight, and on
their return trip struck a strong wind
and tide off Belvedere Point. Allen
and Edwards, who We're rowing, tried
hard to round the point, but as they
reached it the current sweeping out
from the shore caught the bow ef the
boat and lifted it high in. the air. The
stern was at once buried under the
wave that followed in the wake and
in moment the boat was half full Of
water None Of the party lost their
presence of mind, and they all made
every effort to right the boat, but the
next incoming wave turned it COM
pletely over.
Though flung violently into the sea,
the men managed to get hold of fthe
keel of the yawl and hung there, bat
tered about by the waves for several
minutes. Suddenly Grimm disappeared,
and Edwards showed signs of weaken
ing. Hadenfeldt begging him to hold
on for awhile longer, struck out for
the shore, which was about hundred
yards away, for assistance, but was
compelled to give up the effort and
only reached the boat after a hard
struggle. Though both Hadenfeldt and
Allen did their best to encourage
young Edwards to hold on he grew
weaker, and finally turned to his friends
and shouted: Il can't stay any longer.
Good-by, boys Then wit ha cry, he
went under, and the eddy carried his
body swiftly away toward the shore.
A few moments after he had disap-
peared the yacht Nixxie, manned by
George Billings and E. s. Emmons,
hove in sight and Immediately made
for the boat, reaching it just in time
to save the lives of Allen and Haden
feldt, who were fast becoming ex-
hausted
Late in the evening the bodies of
Grimm and Edwards were washed
ashore off Sausalito
Frank Grimm was % years of age.
He had been member of the Olympic
Club for six years and was an employee
of the hardware firm of Durham. Car
rigan & Co. Edwards was 80 years of
age. He was son of j. G. Edwards.
who was elected at the last election to
the State Board of EQUALIZATION. but
died soon afterWard
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.peTature a. minimum AZ, mean ~.
The weather is cloudy over Puget
Sound and partly cloudy over the Rock
les region, elsewhere on the Pacific
Slope fair weather prevails. Light
showers and thunder storms occurred
to-day over the plateau and Rocky
Mountain regions.
The temperature has risen in all dis
tricts except along the Central Califor-
MIA coast and over Utah.
I An area of high pressure lies of the
northern coast and the lowest pressure
is reported from Arizona.
Conditions are favorable for fair and
somewhat warmer weather in Califor-
mia Monday.
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A SCOUTING WELL.
It Floods the Surrounding Country
and Defies Control.

LONDON, May IA wonderful nat
ural curiosity in the shape of a we'll
which spouts a large column of water
from 200 to 400 feet hig has been struck
on the ranch of a Basque, sheep raiser
named Arroqu near Whittier in this
county The we'll was being drilled in
the hope of striking oil, several oil
wells having recently been developed in
that district. Yesterday afternoon while
the drillers were at work an enormous
volume CT water. under tremendous
pressure, shot out of the mouth of the
WELL Ever since the flow began it has
steadily kept up. The country around
Is flooded and no means of controlling
the stream has yet been found,
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PORTO RIco's RESOURCES.
General Kenney Says They Are
Very Great and Varied.

WASHINGTON, May loving to
the large number Of inquiries that have
been received by thes members Of the
insular commission since their return
from Porto Rico General Robert P.
kenney prepared arsIatement as to the
resources and conditions in Porto Rico,
which he thinks will cover the points
| upon which the greatest interest has
been manifested.
Concerning the People themselves
General Kenney says: -
There can scarcely. be found upon
the globe a more hospitable and warm
hearted people than those of Porto
Rico. They are in full sympathy with
American institutions. There is a great
deal of poverty in the island, as it Is
understood in the United States. That
is, the people live in fiinsy constructed
huts. have few clothes and still less of
ready money, but owing to the bounty
of nature around them, they can live
with little work and a few worldly
goods and still not suffer from either
cold or hunger. The stories of starva-
ton upon the island are baaaless
| fabrications.
"As to. agricultural opportunities, I
in the island are under cultivation, and
thousands of acres yet remain to be
given over to husbandry. Lands are
| held at good prices, owing to the prom
Use of an influx of people from the
United States Still there is opportu-
nifty for many thousands of persons who
really wish to engage in agriculture in
| the island. But I would discourage the
simple adventurer who expects to reap
a quick and unearned reward.
Sugar and coffee both require large
outlay on lands. material and Improve
ments The promise Of both of these,
however. is unequaled anywhere else
in the world. An old coffee planter
from Java, who has Just bought a
plantation, assures me that the climate
and conditions were as favorable as he
had ever seen. Tropical fruits of all
sorts grow readily and are of the finest
quality. I know of no place which of
fers greater inducements than does Por-
to Rico to Florida orange growers who
are seeking q location outside the frost
belt.
The opportunities for stockraising, it
appears to me, are superior to those in
almost ANY part Of the United States,
an dthis without disparagement to our
own country.
THE climate of the islands in my ex-
perienoe and from what / can gather
from records, official and otherwise, is
adj that could be- desired. 1t is warm in
summer and cool in winter. and even
the densely populated city of San Juan
is remarkably healthy place. I look
forward to the time, not far distant
when Porto Rico will be not only the
tropical spot of the United States, but
one of the most popular winter resorts. ;,
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A CRIME AGAINST CHRIST.
So Cardinal Gibbons Designates the
Recent High-Life Marriage.

BALTIMORE, May cardinal Glib
bons, in the course of his sermon at the
Cathedral to-day on the unity of the
church, characterized the recent di-
vorce and marriage Of a society lady in
New York as crime against Christ.
His Eminence said:
Consider the Pontiff in relation to
King Henry VIII, who asked for the
Pope's sanction to divorce so that he
might marry again. The Pope refused
to give it, saying: Whom God hath
Joined together, let no man put asun-
der Only a few days ago the country
was shocked at woman in high life
who was divorced at 3 o'clock and mar
ried again before the ink was dry on
the divorce paper. This is crime
against the law of Jesus Christ.
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sEDITIous GERMANS.
They Vote Against the Government
on the Samoan Question.

TOLEDO (Ohio). May 1.-THE Ger
man-A Americans of this city held mon
Ster mass meeting this afternoon to pro-
test a gainst the proposed British Ane.i-
can alliance. Speeches We're made by
the leading Germans of the city and
strong resolutions were adopted.
Before the meeting was over a di-
vision arose and there was heated dis
cussion, in which many of those pres
emit INDUCED, and the object Of the
meeting was lost sight of, many leaving
the hail.
When the vote to sustain the United
States Government ON the Samoan ques-
ton came up the vote was 1893 to
against the Government.
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TEMPERANCE WORK.
National President Mrs. Stevens
Speaks at Los Angeles.

s. Los ANGELES. May National
President Mrs. Stevens of the W. C. It.
Y. spoke on temperance work before an
immense audience in the First Baptist
Church here tonight. An overflow
meeting in the Lutheran Church was
addressed by Miss Anna Gordon, Ma
tional Secretary.
In the afternoon Miss Gordon spoke
before large audience of children in
the First Baptist Church.
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Want to F1y Our Flag.

HAVANA, May THE owners of the
principal Cuban steamship lines met to-
day and resolved to send two represent
tatives TO Washington with request
that the companies be allowed to- fly the
American flag, or if that be impossible,
to have distinctive flag, so as to be
able to engage in trade with the United
States and other countries.
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Track Sinks Near San Leandro.

ALAMEDA. May THE bad stretch
of track known as the sink" about
half mile beyond Sab Leandro Bay,
on the Narrowgauge line, took an
other fall this morning. About T:3O a.
m. the roadbed for distance of ninety
feet sank eight feet, leaving the rails
for most of the stretch suspended Two
trains, one filled with excursionists,
were delayed for nearly five hours be-
fore the road was again in running or
der
The record-union., 1899-05-08

PA. These contracts cover three new
battleships, three armored cruisers and
six protected cruisers, to cost, including
armor and armament, S44, 1O4, 800;
river and harbor improvements, $685.
S66, 324: public buildings in various
States, including the new Government
printing office in the City of Washing
ton, IS. 163, 400.
A comparison of the total appropria-
tons of the third session of the Fifty
fifth CONGRESS- for 1900 of S674, 9S1. 0222
with those of the second session for
1899 of $S9S, 1881, shows reduction in
favor of the third session of $21S, 250,-
593
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It's Fiftieth Anniversary.

SAN FRANCISCO, May THE First
Presbyterian Church. the oldest Pro-
testant organization in San Francisco,
began it's jubilee celebration to-day by
the fiftieth anniversary exercises of the
Sunday-school. Three of the members
of the first infant class of the school &C.
cupied seats with Rev. Robert Macken-
zie, .. D., the pastor, and made brief
addresses. In the evening jubilee
praise service was held The celebration
will be continued during the week, the
jubilee having some social features in
view, in Guiding a banquet.
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CoURsING EVENTS.
Arno Wins at Stockton and Hadi-
wist at San Jose.

STOCKTON, May 7.-Coursing re-
suits at Goodwater Grove to-day were
as follows. the dogs finishing in the
order named:
Arno, Iron Duke, Beauty, Robin
Aoalr, Alma, Hattie. They are all
Stockton dogs.
SAN JOSE. May I'm the forty EIGHT
dog stake coursing match here to-day
HadiWlst, owned by A. Massey of San
Francisco. won; Blue Rock, a San Jose
dog, second. Among other dogs that
Won honors We're: Rush O'Hill. Lamp
lighter. Vanity Fair. Gallagher and
Clare B.
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NEBRASKA DRENcHED.
A Cloudburst at Alder Greek Floods
the BURLINGTON Tracks.

OMAHA, May 7.-During the past
tVenty-four hours Nebraska has been
thoroughly drenched. Rain began to
fall all over the eastern part of the
State last night, and continued without
intermission until about noon to-day
At Alder Creek, Cass County, a cloud
burst occurred at a. M. causing sew
eral thousand dollars damage.
The small streams We're out of their
banks in few minutes and the Burl-
ington tracks were flooded for 600
yards to the depth of several inches.
Telegraph and telephone lines were
crippled to a considerable extent in the
State.
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A COMMoNER DEAD.
Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-
Leyland Passes Away

LONDON, May 7.-Captain Sir Her
bert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland, Bart,
who had represented the Southport di-
vision of Southwest Lancashire in the
House of Commons in the Liberal In
terests since last August, died to-day
of laryngitiS after a long illness. He
passed away at his London residence,
Hyde Park House. Albert Gate S. W.,
in the presence of his wife, who was
Miss Jennie W. Chamberlain, formerly
of Cleveland. and of his mother in-law,
Mrs. S. M. Chamberlain
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Violent Storm at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, May IA short, violent
wind storm swept through the western
part of ST. Louis early this evening and
unroofed a number of houses; blew
down a circus tent and delayed street
car traffic for about two hours. About
forty houses We're damaged and much
other injury was done by flying debris.
No one was seriously hurt.