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New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
IRVING SAVINGS INSTITUTION
I15 Chambers ST., New York

1I5 Chambers ST.. New York city.
The Trustees OF this Institution have declared inere
on ali sums remaining deposit during the thTce anl
sx months ending December 81 1888 at the rate o To-
PHp CENT per annum amounts from 81 TO SWh,
1svshIe on and after Monday January y 1900 deposits
made on or January 10th Will draw ntert rom
January lst. 1900. W "a. ID. iOi '''''' -'
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financial glcttious.

financial glcttious.
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rIIr MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK. - ,o
THE ANNUAL ELECTION for Directors or
l. thi, bank will be held at the banking ROOM No ~
Wall Street Tuesday January 9th. 1900. from IL NJ
" 'e'O'N JOSEPH W HARTMAN Cashier.
LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK,
90 AZ East Forty second street - -.
New York. December 23d 1Sea
THE ANNUAL MEETING Of the shareholders
Of this bank for the election Directors for the en-
suing wear held the banking house on TUESDAY,
January g. 1900 between the hours Of ~ m and Y m
""''' - W T. CORNELL. Cashier.
THE MERCANTILE NATIONAL BANK
1o broadway, New York December 9th, 1899.
y,HE ANNUAL ELECTION for Directors or
mi, Bank will be the Banking House on
Tuesday January 9th 1900 between the hours OF u m
80 - m JAMES V LOTT. Cashier.
u,HE ANNUAL ELECTION for Directors OF
i the American Coal Company Of AIlegany County.
ws,vlan6 will be held the Compsnys Office. in the
CIV ~ New YORK Thursday the 2sth day Of Decem
her 1899 between the hours OF IL and o'clock p NJ
WI GEORGE VI. BoWLBY
Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
The BOwery Savings Bank,

1923 AND 100 BovERY.
New York 20. 1892
..,,,a,,ual dividend at the rate OF THREE AND
oNE-HAIF PER CENT per annum has been declared
and will he credited depostors all sums OF 500
and upward and not exceeding 5000 which shall have
been deposited at least three months on the hst Gay
,sruarv next and will be payable after Monday
January Is 1900.
Money deposited or before January 10 l'oo' Will
draw interest from January !.
JOHN D. HICKS. President
eCIyTNCK Comptroller.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
LEHlCH VALLEY.

(Penns II. h Ferries) -
COrtiandt or Desoroee9
Streets Daily sunday sunday ieaxes tsoph ynss
trains daily Sunday leaves 65 sunday eAfes ~ 49,
4 xSuDday ieSyes6l5Ps. SUNDAY i.ayes a!oPs'
t.G II 2 90 A. NJ Local Tor EASTON. ...,,.
.,5J e..i0A.y For BtFFALo NIAGARA fAlLs and
West AMI principal local poin Paror and DINING Css oon
uects Coal Branehesr ..,.,x o,.noNn rx.
:HSSms. s;SS sSoS train ia .ssils
cspscly Buffalo st5H ~ eonneetias WIN 'sp
2y! iO sSd points
y.S.2O yJ.2OP r. Local for MAUcH CHJNk' 70. s,.o-
Xxx ~. IOPN Chicago Nesibule Limited foi NLaV
IS and pon,s West Through Sleeping Carr 10 chicago
"N% IS s.OOpx Exposition Express for BUFFALO ana
TosoNI9a q. no Pm. For ITHACA ROCHESTER, BUFFALO
and Sleeping Carr 70 .,, a.uv a,c.rs
so PIAfNFfElD aud BOUND BROOK loca4s aally ehseps
sund,- 'e ga TO- 40 '6lo e - ana ~ 80 ~ a.
Tickets Pullman aceommodallonsa az ~ Oh ~ S ~ y ~
tvl ayoadvay Union square West ~, columbus AVE. L.
s Fulton ST. Court st q Bdwy and Annex suon
Trsnsfer Co Will call and check baggage ron nosS
thrOugh 10 Destination
New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

The Avenue of Travel south and southwest
CHA. NEAICO a. CALIFORNIA.
Departure from New York Pennsylvania r. r. Station
Daily 23d ST. Cortlandt and De.brosses st.
tETbe leaving time from DesbrOsses ana
CorfInndf streets is five mn nutcs later than
mai given below for Twenty-third street
station.
I.:iO 4. Mast MAIL-Pullman Buffet Sleeping
Cars New York Atlanta, New Orlefns Savannah
and jacksonville. Fla Dining car service.
3,25 p. Mn. Y. AZ FLA. EMPRESS Pullman Draw
Ing Room Sleeping Care. New-York 10 Columbia. sa-
vannah jacksonville, Tampa and Augusta. Dining Car
3,2b p M.-wAsHINOToN 4 CHATTANOOGA LINZ
TIED VIA LYNcHBCRG-iullman Drawing Room
tanooga, Orleans and Memphis Dining Car service.
4;.5 u. M.-WASHINGT0N & SOUTHWESTERN LIN
ITED-Pulman Drawing Room sleeping Cars. New
York to Atlanta, New Orleans Birmingham, Memphis.
Asheve Knoxville. Chattanooga and Nashville DINING
Car service. Tourist Sleeping car, Washington 10 San
Francisco Mondays, Wedn esdays and Fridays
New York and Fiorlis Limited" finest train In the
world resumes service January 49, 1900 between New
York ST. Augustine.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY OFFICE. 27i BROADWAY.
Pennsylvania ticket Offices Nos. 46l g44, 1854 Ill
and 28l Broadway: l Astor House; West Twenty-thlrd
Street station and stations foot OF Desbrosses and
Corandt Streets Court Street $50 Fulton Street es
Broadway and Pennsylvania Annex station. BrookiynI
Jersey City.
FRANK g. CANNON, ]. II. CULP,
90 viee-Pres & cen.l Mgr. Traffic Mgr.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
WESTERN GAS COMPANY.
New York Dec %. 1899.
AT A MEETING Of the Board OF Directors
once of the
MARYLAND COAL COMPANY.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE. ~ NEW YORK
DIVIDEND.

PER CENT. has been declared upon the capital stock
Of this Bank payable and after Tuesday 2nd January
proXmo.
Transfer books will be closed Friday. December 22nd
1899 close OF business reopened Wednesday. jan
uary 3rd. 1900. at 10 o'clock A. ".
New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
M0TEl BON A0R.

NA.
popular hotel for Southern tourists situated miGwW
mild but bracing heathu. and conducive to out
door sports A hole Golf Course greatly improved
since Iss year row the south of Washington Good
Shooting in near vicinity. Only % hours from orh
Se " e. c. TRUSSELL. Mgr.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
POWDER EXPLOSION
WRECKS A CITY
Fifteen Hundred Chinese Killed by
the Blowing Up of a
Factory

VICTORIA, B. c.. Jan. u-News of a
terrible catastrophe which occurred at
Hang Chow on december Is is brought
by the R. M. ,. Empress of Japan. On
the morning Of that date the powder fac
tory of the Chinese government situated
in the center of lower city (Hang Chow
is divided into three parasitic lower, up
per and middle cities took fire and some
ten minutes after the flames were first
noticed there was an explosion which
could be heard for miles. Frightful loss
of life. and property resulted. No less
than 1900 Chinese and two Europeans who
had charge Of the factory were instantly
killed and hundreds were wounded many
horribly mutilated. and hundreds Of
houses were destroyed by the explosion of
hundreds of barrels of newly gun
powder.
The whole of the lower city is in ruins,
street after street being nothing bat
mass of fallen timbers. The upper and
middle. cities were comparatively un-
harmed
The factory is said to have been fired
by the members of a Chinese secret soci-
ETY., who are plotting against the govern
ment. A number of arrests are said to
have been made by the Mandarins, and
many executions will follow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
WILL BAR AMERICANS
FROM OTHER DISTRICTS
British Columbia Determined to En-
force an Exclusion
-

VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 1.-THE new
Government apparently intends to carry
out Its announced policy of excluding
aliens from the Atlin and other British
Columbia mines. The act to amend the
present mining act so that it will bar
aliens passed it's first reading in the
Assembly this afternoon. The sentiment
there is strongly in favor of the passage
of the bill. In fact, the Government has
made the exclusion of aliens-Americans
being aimed at chiefy-one of the strong
est planks in its platform
That the bill will pass is certain J.
Fred Hume, Minister of Miners, said to-
night to The Call correspondent that the
urgency of the bill was so great that IL
there were any danger of 1t not passing
an order in council would be passed to
enforced the exclusion. The bill will not,
however, affect Americans who already
hold claims.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
WARNING TO CARS AGENTS
Had DISPATCHED TROOPS TO
THE CITY OF PEKING.
They Were Hastily Recalled When
tae British Asiatic Squadron
Steamed Into the Gulf
of Pechili.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 1.-THE r, M.
S. Empress of Japan, which left Yoko-
hama on December 80, brings a sensa-
! tional story from Tientsin Of how a
naval demonstration by the British
Asiatic fleet Under Admiral Seymour
caused the abandonment of coup on
the part Of Russia. Had the Russian
plans been carried out, they would,
without doubt, have caused war be
tween the two great powers struggling
for the mastery in the far East. The
Tientsin correspondent of the North
China Daily News, files of which wer,
received by the Empress, has the fol-
lowing in this regard:
"a significant bit of information has
just come to me, for the accuracy Of
which 1 am prepared to vouch. At
the time of the demonstration of the
British fleet off Shan Hal Kaun. in the
Gulf of Pechili the Russians were pre-
pairing to send 5000 troops, mostly Cos
sacks, by forced marches overland
around the Gulf of Lao Tung to the
Chinese capital.
when the British squadron steamed
through the straits into the Gulf of
Pechili from -Hai-Wei in two lines,
orders were at once rushed to the 1000
Russians, who bad already started for
the Chinese capital, ordering them back
to Port Arthur. The demonstration had
prevented their dispatch. The meaning
of all this is unQuestionably this:
THAT Russia knew what was prepar-
ing in the palace at Picking and was
sending these troops to the support or
the Empress Dowager. The calling CT
the troops back from Shan Shi and
other places in the early part of the
season could not be explained at the
time, but their massing within easy
distance of Picking is now made plain
by the coup d'etat Possibly had the
Russians reached Picking the native
soldiers would not have been ordered to
the capital, but, in any event, the forces
would have co-operated against any
other foreign force that might have
been sent to Picking in case the status
of those in possession, which meant
Russians, was objected to by any other
power
"a Picking correspondent interviewed
SIR Claude Mcdonald, the British Min
ister at the Chinese capital in this con-
nection. and he said that had Russia
dispatch the 5000 troops to Picking that
act would undoubtedly have precip1-
tated clash between Britain and Rus
sia.''
Russia is daily strengthening her POI
sftfon in. Chinese waters says the
now demanded the inclusion of the
Mao Tao group of islands at the en-
trance to the Gulf Of Pechii and COM
manding the entrance to the gulf in
her Port Arthur sphere of influence.
Great Britain will protest against the
cession of these islands to Russia.
Should Russia push her claim, it is I'M
derstood, Britain will make a firm
stand, and, according to her Minister
at Peking, fight if necessary"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
A BILL AGAINST THE
ILLEGAL" TAX SCHEME

CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-
MENTO, Jan. lin the last six months
nearly every county in the State by its
Board of Supervisors has signed con-
tract with the San Francisco law firm of
Rodgers. Paterson & Slack guaranteeing
that firm a commission averaging 40 per
cent of all moneys it can collect from the
State for taxes alleged to have been lille
gally. collected by the commonwealth from
its counties.
; The scheme worked along hourishingly
for three or four months after its incep-
stiOn. Then it was shown up in all its de-
tails in the columns OF The Call. 1t was
shown to the different counties that they
would be simply robbing their own tax
payers by permitting the attorneys to
bring their proposed actions; that their
motive was purely selfish one, and that
o. the people who pay the taxes would be
out just the 40 per cent that the attorneys
were to be allowed as fee or commission.
The. Call S thorough expose of the whole
startling scheme opened the eyes of the
people at large, and since that time most
OF the counties have repudiated their con-
tract. The San Francisco board entered
into the scheme after The Calls expose.
Mayor Phelan was so impressed with the
sublime nerve of the proposition that he
made personal appeal to the board to
withdraw from its contract. Here in Sac
ramento the same contract was signed,
and since that time every influence has
been brought to bear to force its annnu-
ment. The general feeling against the
scheme has attained such force that to-
day legislative action was begun against
It in a concurrent resolution introduced
into the Assembly by Assemblyman Owen
Wade, Of Napa, which calls upon all
County Boards of Supervisors to with
draw their suits and warns them that
only the taxpayers will suffer and the at
torneys profit by the scheme. The resolu-
ton was given its reading and referred to
its committee and will be rushed through
with as little delay as possible.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
OWL TRAIN WRECKED
BY A BAND OF SHEEP
Engineer William NJ. Wood Killed
in a Railway Disaster Near
Los BanOS.

OAKLAND, Jan. ia report received from In
gomar tonight that the Owl the San Francisco andLos
Angeles limited called had ditched eight miles this
side of the Los Bano depot and that Engineer William NJ
Wood aged So OF West Oakland, killed News of the
wreck taken Los Banos by messenger, who
had go through the for eight miles to send word
the mole at West Oakland
The Owl" left the pier 5:24 and running at the
of fifty miles hour when it struck the lingo
This about $50 o'clock tonight. While round
ing this the train into band of sheep and the
locomotive the smoker and thrown side
There siderack this point and the locomotive
bed its side into boarding The locomotive and
smoker were badly wrecked and the boarding car was
smashed.
Engineer Wood badly injured that he died in a
few minutes He lived at West Oakland and was married
with family.
A wreckng engine at sent to the wreck from
Tracy but it unable to accomplish anything At mid
night fully equipped wrecng train left the mole and took
Pumans the The passengers will be trans
ferred to the Pumans and attached the train which left
the pier o'clock, and which is tied up near Ingomar
waiting for the track to be cleared.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12

reference to the Nicaraguan canal are
now in such shape that 1T would be
difficult for a successor to Sir Julian
to handle them properly. In view of
this fact, Lord Salisbury has directed
that he be retained in Washington, and
the embassy to-day received official
word to this effect.
I learned to-day that Great Britain
does not propose to relinquish without
compensation the rights conferred upon
her in the proposed canal by the
Clayton Bulwer treaty. The conces-
sions she wants have been outlined to
Secretary Hay along with her an
nouncement of her Willingness to COM
ply with the wishes of this Govern
ment for the abrogation of the Clayton
Bulwer convention. But she desires it
to be understood that the canal must
be neutral in war as well as in peace,
for she appreciates the Importance of
such a waterway in case Of hostilities
in the far East.
The administration is quite willing
that the canal shall be strictly neutral
and there will be no difficulty, it is ex-
pected. in reaching a satisfactory con-
clusion on this point. Great Britain
will probably want concessions relative
to canal charges and other minor
points, but it is believed that neutrality
of the waterway is with her the most
important question.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12

ferent times intensity the deep interest
taken in the case since the shooting.
Mckenzie to-day admitted that he
met Doorman Cook at the train on
Friday night, December 80; also that
he received a picture Of Cook from a
st. Helena Photographic on an order
of Walters, authorized by him, but did
not recognize Doorman the night he
came as the man whose picture he had
received. The witness said that about
ten days before the killing Mrs Caro-
line Walters asked him If he could give
employment in his stable to a cousin
of hers named Doorman. He didn't
remember what he told her, but when
Doorman' came he handed Mckenzie a
card of stableman in Palo Alto, say
ing his cousin had told him to come and
take the Job.
The ex-Sheriff first learned that Door
man and Cook were one and the same on
the day of the shooting. He had no
conversation with Walters prior to the
time Of getting the photograph of Cook,
or Doorman. Walters never asked
him who was working at the stable
Lund. a saloon keeper of San Fran
cisco, testified that Cook Is at his
place before he came to Napa, and said
he had been engaged to work in Nc
Kennels stable in Napa-
Cuff, a Napa hotel man, testified to
the coming to his house of Cook with
Mckenzie Mckenzie introduced the
man as Doorman and said he would be
responsible for his meals and lodging.
The jury adjourned at 4:S0 o'clock to
meet again next Friday morning at 10
O'Clock
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
ELECTION JUDlES
AS WARD-HEELERS
Politics at the Polls in
Sausalito.
CRAMER-CREED CONTEST ON
WITNESSES ACCUSE ELECTION
OFFICIALS.
Voters Were Misinforned in Order
That the Former Marshal
Might Be Chosen Con-
stable.
CRAMER-CREED CONTEST ON
WITNESSES ACCUSE ELECTION
OFFICIALS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 1.-THE suit OF
Eugene Cramer Of Sausalito to GUST ex-
Marshal John E. Creed from the office
of Constable, to which he was recently
elected, on the ground that Greed is
an ex-cOnvict and therefore Ineligible
and that the Board of Judges and Elec-
ton Board were guilty Of misconduct
occupied the attention of the Superior
Court to the exclusion of all other
causes to-day Some of the testimony
adduced was of a sensational nature
and showed pretty plainly that certain
election officials were guilty Of doing
politics" worthy of a Boss" Buckley.
So far all the witnesses called, seven
teen in number, have given testimony
for the contestant. 1t was proved by
Adolph Meyers and others that instruc-
tons were given to all voters to cast
their ballots for only one person for
Constable, though the election procla-
nation and the ballots themselves spe-
Gifted that two should be voted for. The
facts as regards Creed's sojourn at San
Quentin Prison will not be presented
until later.
Richard Clarity, the Democratic can
didate, received 318 votes; Greed, run
AAlIS independently zoE, anu CfdIHeI,
the Republican nominee, ISL. If Cramer
succeeds in getting the vote of Sausa-
Ito Precincts 1 and 2 thrown
out the vote will stand for the remain
ing precinct: Clarity 1876, Cramer 120
and Greed III. Realizing that Cramer
had good case, Attorney j. w Coch-
rane, representing Creed, asked Judge
Angellotti for leave to amend his an
swer, so that he would be able to prov6
that both Tiburon and Belvedere did
politics" in the same way, but against
Creed's interests. If they also ere
thrown out the vote will stand: CIR
rity 72, Creed II and Cramer So. He
was given until next Monday to amend
the complaint
The case threatens to develop into a
wholesale exposure of the political
methods employed in the southern part
of Marin County, and is. exciting a good
deal Of interest. An incidental fact
brought out which brought forth ad-
verse comment from Judge Angellotti,
was that the official returns on elections
have been thrown carelessly around the
County Clerks Office. Nobody is blamed
for this, however, as no provision has
ever been made by the county for the
care Of the official returns. The envel-
ope inclosing the returns from Sausa-
Ito Precinct 1 was not even sealed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
DEATH OF W. B. LAMBERT.
Ills Widow Determined to Make a
Stubborn Fight for His Fortune.

With the death of W c. Lambert, the
wealthy Guatemalan merchant who
passed away at the Waldeck Hospital on
New Years day have come many claims
upon his wealth from alleged brothers
and others, who maintain they were re-
lated to the merchant. AS he died intes-
tate they claim they are entitled to a por-
ton of his property. Letters of admins
tration upon the decedent's estate have
been applied for by William F. Lambert,
who claims he is a brother to the dead
merchant. In his application the petit
toner alleges that his brother left be-
sides his widow Who'll now in Guatema-
la, two brothers-himself and Thomas J.
Lambert-and sister, Mrs. Jennie Bull
of Chicago.
Upon learning Of this action taken by
her husbands brother the wife of the de-
ceased left Guatemala Immediately and
is now on her way to this city. 1t is said
that the widow intends TO fight his petit
ton. 1t is understood that will was
made the day Lambert left Guatemala for
this city and that his widow intends to
present 1t before the courts in order to
nullify whatever claim Lambert's rela-
tive might otherwise have had on his
fortune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
SKELETONS FOUND IN A
PLANTATION WELL
Spanish Guerrillas Accused Of Being
the Authors of Terrible Cruelty
in Cuba.

HAVANA, jan lila Discussion de-
scribes the finding of fifty human skele-
tons in a well on a plantation near Man
quito. The writer Of the story asserts
that these people were undoubtedly
thrown in while alive. He says that in
some cases the finger bones are severed,
and the supposition that this is due to the
efforts of the victims to raise themselves
out of the pit The body of Senior Pedro
Alayon, a prominent Cuban, who disap-
peared mysteriously during the insurrec-
ton, has been identified.
La Discussion accuses Antonio Ries, the
guerrilla chief Sergeant Jean Peres and
Vicenta Zalgo, a school-master, of being
the authors of the terrible crime. All are
said to be in Havana.
La Discussion prints also a story from
Matanzas of the finding there of the re-
mains of from 100 to 200 persons in a well
near the headquarters Of the Civil Guard.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
Pacific Coast Pensions,

WASHINGTON, jan u.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
California: Original-Winfield s. Wal
lace, Artesia, $40; August Schubert. Los
Gatos, Sc; Charles H. Smith, Oakland. s..
Original widows, etc.-Thomas J. Patton,
father. San Diego. s12; Emma M. Lutz,
Ophir, s.; Mary F. Davenport, Oakland,
S.
Oregon: Original-Jesse S. Newbill,
Ballston, IS. Increase-James M. Leeper,
Oakland, IS to $40.
Washington: Original Truman H.
Houghton, Kalama Sc: Thomas Haver-
croft, Everett, So; Alonzo NJ. Wolover.
New Whatcom, Sc. Increase-John H.
Harte Conconully, Sc to IS. Original
widows, etc.-Mary A. Waite, Tacoma, s..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-12
RUM0RED DANGER OF
FOREIGNERS IN CHINA
Report That Troops Are Gathering
for a General Rising
Against Aliens.

VICTORIA, 3. c., Jam 11-If the news
received from Picking by the r. NJ S
Empress of Japan counts for anything
foreigners residing in China outside Of the
settled cities and settlements are men
aced by a great danger. The Picking corre-
spondent Of the North China Daily News
says considerable additions in men and
material to the troops, not only of Picking
and vicinity, but also of Mongolia and
Manchuria, are being energetically and
quietly pushed on, and the explanation
given for the war-like measure is that
they are ito fight foreigners with" In
consequence of this the rowdy masses of
the. north are anxiously awaiting the sig