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The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
POLICE ARREST
SKILLED THIEF
Tapping Tills, After
Sending People Out
side, His Game.
Frank Mcguire, Who Has
Committed Several OAR
ing Crimes, Caught.

An important capture has been made
by Detectives Dinan and Wren in the
taking of Frank Mcguire, who is one or
the two men who have been for weeks
driving around in a buggy and roobing
t:lls of their contents. While one would
remain outside in the buggy the other
would enter the store and say that his
companion wanted something. AS soon
as the proprietor went out the till would
be tapped and the pair would drive OF
before the theft was discovered.
Dinan and Wren arrested Mcguire Sat
urday afternoon. Yesterday he was posi-
lively identified by two of his Victims
and more will probably follow. December
II the pair drove up TO a sub-postoff1ce at
Castro and Eighteenth streets and one OIL
them entered and told the young lady in
charge that a man in a buggy outside
wanted TO purchase some stamps. she
went outside, and during her absence a
sack containing $50 was stolen from the
stamp drawer She positively Identified
Mcguire yesterday as the man who went
inside, and so did John O'ConnOr, who
has a grocery on the opposite corner and
who saw the two men in the buggy.
Mcguire was also identified by William
Kruger, grocer, 81 Jackson street. About
a month ago Maguire's companion en-
tered the grocery and told Kruger that
q man III a buSSS OulSluC NdAltU q Ni I'm
Kruger went outside, and during his alb
sence the till was opened and s75 stolen.
Both men drove away in the buggy. Ma
guire's companion is known and his ar
rest may be effected at any moment.
At least two charges of grand larceny
will be booked against Mcguire. He has
been arrested several times for petty Of
fenses, and has recently completed a six
months term for vagraney
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05

Wall and Sullivan had also heard the
explosion and hurried back. Wall re-
manned on guard outside while Murphy
and Sullivan broke the glass in the front
door and effected an entrance. They
found George Riley, a former convict,
crouched in a corner near the safe and
ordered him to throw up his hands, and
he instantly obeyed. He was handcuffed,
and then the officers made the discovery
that the knob, handle and combination
had been blown off the safe, in front of
which a pile of books had been placed to
deaden the sound. Near Riley was found
sledge hammer, brace, several drills,
punches with sticks tied to them, two
sticks of fuse, caps, package Of nitro
glycerin, soap and cotton. Riley had
made up two rolls of cutlery, ready to be
carried off after he had robbed the safe.
He was taken to the City Prison and
booked on charge OF burglary.
Riley, who is % years of age, began his
criminal career as a boy, and about five
years ago was arrested on charge of
numbering William Hennessey in the st.
David's House, on Howard street. but
was acquitted by jury in the Superior
Court. Two months later he was arrest
ed for breaking into Rudolph Barth s
jewelry store, 141 Post street, and was
sentenced to serve five years in San
Quentin. He was discharged about five
months ago. When arrested he told the
officers that he was sick and had broken
into the store to get money enough tC
take him to some springs, and he wished
they had killed him instead of arrestine
him. There is a strong suspicion thai
Riley is the man who cracked the safe IN
the office of the Buffalo Brewing Com
pany, 125 King street, about two weeks
ago.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
CoRTENTAL STEAMSHIP coJ

ADAAAA-sh ~ - EAAlEt1lF IO.)
s.eamers will leave wharf corner First and
f7rsular streets. az ! p. n. for YOKOHAMA
s7d HONGEoNG. calling at Kobe (HioEo).
NsEaEan ana Shanghai. and connecting al
EaTEkong with steamers for India etc No
',argO received Oh board IN day OF sailing
g HONGKONG MARIJ- Thurs. Feb s. 1909
3 s. NIPPON MARU 0vla Manfla) ....
--..----- ----- Tuesday. March 8. 1903
va Honolulu. koundtrip tickets at reduced
rates. For fre ght and passage apply al Com.
q anys Office. z21 Market street corner First
W. H AVERY. General Agent
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
miscellaneous.

$50 Solid Oak Library Table.
with large drawer. 81. 10
$500 Ladies Dressing Table.
large French plate mirror
.,----...--. ..--.-...--..--- $3.50
$500 Ladies Writing Desk. an
exceptional value s. D.
$500 Combination Gas or Wood
and Coal Stove; now. .$25. 90
$4,000 Dresser, a beautiful piece
Of Bedroom furniture S29. 90
$500 Weathered Oak Ann
Chair, bullhide leather uphol-
'raHlf -s--.s-s -srs-.-s---. SlUsOtb
$3.50 Book Case in pretty Cold
en- Oak, nicely carved.
-.-------a------..---. S&l 10
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
Odd ParIOr Pieces.

5000 3-piece Parlor Suit, velour or tapes
try covering: our make ........S ] 500
5000 5-piece Suit. fine silk tapestry COW
ering. guaranteed upholstery. S72. 80
$500 Divans in various designs and rich
velour coverings S3 90
300 ODD Chairs and Rockers of different
designs as low as Observation-Disclosures 81 90
$1,000 Couch. best tapestry, made in our
own factory .......................S2 20. 90
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
ChiffOnierS.

100 Chin0nier, solid oak, well
polished sale price ---S6.5O
$500 Maple Chinonier, sample
Of 1903 pattern .......-$1O.2o
5000 Rich Mahogany Chif-
f0nier. best hand polish .---..-
p ------ .----------..------.-sS 81 30
$500 Birdseye Maple Chiffonier,
elegant design -....... S23. 20
5000 Mahogany Chiffonier. ser
pentine front. cut So. 90
$500 Maple Chinonier, well
Constructed ...-.........ssS. 90
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05

HE police south or Market street
again distinguished themselves
yesterday morning by capturing
IA safe-cracker. The place entered
was Henry O. Wiedero's crockery
and cutlery store. Fourth and Mission
streets. The arresting officers were ]. H.
Sullivan, T. c. Murphy and Corporal
Wall, and Chief Whitman expressed his
Commendation of the good work done by
them.
Shortly after O'Clock Corporal Wall
left Murphy at Fourth and Mission streets
and walked along Mission toward Fifth,
when he met Sullivan and spoke to him.
minute or two later Murphy heard a
sound as if an explosion had occurred
He crossed the street and examined the
front door of the crockery store, but
found it fastened. He went downstairs
to the basement and discovered that the
basement door had been opened from the
inside. He ran upstairs and covered both
doors.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
that to be had at o1r Establishment
Dining Rem Furniture.
Bedroom Suites.

$3.50 Suit, CHARTERED Oak hne
carvings; sale price. $3.50
$3.50 Maple Suit, very attrac-
tive In pattern ....... S24. 90
$4,000 Solid Mahogany Suit. an
exclusive design; now
................-..-... S23S. 90
5000 Birdseye Maple Suit, pref
~ effect Ia design. .S34 %
$3.50 Quarter-sawed Oak Suit.
heavy carvings ..---- S6S. 90
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05

Eugene Cowles at the Y NJ. c. A. Tues
day evening and Wednesday afternoon.
Seats on sale at Sherman & Clay's and Y.
NJ c. A.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
One Way Rate for the Round Trip.

Passengers to Kansas City over the Southern
Pacific buy tickets on January 8 and 0
for $50 for the round trip. Call at the In
formation Bureau 613 Market street for par
ticulars.
The San Francisco call., 1903-01-05
O. Il. e ". co.

"Geo. W. Elder" sails Dec %, Jan. 8. IS
2s Feb. Z. IT, 81.
D. March T.
Only Steamship Line 70 PORTLAND. Or
aad shcrt rail line from Portland to all points
east. Through tickets 20 all points. all rail- or
steamship and rail. - LOWEST RATES
Steamer tickets Include berth and meals
Steamer sails foot OF Spear ST. II a n. D.
~ HITCHCOCK. Ger. AEt-. Montgomery ST
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
A wRoNoED WOMAN.

The announcement that Mrs. Maybrick Is to be pardoned next year will be well come news to the many who sympathiEe
 th this much-wronged woman. That her conviction was a, grievous wrong, seems to be beyond doubt. The fact that her husband died of arsenical poi soning may have beenNfully established, but the fact that he had been a con- firmsd arsenic eater for twenty years was also established. If a confirmed drunkard should die of delirium tremens. 1t would be about as fair to convict his wife of the crime of poisoning him with whiskey as 1t was to convict Mrs May brick. The fact that the husband in this case had used the drug for score of years ought to have been at least pre- sumptive evidence that he had finally taken fatal dose, or that 1t had ac- cumulated in his system from constant addictlons until his life gave way under it.
 That Mrs. Maybrick has not been par donsd is plainly owing to what may be called the intense domesticity as we'll as the unforgiving disposition of Queen Vic tAs4a To hAr~ there could be no greater
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
DISCIPLINE OF SERVANTS.
Decision Rendered by Prussian Court
 Remarkable View.
London Daily Telegraph,

London Daily Telegraph.
 One Of the innumerable side issues of the eternal servant problem lies in the question of how far the authority of mas ters and mistresses extends over their servants. Is it permissible, for example, for the lady of the house. 'judiciously and maternally," to chastise her back si ling Abigail, and may the latter le- sally resent this striking proof of parent al interest by shaking the dust off her feet and seeking rooms and pantries new? This question. recently propounded to three German tribunals, has now been finally and definitely solved by the high est law court in Prussia. The details are interesting:
 The scene was laid in Posen, on the estate of a Prussian squire. Mary N, one of the servant girls, had to see that the milk pails were sweet and clean ev- cry morning And herein her remiSsness was so palpable that the master-not the mistress-afteF having lebuked her often and to no purpose, at last gave. her what the lawyers termed two loud-soundng' boxes on the ears. Mary wept bitterly. and the subsequent proceedings interest ed her no more. Turning her back on her master. his kline and his kitchen, she went back to her village and her people. The dramatis personse of the next act include the police, with whom a bitter complaint was lodged-not, as one might suppose. by the buffeted maiden, but by her master. The burden of his lament "@@ NiAN e'iA t'SAAN his service, and should be taken back to his house by force by tht officers of the law, and there compelled to discharge her duties as before, only with keener eye to cleanliness. And the police duly brough tthe recalcitrant back to her master Soon she ran away again. Then the irate estate owner formally appealed to the courts. The case was duly tried, and Mary came off scot free.
 But the squire took the matter before a higher tribunal-the District Court of Posen-which quashsd the judgment of the lower court and condemned the girl to pay a fine of 10 shillings. Now 1t was Marys turn to appeal against the de- cision, and her lawyers carried the mat ter before the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Prussia, moving that the condemnation be set aside on the ground that she had been harshly dealt with by her master. The penal senate of the Su- preme Court having listened to the tech nical pleadings and carefully considered the bearing of the code upon the case, has just delivered judgment, nonsuiting the appellant, on the ground that to box the ears of a servant Is only to admin ister a mild reinstatement in the custom ary form. and does not, therefore, justify the menial in leaving the house without due notice. From this decision there is nn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
sUFF!RAGIsT ADJOURN.
Convention at New Orleans Comes to
 A Close,

h N1OSCs
 New Orleans March 25.-The conven- tion of the National Woman's Suffrage Association came to a close tonight after addresses by Miss Belle Kearney and Doctor Augustine Stone Cullen of Can ada.
 The morning session began with a work conference, presided over by Mrs. Helen Kimber of Kansas fin which methods of urging legislation were discussed.
 The plan of work organization adopted provided for an effort to double the mem bership, to increase the amount of liter ature to be distributed. to prepare a cat Rlogue of books on woman suffrage and that clubs note encouraging items in the papers.
 The afternoon session was presided over by Mrs. Catt and comprised a symposium on Would an Educational qualification for all voters tend to 6he growth of civ ilization and facilitate Food government?" Those who spoke were Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff of New York. Mrs. Eleanor c. stockman, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift of California. Mrs. Clara B. Arthur of Mich igan, Rudolph Blankenburg, Mrs. Char Iotte Perkins Gilman of Ohio Mrs. Hale Hammond Butte of Mississippi and Miss Gail Laughlin.
 Then there was vote. only six dele gates opposing the educational aualifica- ton.
 An invitation from the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition to hold a mass conven- ton in St. Louis in 1904 was referred to the Committee on Plan of Work.
 The next convention will be held in Washington. D. c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
HOW HE N0AMS.

As an evidence of the feeling governing some of the colored people who assume to be the leaders and mouthpieces of their race, we take this from The Re- corder. a negro paper published in Phila- delphia:
 A bill to prevent the intermarrying of whites and colored has been introduced in the Legislature of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg. The measure is one of the many out-eroppinss of well-organized and deeply-laid conspiracy invented and matched in the lower regions to injure the liberty and citizenship enjoyed by whites and blacks alike in this and God. favored sections. A monument to Lee and memorial to the daughter of the arch spirit of the Confederacy were recently defeated projects. turned down by the patriotic and progressive sentiment of the Commonwealth which gave birth to the Declaration of Independence, and 1t Is more than likely that like its precursors this notorious class measure will die a. borning. It seems that the more civili- zation and Christianity tends to bring the races together the more caste and diabolism are determined to keep them apart.
 Of course, it will be contended that no attention should be paid to such insane rot as this. and probably that is true, but the editor, H. T. Johnson. speaks for his race, and no doubt echoes the sentiments of a great number of them. We copy 1t because we want readers of The Adver- tiser to know how a prominent and in nuential negro in the North. the editor of Christian" paper, regards race in- termarriags and now he regards Lee and Miss Winnie Davis. And we think 1t but fair to assume that the animus of this negros wild talk comes from the en- couragement he receives from prominent white men of his section. He is neither better nor worse than some whose skins are white.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
A VALUABLE PAPER.

The Advertiser is indebted to Hon. O. D. Street of Guntersville, Ala, for q highly interesting pamphlet entitled Marshall County One Hundred Years Ago." being a paper read by MT. Street at a centennial watch meeting, Dec. S1, 1900. It is not only of interest to the people of that county, but to all others, ton about the Indians, as well as the earliest white inhabitants. and the man. hers. and customs of the county at the beginning of the last century.
 It would be a valuable contribution to Alabama history if some man in each county would do what Mir. Street has done for Marshall. There is no section of the State that will not furnish inter estIng facts connected with the first set- dement's and with those who led the way to permanent occupation of the country. Not, only the whites, but the Indians should be included in these histories, for there were both prominent characters and events connected with the red men VI AiiGSo NoAAS Ao5S WAASA oASdA0 AASb bS forgotten,
 fhe early history of Alabama is not as complete as 1t should be. and each pass ing year makes the task of writing that history more difficult. In almost every portion of the State there are yet to be found old people who. from their own knowledge, and from information deriv- ed from parents and grandparents, could furnish something of interest and of historical value if some one would take the trouble to collect and write 1t. Each of such articles or papers would be of local interest and at the same time would form part of the general history of the State. Mir. Streets example Is a good one and should be followed by othefs.as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
Trolley vs. Steam Railroads.

McClures Magazine.
 The number of passengers carried on American steam railroads Is less today by over l2,OOo,00 than 1t was seven years ago.
 carried by trolley roads as by steam roads in Massa chusetts in 1SW.
 Tn Connecticut the trolley lines carry 20 per cent. more passengers than the steam lines
 On many interurban lines trolley speed approa ches steam speed. On the Buffalo and Lockport Trolley Road fifty miles an hour is the pace over some sections of it.
 The General Electric Company has pre- pared estimates for machinery to develop a trolley car speed of seventy-fve miles an hour.
 At that rate an electric train would go from New York to Frisco in less than two days.
 If track were laid around the world on the eighty-ffth parallel of latitude a car going at that velocity from east to west would keep up with the earths TO- tation and beat Joshua's miracle by hold ing the sun in one place all summer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
THE "HoNEYMooN TRAIN"
It Holds the Record for Carrying
 Newly Welded Couples.

Cnicago nter-Ocean.
 She was a demure little thing, and blushed rose-red as she stepped from the s:so o'clock train at the Wells Street de- pot last Wednesday night. When she took hold the awkward groom's arm and started walking toward the waiting room she blushed still more.
 There was something more than her appearance that branded her as a bride. At every step there showered from her hat, from her hair and from the folds of her coat innumerable grains of rice which her enthusiastic and well-wishing bridal party had rained upon her as she board ed the train at Milwaukee. As the bride and groom walked past one of the brake men the latter laughed and turned to man standing close by.
 That's the only pair on sentimental journey tonight" he said, as he swung his lantern to his left arm We've gem orally got a bunch of 'em. This is the greatest train in the West for honeymoon trips. There isn't night that the floors of the coaches are not literally covered with rice. One night last week I threw Ave pairs of old shoes of the train after we left Milwaukee.
 T don't know why 1t is. but moro honeymoon trips are begun on this train than on any other one in the West. That's a fact. Most of the bridal couples come from Milwaukee. That's great matrimonial center. We pick up newly welded pair farther north occasionally, but the Wisconsin metropolis, Racine, and Kenosha furnish most of them. When the bride and groom board the train their enthusiastic friends follow them into the coach and hurl rice at them. We haul enough of the stun to Chicago every night to feed Chinatown for week.
 Its dangerous business to be brake- man on this train. don't think I want to stay on here very much longer. This matrimonial fever is contagious, and nearly every brakeman who ever had this r"n has tread over the rice and picked up old shoes 50 much that he's gone away and got married himself
 "Yes. this Is a dull sort of night; only one couple" added the trainman, as he swung his lantern and hopped upon the platform when the train started to back out of the depot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
FEBRUARY 15. 1903
LIKES AMERICAN PIANOS.
ossip GabrlIowitseh, the Artist, Uses
 an Everett.

San Francisco. February A.-(Speciail -Ossip Gabrilowitsch. the Russian plan ist. has completely captured San Francis co with his magnificent playing. He has appeared with orchestra. in four public and seversl private recitals. No pianist has ever exceeded his phenomenal suc- cess. or perhaps equaled 1t.
 He is brainy young man, admlres the country. it's resources. and can talk en- tertainingly in perfect English. What do you think of American pianos?" asked a reporter. 'I love them," he answered. They are wonderful In Europe an ar tist often has to use two at one concert. but I use the same piano night after night and 1t never fails me. At the Everett factory In Boston. in New York Cincinnati. Chicago and San Francisco are reserve concert grands for my use but they are unnecessary. I have used an Everett piano in St. Petersburg the past three years, It is perfect. I have never seen the Everett,s equal for beau .riful tone and endurance"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
SELECT GOOD BOOKS.

The Alabama Textbook Commission should constantly bear in mind that cheapness is not always economy. There Is always something to be considered besides the first cost of an article, and this is especially applicable in the case of school books. The series of books to be selected by this commission is ex- pected to do duty for five years. They will be handed down from one child to another. and the condition in which the last pupils receive them will largely de- pend on the original quality of the books.
 It will be the object of at least some of the publishers of school books to get the best price for the cheapest goods, ana against this disposition the Commission will have to constantly guard. A book made of the cheapest grade of paper, badly put together and bound in the cheapest style. will fall to pieces before one school term ends. Those whose duty 1t is to select the books are occupying the position of guardians of both parents and children. They should see that books of good quality are provided, even though they may cost more in the first place. There will be a conflict of inter- ests between the publishers and the Commission. but the gentlemen compos- ing the latter represent the State and the people of Alabama. They are good men and the State and the people and the children expect good results from their work. But cheapness is not economy in every instance. and in this case 1t may be neither economy nor justice. Saving a little in the first place and spending more in the long run is not what is re- quired.
 And 1t is not merely the mechanical work of the books that demands consid- eration. for there Is something higher and of more importance than even good paper. good print and good binding. The literary quality of the books is an im- portant consideration. These text books are intended for the instruction and per- manent good of our children and they should be both suitable and reliable. A geography which would teach that Lon- don is the capital of France would be re- Jected. An arithmetic which would teach that twice two are five, would not be accepted. So. a history which will teach the false or fail to teach the true. should rot be placed in the hands of the chill dren. It may be that one certain text book which Is thoroughly reliable may cost more than one of another class. but here cheapness ought not to be consid- cred. In short, this Commission should select books which are good from every view point. because the children of Ala bama ought to have that class of books and no other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-26
Holiday Paris.

Hamilton, March 25.-(Special. .)-Mon- day Win Holiday, son of Dr. Walter s. Holiday drove to Gainesville, six miles west of here and took Miss Blanche Paris in the buggy and returned to a point near here. Having conveyed information ui his intentions to Rev. H. C. Harris, he was met by the preacher and a large crowd of young people and the coupe were made man and wife while sitting in their buggy. Their parents have forgiven them Miss Paris Is daughter of Hon. T. J. Paris, who was tax assessor of this county for eight years. She has a brother at the West Point Military Academy and she IS a relative of Hon. James r. Pearce, who represented Marion County in the Constitutional Convention and of Congressman Burleson of Texas.