THE SIMPER.
Death Invades the I Tome of
a Cabinet Minister.
MRS. LYMAN ,T. GAGE,
AVifo of (lie Secretary of Ul3
Treasury, Passes Away.
AT HER WASHINGTON IIOME
Wan jS Yearn of Ace ami Hail Ilct*:i
Slurried l<> .Tlr. (Jugi' lor I I \ car* -
Will lii> Itinlcil In liu»c Hill Cviuo
lerj, Near < iiii'ajt«>
Washington, May IS.— Mrs. Lyman
■I. Gage, wife of tin- secretary of the
treasury, died ar her residence here
at Si:liO o'clock last night, after an
illness of nine weens' duration. With
lier when the end came were her hus
band, her married daughter. Mrs. K.
I'. Pierce, of Evanston, 111., and Dr.
Johnston, the attending' physician.
For a time before her death Mrs.
Cage suffered considerable pain, but
•.he maintained her cheerful demean
or and was conscious to the last.
Heart trouble, the result of grip
complications, was the immediate
cause of death. Mrs. Cage was ex
posed to the inclement weather for
about an hour on inauguration day,
but at the time her health did not
seem to have been affected. On
March 11 she left here for Evanston
to visit her daughter. While there
she experienced a chill and took to
ier bed, but soon recovered sufficient
ly to return to Washington, where
she had been confined to lier room
ever since.
Mrs. Cage was a native of Albany,
N. Y., and."> 8 years of age. She was
married to Secretary Gage in Denver,
Co!., in 1887. There were no children
from their union. Mrs. Pierce being a
-hilet by a former husband.
The remains will be interred in
Hose Hill cemetery, near Chicago. It
is probable that religious services
will be held at her former residence
in this city, 011 Sunday morning, after
which the body will be taken to Chi
cago. Mrs. Cage was an Episcopa
lian in her religious belief, but dur
ing' their residence here she and the
secretary have had a pew in the Me
tropolitan M. K. church, where the
president attends.
During their residence in Washing
ton Secretary and Mrs. Cage took
quite an active part in social life at
the capital. Mrs. Cage was a woman
of charming personality and with her
husband delighted in extending the
hospitality of their elegant home.
Mrs. (iage was probably closer to
Mrs. McKinley than any of the other
ladies of the cabinet.
Tried to Shoo! Two llrterllvr*.
Milwaukee, May 18.- Detectives
Wallerman and Peek narrowly es
caped death last night at the hands
of a man giving the name of W. 11.
Harris, of Cleveland. Harris had at
tempted to pass a check, the genuine
ness of which was questioned, on a
local merchant. When the officers
rounded him up, Harris drew a revol
ver and fired two shots. The officers
were 100 quick for him and in the
melee Harris received two flesh
wounds He had in his possession cer
tified checks aggregating SS()7 and iiie
bank book of Capr. It. (). Squires,
made out on the American Exchange
bank of Cleveland.
Liable for Negligence.
St. Paul, Minn., May 18. —The su
preme court yesterday filed a street
railway decision, said to be the first
of its kind by any state supreme
court in the United States. The
question whether street car com
panies are guilty of negligence when
they attempt to operate their cars in
time of strikes was injected by Ihe
district judge at Diiluth in his charge
to the jury, and upon that question
the decision of the appeal case
turned. The supreme court hole's
that the company is not liable for
negligence in attempting to operate
cars during a strike.
A Ilia Lockout.
Xcw York. May 18. —lief ween l.">, 000
and 20,000 bricklayers ,in the employ
(it contractors who arc members of
the Mason Huilflers' association were'
locked out Friday. The original con
troversy arose over llie employment
of non-union men on a certain job,
and on this the arbitrators decided
against the contractor. The brick
layers next demanded pay for the
time they had been out on strike and
the contractor offered to compromise
by giving them each two days' pay,
but the men refused to settle and the
..lockout is the result.
TUo lUagnati'N Lunei
Philadelphia, May 18.—The injunc
tion proceedings begun by the Phila
delphia National league baseball club
to enjoin Second Baseman Lajoie and
Pitcher I'ernhart and Praser from
playing baseball with the local Amer
ican league club and to enjoin the
managers of that club from engag
ing the players, were dismissed by
the judges of the common pleas
court yesterday. The judges say
.(■hat the contract lacks mutuality.
Tlirrc Itleii Killed.
St. John, X.!>.. May 18. -The chim
ney of Jewett's sawmill collated yes
terday and three men were killed
and others were injured. The dead
are: Win. J. Price, John Met'luskey
and Charles Wilson. The chimney
va . 11)7 feet in height and was un
'ergoing repairs. Price, the con
racting mason, and Met'luskey, were
working 100 feet up the inside of r 1,,»
■structure, while others were working
below. The chimney gave way at
the bottom and collapsed. Me-
Cluskey was instantly killed. Price
irifl Wilson were taken alive from the
vuins, but died soon after.
WILL GIRDLE THE GLOBE.
OToasrs. and Hill Will Soon
Control Transportation I.lnes I'lx
tending Across tint World.
St. Paul, Minn., May 17.—The Pio
neer Press says: Plans for a trans
portation system completely encircl
ing the globe are credited to Presi
dent James .1. Hill, of the Great
.Northern, and J. Pierpont Morgan, of
>'e\v York. It is stated that but a
link to the chain is lacking and be
fore Mr. Morgan's return from
abroad, within a week or two, it will
be supplied.
The great factors in flic new sys
tem are the Great. Xorthern, the
Great Xorthern Steamship Co., Mr.
Hill's trans-Pacific line, soon
to be in operation, and the Leylatid
lines recently purchased by Mr. Mor
gan. The acquisition of these lines
and the one missing link, a line be
tween Alexandria, Egypt, and Hong
Kong, is said to have been Mr. Mor
gan'* purpose in visiting Europe.
The system will be of vast benefit
to Minnesota and the entire territory
traversed by the" Great Xorthern.
since it will throw the most of the
Asiatic shipments to the I'nited
States and Kurope through Dulutli
and St. Paul gateways.
"This, mind you, does not mean the
organization of a single company to
manage an all-around-tlie-globe line,"
said the person mentioned. "As I un
derstand it the relations between Mr.
Hill and Mr. Morgan will result in a
mutual understanding, traffic agree
ments, and all the other parapherna
lia of common interests, effecting the
same thing as if all were under a
single ownership.
Starting from Buffalo, the Great
Xorthern Steamship Co., the Great
Xorthern railway and Mr. Hill's
trans-Pacific steamers will give al
most an air line to Yokohama, Shang
hai and Hong Kong. A link to be
supplied will continue the line to
Alexandria, via Singapore and Bom
bay, and from Alexandria Morgan
lines will connect with Mediterranean
ports. Liverpool and London. The
Leyland lines give direct connection
with London and Philadelphia, and
Liverpool and Xevv York, and roads
controlled by the Morgan-llill inter
ests complete the last division, with
connections into Buffalo.
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
iVlinisitcr fonuer Say* Our Manufact
urers Slioulil (let Out and Hustle lor
Oriental Trade.
Xcw York, May 17. -Edwin H. Con
ger. minister to China, was the guest
of honor last night at the third an
nual banquet of the American Asiatic
association, given at Delmouico's.
There were 125 guests present.
Minister Conger spoke of the pro
gress made in the commercialism of
this country in the Orient. Recent
developments in the Philippines, he
said, had given courage to the mer
chant and the missionary alike, both
looking for increased results, espe
cially ill China.
".Notwithstanding the barbarism of
last summer," said the speaker." the
present situation has still most al
luring prospects for commercial and
philanthropic work in the Orient.
Great trade possibilities are still ex
istent in the muddle kingdom and if
properly taken advantage of. both by
government and individual, ' great
profits are in store.
"It is to be regretted that some
sort of measure in aid of American
shipping did not pass the last con
gress. In my judgment this is not a
political, but a patriotic measure and
is demanded in order to fairly meet
the competition of shipping sub
sidized by other governments.
"One great trouble with our for
eign trade is that our merchants and
manufacturers have never taken hold
of it as a serious and permanent
basis. Whenever they have found
themselves with a surplus of pro
ducts, and only then, they havt» gone
abroad to sell them, if possible, re
gardless of future transactions and
then abandoned the field until an ac
cumulation of another surplus has
driven them forth again. I heir
European competitors, in the mean
time, have been on the ground,
studying the wants of the people,
familiarizing themselves with the
conditions of trade and establishing
agencies. Americans, if they hope
for success, must go and do likewise."
DICIPLES OF CALVIN.
Presbyterian general Assembly Retflns
Its Sessions—A California!! Is t liosi'U
moderator.
Philadelphia. May 17.—The Presby
terian general assembly, which be
gan its li:ith meeting here Thursday,
disposed of two important matters
during the afternoon session. Hev.
Henry C. Minton, of fcan Anselmo,
C'al.. was elected moderator and, by
tin emphatic vote the assembly de
cided to accept the "Peoria plan" of
choosing standing committees,
though an effort was made to obvi
ate the system. Rev. Million's only
opponent was Hev. George T. Purves,
of Xcw York, and of the Oil: votes cast
Dr. Minton received i>;!7 and Dr. Pur
ves 270.
By the "Peoria plan" the church is
divided into election districts, each
of which decides who of its members
shall be placed on the several com
missions. The commissioners select
their own chairman, leaving the mod
erator without authority in the mat
ter.
The opening session of the general
assembly was called to order by Hev.
Charles A. Dickey, the retiring mod
erator. in Calvary Presbyterian
church, where all the business meet
ings <>f the assembly will be held.
Blacklists are Legal.
Chicago, May 17.—1n the superior
court yesterday Judge Baker decided
♦ hat it is legal for employers to main
lain a blacklist. The ruling was in
the case of Annie Condon against
several stock yards packing firms.
The plaintiff was- a can painter and
joined a strike last year against :■ re
duction in wages. Since that time,
she claims, she lias been unable to
secure employment. The court ruled
that firms had a right. t r > take protec
tive measures against persons who
had quit tbe employment <?f other
firms wifl.'oiit valid reasons.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1901.
RIOTS AT ALBANY.
Bloodshed Attends the Strika of
Stroet Railroad Mon.
Attempt to ::tui ( urn on the Linen of
the I lilted Traction <O. Im'lto
•i»t< d by Molm— Several Per
koiik Wounded iTIIIItla«
iiien Are 4 a lied Out.
Albany, X. V., May 13.—When dark
ness foil last evening several thou*
sand street ear strikers and sympa
thizers went to their homes, hut they
were replaced by as many more who
took lip the vigil to prevent the Uni
ted Traction Co. from running its
electric cars with non-union men.
One man lies i:i a hospital seriously
wounded, one of the two ears the
company attempted to run is wrecked
in the gutter of a street not two
blocks from the car house, and the
trolley wires are cut in several places,
practically crippling the road. Near
the ear house were thousands of men
and women and children wrought up
to a pitrh of frenzy that boded ill if
the doors of the car house opened to
let out another car. Inside the car
house, afraid even to look out of the
grated windows, were about 75 non
union men, whom The company ex
pects to use in running the cars. Kar-
Iv Tuesday morning there were about
150 of them, but by nightfall 05 had
deserted and joined the strikers.
During the afternoon the police ad
mitted that they were powerless to
take care of the large crowds on the
.streets on which cars are run, and
(ieneral Manager McXamara called
upon Gen. Oliver, in command of the
Third brigade, for protection. He
said:
"We intend to run out cars if it
takes the entire national guard of
New York state to protect us."
(ion. Oliver issued an order assem
bling at their armory the Tenth bat
talion, of Albany, comprising four
companies of the national guard of
infantry and the Third signal corps,
mounted.
The riot yesterday was full of ex
citing features. At 10 o'clock the
car barn doors swung open and out
darted a closed car with all the win
dows opened. Immediately there was
p. roar of hisses and shouts. Several
men made an effort to board the ear,
but they were kept from doing so by
the police, one of whom was stationed
on each car step. The car made
rapid headway and almost before the
expectant crowd realized what had
happened it was well on its way over
Ouail street. It continued to the
Union station and returned, followed
most of the way by bicyclists and peo
ple in vehicles. The second car did
not escape. When the doors were
opened the mob surged towards it,
despite the efforts of the police. The
crew consisted of four men dressed
in plain clothes.
Before the car had started two
policemen boarded it. They simply
made two extra targets for the
stones and bricks. The car had not
gone 50 yards before one had his
helmet crushed. Then began a fusil
ade of bricks and stones.
A great jagged stone struck the
motorman on the head. He dropped
to the nlatform, with blood streaming
from the wound. He dropped in a
pool of his own blood, which cov
ered the platform.
A few feet more and the ear ran
upon an insurmountable barricade.
With a sudden jerk it came to a stop
and all on board were thrown for
ward. one of the conductors falling
amongst a pile of broken glass and
receiving some ugly wounds and cuts.
Three arrests were made and thus
ended the first day's attempt to run
the cars.
The Twenty-third regiment of
Brooklyn, has been ordered out to
quell the riots.
Albany, N. Y., May 10. —So serious
is the situation here over the Trac
tion company strike that Gov. Odell
postponed a trip which he had under
taken ami returned to the executive
mansion. Two thousand armed sol
diers are now within the city limits,
more are coming and 2,500 are in
readiness to move to Troy when Gov.
Odell so orders. The streets are
thronged with excited men, women
and children and the otherwise quiet
day terminated in bloodshed. A dra
matic element was added to the day's
features by the sudden death of
Adjt. (ien. Hoffman.
Citizens and non-union men with
broken limbs and bloody faces, wo
men and children trampled under
foot, soldiers maimed with flying mis
siles and leaders in the crowds beaten
with muskets were some of the re
sults yesterday.
Albany, N. Y„ May 17.—Three men
fatally wounded, others with cut
faces and broken heads, ears running
with no patrons, the city under mar
tial rule, with its citizens in a frenzy
of excitement and the city authorities
and leaders of the strikers trying to
get the railway company to come to
an amicable settlement, was the situ
ation when darkness put an end to
the strife growing out of the street
car strike last night.
Those fatally wounded are: William
Walsh, a merchant, and Leroy Smith,
a merchant, shot by national
guardsmen, and William Marshall, a
non-union motorman, skull fractured.
Others most seriously injured are:
(ieorge Booze, citizen, cheek ripped
open by bayonet.
William Kooney, citizen, shot by na
tional guardsmen, and Gilbert Hall, a
non-union motorman, shot by mob.
Five hours of conference last night
with all the warring elements repre
sented failed to settle the strike.
In Honor of Senator (£iiay.
Phi lade! pliia, May 15. —llepu blica ns
of the dominant faction from every
section of this state paid hotnag • lasr
night to United States Senate.- Quay
in honor of his re-election to the
senate. Barring a state convention,
last night's gathering of republicans
was one of the greatest outpourings
to do honor to one man ever wit
nessed in this state. Gov. Stone -\as
there, all the members of his cabinet,
members of the legislature, the mu
nicipal heads of several cities and all
the prowiaenl, republicans oi thu
city.
GRAND CONFLAGRATION.
Buruliiur of the Ilaku Oil Itelinerics
In ItuMHln Said to He llliit;i'«t
111 use on lici'urd.
The great tire at the oil refineries
and reservoirs at Baku, Russia, which
has only recently been extinguished,
ranks as one of the biggest confla
grations of the kind on record. Its
origin was a mystery, but within an
hour of the outbreak the magazines
of the Caspian & Black Sea company,
containing an immense quantity of
petroleum, amounting to 6,000,000
poods, were involved. Ten people, un
able to escape the fiery torrent, per
ished, and over 140 were terribly
burned. For several days it was quite
THE BAKJJ CONFLAGRATION.
(Grandeur c. <.ne Great Oil Fire Shown by
the Camera.)
impossible to cope with the flames,
with the result that ten factories and
five depots, with a storage capacity
of 35,000,000 poods of oil —say, 562,500
tons —of an estimated value of over
6,000,000 rubles, were destroyed.
Enormous quantities of petroleum
are stored in the reservoirs adjacent
to Baku awaiting transport via the
Trans-lvavkas line to Poti and
Batoum, on the Black sea, whence by
a magnificent fleet of oil-tank steam
ers it is distributed to all parts of the
world. With such a volatile agent to
handle, it is no wonder that fires are
of frequent occurrence, and it is rare,
indeed, that Baku is without its l laze.
As a rule the reservoirs and the re
fineries escape, and it is merely the
"gusher" which catches fire. This,
however, is bad enough, as many of
the oil fountains are worth anything
from $25,000 to $250,000, and once
alight no human ingenuity can stay
the work of destruction until the
whole of flue on being belched from
the earth is burned away.
The accompanying illustration,
taken from a photograph reproduced
in the London Sphere, gives one an
idea of the grandeur of the destruc
tive fire.
DAVID R. FRANCIS.
Koted Mlstaonrl Politician Elected
l'realdent of tile (.rent St. l.oiilo
Exposition of 1 !>!):$.
Former Gov. David It. Francis, who
has just been elected president of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition of
19015, was one of the earliest pro
moters of that great enterprise. Mr.
Francis, like so many politically-dis
tinguished men of Missouri, is a
Kentuckian. He has just begun his
fifty-second year. At 16 he came to
St. Louis, was graduated from Wash
ington university in 1870, and, en
tering commercial life, he became
president of the Merchants' exchange
in 1883. lie was a delegate to the
democratic convention of 18S4, and
in 1885 he was elected mayor of St.
HON. DAVID P.. FRANCIS.
(President of the Loui.-iana Purchase Ex
position of ISOo.)
Louis, defeating his republican oppo
nent, who four years previously had
received a majority of 14,000 votes.
The new mayor became so strong
politically that he was given the
nomination for governor in 1888, and
few candidates for that post have
had a more united and enthusiastic
following. In the closing days of the
last Cleveland administration Mr.
Francis was appointed secretary of
the interior, and served in that po
sition until the inauguration of Pres
ident McKinley the first time. When
the democratic party split, on the
silver issue in 1806 he took sides
with the sound money faction, and
has remained that kind of a democrat,
ever since. He is already mentioned
as a presidential possibility for 1904.
Fi)r(Hiio for Seven Hollar*.
A seven-dollar investment netted
Peter Greenhalgh over $4,000. He is
i resident of Venango, Pa., and he there
bought an old safe at auction for seven
dollars. In the safe he found gold coin
and paper money to the value of $4,250.
A Gernuin City In fhliin.
Three years ago the city of Tsing-
Tan, the German Chinese port, was a
poor fishing port. Tt is now a city
of electric lights, telephones, water
works, hotels and government hou.;es.
DEATH IN A MINE.
S3* Men Killed and I'lve Other* Fa
tally Injured by an JKxplosloii at
JKarmlngton, W. Va.
Fairmont, W. Va., May 16.—Six
miners lost their lives, five were fatal
ly injured and three seriously burned
by an explosion in the shaft of the
George's Creek Coal and Iron Co., at
Furiuington, seven miles west of this
city, on the main line of the Haiti
more & Ohio railway, yesterday.
The George's Creek Co. has head
quarters in Baltimore, and extensive
mining interests in Maryland. This
is the first mine the company has
opened in this stale and fully $1,000,-
000 has been invested and the mine is
one of the best equipped in the Fair
mont coal region. Col. S#merville,
an experienced mine superintendent,
has charge of the works. The mine
was only recently put into operation
and about 125 men were employed.
Owing- to a shortage in the car sup
ply the men have only been making
about half time for several days, but
on Tuesday quite a number of cars
were left at the mine and the man
agement decided to break all records
with Wednesday's output. Early
yesterday morning the miners who
reside in cottages on the hilltop above
the mine made their way to the main
opening and the car carried them 233
feet into the earth.
Fifteen of them were assigned to a
portion of the mine that has been
worked for some time anil the re
mainder were put to work on head
ings quite a distance away. One of
the men in the rooms, it is alleged,
had smuggled a torch into the mine,
as it gives much better light than
the safety lamps prescribed by the
company. There is an immense fan
which sends 5,000 feet of fresh air
into the mine at every revolution, and
as the shaft was considered one of
the safest in the region the miner
did not heed the warnings of a fellow
employe who told him of the risk he
was taking.
At 9:15 a miner fired a shot and the
smoke, which was very dense, caught
fire from the torch and spread to
either the gas or dust and the explo
sion resulted. Fortunately the mine
did not catch fire to any extent. The
explosion almost demolished the
building on the surface in which the
fan was located.
The men on the headings did not
know there had been an explosion
until notified. The air was soon
turned in and in a short time the
headings were cleared of foul gases
and the work of rescuing the unfor
tunates commenced.
THE NEW WAGE SCALE.
Iron U'orkcru Will Probably Demand
that It be Bused on a $5 Kate lot
Fuddling.
Pittsburg, May 1G. —President Shaf
fer, Secretary Williams *ind the wage
committee of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers, left last night for Milwaukee,
where the annual convention is to be
held and the wage scale arranged.
The officials seem confident that a
favorable wage scale can be pre
pared and that there will be no fric
tion with the great steel combina
tion. The suggestions from the
lodges of the association that are to
be considered by the committee in
formulating its report are for a con
tinuous scale based on a rate of $5
for puddling, on a selling price of one
cent for bar iron.
If this scale is adopted there will
be no disturbances in the iron and
steel industry, so far as the Amalga
mated association is concerned, for
yea rs.
The rate, however, is considered
too high by some manufacturers and
may not be adopted as promptly as
the workers organization desires.
The convention will be one of the
most important held for a number of
years, as the matter of arranging
settlements with the various combi
nations for each mill will be taken
up. Most of the delegates have al
ready declared that they will not fa
vor a settlement at any one plant tin
less all are included, when owned or
controlled by a combination, or by
the United States Steel Corporation.
STOKES IS ACQUITTED.
Went Virginia Legislator Wlio Killed
u Preacher la Exonerated by a Jury.
Williamson, W. Va., May lti.T-r-Sen
ator S. 1). Stokes stood up in the
court room yesterday and pleaded
"not guilty" to the indictment ac
cusing him of the' murder of Ilev. J. J.
W-011, a Presbyterian minister here
last November. The trial is the final
outcome of Her. Woll's sensational
sermon in which Williamson society
came under the sharp lash of his in
vective. The theory of the prosecu
tion was that Stokes sought the min
ister in his own house and demanded
an apology and provoked a quarrel in
which Mr. Woll was killed. But the
first witness put upon the stand failed
to bear out that hypothesis.
Otis ltiley was within 50 yards and
at the first bark of the pistols rushed
toward the scene of the affray. There
he found Stokes, although shot twice,
still standing with smoking revolver
in hand, and in reply to a question
Stokes said "Woll shot me first, and
1 had to kill him." At that time
ltiley said Mrs. Leneive, of Richmond,
Va.,'who was the only eyewitness fo
the shooting, corroborated Stokes.
Riley's testimony virtually disposed
of the state's case. Senator Stokes
took the stand and explained how
Woll was killed. There were no oth
er witnesses for the defense. Last
night the jury returned a verdict of
not guilty, and Senator Stokes is
again free.
ClUarmuUcrn strike.
Tampa. Fla.. May 16.—A strike of
6,000 clgarmakers was inaugurated
here Wednesday. For two days past
a bridge connecting Tampa with the
western suburbs has been broken
and the men had to wait for ferry
boats. This was unsatisfactory.
Those employed on the west side gat
together and decided to compel the
manufacturers to ring influence to
bear to have the bridge repaired. To
this end they decided to strike. Two
thousand in number they then
marched to the factories and da
manded that the employes come out.
TOUR ABANDONED,
President Will Not Visit the North
western States.
The Danxeroua Illness of .Urn. T]>l4 in—
ley < ompeltt a < bullae in the Pro
gram us Orlslnall) Outlined—
Mill Helurn tu (lie ICuat
at un ICarly Hate.
Snn Francisco, May 13. —The sudden
illness of Mrs. MeKimVy has caused
an unexpected change in the itinerary
of President MeKinlcy. He arrived
in this city Sunday afternoon, several
hours ahead of the time scheduled.
The state of Mrs. McKinley's health
was sucii in the morning that the
president decided to leave Del Monte
and bring his wife to this city imrae-.
diately, to the home of Henry T.
Scott, where she could have complete
rest for a few days and where a
specialist could be consulted if neces
sary.
The day after leaving New Orleans
a bone felon appeared upon Mrs.
McKinley's finger. Jier hand became
swollen and gave her considerable
pain, and produced fever that pre
vented her from sleeping.
San Jose, Cal„ May 14.—President
McKinley came here Monday from
San Francisco, arriving here just as
the cabinet train pulled into the city
from the south, lint he remained
only for the formal exercises. When
they were concluded he was driven
back to the station and left immedi
ately for San Francisco. At James
square, opposite the courthouse, a
handsomely decorated stand had been
erected and here the formal exercises
took place.
In the rear of the big stand was the
big- bouquet. It stood in its frame
25 feet high." The stem was a tele
graph pole sunk in the ground. It
was composed of cut flowers of every
variety that bloom.
San Francisco, May 15. —President
McKinley made his official entry into
this city Tuesday afternoon. After
being formally welcomed by Mayor
Phelan. he was escorted through the
principal streets attended by a mili
tary and naval turnout. He attend
ed a public reception last night in
the Market street ferry depot.
At 2:40 o'clock he "left the Scott
residence for the Valencia street sta
tion. Here he met the train bring
ing the members of the cabinet and
the remainder of his party, who had
fulfilled the program between San
Jose and this city. The president,
his cabinet, Mayor Phelan and the
reception committee were then taken
by train to the Third and Townsend
street station, where the military and
naval escort was waiting.
From the moment the president,
emerged from the depot the cheering
was intense, but as the long proces
sion ifof under way, its force seemed
to be redoubled. Far up the line the
cry was caught up. Hloek after block,
ill succession, was soon faced with \i
surging mass that broke forth
into a vociferous proclamation of
welcome.
San Francisco, May 10. —Owing tr>
the very serious character of Mrs.
McKinley's illness, the president yes
terday decided to abandon his con
templated northwestern tour and to
return to Washington direct, so soon
aw Mrs. McKinley shall lie able to
stand the journey. The gravity of
Mrs. McKinley's condition has been
known to members of the president's
party for several days, but had been
concealed, in the belief that she
would rally, and with a few days of
absolute rest be restored to normal
condition. But her present illness
has been attended with new compli
cations, which have not yielded to
treatment and the president conclud
ed that it was time the public should
be apprised of the true situation.
Dr. llynry Gibbons, a celebrated
physician, of San Francisco, has been
called in consultation with Dr. Hirseh
felder and Dr. Kixey. Dr. Gibbons
has a reputation here for his skill in
the treatment of bowel disorders.
Kver since Mrs. McKinley arrived at
the Scott residence she has been des
perately ill. Her extreme weakness
has been the most alarming feature
of her condition. Her vitality has
been at low ebb and she has spoken
seldom to those about her.
The president has been continually
at her bedside since their arrival here
Sunday night, save the few hours
Monday afternoon when he left her
to jjo to San Jose, and the three
hours he spent Tuesday in the parade.
San Francisco, May 17.—Mrs. Mc-
Kinley is in the shadow of the valley
of death and may pass away at any
moment. Thursday morning, short
ly before dawn, she sank rapidly and
it was feared she would die before
restoratives could be administered,
but she responded to the powerful
heart stimulants that were given to
her and during the day improved to
such an extent that the hope of her
recovery, slight though it was, re
vived. But her life hangs by a thread.
She has taken no solid food since
she reached here Sunday and the phy
sicians do not think she could sur
vive another sinking spell such as she
experienced yesterday. She suffers
little and bears up bravely. During
her periods of consciousness her mind
is clear. The president is constantly
at her bedside.
At 9 o'clock last night all was
quiet around the Scott home. Secre
tary Cortelyou summoned the press
reporters and gave them a bulletin
announcing that the physicians re
ported Mrs. McKinley's condition de
cidedly improved since morning, and
that their patient was resting wtjll.
Captured Txvo .imerlean Krl^nndM.
Manila, May 15.—Defectives and the
police have broken up a band of
American brigands who have been
operating in the province of I'arn
panga, not far from Manila. George
Raymond and Oscar Mosmiller have
been captured and Andrew Martin,
Peter Heise, George Mulin and two
other.-; are si ill beinj" 1 pursued. This
band committed outrages, murdered
ar: raped at Baeolar and in that
vicinity, and Sunday last they killed
Henry Dow, an American. The band
sometimes reported themselves as
American ueserters
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