The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 1

LI VOL. XLIV. SAX FRANCISCO THURSDAY MOUSING, FEBRUARY 10, 1887 TWELVE-PAGE EDITIOX. NO. 41, upon to proceed.

Her timidity caused consider SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. eyes as if tittering a prayer for a guardian angel might protect her from danger. She was so excited that she did not remove the silk scarf which her maid places around her neck when she leaves the stage. Advancing timidly toward the center of the stage and going forward, she reached her hand out to Arditi. The crowd which by this time had regained tneir self-possession, greeted her appearance with shout after shout of applause, and it was fully fiveminutes before she was allowed to begin to sing the touching ballad, and there is A HORROR.

A Frightful Crime Attempted in the Grand Opera House. SEDUCTION! Great V.v sequent developments disclosed things that were hitherto known only to the wounded man himself. Officer E. Stevens had brought him in, but he knew nothing save that he had taken the helpless individual from the Grand Opera House during an Intense excitement. The helplessness of the prisoner was another evidence of charity on the part of the officer, for otherwise he could not have survived in the tumult created by the explosion of the bomb at the Grand Opera House.

The trusty took hold of him, and sat him down in a chair, and then began an operation of vast dimensions. The man was almost blown to pieces. No one knew who he was until his pockets were searched, when it was found by a circular in his pocket that he was Dr. James Hodges, the Professor" of the Magnetic Tonic of Roots and Herbs for Dyspepsia, No. -4 Central place, south of Pine, above Kearny street" The magnetic citizen was plastered np in various ways.

His feet were sorely injured aud required some attention, but the face and hands were the most seriously mutilated portions of the body. He was bandaged in the most approved style, screaming all the while for pain. Finally, when the work was done and the "Doctor" was laid to rest on a cot, a large crowd of curious reporters and officials surrounded him. AN EARLY Several Firemen Badly Burned and Partly Suffocated. At 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in No.

619 Post street, occupied as a Chinese laundry and a Japsnse curio store. The entire structure burned down, and In falling precipitated a number of firemen from the roof to the ground, seriously, if not fatally, injuring severaL Patrick Curran and Henry Rico of 4 engine, and a man whose name could not be learned, were among the number. The last named was Insensible at li st advices, and may not survive till morning. Half a dozen injured men were taken to tbe Receiving Hospital, and more were being found when the Examiner went to p.ess. Curran had his back badly Injured.

Michael Hurley, assistant foreman of No. 4 engine had his legs badly hurt Harry Rice had his ankle sprained, and Geo. Long was struck on the foot by a timber. Edward Skelly of the same company received a severe cut over the eye. The unknown man is the most seriously hurt of all.

Hereceiued a severe blow on the face, but the dost or elates that he Is internally injured. John Riley, a rescued fireman, said that Fireman Mulcahey was burned to deat h. SEVERAL DROWKED. A Schooner Sinks Causing; the Loss of Four Lives. Hartford February 9.

The schooner Samuel Daly of New London was cut through HOSIERY AND MERINO UNDERWEAF Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. respectfully call the attention of cur customers and the pnblio the following EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTIONS IN PRICES: LADIES 600 dona 473 onsen 400 dozen S00 dozen LADIES' COLORED CASHMERE HOSE, extra fins quality, at 73c ape Reduced from (13 SO dotsa. GDiTLDLLVS 260 dosen at Tit dozen at SOO dozen at 233 dozen CfflLDRLVS 340 dozen at 323 dozen at 378 dozen 150 dozen at as they imitated his manner of singing. Arditl looked np at the gallery surprised and Indignant, but neither his Indignation nor the self-possession of GalassI, nor the hurrying to and fro of ushers and box-office officials had any effect upon the noise. Cries of Arditi Abbey Crowley 1 alternated with wild cat-calls and moans.

Galassi finished his song with difficulty, and with a bitter smile at the gallery bowed himself off. When Scalchi appeared there seemed to be a reasonable hope that the hurly-burly would cease She was much frightened and nervous under the ordeal. Arditi spoke a feK words of encouragement to her and then bravely struck up. Scalchi had no sooner began to sing than the noises began. Again the men in the gallery moaned and cat-called.

Arditi hissed and even stopped bis orchestra. The noises ceased. Ho began again and the noises began. A shudder ran through the house at the thought of so much brutality to a woman and a stranger. An awful apprehension took hold of the audience.

What was going to happen next? As for poor Scalchi she looked as though she wished the floor of the stage would open and swallow her. She was very white. Her face worked painfully. Cries of "Shame! Shame!" proceeded from the orchestra seats. Mr.

Abbey could not conceal his anxiety. As soon as he appeared In the lobby he was surrounded by a host of excited men who seemed to hold him responsible or the disturbance. "What is the matter, Mr. Abbey?" said one of these. "Can't you do something to stop the noise? Who is doing it?" A few people in the gallery," answered Mr.

Abbey, nervously. "I have sent some one to attend to it." Strangely enough, neither Guille nor Patti appeared in the first part. For this reason Scalchi and Galassi were each called upon to sing twice before the intermission. When again it came Galassi's turn to sing, the noise still continued and the situation looked desperate. Finally Captain Short was appealed to.

Put them out I will not put them out. If the box office people had stopped selling tickets when I told them there wonld have been no trouble. If the management has got in more people than the gallery will hold that is their lookout." Captain Short had no sooner finished this harangue when an altercation took place in the lobby. Curiously enough Mr. Abbey was one of the participants.

A gentleman whose gallantry had carried him away had been applauding Scalchi by beating the door against which he was leaning with a light cane. Mr. Abbey was driven frantic by the rattling sound, and now began to believe that there was a cabal in the orchestra as well as in the gallery to break up his house. He laid hold of the gentleman by the collar of his coat. "Take your hands off, sir.

I will not have you touch me," sail the man with the cane. "But you will stop that noise," said Mr. Abbey, firmly. "No man shall do me violence. If you had asked me politely to stop I should have done so.

I came here to be amused. By heaven, no man shall lay a finger on me." Mr. Abbey, convinced of his mistake, turned away almost sadly to cope with the unseen danger. He certainly made every honorable effort to ward it off. During the Intermission there was a comparative lull, and by the time Patti made her entree confidence was fairly restored.

She was applauded with generous warmth. Flowers were showered upon her and so divinely she sang that the hissing and catcalling were almost forgotten. Indeed any noise in the gallery was immediately drowned by applause in the orchestra. Safely through "Traviata," the Patti company began Lucia." In the slight interval which intervened the murmurs grew louder, and again with singular persistency discord begau to assert itself. Patti sang the mad scene divinely.

The audience were charmed and applauded again and again. However, as she was returning from her third encore, a loud explosion was heard. The house was filled with smoke. The shrieks of women were heard and many fainted. A bomb had been thrown from the gallery, concealed in a bouquet.

This was the tribute which anarchy intended to pay to Patti. The house behaved with admirable self-possession. They remained seated and listened to Patti's singing of Home, Sweet Home," and until the last of the opera The man who threw the bomb was arrested and the evidence of his guilt established. He was seen to light and throw his petard. The bomb fortunately exploded prematurely.

The assassin's own hands were lacerated, and a woman sitting beside him severely injured. By a miracle no further Injury was done, for a panic would have caused the death of hundreds of innocent people. The name of the man who perpetrated this astounding and revolting crime is known to the authorities. He called himself Dr. James Hodges.

The turmoil and hissing which had been going on in the upper part of the house during the concert and the first, act of "Traviata" abated for a while when Patti advanced from the middle of the stage to sing the rondo from "Lucia de Lammermoor," "II dolce She was dressed In white and her long, black hair hung in a waving mass down her back. The applause which greeted her from the boxes, orchestra and dress circle was fairly deafening, and drowned the noise and confusion from the upper part of the house, which had been in a state of uproarious excitement during the entire evening. There bad been considerable trouble about seating accommodations and the gallery inmates were intent on mischief. The applause which greeted Patti on the occasion of her last appear WINTER MERINO TJNDERWEAB AT Greatly Reduced Prices. Onr entire stock of Cartwrrlght Warner's Celebrated TWlt.

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Of late Miss Morris has become very nervous. which, accounts for her being so much fright ened. SfO. 4 CENTRAL PLACE. A Laboratory Discovered In the Bomb- Thrower's Honse.

James Hodges, the bomb-thrower. Is an elec trician, who has for the past year been a resi dent at No. 4 Central place, a cul-de-tae running south from Pine street, between Kearny and Dnpont. He has jio means, and to support biraself has been keeping lodgers from adjoin ing dives. About 1 o'clock this morning Chief of Police Crowley, Captain Lees and Officer C.

M. Johnson went to the house and, with the keys taken from Hodges' pocket, they gained admission. The building is rickety two-story frame, containing two rooms on the first floor and four on the second. The latter portion of the house is reached by a stairway less than two feet wide. The lower floor is occupied by the Morrises, husband and wife.who are variety performers.

The npper portion is where Hodges uvea Jn his bedroom was found a dirty mattress on a cot covered with one thin blanket. The front room was empty, but quite a discovery was made when, through a door which looked more lice a panel, an entrance was gained into a well-equipped laboratory. Crucibles, mortars and a doren other objects, such as are used by chemists, were found. It was evident from some of the articles that were still dirty that they had been used quite recently. In a small closet four long and square cornered, were found concealed beneath a bag.

At the Cen tral Station it was found that the bottle con tained turpentine, varnish and chloroform. A number of bunche-f of matches were also found like those which were in Hodges' over- overcoat Neatly piled on an old box were a number of copies of the Weekly Star and Public Opinion. Strewn over the floor were a score of circulars, on which were printed anti-Chinese addresses. Family Troubles. Late this morning the wounded man was interrogated as to what trouble he has had with his wife that she left him.

"Nothing," he an swered, but continuing a moment later. he said: "She wanted to go with that fellow Warren, her son-in-law, a com' positor on an evening paper." Shortly afterward, Hodges turned his head away from the reporter, and to another ques tion answered: "It's none of your business, anywsy." LA DIVA'S WILL. An Adopted 3fieeo to Secure the Bulk of Her Fortune. In view of the circumstances which might have ended in Patti's death, the following facts concerning the final disposition of her property will prove of interest A Vienna news paper gives the following information in regard to the testament, which, translated, reads as follows: "Before leaving for America Mme. Patti made her will, which is now in the hand of her attorney in London.

"The details of the document, of which only a part is known, are very interesting. La Diva leaves one-half of her fortune to her husband, Signor Nicolini, who, himself, is the possessor of 2,000,000 franca One-fourth is left to her brother-in-law, Mr. Strakosch, and the remaining quarter is bequeathed for a reserve fund, of which purses will be distributed in all the large cities where she has achieved triumphs. Young cantatrices of tal ent will have the benefit of these purses to aid them iu completing their artistic education. "A final clause of the testament imposes on tne heirs the obligation to Keep tier torn covered with flowers.

Winter aud Summer. I have alwavs lived in the midst of flowers," remarks the testatrix, audit Is under flowers that I ilesire to rest" An Examiner representative called on the prima douna at her apartments in the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon and showed her the extract from the foreign J.iuraal Signor Nico lini ar nrst positively reruei to aiiow any one to see La Diva, and acted in an unbecoming manner toward a lady who called a few min-ntr pr-r to the advent of the reporter. Mme. Patti, whose generous hospitality and good nature is of world-wide note, notwithstanding Nk-olinTsextreme contempt aud ungentlemanly actions toward callers especially on the after-noun of a concert or opera Eood-natnredly gave an audience to the reporter in regard to her las will and testament. LA 1mv amphatioaU-y emrker-that he attorney iraa a resident of Paris, and that her will was made there.

Iu reference to Mr. etmnoscn, who is represented as heini? her brother-in-law, and tbe heir to one-quarter of her estate, the song-oiKl noi ouiy oewiiaerea, out in-tensclvluditfuaut at the fact that such a person should be associated with her in that connection. Continuing, she remarked. "I leave one-half of mv estate to mv husband, and the re mainder, after the reserve fund is well pro- vided for, I bequeath to my aaoptea niece, Marlins Patti of New Orleans. It includes my castle.

Craig-i-nos, in Wales, and my jewelry." "This is positively my farewell tour of Amer ica, and after a tour oi Europe i snail leave me uvnraol mv muT triumphs and to my castle in Wales. My niece meets me in tbe East and will accompany me to Europe, wnere sue will reside permanently." In reply to a question by the reporter In regard to that clause in her will which imposes on her heirs the obligation to keep her grave ever freen. La Diva answered that there was noth-ngobligatorv in that clauseof the testament, and it was left entirely to her niece and friends. "Concerning the reserve fund," remarked the prima donna. I desire to give material aid to all whj are anxious to become noted in the mu sical profession, and I shall always cousider myself fortunate to be able to give my mite in aiding those who are worthy of the art" Mme.

Patti spoke feelingly of her departure from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope and hoped that it would be her good fortune to visit it again. SHIP AND RAIL. The Differences Between the Pacific Mail and the Panama Railroad. New York, February 9. The Directors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company held a meeting to-day to consider the proposition of the Panama Railroad Company for a settlement of the differences between the two companies.

-When the Transcontinental Association broke tip aud the Pacific Mail lost the subsidy from the Pacific railroads it ceased paying the Panama Railroad 70,000 per month, in accordance with the old agreement The Panama railroad has taken the Pacific mails and freight but has brought a claim for $500,000 against it The Pacific Mail now proposes to pay OOO to settle the claim and to reduce the mouthly payment to $03,000. The meeting adjourned till to-morrow, and gave President Houston and Director Lauter-bach power to treat with the Panama railroad. The terms of the proposition were cabled to Count De Lesseps, President of tbe Panama Canal Company, which owns the Panama railroad, and an answer is expected from him 'A MURDEROUS MYSTERY. Three Persons Supposed to Be Murdered, and then Cremated. Chicago, February 9.

The Inter ka Des Moines (Iowa) special says News was received here to-day of a horrible accident or tragedy that occurred yesterday about six miles northwest of Jeffers. A small farmhouse, occupied by a man named Luekluru. was entirely consumed by fire at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and Lucklum's aged father, his wife and son were burned to death. Two women who were neighbors saw the flames and tried to get in, but tbe doors were fastened with the occupants inside. This, together vita the fact that a gun and a revolver were found near the remains of tbe old man, indicate foul play of some kind, possibly murder and suicide.

The "Weekly Examiner. This morning's Issue of the Weekly Ex-aminxb fs packed full of news. All the events of importance which have occurred during the past week fiud a place in its columns. Tbe intelligence from Washington and from Sajpram-nto present a compact resume of the proceedings of Congress and the State Legislature. The news of the Coast is, as always, full and satisfactory in every particular.

To sum up. this edition of the Wj eelt Examiner is fully up to the high stands td which has given it the proud position of tbe best weekly paper published west of Chicago. No Strike Intended. A nuvi'tr of the crew of the steamer Yaquina City to an Examiner reporter last night that they had no Intention of quitting the vessel because of the non-payment of wre3. as stated in an evening paper.

According to their statement there has been no trouble about wages. Whatever trouble-there was simply involved the third cook. A New Hotel In San Jose. Sax Josk, February 9. To-day steps were taken to Incorporate a company with a capital stock of $500,000 to build a new hotcL Ten per ecu wis immediately subscribed by the following xetlemen, who will act as Directors for the fir, year: James Phelan J.

S. Potts. L. Lion. A.

Bishop. W. P. Dougherty, E. P.

Kced and C. M. Shortridge. Chief Brady Exonerated. Eas Tose, February 9.

The Council to-nlt listened to the charges of drunkenness and incompetency brought against Chief Engineer Bradj-ud roted them not sustained. 111, 113, 110, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET, tO, US, 14 lO, HORTON STItKLTT. no doubt that she never saug it with more feeling and expression or that it ever reached the hearts of her audience withmore telling ef fect, as it seemed as if everyone was anxious to get out of the house, yet lingered on to drink the last notes that fell from the lips of the peer less Patti. When the song was finally ended the fair diva staggered rather than walked off the stage to the wings, where she was caught in the arms of Signor Xieolini, who was waiting to receive her and who bore her in a fainting condition into her dressing-room. After Patti had left the stage the greater part of the audience left the theater and Signor Guille, the darling tenor, sang his last aria to a very inattentive and unappreciative audience.

The expression of opinion gathered as the crowd was trying to get out after the performance was principally one of thanks that no one was very seriously hurt except the supposed perpetrator of the outrage, and one gentleman was heard to say that he would like to make one of a party to get hold of the wretch and torture him over a slow fire. John W. Mackay of the Mackay-Bennet't Cable Company made strenuous efforts to quiet the audi ice in his part of the house. In the midst of the excitement, when all eyes were directed toward the gallery, Police Officer C. M.

Johnson stepped to the center of the aisle and held np in full view of tbe terror-stricken audience a large green oblong-shaped bottle, surrounded by a white felt bag, such as is used by druggists in filtering. A SCENE OF TERROR. Patti's Brave Effort to Quell the Excitement. "Patti had just finished singing a selection from the opera of 'Lucia di said an eye-witness of the affair. The audience had been held spell-bound with the power and beauty of the performance.

A burst of applause had greeted the artist. Happy in this exhibition of her triumph she was just tripping across and off the stage when the entranced throng were hushed and startled by a loud explosion. Fear and foreboding wonder filled every breast in a second of time. Tbe deafening noise was as unexpected as lightning from a sunny sky. The surroundings and the occasion moreover intensified the consequences of such a thing.

I was sitting in a proscenium box to the right of the etage. The moment the report was heard I was on my feet, and then saw that it bad taken place In the gallery on the same side of the house. You could see people in that corner of the gallery rushing like frightened animals over the seats and up the steps to the door. Presently a policeman could be seen right where the explosion occurred. In a moment be held up so that all could see what appeared like a big black whisky flask.

I instantly thought it was a dynamite bomb or tube." "The whole affair was over in much shorter time than it can be told. The appearance of the audience was enough to excite a person beyond measure. Men and women got up in their seats, those farthest from the aisles trying all the time to edge their way out as if apprehending cause for immediate fight. There was stillness over the house that gave no good augury of what might take place in that terror-stricken crowd. There were many pale faces there, not because of the mere explosion but as to what that audience would do.

Just as a little wind will blow a smoking ember into a leaping flame, it would onlyiave taken a shout or a cry from a few voices to have started many in a rush for the doors. Patti herself brought that throng to its senses. During those two or three moments of fright she stood just off the stage. I could see her plainly. She looked nervous and there was an expression of alarm in her face.

Several cool-headed men beckoned her to come on the stage. I heard some one say, Sing "Home Sweet Home!" She caught the idea in aminute and her face lit with the happy thought as she stepped before the footlights a little perplexed but yet calm. She sang, I thought, with so much feeling and power and completely subdued the frightened feelings of many a man and woman. "Jt was very uncomfortable in that opera-house just after that explosion, and I don't want to witness another such scene." ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE. The Bomb-Thrower's Break for the House of a Friend.

Police Officer E. Stevens, who escorted the alleged doctor from the Opera House to the Receiving Hospital, stated to the Examiner reporter: "That fellow seemed to be all right enough in his talk, but he was bleeding horribly from the wound on his nose. He was willing enough to walk fast, as though he did not care very much about letting the crowd catch up with us. We walked np Third street on the west side, and when we. reached Stevenson street I noticed that he suddenly made a break as though to get away down toward the Palace Hotel.

He didn't go over a step though before I steered him again in the right direction. I asked him then why he wanted to go down Stevenson street, and he said he meant to go to the house of a blacksmith, where one of his friends lived. He said he wanted to go there to clean np and get some salve for his wounds. When he found I would not let him do exactly as he wanted he walked along quietly enough, but refrained from saying anything about the bomb. He did state, though, that he lived at So.

4 Central place." THE ASSASSIN'S THREATS. The Arresting; Officer Gives His Version of the Affair. Officer C. M. Johnson, who arrested the man, makes the following statement of the part he took iu tbe affair: I was standing in the foyer talking with Officer Edgar Stevens, when I heard the report, which appeared to come from the direction -of the gallery.

We immediately ran- around to the gallery entrance and I saw a man running down the stairs without a hat on. His hands were in front of him and I noticed they were bleeding. His coat was torn and smoking. He yelled out, 'For Heaven's sake, let me go home I asked him what the matter was. and he said there had been gas explosion upstairs.

A woman who was coming down at the time said: 'It's a lie; that man exploded a bomb in the The man then wanted to be liberated and said he would like to go home. I inquired as to where he lived and he said, On Stevenson I turned the man over to Officer Stevens and told him to hold on to him aud look out that he did not get away. Then I went up in the gallery and in last seat on the right side, facing Flood's box, I found a hat, a cane and a bottle. These I secured, and a woman who was setting close by informed me that she was injured in the arm. She told me the man had been making remarks all night." One of the remarks was: 'Patti is singing well to-night, but she will sing no more.

Another was: 'There's Flood and his wife over in the box. She has got lots of money but she ain't a bit pretty. Flood ruined me and I will get After Patti had finished one of her parts the man arose with the bomb in his hand, as if to hurl it below, when suddenly it exploded. After hearing this statement from the woman I went down on the street and assisted in the arrest." THE WOl'SDED PRISONER Contemplated While Writhing- In the Throes of A go nr. The prisoner reached the gates of the City Prison about 11 o'clock under the care of Officer E.

Stevens. He was a helpless specimen, and an air of mystery surrounded everything appertaining to the man, who was borne to a cot in the underground hospital of the prison, ne was tenderly cared for and surrounded by a number of reporters, who so-tfUi to elicit from him the immediate cause of his discomfiture. He was an old man, with full grown grizzly beard, presenting all the characteristics of a Russian crank or a dynamiter of the first degree, ne writhed, swooned and almost died before any one could stanch tbe flow of blood that was streaming from his eyes, nose and mouth. He was emptied on the operating table and then placed in a chair, where the genial assistant surgeon, who occupies the station of a trusty, proceeded to examine his wounds. A liberal autopsy was made, though the subject appeared rather vigorous.

His nose was split open, the eyebrows were singed, as were also the flowing whiskers and mustache. The assistant did not regard the personality of the individual nor look upon him other than an ordiory case of coal oil explosion, but sub Bargains F1YCY COTTOI HOSE. 1 5c a pair Kedaced from 00 a 4e Sic a pair Keduccl rrom TMt oats' Oe a pair Reduced from 9 OO a dosa FAXCT COTTOX IULF-1I0SE. soe a pair Reduced front OO a m.mm 25c a pair Reduced from 5 60 a dose 30e a pair Reduced from 6 60 a dose 35e a pair Reduced from 7 60 a 4ea COLORED COTTCX DOSE. eo a pair xsc a pair SOc a pair 33e a pair Redoeed from 4 OO i Reduced from 6 60 i Redacal from 6 OO i Reduced from 1 00 i Gentlemen and Children, at Greatly many reductions we have made.

A visit I lutctlo is KCUSE IX SiX FRANCISCO. uaaiano. Anuneda and ssrkaisjc owing to tbe argent rcrntaT.oni mad by his colleagues. General Boulanccr postponta the UsuiDii of these orders until iTe 21t inst. The odicial gazette publishes aa tutperil order eonfirminr tbe arrangements fr the mi itary transportation in time of war.

AN EXPRESS AGENT ROBBED. TTells, Fargo Office at rail tad Kntered by Bargrlara. Paxisadb February 9. Two masked men entered Wells. Farro A Co.

's express office about 10:0 yesterday evening. Tbey struck tbe agent on the head with a pistol and coca, pelled him to open tha safe, takicg a small amount of money. They then bound and ascrced him and fled. He managed to release himself and gave the alarm at 11:10 r. M.

Search is being tnsde for tbe psrtien, but no clew bss been discovered as yet. The agent was sitting up readier, and opeued the dour la response to a knock, when hs was immediately assaulted. LOCAL BREVITIES. Fxtrm mince pies. Swa 213 Sutter street Fat Hoaaa'g porting aoase.

12 Ellis street Gent's calf shoe. aTl styles. 9- 50. worth 3 at Lesser dud Kearny st. near 1'iae.

A charare of embezzlement acainst H. A. Rooerts was dismissed in the Police Court yes terday. There 111 be a rpeHsl service for vonng ladies in the Central U. Church next Sunday afternoon.

Watches and Pismonds Advsnces made oa them st the Collateral Bank, IS Diyvnt street, San Francisco. Ah Foon. a burglar, and Younc Ah Go a sneak thief, were htld for trial yesfrd with bail set at and respectively. Robert Matthews attempted to frtrhten D. Mrlleen with threats of arrest yesterday morn-inr and was taken into custody on charges personating an otScer and vuiear lacgnajee.

li)tn IT ihrml with hnrelflrv fn ha. ing broken it-to the saloon of Samuel MehrvlL at No. 1 M--ntgomery avenue, was convicted cf burelarv. in the second decree yesterday in judge Toohy's coon and will be sentenced oa Saturday next The Spreckels Strike. It has been sgreed between the Directors ct the Ocesnie Steamship Company and a cost mince from the Marine Firemen's Association, that the union men should prepare articles lortne aajuTmen oi uie ciiucuiues now tint ing between the two.

Patiafac-tory terms will prooaoiy oe arranged, ine stesmer Mariposa which sails next Saturday for Honolulu. Auck land and Sydney wul, however, probably carry a crew oi coouas. The Port Costa Strike. -A letter was received yesterday morning at the headquarters of the Stevedores' Protective) Union from the striking gral n-han dlcrs at for Costa, stating that the condition of thin remained unchanged. None of the strikers have gone back to work, snd st present there are no signs of a compromise being effected.

Ve were Tisltcd the other day by an advance agent with a buee fur collar aud a glass eye. The combination mnst be irresistible, as he report crowded bouK- everywhere. Kvea his breath was strong. Lomll Citizen. GRAND VIH SEC (Dry Wins).

The Finest Dry Champa a in tbe We rid! CARTE BLlElTGYfiits The Well-Known Rich or Sweet GradaJ Particular attention Is to the above eoaltttesof Champagne, saaed lo avoid rrrtn muA do ImHaitOfis. ts svsry boule tra ue oT MICOSDBir Sole A tor the rattfle i nun iu "iL' LIF SCHOLARSHIP. 7S. fioxtd for Olr o-iLga An Explosive Bomb Thrown at Patti. A Fearful Panic Averted With Difficulty.

Evidence of Deliberately Planned Assassination. Bomb Recoils and Punishes the Thrower. Harrow Escape of the Terror-Stricken Andience. Fainting "Women Helpless on the Hands of their Escorts. An Almost Miraculous Absence of Fatal Injuries.

Patti Sings Home, Sweet Home" to Quiet the People. Iurderons Contents of Dr. James Hodges' Pockets. The Wretch Writhing in Agony in the City Prison. A red English Socialist Hurls a Quart of Blazing: Turpentine and Varnish at the Stage Tils Well-Deserved Punishment.

A bomb exploded In the Opera House last night, tearing a man's hand to pieces and producing a sensation that has thrilled the city like an electric current. In the midst of the most crowded audiences of the Patti season at the conclusion of an aria in the mad scene of Lucia de Umamoor" when the diva was recalled hy the admiring plaudits of the audience and while the tributes of eager thousands were swelling through the house, the harsh, discordant sound cf the exploding missile hushed the rapture of the people in an instant and filled every heart with dread. The curling smoke and the shriek of a woman located the scene of the disturbance in the upper gallery of the theater. As if by Instinct the audience rose and In another moment there would have been a wild rush for escape, when Patti, perceiving the situation, walked on the stage in full view of the agitated audience and her splendid voice rose in the thrilling accents of HOME, BWEKT HOME." It averted disaster and saved a panic. But the white faces and trembling forms of women could not be wooed into forgetfulness of the dreadful peril by even the ravishing music of the Diva, There were hurrying feet the sound of suppressed excitement a bit of curling flame dropped noiselessly from the gallery to the parquet and riveted in its descent a thousand eyes a thrill of apprehension, subtle, but prevading, leapt from seat to seat from parquet to gallery, and as if by intuition, the crowded people felt that some terrible danger had menaced them, but bad happily passed away.

But fear had dominated pleasure, and frightened women and agitated men lost all further interest in the concert and were only anxious to hurry away. Meanwhile A SCENE OF TERBOK Was enacted in the upper gallery. Men rushed frantically about, women fainted and screamed, nd all eyea turned frantically to a pale-faced man with mutilated and bleeding hand, the cause and victim of the explosion. Cursing, screaming, yelling, wild with fright and panic-stricken, the crowd of men and women climbed over benches or huddled into groups, some frantic to get away, others loath to leave, yet all stirred by an excitement as intense as If swept by the wings of a tempest. The man with THE BLEEDING HAND Was taken in charge by the police and swiftly hurried away.

The audience dispersing cast frightened glances at the gallery, and the tumult which had for a moment subsided again ran into confusion and dismay. Around the place here the man sat were "the fragments of a bouquet" And the torn and scattered pieces of burning paper. The seats around were stained with, powder burns; a can, which contained the explosive, and the fuse with which it bad been prematurely fired, lay upon tiie floor. The purpose of the criminal was plainly to KILL THE PRIMA DONNA. The bomb, however, exploded too soon and his plot miscarried.

But his vengeful purpose was none the less apparent. THE EXPLOSION. Terror and Dismay Canned by a Fiend's Dastardly Deed. There was little to prepare the mtnagement for what occurred. The disturbance was evidently premeditated.

The occasion was a peculiar one an extra Patti night. Many who were not regular opera-goers took this last chance to hear Patti. As early as 7 a targe cue formed at the gallery box-office and reached almost to the end of Mission and Third streets. This crowd had the Patti fever badly. They were excited and intense very intense as the sequel proved.

At the main entrance there was little to distinguish the evening from an ordinary suhscrlp tion night. There wes a little falling off in the number of regular opera-goers, but this defection more than made np b7 genuine music lovers, to whom Patti was a supreme attraction. These lovers of music were not destined to en-Jo their evening in peace. The audience was seated early. Promptly at 8 Arditi took up his baton and began the concert.

At this time, although there were several empty rows at the back of the orchestra circle, the number of those standing was greatly in excess of any other night during the season. Galasci, as usual was the first voice. on the programme. The veteran baritone advanced confidently towardhc conductors desk aud began singing. He hod hardly uttered a sound when singular noises began to come from the gallery.

These founds wia I Tw, distressing to the sirgcr "Hello, Doctor; how do you feel?" asked an Examiner reporter. Oh, I feel very bad I am hurt." How did you get hurt?" I suppose you know, don't you?" At the Grand Opera House, was it?" Yes." And how did it happen. Oh, it was an explosion, dont you know?" Is it that what hurt your face so?" Of coure it is." Where did you get the bomb that you threw?" "What did you say?" demanded the Injured man vehemently. How did it happen that you hurt yourself so much I did not what's the matter with you? I saw something under my feet, picked it up and it exploded. I don't know where it came from." Where were you born, doctor In England." "When?" "In 1816." Then you are 70 years of age, are you not?" "Yes, I guess so," be gasped.

About this time Chief Crowley came into the hospital and the wounded doctor, James Hodges, on hearing his voice, exclaimed: "Hello, Love, is that you?" The Chief desiring to hear what he might say to a friend answered: Yes, Doctor; why did you blow Patti up tonight?" The man blinded with bandages remarked: "Ah, ha! I understand. You don't catch me." After this nothing could be obtained from him by any one. As evidence Officer C. M. Johnson at first brought to the office of the Chief of Police a two-pound can of gunpowder, torn apart, also an eight-ounce bottle covered with twothicknesses of white cloth fastened around the neck with cord and partially filled with some preparation of turpentine.

In the overcoat pockets of Hodges were found two bunches of matches of four each, and bound together with thread; also his seat check, one or two of his own circulars and a bunch of kevs. THE LADY WHO SAT NEXT. Her Descriptions of the Fiend's Actions Her Injuries. Sergeant Cole gave the following statement of the explosion: "I was standing in the parquet when the report of the bomb was first heard. I ran immediately toward the staircase leading to the gallery and intercepted the fieud as he was comistg down the stairs.

He was covered with blood and his clothing was partially burned. I turned him "over to an officer who took him to the Southern Police Station. The bomb was composed of a bottle filled with some explosive substance, smelling strongly of gunpowder and a long stick resembling a pipestem was attached to the bottle. He appeared to be badly hurt and acted very strangely." Miss Dreyfus, a lady residing at 206 Polk street, who occupied an adjoining" seat to that of the bomb-thrower, was seen after the performance, and from her the following facts were obtained "The assassin occupied seat No. 394 in the top gallery.

He came in late and had considerable difficulty in finding his seat. He was in a talkative mood and appeared to be of a jovial nature. His remarks at times were of an irrational character, saying that there were many people in the audience who bad no right to be possessed of such great fortune. He -made several remarks of this character, and just before the explosion, he said that Patti sang beautifully, but that would be her last Immediately after making this remark he lit a match on the rail and we all supposed he was going to smoke. I saw him remove the infernal machine from under his overcoat, and the explosion soon followed.

I think he intended to throw the bomb on the stage just as Patti had concluded her last song. He seemed badly Injured by the premature discharge of the machine, as he was completely covered with blood and his clothing was burned in many places. My hair was singed by the discharge." The lady suffered no material Injury. Her costume was blood-stained and partially burned. The seat occupied by the fiend was wrecked, and the floor in the vicinity was soaked in blood.

THE DYNAMITER'S HAT Blown Across the House Into the Orchestra. There is in the Examiner editorial rooms a stove-pipe hat which almost at the same instant that the report rang through the hou fell into the left portion of the orchestra, striking Captain Mark McDonald on the head. That gentleman picked it up and handed it to an Examiner reporter. Mr. McDonald's seat was in an oblique direction from where the explosion took place.

The most plausible theory In connection with the hat is that it is the one worn by Hodges to the Opera House last night. It is a black stovepipe hat six inches high and much the worse for wear. Under the swetband in characters an inch in size are the numbers "30" and "712," the letter and what might be taken for the letter They are evidently written with chalk. Ttye inside of the hat is a little wreck as it were. The lining is completely torn out and missing, but the paper which lies just beneath the lining was picked up with the hat torn and tattered.

It is burned and scorched In places, and for a little while after being picked up had a perceptible smell of powder about it. There was also a faint smell of powder about the hat, with several scorched places on the inside. The opiuion of all who saw it is that, after lighting his bomb, Hodges must have put it in his hat preparatory to throwing it on its deadly mission. He evidently wished to conceal his doings as much as possible from those sitting around him and found the hat a ready and good place of concealment. He must have held it much in the same way as a boy bandies a tin can under which be is putting a lighted fire-cracker, for had his grasp on it been of any strength at all, it would have been blown to pieces when the bomb went oft HODGES FRIEND.

The Bomb-Thrower Has Some Difficulty With His Wife. F. Moller, a carriagemaker living at No. 135 Stevenson street, was told this morning that after the explosion at the Grand Opera House "Dr." Hodges had made a break for his house. The carriagemaker evinced much astonishment and said I know the man.

roomed with him for three years at No. 4 Central place. He was in my shop nearly all of yesterday morning. He had some trouble with his wife some years ago and about ten months ago she left him to go to live with her daughter Mary. The latter married a Mr.

Warren, living at No. 7 Newhall place. Hodges is no doctor; he is an electrician, but he got his title of doctor because he is always mixing up IT AFFECTS MISS MORRIS. The Great Actress' Timidity Vpon Hearing; of the Explosion. Wesley Sissons, business manager for Clara Morris, occupied a center mezzanine box during the performance.

At the time of the explosion he was standing in front of the box, and after the report he saw something cote down from the right-hand side of the gallery. The 'thing looked like a hat. After the performance he went op to the Baldwin. The last act was about to go on, and he informed Miss Morris and others of the company of the explosion. She became very much excited, and for some time refused to proceed further with the performance.

After considerable coaxing the was finally prevailed by the ice at Say brook point yesterday afternoon, and sank. Captain Spaulding, with his wife and child and three seamen got Into a yawl, but before it could be freed from the vessel tbe latter went down carryin the boat with it The Cpy in and one seaman were saved. The other- were lost Mra Spaulding'g body was found floating, being sus tained by her clothing. UNKNOWN DEAD. A Stranger's Fall Lands Him In the Oakland Morgrue.

Monday evening a stranger, who was under the influence of liquor, visited the Webber Hotel at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Franklin streets, Oakland, in company with a man whose name is un known, but who had on several occasions sawed wood at tbe hotel for his breaksast He said be found the stranger in a saloon and that he said he was from San Jose and some men were trying to rob him. The proprietor of the hotel seeing that tne man was intoxicated, refused to furnish him a room, and the stranger started to go Into their back yard, when he leu down about six steps and struck his bead on the concrete pavementffeWhen he was found a few moments later he was unconscious and bad a bad cut on the head. The patrol wagon was called and at 7:30 he was taken to tbe Receiving Hospital. An examination of the injuries showed that he was suffering from a severe concussion of the brain. He lay for two days un- censcious and died last evening.

At one time he appeared to be reviving aud the steward asked him ms name. Me made a reply which sounded like Roberts, but immediately appeared to relapse and no further information could be obtained. The body was taken in charge bv Coroner Fronk and removed to the Morgue. The remains are those of a man about 35 years of sg with light hair and mustache. He was leet incnes nizu ana wore a aara casnmere suit and white hat He had on a fireman's badge.

A ticket to San Jose by tbe narrow gauee and a printers "make-up rule and $1 75 in coin were found in his pockets. OAKLAND ITEMS. Judge Henshaw yesterday discharged Her-ichon Chauoran, the barber arrested for embes- xiement The Citv Council will hold a committee meet ing to-nisrht to discuss luformally the tax levy ana tne nxing oi water pates. The Central Committee of the American parry met last evening to consider the date of holding a city convention, ino aecision was arrived as. Lat evening West Oakland Branch, No.

8, of the Younc Men's Institute gave a reception at Masonic Hall to tne members oi iasi uaaiana and other branches. Mrs. Lawyer snd Mrs. Gcrinn have been acquitted of the ridiculous charges of theft re cently preferred scainsi mem rjy tna totten, tue former servant girt To-night there will be a mass-meeting at Masonic Temple under the auspices of the Board of Trade for the purpose of devising means for the furtherance of tbe objects of the association. The Oakland Board of Trade has adopted resolution to the eOct tnat such should be enacted by the present LegitUture as will permit the entrance from tbe city limits to the harbor front of Oakland any transcontinen tal or other railway, Uie present law Peing bur densome ana nence ougtu to oe amended.

Mrs. Dr. Ward, an Oakland landlady, em ployed a cook named Jacob Plunder. He was an excellent cook and worked himself into the good graces of his employer, who was a widow lady, aud they finally agreed to go into a matrimonial partnersnip in tne management of the hotel. Before the marriage had been consummated, the widow entrusted the proceeds of a mortgage on some property, to Plunder, wno is now missing.

I tie police are looking for the absconder, who is believed to nave gone to Oregon. The Hospital for the Chronic Insane. San Jose, February 9. Judge Belden has or dered a peremptory writ of mandate to compel Controller Dunn to audit the claims for the compensation of the Trustees for the Hospital lor tne inromc insane. A Forger Arrested, Louis Goldman was arrested by Officers Hosr ford and Harris yesterday on a charge of forg- iuz tbe name of A.

Baker, picture dealer at No. 742 Mission strset in receipts to bills presented tor collection. Another Suicide. William AsptriL a native of Virginia and 29 years of age, committed suicide in a saloon at the corner of Third and Howard streets, at 9 o'clock last uigot oy snooting mmseit. he remains were eonveyed to the Morgue.

No cause tjr the act has been discovered. The Brakeman's Christmas Story. Chicago Herald. "Funny things occurred down at onr honse Christmas, said the orakeman. "Ira away almost every night fn the year, but Christmas nieht I cot a lay-off and staid home with the wife and babies.

Next door to ns lives one of the stingiest old codzers that ever wis. Wheeler is his name, and evervbodv calls him Stingy Wheeler. He is an old chap who has no children and no friends, and who is said to be worth a rood deal of money. I've had a good deal ol sickness in my House this winter, and times have bn right bard with us. It was mighty little Christmas we had, I can tell you.

'Well, there's one taiue we cau say. said my wife to me, 'and that is that our house ts not nara to warm, it ocats an uie way coal docs last us here. That half-ton you got a month aco Isn't nearly all gone 'That's the way coal lasts when there's nobody to steal it, as we had where we lived I replied. "Now tBere's only one mau in this neighborhood I'd suspect of su-aling coal, and that's Stingy Wheeler. 1 wouldn't trust that old codger very 'Neither would said my wife.

'That niirht. after we had got in bod. my wife woke me. saying she was sure she heard some one in the coal-house. 'I believe it old Wheeler," I said.

So do L'my wife replied: 'but bo careful. Henrv. and don't Ket into any trouble with the old she added, as I hastily drt swd myself. "Softly I tiptoed out to the coal-house, snd sure enough there was a man there, bard at work with a shovel. It was Stinjty Wheeler.

and be was throwing coal from his bin into mine!" Absolutely Pure. This powder nevsr varUa. A marvsl of punt strength aad wbolesomeness. More economics lhaa the eraary kinds, aod aaot he soM la com petition with the multitude oflow-tsat, short-wsibi. alum or phosphate powders.

Boid omly ta com BOY At BAKING KWDza 10-9 Wall suast. Nnr Tor. SSI in oi COMMITTEE WORK, Recommend Ingr More Mure Appropria tions and Olscnssins; New Kills. rspecial to tbe Euiintn. Sacrawecto.

February 9. Almost all the committees met this evening. The Senate Committee on Public Buildings recommended the appropriation of 193.000 for erection of buildings at the Agnew's Insane Asylum. This appropriation was reduced from 250,000. They also recommend the appro priation or "lo.OtW for the erection or a ore-proof building for the storage of t-tte text- Dooaa i nis aci creates in.

omce c-i riore- keener st 1.200 per yesr. which wag reduced from as proposed by the bill. TWO INSTANCE BILLS. The Senate Committee on Corporations con sidered Meaney's bill, requiring all foreiea insurance companies to deposit with the State. No action was taken.

THE "LICENSED GBIFXKH" BILL. Th Assemblv Committee on Labor and Capi tal considered Sesrey's bill providing for the employment of licensed gnpmen on steel railroads and as safeguards to life and pronertv in operating such roads. It pro vides 'that a gripman must serve three months protition before a licene can be Issued, and It makes it a misdemeanor tor me companies to employ unlicensed rripmen. punishable by imprisonment from thirty to ninety days. K.

J. Blaine PI tne armen inian wsoaea favor of the bill and urged its passage. The bill was amended and so reooxamenaea for passage. OTHEK COMMITTEES. The Apmblv Committee on Claims reeotn- menlwt the nassave of the bill appropnating for the claim of Bartolo Scpulveds, who was confined for fifteen years in San Quentin on a charge of murder.

He was sentenced for life, but was pardoned by Governor htoncman last year on positive proof that be was innocent The Assscniblr Committee on Education recommended the authorizing city ana county hoards of ednration to introduce in public schools the industrial system also the bill including children from to 15 years in the school census, snd apportioning 23 cents on every $100 j-t capita for school purposes. Instead of the 7 cents now in vme. This will ive the school fund about Th Senate Judicarv Committee decided to return without recommendation the Chandler nti-rebis bills, relating to the service of in junctions and the mode of service of summons Clunie's bill providing for the appointment of a Wafer and Gas Meter Inspector for tan Francisco was considered, but no action taicen. GERMANY. The rope Wishes the Clerical Party to ssppon ine iwpwiii T9iti r.hrn a The Vnnich AliaemeiM Zettttng publishes Cardinal Jacobinl letter to MunclO at aianicn.

Jl IS uaicu jauuary 30th. TK.r.nMniiunln view of the impending? revision of the Roman Church laws, the Pope desires the Center tosupporx xne piennaie bill in every -mjwiuic u- vjl. a well known that the government attaches is the greatest im-wnaacc to fseftv wi uv bill. if. bv its adoTotion.

It should be found to avert the possible danger of war in tbe near future the Center party would render a great service to theFstherlandandto the csnse of numaniry in all F.urope bv supporting the biiL 111 iuc Center would be considered unpatriotic, and i ill. wAnltl cause embarrassment and uncertainty to the Center party." Cardinal JacobinI instructs tbe Nuncio to urge toe icsaera ui mevtrui cofieazues in favor of the Septeunatc and assure them that such a course would greatly the Holy Father. RUMORS OF WAR. A German Paper Describes the Trench Military Movement. Beelis.

February 9. Tha Berliner len says It has authentic Information that Gen. Boulanger, the French Minister of War. is preparing for the movement of troops to the eastern frontier. Four battalions of Infantry arc to go to Verdua and Tours, and quarters are being prepared to receive them.

A brigade o( cavalry will also go VcrJoa and provision trains to Tours. Four battalions in Algiers have 'been ordered to General Boulanger hag las-" -ted the Military Railway Committee iMin la permanent session. The AacArxfcaadda: Paris ndTicei UU Ihst ance lasted fully five minutes and Arditi had to stop the overture twice before the audience would allow him to proceed. When the opening notes were heard a hush fell over the house and the vast crowd remained almost breathless drinking in the music. Then a match was struck, and just as Patti was running off the stage and the shout of applause was commencing a loud explosion was beard, and a huge volume of smoke rolled out of the gallery and filled the theater.

Simultaneously with the -report a huge bou quet was thrown toward the stage, out of which fell a large bomb of some sort, which burst in midair, and fell in a mass of flames on the shoulders of a lady seated in the third row of the dress circle. A gentleman sitting near her threw his overcoat over her shoulders to smother the flames, and saved her from being badly burned. At the same time a loud agonized shriek was heard from the lower right-hand corner of the gallery, in the front row, and a man arose with blood streaming from his bauds and face. He cried Water! water! for God's sake some body bring some water! I am afire all over." His whiskers were burning and the flames licked the upDer portion of his face, causing him to suffer terrible agony. Suddenly he stooped aud rubbed his face with the cloak of a lady sitting on his right, and in this way managed to extinguish the flames.

Then, as if realizing the danger of punishment for his crime, he jumped up, and with blood streaming from his face and hands, rushed np the aisle until he reached the top of the stairs, down which he blindly stumbled, falling several times in the passage. During his trip to the door women shrieked and fell back as if afraid to he touched by him. When he started to run some one near the door yelled "Firet" and in an; instant almost the entire gallery was on its feet, and making desperate attempts to reach the door. The smoke began to increase in volume and drifted in heavy rifts toward the stage. To the exertions of a party of Exa-VIner reporters in one of the right-hand boxes is due the fact that the panic was quieted.

They applauded loudly and called to Arditi to start the orchestra playing. They were joined in their efforts by the occupants of the other boxes and part of the occupants of the dress circle. The occupants of the gaUery, hearing the applause, stopped their mad rush and began to seats. When order was restored women were seen in fainting fits in all parts of the house, with their escorts making frantic efforts to restore them to to consciousness. The applause which had been growing became more and more pronounced, and finally in response to the solicitation of members of the press Manager Abbey went on the stage and called upon Madame Patti to goon and sing "Home, Sweet Home." The fair singer was standing in the wings and looking np toward the press box.

She clasped her hands together as if to have the applause continued so as to give her time to recover herself. She was supported by Signor Nicolini, who brought her to the edge of the wings. Just before stepping upon the stage the clasped her hands and raised her.