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(UJ(g(g mL mmmmm mm man mwmm FIERCE KANSAS FOREST FIRES SANK UNDER THE THEACjlEfiOllS IGE HEROIC EFFORTS MALE TO SAVE THE LIVES OP YOUNG SKATERS. RESGUED FROJI THE ICY WATER CUSTOMS INSPECTOR BRADY SAVES A DROWNING MAN. IB All Ml THE PISER STIItlt DEFIflUT WfllNotBecognize England's Suzerainty in the Transvaal. JUAN F. P0RTU0ND0 DEAD The Prominent Cigar Manufacturer Succumbs After a Long Illness.

Joan F. Portnondo. one of the leading cigar mannfactnrers of this country, died at his home, 3223 Chest out street, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, In his 48th year. Mr. Portnondo was in Santiago de Cuba on the 4th of July, IMS, and at tbe age of 13 was called by his father to fill a responsible position In his business house.

His inclinations were commercial and he about corruption in the Second police district, and an indictment against her for keeping a disorderly house, which had been hanging fire for many months, was suddenly pressed for trial. Lawyer Pet-tit went before Judge Yerkes, sitting in the Court of Common Deas, and asked that the case go over for a week in order that the woman might appear before the committee. District Attorney Graham consouted to this, but he denied that the woman's trial had been in any way inspired by her prospective appearance at the iurratigation. Several witnesses, among whom were some Ninth district policemen, did not answer when their names were called in court yesterday. They will be given another chance when the committee meets at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Several Counties Reported to be In Immi nent Danger of Destruction Wichita, January 7. Forest Ores are raging in Pratt and Kiowa counties, and fears are entertined that several Tillages will be totally wiped out About 9 o'clock last night light was seen in the sky observa ble simultaneously at Pueblo, and Wichita, a distance apart of 500 miles. The supposition is that there are two Immense prairie fires in Kansas about 150 miles apart. Reports have been received from ten sta tions, which indicate the largest fire to be in Kiowa county, and that it is of vast propor Hons. Haviland is the nearest station to the fire that can be reached, and the ngeat there says the nearest fringe of blaze is probably fifteen miles away, bnt that a news paper can be read by Its light Id the streets of that town.

At St. John, Stafford county, the people are panic stricken, as tjbe lire Is sweeplug in their direction before ft strong wind. Many of the farms have beeil abandoned for years, and the fire is feeding on the rank grass, sunflowers and hedges. St. John's people think that the loss of property and life of man and beast will be appalling.

It is impossible to get details, as operations on the Wichita and Western were recently abandoned In that section of the country, and there are no operators at the stations to report the disasters. FIGHTLNG IN CUBA Insurgents Destroying Property Within Eight Miles of Havana. Havana, January 7. The insurgent band commanded by Zaya was reported at different times yesterday at Caimito, Gunyabal, Hoyo Colorado and Punta ISrava, showing that he followed pretty closely the line between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana up to the extreme northeastern portion of Pinar del Rio; This brought him Into the region Into which large numbers of troops have been sent to guard the western approach to Havana. It does not appear that the Insurgents were In any great force and no engagements are rrported.

Word has just been received that sounds of cannon and musketry have been heard in the neighborhood of Guana ay, an Important town of inhabitants in Pinar del Rio, forty-five miles southward of Havana. It Is supposed that an engagement Is taking place there between the forces of General Snarez Valdes and the Insurgents, bnt the numbers engaged or the course which the fortune of the fight Is taking is not known. The Insurgents are burning and destroying to-day up to within eight miles of Havana. The district around the village of Cfi'almzar suffered to-day. Calnbazar is only two miles from Vento, where tbe apparatus Is located upon which Havana depends for Its water supply.

In the Cala-hazar and Hoyo Colorado district the cane, has been burned In the fields of Maulin, Garro and Baracoa. RECOGNITION OF CUBA Some of the Revolutionary Leaders Call on Secretary Olney. Washington, Jannary 7. Several members of the House consulted the leaders today regarding the introduction of resolutions for the recognition of the insurgents of Cuba as belligerents. Chairman Hitt, of the committee on foreign affairs, said that he had no objection to the introduction of resolutions on the subject, although resolutions covering every phase of the question had been Introduced aud were now before the committee on foreign affairs, which was preparing a report.

It is1 quite likely that the Cuban question will not come up for discussion until the committee on foreign affairs makes a report. Some of the Cuban leaders here called on Secretary Olney to-day. They made a brief, but forclfnl presentation of the claims of the Insurgents to recognition. In addition, they presented to the Secretary a great number of documents bearing upon the origin, abuses, conditions and present status of the Cuban uprising, as collected from official archives uud unofficial sources. FIRE ROASTS TWO HORSES Councilman Seeds' Barn Entirely Destroyed, Entailing a LosS of 87,000.

The two-story brick stable In the Vear of the home of Common Councilman Jacob Seeds, of the Twenty-second ward. 142 School lane, Genuantown, caught fire last evening. The flames were discovered by the coachman, who ran from the house after hearing the horses stamping and neighing, and throwing open the door through which the wreaths of smoke came he found the Interior filled with smoke. Running to the house, he gave the news to another servant, who told her employer and then ran In search of a policeman. An alarm was soon turned In from the box half a square away.

aieanwime rne coaenman nan run hack to the burning stable and succeeded in freeing one of tbe horses from his perilous position and fastening him well away from the building. Councilman Seeds ran down at this moment and he and his man tried to liberate the other two horses, which were frantic with pain and almost suffocated. They refused to leave the building, and the two inert had to desert them In order to save fhem. selves. Then the engines arrived and streams of water were soon playing upon tbe blazing building In which the horses were being roasted alive.

In half an hour the fire was nearly out, leaving the Interior of the stable ruins. The loss upon the building is placed at while the loss on the contents Is said to be $2,000. Besides the two horses, several carriages and sets of harness were destroyed. The stable and contents were fully insured. CIGARETTE MAY CAUSE DEATH It Fell From a Woman's Month When She Went to Sleep and Set Fire to the Bed Clothes.

Pittsburg, January 7. Hortense Demora was fatally burned this morning. She had gone to sleep with a lighted cigarette In her mouth and it is supposed that it fell on the bedclothing and ignited It. When discovered tbe bedding and drapings in the room Were blazing and nearly all her clothing had been consumed. She was terribly burned about the body and arms and It is supposed she Inhaled the flames.

She came to this city from Balti more on Saturday last, aud says her friends live lucre. TOO MANY SALOONS IN NEW TORE The Excise Board Inoreasos the license Fee and. Adopt. New New York, Jnnunry 7. The Excise Board to-day increased the fee for hotel, saloon and storekeepers licenses about one-eighth per cent.

This was done because, the board believes there are too niauy saloons in the city. Subsequently It was decided by the board that no place the license "of which shall be revoked after this date, after hearing by the board, shall be relicensed, except upon the closing of two existing places and the surrender of the licenses thereof." WANTED IN HAZLETON Michael Splro, Who Is Charged With Blowing Up a House, Arrested at Chicago. Chicago, January 7. Michael iplro was arrested here last night, charged with blowing np with dynamite the house of Michael Oirard, In Hazleton, and rifling the ruins. One of the members of nintHix' fam ily was killed.

Tiie crime was committed June or mst vnar Nnd alnA then thn nniti.a aw o.it.l have been In search of Splro. i I HAD FALLEN FROM A STEAMER William Stein ch com be, a Superintendent of Docks, Slipped From a Gang-Plank and Was Injured as Fell Between the Pier and the Vessel Brady Leaped in After Him, and After a Hard Straggle Succeeded in Saving His Life Commended by His Superiors and May Get Some Reward. The stevedores discharging the enrso of the steamer Assyrian, lying at pier 43 south, suspended their labors for a time early yesterday morning and retired on board of the vessel to eat their luncheon. William Steinchcombe, superintendent of docks for, the Allan Steamship Company, and Cantain Hitches, who were on board the vessel at the time, left the cabin and started for the dock. A few seconds afterwards the voice of Boatswain Skinner was heard shouting "man overboard." Cantain Hughes joined in the cry also, and when Inspector of Customs Thomas P.

Brady, who was in the cabin of the Assyrian, ran on deck he was told that Superintendent Steinchcombe had fallen overboard between the vessel and the dock when about to step on the gang plank. There was no evidence of any effort to save the man when Brady put in an appearance, and realizing that the man in the water would drown in a few minutes unless assistance was rendered, ho concluded very quickly to rink his life to save hiin. The boatswain had apparently lost his presence of mind, nnd others who had reached the dock instead of doing something to assist the sujierintendent were suggesting impossibilities. Jumped in Aftlr the Drowning Man. Brady threw off his coat and hat, and in an instant had one end of rope made fast to a post, and before those who saw him were aware of what he proposed doing he plunged into the water which was freezing.

Before leaping fourteen feet into the water he called to Steinchcombe to have courage and bear up all he could. A flash light was brought into requisition the instant Brady touched the water, and it revealed the fact that there was a wound ou the side of Steinchcombe's face. Brady held one end of the rope, and he directed the drowning man to take hold of him and hold to him until assistance came. Steinchcombe grasped hold of Brady and held on desperately. Brady soon lost his hold on the icy rope, and both men dropped back into the water.

Steinchcombe was making desperate efforts to save himself by grasping his rescuer lirevery possible way. aud his strength was rapidly becoming exhausted. Brady knew this, and he seized Steinchcombe, and pushing him against the dock was holding him in this position when Edward Bowen, employed by Stevedore Corcoran, rushed forward with a life preserver and threw it over Steinchcombe's head. This proved very valuable, as Brady worked it under the injured man's arms, and this held him up until both were dragged from the water. Commended by His Superiors.

When Steinchcombe reached the dock he fell back helpless. As he fell from the icy gang plank his head struck the dock and the wound on the side of his face was inflicted. He was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital. The shock to his nervous system was so great that he was in a serious condition yesterday. Chief Inspector of Customs Skeving-ton submitted a report of the occurrence to Surveyor of the Port Meek, and the latter wrote a letter to Deputy Surveyor Cassidy commending Brady for "his humane and heroic act," and suggested that he be given several days' leave of absence as a reward.

THE VANDERBILT WEDDIHfJ Will Take Place January 28-Mnch Opposition Among: the Relatives. Special Telegram to The Times. New York, Jannary 7. Oliver H. P.

Belmont and Mrs. Alva Van-derbilt will be married January 28 at the residence of tbe latter, at Madison avenue and Seventy-second street, according to the statement of an intimate friend of the parties. Tbe day following they will sail for Europe for a protracted stay. The utmost secrecy will be observed regarding the affair and the ceremony ts to be witnessed by only a few persons. It is rumored that friends and relatives of Doth parties are endeavoring to persuade them from taking the proposed step, but without avail, and one who is on the closest terms with Mrs.

Vanderbllt said that the marriage would sorely take place. Mr. Vanderbllt is said to be much wrought up, and it Is also stated that such is his state of mind that he is on the verce of nerv ous prostratiou. It was reported to-day that he would sail on his yacht Valiant for an extended cruise, accompanied by his close menus, Freq Hench, Winnie iioyt, Louis Webb and probably Creighton Webb and Mr. and Mrs.

James M. Water-bury. The Valiant left ber dock at the foot of East Thirty-fifth street, Aorth River, this afternoon and dropped down off Stapleton, S. I. Mr.

Vanderbllt will not sail on the yacht, but will join her in the South in a couple of weeks. SNOW-BOUND AND STARVING Awful Plight of a Family of Nine Persons in the Mountains in Washington Atchison, January 7.A letter was received In Atchison to-day saying that the family of Frank McCain, formerly a merchant here, was snowbound and starving in the mountains fifteen miles from Winthrop, Washington. The letter was written by the oldest son, who by great effort got through the storm drifts to WInthrop. The father had become Insane, and the family had been living on bacon for time. There were seven children In the family.

TO JOIN SENATOR QUAY State Officials to be In the Fishing Party at St. Lucie. Florida. Special Telegram to The Times. Harrisburg, January 7.

State Treasurer Jackson and Corporation Deputy Glenn, of the Auditor General's De- lartment, left this city to-day to Join Sena- yuav ana otnern on tneir prospective ip to St. Lucie, Florida. Auditor General vlln will be one of the partv, and General Itceder. Secretary of the Commonwealth, is tit unlikely to be one of the excursionists, he party will remain in Florida from ten aya to three weeks. BOYS DROWN WITH HELP AT HMD Fred Hart Breaks Through the Ice on a Mill Pond, and When His Body Was Recovered It Was Found to Be Upright in the Mad A Chambersburg Boy Goes Under and Is Dead When Taken Oat of the Water a Few Minutes Later-MilWlIle Skaters Rescue a Man and a Young Woman.

Special Telegram to The Times. Millville, January 7. Fred Hunt, aged 14, a son of Thomas Hunt, of Greenwich, lost his life while skating on Sealy's mill pond. The boy had been til, and Charles Johnson, the colored hired man, was sent along to care for him. The lad was first on the Ice, and when the hired man had fastened on bis skates and started out from the shore he saw that bis charge had broken through the thin ice.

Johnson at once plunged into the hole and seized the drowning boy and raised him up above the water. No assistance was near, aud the weight of the boy gradually forcing him under the water, Johnson was forced to let go of the lad. He barely had strength enough left to save his own life. The body was found upright in the mud. ASSISTED HER RESCUERS Miss Munroe and John Warner Saved From Drowning at Millville.

Special Telegram to The Times. Millville, Jnnuary 7. Miss Carrie Munroe, daughter of Superintendent W. B. Munroe, of the Millville Manufacturing Company, and General Secretary John Warner, of the Young Men's Christian Association, of this city, narrowly escaped drowning while skating at Union Lake Park this afternoon.

No rope or logs being at hand, friends of the imperiled couple tied their scarfs and overcoats together. This improvised life-line was thrown to them and they were landed safely on the Ice, Miss Munroe displayed great courage and presence of mind In assisting the rescuers. BOY GOES UNDER THE ICE Although Aid Was Near at Hand Mayer Was Dead When Reached. Special Telegram to The Times. Chambersburg, January 7.

George Mayer, aged 13, was drowned this evening within less than a square of the centre of the town and within a hundred feet of Market street bridge, where many persons were passing at the time. Young Mayer was skating with some companions and broke through the ice opposite the woolen mlH. His friends tried to rescue him, but the body got under the Ice and was not brought out for twenty minutes. Physicians spent a half hour In trying to resuscitate blm, but without success. STONE CUTTERS STRIKE Labor-Saving Machines Introduced fn Chi cago Yards the Cause of the Trouble.

Chicago, January 7. Eight hundred stone cutters were ordered out on a strike. At tempts to settle the trouble between that proprietors and the men have been futile, and at a meeting of the central organization, held last Friday, the strike was decided unon. if the employers did not yield. Twenty yards are affected.

The trouble is over tne stone pianing machines, which do the work of several men and may be run by common laborers. Wliprevpr thpse machines are used the Union demands that only Union stone-cut teres be employed. Downs Killed by Exposure. John Downs, of 2824 Fairhlll street, Phila delphia, who was found unconscious in the woods at Cedar lirook Monday evening, aieu yesterday In the Cooper Hospital, Camdrn. Coroner Xipplncott held a view on his body vAdtnrrlav nfrprnnnn flnrl CAVP fl CCrtluYafe of death from exposure and alcoholism.

Forecast for Wednesday. For Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, snow, probably turning to rain; warmer; northeasterly winds. For Western Pennsylvania, snow; colder in southern portion northerly winds. yesterday's tem per atur A. 13 1 Highest 8 P.

23 I Lowest 24 Ramsdell. III! Chestnut St. WEBER PIANOS IVERS POND PIANOS. Roosevelt-Farrand Votey Pipe and Reed Organs. CLOSED OUT AT A LOSS.

Hundreds of Fine Suits and Overcoats just in store and now being sold at Three to Eight Dollars below regular prices! The choice- of manufacturer's overproduction closed oat at a loss, because that's better than to keep them till next season. Handsome styles, rood sizes, new lota, some not broken into at all I Money Back If You Want It, On Demand. PERRY 1 50 Chestnut Street. Note Bargains In Custom Tailoring in Annex. 1616.

Said to Have Been Partners in the Proprietorship and Profits of a Disorderly House. ONE OF THEM TELLS THE STORY Sergeants Green and McManus Are Directly Accused By Ex-Officer Naylor Others Implicated. WITNESSES WILL BE PROTECTED A Woman Who Is Snbpcenaed by the Investigating Committee to Tell What She Knows About the Second District Police Is Bushed Into Court on an Old Indictment. District Attorney Graham Denies That Her Prospective Appearance Before the Committee Inspired Her Trial, and Consents to a Week's Postponement Ex-Policeman Davis Ileld for Court The Committee Listens to Very Sensational Testimony Concerning Police Corruption and Incompetency in the Ninth District Ex-Offlcer Naylor That He and Sergeants Green and McManus Hun a Disorderly House, and loiter Signed an Agreement Under Pressure of a Woman Who Claimed She Had Been Cheated Policemen Tell of the farcical Trial of Lieutenant Francis, and of the Awful Demoralization of His Force. Testimony was furnished before the investigating committee yesterday afternoon directly implicating police officials, not only in the protection of crime, but in partnership with criminals.

Ex-Policeman James W. Naylor, of the Ninth district, swore that while he was on the force he was associated with Sergeant Green and Patrolman McManus, who has since been made a sergeant, in the proprietorship of a disorderly house of the worst class at 1122 Green street He told his story with reluctance, but before he left the stand Lawyer Pettit had brought out all the facts in the case. The house in question was kept by a woman named Mary Parker, and Naylor was admitted into the partnership by Green, who in turn had taken an interest at the alleged solicitation of McManus. In order to make secret visits to their establishment the officers cut a hole in the rear fence, and used this as an entrance until the noisome place so aroused the neighborhood that they were compelled to sell out. During their entire proprietorship Naylor said the three men made very little money out of their venture, because of bad business.

Dividing l'p the Spoils. They divided up the furniture, Naylor receiving a clock as his share. The woman in the case complained of their treatment of her, and after securing J8 from McManus she employed Lawyer A. Watson Atwood to begin suit against them for the furniture. Naylor says he accompanied McManus and Green to At-wood's office, where an agreement was drawn up and signed by them, by virtue of which they afterwards paid her J35 each in regular monthly instalments to settle the claim.

McManus was promoted to a sergeantcy the very day he is said to have signed the agreement. Half a dozen ex-officers of the Ninth district, who in politics opposed the Combine, and who had been dismissed from the force on all sorts of flimsy pretexts, took the stand to tell of the remarkable doings of the Police Board of Inquiry in its secret sessions. The entire afternoon was devoted to the taking of evidence regarding police corrupion and incompetency in the Ninth district, and a great deal of sensational evidence was presented by officers now regularly employed there, who were forced to appear under subpoenas from the committee. The now famous order issued by Lieutenant Francis to his men in August last, directing them to work and vote for the Combine, was testified to repeatedly. Witnesses who had appeared at the trial of Francis before the Police Board said that the board was furnished with all the information necessary, and that Francis entered no denial of the charges against him.

One patrolman testified that if it had not been for these orders he would have voted against the Combine, and there was practically no misunderstanding on the part of the witnesses as to the exact words used by the lieutenant on that occasion. But all the same he was acquitted. Many Stories of Corruption. It was testified that disorderly houses and speak-easies reported at the station houses were permitted to continue in business and that Francis had personally solicited a visit from the proprietress of one of these places. Sergeant Richards was accused by Ex-Oflicer Naylor of spending a night in disorder, and his testimony was corroborated.

Other stlries were told of officials who came to blows with citizens over political discussions; of others who canvassed actively for votes, and of scenes of drunkenness beer drinking and neglect of duty in the station house, all inspired by the combina-ion of politics and police in the Fifteenth ward. The disposition of the committee to protect its witnesses from persecution was forcefully demonstrated during the day. They had subpoenaed a witness named Julia Crowe to tell what she knew loved the excitement of active affairs, though at the suggestion of relatives his education was founded on English and French literature and the studies that would fit him for a business career by means of private tutors. JUAN F. PORTUONDO.

Provided with letters of Introduction he came to thin country In 1868 and succeeded In securing a position with G. W. Burnadon Pro. After filling this position satisfac torily he left and started business for himself as a cigar broker; but It was not long until he commenced cigar manufacturing in a small way, and after years of energy, together with an unfailing iove for the business, he succeeded in building up one of the largest cigar making establishments In the city or State. He owned a beautiful farm In Monroe county and also at the Delaware Water Gap.

where he and his wife always spent a portion of the summer before going South. As he has been an invalid for a number of years, he remained at Aiken, S. during the winter, returning in the spring to his residence In this city. Of late his health had been better and on the afternoon of Jannary 2 he took a drive in the Park. The next day he complained of not feeling well and his physicians were summoned.

When they arrived he had considerable difficulty in breathlug, which was followed by slight hemorrhage. After this attack he showed signs of Improvement. On Monday afternoon he sat up and conversed with his wife and phyRlclans about the trouble in Cuba. Yesterday morning his condition became worse and he continued to sink until his death. He remained conscious during all the time and realized that he was dvlng.

His wife, who is prostrared by the sad occurrence, is the only survivor, he having no children. The funeral will take place next Saturday morning at o'clock, from the residence. Interment will be made in Laurel Hill Cemetery. BALTIMORE WILL SUBSCRIBE Five Million Dollars of the Bonds May be Taken in That City. Baltimore, January 7.

The local demand for the new Issue of government bonds is growing rapidly and It now seems probable that four or five million will be taken here. The national banks of Baltimore were almost without exception members of the Morgan syndicate, but this fact will not deter them from bidding for the bonds. Among the local institutions which will bid and the amounts they will try to get are the following: Alexander Brown Sons, Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, Baltimore Trust nnd Guarantee Company, Drovers nnd Mechanics' National Bank. National Mechanics' Bank, Fidelity nnd Deposit Company. Continental National Bank, American Banking and Trust Company, $50,000.

RHYMLAND'S STORMY VOYAGE She Encountered Fierce Gales and Came Into Port All Coated With Ice. The steamship Rhynland, of the Red Star tine, arrived In port yesterday, two days overdue, her sides and rigging thickly coated with Ice. When two days from Liverpool she met with fierce gales, but not forceful enough to do serious Injury. When near George's Shoals she encountered a severe snow storm, which cod tin ued for several hours, and when she passed through it her decks, cabin and rigging were covered with snow and ice. Besides carrying 200 steerage and twenty cabin passengers, she had on board seventy steerage and ten second cabin passengers of the steamship Berlin, of the International Navigation Company, which was badly injured off the English coat by colliding with a coaster.

EVENTS OF TO-DAY Funeral of Joseph Pyle, Wilmington, Del. Meeting of the Philadelphia Skating Club, evening. I Anti-Combine meeting at 629 Fischer street, evening. Meeting of Board of Managers of Franklin Institute. Annual meeting of the University Arch aeological Society, 4 P.

M. Donation' day at Jewish Maternity Home. Tea from 2 to 5 P. M. Meetiner of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, evening.

Reception by Company H. Third Regi ment, N. G. St. George's Hall, evening.

fifth hall. Pennsrlrflnlfl F.nd?e No. 51, O. B. 651 North Fifth street, even ing.

Annual meeting of contributors to Willing Day Nursery, 427 Pine street, 12.30 P. M. Prnver meetlmr at Chambers Presby terian Church, conducted by Bishop Foss, 4 P.M. Celebration of Jackson Day by Hickory Democratic Club, evening, 2024 Brown street. Annual meeting of Contributors to House of Refuge, 4 P.

and election of officers. Celebration of Jackson Day bv Andrew Jackson Association, 1134 South Fifth street, evening. Antl-Comblne Republican mass meetings In the Thirty-first and Thirty-third wards, evening. Lectnre by Albert A. Bird, at Spring Garden Institute, on "Municipal Government in Philadelphia." Fourth annual banquet of Alumni Association of Peiree Business School, Mercantile Hall, evening.

Civil Service Examination for position of assistant ganger in the Custom House, Federal Building, 9 A. M. Lecture by Stewart Cnlln on "Conventional Symbolism of Chinese Decorative Art," American Museum, 5 P. M. Stated meeting of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia.

Odd Fellows' Hall, 8 P. M. Lecture by Robert K. Peary, IT. 8.

"From Whale Sound to Independence Bay Across the Great Ice." THE WAR FEVER IN ENGLAND Active Preparations in the Arsenals and 'Dockyards. ANTI-GERMAN FEELING RAMPANT Publlo Hostility to the German Emperor Continues, and There is Even Talk of Expelling Him From Several London Clubs of Which He is a Member aeon Victoria Said to Have Written a Rebuke to Her Imperious Grandson. Berlin. January 7. At a special audience which Dr.

W. J. Leyds, tbe Secretary oi State of the Transvaal, had with Emperor William to-day, His Majesty declared that he would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the Transvaal. Great Britain, by the treaty of 1884, claims suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic. The report that Chancellor von Hohen- lohe had resigned is denied.

The story originated in the fact that no ministers were present at the Emperor audience to Dr. Leyds. The Berliner Tageblatt says that Dr. Leyds was highly pleased with the result of the imperial audience, and forthwith dispatched a long tele gram to his government at Pretoria. A semi-omcial denial was issued mis morning of the statement from Cape Town, contained in a dispatch to the Times, of London, that Dr.

Leyds, with a secret fund at his disposal, had floated a German colonization company with the intention of introducing 5,000 German military settlers into the Transvaal. ENGLAND AROUSED Talk of Expelling the Emperor William From Several London Clabs. London. January 7. The feeling here acainst Enineror William and Germany on account of the former's dispatch of congratu- tion to President Kruger, apparently ignoring British suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic continues among all classes of people, and the war sentiment against Germany rises as the time passes.

Lady Warwick has written a letter to the Times on this sub ject. It is understood that the arsenals ana dock yards are being overhauled. Kinneror William Is a member of several exclusive English Clus, including the Koyal Yacht Jiud in some of tliein the demand for his expulsion is already very loud. Letters have also been published In the newspapers demanding that he resign his colonelcy in the Royal Dragoons. There Is no truth iu the story that the British uovern-ment is hurriedly drafting troops to Cape Town.

In the first place, there Is no neces sity for It. as all the troops that might be needed cnnld be drafted to Cape Town from neighboring British colonies instead of from so distant a country as India. At a large public dinner of farmers and tradesmen, given at Chard, County of Som erset, last evening, the Mayor of the town proposed to drink to the health of all the Queen's family, except one grandson, refer ring to Enineror William of Germany. The toast was received with enthusiastic cheers, which were followed by groaus aud hisses for Emperor William. Political circles in London maintain that if it be true that the Kmperor of Germany has promised to recognize the independence of the Transvaal Republic by appointing a German Resident instead or a Consul at Pretoria, it may menu war between Great Britain and Germany.

Anti-German feeling Is growing rapidly In the East End of London. Tbe windows of a number of shops In Vt hitechapel kept by Germans and Jews have been broken, aud the Hollander Club and some of the East End German clubs have been closed, fearing that tliev might be attacked. There have been several disturbances betweeu English and German and Hutch sailors at the docks. In which the former were the aggressors. Popular fpclini? In favor of Dr.

Jameson Is run ning very nigh In London. The Times, for example, says: "The march forms a notorious tradition for the Anglo-Saxon races." A dispatch received by the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain, from Sir Hercules Robinson, dated yesterday, says that the arms and ammunition of the British Chartered Company's forces at Buluwayo have ben placed iu the of a representative of the Queen of Great Britain. The Globe this evening prints some sensn-tional news under the following scare-hend lines: "Activity In the War Office, "Anticipated Military Measures." The Globe then states that the War Office sent a special miliinry messenger this afternoon to the Colonial Oftice and that it rumored Important orders are A dispatch received here from the military camp at Alder-shot says that the general belief, almost backed by proof, prevails there that the authorities are considering the mobilizing of the army reserves and part of the militia.

The men employed iu the ordnance stores are all very busy. Sir Hercules Robinson has telegraphed to the Colonial Office, under date of Pretoria. January 7, as follows: "The reform commit tee nas resoivea to reiuuiuisn tneir arms and to comply with the demands of the Transvaal Government. 'The Johanneslmrgers have placed them selves unreservedly in my hands, confident that I will see justice done." Irishmen Cheer the Boers. Dublin, January 7.

There was a largely-attended meeting of the Irish Nationalists yesterday at Wexford. Mr. John Redmond addressed the meeting. Reference which he made to the British invasion of the Transvaal brought forth loud and continued cheers for the Boers. A News Agency Correspondent Arrested.

Johannesburg, January 2. Mr. Letty, the correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Company here, has been imprisoned upon suspicion of heing a spy in the interests of the British Chartered South Africa Company, Deposited Gold for Greenbacks. New York, January 7. The New York City National Bank has deposited In the Sub-Treasury $500,000 in gold coin In exchange for greenbacks.

Zimmerman For-shay have deposited $300,000 in gold with the Sub-Treasury in exchange for greenbacks. A Protracted Cabinet Meeting. Washington, January 7. All the members attended the Cabinet meeting to-day. The session was a protracted one.

In view of the bond call and the pending economic legislation It is felt these subjects came In for consideration at the long session. Vice Consul General Mason Dead. Vienna, January 7. Dean B. Mason.

Vice Consul General of the United States here, is dead. Death of a German Publisher. Berlin, Jannary 7. Herr Recam, the well-known publisher of Leipzig, is dead. PARTISAN POLICE BOARD TRIALS Quay Men Bounced From the Force and Combine Men Kept to Work A Woman Sent for by the Lieutenant.

The proceedings before Judge Yerkes la the Quarter Sessions Court coacerning the case of Julia Crowe, the witness who. It is alleged, is' to be railroaded to prison in case she tells all she knows, took up so much time that- it was nearly 3 o'clock when the investigators got down to busiuess. Chairman Andrews was in court with Lawyer Pettit prepared to defend the committee's position in the matter, and while the argument was in progress Senators Kennedy, Hardenberg, Grady, McCarrell and Thomas sat In comfortable attitudes on the bench in room 650. Shortly after the first witness was called Senator Andrews left the room and took a train for Washington, where he was called by important personal business. He will be back in time to preside over to-day's session of the committee.

After he left Senator Grady took charge, and administered the' oaths to witnesses. There was even a larger crowd present than on Monday, and after 3 o'clock Sergeant-at-Arms Hurrah refused admittance to everybody who did not have credentials showing the nature of his business before the committee. All the members were pleased at the outcome of the court proceedings, and Lawyer Pettit was in a particularly good humor when he called Ex-Pollcemau Henry McClay to the witness stand. McClay is the officer who was referred to in Magistrate Thomas' testimony the day previous, and was stationed at the Ninth district. After serving for nearly four years he was summarily dismissed ou a charge of going a prisoner's ball.

A Much-Delayed Notice. McClay said that he was not guilty of the charge, and that Magistrate Thomas, before whom he was alleged to have entered bail, had so testiiied before the Police Hoard of Inquiry. McClay is nn anti-Combine man, however, and he was dismissed. He said: "I was tried before a police captain's court. I did not have an honest hearing.

I do not know about other hearings. A man named Bradenburg was arrested for assault and battery on a man named Walton. The Magistrate told me the bail was $5(X). Sergeant Schilling brought the prisoner out, and the Magistrate fined him JP2.50. Schilling heard rae talking to the Magistrate about bail and told the lieutenant, who gave me a jacketing Five weeks later I was taken down to the hearing.

Sergeant Schilling said that I had taken the keys and released the prisoner. I questioned the sergeant about bis releasing the prisoner, and he would nob say that be had not released him by taking the keys and opening the cell door. He did do that, and I had nothing to do with it The witness knew nothing of the charges made againBt him uutll after 9 oclock on the morning of September 17, when be was ordered by postal card to appear at the City Hall for trial at noon on the same day The card had been mailed on the 14th, and for some reason it was delayed at the station house for three days before it was handed to him. In consequence of this he had no time to prepare any defense, and faced the tribunal of his superiors without knowing the nature even of the accusation against him. McClay also said that when he was in the good graces of Lieutenant Francis, the lieutenant sent him one night down to an alleged disorderly house kept by a Mrs, Sarah Smith, on Nineteenth street, below Columbia avenue, to ask Mrs.

Smith to call on him at the station house in the morning. Mrs. Smith did so, but McClay did not know what passed between them. The disorderly house, however, he said was not closed up. Samuel Miller, of 2502 Continental avenue, was a policeman in the Ninth district with a clean record up to last month.

Frank Scott had served as a patrolman for a longer time, and both were anti-Combine men. A short time ago they went into the Crow Club, at the corner of Shirley street and Falrmount avenue, which is on their beats, to pay their dues. They were only inside for a moment, but Lieutenant Francis, who was sitting in the window of the John E. Reyburu Club across the street, saw them. They received notice at midnight a short time later that charges had been made against them, and on the following day they were dismissed.

The Mayor Got a List. Both Miller and Scott told their stories under oath on the stnnd, and incidentally told about some other things. They had received orders from Lieutenant Francis to turn In for the Combine and had refused. A clerk from the Mayor's office a short time ago came up nnd copied off the roll book the names of all the patrolmen wno were not in sympathy with the Combine, including theirs. They said that Lieutenant Francis had a list furnished him by the patrolmen of all the disorderly bouses In his district, but they did not know what use he made of It.

Charles W. Thomas, another anti-Combine patrolman, was discharged last month for going Into a railroad watchman's box when ill on Thanksgiving night. Many of the Ninth district officers had been sent down town to look after foot-ball enthusiasts on that occasion, and Thomas, in spite of his weak physical condition, undertook to patrol two beats. Sergeants Nicholson and Uleb-ards complained about bhn, and he was discharged, although Dr. Belatlah Fitch, his physician, went before the Police Board in his behalf.

Dr. Fitch also appeared before the committee yesterday to corroborate Thomas. The ex-policeman said that Sergeant Francis, who is the lieutenant's son, used to wash out the battery Jars connected with the substation telegraph apparatus, and send It out to be filled with beer. More than once when Francis had been asleep at his post all night he had sent Thomas up to the Eighteenth district Are house in the morning to see if any alarms had come in during the night so that he could mark them on his slate. The witness said that the entire force in the Ninth district had become fearfully demoralized through its close association with the political affairs of the ward.

Francis and His Orders. Richard A. Swain appeared in full uniform In answer to his name. He lives at 2024 Poplar street, nnd has been a patrolman in the Ninth district for three years and three months. Speaking about the primary election last August, which has been the especial subject of Inquiry, the witness said that as he entered the station house one morning he-overheard a conversation between Lieutenant Francis.

Sergeant Joseph Shilling and Patrolmen Orr aud Swank, who were discussing the political situation. It was on the morning after Lieutenant Francis and Councilman Swope had been involved in a per-souul dltSkuity, and Mr. Swope was the ob- Contiuued on Third Paget.