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JCLY 23, 1596 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Board of Education made numerous changes among the teachers last evening. The California Fish Commissioners are preparing a fine tish exhibit for the Mechanics' Fair. The resignation of John W. Butler as executor of ihe will of Natnaniel Cole has been accepted.

Auditor Broderick called Mayor Sutro a fakir at the meeting of the Election Commissioners yesterday. Ansel Island infantrymen are practicing at long-rangu targets at ihe Presidio with the new army models. Mrs. Nora Cunningham, alias several other names, is accused oi cruelly neglecting her two small children. The First Congregational Society hopes to reassemble for worship in the church building within a short time.

The Woman's State Republican Club held an enthusiastic meeting in Judge Groezinger's courtroom last night. Billy Jordan, market inspector, seized 800 watermelons which were wilted ana saved 8000 boys from stomach ache. Major-General X. T. James has appointed Colonel J.

C. Currier as assistant adjutantgeneral and chief of staff. Members of the Union-square Free Baptist Church held a jubilee lust night over the discharge of the church debt. The annual meeting of the Produce Exchange was held yesterday, at which the newly elected officers were installed. Woman Suffrage lecture work will be inaugurated next week among the colored people of this City and the interior.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is endeavoring to stop the sport of setting fox-terriers upon rabbits. The second day's meeting of the Pacific Coast Gas Association terminn ted with a banquet last night at the Palace Hotel. Annie K. Brenham has petitioned to be appointed guardian of the estate of her husband, Robert b. Brenham, an incompetent.

Cloudy weather with conditions favorable for showers and southwesterly winds is the best the Weather Bureau can offer lor to-day. James J. McKinnon has been appointed ex ecutor, without bonds, of the will of Angus McMillan. The estate is valued at $6500. Hollis M.

Cox. 2'2-M Howard street, dropped dead in tae Receiving Hospital early yesterday morning trom. it is supposed, heart disease. The single-tax leaders are planning to stump the State and educate the people to single-tax principles and the advantages of local option. Billy Galiagher, the pugilist, attached Young Mitchell's place yesterday for $440 for his share of the purse in the Smith-Gallagher fight.

Assistant Tnited States Attorney-General J. M. Dickinson, now here on a pleasure trip, says the Populists would be foolish to indorse Bryan. The British ships Cedarbank and Cambuskeunetn arrived yesterday after unusually long passages. Reinsurance was paid on both vessels.

Considerable speculation is being indulged in by Federal employes as to who will succeed Captain Talbot as chief inspector of hulls and boilers. William Watts, the fruit peddler accused of Cooping up the boy George Walker in a barrel, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge oi battery. The will of Peter Kehoe has been admitted to probate. Cornelius s-nay and John O'Connor were appointed executors. The estate is worth $5200.

A contest to the Drobate of the will of Caroline Vetter was filei yesteroay by Rosine Grant, sister of the deceased. Property worth $75,000 is involved. George M. Rogers has begun suit against the Emporium Company for alleged breach of contract in not allowing him to establish a department hardware store. T.

D. McKay, the Oriental passenger agent of several transcontinental and trans-Pacific transportation companies, is to return to his post of duty next Thursday. The Chinese Merchants' Association, at a meeting held last night, determined to make special inquiry into the death of Lee Tie, who was murdered Sunday night. For the fiscal year ending June 30 there was imported from Hawaii merchandise to the amount of $9,915,448. The export trade was a little over one-third of this.

A suit to oust the directors of the American Pipe and Pile Armor Company was filed yesterday. It is claimed that they have juggled the affairs of the corporation. The Painters' Union will ask the assistance of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in the enactment of lavis for tbe improvement of the condition of tne laboring (lasses. Hugo D. Kt.il has replied to the charges made by the carnival committee against the Merchants' Association in stinging terms, accusing the former of a lack of liberality.

The Supreme Court hRg affirmed the decision of the lower tribunal in tne case of Jonn W. Mai-kay and Richard V. Dey, executors of Mrs. Theresa. Fair.

vs. the City and County oi haii Fraiicisco. Exclusive Information in The Call concerning the damage caused to the Channel-street sewer by the running of trains above it has caused a sensation among householders and taxpayers. Rosie T. Oliver yesterday filed a complaint asking tor the annulment of her marriage with Manuel E.

Oliver. She claims Oliver is a disreputable character and that she was not of age when she married him. A rate war has begun again among the steamers on the San Joaquin River, "iester day the California Navigation and Improve inent Compaiiy'cut therate between San Cisco and Stockton from 50 to 25 cents. Julius W. Raphael, president of Raphael's (incorporated), returned from New York last night.

He urges prompt measures for maintaining the supremacy of San Francisco in Oriental and Central American commerce. A. R. MeFarlar.e, an old man, who was tricked out of 050 worth of diamonds last Thursday, which lie was trying to sell, has become insane through worrying over it and is now in a cell in the Receiving Hospital. District Attorney Barnes is ai present looking up the legal power of the Grand Jury to take steps against the Supervisors who voted to reduce the assessments of the railway company and other corDOralions last Monday.

The WaHhbarn Sisters, Blanche and Lillian, now playing at the Orpin-urn, are putting on their famous set of the "Newsboys." It has reaped many a dime for the boys in the East, and seems arxtut to repeat the success here "Uncle" George T. Bromley, the venerable Bohemian, was taken suddenly ill at Belvedere Monday morning. He is nearing his eightieth birthday and this, his tirat illness, has trightened him almost to death. He is recovering slowly. "Billy" Develin, an old-time employe of the Mail Company and brother of the District Attorney of Solano County, died at Champerico of yellow fever recently.

He was General Antonio Ezeta's private secretary at the time of his death. The local United States Shipping Commissioner has been notified by the Treasury Department that in future all seamen will be provided with a leather pocketbook, in which to carry all records relating to voyages, time discharged, etc. Charles Arms, tailor, 402 Jones street, for whose arrest Louise Sen wegler swore out a warrant on Tuesday on the charge of grand larceny, hied a sui in the Justices' Court yesterday, claiming $43 from her for damage to his carpets and bedding. General Wade Hampton, United States Railrond Commissioner, arrived in this City on his annual inspection of the Government-aided roads. His secretary, Charles E.

Thomai, has been made chief clerk to the Commission at Washington made vacant by the death in this City of F. 8. Storms. PREDICT SUCCESS FOR McKINLEY. An Enthusiastic Meeting of Mission Republicans.

DEMOCRACY DENOUNCED The Thirty-Fifth District Club Listens to Eloquent Addresses. OVER FOUB HUNDRED PRESENT Scores of Persons Had to Turned Unwillingly Away From the Crowded Hall. The Thirty-fifth Assembly District Republican Club held an enthusiastic meeting last night st the club headquarters, 1339 Valencia street. The hall, which has a seating capacity of nearly 400, was totally inadequate to accommodate the crowd which bad assembled and scores of people had to be turned away. The hall was appropriately decorated for the occasion.

Large portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Harrison and other Republican heroes were hung about the walls, and back of the president's chair, upon a background of the National colors, was placed a large picture of tbe present standard-bearer of the party. President Northrop in a few brief remarks introduced General Friedrichs as "one of the moat gifted and eloquent orators in the State," and promised the audience that they would be sure to be entertained by tbe general and the speakers who were to follow him. General Friedrich modesty 'disclaimed having any such reputation as the president had given him, but repeated the president's promise that the audience should be well entertained by the speakers of the evening. "In the notice I received," said the general, "it was stated that there was to be a ratification meeting. However, I do not come here to ratify.

I nave been ratifying ever since the nomination was made. What I have come here for is to see and become acquainted with the famous Thirty-fifth District Club, of which I have heard so much. "Although I have heard nattering accounts of the organization, I am nevertheless surprised at seeing a body of men so intelligent and so earnest. I can say with pride that it is an assembly such as only a Republican club can furnish." General Friedrich then proceeded to draw a vivid comparison between the St. Louis and the Chicago conventions.

"The two conventions have already passed into history," he said, "after having each nominated a man to bear its standard next November. The Democrats have put up a man whose reputation is based upon speeches made at county fairs and Populist a man who went to the convention a contesting delegate, and by pouring forth yards of platitudes and glittering generalities captured the nomination at tbe hands of awestruck, bewhiskered Democrats. Three days before his nomination not one man in five thousand thought of him as a Presidential possibility. The man was practically unknown. "Contrast this man with the nominee of the Bt.

Louis convention. Long before the gathering at St Louis men had turned their laces toward William McKinley. As the clouds of industrial inactivity thickened, as factories shut down and the despairing cry for food arose from millions of starving men and women, the gaze that was centered upon tbe great Republican became more and more fixed, and the people at length arose, to demand that William McKinley should be the standard-bearer in the campaign for prosperity in 1896. "You have passed through four years of Cleveland, of political stagnation of political damnation, I almost say, and you must certainly know when you have had enough. We now demand, and aye will have, four years of McKinley, four years of prosperity, four years of protection." At the conclusion of General Friedrich's speech, President Northrop introduced Samuel M.

Shortridge as an orator who was known from one end of California to the other, a speaker whom people came to hear a second and a third time. When the applause which greeted his introduction had subsided Mr. Shortridge began "Many years ago one of the grandest men who ever trod this earth, one of the most eloquent orators that ever stirred the hearts of men, a patriot devoted to truth, wedded to liberty, declared: 'Where the feet of my youth were planted, there my manhood and my age shall Allow me but to appropriate these words of the immortal Colonel E. D. Baker and say that I was born a Republican and that I shall continue to walk where the feet of my youth were planted.

"If there is present a Republican who fought under the banner of the divine Abraham Lincoln, who has followed the fortunes of the invincible Ulysses S. Grant, who has listened to the words of the spotless James A. Garfield, or who has been stirred by the words of our grand departed champion, James G- Blaine if, I say, there are present any who have followed, the banners ol these great Republicans I can say to you that you may rest assured that in the person of our present standardbearer you have a worthy successor to these great patriots. "William McKinley stands pre-eminently for the principle of the pr-jteotive tariff which has made America what she is to-day. He represents a party knowing no east or west, no north or soutn, the party wnich alone has the ability, learning and patriotism to successfully conduct the affairs of the American Republic.

"1 have no doubt but that the American people will call the Republican party back to power, if for no other reason than that it is tbe only party that conducts the affairs of this country in a business like manner. The question that confronts us is a question of homes and firesides; of factories, of farms; a question of National honor and National success. "All over the there is misery, want and unrest. The difficulty has long been to place the hand upon the seat of the disease. Some have even as yet failed to grasp the cause of this distress.

Depend upon it, the American people wiJl understand what is the causa and what party it THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896. The British Ships Cedarbank and Cambuskenneth, Which Arrived From Antwerp and Hamburg Yesterday After Unusually Long Passages. They Encountered Several Hurricanes Off the Horn and Were Becalmed Off the Golden Gate. is that will restore to them prosperity and success. not your trust in was said of old.

'Put not your trust in the Democratic we say to-day. Even if the intentions of the Democrats are good they lack the ability. Put not your trust in the Democratic party a motley crowd of rainbow-chasers who know not what they do. Put your trust in the party which was founded to further the interests of American workers and put a crown, not of thorns but of glory, upon the brow of human labor." After the conclusion of Mr. Shortridge's speech, wnich was frequently interrupted by applause, Ernest Wakeman drew a graphic picture of the misery and desolation caused by the Democracy, and in conclusion he urged all present not to fail to register, so as to vote for Republican prosperity at the coming election.

Andrew Branch followed with a ringing denunciation of Democratic misrule, interspersing his remarks, however.with many humorous recitals which convulsed the audience. A recess was then taken while refreshments were served and a musical programme rendered by Messrs. Closson and Todd. After the meeting had again come to order stirring speeches were made by Colonel Eddy, Major Kyle and John T. Dare, who all prophesied a glorious victory in the fall campaign.

At the conclusion of the speeches a general reunion and introduction of new members followed, after which the meeting adjourned. The Tbirty-nfth District Republican Club, which is one of the most prosperous in the City, has at present a membership of some 800 Republicans. Tbe clubrooms, where last night's meeting was held, are open every evening from 6 to 10 o'clock. Following are the officers of the club: V. F.

Northrop, president, 11 Juri street; C. M. Depew, 1 vice-president, 308 San Jose avenue; R. H. Stafford, secretary, 725 Twenty-second street; C.

L. Hedemark, treasurer, 1052 Valencia. Executive committe James McKnitrht, 911 Twentythird street; D. F. MuJville, 20 Fair Oaks; J.

W. Murphy, 620 Twenty-fourth; Perry J. Smith, 1307 Valencia; W. W. Macy, 2308 Mission M.

J. McPherson, 1309 Dolores; E. A. Grant, 1020 Capp; J. N.

Rawe, 1422 Guerrero; Buron Kelley, 127 California avenue; P. C. Francis, 29 Chapultepec; E. H. Herrick, 105 Prospect avenue; Dr.

E. N. Torello, Silver avenue and Mission road; H. Collins, 25 Chattanooga; G. W.

Debenham, 1620 Valencia; W. R. Plumbe, 812 Twenty-fourth; D. I. Newkirk, 2727 Mission Elgin Mc- Nab, 927 Dolores; George Dean, 1507 Guerrero; R.

B.Fredericks, 11 Eugenia avenue; A. J. Styche, 705 Bank; J. M. Rhodes, 205 San Jose avenue; P.

J. Hyde, 235 Bartlett; S. Gamble, 1307 Dolores; J. if. Butler, Twenty-ninth and Alabama.

RALLYING FOR McKINLEY. An Army and Navy Republican League Camp Elects Its Officers. William McKinley Camp No. 1, Army and Navy Republican League of California, held a large and enthusiastic meeting last night at the headquarters, street, for the purpose of electing officers. The following were elected and installed: Colonel commanding, W.

F. Randall; lieutenant-colonel commanding, E. H. Herrick; major, M. J.

Collins; quartermaster, S. W. Carpenter; officer of the day, W. P. Harrison; officer of the guard, J.

M. Cowley; adjutant, E. W. Bushnell. The executive council selected consists of E.

H. Herrick, T. C. Masteller, James Kip, M. J.

Collins and J. S. French. Stirring remarks were made by Captain Leon E. Jones, commander of McKinley Club No.

W. F. Randall, W. H. Wharff, F.

P. Burgess, R. T. Melvin, member of the Kansas Legislature; Adjutant-General James Kip of the department. National Republican Club.

The National Republican Club was reorganized last night at 520 Bush street, and tun following officers were elected: President, H. J. Hess; vice-president, Edward Bottom recording secretary, F. G. Robrecht; financial secretary, Max Haas; treasurer, K.

A. Lundstrom; sergeant-atarras, J. D. Barry; executive committee Robert Little, J. T.

Quarrels, F. W. Amman, Peter Hanson and Charles Smith. The meeting was well attended and a large number of applications for membership were received. The club decided to bold its next meeting at California Hall within a few days.

Perkins Republican Club. The Perkins Republican Club met last night at their hall, corner of Powell and Green streets. The following permanent officers were elected: President, W. J. Loudon first vice-president, E.

Dreypolcher; second vice-president, A. Suarez; recording secretary. Frank Aicher; financial secretary, £. Wackenreuder; treasurer, H. Nellman; sergeant-at-arms, R.

Severing; executive committee C. Donahue, J. Cohn. J. Nevraumont, J.

Cruse, A. Vergez; committee on uniforms L. Strohl, G. Jfaber, W. Welsh.

Remarks were made Dy W. J. Loudon, Strohl and E. Dreypolcher. Before adjournment three rousing cheers were given for Mc- KmJey and Hobart and J.

D. Spreckels. Golden Gate Valley Club. The Golden Gate Valley Democratic Club, William Wright temporary chairman, held a meeting at tbeir hall, on the corner of Filbert an Fillmore streets, last night. There was a large and enthusiastic gathering of Democrats, over fifty new members having signed the roll.

A resolution indorsing the nomination of Joseph P. Kelly for Congress was adopted. In Spanish obituary notices the cause of death is always given. STORM AND CALM DELAYED THEM, The Cedarbank and Cambuskenneth Finally Reach Port A FATALITY ON BOARD. An Apprentice Boy Fell From the Royal Yard and Was Instantly Killed.

DEATH OF "BILLY" He Was Well Known in the Mail Service, and Was Ezeta's Private Secretary. Tbe overdue fleet is gradually making port, and the general impression is that the losses rounding the Horn during the last season of heavy weather will be confined to one ship. That one has gone seems to be undisputed, but as to whether it is the American ship Santa Ciara from New York or the Undaunted from Baltij more remains in doubt. Both vessels carry general merchandise, and considerable reinsurance has been placed on them. Two more of the long-delayed vessels got in yesterday.

Both made unusually long voyages, the Cambusltennetn being 181 days from Hamburg and the Cedarbank 187 days from Antwerp. While rounding the Horn the former lost one of I her crew and the Cedarbank was swept i from stem to stern. Ti.e storm was dn awful one, and both vessels had a hard time of it. The captain of the Cambus- Kenneth was the first to tell the tale yesterday. "We sailed from Hamburg on the 23d of said he.

"We crossed the equator twenty-three days out and had light, northerly airs to latitude 20 south. "On March 20 our trouble commenced. A eavy southwest eale struck the ship and we had to strip down to a small show of canvass. High cross-seas were raised, several of which were shipped, sweeping the decks fore and aft. The fore end of the forecastle was stove in, the topsail halyard wince was carried away and other slight damage done.

"We were thirty-six days from 50 deg. in the Atlantic to 50 deg. in the Pacific. A succession of northerly gales were found on this side. The balance of the voyage was uneventful, save for the sad death of young Camplin." Samuel Camplin was only 19 years old, I but during the storms he took all the risks and did more work than the oldest A.

B. on the vessel. He escaped every danger, and it was during comparatively calm weather that he met his death. He was at work on the royal yard when his foot slipped and he fell heavily to the decK. Every bone in his body was broken and he died instantly.

He was buried at sea. The Cedarbank sailed from Antwerp on January 17 and had fair weather up to! I March 21. On that date she was caught in a gale, was thrown on her beam ends and nearly toundered. The crew had to cut away three lower topsails to save the ship and, although it was a work of great danger, they bad to do it as it was a case of life or death. From 50 south in the Atlantic to 50 south in the Pacific the Cedarbank encountered nothing butheavv weather.

For days it was nothing but a constant struggle to make headway and the crew was almost frozen in the attempt. On April 27 the Ceoarbank ran into a hurricane and heavy cross seas swept her from stem to stern. Part of her rail was carried away, tne harness casks went by the board and the port lifeboat was reduced to kindling wood. From that time on the Cedarbank had fair weather, but for three days whs becalmed off the Farallones in a fog. On one occasion the weight of water thrown on the decks of the big I ship was so great that forty feet of the heavy iron bulwark was bulged by the strain.

Both tbe Cedarbank ana Cainbuskenneth had all they could do to round the Horn. The Pacific Mail Company's City of Sydney arrived from Panama and way ports yesterday two days ahead of time. From Muzatlan the run was made in 4 days 18 hours, which is the best on record, saving the same vessel's first run from same port, which she made in 4 days 9 hours and 22 minutes, in April, 1894., When passing Pigeon Point Captain Johnson sighted tne wreck of the Colombia, but neither he nor anybody else on board surmised for an instant what vessel it was. Everybody seemed to think it was one of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's vessels and no one ever connected the disaster with the Colombia. Captains Clark and Johnson were warm personal friends and the latter was very much affected when he heard of the wreck.

The Sydney brings the news of the death of William G. (Billy) Devlin at Champerico from yellow fever. "Billy" was for years in tbe employ of the Mail company on the dock and for several trips went out as freight clerk on the Rio de Janeiro. When General Autonio Ezeta went to Panama he went along as his private secretary and was the chief engineer of the filibustering expedition that ended so disastrously on the coast of Salvador. At that time Devlin had a chance to return to San Francisco on the tug Barclay Golden, but refused, saying he would by Ezeta.

The latter's money began to run short, however, and "Billy started on a reconnoitering expedition up the coast. At Champerico he waa taken down with the yellpw fever and succumbed. His brother is Prosecuting Attorney of Solano County and his relatives live in Vallejo. The first of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's steamers under the new schedule sailed for Portland yesterday. Formerly the cut-rate was $5, and the Columbia took 250 cabin passengers at that figure.

Yesterday the rate was $12, and the Mexico had only sixty passengers aboard. The vessel was loaded down with freight, however, as the cut-rate on merchandise still prevails. The merry rate war on the San Joaquin River has begun again. Last year therate used to be 25 cents, but finally an understanding was reached, and both the California Navigation and Improvement Company and the Union Transportation Company advanced rates to 50 cents a passage. This rate has prevailed for some time, Dut now a cut to 25 cents has been made by the California Navigation and Improvement Company, and it is expected that the other company will follow suit in a few days.

Traffic is pretty heavy on the river just now, but as the old company is running two steamers a day it expects to have no difficulty in handling the rush that ia sure to follow the reduction. HIS MIND AFFECTED. Worry Over the Loss of Some Dlamondi Has Placed A. R. MrFurliiiie in a Padded Cell.

Worry over the loss of some diamonds has driven A. R. McFarlane, an old man, insane and he is now in a padded cell in the Receiving Hospital. McFarlane was a salesman for W. J.

Street, jeweler. Bush and Kearny streets. Last Thursday, on Bryant street, between Seventh and Eighth, he tried to negotiate a sale of diamonds worth $56 with a young man standing beside a wagon in front of a macaroni factory. Tbe young man took them into the place to show them to a friend and did not return. He was not known at the factory.

Peter Shivo, the "driver of the wagon, was arrested for grand larceny. The case came up in Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday morning and McFarlane admitted that Schivo never had tbe diamonds in his possession. Schivo denied knowing the young man who got the diamonds and said he was only talking with him to kill time when McFarlane offered the diamonds for sale. The Judge dismissed the case. Yesterday afternoon Street took Mc- Farlane to the Calfornia-street station.

He said the old man had been worrying so much over the loss of the diamonds tbat he had turned quite crazy. Policeman Burnett took McFarlane in the patrolwagon to the hospital. All the way he talked wildly and wanted to tco to a place where there was nothing but grass. A COLORED LADY ORATOR Mrs. Naomi Anderson Is to Lee- ture Here on Woman Suffrage.

Miss Anthony Will Speak To-Day in Oakland at tbe Salvation Army Mass-Meeting. At the Woman Suffrage Bureau visitors are daily becoming more numerous. Interest of the liveliest character is being manifested in the cause by ladies who formerly had not given a thought to the ballot. Among yesterday's callers was Mrs. Laura Riddell of San Diego, who reports a most encouraging state of things in "bay and climate" ciiy and its vicinity.

"We have a large and enthusiastic county campaign committee," she remarked," and have nourishing clnbn in all the wards of the city. The foremost society ladies have thrown themselves, heart, soul and purse, into the movement, and all our meetings are thronged. "It is not only in San Diego that this state of thine prevail," went on Mrs. Riddell." In the interior towns of Soutnern California a similar sentiment is plainly apparent. I have been charged with a general superintendency of the precinct clubs in the south and I anticipate a deal of work from now until after the elections.

At the same time I find it a joy to meet the devoted women whom I have come across in my labors. In general I have observed much interest in the cause among women of all classes, excepting salesladies, who, strange to say, appear to be entirely indifferent regarding the matter." Miss Hay, the chairman, reported that active work among the colored residents of this City and vicinity will commence next Monday. Mrs. Naomi Anderson, an eloquent colored orator and an ardent apostle of the cause, will lecture in San Francisco every niebt next week and in Oakland during the week following, after which she will commence a lecturing tour in the interior. To-day Miss Anthony, Mrs.

A. A. Sargent and Mrs. Riddell will attend the Salvation Army mass-meeting in Oakland. Miss Anthony will deliver an address and a large attendance is anticipated, as interest in the movement is very noticeable among tke American- born hallelujah lassies.

Saturday at the Cliff. The officers and members of the Harvard Club are preparing for a grand banquet to be given at the Cliff House next Saturdayevening at 7 o'clock. George B. Merrill, the president of the club, will preside on the occasion, and the members are looking forward to a grand time. The club has accepted an invitation from Manager Colonel Robinson to visit the Sutro Baths in the afternoon, after which the members will proceed to the Cliff House and enjoy the banquet.

The following are the oflicers of the Harvard Club: George B. Merrill, president; M. P. Michael, Vanderlynn Btow, vice-presidents; R. C.

Harrison, secretary; J. a Severance, treasurer. Hoitts foi Boys, Burlingame. Sixth year begins Aug. 4.

Im G. Hoilt, Ph.D., Mas' "UNCLE" GEORGE SERIOUSLY ILL First Sickness of the Venerable Father of Bohemia. IN HIS EIGHTIETH YEAR. The Attack Came Suddenly and Frightened Friends Considerably. HE IS STILL VEKY WEAK.

Members of the Bohemian Clnb Greatly Worried Over Their Nestor's Condition. Near the close of four score years "Uncle" George T. Bromley has been seized by his first sickness, and he is almost frightened to death. The genial, venerable father of Bohemia, who has been the last man to give up wherever mirth held sway at Bohemia or Press Club jinks, or at any other place for that matter; who has been a complete stranger to disease of any kind, has at last been compelled to bow to the inevitable. But, fortunately, "Uncle" George is improving rapidly and bis physician gives hopes that the venerable octogenarian will be quite well in a few weeks.

At present he is resting easily at Belvedere after a very severe and, indeed, an alarming attack brought on by some disorder of the digestive system. There is some doubt it seems about the cause of Mr. Bromley's illness, which he will be called upon later to explain to the full satisfaction of Bohemia. The secret is told in the fact that he had been visiting some very dear friends in Belvedere and switched off suddenly on home cooking. This, however, is the diabolical conclusion arrived at by one or more husbands of the picturesque suburb.

Saturday night last Mr. Bromley paid a visit to Captain and Mrs. Thompson in Belvedere. In the evening he went to the Pacific Yacht Club with a large party and enjoyed a spin about the coves in a launch. He danced three quadrilles one each with Mrs.

Mary Sherwood, Mrs. J. D. Maxwell and Mrs. Horace Ball and returned to the home of his host in excellent spirits.

Sunday was spent with Captain and Mrs. Thompson and friends, and in the evening "Uncle George" attended a Bohemian gathering at the home of Mrs. J. S. Mattoon.

On retiring he was in the enjoyment of his usual good health, but between 2 and 3 o'clock a. m. an attack suggesting an irritant poison seized him. All day Monday he suffered intensely. Nor did his condition improve Tuesday morning.

His friends called in a physician and Raphael Weill, his old companion, secured the assistance of Dr. Bazan, who has since been in constant attendance on the patient. The result is that Mr. Bromley has improved considerably, though he is still very weak and terribly scared over his first sickness. All through he has been nursed by Mrs.

Thompson and Mrs. Ball, and this has worried nim constantly, as he said he prevents them from enjoying themselves. At the Bohemian Club yesterday many of the leading spirits of Bohemia gathered to talk about "Uncle George." Tneyeach and every one wanted to start for Belvedere and visit the patient, but desisted when told that the attending physician would allow no one to see him. Raphael Weill and Colonel Maddox went over in the afternoon, carrying with them a large bundle of letters from Mr. Bromley's friends in Bohemia, all couched in the tenderest and most solicitous language possible, and all conveying to "Uncle George" personal wishes for his recovery.

Mr. Bromley is an honorary life member of the Bohemian and Press clubs, in both of which there will be sincere satisfaction to-day at knowing they may participate in celebrating his eightieth birthday, now near at hand. A BIG TAX BILL. The Supreme Court Says the Executors of Mrs. Fair Cannot Recover.

The judgment appealed from in the case of John W. Mackay and Richard V. Dey, executors of the wili of Mrs. Theresa Fair, against the City and County of San Francisco has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. The action was brought by the executors to recover $31,687 90, the amount of City and State taxes for the fiscal year beeinning July 1, 1892, levied upon certain railway mortgage bonds and other personal "property belonging to the estate, which sum had been paid under protest.

The property taxed represented a value of $1,921,893. Owing to evidence having been presented to the effect that the valuation set upon certain bonds was excessive, the lower court decided that the executors were entitled to recover $1911 55, with interest and costs. The appeal was taken on the ground that the railway bonds were not taxable, since they represent property owned by the Southern Pacific Company in Arizona that such taxation waa void under the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, and that tbe Legislature of California bad declared that such bonds were not property for the purposes of taxation. The lower court decided that these contentions could not be sustained, since the situs or locality of the bonds was here. The second contention, the court decided, might be curried to the Supreme Court for MMf IT, 1.

ling Itnrn I jmlmJ revision, thought proper, while as to the namely, that the bonds were exempt by legislative enactment, it wag untenable, since the code had been, amended so as to exclude railway bonds from the section referred to. The decision affirming the judgment of the lower tribunal is signed by Justices Henshaxrand McFarland. A CRUEL SPORT. Views of Mr. Ho.brook on the Practice of Setting Fox Terriers Upon Rabbits.

Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals say 3 he is bent upon stopping the practice prevalent at the Presidio Athletic grounds of setting fox-terriers upon rabbits. He describes the alleged sport as brutal beyond expression, and yesterday succeeded in preventing an exhibition which was to have taken place. A man named James Stratton," said Mr. Holbrook, "told me it was a great sport in England; but if possible I will prevent its becoming popular here." Joseph Getz's Will. The will of Joseph Getz has been filed for probate by Reuben Cohen, who has been named as executor by the heirs of the deceased.

The estate is worth about $10,000, but a large amount of property was tranferred to Johanna Getz, wife of the testator, before his death. Of the remainder of the property, $2000 id left in trust for Mildred L. Phillips, granddaughter of tne deceased, ami the Balance to Johanna Getz, the widow. The document goes on to state that others of his descendants are intentionally omitted from the will for the reason that testator has full confidence in the devotion of his wife for them. Wauts His Team.

R. W. Payne has sued the Foxhall stables for the return of a $625 pair of horses and coupa hired to the stables some time ago. He alio asks for $200 damages. 7 AMUSEMENTS.

rAT.TTORNTA Baldwin- Teuteb "Bohemia," next Monday evening, Columbia Wobobco's -Irish Inspiration. Tivoli Pagliaccl." High-Class Vaudeville Etjtbo Bathing and performances. the DaUy at Halght tee block east of the Park. AUCTION SALES. By Shaiswald.

Bcckbkk This day (Thursday). Real Estate, at salesroom, 218-220 Mom ornery street. By Geo. F.lmmsox— This day Fnrnltnre, at O'Farrell street, near Taylor, at 2 o'clock. By Frank W.

Buttkrfikld This day (Thursday), Stock and Fixtures of a Dairy Store, at Polk street, near Sacramento, at 11 o'clock. By S. This day (Thursday). Groceries, at Eleventh street, at 11 o'cloclt. new to-day: Where wine is good, much wine is drunk.

When beer is good, much beer is drunk. Where tea is good, much tea is drunk that is not in America; that is only in Japan and China and other tea countries and England and Russia, where tea is pure and fresh roasted. If we have anything to say about it, California will have good tea too your money back if you don't like Schillings Best. A Schilling Company San Francisco O7 HEW ij That Pleasing i I Paralyzing Pie! I I -'f. 'j How good it looks How I good it is 1 And how it hurts.

Why not look into the J5 question of 7 PHI after Pie? Eat your pie and take Ayer's Pills after, and' pie will please jj and not paralyze. I AVER'S I I Cathartic Pills i CURE DYSPEPSIA. 1- 5 7 NEW 10-DAT- AMUSEMENTS. ALHAYMAN THEATERS. ATTHE To-Night CALIFORNIA I at 8.

TO-PIAV extra I PROFESSIONAL --v At 2 MATINEE -Sc IST. 2Sc, sOc and 75c. BSW. MERCHANT OF VENICE Grand Reopening AT THE Monday, July II Charles Frohman's RlAf empire thea- 111 TKB CO. of mmm York City, Presenting Clyde Pitch's Play, BOHEMIA.

First time In San Francisco. "Better than World. "As good as Times. More artistic than Sun. SEATS READY TO-DAY.

mahao THERE IS ONE WAY, AND BUT ONE. Every Theater Goer in Frisco Wants to See "MOTHS Presented as Only the FRAWLEY COMPANY Can, and That Is Why We Put on That Beautiful Play TO-NIGHT, With MARGARET CRAVEN as Vera. Monday "THE HIGHEST BIDDER." TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MBa. hkki.ixb, Proprietor Season of Italian and English Grand Opera Under the Direction of Mr. Gu'btav Hixhichs.

EVENING 25th Anniversary Gustav Hinrichs' Directorship. SPECIAL BILL "I PAaLiIAOOI" Selections from "HANSEL AND GUETEL." Friday and Sunday Evenings, Ambroise Thomas' Romantic Opera, "MIONON." Saturday Evenly "MARTHA," NEXT "CARMEN" AND Popular 2so and sOc. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. MORO3CO, Sole Lessee and Maaasu THIS EVEN ISO AT EIGHT, Return Star Engagement of the Popular Comedian In Howard P.

Taylor's Latest Success, "IRISH INSPIRATION! A Picturesque Story of the Emerald Isle. Evening 2so and 50c' Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and. Sunday. O'FarreU Street, Between Stockton and Powell.

1 Week Commencing Monday, 'July 20. THE OF THE DAY! SEE THE BIONDI Only three nights more of Prof. Macart's Dog, Monkey and Baboon CUcus. 28 AIL GHEAT Ai.TI-STS! 28 Reserved Seats. 25c: Balcony, 10c; Opera and Box Seats.

50c THE CHUTES, CASINO! And Greatest Scenic Railway on Earth! EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LAST TIMES OF VIRGINIA ABAGOS, Queen of Wire Walkers, 'MARLO- DUNHAM FAMILY. Continued Success or the Marvelous Feature JOE! JOE! AND OUR GREAT BILL ADMISSION 1O CENTS. including Merry-Go- Kound Ride, 5 cents. Jitttfl AND PLEASURE Open Daily from 7 A.

H. Until 11 P. 31.