VOLUME 177. LXXIX.-NO. The SanSAN FRANCISCO,FranciscoMONDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1896.Call. PRICE CENTS, FIVE MURDERED THE WOMEN HE HADBETRAYED DEATH ENDS AN ALASKACONVENTION RIOT.

] Hermann in the Scandinavian Methodist stand on a gold platform. New Pastor Hermann's Record Church of Salt Lake, livedin Omaha four York will present such a candidate, Judge Bugbee Stricken by years prior to going to that city. A and the vote of of Deception and Deeds host this State will be cast for him unani- of her friends here have been anxiously mously. Apoplexy After a waitine for several months for letters from of "Iobserve that ex-Senator Miller, in an Bloodshed. her, and not until to-day was any intima- interview, say? Ihave no commission Fracas. tion received that she had met a violent to speak for our delegation on that point. It death. is a small matter Erickson, a shoemaker, whether Ihave or not. OF Thomas re- The important thing is PROOF HIS GUILT. membered as an active as to the fact, and her well workar in Mr. Miller willscarcely deny COLLAPSES AT HIS DESK Danish-Norwegian the fact. the Methodist church "He, for instance, having Twenty-sixth been elected a at and Franklin streets thiß delegate at city, and Miss Tillie Anderson, also living Governor's Morton's request, His Butcher Knife Found in the here, had attended the conference at which iti was an intimate friend of the dead was resolved to place Governor Morton His Followers Had Invaded the of girl,having known her both here and in in Furnace Salt Lake's the field, having been the first man there and Attempted Salt Lake. to advocate that Hall to Clauson, action and the first man Desecrated Church. Miss then 20 years ofage, came proclaim to by a:»o, to the world a formal in- Gain Control. here from Denmark about nine years teniew when the conference adjourned, and, having no relatives in this country, that he, of course, would be the- a family named Gover- lived with Johnson in the nor's stanchest supporter in conven- CHARGED WITH SEVEN DEATHS part the city. The young the western of tion. He says Imust not speak him, TWO COME TO woman ill-health, so- for FACTIONS BLOWS suffered and at the but Ican certainly recall his record in the j licitation of Miss Anderson, who had gone matter and Ican at least express enough \ to Salt Lake, followed her there. Later Bslieved to Have Slain Two Wives confidence in his character as a man to j Miss Anderson returned, but Miss Clauson keep Bitter Fight Over the Delegates to the say that he will faith with himself and Children That Bore remained. good promises. St. Bugbae's A close friendship between Miss Clauson and make his Lou s— San Fran- His Name. "What is true of Mr. Miller in this re- and her Omaha friends was kept up by cisco Career. spect is similarly true of the other dele- correspondence for the past three years. they After Rev. Mr. Hermann and his gates whether represent districts or wife the State at large. It plain SALT LAKE,Utah, May to Salt Lake letters frequently should be to 24.—The Scan- moved her the public that all this McKinley PORT TOWNSEND, May dinavian church, where the murders of contained allusions to their aid and friend- hulla- Wash., 24.— buloo in New York simply so Probably in Henrietta Clausen and Annie Samuelson ship to her. is much j nowhere the United State 3 empty sound. It will not affect the vote did the enthusiasm and intense rivalry at- took place, has been visited by large num- During the latter part of last summer at St. Louis of a single New York delegate. tendant upon the election of delegates to bers of people ever since the horrible dis- the letters from Miss Clauson suddenly the covery was made known on Sunday. ceased, without any explanation, although Itis a familiar noise. We hear itevery St. Louis Convention assume such a spring and fall. It that i serious air, and witha fatal No services were in the were Then, proceeds from termination, held church to- several letters cent to her. as same as itdid Alaska, day. The human remains, together with !a last effort to reach her during last win- old crowd of 'antis' who have in a country hitherto free been performing way many j from all political strife. a a the garter buckle and the belt buckle ter, Miss Anderson wrote another letter in this these As result of years. And there is an intelligent riot in the Republican which were found in the furnace, have addressed in care of Rev. Francis Her- not convention at j who does not know regu- : Juneau on May 14, ex-United States Judge been so identified that there is now no mann, because it was believed that it nan that if the lar organization to-day were advocating John S. Bugbee, well-known over doubt that they are those of Miss would surely reach her friend. But no j the Paci- McKinley all these pe6ple fic Coast, is dead. He was Clausen. One of the razors and the reply came, and at every meeting would be de- J stricken by knife, furnace, nouncing McKinley and declaring him un- | apoplexy after a scuffle in the convention, butcher- also found in the of the dead girl's friends at their public and just have been positively identified by Rev. church in this city inquiries have been fitfor station. They don't care a as he was about to be named as fig about they simply a delegate to St. Louis. Mr.Mork as the property of Rev. Francis made about her. The last beaid was that McKinley; make His death oc- | use name position j curred on May Hermann, whois accused of the crime. The she was employed in the of his and to aid their 16, he being unconscious southern part conspiracy the razor is of English make and was brought of Salt Lake, and nothing was known for the overthrow of the Re- ifrom time of the attack until the end of publican organization. came. from England by Hermann withhis other her keeping house the Scandinavian for Republican ' Preceding Republican toilet articles. Several women say pastor. "Meanwhile the organiza- the convention at the York, standing waged butcher-knife was the one used in the pas- tion of New in the inter- ! Juneau bitter warfare was between tor's kitchen. LIKED INWEST SUPERIOR. est of the business community and a sound : two factions— one known as the "squaw" The remains of Miss Samuelson public sentiment throughout the country, men and the other as the "aristocrats." have Hermann Bore a Good Reputation in the willloyally not yet been found, although every hole Wisconsin Tourn. support the nomination ofGov- ' Trie latter included the better element, ernor Morton and the adoption a plain, and when the former saw cause and corner of the church has been WEST SUPERIOR, Wis., May of that its 24.—Rev. unequivocal, direct pledge to was a hopeless one itresorted to by searched. The police, however, adhere to Francis Hermann was tue people tactics for three years the that the gold which it hoped to by the theory that they are hidden some- pastor the Norwegian standard shall be maintained j win force of num- of First Danish and our currency system bers. where in or about the church and city. reformed on i to-mor- Methodist Episcopal Church in this that basis. It oppose When the was row they will commence digging up the His reputation was good, will the nomina- j conven tion called to or- here and he was tion of McKinley der by regularly chairman, floor of the basement, where they may a conspicuous figure in the Ministers' on the ground I the elected As- that he is a dangerous misleading John G. Heid, there was a rush, and have been buried. The grounds around sociation. He was a leader in Scanai- and the candidate, speeches show opposition, by Blackett, a the church are quite extensive, and in case circles, thought whose vctes and headed C. S. navian social and was well no attorney, the remains are not found in the basement of by all knew that he has settled convictions on the well-known attempted to throw who him. He moved from money question managers j gentleman not only seat the grounds willalso be dug up. to and whose have the from his but here Salt Lake. to secure out of the window. Another theory is that the pastor, endeavored support of one part ! Heid's friends rallied after country by declaring and fight resulted, cutting the body up, preserved the parts of the that he is in around him a fierce fist in a trunk, which KILLED BY THE MAYOR. favor of silver, producing in each of such followed by the drawing of many revolv- he took withhim when parts country ers. he left for Kansas City on May of the those peculiar por- 6. Hot Springs' Executive Defends tions of his record as seemed to delegation finally Miss Samuelson living Himself sustain The Heid was vic- had been with HOW THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION IS RAISING THE NATIONAL the impression they desired to create in torious, the pastor months With a Pocket- DEBT. and the convention was continued. for several before her that particular location." interim, however, Bu?bee, disappearance as housekeeper, • Inthe in whose nis under Knife. the occurred, promise of marriage. She was seen mcraberj imperial OHIO DEMOCRATS FOR SILVER. interests riot had took a last HOT SPRINGS, Abk., May 24.—One of and all the of the chair behind another desk and on February 28. On that day she told her family, at present , with organized the must sensational killings tb&t ever oc- at Most*-" thtvr Free Coinage Men Will Control the State an opposition convention. Mends that be feat ire Services English Church plan of claiming everything and conced- Yelopments of the corona k>l "-•» TiigsUav .the to-day in honor of the seventy- seventh an- in the church tragedy in this batants and was severely cut in several Emperor- ing nothing, without regard for facts, a city lead to the belief that the Rev. places. willswear alie^.. .*-*, the col- niversary of the birth of Queen Victoria. they persisted ors the scheme have in for many Francis Hermann is a man with a in C Abedral of the Assumption. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the record one end weeks. Their lieutenants here are deter- of crime little less than the notorious FORSLAIN HIS STAMPS. At oi the room was a sort of altar, former of whom is here as the representa- on was a golden mother, mined to aid them just as persistently for Holmes. His first wife died in England The Murder which vessel filled with* tive of his the British Queen, at- — of a loung French Collector the services, accompanied by ends and purposes essentially different under suspicious circumstances. He was 1-rplained. consecrated water. In the entry was a tended t ieir golden cross, at either side suites. The Bishop of Peterborough, who ends and purposes with which Major Mc- pastor of a Scandinavian church at West PARIS, Frakce, May 24.—1t of which were Kinley and his no is believed lighted candles. The standard, willattend the coronation as the repre- managers have concern Superior, Wis., in1890 and 1891, and there the mystery attending the hanging sentative ofthe Established Church whatever— slightest discovery near from a staff, was held by a ofEng- and without the con- married a highly respectable lady, who in Cherbourg of the body of a young color-bearer, land, preached the sermon, a prayer was sideration for any one but themselves; a year who stood at the left of the altar. offered for the preservation of the Russian less than died very suddenly with man in a trunk has been cleared. It and this, too, without a thought for the Ex-United States Judge John S. Bugbee. her two weeks' old baby. reported The Bishops and priests of the Kremlin imperial family, \vhen the Czar was men- the Victim of the Convention Riot at is that Joseph Aubert ana Mar- majesty's welfare of the business interests of the An inquest was held, nothing guerite Dubois, cathedrals in gorgeous chasubles of gold tioned, a herald uttered his coro- Juneau. but be- who were arrested at Cour- nation title. Nation. [Provi yond a suspicion of foul play was cloth attended by acolytes bearing censers a photograph.] elicited. ville with the trunlt in their possession stood in "The big men of the country, however, Hermann Boon married again and came to nave confessed that they killed the young front of the altar, while at the AllDeclare for Silver. may confidently rely upon It man, whose name right were the imperial that their Salt Lake in 1894 with his wife. Before was Delahef, inorder to male choir from CHICAGO, 111., May views will be expressed at the four Ohio Congressional districts have se- obtain a collection of postage Bt. Petersburg attired in 24.— Democratic St. Louis had been rather roughly handled, and his long a baby was born and the mother and stamps black and crim- county were yesterday Convention, both as to the lected their delegates to the National Dem- which he owned. The collection was son cloaks. Behind the priests, conventions held maintenance of following was horritied to see him sud- child died suddenly a few weeks after- $2000. at a little in St. Clair, Warren and Perry counties, the gold standard and as to the ocratic Convention. In two of these the denly pitch worth distance from them, were the Emperor nomina- forward on his desk. A phy- ward. all of whichdeclared for free silver. ion of a candidate who can appropriately free-silver Democrats have carried the day sician was summoned and pronounced acquaintance ita Then his with Miss CJau- and selected free-silver men as delegates. case of apoplexy. was commenced, Bugbee taken from eon and it is charged in the THE KREMLIN, WHERE The Twentieth District has chosen two the hall, and died two days later without complaint which has been sworn to by THE CORONATION PROCEEDINGS WILL TAKE radical gold-standard men as delegates. regaining consciousness. Sanson, PLACE. John a member of the church In this district the gold Democrats won in Another chairman was selected, here, that be murdered and the cremated the tne primaries, but it is understood that meeting continued and a delegation body in the heating was furnace in the church one silver and one gold delegate willbe se- elected to contest at St. Louis seats basement. the of lected in the convention. In the county T. S. Snowell, the well-known mining Hermann was engaged to marry Miss conventions to choose State delegate?, man; C. S. Johnson, ex-United States Bamuelson February many At- in of this year, but of which have now been held, the torney during President Harrison's ; she disappeared, charged term and it is that he free-silver Democrats have generally held T. R. Needham, editor oi the poisoned her and up Searchlight, carved the body in majorities, and as the result itis almost a and W. A. Kelly of Wrangel— the regu- the church cellar. foregone conclusion that the Democrats of larly elected delegation. As as yet discovered far it is believed Ohio willin their State convention declare Judge J. S. Bugbee, the victim of th« Hermann has murdered seven persons. for free silver. trouble, was probably one of the best Miss Clauson came to Salt Lake from Itis reported here that Senator Brice, known men in Alaska, ifnot on the Omaha seven years She was a some ago coast. ago. native who time announced his inten- Prior to his advent into Alaska he was a Of Sweden and as far as known coming had no tion of into the State to make c resident of San Francisco. His death ia relatives in this country, but she had fight against the free-silver movement, regretted by all. many friends here and was considered a now sees the futility of itand willmake A prominent feature respectable of the great con- good and girl. Miss Samuel- no opposition to it. tention that had preceded employed the calling of son was as a nursery governess the convention was the political work a good familyhere place of in and left her to JAMESON'S TELLTALE MESSAGES. one George Washington Delamater, known be married to the preacher. She had an " inPennsylvania political circles. He relatives living Tell Rhodes jr. was aunt and other here and That F. Newton Will recently sent to the northern territory, it was a member of Hermann's church. Help as Much as Possible." is said, in the interests of the say Presidential The church officers that Hermann PRETORIA, South Africa, May 24.— candidacy of Senator Matt Quay. was suspended recently for embezzling The Government of the Transvaal will John S. Bugbee was church funds, confessed his guilt in that issue a green book on Monday containing well known in San regard, and was waiting a hearing before fresh Francisco, having lived here twenty-five letters and telegrams from Lionel years. was a graduate the annual Methodist Conference. He Phillips, president He of a Boston of the reform commit- grammar school and was a fine-looking man and very generally tee, to Beit and Wernher, expressing studied law in that city. He came to San liked. He is represented as having a great objections to meddling in politics and a Francisco in 1861 to likingfor the study of medicine, meet his father, who was then one of the anatomy desire to avoid further revolutionary dis- leading and kindred subjects, and often delivered turbance industry. architects of California. The of The book willalso senior Bugbee built disquisitions on the human form. contain a telegram from to the houses of Leland Dr. Jameson Stanford and Charles Crocker. Mr. Stevens, secretary of the British South years HER FES WAS SILENCED. Some later the son, John S. Bu"- African Company at Cape Town, saying: -bee, was married to an estimable young St. Louis Friend* Wondered H li,, MisM "Tell Rhodes that F. J. Newton will ladyof Boston, a sister of Mrs. Sidney M. f law on IMdJfot Write. help as much as possible." Smith. The wedding ceremony performed was OMAHA, Neb., May 24.— Miss Henri- Mr.Newton is Colonial Secretary and by Dr. Horatio Stebbins. Mrs. Bugbee went to Alaska with ncr husband etta Clauson, the young woman supposed Receiver-General of Bechuanaland. He and on her return, was about two years ago to have been murdered by Rev. Francis absent at Mafeking at the time of the delivered a lecture on Alaska at the First raids into the Transvaal. Unitarian Church. She died at the F»bi-