The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1895, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895. e e e ettt e A CAPTIVE IN' CUBA. Fears That an American Will Be Put to Death. LONG HELD A PRISONER. Spanish Volunteers Demand That Jose Aquirre Be Executed. ARRESTED WITHOUT WARRANT. The State Department Denounced | for Not Interfering in-His Behalf. NEW YORK, received to-day T W. Aquirre, a cle, Jose M. T. in th Aquirre, wi oner in Havana for n danger of beir £ Santos , was the 1mmediate 1t danger, and at the State denounced roundly ,an American citi- until this danger cause of zer I overtook him. According to Mr. Aquirre’s story and some cc of correspondence between Department and Senator Call 1 AL Aquirre of St. Aquirre was arrested nt on February 24, the on which Julio San- American citizen, was taken on suspicion ot connected with the -insurgents. >'s nephew says that his uncle had o intention of aiding the revolutionists, 1 that the Spanish Government has de no charge against him and can make none. His uncle had lived here for anum- ber of years, the nephew says, when he went to Havana in the winter. that the killing of Santoscildes ed the resentment of the Spanish na, and that tk re and 8 for execut uilly be n. CUBANS LOST A LEADER. Goulet Now Known to Have Been Killed. Alfonzo —It is now a. ez Campos has concen- mo, and will be- inst the insur- nish mail steamers w York and Havana re half the former freight- age on sugar, the reduction to go into ef- fect immediately. ZAYAS* BAND DISPERSED. Rebels Defeated by Spaniards Under Liewtenant Terewal. HAVANA, Cupa, July A dispatech from Governor Luque of the province of Santa 2 reports that Lientenant Tere! e head of two combined col: as engaged in battle and band under ing a quantity of is believed that a 0DS, LIBERALS STLL LOSHG Made a Gain of Two Seats, but Lost Three in Their Stead. Martin White Won by an Unex- pected Majority in a Con- servative Division. LONDON, Exc., July 22.—The polls de- 1to-day show a gain of two seats for Liberals and three for the Conserva- tives. Forfarshire followed the example of the Briggs division of Lincolnshire by f the election in No- the Liberal candidate,a ma At the November election, which SirJ. R the then Liberal for the countv, bei made a harles Maule Raun he Con- servative candidate, was returned by a ma- jority of ¢ Sir R. T. Reed, Attorney-General under Lord Rosebery, has an increased majorit in Dunfreisburzh. T. M. Healy, who r resented the tionalists in Louth had an increased majority. Four Libe and two Conservatives show gains over the votes by which they were returned at the ROSEBERY'S MISTAKE. showld Have Confined Himself to Re- forming the House of Lords. TORONTO, Oxt., July 22.— Professor Goldwin Smith, in an interview with a TUnited Press representative to-day on the ctions now in progress in Great Britain, d he believed Sir Wilham Vernon Har- court’s local veto bill had done his party much mischief, and that socialistic rad- icalism had received a final blow in the de- £ of Mr. Mor Mr. Chamberlain’s socialistic proclivities, if he retain them, may give trouble. Professor Smith believes Lord Salisbury’s majority dangerously large, and that bis Lordship is not 2 good leader. The Duke of Devonshire would make a better one. He believes Lord Rosebery’s most hopeful course vould have been to lay home rule aside, and take up in a broad and patriotic way the reform of the House of Lords. He has marred for a time a bright career, but his gifts and Lis personal attractiveness are such that he will probably come to the front again. Mr. Smith says meantime all of British blood may rejoice that the Thornburn, Harvey, Grieve and Donnelly and Manager Pinsent, of the defunct Union Bank, were formally arrested this afternoon and afterward admitted to baile HEAD-END COLLISION. Two Trains Crash Together With Ter- rific Force. BRADFORD, Pa., July 22.—A head-end collision occurred this afternoon at 1 o’clock between the passenger train from Olean and a freight train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Western road. Emmet Burdick had his ankle sprained, and H. M. Saunders, a passenger of Smith- port, was thrown over several seats and had his head cut and leg injured. An un- known girl had her arm broken, and sev- eral others were badly bruised. The freight train had orders to meet two trains at Smithport, but in some manner the engineer misread the order, anu after the first train had passed he started out vith his train. The two engines came to- ther with terrific force, and both were t completely demolished. The loco- e of the freight seemed to have leaped on top of the passenger en- and the tender went whizzing gine, through a boxear on the passenger train. Strange to say, neither of the engineers nor the firemen were injured, notwith- standing that the account states they did not jump from their cabs. The passenger train was running at its usual ra e of speed, but the force of the sion was so terrific and unexpected tihat all the passengers were thrown from their seats, and the greater number of them received slight bruises of some kind. VICTIMS OF THE MAFIA Two More Italians Shot Down by a Louisiana Assassin. It Is Thought the Dread Soclety Has Inaugurated Another Crusade of Crime. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 22.—Two more horrible crimes were perpetrated by an Ttalian to-day in the parish of St. James, and very near the scene of the late whole- sale murders by the Sicilian, Naska. The murders occurred in the rear of the Oak Alley Plantation, on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The victims were an Italian named Sogoro and his wife, and the mur- derer was supposed to be another Italian. The bodies were found by a negro on the public highway about a mile from the sta- tion. "he negro says that he heard three shots tired, and hurrying forward, found the woman lying dead and filled with buck- shot. ] murderer must have been close to her, for her dress was badly powder- From where the woman lay there e bloodstains on_the ground for some stance to the railroad crossing, where se body of a dead man was lying face own with a_ghastly buckshot wound in his neck. His shirt was also burned with powder. The cause of the crime was evidently not robbery, for the bodies were undis- turbed and money was found on them. The man and woman had come from Locust Point plantation to visit i daughter and son-in-law. The indications are that the murderer sneaked up behind them at close range and fired, killing the woman first and then the man. The Italians in the neighborhood are very much wrought up over the late murders of their countrymen and fear that the Mafia has again inaugurated a crusade of blood. ] burned. = e m g | Dav GYPSIES COMIL WESTWARD. Another Caravan Following King Juan’s Trail to California. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 22.—Another colony of Syria-Brazilians has sailed from Puerto Cabella, Venezuela, for New York. They are due ebout the last of this month. The foreigners are coming on to join King Juan Miguel and his army of Brazilians, who departed from New York in wagons at noon Friday for Southern California. Before King Juan left the metropolis he arranged with M. V. Marcelja, the inter- preter, to meet the party at the steamer and fit it out with another caravan and start it westward. This news will carry gladness to the hearts of the First Ward horse and wagon traders. Marcelja asked the king to leave his itinerary with him, so they could start the second party in the right direction, but the King refused. He said: > w them the ferry crossed by us and poin em toward the setting sun. They will find us. My people were born with the instinct to successfully find their coun- trymen without asking a question when once put on the proper trail.” King Juan leit Jersey City last night by rail for Washington, where he will spend a week with the Brazilian Minister, joining his caravan when it arrives at the capital. TR TWO LIVES FOR A DEBRBT. A Chicago Laborer Fatally Wounded a Woman, Then Killed Himself. CHICAGO, Itv., July 22.—This morning at 11 o'clock Draidde Balingona went to the home of Mrs. Rosalie Davido, 239 One Hundred and Fifteenth street, and drawing a razor from one of his pockets and a revolver from the other, asked her which way she preferred to die. Three men who were in the room rushed to Mrs. do’s assistance to save her from her ailant, when Balingona opened fire. The first shot struck the woman on the as; | right side of the head; a second one went through her neck. Balingona then turned the weapon on himself, receiving a bullet | in his own brain, dying instantly. The woman will die. Last winter Davido, who is a laborer, had little work and was not_earning_suffi- vient money to support his family. Balin- gona loaned him money from time to time and helped the family through the winter. For 2 month or more he has been urgin, Mr. and Mrs. Davido to repay the loane money. P L MUST RECEIVE DECENT BURIAL. Citdes Will Not Be Reimoursed for Inter. ring Veterans in Potter’s Field. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—Assist- ant Secretary of the Interior John M. Rey- nolds to-day decided that a municipal corporation that cares fora sick soldier and buries him as a pauper in the potter’s field has no right to_reimbursement under the pension laws. Had the corporation cared or and buried him decently, then the claim would have been allowed. The case in point was that of Edward Haskins of Company F, Thirty-third New York Infantry, who died in jail at St. Cloud, Minn., where he had been confined, the result of a spree. He left no property, mother country has been saved from dis- memberment and revolution. £ HOPEFUL. Said the Liberal Party Could Afford to Stand Upon Its Record. LONDON, Exg., July 22.—Giadstone, in a letter to a friend, writes: “Itis too early to speculate upon the causes of our defeat. We should learn les- sons from the fact, but the Liberal party can well afford to stand upon its record. The disasters that are abounding on every side enhance the satisfaction afforded by the successes Where courage and patriot- ism stem the prevailing tide.” S 2 S Coaling at Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON, Exe., July 22.—The E“md States cruiser Columbia is coaling ere. i Ll Bank Offictals Arrested. and the city buried him asa pauper and asked the Interior Department. o reime b]m:ne it. Judge Reynolds disallowed the claim. —_— William’s New Yacht in a Race. SOUTHAMPTON, Exg., July 22.—Em- peror William’s new twenty-rater yacht Vinetta, which was _designed by Watson and constructed at Kiel, made her debut under the auspices of the Castile Yacht Club to-day, finishing third in a race with the Audrey and Inyoni. el To Settle Labor Troubles, ROME, Itary, July 22.—The Pope has addressed an encyclical letter to theBishops of Belgium urging them to aim at amelior- ating the strained relations existing in that country between capital and labor. R s The San Francisco at Christiania. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July 25.—The United States cruiser San Francisco has B8T. JOHNS, N, F., July 22.—Directors; arrived here. GRIP OF A SYNDICATE. May Force the Adminis- tration to Another Bond Issue. OFFICIALS ARE FEARFUL. Powerless to Check the Ma- chinations of the Money Lenders. TRIBUTE PAID TO FOREIGNERS. The Rothschilds Profiting by the Policy of Cleveland and Carlisle. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 22.—A Wash- ington special to the Press says: Since the highway robber methods of the Belmont-Morgan syndicate in putting up and keeping the rates of foreign ex- change at the highest point known for years, the subject has received a great deal of attention in Washington. It is being discussed in the Treasury Depart- ment among officials, who are wary, however, of permitting their views to become known to outsiders — that would be treason to the friends of President Cleveland. Nevertheless sur- prise is expressed in the highest Govern- ment circles that the syndicate has been able to maintain rates of exchange at $4 90 and even at $4 91 for so long a time. As it is as much asany Government em- vloye’s official life is worth to be quoted on the subject of bond syndicates or aggrega- tions of foreign plunderers, it is only through Democratic Congressmen who have talked with their party friends in the executive departments that the sentiment there can be ascertained. It is learned from undoubted sources first, that the administration is trembling with apprehension at the outlook, as it has no knowledge whatever of the present in- tentions of the syndicate; second, that be- yond assurances made at the time the usurious bond contract was entered into for protecting the gold reserve, none fur- ther have been obtained; third, that so far as the maintenance of the high rate of exchange is concerned, it is recognized that the combine, having a speciality of the sale bills, will act as all monopoiies do in crushing out competition and enriching themselves as long as possible. The Gov- ernment can do nothing, and if it could the Cleveland administration would under no circumstances interfere with its foreign owners. There is a constant dread of gold exports at the treasury, however, and every ship- ment produces a shock, but the opinion is expressed as a hope that the Rothschilds will keep their word. It is argued that this great house, which holds the securi- ties of so many nations, has never, how- ever thrifty, been inconsiderate of the future, and that the United States, being the last of its acquirements and the richest, the Rothschilds will do nothing rash or hasty. Indeed, it is honestly believed in Washington that the foreign syadicate is making money enough now without giv- ing the treasury another twist. Still, won- der is expressed that more of those whose business it is to remit gold do not follow the example of Hesslage, Colgate & Co. and of W. H. Crossman & Brother. ‘While there was an attempt av the time among Democrats to justify the infamous bond contract with the Belmont-Morgan syndicate for the last sale of Government bonds, no Democrat can now be found to defend it, because it carried with it a con- tract practically giving this select coterie the option on all future bond issues. It also gave them the absolute monopoly of exchange, which was not realized at the time. All that is said is that the President and Secretary of the Treasury were driven to such necessity by the exhaustion of the gold reserve and the failure of the Wilson- Gorman bill to produce sufficient revenue that they had to make terms with some or- ganization powerful enough to relieve them from constant financial drain and assaults. It is only of late that the full deviltry of the machinations of the syndicate in- trigues have been developed. Those who wish to be fair assume that even President Cleveland did not know what he was doing when he consigned to a gigantic foreign trust the entire credit of the United States and thus compelled the enormous import trade of the country to pay tribute for money with which to vay its debts abroad. So long as the syndicate protects the re- serve and in that manner postpones the day when another bond sale becomes necessary through failing revenues, the administra- tion is selfishly indifferent to what senti- ment may be occasioned in business circles at the profits out of the high rate of bonds and the exchange. President Cleveland has sold to the European bond and gold trust the right to manage the finances of this country, that they may save him from annoyance for a stated period. If it be- comes necessary after that period, or even before it, to sell more bonds the same syn- dicate will get the securities on any terms that it may dictate. There is only one con- dition. The treasury must have peace. This is the outlook for the American people: They will have to pay toll on a premium of $10,000,000 on the last sale of bonds, a principal of $62,335,400 and an in- terest of $74,774,480. They will also have to pay premium, principal and interest of another bond sale, if the Befmont-Morgun combine wills it, and, worsg of all, they will in the meantime be paying tribute on the entire import trade and exports of the United States to the same merciless vampires. OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. Pensions Granted Feterans of the Pacific Stope. 5 WASHINGTON. D. C., July 22.—George A. Miller has been commissioned Post- master at Cotati, Cal., and Pendleton M. Epperson at Durham, Cal. i Pensions for Californians were granted as follows: Original — Felix Fitzpatrick, Arroyo Grande; John Franklin, East San Jose. Restoration, reissue and decrease—Henry Johnson, Santa Monica. Increase—Thomas Martin, San Francisco; Francis McHugh, Los Angeles. Reissue—Alvin Gibbs, Pasa- dena; John Joy, alias William Brown, Ala- meda; Josegh . Dustin, San Jacinto; Henry Stoddart, Sauta Barbara; Charles 0. Hutchinson, Alpine; Theodore E. Gil- bert, San Jose. riginal widows, etc.— Minors of derick Ravmer, Fresno. Widow Indian war—Elizabeth P. Berry, Bebastopol. Oregon, original—Allen L. Broxson, Mil- n. Washington. original—Charles D. Wood, vr)k.nne; Wiliam E. Newlon, Welch; illiam Hensel, Seattle. Renewal and increase — Richard S. Baverstock, Block House. Reissue—Mathias Zeitler, Mount Vernon. SEAMEN ARE WANTED, Government Vessels Kept Out of Commis- sion for Lack of Men. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—The re- turn of good times has so reduced the number of applications for enlistment in the.navy that it looks to the authorities as if there will be some delay in placing the Maine, Texas anl Lancaster in commis- sion, despite the fact tLat one is completed and the others will be ready for sea by August 1. Although strenuous efforts are being made to secure men only a few more than 300 have been enlisted since June and it is said by the department that only 300 are now available for three ships. This number would not make up the comple- ment for one ship. The Maine and Texas each take 310 men and the Lancaster about the same number. : ‘When the Texas is placed in commission itis the intention to make a trial tzip to ascertain whether her m“h'iu"{ will give 9000 horsepower as required by her contract. The board, composed of Naval Construc- tors Linnard and Taylor and Assistant Naval Constructor Dashiell, which has been investigating the comparative merits of cocoa cellulose and the pith of corn- stalks for cofferdams in shivs, has sub- mitted its report to the Secretary of the Navy, and that official is expected to act favorably upon it this week. The board made a strong finding for the cornstalk product and recommended its adoption in place of cocoa cellulose, now in use. NO MONEY FOR HOLMES, Denlal of a Report That He Will Be Assisted by Friends. Detectlves Still In the Dark Con- cerning Minnie Willlams® Disappearance. BOSTON, Mass., July 22.—An emphatic denial comes from the Boston business man who is charged with supptying money for the defense of Herman Mudgett, better known as H. H. Holmes, now under arrest in Philadelphia. He says that he was ac- quainted with Minnie Williams when the girl lived in Boston three years ago. She was then a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. He asserts that he never knew Holmes under that or any other name, nor ever to his knowledge saw him. He was introduced into the case by means of a letter which a detective chaimed was given to him by Holmes while he was in Moyamensing Prison. In speaking of the affair this gentleman said : “] did receive a letter purporting to have come from Holmes, and containing a re- quest for money, but I do not know the man, and I did nothing with it. Shortly afterward a detective visited me, and I told him that I never knew Holmes. He spoke about the letter which I had re- ceived, aad before the interview was ended he“ndmmed that he wrote this letter him- self. “I did know a girl in the city by the name of Minnie Williams, and from what I read I should not be surprised if she was the person whom this man Holmes is sup- posed to have murdered. My acquaint- ance with her was simply that of a iriend, just as dozens of other persons were ac- quainted with her in Boston, and nota very intimate friend, either. I have not seen her for three years. The last I saw of her she said she was going to New York. “I did not kfiow a great deal of her his- tory. I understood that she came here from some place in Te¥as. She was very quiet and steady and conducted herself in an eminently proper manner. She called at my house several times, but was always received as a friend and acted as a lady. She seemed to be a girl in well-to-do cir- cumstances. Of her connection with Holmes I have no knowledge more than what I obtain from the papers.” While the detective was here he looked up another point of interest. So far as could be learned, Miss Williams had not been in Boston for three years, and yet he ascertained that a letter addressed to her was received at Somerville Postoffice while Holmes was in this city last fall, and was delivered to somebody. This letter was mailed from Ogdensburg, supposedly by Holmes, and was addressed to Miss Minnie ‘Williams, Somervilie, Mass. Miss Howard, one of the women who supposed she was thedawful wife of Holmes, saw him write it, and also saw the little corner subscrip- tion on the envelope, ““1f not delivered, re- turn to the Parker House, Boston."” ‘When Holmes reached Boston he called at the Parker House several times and asked for such a letter, but it had not been returned. Not content with that he sent his “wife” to Somerville to ascertain if it had been delivered, and if not to obtain possession of it. The postotfice authorities could find no such letter, and the inference was that some one had called for it, al- though to whom it was delivered, no one knew. 1f Minnie Williams was not in Boston at that time, the question is, Who got that letter? FOUND A BLOODX ROPE. Kesult of the Search of Holmes’ Chicago Resrdence. CHICAGO, ILvn., July 22. — Important discoveries, which throw additional light on the murders committed by H. H. Holmes in the house which he once occu- pied at Sixty-third street and Wallace avenue, are being made almost hourly by the detectives who are engaged in the in- vestigation of the premises. While work- ing alone yesterday afternoon Detective Sérgeant Norton found a half-inch rope, about twenty feet long, with a running noose at one end and a plaited loop at the other. What lends mystery to the find is the fact that there are red stains on each side of the running knot, and those stains resemble blood. In a tooichest which stands in the storeroom on the second floor of the building the discovery of the rope ‘was made. A The police inspector in charge of the search of the Holmes residence here says he is not yet ready with an_opinion as to what use Holmes or any of his accomplices had for the rope found in the cellar.” The theory that the former druggist stranzled Minnie Williams and Howard Pietzel with it by hanging them down ‘the elevator shaft the inspector admits as being possi- biy correct, but beyond that he will not commit himself. From the knowledge already possessed of the wily Holmes and his schemes the theory is scarcely tenable. More secret rooms and passageways were discovered in the house yaster ?‘y by news- paper men. A trapdoor in the fioor of one of the upper rooms, when opened, dis- closed steps leading to a secret door enter- ing Holmes’ office.” A letter addressed to Holmes and marked ‘‘personal’”’ was found in a rubbish pile on the second floor. 1t is from the mother of Mrs. Conner, express- ing anxiety as to the whereabouts of her daughter. % ; Mrs. Pietzel had an agent in the house yesterday looking for a vault that has not yet beendiscovered. Later in the day old bones, probably a dozen of them, and the sole of a woman'’s shoe were discovered by the laborers dig- ing in the cellar of the Holmes house. 'he bones look as though they might have belonged to some animal. The sole is about a 4)4 or 5 size and is half rotted from is long rest in the damp dirt. Arran ments are being. made for better ventila- tion in the cellar while the search con- tinues, as another explosion is feared. A New National Bank. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—The Forest City National Bank of Forest City, Iowa, capital $50,000, to-day was authoriz to begin business, - B CHARGES OF CHILBERG Asserts the Captain of the San Juan Was Derelict. HIS SEARCH TOO BRIEF. Had Knowledge of There Be- ing Survivors Afloat on Liferafts. THE COLIMA WAS TOPHEAVY. Her Lifeboats and Rafts Were En- tirely Unfit for Thelr Purpose. SEATTLE, Wasg., July 22.—J. E. Chil- berg, one of the survivors of the Colima disaster, wrote a letter from Guatemala, which was received here to-day, scoring Captain Pitts of the San Juan. He says that about 9 o’clock on the morning following the disaster, he, En- rique Boeder and Louis Peters, cabin pas- sengers: Fred Johnson, sailor, and Robert Gonzales, messboy, were on a frail raft, being rocged about at the will of the ocean. Three of their number had already been washed off the raft, and those that re- mained had concluded that death was not far off, when they sighted the San Juan. Just then a second raft containing six sur- vivors ran alongside of Chilberg’s raft. *“We both raised signals of distress on oars,” writes Chilberg. **Then we watched the steamer with beating hearts. She headed straight for us, and finally wecould see her white houses. We were confident of being rescued. Our messboy, who was a Peruvian, stood up and shouted for joy, ‘Viva barracouta, viva barracouta.’ Then she turned and went out to sea. Twice more she came close and then steamed away. . “Why did Captain Pitts sail away from the scene of the wreck without completing his search? Ten men have escaped to prove that he left them to suffer the pangs of hunger and thirst and possible death. Who shall say there were not others on pieces of wreckage, who saw the San Juan sail away that Tuesday, and lost hope and were drowned? Iam told by Mr. Thorn- ton that he himself and others told Cap- tain Pitts that two liferafts were afloat with men on them, and even begged him to search a little while longer. He refused.” Chilberg alleges that the Colima’s deck- load of lumber was so great that it made her topheavy. The lifeboats and liferafts were covered with canvas. “Why,”" asks Chilberg, “*did we have a mast with no sails, holes for rowlocks but no rowlocks, fourteen-foot oars where eight or ten foot oars would have been much more useful? Why is there not a keg of water on a liferait and a supply of bread ?” AN EARLY SAN JOSE FIRE, Two People Had a Very Narrow Escape From the Flames. The Clothes and Halr of Mrs. Harry Hartman Were Ignited as She Fled. SAN JOSE, Car., July 22—The resi- dence of Harry Hartman on Grant street, between Marliere and Delmas, was de- stroyed by fire about 4 o’clock this morn- ing. When discovered the flames had gained such headwav that Mr. Hartman and his wife escaped with only their night clothes. In going downstairs Mrs. Hartman’s clothes and hair caught fire and she ran screaming into the street, where neighbors extinguished the burning garments before she was seriously burned, Mr. Hartman made his escape by jump- ing from a second-story window. It is supposed the flames resulted from spon- taneous combustion, as a lot of inflamma- ble material was stored under the stair- case. The loss on the house is about $500, with $200 insurance. About $150 worth of fur- niture and personal effects were destroyed. The Stanfield Estate. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 22.—James J. Stanfield to-day filed a petition for letters of administration on the estate of his father, John Stanfield, who was killed in a runaway accident Wednesday. In the pe- tition it is set forth that the estate is valued at $100,000 and consists of the fol- lowing: House 2nd lot in Santa Cruz County, valued at $2000; 262 acres of im- proved land in Union district, $65,000; 640 acres of unimproved land in Kings County, $2000; stock in Los Gatos Bank, $1500; stock in Union Savings Bank, $2400; Farm- ers’ Union stock, $1600; Fdectric Light and Power Company stock, $4400, and mort- ages amounting to $5000. The leirs are g(argnret J. Stanfield, the widow; the peti- tioner, James J. Stanfield, a son, and Mrs, Pheebe Fretwell and Mrs. Sarah Fellows, daughters. Prosecuted by His Son. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 22.—William La Montagne, who was brought to the County Jail from Los Gatos yesterday to await an examination as to his sanity, has been charged with assault to commit murder. The complainant is Ed La Montagne, a son of the accused. who charges his father with assaulting Bob Edwards at Los Gatos Saturday night with a knife. The trouble is the outcome of a drunken row. The accused is a well-known rancher of Union district and is well off. He has a nchant for liquor and while under its in- uence i§'very violent. Every effort has been made to cure him of this failing, but without avail. A Prisoner Attempts Suicide. SAN JOSE, CAL., July 22.—Charles Niles, a prisoner serving fifty days in the County Jail for misdemeanor from Santa Clara, at- tempted suicide by cutting the arteries of both wrists with pieces of ghss this morn- ing. He was discovered before he had lost a great.deal of blood and the wounds were dressed. Niles would give no reason for making the attempt at suicide other than that he was tired of life. Commiitted to Glen Ellen. SAN JOSE, CAL., July 22.—Judge Rey- nolds to-day committed Mrs. Annie Green to the Home for Feeble-minded at Glen Ellen. Mrs. Green is about 35 years of age and has been an inmate of the in- firmary for some time. Of late she has shown such an inclination to be giddy that sug:rinhndent Orcut charged her with in- sanity. Inquest on Mercedes Verugo. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 22.—Coroner Se- cord to-day held an inquest over the re- mains of Mercedes Verugo, the Mexican who died Friday night while being re- moved from Coyote station to the in- firmary. His death was the resultof a drunken row at a dance at the house of J. Cunter, a Portuguese ‘?Mhn' on the night of June 22. During the progress of the row Verugo was struck over the head with a club by Demetro Cano. A few days later he took to his bed and complained of pains in his head. He was neglected and death resulted from meningitis, caused by the blow on the head. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. Suits Against the Southern Pacifio. SAN JOSE, Can., July 22.—Suit was brought to-day by E. M. Lincoln against the Southern Pacific Company for $150,000 damages for the death of his son, 18 years of age, who, it is claimed, was pushed from a train by a brakeman while passing through this city July 28, 1893. The trial of the suit for §20.000 damages against the Southern Pacific Gommny. brought by Stephen Cuthbertson, the old man who had his foot cut off while in the reilroad yards, began to-day. A. Horstman’s Stock Sold. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 22.—Sheriff Lyn- don this morning sold the stock in A. Horstman’s cloakstore {0 satisfy an attach- ment issued from the Superior Court of San Joaquin County to R. B. Teefy for $3400. The stock and fixtures were sold to R. B. Teefy for $1100. Riotous Tinkers Sent to Jail. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 22.—Harry Wil- son and John Riley, itinerant tinkers and repairers of umbrellas, were brought to the County Jail this morning to serve thirty days each for vagrancy from Santa Clara. The men_had been enjoying a red-wine drunk and insisted on running the place. LA PRESA HAS A MYSTERY, Mrs. Schaffer’s Son Believes That His Mother Was Murdered. Fire Supposed to Have Been Set to Her Store to Conceal a Robbery. SAN DIEGO, CArL., July 22.—The son of Mrs. Louise Schaffer, found burned to- death in the ashes of her store and post- office at La Presa Friday morning, is working on the theory that she was mur- dered and robbed. He belicves the murderer was in the house when she entered at 10:15 o’clock that night; that he stunned her with a scale-weight, found near her remains, then poured oil from the lamp over her and started the fire. Tbe burner was found off the lamp, and under her body was a bit of glass as from the lamp-chimney. The arms, head and legs were burned away, and the trunk charred to a crisp. The_ light frame-work building would h:\rd]f{ have caused sufficient heat to ac- complish this without an_additional in- flammable material, like oil. Keys were found sticking in the locks of two trunks, including that kept by the widow in the front rgom, where ‘he postage-stamps, amounting to $34, were stored. The other trunk was in the bedroom. Mrs. Schaffer had lost money by bank failures, and it was known also that she had some money concealed in the house, grobnhly $300 or $400. A search under the oor revealed $35, and some melted coin made a total found of about $75. The son thinks the man got some money and escaped. Sl i EXHIBIT OF LOS ANGELES. That for Atlanta Will Be Made by the Chamber of Commerce. LOS ANGELES, CAL., July 22.—At a special meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, the follow- ing letter was received from the holders of the California building privilege at the Atlanta Exposition Los ANGELES, Cal., July 20, 1895. C. D. Willard, Secretary Chamber Commerce, City—DEAR SIR: We have your communication of July 19, and note your suggestion that we turn over the proposed California building to some organization of exhibitors. We are loth to accept yonr suggestion in the exact form in which you putit, for the reason that at the present writing we do not know what counties are going in, nor who the exhibitors are to be. There is one organization in which we have implicit confidence, and that organization is the Los Angeies Chamber of Commerce. We are entirely willing to place the building in the hands of your organization. We will give you without ‘charge 2000 feet of any part of the building you desire to select, and allow you, in consultation with us, to allot space and 10 plan rules in just such shape as you see fit. Will you kindly take this matter up at your earliest opportunity and inform us of the result. Very truly yours, Mgs. S. C. DOOLEY. J. A. GORMAN. There was some discussion of the propo- sition, the board being in some doubt as to whether the Supervisors of the county were disposed to assist in the projeet of making an exhibit, but it was finally car- ried that, provided the Supervisors of the county lent reasonable aid, the Chamber of Commerce would undertake to raise by subscrignon the sum necessary to make a creditable display for Los Angeles County, and would accept the space offered. g e Institute at Tacoma. TACOMA, Wasn., July 22.—The insti- tute for teachers and employes of the Indian Department in the Western States opened here this morning with representa- tives of Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Kansas in attendance. The exercises this morning were: Address of welcome by Professor H. M. James, Superintendent of Public Schools of Tacoma; response, R. E. L. Newcombe, superintendent of the Puyallup School, Tacoma; papers on “Home Life in Indian School,” Mrs. M. C. Watkins, and on “Elements of Success in School,” Henry Hanks. Officers of the institute were chosen as follows: General chairman, Charles H. Rakestraw_of Salem. Or.; general secre- tary, H. D. Arkwright, Crow agency, Mont.; recording secretary, L. W. Parker, Colville School, Wash.; press secretary, J. J. Anderson, Tacoma. NEW TG-DA OPEN EVENINGS. THE WHOLESALE BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, WAITALRR & AT (0 (INCORPORATED 1895), WIill Keep Open Evenings for One Week to Sell SCHOOLBOOKS AND SUPPLIES —AT— RETAIL. PARENTS iriismrasniocons our schoolbooks from a WHOLESALE ouse. Cataiogue of school supplies free. Mail orders promptly attended to. Books delivered any part of the city. HISTORY BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 728 Marizet St., S. F. It is not consistent to sell furniture at “‘cheap” prices and claim that it is “‘good” furniture. 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