The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1896, Page 1

o i W —ad VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 58. = PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL GARCIA IS EN ROUTE TO (UBA, The Veteran Leader Will Command an Army of Patriots. EVADES THE SPANIARDS. He Leaves for the Island at! the Head of a Formidabls Expedition. ARMS, AMMUNITION AND MEN. An Invaluable Addition to the Re- sources of the Struggling Insurgents. 1 | some woman. advanced age and after an illness that bas lasted for several months. | Tor the last twenty years Mr. Tyler has been a resident of this city, and was for a time on the roils of the Treasury Depart- | ment, but a partial paralysis had prevent- ‘ ed him from engaging in the active duties | of his office. He was well known not only | here but in many other parts of the coun- | try, and at one period in his career was | one of the best-known men in the social circles of the capiral. - — POISON IN HIS COFFEE. Attempt of a Woman to End Her Husband's Life Foiled by a Servant Girl, Pa., Jan. A sensation oc- curred this afternoon at Girard,this county, when Mary H. Nellis was arrested for poisoning with intent to kill her husband, Peter H. Nellis, proprietor of the Nellis House, and Edward Gardner was arrested as an accomplice. The prisoners were brought here to-night and lodged in jail. Nellis is wealthy and his wife isa hand. Last summer Mrs. Nellis | spent some time at Lilydale and brought PHILADELPHIA, Pa., morning paper says to-day: Jan. 26.—A General Cal- home with her for a bartender Edward Gardner, whom she had met at the spirit. ialistic resort. ixto Garcia, the most distinguished Cuban Nellis carrigd a $10,000 general now outside of Cuba, has escaved on his life in favor of his wife. Sev- e o eral weeks ago he was taken sick. He has -es of Spanish agents and 1is port last Thursday, e fruit steamer Bernard, bound goes to Cuba at the head e expedition that has | ,of which he will s, where he the Jasof, board and a large ition. neral Gar- the expedi- port near the e province of Pinar del ince of Havana. General nformed of all the | ition, and at the point | landing of the expedi- l ave a strong body of troops. great popularity in that | expected that General Garcia once place himself at the head of body of men in the province of | { his Cubans in this country great aced in this expedition. One of s of the Cuban cause has of commanders who com- and military sagaci ortune befall either Gen- o Gomez or Generals Jose or Maceo, the Cubans’ cause would | be in a rather embarrassing position. | General Garcia. bowever, is fully com- petent to take any of the generals’ places | ata moment’s notice, and when news of the successful landing of his expedition | reaches this country, there will be rejoic- ing among the Cubans. St i A TRAILN. eral Maxin Antonio CAPTIUR Rebels Destroy the Coaches After Allow- ing the Passengers to Depart. | HAVANA, Cusa, Jan. 26.—The insur- gents, despite the Government assertions to the contr: appear to be doing just about as they please in the neighborhood of Havana. | This afternoon a band of rebels stopped | & train that was running between Guenajay | and this city. They ordered the passen- who were in & state bordering on c, to leave the train, which order was obeyed with alacrity. | The passengers feared they would be maltreated by the insurgents, but their | fears were gronrdless, as the rebel leader courteously informed them that they | would not be harmed, nor would their per- | sonal effects be molested. They would, | bowever, have to pursue their journey on | foot, as it was their intention to destroy | the train. The commander then gave orders for the torch to be applied to the cars, and soon nothing was left except the iron work. The train was captured about a mile from San Antonio, to which place the passengers walked and informed the authorities of what had occurred. Troops were immediately dispatched to | the scene, but when they arrived the rebels had disappeared. The train did not bave one of the armored cars which are used on the railroads for the conveyance of troops to guard the passengers and the railway company’s property. A car for this purpose is being built on the Havana and Guanajay line and as soon as 1t is finished, which will shortly, it will be placed in service. Pas; engers on the line will then be able to | travel in security, unless the insurgents take to removing rails, loosening fish- | plates or adopting some other method to | wreck the trains. It is, however, not believed that they will do this, as their efforts are not directed | toward harming passengers on the rail- wrys, but to destroying railroad property when it cen be done without risk to pas- sengers. sl MINOR ENGAGEMENTS. General Munoz Encounters the Bands of Rabi and Ri | WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. ‘ZG,—-Min-" ister Dupuy de Lome to-day received tele- | grams from Havana giving accounts of | several engagements between the Spanish troops and insureents, all but one of which are of minor importance. In that case General Gonzales Munoz encountered the { bands of Frencisco Rabi and Rios in the Mula Pass and succeeded in putting them it. The casualities were not given. It is explained that the importance and significance of this encounter les in the fact that whereas Rabiand Rios were re- | ported to be approaching Havana to re- enforce Gomez, they were encountered by inoz in the most easterly portion of the | island. several hundred miles distant from Havana. LR Spain’s Expensive Struggle. LONDON, Exg., Jan. 26,—The Standard will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Madrid seying -that the Bank bas ad- vanced another 50,000,000 pesetas to the Cuban treasury, A Som of the President Dies After a Long Titne: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 26.—John Tyner, the son of President John Tyler, be | | since been in declining health, and his brother-in-law, Dr. Rogers, of Connaught, Ohio, became suspicious and set Maggie Hulbrook, a dining-room girl, to keep watch on events in the hotel. Saturday at noon Nellis got a dose of tartar emetic in his coffee. Baturday night the girl caught and saved another dose which Nellis was to have taken. Nellis got another dose to-day, but was re- lieved with a stomach-pump. The arrests foillowed and created -great excitement. The feeling was so strong in Girard against Gardner that only his timely removal by the officers saved him from probable lynching. MASSACRED BY YAQUIS. Redskins Slay a Rancher, His Family and Two Cowboys in the Ures Valley. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 26.—A special from Ures, Mex., says: The Yaqui Indians have made another raid upon the settlers in the valley west of here. On one ranch an entire family, consisting of husband and wife and two children, was massacred, and at another place in the same locality | the Indians killed two cowboys who at- tempted to prevent the reds driving off a herd of cattle. There is a large force of Federal troops in the field against the marauders. TO TAX CHURCH PROPERTY. 4 Swit That Al Toman Catholics Will Watch With Interest. CINCINNATI, Omo, Jan. 26.—A legal fight which. will attract the attention of Roman Catholics the world over will be instituted this week. Attorneys Stephens, Lincoln and Smith, who represent this | diocese, have been notified to appear be- fore the County Auditor to hear an appli- cation, made upon behalf of some person whose identity is not at present estab- lished, for the placing on the tax duplicate | of all the property in this county owned by the Roman Catholic Church and not used as a_place of worship. Auditor Hagerty will refuse, as he did privately some time ago, and a suit in mandamus will be filed against him in the Supreme Court. The property in question is valued at $1,000,000, and an egort will be made to bave it charged for the Jast six years on an increased valuation of $6,000,000. The con- tract for doing this work was signed late Friday afternoon. HUNTINGTON'S MEN BUSY Southern Pacific Preparing to Fight the Repealing Bill in Kentucky. The Measure Is Certain to Pass the Senate, but May Run Aground in the House. FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 26.—Senator Goebel’s bill repealing the charter of the Southern Pacific Company has not yet been returned in printed form, but will probably be to-morrow, when it will be re- ferred to the Committee on Railroads, of which Senator Goebel is himselfa member. The bill is likely to be advanced rapidly, and may be put upon its passage in the Senate early next week. It is said the road will make a strong fight to defeat the repealing measure, but indications are that it will pass the Senate easily. The difficulty itis most likely to encounter is in being run aground in the House on account of overshadowing politi- calcomplications in that branch. et g s DIES IN A POORHOUSE. Benjamin Folger, Once the Beau Brummel of Memphis Society, Passes Away in Poverty. CHICAGO, ILv., Jan. 26.—A special from Mempvhis, Tenn., says: Benjamin Folger, a nephew of the late Charles Folger, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Ar- thur’s administration, died in the poor- house here yesterday, aged 60 years. Ben Foiger, as he was familiarly known. was at one time one of the most promi- nent bankers and financiers in the coun- try, but he tcok to speculating a few years ago and his fortune speedily disappeared. He went from bad to worse until he finally landed in the poorbouse. Ten years or more ago he was recognized as the Beau Brummel of Memphissociety, and was the king in all social affairs. — - INVEST IN COFFEE LAND, British Gold Sent Into the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., Jan 26.—A special from the City of Mexico says: The repre- sentative of a syndicate of English capital- ists has just purchased 500,000 acres of coffee land on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The tract will be planted in coffee trees. American capitalists have invested several hundred thousand dollars in the coffee lands on the isthmus within the past few died in this city this morning at & very months. COLLIS PELICAN HUNTINGTON EXPECTS TO CATCH SOME FISH. HON. THEODORE . RUNYON DEAD. Heart Failure Removes the American Embassador at Berlin. SHOCK TO HIS FRIENDS. Though He Had Been in Feeble Health the End Comes Unexpectedly. AT HIS POST TO THE LAST. Up to the Time of His Demise. BERLIN, GermaNy, Jan. 27.—The Hon. Theodore Runyon, the American Embas- sador here, died of heart failureat 1 o’clock this morning. Mr. Runyon had been in somewhat Active in the Discharge of His Dutie® as a great shock to official and social eir- cles here in Berlin, where he was a great favorite. The Hon. Theodore Runyon was born at Somerville, N. J., October 25, 1822. He graduated from Yale Colege in 1842 and in 1844 was admitted to the bar, In 1853 he was made city attorney and in 1856 city counselor of Newark, N. J., a position re- tained until 1864, when he became Mayor of the city. He was appointed in 1856 a commis- | sioner to revise and codify the militia laws | of New Jersey, and in 1857 was made brig- adier-general and subsequently major- general of the Nesv Jersey National Guard. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was placed in command of ‘the New Jerssy brigade of volunteers. 1In 1865 he was Democratic candidate for Governor of his State, but was not elected. From 1873 to 1887 he was Chancellor of New Jersey. In March, 1803, he was ap- pointed by President Cle; American Minister to Germany, athi shortly “after- ward was made Embassador. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Yale, Rutgers and Wesleyan Colleges. e CLEVELAND ADVISED. News of Runyon’s Death Causes Surprise at Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26.—The sudden death in Berlin of the American Embassador, Theodore F. Runyocn, to- night was communicated to the President by the United Press. Beyvond that infor- mation the Government had not been ad- vised of the startling news. Its occurrence at so late an hour to- night, of course, prevented the possibility of anything like general circulation. It is certain that the President and the State Department will have official notice before the hour for beginning of business The Late Hon. The odore Runyon, America’s Embassador to Germany. . [From a recent photograph.] feeble heaith for some time past, but no immediate fatal results were anticipated. No longer ago than last Tuesday evening he was present at a dinner given in his honor by ex-Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William. Last summer Mr. Runyon had planned to make an extended trip through Nor- ‘way, but on the advice of his physician he abandoned this trip and instead went to Carlsbad, where he took the cure. He subsequently went to Axenstein, Switzer- land, for the purpose of taking an after- cure. Since that time, however, he has maiii- fested great activity in the discharge of the duties of his office, which have been more than usually onerous on account of the complications in European affairs, which have more or less demanded the attention and care of the diplomatic repre- sentatives of ail nations. Embassador Runyon’s death will come to-morrow, when whatever action that necessarily should be taken will be promptly attended to. Expired in His Pulpit. MEMPHIS, Tex~., Jan. 26.—Rev. T. B. Hargrove, pastor of the Methodist Church at Cold Water, Miss., drcpped dead in his pulpit this morning while exhorting the congregation to ‘‘believe in the Lord guns and be savea.” These were his last words. 5 o Brunot’s Work Is Done. BORDEAUX, FraNcE, Jan. 26.—Pierre Gustave Brunot, the distinguished French litterateur, is dead. He was born in this city November 18, 1807. His works are very numerous. P AR Evangelist Moody’s Mother Dies. NORTHFIELD, Mass., Jan. 26.—Mrs Betsy Moody,mother of Evangelist Moody, died to-day from an attack of the grippe. Mrs. Moody was in her ninety-first year, HAULED INTO DEEPER WATER, The St. Paul Dragged From Its Cradle in the Sand. CHECEKED BY THE TIDE. Considerable Progrega Is Made Before the Ebb Stops the Work, EFFECTING ITS OWN RESCUE. The Greyhound Draws Itself Seaward by Means of Hawsers Attached to Anchors. LONG BRANCH,N. J., Jan. 26.—Ten thousand visitors from the numerous re- sorts north and south of this place, as well as from New York, Philadelphia and the larger New Jersey towns, flocked hers to- day and repaired to the beach to watch the efforts made to pull the steamer St. Paul, the famdus ocean greyhound, over the bar into deep water. The ship was moved 170 feet seaward, but the flood tide was not of sufficient duration to enable the crews of the steamer and the wrecking companies to haul ber into water deep enough to float her. There were fifty pow- erful tugs opposite the St. Paul ready to render assistance, but they were not utilized. Bix immense anchors were planted in the sea about a thousand yards from the stranded vessel. Fastened to the anchors were several steel hawsers, which were connected with the powerful capstan on the stern of the ship. This capstan was rotated by steam power furnished by the steamer’s boilers and engines. Everything was in readiness for the haul and soon after midnight the engines were started. The hawsers tightened, the capstan creaked, and inch by inch the big ship was pulled seaward. When the tide turned to the ebb the boat had been moved nearly one-third of her length and placed in a more advantageous position, as at low tide she was only six feet in the sand and in eleven feet of water. The strain on the hawsers was kept up moder- ately during the day in order to keep the ship from again moving toward the beach. No attempt was made to float her while the afternoon tide was at the flood. Those in charge predict that to-mor- row’s high tides will be higher than that of to-day, and with favorable conditions they expect to complete the work begun so auspiciously last night. The sea was almost as quiet to-day as the proverbial mill pond. This state of affairs caused the life-saving crews to remove from the ship the line thrown to her when strand- ef, which was used to run the breeches buoy to and from the liner. Messrs. Clement A. Griscom, senior and junior, of Philadelphia, president and manager, respectively, of the Interna- tional Navigation Company; William Cramp, a member of the firm that built the St. Paul; Marine Superintendent Shockford and other high officiais of the American line visited the unlucky ship and spent hours in consultation with Cap- tain Jamison and his staff. They gave out no official statement for publication, but the petty officers strongly deny that the St. Paul was engaged in a race with the Campania prior to the accident. This story is not generally believed, as Captain James Mulligan of life station No. 4, who was the first to board the ship in the breeches buoy on Saturday morning, states that the first question put to him by the passengers when he stepped foot on the deck was, *“Where is the Campania?” All the passengers of the St. Paul were taken to New York in tugs late yesterday afternoon, but the entire crew. numbering 400, including many women, remain on THE SAN JOSE LOCAL WRECKED NEAR BADEN board, and have not come ashore since the | St. Paul struck. The steamer carried a cargo of fruits, nuts, gold ana general merchandise. Early this morning the lighter John Hag- | gerty was floated to the shoreward side of the vessel, and the crew of the latter, as- | sisted by the wreckers, transferred hun-| dreds of tons of the cargo from the steam- er’s side to the lighter. The baggage and | perishable goods were first moved. These were taken to New York. The large ! amount of the precious metal was not dis- | turbed, but remains in a strong box on | board the steamer in charge of a_guard of | picked men. - The officers of the St. Paul deny the re- port that the vessel was injured when she | struck. They say there is no water in her hold and her plates are just as intact as the day she was launched. One of the novel features of the day was the rigging of a telephone on board the boat to connect with the shore. The shore end is connected with the local tele- phone system, and by this means the ship’s officers are able to communicate with their agents in the city. The scene on Ocean avenue in front of the beached steamer resembled a county fair; improvised lunch rooms, cigar stands and traveling ‘‘speakeasies” furnished food and drink to the multitude. On the portico of one of the big summer hotels, now closed, was a large sign read- | ing: ‘‘Seats to Let,” and the enterprising | man in charge reaped a harvest of shekels. The local railroad from Asbury Park to Long Branch carried thousands of passen- | gers, Farmers from a distance of twenty miles drove to the scene of the accident, and mingled with the fashionably dressed i visitors from the city. | At9o'clock to-night Custom-house Of. ficer Patterson telephoned from the St. Paul that a determined effort would be | made at5 A. M. to-morrow to pull the ship from her cradle in the sand. Mr. Patter- son said the attempt would doubtless be a failure, unless a wind from the east was | blowing that would make the tide extra | high. | —_—— REPLACED BY THE BAT. LOUI1S. | The Stster Ship to Make the Run for the Stranded Greyhound. PHILADELPHIA, Pi., Jan. 26.—The 6t. Louis, sister ship of the St. Paul, will | leave Cramp's shipyard at 7 o’clock to- | morrow for New York and will take the St. Paul's place for the present on the American line. The St. Louis came here Tuesday night to have her smokestacks enlarged. Considerable progress had been made in the work necessary to remove the stacks | when orders were received early Saturday mornicg to stop the work of alterations, followed by directions to put the vessel in condition for sea at once. By keeping lasge forces of men at work Saturdey and Saturday night the partly dismantled stacks were put in proper shape by this morning and what remained to be done to put the vessel in order for sea wasac- complished during the day. e WRECKED OFF SEABRIGHT. The British Ship Foyle Crashes Unto the Rocks and Fili NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 26.—The British ship Foyle of London, from Cal- | cutta September 23 for New York with a general cargo, lies aground in the Horse- shoe, directly off the old railroad dock at | Sandy Hook. She has about six feet of | water in the hold. She struck upon the | Shrewsbury rocks off Seabright about 9| o’clock last night, but finally floated off | and was towed 1n by the Merritt Coast | ‘Wrecking Company’s steamer and beached | in the Horseshoe. The crew had been at the pumps for | fifteen days. The wreckers will take out | some of the cargo and pump her out. | IBISSINANS ARE. ACTVE, King Menelik’s Force Mpditating an Invasion of the Tigre Country. Humbert Signs a Decree Declaring Erythrea to Be in a State of War. ROME, Irtavy, Jan. 26.—A dispatch from Massowah says that a messenger has arrived at the camp of General Bara- tieri, the commander of the Italian forces, bringing letters from Menelik, King of the Abyssinians, to King Humbert and General Baratieri. Colonel Galliano, commander of the Italian forces recently compelled to evac- uate the town of Makelle, after a long siege by the Abyssinians, has not yet ar- rived at General Baratieri’s camp. It is reported that Colonel Galliano exploded the magazine and blew up the fortress at Makelle upon leaving the town. It is reported that the Abyssinian chiefs are angry at the release of the garrison by King Menelik, as they believe they would | have eventually forced the Italians to sur- render unconditionally. It is said that the Abyssinian army is disposed to march on in the State of Tigre. King Humbert signed a decree this mornngdeclaring the province of Ervthrea | to be in a state of war. It is not expected | that a 1;“0@ can be arranged with King | Menelik without giving him battle. The dispatch to Massowah of reinforcements, munitions, cannons and shells continues. LI H e CURRIE COLDLY RECEIVED. Abdul Hamid Keeps the Bearer of Vic- toria’s Letter Waiting in a Room Not Heated. LONDON, ExG., Jan. 26.—The Daily News will to-morrow pablish a dispatch from its Constantinople correspondent stating that the interview had with the Sultan by Sir Philip Currie, the British Embassador, when he delivered to his Majesty the letter written by Queen Victoria, was not cordial. * The Sultan kept Sir Philip and his dragoman waiting in a cold room for an hour before they were admitted to his presence. Sir Philip caught a severe cold and has been confined to his room ever since. 1 Hurled From the Track Undermined by Storm Waters. THE ENGINEER KILLED. Panic-Stricken Passengers Leap From the Flooded Em- bankment. SIGNAL THAT WAS UNHEEDED, A “Call” Reporter Was the First to Discover the Danger—Stories of Eye-Witnesses. KILLED, JOHN KEYER of San Francisco, engl- neer of the San Jose local. INJURED. CHARLES GILL of San Francisco, the fireman, seriously injured on the hesd. CONDUCTOR STANWOOD of San Francisco, cut about the face. MRS. VAGGINI of San Jose, cut about the face. 45 Al Sl Because he failed to understand or heed a danger signal Engineer Jack Keyer of the Southern Pacific Company lost his life at 6 o’clock last evening and narrowly escaped sacrificing the lives of nearly one hundred passengers in the train under his charge, Train No. 19, which runs to San Jose and way stations, left this City at 5:30 o'clock on time and ran at its usual speed to Baden station. Here a red lantern—the signal of danger—was swung in front of the speed- ing engine to warn the engineer that some- thing was wrong down thie road, but though the train slowed down to some extent it did not do so sufficiently to avert a disaster and ' the engineer’s life went out in the flood that filled the basins on each side of the track. The fireman and conductor of the train were also badly hurt. The terrific rains of yesterday afternoon sent torrents of water down the little valley that leads from Colma to Baden, each canyon adding its volume to the flood until the flume recently built by the Supervisors of San Mateo County to pro- tect the county road was filled to over- flowing and the lowlands were covered many feet deep. Below the pumping station at the Baden artesian wells the flat that in the morning had been merely a marsh, covered with an inch or two or water, became a river six or eight feet deep, rushing with terriffic force toward the bay, carrying fences and bulkhedds away and driving the cattle to the higher ground. The railroad at this point is built on an embankment, which crosses the marsh to South San Francisco station and aivides the flat into two parts. The culverts were totally inadequate to carry away the water and it gradually in- creased in volume until it overflowed the embankment and began undermining the track. Once the water crossed- the rails it ate its way into the foundations and | carried mud, stone and even ties with the roaring torrent that rushed down the north side of the embankment. The train from the south, which passes South San Francisco at 4:30 o’clock, crossed the dangerous portion in safety, but within an hour the roadbed was so in- secure that even a pedestrian could not pass without picking his steps carefully for fear of falling into the rushing waters on either side. . The employes at Baden and Bouth San Francisco knew nothing of the danger until the train had planged into the water and the roar of the escaping steam warned them that something had occurred. Then messengers and danger signals were sent both ways to warn approaching trains of the disaster. The scene on board the wreckedflocal was almost indescribable. Though the train was not running at a high rate of NEW TO-DAY. 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