The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1896, Page 1

TYTYe naed /wo“ o qr7 8y | jou J8dey s Yy ‘, 1€ oq o VOLUME L SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND WOMAN. CONQUERS DEATH Emerges From a Trance| When Garbed for Burial. SAVED FROM THE GRAVE Twice Pronounced Without Life, but a Neighbor Prevents Interment. HER BODY RIGID AS A CORPSE. She Awakens From a Week’s Stupor and Eagerly Pleads for Food. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 4.—Mrs. Mary 8. Albertson, a young widow owning a small dairy near this city, has unusual cause to be thankful that she is alive. A grave had been prepared for her, and but for the in- terference of a neighbor she would have ffered a horrible death by suffocation in et under six feet of earth. Twice e had been pronounced dead by physi- cians and attendants, and all arrange- ments for her funeral were completed. she emerged from her deathlike | ance at last, and is now on the road to | recovery. Hers is a most remarkable case. Mrs. Albertson was taken sick with a ack of typhoid fever. Two weeks inday was the first time she ventured out since her illness, and on that he came to this city to attend church. t night she again was taken sick, and nding physician pronounced it a f the fever. bertson ¢ontinued to grow more from day to day, until 3 o’clock in the morning of the 27th of July, when seemingly passed away. Preparations were made to bury her on the 29th, but as be being placed in a casket the ity forsook it, and it be- came as limp asin life. Fr Thurman, who had had many vears’ experience as a hospital nurse in Denmark, was present at the time, and he opposed the burial of the woman under those conditions, An electric battery was applied to the seemingly dead woman. It produced muscular twitchings and a hec- tic flush in her cheeks, but nothing more. Thurman, however, insisted that Mrs. Al- bertsoa was Ina trance, and his positive refusal to allow the body to be inhumed nntil more conclusive evidences of death became apparent almost created a row. On Friday noon, while Thurman and a friend, William Olsen, were gazing upon Mrs. Albertson, who had been taken out of the casket and placed back on her bed, y saw a healthy color coming and go- n her face. Shortly after that her rs slightly moved, but the eyes re- mained closed. Dr. Vernon was sum- moned as quickly as possible, but when he arrived the face had resumed its death- like lor and the body was as rigid as rst declared that life had aban- doned The doctor remained in the room a couple of hours, at the expiration o! which time the phenomenon repeated itself. The doctor had taken the precau- tion to bring bhis galvanic battery with him, and this he at once utilized. The effect was almost incredible. In a half-minute Mrs. Albertson moved her right arm, and pressing ner hand to her brow she uttered a low moan. This satis- fied Dr. Vernon that life was not extinet, and the galvanic battery was applied every hour or two on that and the follow- ing day without producing any more satisfactory results. The last application of the batt was made at3 o’clock yes- terday morning, when Mrs. Albertson opened her eyes and in a weak voice said: “Oh, I'm so hungry."” Restoratives were close at hand, and the battery was kept in operation for another half-hour, when the woman, without assistance, sat upright ir her bed. The occurrences of the preceding week were a blank to her, excepting the placing of her body in a casket. Shesays she was conscious that she was to be buried alive, but was unable to give any sign to escape from that horrible fate. Within the past twenty-four hours shejhas been gaining strength remarkably fast, and her pros- pects for a long career on this earth are quite favorable. OREGUN LAND SALES. Patented Tracts of the Northern Pacific Bid in by President Winter. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 4—Three hun- dred and thirteen thousand acres of pat- | ented and uunpatented Oregon lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company were sold at public anction at the courthous: | this afternoon for §558,000. These tract: | were bid in by President Winter of the | new company. There were no other bid- | ders at the sale. All previous sales have already been confirmed by the Federal courts and the only sales remaining are | those covering the lands in Oregon and Washington. President Winter says if | the sales are promptly confirmed the re- | ceivers should be ready to turn over the property to the new company dn Septem- ber 1. J. M. Hannaford has accepted the posi- tion of general traffic manager and Wil- liam H. Phipps that of land commissioner under the new company, these reappoint- ments being announced this morning. - Identity of an abandoned Vessel. PORTLAND, Or., Aug.4.—The report brought by Captain Hobbs of the Nicar- | aguan brig Salvador, that he sighted a | 1arge four-masted ship in tow of the whale- | back steamer City of Everett, southbound, | the tow having lost her foremast, has given rise to many conjectures among | shipping men as to the identity of the abandoned vessel. The only four-master /| that can be i eadily placed as the abandoned vessel is the British bark Chelmsford, 2197 tons, Captain Thompson, from Grimsby with a general cargo consigned to Meyer, | Wilson & Co. of this port. The Chelms- | ford is now out 148 days, but owing to the unprecedented long westward -passages of this season no fears have heretofore been entertained as to her safety. JLIBAE BLODD FLOWS Populists Assail Democrats and a Lively Fight Is the Result. During the Desperate Battle One Man Is Killed and Several Are Severely Wounded. | COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 4—A special to | the Enquirer-Sun from La Fayette, Ala., | to-night s News has just reached this | city by wire of a terrible tragedy which | occurred at Five Points, ten miles above | here, thisafternoon in which one man was | killed and five others dangerously | wounded. It was a battle between Popu- | lists and Democrats. George Cumpbee, | Democrat, was dangerously wounded; Lem Satterwhite, Democrat, was shot in the hip; A. P. Trammel and two other | Trammels, Populists, were wounded. A Jarge posse from here has gone to the soene. A second posse from Roanoke has also gone. A private message over the telephone from Five Points at 8 p. M., says that pistol shots are now ringing out on the night air. The Democrats had been to La Fayette to bring in the election re- turns and were on their way home when they were met at Five Points by a crowd of enraged Populists who attacked them and a general row ensued. The posse that has gone to the scene is much enraged and it the guilty Populists are appre- hended much blood will be shed. The Cumpbee boys are sons of Rev. John Cumpbee of this connty, and they are sturdy, moral, upright men and are among the best citizens of the county. They have never been in difficulties of any kind be- fore. St pars ROBERT GARRETT'S WILLS. Liberal Bequests Made by the Late Reail- road President and Banker. BALTIMORE, Mp., Aug. 4—The wills of the late Robert Garrett were made pub- lic to-night, and both instruments will be probated to-morrow. One of the docu- ments was executed in Baltimore in 1883, and makes his wife substantially his sole devisee and legatee. Ths other wiil was The Willie Boy and the Farmer’s Coat. N N s ANy \ s W - S “The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man.” drawn in London in 1888, just after the death of his brother, T. Harrison Garrett. This document bequeaths $100,000 to each | of the three sons of his brother, T. Harri- son Garrett; $300,000 to his father-in-law, William F. Frick; $30,000 to Charles Nitze, | the manager of the banking house of Rob- | ert Garrett & Sons, and $20,000 to A. B. Crane, for many vears the private secre- tary of Mrs. Garrett. All the rest ana | residue of the estate is given to his wife, Mary Garrett, absolutely. . Itis evident that the widow intends to adopt the last one, although in derogation of the will of 1883, as it makes specific be- quests to his brother’s chidren and others. PR L PEACE UNDER PROTEST. Cleveland Strikers and Non-Union Men Are Armed and a Conflict Is Inevitable. CLEVELAND, Onio, Aug. 4—There has been no actual outbreak yet, but every- thing gives promise thata fight may oceur at any moment. What makes the condi- tion of affairs more serious is that many of the strikers are armea and ready for trouble whenever it comes. A ready-for-an-emergency feeling per- vaded the air in the neighborhood of the Brown Hoisting Works this morning. There was peace, but it was peace under protest, and peace that might be broken at any time. A single overt act might lead to bloody consequences. At the time for beginning work 150 men entered the works and proceeded to the various shops. They were, of course, all non-union men, and were strongly guard- ed to prevent intimidation. The strikers, however, did not attempt to molest them contenting themselves with groans and catcalls. Every street within a radius of nearly a mile is kept patrollea by the militia. The locked-out men gathered in the streets in the vicinity of the works were kept mov- ing by the police and soldiers. any of the latter were armed both with rifle and revolver. Quite a large proportion of the strikers also carried guns, and from the threatening looks on their faces when or- dered to move on it seemed as if they were longing for a chance to use their Weapons. —_— Denred by the Banker. MONTREAL, Quesec, Aug. 4.—E. 8. Clouston, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, was interviewed to:day regard- ing a Chicago dispatch which stated that the Chicago branch of the Bank of Mon- treal had ‘‘raised a storm there’’ by open- ing a gold account against which had been issued time certificates of deposit, the gold obtained being shipped to Montreal tor use there. Mr. Clouston said that there was no basis whatever for this report. BAGING STORNS JELIED THEM The Ship Lathom and Bark Undaunted Arrive Safely. BOTH VESSELS DAMAGED. i Perilous Résc_ue of the Crew of the Ship Gowanbank by the Lathom. OIL ON THE TROUBLED WATERS, With Its Aid the Boats Were Lowered and the Men Were Taken Off the Sinking Ship. Two more vessels of the overdue fleet reached port yesterday. They were the British ship Lathom, 175 days from Bwansea, and the American bark Un- daunted, 196 days from Baltimore. Both vessels had terrible experiences off the Horn, the Undaunted being 58 days in getting round. Reinsurance was paid on both vessels. Beside a succession of heavy gales the Lathom was the means of saving the crew of the dismantled British ship Gow- anbank. Captain Campbell thus describes the disaster: “At 7 A. M. April 23, while a fresh gale was blowing from the west, with falling barometer, ship reaching to south south- west on port tack under reeied topsatls and reefed foresails, we sighted a large dismantled ship on starboard bow. She proved to be the Gowanbank and was flying signals for us to send lifeboats. Iat once reduced sail to lower topsails and had oil poured over the side. That prevented the waves from breaking and we suc- ceeded in lowering the port lifeboat. The chief officer and six men went in it and took a supply of oil with them. ‘‘When the lifeboat got near the Gow- anbank the oil in the lockers was poured gently over the side and again the waves stopped breaking and the men were able to get near the dismantied ship, Nine The British Ship Liathom and the American Bark Undaunted as They Appeared Yesterday. 'Both Vessels Were Overdue and: Feinsurm Was Paid on Them. The Grew of the Liathom Rescued the Grew of the Dismasted British Ship Gowanbank Off the Horn. men were taken off and landed safely on the Lathom. The men on the Gowanbank then launched their damaged lifeboat and five of them reached our vessel in it. We then made another trip and saved the remainder. “We were only just in time. A few minutes after the boats were hoisted in it began to blow a whole gale. It was ac- companied by blinding hailstorms and high seas and gradually increased to a hurricane. On April 30 one of the Gow- anbank’s crew died and was buried at sea.” After rounding the Horn the Lathom encountered heavy gales and hurricanes from the westward, accompanied by blind- ing snow and hail. Everybody on board suffered and some of the men were frost- bitten. On June 12 Valparaiso was reached and the men from the Gowanbank were landed. Ceptain Campbell is well known here and is one of the most popular masters that come to 8an Francisco. He was here a counle of years ago in the Slteve Donard, but went back to England tosuperintend the building of the Lathom. The Undaunted is well known in this port, and Captain Lewis is an old-timer. ‘When last here the Undaunted was ship rigged, but when she struck on the bar and almost became a wreck she was changed into a bark. She was sold at that time, and is now owned on the Pacific Coast. In speaking about his voyage Captain Lewis said : “From April9 to May 23 we had nothing but a succession of heavy westerly gales. ‘We could show nothing but our lower maintopsails, and the vessel was driven back all the time. On one occasion the barometer fell to 27:20, and a hurricane came up that lasted twenty-eight hours. We were hove to under goose-wing main- topsail, and tremendous seas swept us from stem to stern. Early one morning a big sea brokeaboard and washed away forty feet of the bulwarks and everything movable on deck. The forward house was flooded and other damage was done. “We sighted a ship four pointson our port bow.” We passed an eighth of a mile to windward of her, but owing to the spray blowing, I could not see her hull very plain. Her sails were all blown away and we could see the fragments flying on the yards. Her mizzen yards wers over aback, and apparently she was making very bad weather. “We sprung our lower main topsail yard in the gale and had to fish it. On the 23d of May, in latitude 56:40 north, longi- tude 72:50 west, took the wind from N. NW., which took us to 80:40 west, thence to the equator fine weather, which was crossed on the 7th of July in longi- tude 112 west, 138 days from equator in Adantic. I must say that we had the hardest time from 50 to 50 that I ever saw or heard of, taking fifty-eight days to make the distance. The old ship stood it well and looks none the worse for her drubbing off the Horn, and is still as able to round the stormy corner as some of the newer clippers. She kept tight through it all and is open for inspection. From the equator to port we had the usual summer weather. We were 196 days making the run, and I'm tired out.” BEARDSLEE’S SUCCEMSOR. Either Rear-Admiral Eamsay or Com- modore Dewey. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 4.—A Herald Washington special says: Although the tour of duty of Rear-Admiral Beardslee of the Pacific station will expire this month, it is understood that Secretary Herbert will not relieve him until fall. Before the Secrelary’s departure for Alabama the question was raised as to the date when Admiral Beardslee should be relieved, and he decided that no orders for any change should be made until after the fall manen- vers. All gossip connects the name of Rear- Admiral Ramsay, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, with the position of Admiral Beardslee’s successor. Commodore George Dewey is also an applicant for the villet | d the general impression at the depart- ::ant :eegml to be that he will be given the assignment. Commodore Dewey is now resident of the Board of Inspection guruy. ELECTEIOAL ROMANCE. A Little Card That Led to Wooing and & i Wedding. OAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 4.—Miss Laura J. High, a young woman employed in the incandescent light works'in this city as a packer, some months :gt:l y pl;:ad a ;;rd containing her name and address a box into ‘vhich she had packed a lot of lamps. 5 This box proved to be destined for Chicago, and there the card fell into the hands of William Lincoln, a young busi- ness man. There was correspondence and photographs were exchanged. The couple were married Saturday in this city by Rev. C. F. Stinfield, a Methodist minister. They have gone to Baltimore and Washington on their wedding tour. e g Sy TRAINLOADS OF TRAMPS, Leave Crime in Their Wake and Escape the Prisons. TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4—Twenuy- eight tramps were arrested by a squad of Special ofticers between 2 and 3 o’clock yesterday morning at the Pennsylvania road Clinton-street station for trespassing on the company’s property in stealing a ride on a freight train from Jersey City and also on suspicion of being implicated in a robbery of one of their comrades. It appears that one of the comrades of these tramps, Jake Portman of New York, had some money on his person, which fact the others learned, and just before reaching New Brunswick revolvers were drawn. Portman was robbed, stripped of his cloth- ing and thrown from the fast moving train. He has not been heard of since. Portman’s brother was one of the gang, and was arrested. He said the two men who committed the robbery jumped from the train at New Brunswick. All the twenty-eight prisoners were dismissed from custody becanse they had no money to pay fines, and there is no room in the workhouse. Another raid was made last night on a trainload of tramps, but they drew revol- vers and drove the officers away. DESPERADOES CAPTURED Christian Brothers, Members of the Doolin Gang, Are Taken by Surprise. The Notorious Bandits Charged With Nearly Every Crime on the Calendar. WICHITA, Kaxs., Aug.4.—The}Chris- tian brothers, the noted bandits, who es- caped from the jail at Oklahoma City about a year ago through the connivance of a female bandit, who smuggled arms to them, and who were then under sentence for’ murder, and committed another in order to escape, have been recaptured near Loco, in the Indian Territory. Their presence in that secticn was suspecied yesterday, when a house was robbed by two men answering their description, and the Deputy United Marshal was notified to be on the alert. They stole alarge quantity of provisions, a set of harness and some money, and drove off in a lum- ber wagon in &n easterly direction. Hunger had evidently driven them from their retreat. The officers followed, and, having overtaken them, started to pass. ‘When just opposite the murderers the latter were covered with Winchesters and taken completely off their guard. The bandits tamely submitted to arrest, though heavily .rmed. Both deny their identity, but they were taken to Duncan and fully identified. They were taken before United States Commissioner Williams for preliminary examination and were bound over with- out_ bail. This morning{they were taken to the Federal jail at Ryan, where the identification was confirmed by several parties. Their bodies show several gun- shot wounds recently inflicted. One of them has an ugly wound in the right shoulder which has not yet healed. Their career of crime has extended over a long period, snd they were not only identified with the Doolin gang at one time, but they afterward headed an independent gang and mede an unenviable record as robbers and cutthroats. In making their escape at Oklahoma City they killed the Chief of Police. —_—— Death of George Bell. STAMFORD, Coxx., Aug. 4.—George Bell, manager of Laffan’s News Burean, in New York, died here this morning of con- estion of the lungs. Mr. Bell was well finown in Chicago newspaper circles, he having been connected with papers there some vears ago. He had been sick less than a mon! Mr. Bell leaves a widow. ———— Fatlure of Clothiers. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug.4—A. and A. B. Cramer, composing what is known as the Famous Clothing Company, made an assignment to-day. W. L. Buechle was appointed trustee. Assets about $35,000, with liabilities $25,000. Poor collections were the cause of the failure. DEADLOCK [N THE SIKTH DISTRICT, Democrats at Ventura Fail to Name a Candidate for Congress. PATTON AND ROSE TIED. Each Receives Thirty-Five Votes on Seven Successive Ballots. ADJOURNMENT UNTIL TQ-DAY. Attempts Made to Falsify Returns While the Rolls Are Be- ing Called. VENTURA, OAr.,, Aug. 4—The Sixth Congressional District Democratic Con- vention met in this city to-day. After balloting seven times in a vain attempt to name a Congressional nominee the con- vention adjourned until to-morrow. L. J. Rose and George S. Patton showed equal strength, each vote resulting in a tie. Permanent organization was effected by the election of M. K. Merritt of Monterey County as chairman and Adolph Ramish secretary by a vote of 37 to 32. The result was hailed as a victory for Rose as against Patton. Much time was lost in a fight over the admission of proxies given by Cassin and Burke of Santa Crnz and Thompson of Monterey to Stephen M. White of Los Angeles, and by him transferred to dele- gates instructed for Patton. After a bitter fight, J. Marion Brooks, chairman of the credentials committee, on the suggestion of John M. Mitchell acting for Rose, with- drew his protest and the proxies were ad-~ mitted. John W. Mitchell nominated L. J. Rose and, T. O. Toland presented George S. Patton’s name. The first and the succeeding six ballots resulted in a tie vote—Rose 35, Patton 35— as follows: Los Angeles—Rose 20, Patton 17. Monterey—Rose 7, Patton 1. Santa Cruz—Patton 6. San Luis Obispo—Rose 4, Patton 2. Banta Barbara—Rose 1, Patton 6. Ventura—Rose 3, Patton 3. During the call of the roll a poll of Ven- tura and Santa Barbara was demanded on each ballot. Prior to the sixth rollcall Harry Patton of Los Angeles introduced a proxy gained from George Hartman of Santa Cruz, instructing for Patton. This precipitated a lengthy fight on the admis- sibility of the proxy after the comamittee on credentials bad rendered its final re- vort, J. W. Mitchell leading in the opposi- tion to its admission and T. O. Toland arguing in its favor. After several calls of the roll the matter was finally referred to tbe committee on credentials, with instructions to telegraph, in the name of the convention, for verifi- cation. At 11:30 o’dock no reply had been received, and an adjournment was taken to 9:30 o’clock in the morning. Taken all in all, the convention has no precedent in this district. Thomas Mec- Caffrey of the Southern Pacific telegraph service in Los Angeles handled the Rose delegates and Harry Patton of Los Ange- les the Patton forces. Several attempted frauds in the roll- call were frustrated by the Patton men, J. Marion Brooks handing the chairman a tally-sheet falsified in mistake, so it was stated. During the fifth rollcall some one answered to the name of Yoakum, an ab- sentee, voting for Rose. Amid excitement and confusion a recall was demanded and a tie yote announced. Yoakum, the absentee, held the proxy of F. M. Nickell of Los Angeles. This proxy was claimed on both sides, and Yoakum could not be found, having gone to Los Angeles. SHAW SPEAKS AT LODI Opens the Republican Campaign in San Joaquin County. LODI, CaAv., Aug. 4.—Colonel Henry G. Bhaw of Btockton opened the Republican campaign in San Joaquin County by ad- dressing a large gathering here to-night, including men of all political parties. Many came from distant points to near him. W.C. Green presided atthe meet- ing. Colonel Shaw is an able orator and handled his topic in a striking and orig- inal manner, appearing on the platform with a vari-colored umbreila, illustrative of the present financial system, the re- spective parts colored to show the amount of gold, silver and pager money in the country. He bad with him a miner’s scale and weighed Mexican and American standard dollars, the one against the other, showing their relative weight, and he explained in striking terms their rela- tive values. By the use of colored strips of paper he demonstrated that instead of increasing the volume of money in the country, as the free silverites proposed to do, by the independent coinage of silver at 16to 1, they would coutract the volume of currency nearly one-half. He saia inde- pendent bimetallism would wreck values and involve the country in greater finan- cial ruin than ever before. 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