The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1896, Page 2

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1869. lieves that the piling of the jetty went through the steamer’s bottom. After striking and settling her bow swung around with the swell until she was headed in shore, and that is the position she is now in, lying in about twenty-eight feet of water. The first sea that struck the steamer after she had settled upon the je{zv car- ried away all of her houses, sweeping her deck clear. % Captain Reed says that First Officer Warner’s boat, containing Chief Engineer Brown and six others, was lost through the neglect of the first ofticer. It appears that after Warner's boat had capsized and been righted twice Warner deserted and swam to the second officer’s boat, which was then close by. The captain says that ad Warner remained with his boat the | *i\'es of seven persons would have un- doubtedly been saved. To give an idea of the size of the swell that carried the ill-tated steamer on to the jetty the distance it washed upon the shore was measured by A. W. Reed of Gardiner, who found it just seventy feet higher than any swell that rolled in afterward, and the tide ran in for three and a half hours | after. Captain Reed says there is nota D ity of a doubt but that thisim- mense swell was the one that lifted tke Arago and threw her with such terrific force upon the submerged rocks of the jetty. The Coos Bay life-saving crew deserves great credit for their services. They had a four-mile puli againsi a very strong flood tide, and had to cross a very lumpy, rough bar, and arrived at the wreck after four men had been washed from tbe vessel and one boat-load had been lost, but they at once went to work to rescue Captain Reed and bis remaining passengers and is was accomplished by the life crew ng them a line, and one at a time they tied it to themselves and jumped from the rigging into the angry sea and were pulled aboard the lifeboat. Captain Reed was the last man to leave his ship. C. E. Getty lives at Rocky Point, just opposite the Coos Bay bar. In an inter- view he says he left his home yesterday at 8 o’clock, accompanied by his wife, in a smalil boat for Empire City. They had proceeded but a short distance when they beard four short whistles from the tug Columbia in the direction of the barand in a few minutes four more whistles from some boat in the direction of Coos Head. He remarked to his wife that the lifeboat was needed and something must he wrong on the bar. Just then the tug came in and passed up the inside channel to the Government works, where she sounded four short whistles. Mr. Getty pulled as hard as he could to catch her, but she came down again and passed below him and returned to Empirs City, after blowing four more whistles as she passed the life-saving station. Mr, Getty was by this time in the channel abevethe Government works, when he saw Morton L. Tower running down the beach. They went ashore and Tower told them that the steamer Arazo was lost and that the life-saving crew had been notified and were on their way to the scene of the wreck against a very strong flood tide. Getty ieft hs boat and walked down with Tower to the Government works, and they got a | handcar ready to go totheend of the jetty. | By this time J. G. Haynes, in charge of | the life-saving crew, had joined them. He with two others, Getty and Tower, boarded the car and went out on to the jetty until the location of the steamer could be as- certained. Then they returned to the Government . works and the life-saving crew started around the jetty and over the bar for the scene of the wreck. Geity and Tdwer ioaded the car with life-buoys and lines and returned down the jetty as far as they could with safety. They could see the wreck very plainly, and could see eight men in the rigging and two boats. one near the stern, with ten or twelve men in it and apparently free of water. The other, near the shore and abreast of where Getty and Tower were standing on thie jetty, had five men in it and was nearly iuil of water, but right side up. After passing throngh several heavy seas all right, with one man bailing and two rowing, the boat was capsized and the men washed away from her, but all got back again. Then a succession of heavy seas came and the boat was finally seen empty. T‘he)y looked for the other boat, which they watched from time to time, and saw that she was working to the south in line with the jetty. She was going througha very rough sea and in raising on the top of a wave she seemed to stand straight oa end. ““We could see only a part of the steer- ing-oar standing straight up in the air,” he continued. ‘‘We were sure that every sea that struck her would engulf her, but she stood it through one after another. They were running mountain high and most of the time we could not sée the boat at all. Too much credit cannot be given Becond Officer Banks, who was in charge of this boat, for his heroic efforts alone eaved the lives of all the occupants.” When satisfied that the boat would make shore safely Mr. Getty, unable to do anything on the jetty, went back on the car and went on tiae beach as near to the wreck as possible in hopes that some of the first officer’s boat crew would wash ashore. The boat came ashore but it was empty. Two other boats were ashore at the same place, one of them high up on the beach. He looked for tracks but found none. The beach was by this time strewn with wreckage. Mr. Getty and Mart Ro- sell searched the beach north and south as far as there was any wreckage, but could not find the bodies. They were the only ones on the beach until the second officer’s boat landed in the bay, and the men came running across the beach almost frantic looking for their shipmates. From them Mr. Getty learned that the first mate and two sailors had left the swamped boat and swum to the second officer’s boat. While on the jetty Mr. Getty saw the life-saving crew making heroic efforts to pull over a very rough sbar and against a heavy flood tide. They were nearly three hours in reaching the wreck, whereas had the tug taken them in tow instead of going up the bay they would have reached the wreck in less than half that time and the five men Getty witnessed drowning would probably been rescued. But for some | reason the tug steamed to Empire City and did not returp in time to be of any assistance to the life-saving crew. Mr. Getty picked up a Wells-Fargo box | floating in the bay und turned it over 10 | the steamer’s agent at Empire City. The Arago was entirely under water except her masts when Mr, Getty arrived. The bar was breaking heavily and while quite hazy in the bay it was clear outside, The bar is very rough to-day and the steamer Homer was unable to cross out. Most of the survivors of the wreck will go to San Francisco on the Homer. ARy ol WARNING HAD BEEN GIVEN. Lighthouse Inspector Mervill Knew of the Dangerous Situwation. The following letter is self-explanatory: OREGON COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, San Franeisco, Cal., Ocz. 10, 1896. ! Lieutenant-Commander John C. Merrill, Light- house Inspector, Pertland, Or.—DEAR SIR: As you are doubtless aware, the superstructure at thie outer end of the Coos Bay jetty has been carried away for some montns. This leaves the point without any safeguard to navigation and in foggy weatner vessels are liable to get on to the rocks at the end of the jetty before they can see the superstructure, a distance of something over 200 feet. Besides, we under- stand the channel is cutting around to the northward now, as it did some two years ago, when it was necessary to go within forty or_ fifty feet of the outer end of the jetty. This is dangerously close unless there is some buoy or prominent object there to notify navigators oi the danger. We would, therefore, ask that vou kindly in- vestigate ths matter as nearly as possible, with the view of placing a buoy there, Kindly favor us with reply and oblige, yours truly, GoopALL, PERKINS & Co. The reply was: Just as soon as one of the tenders is & able she will be sent south, and if the buoy asked for is found to be necessary one will be placed there. 2 JOHN P. MERRILL, Lieutenant-Commander United States Navy, Inspector Thirteenth Lighthouse District. “It simply amounts to this,” said Ed- win Goodall yesterday: *‘We considered the channel dangerous and so informed the Lighthouse Board. When the 200 feet of the wharf was washed away a shoal formed to the south, and instead of passing straight outall vessels had to make aswing to the north. Indoing so they had | to vass very close to the jetty, and on | every occasion the captain ran a great | risk. Hence our letter to the lighthouse inspector.” A pathetic incident in connection with the wreck of the steamer Arago took place in this City yesterday morning. Margaret Burns, 5 Elizabeth street, a niece of Wil- liam Whittle, the fireman who was drowned, was o excited over the news of the wreck that she went downtown to await the issue of the morning papers. She was accompsnied by a lady friend. She pur- chased ac})npor from a newsboy on Market street and when she saw her uncle’s name in the list of dead she went into a violent fit of hysterics. She was taken to the Re- ceiving Hospital in the patrol wagon and it was several hours before she recovered. . CAPTURED A FILIBUSTER. The Steamer Daluntless and Her Tender Overhauled by the Revenue Cruiser_Raleigh. JACKSONVILLE, Fra., Oct. 21.—Off New Smyrna bar, this morning, the United States cruiser Raleigh captured the filibustering steamer Dauntless and her tender, the 8. L. Mabey. The Daunt- less was caught at 6 o’clock and the Mabey later. The latter steamer was putting out to sea with coal and supplies for the Dauntless' when the Raleizh dred a blank cartridge for her to stop. The Mabey turned about and tried to escape, whereupon the Raleigh fired a solic shot across her bows, and the tug hove to. An officer was pot in charge of the Mabey and the Dauntless was brought to St. Johns bar aud now lies inside, in charge of officers of the Raleigh, Cubans here are greatly excited, but claim that the Dauntless had no arms nor men on board. In chasing ana capturing the Dauntless the Raleigh used her guns sev- eral times, and the little filibuster came near being sunk. e DECLARED A FORGERY. Major McKinley Indignantly Repudiates the Welles Letter. CANTON, Os1o, Oct. 21.—Major McKin- ley said to-night that the Welles letter, on the face of it, was a forgery which im- puted sentiments to him which he never entertained or utcered. Furthermore, it is a well-knowu fact that prior to 1804 he never signed his name William McKinley, but alwavs. wi hout a single exception, William McKinley Jr. The alleged Welles letteris signed William McKinley and pur- ports to have been written in April, 1890. oy The Treasury Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-day stood at $129,133,341. The day’s withdrawals at New York were $273,400. POPULARITY OF BISHOP KEANE Directors of the Catholic University Hold a Session. Decline to Accept the Deposed Rector’s Resignation From the Board. THE VACANT RECTORSEIP. Three Names Agreed Upon at the Meeting for Presentation to the Pope. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21, —Al though the proceedings of the board of directors of the Catholic University, which began its session to-day, were hedged about with secrecy, some portion of the business transacted has become known. It was anticipated that the vacancies in the board to be filled to-day would be filled by the selection of churchmen not in sympathy with Archbishop Ireland and Bishop Keane, The contrary, however, proved to be the case. The resignation of Bishop Keane as a member of the board, tendered at the same time he resigned the rectorship of the university at the request of the Pope, was declined, and this action was of course largely due to the high regard in which the deposed rector is held. Another vicancy bad been caused in the board by the death of Bishop Martin of St. Cloud, who during his life was a strong adherent of the party opposed to Arch- bishop Ireland, and it was supposed his successor woula hold similar views. Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, a friend of Archbishop Ireland, was elected, and this, 1t is claimed, places a strong and influential member of the American party in the board. The meeting was presided over by Car- dinal Gibbons as chancellor of the uni- versity., Amons the other -directors resent were: Archbishop Corrigan of K‘ew York, Archbishop Wiiliams of Bos- ton, Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, Arch- bishop Chapelle of Santa Fe, Bishop Maes of Covington, Bishop Foley of Detroit, Bishop Horstman of Cleveland, Bishop Farley, auxiliary Bishop of New York; Rev. Father Thomas 8. Lee, pastor of St. Matthew’s Church of this city, and Rev. Thomas E. Waggeman, also of Washing- ton, There were present also as ex-officio members of the board, who were not en- titled to a vote on any question presented: Archbishops Elder of Cincinnati, Riordan of San Francisco, Kain of St. Louis, Gross of Oregon and Feehan of Chicago. Although the fact could not be ascer- tained with positiveness, there is good reason to believe that three names were agreed upon before the meet.infi adjourned to-day for presentation to the Pope as successor to Bishop Keane, but those pres- ent refused absolutely to discuss the mat- ter. Among the churchmen so far named in connection with the rectorship are the following: Father Connata, head of the Catholic Sammer School of Philosophy at Statesbury, N, Y.; Father Brannon of St. Agnes Church, New York; the Very Rev. Howitz of the Paulist congregation of New York; Dr. Edward P. Allen, head of 8t. Mary’s Seminary, Emmetsburz, Md.; Bishop 8palding of Peoria, Iil.; Bishop Horstman of Cleveland and Bishop Becker of Georgia; Archbishop Chappelle of Santa Fe and Dr. Carrigan, acting rector of the university. The board held a special meeting at4 o’c'ock to receive the endowment fund of $50,000 raised by the Ancient Order of Hibernjans for the establishment of a chair of Gaelic literature in the university. The presentation was made in McMahon Hall, which was decorated with the Papal colors, yellow and white, mingled with the red, white and blue. A committee of the Ancient Order of Hibernians occupied seats on the platform. P. J. O’Connor of Savannah, president of the order, made the presentation speech, and addresses on be- half of the order were also made by M. E. Mylhere of Philadelphia and Hon. J. C. Weadock of Bay City, Mich. Cardinal Gibbons accepted the donation on behalf of the university. He said that for many years priests and laymen of Gaelic origin had made isolated attempts to secure on American soil the teaching of the Ianguage of their ancestors. Review- ing the work of the Hibernians, the Car- dinal paid a fitting tribute to their gener- osity, many of whom were not, he said, over rich, but who helped to bear the ma- terial burdens of the church in all the Btates and Territories. The donation re- vealed a spirit of profound confidence, a firm conviction that the sclemn invitation of Leo XIII to contribute to the support of the university, and the controi exercised over the entire’ work of the American episcopate was ample guarantee thatthe will of the donors would never be frus- trated nor the spirit of the gift violated. The founding of this chair was, the Car- dinal continued, moved by sentiments of gratitude and veneration for the past ser- vices of the Gaelic tongue; it bad no in- tention of adopting the Gaelic asa spoken tongue. The great tongue of this country, by a marvelous dispensation of divine rmvide'\ce. is the English tongue. As oyal and affectionate sons of this mighty commonwealth the members of the order cling not only to the fundamental com- pacts of the l{tion and the States, to the common institutions and also to the spirit of this country, but likewise to its Na- tional tongue and literature. The Cardinal devoted a considerable portion of his remarks to the past history of the Gaelic tongne and literature and the honored place they held in the es- teem ot all modern pbhilologists and re- ferred to it as being during the last half century the object of profound research. The board of directors later gave out the following list of names they had selected to be forwarded to Rome from which it is expected the Holy Father will select one for the rectorship of the Catho- lic university: Rev. T. J. Conaty, D.D., of Worcester, Mass.; Very Rev. J. A. Mooney of New York and Rev. Daniel Riordan of Chicago. The board foliowed strictly the letter of the constitution, which says that the rec- tor must be a priest. Bishop Keane was elected to his position before the constitu- tion was approved or enforced. It was enacted that the rector will be elected hereafter for a term of six years. Many names were presented by the directors viva voce. When it came to the selection by baliot Very Rev. Dr. Garrigan, acting rector, positively withdrew his name from the list. The resignation of Prolessor Perrier of the chair of cenon law was accepted. FRANCE AND RUSSIA. Outlines of the Military Convention _lc- tween the Two Countries Formed Six Years Ago. LONDON, Exe., Oct. 21.—The Daily Chronicle in to-morrow’s issue will claim to have obtained the outlines of the much- debated treaty of alliance between France and Russia, which was germinated in the military convention.of 1890. The treaty was signed in December, 1893, M. Casimir- Perier and M. de Giers, Russian Foreign Minister, being chiefly concerned. The treaty, the Chronicle will say, is simply a military convention, with special relation to the balance of power created by the Austro-German alliance, and lapses when the latter terminates. It is purely defensive, and, therefore, could not be used to aid in the recovery by France of the Reichsland, and is directed only against such attacks on the part of Ger- many as was meditated by Prince Bis- marck in 1875. Codicils have been added to the treaty dealing with the unfounded scare over the reported intention of Great Britain to intervene in Moroccoand the China-Japan war. ZLminent Montreal Divine Dead. MONTREAL, Queskc, Oct. 21,—The Rev. Canon Anderson, principal of the Mon- treal Diocesan Theological College, is dead. MURDERED BY DIVAMITE Bomb Placed Under the Desk of a Business Man at Yonkers, New York. Believed to Have Bezen the Work of Anarchists, Who Killed the , Wrong Man. YONKERS, N. Y., Oct. 2L.—Hamlin J. Andrus, secretary of the Arlington Chemi- cal Company, was murdered to-day in his office by some unknown miscreant, who chose a dynamite bomb as his weapon. The work looked like that of a mad man or an anarchist, and when all the evi- dence that could be gathered to-day was sifted it looked as if the bomb had not been intended for the victim which it reachen, but for his brother, John E. Andrus, the wealthiest man in Yonkers and president of the concern. The dynamite bomb is supposed to have been placed on a wastepaper box under the desk which Mr. Andrus used as a footstool. Mr. Andrus bad not an enemy in the world as far as known. His brother, John E. Andrus, is wealthy and has enemies. The family suspect no one. Several employes have been ais- charged recently for lack of work, but they showed no ill feeling. The police be- lieve it to have been the work of enarch- ists. J. E. Andrus firmly believes that it was & case of assassination. He thinks the bomb was intended for both his brother and himself. He says that since the young Americans have been driven out of the 2arpet works in Yonkers their places have been taken by foreigners who are anarchistic in their leanings. Twice within the last month he has heard menacing threats. Monday, when he was walking on Greenwich street in this city, he was accosted by a roughly dressed man, who said, "'If you had your just deserts you'd be made to give up one- third of your money tb us.” ‘“‘Another time.” continued Mr. Andrus, ‘‘as W. F. Cockran, who owns the carpet factory next to my place, was getting into his earriage, I overheard a man say: ** ‘It’s our blood that enables the likes of him to ride in carriages. We work our lives out and starve while he bas every- thing.’ *’ ,Whisfllu’ Buoy 1% » e ’:"""( OF The Aracs ¢ “Guano xocke fl'. #Bartimore Rock - Coos Hzan p'~ R - —_— Y0 - Co0s BAY ¢ 5 ENTRANCE o " TUNNEL PT SCENE OF THE i % CAZ’IEG.ARAGO YoxaM P WRECK er‘;:r'xsé’fiAGO % ol 3 - “,.Bvoys RockS tation The entrance to Coos Bay where the whaleback Wetmore met her fate some years ago, the most difficult and dangerous entranceson the Pacific Coast. The bar at the mouth. va so shifting that the locations of the several buoys marking itg limits a1e not put down on the Go the northwest, keeving a narrow open space in sight between Guano Rock and Coos the north-norsheast in the channel just spit toward Coos Head makes the passage difficult at any time, conditions very much. lifse Saving L s & "c’ S ( “ a \ 'll * » " o~ que @ it .o of the north spit. Going out, and very dangerous in rough or foggy weather. It has now been finished well out to Guano Rock and partially so a little beyond. It w by the breakers and lost. The vessel is said by thiose well acquainted with her to have been very reluctant to obey her helm, Sovnatinss yiren by figures and whn"c the steamer Arago went ashore Tuesday morning, is one of ries in depth from nine to nineteen feet, according to the season, and is vernment charts. Vessels entering the harbor generally approach from Head until past the former, when they steer more to the south, and then to the same course is foliowed. The long stretch of shallow running down from the north The north jetty when completed will modify these as on this unfinished part that the Arago was driven SCALE OF MILES BULLS WD BEARS N THE WHEAT PIT The Former Worsted After a Brief but Exciting Conflict. December Options Fall Several - Points in the Chicago Market, A RESULT OF FOREIGN APATHY To San Francisco Lukewarmness Is Attributed the Check of the Boom. i CHICAGO, Irv, Oct. 2.—A short-lived flurry, in which the buils came out second best, took place at the opening of the wheat market to-day, the excitement at- tendant upon the trade running quite high. When the market opened a rapid sliding was inaugurated, December options dropping to 763 cents. The decline was clearly the result of foreign indifference. Liverpool was 2d higher, but that advance was not considered in keeping with the anxiety said to exist abroad, and impor- tance was also attached to the apparent lukewarmness of San Francisco, where the boom appeared to have been checked. At the end of the first half hour of the session there was further weakness, which assailed prices, and December fell off to 7614 cents, where it rested, 17 cents under yester- day’s close. Afterward there was adrop to 754 cents, and on the curb a further decline to 74}4 cents ensued. A JONES ATTEM. 0O EXPLAIN., Says the Adrance in Wheat Proves the Aheories of the Silver Men. CHICAGO, ILL., Oct. 21.--Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was interviewed to-day by are- porter for the United Associated Presses re- garding the pronunciamento of Chairman Babcock of the Republican Congressional Committee, in which Mr. Babcock insists that the recent rise in the price of the bushel of wheat, while the price of the ounce of silver bhas declined, indicates that the claims of the silver men that the price of wheat depends on the price of the ounce of silver-are unfounded. The Sena- tor said: The advance in. the price of the bushel of wheat proves rather then disproves the theo- ries of the silver men. Our contention has been that the wheat of India competed with our American wheat in the Liverpool markets; that the Liverpool merchant could in normal times buy in India at any time during the past twenty-three years a bushel of wheat for about an ounce of silver. When the ounce of silver was worth $1 29 in gold in 1873 this meant that the bushel of wheat was worth about that in gold, but, al- though the India wheat farmer has always been willing to take an ounce of silver for a bushel ef wheat, the ounce of silver has fallen in value, owing to its demonetization and dis- use, and consequently as the gold value of the ounee of silver declined the gold value of the bushel of wheat declined, and the American farmer has been compelled to receive the gold equivalent of the ounce of silver for his bushel of wheat. This meant a gradual de- cline in the price from about $129 or $1 30 a bushel in 1873 to 60 or 65 cents in 1893. The real cause, therefore, of the decline in the goid value of our wheat was largely in the competition of India. Thiscompeti- tion has been recently done away with by reason of the failure of the wheat crop in India and hence the price of American wheat, de- prived of this competition, has steadily ad- vauced. Should, however, the normal crops be restored in India, the old effect nf the fall in silver will be felt in wheat and the price of the American wheat in gold will again be measured by the goid price of the ounce of silver if the present financial system is main- tained. Were India in a position to export wheat she would import silver in exchange, and her demand for silver would strengthen the silver market. As it is she imports wheat, dimin- ishes her favorasble balance of trade and thereby reduced ner demand for silver, and the price of sliver falls. e L L NO CURNER AND NO POLITIOCS. President Hill of the Great Northern Denics Wild Rumors. ST. PAUL, Mixx., Oct. 21.—The atten- tion of James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway, was called toa sensational story printed in a New York paper yesterday morning to the effect that he, Charles A. Pillsbury and other men of wealth had entered into a gigantic combi- nation to corner wheat. Mr. Hill charac- terized the story as wholly absurd. He said reports from the various stations along the Great Northern Road indicated that there was far less wheat in the ele- vators than at any time for the last three years, and that he had no doubt that the grain was moving to market with unusual speed, owing to the great rise in the price of wheat since last Friday. Grain was even moving in large quan- tities from as far west as Idaho and Wash- ington, some of it going directly to Port- land, thence to be shipped to India. Mr. Hill rejects the idea that there isany politics in the rise in the price of wheat. Both Mr. Washburn and Mr. Pillsbury last evening denied that they had any in- terest whatever in a wheat corner. Lo SR FOREIGN MARKETS FIRM, Snort Crop in France May Cause Further _ Advance in Wheat. ANTWERP, Oct. 21.—The wheat market to-day was firm, and prices were main- tained fully on a parity with the late Pans rates. Millers were more disposed to pur- chase, and an advance of 7}4d to 10d was established. PARIS, Fraxce, Oct. 21.—The French provincial grain markets to-day were firm, the opinion gaining ground that a further advance was probable in France, as the French wheat crop would nut be sufficient for home consumption and that the country would be compelled to import wheat freely. ST. PETE{RSBURG Russia, Oct. 2L.—A firm tone prevailed to-day in the wheat market in sympathy with the feeling in other grain centers. —_— The London Grain Market Firm. LONDON, Exa., Oct. 21.—In the grain market to-day there was less activity than there has been, but there was no abate- ment in the firmness of itd tone and the tendency was higher. Foreign wheats ‘were 6d dearer and sold firm. . —_— THE CASTLES IN BETIREMENT. Futile Efforts of the Reporters io Obtain o Their 4ddr LONDON, Exa., Oct. z1.—Solicitor Ab- rahams of the United States Embassy was besieged this morning by report- ers who were endeavering to~ ob- tain the address of Mr. and Mrs. ‘W. A. Castle of San Francisco, who were com mitted for trial yesterday on a charze of shoplifting and liberated on £40,000 bail pending the coming up of their case in the Clerkenwell sessions on November 2. Mr. Abrahams refused to disclose the whereabouts of the Castles, though he admitted they were in London. The soli- citor said that Mr. Casile was absolutely innocent and that justice required his acquittal. Mrs. Castle, he said, was very much broken down by her ordeal. Her defense, Mr. Abrahams intimated, would be mental irresponsibility, owing to her sufferings from troubles peculiar to females. He did not appear io_be over- confident of the success of the defense in securing Mrs. Castle’s acquittal. ANOTHER BATTLE IN CUBA. Rsbels Said to Have Been Defeated With Heavy Loss—Meeting of the Spanish Cabinet. HAVANA, Cusa, Oct. 21.—A report has been received from Colonel Vintos stating that the force under his command en- couniered a band of insurgents under Aguirre and other rebel leaders near Jaroco, in the Havana province. The rebels were strongly entrenched and made agood defense, but were finally obliged to retire by a bayonet charge by the Span- iards, made in the face of 8 heavy fire of artillery. The insurgents retreated to the Bonilla aud Peru hills, whithet they were pursued by the Government troops and dispersed completely. The Spaniards lost two killed, two cap- tains and fourteen privates wounded seriously and nineteen privates slightly. The loss of the rebels is believed to be heayy, but is not officially known, as all of their dead and wounded were carried away by the survivors. Angel Cowley Hurtado was shot at Matanzas to-day for the crime of rebellion. MADRID, Srary, Oct. 21.—At a meeting of the Cabinet to-day the claim of the United States Government for damages for losses sustained by Americans in con- sequence of the enforcement of Captain- General Weyler’s decree prohibiting the export of tobacco from Cuba was consid- ered, but no decizion in the matter was reached. The Cabinét adopted a resolu- tion to send General Polivoeja, who some time ago was mentioned as. Weyler's possible successor in the captain-general- ship cf Cuba, and Bricadier-General Sap- Sino to the Phihippine Islands to assist aptain-General Blanco in the work of suppressing the revolutiou there. A DELIBERATE SUICIIE Absconding Banker Shoots Him- self in the Fredericksburg Cemetery. Carefully Prepared Instructions as to the Disposition of His Body and Effects. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Oct. 21.— ‘W. T. Rambusch, an absconding banker from Wisconsin, killed himself here last night. Rambusch came here a weex ago. He registered at the hotel as C. T. Ander- son. He shot himself in the National Cemetery. It was evident from papers found on Rambusch’s person that he had contem- plated suicide, but was hastened in com- mitting the deed as soon as he did by the appearance in yesterday evening’s papers of a cut of himself and a detailed account of his crimes. He addressed a letter to the Presbyterian minister asking that he | offer a prayer over his grave and beg heaven’s protection to his wife and daugh- ter. He requested that his remains be buried here and that parties named by him be wired to come here and identify the boay, that his family would have no trouble in securing the insurance money. He claimed when he came here that he was in ill health and had been ordered by his physician to seek rest and recreation, and as he had not visited the battle-fields of this section since he participated 1n the stormy scenes of the war he had come to this piace. He had no effects with bim save a small hand-satchel in which werea change of anderwear and a few other small belongings and the $125 found on his person. This he requested to be used in settling his unpaid kotel bill and fu- neral expenses. He was very methodical in all he did, and went to his death with a deliberation and calmness that only a8 man of iron nerve could command. Those who came in contact with him were impressed with his intelligence and dignified manner. The verdict of the Coroner’s jury was mur- der by bis own hand. Telegrams have been received from friends in Wisconsin and New York, but as they are somewhat conflicting the senders have been summoned here in per- son. The letters to his wife and John Curtis of Centerville, his cousin, were at his request forwarded unopened. In neither of his communications to parties here did he refer to the grave charges made against himself in the papers, doubt- less thinking that the aisclosure of his identity would be sufficient to publish his wrongdoing far and wide. ———— Thers are more muscles in the tail ofa rat than in the human hand. NEW TO-DAY. YOUR LIV Furred tongue. Drowsy feelings. Hacking cough. Pain in right side. Pain in region of liver. LIVER LIVER LIVER LIVER LIVER n LEVER Jaundice. LIVER Yellow skin. It you are suffering from liver troubles you can be cured. C_n]l on the aoctors of Hudson or write for *Liver Book.” Cures Lost Mane hood, Nervous De- bility, Melancholia, Constipation, Fall- ing Sensations, Lack of Energy, Lack of Power, Lack of Capacitys HUDYAN HUDYAN YAN HUDYAN HUDYAN HUDYAN HUDYAN HUDYAN The entire system is rencwed and reinvigorated. 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