The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1897. UP GOES A HOWL! TS S S S S S BB B U U SB BT SB BB B BB BB BBBBBBBBBBY YOU'LL CORNER WINDOW ; THEY SEE 'EM ON EXHIBIT IV .L SURPRISE YOU. OUR BIG Pt Gumxuuummuwuxmmmx 220009, §8583 FRISCO’S MOST POPULAR HOUSE, Built to Its Present Greatness by Its Having at All Times Adhered To and Carried Out Its Printed Statements. ST Yow'll hear somebody kicking about town; it won’t be yow; it won't be youwr neighbors ; it won’t be your friends, but who will it be? It will be the poor fellows that have to com- pete with us—the unlucky ones that have to follow in the pace we set for’em. The last five days of April we’ll make memorable. The last five days of April will be devoted, to a sale of very fashionable Swits for men, in singdle-breasted sacks and double-breasted sacks, handsomely tailored Sarments, just alive with style and becomingness, in the Havana brown plaids, in neat checks, in dark plaids and in medium col- orinds, all brand new Spring goods. For the last five days in April_these high-class Suits will be of- fered toyow at the astound- ind and most ridiculous price of $5.00. It is ridiculous to see a house noted for carrying the swell line of doods we do quote Men’s Suits, fash- ionable Suits, at $5.00—but we do odd things at odd times; and as these are odd days, the last five days of April, we have concluded to keep the big store crowd- ed during these last five days of the month. Now then that is the rea- son yow Jet these Suwits at $5.00. LRI R L R R L R R R L R LR R L R R R L L R L L Is there any excuse for a man now not dressing fashion- ably? Especially when a Five Dollar Bill dresses yow up in the height of fashion. O, 11, 18 and 15 RKearny Street. TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS —8 FLOORS. BELGIUN'S B SHOW OPENED King Leopold Presses a | Button and Wheels Revolve. The Exposition Is Inaugurated Under Most Auspicious Conditions. Brilllant Displays From Every Country—America’s Credlit- able Exhibit, BRUSSELS, BeLGroym, April 24.—With the acclaim of a multitude, the music of bands galore, and the reverberations of ar- tillery, the Belgian International Exposi- tion of 1897 was formally inaugurated to- day. The weather was of the best, and the city was gayly decorated in honor of the event. The exercises took place at noon on the sward fronting the main building in the park of Du Cinguante- ! naire, King Leopold ana the royal family participating. On-the platform were all the ministers accredited from foreign countries to Belgium, and a large number of invited guests representative of educa- tion, the arts, sciences and bumanitarian movements. The vrincipal address was made by M. Oultremont, the commissioner-general of tue exposition.gyThe exercises consistea of singing, addresses, instrumental music and salutes of artillery. At the conclusion the King touched the electric button, the machinery of the exposition was set in motion and the enterprise was declared an accomplished fact. Preparations for the exposition which was successfully inaugurated to-day have been in progress for several years. The exbibits are housed 1n previously existing and newly erected state buildings in the park- of Du Cinquantenaire and De Tery- uren, both of which are connected with the main buildings by rapid lines of rail and trolley cars. There are 500 acres in the latter park, which contains among other things the entire exhibit from the Congo Free State, In the park tirst named there are about ninety acres. The total space under cover about 130,000 square yards. The expo- on is divided into fourteen sections. The American exhibit is decidedly cred- itable. The United States Commissioners, who were appointed by Secretary Olne are Professor J. H. Gore of Columbian University, Washington, and Thomas Wilson of the National Museum, the latter having formerly been United States Con- sulat Nice and other places in Europe, while Professor Gore was United States Commissioner to the Amsterdam and Antwerp exhibitions. There are some fine displays of Ameri- can typewriters and bicycles, as well as of raw materials and canned goods. The prizes donated by the Government aggre- gaie $60,000, while there is alsoa special prize of $5000 to be awarded in the event of there being among the exhibits one of sufficient originality and merit to war- rant it. . OPERATED UPON THE HEART. Dr. Rehe Produces a Sensation at the Surgical Congress With the First Case of Its Kind in History. BERLIN, GERMANY, April 24.—At the meeting here of tne surgical congress, Dr. Rebe of Frankfort, reported a successful operation upon the human heart, the first case of the kind in the history of | by Rele caused a sensation among the | assembled savants. Interest was addel by the introduction of the patient to the congress. Rehe said the man had been stabbed in the heart. In the ordinary course death would have been certain in a very short time. The patient, was, how- ever, hurriedly conveyed to the hospital. Rehe laid bare the heart and found a wound on the right side of the organ. He sewed up the orifice and then applied general treaument for arresting a hem- orrhage. The heart worked violently dur- ing the operation, but despite the com- motion of the organ the patient made good progress and soon recovered. — Bimple Wedding of a Mining Magnate. LONDON, Exo., April 24.—John Mc- Donald, a wealthy Western mine owner, was married to-day at St. Dunston Church in this city to Marjorie Dare, the well- known authoress. ‘The marriage was very simple and was devoid of ceremony. —_—————— FIRE-DAMP EXPLOSION, Four Miners Believed to H. Perished in an Alabama Colliery. BIKMINGHAM, ArA., April 24.—A vio. lent explosion of fire damp took place this morning in the coal mine of the Tennes- see Company at Blocion, Ala. Twenty men were at work in the mine when the expiosion took place, and for a while there was intense excitement about the entrance to the mine, as it was feared that ail had verished. Later it was ascertained that sixteen of the men_bad succeeded in making their escape. Four men, all Italians, are still missing. They were working in the part of the mine where the explosion took place and are undoubtedly dead. it ags ! A Ragged Heir to Millions. ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 24.—Peter Johns, an oid sailor from California, tattered and torn, arrived here this morn. ing. He carries papers showing himself 1o be an heir to the Anncke Jans miliions. He says he was transferred from the Sail- ors’ Home, 8an Francisco, o here, arriving there from Holland, He will be helped surgery. The account of the case as given | here by persous believiug in his cause. WAS IT MURDER - OR A SUICIDE? Discovery of the Body of a Woman Who Had Disappeared. Dead In a Closet Since Last December, While Neighbors Thought Her Insane. Relatives of Therese Ferguson and the Lowell Police Try to Con= ceal a Great Mystery. BOSTON, Mass,, April 24.—The climax of a tragedy shroudea in mystery and secrecy occurred in Lowell, Mass., to-day, when the body of a wealthy woman who disappeared nearly five months ago was discovered in an awful state of putrefac- tion in a closet of her own house. Therese Ferguson, 30 years of age, dis- appeared the 6th of last December. The body was found to-day In the closet of a room she formerly occupied on Wamesit street and was secretly buried without service. Neighbors say Mrs. Ferguson’s mind was affected by the death of her husband and they believed that she had gone to an asylum when she disappeared in December. When the priest drove in & closed carriage to the house to-day the neighbors inquired whether anybody was ill. They were told that nobody was ill. Medical Examiner Hartwell was called. He reported that Therese Ferguson died in the closet from suffocation by gas on December 6. The body was discovered on account of its condition. There was a gasjet in the closet, but it does not appear tiat it has been turned on for four months, Was it muraer? If it was suicide how could the gasjet have been turned off again? An undertaker buried the body without service and did not give the news to the newspapers. No informa- tion wasgiven out at 55 Wamesit street. “We wish nothing said about the case,” was the statement of a woman supposed to be a sister. ‘‘We believe that it was accidental.” “We know nothing about it,’’ say the poiice. CHANCE FUR RAILKEOA4D MEN, China Uffers Big Inducements for Ca- pabdle imericans. SARATOGA, N. Y., April 24.—Repre- sentatives of the Chinese railroad are can- vassing this territory to procure railroad employes for service on tho Chinese sys- tems. These great financial inducements are offcred: Brakemen, $5 per day; tele- graph operators, $6; firemen. $7: conduct- ors, $10; engineers, $11. The agreement proposed is that if the Americans are sat- isfactory after three months they must sign a five years’ contract. During the five years they will receive half of their regular wages, the remainder to be paid at the expiration of that period. Wages will be paid in gold. The agents guarantee transportation both ways. American capi- talisis are interested in the railroads. The desire to secvre American employes is said to be due largely to Li Hung Chang’s re- cent inspection of railroads here. No zc- ceptances by trainmen have as yet been reported. ot g R ] Catifornian Bangs Himself at Sea. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 24—The steamer Persia from Hamburg, which ar- rived to-day, revorts that Nicholas Peters, a steerage passenger, while temporarily insane on April 13, hanged himself in the ship’s hospital. The body was buried at sea. Peters resided in California and re- cently lost his wife. He had brooded over her death and started for Germany on a visit. — TWIN STEAMEKS LAUNCHED, An Immense Crowd Witnesses an Inter- esting Event at Chicago. CHICAGO, IrL, April 24.—An immense crowd went out to the yards of the Chi- cago Shipbuilding Company on the Calu- met this morning to witness the launch- ing of the twin steamers Minneapolis and St. Paul, which have been built to the order of R. R. Rhodes, the Cleveland ves- sclman, to enter the service of the Soo line. They will run between Gladstone, Minn., and Buffalo, N. Y., in the flour and general merchandise trade. The new vessels do not belong to the largest class of freight sieamers on the Lakes, but are built to_pass_through the Welland Canal into Lake Ontario, being just the size of the locks. The Minneapolis was the first to be launched, at 2 o’clock, and the St. Paul followed half an hour later. Itis said that a_double launching is a rare event, while the last triple launching recorded was in 1850, when three schooners were sent down the ways on the same afternoon at_the yardsof John Oades at Clayton, N. Y. ———— 4 BUSINESS KAKOMETER, Inereased Earnings of the Pullman Pal- ace Car Company. CHICAGO, Itn, April 24.—People who believe that the reports of the Pullman Palace Car Company are a barom:ter of conditions in the business world are re- tailing with satisfaction the reports that | are given out to the effect that the busi- | nes- of the company for April will show | a decided improvement even over that of March. ‘What this wmeans is evidenced in the fact that the March earnings of the com- pany were the largest of any March in its history and more than $100,000 in excess of the earnings of the same month of 1896. e Still No Election of Senator. FRANKFORT, Ky., April 24.—The Sen- atorial deadleck still exists. When the roll of the joint assembly was called to- day ouly sixty-nine members answered. Seventy Wera necessary for a quorum, and as a result there was no election. bty GRANT DAY CELEBRATION. Immense Throng o) Fisitors Expected in New York on Monday. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 2 York’s capacity for entertaming s will be taxed to its utmost capacity Mon- day night. The record-breaking crowd at the Columbian celebration is likely to sink into second plice when all the sirangers in town on Grant day have been counted. The lowest estimate, that of the Wholesaie Merchants’ Association, is that 250,000 strangers will come from towns more than fifty miles distant. At the headquarters of the Grant Monu ment Association the estimates run from h alf a miliion to & miilion. Mexico's Eighth Cavalry Regiment band, sent to represent M xico, has ar- rived. The Government intended to send a cruiser now at Toulon, but found that necessary repairs would prevent the sail- ing of the vessel in time tn reach here. —— EEMORSE AND DEATH. Sequel to the Elopement of & Girl With Her Unel QUINCY, IrL., April 24 —A tragedy bas ended a scandal that came to light a few days ago at Loraine, in this county. The people of that town were great up when it was learned that Hahn had eloped with his n Hudson, a girl only 15 years of age. It was not known whtat had become of the couple, as they completely disap- veared from sight. This morning their dead bodies were found near Loraine. They were iying close together, and death was evidently the result of suicide. The distorted positions of the bodies ine dicated that some powerful poison, like strychnine, had been used. An autoosy wiil be performed to ascertain, if possible, the real cause ot death, e Big Coal Uiscorery in Memico. OAXACA, MExico, April 24.—An ex- tensive anthracite coal discovery is re- ported from a point in the sierra de Oaxaca mountains, near here.