The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME T K XaTENO 6. S,\N>FRAN(‘IS(}(), WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1897. PRICW’ FIVE C VICTORI S SHOLY LICT England’s Queen Will Be Unable to See Her Subjects. NOW ALMOST TOTALLY BLIND. Painful Information Changes the Aspect of the Jubilee. MILLIONS TO PAY HOMAGE TO THE SOVEREIGN. True Reason Why Her Majasty Will Not Ride Alone In the Procession. [Copyrighted 1897 by the New York Sun.] LONDON, Exa., J 15.—The whole e coming jubilee has been nged by painful information comes to the S London office a source making it impos: its accuracy. It is announced on the authority of one of tke royal phy e to on her Majesty th the No def Queen is a; ost totally blind.” the sad news are vet avail- beyond fac the tion 18 a rece bad for some time It the cause of her M ss is a cataract, s commonest form impairs the sight in advancea age, possible to cure it by operation. which in ormation has yot , it was hoped the aged Queen le 1o see the millions of her h that homage next Tues- wi bheld from their knowl- er the jubilee. This is the why she wid not ride alone in on,and why sne will not leave ie carriage at Tues: he service au St ¥ fficially announced that she nabie to re: Paul's nd to the greetings 1ded along the line of the roval pro- on. This explains the recent revival a reg, sip of cy under the Prince of e near future. bilee parade Tuesday Embassa- 7 with the staff of the embassy, Admiral Miller and two navai offi- occupy seats in St. PauPschurch- i as imperial guests. Later Hay w 11 ate dinner to Whitelaw Reid Rear-Admiral Miller. Miller and Miles to- s and entertained VERY WEARY OF WEYLER. Even the Spaniards Thunk It Is Time for he Bu Generai tc B Re- calied F.om Cub>. HAVANA, Copa friends of the Marq other Spaniards of cher June 15.—The many of Apezte; nd the Reformist party That | , of course, | a simple, delicate | been vouch- | | made a turn around Key West and came | subterranean disturbances of Saturday | up the west coast. The cruiser went up |last, are pouring in from every station the west coast in obedience to orders from | north of Madras. V yn, but went 100 far and so lost | The postoffice at CLittagong has been the Dauntless. Sheisnow be- | swallowed up. lieved to be far enough ahead to prevenl‘ The heavy rains of the past two days interception. are increasing the damage some. Some of 3 Ara., June 15.—Four Cubans | the streets hete are closed to traffic, and it were brought here to-day on the fruit | is believed that the firinz of the jubilee steamer Agnes, which picked them up in |Salute must be abandoned, as the firing | a small skiff ten miles north of Yucatan. | even of the time gun is dangerous, shak- They told & harrowing tale of eight days’ | ing the damaged buildings. suffering while cast away 1n the skiff, Thousands of pocr Europeans and Eu- which was blown by easterly gales from | Fasians are homeless and are living in the | one of the smaller kevs off Port Tampa. | OP€R 8ir. e They taid they bad been :\‘;r;mg when the | posT/SH STEAMER SULTAN LOST. ita | storm overtook them. only pro- Founders Near When rescued by the Agnes they were | While Carrying a Large Number out water fi d | 1h steamer Sultan, Captain Collins, 2000 of important dispa! | with a large number of Mecca pilgrims visions for three days their frail craft was | = tossed about from June 3 to June 11 0 Sttt of . Sosutyn i | more dead than alive, having been with- | of Mecca Pigrims ys. Itis said thatDr.| o : 4 z LOMBO, CEy1ox, June 15.—The Brit- Beuujardin, one of the party, is the bearer | . COLOMBO, CEYLoK, June 15.—The Bri fant es from Cuvg, He | ,ne bound from Jeddan for Calcutta left ror New York te-n'ght. | WASHINGION, D. C. June 15—Cal- | foundered near tie island of Socotra, 120 SCENE AT THE CORONER’S INQUEST. CHIEF LEES, With Attorneys Ach and Murphy Close on His Heels, Explaining to the Jurors by Means of have renewed their efforts to have Weyler recalled. The Spanish st charge Weyler wita for the ruin of the i cently said at the palace, in the pre<ence of many persons, that he had already sent p-keepers the responsibility | “many Cubans to hell and to Chafarins, and before leaving the island he would make many Spaniards take the same road.” TAMPA, Fra., June 15.—The Dauntless Dias again duped the cruisers, and is now scudding for the Cuban coast with a large cargo of munitions and thirty-five men. | The tug arrived at the harbor late yester- Photographs the Wounds Found on Hoffman’s Head and Face. day afteruoon, anchoring in an obscure | houn, the Cuban Commis-ioner, returned | milss east of Cape Guardafai, the eastern place, osiensibly to be drydocked. An | to Washington to-n ght unexpectedly and | extramity of Africa, soner arrived in the lower will have a further nce with the | Ten natives were drowned, but all the bay atdark. Her car.o was transferrea | President and Assistant Secretary Day | crew of the Sultan and the remainder of 10 the Dauntless. It is stated the carso | about the Ruiz case and the conditions | the pilerims bave been landed here. inciuded four rapic-fire guns, several mil- | cbserved by him in Cuba. —_— lion rounds of cartridges, boxes of dyna- —— - PACIFIC MAIL DIVIDENDS. conie mite, hand grenades, 700 machetes and | SUFFERERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE. — four elerlrm.{; bnllurit:‘, Among the vs»-n | — | Huntington Says They May Be Increased were four electrical experts from New | From Many Sections of India Come Re- | 1 N York who had been encaged to oversee % | ieiior Centi s Nulr Seaney 4 o D the luying of mines and making of bombs. L The expedition departed at midnight. and Distress. | The Dauntiess instead of coming up the| CALCUTTA, Ixnia, June 15.—Telegrams east coast, a3 the Marblehead as exvected, | with earthquake news, the echoes of -the | [ ers Are Put On. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 15.—C. P. Huntington said to-day the report that Pacific Mail would increase the dividend SIMLA, the Summer Capital of .India, Visited by the Earthquake of the 12th Inst. This little city lies on the southwestern slope of the Himalaya mountains, about 120 miles north of Delhi and the same distance east by south of Lahore, with Itlies at an elevation of 7300 feet above the level of the sea and has a climate peculiarly suited to e been established there, which are largely patron zed by the Egropeans from the lower country. In | Jonn Lawrence, the Gevernor-General of India, meae 1t his cfficial residence for the summer season, and his exami.le has been followed each season since, all | 279 the secretaries and headquarters establishments going there from Calcutta in the spring and remaining 1ill fall. The present Governor-General formal approval to muking it the official summer capital. The population in 1891 was about 17,000 and bas grown much since. between the Himalayas and Kara-koum ranges of mountains, lies the height of land on the eGges of which, within a few miles of each other, the three great rivers both railroad and telegr 1864 S| ) connection with the country belos. Furopesns, and on thisaccount a number of sanatoriums b «f India —the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmapooris, take their rise. to a 4 per cent basis was incorrect. “Such dividends,” he declared, ould be exces- | sive, and 1 believe in conservative manage- | ment. It is very probable, however, we | will increase the dividend to 13§ per cent semi-annually or 3 percent a year. It is also probable we shall put on two new steamers of 10,000 tons each to ply between San Francisco and Chira. If this is done we shouid be able toearn and pay 5 per cent dividends. The matter of the two new steamers has not vet been fully de- cided, but the subject is under considera- tion and doubtiess will soon be settled.” — - BRIGHT BUSIN PEOSPECTS. Merchandise on a Firmer Basis and Farmere Gt Better Prices. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 15.—Vice- President James Gannon of the Fourth National Bank returned to-dsy from Kansas City, where be was elected presi- dent of the National Association of Credit | Men. Like others recently returned from the West he brought a report of brighten- ing business prospects. “We had a very satisfactory conven- tion,”” said Gannon, “and representatives were present from every large jobbing center in the United States. A careful canvass of tie delesates indicated that the general business situat on throughou: the couutry is steadily improving. The price of merchandise is upon a firmer basis. Farmers are receiving better prices for cattie, and if the prico of corn and wheat can be maintained merchants look for a very prosperous condition of affairs throughout the West this fall.”* kol Sear o MAf CRANGE THE SYSTEM, Major Woodson’s Indian Agemey Meth- od« Are Approved. WICHITA, Kaxs, June Major A. E. Woodson of Darlington, Okisboma, agent for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes, is en route to Washington where he was summoned by Secretary Bliss. It is the uncflicial conjecture of some peo- ple posted on Indian affairs that his visit may revolutionize tue whole Inaian sgency system. Major Woodson tendered his resignation to Fresident McKinley the President refused to accept il. The authorities at Washington have been studying his processes for some time, and it is highly probable that Secretary Bliss has resolved to make other agents adopt 1 the Woodson method. as lately given his Less than 200 miles east of Simla, SEEKING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY Coroner Hawkins Begins the Inquiry Into Hoffman's Death. CHIEF LEES SUBMITS LETTERS OF INTEREST. They Tell of Bitter Family Estrangement. The Chief of Police and Coroner Hawkins Not in Perfect Harmony. No Coroner’s inquest ever held in this City probably attracted more general and deeper interest than that wnich beszan vesterday into the death of Isaac Hoff man, which to-day, after a lapse of two weeks, is ensurouded in as great mysiery as when the first doubt was cast upon the | manner of his end. Coroner Hawkins had fixed the hour for beginning the inquiry at 10 o’clock, and a east an hour before that t.me the street and hallways near the Coroner’s office, where the inquest is being heid, gave marked indications that something of un- nsual interest was transpiring in the vi- cinity. But no preparations had been made to accommodate the general public. and during the entire period of the hear- | ing veopie had to be refused admission 10 where tue jury was sitting and where the witnesses were being examined. Despite the fact that the general run of seekers efier the morbia had to be ex- cluded from necessity, the room in which the proceedings went on presented some interesting figures and scenes. At his desk sat Dr Hawkins, the Coroner, with Chief Lees at his left and Attorney Ach and ex-Judge Murphy, in the order named, at his rignt. Facing them was the jury of | ten men, composed of the following | named: B. Fross, I Erb, F. Schneider, H. L. B. Smith, William Geiman, C. Hoff- | man, F. Braun, J. Peirani, J. Heller, J. Cul- ligan. Near to tbe entrance, in as incon- cuous a position as they could find, sat Mrs. Dora Hoffman, widow of the de- ceased, with Josepkt: Napthaly, her attor- | ney, and Harry and Ave Hoffman, the | two brothers of the dead merchant. Close by this group was ex-Judge Louder- back, one of the attorneys retained to look after the rights and interests of Theodore A. Figel. Seeking apparently to avoid notice as much as possible, Lizzie Morrin stood in the passazeway leading to the inner office. Figel, though about the premises, did not make his appearance in the room where the investigation was going on. On the wall, directly facing the jury, was hung the disgram of the offices of Hoffman, Rotnehild & Co. in which the tragedy had been enacted. It was the same that showed a track of irregular blood spatters between the offices and to which Attorney | Ach had made strong objections on the score of its being inaccurate. He claimed that there was no trail of blood, as indi- cated, visible on the varpet, and holds it | as his opinion that the body was dragzed or carried from one office to the other, this being one of his stroug points to sub- stantiate bis theory of murd r. Chief Lees was the first witness called and took up most of the time of the two and a half hours' session. He was ex- tremely deliberate and methodical in pre- senting his testimony and exhibits to the jury, and neither the apparent irritability | of Ach nor the unmistakable hints of the Corouner to have him expedite matters | made any impression on the head of me[ Police Department. He went on present- | ing bit after bit of bulletsand bone, pho- | | toraphs, letters, pistols, cartridges and other old and new things. To the Coro- ner’s mind he seemed inclined to wanaer from telling strictly what he knew of his own knowledge, and he was cautioned to confine himself to legal lines of procedure. This he re-ented, and in a curt manner gave the Coroner to understand tbat he | would proceed as he thougnt proper. To | save time Lie was not again interrupted. After each batch of exnibits had been drawn forth from the capacious satchel that lay by the side of the Chief the Coro- | rer would ask, “Anything more?’ and | ihe Chief would stoop over and slowly drawl out, “Plenty more; I have got enough to keep you going for a couple of hours, anyway.” Then up would come a | bundle of letters, a’ tin box of scraps of | bones or buliets, a revolver or a collection of grewsome photographs. But the Coro- | ner got in a checkmate just before the ad- journment for the day. The Chief had | called off a list of letters that had been found on the person and in the desk of the | deceased, and to give a dramatic climax to the day was about to begin the reading | 2 of the letters, when the Coroner said that that was not nécessary at that time, und | would have to be postponed. | While Lees was entering into the | minute details of the wounds that had | been found on the aeceased and toying | with pieces of the skull of Isaac Hoffman, the widow, who was where she had a clear view ‘of where the witnesses sat, visibly paled and her look of sadness grew deeper. ! Attorney Louderback created consider- | | | able of a diversion early in the proceed- ings by objecting to one of the jurors, who | he said was a dealer with and a creditor | of the firm of which Hoffman had beennl member. The juror he had reference to | wore. | Hood’s Sarsapa: was Braun. He asked that the jury be discharged and a new one impaneled. Coroner Hawkins said that would neces- sitate the exhumation of the body and added that t: ere was nothing in the code that provided for the challengine of the jurors sitting in an inquest. Ex-Judge Murpby volunteered the information that there was nobody on trial and that the inquiry was held simply to determine the manner of a death. At point the Coroner asked the ob- jectionable juror if he could give the mate ter an impartial hearing, and on receiving an aflirmative reply decided peremptorily that the inquest would proceed without any further dalay. All the witnesses, except the particular one on the stand, were then ordered excluded from the room during the pro- ceedin Chief Lees, on taking the stand, re« viewed the inciaents of the finding of the body of the deceased and all that he had done looking to the discovery of the man- ner in which Hoffman came to his death, He demcribed in detail the res sults of the autopsy, and went into a description of the wounds, iilustrating what he had to say by means of a large and varied collection of photo- graphs, pieces of skull, the hat of the deceased, bullets and pieces of bullets, the revoiver with which the killing had been done and the diagram that had been drawn by Clarence Russell, the draughts- man of the Police-Department. In speak- | ing of the wound near the top of the head, laid stress upon the iact that while the bullet had penetrated the skull the bramn had not been iujured. While the Chief wasexplaining the dia- gram to the jury he remarked that thers were “blood stains all the way through between the two rooms.’ At this Ach smiled in a way that showed he was far from being in acoord with the Chiel on | this point. Every move that the Chief made in his efforts to explain to the jury matters re. lating to the perforated hat of the de- ceased and to the photographs of toe wounds was watched by both Attorney Ach and ex-Judge Murphy as if their very lives depended upon preventing the Chief from making any undesirable ime pression on the jury. When the Chief, for instance, placed the dead man’'s hat on his bat and iliustrated how the pistol was probably held wnen the bullet was fired through its rim, Ach followed Lees’ performance by placing the derby on his own head and allowing the jurors to ses how be thoughi the pistol had been held. After Lees had been on the stand for about an hour, M. M. Rice took his place. He testified 1o his having seen 1wo men in front of 11 Battery street on the even- ing of June 1 engaged in what he cailed animated conversaiion. The details of bis statement have already appeared in Tk Cart. In his former story he was a little uncertain as to the time he passed the place. Yesterday he placed the hour at 6:30. The man who seemed to be most excited, he said, stood in the door facing the sidewalk. The cther man was trying to pacily him. He ‘descrited the talier man as having a mustache like that of Juror Culligen, and as having a com- plexion something like that of Abe Hoff- man, a brother of the deceased, who was in the room, and to whom the witness’ attention had been called by the Coroner. Rics’s description wou!d answer that of the dead merchant. The Battery-street door of the store was open. He added that both men were about of the same height, but he could not describe any por- tion of the clothes that either of the men A panel-size photoeraph was shown the witness and he said, *That might be ‘the one who was standing in True Economy It is true economy to buy Hood's S: saparilla, for *‘100 doses one dollar” is peculiar to and true only of this popular me: ne. A bottie of Hood’s Sarsapariila will average to last a 100 Doses month while others last only a fortnight. One Dollar 1 is conclu:%va proof of ths ecomomy and strength of a. Its great cures prove beyond possible doubt its great curative merit, unequaled by any other medicine. Therefore be sure toget Hood’s Sold by all druggists. $1; Sarsa- parilla six for §5 Hood’s Pills i ams™ 23 cenia,