The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1897, Page 1

i | VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 28 MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, AU S S i 5 | 1897. PRICE T ¥ | FIVE CENTS. FIRE RAGED IN THE HOLD OF THE STEAMER Thrilling Experience on the Atlantic Liner City of Rome. BRAVE BATTLE MADE BY THE OFFICERS AND CREW. Passengers Refused to Leave the Burning Vessel Although Relief Was in Sight, and Captain Young Brought Them Safely to Port. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27.—With| bull smoking and sailors h hot and exhaus‘ed stokers ging on the rails of the Anchor line steamer Cit i into port to-day. four hours the offic fizhting a fire in the spar deck, the more than t 1ty ers and crew had bee hold. The steamer left Glasgow June 19 with 56 saloon pa ers, 90 second, cabia and 130 in the steerage. She car- ried u cargo of jute and general merchan- Saturday passengers afternoon were promensding the deck tire broke out in the hold of the starboard The crew chopped holes'in the forward partition of the main saloon, | ripped up the carpets and started in on the flooring of the deck. fou side forward. | This is made of inch timbers laid on a foundation of h steel plates, and the men had to chicel through steel. Tne pumps were | manned and lines of hose run down through the saloon to the holes catin the deck | The passengers hudaled on the after- deck, the officers assuring them thatall | would be well in a short time. After half | an hour’s work Caprain Young saw be | bad no ordinary fire to deal with and or- | dered the lifeboats swung from tne davits, manned and provisioned. When the passengers saw these prepa- rations they became 80 apprehensive that the captain had to take a hand in quieting them. Several hundred ran down staterooms and articles 1n their auxiety to some- thing. The ceptain inviled the male pas- sengers to the saloon while he left his offi- cers to look after the wonien and children. A barkentineand a schooner were within hailing distance av this time. is firein the hoid,” said the captain in a calm tone, *‘and while I don’t think there is any cause for danger 1 can transfer you all which are now in sig to the | grabbed various useless save “Gentle- men, there immediate to vessels | 1am pretty sure I can bring you safely into port if you re- main on the ship, however, but 1 leave the matter to your own choice. ! E. & Bender of Albany asked how big the fire was. not know. “Then 1 move we stay by the ship, said Bender. There was no dissenting voice, and the next moment the passen- gers gave thuree cheers for the captain, who returned to the main saloon to di- rect the work of the crew in fighting the fire. The flames had gained considerable headway whils most of the crew had been at work getting the lifeboats ready, and | the main saloon was filled with smok Twenty holes were chiopped in the deck | and powerful streams from halt a doz n lines of hose were vour.d into the holes alternate! The men worked in watches, relievinz es Betwecn 6 and 7 the fire burned fiercest, and at one time it looked as though the passengers take to the boats, but tue captain held off the order and kevt the crew working in flooding the hold. Toward morning the fire died down, The captain replied he did two 4 other frequent.y. clock Saturday evening must FROM POVERTY while the |tk | Valley, twenty-iwo miles north. | doorway to get fres and then it became simply a matter of drowningit out. At9 o'clock the passen- gers held a thanksziving service in the after saloon, two clergymen on board ofti- ciating. The hour was spent in preyers and hymns. Among the passengers were Edward McGouth of San Franecisco and J. Merrow of Galvest The cargo was still bu Tex. g when the ship ar The captain unable to estimate the dam til be had made an investigation, but No. 4 hold contained the principal part of the cargo and was a loss. ived. total TERRIBLE TRAGEOY IN TEXAS. A Father Kilis His Daughier's Betrayer and Mortally Waounds His Brother. Shot Dead H msef. DALLAS. Tex., June 27.—Augustas Garrison, Frank and Thomas Jones brothers, have been ghbors in Pleasant Garri- son had a daughter 16 years old. Re- | cently she told herparents thatshe had | been wronged by Frank Jonmes, where- upon Garrison swore he would kill Jones. The Garrison and Jones families attend the same church (M. E. South) at Pleasant Valley. Just after the singing of a hymn to-day Garri-on stepped to the barely dir. He haa reached the doorway wien the cor tion was startled by pistol-shc a dozen shots were fired. When the firir | had ceased Garrison and Frank Jones were | in front of the church steps and Thomas Jones was stretehed on alawnnear by. In his left hand he held a pistol, Tom Joaes said that he and his brother were approaching the church-door when Garrison appeared and drew a pistol. His brother Frank was hit by the first builet. Tom then opened fire on Garri- son, and after Frank f Il Garrison opened fire on Tom. Frank Jones was shot three times. Garrison received but one bullet, and that pierced his beart. not expected to recover. —_———— WENT BUMP:NG OVER A BRIDGE. An “Accigent to a Locomotve Gives the Passengers on a Crowded Tram a Bad Scare. PITTSBURG. Pa., June —As the ago express on the Pittsburg, Fort Wavne and Chicago Railroad approached | the bridge over the river near Beaver to- night the engine’s pony wheels broke down. The locomotive bumped all the way across the bridge, dragging ten | coaches and two Pullmans along. It topped two feet from the edge of an em- bankment fifty feet high. The 250 pas- sengers were frantic, but kept by the train, the crew keeping them from jump- ing out of the doors and windows. R T DENIED BY PILLSBURY. Declares That There Is Flenty of Wheat for D lwery and Trere Is Na Cor- ner on tte Marke . MINNEAPOLIS, June A. Pillsbury empha ) denies he is trying to corzer July wheat. “I know of one coneern,”’sa d Pillsbury, “that has one 1,000,000 busheis which he e, that | desires to place among millers, and an- | other has 500,000. My firm is a large TO AFFLUENCE. Charges of Bribery and Corruption Made Against the Acting Preside nt of the Chicago Board of Education. CHICAGO, It , June 27.—Ugly charges are to be faced by Thomas Cusack, vice-president and acting president of the Chicago Board of Education. They are to pocketed subsidies and bribes from snug income from schoolbook publishers. the effect that Cusack for years school-supplies contractors and a The accusers are his former mother-in-law, Mrs. Maria A. Ross, and her son, Herbert J. Ross. Cusack married in 1891 the daughter of Mrs. Ross. Then he was poor ; to-day he is wealthy, the foremost Democratic politician in the Ninth Ward and master of business intricacies of the Board of Educa- tion. His wife died in 1894. again. His first wife’s relatives di charges. Seven months after Cusack married sclaim any personal motives in the Tom Jones is | | | | | are. | cisco by a penny subscription. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SCENE OF A BITTER RACE WAR. During the examination of one Johnson, a negro assailant, in the courtroom at Key West last week, the whites expressed a dctermination to lynch the prisoner. Negroes immediately took steps to guard the jail, and later on prevented the Key West Guards from entering their armory to secure weapons. For two days the armed bands of negroes beld possession of the town, and one white man was killed and several wounded during encounters in the streets. Florida’s Governor appealed to the Government for regular troops to suppress the disorders, but the United the whites are again in control ¢f the town and that law and order prevail. States authorities did not deem such action necessary. Latest reports from Key West say that owner of wheat bought for delivery. Last | fall when it appeared that receipts in Min- | neapolis would turn out very much less | than expec'ed, our firm contractea for all | the wheat it was supposed we would need | on this crop, and that takes a large pro- portion of all the wheat in Minneapolis, | but not all by any means, as there are | two concerns that bave 2,500,000 bushels | in Chicago.” — BY PENNY SURSCKIPTIONS, Wyman Eaises Enough Money to| Send a Student Here. | BUSTON, Miss., June 27.—A maenifi- cent exemple of a woman’s energy and | rived to investizate the opportunities for COLONIZING RICH COFFEE LANDS. ! Picns to Locate Twenty Thousand Per- sons From Souhern France | n Mexico. | GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 27.— | Several months ago Jevos Benuit, repre- | senting a wealthy French syndicate, ar- colonizing 2000.000 acres of rich coffee | land on the Pacfic slope in the State of | Jalisco. He madea favorable report. A | deal has just been closed for the purchase | of 2.000,000 acres and steps taken to locate | 20,000 French colonists thereon. Tne | | perseverance has just been demonstrat.d | land lies on the western slope of the Sierra | and Captain ments cannot be got throuzh before the new tariff bill is passed. Buying was very active last week, and prices advanced to 21 cents a pound. It is estimated that about a quarter of the crop has been shipped to the United States. Prices ha a sharp decline yesterday, falling abou per cent, owing to the closing of American markets to Canadian wool. — - MILITARY STATIONS Mission of Mexican Army Officers to This Country ani Europe. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 27.—A com- mission of Mexican army officers—General Jose Marit Farez, Major Eustaquio Duran FXAMINING SECRETARY SHERMAN'S POINTED VIEWS. Raimundo Perez — passed | Speaks of the Annexation of Hawaii and Cuba, and Declares Thati Anti-Trust Question Is the Most Important of the Day. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27 to attend a meeting of the directors of the Pittsb hicago Railroad. He said: There is cretary of State Sherman arrived at the Fifth-avenue Hotel to-night irg, Fort Wayne and Ct ““The Hawaiian treaty will not be taken up by the Senate during the present session. doubtless a majority for confirmation, but I don’t know if the necessary two-thirds vote can be obtained. | The treaty, however, is not essenti al to annexation, Congress, as Texas was admitted to the Union.”’ Referring to Japan’s protest the Secretary said: 1 think Japa would work no detriment to Japanese interests. We have no trouble with Japan ove Mr. Sherman was more reticent on the subject of Cuban annexation, r this matter.”” The islands may be annexed by enactment of n makes a mistake. Annexation The exclusion laws of Hawaii are much worse than ours. All he would say was: “There are many Senators opposed to the annexation of Cuba who favor the annexing of Hawaii.?’ Of the tariff bill he said: ‘I expect the bill will be passad finally within two weeks, and its passage will undoubtedly have a good effect down competition and crowd out others who have as much right to be in business. present form is not strong enough. weakened it. possible. lower prices. 1 don’t believe it. industries, Even so, they are injurious. on business. The currency question will hardly come up this session. The anti-trust question is altogether the most important of the day. Combinations of persons to control certain industries for common interest seem, on their face, to be fair enough. They are not, for they break The trust law in its I drew it, but the Committee on Judiciary made changes which 1 favor making unlawful all combinations in restraint of trade in the most direct manner They put in the hands of a few men the control of important interests. It is said they effect People have a right to competition in these Restraint of trusts will become effective when we secure a proper kind of law. Court upheld the present law, but it pointed out defects in it. The Supreme I think those defects will be corrected.’’ in Cambridge by Mrs. John P. Wyman, wife of the well-known lawyer and daughter of the late John P. Squire. It | was all for sweet charity's s Mrs. | Wyman was interested in a Harvard | student, and the idea occurred to her that she could by her own efforts raise the sum | necessary 1o send a student to San Frau- | She did so, and after six weeks of canvassing she | was able to turn over to the student, | Adoniram Judson Marshall ’99, the sum | of $255. To-night the student siarted for San Krancisco for a vacation of seven weeks. ke, e sl BRIGHT BUSINESS FUT/JRE. Secretary of ihs Treasury Gage Talks About the Ccuntry’s Improved | Condtion. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27.—The Herald’s Washington special says Secre- tary Gage said to-lay: “The evidence I have obtained from all sections of the country all point to actual improvement in trade and manufactures. In some vlaces this impr vement is more marked than others, while in som» localities it | has been scarce'y felt. The busines- situ- | ation is particularly improved by reuson of incressed trade ani enlarged manu- factures of various kinds of indusiry. As an iliustration I may cite the experience of a friend who called s-veral days ago. de is a manufacturer of furnaces. He | told me he had mora orders to execute this | time than during the entire year of 1896, No one has - poken to me within the last month in a tone of discouragement.”” Kegarding the goid reserve Gage said: “It will be maintained under any and all circumstances. True, there is an outward mcvement, especiaily at this time of the year, but it causes no alar sl i Pettigrew Fs Himself Again. WASHING1ON, D. C., June 27.—Sen- ator Pettigrew bas recovered full control of his vocal organs and will be in the Senate to-morro= Madres, and is said to be the richest i | Mexico for agricultural purposes. The colonists will b brought from bouthern France and pay a nominal price for the iand. The Mexican Government favors the scheme, as it will give an impetus to settling a comparatively wild resion, The first lot of colonists will arrive in Sep- tember. - STABBED THROUGH THE HEART. The Son of a Wealtty London Physician Assassina'ed in the Outskirts of Montery, Mcxico. MONTEREY, Mexico, June 27.—The body of R. L. Ilingworth, a prominent young English re-ident, the son of a wealthy London physician, was found early this morning in the outskirts of the city with a stab wound through the heart. His watch and a considerable sum of money on the body were untouched. The British Consul offers a reward of $1000 for the capture of the assass: e WAR GOES ON IN CRETE. Moslems A:tack an Insurgent Force Near K.nlikastelli and Many Are K lled and Wounaed. CANEA, Cretg, June 27.—An insurgent force was atiacked by Mussulmans near Kanlikaste!li last night. Thirteen Mos- lems were killed and many wounded on both sides. The Moslems, over a thousand strong, crossed the military cordon near bere and trampe ! three hours to meet the foes. Christians are highly excited and preparing for wholesale reprisals. et FEAR TBE T ' KIFF BILL. | Luying of Camadiun Wool for the Ameri- can Market Ceascs. TORONTO, CaNaps, June 27.—Buving of Canadian wool here ior the American market has ceased through fear that ship- through here to-day to visit arms facto- ries and military stations of the United States. They will snend three months in this country and then leave for Europe with the same object. . They will make n report of their observations to the Mexi- can Government. — e Tio' Weather in Grorgia. ATLANTA, GA.,, June 27.—The heat throughout the State to-day was unasually severe. Scores of cases of prostration and six deaths are reported. 1he thermometer registered 104 at this afiernoon, i S Jameson Sails jor South ifrica. LONDON, Exc.. June 27.—Dr. Jameson, leader of the raid on the Transvaal, sailed to-day for South Africa. | | 1} 1 | | ing men. { Dublin presided. s MOR EVIDERCE OF M AWELL CHE Light on the New York Headless Corpse Mystery. Lower Fragmenis of the Body Found Six Miles From the Upper. A Stab Wound In the Heart—Large Force of Detectives Put to Work. NEW .YORK, N. Y., June 2%.—The Iywer half of the trunk of the headless corpse found in East River yesterday was found to-day in Ogden Woods, near Wash- ington bridge over Harlem River. It bad been wrapped in a p.ece of the same cheap red-and-giit table oilcloth as the East River fragment. The head and legs have not been found. The two fragments, which were found six miles apart, were fitted togsther at the morgue to-day in the presence of an afmy of doctors and detectives, all of whom agreed that they were parts of the | body of one murdered man. A stab wound in the heart and another over the left coliar-bone substantiated the murd theory. The body had been cut intoa least five parts. Chief of Police Conlin and Captain | O'Brien of the detective bureau gathered twenty-eight detect at police head quarters as soon as the doctors announced that it was a case of murder. Then the | entire squad of deteciives was immedi- ately put to work on the case, and police of many precincts were sent to make a house-to-liouse canvass of numes of miss- INDIGNATION AT DUBLIN. Irish Leaders Speak of the Failure to Release Poittical Prisoners as an Act of Jubilee Clemency. DUBLIN, Izeiasp, June 27.—A very largely attended indignation meeting was held in Pheaix Park to-night because Lrish political prisoners have not been | released as an act of clemency to mark the jubilee. High Sheriff O'Reilly of | William Field, M. P. for St. Patrick’s division, spoke. He said the Itish would call for voices and per- L p- arms from their fellow-countrymen in America. England haa ker jubiles in 1807; they will bave theirs in 1898, LONDON, Exa., June 27.—The Queen bas caused to be puolishel in the Court | Circular a statement that, finding it im- | possible to individually acknowledge the great number of congratulatory telegrams received from all paris of the emnpire, she desires to express her sincere taanks for these touching proofs of loyalty ana affec- tion. BITTER ENMITY IN MEXICO. Outbreaks Between Rival Factions of Cubans and Spaniards Only Prevented by the Vigilance of the Police. PUEBLA, Mexico, June 27.—The bitter personal enmity between | the Spaniards and Cubans in Mexico has spread to all parts of this | country. Local factions in this city are on the verge of a bloody con- flict. Outbreaks are only averted by the vigilance of the police, who will not allow either Cubans or Spaniards to congregate in squads of The same condition exists in Vera Cruz. Several killings have already occurred. Cubans are organized into | clubs in nearly all the larger cities and have contributed large sums to | the cause. Spaniards are likewise forming clubs and aiding their mother country with liberal contributions. ment was made, by which half a million dollars in gold was raised by them and sent to the Spanish Government, more than three persons. It is said a recent assess- CASTELAR Guzman Says He Will Succeed De Lome at Washington. GOOD RESULTS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW. Senor Morel Holds Canovas and the Queen Responsi- ble for Spain’s Ruin. | CUBAN INSURGENTS CONTINUE TO HOLD THEIR OWR. During an Engagement In Havana Province the Forces of Adgul- lera Are Defeated. HAVANA, Cupa, June 27.—Senor Sane tos Guzman, (b »wn leader ot the uncompromisit ish party in Ha. vana, ve informed his telar is about 10 panish Minister to Wash. ington, the position now held by De Lome, He added that Spain has good reason ta expect favorable results from Castelar's post in the United States. From Madrid comes a dispatch that Senor Morel said at a meeting at Circulo Liberal that Canovas and the Queen were responsible before the nation for the ruin of Spain. “Everybody knows,” Morel added, “'that Weyler’s recall has been de- cided upon, yet Weyler is still in Cuba merely that Canovas' pride may not be humbled now that bis opponents ars clamoring for Weyler’s speedy recall,” At Madruga, Havana Province, a hard engagement was fought yesteraay be- tween the Sparish column of Colonel ell- Span is reported to b adherents that Senor C be appolnted | Agailera and the Cuban forces of Colonel Raoul hours. The Spaniards retreated in disorder. Many of the Spanish soldiers entered the town panic-stricken, without arms. Colonel Agutlera lost eighty men killed and 217 wounded. To conceal this defeat of the Spanish the wounded were brought to Havana secretly at night and vlaced in three different hospitals, Among them is 8 major and several other officers. MADRID, Srary, June A dispateh to the Imparcial from Havana says there is much alarm over the great increase in sickness. The heat, which is terrible, renders the soldiers more susceptible to attack and militates agamst recovery. Twenty thousand men have been taken 10 hospitals suffering from yellow fever or dysentery. Arango. The battle lasted nine - 6 OFF KILLI AMERICANS, New' There Ave Only Five Left in Pinap del Kio Province. HAVANA, Cusa, June 27.—John Jones, an American from New Orleans who had served a year with Maceo anda surrendered recently to the Spanish, has just reached Huvana. He sistes that the majority of American residents in the province of Pinar del Rio have been killed. There are only five Americans now province. Weyler has 4 nillo. living in the rived in Manza- . Spain’s Latest War Loan. MADRID, Searv, June The Govern- KEW TO-DAY — ST HE pain that somes times strikes a man at the most inoppor- tune moment is due to indigestion. It may come in the midst of a dinner and make the feast ~a mockery. It is a reminder that he may not eat what he chooses, mnor when he ct He is a slave to we stomach. Frequently he doesn’t even know whether the thing be eats is going to agree with hi not, The things that please his palate most are often the worst for him to eat. Even the simplest food is likely to cause him misery and sleepless- ness. His first trouble was very slight— very simple—very casy to cure. He ate something indigestible and it stuck some place in his digestive syst He ate more things and they stuck. Part of his diges- tion stopped altogether—that is constipa- tion. Constipation is so common that more than half the people in America are troub- led with it. It is so serious that nine- tenths of the sickness of the world is traceable directly to this common cause. A man’s health and strength depend upon what he gets out of his food. This depends on his digestion. Constipation stops diges- tion. Anybody can see that. The com- monest kind of common sense will tell you that. When digestion stops, nutrition stops, and the whole body is thrown out of order. The way to start digestion is to remove the obstruction. The way to do that is to take Dr. Pietce’s Pleasant Pellets, 3 are a positive cure for constipation and its attendant ills — headaches, sour stom- ach, flatulence, dizziness, biliousness and ‘“‘heartburn.” They are very gentlé in their action. ey simply assist nature. They give no violent wrench to the system, They cause no pain, nor griping, nor dis- comfort of any kind. You can get a free sample of from 4 to 7 ing World’s Dispensary sociation, No. 663 Main Street, Y. = If a druggist tries to sell ‘you some- thing “just as good,’ transfer your trade to another store. He is sacrificing your interests to his advantage, own pecuniary R E