The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1897. The price paid by local buyers is 50 cents | a bushel. ( | LOST THE TRAIL OF THE DEVIL. | Lo FUH M HHY Tha Figgites, a N:w Religious Scct With Start/ing Practices, Originates in Nebraske. PAPILLION, NEgpr., July 11.—A new religious sect has sprung up in thiscounty. | It takes its name from tne founder of the | sect, Mre. Louis Figg, who is an old The San Franciscan to|settlerin that locality. For several years BEA | Mre. Pigg was a shining light in the Holi- Become:Minister to || === 8= irs | ness sect, buta few years ago she began i teaching a doctrine which the many con- Nicaragua. servative members of the Holiness creani- zation could not indorse, end now she has PERKINS PREVAILS UPON | MCKINLEY. Snider of Minnesota Had Al- ready Been Slated for | the Position. | | bu | separated herself and ber following from all other organizations. ; One of the peculiar teachings of the Figgites is that when & stranger enters the { preserce of a F.gg they know instantly whether God or the devil is present in the body of the stranger, and woe betide the wayfarer in whose physical body they should lceate his Satanic majesty. A company of thls strange sect regenny discoverea the devil in the Christian Church at Gretna in the person of a re- spected member. The disciple who dis- covered him gave & wild yell and started on his trail. Pretty soon she was aided in the chase by a half-dozen women. Scream- ing hysterically, they chased the evil one out of the church. Kound and round the ilding they ran, striking wildly at the imaginary foe. Finally they chased him over into a cornfield, where they lost the | trail. HE WILL BE SENT TO CHINA| INSTEAD. The Ex-Congressman to Succeed | Colonel Charles Denby at the w: Peking Court. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Sena- | *efforts to have Captain Wil- | Merry appointed Minister to Nic- ayador and Honduras are dikely notwithstanding the fact interview with the Presi- s ago he was given to under- that anothe had been selected | the place. It the understanding , a' that time that ex-Congressman Snider ! ticipated should the hot weather continue. | the way from the| esota would be appointed to Nic- mm e SHIPPING FRUIT T0 LONDOA. | Five Carloads Forwarced on the Sieam- ship 8t. Paul and Prices Ars Stiil Firm. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 11.—The hot weather last week caused a largely in- creased demand for lemors and a sha advance in prices, which were ful box higher at the close of the wee! during the preceding week, Asexpecied, only two cargoes could be sold at auction | here this week. A further advanceisan- There are now on CAPTAIN WILLIAM L. MERRY of San Francisco, Who Is Slated NOrrow—no der of Mir succeed Co. as Minister to China to harles Denby of Indiana. 4 the postat Peking for He was appointed during lays of Cieveland’s first admin- He was not removed by Harri- and was retained again by Cleveland. Snider is a wealthy Minneapolis. President Mc- v has told a Minnesota member of ress that he will nominate Snider to C . This will leave the Nicaraguan mission for some one else, and Captain Merry is likely to be the man. Senator Perkins told the President on Thursday that there was one favor in particular that istration. Ex-Congre sman 12" asked the President. 1o appoint my friend Cap- v of San Francisco as Minister dent was already thoroughly with Captain Merrs’s qualifica- tions, jor Senator Perkins had filed at the White House from time totime a vast number of indorsements from prominent nts and shipping men all over the Pacific Coast. They came from Califor- . Oregon and Washington. Besides / this, Senator Warner Miller of New York as especially requested that Captain Merry be given this mission. Everybody concedes that he is peculiarly fitted for the post on account of his thorough know.edge of the Nicaraguan canal enter- vrise. S erxins said to THE CALL corresponc 2 “I'il bet ar Captain Merry wil be appointed this week.” This mission includes Sslvador and Honduras also, and pays $10,000 salary. The nomination of J. W. Ragsdale of Santa Rosa as Consul to Tientsin, Cnina, expected to go to the Eenate i1n to-mor- row's big batch of apnointments. PARDON 40K AN LMBEZZLER. E. E. Carter Presented Wtih Liberty by i President McKinley. ] NEW YORK, N. Y., July 1L —E. R. Carter, who vleaded guilty to embezzle: ment of $30,600 from the National Bank of Commerce, and who was sentenced 1o six years and six months’ imprisonment in the Kings County Penitentiary in 1895, will be free to-morrow. According 1o in- formation received from Congressman | Hurley, President McKinley signed | Carter’s pardon yesterdsy. Many in- fluential persons, inc uding Congressman Hurley, tried to get the pardon, but it was secured directly through the pathetic appeal of Miss Mary Carter, the 18-year- oid daughter of tue prisoner, who per- sonally visited McKinley. - The Oklahoma Wheat Yield. | PERRY, O. T., July 1L — For more than s month the farmers of Okiahoma have been barvesting nearly day and nizht, Sundays included. The wheat is out all in the stack and bundreds of rashers are running. The wheat yield (..s expected. the Territory will be faf greater than There 1s a dearth of cars to haul wheat. The Santa Fe Railroad has set apart 1000 new cars to hely move ihe crop. The yield will not fall short of 0,000,000 bushels. In many places the | | ernment is expected to lend a hang. for Minister to Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras. | and higher prices are predicted, as the | supply is limited and only 11,200 boxes | are on the way from the Mediterranean. -two carloads of California fruit were sold at auction, against fiity-eight arloads during the previous week. he fruit received consisted mainly of plums and prunes, although there were several carloads of peaches and Bartlett pears. The latter were unusually large ior early fruit. Prices were steady and d fruit readily sold at fair rates. Tha pts of cherries were largely dimin- ished and many arrived in bad order. The first shipment of California fruit for London this season was made on the steamshin Paul last Wednesday. There were five carloads, mainly of Bart- lett pears. The snipment crates of plums and prunes and twenty- five boxes of peaches. Arrangemen have been made by two of the largest California companies to | make weekly shipments of fruit to Lon- i don throughout the season. The warm weather has caused a great increase in the demand for all kinds of seasonable fruit, and the melon market, which was pre- i viously dull, is now active, 7 e | ANARCHISIS AND IDLERS, | Mass-Meeting | in Haymarket Square That Proves a Fizzle, CHICAGO. IiL, July 1L — The an- nounced mass-meeting ef anarchists in ‘H:Aymnrkel square to-day was a fizzle. | Scarcely 300 persons were present and half the number were idlers, Lucy Par- sonsdid not speak, and the only well- known anarchist whoaddressed the crowd was Albert Oliver. He was chairman of the committee that provided for the de- fense of Spies, Parsons and their associ. ates, Who were exccated ten years ago. | None of the speeches were incendiary. Oiiver counseled moderation. The police closely watched the proceedings. I | 4N INLAMD HARBOR. Great Undertaking of Chicago and New York Capitaiiste. | CHICAGO, irr, July 11.—Chicago and New York cavitalists have organized to construct an inland harbor in the heart of i thfa Calumet region. The expenditure of private capital will be $6,000,000. Ham- | mond and East Chicago have assured | prompt co-operation and the Federal Gov- The herbor will be adapted to the deenest draught for navigation. Under present plans the work will be begun in October and its completion is expected in two or three years. Itisb-lieved thata sequel to this undertaking wili be the development of a great commercial town at the north- western gateway of Indiana. The indus- trial and agricultural resources of Indiana being linked with the shipping trade of the lakes may eventually divert consider- abletraffic from Chicago. —_—— ONE RIFLE A WHOLEZARSENAL. Italian Captain’s Invention Which Fires Eiglity Shots a Minute, ROME, ITALY, July 11.—Captain Coi of the Italian armv has invented a rifle which will fire eighty shots a minute with- out removing the weapon from the shoul- _armers report fifty bushels to the acre. der. included 200 TARRED AND ATH A Heartless Stepfather Roughly Handled by a Mob. SOUNDLY WHIPPED AND DECORATED. Sunday Morning Episode In the Town of Beatrice, Nebraska. MANY WC(MEN WATCH THE PRCCEEDINGS. The Victim, a Merchant of Flifty~- Four, Barely Escapes With His Life. BEATRICE, NeBR.,July 11.—This morn- ing a mob of several hundred masked men tovk Adam Winebrenner from the County Jail, beat him almost to death with a bullwhip and then treated him to a coat of tar and feathers. Winebrenner bad been arrested Saturday afternoon for torturing his pretty 16-year-old step- daughter, Julis L. Barton. When the voung lady was examined her back and limbs were found to be a mass of cuts and aeep wounds. They had been made, she claimed, by her stepfather using a biz bullwhip on her. His preliminary trial was held at once and be was held in $200 bail, and pending the securing of a bond he was jailed. At midnight the jail was surrounded by a howling mob. Everybody was masked, but little effort was made to hide the identity of the members, Several hun- dred men composed the mob and many women stood on the outskirts and watchea the proceedings. A window was broken in and the victim seized. He was hurried on tre run to a vacant lot near by and a big bullwhip produced. The miserable wretch was cut irom head to foot, several men taking turns. He wasa mass of blood, when a bag of feathers and a bucket of tar were secured and dashed over his trembling | body. He shrieked piteously and begged for mercy all the time. Winebrenner isa merchant, 54 years old. He is the son of Johu Winebrenner of Harrisburg, Pa., founder of the religious sect known as “The Church of God.”” He came here five years ago from Chicago ana was employed by the Belford-Clark Company, book publishers. When the mob got through their victim's clothes were returned, an opening was made in the ring formed by the moband he started on a run for the jail. Some favored hang- ing him. ATTIRE AT A SENATE FUNERAL. Unbecom ng Official Appeargnce, and a Variety ot Cosiums and Color Riva!ing Jeseph’s Coat. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1L.—The marked absence of dignity in the ceremo- nies of yesterday’'s ‘‘iuneral of state” in the Senate chamber has increased the sen- timent in favor of abolishing services of the kind. The rows of empty shop chairs, sandwiched between the mahogany seats of the Senators, for the House of Repre- sentatives, which was represented Lty fewer tnan 100 members, straggling in vithout their sp-aker, and prominent men of both sides conspicuous by their absence, & handful of Senators clad in negligee summer clothing, Ministers of foreizn countries, comprising those from Mexico, Argentine, Hawail, China, Corea, with one Corean and one Chinese attache, all under the escort of the chief clerk of the Siate Department, represented the official attendance. The pews of the dip- fomatic and executive galleries were en- tirely vacant, and both gaileries were crowded to the doors with ever-present Washington sight-seers, chatting gaily and clad in all the colors of the rainbow. This was the picture that contronted the chaplains as they arose to conduct the funeral services of the Episcopal church. | The President and five memb-rs of nis Cabinet, it 1s true, occupied big leather chairsin the review circle before the pre- siding officer, but it cannot be said _truth- fully that they added greatly to the dig- nity of the occasion. They were, unfortu- nately, in a measure the victims of cir- cumstances. In one respect at least, how- ever, the fault was their own. President McKinley conducted himself with theea y dignity characteristic of his publicappear- ance. He dressed for the occasion, which was not the case with the Cabinet officers, with the singie exception of General Al- ger. The Presidentand the Secrewary of War wore black frock coats, white vests, black ties and silk hats,and looked what they were, mourners of State. Sherman, who sat by the President, wore the familiar suit of blue, and Secretary Gage appeared in a light, gray summer suit and carried a straw hat and red gloves. Secretary Wilson, clad in black as he al- ways is, Wore, for a few moments only, light-colored gloves. Attorney-General McKenna had on a dark frock coat and gray trousers, and Secretary Porter, who constituted the escort of the Presidential party, wore a regular office suit of dark cloth and placed a straw hat conspicu- ously before him%n the floor. The Sena- tors and representatives offenled equally in dress. Buits of tow, crash linen, silk, seersucker and alpaca were much more numerons than those of wool, and Joseph’s fine coat could wnot have con- tained more varieties of color than was represented in the funeral garb of the siaresmen. Unlike the gallery crowds, who showed unmistakable signs of being entertained, Congressinen seemed to regard it all as a weary waste of time. They were eager to be elsewhere, and their uneasiness was not concenied. Even the Senatorial pail- bearers, harnessed in broad, rosetted sashes reaching to the floor, wore every- day business clothes, which pointedly directed attention to the fact that the offi- ciating House members were becomingly attired in black. Representatives who recognized the fitness of things in this re- gard acted in striking contrast to their colleagues as a body, who herded into the chamber like sheep, intent on seeing and getting seats on the ends of the rows so they could escape at the earliest oppo:- tunity. SRRSO CORRESPONDENCE WI1HRELD, No Inclination to Arowuse Kesentment in Great Britain. LONDON, Exe., July 1L.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Chronicle telegraphs that owing to tbe combined request of several prominent Senators President McKinley has instructed the State Department to withhold the ceal- fisheries correspondence. The corre- spondent adds that the President will advise Congress that the 1ssuance of the correspondence at this time is incom- patible with public interests. It is feared that the resentment the publication of the correspondence would arouss in Great Britain would be likely to jeopardize the success of the American sealing and monetary commissions. —_— PLEASURE-SEEKERS SINK AT SEA. Sloop-Rigged Cratt, Cought in a Terrific S.orm Off Long Island, Goes Dewn. LONG BEACH, L. L, July 11.—A single- masted, slooped-rigged craft, on which it is supposed were several persons, was caught in a terrific storm off the coast late this afternoon and went down. Be- fore the disaster the craft had been rock- ing wildly in the storm. Its sails were torn away and about the last thing wit- nesses on shore saw was a signal of ais- tress waving from the boat. There is little doubt that all on board perished. A three-masted, full-rigged fishing- smack, whose captain discovered the per:l of the occupants of the sloop, put out to the re:cue. For more than an hour the fishing-smack made a plucky effort to get to the smaller craft, but the heavy sea made all efforts futile. The would-be res- cuers seemed abie at no time to get within a mile of the sloop. The name of the un- fortunate craft or the number of persons on board is unknown, but it was appar- ently a pleasure pariy. LB o SAVED BY A COGL-HEADED BOY. With Great Presence of Mind Hs Pre- ven s a Terrible Rarroad Disaster in Minneso’a. FOSSTON, Mixw., July 12.—By quick action and rare presence of mind Frank Anderson, a sixteen-year-old boy, saved the Great Northern westbound express and the lives of many people aboard last night. Anderson was walking along the road just out of Burwell whea he discov- ered a pile of ties across the tracks. He tried to get them off, but was unable. He knew the “'flier’” was due at that point in a few moments, but there was no house where he could get help within a mile. He ran to the station at Burwell, and, break- ing in a window, secured waste, which he saturated with o1l and placed in little bunches along the road for adistance of 300 feet. As soon as he saw the headlight of the engine as the train rounded a curve halfa mile away he set fire to the waste. This attracted the attention of Engineer Winny, who put on the airbrakes and re- versed his engzine, but the train did not! stop untii the pilot was on top of the ties. 1ad the train been going at almostany speed it would have peen tbrown down a twenty-foot embankment. Trainmen think the ties were placed there by tramps who had been refused a free ride. A e MORE TROUBLE FOR DAN BURAS. Contest Over the Candelara Mine, Which Pays $1,000,000 a Year, Reopensd by Another Suit. DURANGO, MEex., July 11.—The con- test for the possession of the famous Can- delaria mine has been reopened by the fil- ing ot another suit in a City of Mexico court by Mark Birmingham of Boston against Dan Burns and associates, who are now in charge of the property. Burns was formerly Police Commis- sioner in San Francisco. In 1883 he and other California capitalists purchased the Candelaria mine. Birmingham was a stockholder in tbe company which sola out to Burns and associates, but he never consented to the sate, and brought suit for possession. He lost in the State court of Durango, and his appeal to the Su- preme Court of Mexico wasalso lost. Now he has brought suit again. The Can- delaria mine is one of the richest in Mex- ico. It has been paying a profit of a mil- lion dollars a year. It was first opened in 1876. S e TAPS SGUNDED FOR RANSON. Death of a Retired Ca;:fum of the Civil War Who Was Brevetted for Brilliant Serv.ces. FORT WORTH, Tex, July 11.—Captain Dunvar R. Ransom, United States army, retired, died to-day, aged 65 years. He entered the army as a second lieutenant of artillery from Vermont in 1855, and was dismissed by court-martial when captain of the Third Artiliery in 1872 During the Bivil War his record was par- ticularly brilliant. He received brevets of major, heutenant-colonel and coionel for services at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Kearneysville, General G. M. Dodge, president of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, when a mere youth resided with Ran- som’s mother in New Encland. Half a century laler he made her son chief sta- tioner of the raiiroad, and also brought about his restoration to the regular army by Congressional enactment in 1895, The, remains have been embaimed, and will be held pending the arrival of his brother-in-law, Captain James O'Hara, from Angel Isfand, California. P FOR ONA MELTONS EELEASKE. Favorable Report to Be Made on Senator Berry’s Resolution. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 1L.—The Herald’s Washington special savs: The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will this week make a favorable report on the resolution introduced a few daysago by Senator Berry, requesting the President to demand the im- mediate release of Ona Melton, the American newspaper correspondent who was captured on board tue Competi- tor and who has been in confinement for the last twelve months. A report review- ing all the circumstances in connection with the cess is now being prepared by Senator Davis, chairman of the committee, and will be cne of the strongest docu- ments yet prepared in benalf of the im- prisoned American. KAILKOAD U¥P POPOCATEPETL, Will Hawl Suiphur Down and Pas gers Un to the Crater, CITY OF MEXICO, Mex., July 11.—The owner of Popocatepetl, General Gasper Sanchez Ochoa, expects within three or four months.to complete his cable line to thecrater.The line will run from Tiamacas to Crater, four kilometers, and be used ior the transportation of sulphur to be pre- pared for the market. It will be made strong enough, however, to carry a limited aumber of passengers. ' As s00n as 1t is completed it will be possible to leave this city at 6 o'clock in the morning and re- turn at 6 in the evening, svending a couple ot hours at the summit of the great vol- cano. n- SRS WATELSPOUT IN MEXICO, Heary Raine Damage Crops and Cut Cff Communication, CHIAUTLA, ETate oF PUEBLA, MEXICO, July 11.—There have been tremendous rains in the mountains south of here and all communication with the port of Aca- pulco were cut off several days. South of Chilpavcinco a waterspout occurred and many houses were washed away. Crops on the Pacific side of the mountains were badly damaged. Waleott and Sterenson Meet the Queen. LONDON, Exc., July 11.—The Queen yesterday gave an audience to Senator ‘Wolcott and ex-Vice-President Stevenson of the American Monetary Commission. They were introduced by Lord Salisbury. ——————— The Japanese begin building their houses ai the top. The roof is first built and elevated on a skeleton frame. Then it affords shelter to the workmen from siorms. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. It Took 28 Delivery Wagons Besides Qur Own Regular Service to Make Saturday’s Deliveries. i nnnmnn I STril. ' I [ | ] I, [CI0IC0/0/00.00 000000000000 0000) 0000000 JO.0000000, ® ® ® ® ® © ® ® § ® (@ OO® It took 28 delivery wadons besides our own redular service to make Saturday’s delivery. Now do yow think the people enjoy clean-up prices 2 Why, it's sone the rounds like wildfire—the priceswe’re naming for Men's Swits; it’s the tall on every corner. Just think of it! A Man's Suit, dood enowsh for any one to wear. For the purpose of effecting a clean- out of our entire stock we have culled together all odd suits, sindle suwits, and these suits are among ’em at $63.50. . And the feature of it is these suits are right in the window before your eyes, under the glare of daylight ; there’'s no pid in the poke in th IOC0C0C00I000000C0BI000O0CO00000COCIO000000CI00000000000000C0C) ooooo COOI0C000000) Gaze further in our corner window and yow'll see some very stylish, dress-up swits in blue and black cheviots, Sarments that we have only a few of a kind left, and that's the reason we're so anxiows to et rid of ’em, and that's the only reason we quote these suwits at g4 .50. FURTHER! Gaze in that corner window of ours and yow’'ll find some of the handsomest Cheviot Swits yow have ever laid your eyes upon ; fashionable garments, in all- wool fabries, suwits that yow would never dream of pay- ing less than $12 for, but they're representatives of swits that have sold down to a few of a kind, and we’re anxious to det rid of ‘em. They're just as desirable in your eyes, but with us they're what we consider small lines ; hence our anxiety to det rid of ‘em, and youw'll et the benefit. These are 96.50. SO OCO0 0000000000000 00V00OOIC000000ORVOYO0CCIC000000C MEN'S TROUSERS, We have culled todether something like 1000 of em, ones that we have only 2, 3 and 4 of a kind left, after a big, busy season’s work. These are in. Worsteds and in Cheviots. We won't tell yow what their former prices were; it wouwld seem too ridiculows. Suffice it to say that these are right in our window. Yow can sece em there and yow'll find ‘em marked —-S5C--- *220299220002220202229222902022222922229299222020202902000202202299 Now You Know Why the Crowds Are at the Big Kearny-St. Store e FRISCO £\ FRISCO BOS = D""é‘ el San Francisca’s Most Popular House. San Francisco’s Only Up-to-Date House. 9,11, 18 and 15 Eearny Street. TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS 8 FLOORS. G R i RISCOBors R — San Francisco’s Leading Clothing House.