The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1897, Page 3

(EU — 3 tion THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1897. BANS DEFEAT SPANISH TROOPS Victory of Rego’s Forces in a Hand-to-Hand Engagement. Furious Charge of Insurgents With Machetes That Routed Regulars. From Santa Clara Province Come Stories of the Butchery of Starving Paclificos. HAVANA, Cusa, July 25.—One of the hottest enzagements of the war occurred Wednesday at Cartagena, Burros and Los Eununcos, three cmall villages in the | middle of estates of the same names near Cienfuegos. The Spanish forces were the battalion of S8aboya and the Cubans were Abyssinia, Albertone has nominated Gen- eral Sismondi_and Colonel Mazzatelli as his seconds. He will proceed to Marseil- les to challenge the prince. e Boxing and Wrestling Prohibited. MEXICO CITY, Mex., July 25.—The Governor of the Federal distriet in which this city is located hasissued an order prohibging wrestling matches und prize- fights within the Federal district. A num- ber of American pucilists and wrestiers recently arrived, and it is alleged they gave crooked fights. e Phitip e Kebetse Yot Active. MADRID, Srarx, July 25.—The Impar- cial publishes advices from Manila show- ing that the insurrection continues in the province o! Cavite. The rebels snrprised a Spanish column in the San Mato Moun- tains. The troops were routed, losing 200 killed and wounded. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST A MOB, Three Companies of Georgia Troops fo Protect Decatur’s Ccur house During a Trial for Double Murder. ATLANTA, Ga, July 25.—Extensive preparations have been made for the pro- tection of Edwin C. Flanagan, who is to be tried at Decatur to morrow on a charge of double murder. Up to Friday night Flanagan was incarceratea in a tumble- down jail at Decatur, which is practically & suburb of this city, but a mob scare got out and Saturday morning the Sheriff 25. About | The Span- | led by General Alfredo Rego. 2000 men fought on each side. iards were going to attack a Cuban hospi- tal near Los Eununcos, when General Recocame to the defense. After brief firing the Spaniards made a dashing bayo- net charge on ths Cuban vanguard, and the Cubans retreated. Had it not been for Rego’s courage the fight would Lave ded in his utter defeat and the capture the hospital. The Spaniards reached | the hospital itself, but there Rego, col- lscting the men again, ordered a machete charge. The Cubans poured from all sides upon the Spaniards, and in a terri- ble hand-to-hand fizht routed the Span- iards. General Rego declares the Spaniards behaved brav, with machetes was given. Then they weakened and in their flight left ninety-two | ammunition and the | rifles, 700 rounds of killed and wounded. The Cuban losses are officially declared by Rego to be r killed and fifty wounded. ards lost forty killed and sixty- nded. After the battle Rego, with his well- | known nity to prisoners, treated ded in the hospital they | In the hospital before | were only a few Cuban | The Span- v their own spies, prob- | e hospital of greater im- | sularity throughout | nfuegos is now very it. He has resumed operations in the | field after a long illness at the hospital at | Z aSwamps. He has been severely ded several times. He is considered the best horseman in the Cuban army. After a sharp skirmish with some in- | surgents four miles from Yaguajay, Santa | Clara Province,a Spanish force went to the hills of Vergara. There they founa the house of a pacifico named Manuel | Luis, They killed Luis, his brother Ma- | t1as, another pacifico named Francisco Es- | pinoso and their wives, five children and | three other men. After the bodies had been cut to pieces the Spaniards placed | 1 the house and burned it. | ras Naranjito, Santa Clara prov- | vince, a large number of pacificos crowded | -four small huts last week when a | Span column pnssed. Some of the | women asked the officars for vermission | to seek food for their dying children. “The | only answer was an attack by the Span- | iards on the defenseless people. male survivors, thirty women and thirty- nine children were taken as prisonors to | ara. The remainder with the | ere burned. nuel Fernandez Chesquillo, a natu- zed American citizen now under death tence and against whose trial Consul- General Lee has protested, is hated by the | ials because he made an affi- | culars of the murder of | Charles Gowin. - —— Rivera Remored to the Forires HAVANA, Cusa, July 25.—General Ruiz Rivera was removed from the hos- pital to Cabanas fortress to-day. The | Spaniards say he has wholly recovered | | | in for: irom his wounds and sickness, but more sinister reasons for his removal are whis- pered by Cubans. SWAM THIRTY-FIVE MILES. At:cmpt of Petar S. McNally of Boston to Cross the English Channel. LONDON, Exgraxp, Jul —Peter 8. McNally of Boston attempted yesterday to swim across the English Channel, start- | ing from Dover, intending to land at Calais. He swam thirty-five miles in | fifteen hours, and then became exhausted | and delirious. He was taken aboard tne | lugger that was accompanying him when three miles off Cape Gris Nez, about twelve | iles southwest of Calais. From Dover to Calais in a straight line is about twenty-eizht miles. The fact that McNaily was picked up off Cape Gris Nez shows he was carried a considerable distance out of hiscourse by the current. Tho feat of swimming the channel has never been accomplished except by Cap- tain Webb, who crossed in 1875 in 21 hours | and 48 minutes. McNally, who is a news- paper man, has a reputation as a life-saver and has been awarded medals by the Mas- sachusetts Humane Society and the United States Government. EAILROAD BUILDING IN MEXICO. Construction of a New Transcontinental Line Being Pushed. CITY OF MEXICO, Mex., July 25.— Colonel J. H. Hampson, president of the Mexico, Cuernavaca and Pacific Railroad, has just returned to this city to make his official report to the Government of the progress of his new railway. His report states that the construction work is being pushed rapidly, and that the road will be completed and in opera- to this Uity within the next ten wee Nearly 5000 men are at work in the different construction camps. This will be the first transcontinental railroad in Mexico north of tha isthmus of Tehuante Its objective terminus on the ific coast is the port of Acapulco. further statement is made, concerning the progress of the road, that at a recent meeting of the directors at Denver, Colo., author- ity was given Colonel Hampson to push the consiruction work over the Sierra Madres to the Pacific Coast as rapidiy as the heavy grading and ballasting will permit. Sioera albertone Intends to Fight, ROME, Itavy, July 25.—Notwithstand- ing the War Office recently refused to grant permission to General Albertone to figbt a duel with Prince Henry of Orleans until the order to charge ‘ | | plicable. | would follow hustled Flanagan and H. 8. Perry, a mur- derer under sentence of death, onto a | special trolley-car and brought them here | for safety. F.anagan’s trial will occur to-morrow under a special guard of three companies of the Fifth Georgia Regiment, of which John S. Candler, the vpresiding Judge, is colonel. There is a great deal of uneasi- ness as to the prisoner’s safety. To-night he is hysterical over the gloomy outlook. Governor Atkinson promises to protect the prisoner it he is compelled to call out the entire State military force. oyt WILL CONTINUE TO OPPOSE. Japan Will Continue to Carry on a Diplo- matic War Ajainst the Annexation of Hawaii. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 25.—The Her- | ald’s Washington special says: That | Japan will continue to oppose tte Ha- waiian treaty is conclusively shown by the latest protest of the Japanese Govern- | ment, under date of July 19, which I am now able to make public for the first time, notwithstanding the seal of secrecy has has not vet been removed from it by either the State Department or the Senate Committes on Foreign Relations, to which it was recently referred by Sherman. While couched in polite diplomatic lan- guage the protest is suffic ly firm in tone to show that Japan will continue to wage a diplomatic war and possibly go further to prevent the consummation of the annexation policy. *It is impossible for Japan to view with unconcern and a spiritof acquiescence the consequences which wouid probably fol- low tue extinction of Hawailan sover- eignty,” the imperial Government sig- nificantly declares. This is not meant that Japan will resist annexation ‘‘to the utmost,” as Count Okuma is credited with saying in a recent interview, but the gen- eral tone of the note is of a character to indicate that annexation without the ‘“acquiescence” of Japan will mean a rupture of relations between the two countries. Isthe purpose of the administration to ignore the protesi. Its receipt has been acknowledged, but the State Department has concluded not to :urther argue the question, and tte President will continue 1o urge the ratification of the treaty just as if the protest was never received. In Minister Hoshi’s reply he says that Japan admits the predominant influence of the United States in Hawaii, but ar- gues for that very reason the status quo Six old | should not be disturbed, as the amplest | guarantee that nothing inimical to this | country 18 ever apt to occur in Hawaii. Regarding the contention that no Pa- | cific power protestei when annexation was agitated four years ago he says the augmentation of Japan’s interests mean- | inap- | while render her attitude then He says the powers stopped the whole seizure oi the Pacific islands about 1892, | and with one accord agreed to stay their | hands of colonial acquisition. But the absorption of Hawaii is doubtless a signa! for the revival of dormant territorial am- bition in the Pacific, and the last vestige oi native autonomy would disappear. Continuing he says: “It can easily bs seen how this would affect the interests of Japanese subjects now engaging in increasing numbers in various undertakings in the Pacific with rofit to themselves and advantage to apan.” He quoted Bavard’s protest against Ger- many’s Samcan issue in 1838 on the same grounds. He says Japan’s position ren- ders it impossible to view in a spirit of acquiescence the consequences which the extinction of Hawaiian sovereignty. Regarding indemnity claims against Huwaii, the Minister says Japan is con- vinced of their justice, and annexation would not relieve Hawaii’'s liability. In conclusion, he disclaims any inimical de- signs on Hawaii, except to legitimately secure an observance of just obligations. -—— MURDERED IN THE WOODS, Shocking Fate of a Young Woman of Crystal Falls, Mich. CRYSTAL FALLS, Mrcw., July 25.— Within a mile of this place last evening Miss Pearl Morrison, one of the city’s most highly respected young women, was | murdered. She had spent the afternoon | visiting friends at the Great Western mine and left the residence of the Misses Brooks | about 5 o’clock to return home, but she never reached there. To-day three Iarge parties started out to make a systemaiic | search of the woods on the east sideof the | river. They were met by Miss Brooks, who reported that a tramp said he had | found the dead girl in_the woods, and zuided her to the spot. Miss Brooks took the party to the place. The girl’s face was badly battered and her throat showed finger-marks, The tramp who says he discovered the body is being held on sus- { picion. SUICIDE OF Made Despondent by Failure to Pass an Examination, NE\‘Y YORK, N. Y., July 25.—Benja- min £imon, a boy of 14, and the son of a pedd!er, committed suicide to-day because he failed to pass the entrance examina- tion for college, and the parents were too poor to allew him to continue his studies so as to enable Lim to pass Iater. He left a letter saving: *'I have afew regrets at parting with the worid at such an early age. The most important is that I have not held my resolution to agitate among the working masses for the emancipation of wage slavery by the overthrow of the cnp]lflllf!llc system, and for the establisn- ment of a co-operative commonwealtn ad- vocated by Socialist labor.”” % —_— As to Sherman's Ketirement. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 25.—The report of Sherman’s retirement is revived by the return of Whitelaw Reid, who is said to be negotiating for a lease of the Washington residence of Kmbassador Hay. Itissaid thac Reid will be the new head of the State Depariment. The rumor also couples Secretary Long’s name with the premiership. Itis said he desires to get out of the Navy Department. While 4 BOYX. because of the strictures of the latter upon the conduct of Italizn officers captured in officials naturaliy ridicule the report it is persistently circulated. THREW KNIVES AT HIS WIFE'S FACE One of the Charges Pre- ferred Against John Zerman. Inhuman Cruelty Complained of in the Woman’s Suit for Divorce. Declares That Her Husband Once Tried to Pour Burning Oil Over Her. SAN RAFAEL, Cav, July 25.—If all the allegations made in the complaint filed by Mrs. Mattle Zerman of Mill Val- ley acainst her husband, John Zerman, yesterday, are true, it was one of his pleasant pastimes to pick up knives and throw them at his wife. Mrs. Zerman says in her appeal for a divorce that while they were living in Mill Valley as man and wife in February of this year Zerman picked up the knives lying on the dinner- table at which they were sitting and com- menced to throw them at her face. The human target objected to this proceaure and, so she swears, her husband assaulted her with a carving-knife and threatened to “‘carve her to pieces.” Another act of cruelty that she accuses ber husband of occurred during the month of Junuary, 1897, while she lay upon her bed sick with fever. She told her husband of the fever and he immediately obtained a bucketful of co!d water and going to the side of the bed, threw it over her, soaking her garments and the bed and, as she claims, greatly aggravating the fever. Apparently her husband did not love her as Le should for she alleges that on one occasion while they were living in San Francisco and Zerman was in a state of exhilaration incident to holiday indul- gence he hauled the lady out of bed by the feet and just to have a little fun and amusement (ragged herall over the room, and as a fitting finale he seized her by the hair and beat her head against the floor. At other times he made 8 punching bag of her face and with his clinched fist struck her violently. Then again, so she asserts in her com- | plaint, Zerman stood before her viciously sharpening a razor and menacingly stat- ing to her: “This is for you.” These things and the frequent slappings | received, she believes were cruel, but she sets forth other acts of inhuman treat- ment that rival the thrilling accounts | found in the yellow-covered literature of the slums. Probably Zerman is familiar with the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves told in the Arabian Nights, and desired to | test the efficacy of turning burning oil on his wife, for Mrs, Zerman swears tbat while she was sleeping sourdiv, her hus- band came to the side of her bed and awoke her. He was standing over her reclining figure, holding aloft a lighted coal-oil Iamp and wildly exclaiming: “This I will pour over you.” He kept turning the lamp until the oil was about to be ignited by the flame. She jumped from her couch and ran. She alleges that he had a large number of vulzar and obscene epithets which he applied to her. Then again he choked her into insensibility, atitempted to kili ber with a hatchet, stamped on her and committed other acts that a loving hus- band should not be guilty of. The acts complained of, cover a period extending over almost their entire married life. The marriage took place in San Fran- | cisco on Juune 15, 1891, and they had been wedded about one year when Zerman, she alleges, took a notion to kick her out of bed. In January, 1892, he seized her by the throat with both hands and choked | her until she fell to the floor almost life- less from strangulation. Matters went from bad to worse, and in | the month of May the defendant was | | seized with a paroxysm of rage directed | against the plaintiff without any cause | whatever other than the eballition of his | own ungovernable temper, and there- { upon he assaulted her with a chair, which { he threw at her. He then took a stick | and “horribly and unmercifully,” as Mrs. Zerman describes it, “‘beat, bruised and | wounded her.” Many times he vowed he would kill her, and so Mrs. Zerman fled to the home of her mother for protection. There she is now. Without the means of paying her attor- ney and without a method of support for berself and her boy Percival, 5 years old, the only issue of the unhappy marriage, she has appealed t Superior Judge Ange- the conrt on Angust 2and show cause why he should not pay $150 as attorney’s fee and $75 a month alimony pending the di- vorce. In her aflidavit she alleges that Zsrman'’s salary is $100 a month; that he is connected with a big grocery firm in San Francisco and that sbe believes Le intends 1o dispose of his property in Mill Vailey so that_he may defeat her motion for alimony. In order 1o prevent this she had procured from Judge Angelotti a tem- porary restraining order, forvidding him to sell his propert SONOMA’S WINE CROP, The Corporation Already Has Eighty Per Cent of the Estmaed Yield Fledged 10 It HEALDSBURG, CiL, July 25.—With an immense crop of grapes coming and nearly every cellar in the county full of | wine, the members of the California Wine- makers’ Corporation do not intena to give the producers a cause to sell to outside buyers this falt on accountof lack of coop- erage. There is a lively strugzle on be- tween Corporation members and outside buyers as to who shall secure the crop this fall. From reliable sources it is learned that already the Corporation has 80 per cent of the estimated yield. Local coopers are busy. Windsor and Cloverdale will be the centers of hostility between the warring factions. The Wine Association has an immense cellar at Windsor and the Moulton Hill Vineyard Company at Cloverdale can handle 5000 tons of grapes during the season. James Finlayson, who has a large cellar in this city, is the only other wine-maker of any importance not a member of the corporation. The three cellars named can manufacture about 1,200,000 gallons of wine, and perhaps ten other small winer- ies in Sonoma, having a total capacity of 100,000 gallons, are not identified with the corporation. In Finlayson and a few of the smalier cellars the corporation takes little interest, for these wine-makers have a private trade, and do not come into com- petition with those who sell wholesale. The proposition offered by the Wine. makers’ Corporation to pay §5 a ton cash for grapes on delivery and $1L a ton for each cent a gallon received over 5 cents is meeting with a ready acceptance from vineyardists throughout the county. pud-5 5k o Chinaman’s Swicidn at Freno, FRESNO, Car., July 25.—Ding Fook, a | ola home in_Tennessee. lotti to compel Z:rman to appear before | | have lived here ever since.” Chinese musician who arrived here with a Chinese theatrical troupe recently, com- mitted suicide by hanging himself to a nailin the wall of his room. It is said that the fear of assassination had unbal- anced his mind. The Chinese population will pive him a grand funeral to-morrow morning. GAVE 70 CHARITY AND NOT IN VAIN Phceenix Man Repaid for a Kind Deed Done Years Ago. Money Given to a Friendless Character Is Relurned Four-Fold. “One - Thumbed Dan” Acquires Weaith From a Gold Clalm on the Klondyka. PH(ENIX, Ariz, July 25.—An incident occurred in this city to-day which corrob- orates to a remarkable degree the old the- ory that breal cast upon the waters is susceptible of returning after many a day in the shape of frosted lady-finger cake. A well-dressed man with an air of pros- perity about him walked into City Re- corder Jobs’ office and laid two yellow donble eagles on his desk in a sort of way that seemed to *a; “There are plenty more where they come from.” Then he said audibly s “Don’t you remember me, Mr. Jobs?” The Recorder surveyed the stranger offi- cially and critically, then confessed his ig- norance. “Don’t you know One-Thumbed Dan?” said the stranger, holding up his thumb- less right hand. That hand broughtback the past vividly. When Recorder Jobs had seen itlast it protruded from a bundle of rags. That was sixteen years ago in Denver, Colo., and Jobs, in a moment of weakness, had piaced a $10 coin in it with little idea of ever be- holdiug the coin sgain. Dan was not a model character in those days, but it was midwinter and Dan was hungry and Jobs had the morey to spare. Dan drifted out of the country and Jobs came to Arizona and grew a fierce set of black whiskers and got himself elected City Recorder two times in succession. Sometimes when he remembered Dan and the golden coin he gave him, Jobs suffered a pang of remorse, suspecting that the coin bhad been wrongfally employed in prolonging the life of a useless vagabond. But something happened to make a man of Dan—perhaps it _was the loan of that $10 in the dead of a Denver winter. “*As soon as I left Colorado things be- gan to grow better with me,”” he told the Recorder to-day, “and I began to make and save money, A couple of years ago I was at Seattle and saw the men starting out for Alaska. Istaked one of them and the other day he came back froin Kion- dyke with a big sack of dust for both of us. I met him at San Francisco and we shared. Then I started West to pay some old accounts. Yoursis the first one that I came across. I guess$40 will square us.” Mr. Jobs thought it would and as court | was over for the day the two men went out | and had a smile. This evening *One Thumb Dan,” otherwise Daniel Court- house, left on the Santa Fe train for his He will stop in Denver on the way and pay off some more old scores. DENIED AT SANTA CRUZ. Mrs. Seaton Explodes the Rumor of Har Betrothal to Dr. John Wiison G bbs. SANTA CRUZ, Car., July 25.—The ro- mantic story published through New Yo-k dispatchas in the Saturday San Francisco papers of the intended mar- riage of Dr. Jonn Wilson G.bbs to Mrs. Muary E. Seaton was exploded here to-day by Mrs. Seaton herself, who isat the Pa- cific Ocean House visiting her son, Scott Seaton, the chief clerk. Mrs. Seaton’s home is at the Hotel Savoy, San Fran- cisco, where she has resided for a long time. She has no thought, she says, of marrying Dr. Gibbs; she doesn’t know him and bas never seen him nor heard of him. The story is truthful enough in one particular. Mrs. Seaton is the widow of Horace Seaton, who died in 1839, and Mr. Seaton was a nephew of Collis P. Hunt- ington, but she is not related to the rail- road magnate, except through marriage. It is true, also, that Mrs. Sealon was a Miss Cheesman, but her marriage had nothing of the romantic in it. “It was a plain, every-dav sort of a marriage,” she said. “We came West to Catifornia, my husband beingin tue em- ploy of Mr. Huntington. Aiter his aeatn I returned to the East for a short time, but came back to California again and The Mrs. Seaton referred to, she said, might be the wifie of her husband’s brother, Georze, but she lived in New Jersey. The Eastern correspondent may have confounde:d the names. That Mrs. Seaton was a pretty girl at the time of her marriage thereis no doubt, for she is a handsome woman after living thirty years or more beyond girlhood. And she is a gentlewoman, modest, re- tiring, mild of manner and pleasant of voice. In talking of the newspaper story she seemed not actunally displeased, but she thought her friends would be sur- prised and wished it corrected if possible. “I understand,” she said, “now easily the mistake might have been made, snd while 1t can do me no harm Ishould like my friends in California and the East to know that I am not married again and never heard of Dr. Gibbs.” Then she smiled pleasantly and, look- ine at her son, asked: “What will the folks think of me?” Mr. Seaton smiled in return and replied that he guessed most of them would know it was untrue, for they knew she waastill in California. Rl 2 PG s PACIFIC GKOVE EMCAMPMENT, Methodist Ministers and Elders on an Annual Onting, PACIFIC GROVE, CAL., July 25.—The regular annual summer encampment, as it is called, of ministers and elders of the Metnodist Episcopal Church of California began here to-day. This gathering lasts about a week, and is a sorft of outing for its members, their wives and families, The tents and cottages of the Facific Im- provement Company are quite filled with the delegates already here, and all who are expecied have not yet arrived. Dnring the encampment the days will be spent as best plaases each individual delegate, probably in jaunts about the ad- jacent country or out upon Monterey Bay. very evening at 8 o’clock a lecture will be delivered in the Methodist Enviscopal church. Among the lecturers will be some of the leading clergymen of the Pacitic Coast. To-day the regular Sunday services were conducted under the auspices of the en- campment management, 18 presid Rev. John D. Coye, D.D., of xm'ams,'fg'{: livering the sermon both morning and evening. —_———— TENIS STKUCK AT PETALUMA. Leagus of the Cross Cadets Leare for Iheir Hom. PETALUMA, CaL, July 25 — With most of the League of the Cross Cadets con- gregated in their respective streets, the big drum gave the signal short'y after 1 o'clock to-day, and as one tent the canvas ! shelters forminz Camp Riordan were struck. After they were packed the regi- ment, in marching order, went through the drill. The bugle sounded the retreat and tke -stars and_stripes were lowered, a‘ter which the regiment, with a vast fol- lowing of friends and spectators, marched to its special train, leaving but memories of the tented field of Camp Riardon. The cadets presented a gallant apoearance on their march to the train, Scveral were Leard to exclaim tuat letaluma had “treated the boys out of sight,” and as they marched on they gave Lhree times three and a tiger to the hospitable city of hills. P e ELOPE FROM ADMONA. M.ss Lucy Coates Leaves H>r Homs in Com- pany With Young Lan Swesny of Haniord, HANFORD, Car., July 25.—Miss Lucy Coates, the daughter of a well to do farmer of Admona, and Dan Sweeny, aged 19 years, of Hanford, eloped to-day. While Sweeny was regarded with ill fa- vor by the young lady’s parents, owing to his unthrifty and somewhat itinerant characteristics, nevertheless he was per- mitted to pay his respects to her, pre- sumably in the belief that the relation- ship exisiing between the two was merely youthtul friendship, and that the young man’s age would preclude all possibility of a legal marriage. Accordingly last evening Sweeny called at the Coates residence and invited Miss Lucy for a carriage drive, during which, 1t is probable, the plan for their elopement was concocted. Returning at a seasonable hour the swain waited uniil the parents of the young woman had retired, when himself and his prospective bride proceeded to remove Miss Lucy’s effects from the house. 1hedrowsy parents heard a sound as of moving furniture as the trunk was carried out, but paid little attention to it. This morning they were dismayed at the discovery that their only daughter had decamped, bag and baggage. Sweeny was known to possess less than $45 at the iime, and nhe bad been ac- quainted with Miss Coates but one month. Tickets were purchased here by the two for Fresno this morning. It is surmised efforts will be made there to procure a marriage license, though steps have been taken by the young lady’s parents to cir- cumvent the elopers in doing so, as the young man is under age. et o e FISALZIA WILL CELEBRATE, There’ll Be FKejoicing When the Falley Koad Arrives. VISALIA, CaL, July 25.—An enthusi- astic meeting of the leading citizens here was held last night to make the prelim- inary arrangements for a celebration of the arrival of the Valley Railroad at this city, to take place on or about August 20. A committee on arrangements, consisting ofJ. C. Ward, A. G. Wishon, Harry Lev- inson, E. H. Hust and William Kettner, was appointed to have general charge of the celebration. A finance committee and a committee on decoration were also named. It is proposed to have a great barbecue as the center of attraction. There will be an interesting musical and oratorical pro- gramme, 2 parade and other entertaining leatures. Visalia has been looking #o anxiously for the Valley roaa since it was first pro- jected that this occasion will be made one never to be forgotten. Six or seven thou- sand people are expected to be present. e MONTEREY'S KIDNAPERS, Two Chinamen H-ld for Carrying Ah Sigh Away. MONTEREY, Car., July 25.—The pre- liminary examination of the abductors of the 14-year-old Chinese girl, Ah Sigh, was held yesterday before Justice E. Michaelis. Ah Fook and Ab Sung, two of the accused Chinamen, were examined. They ap- veared in their own bebalf, having em- ploved no counsel. The witnesses for the prosecution were Constable W. G. Ryason of Watsonville, G. W. Kiley of Pajaro and Sam Moy, mother of the girl. The defendants pre- sented no witnesses, The accused abductors were held to answer before the Superior Court. Their bail was ficed at $1000 each. It 1s fairly well established that Ah Sigh herself and her lover planned the abduction, as the girl’s parents objected to their marriage. R e FRESNO HUMTING ACCIDENT, Charles B. Fond keorives a Chargs of AShot in the Shoulder. FRESNO, Car., July 25.—Charles B. Pond, while hunting to-day, attempted to cross a ditch with his cousin. His guns were pitched forward on the dashboard and then back. One of them exploded, discharging the contentsof both barrels into his left shouider. His companion, who had crossed the ditch on foot, caught the team and brought Pond quickly to town. Dr. Rowell dressed the wound, amputated a portion of the collar bone, the shoulder blade and about six inches oi the humerus. The wound may prove fatal. Pond 1s a butcher by irade, a povular man about 35 years old and hasa wiie and four children. S RED MEN AT SANTA CRUZ, Several Hundred KEwxowrsionists Picnio at the Beach. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, July 25.— The State Grand Lodge of Red Men will begin its session at- Odd Fellows’ Hall to-mor- row morning. Fifty delegates are here, having come with an excursion of Red Men, who had a picnic on the beach to- Eighteen cars were filled with them, The day was spent at the beach bathing and dancing. There were speech-making and a concert during the afternoon. The excursionists departed this evening. i Cinnabar strike in Arizona. PHENIX, Ariz., July 25.—A rich strike of Cinnabar is revorted in the vicinity of Walnut Grove, in Yavafai County. J. C. Henry of this City is said to be the lucky finder, and his report is that the ledge runs very heavy in quicksilver. This news has created a.most as much excitement in the neighborhood as though the find were of gold ore, for quicksilver is wused in large guantities in this territory, and all of it is brought from the New Almaden mines in Santa Clara County and from the Johnstown and Rnoxville mines in Lake County, Cal. Fata! Accident at Elsie. ASTORIA, CAn, July 25.—A #ad acci- dent occurred at Elsie, in the Nehalam Valley, about twenty miles from here, last evening. A large chickenhawk sailed over John Wherry’s residence. Mrs. Wherry, who wus with her husband in front of the house, ran into the house to get a rifle so he could kill the hawk. In taking the weapon down from the wall it was dis- charged, instantly killing her. Wherry is a well-known rancher. —— Auicide ac Turlock, MODESTO, Cat, July 25. — Charles Humeltenburg, an old resident of Tur- lock, committed suicide at that place this morning. For some time Humeltenburg had been sick and he was told he could not live long. To-day he made up his mind to end it all, and after taking a quantity of arsenic he placed the muzzle of a revolver into bis mouth and dis- charged it twice, causing immediate death. ———— Inhree Burgla at Hanford. HANFORD, Car, July 25.—Three houses were looted by burglars here last night. The thieves obtained several watches and otuer jewelry, besides some money. SEES HIS WIFE PERISH N FIRE Flames Destroy the Res- idence of a Meridian Rancher. Joseph Frye Has Scarcely Time to Save His Babe From Death. Badly Burned In an Attempt to Rescue Mrs. Frye From the Dwelling. MARYSVILLE, Can, July 25.—Mrs. Joseph Frye, wife of a voung farmer re- siding eighteen miles west of this place, near Meridian, Sutter County, met a hor- | rible death about midnight last night, the result of a fire whicn destroyed their home. The husband rescued their 8| months old baby, and in his efforts to | save his wife from the flames was severely burned on the arms and face. Mr. and Mrs. Frye visited at a neigh- bor’s house early in the evening. On re- | turning home the husband retired to his apartments, the wife and mother remain- ing in the sitting-room to read. About half an hour before midnight Frve was awakened by his wife’s screams, proceed- ing from her bedroom. On rushing to her Frye found the room enveloped in flames. He removed the baby in its carriage, but all efforts to save Mrs. Frye were fruitless, She was burned to a crisp. Frye does not know what started the conflagration. The woman was formerly Miss Ida Mc- Millan. FOUND ONLY A HEAP OF ROCKS. Scientists Who Ascended the Fcmous Mesa Ercantida Were Poorly Rewarded. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, July 25.— Professor Libbey’s ascent of the famous Mesa Encantida on Friday resulted in dis- appointment. It was thoug:t that inter- esting relics of prehistoric man would be | found. Instead there wasonly a monu- ment of rocks on the bare plateau, which had probab'y been erected by men. The only reward of the unique expedi- tion of Eastern scientists, therefore, is the consolation of having scaled the Mesa,l which had been inaccessible within the | memory of man. By means of a 2)4-inch bore brass can- non a steel cy!inder, with a soft iron shack and aring in the end of which a cord was attached, was shot over the Mesa after several ineffectual efforts. By means of this cord the ropes re- quired in making the ascent were pulled up. Fifteen hundred feet of rope was re- quired to reach from one side to the otner. When it was in readiness a trav- eling block was attached to a pulley which had previously been spliced to the main rope and pulled up to the edge of the over-hanging ledze. A man’s weight of rock was then placed in the chair rigged on tle traveling block and an exper mental trip made, which proved successful. took nis place in the chair and was raised to the top of the Mesa. Gordon Pearce, a newspaper man of this city, was the only other member of the party to make the dangerous ascent. -— Caplured at Kandsbura. BAN JOSE, Car., July 25.—George Wright, who embezzled $100 irom J. B. Herbert the fruit-dryer, while in the latters employ, was arrested at Randsbury to-day. Deputy Sheriff Tennant went after the man this afternoon. S e Statistics show that women marry later in life than they used to. NEW TO-DAY! BE MANLY! 0U CANNOT AFFORD TO LET PHYSL cal weakness stifle ambition and mar your future. 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