The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1897, Page 1

» The Tall —C ) e R e———— B+ VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 113. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1897. ! PRICE..FIVE CEN DID HE SEEK TO MURDER McKINLEY ? Arrest of an Armed Crank on the Grounds of the White House. COMES PREPARED TO MURDER THE PRESIDENT. Had Boasted That Something Would Hap- pen on September lieved the Chief 20, and It Is Be- Executive Was in Danger. CHICAGO, Hip S Wast Pr y narrowly s n of another aded revolver use grounds in vain to se- eged important e President. idently a crank, ds, his preparation ties, and above all, his actions t few days, lead to s m more dangerous ent is fully aware of the danger to which he | was exposed to-day, but the police officers are inclined to believe that their watch 1 on of a mad tragedy similar to that which removed President Garfield from the White House. Last Friday a man put up at the Hotel Raleigh, who at once attracted attention imself by his peculiar actions. He stered as Joseph R. Jackson of Me- riden, Conn. n casual conversation he intimated that s prevented the exe he had ;come to Washington to accom- | plish some great work, and to one or two id the world would know more of by September 20. To-day he loitered about the White House, and it was apparent from his talk that he believed the President was to leave Washington to-day. His prediction about the great things to happen on Sep- tember 20 were remembered, and as he continued to haunt the White House grounds until dusk he was taken into custody on general principles. The officers thought nothing of arl until on searching the man they found the loadedrevolver. Only a charge of vagrancy and carrying concealed weap- ons can be made against him, and his treatment will not be materially different from that given to hundreds of other cranks removed from the White House grounds without disturbances, but there is nevertheless the fear and belief that President McKinley might, if he driven out this afternoon, instead of be- ing closeted with the hordes of office- he s hir seekers, been attacked and perhaps shot | as he entered his carriage. BIG STRIKE PRACIICALLY ENDED. Hundreds of Men Return to Work in | Pennsylvania—A Victory for the (perators. HAZLETON, Pa., Sept, 20.—Unless un- foreseen aevelopments occur the anthra- cite coal strike in this region is ended. To-day 1200 men, half of the full comple- ment, returned to work at the Huney Brook coilferies of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company, as dia 400 of the 1300 «t Par- Trib- | but his | the belief | the had | day by Judges Lynch and Bennet at Wilkesbarre. - I'hey were served here to- night and no resistance wus made. Emma Davis En Koule. CHICAGO, Irn, Sept. 20. — Einma D:vis, the little English girl whose strange story of eslleged captivity and SPREAD OF FEVER IN - THESOUTH ! Physicians Fail to Check the Dread Yellow Scourge. |LARGEST NUMBER GF NEW CASES. | Boarding - House Worry the Heal.h Officials. | NOW THE DISEASE GOES | NORTH. Loutslana Authorities Appsal to the Governor for Ald—Refugees Increase In Numbor. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 20 —The largest number of cases reported on any | day since yellow fever first made its ap- | pearance in New Orleans two weeks ago was recorded on the books of the Board of | Health this evening at 6 o’clock, although | at that hour not a single case had proved | fatal during the d:y. There were eighteen cases in all, includ- ing nine by Dr. Joseph Holt, alt of the lat | Victims Located in a Swell| SPAIN MUST CEASE: THE CRUEL WAR Otherwise the United | States Will Surely Interfere. WOODFORD GIVES A FAIR WARNING. Eventually It Will. Be Made Very Plain That the Cuban War Must End. BARBARITIES CANNOT NOW PREVAIL. Uncle Sem May Be Compelled to Take Steps to Secura Freedom for the Patriots. CHICAGO, IrL., Sept. 20.—The Wash- | ington correspondent of the Inter Ocean telegraphs: General Woodford has 1n- structions to make it very c’ear to the Spanish Foreign Minister that the United States will not allow this Cuban war to | continue as it has for the last two years. General Woodford is a diplomat, and he will nat precipitate matters and provcke hostilities by presenting the dispatch MONSTER METEORITE ON GOARD Return of the Bark Hope From the North of Greenland. LIEUTENANT PEARY GETS THE PRIZE. His Specimen From the Skies Is the Largest In the World. RELICS OF THE GREELY EXPEDITION SECURED. Progress of the Scientific Expedi- tion—Peary WIll A tempt to Reach the Pole Next Year. SYDNEY, N. B., Sept. 20.—The steam sealing bark Hope, with Lieutenant R. E. Peary and party on board, returning from North Greenland, arrived here at 5 o’clock this morning. All on board are well. The Hope came into port burning her last ton of coal and with her bulwarks and decks giving evidence of the furious seas of an unusually stormy summer. She is nearly as deep in the water as when she dee's Lat'mer mines, while the Cranberry, | Crystal Ridge and Harwood coliieries of the same comuany and Coxe’s collieries, | |BRITT’S ATTACK ON BIGGY Was the Sensational Feature of the Supervisorial Wrangle Yesterday. He Caught the New Appointee and Tried to Drag Him From His Chair. in the Drifton district, remain at work. The latter were to have settled the ques- tion of strtke to-day, but at the request of the operators held off until next Thurs- ay. s The employes of the Hazle mines of the Lehich Valley Company are tc-night con- sidering the question of returning in the morning, and will probably do so. Nearly 5600 strikers have returned or willdo so to- morrow, and a littte less thun that num- | ber are still out, with indications in favor of their joining the workers. The only inc:dents of to-day were small outbreaks at-Latimer and Eckley, both of which were quickly sub.ued, and the serving of warrants of arrest upon Sheriff | Martin and a number of his deputies At Latimer a band of women attempted to drive out 300 Italians who returned to | work. They were armed with clubs and stones and moved on the engine-house and the company stores. The raid Iupoked forbiddmg for a time, and was not ended until three companies of the Thirteenth Regiment with fixed bayonets has pressed back and dispersed the crowds. The break of the strike is practically a victory for the operators, as in only one or two instances have the demands of the men been granted, although several com- panies have promised to conmsider the grievances, The warrants for the arrest of Sheriff Martjn and his deputies were issued to- \ SEESS S Then the Crowd Joined in the Fight. | cruelty on a vineyard near Madera, Cal., | has excited indignation throughout the | coun rived this morning !iom San Francisco. A tag attached to her neck reads: “From San Francisco to Rock | Ferry, England.” The conductor hited | the child from the train and placed her iu the arms cf an officer from the Young Women'’s Christiau Association, who was | delesatcd to take her 10 the heme of the | association. Larter the little one was sent | on to New York, whence she wili depart | for her home in England. e gL T0 PROTECT 1HE WHITES. 1roop of the Neventh Cavalry on Guard at the Zuni Village. DENVER, CoLo., Sept. 20.—A special to the Republican from Fort Wingate, N. Mex., says: Orders were received late | last night for one troop ot the Seventh Cavalry to remain at Zuni s a guard to the white inhabitants in the neighbor- | bood of that village, but as the entire command had reiurned to this post yes- terday a troop of the Beventh Cavalry was sent back. They left this post at 2 o’clock this afternoon under command of Lieutenant Bell with twenty days’ ra- tions, ter having been duly flagged and put un- der quarantine regulations. | The most sensational incident of the |day was the announcement from Dr. Jo- | <eph Holt, ex-presideat of the Board of | Health, that he discovered mnine cases among his practice, the first of which had lcome under his observation on Friday. | Immediately upon the receipt of the let- | ter the machinery of the board was put in | motion and inspectors were sent to the | various houses where Dr. Holt reported sickness to exist. The places were all disinfected a..d guards placd in front of them, but the board said it had very little hope of the effectiveness of these meas- ures, since all those who desired were given an opportunity to escape from the infected houses. One of the houses where four patients are is a fashionable boardin.-house. The first case to develop in this house was {at 2:30 o’clock Saturday morning, and the | other cases in the same place were noted until he has given the Duke of Tetuan fair warning and allowed him to prepure for the decision that must be plven. It is not considered likely that Minister Woodford has presented his letter as yet. Itis more probable that he has indicated his purpose to present this matter for the serious consideration of the Duke of Tetuan and the Spanish Ministry as soon as the court returns to Madrid next montb. The President is somewhat of a diplo- mat himself, and it has been his policy to siow every consideration po:sible to Spain, but at the same time to be firm in his de- mand that the Cuban war must come to anend. It is a part of Minister Wood- ford’s instructions to show that Spain has lost control of Cuba, and that even with the most barbarous warfare she has been nnable to prevent the spread of the power ot the insurgents. It will also be his mission to show the Spanish Minister that the proximity of Cuba to the United Continued on Fourth Page, Continued on Fourth Page. left here in the latter party of July with her bunkers full of coal for the huge Cape York meteorite, the largest in the worla, is in her hold and bedded in tons of ballast. Lieutenant Peary bas on board, also, six Cape Rock Esquimaus, who will go with bim when he returns next year to attempt to reach the north pole. The Esquimaux have their tents, dogs, sleds and canoes. ‘They are eager for the un- dertaking and al!l the arrangements have been made. The expedition visited Cape Sabine, and relics ot the ill-fated expedition led by Greely have been obtained. The summer in Baffins Bay was marked by almost con- tinually stormy weatber and by'an un- usual scarcity of ice. The 1investigating party from the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, under R. W. Porter, landed at Cape Haven on August 3 and did not re-ewmbark unti Sep- tember 13. The party, led by Hugh Lee, Continued on Fourth Page. THERE WAS A HOT TIME AT THE HALL Police Ejected the Old Board From the Chambers of the Supervisors. BRITT STRUCK BIGGY AND IT CAUSED A FIGHT. The Disgraced Supervisors Fixed a Tax Levy in the Corridor and Made Britt Mayor---The New Board Also Adopted Great excitement prevailed at the City Hall yesterday morning. The new Board of Supervisors came in contact with the late but not lamented Solid Eight, and a battle was on immediately. A personal encounter occurred between Supervisor Bizgy and ex-Supervisor Britt, and for a few moments it seemed as if Supervisors, ex-Supervisors, police and political heelers wouid be fighting in the chambers like Kiikenny cats. Britt was dragged out of the chambers by a police officer, and when the smoke of battle partly cleared away a squad of po- lice, led by Captain Wittman, dashea through the crowd and lined upin the board room. In another moment :he tramp Supe) visors were practically kicked out of thechambers which they had held possession of since last Saturday after- noon. Tie crowd, which filled the cham- bers to the suffocation stage, cheered loudly when the disgraced ex-officials were pitched out of their seats and driven through the doors. I'his was one climax of the interesting and exciting drama., The ontcasts were given no quarter. After their ejectment from the board rooms they took up a posi- tion in the committee-room and barri- caded the doors. The police hunted them and wast'ed no time in forcing the doors open. Then they drove the *‘ex-Supes,” their attormey and clerk pellmell into the corridor. Repulsed and beaten, they hesitated. The *‘push” tried to conscle them, but the words passed to ears that had been deaf- ened by the clamar of the pubbc for their undoing. Finally they mustered up enough courags to make a stand on the cold marble slabs of the corridor, drew a dead line to escape the fumes of the “pash,” and then proceeded in a haphaz- ard sort of a way to fix a tax levy. Ittook but a few moments for these ‘brizht”’ men to decide upon a levy of $1 18 on the $100. The making of a tax levy in record- breaking time was easy for the late eight. They did a more marvelous thing in the aiternoon. They made Jimmy Britt Mayor of this big city and county. He is to hold office until Mr. Phelan desires to once more preside over tie sessions of his co-workers, and it Mr. Pheian does not take care they will remove him altogether. Deatnlike silence prevailed during the proceedings of the ‘“board,” whose office is now in its hat, and the feet cf the dis- graced crowd scratched their political epi- taphs on the marble slab. While tne farcical proceedings of the old board were being enacted, the reor- ganized board was adopting the report of the committee of the whole, which pro- vides for a tax levy of $1 14 on the $100. The day opened with the ex-Supervisors still in possession of the chamber of the board. Something out of the ordinary was expected to happen. The “push’’ and citizens interested in the impending strug- gle for tne reinsof the city government commenced to arrive about 7 o’clock in the morning. From that time on men of all characters, kinds and descriptions ar- rived upon what was soon Lo be a battle- field. When Britt called the “‘ex-Supes’’ to or- der at 9 o'clock there were fully 1500 about the doors and in the chambers. Thne ex-board started to resolve itself into a committee of the whole to consider the tax levy, but the finance committee asked further time in which to make its recom- mendations. A recess was taken and Haskins and Devany of the finance committee stepped out of the room to hold a consultation. The other six held the seats. During the recess Britt swelled up and declared that his board had no intention of keeping anybody out of the chambers. The new board might come in like any otner body of citizens, but must not in- terfere with the iransaction of public busi- ness. Delany had no fear of being ejected by the new board. He said complacentiy, when asked what he would do if the new board tried 1o take forcible possession, “Onh, we will throw them out.” All this tine the members of the new board were holding a caucus in the Mayor’s office and Chief of Police Lees was present. At 10 o’clock the ball was set rolling. Greatly to the surprise of the disgracea eight they saw a policeman forcing the crowd back, and Mayor Phelan, Cbief of Police Lees and all the Supervisors except Rottanzi filing into the board room. The old board wasted no time in sitting itself down. Sneehan, Britt, Smith, Rivers, De- Morton and Devany ciutched with -l1ke grips the arms of the chairs they occupied. They saw the impending dan- ger and were fearful of the eonsequences of forgetting to bring in pots of glue. Haskins, who apparently bad experienced ailleyy a bad night, was beaten by a whirker to his chair by Supervisor Britton. He made no attempt to wrest it from the new ap- pointee. Supervisors Clinton, Lackmann and Dodge found their old seats unoccu- pied. The o.her members of the new board stood about awaiting developments and chairs. Suddenly a gavel fell ana the Mayor’s voice rang out in a cail lor the members of the Board of Supervisors to come toorder. “*Where is the clerk?” demanded the Mayor. “I am the acting clerk of the Board of Supervisors,” said ex-Janitor Barton. meekly. The Mayor smiled at the impu- dence of Barton, who was elevated to the position by the clerk of the tramp board. Clerk Russell stepped up to the gesk with his books and psp:rs, and the Mayor asked him 1o call the roli. From this point on the Mayor not only displayed the fact that he is made of stern stuff, but that he was in command of the situation. The rollcall commenced and was first interrupted when the name of Britton was called as Supervisor of the Second Ward. Haskins stepped forward and said: “Mr. | Mavor, I claim the seat as Supervisor— | *‘Order! Proceed with ‘the rolicall,” said the Mayor. Barry answered his name and then ap- plied to the Mayor for the chair ex-Super- visor Delany was occupying. The matter was passed over and things went along smoothly until Biggy’s name was called as the representative of the Ninth Ward. The pugnacious E. Britt was on his feet in an instant, yelling: “I protest against the name of Bizgy being called as Super- visor of the Ninth Ward.”” “The cierk will disregard the protest,” answercd the Mayor in no uncertain tone. The rolicall ended with Supervisor Den« man protesting against ex-Supervisor Rivers occapying his chair. As a warning to the ‘‘ex-Supes” Mayor then said: 1 have received a certified copy of the judgment of the Superior Court removing from office the members of the Board of Supervisors. By virtue of the power vested in me by the cons'itution and statutes of the State, 1 as Mayor have filied the vacancies by appointment. The gentlemen whose names have just been called are the only legal members of the Board of Supervisors and ere entitied to their seats. I call upon you gentiemen in the name of the law to vacate the seats you are occupying. This is a question of the supremacy of the law, ana if you re- fuse to obey my demand I shall call upon the serzeant-at-aris to remove you.” The Mayor paused for a moment, and, seeing none of the late eight vacating the chairs, exclaimed, “Do you refuse?” It was like asking men in a criminal court if they were guilty. The eight failed to an- swer the question, so the Mayor turned to Rivers and said, “Mr. Rivers, will you please vacate that seat?" Rivers replied that ne would not, and Smith, who was next called upon, de- clared that he would not obey the request without an order from court. The Mayor informed him that the order had already been made, and Smith re- plied that as it had not been served on him he would not leave his seat unless force was used. Britt answered the request by saying that he was advised not to do so by bis at- torney, and that he still believed he was the Supervisor frora the Ninth Ward and under bonds to perform his duty. The remainder of the eight also refused | to obey the request, and Mr. Phelan called | upon Sergeant-at-Arms Giannini to re- | move them. Delaney was the first one that Gianmni tackled, and from the way he started 1n at { biis job it was evident that it was not to | his liking. He came near being successiul in his ef- fort with Delaney, for when he touched the captain on th> shoulder and (old him to get out of the chair the captain started torise. It may be that be intended to re- buke Giannini for laving bis hand on him, but this will never be known, for Haskins instructed him to sit down, and down he sat. Giannini made another mild show of removing the tall captain, and then looked appealingly to the Muyor. “Does he resist you?’ queried the head of the city government. Though the situ- ation wasgrave the question caused many asmile. Giannini answered that he was powerless to remove the cumbersome ob- ject, and Mr. Phelan turning to Chief of Potice Lees said: *Las Mayor of tne city direct you to enforce the law and remove these men. The sergeant-at-arms reports to me that be is unable to do so.” The Chiet whispered to a policeman and the bluecoat hastened irom the chambers. Tne voliceman had b:en disoatched tg the