The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1897. 3 . MINISTER WOODEORD N MADRID His Arrival From San Sebastian Causes a Sensation. TRAIN GUARDED BY GENDARMES. Escorted by Secret Police to| His Hotel Without | Incident. HAS A CONFERENCE WITH TETUAN. The Result, He Says, Was Most Sat- isfactory—Painad by the Press Attacks. MADRID, Spain, Sept. —The arrival of United States Minister Woodford from San Sebastian has made a sensation. The progam ascarta declara of the United States has been ed. s does not contemplate a 1 of war if Spain rejects media- tion but, accordi to report, ‘‘ostenta- tious proclamation to the world of disap- proval of the Cuban regime by suspending liplomatic relations with Spain and with- drawing the United States Minister."” General Woodfora has de ed to be in- wed on the sunject further than to conierence with the Duke of izn Minister, was of the y character. unexpected bitterness of the press 1 public opinion has been painfu sed upon bim, but he hopes this soon be allayed, as he believes his n favorable to Spanish interests, cannot comprehend that Spain ¢ mediation designed to end an | g war. He has not named a | h the war must be termi-| d, but he ho as the result of his| ders, that it wi.l be ended quickly. He | ieves the war is mflicting incalc upon tbe United States, and that itis | o prevent the organization of | expeaitio I measures were taken to protect | Woodford on his journey from | astian to this cit 1t the trip | as quite uneventfui. A party of gen- 1mes, commanded by a sub-lieutenant, southern express on which senger. olice were posted at the station, Police was in waiting | his hotel. The drive was ked by no though several people d him, receiving a bow'in return. Some comment has been caused by the that Minister Woodford’s family has , bit remains behind the French frontier. Minister Wood- plains that his party is a large one, a commodious home, and pre- fers spending a pleasant Octooer at Biar- ritz until a suvitabie residence can be se- cured here. The legation cannot be used | as a residence. General Woodiord has al- ready engaged a box at the Royal opera- bouse and has purchased horses. General Woodford has taken apart- | ments at the Hotel Rome, but receives of- | ficial visits at the lecation, where he passed the entire mgrning. e Claims to Hare Rrcaptured Las Tunas. MADRID, Cusa, Sept 26.—The declars- tion is made here and is being generally circulated that the Spanish troops in Cuba have recaptured Victoria de las Tunas, which was taken by the insur- gents under Calixto Garcia and Jesus Rabi on September 5 WILL NOT RETRACT ~ ONE WoRD Continued from First Page. curb material ambitions in older local- ites. Stockton certainly is not one of the small towns of San Joaquin Valley in- cluded in the description, but if she has | any of the heretofore mentioned condi- | tions she needs the minisirations as well as Ler sister towns not one-third her age. t is true that the people who have set- | y are in the main as good, rizht, moral and honorable as any in the world, bat it is equally true that there is here a certain cowboy contingent left over from the earhier days which is uncouth, unrefined and sometimes ious. And it is equally true that our childr'n, growing under the influence of that element and all that accompanies it, cannot be as moral and refined as they would be under petter conditions. A rowdy is a rowdy in Boston as well as in the San Joaquin Valley, but the influence of that rowdy will be smallest in the town which sup- plies the largest counter influence. We have much to be proud of and glad for in California, but we do certainly need some things we have not yet attained, and no | one realizes that more than the parent who desires the largest and best oppor- tunities for his children. A wise mother recognizes the faults of ber child, and in the privacy of her home tries to correct them. If the child goes on the street and bawis his grievances loudly so much the worse for the child. In a short letter, in which there was not space to repeat the oft-told and weli-loved tale of California’s bright achievements, I set forth the situation in my field of werk as I see it to my own people, where it would reach the eyes of those only who are as much interested as myself in trying to improve it. If California secular papers see fit to scatter broadcast facts which are disgraceful only when we iry to hide them or fail 10 1mprove them the shamo is theirs, It is evident that I have tola the truth, because it has hit o hard, 1f it results in arousing a better observ- ance of law, a pride in our moral attain- ments a8 well as in our material trivmphs and a larger interest in the moral needs of the young, it wiil only be an unex- pected and unpleasant but efficient con- tinuing of the work long since undertaken for the betterment of humaniiy. SarsH PRATT CARR. K W i\\\\\\\)“// THE LATE LIEUTENANT VON HAHNKE. 1t 1s now reported that this popular young German officer committed suicide in order to avoid a royal scandal. During Emperor William’s summer yachting cruise he is said to have caused that “‘mysterious bluck eve” by knocking down his majesty because of the latter's insulting language while speaking of the lieutenant’s mother. There was awful consternation for a time, butnio attempt to punish the officer was made. It was speedily realized that it dinary legal or military methods without stances he decided to take his own life. would be impossible to deal with him by or- the result that Europe would ring with the | <candal in which the sympathies of the public would be entirely with the lieutenant. Neverthless, his prospects, of course, were ruined and he soon learned that his father and family were also to be involved in the imperial vengeance. Under the circum- BEATING DOWN THE TRIBESMEN Mahmounds Quail at the Onslaughts of the British. Cowed by Repeated Defeats They Seem to Be Anxious to Submit. Headquarters of Haddah Mullah In the Vil.age of Jerobi Demol- Ished. SIMLA, Ixpra, Sept. 26.—The opera- tions against the Mabmounds are pro- ceeding satisfactorily. General Westma- cott has completely demolished the bead- quarters of the Haddah Mullah in the village of Jarobi, blowing up ail the forti- fications. While this was beinz done a body of Sepoys was caught in ambush 1n a defile and sharp fighting ensued, but the Sepoys succeeded in retiring with a slight loss. General Jefferys reports that he has ar- ranged an armistice of two days to enable the tribesmen to submit, which they ap- pear anxious to do after the repeated beatings they have received. Spies report ihat the Afridis and Orak- zais of the Tirah country, at a council held at Bagh, have decided to resist the 3ritish advancs, They bave sent a mes- sage to Ghoiam Hyder Khan, the Ameer's frontier general, asking him to help them. Advices from the Samana district are favorable. The severe defeats suffered by the enemyv in their attacks upon Fort Gullistan and Fort Lockhardt have dis- heartened the Alkiheisand other Orakzans in the Khanki Valley. They have sent a message to the commander at Fort | Guustan offering to make terms of sub- mission and promising to surrender all the booty and the Government rifles. It is believed tnat they wiil surrender on any terms. According to a telegram from Peshawur, a small body of Afridis was seen Friday night near the mounth of Kuyber Pass. Three Hussar officers, who were driving from Peshawur to Jamrud, were fired at bv men hiding in the rocks, less than a miie from camp. They had a narrow es- cape aud their coachman was killed. RANT MOKE WAR. Greeks Who Don’t Know When They Have Enough. ATHENS, GRExce, Sept. 26.—A large meeting was beld this afternoon 1n Con- cord square, where a resolulion was adopt- ed calling upon King George and the Cab- inet to renew the war with Turkey rather than accept the terms of peace offerea by the peace conference. Most of the addresses were bsllicose, one speaker makiog a violent attack upon the King and Crown Prince Constantine. The police endeavored to arrest him, but he escaped with the assistance of the crowd. The most influential section of the press continues peaceful in tone. e Steamer Arnbia Aground. QUEBEC, Caxapa, Sept. 26-—A dis- patch from St Jeins, seventy-tive miles above Quebec, reports that the Hamburg- American Packet Company’s steamer Arabia, outward bound from Montreal for Hamburg, is aground at La Roche and is making water rapidiy. Assistance has been sent from Quebec. SEPARATED FRON ~ HERHUSBAD Mrs. J. C. Wilmerding Jr. May Sue for a Divorce. | Gossips Are Talking About | Commodore Vanderbilt's | Great-Granddaughter. Charges of Extremes Cruelty to | Follcw the Throwing of an Ice~ | cream Dish at Deimonico’s. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 26.—The gossips in clubs are telling each other, over their toddies, that Mrs. John C. Wil- merding Jr., great-granddaughter of old Commodore Vanderoilt, has separated from her husband. They even declare the young woman will bring suit for di- vorce against Jack Wilmerding, a Knick- erbocker of Knickerbockers, whose mother was the beautiful Miss Hecksher, John Hecksher's sister, who is re'ated to the Berrymans, Winthrops, Lorillards, Spencers and Lydics. Mrs, Murie Fatimeh Allen Wilmerding is the daughter of Vanderbiit Allen. For ber father the divorce court has no ter- rors. She 1s a very pretty woman, piquant and clever. She was married to “Jack’ W .lmerding in the spring of 1892, in Grace Church chantry. The wedding was very fashionable. Then the young couple went to live at the Hanover, on Fifth avenue. Now Mrs. Wilmerding is at the Ger- lach, on West Twenty-seventh street, where she has taken rooms for the winter. Her husbend lives on Siaten Island when he is at home. Gossip say that at this moment he is in Nova Scotia on a hunt- ing and fishing trip. They say, too, the Wilmerdings have not been happy to- gether for some months; that once they separated for a time, but their friends ef- fected what seemed to be a reconciliation. Stories of further infelicities were cur- rent all summmer, and Mrs. Wilmerding has not stopped to accuse her young hus- band of extreme cruelty. They declare he has lost his temper, and on one memor- able occasion at Delmonico’s he so far forgot himself as to throw a saucer of ice- cream at his w Mrs. Wilmerding's brother, Vanderbilt Allen Jr., 1s an artist. His cousin, Corne- lius Vanderbilt Jr., rescued him from some financial disficulties in which he found nimself at Newport. For a time young Allen, scion of tue Vanderbilts, was a conductor on a Broadway cable car. BURNED IN MIDSTRE4M. Crowded Passenger Steamer Catches Fire and Many Lives Are Lost. S8T. PETERSBURG, Russia, Sept. 26.— A aispatch from Ufa, capital of the de- partment of Ufa, in Southern Russia, says that the steamer Admirai Gervais. with 200 passengers, while lying off the town, took fire while all were asleep. A terrible panic ensued, owing to the fact that, belore the passengers couid dis- embark, the steamer moved into mid- stream in order noito endanger neighbor- ing vessels. Many passengers jumped overboard to escape the flames. Some were rescued, but many more were drowned. Two were burned to a crisp and several others ser- jously. The total number of victims has not yet been ascertained. LYNCHED DURING A REVIVAL, Short Shrift Is Given a Negro Assailant in Kentucky. WORK OF A MOB ON SUNDAY. Infuriated Citizans Take the Prisoner and Promptly Hang Him. NO MASKS WORN BY THE PARTICIPANTS. ‘““Here Is the Protection We Offer Our W ves and Daughters,” Says the Leading Avenger. HAWESVILLE, Ky., Sept. 26.—At 5 o'clock this (Sunday) evening, in the midst of a revival, not a mask to be seen andin the presence of 800 infuriated peo- ple, Raymond Bushrod, a negro, was made to pay the penalty of his assauit on 14-year-old Maggie Roberts. He was swung from a limb in the courthouse yard. Bushrod yesterday afternoon, three miles below town, encountered Maggie Roberts, daughter of Ben Roberts, a prominent farmer. He not only brutally assaulted the girl, but beat and bruised her with an iron coupling-pin and left her on the railroad grade to die. The news of the outrage spread and searching parties were sent out in every direction. He was capturea in hiding at Falcon, four miles below the scene of the crime, by four of the posse. He was brought quietly to Hawesville and surrendered to the jailor, while the town was deserted searching for him. In the meantime the officers got wind of a mob and he was secretly guarded in the graveyard on the hill until morning, when he was again locked up. But the people had been determined ail day. Early they came, afoot, on horseback, in wagons and in train<, They were impatient for dark- ness to cover the ground. It was rumored that militia would arrive at:-4:40 from Owensboro for his protection. Tue angry crowd would not stand this and they placed trusty sentinelson the hill over- looking to givea sign if the train bore such protection. They failed to come, but at this time the officers thought it opportune to play a ruse, and the mob, now already furious, was led 10 believe that he had escaped from behind and a hot pursnit followed. The trail was followed only a square when the attempt to spirit Bushrod over the bilis and out of town was discovered. A few well-chosen guards, however, stayed at the jail, and as he was brought out the mob formed in front and the officers were made to yield. The excitement at this time was intense. Promptly at 5 o’clock the march to the court square, but a few steps away, was begun. Halting in front of a great shady popular, with limbs and twigs overhang- ing the most public street in town, a se- lection was made. Some delay was caused for want of a rope, but directly a new hali- inch plow-line was furnished and every- thing was in readiness for the first lynch- ing in Hancock County. In the meantime Bushrod was given an opportunity for confession and prayer. His confession was complete. He stated that he was guilty and that this was the third offense, one successful effort having b en made upon his 66-year-old aunt. After offering up his last supplication, a long and fervent prayer, the signal to haui was given and with pinioned arms behind and legs beneath, he was dangled between brick and trees. The applause as he went up was deafening. In about four minutes he was pro- nounced dead and Coroner Mitchell, claiming the body, cut it down and sum- moned a jury, whose verdict was that Bushrod came to his death at the hands of unknown parties. After the lynching the mob’s leader made a little talk. He pointed to the corpss saying: ‘‘Here is the protection we offer our wives and daughters.” o 0 S DT One More in Danger. OWENSRORO, Ky, Sept. 26.—Henry Richardson, colored, is in jail here for criminally assaulting Julia Smith, colored, 10 vears old. It not protecied by militia, lynching will be scarcely avertible. Ex- citement is intensitied by to-day’s event n Hawesville. GEBEL VICIGRIES iN GUATEMALA. Series of Engagements Between Gov- ernment and nsurgent Forces Won by the Latter. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 27.—A spe- cial to the Herald from La Libertad, Sal- vador, says: “Latest news received in this cily from Guatemala is that several en- gagements have taken place between the Government and rebel forces near Quezal- tenango, and that each fight has resultea in the defeat of the Government troops. Fighting in each instancs has been caused directly by theGoverument’s effort to take Quezaltenango from the rebels. General Socorro de Leon, who was sent by President Barrios into the fighting dis- trict with a large force of men, has goné over to the revolutionists, taking all his men. His first act after joining tiie rebel- lion was 10 capture the city of Retalhulen, which he now holds. The Government has just sent 600 men by the steamship City of Guatemala to Champerico, which port is in the rebels’ hands. The true story of the capture by the insurgents of the seaport of Ocos bas just become known. Itseems that when the rebels approached Ocos the Govern- ment authorities there made no attempt to defend the town, buttook refuge on the steamship Barracouts, and were brought 1o Salvador. S T 3 Railroad Staff Arrives, LIMA, Peru (via Galveston, Texas), Sept. 24.—Tue Hullgayoo Railway staff ar- nvfi:i at Pacasmayo yesterday. All are wel ' DUTLAWS TRAPPED BY A WOMAN Arrest of the Men Who Stopped the Oregon Overland. TAKEN IN A LODGING- HOUSE. Officers Led to Their Room by the Proprietress of the Place. NO DOUBT AS TO THEIR IDENTITY. Engineer Evans’ Pocketbook Found In a Carrlage They Engaged at a Livery. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 26.—Two men giving the names of Charles Jackson and George Williams were arrested in this city this afternoon and charged with holding up the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company’s train near Clarnie, seven miles from this city, last night. Engineer Evans and Fireman Wilkes, who were on the en- gine, positively identifi d them as the pair who led them down the track after the holdup. ‘While the men appear to be veteransin their business, their plans last night were carried out in a most bungling manner. The sum total of their haul was $16 in cash and a watch, which they took from the engineer and fireman. The clue which led to the arrest of the highwaymen was given by Mrs. Hamil- ton, who keeps a lodging-house at 83 Seventh street. On Wednesday two strangers came to her house and engaged lodgings. Whilearranging the room after the men had gone out the second day, Mrs. Hamilton noticed two shotguns, two revolvers and a square box marked, *Be- ware; handle with care”’ She thought nothing of this until last evening about 5 o’clock, when the two men drove up to the house in a carriage. Williams, the younger, ot out and went into the house and soon came out with the gunsin his hands. Auother trip was made and this time he carried out the square boX on which the warning was written, and care- fuily placed it in the buggy. When Mrs. Hamiiton read in this morning’s paper that a train had been held up just outside the city limits last night she quickly associated the move- ments of her two lodgers with the affair. She notified the Chief of Police of the ac- tions of her roomers, and said that they were in their rooms. Chief Barry and four men went to the house at 2 o’clock this afternoon. De- tective Joseph Reilly was sent into the house while the remainder of the force stood guard on the sidewalk. As soon as the robbers saw Reilly Williams jumped for his weapons, but the detective was too quick for bim, and covered each man with a revolver. Chief Barry and his force then rushed in and handcuifed the men and hurried them away to the city jail. In searching for evidence near the scene of the hold-up the police found fifteen sticks of dynamite, which evidently they intended to use in blowing open the safe of the exprees-car. The police are of the opinion that there weruv others ih the gang, but that some of them failed to reach the appointed place on time, which caused their plans to miscarry. The highwaymen hired the carriage at alivery-stable late in the afternoon, and returned it about 10:30 o’'clock last night, about an hour alter the hold-up. This morning Engineer Evans’ pocketbook, which the robbers took from him, was found in the carriage. The men are charged with train rob- bery, but it is probable an additional charge of stopping the United States mails wi | be entered against them by the United States Government. NEW TO-DAY. 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Consultation free and i vited. 232 West Second street, Los Angel 253 Washington street, Portland, Ur.; 935 Six- teenth suect, benver, Colo KOKITUK DIE AND I§ AVENGED The Chief of an Eskimo Tribe Slain in a Brawl. Killed in an Attempt to Make Two Natives Drink His Health. One-of the Slayers Pursued and Put to Death by the Dsad Ruler’s Brother. SEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 26.—Miner W. Bruce, who returned rday from his four monihs’ trading trip to Alaska, stated to THE CALL correspondent to-night that while at Cape Prince cf Wales,’a mis- sion station under Rev. W. T. Lopp of the Congregational Association, and conceded to be the largest mission on the coast, he heard of the killing of Chiel Kokituk of the Selawhameets, and the subsequent avenging of the killing by the cniel’s brother. At Cape Prince of Wales is pub- lished the Eskimo Bulletin, the only yearly puper in the world, as well as the only Eskimo paper. It is edited by Mr. Lopp, with the assistance of four Eskimos, one of whom is an ar.ist of ability. From the 1897 issue of the Bulletin Bruce learned the following facts: On the night of January 2, ple were aroused from slumber by the startling news that the voung Chief Kokituk had been shot and stabued to deatn by Setartuk and his brether, Ereneruk, and that Setartuk was mortally wounded. 1t was the result of a drunken brawl, the chief taking exception to Setartuk’s refusal of an invitation to drink his health and showing his displeasure by emptying a revolver in the offender’s direction. When the bullets were spent, Setartuk with a knife and his brother, Ereheruk, with a rifle, succeeded in let- ting the chief’s spirit escape through many wounds. Okboak, brother of Kokituk, ‘was obliged by the customs of the Eskimo to avenge the cuief’s death. He had inheri- ted most of bis brother's property—nhis frame house, canoe, dogs, sleds, thong and ivory and his marten, beaver, wolf, fox, wolverine, land otter, and deer skins. He was inclined to possess his holdings in peace, but with tradition strong upon bim, he sought constantly for an oppor- tunity to slay Setartuk or Ereheruk. Six months after the first shooting he came upon Ereheruk while seal hunting on the ice and shot him, Setartuk and bis relatives loaded their dog sieds and retreated to an upcoast set- tlement, leaving the coast whaler for Herschel! Island. 97, the peo- Chief Kokituk was an exceptionally in- | ¢ | A few nights later | later on a| | who had no outfits have | \\\\\\\\\\\h I W\ g D N s Z = = = = = oy = Z S = N E N %, \ 2 N THE BALL GOES ROLLING MERRILY ON! For this week we have placed several hundred SINGLE AND DOUBLE breasted Sack Suits on a sepa- rate counter to be sold for $8.8s. effects have been reduced from $15.00 and $17.50—all the latest shades. We exchange goods, or, if we cannot please you, refund your money cheerfully. Our line of Gents’ Furnishing Goods is complete in every detail. BOTHSTORES—OPENEVENINGS S.N.W0OO0D & CO. (Columbian Woolen Mills), 718-722 MARKET STREET AN Corner Powell and Eddy Sts. NEW TO-DAY — CLOTHING. telligent young Eskimo. He arranved to accompany Captain Bruce on his retuin to the United States. The trouble was due to liquor, which had a-sumed a posi- tion in tue E<kimo missions and viliages as 8 breeder o1 evil that seems harily pos- sible to the civilized mind. Brucs says that whalers often exchange a gzallon of ium for $100 worth of furs. This exiract from the Eskimo Bulletin gives an idea of the extent to which rum is demoralizing the Eskimos: “In the history of Kengikmeets the winier of 1896 7 has never been paralleied for drunkenness, disorder and bloodshed. Liquor has been distilled in almost every house. Some have manufactured it for trade and others for family use. Those borrowed from their neighbors. Protracted drunken brawls huve often prevented many from taking advantage of favorabie conditions of ice and wind for seal and bear-hunting. At lir,uesmany were on the verge of starva- tion.’ STABBED AN OLD WAN. Henry Pollander in Jail at Hanford for an Assault Upon John Kendrick. HANFORD, Car., Sept. 26.—Henry Pol- lander, 21 years of age, to-day stabbed and probably fatally wounded John Kenarick, & man about 50 years old. The exact cause of the affray is not known, as Pollander was not disposed to talk when seen at the jail. It seems that some one tried t0 rob Pol- lander while he was asleep this morniag, and Pollander thought that Kendrick was the miscreant. This afternoon while Kendrick was sit- ting on the Southern Pacific depot plat- form Pollander went up to him and com- menced jabbing him with a pocket-knife, inflicting several bad wounds about his bead and snoulders. . Constable Gooarich interfered, but Pol- Iander drove him back by flourishing the knife. He was overpowered and taken to jail. Kendrick was taken to the county nospital, where his wounds were exam- ined and it was found that he had a bad cutn his left side, just below his heart, which may cause death. Eye-witnesses say that no quarrel pre- ceded the cutting, but that Pollander de- liberately pounced upon the old man and with the xnife commenced his deadly work. —_— Drowned in Feather River. MARYSVILLE, CaAL., Sept. 26.—Eigh- teen-year-old Victor Newkom, who resided with his sister, Mrs. H. A. Walton Jr. of Sutter County, was drowned in Feathec River, two miles south of Yuba City, late last evening. He went to Shanghai Bend sterday to fish, and itis supposed he slipped from the steep bank into the stream and, being unable to swim, met his death. The body was recovered with g-appling irons this forenoon. Sl g Mrs. Catherine Macdonald Dead. SAN JOSE, Car., Sept. 2 Mrs. Cathe erine Macdonald, wife of D. E. Macdonald and an old resident cf this city, died at her home yesterday afternoon. She was a native of New York, agea 53 years. The deceased had residet here for nearly forty years. A husband and four married wuzhters survive her. Some of these swell VOV VOVI VOO DDV BEVODDEVOVDEOVOWa, 'LEA & PERRINS’ SIGNATURE E : z E 3 z i z : y is now printed in BLUE, diagonally 3 across the OUTSIDE wrapper of every bottie of LEA & PERRINS SAUCE The Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE, as a further pro- tection against all imitations. Agents for the United States, JOHN DUNCAN’S SONS, N. Y. & TETATOTVOTOVODOT DV EVOVOID wOfi’MQWOMMQQ@N@QMQQ@Q@Q@’o