The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1897, Page 1

/ MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, PRICE FIVE CENTS. BLANCO IS ON THE WAY TO CUBA Has Secret Instructions for the Pacification of the Island. NO MONEY TO BE SPARED IN BRIBING CHIEFS. \ VOLUME LXXXIL— CHARLES A. I DANA’S WORK IS DONE Death Claims the Noted Editor After a Few Months’ [llness. . AL R AT TN SO L :;MMWM SRR WIWmmwmlmmeM i TS s el s S e T T Gt JASSES AWAY AT HIS GLEN COVE HOME. “ Dosoris,” Summer Home of the Late Charles A. Dana. DEATH ENDS » Surrounded by Members of His Family the| Distinguished Writer Answers the Final Summons---Career of the Great 'Spanish Officials Hope by Old Tactics and Force of Arms to Soon End the War If the United States Will Not and organization of that popular senti- ment which gave birth 1o the Republican | party and led to the election of Abraham | Lincoln in 1860, Mr. Dana bore no unim- | poriant part. During the first year of { was almost upon him and repeatedily rang | thebeil and atiempted to stop the car, but | it was too late and the car passed eutirely | over the little body. The mother and father came out of the Journalist. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL of the New York Sun, died at ook ok dodof his home, at Glen Cove, Long Island. ***t'kt*ttittt*it*t*t*ttfiitttittttt*i****t*tt**t; NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Charles A. Dana, editor 1:20 o’clock this afternoon at PSR 2 * » e aaeas s R TR PR T TSP st NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.— Mr. Dana’sdeath had been expected for several hours, and his family and physicians were at his bedside when the end came. His condition had been such for several months that the members of his family hzd keot themselvesin constant readiness 10 go to his bedside at any moment. v morning he had a relapse, arent that recovery was im- Several times, however, he ral- but toward mnight began to sink. During the night there were feeble rallies, but they did not t long. This morning it was hours most ¢ 1me quie {he extreme heat of Saturday and Fri- 1ad much to do with hastening death. On Friday Mr. Dana showed signs of dis- tress and every thir relieve him. He had been weakened by his long illness, ana during the summer was several times thought to be on the that the end was but a few his attendants remained al- at his bedside. The end en verge of a fatal collapse, but each time | rallied. He did not improve much witn the coming cooler weuther, and the sink- ing spells became more frequent. On Fri- day Mr. Dana was able to take only the ligh no ment and this condition continued. 1l Dina and his sisters, Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Underhill and Mrs. Branan, were at his home on Saturday | morning and were warned to stay Tiey were at e he cause of Dana’s death was cirrhosis there. the bedside when death of the liver. Oa June 9th he was at his office apparently s rong and healthy. The next day he was taken ill and he never a rds visited New York. Prepara- tions for b pleted. rial h e not yet been com- et g CHARLES ANDERSON DANA. Life of the Noted Editor Who Wield d Such Great Influence In Times of Strife and Peace. Charles Anderson Dana was born in Hinsdale, N. H., August 8, 1819. He was a descendant of Jacob, eldest son of Richard Dana, yrogenitor of most of those who bear the name in the United States, | y His boyhood was spent | afterward x possible was done to | n Buffalo, N. Y., | where he worked in a store until he was 18 yearsold. At that age he first studied the Latin grammar and prepared himself for college, entering Harvard in 1839, but after two years a serious trouble with his eyesight competled him to leave. He re- ceived an honorable dismissal, and was given his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1842 he became a member of the Brook Farm Assoc.ation for agriculture and education, being asso- ciated with George and Sophia Ripley, George William Curtis, Nathanial Haw- | thorne, Theodore Parker, William Henry Channing, Jonn Sullivan Dwight, Mar- garet Fuller and other philosophers more or less directly concerned in the remsrk- able attempt to realize a¢ Roxbury a high ideal of social and intellectual life. His earliest newspaper experience was eained in the management of the Harbin- ger, which was devoted 10 social reform ana general literature. After about two | years of editorial work on Elizur Wright's Boston Chronotype, a daily newspaper, Mr. Dana joined the staff of the New York Iribune in 1847. The next year he <pent eight months in Europe, and after his re- turn he became one of the proprietors and the manacing editor of the Tribune, a yost | which he held until April 1, 1862, The ex- traordinary influence and circulation at- tained by thatnewspaperduring the years preceding the cival war was in a degree due to the development of Mr. Dana’s genius for journalism. This remark not only applies to the making of the Tribune as a newspaper, but also to the manage- ment of its staff of writers, and to tne steadiness of its po'icy as the leading or- gan of anti-slavery sentiment. The great struegle of the Tribune under Greeley and Dana was not so much for the overihrow of slavery where it already ex- isted as against the further spread of the insiitution over the unoceupied territory, and the acquisition of slave-hoiding coun- tries outside of the Union. It was not less firm iu its resistance of the designs of the slave-holding interests than wise in its at- titude toward the extremists and imprac- ticables at the North. Inthe Tribune’s opposition to the at- tempt to break down the Missouri com- promise and to carry slavery into Kansas and Nebraska, and in the development | after fifteen years’ service on the Tribune. | Stanton in special work of imp: | the war the ideas of Mr. Greeley and those | of Mr. Dana in regard to the proper con- duct of military operations were some- what at variance, and this disagreement resulted in ihe resiguation of Mr. Dana He was at once employed by Secretary nce for the War Department, and in 1863 was ap- pointed Assistant Secretary of War, which office he held until after thesur- render of Lee. His duties as the repre- sentative of the civil authority at the scene of military operations brought bim |into close personal relations with Mr. Stanton and customed to depend much upon his ac- curate perc-ption and just estimates of men and measures for 1nformation of the actual state of affairs a: the front. At the time when General Graunt’s character and probable usefulness were unknown quantities Mr. Dana’s confidence in Grant's military ability much to defeat the powerful effort then moking to break down the rising com- mander. Mr. Dana’s first book was a volume of stories translated from the German, en- tiled, “The Black Ant” (New York and Leipsic, 1848). In 1855 he planned and edited, with Ge.rge Ripley, tne ‘‘New American Cyclopedia.” The original edition was completed in 1863. It nas since been thoroughly revised and issued “in" a mew edition under the title of “The American Cyclopedia” (sixteen volumes, New York, 1873-76.) With Generai James | H. Wilson he wrote a life of Ulysees Grant (Springfield, 1868). His “*Houss- hold Book of Poetry,” a collection of the best minor voems of the English lan- guag?, was first published in 1857 and has passed through many editions, the latest, | thoroughly revised, being that of 1884, He has also edited, with Rossiter Joun- son, ‘ Fifty Pertect Poems,”” (New York, 1883). In 1868 Mr. Dana organized a | company thst bought out the New York Bun, whose editor he became. Mr. Dana, the Nestor of American journalism, was trenchant anu sarcastic; as a critic, able and opinionated; as a politiciau, bitter and erratic, with a constant eye to busi- ness. His ability and in iustry were un questioned. He remained in control of | the Sun up to his futal iliness. Zudorse Hinry George. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 17.—The lo- | cal single-tax league, at its regular meet- ing, has adopted resoimiions indorsing the candidacy of Henry George for Mayor of | Greater New York, tendering their sup- | port and iorwarding a subscription to belp | pay the expenses of his cam paigin. Srimeang Swicide by Shooting. { BUTTE, Moxt., Oct. 17.—Jobn W. Bal- ler, formerly Assistant City Treasurer, killed himse:f thi. morning by shooting | himself through the head. George Bounds, Mrs. George Bounds, Will Thorpe and William Bounds at Work No. 3A Claim, El Dorado Creek. . Nine thousand dollars’ worth of gold was taken out of a smail vile of graval between where Mrs, B and Thorpe and W iliam Bounds are at work at her left. 8he has a team of th-m, but could not get another o3e of Bounds has taken food out to Tr.xy many a time when he would not eat, on ounds is seated The dog in Mrs. Bounds’ tap is & native animal named Trixy. ‘be four to rema . st il long enongh (o be pto ographed, Mrs, 11 «he wondered why. Trixy is a thier. He gave himself away one day, when he was secn sneaking toward the tent with a vew ham in his mouth. Mr. Bounds took afier the animal to get the ham. Butthe Esquiman dog knows a thing or two bhimself. Mr. Bounds could not get within g filty feet ot hime Trixy took off down the river, ham in moush, and “'cached” it himseli for future use. Mr. Lincoin, who were ac- | probably did | stock ! - ABABYS ! - PLEASURE t ? Little Howard Wildgans | Decapitated by Grind- ing Car Wheels. | W PLAYING WITH HIS SISTER. |Bun Down by an Electric Car | While Crossing Harrison ' Street, ACCIDENT ~ SEENER URAVOIDABLE. | | The Boy Hesitated a Moment and Then Swiftly Ran to Instant Death. L living with his par:.nts at 1416 Harrison | Howard Wildgans. street, was instantly kilied by being run electric line yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock. The accident occurred while the child was crossing the street to join his sister in play, and the body lay bleeding on the cartracks with the head and right arm entirely severed from the body a few minutes after the child left its father in the house. The car was running at a fair rate of speed and passed ten feet beyond the body after the fatal accident. Officers J. F. O'Shea and James A. Hel- yea, who were near by, went to the scene. of the accident and remov-d the body to the sidewalk to wait for the Coroner, who had been notiiea by Lieutenant Burke of the Seventeenth-streei Police Station. The bodv was soon after taken to the Morgue. The car was under the supervision of Conductor Pearson and Motorman Edear Hunt. There are manv conflicting statements regarding the accident, but Martha Ra mussen, a young girl who saw the acc dent, tells a story which is similar to that told by the motorman of the car She said: “I was sitting on the steps of the house immediately opposite the home of the Wiidgans and saw the lictle boy killed. He bad just come out of the house and was on his way across tha street to join his sister, who was playing on the side- walk on the opposite side of the street, when the car came along. The motorman rang the bell when he saw Howard cross- ing, and this scemed to confuse him, for he stopped for a moment undecided whetker to run across in front of the car or turn back. He then started to run toward us, and in the atitempt was caught by the car. Isaw the crowd gather and then noticed that they took the body away.” The motorman, who was taken to the Central police station and charged with mansiaughter, but afterward reieased on his own recognizance, siated to Captain Spillane that he notic+1 the child sitting on the curb of the sidewak whben he was about fifty yards away, but was watching other children who were playing in the street. When he saw that Howard Wild- Zans was starting to cross the street he | my loss. | generally thought ‘e two-year-old Howard Wildgans, | | 1ional Bank of | and every dollar of ready over by car No. 36 of the Harrison-street | bouse almost immediately after the acci- dent. Mrs. Wildgans fainted at the firsc sight of the body, but tue father seemed to be crazed with grief. He ran wildly toward the car where the motorman was standing and with a strap in his hand threatened to strangle the motorman for having been the cause of his son’s death. He then went to the body, but at the sick- ening sight turned faint and fell prostrate over his dead son, and was picked up with his clothes wet with blood. After the body was removed the parents were helped to their home and are now prostrated with grief. Mrs, Widgans said: “My little boy had just left his father and startea to zo to play with his sister, but I had no idea he would attempt to cross the sireet, for I bave often cautioned the children to stay on the sidewalk in frout of the house. I was about to go in search of him when 1 heard some screams and saw the car run by anda saw my baby boy on the track dead. I was soovercome that I fainted, and I do not remember anything more of the awiul accident. I will never get over He was a good child, and [ have lost two children before him and it seems more than I can bear. My hus- band is a plumber by trade and works | most of the time, but it is hard to make ends meet. 1 have three children left, but my loss 1s more than 1 can tell.” Among the passenzers on the car were Fred Wise of 270! Tehama street; S. Baden, 2015 Bush sireet; George Hessler and wife, 317 Larkin street, and Ed Court- ney, 53 Shipley street. They were all questioned by the authorities, but could throw but little light on the accident. They will appear at the inquest. Itis to bs an accident which was almost unavoidable. NYE'S FAM.LY IN VSGHE STRAITS. Misfortunes Which Have Reduced the Humorist's Widow's Income to a Mere FPritance. NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 17.—The Worla’s Asheville (N. C.) special says: Bill Nye dearly loved fun. But infinitely dearer to him were his wife and his chil- dren. Always happy, Bill Nyve's only serious thought was to provide for his wife and chiuiren after he should be taken from them. Now his wi‘ow is aimost in penury. Mrs. Clara F. Nye has scarcely $10 a week to maintain her. But she is brave and hopeful. Mrs. Nye went to Eurove in June, 1896, to place her cbildren in school in Ger- many. On July 31, 1897, the First Na- Ashville closed its doors money she possessed wasswept away. Thursday last she returned to Ashville on money bor- rowed from relatives. Mrs. Nye spoke unreservediy to-day about her. financial condition. Property valued at about $45,000 on Staten Island, N. Y., was lost by icreclosure of mortgage for $27,000 by tte Lorilla:ds. Her income now amoun:s to about $400 yearly, royal- feson the sale of her husband’s books. A&s. Nye's loss in the bank failure was aout $7000. There are five children, three boys and two :irls, the oldest, Miss Bessie Nye, aged 19, and the youngest, Douglass Nye, about 18 montbs. AFTER NINE BALLOTS. In a Missouri Court a Jury Acqu its John F. Kennedy on the Charge of Robbing the Alton Train. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 17.—John F. Kennedy, who bas been on trial :n the | Criminal Court for the past week charged with being tlie leader of the Chicago and Alion train robbe'y at Blue Cut in De- cember last, was acquitied to-day. Nine ballots were taken. Tue firat resulted 8 to 4for acquittal. The verdict was reachea at 11:30 o’clock last night, but was not de- livered to Judge Wolor! until 10:30 this morning. Kennedy is under ingictment for par- tic.pation in the Alton robbery that oc- curred on October 23 iast, alsoat Blue Cut, but the evidence against him is slight, and he will not be prosecuted again. oL FITZHUGH LEE ROBBED. While Escorting Ladies to the Wild West Show His Pocket-Book Is Stolen. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.—The World’s Kichmond (Va.) special says: General Fiizhugh Le., Consul-Géneral to Cuba, was robbed of $190 in cash and ne- gotiable notes here lusc night. He wason his way to attend Buffalo B.ll's Wiid West show. While assisting some ladies 10 et on a trolley car he was robbed of his pocket-book. Detectives were put on the case at once, but they made no arrests. ek e ek ok ok ook NEW YORK, N, Y., Oct World’s cable from Madnd says: 17.—The the work of pacification. will be deniea offi-iaily. The new governor-general has given full power, subject to certain in- structions, a part of which has been kent the Cabinet. The reserved instructions cover all the international aspects of the Cuban question, especially Spain’s rela- tions with the United States, the treat- ment of American citizens in strict ob- with the United States, respect for for- eign-owned property and possible negotia- tions with the view to leading to the sub- mission of the insurgents. Such negotiations, according to time- honored precedents of Svanish civil wirs, even on the peninsula, will be conductea behind the scenes if entered into. The Marshal has devoted a whole week to long |interviews with the Queen Regent, | Premnier Sagasta and the Mini:ters o | War, Marine, Foreign Affairs and Cul- onies. The new Government affects to consider the state of the insurrection in Cuba now to be like what it was in 1878, vices, coupled with promises of reform and amnesty, together with vigorous mil- itary operations, to close the first great rising. General Blanco is likewise equipped to bring about the pacification by every meaus pessible. Military operations will be pushed on a large scale in the eastern provinces ot Santiago and Puerto Principe from No- vember 1o April, to be seconded by the underground work of autonomists. General Blanco is authorized to assure Cubans that the instituting of reforms more liberal than those contributed Ly the Abarzuza bill of March 15, 1895, or the Canoves bills depends upon the rapid- ity and completeness of pacification, which is indispensable for a sincere execution of economic and aamiuistrative home rule, whica is not intended in anv event to go as fer as Canadian self-government. Spain does not deem an absolutely independent colonial Pariiament and executive com- patible with the condition of the colony and her own interest and sovereignty, as the majority of the autcnomists are said to be disposed to accept home rule in in- stallments. Minister Moret seems to believe that the autonomists abroad, like Giberga and others in France, and autonomist leaders in Cuba wiil be excellent auxiliaries in bringing back many to their rank and fiie who were driven into rebellion by General Wevler. Giberga spent twenty- four hours this week in Madrid incognito. He came to see Premier Sagasta and Min- ister Moret. General Blanco was selected Governor of Cuba partly because he is backed by a powerful mulitary clique, who thought him entitled to some compensation for his recall from Manila and the severe cen- sure passed on the elaring shortcomings of his policy during the first five monihs of the Philippine insurrection. He is backed, too, by Marshal Campos, who was elected to remuin in Spain to be ready in case of need to deiend the monarchy and preserve the dynasty against Ca:lisis ana Republ.cans. General Blanco was also selected on ac- count of his experience in Cuban aftairs, as he has held high commands in that colony and because in tue four years he was Governor-Genera: he steerel a course between the cid Spanish party and auto- nomists and Separatists, though he had trouble with the iatter, which his more en- ergetic l:eutenant, General Polavieja, stopped sterniy in Santiago Province The last but not least reason why General Blanco was chosen was because the Span- ish Government no longer wants a man of action there, but a steady, conciliatory, lenient ruler with some saldierly quali- ties. He was a brilliant commander in the Carlist war twenty-three years ago, but now is much aged—he is well alone in 1he sixties—ind has vecome very <tout. Blanco goes from here to Corunna, where he takes the steamship to-morrow for Havana. He 1s accompanied by Gene- Fokseded okt ook ok ko ok ko ok ko k ek ek ke ko ko Marshal Blanco, the new Governor-General of Cuba, is now on the way to that war-stricken island. use of money to bribe leaders of the insurrection and sheer force of arms the general expects to soon ““pacify’’ the patriots who have so valiantly fought for freedom, * B e e e S e R e e e T M Marshal | Blanco started to-night for Cuba to begin | No money will | be spared to buy off chiefs of the insur- | rection or make their departure from the island easy, though all such proceedings | been | secret, even from most of the members of | servance of the treaties of 1785 and 1877 | when Marshal Campos used the same ce- | | siores to give Interfere. Special Dispatch to THE CALL By the liberal PETTETTT RN ral Parrado, who will be second to him in commend in Cuba, Generals Pando, Sal- cedo, Bernal, Aguirre, Figueroa, Valder rama and Ceballos and seventy staff of- ficers, The first detachment of rew re-enforces ments goes én the same ste:mer. Five thousand troops will be sent ta the island be ore the end oi Ociober and 15000 in November. The intention isto keep the army in Cuba up to 145,000 men for the present. Tois is considered essential un- ul pacification is completed. Senor Canalejas, formerly Minister of Justice and a Democrat who seceded from the L beral pariy because he couid not see the necessity for home rule, goes on the steamer to investigate the condition of the colony. Sagasta and Moret make no se- cret of the confident hove that the United States will under;tand that Spain can fix I no date for the completion of General Blanco’s mission, and consequently the American Government will not only | abandon all thought of interference, but in the future exercise influencs 10 induce Cubans to aceept the Spanish termsand to stop filibtster cxpeditions. Sho.ld ir- reconcilables like Calixto Garcia and Go- mez persevere in the revellion, General Blanco and his lieutenanis feel contident that they will soon crush them if the United States only keeps her hands off. e U STARVATION IN CUBA. Made Desperate by Hunger, Pacle ficos Raid Markets and Are Slaughtered. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.—The Sun’s Havana cable says: Famine prevails throughout Cuba. At the town of Los Palacios, Pinar del Rio province, 5000 pacificos died between May and October 1. The situation in Matanzas City is also terrible. 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