The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1897. ALWAYS GIVEN - AN ALLOWANGE Langtry Provided For by the Jersey Lily. But He Was Permitted to Deny That He Received Money From Her. i The Actress Much Affected by Her Husband’s Death and Sent Flowers to the Funeral. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. IONDON, Oct. 19.—Mrs. Langtry’s statement that she had for many years made ‘“‘adequate allowance” to her late husbana is a direct contradiction of his reiterated assurances early this year that so far from having ever received assistance from her, she had squandered his fortune. Mrs. Langtry’s assertion is quite true, for it is vouched for by the eminent solicitors, Lewis & Lewis. The agreement bstween them made a continuance ot the allowance dependent on his refraining from molesting her, while it was under- stood that he was at liberty to deny that he received any such allowance. | Mrs. Langtry has been a good deal af- fected by her husband’s death, especially since sne learned that he seemed to be suffering from the deiusion that she was engaged in a conspiracy to do away with bim. She sent & beautiful wreath of white flowers tied with her racing colors to the funeral to-day, but did no: go her- self. According to Deiective Perkins, who was employed many years ago at Holyhead when Langtry lived there, he then was still infatuated with his wife. Perkins says: “Mrs, Langtry often passed through to and from Ireland. Every occasion when he knew the time she would arrive he was invariably at the station some hours be- fora the train or boat was due. He would walk up and down, growing more and more excited until half an hour be- fore the time of her arrival, and then he would single ont the porfer and say: ‘Boy, I can’t stick it out any longer. Watch her for me. Look ciosely at her. Tell me how she looks. Doesshe look well? Is she as beautiful? What she wears? Be careful about h r dress—tell me all about it.” Then he would aart out of the station. After the train or boai had gone he would come back and question the porter most minutely, sob as if his heart would break as he learned details, and walk off from the station sobbing, apparently dazed. I have seen tears come into the eyes of the porter,”’ said Perkins, “‘at the exhibi- tion of emotion. Latterly, however, he got over this sentimentality and spoke of her with the utmost indifference.” HOK TAW HELD ON A FORGERY CHARGE Accused of Having Supplied | the Letters Used Against Yee Gee. Ex-Collector Saunders and Inter- preter Gardner Almost Come to Blows, Special Dispatch to THE CALL. YORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 12 —Word was received here to-day that Hok Taw, charged with having forged the now famous Yes Gee letters that were de- pended on by the special agents of the Treasury Department to establisha gigan- tic conspiracy for the smuggling of Chi- nese into this country, bas been held for trial at Victoria without bail. Itissaid that ex-Collector of Customs J. C. Saun- ders is behind the prosecution of Hok Taw. Yee Gee was Saunders’ official inter- vreter, and the ex-Coliector has all along contended that the prosecution of Gee was really intended only to smirch his administration of the Puget Sound cus- toms district. Itleaked out to-day that Saunders and Dr. Gardner, Chinese interpreter, of San Francisco, who iranslaied the Yee Gee letters and assisted in the prosecution of the case, had a personal altercation in Seattle shortly after the letters were pub- lished. Dr. Gardner stepped up to the ex-Col- lector in the lobby of the Butler Hotel, to assure him that he knew nothing of the letters beyond having translated tiem, and he hoped that the ex-collector would hold hira blameless in the matter of prosecution. i *You're a liar, sir,” prompi!y responded Saunders. *‘You know those letters are forgeries, sir.”” The prompt interference of friends pre- vented further hostilities, but Saunders 10-night asserts that the case against Yee Gee was the result of malice toward him- self on the part of Special Agents Cullom and Jossey.” SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—Yee Gee, the now famous Chinese, who interpretea for ex- Collector J. Saunders, will not have to face the Federal Court Jury on the charee of having attempted to brine a United States Government official. Judge Han- forda banded down an opinion this after- noon in which he ordered him discharged from the custody of United States Marsha! Ide. Judge Haaford’s action means that tha last hopes of the special Treasury officials to convict Yee Gee of smuggling and attemptine to bribe have faded away, and that Yee Gee holdsthe winning hand. —_———— MRS. FINIGAN'S LAST APPEAL. Beligves That fler—;usband Has Sev- eral Hundred Thousand Dollars Stored Away. SAN RAFAKL, Oct. 19.—Next Monday Mrs. Emily B. Finigan’s attorney will make another effort to get some of Colonel Peter A. Finigen’s hidden wealth. 8o frequently have these attempts been made and resulted in dismal failures that they have become bearded with age. However, Mrs. Finigan has sworn to another affidavit, in which she alleges that her husband, with a reputation for wealth, has stored away somewhere many thousands of dollars in cold eash. and she says $250 is necessary to equare this item. Mrs, Finigan sets fortb that she Is with- out means and that Judge Angellotti should allow her at least §300 a month alimony. Then she sorrowfu!ly admits that once before the court allowed her alimony, but she nev.r recsived it Mrs. Finnigan asserts that her husband bas “several hundred thousand doliars,’” and has always ostensibly lived so as to create and confirm the belief that he 1s wealihy. e BARRON ESTATE COMPROMISE. Appointment of Trustees for the Trust Fund Considered in Court at San Jose. SAN JOSE, Oct. 19.—The matter of ap- pointing trustees to handle the $100,000 trust fund created by the late Elward Bar- ron for the benetit of his son, George E. Barron, was up before Judge Hyland to- day. This is another step in the com- promise of the contest of Edward Barron's will by George Barron. g James A. Thompson, James E. Wals and William Barron were named as trus- tees of the fund in the will of the de- ceased, but the former died and Thomp- son and Walsh never qualified becanse of the contest that was begun. Two weeks ago they tendered their resignations. Thae appointment of new trustees was discussed at length in court 10-day. Attorney More- house suggested the names of T. S. Mont- gomery and O. A. Hal: as trustees, and Attornev Devlin suggested that the Union Trust Company of 8an Francisco. take charge of the trust. No agreement could be reached and the court tock the maiter under advisement. Attorney Morehouse announced that one of the terms of the compromise was that George E. Barron shonld receive outright $50,000 0 tne $100,000 trust fund and the accumulated interest that now amounts to $19.000. The balance of ihe fund will re- main in trust. The rest of the terms ot the compromise were not announced. The Barron estate is worth $1,800,000. CRUTSER BALTINORE ORDERED 10 DEPART Will Leave the Mare Island ! Station for San Francisco To-Day. Crew Kept at Work Throughout the Night Recelving Stores for the Vessel. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. VALLEJO, Oct. 19,— Urgent orders were received at the navy-yard to-day for the cruiser Baltimore to leave the island to-morrow for S8an Francisco. To enable | the order to b3 carried out, the crew will | be kept at work all night receiving stores | from the general storekeeper's depart- | ment. The entire force under Paymaster | Bacon will be kept on duty until after 11 | o’clock to-night. Captain Dyer expects to leave the yard for the city a: 10 o’cock to-morrow morn- ing. While at San Francisco an additional supply of coal will te taken into the bunk- ers. To-day powder and ammunition were sent aboard and tne last will be received some time during the night. A number | of minor alterations to the cruiser were | requested to te made but, owing to the sudden summons to leave the yard, the work cannot be done. The Baltimore is in splendid condition— in faet, far better than when she first went into commission. The Secretary of the Navy complimented highly the re- cent rusk work of the mechanics at the yard. Copies of his letter were posred in the various shops, that the mechanics might see for themseives how the:r efioris were appreciated by the Navy Depart- ment. e WILL NOTIFY DURRANT. Mother of the Murderer to Inform Him of the Supreme Court’s Decision. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Oct. 19.—To- morrow Thendore Durrant will learn from bis mother’s lips that the Bupreme Court will hear his appeal on November 15. Mrs. Durrant will see her son early in | the day. Durrant to-day exercised in the prison yard as usual. Some stress has been placed on the fact that the murderer did not leave his cell fast Friday. The reason for this was that Durrant wished to write. Yesterday he exercised as usual and appeared 10 be in periect health, His mustache has grown quite large and he is stout and carries his head erect. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — Attorney- General Fitzgerald said to THE CALt cor- respondent to-night that by rea-on of his motion to dismiss the appeal in the Wor- den case 1t would not now be necessary to ask for its advancement on the docket. He does not know definitely wher to look for a decision in either the Duarrant or Worden cases, but it is reasonably certain that they will both have been decided within thirty days. EUGAR CITED FOR CONTEMPT. San Quentin's Acting Warden Must Ex- plain Why lkurderer Ebanks Was Not Hanged. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 19.—Judge Torrance to-day issued a citation (o acting Warden Edgar of Ban Quentin calling upon him to show cause on November 2 why hbe snou’d not be punished for con- tempt for failing to hang Ebanks October 8, according to the sentence imposed by Judge Torrance. PUGILISIS AT SAN RAFAEL. Marin County Athietic Club Will Gire an Exhibition, SAN RAFAEL, Oct. 19.—Interest in pugilistic sport has taken a strong hold on San Rafael. Next Friday night Charles Reno, who held the amateur lightweight champion- ship of the Pacific Coast for three years, wilf meet Rudelph Grasmann oi San Ra- fael before the Marin County Athletic Club in a fifteen-round set-to. Both men have veen in training for the past three weeks and are in the pink of condition. Both use'the San Rafael Ath- letic Club’s quarters. Thé fight will take piace in Armory Hall. Joe Ray of the Olympic Club of San Francisco will partidipate in one of the preliminary bouts, — The Shotgun Was Loaded. CORTE MADERA,Oct, 19.—Silvia Man- uel of Corte Madera and George Almur of Larkspur, two boys in their ’teens, were playing with a shotgun this afternoon. Believing that the weapon was not loaded Almurdared bis companion to fire at him. The physician who was calied afterward says that thirieen shot passed through the boy’s body, three penetrating his lungs, and he will probably die. — 70 Extradite an Embeszler, She would like to get this, or part of it, and she swears that her faithful attor- neys have earned fully $1500 and have never yet received a sou for their trouble. Expenses of litigation come high nlao,. SACRAMENTO, Oct. to-day issued a warrant, on requisition of tne Governor of Massachusetts, for the arrest of John H. Uolville, accused of em- | gake Laxative Bromo bezzlement, 19.—The Governor | The case will be tried agai N THE GRASP Yellow Jack’s Sway Is Yet Unchecked at New Orleans. New Cases of a Single Day Reach the Number of Fifty-Six. So Far There Have Besen 900 Af- flicted at the Cresent City and Over a Hundred Deaths, Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 19.—There was neither hope nor encouragement in the local situation to-day. Thedeaths did not run up to an unusual mark, but there were enough of new cases ana fatalities to disappoint those who believed the fever was on the wane. As early as 7 o'ciock this eveniug the total cases of the day were perilously near the number of the record-breaking cay recently. There were at that hour forty-three casev, and there have never heretofore been more than forty-nine. Casesare being revorted from all sections of the city. There have been in this city up to the present time nearly 900 cases. Of these more thana hundred have died. The record is bad enough as it stands, but it is quite possi- ble that cases are being hidden, and, as a matter of fact, if they were reported the death rate would be less than it is now. These were the deaths to-day: Anita Vickor, Ignazia Buransalte, Antonio Ramos, Emma Stockhalen. At the hour of issuing the official report of the Board of Health to-night the num- ber of new cases to-day had reached fifty- six. Two of to-day’s deaths were among cases that were reported but a few min- utes before the fatalities became known. Barring the fact that the cases have been numerous, there is little of interest in the sitnation locally. The weather is warm and sultry, and business is de- pressed. Among the new cases is Dr, Mil- ler, a promising young phy: MOBILE, A Oct. 1 week of the fever begins with five new cases, no deaths and eleven recoveries. The temperature has steadily fallen all day and to-nighi the weather is chilly and fires are a comfort. The littie town of Flomation is depop- ulated. There were about 200 inhabitants, thirty of whom have taken some form of fever. The exodus isso complete that only the nurses and the sick remain. HONEY ISEASYTO | GET ON THE YOKOR John Malone and Companions Makz a Big Clean-Up on Their Trip Besides Running a “Hotel” and Gambling They Secures Rich Cia ms on the Minook. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. TACOMA, Wasn., Oct. 19.—John Ma- lone, president of the Warwick Liquor Company, returned on the Bertha from a sixty-day trip up the Yukon River. He went to 8t. Michael on the Humboldt, | and thence to Fort Yukon on the Alice. Unable to reach Dawson, he spent ten days at Rampart City and put in his time to advantage at ca:d playing on the steamers at Rampart aud St. Micnael. AtSt. Michael Malone, together with Dave Argyle and four other San Francisco gam- biers, opened the “Blair Hotel” ina tent and did a thriving business. Miners from Dawson ard Minook and men en route to the mines were guests at the hotel, which clesed its doors when the Bertha sailed. Next summer the Blair Hotel wili be reopened at Rampart or Dawson, for Argyle’s party as weil as Malone will start for the Yukon again with the open- ing of spring. Malone returns $15,000 better off than he was sixty days ago. He brought back nearly $10,000 in gold and invested $5000 of his own funds in claims in Mincok dis- irict. When he started, Malone was com- sioned to make investments for a New York and Tacoma syndicate, represented here by the Metropolitan Savings Bank. He took north letters of credit, and tor himself and the syndicate purchased claims Nos. 9, 41 and 50 on Hoosier No. 5 and a haif interest in No. 45 cn Hunter Creek. These claims are worth $5000 to $25,000 each, and will be either worked or sold by the syndicate. Malone employed men to wo:k them this winter, and expects to be there at the clean-up next summer. Ar- yle and his associates will return to San I'rancisco this week with $15000 among them. Part of their winnings were also | invested in claims, Maloue snys that making money on the Yukon is easy. He declares the party would have made half a million dollars this winter had they got to Dawson, and would bave made it on the square. Malone thinks that another such deso- late piace ae St. Micuael couid not be found on the face of the earth. Waier is six miles distant, wood sixty and a hard wind blows the water so nearly out of the harbor that cralt anchored there must put to seu. Malone and nis friends got so tired of their canned-zoods diet that he and Argyle banqueted Captain Hays, Purser Gould and all the Bertha’s passen- gers on their arrival at Beattle last night. Everybody ordered oysters in turee styles and a big besisteak. By midnight they were hungry again and more oysters were sacrificed, e DISASTEKS IN JAPAN, Railway Wreck and Landsiide Result in Loss of Life VICTORIA, B. C. Oct..19.—The most serious railway accident in Japan’s his- tory occurred on October 2 on the Tokaido Rnilway between Oyama and Yamaketa. The road had veen damaged by the floods and the train was precipitated into the river valley. O! the forty passengers only five escaped without injuries and seven were killed. At Mimiguan, Japan, a landslide oe- curred, by which twenty-five houses were buried and five men crushed to death. s lgaa 3 Kermeen Jury Disagrees. CARSON, Oct. 19.—Af:er being out five hours the jury in the case of Walter Ker- meen, the boy tried for burglary with in- tent to commit arson, was unable to agree ! and was discharged. It is understood that nine were for conviction. The other :hiee believed him 1o be ment ly irresponsible, n next week, —————— To Cure a Cold in One Day Quinine Tablets, Dru, Tists refund the money if i fails m‘c;'n. uscf' SORPRISE IN THE [NOT A COMMOR Counsel for the People Unexpectedly Rests Its Case. Irving Mann Not Called to the Stand to Give His Testimony. Strong Evidences Said to Be Held In Reserve, to Be Offered In R._buttal. specta Papaten to Tre Carn BAN JOSE, Oct. 19 —The prosecution’s side of the trial of Dan Dutcher for the murder of*Rancher Schofield came unex- pectedly to an end at 4 o'clock this after- noon. This was a great surprise to the defense and to the spectators, as it was expected the people’s testimony would continue the balance of the week. Irving Manp, the 17-year-oid son of Mrs. Scho- field, who first confessed that Dutcher killed his stepiather, was not called as a witness, and it is ramored that the prose- cution could not find him. One witness testified that Dutcher admitted at the county trial he was the man who killea Schofield. Dr. J. T. Higgins of Morgan Hill, who held an autopsy on Schofield’s body, was on the stand most of the dav. He de- scribed the wound in the head and the position of the body when he arrived at the Schotield ranch. A ‘skull was pro- duced and the range of the bullet de- scribed. His testimony was principally to prove the time of Schofield’s death, butin this the prosecution was unsuccessfui, for Dr. Hizgins was not certain whether Schofield died on the morning of August 7 or the evening before. He was closely cross-examined by Attorney Scheller. Dr. Jonn McMahon was sworn and tes- tified that he made a post-mortem ex- amination of the body of Georze W. Schofield at Oak Hill Cemetery on the merning of the 20.n of August. He de- scribed the nature of the wounds more minutely than Dr. Higgins had done, and said that the course of the bullet was up- ward and then downward. Nothing was left of the head but the soft structure. Deatn, in hisopinion, must bave been in- stantaneous. Bullets, when they entered the boay and struck a bone, were always deviated from their course, he said. The fractures of the head were produced both by the buliet and the impact of other bones. The course of the bullet upon entering the head was upward. If a bul- let came from a right angle, as this one aid, it would drive the hallet upward. Fen Massol was the last witness for the prosecution. At the request of the Dis- trict Attorney he went into the jail about a week ago_and had a conversation with Dutcher. He asked the defendant who killed Schofield, and Dutcher seid he aid. This was all the witness testi to. District Attorney Herrington then ap- nounced that the prosecution wou'd rest. Scheller said be was not prepared to go ahead with the defense at once, and a continuance was had until to-morrow morping, It is said that the prosecution will offer some strong testimony in rebuttal, Con- stable Fay, to whom Irving Mann and Dutcher confessed, has not yet been on the stand, and his testimony will be used | to upset Dutcher's story of killing Scho- field in defense of Mrs, Schofield. WILLIANS CONFESSED IN STOCKTON PRISON Sensational Denouement the Trial of the Young Outlaw. in Officlals Tell of His Attempt to Es- cape by Turning State’s Evidence. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. STOCKTON, Oct. 19,—Sheriff Cunning- ham and District Attorney Nutter sprang a sensation to-day in the trial of George Williams, the young man who is accused with another ex-convict named George Schlagel with having attempted to wreck two trains on the Southern Pacihc, be- tween Lathrop and Modesto, a few months ago. Willlams is a native of this county and Schlagel is a young friend of his who was in trouble before. Wiliiams is on trial before his partner and was fichting a circumstantial evidence case which Cunningham and Detective Thacker of Wellis-Fargo have built up against him. To-day Cunningham told ot the chase for the pair and their capture near Hills Ferry. After Williams bad bsen in jail for some time he sent for the Sheriff and wanted (o get out of his trouble, he said, but the officer advised him to send for District Attorney Nutter. To him Wil- liams said he wanted 1o turn State’s evi- dence and iuform on the third man in the tecond atterapt, when ‘they placed a fire on the track and stopped the passenger train. Nutter refused to accept his offer to turn State’s evidence, and later Williams called in the Sheriff again and asked himin the presence of Thacker to try toinduce the Disirict Attorney to accept his offer to contess. He confessed the crime 1o the two officers and pointed out in Cunning- ham’s rogues’ gallery the picture of the third men, who participated in the second attempt but not the first. Thacker told tne same story on the stund. He said Williams wanted to turn State’s evidence and acknowledze that he and Schlagel were the two who piled ties on the track the first time, a few days be- fore the second attempt to wreck the train. On the second attempt, he said, there were three of them. In addition to this the people had strong circumstantial evidence and the testimony of a young man named George Cook, who was sleeping with Williams fora time. He tola how Williams pro- posed to him to go with him 1n the train hold-up, and, wher he refused, threat- ened to kill him if he divulged lln.uory. oo Qe ZLumber ler Insolv-nt. SAN JOSE, Oct. 19 —Robert E. Doyle, a lumber-dealer at Mountain View, has filed a petition in insolvency. The lia- bilities amount to $6300, of which $4800 is due his father, John T. Doy'e of Menlo Park. The assets amount to $3064. FREST Crespo Dangerousty Iil. CARACAS, VENEZUEIA, O t. 19,—Presi- dent Crespo has been dangerously ill from heart disease in Mzcuto, in bis palace by the sea, where he taken recently the advice of physicians, OF THE FEVER - DUTCHER TRIAL| PRISON CONVICT Rico Morasco Demands the Favors Due a Murderer. Placed in the Condemned Men’s Row at His Own Request. The Assassin Objscts to Balng Fed on the Fare Given Other Prisoners, Special Dispatch to THE CALL. SAN QUENTIN, Oct. 19,—Murderers’ row has another occupant, and thereby | hangs a tale.” Among the condemned men in the San Quentin penitentiary there are two who have not been confined in murderers’ row. One is Dennis Mc- prison hospital because he has shown symptoms of insanity, and the other is Rico Morasco, a murderer whom the San Quentin authorities have had at work in the big jutemill. Associating and working with the other convicts, Morasco has been compelled to do as they do, live as they live aad eat the same kind of food that is served to them. This morning he struck and went to Act- ing Waraen Edgar, who is also captain of tue yard, and complained. He asked that he also be treated as the other condemned men were and be given a cell in murder- ers’ row,where he would not be compelled to work. Captain Edgar granted the request, and now there are nine men occupying cells in the row. Morasco’s request was a strange one, and has caused considerable comment. He will now receive his meals from the officers’ mess, for that is the fare served to murderers in San Quentin. Common food is not good enough for them, and it is said that the change from tne convict's fare to that of tbe murder- er's porticn is one of the reasons why Morasco asked to be placed in the row with tbe other condemned men, To work l.Lke a common petty larcenist in the jutemill wasfar beneath the dignity ofa murder r. Rico Morasco was found guilty of abor- rible murder committed in Solano County. He is a native of Iialy, slightly over 20 years of age and is cunning and scheming toa degree. He was working as a farm hand and shot down his vietim in cold blood with a weapon which he borrowed from the man he murdered. Mora co was to have been executed on August 13, 1894, but was reprieved by the Governor until next April. The prison authorities had Morasco put in the jute- mill, a thing seidom, if ever, done with men who come to the prison under sen- tence of death. The murderer proved to be one of the best workers in the mi:l. His daily portion of work was always done on time. No fault could be found with him. Ivis thought that the other conviets in the venitentiary have been talking to Morasco and telling him that he is foolish to work in the jutemill when he could have a cell in murderers’ row and eat good food without being compelled to | labor like a slave. ANNUAL CONVENTION OF FROIT-GROWERS Orchardists to Meet in the State Capital Next Month. Sp-clal Rallroad Rates From All Points In the State Offered to Delegates. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 19.—Great interest centers in the coming State Fruit Growers’ convention, which will mest in Sacra- mento on November 16 to 19 inclusive. This will be one of the most important meetings affecting the fruit industry that have ever been held in this Stase. Eminen: horticulturists will present papers dur- ing the session, treating on subjécts se- lected by each as important for the con- vention's consideration. The Southern Pacific Company offers a special one-third rate ticket for return to starting point from all polnts on its lines. The convention will meet in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, moraing, afternoon and evening. On Tuesday, November 16, President Eliwood Cooper's annual address will be delivered. Commitiees will be appointed, inc.uding one of five memubers to act on marketiag, transvortation and freight- rate questions. Various topics concern- ing the orchard will be discussed. Wednes- day wiil be consumed in discussions on markets and marketing. Thursday’s and Friday’s programmes include numerous papers on subjects of interest to fruite growers, and following each there will pe | (raordinary extended discussions of the tobics treated. It is expected that the attendance at the convention will be very large, and that every county in the State will be repre- sented. el WOULD SELL 70 UNCLE SAM. Cffer of the Bethlehem iron Com- pany to Dispose of Its Vast Plant in its Entipety. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 19.—Right on the heels of the investigation of the iron and steel works of the country by a commission of experts appointed at the last session of Congress, the announce- ment ismade of an offer from the Bethle- hem Iron Company 1o sell its vast plant in its entirety to the Government, at a price which the directors claim is less than the figures at which the Government could build a plant of its own. Sueh purchase by the Upited States, whiie removing ffom the markets of the world one of the largest iron companies in existence, would mark a most momentous departure in the bistory of steel manufac- ture. As the commission offers no sue- gestion uyon the subject, the Secretary of the Navy is ieit to make any recommenda- tion which he pleases for the action of Congress. Senator Penrose says that the present situation is caused by the failure or Con- gress to appropriate money for armor- plate, as a resuit of which three of our zreat battle-ships are held up in the course of construction. It was reported that the Bethlehem Iron Company had fixed $20.000,000 as the price at which it would s+i1 1ts works to the Gov- ernment, but eflicaals decline to say they have placed any definite figures upon their plant. S nge FRGM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Feterson, the Aeronaut, Takes an Easy Flight to the River With a Farachute. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Charles J. Peter- son, the wronaut and bigh diver, jumped from Brooklyn Bridge at 12:50 this morn-. ing. Peterson flew rather than jumped. He wore a pair of parachute wings de- signed by ‘‘Prince’’ Leo Stevens, the fa- mous aeronaut, who made countless ascensions in every part of the worla, and | who was first to use the parachute. The resuit of Peterson’'s jump shows that “‘Prince” Stevens' parachute wings are an unqualiied success. Peterson jumped from the highest point of the bridge and was not even winded. He had secretly tried the wings before and his faith in them was so strong he | went to his hazardous leap without the Carthy, who is under observation in the | least nervousness. He left the New York side at about midnight. Dr. Walker of East Eighty- first street accompanied him. They took .a cab, rode slowly and then staried back on the other side of the bridge. Mean- while Peterson was adjusting his “‘wings,” ‘When the cab reached the center of the bridge be stepped from the cab, leaped lightly to the rail and jumped out into the night. Below a boat was in waiting. In it were Mr. Stevens and another friend of the jumper, They had been waiting for some minutes and hzd begun to fear that something had gone wrong, when they saw a dark object drop toward the water as straight as an arrow. Suddenly it seemed 10 stop, then to grow larger, then it sailed away for fuily a thousand feet before it struck the water. The men in the boat puiled for their lives. Belore they could reach the spot they heard a cry, *‘Here [ am,” When they reached Peterson he was resting casily on the water, not at all in- jured, not even out of breath. He' was quickly pulled aboard and rowed ashore. In a few minutes he was as fresh as before he jumped. He saye he could have flown for miles without diffi- culty, and the wings worked perfectly. et GENERAL PUGA IS DEAD. Was the Talk of the Medical Profes- sion, Because He Regained Speech After Losing His Tongue. NEW YORK, Oct, 19.—General Freder- ico Puga, at one time Secretary of State of Venezuela and late Consul-General for that country at Fhiladelphia, died to-day in his apartments at the St. Lawrence, at Madison avenue and Eighty-eighth street. General Puga, several years ago, was the talk of the medical profession throughout the country, baving at that time bad his tongue excised at the rcots on account of a cancerous growth which threatened his life. After trying every otner remedy known to niedicine the general at last resolved to submit to the operation. It proved an entire snccess, but he suf- fered great agony for months afierward. When be finally regained his normal heslth he was able to utter only a few rutiural sounds. Gradually he learned to speak very clearly even aitficult words. Medical journals discussed his case at great lengih, and several treatises were written on it by eminent physicians. It was, according to the best authorities, the only authenticated cure of the disease of cancer of the tongue. i o e STARVATION IN CUBA. Some Cfficial Figures Upon the Frightful Ravages of Famine on the Island. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. — A special to the Sun from Havana says: The Span- ish authorities now confirm the news of ravages made by famine in the island. Last week the dreadful report of the situation in Havana and Matanzas was denied by the pre-s censor. To-day the following statement has been issusa of deaths from starvation in Matanzas prov- ince. It is an official report of the sanitary | department, aprroved by the Governor. “On October 12,” says the report, ‘‘thirty- one persons died from starvation. On October 12, a total of fourteen. “On October 13 an unknown man, sup- posed to be 80 vears ola, was found dying in the streets. He expired before he could | give any information about nimself to the police. Total for the day 23. “On October 15 the total was 95, - AUSTRIAN LEGISLATORS AT WAR. Quarreling Members of the Unterhaus Engage in a Hand-to-Hand Conflict. VIENNA, Oct. 20,1 A. Mm.—The Unter- haus hes been the scene to-night of an ex- tumult. The sitting be- gan last evening at 6 o'clock, and ever since the President took the cbair the Lefiists have been pressing to divistons a long series of ohstructive motions, amid the wildest uproar and the incessant conflicts of members with the President of the Chamber. The thirteenth vote by rolicall has just been taken. 2 a. ».—The coniusion increased umntil the Chamber became a perfect bedlam. | Finally the Leitists and Rigntists engaged in & hand-to-hand fight. Dr. Kaberin, the president of the Unter baus, then declared the sitting adjourned until 11 o’clock thi: morning (Wednes- day). » GENERAL —— McCLERNAND ILL. He Is VWery 0id and His Friends Fear That Ke Can Never Rally. SPRINGFIELD, ILn, Oct. 19. — The venerable General John A. McClernand was seized suddenly to-day with a violent attack of chills and fever and is quite il], His life is despaired of by his friends, as his advanced age makes it Vvery im- probable that he can rally. NEW TC-DAY. e o eSS e A e e He was informed by his pbysicians be- | | forenand that after it he would remain | speechless for the rest of hs life. CALL FOR A CONVENTION Gompers Summons the Affiliated Unions to Assemble. Many Wrongs of Laboring Peopl!e Remain to Be Remedied. Employment of Chldren in Fac- tories Among Important Sub- jects to B3 Discussad. Speclal Dispatch to THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — President Samuel Gompers, by Frank Morrison, sec- retary, has issued a cail to all affiliated unions for the seventeenth annual con- vention of the American Federation of Labor, to be held at Nashville, LTenn., in the ball of the House of Representatives at 10 o’clock Monday, December 13, next. Resolutions of any character or propo- sitions for changes in the constitution in- tended for consideration by the conven- tion must be submitted to the secretary at least two weeks prior to the meeting. The call makes a strong plea for a full attendance of workmen at this convention, and states that no convention in recent years has been called upon to deal with more momen:ous questions than confront the workers of to-day. The objects of the convention are, in part, thus set out in the call: “The severities of the industrial stagna- tion of the past four years has not been abated; the wrongs from which the workers suffer have not been righted ; the injustice imposed upon our people re- mains unremedied ; the overworked large mass and the unemployed many are still testimony to the folly of our age; the em- ployment of children in our factories and workshops, though moditied, lingers with us still, and the spectacle is witnessed of idle men and laboriously busy children; legislation more concerned with the privi- leges to few than to the rights of the many, with public assemblage and free speech invaded, threatened or forbidcen and the modern judicial weapon of in- junctior utilized in the effort to crush abor. These rights and wrongs and others ot equal importance, but too nu- anerous for reference here, must of neces- ‘ily be considered by the forthcoming convention, and such action devise shall tend to attain the one and seta the other,” ESCAPED FRGM THE TRITOA. Three Additional Survivors Arrive and Te'l of the Terrible Scenes When She Foundsred. HAVANA, Oct. 19.—Three add:tional survivors of the wreck of the coasting steamer Triton, which went ashors be- tween Dominca and Mariel, on the coast ol the province of P.nar del Rio, on Satur- day morning last, have arrived here. The sc2ne among the men, women and children when the steamer went asnore, the suryivors state, was terribe. When the Triton foundered there were 230 per- sons aboard her, passengers and crew, and so far only forty-nine of this number have been heard fro e Fire at an Insane Asylum. MEMPHIS, TNy, Oct 20—12:15 A. M.— The Tennessee Insane Asvium at Bolivar, Tenn., is reported burning. So far as known there is no loss of life. Particulars will not be obtainable to-night. g WAl Play tn London. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The “First Born" company, now piaving &t the Manhattan Theater, sails next Wednesday for London to inaugurate Cnarles Froliman’s manage- ment of the Duke of York Theater. HIS OWN DOCTOR You will meet a man every now and again who is his own doctor. He will buy shoes from shoemakers, meat from butchers and soap from chandlers, but he must be his own doctor. He tinkers with himself, uses every kind of tea or herb he can find. This being yourown doctor is all very good for the motherly woman of a big family, whose experience, actual contact—is great— but the ordinary man can no more be his own doctor than can a goat read Latin, or a mule study Greek. A man who finds he is suffering from a nervous disorder or who discovers that he is suf- fering from FAILING MANHO0D Should go about seeking relief the same as he would any other requisite he may require. He should go to the place that shows the greatest amount of absolute proof of its ability. If you will call to the doctors of Hudson Nedical Institute you can read for vourself files and files and files of testimonials from living men; from m:n Wwho have been cured of see cret disorders, of lost mane hood and like diseases. The doctors always use Hudyan remedy-treatment as a basis or as a foundation for the cure, and never guarantes anything of which they are not absolutely sure of keep- ing. Hudyan is a remark- able treatment In cases where dissipation or abuse has wrecked the young life of the patient. Hudvan does not Cure everything. It is a remedy for men and only for men. Consult the Hudson Doctors Free or write for circulars and testimonials. Apollinaris ... (“THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS") BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTIONS. Xllis. Market and Stockton Sts , . NoTARY puBLIC. - J. Y, NOT. 638 haned b AR T ey i e.l.llznc. 209 Vawasle