The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1897, Page 1

N e ek kAR g e A o e ke e ek ok ek ok ke ke A e Yook ok @ . VOLUME LXXXIL—NC ). 149. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MEETS DEATH AT THE HAND | OF HIS SON Patrick Flannelly Murdered in His Redwood City Home. HIS SLAYER TAKEN AFTER A] FIERCE Brought Down Badly FIGHT. 1 Wounded by a Volley From Deputies After He Had Shot Sheritf McEvoy Through the Arm. ook stk ok o ikl kokokokokok : Bocause he had been ordered | from a old Thomas ¥iannelly City shot and killed his father, ranch for disregarding the gentleman’s wishes, of R -dwood Patrick Flannelly, lust night. | The crime was committed in ! the elder Flannelly’s house, | which the son had entered evi- dently with the intent of doing murder. The the people of Redwood City to high state of excitement. Posses were formed to pursue the parricide, and he was finally at the ranch he had ordered by his father to crime aroused a located been leave. When ealled upon to surren- der, opened fire upon Sheriff McEvoy of San Mateo of his deputies, one builet taking effect in the Sheriff’s left ar The the young Flannelly Couuty and several voliey was returned and murderer was wounded. He then surrendered and is now under a surgeon’s care. So great is the indignation in Redwood City over the killing e A e sk e e e s e e ek e sk e ok e okl g ok ke e e et ok Aok ok of the elder Flannelly that open threats against the life of his slayer, shouid the latter re- cover from his wounds, h ve been made A o ok dekok FhkE ARk ARk k kR Rk kkk CITY, e of REDWOOD Oct. 26.—Patrick | Redwood City’s most aigh specied citizens, lies cold 1n leath at his home in this city, the victim »f a son’s unna crime. On the cot in ais cell in the town jail a parricide is ossing in pain, his body pierced by bul- Sheriff McEvoy wildest excite- Redwood City, and | murderer recover from his | ¥ to face a jury | ime. Threats of | ynching are mace openly, and it may be | to place a strong guard around | 1t attempts to wreak | . trivial grievance that 1 The ets from the rev wnd bis dep ngeance It was ed the son whim granted | he was one ol the led to enter | lattering pros- won by their Flannelly had sented to his ies in San Mateo man conducted prospered and tue | ught, on cne of the best ran County which t 15 & dairy. Th 'ather was happy But of late young Fiannelly he association of wayward companions, ind frequent!y has been seen in an intox- cated condition. The mildly remonstrated, but not jad flagrantly disobeyen command | 1id he take <terner action. Youn: Flan- i selly had resolved upon takine a partner | nto his dairy business. Thie old nan objected to this. The ranch w. ngz good profits, it was iree from incum- srances and there was no reason why an sutsider should be taken in to share the | Tuits of his toil, except that the son ! hought that with a partner to look after he business he might have more time to levote to his carousals. The young man was obdurate. There vere several quarrels, which failed to re- in an understanding, and finally y ordered his son ejected from | ung as sought | old gentleman his son | a few minutes after the papers erved Thomas Flannelly appeared it the home of his father in this city. (he old gentleman had retired, but the lon forced the way to his bedroom. Other | nembers of the family heard high woras, | ollowed by pistol-shots, and rushed in to | ind the father breattiing his last upon his | touch. | Young Fiannelly dashed from the build. | ngand escaped upon a horse which he | 1ad left standing before the door. of News | the murcer spread ravidly and soon sses were forming all over the town to )7t upon a search for the parricide. reats of lynching were heard on every | » and bad not the mur terer fallen into | ae bands of Sheriff McEvoy his body | light even now be swaving in the wind :eneath the branches of one of the great k trees on the ranch his father gave to | 3¢ sheriff McEvoy, Under Sheriff Mans- ‘eld wnd Jailer Butts drove straight to the ‘lannelly ranch. The varricide had, in is flight, sought £is own home and there e officers found him. When the posse axove up they found young Flannelly | upon you to surrender,”” Sher:f | revolver rang out and a bullet | nelly o town at 11 o'clock. | place. | turned to town about | Flaunelly must have followed him in, for | as he bad been barricaded on the porch in front of his bouse. “I have come to arrest you McE oy called out. “Come and take me,” was the fugitive’s | retort. The Sheriff and his men advanced toward young Flannelly, but they had not taken two steps before the report of a pierced McEvoy’s arm. “Snoot him !” the Shenff called out his sub rdinates, The fire of the murderer was returned, and for several seconds the air resounded with the reports of the pistols Fiannelly continued to shoot until his revolver was empty, thouzh he was badly woundei at the first volley from the offic His re- maining shots did no damuage. weapon was emptied he tnrew it down with an osth and tottered backward. The officers sprang upon him and made him aprisoner. He was found to be badly wounded, and was carried into the ranch- house and laid upon a couch in room. Bhenff McEvoy was brought bur- edly to town and placed und:r the carg a surgeon. Other physicians left for the ranch to attend the priconer. Under Sheriff Mansfield brought Flan- He was laid out in the bottom of a spring wagon. On reaching town h+was rushed through one of the back sireets to the jail. Mansfield lifted him: out of the wagon. The prisoner then placed his arm around to | the Under Sheriff’s neck and walked into He appeared wholly unconcerned complacently smoked his pipe during the time. On being taken into the jai was stripped, and it was found thau he had six or seven bullets in his body. He appeared to suffer considerable pain, but it is believed that none of the wounds wil vrove fatal. Several buliets were taken from his body, but ihere are others which , Fiannelly | the probe couid not locate When young Flannelly took in a part- ner, contrary to the command of his iaiver, the old gentleman had told him that from that time on he wouid be com- velled to pay rent for the ranch. This aiternoon or early this evening Flannelly sent Coustable Barton out to the ranch with papers requiring the son to quit the Burton served the pap:rs and re- ) o’clock. Young within filteen minutes he appeared at his father’s house and asked to see the oid gentleman. The assassin was permitied to enter, although the elder Fiannelly had | ulready retired and the rest of the family were preparing to do the same. He went upstairs and into his father’s room. Those below heard talking in a subdued tone, and finally Thomas was heard to exclaim: Do you see that?”’ T'he old gentleman told bim to go away drinkinz. Immediately th-ee shots were fired in rapid succession and young Flannelly ran downstairs and | ont of the yard to the street where bLis| horse was tied. He remounted the ani- mul and rode away in the darkness. The shots startled everybody in the neighborbood and it was not long before a larg> crowd had gathered. A physician | was sent for, but his services were not | needed. Mr. Fiannelly was dead—killed" by his own son. | " Putrick Flannelly was a most indulgent fatk He spent money freely upon the son who took his life. The ranch, fully equipped fora good dairy business, was | | given to the young man free of cost,and no | expense was spared to assist him in vain- ing an honest and honorable livelihood. | Aund this debt was repaid by tbe kiiling of the kind-hearted old man. No cause for the shooting other than the service upon him of tie notice to quit the place is known. FIFTY-FGUR PERISHED. Terrible Fanic and Stampede in a| Russian Church, Caused by an Alarm of Fire. 81, PETERSBURG, Oct. 26.—A terrible casualty has taken plac: at the village of Kbnieloff, in the Kozioff district, on the wesiern coast of the Crimea. While service« were in progress in the viliage church an alarm of fire was raised. A panic ensued in the crowded congrega- tion and the efforts of the officiating priests to calm the tumult were abso- lutely unavailing. In the stampede for the exits fifty-four persons were killed by suffocation or being trampled and eighty Others were seriously injured. e Semator Morgan Better. SAN DIEGO, Oct. . — A telephone message irom Hotel del Coronado to-night states that the condition of Senator Mor- gan is improved, aud that he is resting comfortably. nd I call ! When his | his own | | fear need be entertained that the disease [ o and strengthening their defenses. in store. Meanwhile it is bad news that the tribesmen have begun to operate on cessful wounded. A telegraph wire was cut close to the camp. SIMLA, Oct. 26.—It is estimated that the tribesmen have amassed 20,000 men at Semphaga Pass, wi the British lines of communication. ON THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. The Mohmand Tribesmen Attacking the English at Fort Shabkadr. here they are busy making rifle pits in the Sangars It is generally believed, however, that it will be possible to turn the position by either flank, though hard fighting is probably The fear is that, finding this the most suc- means of delaying the British advance, they will detach still larger bodies to attack the British convoys and cut up the escorts. men harassed the British camp near Khangbur by a constant well-directed fire for several hours. This evening the tribes- Nearly thirty non-commissioned officers and men were slightiy A picturesque but unfortunate incident occured on the Shinwari side of the Sa of Gourkas, sent out under Lieutenant Millard, had crept close up to a large body of the enemy. shells were fired from the British camp and revealed the whole situation, enabling the ensmy to escape unhurt. nanara Rangze. A party Just at this moment, through some mistake, magnesium star MEASURES TO BAR THE YELLOW FEVER FROM OLD MEXICO SanDiego Quarantine Officers - Will Detain Mazatlan Steamers. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26.—Dr. McKay, Quarantine Officer at this port, is taking steps to detain the Mexican steamer Al- bion, which is due to arrive from Mazat- ian on November 4. There is yellow fever at Mazatlan and from all accounts it is quite well intrenched, though the Mexi- can officials there are trying to keep the | matter quiet. Private advices were re- ceivel yesterday of the existence of the | disease and the fact that the General Gov- ernment had ordered a strict quarantine. A board of prominent physicians was or- dered to make an investigation of the malady and to furnish suggestions for | keeping it under control. This evening Dr. McKay received offi- cial confirmation of this news in the | shape of a bulletin from the Surgeon- | General’s office stating that nine deaths | had occurred at Mazatlan from September | 26 to October 2. The foliowing dispatch | to the State Department from Consul de Cima, at Mazatlan, dated Uctober 17, ago. The hygenic regulalions are very poor. We shal kéep a strict guard at | this port against everything from the south.” e i FEVER GERMS FLYING. Cases In New Oileans Cannot Be Restricted to Municip-l or Geo- g -aph cai Bounds. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26, — Past the hal! century mark to 59 the number of cases had gone tc-day by nightfall. The deaths at that time had not been so nu- merous, but they had reached seven. The new cases were developed from various sections of the city. There 1s no longer any attempt to es- tablish foci. Cases appear where there has never been fever before, and the coc- tors say simply that ihe germs are flying around and that cases are not to be re- stricted by municipal or geographical is | bounds. The new cases began to appear quoted in this builetin: “Yellow tever not | very early th's morning. Last night's spreading. Nine deatns in seven days. | record—excueding in deaths that of any Mexican officials denied the existence of | other day and almostequaling in number yellow fever until yesterday. (ireatsani- | of new cases the rezord of of any previous tary precautions to keep fever from | day—was very bad, yetthings thisevening sp ing.” | were not encouraging. “We will be prepared to detain anv | Tne official reportof the Board of Health vessel arriving from the south that has | not a clear bill of heal:b,” said Dr Mc-| Kay. “Fortunately San Diezo has a com- plete fumigating and disinfecting ap- | paratus at the quarantine station, and no | is as follows: Cases of fever to-dav, deaths, 7; total cases of yellow fever to date, 1269; total deaths to date, 145; total cases absolutely recovered, 637; total cases under treatment, 48 SCHEANTON, Miss, Oct. 26.—New cases 12, deaths 3. LITTLE ROCK, ARk., Oct. 26, —The Little Rock board tc-day quarantined against Bald Knoband Wynne, Ark. At Wynne there are iwo cases of suspicions fever, the patients being children o 4 refugee, a railrcad man from Memphise MERIDIAN, Miss, Oct. 26.—Dr. H. 8, Guiley, >tate Healtn Officer, is in receipt of a telegram offic ally anunouncing yel- low fever at New Albany, Miss. The di - patch adds that the iown Las been almost will reach the city from the sea. The period of incubation in yellow fever is five days, and as it takes from twelve to | twenty cays to come up from Mazatlan, calling at the intermediate points, the existence of vellow fever germs on bhoara will be clearly seitled. one way or the other, by the time of the vessel’s arrival. At present the disease is not epidemic at Mazatlan, though the conditions are saia 10 ve favorable for its rapid spread. The | city was almost depopulated some years | depopulated. SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 26.—The ar- rival in this port this afternoon of the rev- enue caiter Corwin with the officers and | crew of the schooner Elnorah was the | first intimation that the latter vesse! had mei with disaster. The Etnorah lefthere on | October 12 in ballast for Eureks, and, ac- | cording to Captain Erickson, all went well | until 4:30 o'clock on the morning of the 224, when at a point fifty miles off Cape Mendocino the schooner was run down and wrecked by the German ship Renee Rickmers, bound for Dunkirk. When the collision came nearly nll the crew was on deck and had no difficalty in jumping from the vessel into the rigging of the | Renee Rickmers. The vessel is a total ing. When last seen the Einorah was fill- ing rapidly and keeling over; her mizzen- mast was gone. The crew remained aboard the German Concention, the Corwin was sizhted and signaled 10 take the crew on board. This was done, the Corwin arriving at 3:30 o’clock this aiternoon with the ship- wrecked crew. The schooner Elnorah was the property of F. P. and B. Hoovper of San Francisco and carried the foillowing crew: Captain 8. Erickson, Mate Henderson, Steward A. Larsen and T. Nerem. Captain Erickson would say little re- garding the accident, but as he nas de- clared that proceedings would be insti- tuted againsy the owners of the Renee | Rickmers, it is taken for granted that he blames the officers of that vessel fcr the | wrecking of hisown. Oue of the seamen | volunteered the statement that it was.bad seamanship on the pari of the officers of the German sbip. Though it was very dark and slightly foggy there was no trouble in distinguishing objects at quite a distance, Thisseaman says that they bad out the usual lights, and it cannos be | loss, and the seamen lost all their cloth- ship until this morning, when, near Point | S:monson and seamen Harry Kraft, L.| | Cutlar, a negro. 'STRUCK AND SUNK OFF THE COAST OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY Schooner Elnorah Lost in Collision With the Ship - Renee Rickmers. said that the accident was caused by fail- ure of the schooner to show her lights. Two of the seamien, who were below at the time of the accident, had a narrow | escape from drownine. They had only time to catch up a pair of trousers each and climb aboard the German ship before the schooner began to sink rapialy. The Elnorah had been in the lumbering | business, and had just left here after un- loading a for Eureka for another cargo when she was wrecked MARRIED A NEGRO. A Society Woman of Brooklyn Has Given a Great Shack to Her Friends. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Mrs. John S. Provost, a widow of Brookiyn, worth over §100,000, has been married to James A. The couple met in a bi. cycle academy, Mrs. Provost as pupil, Cutlar as instractor. Tihe pews of their marriaze was made public only to-day, al- though it took place last November. The woman, who still is young, was Miss Minnie C. Demond. Her father, George W. Demond, wasa well-known and weaithy business man of Brooklyn. She married John C. Prcvoest, who had in- herited a fortune from his father, and she became a society leader and belle. Ap- parently the young couple lived happily together. A boy was born and the home seemed to be compiete. Two years ago, however, Provost was found dead, a bullet in his brain. said he shot himself acecidentally, but others said suicide. Mrs. Provost took a swell house and be- gan 1o patromze the bicvcle, and now is married to her instructor. Cutlar is 30 years old and was born in North Carolina. Mrs. Provest is 35 years ola. argoof lumber. Sue was bound | Friends | | Jeanette wasinas DISADTER DESERTION AND DEATH News From the Whaling Fleet Is Anything but Encouraging, MANY VESSELS ARE FROZEN IN. The Jeanie Has Been Caught in the Ice With the Rest of Them, IS IN DANGER OF BEING NIPPED. List of Those Lost on the Navarch Brought Down by One of the Survivors. The news from the whaling fleet is any- thing but encouraging. Nearly all the vessels bave been caught in the ice, and some of them may noi last through the winter. Notsince the winter of 1889, when the flaet was caught in the ice off Herald Island, has such wholesale disaster threat- ened. Fcurteen sieamers, barks and schooners are known to be in the puck, and only five of them are supposed to have more than two months’ supplies aboard. A special dispatch received by the Mer- chants’ Exchange vesterday says: “The whaling steamers Orca and Belvedere, the whaling steamer Rosario and the steam tender Jeanie are frozen in to the west of Point Barrow and may be crushed in the 1ce. “There is no provisions on the whalers, but as they are near land the craws may be able to reach an Esquimaux viliage. “The whalinz steamers Alexander and Kariuk arrived at Unalaska prior to the seiling of the British steamer Bristoi for Victoria, B. C.” The steam whaler Thrasher, which are { rived from the Arctic last Tuesday night, | brings a confirmation of the telegram. | Captain Cogan 1n his report says that he leit Herschel Island on September 16, and at thai time all the fleet was there. The Torasher was headed for the westward, but it came on to blow hard from the northwest and the ice was driven hard on the shore. When the steamer's shaft broke it was a question of fighting their | way out of the ice as quickly as possible. The shore had to be hugged and several times the crew of the Thrasher feit her scraping along the bottom as the stout craft fought her way to the open sea. The milar predicament and twice she bad to be put down by the head in order 10 get ker over a bank. The vessels which were to have win- tered in the Mackenzie River were the steam whalers Beluga, Baiwna, Grampus, Narwhal and Mary . Hume. The Jeanie took up the season’s supplies for them, but now all of them are frozen up before anyvody expected the winter to set in., The Vessels that were expectad to reach San Francisco this winter, but which were caught in the ice, are the steam whalers Feariess, Orca, Newport, Jessie H, Freeman and Belvedere, the steam tender Jeanie, the bark Wanderer and the schooner Rosario. Those of the fleet that had a fighting chance to get out were the steamers Jeanette and William Baylies and the barks Alice Knowles, Johu and Winthrop and Gaybead. When last seer the young ice was forming arouna them fast, and unless a storm from the south came up they also may be frozen in. Allin ail the outlook is not very cheering. There are over 1000 men on ihe vessels named, but if Point Barrow can be reached there will be no lack of provisions. Even if that source of supply iailed, the hunters can always get moose | and reindeer, and at the worst the sailors will only have 1o put up with snort allow- ance. That is, of course, if the vessels do not get nipped by the ice. The season’s catch, as far as can be learned, is a very poor onme, and those sailors who manage to reach San Francisco will bave little more than a dollarcoming to them as pay for two vears’ work in the Arctic. Two of the fleet were lost during the season—the bark Cape Horn Pigeon in Hakodate Pass and the Navarch oft Point Barrow. In the wreck of the latter fourtren of t:e crew lost their lives, and one of the rescued men was killed on the Ibhrasher on his way to San Francisco. His name was Harry Holmes, and witu fourteen others he was rescued from a cake of ice off Cape Haket. Antone Silva, a boatsteerer on the Nay- arch, also came down on the Yhrasher. His account of the disaster is the same as tbat already pnbiished, but he also brought down a complete list of the lost and saved. Itis as follow Drowned— John Sands, chief engineer; M. J. Scanlon, assistant encineer; W. W, Whiting, stew- ard; Charles Thrasher, firrman: Charles Nampach, blacksmith; Radolph Press, John Smith, John Sylvia, Marseliino Osido, Jokn Erickson, Alex Shaw, Fred Kapell and 8. Jackson, seamen, and Ed Cochran, cabin-boy. To which must be added Harry Holmes, boatsteerer, the man Killed on the Thrasher. aved — Jjoseph Whiteside, captain; James G. Belain, first mate; John H, Egan, second mat Enos N, Dias, third mate (Dias went crazy from exposure and was brought to San Francisco on the reanue cutter Corwin. He is now in the United States Marine Hospital); A. P, Reade, fourth mate; Joseph A. Peter. boatheader; M. Corrie. John Santos, C. M. Andros, boatsteerers; P. O. Isaacson, carpenter and coorer; Chris Secrenson, sailmaker, and N. \W. Johuson, Charles Stewart, Joseph Scott, Alfred Miller, Thecdore Smith and Alired Walter, sea- men. . The news of the rush to the Klondike