The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1898 TIME FOR THE INTERVENTION OF Senator Thurston Declares That This Country Should at Once Stop the Extermination Tactics in Cuba. 21.—“If the time for the intervention of the United OMAHA, March States in the affai nator Thurston to a reporter. of Cuba is not xt Thur The Seng vention, unless r says that the only their little farms fire, »maciated and diseased, is to remai des of the United States. It is perfectly true, says the Senator, that the insurgents practi- All that the Spanish hold is Havana, and cally have the whole island. even while the Congressional party the suburbs of that city Senator Thurston was asked what effect intervention in increasing the volume of the insurge; would have some effect in that directi and declare themselves. ally would ris Cuba will be held back until there | is a reply from Spain concerning the Maine. Some of those who are closest to the President say he will advocate intervention in the interests of Cuban freedom; others say that it will be nothing more than a recognition of Cuban inde- pendence; while there are still others, and among them sevemll leading Republicans of the Senate, | who are just as certain the Presi- dent has not made up his mind what it will be, There was an important confer- ence to-day at the Navy Depart- ment between Secretary Long, Commander Schley, who is to have charge of the flying squadron at Hampton Roads, and Lieutent- Commander Clover, who is at the head of the Naval Intelligence Bu- reau. This is the secret-ser- vice of the Navy Department, where records of the movements of the battle-ships of every nation are carefully kept. This confer- ence was for the purpose of per-i fecting plans for the aggressive | handling of the flying squadron in | case the necessity should arise; but, of course, the possible move-| ments of that body are kept from | the public. SIR CHARLES DILKE ON THE IMPENDING WAR. Declares That Japan Would Prob- ably Be the Only Nation That Might Interfere. Copyrighted, 155, by James Gordon Bennett. LONDON, March 12—The Herald | correspondent interviewed Sir Charles | Dilke as to the relations between the United States and Spain. He thought that there was no doubt that if war came the United States would more than hold its own. He did not think it possible that Spain would attempt to blockade American ports. Asked as | to the attitude of other countries in | -ase of war Sir Charles said: ‘“Japan | is perhaps the only nation that might | be tempted to interfere. She has not found opportunities for expansion in China that she expected, and war be- | tween the United States and Spain | might tempt her to grab the Philip- | pines. I regard it as improbable that land would in any way take part in such a war officially. But the sympa- thies of England would all be with the United States.” WHAT IS NEEDED TO PREVENT STARVATION. Dr. Klopsch Writes of the Terrible Condition of Over Two Hundred | Thousand Reconcentrados. NEW YORK, March 21.—Dr. Louis | Klopsch, now in Cuba in charge of the | American relief work, cables from Ha- vana, under date of March 21, to the | Christian Herald: | “The situation is simply this: Two | hundred and five thousand reconcen- | trados in over 400 accessible towns are | helplessly destitute. Unless we can get regularly, without a break, 300 tons of | cornmeal and 50 tons of lard or bacon every week we cannot effectively re- | lieve the suffering. Spasmodic and un- | systematic efforts defeat all good in- | tentions. Canned goods are useless and | condensed milk should be substituted. | Fifteen thousand dollars weekly will | feed every starving man, woman and | child in Cuba. Small, irregular ship- | ments are only tantalizing.” CHIEF OF THE BUREAU | OF YARDS AND DOCKS.| WASHINGTON, March 21.—The va- | cancy which has existed in the office of the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, since last | Tuesday, when the term of Rear Ad- | miral E. O. Matthews expired, was filled by the President to-day by the appointment of Civil Engineer Morde- | cai T. Endicott, for a term of four | ‘years. In view of the probability of the | early construction of four or five new | drydocks this bureau becomes one of the most important in the Navy De- partment. Mr. Endicott is an engineer officer in high repute and is thoroughly informed in_regard to the matters which come directly under the bureau | of which he will be the head. Aside | from this, his position as bureau chief | will make him a member of the gen- | eral board which determines questions of general policy relating to the nav: He was a member of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, of which Colonel | Ludiow was president, several years | ago, since which time he has been on | duty in the bureau of yards and docks. | The appointment of a civil engineer to | was clearly proven that the libel was | in this direction until this position is a distinct innovation in | the naval service. i “This morning I wired Senator Allen to announce that I would speak on the Cuban question in the Senate the people of the United States want to look on and see the work of starvation already so far advanced completed. The reconcentrados are absolutely without hope, and if the death lists in any part of the island are decreasing it is only because the material for starvation to work upon is giving out. _All trados can now do, with their homes devastated and growing in weeds, their ven off to furnish food for the Spanish air and take the little food that they can get, sent by the charity T0'J0IN THE | pennant holders, the Minneapolis and | |SPAIN PROCEEDS | the Dbattle-ships | 1ana submarine boat made another trip UNCLE SAM here now it never will come,” said 2e0ete8es e solution of the trouble is inter- et that implements the reconcen- destroyed by stock soldiers, and themselves n in their pens with a look of quiet and was there, there was fighting in would have movement. He sald that it , for then the Cubans gener- NEW SQUADRON Dynamite Cruiser Vesu- vius May Proceed to Hampton Roads. Upon the Assembling of the Flying Vessels Howell Is to Take Command. Now the Commodore Is Convoying the Purchased Cruiser to the United States. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, March 21. Lieutenant-Commander J. E. Pills- bury, commanding the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which has just ar- rived at the Washington navy yard| from Florida, was at the Navy Depart- ment to-day in conference with the of- ficlals regarding the future of his unique craft. The pneumatic gear used | in operating the dynamite tubes is un- | dergoing repairs, which, it is calculated, will take about two weeks’ time. It is| idered probable, in view of the power of the Vesuvius, that she be attached to the so-called flying | squadron, which it is alleged is soon to assemble at Hampton Road According to present plans the squad- ron will consist of the battleships Mas- sachusetts and Texas and the cruisers Brooklyn, Minneapolis and Columbla. The Vesuvius would be perfectly at home in such company, being much | faster than either of the battleships | and nearly the equal in speed of the | Columbia. Although no orders to that effect have been given, it is generally be- | lieved in naval circles that Commo- dore Howell be assigned to the command of this fleet. He was recently | in command of a Buropean squadron which has just been abandoned by re- | call to the United States of the three vessels comprising it, the San Fran- cisco, Helena and Bancroft. Commo- e Howell is now on the San Fran- cisco and will accompany her on her cruise to the United States as the con- voy of the cruiser New Orleans, merly the Amazonas of the Brazilian navy. It is expected that these vessels | will soon start from England on their | voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and the probabilities are that they will make Hampton Roads their destina- tion. WITH WAR PLANS | Hurry Orders Given for Preparations on Battleships and a Second Fly- ing Squadron to Be Formed. NEW YORK, March 21.—The Govern- | ment, says a Madrid dispatch, has | given orders to hurry preparations on Pelayo, Emperador, Carlos V, Numancia and Victoria, to enable them to join Admiral Cerveras’ squadron of evolution at Cartagena. Another flying squadron is to be formed at Cadiz with three torpedo vessels built in Spain, two destroyers recently handed over by English firms and the torpedo gunboat Dona Maria Molina. For the present this second | flying squadron and fleet of Admiral | Cerveras will remain on the coasts of Spain. e e Good Speed Under Water. NEW YORK,, March 21.—The Hol- from Perth Amboy, N. J, to-day. At a depth of fifteen feet under water she showed good speed and was handled with ease. After she came to the sur- face the boat grounded and was hauled off by a tug. The boat’s conning tower will be fitted with electric lights be- fore another trip is made. AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY GAINS HEAVY VERDICT Damages in a Libel Suit Against the Kingdom Company. From Our Special Correspondent. For MINNEAPOLIS, March 21.—Judg- ment for the plaintiff has just been | given in the famous libel suit brought | by the American Book Company of New York and Chicago against the Kingdom Company of Minneapolis for the publication of a defamatorypamph- let by President Gates of Towa College, entitled “A Foe to American Schools.” The jury in the United States court, | Judge Lochran presiding, promptly brought in a verdict against the de- fendants, awarding $7500 damages. It| instigated and circulated by a compet- ing firm of publishers. I ARE CURRENT Stories That the American Divers Disagree as to the Caus%. Spaniards Grow Desperate in Trying to Show the Dis- aster Was Accidental. Havana Now in a Tranquil State, but Patriotic Feeling Is Running Very High. Copyrighted, 1888, by James Gordon Bennett. HAVANA, March 21.—Lieutenant- Colonel Guillermo Sabates and Major Albert Duboche of Alexander Rodri- guez's command in this province, have surrendered. False reports are current to the effect that there have been signs of disagree- ment among the American divers in re- gard to the nature of the explosion which destroyed the Maine. Havana is tranquil, but patriotic feeling runs high. I heard this evening a man com- pare New York and Havana, saying Lieutenant Sobral’s existence was made miserable in the Metropolitan Hotel in New York after interviews with him were printed, while Americans lived at the Ingleterra unmolested in spite of the fact that they eely expressed their views on questions political. Divers to-day raised two six-inch guns amidships of the Maine and cleared away the wreckage about the two guns aft. They are preparing to enter the after maga2ine. Gunner Charles Morgan, who has done splendid work in charge of the divers, goes to Key West to rejoin his shi he New York, on Wednesday, his services being required there. He has been invaluable here. THE PRESIDE) LOOKS FOR PEACE WITH SLIGHT HOPE Continued from First Page. cause of the Maine disaster, and that she will appeal to tie powers for ap- pointment of an international -board of naval constructors before agreeing to entertain any proposition for pay- ing an indemnity, agrees exactly with what the authorities here have been led to expect. It has already been made known to the State Department-through the Spanish Minister here that the Span- ish Naval Court of Inquiry has found the vessel was blown up by an in- ternal explosion, and although no formal proposition for international grbitration has or can be made until the United States has submitted its demand to Spain, the authorities here have been led to expecc that this is the way Spain will meet our repre- sentation. While the sentiment in Congress at present is strongiy against arbi- tration, administration officials have been giving serious thought to the Tecent observations and are inclined to be guided by them. Much will de- pend, however, upon the tenor of Spain’s rejoinder to our representa- tions when made. There has also been much discus- sion here in the last few days on the question of the attitude of the for- eign powers in the event of the rec- ognition of the independence of Cuba by the United States. The President has been told that many, if not all, the southern republics would recog- nize the independence of Cuba si- multaneously with the United States, and although no official declaration, as far as can be ascertained, has yet come from Great Britain on that point, the earnest desire of that coun- try to avert war between the United States and Spain will, it is believed, induce her to promptly follow any action in this direction which may be taken by this country. Appreciat- ing, as they do, that such joint action would be one of the strongest guar- antees against war, the administra- tion officials are naturally anxious that other countries should follow our course in recognizing the new republic of Cuba. President McKinley has had a careful search made for precedents which would justify the recognition of independence at the present time. As a result he frankly confesses that there is no precedent. He does not yet see his way clear toward estab- lishing a precedent of his own. If Congress, however, should declare in favor of recognizing the new repub- lic of Cuba, and a great nation like Great Britain either joins in or im- mediately follows such action by this country, it is believed by administra- tion officials that the Cuban problem could be solved without war with Spain. The moral effect of such ac- tion would, it is believed, result in Spain withdrawing from the island. BATTLE-SHIP MAINE YET IN EXISTENCE. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Accord- ing to the orders to naval officers, is- sued by the Navy Department to-day, the battle-ship Maine is still in exist- ence. At least two of the orders would seem to give that impression. They read as follows: “Lieutenant A. W. Catlin, U. S. M. C., detached from Maine, home; Lieu- tenant G. F. W. Holman, detached from Maine, home and wait orders.” It is presumed that the ill-fated bat- | tle-ship will not be stricken from the naval register until ~fter it has been | finally established beyond the possi- bility of doubt that the shattered hull cannot be raised and reconstructed into at least a sembiance of her former self. Although there is scarcely ground for the hope that the vessel can be raised and restored to the navy, the department will not abandon its effort the - wreckers now at work upon it report that it is impossible. TFALSE REPORTS |RELIEF FOR THE VICTIMS Passage of the Bill in the House for Reimburs- ing Maine’s Men. Attempts to Amend the Meas- ure and Controversies Are Averted by Eloquence. Beautiful Tribute Paid to the Gallant Dead by Representative Cousins of Iowa. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office; Riggs House, ‘Washington, March 21. The House to-day unanimously passed the bill for the relief of the sur- vivors and victims of the Maine di: aster. The bill reimburses the survi- vors, officers and men, for the losses they sustained to an amount not to ex- ceed a year's pay, and directs the pay- ment of a sum equal to a year’'s pay to the legal heirs of those who perished. There was quite a spirited debate over an amendment suggested by Can- non to give the survivors each a year’s pay out of hand instead of attempting to reimburse them for actual losses. Some old alleged scandals in connection | with the reimbursement of the sur- vivors of the Samoan disaster were | raked up, but the debate in the end was saved from a rather sordid tone by a beautiful tribute paid to the gallant dead by Cousins of Iowa in a short but eloquent speech. He aroused the gal- leries to spontaneous applause. During the debate Boutelle said he did net imagine that Captain Sigshee or any of the gallant officgys of the Maine would dream of being reim- bursed beyond the actual amount of the losses they sustained. Boutelle and Cannon had a rather spirited exchange of personalities. The former criticized the latter’ toward the bill and the latter was responsible to his constituents and the general public sentiment of the country, not to the gentleman from Maine, for his position. Hilborn of California denied em- phatically that there had been any at mosphere of fraund in connection with the Samoan act, Several of the offi claimed nothing at all, and all of them claimed only a small fraction of their salaries. Cousins (R.) of Towa changed the whole tenor of the debate at this junc- ture by the delivery of a brief but elo- quent tribute to the American s who went down with the Maine. ins said: The measure now proposed is most ap- propriate and just, but hardly is it men< tionable in contemplation of the great calamity to which it appertair It will be me y an incidental legi foot- note to a page of history that will be open to the eyes of the reptinlic and of the world for all time to come. No hu- man speech can add anything to the si- lent gratitude, the speechless reverence already given by a great and grateful nation to its dead defenders and to their living kin. No act of Congress provid- ing for their needs can make a restitu- tion for their sacrifice. Human naturi does, in human ways, its best and deep in debt. Expressions of condolence have come from every country and every clime, and every nerve of steel and ocean cable has carrfed on electric breath the sweetest, tenderest words of .sympathy for that gallant crew who manned the Maine. Hovering above the dark waters of that mysterious harbor of Havana the black- winged vulture watches for the belatea deafl, while over it and over all there is the eagle's piercing eye, sternly watch- ing for the truth. Whether the appro- priation carried by this resolution shall be ultimately charged to fate or to some foe, shall soon appear. Meapwhile a patriotic people, enlightenea by the les- sons of our history, remembering the woes of war, both to the vanquished and_ vie- torious, are ready for the truth and for their duty. There was a tremendous sound of ap- plause when Cousins concluded his tribute. ‘Wheeler (D.) of Alabama followed in a similar strain, concluding with the declaration that it was God's will that Cuba should be free. The Cannon amendment was without division, ‘Without amendment the bill was then passed unanimousl EMERGENCY CONTRACTS FOR MEAT SUPPLIES The Navy Department Has Ordered One Thousand Barrels of Pork and Salt Beef. NEW YORK, March 21.—It was an- nounced on the Produce Exchange to- day that the Navy Department had en- tered into emergency contracts for 1000 half barrels of pork and 1000 half bar- rels of salt beef. These contracts were in addition to the contracts for regular supplies of the department, and the terms were that the pork and beef should be delivered at once. For two years a large part of the food supplies for both the Spanish and Cuban forces have been contracted for in New York. The chief supplies are salt pork, bacon, lard, codfish, flour and beans. Willilam B. Cragin of Armour & Co. said that the latest contract he knew of was one made last week to supply the Spanish with 1,500,000 pounds of bacon. HOURLY EXPECTING T BE ATTACKED. Evidently There Is Some Lively Fighting Ahead for the Anglo- Egyptian Forces. ATBARA CAMP, Nubia, March 21.—The Anglo-Egyptian force is hourly. expecting an attack. During a false alarm at the Hudi Fords last evening, a shot was fired from some unknown quarter and the Brit- ish brigade stood with arms at fixed bayonets. In the dark, a hlfihlnndnr, rushing to the place, was impaled on a comrade’s bayonet. _The army marched to-day six miles to Rashudi, and is now awaiting the report of .the patriots who are looking for the Dervish army. Al Digna, brother of Osman Digna, has thrice attacked the post at Adarma, but the friendly natives have each time de- feated him, killing in all forty-one men. VETERAN JOURNALIST IS CALLED TO REST. At the Age of Eighty-one Roland © Worthington Joins the Silent Majority. BOSTON, March 21.—Roland Worthing- ton, the veteran journalist, is dead at his home in this city, aged 81 vears. He entered the newspaper business as an em- ploye of the counting-room of the Boston Daily Advertiser. In 1845 he took charge of the Boston Traveler. When Dan- iel "Webster made his famous speech at lost Marshfield, in August, 1848, Mr. Worth- ington published a verbatim report and had it sold by the newsboys in the streets—an innovation which called down the severe criticism of other Boston pa~ pers. He sold a very large numouer copies. WOULD MEET THE EDITO Dr. Powell of La Crosse Anxious to Fight for Senator Mason. In a Communication to Baron El Cardo He Names Army Pistols as Weapons. This Typical Western Plainsman and Indian Fighter Defies the Fiery Spaniard. Special Dispatch to The Call WINONA, Minn, March 21.—In re- sponse to the challenge of Baron El Cardo, Marquis of Altavilla, Madrid, Spain, to fight a duel with Senator Ma- | son of Illinois, for the latter's utter- ances in the Uuited States Senate, Dr. George Powell of La Crosse has cabled the following acceptance of the chal- lenge in Mason's stead: To Baron El Cardo, Madrid, Spain: Through the press dispatches I am informed that you have challenged Sen- ator Mason to mortal combat for words spoken in defense of his position as the champion of the patriotism and prin- ciples of his country and its people in the United States, with usual Spanish generosity, selecting your own | weapon. Now, as Senator Mason has spent a lifetime in the pursuit of a more hu- mane calling and in the walks of a civ- ilization which has butpoorly fitted him to meet a bully-at-arms, as one who has admired and now indorses the ob- jectionable words and patriotism of } SenatorMason, I, a plainsman, a West- | erner, one of a class known as a typi- cal American—typical because it holds | prineiple and patriotism above price, be- | cause it believes that murder in the first degree cannot be paid for with gold—hereby accepts your challenge | and name the army pistol, the old 44, the organ of civilization, the instru- | ment with which the American pioneer measures justice to assassins; and | while I earnestly assure you and all your kind that thousands of men of my | type stand ready to step in my tracks and pick up my pistol, if it should fall, | I sincerely thank the representative of | a thousand years of barbarism for the | opportunity to fire the shot in revenge | for the Yankee sailors who fed the | sharks in the bottom of Havana har- bor. GEORGE E. POWELL. | La Crosse, March 1. | The foregoing was sent March 17, but was not made public until to-day. Powell is a mnoted | Dr. George E. | plainsman and Indian fighter, who fol- | lowed the fortunes of the army for thirty years in the capacity of scout and guide in the numerous Indian | wars, serving with distinction under every general of the army west of | the Mississippi River during his term | of service. So valuable has been the | services rendered by him to the army that he has been the recipient of many | mementos from his commanders, no- table among them being a magnificent | silver mounted revolvtr, costing $150, | and presented by the late General | George A. Custer. | Dr. Powell is about 50 years of age land a well known physician of La Crosse, Wis. Dr. Powell is a boon com- | panion of such noted frontiersmen as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Texas Jack and others of equal note. MAY PUT UP A NEW POWDER PLANT. The Giant Company Is Now Consid- ering the Advisability of In- creasing Its Works. The Giant Powder Company is figur- ing on the possibility of its putting up a big and expensive plant across the bay for the manufacture of prismatic and smokeless powder and joining in the business of supplying war material to Uncle Sam. The big and multiplying orders which | are keeping the ammunition makers | going night and day, the possibilities of an actual war demand and the talk of Senator Perkins and other California representatives in favor of the Gov- ernment’s nursing and stimulating Pa- cific Coast plants for the making of war material, has started the Giant Powder people to investigating the field. Julian Sonntag, secretary of the company, is now actively looking into the matter, and it is more than possi- ble that negotiations will soon be in- stituted at Washington. The only powder factory on the coast prepared tosupply the Government with the kinds of powder needed is the Cali- fornia Powder Company, which has produced brown prismatic and smoke- less powder for heavy guns equal to the best produced anywhere and which has just enlarged its plant and begun crowding operations twenty-four hours a day to fill a Government contract for 2,500,000 pounds of bruwn prismatic and 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder. But this wouldn’t last a fleet long, and it would be a small item in case of war. The Government might not be averse to having another source of supply on the coast, especially when its only one here is only four miles from an un- defended coast, being that distance into the wooded mountains back of Santa Cruz and within reach of hostile guns that were not kept busy by the Mon- terey. “A contract for 500 tons of powder would probably warrant our putting up a new plant,” said Mr. Sonntag | vesterday. “To make brown prismatic powder we could use many of the fa- cilities we now have, but it would re- quire in addition large hydraulic pro- cesses and other expensive machinery. If necessary we could be equipped for supplying the Government in from | sixty to ninety days. The plant would | cost between $30,000 and $50,000. “If we erect one it will be near our present works at Giant, across the bay. | We are equally ready to go into the manufacture of smokeless powder. That requirzs a different plant largely. It requires lecs machinery, but is more of a laboratory operation with chemi- cals. If Uncle Sam wants powder from us we are ready to supply it. So far, I am simply investigating the situation and the vossibilities, and cannot say what will be done.” TO GET A DIFFERENTIAL OF FOUR PER CENT. Copyrighted, 189, by James Gordon Bennett. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Through the efforts of Congressman Hilborn of California the Naval Committee was induced to insert a provision in the naval bill providing a daifferential of. 4 per cent in case a Pacific Coast firm secured a contract for building one of the new battle-ships. CUBANS WILL BE RESCUED BY 'THE PRESIDENT In an Editorial Senator Chandiler Appeals to the People to Sus- - tain McKinley in Lib- erating Patriots. BOSTON, March 21.— Senator proclamation. He says in part: Kinley in the action he is about to rars. Feeble women and tottering starvation and disease. Food and tain and bless the President in his cause the name of Willlam McKinl KB BEBsBssnrreRNBmBBNEe his paper, the Cencord Monitor, to-day, to Be Rescued; Sustain President McKinley; an Appeal From Senator Chandler,” says that President McKinley is about to issue a Cuban “The people of New Hampshire, with- out distinction of party, should with one accord support States to reileve the devastating famine and sickness which are now sending to death the whole Cuban population in the western provinces of the island. Read Senator Proctor’s vivid description of the hor- generous people of the United States, “Relief will go with the approval be carried by American sailors and soldiers without that approval if she does not consent. To longer tolerdte the existing cruelties will dis- honor the American nation, and the end of the starvation and torture is near at hand. Every humane person in this whole land should sus- Cuban generations as long as will be revered the name of Abraham Lincoln by the colored race in America.” W. E. Chandler, in an editorial in under the caption, “The Cubans President Mc- take in the name of the United children are no longer to die from medicine and clothing, given by are to save them. of Spain if she consents or will coming proclamation, which is to ey to be held in sacred reverence by Q2208 e Un Qs nitenininanineninignenenineess GHNNAEENLRANRRRRRRURELLURRLNLRLRNL SEPARATED MANY YEARS Strange Meeting of Father and Daughter Who Parted in ’'61. Come Together While in Quest of an Estate Left by an Eccentric Relative. Now They Will Join Issues and Make Common Cause in an Effort to Break a Will. Special Dispatch to The Call. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March21.—Mrs. Flora Herrick of Chicago and her father, William Gessie, an inmate of the National Soldiers’ Home in this city, have been brought together after having been separated since 1861, when the war broke out. The meeting was brought about through the settlement of a will in which an estate valued at $100,000 is involved. Robert Gessie died about six month§ ago at Newport, Ind., leaving a large estate. The story of the litigation, which will probably follow, has many extraordinary features. He was an eccentric character and drew up his own will to suit his own peculiar fan- cies. He left a homestead valued at $20,000 to his wife, but provided that upon the appointment of trustees to take charge of the estate, the mansien | should be locked and kept perpetuaiy closed, except that twice a year men were to be employed to go there, open it up and give it an airing. The widow, who was his second wife, was provided with another house, in which she was | to make her own home. To his son William Gessie, and his granddaughter he left a small amount of money, and the remainder of the es- tate was to be used in building a large school house in Newport. The will pro- vides that in the second story of the building there shall be a large assem- bly hall surrounded on all sides with glass cases in which shall be placed the | clothing, bedding, furniture and house- | hold goods from the Gessie mansion. The reason assigned for this display of the household goods of the Gessie man- | sion in the school house is ‘‘that the pupils may be reminded of the donor and that his memory may be kept green.” There is another chapter to the story. When the war of the rebellion broke out William Gessie enlisted in an In- diana regiment and went forth to fight the battles of the Union. He left be- hind him a wife and a daughter, the latter ten weeks old. William did not write to his wife when he was in the army nor did he return to his home | when the war was over. Instead he drifted out into the Western country and finally brought up at the Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee. He finally wrote to his father, and by this means:was remembered with a small bequest when the latter made his will. He employed a law firm of this city to look after his interest, and while a member of the firm was in Indiana a few weeks ago, he came in contact | with a Chicago attorney who was rep- resenting the interests of Mrs. Flora Herrick of that city. It did not take the lawyers long to discover the rela- tionship between their clients and to show them that their causes were iden- tical. Later a meeting was arranged in Milwaukee between father and daughter in which an affecting scene was enacted. The father and child will make com- mon cause in their efforts to upset the | will of Robert Gessie and secure a joint portion of the estate. Rushing Arsenal Work. WATERTOWN, Mass., - March 21.— The United States arsenal to-night was run under a night force for the first time since the recent orders. To-mor- row morning two 12-inch guns and three 10-inch barbette carriages mak- ing ten carloads will be shipped to Puget Sound. The 12-inch disappear- ing carriages will be taken apart to- morrow and placed on cars to go at once to San Francisco. The plant is short of material and orders to rush jron and steel castings have been sent to Pittsburg and other points from which shipments are expected. posiendy Rechristened the Albany. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Secre- tary Long has rechristened the cruiser Abrouall, recently purchased from the Brazilian Government, and hereafter she will be known as the Albany, in honor of the capital of the Empire State. —_— Shafts for the Newport. BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 21.—The Bethlehem Iron Company to-night for- warded to the Union Iron Works of San Francisco shafts of the new tor- Thé fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper . of CASTORIA. pedo boat Newport, building there, weighing 45 tons, and a propeller shaft for the Japanese warship also under construction there. The company has begun work on twelve disappearing gun carriages ordered bv the Govern- ment, and will turn out one a monta. MR. TERRY IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS SIGHT. Suffering From a Malady Affecting His kiyes, While His Bride Is Seriously Ill. NEW YORK, March 2L—The corres- pondent of the Press at Nice, writing un- der date of March 5, confirms the exclu- sive advices printed in The Call yester- day regarding Sibyl Sanderson’s serious illness. “To add to her distress,” says the cor- respondent, “misfortune fell also on Mr. Terry. Some malady affecting his eyes manifested itself, and it was feared for a long time that hé would lose his sight. Physicians have been in daily. —almost hourly attendance upon the afilicted con- ple. As I am about to leave Nice, word comes to me that Mr. Terry has decide to go back to his place near Paris, in or- der to avail himself of the mo: skilled medical attendance in the world. His eves are no better and his bride is as helpless as a babe.” 0T N0 RETURYS FOR IS MONEY Chicago Young Man Nipped in an Alaska Mining Venture. rw Swears Out a Warrant for John T. Van Smith of San Francisco. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Wash., March A war, rant was sworn out in Justice Austinly court last evening by H. M. Prinnelle, a young man from Chicago, charging John T. Van Smith with having obtained $500 | under false pretenses. Smith is now mn San Francisco, and Chief of Police Reed has telegraphed the warrant for his ar- rest. There is some doubt, however, as to what the authorities in California will do in the case, in view of Governor Rog- ers’ recent refusal to honmor requisition papers from that State for the arrest of Joseph Schwartz. Several weeks ago Van Smith arrived in Seattle and represented himself as the manager of the British Steamship and Yukon Gold Dredging Company, a cor- | poration_existing under the laws of Ari- zona. He is_said to ‘have represented to Prinnelle that the company had un- | der charter the steam schooner La Ninfa, which was in the harbor at San Fran- cisco. ' The men who were interested in | the charter were in Alaska, and a con- | dition of affairs existed by which the | schooner could be had at a rate of $1500 a month. Prinnelle says that he paid §1500 to Van Smith with the understand- ing that he would go direct to San Fran- cisco and bring the schooner to Seattle, arriving about this time. Van Smith left for San Francisco. 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