The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1898, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1898. : 23 CARTOONISTS, + fifiko#fi[iw/s ERMAN sentiment weé are apt to think unanimous in favor of Spain. But the lesser press, which we do not oftan see here, reveals a different side. The drawing from Simplissimus, which we reproduce, is from a distinct- 1y radical point of view, but it is a keen comment on the attitude Ger- many is likely to take. To the victor belong German laurels, and to him alone. b T LT T 1 see in the West -, o o two fierce enemies\. & . fighting ¢ ¢ » inaseaofblood. « » . Itisconcealed @ fromme o_q_% whichshall wetir the laurel of victory on His brow o o o yetIseeone thingclearly . . . whoever of the two shall be the vietor . , . shall receive a con: gratulatory telegram from Berlin.—From Simplissimus. ; i 1S 1IN GOOD HANDS. £y THE TAHBQS-HFSE. S B S PANISH PROVERD (GHAT NEGRO) MADRID ¢ a " UNCLE SAM WISHES TO ADD £ ANOTHER STAR TO HIS FLAG (KIKERIKI (VIENNA) g , A N ONORORORONONORORONOJOXOXOROKO OROJOXO [CJONORONOXO) ®| *“‘Don't fear for me,’ I answered. ‘I15)@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@6@ ® @ | hope you won’t meet with any worse | o = < @ | accident.” | 2 PRESENTIMENTS OF DEATH IN WAR. | ot e s oty oo ic ne O [NFLUENGES OF LEITER'S WHEAT DEAL. 3 . . @ | would be killed, for he replied, ‘Good . ® = by, I shall not see you again.’" And he | ® ® ORCECICIOICICECROROROROROROROROROROROXOROXO POO® ®®®® @® ® ®©@ | bravely rushed on to help gain the vic- |5 ® 6 ® 6 ® oyoJolo ® ® oyoJolololololcrorororororororororororono) Rl bR e vl esaviclolofolofolofofelofollolofefofolefofefolfolelofoXofofoYofoloYofofofoloXolcYofoXofoYoY oFotoXYofoYoror) Press dispatches, | f Hamil- sixth, his unusual pro-and infan sing in his showy uniform | stor; ! nifest desire to die in th Af rank. 'y, preparatory to its being | that he would be a victim. " HESE closing years of the nine- | official list of the persons killed by the | of Leiter’s wheat deal. | our infantry the next day.| “Though delayed but a short time by teenth century are “marked ®y | military during the uprising at Milan But graver contingencies threaten— > sterming party of | my fall when I had remounted and many striking and curious so- | alone gives 75 killed outright and seven |involving all the nations of Europe. In R Rough £ 3 : troops) pa ed our | joined my battery I found the Carita de | 2 diplomatic circles it has been felt for p rice Tont BAt] o7 e o e death Rl G UEedn gt e their positions for the | Belin in our possession and our bat- | clal phisnomens,. but (WIthout jgnore whoudied in hospitalspmaline Mo | sorie:diie that's: thes cllEpReE BUITRE 1 n San-|of discussion among those who firmly | night to be ready for an attack in | tery in advance battering the citadel doubt the most remarkable total number 82. The wounded num- | rjple Alliance was approaching, and + : . believe in premonitions of death was |the morr Captain Drum and First | heig by the Mexican Infantry and ar- | of them all is that of the all-potent | bered 63, the majority of whom will die | the recent events in Italy have dealt ; S \’"" jisoat ol General Custera e T s min of my battery | tillery, whose fire; but 200 yards away, | power and far-reaching influence which of thelr Injuries owing to the unusually | the final blow. Italy’s prestige abroad d San An- .ittle Big Horn. Not only is there > to and encouraged 8 eyt ; TS 0 monplace | disastrous effect of the bullet. used. |is so shattered, and she is torn with 5 ” evidence de Shim A lat bl e and their gallant. com. | WAS concentrated upon the guns in | has been imparted to so_commonpl More than the | These projectiles by the way, were the | internal dissensions to such an extent Al- | a c ndity as wheat. “ | a commodity now famous Mauser bullets, the same | that her value as an ally to Germany but it is related that his little | confident of victory and all were cheer- | MOSt immediately our 1 was | decrees of Kings and Emperors and the | ;o Gore used by the Spanish in the re- | and Austria is practically nil. The r, ¢ Hough=imiles tand s aniles | TUICES BY Ty frlCAd EI U onaie GRAHL | e, (and | will of mighty self-governing peoples | cent skirmish with our marines at | Triple Alilance has ceased to be the away, on that eventful afternoon ran | He was particularly despondent and in | UIrs i s Baldwin were mortally | ;o '4y,0 humble grain of our fields a fac- | Guantanamo, and which gave rise to [ most important factor in the European creaming to the house from the gar- | '°PIY 10 my salutation exclaimed, with | Wounded and twentv-seven out of the | " infuencing the general condition | the belief that our dead had been bar- | situation. Just how the Buropean A6h SrhEre Bhe BN o |a farewe s hand “Good, by, | thirty men were killed or wounded. | (0 0 LUURONE N S sure shaping | barously mutilated with machetes. The | powers wil be grouped in the future is, he heard her papa calling i pro v;x:?lvagdlx\xgmn Gvnr:’ml“ I‘;L:s;l\' ‘;mrlaap‘ ?re:i(?{‘ :“é the destiny of nations. In the rise and murderous execution of this pl’(;)jecll]e of course, not known, but from present the Indians were killing him. When | tne very first of the brave fellows who | that he would fall next day, It proved | fall of young Lelter. and the part that | 5uc,(he [Hghtul. tortures undergone Loy e poheble st analls enown s s insldeat whs (recation: |0 the stormuiE party was Lieutenant | true, for he was shot through the heart | wheat plaved in his meteoric career, we | sulting in raving Insanity—has aroused | Germany and Austria may take the P T T e T e y facing the ¢ he had | quring the thick of the fight. It can- | have a startling exemplification of this|a protest against its use in military | place of the Triple Alliance. France, predicted. He was one of the first of | . < ve o rob-.| w 5 o 5 falv it hour of Custer's death and the alarm | our men fo h':‘killvll. not be charged that this presentiment | tryth. circles all over Europe, with the prob- | whose tie to Russia is rapidly.becom € of the kind on the eve of his | narched by us. All were | ¢harge of Drum and Benja he de- that he | AV recelved i their death in an d such forebc m and pretty Var of the Rebellion. S ¢ ¥ apceL I on the part of General Dessaix wasborn | _| able consequence that it will be de- |ing looser, will probably combine with rm one of the of the child coincided to a minute. That night Captain Drum, Lieu-|of an undue fear, for all the honors| At first glance the story of Lelter re-| ;1009 by all civilized nations. The | those countries whose peoples are more the G R g Len Benjamin and myself were sit- | oo wered upon him by Napoleon twere | Solves itself into nothing more than a | charge on the mob at Milan constituted | akin to hers—viz., Italy, Spain and ling in“Captain Drum Captain | won o bravery In battle. He had | passing incident common to everyday | the first occasion on which this bullet | Portugal—and thes e two groups of fought with great bravery and honor, | commercial life—the incident of a man | has been used in actual hostilities, and | powers would have a bond'in their » common hatred of Great Britain. nt, and his| denoted that Drum was quite desp ost remarkable in earance and feature: irkable beca not to s 3 2 D Al e = foni few hours by | the effect was so horrifying as to sicken | Fade s i A ‘fenced a premonition of | Particularly in Egypt, but for the two | making millions in a S Soldie 3 S naltotes Fritd ending death | omed himself to his officers, but mad EEa ']"f‘ ter, I I“H" you would go out for !\lfll}?tflt;nr;s F;l“ml,;:t‘{:e h;u't&esr.‘ T;:o | just as quickly. But in following causes at a distance of from 500 to 600 yards a | originallv—so insignificant a circum- »n on the eve | his own plans and exacted obedience|& moment. domit sexpectiotoedive ilb s s bElOKS A Ohis LPeREO D€ | to effects we find that the remeral| gyl and its contents would fly off in |stance as a corner on wheat. e fight to-morrow and I|remarked to several of his staff who nge with Benjamin, who|had gathered about him, mething cessor, my private af- | will happen to me to-morrow. It is a ind 1 want to be alone with him.’ | long time since I fought in Europe and | “Benjamin shared Drum’s premoni- | the bullets here don't know me any | parts of Europe; of a dreadful slaugh- tion and he answered, ‘Oh, Drum, let | more.” He then arranged his affairs | ter of human beings in hungry Italy; shortage of wheat consequent on the | small pieces in various directions. The In England the direct effect has been “corner” manipulated by Leiter was | explanation of this effect is found in | nothing more pernicious than an ad- the direct cause of bread riots in many | the tremendous speed at which the new | vance in flour, while in the United 2 bullets travel. When opposed by a | States we have happily escaped with strong object the bullet imparts its | the comparatively slight harm of' the rafalgar. 1t | from pll about him. But upon this cam- | through th - planned to die | Paig®, when his doomed command | i'I{“I Y D} | reached the borders of the territory | Wi be n it was Nelson. | fa the battle he ap > the hosti. § 1f ell back for reliance upon s were known to be -confidence fled and he suddenly | mebody y 3 ssed in the show pon 1 | movements, converted now into mole- | closing down of four of Milwaukee's U a of his rank. |el Officers who were with him at the '_"'H‘*FAIIHMH- I too, ('erct_ to be | with the same care as though on his | the overthrow of two Ministries, and | cylar movements, to the opposing sub- | big flour mills. € remonstrated with | time declared that he was no longer | killed in the battle to-morrow. death bed. Next morning he in-|the indirect cause of the approaching | stance, so that in the case of a skull | In view of the dire effects of the mod- s hi \ttractive uniform | Custer. ris brusque and aggre | I had no such feeling and I re- |structed a member of his staff not to | collapse of a great international alli- | the brain matter seeks to escape in all | ern practice of making the exchange e ot ¢ for the | €ven rasping, manner and tone disap | sponded in as cheerful a tone as pos- |leave his side, as he wanted his body ance. Thus does the proverbial “staff | directions, and consequently bursts its | of the essentials of life a gambling in- & picuous target for o peared and he became subdued and |sible. Captain, don’t borrow trouble. | cared for. It was only a few hours life”” in the hands of unscrupulous casing. In the case of all rioters shot | dustry, it is interesting to revert back » the enemy if engaged at close | conoqjjatory. He even went farther | As I do not anticipate any injury, I |when the officer was called upon to as- | °f lfe” In ; denia ® | through the head almost the same ef- | to the old days when there were no qui Nelson replied: than that. He showed himself depressed | think you had better tell us both your{sume that duty, for General Dessaix | SPeculators operating under 1aws pecu- | foo¢ wag noticed, the skull stood open | corn exchanges—when the farmers of “Ir I he on them, in honor | and seemed to want to appeal to those | wish He was persistent, however, | was shot through the heart. | liar only to the commercial system of | ik the lid of a box, and the brain mat- | Old England used to bring into London Iwilld € about him. When the council broke up | and I left the tent and never knew | A parallel case to this occurred dur- |our age, become an instrument of dis- | ter had escaped through the opening it | their wagon loads of wheat by road, Ir I the theory that this re- | Custer requested all the officers to| what his last wishes were. ing the rebellion. The gallant soldier- | aster and death. had made. When the bullet struck a |and personally expose it for sale on K Was not mere bravado, but the | make to him then, or at future | “The next morning and after the tak- | poet, General Lytle, predicted his own | Tejter made his money in conse- | Muscle it passed straight through, but | Cornhill. A shortage in those days was g e, any suggestions they v fit. The | ing of Chapultepec wi ove a f ¥ i when it was resisted by bone substance | met with prompt and efficient meas- ntiment of | YIe: B TUERE of their leader made & i,;fn.i,’“ 2.1;‘.3“1(2371; Fiteh ‘t(;l:h(':?tgytgi i de;flb:s[alih;‘e‘ss:;?:fi\ nl::?m];‘pkreofifls | quence of the foreign demand. The|ipo Jatter was shattered and the frag- | ures, and no thrifty farmer or broker ng well- | graat jmpression upon the officers, and | Mexico at the fortified gate named ::afr to remain by his side during the | SCorcity of wheat in France, for in-|ments sent in all directions. The con- | was permitted to take advantage of a on had on | 35 they walked away from the general’s rita de Belin, in the middle of which | battle so that his bod} might be cared stance—and Italy may be taken as be- | sequence is that all those who were | public misfortune. If the country mag- ranged all his | bivouac one of them exclaimed: ‘I be- | .o the arched aqueduct that supplied | for. When General Lytle's brigade | ing similarly affected—is shown by a |shot in the arms or legs had to submit | istrates did not stop them beforehand ! papers; second, he had pre- | lieve that Custer is going to be killed. | 435" city with water. It afforded us |came up into position he called to his | statement made by George French, | fo the emputation B o | e ke el Whome iy pared all the documents relative to his [ because I never heard him talk that| ..o tection from the sweeping | side his favorite alde-de-camp, Lieu- | Leiter’s manager. He says that a syn- | imb. while wounds to'the hip Invaria- | would or not, as was one of the.com- leet | % gt ray % e bl; rove fatal. mendable lttle ways the country ;:”“," e “,’m; “;";I”‘ ”"'“ml'; ‘h‘;' “zgenbe:-:;olrel"nz-hhn Porter relates a| direct and algo flank artillery and in- | tenant J. N. Trumbull of Company E, | dicate in France cabled to him for as| " Tp) bread riots in Italy and their | magistrates had in those days, they expected them to fall into the hands triple case of presentment which | fantry fire of the enemy. ~On the way | Thirty-sixth Illinols, and told him that | much wheat as he could offer. Leiter | consequent disasters were the primary | were sure to be mobbed at Stratford: third, that night he | came under his observation during the |1 Was struck by a spent cannon shot | a great battle was about to be fought, | gfered 2,000,000 bushels at 28 francs, | cause of the resignation of the Ministry | and so furious was the struggle to get codicil to his will; fourth, | Mexican War. and knocked from my horse, being ren- | but that he, himself, would be killed. which they considered a prohibitive | and the formation of a new Govern- |the wheat that it often gnt' spilled upon London, on an absence from| “It was at_the slege of the City of | dered temporarily unfit for duty. Drum | After giving other instruetions he said: | ) 100 The syndicate, however, snapped | ment on May 31 last. Now we hear |the ground, trodden under foot and sat- enuine pres the 1 i facts night before shortly before th : 7, Battery | &t once rushed to me and picked me up | “Trumbull, I want you to stay by my that the new Ministry has formally re- | urated with the blood of those.who re directions hur mng‘ t(l:.n‘mo!r:r]:pl}:: ge?’g:;thoxrffl?etfxz‘;rw!&ig}?‘l"\\"a’;t;ec?- exclaiming: side lo-d!}". for I feel that this is my ! at it and asked ml; ane A was signed office, and that In Italy it is gen- | were fighting for it. Things are not of a cofin which he was having | ond lleutenant, with heavy guns, had| * ‘Hello, Porter, you said nothing |last battle, I will surely be killed. Stay | withheld, for speculative purposes. erally conceded that the resignation |so picturesque or honest nowadays. A 04 “hapu y ) you; ‘ y 2 | bread riots all over hadows grave events. modern shortage in wheat Is more gen- made out of the wood of a mas d all day at the Castle of Chapul- | would happen to you; don’t be too |by me every moment.” His words were The subsequent foresha B 4 £ g ship L'Orient; fifth, his beané‘;%gf&?s ?;;ec. de!en’ded by Mexican arllllery.sure.' 2 ¥ nii . prophetic. . |Jtaly are now a matter of history. An| So much for the direct effect on Italy | erally a ruse to exact higher prices.