The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1898, Page 14

1 TH SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, SOLDIERS TRY TO LYNCH A LONE NEGRO A Mob of Tennessee Men Pur- sue Him and Wreck His Humble Home. The Colored Man’s Life Saved by the Timely Intervention of Major Cheatham. s a8 they exist in, vantage was soon occupied. Cries of negro and the e of a riot which | taken up by the sullen mob, who re- rohing just out. | peated them over and over again. Neigh- g It | bors tried to summon the police, but all rday. | the boxes in the neighborhood were ) sive 1IegTO | held by the soldiers. a personal encounter | The mother struggled bravely to protect her son. She held the mob back until it The social differenc ith between man were of the a hair, kicked and beat and re- and, bur viled her all the time. They broke all the A nigges windows, tore down doors, broke the stove | 3 ay In an instant the camp and its terra Sl vipe, flu T ¥ " 5 4 tion of the side of t was in a turmoil. With one accord the )1 o st . n to the scene of the affray and Al e T e ¥ 1 opportune moment Ma remarkable | Cheatham, commanding the S 2 on this | talion, Tennessee Regime ve been lynchings |at once made his t where he was and were just bringing him down when the officer came. As far as I could see he was not hurt up to this time.”" Major B. F. Cheatham, commanding the nd Battalion, Tennessee Regiment, accompanied by First Lieutenant A. J. Law, Company C, noticing the commo- tion, followed the men out of his camp. “T called out to many of them to go back to the camp, and they did so.”” he said vesterday. ‘“‘When I arrived at the house i found a mob gathered there, made uf) of Tennessee, lowa and Kansas men. at once went in and arrived just at the mo- ment they were bringing ‘the negro down through the small lri\.Fanr leading to the attic. Just before this the soldiers hesi- fated about going up after him, saving: ‘He has a_ knife, and will cut the first man’s head off who tries to get him.” Some one volunteered, saying: ‘Shoot me up through there: I'll bring him down.’ “He was doing so when I entered the room, and I drew my pistol and said, * will shoot the first man who touches him.” I placed the negro under guard of the man who brought him down and of a ser- geant, and ordered the men to fall back at ‘attention.” I then marched him up the Street toward the camp, with an addition- al guard of sixteen men from the Icwa regiment. These were relieved part way to the Tennessee lines by a guard from our own regiment. We kept him until Lieutenant J. M. Neals, Troop B of Cav- alry, took him to the Presidio guard- house.” Private Will Davis of the Tennessee Regiment, who created all the strife, made the following statement: “Early in the morning I went to the tent nch the nigger! Get a necktie!" were | to_enormous numbers. The men | mefully. They pulled_her | | don't y side just as | son simply of the Catholic Truth Soclety, which is erected at a point near where the Unifon- street cars enter the reservation, to mail two letters. Near there I met an old man named Anderson, who told me he had a dime and asked me to have a drink. I went with him to the saloon of Leon Bo- rel, 2840 Baker street, where we each had a gl of beer. “We then went out on the sidewalk, when Anderson asked me for a match with which to light a cigarette. I sald I had none and we went back to get a match. While there I rolled a clgarette. t ns 1 finished a_young negro came in d placing his hand on my shoulder said: “Ain’t vou going to set me up this drink? | 1 told him that I had no money, that An- derson had just treated me. The negro " | then turned to Anderson and sald: ‘Why ou treat us black folks here like our black folks at home? Ander- said, ‘We do!” you do RAISE A “SACK” TO FIGHT FOR THEIR SHAME The Action of the Supervisors In Closing Berry Place Ignored. Strange Apathy of the Police in Enforcing the Recent Decision of the City Fathers. used in another portion of the tenderloin The owners of satisfied that by erecting the gate Chief Lees and his minions will not interfere with the inmates of the street. Notwithstanding the is to be used in building a gate, it pered that the money “placed” where it will do the most good. One of the principal property owners, it is said, ts handling the dent of success. s marked that with the liberal distribution of money he could influence the authori- ties not to close the street. Last Saturday a poiice officer verbally notified the inmates of the dens that they would _have to vacate. C notification " they to do s0 by the would seem that they are make a fight, evidently hop- Notwithstanding the action Board of Supervisors in ordering Berry street closed, no attempt has been made by the Chief of Police to carry out the edict of the city fathers. ing a week ago the Supervisors passed an order declaring that public decency was being outraged by the habitants of the houses on Berry place, and making it unlawful for any person to rent the property poses or for any one to maintain any of the buildings on the street as a disorderly In addition to the ordinance, the specially instructed of the board. At their meet- disreputable k, and is confi- for immoral d to have re- Chief of Police to_carry out the desires Mayor Phelan, immediately passage of the order, s Chief Lees with instructions to For some reason As they receiveq | Dot far distant, when mille determined to | reports. , Private advices from Antwe murderers and hersethieves, there n one for such a trivial ted the mob yesterday. ran from their | ¥ members of the regiments, until they ront of the house h Thomas was in hiding. in w tances which led up to the | The clrcumn: sed differently by the two ms that he went tver crabs, as is d left his home , and reached He received 20 goods in that saloon. It was ording to his story, that ard proved to be Pri- any L, Twenty- panion named with his ¢ ¥ at 3 o'clock cents, nd in a con- re struck. the skin 0 made a When he down the courier, with- to note results, st for » story that Davis was the story » exception th: ) fisherman ap) k, committing , to him, was the of placing his ha er. After the q which mu blood wa window, his mother ith the sol- were upon rred the way younger children of | r brother in & tiny The storm gath- | the humble cottage. | ipon_which it faces, | infurfated soldiers. | cess to the house | and that point of ith Th from ADVERTISEMENTS. would be worth more than a 1d mine on the Klondike.” % Sl S R WHEAT HOLDERS MAY Reports From All Quarters Indicate an Ample Supply, Which Prom- ises No Immediate kmprove- ment in Prices. The wheat situation during the past | seven days, while showing a loss of 3 cents in September wheat in the Chicago market shows more than this to the trade. On Monday September wheat sold at 65c, advancing to on Friday, the cduse belng attributed to the urgent de- mand for spot by interior millers. It is only natural that millers’ wants should be temporarily urgent. Farmers have their ideas screwed to prices which conditions will not warrant. They are not going to realize this fact until the spot demand becomes a question of find- ing buyers Instead of buyers urging sell- ers. The Government report fssued August 10 assures a crop (winter and spring wheat) of 700,000,000 bushels. Considera- tion must be given actual conditions abroad. Foreigners are not requiring as much American wheat this year as lz simply because crops abroad are consid- erable Jarger than requirement: the true condition all at once and a rush of wheat will be thrown upon the mar- for, thereby sending prices below a legit! mate basis.* The spring wheat harvest heg set in under favorable conditions. Duiuth and Minneapolis anticipate heavy receipts during the next sixty days. Winter wheat holders must now encounter this elament against prices. The demand for spot wheat abroad was the result of low stocks held by millers. The English harve: ample offerings from home farmers, ports early in the week gave the R wheat prospects as very gloomy; actual facts do not carry out the truth of th which may be relied upon, give eenditions as good throughout the greater section of Russia. Schwartz, Dupee & Co.’s special crop wheat crop in Germany promises the best ever made. Conditions throughout France are reported exceedingly favorable. On Saturday Russia and Roumania_offered wheat 10 marks—equal to about 6 cents— below America’s price, showing behind this was ssurance of a good harvest. W than on ay. Country offerin showed a marked increas 5 wheat tried hard to work up enthu on war rumors between England Russia. Speculators have fought th "THE PARLOR OF MRS. THOMAé.HOU"DE THE REMAINS OF "THE _FRONT FENCE.- Fiery Southerners Bring Their Race War to t REMAING OF THE FRONT _THETATTIC 'WHERE DAN WAS HIDING DooR he Golden Gate. Thomas was being taken down from his | attic hiding place. Major Cheatham drew his revolver and said i | 11l shoot the first man who touches him.” He then put the negro in charge of two non-commis- sfoned officers. On gaining the street he was placed in the center of a guard of six- Iowa men and marched to the Ten- nessee camp. En route and after they had entered the reservation some on struck the negro with a heavy iron hool inflicting a scalp wound. The Tennesse men shouted at the guard: “We don’t blame you, but we will kill that 'ere nig- ger!" In the earlier stage of the riot Corporal Mason and Private Fish of the mounted patrol tried to disperse the mob, but were severely handled. After Thomas had re- :d at the Tennessee camp for a short he was escorted to the guardhouse . M. Neal and Troop B, ted a profou General M. charge of the expedit at Camp Miller, on tne Presidio Reser tion, among the first at the Tennes- | see camp. The colored boy proved to be well known to him. His father, Zero Thomas, came to this coast with the | Fourth Light Artillery in 1872, He was then the servant of Colonel Hasbrook, and was a favorite with the officers. He is now employed as a janitor in the Ap- praisers’ building. | When he saw the wreck of his little | housghold he stood in the yard, and with bowed head, prayed for strength and pa- tience to stand the trial through which he had to pass. General Miller at once detailed Lieu- tenant Fowler of the Tennessee Regiment | to investigate the occurrence of the morn- | ing. Every member of the regiment who cannot acquit himself of participating in the riot will be tried by courtmartial. A board of survey will be appointed to assess the damages to the house and property, and this will be paid pro rata by the men of the regiment. Private Davis not under arrest y terday, being ly confined to his quar- ters. 'Last night an extra guard was placed around the Tennessee camp, and :nsation at s Miller, who fi pany. “My boy came running into the house all out of breath,” said Mrs. Thomas that he had a fight with a couple of sol- diers and that he hit them. He said they A _| asked him for 10 cents, and he told them For Baby’s Skin co® pnd hatr, noth- |5 " had no money. One of them wanted 3 ing in the whole| {5 pags on, but the other showed fight. I wund_)h o cleansing, purifying and beautiful | heard the soldiers coming at this time, as CUTICURA SOAP, the most effective skin | and told my son to hide wfiilp I kept them lexion soap, as well as the purest | off. They stood outside the back yard for and sweetest for toilet, bath and nursery. For|a time and I talked to tuem. 1 heard distressing heat ra. chafings, inflamma- | some one say, “The Tennessee men will and eruptions, for crusted, itching irri- | be here soon and then we will get him.’ s of the scalp, with dry, thin and falling | “The crowd gathered quickly and soon hair, for red, rough hands, with shapeless | Ewarmed all over the place. They yelled, nails, and simple blemishes of infancy it is ‘rglxz’xen‘z (flr{n; J:i;?fi'éw" he nigger! Get a SheolitSly Jelthpur SO “S¥nile this was going on my other chil- dren nid Danny in the attic, The men 4 rest for Tired Mothers in & warm bath | 500D commenced to .run all over the A R T TtA SOAP, and & eingle anolnt. | Place and pulled me about by the hair jng with CUTICURA, purest of emollient skin | 2nd Kicked and beat me. They pelted the cures. This treatment will afford instant re- | house with stones and bricks and also had fief, permit rest and sleep to both parent and | axes and long iron poles. They knocked entia, and point to a speedy, permanent and { the plastering down, overturned the stove economical cure of itching, burning, bleeding, | and broke the cement stovepipe, scatter- goaly and crusted skin and scalp humors, with | jng ashes and soot in every direction. loss of hair, when all else falls, They abused me shamefully When I went e upstairs where Danny was. I found they Sold throughout the world, Price, CUTICU- | h2q g lighted lamp looking for him in the RA SOAP, 2c. CUTICURA (ointment), dark corners, SLEEP FOR SKIN-TORTURED BABIES | 5 we reached the sidewalk. The negro con- tinued the controversy, saying: ‘You are a liar, you don’t. We are just assgood as any of you white people. Just because you have on blue clothes, don’t you think you can run over the black folks of San Francisco. latter struck at him. They were fighting when 1 stooped down to pick up a brick. As I raised up, the negro struck me over the left eye with what I think was a pair of brass knuckles. That staggered me, but I held the brick and struck the ne, 3 knocking him down. 1 hit him and kicked him several times. By this time a small crowd had gathered. The negro jumped up and ran toward his home. When he | neared there he shouted something back at us. We followed to find out what he said. When we reached him again the negro struck Anderson and I struck him with a stone. All this was in a runnin fight. The negro ran In his house and | some one in the crowd, which numbered about twenty-five men, proposed that they get the negro out and lynch him. proceedings or how 1 got back to camp.” In the course of this passage of words ‘““‘Anderson then cursed thenegroand the do not remember any of the subsequent that the “sack™ (which they helped to will influence the authorities not to interfere with them. partment paid no attention to |1 the edict of the board, and as the result | fi the denizens of the street still flaunt thelir shame, apparently safe from police inter- night why he had neglected to enforce the order the Chiet rather innocently replied that he knew nothing about the cha who infest Berry s % he had been officially notified by May. Phelan of the action of the Supervisors and declared that he would not drive out the horde of aisreputable women until he al of the Chief he ordered one A WELSHMAN WHO EXPLORES VOLCANOES | | at prices enough 1 | ment to California p ‘When asked cter of the women SEARCHING FOR A DEPOSIT OF Considerable barley SULPHUR. Despité the vigorous de it is known that yesterda: clerks in his office to have a num- notices printed calling the atten- tion of the denizens of the street to the Supervisors and | them to vacate within five days after be- ing served with the notice. time thé owners houses are raising a substantial purse, presumably for the purpose of fighting Says That a Fortune Is to Be Found in Ome of the Right action 'of the An 0dd appearing cha 0dd vocation, Welshman. In the mean- | y disreputable | Vaughn Rhys, : a young man, appar- ently about 30 years of age, and frequents hotels in a dirty suit s. His spectacled eyes of deep blue, prominent Grecian nose and well- cut mouth are noticeable The police claim that the money is to | be used in erecting a massive gate at the | entrance to the street, similar to the one features of a but five passes were allowed each com- | terday afternoon. *He hurriedly told me | h D t, 1 Ki Edward st. Posm. BT Ga 3 na | with them, but o no purpose. It was , Send for All About Baby’ oniay about this time the soldiers went up POTTER DRUG & CHEM. CORP. Sole Props. When they JocatadDeany b reasoned B. C. BSkin, Sealp and Halr, free. J PLAYED TAG Raymond Sweeney Killed by a Coalecart and William Carroll Injured by a Streetcar. ‘While playing tag, Raymond Sweeney, a thirteen-year-old boy, was struck by the pole of a coal cart and instantly killed about § o’clock last evening near the corner of Mission and Twenty-fourth streets. Immediately after the boy had been killed the horses swerved and collided with a south-bound Mission street car, No. 1028. jam Carroll, the driver of the cart, was thrown in front of the car and seriously injured. he took the position. PEEEREEPPEVEPEEPIPNPENPPEEPOEOOOEOOO® comely physiognomy. for his looks he would certainly find fa- vor with the ladies. His occupation is a very lonesome one. It is searching for volcanoes with sul- | phureted moutns, and when he finds one, no matter whether it be in the beetling reglons of Western South America, amid the Titanic upheavals of Asia or among the smoke vent promptly notifies his home office, located At the same time he sends back samples of the sulphur he finds, after treatment in a peculiar apparatus which he carries with recently arrived in New York direct from Australia, crossing the country Ly way of the Canadian Pacific, and stopped for a few days in Seattle. “1 am going north in search of suita volcanoes,” § suitable I mean those which produce good They arc very rare. have not found one on the Amlerican con- | tinent that is just to my taste. = “Some of the American volcanoes have large beds of sulphur, but it is of an in- am arranging a schooner along the en- tire chain of the Aleutians, which, I un- derstand, abound Perhaps ‘T shall find there what I want. The trip will take me some months, as the islands stretch 1100 miles across the If Mr. Rhys cared TH DEA Witnesses of the accident place no blame on F. T. Jackson, the motorman, and although arrested, he was released on his own rec- ognizance. Young Sweeney had been playing with another boy and as the coal wagon approached from the south and the car from the north, he dodged in between the two and was struck in the face by the pole, the force of the blow crushing in the skull. trip and was going at an unusual rate of speed. car falling upon a repair wagon which was standing in the street is supposed to be what frightened the horses. The front end of the car was splintered, the glass broken and the passengers considerably shaken up by the collision. dashboard of the coal wagon were broken and both horses cut by the car though nelther one of them was injured badly. B. Philkill, living at 2402 Mission street, saw the accident and picked the boy up and placed him on the sidewalk. Dr. T. C. Park was summoned, but finding the boy dead, turned her attention to the injured man. He was in an unconscious condition and hardly breath- ing. He was removed to the City and County Hospital. Up to a late hour he had not regained consciousness. Carroll is a married man with three children, residing at 181 Stevenson place. driving a wagon for the Tesla Coal Company but two weeks, having been laid up in the hospital with a broken leg for three months before ferior grade. The car was on its last make a trip in The light from the The pole and “If 1 can find a volcano of the ri~ht sort I have got a fortune. atented in England an apparatus for urifying sulphur in large quantities, at the crater where it is found. But it doesn’t pay to meddle with a poor You know that to-day nearly all the sulphur used by manufacturers comes from Sicily. best grade that can be found. costs money to bring it so far. American deposit can be discovered which is almost as good as the Sicilian sulphur I will be able to clarify it and supply the country. Anybody who will put me next to a good volcano can make a handsome 1 have been traveling now for several years in various volcanic regions of the world, but especial South America, looking for sulphur, I returned to Australia, m; have several financial backers, and recently made a fresh start. ‘You would be surprised to know the value of a good sulphur-producing vol- Some time ago I andling and He has been thing out of it. Raymond Sweeney was the son of Morgan M. Sweeney, a plumber and tinner, in business at Crockett. The boy lived with his mother, six sisters and three brothers at 3408 Twenty-fourth street. @@@@@@@@@@9@\_@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@-@@@ months ago home, where 1 CREEPPPEPPPEPEINEREPPEPPPPPIPPPIOPVOOREOE wars so frequently they have learned to smell powder before running. The situation is one that promises no immediate improvement in wheat prices. The longer one waits the lower prices promise. California producers are now in direct competition with their more fav- ored friends in the north. Washington and Oregon wheat will soon be for sale to admit of ship- nts, Barley grows weaker e time Dasues o s ng received from the north. “The spot market is feature- less. Lower prices are almost sure. R. E. MULCAHY. —_————— SUTRO’S ESTATE INSOLVENT. It Is Said That the Indebtedness Can Be Paid if Creditors Will Wait. The Sutro estate is declared to be in-| solvent, though capable of liquidating all indebtedness provided the creditors do not insist upon forcing their demands for int mediate payment. Mortgages to the amount of one-quarter of its value stand against the estate, a fact of which the legal advisers and rela- tives of Mr. Sutro were in ignorance uatii | Dr. Emma Merritt came into the knowl- | edge at the time of taking charge as | gu\x‘u;‘d!nn. Vhen the legal declaration of incompe- tency of the millionaire was made by ?he courts foreclosures were freely threat- ened. The negotiations for the sale of the electric railroad, in which Mr. Sutro had some $250,000 interest, were sald to have been undertaken to relieve the estate of | its immense indebtedness. Reuben H. Lloyd persists that there is n,on:i(;%ond l;lr'ill”ln\{t b¥| (hildece'.\:*d mill- e, and alleges that Mrs. K Vi not the wife of the decedent. S e —_——————— Zweybruch Died Anyhow. Berthold Zweybruch, the private in the | Utah Cavalry who attempted sulcide last Thursday in a drug store by taking morphine, died yesterday morning of | pneumonia, and his body was taken to the Morgue. Autopsy Surgeon Gallagher found on | having recovered fro; morphine. The decease: been a drug- gist in the service of Redington & Co.. examining the remaingethat the poison was not the cause of'&. the deceased in this city, and enlisted in the Utah| Cavalry shor(lg after the breaking out of the war with Spain. Tea Samples Keduced. The Secretary of the Treasury has de-| cided that samples of merchandise that have no commercial value and not sub- ject to sale may be admitted free of Quty. Tea samples to be admitted free | must not be of more than one ounce each. TR N R S Denounced as Frauds. Thomas Garrett, an ex-employe of The Call stereotypeing rooms, whose recent affliction of the eyes has made him wholly blind, denounces the persons who have been collecting money on his behalf as belng engaged in fraud. He bas author- ized no one to solicit money for him. —_————————— THE CRYSTAL swmuéflg' :A:?nsi = Physicians recommend the Cr water tub and swimming baths, North Beach. cano. One of the right sort in America BE OVERCONFIDENT t, | The re- | sult will be that producers will arrive at | ket greater than the demand can care | will have | expert cables them from Berlin that the | | fornia, pursuant to t | 610 ana 611 of the P ADVERTISEMENTS. v (4 FRADE MAFK ; PECIAL SALE TO-DAY! 10 dozen Ladies’ Italian Cloth UNDERSKIRTS ! Black ground with figured and striped designs. A new material that looks like silk. SPECIAL At $2.‘§O Each. KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107-109 POST STREET, ——AND—— 1220, 1222 and 1224 MARKET STREET. United States Branch. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— THURINGIA INSURANCE COMPANY F ERFURT, GERMANY, st day of D. AT, the year ending on t Insurance Commiss: n State of Cali- ns of sectlo it A condense | as per blank furnished by “ommissioner. SSE' Cash market value of all bonds owned by com Cash in company’s | Cash in banks.. Interest due and stocks and loans d - $296,150 00 2 91 01 32,000 00 66 67 | Total assets Losses In process of adjustment or in suspense run- 2 04 reinsurance pro All other demant | pany Total Habilities . effects of the | INCOME Net cash actually received for fire premiums . % s Received for on bonds, all other sources. Total income EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for fire los 304 74, los: $107,460 73 brokerage -.. eececesione 105,428 35 Paid for salarie: and other charges for officers, clerks, etc..... 21,310 70 Paid for State, national and local All other payments and expenditures 10 Total expenditures .. $345,657 Fire. $129,745 53 Losses incurred during the year. Risks and Premiums. |FireRisks. Premiums. Net amount of _risks| 1 Wwritten during the year| $44,519,941) $597,709 70 Net amount of risks ex- pired during the vear..| 19,590,070| 257,445 13 Net amount in force De-l cember 31, 18 30,364,615 399,975 47 F. G. VOSS, United States Manager. Subscribed =nd sworn to before me this 1Sth day of January, 1898. MARK A. FOOTE, Commisstoner for California in Chicago. VOSS, CONRAD & CO., Manager Pacific Coast Department, 204-208 SANSOME STREET, BAN FRANCISCO. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Frankfort Marine and Accident INSURANCE COMPANY. F FRANKFORT, GERMAN 318t day of December, A. D. the year ending on that day, & Insurance Commissioner of the fornia, pursuant to the provisions of secti ons 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL Amount of capital stock, pald up in cash .. Real estate owned by Loans on bonds and mortgage: Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned b: 5 Cash in compan Cash In banks Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loans..... PR RN Premiums In due course of collectio Due from other comp: for rein- surance on losses already paid Total assets ... LIABILITIES. a4 and unpaid.. . $151,346 50 n marine and in- reinsurance Losses adjuste Gross premiums ol land navigation risks 00 per cent... B Grogs premiums on marine Tsks, reinsurance 50 per cent Liability under othe Pension fund ... All other demands & pany - Total liabilities I time 302600 1 Net cash actually received for ma- rine premiums . g Riaived for premiums in other Dbranches " rinsooe Renelved for interest and dividends o bonds, stocks, -loans and from all other sources.. Received from all other sources’ $417,015 83 Total income EXP Net amount paid for marine losses. Dividends to siockholders..... Pald_or allowed for commission or __ brokerage 151,528 57 Pald for salaries, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, ete.... 48, Pald for State, national and local All other payments and expenditure Pald for losses in branches othe than marine ... Total EXpfl!flltur;_s P. DUMCKE, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th April, 18%8. FRANK H. MASON, g United States Consul General. VOSS, CONRAD & CO., Manager Pacific Ceast Department, 204-208 SANSOME STREET, BAN FRANCISCO,