The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1898, Page 1

g to e faken [ the Lit 4 Tiis Papér Faerd mot 4 m g Call " VOLUME LX 130 SAN FRANCISCO, ATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MRS. McKIN LEYS 'BROTHER VICTIM " OF AN ASs@ssIN George D.-Saxton Shot to Death | While Making anp Even- . ing Call. Mrs. Anna C. George, a Divorced Woman With Whom He Had Trouble, Accused of the Murder. Special Dispatch to The Call. CANTON brother ¢ was sh front of 0., O a > | you a T, Imm 1 be taken to the a brother-in- was unmar- who ft the , riding his t t seen him by his Althouse home dark a Altho not been at home for the | past t ys. One of the neighbors said a woman who was suppesed to h done the sheoting had passed yuse. Mrs. George took at a downtown k, and some on a westbound car, and > motorman, A. Story, Irestette avenue, nea Althouse home. About 9 o'clock she arrested by the police officers and | uble in locating her was | y to the fact that she r old home yesterday.. is the divorced wife of George, who formerly was a | f Saxton in his downtown busi- conducting a dressmaking r divorce was obtained in 1 a proceeding later filed in by the husband against d that Saxton had sent secure the divorce, the pro- being a suit for damages 1 alienation of the wife's been through all me‘; irts and was passed | e Supreme Court on finally remanded ere. Before | ednesday, a set- | Saxton paying ot up of $20,- | furniture, the that the arti- | it nt in the e the shooting occ SEETT months ago began peace ceedings t Mrs. George, allegi r threate e time st Mrs. at 1516 West blocks oting occurred eek she is sald to have packed up household goods to have them ed to her mother’s home at Hano- r goods have been living at the rooms n, in the same house. 9 o’clock this While the alking to Mrs. Oberlin to- i George was seen coming t near by. juind the house to get in the | , she was put under arrest by | s and taken to police head- | When she was brought into | the station she seemed to be self-pos- | gessed, She was given a chair, and | one of the officers took a small cape | which she carried and placed it on the | | said to me that ¥ nd the neighbors said Mrs. | ¥ { evening. The | respecting the wis As she attempted | {ley to Canton to-night. Prosec ng Attorney Pomerent, table. who fron said: where were you about 6« ! Mrs. George called Turnkey Becherer whispered something in his ear. He to the prosecuting attorney and told her that he could not grant The question as to her the hour named = answered in a perfectly iet tone, ‘“Pardon me, sir; when the proper time request. a 1 talk Did you go out on the streetcars about that time? There was no answer to the question. “I will say to you, Mrs. George,” said the prosecutor, “that {f you had noth- ing to do with this, we will not detain moment. There was no answer and the prose- cutor said, “Do you know why the offi- | cers brought you here?” No answer | you know that Mr. Saxton is| was no answer save a slight twitching of the lips. Mr. Pomerent then said, “It has been ou threatened to kil Is it true?” s and several other questions woman returned no reply him. . George was then taken into the women's department. No weapon was | found on her. The skin of her hands was scraped and be analyzed to | see whether there are any traces of| powder upon them. She was locked up to await a hearing. It was n talk that Mrs. George would ma ~quent threats of taking | Saxton’s life. Many of these threats are said to have been sent through the mails, and the Federal Grand Jury sit- | ting in Cleveland last fail indicted her for alleged improper use of the mails. Mrs. George gave a bond, and the in- dictment, so far as is known here, is | still alive. Sample C. George, the husband, is now reported to have been married to a second wife for more than a year. He | is reported. marrled. in Wheeling to , pulled his chair ln‘ | Miss Lucy Graham of Alliance, and the | marriage was kept secret until after the settlement with Saxton. as George got his damage money from Saxton he announced his marriage. Mrs. George claims Saxton deceived her and deserted her. S NEWS BROKEN TO MRS. MKINLEY WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—When the startling news of the murder of George Saxton, Mrs. McKinley’s brother, reached the White House to-night President and Mrs. McKinley had just come down stairs to receive the mem- bers of the Episcopal convention. There was a hurried conference of the officers of the White House as to what should be done to convey the tidings to Mrs. McKinley, and it was finally decided to wait until the guests had departed. The President was called aside by Secretary Porter just as the last guest bade him good night and shown a brief dirpatch from Canton saying that George Saxton was shot and killed this President tenderly es- corted Mrs. McKinley to the upper part of the house and there as gently as the cumstances would admit broke the to her. Mrs. McKinley, although at first stunned by the tidings, bore up remarkably well. at once had telephonic connection made with friends in Canton with whom he talked sonally for some time. All the officials around the White House, hes of the President, are naturally reticent about the affair. The only announcement made officially is that the President has received con- firmation of the death of Mr. Saxton and that he will go with Mrs. McKin- Secretary Porter further stated that the President would keep his public en- gagements in connection with the Western trip, the only change being that he would go from Canton Sunday night instead of leaving here Monday morning, as originally planned. SAMPSON GIVES Wdy UND NERVOUS|STRAIN High Tension of the Past Several Months Causes the Rear Admiral’s Collapse. ald telegraphs: the day and his life was thought to mediate fear of death, His trouble is a general giving % ok k ok k ok ok ok ok ok kK NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—The Washington correspondeit of the Her- I am informed late to-night that Admifl Sampson is extremely ill in Havana. He has been constantly fafli go north, but dare not suggest it. His physician was calls great hurry after midnight this morning. strain of last year, coupled with chronic stomach complaift. [ R RS S SR R A SRR R SR RS E R AR RS R R R R R RS ERTHE Y and is un- He became b¢ in danger, but thele is no im- way of his constitutio} under the r She expressed a de- | sire for particulars and the President | As soon | %ok Rk ok kkkokckok ok THE LEECH LAKE BATTLE GROUND. A PILLRGER CHIEF FROM PHOTOCAAPH | Sceme of the battle between General Bacon's troops and the Pillager Indians - just befors the firing began, as described by Colonel J. T. Sheehan, United States Marshal, and from photographs. On the right, in the fore- ground, is Bog-Ah-Me-Go-Shik’s log house, used later as a hospital. To the left are the little side-wheel lake steamers Flora and Chief, which brought the party from Walker. On the share; near the house, Colonel comrades in the thick timber. Sheehan is engaged in conversation with several Inwans, while a number of bucks who have just left the house are hastening to join their disaffeoted The troops are just returning from an excursion around the peninsula, and one party has stacked arms, pre- paratory to unloading their stuff from the boats. The hostile Indians were in the heavy timber in the background. WATSON INJURED IN A TRAIN WRECK COMMODORE J. C.. WATSON, INJURED IN A TRAIN ACCIDENT / ACRAMENTO, Oct. 7.—Commodore J. C. Watson suffered injuries in a train accident near Colfax this afternoon, and this evening when tHe commodore reached Sacramento his head was in bandages and his clothes were stained with blood. ; The westbound overland passenger train was passing the vicinity of Cape Horn, about a mile east of Colfax, when for some reason not explained, the two end cars broke from the train. One of these cars, the first, was a pri- vate coach occupied by Commodore Watson and his suite, en route to the Mare Island Naval Station. The next and last car was a Pullman sleeper conteining a number of passengers. The commodore’s car was thrown with great violence against a rocky bank and the shock threw the occupants of the car out of their seats. Commodore Watson was found to have suffered a scalp wound three inches in length, from which the blood dripped freely. Nobody else in the car was Ifjured and the occupants of the sleeper also escaped without bruises. Orders were given to transfer the commodore and party and the sleeper passengers to the cars remaining on the track, and the train minus the two derailed cars continued on to Sacramento, arriving several hours late. s A wrecking crew was dispatched to the scene and is now at worl(rep\u- ing the cars on the track. This may take all night, and it was stated here to-night that the eastbound overland leaving Sacramento at 10 o'clock ° would be detained at Colfax twelve hours. Commodore Watson, when he reached Sacramento, was able“to receive and send telegrams, and despite his bandaged head and blood-splashed gar- ments, appeared in good spirits. X PORT COSTA, Oct. 7.—Commodore Watson and party left the train here, and were conveyed to Mare Island. on the Government tug TUnadilla. The commodore will formally take command of the navy yard to-morrow. Annexat and Feast Upon Inhab ,VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 7.—The steam- ship Warimoo, which reached port this evening after a smart passage from Australasia and Honoluluy, has news that H. M. S. Goldfinch has lately an- nexed the Duff group of islands, and several others of the Paciflc group, in the name of Great Britain. The selz- ure of these islands, particularly the Duff, Cherry and Mitre Islands, is con- sidered significant. The British warship Mohawk also seized a number of islands, the British flag being planted by her officers on the Santa Cruz Islands, the Reef Islands and the Swallow group. In her trip to the latter islands she ran on a reef and was considerably damaged. officers of the Mohawk, it seems that the Duff group numbers eleven islands, all thickly inhabited by copper-colored natives. The islands are densely wood- ed and of great fertility. Mitre Island is uninhabited, but Cherry Island has between 500 and 600 natives on it, the same race as the Tocupians. The whole of the recent annexations have been placed under the control of Mr. C. M. Woodford, the British resident in the Solomon group. y Among the islands over which a pro- tectorate has thus been declared was the ill-fated ships of the French ad- miral, La Perouse, were destroyed. Upon another of the islands of the Santa Cruz group, seized by the Mo- hawk, Bishop Patterson was murdered. At the island of Utupa in the Santa Cruz groun the Mohawk found a na- tive of New Hebrides, the sole survivor of the crew of the New Hebrides cut- ter. Two white men and one native had been murdered by the natives about ten days previous to the Mo- hawk's visit, and the cutter had been burned. From New Caledonia comes the news of the escape of a number of French prisoners. The schooner Laura was stolen by four ticket-of-leave men and they hid it in a secluded anchorage and at nightfall about eighteen es- caped from the penal settlement, were taken aboard and the schooner sailed, it is thought, for Australia. The cutter was, it is said, well provisioned. The authorities at New Caledonia organized a seareh ‘party and left in pursuit of the prisoners in a small cutter. The po- lice at New Zealand and Australian ports have been warned to be on the lookout for the schooner. The head hunters, a cannibal faction of the natives of Rendova, have of late been extremely active in the prosecu- tion of their horrible custom, and a ENGLAND SEIZES MANY ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC Cruisers Goldfinch and Mohawk Conclude a Wholesale Head-Hunters of Rendova Capture a Village From the particulars given by the Vanikoro, celebrated as the place where| P O O R R R o ion Raid. the Bodies of Its itants. terrible atrocity was committed by them on the western portion of the pro- tectorate. They captured a village, and, after slaughtering many inhabit- ants, returned. home with thirty pris- oners. These thirty, were killed and eaten at a barbaric feast given by the head hunters in honor of their vic- tory. One of the mest notorious of the head-hunting chiefs has since been captured by the British and is in cus- tody at the Government station at Tu- lagi. He will be given a trial for mur- der and in all probability hanged “pour encouragez les autres.” The native rising at Espiritu Santu, according to reports brought to Nou- mea by the British warship Meldura, has been quelled. The island of Motuiti, or Kennedy | Island, which has appeared on the charts since the beginning or the cen- tury, was searched for in vain by the steamer Mohawk when she seized | the Santa Cruz Islands. No island ex- ists anywhere near the position assign- ed and it is' thought that that island, like Falcon Island, also has sunk be- neath the waves. GENERAL LAWTON'S HEALTH WEAKENED Applies for a Three Months’ Leave of | Absence From His Ardu- ous Duties. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 153, by James Gor- don Bennett. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Oct. 7.—General Lawton, who has been ill for the last few days and unable to attend to business, has applied for three months’ leave of absence from his duties. The fatigues of the campaign and arduous work since he succeeded General Shafter have weakened his health, making it compulsory for him to take a holiday. General Wood will succeed him for the present. e E 2 R R R R R R R R R R RS ADMIRAL MILLER ON HIS WAY HERE VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 7.—Advices recelved here to-day from Honolulu state that the United States steamship Phila- delphia sailed from there for San Francisco Sep- tember 29, with Admiral Miller on board.™ IEE R E R R E R EEEEEREXS] * ERRRXEXRRRERR DR N | EX R R R R R R R R R R R | was no basis for the report CHIPPEWAS NOW DISPLAY - WHITE FLAGS Indians Whipped by Regulars. GENERAL BACON AT WALKER RETURNS FROM THE SCENE OF THE FIGHTING. Reports That His Command Was Not in Danger of Massacre and Did Not Need Rein- forcements. : \ Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Reports re- ceived by the officials of the War and the Interior departments from the In- dian outbreak are of a reassuring char- acter to-night, and they now feel that the uprising may be regarded as over. General Bacon, who has charge of affairs in the department of which he is In command, will remain at Walker for the present and this, it Is hoped, will have a quieting effect on the citizens of the surrounding country who have felt that they were in danger from the red- skins. General Corbin said to-night there that two troops of cavalry on their way to Huntsville, Ala., from North Dakota, had been ordered to Walker, General Bacon's telegram showing he was not in need of reinforcements. The follow- ing is General Bacon's latest dispatch: WALKER, Minn. (via Brain- erd), Oct. 7.—Arrived here at noon with my detachment in good condition. The killed and badly wounded were shipped to Fort Snelling this morning. The Indians have been badly whipped and left the country adjacent to the fight. - En route here, other Chippewa bands displayed white flags along the lake shore. Much talk here of general Indlan out- break. Will ascertain facts and report later. Find Colonel Har- bach at this place with 200 men, Third Infantry. Will remain my- self and keep troops here awalt- ing developments. Regret exaggerated reports published, resulting from my in- ability to communicate. Have been in no ‘danger of massacre and need no reinforcements. Colonel Harbach’s coming was in good time in sending out boats. The following reassuring dispatch was received to-night by Commissioner Jones from Gue-Bel-Cu, a well-known Chippewa Indian, who has transacted considerable business for that band in ‘Washington: WALKER, Minn., Oct. 7.—Not more than twenty-five or thirty Indians engaged in the outbreak. Chief Gaywuche Waybinung and Macheguh Bow, both of Bear Is- land, and Wahbununnee. of Leech Lake village, are doing all in their power to suppress the outbreak. Chief Flatmouth ar- rived at Leech Lake village to- day with a large number of fol- lowers, and is strongly opposing the outbreak. Indlans are com- ing into Leech Lake rapidly and are registering their names in the overseer’s office with the in- tention of remaining at the vil- lage until the trouble has sub- sided. White Earth, Red Lake and Mille Lac Indians are not affected. Think there will be no general uprising. SETTLERS YET NERVOUS. ST. PAUL, Minn,, Oct. 7.—Opinions differ as to the present status of the troubles with the Leech Lake Indians. but even though nothing more follows enough has happened to cause North- western settlers to feel somewhat un- settled in their homes for some time to come. There is something of a panic in most of the small settlements near Walker, it being the center of the Leech Lake district, and the men in the lum- ber camps in that vicinity have quit work and are either in or on their way to Walker. The teachers in the Indian schools and others about the agency D O R S S o e ++ FTH1 4ttt ettt et ees P R R R S S g have also thought it well to change their location for the present. There have been some sensational stories from' that region to-day, but they do not seem to be well founded. There was certainly no battle to-day, because the troops are all known to be-in Walker. resting after their hard experiences. General Bacon returned from Bear Island on the mainland, or near there, where Wednesday night's fight oc- cured, to Walker to-day, bringing with him all the first detachment of troops, the dead and wounded having been sent in first and brought down to Fort Snelling this evening. There was no difficulty in embarking the men at Sugar Point, and General Bacon reports officially that the trouble Is about over, as he has whipped the Indians badly. Governor Clough will send a battery of artillery of the National Guard to Cass Lake in the morning to protect the residents of that locality. —_—-—— DESERVE MEDALS OF HONOR. WALKER, Minn., Oct. 7.—The battle of Leech Lake has developed more than one hero. General Bacon, Major Wilkinson, Lieutenant Ross, Surgeon Harris, Hos- pital Steward Burkhart, Sergeant But- ler, Frank Briggs and Colonel Sheehan are all deserving of medals of honor, the first three named for the gallant manner in which they led the troops, the fourth for his inattention te. his wounds when bullets were flying about his head and his apparent indifference to danger, the fifth for volunteerin< carry messages across the firing from Lieutenant Ross to Gener: mn.whichnmmtmmhuntw ¢