The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1898. FAESHO'S GAAND JURY DRAGNET Third Big Bunch of Ac-| cusations. SUITS ORDERED INSTITUTED NE ARLY EVERY COUNTY OFFI- CIAL INVOLVED. Salaries of Dep- Moneys Paid 1 Have Been to = Ex-MAyor WJOSEPH SPINNEY., - CRAYCRSPT e R [AYOR AND CITY TRUSTEES, ACCUSED OF MALFEASANCE BY A GRAND JURY. gt CONSTABLE CREED | E Y BE EPOSED Election Contest Filed at San Rafael. 16 MM EUGENE CRAMER'S CHARGES | | ! SAYS THE PEACE OFFICER IS AN EX-CONVICT. Charges That Election Officers in Sau- salito Violated the Law by “Doing Politics” at the Polls. INVESTIGATION OF THE OPERA-HOUSE RIOT 1 1 of jud t in persuad- MY A A A T COTTON MILLS HAVE CLOSED INDEFINITELY About Six Thousand People in the Vicinity of Augusta Are Out of Employment. | A, —The Augusta | . ctorfes of this | ly this after- 3000 more to the u Five weeks ago tt As n r mill operative: mills in this | Bath in South | avany pHERdopRTEatu gap omy striking return to »orhood of | ity out of | ng down | MERCURY CHANGES HANDS. New Owners Take Charge of the isan Jose Daily. SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—To- y was consu and t of the hands of to become the mpany composed | DECLARES THE BOOKS WERE NOT DESTROYED Attorney of the Standard Oil People Says Only Worthless Records | property « ”(’; ling citizens. The price paid was | F Rooks $100,000. The first isste under the new ' ment will appear to-morrow | The directors are W. H . M. Bowman, . Andrews, with ight as president and C. M. Wooster ditor and manager. The paper's future policy, as editori- ally anncunced, will be to advance the interests and promote the welfare of the people of the county. It will con- | tinue Republican in principle, but will | not forego the right of criticism. It will not be the organ of any league, clique | or faction, but will foliow broad busi- s principles. w I books in s probable d before Noted Capitalist Dead. WAYNE, Ind., Dec 5 g 1 3, president of the Fe With Repatriated Soldiers. Slectric Corporation, one of the owners| CADIZ, Dec. 24—The Spanish Trans- of the Hoffman House property atlantic line steamer Colon, from Ha- York and promoter wide- | vana December 10. arrived here to-night. at Dallas, Tex. His | She has on board 2606 repatriated Spanish | Soldiers. | 1ate to-night by C. ;The complaint recites Rea is unfit and | cause of violation of laws. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A MASKED FOOTPAD San Rafael Citizen’'s Hat Is Shot Away in a Struggle for the Possession of a Revolver. =3 SAN RAFAEL. Dec. 24—Clvde N. Browne, foreman of the Marin & < y Tocsin, had a t 1 d footpad o =3 The robber shc head, at © failed to obtain ion of the pluk The at- © © tempted robbery occurred in the most th part of the tow f=3 < ile the was shining brightly fifty feet of the © < ence of City Marshal John H Its boldness is unparalle o f he history of San Rafael & b= n his way home at 8:30 k when the < fed d from behind some ubbery on 20 f=3 =3 and, presenting a revolv or im to throw & =3 Browne complied with the com Jber p o 9 revolver against his breast. and. s: < [=3 ade, placed his d o =3 rem & o ew it upward & <& Browne. S5 =3 < ver. During the struggle the pon was di <& < g a large hole in the brim of Brawn < oo £t ea P P *he footpad, who was a powerful man & < the noise would ng assistance, & © with one supreme effort tore loose from Browne and ran fleetly & © down Third stree =3 E=4 The man must have been familiar with Browne’s habits and & & thought that he was coming home with his week's salary. He is & & described as being about five feet eight inches in height. He wore a & E=3 clothes. His face w ven and the eyes were O & a black mask. & o o =8=3=aFoFo2-F-F:F-2=F:8:ReRoF-FeR=RuReFaPaFeRaReFeRaFaFaFaTuF=F=3:3 SUTTOOUST SUPERVISOR BEA DR. HAMILTON DIES AFTER AN CPERATION Passing of the Porn:;er Surgeon-Gen- eral of the Marine Hos- pital Service. Gross Frauds Alleged in | a Complaint. | COLONIZATION OF VOTERS States marine hosp 1L, to-nig 1 been super Insane & -d ast. For a week his death been expected at alm any time, as given up six d 0 by his phy- BROTHER OF THE SAN JOSE EX-BOSS ACCUSED. he Good Government League Candidates | ‘Will Be Elected by the Re- count Now Being Made. n was performed and at its con- »a Dr. Senn sald that in his opt: Hamilton had no chance for reco r He rallied slightly after the opera. tion, howe?er, and for a few days the seemed to be a_probability that he pull through. For the last two da has, however, sinking slowly death came at 6:30 o'clock to-niehc. e e IN HONOR OF LAFAYETTE. Special Dispatch to The Call. c. 24.—Suit was filed Olson to annul the | election of George E. Rea as Super- visor in the First District. Rea, who is a brother of “ex-Boss” Rea, defeated R. M. Phelps by 104 votes, but evidence of great fraud has been discovered. In some precincts voters were colonized. SAN JOSE, Daughters of the Revolution Aiding the Monument Fund. SHINGTON, Dec. 24—The Lafay- “ommission has assured ety of the Daughters of 1 Revolution t incompetent and disqualified by law from filling the office of Supervisor be- It is alleged that on November 5, 1898, Rea unlawfully supplied trans- portation to Charles A. Fragelda at San Jose and Cardinal Mesa at Palo Almi s | | x | | Wa [ ett i ; gratitude, and for Gilroy to obtain their votes; that|one of the the monument he promised the residents of Mount | Wil i . to be ap- | Hamilton Precinct a bridge if they | b{oPrial r»-c.:,‘,;n”,;“n“’{; | elected him, and promised F. E. Pearce | that each member of the soclety show her that if he helped elect him a certain | appreciation of this h claim of his which the Board of Su- |all persons in her loc fo _contribu pervisors had rejected would be paid; | according to to this_enter- that Rea expended $125 for bands, ho- | Prise. It h: ed that the Socie | the American Revol of the Children o i tel bills and caf fare during the cam- | of the Childre president co- can memorial committee, room v fice vacated. In the recount on the other contested offices to-day all three of the Good | Government League contestants made |; further gains. Aggeler for City Jus- | of pry tice gained 4 in the Fourth and 8 in the | Fifth precincts; Conant for Treasurer | gained 4 in the Fourth and lost 9 in| the Fifth, and Lyndon for Sheriff| gained 1 each in the Fourth and Fifth 2 F street, The hington, D. C. jety decided to issue an appeal 000 to be added to o fund already -nce and created for the purpos nting to France during the Par sition a bronze statue of Gec Washingtn. e oo ACCIDENT AT A CROSSING. precincts. The net gains in five pre- |One Person Killed, One Person In- cincts counted are: Aggeler 14, L‘onant‘ jured and a Third Badly Hurt. 7, Lyndon 14. The election of Aggeler | SCRANTON, Pa.. Dec. 24—One person was killed, one fatally injured and a third had a leg broken by an accident at a crossing on the Ontario and Western | Railroad at Peckville, near here, to-day. | Lewis Weissverger. . a grocery-wagon and Conant is assured and many are confident of Lyndon winning. The precincts counted to-day also show gains in the vote of J. Campbell, District Attorney-elect, and that In five precincts he had been deprived of 51| driver, a man named Poter Wasnok and votes. James Walsh, aged 14 years, were cross- R. S. Spaulding to-day filed a contest | ing the railroad, when they were struck of the election of J. H. Grider as Con- | by the engine, and Wasnok was literally stable of Mayfield Township. Grider's | gTound to pleces. Weissberger escaped majority was 6. with a broken leg. The boy was thrown —_— upon the fzn‘mei practically unhurt, but n the excitement led to get off and wi Joint Primaries in Vallejo. caught under the wheels and both legs SUISUN, Dec. 24—The jolnt primaries | were cut off above the knees. He will 3{0. = ‘ by interesting | SMUGGLED OPIUM INTO THE PRISON Guards at San Quentin Detected. ARE AT ONCE DISCHARGED WARDEN HALE LETS OUT TWO OF HIS SUBORDINATES. John Cramer and Joseph Brooks, | Heretofore Regarded as Trust- worthy Men, Found to Be Too Thrifty. Special Dispatch to The Call AN QUENTIN PRISON, Dec. 24— | expose in The Call of the license | outsiders to traffic with prison- dan francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, otockton, Petaluma, San Quentin has aroused the of- This evening two of the most | guards, who were caught in the auggling opium into the prison, arged. | It is known to all but thc whose duty it is to pay particular attention | | to such matters that most of the opium | | in San Quentin Prison has been car- | | ried in by free men. The only person | | ever perceived to exert himself to any | extent to stop this practice is Director | | James H. Wilkins.» Even the “trusties” | that the guards themselves have com- mented on it. | As soon as Warden Hale returned | home from Oakland this evening he was informed by Captain Edgar that John Cramer and Joseph Brooks had | been detected smuggling opium through | the gates. They were sent for by War- den Hale and given their discharge af- | ter a consultation with Captain Bir- | lem. | 1In connection with the smuggling of | opium and the sale of tobacco is the | sale of cigarette papers to the prison- ers by certain of the guards. Cigar- are contraband goods penitentiary, but immense quanti- of them are bought in San Fran- 0 and used in the prison'largely as a POPE SEEKS GROUND FOR CONCILIATION May Invite Ar—;:ica.n Bishops to Rome to Treat Personally With Them. A cablegram to Cardinal Delegate to the Y( | NEW RK, Dec. 2 Papal Pope will issue stion at pre! t asserted he would y the question is resolved an hen be issued. he Pope's efforts are ding ground for con- s has not declared ither Arcnbisnop Ireland or orrigan, for the Pope could parties exist in c religion. | Cathou *“I know not at the Pope will do on Certainly it deeplv oecu- nrobable that ne will in- n bishops to Rome to treat th them.”" A cablegram to the Sun from Rome S ed that Cardinal Satolll ted States early i At the Vatican it is admitted contemplates such a trip, ured it s on private to urgent ca | business. | great change in the destiny of | and the Philippines has Porto Ri a radical churech government, and | pe has an idea that such changes ad best be made and can be made in ¥ if unofficial co-operation with the ington Government. SAGASTA'S CONDITION SOMEWHAT IMPROVED Now the Attending Doctors Are | Hopeful for the Premier’s | ‘Recovery. IADRID, Dec. 24—The condition of or Sagasta, the Premier, was some- | what better this morning, and the attend- ing doctors are now hopeful of his recov- i friend A bulletin issued this evening announces that the condition of Senor Sagasta has | undergone no change since the last re- ort. | PAfter the close of the Bourse here to- Spanish Interior securities fell to 75, owing to an unfavorable bulletin re. garding the condition of the Premier, Se | nor Sagasta. St | day | Action in the Case of Miss Ella E. | Ale Postponed. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 24—The State Board of Education held a meeting to- day. Governor Budd and President Kel- logg were absent. Professor’ Pierce reported on the peti- tion for the revocation of the diploma | of Miss Ella_E. Ale. asking for further time in which to collect testimony. The trouble arises from the indorsement on her life diploma granted by the board on her San Diego certificate, on which it is Normal School diploma of Pennsylvania. Ihstead of a Normal School diploma she held merely a permanent certificate from | that State. She claimed that the indorse. | ment on the San Diego certificate was | simply a clerical mistake made by the | secretary of the San Diego Board of Edu. ic:mon. £ P. H. Condit was an applicant for an educational diploma of the High School grade, but there was some contention as to’ whether he possessed the necessary | credentials and he was granted further | time in which to produce them. A large number of life and educ: diplomas were granted. il NO USE FOR FORGER BECKER. American Bankers’ Association Has Not Made a Business Alliance. ational | paign in violation of the law. For |,paryie’in the undertaking. All eontribu: these violations the petitioner asks that | fons should be sent to Mrs. Robest | Rea's election be annulled and the of- | Hatcher, department of Fran Ameri- report from San Franeisco that Charles Becker, the forger, has made a business | alliance with the American Banking As- | sociation, as recently reported. Mr. Pink- | erton further asserts that the Becker gang of forgers was broken up through the Pinkerton agency, and every effort | has been made and will he made in the | future to prevent Becker from continu. | ing his nefarious business. SHIP COLUMBIA WINS. | Beats the W. H. Macey in the Run to Cape Flattery. | PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 24.— | The race between the American ship Co- lumbia. Captain Nelson, and the ship W. H. Macey, Captain Groth, from San Fran- | ciseo to Cape Flattery, hias been won by the Columbia, which ‘was reported this afternoon at 2:30 p. m. from Neah Bay, and will arrive here at 12, making the run from San Francisco to Cape Flat- | tery in several hours less than six days. | The Macey has not vet been reported. e o | Bishop Nulty Dead. DUBLIN, Dec. 24.—Thomas Nulty, Cath- olic Bishop of the diocese of Meath since 1364, 1s dead. v | 1 | have been searched in so lax a manner | at | the | n the | rearrangement of | STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.? ated that the latter was granted on a | NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Robert A. Pink-l erton declared there is no truth in the| dalinas, ADVERTISEMENTS. El see our advt. in this paper Tuesday morning—strong attractions. San Francisco’s greatest mail order homse. PORT OF MANILA Million Dollars in Ten Weeks. | GENERAL WHITTIER'S REPORT FIGURES WOULD BE INCREASED IN TIME OF PEACE. | Former Collector of Customs Regards | Aguinaldo as One of the Great- est Young Men of the Day. | | Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Brigadier { General S. W. Whittier, who went to | Manila as an inspector general on the staff of General Merritt, returned to | New York to-day on the St. Louis with | the Peace Commissioners. He part in all | Manila, and when peace was restored he was put in charge of the collection of customs at Manila. “Between August 20, when I charge, and October 31, when I ordered to report to the Peace Commis. on at Paris,” said General Whittier, “the port of Manila yielded customs revenues amounting to $1,000,000. - This ves no idea of what the customs re- would be during seventy days of peace and the ordinary pursuits of commerce. “The value and commercial advant- ages of the Philippines, properly ad- | ministered, are great to any country, | that will develop them. | "“The Filipinos are a well-informed | people, peace-loving, thrifty and order- ly. What they want most is a govern- ment that will allow them to attend to their own business. If they can do that in peace and quiet they will wel- come the new government. Aguinaldo | comes nearer to being a great man | than any other man of 29 years I ever | knew. As we consider age, he is a | mere boy. Yet he has done wonders | in fighting the Spaniards.” THUN HOHENSTEIN'S WORDS MISUNDERSTOOD | Austrian Premier’s Remarks Not In- | tended as a Menace to Germany. VIENNA, Dec. 24—The Abend Post publishes to-day a long communication regarding the German interpretation of | the answer of Count Thun Hohenstein, the Austrian Premier, to an interpolation in the Reichsrath, made on November 29, on the subject of the expulsion of the Austrians from Prussia. In his answer the Premier said tbat, should the expec- tation warranted by assurances of the Berlin Cabinet that greater consideration will be shown to Austrians, not be ful- filled the Government would not hesitate | to protect energetically the rights of Aus- trians, and, if necessary, adopt retal | tory measures. The writer of the com | munication says the Premier's remarks are entirely misunderstood in Germany, | and, after dwelllng upon the cloSeness of | the relations between Germany and Aus- . adds: trk"Co‘\‘xnt Thun Hohenstein is, officially and personally, as only of the trea | of the intimate relations of the two em | pires as any other influential persona, in the monarchy. GOOD DAY FOR WEDDINGS. San Rafael Pastors and Justices Find | Business Rather Brisk. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 24.—This was a busy day for Cupid Bonneau. From the time he opened the County Clerk’s office | until the doors were again closed In the evening he was besieged Wwith applicants | for licenses to marry. ‘Austin Jackson, cashier of the Palace Hotel grillroom, was licensed to wed Mrs. | Sadle Gaylord, and_the ceremony was | performed by Rev. Father Lagan. |~ Judge Gardner officiated at two cere- monies. Michael T. Lenehan of France | avenue was. wedded to Miss Helen B. ‘Carr, a teacher in the Monroe ~Primary | School, and Samuel Abrams of the firm of Meverfield, Mitchell & Co. to Miss Charlotte L. Chapin, living at 5% Castro street. e R Accessories to a Murder. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Attorney William E. Hughes and Mark C. Farr were held | to-day to the Grand Jury on a charge of being accessories before the fact to the murder of Deputy Sheriff Frank E. Nye. While trying to serve a writ of ejectment on Mrs. Marjorie H. Crosby Nye was shot and killed by the 13-year-old son of Mrs. Crosby. Hughes and Farr were Mrs. Crosby's attorneys in the litigation over her estate, and it is claimed that they advised her to resist by force if necessary any attempt at ejection. REVENUES OF THE 100K | ex the land fighting around | as loyal a supporter not | v connection, but also | SMALLER IMPORTS FROM ENGLAND America Getting More Independent. ( MAKES HER. OWN GOODS THIS IS TRUE OF ALL TEXTILE FABRICS. Only Once in Eight Years Has So Little Been Brought Across the Water to This Country. Special to The Call. ~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 2{—Tmporta- tions of manufactures from Great Brit- ain into the United States seem likely to show an unusually small total in the year 1398. The November statements of from Great BPBritain to the ates, which have just reached the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, show in nearly every case that the ex- ion of manufactures in the eleven which ended November 30, than in the corresponding months of earlier years. Imports of manufactures in the early part of the vear 1897 were abnormally great, and a comparison of the eleven months of 1898 with the corresponding months of 1867 would, in many cases, be mis- leading. A comparison, however, with the corrrespending months of 1896 and 1898 shows in nearly all cases smaller imports in 1898 than in either of the earlier years.. The imports of the eleven months of 1896 were the smallest, with a single exception, since 1890, and those of 1898 were less than in the three yvears which preceded it. In nearly all classes of manufactured articles ' the figures of,the eleven months of 1898 show a reduction as compared with 1896 and 1893, and a very large reduction as compared with In jute manufae- tures the imports of the eleven months of 1898 were 95,287,300 yards, against 143,984,300 in the corresponding months of 189 in woolen yarns the drop was from 55,000 pounds in 1 to 6900 in 1898; in worsted yarn from 674,300 pounds in eleven months of 1897 to 102,- 900 in 1898; 8,046,100 4 in woolen tissues from ards in eleven months of 1897 ,300 in eleven months of 1898, and in worsted tissues from 40,667,700 yards in eleven months of 1897 to 12,- 706,400 in the corresponding months of 1898. TWO CHARRED BODIES IN A BURNED CABIN | Evidence of a Double Murder in the Lumber District Near | Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash.,, Dec. 2{ — The charred bodies of two men were found this morning in the embers of ‘a cabin | burned last night five miles north of the | eity. Eight woodchoppers were living in the cabin. Yesterday they were paid, and all but Archie Carroll and Oscar King came to the city to celebrate Christmas. Blood was found in the snow in front of the cabin, and this and other suspi- | cious circumstances suggested the possi- bility of a crime. The suspicion deepened hen it was found that “‘Bill'” Banks and ‘Jack” David, two of the six men who came to town dast night, parted from the others and said they intended to return to the cabin.. They have not been seen since. The officers have a theory that they returned to the cabin last night, | quarreled with Carroll and King and werg murdered. It is thought that Carroll and King, after killing Banks and David, fled and went into hiding. They came here from Kentucky about two months ago. st Premier Winter Returns. ST. JOHN, N. B, Dec. 24—Sir James ‘Winter, Premier of Newfoundland, re- turned here yesterday from Washington, ‘where he had been attending the sitting of the international commission. It is understood here that there is no prospect of a settlement of the fisheries and reci- procity questions, though a treaty will be signed about the end of January cover- | ing minor subjects in dispute. This treaty will be submitted to the Canadian Parlia- ment at the coming session, but if a set- tlement of the above questions is not ar- ranged the Newfoundland Legislature will not be called upon to pass it. o il Murdered and Incinerated. LORAIN, Ohio, Dec. 24—The investiga- tion into the mysterious death of Charles Riego .of Chicago in a fire yesterday is proceeding. So far the testimony of wit- nesses examined shows almost conelusive- ly that the man was murdered by robbers and the fire started to cover the crime. Riego carried considerable money in a bag that was held by a string around his neck. Who struck the fatal blow is un- known as yet, but the officers in cl tha case have stroig suspicions.