The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1898. 8 ELECTRIC CURRENT TO BE UTILIZED WITH MIRACULOUS EFFECT ‘oser eorr Claimed to Be the Most Important and Remarkable Discovery of Modern Times. Will Alleviate Pain, Destroy the Bacilli of Disease and Tend to the Prolongation of Human Life. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Dec. 30. NEW discovery in electricity and electro therapeutics will be announced as soon as certain papers have been filed in the United States Patent Office. This discovery or new application of electricity to the science of therapeutics will, it is claimed, startle the world. It is nothing short of miracu- prove to be the most important and beneficial v of modern times, for it will alleviate pain, destroy the i of disease and tend to prolong human life. hese meager facts were obtained from a lawyer of national reputation who is now in Washington arranging preliminaries for filing an application for a patent. He positively refused to explain the process by which the electricity, is to be applied to therapeutics, but promised to give a statement to the press when all was ready. “A Jayman,” he said, “would find it difficult to understand; it has puzzled electricians and medical scientists. One ination would not suffice. The subject will require’ a se- s of technical papers, and even then what will result? My as impenetrable as the theory of life itself. But we will get practical results which will astound the world; mer passed. Let me ask you a simple question any school boy ought to answer: Is glass a conductor of electricity?” 1 : lous, and wil discover baci y as dense and It is one of the best dielectrics or insulators krnown to electricians,” answered The Call correspondent. “What would you say if I advanced the theory that glass conductor of electricity? Would you call me a crazy man? hat would happen to you if you were to take hold of the ng ends of an electric arc light current?” would be boxed up and sent home to my friends,” re- e Call correspondent. How many volts does 1t take to kill a man?’ pursued upon the subject,” was the reply. “‘Say from 1000 to 2000.” What would into a circuit and you say turn on if I proposed that I couple you one million volts without, hurting “I would say ively mode of exit. to try a dog first,” replied The Call repre- observing his inquisitor and looking for an sentative, fur e The attorney grew a little more communicative. “I can buckle yvou into an electric current of one million volts and Il not feel any physical sensation,” said he. “Further I will guarantee to send you home feeling a hun- cent better after your experience. If you are tired I can fill your cells with fresh energy. If you i any bacilli of disease in your system I can destroy them. Would you believe me when I tell you that by several appli- i of an electro-static current of tremendous potentiality I can utterly destroy the bacilli of tuberculosis and heal the lungs “Have you succeeded in any such cases?” in a dozen cases. I tell you it is infallible. The “Yes ion of this discovery will astound the medical world.” 1e attorney persistently refused to explain anything fur- -r about his client’s invention. But from remarks carelessly dropped it appears that the inventor proposes to take advan- tage of the fact that’glass is not an absolute resistant or non- but that a tremendous electrical current striking t a glass case in which a human body is inclosed dif- this tremendous current over the wide area of glass plates wence permeates all parts of the human body. The theory upon which electricity is employed in thera- conductor, peutics by this inventor is that repeated charges of static elec- tricity is not only certain death to various forms of bacilli with- out injury to the patient, but that each “cell” or “atom” or “molecule” of the human body is a separate and distinct living organism, or in other words, each is a tiny electric battery. An ordinary current of electricity travels along certain iich are the telegraph wires of the body and conveyvs nsation to the brain. Electricity travels by the shortest route, hence these currents, as ordinarily applied by :physicians, are rt circuited.” In other words, the current does not perme- ate all parts of the system. But by employing a tremendous electro-static current and diffusing it over a wide area of glass platc an be made to permeate every cell of the body. I'he attorney assured me that one charge of such a current would vitalize the countless tiny electric batteries, and give new energy to the body and brain. In other words, “make a tired man feel as fresh as a-daisy.” And if he had any disease germs in his system repeated charges would utterly annihilate them. ALMAND IS KEPT IN ‘ JAIL AT TULARE released only to be rearrested. 1 will be ready to believe that the age of miracles has not. dered. He is in the County Jail at Visal and to-day was taken before Judge Groi® | tist has who decided that he conld not be held on telegrams from Georgia offictals. so was | ty about 2 o'clock this afternoon, the pre- | cipitation being heaviest along the coast and in the vicinity of Point Reyes. Show- | ers have fallen intermittently since then, but this evening the sky is clearing and a Stff breeze ‘from the ocean augurs clear weather. The farmers and dairymen are grateful for the downpour and their one | desire is that more follow at once. | fant over the greater part of Marin Coin- | The San Franciscan Is Supposed to Have Been Crazed by the High Altitude of Denver. DENVER, Dec. 30.—Joseph Elliott of San Francisco was found dead in the City | Jail at 8 o’clock this morning. Death is supposed to have been caused by conges- tion of the brain. Elliott had been in jail since last Wednesday, when he was locked up on a charge of insanity. A | rallroad ticket from San Francisco and a | steamer passage ticket identified him. Some was also found in his | pockets. | .~ From appearances Elliott, while stand- | ing with his back against the bars of the | ward, had fallen forward on his face and then folded his arms about his head and expired.. It iIs thought that the high al- titude s the cause of his mental con- dition. Coroner Rollins will hold an au- | topsy ~ to_ascertain the exact cause of death. John Elliott, a brother in San | Francisco, has been notified of the death, { but has not yet been heard from. { | | | ! i | LRMETH piessaLs | X n TRV PHoTeY | , NATIVES HAVE RETAKEN GUAM They Have Also Massacred the Spanish Garrison at Ponapi, Caroline Islands. trator, was declared Governor. Americans. said to be favorable to Americans. possession of the island. served with the Asiatic squadron. vears ago. the year 1888, Barcelona. 0000000000000 00000000LOO00CC000 f ¢ ACT AS NAVAL GOVERNOR. Just arrived here from the Ladrone Islands, United States cruiser Charleston left the island of Guam, in June last, the Spaniards refused to recognize the authority of Francls Portu- sach, who was verbally appointed by Captain Glass to continue his former regime as Governor, and Jose Sisto, a former public adminis- He armed part of the native guards, collected a tax of $6 a head and had secreted fifteen tons of powder and a small stock of ammunition when the island was taken by the MANILA, Dec. 30.—The British schooner Esmeralda, which has reports that after the the only The schooner Albi reports the massacre of the Spanish garrison by the combined natiwe forces at Ponapi, Caroline Islands. Neoti, an educated chief, has been selected to be the ruler. Henry He is WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Secretary Long has issued an order to Captain Louis Kempff at Mare Island to proceed to Guam and take It is understood that Captain Kempff will go to Hawalii and to Guam on the Philadelphia or Bennington. Kempff is one of the highest ranking officers of the service, and has been stationed on the Pacific Coast for a number of years. at Mare Island. He is familiar with the Ladrones, Captain He is now as he formerly Francis Portusach, whom the officers of the United States crulser Charleston left in charge of Guam, he being citizen there, is a native of Spain, where he was born about thirty He took out his citizenship papers in Chicago during He is said to be the son of a wealthy merchant of American 0000000C0000C00CO 000N0C00000000000 0000000000000 00COCO0CCOO00000 O | CHIEF STREET IN SAN LUIS D'APRA, ISLAND OF GUAM, OVER WHICH CAPTAIN KEMPFF,U. S. N., IS TO ‘CUBANS WILL BE ALLOWED A - CELEBRATION |EXTREME SIMPLICITY WILL MARK THE PLAN. | Promptly at Noon on Sunday Will Witness the Lowering of the Spanish Flag in Cuba. Special Dispatch to The Call. HAVANA, Dec. 30.—A compromise was to-day arranged by General Brooke which satisfied the Cubans and will result in all classes celebrating the evacuation on Sunday. The Cubans were still feeling greatly hurt this morning over a refusal of the Ameri- can commander to allow them to par- | ticipate in the ceremonies. Generals Brooke and Menocal had a conference in the Inglaterra Hotel. at | which it was agreed that full sway should be given the Cubans for a grand insurgent celebration to be held in Havana on February 24, the fourth anniversary of the uprising in Santi- ago province. General Brooke told General Menocal that the insurgents might march and time. ‘When this became known good feel- ing revived and plans were immediate- | ly begun for ,a week's celebration. It has already been decided that the for- mal disbandment of the insurgents’ force shall take place on February 24. Active preparations for the relin- quishment of Spanish sovereignty are; being made, and by Saturday night it | will only require the lowering of the | flag to complete the agreement by which the standard planted here by Columbus is withdrawn forever from America. In the Governor General’s palace at Morro Castle, in all the barracks. at | the custom house, postoffice, offices of the city government, everywhere, in | fact, the officials are closing up their | accounts, and by to-morrow night every office will be cleared and the clerks and officials will report Sunday only to await the transfer of fla; and | to receive orders from the Americans who are to supplant the Spaniards. | Shippers have been notified to celar | | all goods away from the piers and| | docks within twenty-four hours. or | suffer confiscation at the custom house, | and at the -banks notices have been posted that on and after Sunday Am- erican curren will be the standard and all foreign money will be accepted only at exchange value. The plans for the actual transfer of sovereignty are simple. There will be | | no exchange of documents between the | two commissions and no speech-ma | ing will be indulged in. The Spanish noon in eve: ’ Spanish navy | TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY:‘ | | affairs in Havana. b and American officials will gather at| i v barrack in the city not| man wanted. already transferred, and promptly at| are not known. the stroke of 12, representatives of the American navy will salute the Spanish flag with twenty-one guns. The stars and stripes will then take the place of the crimson and gold and a salute will be fired by the representatives of the y. The two commissions of evacuation will adjourn and the deed will be done. The real transfer of sovereignty will take place at the Governor General's palace, where a member of General Brooke's staff will raise the American flag. Lieutenant Wade, a son of Major General Wade, will raise the flag }4’;\'1‘!‘ een After the transfer has | Morro. completed, General Lee will enter Ha- A Compromise Ar=|vana at the head of the Seventh Armv Corps, which will march in review past ranged With Them. |ine mgiaterra Hotel. STRANGE SUSPICIONS ARE ENTERTAINED NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—A Washington special to the Herald s There is a feeling of unrest and anxiety among the Representatives in Congress grow- ing out of the complicated condition of There is a strong feeling prevailing in Cuba and else- where, according to Representative Bankhead, that the United States au- thorities are indirectly trying to pro- voke the insurgents to commit some act of hostility which will justify the United States in assuming absolute jurisdiction in Cuba. This feeling has " increased to a rermarkable degree dur- ing the last few weeks, and Mr. Bank- | head says he would not be surprised to hear of a conflict between the United States forces and the Cubans. COLONIAL SECRETARY MAY BE CREATED The Matter Reported to Have Been Discussed at a Session of the Cabiret. | NEW YORK, Dec. : World’s Wash- ington special say tdent McKinley ¥ ussed the visability of recomme & that Congress create an office equivaient to that of Co- lonial Secretar: The tempo plan considered to-day |{1s to send to Cuba a civilian to be at the head of a bureau for the collection of taxes, customs revenues, etc., with duties similar to those of our Secretary of the feast to their heart's content at that | Treasury, a sort of Postmaster General, etc. All these are to be put under the | control of the Millitary Governor, General Brooke, and cccupy toward him the same position the members of the Cabinet do to the President. The President can appoint CAPTURE OF TULCAN IS OFFICIALLY DENIED Rumor That Tioops Sent Against Ecuadorea:1 Rebels Have Joined the Latter. LIMA, Peru (vin Galveston, Tex.), Dec. 30.—President Alfaro of Ecuador author- izes an absolute denial of the reports of the capture of Twulcan, the capital of Carchi province, and the siege of Quito, the Ecuadorean capital, by invading rev- olutionary for Rivou- deira. srding_to advices from La_ Paz., the capital of Boli it is rumored that the | ‘ such officlals through General Brooke. | under General advance guard of the troops under Pre: dent Alc sert against the revolution- ists, has made common cause with him. WANTIED IN WYOMING. Ben Hanson, Arrested as a Vagrant, Now Charged With Murder. , Ariz., Dec. —A telegram ed to-day from Sheriff Hazon of Lander, Wyo., directing the City Mar- shal to hold Ben Hanson, wanted_thera for murder. Hanson was arrested here ten days ago for being a hobo and.could not give a_satisfactory account of him self. A telegram came from Wyoming this morning asking for a description 0f A later telegram said he was the Particulars of the crime ‘OFFICERS CERTAIN - THEY HAVE DUNKAM Prisoner an Exact Image of Him. DETAILED COMPARISON MADE MISSING TOOTH AN IMPORTANT LINK. | | | | | | Sheriff Lyndon, However, Doubts | That the Wholesale Murderer Is in Custody in Iowa. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | am BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 30.—The | | Hawkeye says that Ed Smith is no| | other than James C. Dunham, who murdered six people near Sdn Jose, Cal., and for whom a reward of $11,000 is offered. The prisoner was arrested here for | drunkenne: a month ago and would have been released to-day but for h resemblance to the description of Dun- | ham, which had just been received. He | will be rearrested on the charge of| being a fugitive from justice, and will be held pending instructions from San | Jose. He is said to be the exact image of the man wanted, and local officers | are positive he is Dunham. | SAN JOSE, Dec. 30.—There is very | | little if any additional information at| | this end of the line concerning the man | who is under arrest at Burlington, | Iowa, on suspicion of being James C.| Dunham, the noted murderer, who has| been hunted so long and unsuccess- | fully so far. | In speaking of the Burlington suspect : this “morning Sheriff Lyndon says he| fears he is not the man, but as yet this| cannot be definitely determined. The| Burlington Sheriff is positive the sus-| pect is really Dunham.. In his letters | the lowa officer says the man almost | perfectly fills the description of Dun- ham, and looks like the photcgraphs which he has of the murderer. In the description which the Iowa of- ficer sent here he refers to a tooth miss- | ing in the upper right row. A local den- | furnished the officers with | a statement that Dunham had one up- | per tooth, nearly in front on the| He is now | Jory gige, which was built up of gold, | in the County Jail, but was taken before Determined Effort Being Made to Hold Him Until Officers Arrive From Georgia. Dec. 3.—S. F. believed to Tuesday next. | is expected on the morning train. JULARE, Almand - is rest he r‘v‘-und r to the amount of $40.000 or $50,000. | 2 | mand is badly wanted. J. 8. Mont- It is seid that he was a merchant at | gomery, superintendent of the Paige Coryers, Georgia, pe ing the full con- | ranch'here, by whom Almand was em- f the community and endless | ployed, knpows the Almand family of g0 he suddenly dis Four week: | is a mistake somewhere. 3 D ¥ Officer Carlisle,. [ when his defalcation 2°CAMC | who is the City Marshal of Tulare. madé Hie came here and secured @ po-| the arrest. He has been indefatigable in sition on the Paige ranch near town. holding the suspect and feels certain he Some days ago a telegram was received | has the right man. A reward of $250 was here for Almand, notifying him that offi- | offered for his arrest. ! cers were on his track. Communication e was opened with the Georgia officials Rain in Marin County. with the result that his arrest was or-| | Georgia Intimately, and feels that there SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 30.—Ralin began to a Justice to-day, who set the hea | though it did not show save by close | This will give the Georigs | examination. While the dentist is posi- | officials time to reach here, one of whom | Al- man is a young man, % vears of age, and has a family in Georgia. From the great be an ab- | number of telegrams received from the Southern officers It would seem that Al- tive that it was on the left side, he has | no record on his books. The Santa | Clara officers think the dentist might | be mistaken as to the location of the | tooth; since. he speaks solely on memory | of the work done. If it is a right upper | tocth, then the tooth missing in the suspect would go to-form a strong link in the chain. : | | The Iowa officer has sent specimens ! | of the handwriting of the prisoner. This | is that of an educated man. When com- pared with the known writing of Dun- ham, there may be ‘some little simi- larity, but the best judges are lncuneq to say that the writing-is that of differ- ent persons. One of the strongest things mentioned | When he recove | man h; by the Eastern officers to identity is a scar over one eye, near the brow. While it is not generally known, and has not been mentioned in the cir- culars sent out, it is said by the best of | B authority that Dunham has a scar over one eye, which is not seen except at close scrutiny. When Dunham was a boy he was hit over the eye by a buck- shot fired fr a rubber “flipper.” It came near ss of an eye. s left, and hen he was last ys that the a scar or it is still there, or v seen. The Jowa Sheriff s what looks like pock-mark over the left eye. Sheriff Lyndon s the man refused to let his photograph be taken, so he was wired by Sheriff Smith. When the warrant w. :nt Wednesday for arrest it is presumed the lowa officer intended to use force to take the photo- | graph, as such is inferred from his tele- | grams and letter. If so, this should ar- | rive Monday or Tuesda Until then nothing definite is expected. Hattie S. Brewer has asked for let- | ters of administration on the estate of J. K. Wells, deceased, and this devel- ops a remarkable state of facts. When Dunham slew the McGlincy family Wells was one of the victim He in- herited his mother’s estate. he next heir was Dunham’s infant, Wells’ nephew. It was the only one that es- |§ caped in the entire household. The child was adopted by M. T. Brewer, a | [|@ great-uncle, and is now thirty months | yorn Brewer. | old. Its name is Percy O: Brewer was the administrator of the estate. He recently died, and now Mrs. estate is ts of an Mrs. Brewer asks for letters. Th worth about $30,000, and con ideal orchard home at Campbell. Brewer lives in San Francisco. LATEST NEWS FROM SOUTH SEA ISLANDS ; German and British Warshipg Land | B 2 | Bluejackets to Make a Demon- i stration in Samoa. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 3. Royal Mail Steamship Warrimoo arrived this morning from Sydney, N. S. W., Wellington, N. Z., Suva, kiji, and Hono- | ulu. The British gunboat Goldfinch, which recently returned to Sydney, took part in annexing Duff Islands, Cherry 1slands and other places. News from Samoa states that German and British warships have landed parties of bluejackets with the ectation of making a onstration in consequence of a large number of natives congregating at Mulinuu. They marched through the main streets and back again to the place of embarkation. No news about the elec- tion of a King received. | It is the intention of the French Gov- | ernment to make Noumea the naval| headquarters of the French ships in the Pacific, and a large dock and workshops are to' be estavished there. Mr, Hart- ford, formerly British Consul at Noumea, has been transferred to Manila in a simi- lar.capacity. Captain McIntyre of the bark Strath-| gryfe reports that while sailing close to | the island of Tristan da Cunha he was /| hailed by a boat, which put off from the | island. The boat contained Captain | Shaw of the missing ship Glenhuntly, four | half-caste islanuers and another ~white | man who had been shipwrécked on the | island five years ago. | . M. S. Penguin has been surveying in the neighborhood of Haapi. 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