The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1899, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1899 PRESIDENT FAURE OF FRANCE IS DEAD 15 SUMMONED WHILE AT WORK Expires After an lliness of Three Hours. STRICKEN DOWN BY APOPLEXY BIDS TOUCHING FAREWELL TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Now All France Is in Mourning for the Great Man Who Rose From Tanner’s Apprentice to Chief Executive. Special Dispatoh to The Call. PARIS, Feb. 16.—M. Felix Faure, President of the republic of = France. | died at 10 o ck to-night, after an ill- three hours | *en known for some time that rt was weak, but the first inti- mation that he was sick was given at 6:30 this afternoon when a message was | dispatched to the Premier, M. Dupuy, | announcing that the President w in. M. Dupuy immediately repaired to the see. All medical efforts proved futile, and the President ¢ on the stroke of 10. The flag on the Elysee was immedi- | suis perdu” (I am suffering greatly; THE LATE FRANCOIS FELIX FAURE. When Mme. Faure and Mlle. Lucie Faure entered the room the President exclaimed, ‘“Je suis bien souffrant; je I ately lowered to half mast, and the | news was dispatched to all the officers | and members of the Cabinet. General | Zurlinden, Military Governor of Paris. the Grand ( ellor of the Legion of Honor, the Pr of the Seine. the | Prefect of t police of Paris and the | Presidents of the Senate and Chamber | of Deputies promptly arrived at the| Elysee The report spread - rapidly through the city and large crowds soon as- sembled in vicinity of the palace. About 6 o'cl M. Faure, who was | then in his study, went to the door | of the room of M. Legall, his private secreta which is cohtiguous to the id: “I do not feel well: ediately went to the ed him to a sofa and 3ailloud, general sec- | the President’s househol let, under private secretary, | Humbert, who happened to be | attending a relative. ~ondition_did not ap- , but Dr. Humbert, on he was rapidly getting | ed for Dr. Lanne-Long , Who arrived with M. were joined later by Dr. d y hough M. Faure still remained con- the doctors soon recognized that was hopeless, but it was not | y 8 o'clock that the members mily were informed of the real They then came to the President lay. = Soon lose consciousness, ts, expired at 10 of the family after he be and, despite ffc o'clack in the pregence and M. Dupuy. 1. Dupuy communicated the sad in- ligence to M. Loubet, President of nate; M. Paul Deschanet, Presi- dent of the Chamber of Deputies, the members of the Cabinet and other high functionaries, after which he addressed | - following dispatch to all Prefects | 1 Sub-Prefects in France: I have the sad task to announce. to yvou the death of the Prestdent, which occurred at 10 o'clock this evening as the result of an apoplectic stroke. Take the nec ry measures to inform the population immediately of the mourn- ing that h fallen upon the republic. The Government depends Upon your ac- e at this painful junc- was not until 11 o'clock that It the began to become known to the al public in Paris. From this began - a continuous arrival of men. Strict orders, however, d, and only members of the admitted to the Elysee. e President of the Coun and ster of the Interior, M. Dupuy, has | ted all Prefects and Sub-Prefects 0 leave their posts, and directed all who are absent to return imme- public ely rthing could have given the idea of pproaching death. Up to the very | st M. Faure indulged in his custom ry habits of work and even in his i He ate well and slent q an rides. regularl Nevertheless, several times recently he had been heard to exclaim: “How weak my legs are!” and “I can scarcely stanc or 10 make some such remark He left his study about the usual heur, at y'clock last evening (Wednes- day), telling Ontjarret, chief of his g#tables, that he would ride on horse- back . from 7 to 7:30 in the following morning (Thursday). He then retired { to-his private apartments, dined with , went to bed at 10 «'clock. morning at 6 and informed he his famil got up_ this his valet “that would not ride. M. Legall, his secretary, on learning hurried to the President.. whom h i in_ his dressing room about 6:45 a. m. Faure said: I do not feel ill, but I prefer to fatigu- ing exercise e - the usual and read the 1 dispatches, with - newspapers, as was his custom.. in order to prepare himself to preside at the council, which assembled at 9 a. m. Faure ed with his usual y were pressing his hand for the Jast time. He took his ‘luncheon as usual at noon, returned to his study at 2 o'clock and spent the afternoon seated in a favorite armchair by the fire con- versing with M. Legall, who, about § o'clock, asked permission to depart. At 6 p. m. M. Legall returned, immediately reporting himself to the President, who was then signing decrees presented by General Bailloud, according to his daily | custom. - The work of signing was then about over and soon ended. General Bailloud had gone but a few minutes when the President called M. Legall, saying: ‘“Come quickly, I feel 1. When M. Legall reached him the President was rubbing his forehead and saying: “I do not feel well.” M. Le- gall asked if he felt pain and the Presj- dent replied: “I feel-a general weak- riess. I am fainting.” Dr. Humbert, on arriving, gave ether inhalation. He did ‘not consider the case serious, but on Ainding that his pa- tient did not revive he decided to: in- jeet caffeine. .The President: was ap- parently aware of the seriousness of am lost). At 8 o'clock, when the doctor had ac- quainted M. Legall with his fears, the latter: informed M. Dupuy, who announced his intention to come to the Elysee, but on M. Legall ' ob- serving that his presence might need- lessly alarm Mme. Faure, who was not aware of the gravity of the situation, the Premier said he would rem: at the Ministry of the Interior, in readi- ness to come at any moment. At the same time he summoned the members of the Cabinet. Meanwhile M. Faure remained on the sofa, repeating that he had no illusions as to the issue of the seizure. His wife came to him and he bade her an -af- fectionate farewell. It was a touching scene. He thanked her for the affe tion and devotion she had constant shown him, and then hé bade farewell to his daughters, the doctors and his personal attendants, thanking all for their care and devotion -and asking them to pardon any hasty words he might ever have uttered. Until a late hour the crowds remained in front of the Elysee. rds the greatest emo- tion was displayed. All street venders ceaged their sales and hurried off to await the special editions of: the pa- pers giving detalls. Many of the papers are already out at this hour (1 o’clock Friday morning) with brief = details —of ‘the .death. Paristans heard the news as they were leaving the places of amusement, but were utterly incredulous at first, so sudden and unexpected ~was the calamity. All the streets in the vicinity of the Elysee have been filling up for several hours with private carriages whose: oc- cupants wait anxiously for further in- formation. At 12:30 an order was is- sued that no one should be admitted to the palace. M. Faure's body has not been're- moved from the study where he signed €0 many decrees and laws. ~Thus it may be said he literally ‘died in the harness. In the little room Known:.to all who ever received .an audience of him, furnished and decorated. in.. the style of Louis XVII, ‘he now sleeps his last sleep on the brass bedstead. in the circular end of the room, facing - the window. His countenance is as serene as if in slumber. He is dressed in a white shirt | and 'his hands are - crossed over' his breast. On each side of the bed sits a nun. Mesdames Legall and Blondet and the officer of the military house- hold are'in attendance. On a chair to the right of the bed are the hat and gloves he wore last. Very painful it was to witness the distress of Mme. Faure and the chil- dren, could she be induced to leave the death chamber, and even then she insisted on remaining in M. Legall’'s room, apart from the children, in order to give free vent to her grief. Mlle. Lucie Faure. Mme. Berge, the other daughter. and M. Berge are in the secretary general's bureau. i gl ‘Who Will Succeed Fauref PARIS, Feb. 17.—The ~Cabinet will meet this morning (Friday) after the embalming of the remains, which will take place at 9 o'clock, to fix the date for convening the National Assembly at Versailles to elect M. Faure’s successor. The National A nbly, consisting of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, united in congress, will probably meet to-morrow (Saturday). Emil Loubet, as president of the Senate, becomes president of the congress. It is expected that the struggle for the Presidency will be very keen. M. Dupuy, the Premier, is supposed to have the best chance and the contest is regarded as lying between him, M. Henri Brisson and M. Loubet. . Other possible candidates are M. de Freyeinet, ister for War; Godfrey Cavaignac, former Minister for War, and Quesnay | de Beaurepaire. It is réported that the recently formed league known as La Patrie Francaise will actively push M. de Beaurepaire's candidature. Under the present exceptionally ex- citing conditions, anything may be ex- pected to happen. - Mich depends upon what General Zurlinden, Military Gov- ernor of Paris, as head of the military element, may .decide to do. So far, Paris remains tranquil. By.a curious coincidence, M. Dupuy occupi€s the ‘same. position which' he held when President Carnot was assassinated on June 24, 1894.° M. de Freyecinet has or- dered the-troops confined to barracks to-day. S Life of Felix Faure. Felix Francols Faure was born in Paris, January 30,1841, . During the last twenty- five years six Presidents of the French republic have made the Elysee Palace their home, and of these Felix Faure, the son _of hiumble, working upholsterers, and in every sense of the worda self-made man, had.proved himself to be not only the most suitable for the post, but also the most popular personality of them all. “Monsieur le President’ was a tall, fine- looking man, and it is difficult to believe that_he was born in his good town of the attack, for he murmured: _“Je me gens partir. - Je suis perdu, bien perdu!” (I feel my senses failing me. I am gone, all_gone) and he expressed a desire to see his wife and children. Paris so long ago as the year 1841, when Louis Phillippe was King. Unlike most Frenchmen of the mercantile class, ne was something of a dandy, and his ruddy worst | Only with the greatest difficulty | 1 | | 1 | | plete ht complexion and sturdy upright figure bore witness to his love of every kind of out- door sport, for the President was an ex- pert in all the sports and exercises dear to the English country gentleman. He rode, shot and fished with real enthusiasm, and his brief holidays had _often been mall yacht, which he steered ully as he guided the ship of . Faure owed much of his success in life to his father and mother, especially to the latter, who was a very remarkable specimen of the French working woman. rom the day’ of his birth she began to ve with a view ‘to her son’s education, nd when he was 10. years old he was placed in a well known: school—I'Institu- tion Bosquet at: Chaillot. There he spent four or five uneveniful years, and then it was his parents. -showed their shrewd sense in sending him to England to com- ts commercial ‘education. President often alluded to the hap- The py days he spent at Merton, near Wimble- don, and. to plea: It would be i nt holidays in Scotland. ssible to overestimate urn in Great Britain has been to Felix Faure. - It enabled him to realize both the faults and the virtues of the average Briton, and he is sald to be the first President of the French re- public who his been really . conversant with eurrent English thought and litera- ture. Few people know that M. Faure was connected and that, too, by his own gal- Jantry, with the Prince of Wales. It oc- curréd during one of the Havre regattas. ‘A vacht, the Hildegard, belonging to his Royal Highness, was entered for a race, and was lying in the harbor. One of the Sailors, who, sailor like, was quite ignoi ant of ‘the art- of swimming, fell ‘ove board. M. Faure, who was then a-well- known Havre merchant, jumped into’the water and rescued the bluejacket. Felix, Faure can boast of being the. first rovincial President,- for though he was Parisian by birth, he made his_ fortune and his name at Havre, the large: sea- port: town which may. be called the Liv- erpobl of France: 1t was there that he began quite ‘humbly as a small commis- ant in hides and wool; and_he sion me; had -only - just ‘laid the foundations of a successful -business ~when the . Franca- Prussian war paralyzed French trade and turned every able-bodied Frenchman into a-soldier. Before becoming a -merchant he had been a tanmer's apprentice. “As commander of the Havre Mobiles he fought through a long campaign, but his chance of distinction came to him, as it did to so many, when. the war was prac- tically ended, and ‘‘the red fool fury of the Seine’’ had been ‘let loose. Paris was in flames. M. Faure, who was fortu- nately close at hand, raised a company of volunteer firemen, and, risking his own lite again and again, threw himself into the thick of the danger, encouraging his men by his example, and working incess- antly for three days and nights to sub- due the . conflagration. ~Two of his men were killed by his side and, after the commune had been subdued, one of the first acts of the Government was to be- stow the cross of the Legion of Honor on the Havre merchant who had rendered such The tician for fourteen years. when he was splendid service to France. President had been an active poli- He was first ‘elected Deputy for d since been twice appoint- State for the an active part In L,eague O atriots. LR fifely he asserted that before his election not 1 per cent of those over whom he was to become temporary ruler had ever heard the name Felix Faure. The world knows nothing of Its greatest men; but to those in the inner rin~ of republi- can politics he was considered a man to bo recokned with; and, as it turned out, he was elected to the Presidency by 430 against 361 votes. AN INTERNATIONAL COURT. How Commercial Disputes Will Be Settled With Canada. CHICAGO, Feb, 16.—The Times-Herald’s Washington special says: The Joint High Commission to-day agreed upan the establishment of a per- manent international court of tribunal, similar to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission for the adjustment of disputes ; arise from time to time affect- ing commerce and transportation between the United States and Canada, both by sea and by land. One. member of this tribunal will be named by ‘Great Britain, one by the United States and one, if it is decided to -have & third - member, will | probably be appointed by a neutral power. Tt will be in the nature of a permanent arbitration board, whose powers are lim- ited to commercial questions. DEATH WAS DUE T0 APPREHENSION Real Worry Undermined Faure’s Healith. FEW HAD NOTICED THIS EMILY CRAWFORD TELLS OF HIS LOVE OF GRANDEUR, It Is Declared That for the Next For- ty-Eight Hours the Republic ‘Will Be at the Mercy of the First to Seize It. Copyrighted, 1899, by the Assoclated Press. PARIS, Feb. 16.—“President Faure ‘| died to-night suddenly of -apoplexy,” says the bulletin, but it was really of worry, apprehension and their effect on his health; of the intoxication of the ex- alted situation, of imperial and royal friends. His doctors had long noted symptoms of general paralysis. He meant well, but he did great harm to the republic, because of a - common-place men- tality and that sort of vanity which Moliere ridiculed in “Le Bour- geois Gentilhomme.” Louis XIV him- self, though standing on a right divine pedestal, did not attach nearly so much importance to courtly etiquette. M. Faure had no insight into the great problems of human life, and saw only externals. He revived, so far as possible, the ceremonials of Napoleon’s court. Not even a Deputy or a Senator could speak to him without being first spoken to. Whenever a French diplo- mat who had freshly arrived in Paris came to pay his respects M. Faure’s first question was, ‘‘What are they do- ing at other courts?” It was noticed last week that the whites of his eyes were yellow: his speech was thick, his step uncertain, his neck bent forward and his under lip inclined to drop. He was 58 last January. I mentioned on last Tues- day to M. Clemenceau, who is a doctor, these signs of premature old age. and he said: “I also have noticed them. If M. Faure is not soon turned out of the Presidency he will die from the general paralysis, the effect of ‘follie des grandeurs.’” M. Faure alone was unaware that he must soon resign, but no one - save Clemenceau and a few others foresaw the fatal issue. The situation brought on through his fault is most dangerous. Never has there been a better oppor- tunity for a coup d’etat in France since 1852. The republic for the next forty-eight hours will be lying at the mercy of the first - man who -will seize it, but the suddenness of M. Faure's demise pre- vents the enemies of the republic con- cocting to strangle her. Besides. there is no man of sufficlent prestige to make a _coup d’etat. The generals are dis- affected, but the soldiers, though hos- tile to the Jews, would not obey if or- dered to fire on the Republicans. M. Faure apparently died at the nick of time. The reactionist forces. under his encouraging eye, were being gathered to battle. Goodness knows what he fondly imagined. Perhaps it was that a mili- tary coalition would . hail him as a savior. ‘M. Faure went privately and unexpectedly last week to the opera. Notwithstanding the surprise caused by his visit the director’s staff rushed out to receive him. M. Faure’s aid de camp, as’the President advanced to- ward the stairs, made a sign that the attendants were to fall baeck a consid- erable distance to mark their respect. He had received a few days before a letter from the Czar and had not yet descended from the high sphere. At St. Petersburg he was almost shocked to find himself and the Em- peror returning from the review with- out a military escort. After the Czar had conducted him to Peterhoff Palace M. Faure remarked: “How lacking the | Russian court is in dignity.” His best point was genuine charity for the poor and suffering. There was doubtless parade in his visits to hos- pitals, but there was also much kind- ness. He gave handsomely to the poor, thouglf’ closehanded in other respects. His Thursdays were devoted to visit- ing hospitals, and it was 6n Thursday that he was calted away. The Elysee was no bed of roses to M. Faure. He loved his grandeur, but he dreaded blackmailers. Urbain Gohier, one of the most respected journalists in France, had threatened to expose the jobs “of the Madagascar expedition, which, as Minister of Marine, M. Faure had organized. Corruption and imbe- cility marked the enterprise to such an extent that the French Government was compelled to: send the artillery on British steamers. He was more civilly treated by the crowned heads than any other President of France; and he was a member of the most illustrious orders or knighthood, save the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Prussian Red Eagle. The last grand function at the Elysee was his admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece. He was almost a business partner of King Leopold in Congo affairs. . It de- lighted him to kiss the hands of sov- ereign ladies. ' He had kissed those of the Dowager Czarina, of the reigning Russian Empress, of Empress Eliza- beth of Austria, Queen Victoria, Queen Dowager Emma of the Netherlands and of Queen Wilhelmina. He had been the host of the Kings of Belguim, Greece, Portugal and Siam, of the Czar and Czarina, of Prince Ferdinand of ~Bul- garia. ‘and of the Duke of Connaught.’ Cervantes never imagined anything more incongruous than M. Faure in his palatial grandeur, and accepted as a King and younger brother by European royalties. EMILY CRAWFORD. \o%4 ILD ANIMALS NOW FRIGHTEN VICTORIA for collecting wild animals. search of the escapes. off into: the Saanich Mountains. 404 040404 0404040404049 homes gofio VICTORTA, B. C., Feb. 16.—Out near Swan Lake, about three miles from this eity, lives Mr. French, an English gentleman with a hobby Mr. French has a large menagerie, in which are madny steel cages containing wolves, panthers, bears and other wild animals which inhabit the northern wildernesses. French had the doors of their cages open to feed them, two wolves and a panther: broke from captivity and are now at large. gether with a number of city men and several big sheepowners, are scouring the outskirts of the city, armed with - rifles - and shotguns; in The sheepowners are eager to avenge the death of a number of their flocks, for the wolves visited two farms and mangled a number of sheep. The wolves were tracked along the rail- way line for about nine miles, ‘and then they seem to have branched The panther’s city, and it may even now be hidden somewhere in this city. ‘The peo- . ple of the outlying districts are terrorized and-school ) Jearned that the brutes are at large cannot be coaxed to leave their’ 04040404 04-0 404040404040 fuo’o}o{'»o}pf 04 0404 04040+@ Yesterday, while Mr. Mr. French, to- trail. léd toward the children who have G4 040404 040404 040404@ | of the Rocky Mountains to Kill the 040+ THE EMPORIUM. | THE EMPORIUM. | THZ% EMPORIUM. ?"O”’Dl’!,m.’.’.,’! PERPPRRERREBER D’!m"’.’i’”.D’?”D’”’.’a Free Exhibit of the Re- markable Group of Wax Figures Representing Christ Before Pilate, Beginning 9 A. M. Daily. Headquarters for Masks—See Prices Oppo~ sites salespeople for this sale, but come Loewenthal’s $10 to $15 Cloth Jackets.. Loewenthal’s $22.50 to $30 Newest Tailor Friday Special in Stationery-. Baronial XXX White Wove Envelopes, fine quality, fit octavo size paper, three packages containing 75 Envelopes, 10 special to-day fo ... $UC Stationery Stand, Main Aisle. Friday Only We offer for to- day only this pop- ular and perfect- fitting line of Boys’ Waists in Percales and Ma- dras, pretty pat- terns and color- ings — sold regu- larly at 95c, for 2c. Boys’ Clothing De- partment Second Section, right of entrance, Two Remarkable Friday Book Specials. Popular American Dictionary, a complete compendium of words in every- day use; publisher’s price 50c, Spe- cial to-day only at e ISC Shakespeare’s Complete Works inone volume, tastefully beund in cloth, large legible type, well printed and illustrated, regularly $2, Special to-day only at. 955 All This Week Men’s Hats. In order to more thoroughly introduce = and pularize our ine of $2.45 Hats - for men, we offer this week ' choice of the entire lot at $2.10. These Hats are especially good value at- $2.45, our regular - price—a quality equal to that of any $3 Hat sold in ex- clusive Hat Stores, and the styles are the latest productions of the most popular American Hat manufacturers. gt I T T e i e LT Tt t 2 T T A T T YT T A T A A it Ll gl g g gt d a gt g gttt ds d s et The Derby Hat ~ The Fedora Hat comes in hlack, seal . comes in rich' ce- brown, English dars, English and brown and cedar, - seal browns, maple with contrast trim- and black; wide, mings. medium - and nar- row brims. 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Additional morrings if possible. $7.50 .$5.00 Dresses.... §§15.00 Loewenthal's $6 to $8 Friday Specials in Percales. 170 pieces Standagd Percales, in navy, garnet and black grounds, full 32 inches wide ; colors guaranteed fast; a regular 10c value. Special this day only 6 (Friday), per yard C Second Section. Left of Main Entrance. Friday Half-Price Sale Handkerchiefs. + Ladies’ Sheer Lawn Scalloped Embroid- ered Handkerchiefs, excellent quality and numerous pretty designs ; regular value 35c each. Will be on special sale 18 Friday only at... ... 18C Al This Week $3.50 Shoes $3.10 The Emporium $3 50 Shoes for men, made of calf, tan calf, box calf, patent leather, enamel leath- er and Viei kid, come in modern toes, suitable for street dress, home and outing. We offer this line of Shoes to men who ordinarily pay $5. Itisa Shoe of exceptional value for $3.50— the highest quality of material seen at $5. Ask for Emporium $3.50 Men’s Shoes. On sale all the week to still further introduce and popularize them, at $3.10 The Week’s Grocery Specials. And the specials in Wines and Liquors are among the strongest that the big store has ever offered. Emporium Family Flour, made by one of the best mills in America—money back if you want it, guarantee ; this week B50-1b sacks special at.... 120 Santa Clara Prunes, very choice and large; 5-1b boxes, regularly 60c, for #0¢ Eastern Sugar-Cured Bacon, best qual- ity, 15¢ per b article ; this week 120 Emporium Baking Powder, as good as Royal or your money back ; 1-Ib 37c tins, this week.. 0Oc Cedar Run Bourbon Whisky, 4 years old, the $2.50 quality ; this w;ek, per gallon -..evenennen SRR - > Claret, a good drinkable quality ; this week, per gallon. 25¢ Loewenthal’s 50c Shirt Waists 5 Loewenthal’s $2 to $2.50 Best Flannelette Wrappers... §1.39 Loewenthal’s $5 Crepon Dress Skirts... Loewenthal’s $10 to $15 Silk and Serge Dress Skirts.. §§ 7.45 Loewenthal’s $3 All-Wool Braided Waists.......... Loewenthal’s $8.50 Plaid Shawl Golf Capes.... New Manicuring and Hair Dsessing Department Now Open— Maiy Floor, Under Postoffice. ~ Charges Cotton Maskat c Satin Masks...... ....15¢ Al -.10c and 25¢ Charac~ ..25¢ $2.75 .$1.98 Silk Waists, black or colors. Friday Special z"n Platedware. Heavily Silver- plated Salts and Péppers, like pic- ture. Special . all day Friday, per set......... léc Silverware Depart- ment, Rotund- — west side. Friday Special in Combination Suifs. Ladies’ Heavy Fleece-lined Cbmbed Egyptian Cotton Combination Suits, fin- ished seams ; neatly edged around neck and front ; button-down-the-front style ; ecru color only. Special to-day, per suit 2 33C Main Floor, Off Rotunda. Friday Special in Chenille Govers. 300 Table Covers, 43x45 inches in size, exclusive of fringe ; heavy quality Chenille, close woven, good patterns and colors ; just the thing for center tables ; Special price regular price H5c. all day Friday.. Drapery Department, Main Floor, under Ladies’ Parlors. 37¢c All Thls Week: Men’s Suits, $6.95 Famous Stein-Bloch make of Clothing. Eight - patterns of these popu- lar, perfect-fit- ting, a'l-wool business suits, together with a few lines of suits from other manufacturers, that we have always sold readily at $10 to $12 50 ;p= single -breasted, b fs picture; regular sizes and extra stouts and longs; on sale until e closing time Sat- urday 30 96,95 %1(1‘1‘1(‘1&14‘&‘1‘4111(‘144‘111 CREAEEEARAAAREREREERRER R U AR A SRR E R R R E A SRS AR RS A AR AR A SRR A GG ARG AR AR E RN R SR SRS S GRS S S G D A GOOD MARKET FOR CALIFORNIA Must Supply the East With Fruit. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 16— "We will have to look to the Pacific Coast States for early vegetables and fruits this vear.” said a member of the firm of Barnett Bros., leading commission men, this af- ternoon, when discussing the ravages of the recent cold wave. “Dispatches from our correspondents in Florida show that practically the whole thing is cleared out in that State by the frost, so far as this year's crops are concerned. Our correspondent there says that on the east coast all vegetables have been killed and pine- apples injured. - What is true of -the east. coast is true, of course, of the riorth -section of Florida. A dispatch from J. H. Barnett, who is at Miami, says there will be little saved out of the wreck. It ‘will be too. late now to raise another crop of tomatoes this season for the Northern market. We have already. received some tomatoes from the Miami section, but last win- ter they were shipping tomatoes from that section during four full months, So far we have only received the early portion of what is the ordinary Florida tomato shipments. We have advised our. customers there to plant beans at once. Excepting beans, all the usual early vegetable crops from Florida. Georgia and South Carolina are wiped O“‘E!fl Michigan all the peach trees, or at least ‘a very large proportion .of them, have been injured. I could. give no hope as te them, for I understand that a temperature of 10 td.12 degrees below zero, ‘such as tney have been having there, will kill fruit ~buds. I cannot- 160k ‘for any peach crop at all east of the Pacific Slope, for the tem- perature has been sufficiently low. in every part of the United States east buds in the peach trees. “Plums, apples and. cherries. I think. are done for so far as the North and Middle Western -States are-concerned. For oranges and lemons we will have to 100k to-California and Mexico: for the next four or five years.”. : x "_n.agd about the stone giants re- cently discovered among the South Sea Islands in next Sunday’s Call,. - A BACHELOR WOULD STOP TIGHT LACING duced for the protection of varjou: ture at its present session. but A: State” from their own indiscretio public health and sanitation. MADISON, Wis., Feb. 16.—All sorts of measures have been duced a joint resolution for the appointment of a joint committee three from the Assembly and one from the Senate to draw up a bill to prohibit tight lacing.: The resolution was referred to the committee on intro- s people by the Wisconsin Legisla- ssemblyman Daggett of Bear Creek. one of the bachelor members. was the only one to prove the necessity for a law protecting ‘‘Misses, old maids and married women of the In the Assembly to-day he intro- of n. AGUINALDD WILL SELL S PEOPLE Continued from First Page. time repulsed. The last time they ‘were seen to be carrying off dead and wounded. General King took personal command of the troops engaged. During the engagement twenty-two Americans were overcome by heat, but all will recover. Our troops were under orders not to pursue the enemy, but simply to hold their ground. The troops engaged were nine companies of the First California Infantry, six companies of the First ‘Washington Infantry, two companies of the First Idaho Infantry and a bat- tery of light mountain guns, with two troops of the Fourth Cavalry in re- serve. For. the second time since February 4 the uprising of the natives was ex- pected in the city last night. During the afternoon details from the First Oregon and Thirteenth Minnesota In- fantry arrested 150 natives, whom they found in one house.. This, together with the fact that the eity guards were dqubled, evidently disheartened the ringleaders. Information derived from ‘authentic sources leaves no doubt, how- ever, that an outbreak was really plan- ned.. Among the natives arrésted in one house a number were .in. the act of making Filipino uniforms when the troops broke in upon them, The warships are using the search- lights every night to prevent the ap- proach of natives in small boats. The cruiser Buffalo last night fired a few shells at a party of the enemy which the searchlights showed to be engaged in mounting a gun near Paranaque. The rebels fled without attempting to reply. The American lines now cover all the natural defenses of Manila and General Otis has decided not to extend ther farther at present. The troops are en- camped along the lines and are throw- ing up intrenchments at salient points. Adviceg from the interior report Lhe rebel leaders beginning to quarrel among themselves, and that the men are. growing disheartened. It is be- leved the attack on General King's po- sition to-day was made against the wish of Aguinaldo and was due to the effort of some minor chief to win dis- tinetion for himself. No other theory explains the useless expenditure of men and ammunition. It is understood that General Otis will soon undertake the opening of the Dagupan Railway and the capture of Malolos, the capital of the so-called Philippine republic. Troops I and K of the Fourth Cav- alry, while on a scouting expedition near Paranaque yesterday, encountered the enemy and exchanged a few vol- leys. Private Wiltner of K Troop was hit in the' right arm. Many of the enemy. were seen to fall as they re- treated into Paranaque. The steamships Romulus and Brutus have arrived from_ Tioilo. The enemy appears to have deserted that place. They burned_all public records before evacuating the town, apparently with the hope of .causing future disputes over land titles. The Americans have taken charge of the-port and custom- house and are entering and clearing vessels under the same regulations as | prevail here. | g % ; 3 '% a il