The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1899, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23 18 or half an hour from be ‘o succeeded in kil get at the word to the I nil gh they could not few minutes the chu d burning, but still no one v_eight of the nativ: an d received a volley from Us. They d up their toes. Still we could not or the rest. | fter the fire died out there remained s of the church and a high e. Al two_hours after enced from the ea t had the place sur- d any one. the fight An order v L 4 avairy and one They had made re driven back. Joined me other troops | This time we aped I er e thicker than | were piled two and | Away the insurgents fled be- | mping Into_the { death. W hem back | some T s past_a road that led to San | Pedro Macate. We stopped here, as the h which lasted some twenty-two ad enued, although there was a off on during the night. STATE OFFICERS NAMED. | United Mechanics Conclude Their | Session at San Jose. | eannual State ted Mechanics | llor, H. lor, J. rs. n San | Mareh, | ,;‘GE RMANS INSIST THAT CHAMBERS BE WITHDRAWN Threaten to Take Up Arms Against Americans in Samoa. ; March 22.—A petition was recelved at the Foreign Office here to-day, signed by all the Germans in Samoa, protesting vehemently agalnst the retention of Chief Justice Chambers and the further main- tenance of the Berlin treaty, which is characterized as no longer bear- able. The petitioners detail a number of alleged contraventions of the. treaty by Mr. Chambers and especially toward Herr Grevesmuhl, the Chief of Police. The petition and the official reports will be sent to the United States Embassador, Andrew D. White, in support of the German case. The Lokal Anzeiger publishes a letter from its Samoan correspondent, Herr von Wolfersdorff, dated February 21 After recounting the critical situation the writer declares that if the German Government will not help the Germans of Apia against the alleged injustice and outrages of Mr. Chambers the Germans will rise armed and obtain the desired redress. The correspondent then describes the Indignation of the Germans when the instructions of the Foreign Office arrived, ordering the recognition of Mr. Chambers. The Tageblatt demands the removal of F. B. S. Maxse, the British C sul at Apia, claiming he is the prime cause of all the troubie. Alluding to the inconveniences of the Berlin treaty, the petition from Samoan Germans begs that if the Government cannot annul the treaty and declare a German protectorate, it shall at least obtain an amendment se- curing “real equality of privilege” to the three nations, so that German law, language and money may be assured equality of privilege, that offi- clals may be appointed under the treaty who understand the German language and that the powers of the Chief Justice may be properly de- fined. The petitioners oppose partition. SPENDS HIS FURY UPON A WOMAN'S HEAD Cowardly Crime ofa Los An- geles Man at Loomis, Wash. AGED WIDOW BEATEN Clubbed With a Revolver Because She Refused to Alter a Contract. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, March 22.—A special from | Loemis, in the northeastern part of Washington, says: In a neat five-room { cabin on a ranch two and a half miles | north of Loomis lies the victim of what is considered one of the most cowardly acts man could commit. Mrs. Julia Un- derwood, for refusing to abrogate a contract made last September in the name of E. H. Melrose of Los Angeles, and signing a new one much more to his interest and in his right name, E. H. WAR WOULD FOLLOW ARMY DISBANDMENT Cuban Assembly Believes Anarchy Is Imminent on the Isla HAVANA, March 22.—At a meetl the Cuban embl; presented their sub: -to carry out A long discu n of soldi: to-day twelve generals of jon to that body and expressed their willingness sion took place over the proposed disbandment of the tary leader declared that if the Assembly took such a t time the result would be d their obedience to their officers anded on instructions from the Assembly withcut satisfactory regue or even with the proposed payment of $3,000,000, it would simply the country into a state of anarchy. nd. ng of the Executive Committee of the army attended and disastrous. in the extreme. O RSOOSR commands. If Disorders of every kind, they 2088 O S OSIU0 RORCC , would occur, with a consequent p mement of Cuban independ- Division Gonzale: declared if such a course were in two weeks would be in a state of war. zae B ; 1GOOI TR UK RUROROROM ALGER STARTS ON A CUBAN JUNKET Wants to Get Familiar With Island Conditions and a Rest From Work. WASHINGTON, March row. duties. s —Secretary Alger and a party of friends left here to-night for Savannah, Ga., on their way to Cuba. cupied a special car on the train leaving over the Southern Railroad at 9 o'clock, which is scheduled to reach Savannah about 3 o’clock.to-mor- At the latter place the party will take the transport Ingalls, in which the voyage to Havana will be made. objects in view, first, to familiarize himself with the existing conditions in Cuba, and second, to obtain a brief respite from the' routine of office Whether the trip will be extended beyond Havana will depend entirely upon circumstances that may hereafter develop. Those who ac- companied the Secretary included Mr. Detroit; A. M. Henry, his brother-in-law, $ troit; Major George H. Hopkins, his military aid; Colonel W. D. Mann and Victor L. Mason, his private secretary. 8 iQ!SQ’SQ!& D RORORORC WULIIRONOLBL LOLOROROLR O LRI BRI, They oc- The Secretary’s trip has two Smith, -his business partner at and H. G. Meredith of De- 2 g 5 2 =3 ? g <4 o K ] =4 HAS NOT SPOKEN { His Aspirations for the Presidency. Special Dispatch to The Call. R e R RSeS| LEWISTON, Me., March 22.— Amos L. Aller, retary to Speaker Reed, says regarding the-interview printed to-day, in which he was made to say. that Mr. Reed would not be a candi- date for the Presidential nomina- tion in'1900, that he did not make such a statement, and he did not know whether Mr. Reed would be a candidate or not. D e e R e THOMASVILLE, Ga:, March 22.— President McKinley and Vice President Hobart returned to the home of Sena- tor Hanna this evening much refreshed and pleased with their trip to Jekyll Isiand. Nearly four-hours to-day was spent.in a pleasant . water trip from Jekyll to Brunswick. At Brunswick all cluding three Spanish vessels, saluted | the President’s cuiter, the Colfax. H. B. Raymond, Southern manager of the Mellory line, presented to the President a good-sized Spanish flag’ from ‘the bark Taffalla, which had been waved in-salute as the President’s boat steam- ed down the bay to Jekyll last Monday. The. flag ™ presented with the covm- pliments of Rosenio Torras, late Vice Consul of Spain. This courtesy greatly jeased Mr. McKinley. pThe Presidential train was given a parting cheer and pulled out of Brunis- Wwiek at 1:45 o'clock, arriving in Thom- asville at 5:35. The Presldemial'party drove at once to Senator Hanna's and Tasted ‘during the evening. Friday the President probably will go to Tallahas- - gee, returning - the same day. Early mext week he will leave here for Wash- {ngton, STRIFE FEPEEE PP 4h teb bbb bbbt the shipping, in- e OVER PROFITS - FOR BURYING DEAD LOS ANGELES, March —The war- fare on the part of the Coroner 'agalnst certain undertakers has b(-er: revived by he death of Fong Kim, a Chinese woman .Lw'no expired in the Recciving Hospital effects_of opium self-adminis- r Holland notified one firm f the body, but friends ired that she be buried sgglery the firm which i j’nbh‘xlhed the corpse. of the dead woman asserts —and witness confirm _his statements— that the Coroner took him into a back room and threatened to ‘“make it warm for him’ if he did not permit the funeral to take place from a designated under- taking establishment, and intimated that extra expenses would be added to the case. This pressure won the victory. The Coroner denies the charges,, but the body was buried by the firm he favored. KOREAN CABINET HAS BEEN DISMISSED YOKOHAMA, March 22.—According to a report from Seoul, capital of Korea, the whole Korean Cabinet had been dis- missed and two of the Ministers have Been banished because of wholesale changes made by the Cabinet in provin- cial officers. 4 he retiring Korean Cabinet, or Coun- ci]Tn% State, succeeded the Ministry that resigned last October, when the question of the formation of a parliament for Ko- rea was raised by a leading political or- ganization of Seoul |ing closely CAACKER WD CARDY TRUST Consolidation of Pacific| Coast Plants. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 22.—Follow- the recent announcement that a cracker trust would be formed on the Pacific Coast by Charles M. Warner of Syracuse comes the infor- mation to the commercial world that a syndicate is now paving the way to create a great candy trust to control the sweetmeat industry of the Western slope. Robert Shaw of Chicago and former Corporation Counsel Charles E. 1de of Syracuse have been here, taking an inventory of the two local cracker fac- tories—those of the Southern California Cracker Company and -Bishop & Co. These concerns, manufacturing crack- ers-and ecandies, have agreed to sell their cracker departments to the trust. The two men are now in San Francisco making an inspection of the Standard and the American Biscuit Companies’ plants. 5 While ‘here they entered into nego- tiations. with local firms to have them dispose of their candy departments to ‘Warner and his colleagues. The three members of the Southern California Cracker Company agreed to transfer their whole interests in the candy busi- ness to Shaw, the agent of the trust. They have signed documents agreeing to remain out of the candy business in the district to be occupied by the pro- posed buyers for twenty years. Bishop & Co. have not given the trust an op- tion on their candy department, which includes the manufacturing of crystal- lized fruits.also. It is understood they ask for a bonus amounting to a con- siderable ‘sum. Shaw regards this as too large. If thé trust cannot get Bishop’s candy business at its own price it will re- "linquish the option on the cracker plant, and in order to exterminate its rival the trust will cut prices on crackers and candies. If the undesirable com- petitor cannot be “frozen out” by this procedure it may be compelled to sell at the figures of the trust. FORTY-NINE PERSONS ARE YET MISSING NEW YORK, March 22.—Besides the fifteen whose dead bodies have been re- covered, forty-nine persons who are sup- posed to have been in the Windsor Hotel when it was destroyed on Friday are yet unaccounted for. No bodles were recov- ered to-day, but shortly after 8 o’clock to- night a fragment of charred flesh was found on the Fifth avenue side of the ruins near where other bodies were found, but deeper down. The five bodies that were recovered on Monday and Tuesday, or what remains of them, are still at the Morgue. One has partly been identified by two of the hotel employes as that of Mrs. Margaret Auzee of New York, but this identification is not considered conclusive. The rain to-day Interfered with the rapid progress of the work to some ex- tent and It was not until the afternoon that the workers succeeded in getting steadily down to_the removal of the de- bris, The Fire Department still has its iines about the ruins, isolating a consid- erable section of one of the busiest parts of the city. A force of about 250 men was employed throughout the afterncon and a new shift of the same number was put on at night. — e To Cure a Cold in Omne Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. %50, The genuine has L. E. Q. on each tahlst. OLD COMANCHE FOR THE FERRY Monitor Is Sold to an Oakland Firm. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. Call - Headquarters, Wellington Hotel, Washington, March 22. The Navy Department to-day authorized the sale of one of the few old single-turreted mon- itors remaining afloat. Four proposals were opened at the Mare Island navy yard for the sale of the monitor Comanche. The highest bidder was the firm of J. Pantesky, Bircovich & Livingston of Oakland, Cal., at $6581 25, and the department directed the acceptance of the bid. OAKLAND, March 22.—The old mon- itor Comanche is not to be broken up. She is to be dismantled, rehabilitated and will be seen for years doing a freight and ferry business on San Francisco Bay. Such is the decree of her new owners. The bid of Messrs. Pantesky, Berco- vich & Livingston of this city was ac- cepted at Washington to-day. This firm was very anxicus to secure the old hulk and made a bid higher than they would have done had they not seen a profitable future for the Co- manche. Several days ago the firm sent a bid to Washington, but this morning, fear- ing that others had bid higher, they sent a substantial raise by telegraph of their former figures. The result of the bidding shows that their latest figures were accepted. “We had a survey made of the Co- manche,” said Mr. Pantesky to-night, “and decided that she was just the boat we wanted for a frelght ferry, We do a big freight business ourselves and see a need for such a boat. We shall take out her engines and put in good machinery and use her on the bay. She will carry about 1800 tons, and we will have plenty of work for her. Our plans call for the expendi- ture of $50,000.” WITH THE REMAINS OF ADMIRAL SPOTTS Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1599, by James Gor- don Bennett. VALPARAISO, March 2.—The United States auxiliary cruiser Badger arrived this morning from Fort Monroe, bound for Ban Francisco. She carries the body of Rear Admiral James H. Spotts, who died in the Falkland Islands. Rear Ad- miral James H. Spotts was stricken with apoplexy on board the United States steamer Broon.vn at Port Stanley, Falk- land Islands, on March 9, 1882, while re- celving an official visit from the Governor of the islands. He died that night and was buried at Port Stanley, mainly owing to the absence of embalming facilities. Governor Kerr presented a cemetery lot for his burial, and the Enelish battery on shore fired a salute of thirteen guns while the funeral procession passed. — - FAMOUS STALLION DYING. ettt e bt et B Gangrene Attacks Hanover and He ‘Will Be Destroyed. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 22.—Hano- ver, probably the greatest stallion living, is dving here of gangrene. A meeting of veterinary surgeons to-morrow will de- cide whether he shall be shot, put to death by morphine or the disease be al- lowed to run its course. It is more than likely, however, that he will be killed to- - morrow. i O’Melveny, was brutally beaten into a state of insensibility with a 44-caliber revolver. No witnesses were present. A niece of Mrs. Underwood, Miss Lou Hunt, had been asked to absent herself, as they had business of a private nature to discuss. Miss Hunt complied, and some time later returned to find the room in disorder and confusion, Melrose highly excited and Mrs. Underwood on the bed unconscious, with a towel around her head saturated with blood. ‘With presence of mind, Miss Hunt forced her aunt’s assailant to go for Dr. Willard at Loomis. The young lady then summoned the ranch foreman, and together they succeeded in bring- ing Mrs. Underwood to a state of semi- consciousness, when she little by little told how her injuries had been received. Melrose, who has been receiving mail both as Melrose and O’Melveney, came from Los Angeles, Cal, and repre- sented himself as a cattleman seeking health. In this way he leased the Un- derwood ranch and cattle. He was to pay all expenses for a certain interest. Mrs. Underwood, it is claimed, finding out his real character, confronted him with it, and since then there has been trouble, culminating in the attack. Mrs. Underwood is 55 years of age, a widow, with a married daughter in Grundy County, Iowa, whence she came to this place in 1894, Melrose is about five feet eight inches tall, rather slight, has brown hair and mustache streaked with gray, promi- nent ears, wrinkles about and below the eyes, a receding chin with center dimple, and is 41 years old. He was last seen a few miles south of the in- tefnational line. A posse of five dep- uties is out searching for him, and a suitable reward will be offered for his capture. Dr. Willard reports Mrs. Under- wood’s condition as favorable, though still very critical. The wound in the back of her head is quite serious. JOHN COLLINS HAS MADE A CONFESSION PAINESVILLE, O., March 22.—John Collins, who was arrested here yesterday with Mrs. Ann Ingersoll on the charge of abducting Gerald Lapiner from in front of his parents’ house in Chicago about a year ago, has made a confession. Collins says he is an old soldler. He was an inmate of the National Military Home at Los Angeles. There he met Mrs. Ingersoll. She told him she had a farm at Painesville and asked him to come ecast and live with her. They came to Chicago, where they arrived a few days before the last of May, 1888. On Decoration day Mrs: Ingersoll came to him with the child. She said she had found the little one on the street. They remained in Chicago a few days and then came east to Painesville. Collins said he had no suspicion that the child had been abducted and he believed Mrs. Ingersoll when she said she had found the little one. Collins was held in $300 and Mrs. In- gersoll in $3000 bail for the hearing on Thursday, A hearing was had tonight on a writ of habeas corpus, and Judge Clark, of the Common Pleas Court, awarded the custody of the child to Mrs. Lapiner. INVITATIONS FOR THE COMING WEDDING NEW YORK, March 22.—Invitations for the marriage of Miss Virginia Fair to ‘William K. Vanderbilt Jr.,, which will take place on Tuesday, April 4, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Hi OQelrichs, Fifth avenue find Fitty-scventh street, have been Issued. The cards in- troduce an entirely - new: departure in ‘weddm lsn\'luulonu. ers “R. 4 or regret is requested. I& the guests at the weds than 100 in pumber, BALLINGTON BOOTH’S FRICTION WITH THE SALVATION ARMY HICAGO, March 22.—The recent clash between the Salvation Army and Volunteers during a street parade of the latter, headed by General Ballington Booth, has resulted in a deal of trouble between the two organizations. The showing by magic lantern of a denthb_ed picture of Ballington Booth’s mother at the moment of the general’s appear- ance has caused much bitterness, and at a council of the general officers of the Volunteers the following statement was siven out: “We, the undersigned, seventy-seven staff and field commanding officers, assembled in regimental council, desire to express our opinion that, while it would be generally conceded by the many friends and associates of the Vol- unteers that General and Mrs. Ballington Booth have acted with great dis- cretion in withholding from the press and platform their feelings respecting the actions of the Salvation Army, most wishing to avoid any resurrection of public controversy, yet, in justice to our many Volunteers and friends in and around Chicago and in contradiction of certain statements, it is only right and fair that we should express our admiration of the Christian spirit exhibited by the Volunteers in the face of the manifestations of un-Chris- tian, un-American and bitter spirit on the part of the Salvationists yester- day. e “We were having a peaceable parade, witnessed by hundreds of people, when we were shocked to witness the actlon of certain cfficers of the Salva- tion Army. General Booth's mother’s picture was thrown on the screen just as he was passing, both backward and forward, purposely to create the im- pression that he made vows to the Salvation Army at her deathbed, when, as we all know, at the time of her death he was in Maryland, U. S. A. Fur- ther, in the presence of our leader, General Booth, Brigadier General Field- ing, Colonel James Keppel and others, one Salvation Army staff officer said, with a hiss through his teeth: ‘Hurrah for Major Moore's army’ (a name associated with a reputed scandal). 2 “‘Another member shouted, shaking his fist in ‘our faces: ‘You devils, you!” while a third, who was also an officer, pointing to the screen, said: ‘Look at that. How can you do it when you made vows at your mother’s bed?” “We take this as an insult to our leader and our visiting officers to the city of Chicago, and feel that, as citizens, we have a right to demand a pub- lic apology from Lieutenant Colonel French, as it is a distinct breach of the compact between General Ballington Booth and his father, General William Booth. “It is such actions as these which have brought from the Salvation Army to the Volunteers during the last few weeks Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Keppel, Brigadier General and Mrs. Marshall, Staff Captain Thomas, Adjutant and Mrs. Johnson, Staff Captain and Mrs. Leecher, Adjutant Frayer, Major Lennox, Captain and Mrs. Anderson, Captain and Mrs. Beedy, Captain and Mrs. Turk, Captain Lamming and many others whom we e 1tmvtcl'u i el A o 2 ing to familiar usage that an acceptance Gage left the Capitol this evening for San is probable that | ng will be less . A consideration, could name. “Furthermore, we resolve that this resolution be tendered to the Asso- ciated Press. » “Signed by the staff and field officers of the Volunteers.” TRUST TO FIGHT BELL COMPANY Independent Telephone Men Combine. Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, March to-morrow will say: Independent tele- phone manufacturing interests have organized to fight the Bell Company with a trust of their own. At a secret session this afternoon the ways were greased for the launching of a $7,000,- 000 combine. W. T. Blaine, president of the Victor Telephone Manufactur- ing Company of this city, is in charge as promoter in chief. It is represented there is a prospect of combining 90 per cent of the factories producing “inde- pendent” apparatus. Details as to the plants included, as well as the sources from which capital for their acquisi- tion is to come, are zealously guarded, but the names of John J. Mitchell. president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, Assistant United States Treasurer Willlam P. Williams and Mr. Merigold, a New York banker, are mentioned as the financial sponsors of the deal. Mr. Blaine’s plans are reported to embrace the combining, among others, of the following concerns: American Electric Telephone Company, Chicago; Victor Telephone Manufacturing Com- pany, Chicago; Western Telephone Construction Company, Chicago: Key- stone Telephone Company, Pittsburg:; Reliable Electric Manufacturing Com- pany, Worcester, Mass.; Mason Tele- phone Pay Station Company; Willlams Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Northwestern Electric Telephone Com- pany, Milwaukee; Sterling Electric Company, Chicago; Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, Chicago; Farr Telephone and Con- struction Company, Chicago; Viaduct 22.—The Record Manufacturing Company, Baltimore; Eureka Electric Company, Chicago; Butler-Taylor Company, Ravenna, Ohio; National Automatic Telephone Company, Chicago; Central Telephone and Electric Company, St. Louis. 1t is declared that one of the most influential factories outside of the Bell breastworks, the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company of Chicago, has thus far resisted all overtures to join the combine. FOLLOWERS OF THE KHALIFA DESERTING LONDON, March 23.—The Cairo corre- spondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs the substance of an interview he has had with Sir Willlam Edmund Garstin, Un- der Secretary of State for Public Works in Egypt, who has just returned from a Nile tour. Sir Willlam Garstin says that according to the latest reports the Khalifa, the der- vish leader in the Soudan, is in great straits for focd and ammunition. He has only 6000 fighting men and a thousand rebels, while he is hampered by an enor- mous following of women and children. Many of his followers are anxious to de- sert_him and 200 of them actually did sur- render to Sir Willlam Garstin’s gunboat during the trip. FEMALE CONVICT REFUSES FREEDOM INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 22.—Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who is serving a ten vears’ sentence in the Indiana Woman's Prison, has been paroled by Governor Mount_and declines to accept her free- dom. She is in the prison for the alleged murder of Oscar Walton, a Cass County farmer,. in 1894, and says she will not leave the {nstitution until the Judge and ury which tried her acknowledge t overror Mount that she is innocent ang that they were In error when they passed judgment on her. The State officers say that it is one of the very few instances in the criminal history of the State where liberty has been offered and refused. ot Sl DEFENDS VON MOHRENHEIM. French Premier Refutes Accusations Against the Russian. PARIS, March 22.—In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the allegations made against Baron von Mohrenheim, the former Russian Embassador here, in con- nection with the Dreyfus case were the subject of an interpellation of the Gov- ernment. The Premier, M. Dupuy, indig- nantly repelled all the insinuations against the representative of an allied nation, whose services to France could never be forgotten, and vigorously pro- tested the action of the newspapers, a‘hlch originated such scandalous lpalsl-' es. i o sk Gage Signs No More Bills. SACRAMENTO, March 2%.—Governor Francisco. He signed no_ bills to- though he has a large batch qw:lunq_o 5 ALGER'S PETTY SLAP AT MILES Orders That Censure : Two Generals. Spectal Dispatch to The Call., Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel, Washington, March 22. The Secretary of War, in an order, which will be published through official channels to-morrow, has censured Ma- |jor General Miles and Inspector General Breckinridge for attempting to exceed their authority in military matters. The censure is in consequence of the tour of inspection which General Breck- inridge is now making in Porto Rico and an investigation recently made by Lieutenant Colonel Ernest A. Garling- ton of the inspector general’s depart- ment in connecticn with the charges made by Miles about the character of beef served to troops in the field. ~ - General Breckinridge was ordered about two months ago to proceed to Cuba and Porto Rico for the purpose of inspecting the military camps in those islands. His orders were issued by the Secretary of War. It has since been reported to the War Department, however, that Breckinridge is engaged in gathering evidence to support the allegations of Miles, and in so doing has proceeded tc places to which he was not ordered by the Secretary of War, and has been devoting time to work for the benefit of Miles and outside the in- structions issued by the Secretary. Colonel Garlington recently went to Chicago, ostensibly to make certain in- vestigations coming within the province of the inspector general's department. He did not go by authority of the Sec- retary of War. It was recently ascer- tained by the War Department that he was devoting time to making inquiries with which the board to investigate the charges of Miles abcut canned and re- frigerated beef had been charged, thus undertaking without authority of the department to make-an independent in- vestigation of matters with which a board composed of his superior officers and appointed by direction of the President had been intrusted. ‘When these facts became known to the War Department an official in- quiry was made to ascertain by whose authority Breckinridge and Garlington were making investigations which had not been sanctioned by the department. It is said the department found that Miles and Breckinridge were responsi- ble. As a consequence, the Secretary of War will, to-morrow, issue an order providing that hereafter officers of the inspector general's department shall not proceed from point to point for the purpose of making investigations with- out the authority of the Secretary of War. Secretary Alger was not consulted as to the trip which Colonel Garlington has just completed, and was forced to take the action contained in the order from the fact that officers of his own department were making independent investigations of which he had no knowledge, evidently intended to un- dermine the authority of the head of the department and that of the board of officers appointed by direction of the President. This is taken as a direct slap at Miles, who, during the war, notified Secretary Alger it was not his (Miles’) business to make inspections, but to order them made; in other words, that the inspector general’'s department was directly responsible to the commanding general. BURIED THIRTEEN DAYS. LEADVILLE, Colo., March 2.—At 11 o’clock to-night the two mine pumpmen, Charles Reuss and Burt Froy, who were imprisoned in the Bonair mine thirteen days ago, were reached by the rescuers and restored to their friends. They show little effects of their experience.” "They were on the 430 level when a cave near the top of the shaft cut them off from the outer world. Fortunately the big water pipe was not broken by the cave, and by blowing a hole in it ‘with dyna- mite the men were enabled to communi- cate with their friends who kept them supplied with food, while a new shaft over 200 feet deep was sunk. The cost of rescuing the men has been over $3000. it 2l | WHY HE KILLED HIS CHILDREN. McPHERSON, Kans.,, March 22.—John A. Moore, who murdered his five children at Hutchinson and who was brought here as a protection against a threatened lynching, confessed his crime to-day be- fore a notary public. The prisoner stated that he had quarreled with his wife and that a separation was talked of, in which event he feared that his children would come under the control of iis wife's family, whom he dislikes. It was Dbrooding ovér the prospect of his children belns reared in such surroundings, he de- posed, that prompted him to_ ecrush their skulls with a hatchet, cut their, throat: i‘ar;-l fire the house in ‘which’ tl?fish' hodle; ALLOUETOA CABLE BLUNDER A French Company Re- ported Sherman Dead. SURPRISE ON THE PARIS FOUND FLAG FLYING AT HALE- MAST AT SANTIAGO. Meanwhile the Condition of the Ven- erable Statesman Improves and He Will Go Aboard the Chicago To-day. Special Dispatch to The Call D R e R R R e e WASHINGTON, March 22.— General A. W. Greely, chief of the signal corps, to-night gave to the Associated Press the fol- lowing signed statement with reference to the report that the signal officer at Guantanamo had confirmed the report of ex- Secretary Sherman's death: “War Department, Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washing- ton, D. C., March 22, 1899—To the Associated Press: Captain Leigh telegraphs me from San- tiago that the information re- garding Mr. Sherman’s alleged death came direct from the rep- resentative of the French cable Guantanamo and that the responsibility for the signal corps is limited to the telegraphic transmission of the story. Yours truly, A. W. GREELY.” company at R R R R R R R R R T ST B e e e e s SANTIAGO ‘DE CUBA, March 22.— When the Paris reached here yesterday those on board of her noticed that the flag flying from Morro Castle, at the entrance of the harbor, was at half- mast, and it was inferred by the pas- sengers that some chief perscnage was dead. Their surprise was great when told on being reached by a tug that a report was current that Mr. Sherman was dead. It now turns out respecting the un- fortunate report of Mr. Sherman’s death, which is the main topic of con- versation here to-day, that the an- nouncement was made by the French cable company and the signal corps within ten minutes of each other. When Captain Leigh, the chief signal officer, ascertained that the report was er- roneous he immediately communicated with the Guantanamo station to dis- cover the cause of the blunder. The man in charge of the station replied that having received a message of in- quiry as to Mr. Sherman’s health, and not having any information himself, he visited the manager of the French cable company, who assured him that the re- port of the death was well founded. Thereupon be telegraphed a confirma- tion of the rumor, having no reason to doubt the assurance given him. The French .cable.company’s_officials here clafm to know nothing regardmng tne matter. . Mr. Sherman’s relatives on board the Paris are naturally somewhat indignant at somebody’s stupendous blunder, but Captain Leigh considers that the man in charge of the Guantanamo signal cffice was entirely justified in accepting the statement of the French cable com- pany’s manager. Mr. Sherman’s condition this evening continues about the same. He rested quite comfortably throughout the day, and if anything is somewhat better. He expects to go.on board the United States cruiser Chicago to-morrow. ————— SHERMAN FELL INTO THE' WATER NEW YORK, March 22.—A letter from Porto Rico says that at the time of the visit of the steamship Paris to Porto Rico, on March 11, Senator Sher- man, on returning to the ship from the city, fell into the water. It is probable that the iliness from which he is now suffering was contracted at that time. ADVERTISEMENTS. LIFE or DEATH. 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