The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1899, Page 9

THE SAN ¥RANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899 9 SMLING OF | THE ALAMEDY FOR AUSTRALIA - Loaded With Goods for | the Southern Isles. REGULARS OFF FOR MANILA TRANSPORT CITY OF PUEBLA TO SAIL SATURDAY. | Steamer Captain Weber in Commis-! sion Again—Wages on Vessels of the Sugar Fleet Cut cargo rs arrived A wero v of Pue- who are ar- 40 s f the s who wanted | 1 delay the s t wages on t will be a| aid on Welch | s past, but Wil- | and the J. D captains have ugh the winter ange came he men on a holiday, in the ship_James Kerr arrived at Port Townsend from 1 the ndid time of 27 EN WITH BLINDNESS. Thomas Murphy, a Tanner, Found Wandering Around in the Rain. | STRICK D e D S O 40404040404 1 out eighty-nine days. unsettled and stormy weather was experienced, with very treac almed off Pitcairn, but although the islanders burned beacon fires at night, no communi- three miles away. All wentwell after that until the Strath- don was off the coast of California, when she ran into a northwest gale, “with hurricane squalls and avery bark was bec cation could be held, as the island was twenty- HE British bark Strathdon, N. S. W., beating the American barks Sonoma, now out ninety-three days, The captain reports that in latitude 28 south, longitude 148 west, ‘“very ‘herous rain squalls.” On February &. the high, confused sea.” The Strathdon is coal-laden. %oooo«»om+o¢o¢o¢o¢o¢oooMmooo¢o¢o¢mo¢m¢o&o¢o&o*oml ' CAUGHT IN A TREACHEROUS STORM. which arrived Tuesday night, made a quick passage from Newcastle, and the Prussia, O+ 0+04040+08 for treatment. h Advances made on furniture and He was out Tuesday and feet wet and supposes that it had s that night he was out yesterday tore his went ——————— tanos, with Mission. ut removal. J. Noonan, 10 | Easter Novelties. The prettiest display of Easter cards | and novelties ever seen here are on ex- hibition at Cooper's, on Market street.® { | by | rene | ved. | When a fish has lost any of its scales a wound or abrasion they are never 0 ©6-0©0-0- 900000 ¢ ® [J ® ’ ° eman ¢ ase of gran- Brung ro: vy and Coun 00999600200 000 INSTINCT. Boy Knows the Kind of Food He Needs. A grocer in the suburbs of Chicago | son about six years old who has ept in the country with an aunt v part of the time, owing to his half lifeless condition. |s last summer when the little| eturned home, he was round, fat | rty, but when he sat down to s table, he refused the meat toes and demanded Grape- he ready cooked food. | grocer kn about Grape-Nuts, | been 1ling them over his| but it never occurred to him | 1se them at his own table. It was| nd upon inquiry that the boy began | re as soon as he was put on | | | ad uts by his aunty, and that the . of the value of the food was his condition. needless to say the grocer supplied Grape-Nuts to his little boy, without further question, and the entire | ave now joined the Grape- family Nuts army. | —0-9-90-0-0-090 —-6-90-90-6 00060 ILLNESS FCR ONE, OLD AGE THE OTHER ERASHUS PETERSON DESIRES T0 DIE RASMUS PETERSON, an old man without money or friends, attempted to hang himself in his room, 625 Merchant street, Mon- day afterncon. He twisted a rope round & nall in the wall and tied the other end round his neck after climb- ing on top of a chair. Then he kicked the chair from under him, and was slowly strangling to death when his jandlady noticed him and raised an alarm. A watchmaker on the oppo- site side of the street cut the old man down and cut the rope in pleces 8o that he could not make another at- tempt. Tuesday the old man went to the California street station and was Jocked up, as he said he was afrald he would do himself harm. Yesterday morning Judge Mogan was disposing of the “drunks” at the City Prison and when the old.man, with his long gray beard, stepped forward the Judge said, “Let him go.” “I don’t want to go,” replied the old man. *I was not drunk, sir, but gave myself up, as I was afrald 1 would kill myself. I want to be sent to an insane asylum, as my mind is giving way and I will be prevented from kill- ing myself.” The Judge was surprised at the old man’s earnestness and ordered him to be locked up till inquiries could be made about him. He will probably be sent to the Almshouse. Peterson, when seen later, sald that he was a tailor, but old age and sick- ness had kept him from doing much work:, He had tried to hang himself Monday and would do so again if he got the chance. His boots were full of holes and he wore the last of his clothing. He had lived in this city for the past twenty years and his wife and children had all died and been buried here. He has a frightened look in his eyes that betokens ap- proaching insanity. He sald he would prefer to be sent to an asylum, but the Almshouse would do. MRS. META HARRIS RS. META HARRIS, the daughter of the late W. H. Haight, a prominent Mormon at Farmington, Utah, attempted to commit suicide early yesterday morn- ing in her room at 8 Mason street by shooting herself In the left breast. She is at the Receiving Hospital and the chances are that the wound will prove fatal. About 3 o’clock yesterday morning Mrs. Reynolds, who éccupies a room adjoining the one occupied by Mrs. Harris, heard the report of a pistol shot. She could not definitely fix the location of the shot and paid no more attention to the circumstance. Mrs. Irwin, the landlady, had occasion to go into Mrs. Harris’ room shortly be- fore 10 o'clock and was shocked to find her lying on the floor in her nightrobe, with blood stains on the front of her robe. The police were notified and Mrs. Harris was sent to the hospital in the ambulance. Drs. ‘Weil and Rinne found that the bullet had entered the left breast, but they were unable to locate it. They ex- pressed the opinicn that the wound was dangerous and might result fa- tally. Captain Bohen detailed Detec- tives Dinan and Crockett to inquire into the case, and on searching the room they found the revolver in the bureau with one chamber empty. Mrs. Harrls admitted that she had fired the shot. She had been a suf- ferer from rheumatism for a long time and It made her despondent. She bought the revolver with the in tention of killing herself, and it was the report of the shot that Mrs. Rey- nolds heard about 3 o'clock in the morning. From that time till the landladf' had discovered her she had been lylng on the floor in a semi-con- scious condition. Mrs. Haight, the young woman's mother, as she is only 24 years of age, and her niece were also living in the house, Mrs. Haight and the niece came here about two months ago with the object of taking Mrs. Harrls home to Farmington, but she had been so_ bad with rheumatism that she could not stand the journey. 00900 0000000 9000 000006090090 060000000006 0600006000606606e0 900006006006 0660606060 CAUGHT AFTER FIVE YEARS | Arrest of a Negro for an Atrocious Murder. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 22.—James Bill- ings, & negro ex-convict, was arrested in Brooklyn to-day on the charge of having killed Susie Martin in the dis- trict known as “Hell's Kitchen,” in | 1894. Billings' arrest was brought about | by the confession of William Johnson, | her home, 656 Eleventh a negro convict whose sentence at Sing Sing has just expired. The Susie Martin murder created a great sensation. She disappeared from avenue. on March 8, 1894. Eleven days later her headless and limbless body was found in a Thirty-ninth-street cellar, the identification being made by a portion of her clothing. Almost a year later, on March 6, 1895, the little girl's skull was discov- ered in a heap of rubbish in a cellar at 459 West Forty-sixth street. De- tectives worked night and day, but failed to discover the murderer. Now Johnson says that the murderer con- fessed to him soon after the crime. The guilty man, according to John- son’s story, came to his house about a week before the girl’s mutilated body was discovered. His clothing was cov- ered with blood, and he sald he had been in a fight in “Hell's Kitchen.” Johnson says he gaye the man a clean shirt and a pair of trousers and the blood-stained clothing was carried away. After Susie Martin’s body had been discovered, Johnson declares, his friend confessed to him. The man said he was intoxicated when he met the girl in Thirty-ninth street. He dragged her into the cellar, and after assault- ing her, choked her to death and then cut up her body so nobody could tell who she Harry Diamond’s Death. Harry W. Diamond, who was wounded in the abdomen by the accidental dis- charge of a shotgun while hunting near ‘Washoe Lake, Nevada, on March 12, died in the German Hospital, n this city, last Tuesday. The Coroner hcld an inquest on the remalns at 9 o'clock last Tuesday night.* A verdict of accidental death was rendered. The deceased was 17 years old. —_————— Artists’ materials, house and floor paints and fine bath enamels cheap at Sanborn & Vall's. . AIDA" GIVEN ANOTHER FINE PRESENTATION Gadski Repeats Her Former Triumph. CEPPI BETTER THAN EVER BIG CROWD TURNS OUT TO THE BOSTONIANS. Comment and News of the Regular Bills to Be Seen at the Various Local Play- houses. There was not a crush at the opera | last night, but the crowd was some- | what larger than the one that attended the first production of “Aida,” and the performance was, as before, an enthusi- astic success. The curtain was rung up eight times at the close of the third act to a wild accompaniment of hand-clap- ping, boot thunder and bravos. The cast was the same as at the other per- formance, change: Rains replaced Boudouresque in the part of the High Priest; and this young American basso acquitted him- self with dignity and strength. Ceppi’s Radames was even better than before; Gadski lived up to her earlier triumph as Aida, and Olitzka, Bensaude and Stehman contributed industriously to the night’s entertainment. Although the crowd was not a huge one, there was a long line of carriages—a double row that extended from Third street to Mission near Fifth. A big crowd will be in attendance to-night, when Melba will sing Juliet for the first time here. De Lussan will repeat her Carmen to- morrow night, and for the farewell per- formance of Saturday afternoon Melba and Chalia will appear in the double bill of “Lucia” and “Pagliacel.” Notwithstanding several changes in the company and the grand opera coms. petition, the Bostonians are making out a big week in “Rob Roy.” The Colum- bia was packed last night and the line of carriages stretched a block on both sides of Powell street. The piece will easily run another week. Around the corner at the Tivoli there is still more opera—that jovial mast piece of Gilbert and Sullivan, “The Mi- kado,” which is attracting moderate audiences. There will be a week's re- vival of the “Bohemian Girl,” com- mencing Monday, and after that the big Easter spectacle. At the Alcazar the farce by the un- usual title of “Nerves” is playing to good attendance. The Alhambra is rapidly building up a clientele of its own and bids fair for permanent popularity. The present bill is “La Belle Marie,” with Agnes Hern- don in the double role, supported by the regular stock company. Half a dozen opera companies could not stop the rush to the Orpheum, where there are a bunch of new vaude- ville turns and a crush every night. Several weeks ago it was suggested in this column that the Chutes manage- ment vary the agony of “amateur night” by exposing the novices in an amateur cake walk. Since then these cake walks have become a wonderful feature and another one will be given to-night. Great is the power of the press! ACTS OF AN INSANE WOMAN. Mrs. Sarah Vog‘élsang Tried Twice to Set the House on Fire. Mrs. Sarah Vogelsang, wife of Mark Vogelsang, a laborer for the Street De- partment, living in the rear of 257 Minna street, was locked up in a padded cell in the Receiving Hospital yesterday after- noon. She has been laboring under a mild form of insanity for the past two years, and for the sake of his three young chil- @ren the husband did not like to send her away. Twice recently she attempted to burn the house by sprinkling coal il over the floors and setting fire to it, but no serfous damage was done. Yesterday she became violent and broke all the windows in the house and smashed some of the furniture. Vogelsang was sent for and he had her taken to the Receiving Hospital. As the rain was pouring into the house through the broken windows he took the three children and went with them to the City Prison, where Officer McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children saw him and arranged for their care till he could get the home fixed for them again. Allcock’s POROUS PIASTERS Do You Use Plasters? You want the best, Which is it? and cures. the one that relieves Allcock’s! Why? Try it, smell it, compare its fine aromatic odor with the smell of all other plasters. They all smell alike, a nasty, sweetish odor because they are made of cheap materials. We guarantee ALLcoCK’s Porous PLASTERS to be made of the high- est priced and purest of drugs. Don’t be "buncoed. Get the best—Allcock’s. with the exception of one| | | | | their | sort of interchange POSTAL REFORMS IN PORTO RICO More Tampering With Letters. No OFFENDERS TO BE PUNISHED! e | EVILS OF SPANISH MISRULE | DISAPPEARING. Natives Return to Their Avocations and Are Prosperous and Con- tent Under New Con- ditions. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call. Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel, | Washington, March 22. | Acting Postmaster General Heath to- day received a personal letter from Captain W. H. Elliott, director of posts | of Porto Rico, relating to his experi- ences on an official tour of the which he has just completed. Director | Elliott said the people were incredulous when he told them that sealed letters would be sacred in the mails, and that any one who meddled with mail in tran- sit or in possession of the Government would be severely punished. He said | the Porto Ricans intrusted to the mails | only unimportant letters, never mailing | any matter regarded as private or valu- | able, as the mails had frequently been: rifled. The municipal authorities in the island, Captain Elliott reports, regard | relief from the trouble and e pense of carrying the malls as the greatest blessing. The municipal au- | thorities have been compelled to carry | the mails without compensation as a of governmental courtesy, an imposition required.by the general laws of the island. The people, says Captain Elliott, have | returned to their regular avocations | and in the farming communities the crops are in fine prospect and the peo- ple expect to be prosperous. All are| greatly pleased with the coming of | American rule. Director Elliott says fl’l?i report of dissatisfaction or danger of rebellion among the people is untrue; | they are entirely satisfled with Ameri- | can rule and regard it as a blessing. | | Railrodd Across the English Channel. | The English Parliament is considering the plan of g that country with France | Py railway. Engineers say a roadbed can be | 1aid on the bottom of the English Chann and by mounting trestlework on wheels, that it projects above the water, the rail can be operated. but it is some of the cure Stomach Bitters in bad cases of dyspepsia, in- | This is an age of | 20 EYE GLASSES CHEAPER. | have them, but, like everything else not as good—mnor have they the clip tilt or waver, fall or hurt. We cheaper, that doesn't slip, Oculists’ prescriptions filled. Factory on premises. Quick repairing. Phone Maln 10. # |C APPARATS, OPTICIANS “pyi5r06RA"S ey miric 642 MARKET ST. 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Ry.; at Vancouver to C. P, R For Eureka (Humboldt Bay , 15, 20, 25, 30; Apr. 4, and thereafter. For Santa Cruz, Monterey, Cayucos, Port Harford (San Gaviota, Santa Barbara, & San Pe: ar. 9, 13, 17, h day thereafter. m., Mar. ffth day San Stmeon, Luis __Obispo), Hueneme, Angeles) and 25, 29; Apr. 5 Ventura, ro (Los fot For San Diego, stopping only at Port 2, and eve i Har- Santa Barbara, Port eles), 11 a. . and every ford (San Luis Obispo), Los Angeles and Redondo (Los An m., Mar. 11, 15, 19, 2, 27, 31; fourth day thereafter. For Eneenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Rosalla and Suaymas (Mex.), 10 a. m., seventh of each mon.n. For further information obtain folder. The v reserves the right to change withcut previous notice steamers, safling dates and hours of safling. TICKET OFFICE—4 New Montgomery street (Palace Hotel) GOODALL, PERKINS & CO., Gen. Asts. 10 Market st., San Francisco. . THED. R, & N. G0, SDISPATCH FAST STEAMERS 19D P OR T A ND Srom Spear-street Whart at 10 a. . FARE $13Eims: Class Including Serths $8'Sccond Class and 5. Columbia eafls March 14, 24; April 3,3, 22 Etate of California salls March 19, April 8, 18, 2. Short line to Walla Walla, Spokanes Butts, Helera and all points in' the Ncsthwest. Through tickets to all polnts East. ~ A E. C. WARD, General Agent. 620 Market Street. PERKINS & CO., Superinténdent. GOODALL, The S. S. Aastralla salls for onolulu 8. mshl =ails @npa and pril 19 Favorite Line Round the World, Samoa, New Zealand, Austr: ¥ ariposa Bonolulu Auckland for Wedhesday, at m. via Indid. S England, etc.; $610 first ci: ). D. SPRECKELS & BROS. CO0., Agts., 114 Montgomery Pier 7, Foot Pacific St. Freight Office, 327 Market St. HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE. EW YORK-ROTTERDAM. YVIA BOU- logne. The Short Route to Paris NEW Twin-Screw Steamers ROTTERDAM (8300), STATENDAM (10,5 First C: $50 upward; Second Cabin Saloon steamers MAAS etc., $37. Send for Tlustrated Handbook and Sailings to THOS. COOK & SON, Pacific Coast Passenger Agen! 621 Market Street, AM, SPAA San Franc For Golovin Bay, Port Clarence, Kotzebue Sound, Connecting at Kubuck River with the steames JOHN REILLY. ' BARK ALASKA, B. COGAN, Master, Will Sail on or About May L For treight or passage apply to B. COGAN, 4 East st. AMERICAN LINE. NEW YORK, SOUTHAMPTON, LONDON, PARIS. From New York Every Wednesday, 10 a. m. St. Paul....February 23(St. Paul.......March 1§ Bt Louls........March 1'St. Louts......March 2 RED STAR LINE, New York and_Antwerp. From New York Every Wednesday, 12 nocm. Kensington.....Feb'y 1§ [Southwark. ..., March § Noordland......Feb'y 21| Westernland..March Friesiand. 1/Rensington....March 28 EMPIRE LINE, Seattle, St. Michact, Dayson City. tull information regarding freight Pase e INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, 30 Montgomery st., « -ny of its agencies TOYO KISEN KAISHA. : RS WILL LEAVE WHARF, COR- 1 p.m., for calling at Kobe (Hiogo), N: and Shanghal, B Toe): Singiany with ' stains o :lndln.“ululc. o Ived on board on day HONGKONG MARD. Friday, March 11 PON nesday, Agril 13 [ERICA MAR Saturday, s Round-trip ticketa at reduced rates. For freight and apply at 7 @ et lt’:;?." P.Dr’ company's otfice, W. 'B. CURTIS, General Agent. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. Sailing every Saturday at 10 a. m. from Pler 42, North River, Morton st. LA TOURAINE, March 25: LA NORMANDIE, April 1; LA’ CHAMPAGNE. Avrlj 8 LA BRETAGNE, April 15 LA TO RAINE, April 22. First-class to Havre, $5 and upward, 5 per cent reduction on round trip. Second-class to Havre, ${5, 10 per cent reduc- tion round trip. GENERAL AGENCY FOR UNITED STATES AND CANADA, & Bowling reen, New York. J. F. FUGAZI & CO.. Pa: cific Coast Agts., 5 Montgomery ave., S. F. HAMBURG-AMERICAN TWIN-SCREW EXPRESS LINE. NEW YORK—PARIS—LONDON—HAMBURG. *TWIN-SCREW PASSENGER SERVICE. NEW YORK—HAMBURG DIRECT. NEW YORK—LONDON—PARIS—HAMBURG. * BEGINNING APRIL 29th the Stesm- ers of this Service will touch at Plymouth and Cherbourg on the way to Hamburg. For_sallings, etc., apply to HAMBURG- AMERICAN LINE, §7 Broadway, New York. HERZ! CO., Gen. Agts. 'Pacific Coast, 401 CALIFORNIA ST., cor. Sansome, 133 Montgomery st., San Francisce