The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1899. OF IGH Going Before Our Troops gt Heroic Work of Bo A in Rescuing In B+ P+ 0000060000000 00¢04-0006+00+0+000+@ @ . i . : e e mates of the Burning Sel- . ® @& * : © 1 + | CASTILIANS TAKE NO CHANCES N born SChOOI. 3 WITH THE NATIVES. i¢ . P | L R e o o e O O R e anca SHCE S S e e e ol ] ¢ | Anonymous Letters and Threats £ ; ps Have Thoroughly Frightened Z) ‘, @ the Former Rulers of it 3 * the Island. 5 . & ? 3 o & . +| HAVANA, April 23.—Every now and| ¢ <: & | again some prominent Spaniard calls | ¢ i + | upon Major General Brooke and en- |4 ¥ | deavors to learn in a more or less dip- | & g ‘; lomatic way how long the l'nized“§ d ! | States Government intends to occupy | o b 7| Cuba. Such a caller usually says that| 4 © his stay will be only as long as that | *+ & ; | ® ? | of the American troops ¢ 6 ¢ | The same sort of questions are asked * © | of the United States military authori- | @ 4 | ties at the various provincial capitals RS + @ | and of such civilian Americans as are | [ @ 4 | supposed to be cognizant of the pur-| [ . © | pos of President McKinley in the| g 24 ¢ | main. The Spaniards are apparently | ¢ . | apprehensive of the future, and pas-| [ & + | sage to Europe by the IFrench and 7 J ! | Spanish liners is being booked three or | ¢ 4 1 ur months ah Last month 6468 | & @ ¢ | persons left Cuba for the United | o 3 ® | States, many of whom were Spaniards, | § © + | bound ultimately for Spain. In the in- | J . & | terior districts the Spaniards are kept | ¢ A : | in constant discomfort by anonymous|® T T 1 | threats. RS EECTX /: ©| Charges of dishonesty brought 5 : © | + | against certain American civilian pur- | ARMSTRONG| % & | chasing agents for ' the Engineering | £ £l rtment of Havana are now under | & 1 | The complaints are said to 3¢ N ginated with Spanish dealers, ® + | who allege that they have been invited | . ® | to offer bribes. + o | Sino Caca, a foreman of street clean- | & % ers, has been detected in offerin~ a pay roll containing thirty-two names, while | * ¢ | he had but twenty men nnder his direc- | ¢ PS @ | tion. . . Captain Greble will succeed Captain | 4 I John Gary Evans as Police Magistrate | ¢ 7 and Superintendent of the Department | 3 of Corrections. | ¢ & One of the local papers asserts that | ¢ + several former Spanish officers, now re- | f & siding here, intend to offer to the | o I == i C + | United States, through Governor-Gen- i d 3§ CAPTAIN JOSEPH B. COGHLAN, U. S. N. !/ cral Brooke, their services in the cam-| ¢ f ‘] 133 [ 17 3 e b talien s - PEas st the Filipinos. Senor | ¢ WQHEIW s | ¢ ror jtograph taken at Hongkong shortly after the battle of o ealor o BecBraSh AN EhooKE s % ) = o N S SO S W S S ) hich the Raleigh and her gallant commander bore such i s e (o ST e 5 — : A ae. o £zt . re confident of being able| I 1 ALY TYET IR e dropped into his arms. The distance PN T A e .giment in Cuba ® . 5 i st was only a few feet, but the brave boy B+t eieiedebedr e el & & —-& AT'hx‘ e St e+ —EUBoRN ‘&&“m had to hold on with one hand and The Herald's the frol auatter of the vear S04 ScHEOL BEroRe & catch the girl with the other. He was s S was imported and $2--~~-0 exported,| ¢ THE FIRE. | nearly overbalanced by the shock, but Wast o e n a1l the latter going to Spain except | & ¢ ¢ | recovered himself and the two reached X : aahs e e . “lh'l‘tgxr\j;)x‘;m-‘iIilx?nizml‘:mump that little M : S:‘Ignu: 2 (y:’rri’;l;:r;rl;;nvsx-‘”&r.:s ak'illoti“:qng‘ b Felix Armstrong was mi The fire G the crew of t German two girls injured by lightning. e O O O AR RS o) ;mldAnu\\' communicated itself to the ad- h ZUDs. of AR, ~mperat in Havana at & oining gymnasium and any attempt at the Tguns of the Ralelgh | he e o as rghae AN RAFAEL, April 23.—Fire| The flames were seen in the heart| rescue would place the rescuers be- an vessels were to r German ships. A large was expected, but plans that by quick an ship was to be al- attack the 1 f Amr with all the cap- ted, but the n at a con- Coghlan. s her have made 1ils of Von rt- 1 times Ammuni- s its dis % wuld e actu prepared to have the men sleep be the guns I do not think Coghlan will be pun- ished. His speeches w clubs 5 at pr were Union | Admitted at the Club " | without Coghlan nd d, but he | piaced His speeches s ey were incor- | were private matters and not public in stance true, but they | any responsible sense. to put The gentleman who made the fore- going statement will repeat it at much St . | greater length in one of the June m C Secretary > : . % zines, and over his own name, which I furr lepartment with a | i Convince the public of the authori- v h, and his | tativeness of his utterances st night are, in the e S nt, not apt to «HOCH THE KAISER” WAS WRITTEN IN PARIS L Speefal Cable to The Call and the New York the ’H-Jfiv\ Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- T PARIS, April 23.—There is evidently h an offi of the Raleigh who knows a Y ( hlan for e na- | good thing when he sees it. In the ention in official | Herald’s dispatch from New York it stated the song sung by Captain urt-marti of Captain ( The utmost that will be | Coghlan at the Union League banquet | a he present temper of the de- | was the composition of one of the = ¢t continues. will be to relieve | marine officers of his ship. As a mat- his ymand, write him a letter | ter of fact, this skit on the Kaiser's of his conduct unon | assertive personality was first pub- i3 no that as | lished in th uropean edition of the = fl ek is | Herald of January 7 last, and was the it the steps taken by the | WOT of a n humorist whose > g icterizations have t unicated 0| made his nom de plume a household - with @ proper | word. As our contributor wished to 1t the occurrence. | r anonymous, his desire shall he content with | respected until .he himself comes for- in rel’-ving Vice | Ward to claim the honors of paternity. LS emmend THIS NAVAL WARRIOR R Sl i TALKS AS HE FIGHTS ; SN Captain Coghlan as Ready With DEWEY ' PREPARED "PLANS " *| - # fotgse snc ooy asaiih TO FIGHT GERMAN FLEET| It was apprehended by the friends of Captain Coghlan that he would be likely to “stir up the animals” in the April 2 friend of y who was with him on | diplomatic circus when he returned, board hip Olympia during his | nd he has done it. The gallant Ken- most 3 s before Manila ang | tuckian is as good a talker as he is a who returned York three | fighter, but unfortunately for him he months ago statement this | has never had the benefits of a tour of shore duty in Washington and thus been made to aprreciate the advantage of silence or dissembling, and every one connected with the Washington shore navy knows the importance of these two adjuncts to a naval officer's edu- evening r ing recent utterances “Captain Coghlan of -the cruiser Raleigh told only a part of the story of the relations of Admiral Dewey with Captain Coghlan’'s Admiral Von Diederichs at Manila in | %0 2 his speeche the Union League ana | *8Ho%: my and Navy Club here. he| J0¢” Coghlan, as he is known in the service and among his numeraus friends o this coast, would have been a rank failure as a diplomat, for he is quick to resent an injustice and is not sparing in his criticism of what he facts that Coghlan didn’t tell were that ewey had actually drawn up a plan of battle to fight the German Admiral, and it was complete in every detail: No preparation- was left unfinisheq, | considers shortcomings in the navy. ind if A elash had come Von Diede. | He has on three occasions given the \ 5 A ool haka bed Navy Department some uneasiness and fchs dron would ha €N as| passed through two court martials as completely annihilated as were the | a result of his too free expression of ships of Montijo's fleet. individual opinion; the first being in “Admiral Dewey and his officers had noted the terrific effect of the rapid- fire guns on the Raleigh, Concord and 1876, when he wrote a pretty strong letter to the chief clerk of the Bureau of Navigation remonstrating against grees above zero. @eoebeoeibeibeibeb el some imposition. Willlam P. Moran | was the oldest civil employe in the Na Department and cherished the belief that his thirty-three years' clerkship in the Secretary’s office made him an invaluable and indispensable part of the navy. Unfortunately for Coghlan, Commodore Ammen took the ggrieved ¢ 's part and a court nartial resulted. Coghlan was ad- judged guilty of scandalous conduct and sentenced to suspension for one vear. During this term of enforeed idleness Coghlan took up the study n[‘ aw, and when in a few months it w intimated to him that his would be shortened if he would apolo- gize to Mr. Moran, he declined to take ny such short cut to favor, and even | expressed the hope that the cle would g0 to a hotter place than Wash- ington is during the summer. Coghlan | lost fourteen numbers in that one year, and his recent promotion of seven numbers leaves him still five numbers short of the place he held in 1876, In 1889 while in command of the Mo- | hican a three-column letter appeared | in the Vallejo Chronicle severely criti- | cizing the Steam Engineering Depart- | ment of the Navy, showing its lack of progress in that “always one | cylinder behind the times” in the intro- duction of new engines, and incidental- | 1y the writer rubbed the fur the wrong | Way on numerous persons in the navy. This letter was signed “J.. B. Coghlan, | | Commander, U. 8. N.,” and it naturally | caused commotion in Washington. Chief gineer Melville was especially | aggrieved in having his corps charged with “lagging one cylinder behind,” and the Navy Department ordered Coghlan to stand trial by court mar- | tial for “conduct to the prejudice of | good order and naval discipline.” The burden of proof remained with the | court, and as Coghlan would neither admit nor deny the authorship, and as | the editor of the Vallejo Chronicle was at this particular time afflicted with a temporary loss of memory as to what | haa appeared in his paper, the court of | course pronounced Coghlan not guilty. He lost his command, however, and re- | mained unemployed until January, 1891, when he was ordered to League | Island. There he again narrowly escaped being called to account for talking too freely. The timber dock | culvert was smashed to pieces through | the neglect of some official and a Phil- adelphia reporter found Coghlan lo- quacious on the subject; so much so that an inquiry was held by the Navy | Department, but as it was proved to | the satisfaction of the board of officers ithat the reporter had misunderstood 1 | sentence | Mr. Coghlan, he got off without a | scratch. DEATH FROM SMALLPOX. | Brother of a Los Angeles Councilman | the Latest Victim. | LOS ANGELES, April 2.—John Pessel, | who was classed as a suspect on Friday | and declared to be affiicted with smallpox | on Saturday, died at the hospital to-day. | He had smallpox of the most malignant type. He was a locomotive fireman and a brother of Councilman Pessel. No new cases of smallpox were found to-day. Implement Warehouse Burned. OMAHA, April 23.—The warehouse of the Kingman Implement Company, lo- cated on Pacific street, between Ninth street and the Burlington raillway sta- tion, was totally destroyed by fire to- night, together with all contents. The loss is $170,000, of which $§100,00 is on | . It is insured for three-fourths the Three alarms were turned in at :10 o’clock. In less than five minutes the big structure was one mass of flames. It was early apparent that the bullding could not be saved, and the firemen di- rected all their efforts to protecting other property. The building was a five-story brick structure and contained a big stock of wagons, buggies, harrows and plows and other implements. it = Farmer’s Sudden Death. SACRAMENTO, April 23.—Joseph'| Heintz, a farmer in the northern part of the county, died suddenly to-night of heart disease. K | which fell on all § | of the city by Night Watchmen Peter | ©'Brien = cob Miller, who sounded the alarm by ringing the bell at the | fire engine house, and in a short time | the fire department and three-fourths of the population of the town were rushing to the scene. Owing to the distance and the fact that water had to broke out in the Selborn school. | near this city. at o’clock this | morning, and in less than an hour | the beautiful structure was a mass of smoldering ruins. Thousands of dollars’ worth of property was. de- | stroyed and the life of little Felix Arm- tween two fires, but the boys hesitated not an instant. As soon as they learn ed the location of the little fellow's room on the second floor they hoisted their ladder, and, headed by Fred Hof- fer, clambered up with the intention of entering the room, but it was tco late. As they reached the window the flames SAYS QUAY WILL NOT BE SEATED Ex-Comptroller Eckels’ Opinion. SENATE’S "PROBABLE ACTION PRECEDENT ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE OESERVED. Failure of Legislatures to Name Sen-~ ators Aids the Movement for Elections by Popular Vote. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELE April James Eckels, ex-Comptroller of the | Currency, in an interview printed in the Times of this city says that almost a crisis has been reached in the fail- ure of four States to elect United States Senators at a time when the Senate is confronted by as grave prob- lems as ever have come before it. The result of this situation will eventually be, he thinks, a constitutional amend- ment whereby .Senators will be chosen by a direct vote of the people. “Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania has | little prospect of ultimately retaining his seat in the United States Senate,” said Mr. Eckels. “The a on of Gov- | ernor Stone will not be upheld by the Senate. I think the Senate will con- sider it the same as in the case of | Oregon’s Senator, when the Governor | attempted to appoint Corbett to suc- ceed Mitchell. “If the Democratic party in the cam- paign of 1900 stands upon the Chicago platform, it is certain of defeat,” said Mr. Eckels» “The silverites can no longer depend upon the support of the Western States in case they lose in the East.” When asked for his opinion of the Morehouse signature law of California, Mr. Eckel: aid: “The law is absolutely ridiculous and an infringement on the rights of the press.” BOTH MARGUARDT AND HUFFNAGLE ARRESTED Two Germans Placed Under Detention by the Porpoise’s Captain 23.—Hon. at Apia. BERLIN, April 23.—Since the publica- tion vesterday by the Lokal Anzeiger of let from its special correspondent at Apia and from Herr Marq dt, who was military instructor there under Tamas- € and heid the post of Justice of the Peace under Mataafa until the de- parture of Dr. Tel, the belief is held in official circles that both Herr Mar- q dt and Herr Huffnagle were placed der arrest simultaneously. The inference first drawn in Berlin from Herr ar ‘s lette to the Lokal Anzeiger was -hat it was he, and not Herr Huffnagel, who was arrested by Captain Sturdee, commander of the Brit hip Porpoise and subse- quently transferred to the German war- ship Falke, on condition that he would | not go ashore. e e Vs Messages - Sent Through Space. CHICAGO, April 23.—Professor Jerome strong was sacrificed, despite the |be conducted through 2000 feet of hose, | burst forth from the room, singeing the | J. Green continued his experiments in irentous eftorts ofifour youthtul he l-lhpv df‘r?“.".“m?t was unable to ‘rendar hair and scorching the faces of the | wireless telegraphy in Chicago to-day . n oo eI RN lt(lnoz’n‘;jgl the | foremost lad. Reluctantly they were | with uniform suce He sent signals s 5 " ool entaren | e spreading to the adjoining | compelled to return to the ground. | from the life-saving station to a moving and a nurse girl narrowly esc buildings. They had hardly withdrawn to a place | tug on the lake, a distance of one and | death in the burning building. and owe | Just as the flames bezan to 1eap | of safety when the roof fell in and the | & half mile a crowning feat of | thelr lives to the same boys, whose no- | through the roof, Mrs. Hitchcock, Who | two buiidings became one mass of fire. | the day the relay on the tug gave out in ble endeavor to rescue the child that |had been rushing frantically around in| "When the flames had exhausted | 3.oCession, the letters which form the perished proved unavailing. ;arch of her two little children, Mer- | themselves sufficiently for water in | e B vyn and Ida, caught sight of them in a dormer window of the upper story. They had been in charge of a nurse girl named Margaret Bloomfield, and, when they made their appearance at | the window, were clinging to her and sobbing in their fright. The screams of the mother soon drew the crowd to | the front of the building and every- body began to cry for some one to fetch a ladde; buckets to be thrown upon the ruins, | the firemen, searching under the direc- | tion of Chief Johansen, found the | charred and unrecognizable remains of | the little lad still reclining upon his | iron bedstead. It is probable that | death was caused by painless suffoca- | tion from the smoke and fumes before | the flames touched him. The remains | were taken to the Morgue by Coroner | Eden and an inquest will be held to- While th> flames were reddening tha sky and paintine the hills, shrubbery | and residences around about a crimson | tint, while they roared and crackled | | ith burning sparks. des, women rushed wildly back and forth, sobbing and screaming and praying a kind Provi- dence to take pity on those who had and filled the air w not yot made their escape. Strong men -“;.}l[ 1‘(21;,[ “:Ci}l;“ig(jg{:p:«ure “\)"llltl;.‘:;m morrow morning. i N’ e F: si- | @ Lic) - TR, y < 15 stood 1~ with blan ied faces and si- |and Rudelph pitneE - you Tittle el e th ol naor) lently ~watched the Kkaleidoscopic | §01S am -G, lichtenberg, thel ~iotiin ‘Richard B | SOE San Francisco commission .merchant, | SaPtain Richard F. Armstrong of the | changes. The lack of facilities for fighting fire made it impossible for First California Volunteers, who re- | who lives near the site of the school, | % 1 . 5 Jor. | Signed his position with Shreve & Co. to | appeared, dragging a heavy ladder, them to do anything elde. and shouts of encouragement arose |E9 0 Manila in behalf of his country. | The Selborn school was a private in- |from the crowd. They were quickly | The mother died some time ago. While | the brave soldier is perhaps dreaming | of the day when his feet will once | more tread the soil of his native land ind his heart be gladdened by the sight nd caresses of his little one, the child changed to cries of horror when the ladder was found to be too short ten feet. Losing no time, the boys placed it in as adva- ‘ageous a position as possible and William Lichtenberg stitution for boys, situated a half mile north of the Hotel Rafael. William Babcock, one of the directors, was also virtually its owner, and Rev. Charles Hitchcock has for the last eighteen |ran to the top. He was followed by | lies lifeless on a bare slab in the months been employea as principal. | Hugh Walker, the son of a lady who | Morgue. One soldier's home-coming About forty puplls of different ages at- | conducts a lodging house at San Ra will be a sad one, indeed—for him there is only a little mound of earth with its marble heacctone. The total loss bv the fire is estimated | at nearly $40,000, the insurance being | $20,000. In addition to the loss of the | buildings, with all their appurtenances, many valuable manuscripts belonging | to Octavius Bates, the late principal, | perished in the flames. Part of the fur- niture and other fixutres were saved | by the citizens who were the first to reach the spot after the alarm was sounded. The --'~n of the fire is a mystery, although the insurance agents think it was caused by a defective flue. Principal Hitchcock and his wife | luckily moved their quarters from the upper to the lower floor two days be- | fore the fire. In describing the scenes | occurring during the excitement, Mr. | Hitcheock said two of the instructors, S. J. Halley and W. Buehner, escaped from the building by jumning from the | second-story. Thev were — -+ =*--ed, fael. The boys shouted their instructions to the nurse, who took the children by the wrists, one at a time, and lowered them to Lichtenberg. who caught them by the ankles and, letting them | swing clear of his support, lowered them headfirst to Walker. He in turn handed them to Rudclph Lichtenberg, | whose position was near the foot of the ladder. When the children were placed safe in her arms the anxious mother was in a fainting condition, but soon recovered. As soon as the children were safe the problem confronting the boys was how to efiect the rescue of the nurse, which promised to be no simple matter. The girl ramained cool and courageous, al- though the heat from the flames creep- ing along the roof was fast becoming unbearable. At Wiliiam Lichtenberg’s command she clambered out of the window, and, hanging from the sill, tended the institution, and it has al- ways been looked upon as an exemplar of its kind. When Ah Quem, th~ Chinese cook. who slept in an outbuilding with an- other Chinese and a Japanese servant, arose from his bed shortly before 5 o’clock this morning to get a glass of water, he noticed smoke issuing from the basement door and gave the alarm by rushing into the corridor of the building and shouting at the top of his lungs. Principal Hitchcock and wife slept on the lower floor, there being three stories to the structure, and were instantly awakened by the alarm. Hastily donning their garments they rushed out into the corridor. to find that one end of the building was a mass of flames. Bv this time, the Chinese had succeeded in arousing the students. and they came rushing down the stairway in their night clothing. MISSOURI RIVER RISING STEADILY ‘Above the Danger Line at Omaha. Quinn, died to-day. ante-mortem s the shooting autopsy blood pois southward is very strong ar” an addi- tional rise means a pro“~ble shifting 6 the river channel. During the night twenty families were driven out. The bottoms are now completely covered. Reports from up the river show that the water is fallilng, but the rise here is likely to continue another twenty- four hours. KANSAS <-1+Y Mo, April 23.—The Missouri River at 7 o'clock this even- ing had reached three inches above danger line and was still rising to- . night. The current is exceeedingly strong, and serious damage to property in the lowlands may result. Men were kept busy to-day driving the squat- ters to higher ground, and farmers and others spent the day in moving thsir property and belongings to safe places. The only real damage that has resulted so far has been the flooding cf several cellars of business houses on the river here. Gangs of men were working steadily all day pumping out water and removing goods. It is believed the iver will reach its height to-morrow a-1 %agin the fall tosmorrow night. Surgeson made an | tement to the effect that without provocation. An | Au?ed that death resulted from ing. DYING MAN ACCUSES WIFE OF POISONING Terre Haute Physician in an Ante- Mortem Statement Says He Was Given Arsenic. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 23—Dr. B. F. Patton, a well-known specialist in the cure of cancer and the proprietor of a large sanitarium in this city, is lying at the point of death from the effects of ar- | senic and chloroform poison, which he claims was administered by his wife. Late last night the invalid asked that the prosecutor and Coroner be summoned and to them made a sworn state: this effect. Tn addition Dr. Batton re: quested that a post-mortem examination of his body be made in order that the true cause of his death might be ascer- tained. Mrs. Julia Patton, the accused woman, has filed proceedings for a divorce and is now at one of her farms near Newmar- ket, Ind. She has been married four times and is worth something over $100,- 000 in her own right. No steps have been taken to apprehend her, Victory for Woodland. RED BLUFF, April 23.—The baseball game between the Woodland and Red Bluff teams on the local diamond to-day resulted in a victory for Woodland by a score of 12 to 9. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, April 23.—The Missouri River has continued to rise steadily during the past twenty-four hours and is now above the danger line. * At the foot of Farnam street, where the big Omaha and Grant smelt is located, the water is within about two inches of the top of the bank and any addi- tional rise will inflict great damage on the smelter property. The Union Pa- cific tracks are partially u~der water. The river is a roaring torrent and filled with all kinds of debris. Below the Union Pacific bridge °* is three miles wide and the Burlineton tracks are lapped by the waves. The current that has set in from Florence Lake Shafter Returning Westward. DENVER, April 23.—General Willlam R. Shafter stopped herewthis evening, en route to San Francisco. He took dinner with General H. C. 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