The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1899, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 164. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. 05T WRECK SCORE | LIVES IN I [ \ e Passenger Trains Collide on | a Pennsylvania Rail- road. LONG LIST OF DEAD Three Cars Crowded With E ionists Are !elescoped the Clash County SHAW rristown. N L e e e SCIP SRS = 1 D I - S S e e R PO PN R REV. DR. C. A. BRIGGS, Whom Bishop Potter Declares dained to Episcopal Priesthood. 0404000400000 06+0+000+9+0+-900+9++6+® ater to-night. ROSWELL P. FLOWER IS CALLED TO REST e e e S e R e = 3 i | | | . b ®soso0soe0 EW YORK, Ma P. Flower died to- night at F Club tport, L. I. Mr. Flower was taken ill in the day with a sev attack of acute in- digestion. In th oms of rt failure supervened and he grew steadily v = of his death. The attack of failure w 1I, and Mr. Flower's fam- ew York City and the former :rnor's nephew, npanied bv Dr. Thomas H. » T, ¥ at once on a special train for Eastport. ad somewhat recovered, but to-night > unconscious time, every st he has been a that he would find ealth yesterday, and this intended to remain until lent. The attack from which he suf- a more severe type at the outset he details after his uncle’s death, but no al has yet been made. The body will prob- be transferred to Manhattan to- Flower was born in T i swell was the sixth « s § years old. He ably 10rrow morning. here: Jefferson County, N. Y., Au- f nine children and when his father worked with his brothers on two farms his ned and spent his time between school sessions in the hardest abor. He became deputy postmaster of Watertown, N. Y., in 1853 is place six years. Then he became a partner in the jewelry of Hitchcock & Flower, bought out his partner at the end of two vears and continued in the business until 186! Mr. Flow Y f Henry Keep, Flower’s sister. Mr. Keep owned a and during the months before his ng Mr. Flower about them. Having and its methods Mr. Flower formed . in which he joined E. C. Benedict olved in 1872. Not long afterward he r & Co., which has since been a power and H. H. Truman. This firr organized the banking firm in Wall street. Mr. Flower always was a Democrat. In the early seventies he helped uel J. Tilden to de s p the famous organization which exposed Tweed nd enjoyed many other triumphs. Mr. Flower was chosen chairman of > Democratic State Committee in 1877, and 1581 he defeated William Waldorf Astor for Congress after'a hot campaign in the Eleventh District. s majority was 3100, while Levi P. Morton, Republican, had carried it at last previous election by more than 7000 votes. He refused a renomin- He was elected Governor of the State in 1891. ywer took up Brooklyn Rapid Transit less than two yvears in 20,000 0 ago, m 20,000 to 30,000 shares at about when the capital stock was 25,000,000. He absorbed many subordinate lines, among them the Nassau Electric Compan by his extraordinarily suc holdings In Brookly re than and increased the capital stock to $45.000,000, and ssful manipulation, put the price up to 137. His Rapid Transit alone, which cost him two years ago 0,000, are worth. at to-day’s market price, more than 1 i $3,000,000 *O 0040+ +0-000000 ment to the prieshood and has been ree- ommended again by this same committee, with only one change in its composition. Many persons have been disturbed by passages quoted in the daily papers from Dr. Briggs’ late book. It is only fair to state that most of these passages appear to be wrested from their true setting. R 3 1l @ A Victory for Harvard. Will Soon Be Or ¢ | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 12—After a & serles of three defeats, Harvard retrieved o+ | her position in debate by a victory over Yale in the contest held In Sander’s The- o v e® 3 A P * ® 4| & e * ! ol ? | 4| +| bé * o TR * 7 4| NEW YORK, May 12.—Bishop Potter + gave out the following formal notice & | to-day: * “The Rev. Dr. Briggs and the Rev. & Charles H. Snedecker will be ordained +|on the day officially appointed by the | B! Bishop of New York, May 14, at the | pro-cathedral, Stanton street, New b York, at 10:45 a. m. The Rev. George © | Willlam Douglass will preach the ordi- 4 | nation sermon. The Rev. Charles B. 4 Smith will present Dr. Briggs and the | ¢ | Rev. George Francis Nelson will pre- o | sent Mr. Snedecker.” 1 Bishop Potter chose the pro-cathedral ¢ | for the place because Dr. Briggs had @ | asked to be assigned to work there and + | Will work there in future. 3 & The Churchman of this week says: + | _The sensational stories that have ap- peared in the daily press with regard to | & | the ordination of Dr. Briggs suggested the + mecessity of giving to our readers certain information fhat may help them to a 4 | right judgment in the premises. + | _Rev. Dr. Briggs was ordained to the diaconate last vear, having met all & | canonical regulations, and after having 4 Dbeen recommended by a standing com- ] mittee, composed of the Revs. Morgan ¢ Dix, Thomas R. Harris, Octavus Apple- + gate and J. S. Shipman and Messrs. & | Stephen P. Nash, G. A. Miller, S. Nichol- son Kane and Herman C. Van Post. He ¢ has met all the requirements for advance- > e | stones. | not much | | | |And More Than a Hundred | MANY A30NG MISSING, | THE SYRIAN REPUBLIC | a sentiment prevailing among the Syrians TWENTY-TWO MET DEATH IN THE TORNADO e~ Persons Injured in the | Hondo Disaster. o AT | | Tremendous Fall of Hail Accom- panied the Storm and Caused Additional Injury. e Special Dispatch to The Call. OUSTON, Texas, May 12.—A special from Ea- gle Pass, Texas, says: News received to-day from the Hondo coal mines places the dead, resulting from last night’s tornado, at twenty-two, and over | a hundred wounded. Many per- | sons are still missing and are probably in the ruins. The Americans killed and| | wounded are: Killed: | LAWRENCE McKINNEY. | Wounded: | Superintendent R. M. Mec-| Kinney. | Fred McKinney, oven boss. | Stephen Backe, seriously. Young McKinney was brought | here to-day. A tremendous fall of hail ac-| companied the storm. A num- ber were wounded by the hail-| The mine works were damaged, but work will be resumed in a few days. | | CATHOLIC CITIZENS OF % THE UNITED STATES/ Monsignor Martinelli on the Attitude of the Church Regarding Re- | publican Governments. | NOTRE DAME, Ind., May 12.—Monsig- nor Martinelli to-night gave out the fol- | lowing interview: [ 1 am delighted with the news and the evi- dence that r Catholic citizens are among arderit supporters of the American | In some quarters there is er- ronecus impression that the papal church is opposed to a republican form of government It is not necessary to leave the Western hem- isphere to prove the untruth of this rtion. Most of the countries in South America Ar-‘ republics, and in all of them a vast majority of the citizens are Catholi. In the matter of e . 1 think science, place in the schools, s wit at revious time, higher s The attitude toward the question of the war has been emphasized in no doubtfu way ie_em; for peace. willing to arbitr differences when his services are when they are not, he indirectly uses his in. fluence as best he can. 1 am delighted that the Catholic institutions of America are keeping abreast of the times. The church has always been a patron of art | and sclence. Concerning Notre Dame, L have | <een nothing like it among the colleges I have | visited In this country. e NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY Declaration of Independence Looked Upon Only as a Symptom of Unrest. WASHINGTON, May 12—The manifes- to declaring the independence of Syria, is- | sued yesterday in New York by the Young | Syria Junta, is not taken seriously in of- ficial quarters here except as an evidence of the unrest which has prevailed among Turkish subjects living abroad, includ- | ing the Syrians, Armenians and the Turks themselves, who conduct a revolutionary organization known as Young Turks. The reports from United States officers in Syria and from United States Minister | Straus at Constantinople have shown no recent uprising or discontent in Syria. The Turkish Minister, All Ferrnuphef', fthout importance and did not represens said to-day the manifesto was entire in this_country or at home. Only recent- ly the Minister was given a handsome re- ception in New York by the resident S rians, during which the most cordial man- ifestations were shown him and this is | said to be the sentiment among the seri- ous and responsible element of this peo- le. The on opposition element, the finister points out, is made up of a few men interested in publishing Arabic pa- pers in New York and other parts of the country, but these, he says, in no way volce the sentiments of the Syrians. Sane g HARVEY’S EXCUSE FOR HIS FIENDISH CRIMES Was Going to Kill Himself and Was Loth to Leave His Wife Behind. HOWARD CITY, Mich., May 12.—o- seph Harvey, murderer of his grand- | mother, uncle and wife, who also farally | wounded his_father-in-lw and tried to | commit suicide, was taken to the County | Jail at Stanton to-day. The youn | Slept soundly all night, and When ques. | tioned to-day by weeping reiatives he | xpressed no emotion over his atrocious | crime. He has given no indications | w;n{a(evtr ol;lilnsan(l()'_ o e says his uncle, Pierson, quarr { with him and abused him herauge he ehl;g | driven Plerson’s horse in the rain. lie still insists his dead. uncle killed his andmother, and he says he then killed | is uncle ouf of revenge. He says he is | sorry he killed his wife, but he did it be- | cause he intended to kill himself, and | aid not want her to live after he was | gone. g Aside from having a flery temper, Har- ::‘)i (:u not known to have any vicious STATUE OF GENERAL HARTRANFT UNVEILED | . . & * e Qedetdebeieisdsdedebeteioisisioieieie@® ARRISBURG, Pa., May 12.—The bronze equestrian statue of Gen- eral John F. Hartranft in Capitol Park was unveiled with impres- sive ceremonies this afternoon in the presence of a large After the ceremonies in Capitol Park a procession formed General Levi A. Dodd of Baltimore as chief marshal and J. P. Cooke of Lewiston as chief of staff. The reviewing party included Governor and Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Hartranft and family, Secretary Alger, Postmaster Gen- Baltimore, | Dodd of eral Smith, Adjutant General Corbin, Mrs. Lev Major General Gregg of Reading and member: A of the ors of of Representatives. There were 3000 men in ! E the Third Di n of the Ninth Army Corps, command General Hart- ranft in the Civil War, had the right of line. The procession also in- cluded the Ninth Regiment of immunes from Camp Meade, a pro ional brigade of the National Guard, the Grand Army of the Republic posts and Sons of Veterans camps of Harrisburg and vicinity and the Harrisburg fire department The statue represents General Hartranft as he appeared at the close of the war. He is shown returning to his native town in the act of saluting the people, who applaud him ane s his path laurel and palm branches, over which the horse wal as if he felt proud to carry his mas ter on the occasion of his triumphal return home. The statue is nearly fourteen feet high, and is mounted on a fourteen-foot polished red granite pedestal in front of the Capitol of Pennsylvani Harrisburg. John Frederick Hartranft was born at w Hanover, Montgomery County, Pa., on December 16, 1830. During the Civil War he was a colonel of Pennsylvania volunteers and on his stars g the famous stone bridge at Antietam. He was appointed major general, and command- ed a division in General Burnside’'s Ninth Ar Corps. General Hartranft was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1573 to 18 and in 1876 was Pennsyl- vania’s candidate for the Presidency, After the expiration of his term as Governor, General Hartranft devoted his life to the reorganization of the Pennsylvania National Guard, of which he was made major general. It was through his military.knowledge and ability that it became the model guard of the country. Major General Hart- ranft died at Norristown, Pa., on October 17, 1889. W acro T | H. Gould has already forfeited all cred- | ! | its and is now confined in_the prison | | | | hospital with rheumatism. Punishment | in his case is suspended until such time J S S Y | Manila { command of the GEN. LAWTON DEFEATS THE INSURGENTS — Drives Followers of Aguin- aldo From the Trenches at San Ildefonso. e g e ONE MAN WOUNDED i O Fresh Troops Are Being Hurried to the Front Where the Enemy Is Stroncly Entrenched. Speclal Chble to The and the New York James Gor- don Benr | R R e S IR IR R R S e | MANILA BAY, May 13 (by carrier pigeon from the front).—The Filipino ne forces which were in- trenched at San Ildefonso, north of Palinag, have been .driven from their po- sition by Lawton. One American was wounded in the engagement. JOHN F. BASS. R AR R RS s - .QO‘#Q‘OOO“‘QQQ‘#HOW. ILA, May The forces of - General rthur and Major being strength- ops are strongly battalions of the S t about the city General MacArthur's rnando to been holding the will join division at and one batt; the same reginient will re-enforce Major General Lawton's Bacolor. These troops placed here by the Twenty- Regiment, which arrived he United States on the transport cock yesterday Captain Grant of the Utah Battery, whose success in managing the gun- boats Laguna de Bai and Cavadonga has won for him the sobriquet of “The Dewey of the Army,” has been put in recently purchased Spanish gunboats, the arms of which the insurgents captured. Th ves- sels are now being prepared for opera- rs and along the coast. | den at the meeting to be held at Fol- | read his report on the punishment he | as the administering of it may be s T T i | deemed advisable. = As only eight | The & [l i Tonts (i ipeine | | months’ credits can be forfeited by | Pushed with ail diligence. l | Cooper, King and Chevalier will lose SR IR | their credits for the same time, as it was deemed only just to make vho!xn FILIPINO CONGRESS lose no more than a ringleader. All the EVENLY DIV|DED HALE'S PLACE S SAN QUENTIN PRISON, May 12— When the Board of State Prison Di- rectors met in regular monthly session to-day it was confidently predicted that the sun would rise to-morrow morning and cast its beams on the head of a new Warden. The wiseacres were sure of this because somebody had said Gov- ernor Gage was to be present at the meeting by his booted and august per- | sonality. Gage was at the meeting, and so was ex-Sheriff Martin G. Aguirre, | but W. E. Hale retains the wardenship. The Governor arrived, in company with Aguirre and Attorney Chretien, on the noon train, and, together with the Directors, dined with the Warden. Afterward the party was escorted throughout the prison and initiated into the mysteries of the jute mill. Several prisoners from the south were recog- nized by Gage, who shook hands with them and in two instances stepped away from the party to hold private | conferences with convicts. One, Cap- tain James, who is serving three years for having sent obscene literature | through the mails, was made the espe- | cial recipient of Gage's favors, and af- | ter the hearing of a private grievance | Warden Hale was beckoned to join the two. | The board went into executive ses- sion at 2 o’clock, and was closeted with the Governor for nearly three hours. | It was afterward announced that Aguirre had not been elected Warden, | for very good reasons. | “Mr. Aguirre will be appointed “'ar-‘ som a week from to-morrow, or at a special meeting a few days later,” said | Director Hayes. “At this session he was simply introduced to us by the Governor, who spoke highly of his| qualifications and said it was his de- | sire to see him elected. Mr. Aguirre | has proved a pleasing candidate to the board, and will be the next Warden un- | less something unforeseen occurs.” | The Governor, with Aguirre, Chretien and several others, was taken to San | Francisco on the stern-wheeler Caro- line as soon as the meeting adjourned. All appeared in good humor, and both | Gage and his protege wore smiles of | satisfaction. | At the morning session Warden Hale thought merited the nine conspirators who tried to escape from the prison. | It was adopted in the afternoon, when | Director Devlin arrived, making a full board. | George W. Schlegal, George Bullock. Edward Morrell and H. W. Cooper were termed ringleaders, and in addition to | the punishment which they have al-| ready received, the first three, being “lifers,” are to be confined in the soli- | tary cells in the front cell building un- | til the incorrigible cells are completed. | They will then be confined in the incor- rigible cells and forced to do hard la- | bor in the manufacture of grainbags by hand at the discretion of the War- den. Cooper will lose all his credits, besides receiving the same punishment as the other ringleaders. Si Loverin, | H. M. Shaw and James Roup will be| confined in the incorrigible department | at the discretion of the Warden. Alton @O+ P+09990909090409-040+0404040 N S S conspirators are to be kept dressed in Walter Furnish and Louis Fe LONDON, May pleaded guilty to an attempt at smug- | received here from Manila gling opium into the prison on May 8 | Filipino Congress, now and were deprived of all their credits. | Isidro, is composed of fi Their cases are to te referred to Di: tri red flannel shirts. of whom twen 1d an equal The othe: favor pe t Meclsaac, ct Attorney with instruc- tions to prosecute both men as soon as | holding the ba their terms expire in autumn. These | to admit that endence is are the first opium smugglers detec bevond att mand bet- since the law making smuggling a fel- | ter terms of the United ony went into effect, and an example | States. will be made of them. The Warden's grainbag and jute re- por month. His financial report shows that the sale of grainbags will leave $160,000 for the Stata p revolving fund T M VOLUNTEERS VVdRKED BEYOND ENDURANCE MANILA, May 12 (via Hongkong).—The First Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer In- s taking the unusual petitioning the di Major General MacArtl rts were about the same as last son fund after the jute filled. | ‘Woman Burned to Death. 0S ANGELES 12. — Mrs, ore, emplo isekeeper by Hel Al ry Kagel, a bee-keeper. residing near San | temporarily relieve the o T Fernando, was burned to death early | comn’ iy rom vt e o = this morning In a fire which also com- |} 0% = s e ' letery: dbstraved residence. | by the campaign, in which it ha cer The present | an active part, and not many more than known and w ¢ until | 300 men of tion present an investigation has been made by the | fit for du day-last 150 men of Coroner. The building and contents were | this regiment responded to the sick call. valued at $300. | 'The men, in view of the facts, have pre- @+ v eI e eiei et et e ebed e eb et e e : . B R R S MARTIN G. AGUIRRE, Soon to Be Appointed Warden of San Quentin Prison. D e e e ] S R o R i S A i o o 2