The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1899. 3 SOLDIERS ~ RUIN A D0 BATILE DEATH O JITIA MOB, THE BRAZOS Severe Fighting Accompan- Damage to Property by the ies Rioting in Spanish | Flood Reaches Into the Cities. Millions. ATTICKS 0N JESUITS HEAVY LOSS OF At Valencia the Malcontents Erect i Barricades, Which Are Charged Rescued by Means of Jmpro- by Cavalry. vised Raft: .—0—- — July 2—Ve in pr 2 ) | tech to The Call. There is no im- ng fon in flooded districts of Central thern Texas. On the contrary the Frowing we "her four hours ¢ are 2. ains, which added the ts precedented volumes of on the street 1z vers and creeks of the poed the ral region in the State. e to' kb no end to the fall sea of water now extends from the north central part of the State to the Gulf a charg distance of 300 miles and more, and with Se E 1 . In one | an average width of probably seventy- « a bullet p rough a shop |five miles. The great flood began nearl 1d killed a st ssistant within, | & Week ago, and the suffering of the peo- & advanced the disorders n- | Ple In the inaccessible localitles that are A RO tationed at | surrounded and completely cut off from : communication with the outside world E b &I -ry was held must be evere in readin thereupon very possible effort is being made to| erected ba S, cavalry |‘rescue the unfortunate men, women and captured « ghting, in | children thus situated, and all to-day re which m W | cuers plied the turbulent waters in im- ST P provised boats and rafts picking up the At S the mob at- | Stranded people and conveying them to tacked ¥ the brother | higher land. 5 - jes. ostly bridges are T 1 upon a Jesuit | to have n swept away to-day, ; row escape from | among them being that of the Missourl, yund, the troops 5 fnd Tex ad over Little River. i A e ed last night ind passenger sts have been s at Northern The Internat I how many men | Railroad this mo out ! | wrecking force to work in 4 evening the gen- | tween here and Hearne to v I e and decided to | and bridges. It has several ¢ ll e ‘i 1‘,‘ | > replaced and much of its trac N S e The Houston and 1 May g Va- does not expect to get its ! I mation calling D e - The the pe to cease resisting the | track is four feet r water much s r ved to-d fits w m e down, and_as 1 the bridges have been washed s reported workmen cannot get at the ce them, owing to the rag- of necessity have to subs imated damage of $4 3,000 to the b tributary to the Bra Va b received t irm the tale erday. in Badalona otbe 1“'_ = 4, | a5 large as reported, and will be princi- Barcelona, among the negroes. e “U\l!‘“d“ yuther Pacific is standing the some fa- | i tter than a: other trunk line in nded Th I has profited by past in | €xperience z its roadbed, track and o 2y 0| bridges are far above high-water mark of the trial | Dridges a / c o O ow fmpnioy | of the raging rivers. ; | 4 Arrivals from Cha Hill to-day say | ‘ complicity in | scores of hot passed down the the Corpus zos River near th during the last dable demon- ty-four hours. The carcasses of hun- gainst the -ds of cattle, horses and other livestock es, who were . floated by. SRl | iging from the number of residences it | e rive thes been much rged the rioters, | 4 ; : | destruction "of prope points above 3 il 1t is still impossible to verify at War, General Pola- | this time the numerous r of a: e to- | life in the bottoms of t and it tributar The earlie of heav loss of life in Robert , caused v & meeting of and Little Brazos river: of the Brazos have been con- water >rmatio: vert, whi received here to-day 1 §s in the midst of the from Cz the flooded region of De: ing countles. He was di itt and adjoin- cting the ship- MUTINY ABOARD THE | ment of watermelons when the big rise | occurred. He estimates that over 1000 CRU'SER PANTHER cars of watermelons of that section were swept awa the high waters. - = | "He said:” “No one would believe the The Crew Objected to the Quality| c»xn&z and the xllrm.'.: effects of the flood 3 | in alter and other counties in the of Food Furnished | Colorado and Brazos valleys unless he Them. hni,l sen for hin s 1 not describe i o | 1t better than to say that the whole coun- et ey Ll \\(,,:_‘“:Z DA |try is under water. 1 saw hundreds of e Y o2 the | horses and cattle standing in fields with developed on the | the water up to their necks. It has at League Island | taken me four days to get from Cuero to | as 200 bridges are gone. "The Bosque is the latést river to get on came necessary | @ Tampage. A telephone message was ame necessary | recelvedt sihiere to- from Walnut I~ | Springs_ stating that that stream was out of its banks, and that thousands of acres of shocked wheat had been swept away. It had also washed away several miles of track of the Houston and Texas Central road, as well as two bridges near Walnut Spring: |HOMESTEAD STRIKE _ RETURNED FROM EUROPE | IS INSIGNIFICANT A I Interviewed the Queen Regent and ;NOt E““,’V“ffi tf;e!;flg;l}:int; ofnterfere the Bo Kin, Sym'n £ ot the Plant. WASHINGTON g Bt PITTSBURG, July 2—The strike at the A uly 2.—Minis Wu | Homestead plant of the Carnegie Com- Ting Fang of China returned t > clty | pany, which was expected to assume to-day from a three months' Ruropean | jarge' proportions to-night, did not ma- trip, whith he made to present his c; terialize in a degree appreciable to the dentials as Minister to Spain, as well ninitiated. the United States. Concerning the Queen| Newspaper men were escorted through Regent and her son, he sald: f the mills to-night for the purD e of gy “The Queen Regent is a gc i hem ocular proof o e company’ Dhe Queen Regenljisiageood womar i thas all departments were o whom I admire very much. She has | eration. To the reporters every branch many gracious qualit and has the lov med to be working to_the limit. of her country at hes Dy bl | e e b s e (he ity which may exist toward her is due en- | company because it feels assured that the tirely to the fact that she is a foreigner | attempted strike Is a failure; the amal- by birth., The boy King, whose birthday | gamated association, because it ha: anniversary I attended while in Madrid, | gained many new members and expect: :'a bright and sensible lad, who speaks | to secure many more during the Fourth holida everal language of July though Me appears to be somewhat delicate in health.” | o suggested to the Minister that | Crowds at the Seaside. ussion regarding the dismember-| gANTA CRUZ, July 2.—Santa Cruz is ment of China had subsided recently, to Which he made an affirmative reply. 'He | €ntertaining an enormous number of expressed himself as highly incredulous | Visitors. Every train yesterday and to- f the reports coming from Vancouver of | day had extra coaches crowded with the probable abdication of the Emperor. | summer excursionists. The baggage- Th tirely unlikely, he said, inas- | master handled more baggage yesterday much the reigning monarch was put | than on any previous day except one, m the th the Empress Dowager, | and that was one of the days during th whose nept o is. first water carnival held {n Santa Cruz. e The mountains received’ an immense Killed by a Streetcar. crowd, and the woods around Feiton, Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek are .full of campers, and every hotel and board- | ing house is full to overflowing. ANGELE , who cam : months ago, v on Mission stry a Boyle Helght July 2.—Jacob Brau, a from n Francisco his wife has a was las e streetcar. died v this morning from concussion of the brain. Dewey Torpedoes Tabooed. STOCKTON, July 2—Chief of Police Gall has issued an order forbidding the R explosion of the “Dewey torpedoes” on “.}R‘:.bber Makes a Go?d Haul. lme Fourth. The Chief is acting under DUTCH FLAT STATION, July 2.—The | instructions from the Polico and Fire ftore of John Merlach at Gold Run was | Commissioners. Considerable annoy- broken into this morning while the ro- | ance and danger have already been caused Jrictor was at breakfast. Light hundred | by the dangerous explosive, and parents ollars In gold was taken from the back | are formally requested to co-operate 10om, where the money was kept in a | with the officers in suppressing this %0x of old papers. dangerous form of celebration, o LIFE who recently | Scene of the de tion, is meager, but s. The po- |15 to the effect that over seventy persons onks with some dif. | aFe missing. Nine bodies have been r ’b_then 5 covered. The floods of the two rivers| > then paraded the | Sovered: T g e 2 e o the | came up so suddenly that the negroes hops and 18 the | Jjving between the water courses had no chu and the | opportunity to escape. They were caught s well as the street|in a trap and drowned. . gendarmes were pow- | _N. R. Bagley, a commission man of Kansas Clty, arrived to-day direct from r way from Austin. Many miles of railroads are un- | and der water and In some places an effort is being made to run local pe or trains with water covering the tr th .4 5 _| of nearly three feet. It is not only the to the story, while the| Cglorado and Brazos that are inflicting J in command of | great damage, but small streams also are the greater por- | figoding the country gainst the food | " Tt js estimated that over 2000 wagon rred elsewhere. | road bridges have been washed away In and the de-| the counties comprising the flooded dis- w trict. The loss from this source alone is | very heavy. In some counties as many | | | | L e O e e 3¢ Rl e © s 3¢ 1 s B¢ 3 : P e 4 ¥ 4 ¢ L4 1 + 7 ? { ® T 1 4 . % B ? P 1 © ® 3 : g ? | & 1 IR © 158 3¢ + Nina M. Luce, Who Will ¢ Reign at Healdsburg. l Doieoebedededede® HEALDSBURG, July 2.—The glo- rious Fourth will be celebrated in Healdsburg in grand style. Every preparation is complete. Hon. T. J. Geary of Santa F il be the orator. Many floats have been entered fof the parade and the celebration will un- doubtedly be the best witnessed in | Sonoma County in many years. Miss Nina Luce, a handsome blonde of eleven summers, has been chosen as Goddess of Liberty. | Sports of all kinds will fill out the afternoon. One of the principal events | will be a hose contest between Healds- burg and Cloverdale firemen. The cel- ebration will conclude with a grand display of fireworks and a ball in the evening. e Angels’ Goddess of Liberty. | ANGELS CAMP, July 2.—Miss Mary Peirano, the young lady who won in the contest for goddess of liberty at | this ce, is the daughter of Stephen | Peiranc, an old resident. She is 18 vears of and a great favorite among her acquaintances. Miss Peirano will make an ideal sovereign to rule on the nation’s natal da ek Stockton's Big Parade. STOCKTON, July All is ready for Tuesday's celebration. After several da hard work the parade committee feels satisfied that its efforts to make a | notable feature of the parade will be crowned with success. The formation of the line is announced as follow First division—Platoon of police; Grand re Sixth Regiment | Marshal J. R. Koch: T Band: Companie: A and B, National Miss Bessie Smith, I Guard; Columbi: TWO CITIES CHOOSE FAIR YOUNG RULERS [ O e S A SR S R e Y . . ® . D O O O S Miss Mary Peirano, Goddess of Liberty at Los Angeles. . @ Knights of Beieoeded et eed e with float; Uniform Rank Pythias, commanded by General Kidd; Knights of Pythias and float; Rathbone Sisters and float; Mexican war veteran ancient _artiller. California Ploneers orator of the day and Mayor in carriage: Second division—Marshal C. E. Manth and aids; Stockton Drum Corps; Stockton Letter Carrlers; Stockton Exempt Fire Company, “the boys in red,” with hand engine; steamers; hook and ladder; aut mobile and float: Terminal City Wheel- men and float; Red Men and float; Kau Wau Nita Council and float; Iroquois Braves, mounted: burlesque and float; Stockton Athletic ciation and float: Oriental Annex, twi stras and float; ancient Chin Young Mens Christian 2 G Co 1; reader of tion of Independence Third division—Marshal H. C. Bender and aids; cavalcade; Woodmen of the World and float; Caledonians and float; Hiawatha Council and float; Portuguese Society; watermelon float; Stockton Bras Band; tive Sons i float; citizens in | carriages. e el The Fourth at Vacaville. VACAVILLE, Jul Vacaville have made lavish prepara- tions for a celebration on the Fourth. Contributions have poured in not alone from the townspeople, but from rural residents, who feel that they can spare a few dollars toward making this Vaca- ville’s banner celebration. Fruit grow- ers who were formerly pinched for money are nmow receiving good prices for their fruit, and at the end of the | season will have a splendid bank ac- count. MOVE I CUBA A Well-Known Cuban | General at Its Head. | Special Dispatch to The Call. 2—1I Lucha will to- HAVAD VA, July QUIET ROVALIST morrow publish a statement regarding | matters which its conductors say they have been investigating and caretull guarding for several week: reticence of those concerne and the disclosure, leading to a possible fallur of their plans. The paper will say: “Cuba during the last few months has been & land of many surprises. The latest is the establishment of a royalist party The new organization is unimportant at present, probably numbering fewer than fifty members, but a well known Cuban general, who claims to be a descendant of Charlemagne, is reported to be the head of the party, and the meeting pl | 1s usually the Inglaterra Cafe. | ban general in question is sald to be dis | satisfied with American rule. He thinks | that what Cuba needs is not a republic but a strong hand at the helm like his | own. of the 1 | possible archical regime. “The Cuban general referred to is un- derstood to deny that he is the head of a | party with such objects, but there is con- Siderable evidence that such a movement is on foot. He is the officer who was re cently réported to Governor General Latin race prefer royalty and t honors accruing under a mon- Brooke for collecting 30 centimes from a | AESTRENS ant on the ground that it ish merc ment for a fund devoted to Span was an ass | driving out the intervenors.” General Ludlow has been made aware of his successful tempts to collect money from gambling houses under - his influence to have them closed if the proprietors refused his de- mands. For political reasons it has not been consfdered advisable thus far to pro- threats to us ceed against him, but he has been warned | to discontinue these practices, and it is d now that he is more interested money than starting a new pther reports of this have leaked out, the promoter has represented that he will | persuade a majority of the Alcaldes to give the movement their support by prom- | fsing to make them dukes, counts and | barons. It | Cuban Legion of Honor. who affect to believe that such a scheme might succeed say the outcome will de- | pend largely on the charm of novelty with | a populace judiclously prepared to em- brace the ideas. The theory 18 that it would be accept- |able to such families as already have | fitles of Spain and to Spaniards residing | in Cuba who, owing to bus considerations, have been compelled to forfeit their pitents of nobility. The pro- moters of the movement allege that they | expect financial assistance from these | sources, as the plan promises to substi- | tute equal dignit and positions for those that have been forfeited. FREIGHT AND EXCURSION | TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER | | Fifty Cars Wrecked and Many | People Injured at ‘Winsford. LONDON, July 2—Many people were | injured in a railway wreck at Winsford, | near Crewe, in Chestershire, last evening | just before midnight. A freight train on a siding overshot the | buffers and left the rails. Another freight train collided Wwith the wreckage | and_ caused a partial fall of a rallway | bridge. Then a crowded excursion train | ran into the streets. Upward of fifty | cars were wrecked | Run Down by a Horse. YUBA CITY, July 2—W. H. Campbell, Deputy Assessor of this county, was knocked down and run over this fore- noon by a runaway horse, which he was trying to stop. He was injured on the head and breast and suffered concussion of the brain. His condition is serious. —_— Drowning of a Chinese. SACRAMENTO, July 2—A Chinese named Lee Doo, from San Francisco, a musician in the Bing Hong Tong here, was drowned to-day while swimming in the river. S it rding to such o bombastic scheme as s also In the plans to form a | Several persons | ness or OLher | (hat within forty-eight hours not one of owing to the | sire of the latter to avoid a premature | ire of the latter to avoid a prem: Erlede s n MINERS MADE 0 OUTBREAK Another Quiet Day at Carterville. —_— MILITIA TAKE POSSESSION e Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, July —A special to the Re- public from Carterviile, Ill., says that had | it not been for the militia patroling the would hardly s in the midst guess that the little city wa | of a struggle between capital and labor. Both sides in the trouble between the | union miners and the non-union men lay on their arms and there were no disturb- ances. The presence of troops quieted | matters and allayed fears of riotous out- The Cu- | He is of the opinion that the people | breaks. In accordance with the orders issued by Acting Governor Warder through Adju- tant General Reece last night, two com- | panies of militia, C of Carbondale, under Captain Barton, and F of Mount Vernon, under Captaln Pav arrived at Carbon- dale on a special train to- . There they awalted the coming of Colonel Bennett of Greenville, who arrived at | noon, He took command of the troops and the special arrived at Carterville at 1 p. m. They immediately camped in a grove on the outskirts of town. A detachment of Company C was de- | tailed to patrol the roads leading to the | mit Brush mines and a detail of Company D patroled the outskirts of town. Colonel Culver of the train_as_the Acting Governor Warder to look over the situation. The busin generally of Carterville expressed dis- approval of the action of the Acting Gov- ernor in sending the militia here. No manifestation of hostility was made toward the soldiers by the crowd that had assembled at the station when they came in, but the consensus of opinion was that there was no oc ence here. Sheriff Gray was roundly de- nounced by several merchants for his telegrams to the Governor, which re- sulted in the calling out of the troops. This afternoon a delegation of merchants and property-owners called on Colon Culver to protest against the presence of the troops and to ask their withdrawal. The members of the delegation at Sheriff Gray had not exhausted his resources to prevent a conflict and that he did not even attempt to raise a posse; furthermore, that he was not at the scene of the trouble more than three hours dur. the two days it lasted. the meeting of the 1 of the town Saturday night, $450 was raised to defray the expenses of sending away the non-union miners in the Brush shaft. The miners have expressed their willlngness to go, and had it not been for the arrival of the militia to-aay it s said the negroes would be in the mine. As it is the citizens fear that their purpose has | been temporarily thwarted, but hope is expressed that the existing agreement may still be carr solution of the difficulty arrived at. FIFTEEN MNRE FEVER CASES IN SANTIAGO Troops Have Been Removed From the Infected Camp to a More Healthy Place. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 2.—Ten | new cases of yellow fever were reported vesterday and five have been reported to- day. This raises the total number of cases | to seventy-four. No deaths have been reported to-day. The United States troops have all been removed from the infected camp, but the doctors seem unable to check the'progress of the disease among them. The camp, which is on the road to El Morro and in | a hilly country, was chosen because of its known salubrity and perfect sanitary conditions. There are no cases of yellow fever in the city, Bryan’s Sentiments. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 159, by James Gor- don Pennett. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 2.—Dispatches from Bahia say that United States Minis- ter Bryan's presence at the banquet at Alagoas was the occasion for great demonstration of sympathy. Mr. Bryan sald that it fiave him great pleasure to see the Unite side by side, and that the two nations would “advance together to foster civil- 1zation, D B CT SO SR SRR SECER SCER SECES SICEE S —The citizens of Sixth TIllinofs | Regiment came down from Springtield on | representative of | ess men and citizens | sion for thelr pres- | stated | eading merchants | ijed out and a peaceful | States and Brazilian flags | , peace and the union of America, | terey, Toluc, Orizaba and ChiQuahua, RINCLEADERS OF RIOTERY DECAPITATED Twenty Koreans Executed and Their Heads Exhib- ited as a Warning. EMPEROR IS ALARMED | | | | | | Instructions Issued to Garrisons to | ! Suppress the Growing Insurrections. | e Special Dispatch to The Call. STPATHY FOR DREYF INCREASES Invited by the Prince of Mo-; naco to Pay a Visitto | SORD @ MARTIR Women of Atlanta Will Present a | Jeweled Blade to Replace the One Broken. e Special Cable to The Call and the New York TACOMA, Wash.,, July 2.—Oriental advices received to-day state that twenty ringleaders of the rioters who | destroyed and burned electric tramway | cars at Seoul last month were executed in public at Korea’s capital four weeks ago. They met their fate bravely. Their heads were cut off and exhibited n public places as a warning to all evil doers. | It was belleved that this summary | action would also have an important | influence upon the leaders of the; Korean rebellion, which was assuming | large proportions. At last accounts in.‘l surgents were marching toward Seoul. The Emperor and his Cabinet are | thoroughly alarmed. A late message | states that the Government at Seoul | | has Issued instructions to the garri- sons of Kungju and Chullju to proceed to Kofu to suppress the insurrection. A telegram from Chemulpo says the Japanese charge d’affaires at Seoul has sent a letter to the Korean Govern- ment advising it to abolish laws for the punishment of accomplices in treason and other capital offenses. This would | have the effect of allaying the fears of the ignorant country people who have been led into the rebellion and then kept in the insurgent ranks by threats | that they would otherwise be exposed |to the Government agents and decapi- | tated for treason. STREET CARS COLLIDE WITH FATAL RESULTS% | | Three Killed and Many Injured in Two Pennsylvania Wrecks. | PHILADELPHIA, July 2.—A collision | of electric cars occurred to-night on the | Willow Grove division of the Union ‘I'rac- tion Company near Branchtown, at the extreme northern edge of the city. J. T. Carr, a reporter for the Evening Bulle- tin, was killed and several people badly | injured. Herbert Fitzgerald, a passen- | ger, and_ William Alexander, the moto: man of the sccond car, were seriously in- | jured and three or four others sustained | | severe bruises or contusion: | A car had lost the trolley, and becom- ing darkened was not seen by the car | which followed, and the latter crashed | into the former while going at full speed. Carr was on the rear platform of the first | Carr_was about 19 years old. He s a sylvania and rullvd the bow oar in the | (rfl&ll(lmun eight at Poughkeepsie last| week. PITTSBURG, July 2.—As a result of a street car collison to-night on the road of | the Monongahela Traction Company, two | people are dead, five seriously injured | and ten others more or less hurt. The | dead are: | O. C. Opsion of 4741 Friendship avenue, this city. | 'W. H. Kirkland, motorman, of Brad- | dock. Seriously injured: H. H. Smith, tailor. | | Pittsburg; Mrs. Anna Lawler, Logan | gtrest, Pitesburg; = Miss Jennie’ Cosb | Columbus, O.; A. Repert, Allegheny; Mis Armstrong, right leg broken. The accident happened on a steep grade | near High Bridge. The two cars in col- | lislon were heavl loaded with passen- | ers returning from Kennwood Park. Motorman Griffith stopped his car near the bottom of the hill to get a drink of | water at a spring near by. He had hardly left his car when the electric current, for | me reason as vet unexplained, ‘was | ut off, leaving the car in darkness. Mo- | torman Kirkland, with his car, f llnwr\di | shortly afterward, and as the’ foremost | r was In darkness, it could not be seen | until too late to check the speed. The rear car crashed into the other with ter- rific force, almost telescoping it. Mr. Op- sion was standing on the rear piatform of the first car and received the full force of the impact. Both of his legs were cut off | and his skull crushed. He lived but a short time. Kirkland was badly mangled. his head and body being crushed. He lived about an hour. OIL TRUST LOOKING FOR STREET RAILROADS Agent of the Combine Inspecting Lines in Many Cities. SIOUX CITY, July 2—The great | Standard Oil Trust seems to be reaching | | after the street railway lines in a number | tumn residence of the |that he was tudent at the University of Penn- | S | and there Herald. Copyrighted, 159§, by James Gor- don Bennett. | PARIS, July 2.—The Figaro pub- lishes the following letter from the Prince of Monaco to Mme. Dreyfus Madame: You have with admirable courge defended the honor of your hus- band, and triumphant justice brings to you the reparation due. In order to help u_to forget such suffering and such ef 1 invite your husband to come tc Marchais so soon as the has been accom- | ce of the martyr to-| ward whom the conscience of humanity turned in its anguish will honor my house. Among the sympathy which you | receive none is more sincere and none more respectful than mine. | Tha Chateau de Marchals, the au-| Prince of Mo- | in Alsne De- | from | Chateau d holy work of justic plished. The pr i naco, is, says the Figaro, partment, twenty kilometers Laon. Captain Coffiniere de Nordeck, com- mander of the French cruiser Sfax,| which brought Captain Dreyfus to France, s in an interview published immense | struck by the | | power of self-control displayed by Cap- |tain Dreyfus during the vovage. The! | prisoner’ attitude throughout was| “one of irony and disdain.” He had been suffering severely from sea sick- | ness when he was transferred to the | S but he walked with firm tread |and during the entire trip nevershowed |a sign of weakness or nervousne: Captain Dreyfus was ignorant of the fact that a new court-martial awaited him and remained in ignorance during the first part of the voyage. When he was finally informed not a muscle of his face moved. He merely said: “I| have no ill will toward anybody. I | shall be glad to re-enter the army,| which I have never ceased to love.” | He did not allude to the subject ! again during the voyage. Most of the time he passed in reading. s the outcome of the Government's prudence all France remains ! Iaitres Demange and Labori Mathieu Dreyfus and his wife, this evening. The town is quite tranquil ‘ Maitre Laborie, who will defend Cap- tain Dreyfus before the court-martial, has never yet seen him, and Mme. Dre fus has only obtained permission to her husband thrice weekly for an hour. His composure is the theme of all| tongu It seems that on_the train one | of the officers began to read a newspaper, | | but although Dreyfus had not seen a pa- per since he left France he did not d play the slightest interest. He speak ; little and seems to suffer a partial is of speech, owing to his long Cven on board the Sfax he had | to communicate with the officers by writ- ing. He is credited on good authority | with the following: | “My condemnation and sentence wer the Symbol of anti-Jewish odium. M Judges were involuntarily deceived. my undeserved expiation put an end to all racial or religious feuds in the army and in that France which I have passiori- ately loved and served.” To-morrow Maitre Demange will give him a written statement of all that hap- pened and fully explain the situ: RENNES, July 2.—Mme. yfus had a third interview with her band this | afternoon. She found him much better, He received her with smiles instead of Overdoses of quinine while on and left him with a serious in- | . He expres: himsell con- | vinced that he will be acquitted. ATLANTA, Ga., July 2.—Mrs. Jc Eichberg of Atlanta, assisted by eral leading women of this city, started a movement to raise $2000 with which to purchase a fine jeweled sword to be presented to Captain | Dreyfus. Mrs. Eichberg thinks the sword of the captain, which was broken to disgrace him, should be re- placed by one presented by his Ameri- can friends, and she is actively en- gaged in obtaining subscriptions before ordering the sword in New York to be handed to Captain Dreyfus at the end | of his trial in Rennes. Much interest has been aroused in the movement, | especially among the Atlanta Hebrews, | seems no doubt that funds will be quickly raised. Mrs. Eichberg will the French Government for permission to present the sword. PASS A NIGHT ON A YOSEMIT® PEAK Two Women and a Girl Have an Un- comfortable Experience While Out Sight-Seeing. | of Western citles. Among them are said to | be those in Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux | City, Minneapolis and St. Paul. It has just been learned that a New York en- gineering expert of the Standard Oil Com- pany was in S.oux City two days last week inspecting the lines and property of the Sioux City Traction Company, and it | leaked out that he came to Sioux City | from Omaha, where he spent four days on | the same mission, and that his inspection | of the Kansas City properties occupied | clght days. i Jo went from Sioux City to Minne- | apolis and is now either in that city or | St. Paul. It was impossible to learn the name of the expert as great secrecy is be- ing maintained and, of course, nothing re- garding the report he will make can be obtained direct. From a reliable source it was learned that the report spoke in favorable terms of the Kansas Clty and Omaha properties and that he said the | St. Joseph, Mo., system was not being | considered. | SABBATH SERVICES OF ; EPWORTH LEAGUERS | In His Sermon Rev. H. W. Knicker- bocker Urges the Necessity of a Broader Creed. SANTA ROSA, July 2—No sesslons of the Epworth League Convention were | held to-day, the Sabbath being devoted exclusively to religious observance. At | 11 o'clock this morning a powerful ser- | mon was preached at the Fifth-street M. E. Church by Rev. H. W. Knickerbocker. | A large congregation was present. The | text was taken from James ii:18. ‘The | | preacher urged the necessity of a broader creed. This afternoon two rallies were held— one at 3:30 and one at 6:30. Miss Eleanor Yeargin led the junior rally and Rev. Will_Acton the senior rally. “To-night at 8 o'clock Rev. I F. Betts preached to a crowded congregation at league head- quarters. 1 | | 1 | R TRUSTS IN MEXICO. Cigarettes and Beer Under the Con- trol of Combines. GUADALAJARA. Mexico. July 2.—The trust idea is rapidly gaining a foothold in Mexico. The formation of the cigarette manufacturers trust has just been com- | | pleted. A movement is now on foot to| | combine all the breweries of the country. e capital of the mew syndicat 15 | $5,000,000. Options have been secured on the large brewerles of this city, Mon- 1 YOSEMITE, July On the heights of Columbia Rock Miss Helen M. Brown of Utica, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Knapp of | Boston and little Hazel Knox, aged only | 12, of Merced had an experience last night | that will always recall their visit to the | Yosemite. Columbia Rock is on the trail | to Eagle Peak. The rock is on the edge of a precipice and an iron railing has been put there to give nervous people a sense of security while viewing the vai- ley_beneath. When the ladies reached the point last |, evening on their return from Peak the stars were shining great gorge of the Yosemite. Wwas a_mile or more of zigzig. trail, and | the edge of the precipice was too un- comfortably close to permit them to pro-| ceed without considerable danger. To remain where they were meant safety their only fear being that a stray bear or mountain lion might chance that way. | It did not take them long to decide to remain on the rock. They could see the lights from the hotel and camps below. A dance was being held on the platform at the Sentinel and they heard the music | and the different calls. On their failure to return to t Bagle | over the | Below them | he Curry | camp, the guardian was notified and a | searching party of three was soon | climbing the trail. It had provisions bedding and ropes, but fortunately non of these were required, except the food. As the party ascended the trail it blew | a horn, reminding one of rescuing parties of the Alps. | At 12:30 o'clock the climbers reached Columbia Rock and there pistol shots told the anxious watchers below that the lost party had been found and was safe. s ey WRESTS A PISTOL FROM A ROBBER PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 2—A masked man entered the O. K. saloon kept by “Tommy"” Smith a little before midnight Inst night and leveled a revolver at Smith with the usual “Throw up vour hands™ remark. Instead of complying, Smith | wrested the revolver from the “would-be robber’s grasp and clubbed the fellow into unconsciousness with it. Then he called an officer, who placed the.man in jail. Smith had between $300 and $400 in the saloon at the time. e e—— Body Found in a Well. MARYSVILLE, July 2—The body of Christopher C. Hopkins, a pioneer resi- dent of this county, who was missing for ten days, was found in a well at the Sim- coe farm, §ve miles east of town to.day. | San Fraaclico. His Chateau. i Ko | Is a Great Restorative, NERVIT Hopkins evidently fell in while repairing the curbing to the well a week ago last Wednesday. He was alone on the place at the time. The body floated to the sur- face to-day. o WORK OF A FIREBUG. One Hundred Persons Homeless in a New Jersey Town. NEW YORK, July 2.—An incendiary e at Summit, N. 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