The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1899, Page 1

1899. IN BELGIAN DEP =l el BRUSSELS. & 6 GRS TED HN D PHE GIGT00Q UTIES GET TO WORK B e e e e e e § Palace of the People, Brussels, in Which the Chamber of Deputies 3 Meets. RUSSEI July = v and order MANT LIVES LOST N THE TEXAS FLOODS Scores of Colored People Are Known to Have Perished. e — ss t« Special Dispatch to The Call Lot o o o ot b b g6 g oo g i dn s i CHICAGO, July 5.—A special to the Tribune from Fort Worth, To-night a telephone from Deputy Sheriff ngin of Calvert says that 200 1ives have been lost by radius of thi y 1st night 100 were drowned f The Mound, a horses and ater will morning. ddled to- ring them i most R R R R R SR R S S A e R R R ah TR R R SR AR AR R R D e e e SR SR AR SR S AUSTIN, Tex, July 5—The great flood in Central Texas d several feet during t ty ur hours. In South Texas t believed to have reached atest height and will begin t within the few hours astation . in .r, Washin rt Bend, Grimes and other along the courses of the and Colorado River is ater 1dicated by the ear! Horts, destitution of th = is criti- cal and appeals for ay of clothing and foodere - points to-di for a ance, r ties asked for will be sent to th g people as soon as transporta- can be secured. In 3 » county districts of the bottoms t Bra where are numer- 1s small settlements of from fifty to inhabitants each, th small were occupied almost roes, and it is feared ept away by the flood of them drowned. s reports of cases ny points in the in- were received here to- ion gives the follow- imate of the num- acilities wn to have been er County, 17; Grimes stin County, Brazos tobertson County, 42; Bell "ashington County, 4; Ma- tagorda County, 3; Burleson County, 6; Fort Bend Cou , 1, and Brazoria Total of lives, 89. all of the persons known d are negroes. In a Nearly have been drow number of instan warned of the impending rise re. fused to desert their cabins and con- tinued to occupy their humble homes until swept away by the torrent. An unconfirmed rumor that 125 negroes had been drowned in Waller County reached here this evening. It is thought that the loss of life will exceed the foregoing estimate when the real situ- ation is revealed after the water shall have subsided. In all of the towns lo- cated near the flood rescuing parties have been organized, and every nook of the flooded region is being searched for refugees. At one point In Burleson County a party of twenty-two people, eomposed of four negro families, was were R 2 i R R I e R R R R R R R to| es negro familtes who | —The Chamber of Deputies peacefully resumed the transaction of public throughout the city is restored. | rescued. They were found in the | T branches of tre where they had been | | 1 ! for two days, without food or shelter. | [} / The children, of whom th ere a | 4 e were in such feeble con- dition that they may not A telephone « ] here this evening from Calve Vi | that situation that much improved, and that there | been great dams to propert 1v in that [ | | 1f stood t | I ! offer: to th — . but all have round that the grea which should ' rangements to Send Troops to South Africa. over the g gar ca wing ne s the 10w assured that loss of p is complete and that it will be - in the season to replant. It will e onths before the 2000 and Special Dispatch to The Call. yre count ridges can be re- — t that the State| LONDON, July 5.—The Pall Mall Ga- recent on, | zette this afternoon says the Secretary quiring that all county tructed on con- must be adver- of State for War, the Marquis of Lans- downe, in conjunction with the military chiefs, has completed arrangements to must nd that the s no provision for the present. The | dispatch from 40,000 to 50,000 troops of roved bridges ranges all arms to South Africa In the event of 0 to $16,000 each. matters taking a turn for the worse. ~Commn established be: | 1t is added that all the necessary ar- Conat mong the Tangements have been made there for first te as one to the distribution of the troops on their Governor arrival FULSHEAR, July PF ORIA, July 5.—The special con- I , Austin, Tex.: ference between President Kruger, the L AT members of the Cablnet, and Fischer, a member of the to receive and distr ecutive Council of the V Secretary of ( of compromise suggestions from nd County is one of the rich- the Free State In the matter of the dispute rt B esbiagiontturalrount S e Srate ween the Transvaal and Great Bri- tation buildings, sugar houses and A tain, and Hoffmeyer, the Afrikander are totally destroyed. T town leader, has been practically concluded. »f r ‘has about 300 inhabitants. It is belleved that the franchise pro- It is located about fifteen miles from | posals have been accepted and may be e e and that peace will be preserved. AN APPEAL MADE FOR GOVERNMENT AID CECIL RHODES WILL NOW HOLD ALOOF BERLIN, July 5.—The German Re- Republic from Austin, Tex., say The Sdestinithe confas ot Bt following was r ved here to-night: 2 5 MU in the interest of his African ings he has done all he could to influence the British Government in avor of the German proposals on the Samoan question. He declares his in- apps vith continued ad of waters until probably 25 miles under water south of Relief should be sent immedia ore extensive scale Transvaal controversy and to leave the n, no matter how | Government to have it out with Kruger provide Under the cir- | on their own resp ibility. He re- cem it "“,’"‘.“i‘"f.r.',}'.,'-‘\'"f(fc' pudiates the suggestions that he is in 7 in | favor of ng force toward the Trans- vaal, say “I once made that mis- take, enough for me.” launches s — “3'.‘.‘,?},-5”3‘.‘.;.’{.yl ; r' PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD the ire accordingly doubtless with the ENTERS A RATE WAR SEATTLE, July T work of rel The Presbyterian take. = R. B. HAWI entered the Alaska transportation field, and is about to precipitate a nowel rate owi was immediately llowing was immediately war. The synod has chartered the steam er of Seattle for a trip to Alaska It is the ihtention to hold the bus sessions of the synod aboard, thu. nes wire ey be o bining business with pleasure. r the JOS purpose of defraying the expenses of the Subsequently, the following was | charter it Is proposed to carry outside aiid or a s rate than that r‘\"\ ex., July The Secretary & a % nli’rj!:mgv\::)cu‘l:'- Of avph, Washington: Fisase iramedlately | fion, . iPretghit will be carsisd at the rog- | ascend rivers, jising launches nd- yawls | U1ar rates. | to rescue people from the waters which lare widespread over the lands of the ~BOUGHT BY J. B. HAGGIN. low Brazos, Please also order com- = Silk Exchange Building in New York Sold for $850,000. NEW YORK, July 5.—John T. Willlams has completed the sale of the Silk Ex- manding officer at San Antonio to place at my disposal for immediate distribution | 10,000 rations. Will recommend to Le lature to refund to United States its value when it next meets, and do not doubt that it will be probably done. Devastation | chan, i h % 2 astation | change building, at the southwest corner great; immense loss of life probable. | o it Brompt action very hmpartons. Paonable- | of Broadway and Broome street. The building is 4 twelve-story stone mercan- fronting twenty-cight feet running through 200 feet to Mercer street, with a frontage of 27:10 feet on_ that street. B. Haggin, a wealthy Western investor, who is largely fnterested in the recent Anaconda mining deal, is the buyer. Mr. Haggin is also known as an extensive horse owner. He pays Mr. Willlams $850,000 for the Broad- way building. JOSEPH D. SAYERS, Gov |HUNDREDS OF NEGROES THREATENED BY FLOODS | ST. LOUIS, July tile_structure on Broadwa 5.—A special to the | Republic from Dallas, Tex., says: All | | former flood 'disasters in Texas River districts have been eclipgsed by the ap- | | palling calamity now in the vicinity of Sealey and Brookshire. It is estimated that 200 Maimed by a Bomb Explosion. SANTA BARBARA, July 5.—The explo- <ion of a Chinese bomb, which was thrown by a small boy, seriously injured Miss | Siimmers of this city. It maimed her foot ~—— | =0 badly that she may be permanently | erippled. lives have Continued on Second Page. British Officials Complete Ar-| Orange Free State, who was the bearer | - ‘tention to hold entirely aloof from the | ™ ALL STREET CARS. SLODGTOVGLOLE & POVOTIOV L S L SVOVSL O & YO0 &) PROPHECY OF A JUDGE IN CHICAGO RECIMENT Will Probably Sail Direct . From Negros for San Francisco. INCREASE OF TROOPS Appointment of Major Rice to Be a Colonel Inaugurates Organiza- tion of Provisional Army. et Spectal DI!}\’R"h to The Call. | ALL HEADQUARTERS, WEL- | LINGTON HOTEL, WASH- INGTON, July 5.—General Corbin | said this afternoon that the Califor- | | O nia regiment would probably sail di- | rect from Negros to San Francisco and not touch at Manila. The appointment of Major Edwin | Rice, Third United States Infantry, to ! be colonel of the Twenty-sixth Infan- [try, United States Volunteers, an- | nounced to-day, inaugurated the organ- | ization of the provisional army author- | ized by the last Congress. Colonel Rice | is the first of the ten colonels who will | be appointed within the next few days to command the ten volunteer regi- ments, which are to be designated in orders to be issued from the War De- partment to-morrow respectively, as the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, | Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirti- eth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty- third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth | Regiments of United States Volunteers. | This designation has been agreed up- on in order to maintain the continuity of the present organization of the in- fantry of the army, which embraces twenty-five regiments. Two other regi- ments, to be organized in the Philip- ool dfeelofedeteed S MRS DS sl ool a2 2 0 e 0 3 e ] WIN THE RCHITT0 THE RoAD 2c No Power in Park Commis- sion to Bar Motor Vehi- pines, will be known as the Thirty- 7 sixth and Thirty-seventh Regiments of cles From Drives. United States Volunteers. | The provisional army as contemplated —— | by these orders will thus comprise Special Dispatch to The Call. | twelve regiments, and will add 15.663 - | officers and men to the present force HICAGO, July 5.—Judge of General Otis. I learn to-day that it ~ : t Gibbons decided to-day is the intention of General Otis to en- list a number of friendly natives to complete the two regiments in the Phil- | ippines. As previously stated, the com- manding officers of all the new regi- | ments will be selected from the regu- lar arm Among them, in addition o | Colonel Rice, will be Major James S. | Pettit, First Infantry; Major James M. Bell, First Cavalry; Major W. M. A. | Kobbe, Third Artlllery; Captain J. F. ity to pass such ordinances. The | Bell, Seventh Cavalry. 2 | “The two last named officers are now | cOurt discharged Harry G. Os- in the Philippines, and it is understood horn, engineer of the American that the ordinance passed by the South Park Commission- ers prohibiting the use of auto- mobile vehicles in the boulevards and parks is void, and that the Commissioners have no author- 5 MR. and MRS. JOHN D. DAVIS, and the Automobile in Which They Will Cross the Continent. L S~ SEVUVPPYPPP PP v P PRI A R other kind of vehicle encroaching @PRORORGRLRIRIRAROOLONG :v;: ¥ they will command the two regiments | ;.. ' . <, .. _ < Sesad: , being organized there. With the ex- Llectric Vehicle Company, who on that territory. But where & BICYCLISTS OF g ception of a brigadier general, who as arrested under the ordinance tp is b b i S ere is but one north and south may be appointed later on, the twelve " > xe S oo the twalve | several weeks ago and who ap- < CALIFORNIA ARE boulevard the board has not the power to prevent the fortunate owner of an automobile using colonels to be selected for the twelve regiments are the highest ranking offi- cers to be appointed In connection with the provisional army, and the Presi- NOW INTERESTED plied to Judge Gibbons for re- lease on a habeas corpus writ. 0RO dent is giving a great deal of care to he law gives the Park Com- ‘ s 2 their selection. The one brigadier gen- T o : 8 Rt the“ boulevard for Lo [_\leas_ur?: MARTSVIIEE, July K- Jera]fihlp will, I am told, go to either MISSIONeErs no right ot apg 2 The order in question is void Great interest i being mani- Colonel Joseph B. Sanger of the In-|automobile men were satisfied ip singling out automobiles by ffste(‘l h:) lthfin{}le nltdghls sec- spector General’s Department of the ith otk i it i pad = L 7 ion in the Call-Herald's ocean regular army, lately brigadier gen- With the decision, so the deliver- name and placing them under the to ocean automobile tour. The eral of volunteers, or to Colonel Bd- ance of Judge Gibbons was ac- han of outlawry when asa matter Diide Mo o S0 and o in particular are taking a lively interest, and are actively engaged in an effort to organize a party of wheelmen ward B. Williston, Sixth Artillery, who is now in the Philippines. Under the law one major general has been allowed for each 12,000 men and cepted to-day as settling the mat- ter finally of common observation and sci- entific knowledge there is less NI ROBROROROROR O one brigadier general for each 4000, Judge Gibbons s:ud]the Pal"k danger in propelling an automo- :“::;:; f[r}:); iy}:&::osoi%f:sth:; men. When,the twelve additional reg- | Commissioners have almost ple- bile than there is in driving a v , " 3 iments are fully recruited the total ‘ g will escort them to Sacramento. | nary power over the parks, but horse and buggy The people generally recognize Srengiliof the sryremllan ang pro; that the Call-Herald’s under- LS e L JS:"OOO e have no right to prohibit any ve- “The automobile has come to e here are now seven major generals |, . ? . S : and twenty-three brigadier :»noram_ hicle used for recreation or pleas- remain with us and we welcome promotion of good roads, hence the great interest manifested. oes not en- i @2GORORINO R G RO WROROU: RSROROSORO BOROROR O X8 U5 FERBIAHS Three of the latter are to be mustered ure so long as it ¢ it as a great improvement over out, leaving twenty brigadlers, or a > 3 f 2 2 . suffictent numberifo ‘command 80/000; [(danger the "‘"fe_t-‘ ”f‘he_P“h]’c"' horse cars’ and ordinary street One extra brigadier general is.to be “It has no right,” said he, “to cars.. The time is not far distant cape. After dinner at Mr. and Mrs. appointed for the 3000 men which will Arthur T. Kemp's Tuesday evening | prohibit the automobile by name any more than the bicycle or the tricycle or the dogcart, but it has the right and it is its imperative |duty to prohibit any vehicle, whether bicycle, horse carriage or automobile, within the parks to run at a higher rate of speed VANDERBILT JR. INJURED han four or five miles an hour. WHILE AUTOMOBILING ana the result of the two conflicting Twentieth Kansas are now en route home | « e forces upon the motor was that the while the main body of the regiment is | The board has the power t0 \pwpoRT, July 5.—Cottagers were automobile was thrown down hill end in the Philippines makes the proposed re- | sot aside certain drives or places greatly alarmed this morning over a over end. ception more difficult. | 2 ¢ s X 2 4 ¥ 5 ik * The present plans are to have General | where it may prohibit vehicles report that William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Vanderbilt was thrown heavily to Funston and members of the Twentleth | - 2 - desi had been seriously Injured Tuesday the ground. Kemp and others picked Kansas become the guests of the State | from going, or may esignate pight by being thrown from his auto- him up in a dazed condition and has- £ what part of a boulevard be used mobile. Fortunately the story was in- tened with him to Belvoir. Dr. Clem« by bicycles, and may prohibit any immediately upon their ar | :.;ni:z‘:és;xr uf‘hifif‘fflf J(fi’m"er,l“l'fi Topeka correct, though Mr. Vanderbilt had a ent Cleveland found no bones broken B ] rough experience and very narrow es- and no internal injuries. | @OO@@O@ iiniviinivivininlefleiinleinde B i o e e B B e S S S S s et [ L L 1 1 T DEATH OF RICHARD STAHL, THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR without expense to the soldiers. The com- 1!:'or Years the Leader of the Tivel mittee having the matter in ch esti- BULLETS AND DISEASE | Orchestra, Before He Became mates the expense af a Noted Song-Writer. when no horse car, trolley car or cable will be permitted to occupy any of our business streets. They have served their purpose. They should be either above or below the surface of our streets.” sl e Mr.. Vanderbilt entertained a company which was gathered on the veranda with some experiments with a leased golf-brake automobile. Having backed down'a steep hill rather rapidly, ha was nearly in collision with Mr. Kemp, who was also out with his automobile. To prevent the two vehicles coming together Vanderbilt, with his foot still on the reverse lever, gave the machine a sudden and strong forward current, be enlisted above that number. HOW KANSAS WILL HONOR THE VOLUNTEERS TOPEKA, Kans., July 5.—The plans for the reception of General Funston and the | Twentieth Kansas Regiment have been | altered somewhat on account of the de- | cision to have the muster-out at San Francisco instead of Topeka. The fact also that over 300 sick soldiers of the posed to be raised tion. Governor Stanley will in a few day jssue a manifesto urging the people of the State to contribute for this purpose. The | plans for the reception at Topeka have not been very definitely decided upon, but it is safe to say the reception will be quitec an _ elaborate affair. It is proposed to make the reception a feature of the Kan- as festival, which is held In Topeka eve | enough to produce a war of the greatest | ported by the blood and treasure of our magnitude. But I see no reason that will | people, can point out to us how these require us to join the conflict, if conflict | are ‘the ways of pleasantness and the there is to be. The orgy 1mn-masz wedha\-e; paths of peace. in the matter is a trade inter: , and our e reat epoch-making wars have never had great cpoch-making wars have riever had | DEATH OF TROOPS FROM Senator John ] Morgan of Alabama | ites: w fall. There will be a “Funston day” and hose who lament and decry the con- | a Twcntlel); Kflfnsa." dla 4 wm\h exer- | duet_of our 1;m-e-rnbm;~m “x‘o]di?x“e"%rwgll:i WASHINGTON, July 6.—The War| NEW YORK, July 5—Richard Stahl, ! cises appropriate for each. Upon the first | the Philippines as being violativi | v vi | musical director of Daly’s Theater, dies | mentioned day General Funston will be [ constitution are too late to accomplish | Department has received the follow mg; mdde:ly romiHads s ibadet tanioht B‘: nted with a gold sword costing $1000, | much else than to echo the pathetic ap- ! from General Otis: | peals of Aguinaldo that we do mot de-| MANILA, July 5.—Adjutant General, stroy_our Government in order to save yashington: The follqwing deaths have the Filipinos from the fatal power of h!S | occurred since last weekl;m ort: dictatorship. It is not far to go, nor is| Typhoid fever—June 26, Fred C. Fritzon, the way obscure, to find in the constitu- | Company E, Thirteenth Minnesota; June tion of the United States express power | 53_Paul J. Rhode, Company K, Thir- | given to Congress to do what was done | {eenth Minnesota; Arthur Troggatt, Com- | f Touisiana and Hawail, and what our | pany H, Ninth Infantry; Herbert Streat- | selt-respect compels na to ""hifiéh‘flfl*:,‘tz'ri[gf- Company C, Thirfeenth Infantry. < ) . | ippine Islands. The flag we hay une 29—Fred Prézykalla, corporal, Com- YORK, July 5.—In to-morrow's | ippine TSRGS, o 0¢85 IiCoratea "to. the | pany H. Ninth. Totantry. Jaly i—Baul |issue of the Independent will appear va- | Slincfinertics It shelters on the Capitol at | Pugh, Cmpany 1, Fifty-Arst Towa. { | rious articles upon the forelgn relations | Washington.” From_wounds in action—June 2, Har- of the United States and expansfon. Con-| Bx-Senator George F. Edmunds, argu-|vey J. Lowe, Company A Fourteenth In- | gressman Hitt, chairman of the Commit- | ing against expansion, demands that the | fantry; June 29, Willlam A. Lapp, Com-| 4 i (Feladions: wilfehs | Government disclose to the people pre- | pany L, Twelfth Infantry. tes o Forciel Shbln cisely what took place beforo the capture | Drowhed accidentally June 22, Alfred H. ““There are some Who say the lust for ¢ Manila, and what promises were made | Koch, Company F, Twenty-first lnfnntri’; military glory has been the cause of the | ho Filipinos. He asks if Spain had any- | June 25, James Armstrong, Company L downfall of all the republics of the past, thing but a “pretended” sovereignty to | Ninth Infantry. | but that is not true: The past had few | cede, and demands the reason for the sud- | Tuberculosis—June 24, Thomas.Conners, or no true republics, certalnly not any at ' den turning of the Filipinos’ friendship | Company M, Twelfth Infantry. | all comparable with the United States, a into hostlity. He concludes: Dysentery—June 22, John Holzman, Trepublic organized on the principles of | irst let us know the whole truth of Company H, Seventeenth Infantry. representative govérnment by all. We are |.what has happened, and then perhaps the |~ Pneumonia—June 30, Willlam Hussey, There seems to be a | advocates of glory of dominion or trade | Fifteenth Infantry. over China, and | of civilization and religion advanced by | Variola—James Company G, ere are mighty | the cannon and the bayonet and sup- | Third Artillery- pre cont by citizens of the State. | his home in this city. He became ill while in Chicago with “The Runaway Girl” company upon the receipt of the news of Mr. Daly’s death and was brought to this city three weeks ago by members of the company. His condition improved some- what during the last week. His family had no fears for his recovery until to- night, when he suffered a relapse and ex= pired at 8 o’clock. Mr. Stahl was for many vears the musi- cal director at Hoyt's, now the Madison- square Theater, and he wrote the music for Charles Hoyt's farce comedies. About a year ago he went to Koster & Bials, where he remained until this spring, when he was engaged by Austin Daly to conduct “The Runaway Girl."” He accom- panied the piece when it went on the tour. As a composer Mr. Stahl's work was chiefly confined to song writing. His most retentious work was the opera “‘Said asha,” which was highly successful. He wrote “The Sea King.” He was for years leader of the Tivoli Orchestra in San | Francisco. butions having already been made TG 'VARIED VIEWS ON FOREIGN | RELATIONS AND EXPANSION | NEW | making precedents. | great war cloud furmlni | fhe forces mustering t Allen,