The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1899, Page 1

t0 be taken from Fary.++++ J VOLUME LXXXVI_NO. ‘37 PRICE FKFIVE CENTS. 'TEN' THOUSAND NEGROES 200t 0 Boriotietieti et et et e N NN e tietieet et et STARVING TO DEATH. ey Boeot ot otiotio i ot et et et ot otiatetietie G tie oo N R 4NN APPALLING RESULT OF TEXAS FLOODS RO+ 060 080090006000+ 0600000600600006000 e e e ! ° IN THE TEXAS FLOODED DISTRICT. . Railroad Bridge 0’9090309~®0®o€/090 | another part of the town, in order 54D D0G-—D-4-0-4-D-P—-D-4-0- 4G40 3—4-6+ cross the Brazos River, Near Hearne., > >0t 0o@® s were pro- rnor request- furnished the Houston to ght from J. J.| County, stat- nd surrounded wild animals. his telegram v 6.—Reports the property s been enor- SIGHT OF DREYECS IN HIS PRISON wHe Walks in the Yard With | ‘ His Head Bowed Down. ‘ | i \ WARDENS ATTENDHIN Quiet in Rennes, but There Are Grave Fears of a Dis- turbance. Copyrighted, Associated Press. ENNES, France, July 6.— Mme. Dreyfus, on leaving the prison to-day, appeared in much better spirits than yes- terday. It was evident that her conversation with her husband had been of a more cheerful na- {ture. A large crowd had gath-|s ered in the hope of witnessing her arrival and departure, but the | gendarmes cleared the streets ad- | jacent to the prison and the spec- tators caught only a passing glimpse of her as she drove away rapidly in a closed carriage to the residence of Mme. Goddard. ,‘ When Miss Campbell called later in the was given to her, and The latter left her house to-day | and took up quarters temporarily at the residence of a relative in to allow the Dreyfus family full freedom in using her mansion. From a point overlooking the prison the correspondent of the | Associated Press saw Captain Dreyfus emerge into the court- vard to-day for an hour's exer- cise. He was dressed in a blue | ; the serge suit and wore a soft felt hat. { across the yard | tere with his hands in the pockets of | from ner his jacket. his head slightly bent | [ out ;{ all «1Xam§»m to the Central Pharmacy forward, so that it was impossible { gne of the cherries with a white pow [ der in the center and asked for an an- He walked slowly to see the features. As he crossed the yard he was | anq she went to her room. preceded and followed by a| A e ha R R R A R R AR S A S PR > DIV PO[SONED CANDY AND FOBINY B0 DO OIOININIOINIHID GBI 0D & HIDL P TR ot n ) John R. |an at through the mails, two women made ill by strange reticence of all concerned in the matter, while yesterday, and then a uncovering of story of man’s duplicity and a wrecked The police say there will be rests and there is a disposition on the | part of all connected to hush the matter up with the least possible Lasl Friday the rw(mdr\ delive age mMr ssed to M | day the package on opening it the confections to Mrs. Sc partook of some The girls declined to eat the candy, ly after eating ., vomiting and complaining of would not pronounce th poisoning they antidotes for . Scheib m;»m_\- npbell went and showed atter was not made pub common report. him to Continued on Fourth Page. | fied o0 eReee 0 e 0% e % B e Sy a R e TR et T e T T REY HAD RN A FAMILY SKELETON SOOI DIOID S DIOIOEDLDEY o¥ 0 =X 2 B Uk Peculiar Incidents Surroundmg a Case That Bore the Seeming of a Mystery. Rathom’'s Infatuation for Miss Florence Campbell Develops a Queer State of Affalrs the re- | medical attendance on his wife. Rathom’took the box and wrapper and confronted his wife, who denied all < ledge of the matte e admitted nd no one s made ill. Lat that it was her writing, but said that it the police took the m: evidently had been taken from. some v was admitted to be | letter that she had written. 1 nt of th Rathom then took the candy to cleton Thomas Price for chemical analysis, and it was found that the cherries con- is made public. | tained arsenic in sufficient quantity to aper L | kil empt was made to v port at the house of the story was strenuously ety one was told that o, be a family rl another John R visitea’ Chic yesterday | Mrs. Rathom also made a statement to Chief Lees which was s antially e as that of her t LR Campbell was n last night after she had been clos- for two hours with de- i wife, | tectives and that the whole mat- Mrs. Rathom. | ter was in the hands of the police. She id that she accused no one and would the police told She was asked to relate of the receipt of the candy »osed mystery: s ago Rathom and Miss with each dl\ll lived »bell becam: 1d he came convinced hea that Miss Campbell had been imposed | prosecute no one unl nd visited the | her to do se tter over with | the incident upon by her husband - woman and talked the n her. e result was that a friendship | and said: sprung up between the women and Mrs. | “When the box came, Mr. Scheib said: Rathom did what could to assist the | “Why, you don’t know who sent that girl. Later Mrs. Rathom be candy: you had better not eat it," and I vinced that Miss replied: ‘Yes, I be i her and th tions were | it. I think it wa . broken, Mrs. Rathem ting Miss mine in Oakland.’ Mr. Scheib said: °T Campbell a letter, in which up- | have seen that writing before. Don't braided her told her she d | you know who it wa I said: ‘Yes, [ have nothing more to do with he know the writing; it might be Mrs. Immediately after the poisoned candy | Rathom.’ had been eaten Miss Campbell sent for | She was then asked: “Why did you Rathem and told him that she believed | €at the candy, when you recognized his wife I She showed him | her writing, when you knew she was the box and W1 and he imme- | Ditter against you.” and she replied: I diately recognized his wife's writing. | 41dn’t know she sent it.’ The address was on an envelope and | She was then ed whether she sent was pasted cn the wrapper. It had the | the box of candy herseif, and she an- appearance of having been cut from a swered: “No, do vou suppose I would jetter and part of the name had been | Bive poison to my dear friend Mrs. cut off. Scheib? I got a letter from Mrs Rathom was vm.x that unless he got | Rathom at the same time threatening his wife to s reement to leave | Me. That letter is in’the hands of the the State a ur police.” cure one th lieve T know who sent s ould be| When asked what its contents con- sted of, she said it was not exactly hreatening, but it was insulting, in that Mrs. Rathom said she had found her out and would do nothing more to help h : a divor atter ie public. He was aiso 50 to Mr. Scheib for the e 1 s ed to pay nses of 0. 0% 0% 0% 0 2 0202 0% 02N +5 0%+ O Detectives Dillon and McMahon made no report last night and the police gave out very guarded statements. They @otietiotietietio et oot et ot e e tiet et 4% 0% el WAR IN TRANSVAAL. -+ 0t ebebedeog O e S ST L RIS | @7 e 0 e eio0ieiedsietseieiededeiededeiieriededsded b UBTIN. TTexn ! In five counties of Texas 1t 1s \ Sayers, the Mavors ¢ estimated ihat ten thousand ne- i ties of the St ! groes are starving to death as the 1 N SN result of the floods which have S that nov s among nood sut- | swept down upon the State within or upon higher P + ng th t big rise ir e ke DUnL - the ast forty-eight fours, and n i e L s 1t - the entire flooded district there S lpeeram of Jast SN are 40,000 people homeless and mine- hungry. In recent years no such Sayers to-d . g widespread calamity has come o ,‘(.;'\."\\ than 40,000, o n, Te upon ary Southern State. of imr aid 2 T e The Governor of Texas has '] e e San A taken prompt measures to relisve d of the Secre of War that an ad- | A retory of War has placed the e thousand ratioas will be war. Commissary Department and the g *, 'y whole resources of the Govern- in County. t 2 ment at the Governor's command. 0 "‘ = This rel.ef, however, 1s but tem- . quarte o : The sreatest|porary. The people have fost|F2nsers went to Fchmond too . s iheir crops with the rast. and for « = 1 ' . at least a year must be objects cf (SRl Sy S Brezieaand - 1t public charity. Muikane of Sealy, Aust 4 Sl e £ s ing that there are about 800 people in a 5 S famished condition north : 3 S ! There is one colony of over 500 refugees Sy Sl on a little plot of high 1 forgrarly one of MOSt ProSperous | Ly water. They have been there t s Valley. It was the | {hree days without g 2 With them are 200 ad of cattle and o )| thousands of snakes and 4 m the rlow will| wpr. Mulkane says In 2 - inds of dollars. | yhat many men, women and children airs is pa " known cotton | gpe gick from having been bitten by S R 3 ’”':(“'j’rl venomous snakes, from exposure and | - a 5;”»1";‘," from lack of fc . s at Rt oo and < atior g Bu n counties, whose )nu» and all FED BY GOVERNMENT | D e R four days with rescuing parties | GAI TONTex, g water-bound neople | from a special correspondent of the flood = & and starva- | News indicate that while > tx = 8 L 00 neopl s by the recent floods hz e % ey : o o ¢ e has been greatly 4 to-day h in those two |€Xagsg rding are probably thers who were not found in time 1 death either by | From ation. The s women and children who 1 two to three days in tree- lower Brazos flood. them f ing absolutely helpless. There tunity for them to work a fle subsides it will be imj them to m another crop. The result | stragsglers. is that their present suffer ue indefinitely unl 10 oppor- A when the aid com most “In our work of ri the dead. 1 saw probably a total of the rescuing work. The loss of life in g to the News ¢ five lives “have been lost in thei 0 to 2000 colored people were | caught in the valley In Austin, and Fort Bend counties and w to take to the trees and house 5 A special train left this afternoon for | s while watching and waiting to be ued s pitiful to witnes the flooded district, car The dis among the people of | Government and a number of private the Brazos bottoms is indescribable.” | boa <. It is believed that nearly all the Mr. Worberg said. “The negroes are | people lodged in trees 2nd on housetops | have been rescued, but boats sent from Galveston to-day will patrol the flooded | ssible for @ district and make a thorough search for ng is likely The War Department has authorized outside | Governor Sayers to distribute s to them. There are thou- | army rations among the flood sufferers, sands of starving mouths to feed in al- | the rations to be furnished the Gov-| ty along the lower|ernor from San Antonio. s River. | Houston and Galveston have sent sev- | e St n to-morrow. uing the living | eral carloads of groceries open sessio OV we could make no attempt to bury | flooded district. It is belleved there is ¢ | now food enough in transit to feed the | fifte fes i e - and in tree. | NeToes until the waters fifteen bodies in the river and in tree- {EVCCS UL 8% 0 Dlantation work. tops during the time I was engaged in The nex lmuble will be at Velasco, In addition | the | recede and | (‘um:!ngham and other s af that section. Burleson and Washington counties is Continued on Fifth Pale. LR B S S SCE SCE e it o points on the frontier. “Additional special service officers,” next few days, and the commander-in-chief has been engaged in completing the cumnmmr\n and organization of a larger force, which it will be necessary to dispatch should negotiations with the PROFESSOR WHEELER Transvaal fail.” D o President Kruger’'s Last Visit to Johannisburg. T | oftctal to repr W.; From a Photograph taken by Mrs. Rees Three Months Ago. s e e eieiei e B i S o O e I S ONDON, July 7—The Times announces that several officers have been ordered to proceed to South Africa to organize the residents as well as the police and local forces at various says the Times, e likely to be sent out during said there would be no arr , as it was attempt had been body and that ot been sent for the B g anybody. Further than this lined to enter into the case. When Rathom was seen last evening he said that he did not w to discuss the case and that he had no idea who sent the candy. He said: in my opinion n -hr1| ever saw llw %+%00 that Miss kage before : ‘ENCOUR'AGVEMENT FOR : ANTI-TRUST MOVERS Governor of Washington Criticized for Refusing to Attend the Conference. =x., July 6.—Governor Sayers a letter from Governor Wyoming, stating that he is | in hearty sympathy with the anti-trust movement and that it will give him great AUSTIN, 1 Attorney Generals to be held if his plans will allow him. | Governor Sayers also received a letter | from Insurance Commi mer C. G. Hef- | ner nf the State of Washington as fol- e have your in- tion of 1 States of as may ap- ent the formation and continuance of the trusts and com- | binations in restraint of trade and cor | petition. We have also viewed with much | chagrin the action of the Governor of th State in refusing to attend such conven tion, either pers or by representa- tive. On t question the G not in accord with the overwt of the fusion party of this State ands absolutely alone among the 1 desire to inquire, there- would receive some other e, who should credited by the 1 with much appreciatio efforts in calling a con the Governors of the seve the Union to take such steps dvisable to p ne of such command. that Ahe mere whim of not to be A“fl“fld t the Democratic forces of this wrong light Sefore the ountry. 1 believe you a of all people wh nt by the people —o->-0-0-0-5-6-54-5 60005 believe against and syn- of this ed s the sible. IS YET UNDECIDED PRETORIA, July 6.—The Volksraad sat in secret session, President Kruger and the ne- gotiators from the Or'mne Free State being present. to grant the franchise immediately to all settlers prior to 1880 and to other classes of residents | Senine These proposals will be debated in NEW YORK, July 6.—Mrs. Hearst and within seven vears, the naturalization clause to be optional. Although Sir Alfred Milner. on behalf of Great Britain. demanded at the Bloemfontein | left for Tthace Xo g ther conference that a residence of five years should be a qualification for the franchise, it is believed - that the terms said to have been agreed upon to- day in the Volksraad might be acceptable to J the Uitlanders, if suitable guarantees were given for the execution of the promised reforms. cepting the Presidency of the | It is understood an agreement was reached | Will Come to California Before Ac- Professor Wheeler of Cornell were in cor ference again to-day. Professor Whe left for Jthaca to-night. He will accept the offer of the presidency of California University or not. but within a thfl will make a trip to the Pac and look over the situation. He said that he had arrived at no conclusion and could mgt talk about the matter until he did.