The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY 1899. AUGUST 15 - LOSES HER | [IFE AFTER | SAVING MANY : Belle McKenzie Perishes in | : the Burning Tuscan Springs Hotel. AROUSES THE GUES T\ When All Are in Safety She Goes Back After Her Clothing and Is Cut Off by the Flames. e Tuscan 51 les east of Red at 1 o’clock e McKenzie, umber ¢ fter and was called one r awoke thing. 1 d 1o he lothing go and Sh have become t off by the H burned to a S 'I.‘!'I t nter f!ul" on hand new hoetel, whith was for upaney. It alome f to 10,000 s even ve SMOKING OJT RATTLERS Prospector in the McCloud District Fleeing From the Wrath of the La DING, Aug A great ntry Have Chased Striped DEATH OF ONE OF HONOLULU’S PIONEERS John Babecock, an Old-Time Whaler and Pilot, Passes Peacefully Away. HONOLULU, -Aug. 7.—Captain Willinm whaler BUSINESS QE(‘TION OF BEREA DESTROYED | Disastrous Fire Causzd by the Explo- sion of Gasoline in a Repair Shop. CL LAND, A 14.—A fire which E about mnoon 2y destroved a | siness section of | en miles gout ne business pla a by the explosion of | repalr shop. An en- | m this city on a spe- | yut $100,000, STEAMSHIP RE.SOLUTE SUNK IN A COLLISION Several Lives Lost Through a Clash | 6f Two Vessels in East Indian Waters. e 14.—A dispatch from | rey steamship | 1 collision with the | { with *Ge _LONDON Scindia, last reported | July § for Bombay. v lost in the disaster. Aug. 14.—The Resolute had uropean officers and a crew about sixty natives aboard. The chief second and third engineers and e natives were saved, but the remain- of those on board are misaing. steamer n officer [ L e O e e R Canan an s i o i o e e dn o e e ] 4l : * HURRICANE, Y > @ @ T t IS GRADUALLY T @ 1 T $ ] : ¢ DYING AWAY B¢ ¢ | Is Passing Up the Coast, but i ¢| Is Not Expected to Do 3 ¢| Any Further Damage. b S . A ! ¢ RELIEF SHIP STARTS @ | e @ s & . ¢ |Is Carrying All Available Food and $ $| Clothing Supplies to the Suf- B¢ 4| ferers in the Istands. . & Special Dispatch to The Call. $ 1| WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—The West ) i | Indian hurricane which fer almost a i ? | week has been raging in the West In- ! e has modi in intensity and is | )¢ 1 as a tropical storm. ¢! : moving up the Atlan- & ’ Weather Bureau has @ ignals be extended ¢ | northward to Atlantic City, where by @ | to-morrow morning the wind may # | reach 30 miles an heur. To-day at Sa- @ | vannah it blew 44 miles and at Charles- LANDIS, WHOSE DEATH MYSTIFIES LINCOLN. ton 40 miles, while in Florida points which the disturbance is slowly over ing the wind ranged below 15 miles. The storm is central to-n t near the Georgia coast. 'ROOT APPEALS TO THE of Frank store, has not vet accord with the su rown out convey the s was murdered the death d dead in not in S R D JAPANESE REFUSE TO EMIGRATE TO WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The Secre- tary of War this afternoon issued the following appeal to Governors of States for aid for the storm sufferers in Porto m 1 inclose herewith copi of two ln]«;.r.n hic dispatches received last even- ‘n\p: from the Governor General of P Rico, by which it appears that the dev he recent hurricane in | tation wrought by | that island is eve eater than was at | first supposed. It is evident that a gre 4 3 / T tem of its cultivation to one which | multitude of people rendered utterly de: BY HORACE WRIGHT. benefit the whole country rather | titute by this awful calamity must be fed == it TnteT | and cared for during a considerable p HONOLULU 7.—In T ek ‘?”f,;“’..,”‘“‘,Zeblf'd,,‘,’,‘n',{; | Flod, Until they can have the opportunity h atter of th re the thought ecc 8 | to produce food for themselves. Enor- the matter of the sing and prominent, HoOW 1iS | mous quantities of supplies of the kind in- prisoned in Oahu Jail unc th bacome Americanized with |dicated by the Governor General must be labor contract laws, inant and continuously in- an Asiatic population, of of the work to be 2c large a proportion will be- !l~lde)\z;rtm('n‘l to sup- inent and antagonistic to - appeal already made to the | =55 (“,\“f;,’]\“':; S f the principal cities of the coun- sehnisionde more general appeal, and I beg h anxiety the people of your \mzn o ry by a you to is too mu K T ulativ ults of the p: contribute generously to the re many vote much the people of Porto Ric e own to the sen. | future, but our legislatc Swift steamers have been provided to vidently un r_\n wn to the sen fle t a powerful Japane: Jeave the port of Ne York to carry the sationali that as far I Ll as equally dangerous un- | supplies directly to Porto Rico as rapldly April an ion was ed hreatened to be | as they can be collected. by th ties Gov at threatened to be | 430 (o) tions should be eitherin “upplll\u s 3 : o 4 of the character indicated or in money, the request of a prominent national In connection with this Japanese im- | grder that the supplies c ssociation and that an official report ation a curious thing happened on | The supplies should be ; was forwarded to that asscei the 5th inst. The steamer Columbia ar- | B. Jones, Army bullding, foot of Whti h ¢ Stat D rived in po on board in- | hall street. New York City, in packages o OLJSLEED 5 B ad of pated, much to | plainly marked “'Posté, Tchn Telief” and | last month. In its preparation the in- disapp ot (hA lanters and | he should be consulted as to the time of ators were ted by the local ! i ipment. st i , 5 ition agents. The | "Money should be sent to the National | nt and the cons ces of en are that the Japanese B R A crieet NE WY oTh Oy tries to which the men be- | ment interfered and made the pass) D s bien dosizaafed at o depository | regula . much more stringent | for the relief fund. Very respectfully, statement is not made in justi that there was no opportunity afforded | BLIHU lu)n"r’ ation ot bR nr e ks o nt of getting men for this steamer. Other Secretary of War. ation of the lmprisenment an¢ SN reasons are given, such as business| = Acting Secrstary of ihe Navy Allen uance in prison of these men. The men | [ivalry’ between opposition immigra- | o day wrote Secretary Root that the | are there and cannot le be pardon- | tion companies and the desire of Japan i3 ed under the iniquitou S hich hve |t SetaTarail L ex Able:boaled tentin the | novy dealled: (orca onesaie lnfareny host universally co o ed in Ha. | country for fear of imminent wars, and | Way it could in rendering assistance to waii in these dayvs further still that certain important ne- |the storm stricken people of Porto Rico It is curious Aml beneficial, however, | in reference to immigration |and tendering a warship to be placed at u» note the ch aii are pending hht\‘\'fien :h“ the disposal of the War Department if regard to the tates and Japaf, Should the | ag desired to convey supplies to the which we expect to learn from | interfere with the com- | the planters wtive, the mainland, ing of the 5000 expected, islands. The offer doubtless will be ac- cepted, as every available means is be- vear they wer and cruel to th when, nominally, at s some rights which his empl will suffer c Jerably. ;mg adopted to hurry along the great | ound to respect if he can find th Hon.”S. M. Damon has published a |stock of supplies which is imperatively | portunity to protect k 3 ment in reference to the Italians | needed. Mr. Allen 1s in telegraphic | test court and in_his “(”}‘ oy, and h;i“‘; (“‘l“‘n:‘r“‘lf &m- | communication with several naval sta- | in the ace of plantation in e vy andl contented tand) tond Withes wicr to RGBT the Legislature “of them have over $700 in the as soon as the War Department | s mino: Mr. Damon, ~onclu- tral minded me e s tolata Ay ary Root received the follow- and destructic my endeavor since June, patch to-da ote the cause of Italian im- ug. 14.—Hon. laws » F GRAND MERE, Elinu Root, Secre ton—I forward you to-day Rico relief fund. Secretary Root replied General R. A. Alger. Ty " of War, Washing- $100 for ALGER. waii, knowing that the ctions here were simi- r to those of portions of Italy, espec of the norhern part, I am convinced i not only ten but hundreds ation to te and prodi the enough in light attacks upon h nd Mere, Que- of Texas has decided to . grow, there the Italian can make a | the pecple try of sugar, which present life e and a living, at least I am sure | give ; entirely to the Porto Ricans | of the land, but o -ducing the ' so on these islands.” | and will solicit no more aid for Texa THE JOHN R. KELLY DRIVEN ASHORE IN THE FALKLANDS @ v N o e e e e e ] B e e S o S S S & B s S ST ORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 14.—Details of the wreck of the American ship John R. Kelly on May 25 at Port Wil- liam, the outer harhor at Port Stanley, Falklands, have reached here by mail. While off Cape Horn the Kelly encountered a severe storm, which shifted her cargo and caused the vessel to spring a leak. In this condition she put back to Port Stanley for repairs and anchored in the outer harbor cn May 25. Captain Chapman and his family went ashore, and that night a heavy northwest storm came up, causing the Kelly to drag her anchor. She was driven ashore and wrecked. The John R. Keily was londed with railroad iron and machinery from New York for San Francisco. The wreck W sold for 8200. GOVERNORS FOR AID o \ : | Porto | men ¥ thousands of Italians shall have Thanks for your generous contribu- y under the leadership of 2 up their abode on these islands | tion to Porto R relief. trust vou| was the p Chi t prosp to this country will |are rapidly regaining your hw\‘h“x Jmirl who and 1 feel confident that no | ELTHU ROOT, sz with or without his | Secretary of War. will er regret making this| The committee organized in Wash- Wherever the vine and fig | ington to secure and forward relief to | DEATH CLAIMS W. H. RIGKARD, THE NOTED HAWANAR REVOLUTIONIST —.—.—.—Q—..H.H....O—-C....—? ? -2- 200999%5g 0000000 600006000 ® 1 [} [ ] L4 * B | 9 [ e Y >° o 2cc000000°° ® ONOLULU, Aug. 7.—William H. Rickard died at Honokaa, Hawaii, @ on the 3 3 was one of the martyrs to Hawaii's lost cause | whose health w destroyed through imprisonment in Oahu jail on @ revolution tried and t was rticipation in the I unsucees uccessful republican revolutionis account of h against the He found gullty of attempting=to land arm itenced to death for @ treason. Subsequentiy was reduced to thirty-five years' imprisonment and a fine of §10,000. After about a year's imprisonment he was pardoned out, ruined in heaith and estate. He was a Cornishman by birth, but devoted to the cause of the Hawaiian race for thirty years. He was true @ 25 steel and dearly beloved by all honest men for his steriing and upright ® ualities. He was an excellent legislator and a good. practical business @ man. He was also one of the ploncer sugar planters at Hamakua and ® Honokaa. Since his ase from imprisonment he practiced law and worked . a large family of ople to mourn ns and Knights of Pythias and 53 on his coffee plantation. He leaves a v children and grandchildren and the whol= He was high in the order of Ma [ oo 6@ 09825000000 eoe from tk disease, and large numbers of reported dul\ le e - HOBSON WANTS A | i S points south of | ate to the United > Texas border . REPAIR STATI[]N PETTIGREW SAYS THE Full Report on the Work | - SHOULD BE ENDED Accompllshed- l0nly Honorable Co\usfl to Turn the | Islands Over to the e | Natives. Special Dispatch to The Cal | CHICAGO. Aug. 14.—“This Government should rec soldier ‘in the Philip- Naval allnuery | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 | Constructor Richmond H. Hobson was heard from by the Navy Department to-day, for the first at any length since | | he was assigned to duty in charge of | the Spanish ships raised from Manila | harbor and now undergoing repa | Hongkeng. His report is unusual | teresting, dealing in general qu | such as the need of a large dockyard | | in the Orient, the increasing shipping nnot give them a better | at Manila and the prospect that Manila | will_succeed Hongkong as the em- | porium of the East, the value of Chin ‘STEAMER ASHORE GON | ese labor in all bramches of industry, | CORBEEIDOR ISLAND | etc. He says also, the three Spanish | | ships which ar completed, will be | < She Is Believed to Be the Unlted | worth to the Gevernment about $610,- | o pologize to the world made and then turn native government.” tor R. F. Pettigrew. g as in Chicago on East from his home in Sioux F; the ing in hi honorable course for th in the Orient This civilizing ny people ernment as kota, lls, opinion the o country to Senator Pettigrew war talk is all a can maintain as good they have a right to | 000, and he contemplates trying States Cable Ship \ aise three more Spanish ve; s Bow | Hookor at the bottom of Manila bay. The let- | » Aug. 14—Lloyds has received | lL«]vflx‘\ "from Manila saying that Government steamer mouth of Corregidor har- 1ce to Manila Bay. ter is addressed to Rear Admiral Hich- ‘ born, chief of the Bureau of Constru a tion, and is dated at Hongkor July | 3 i | In compliance with the b Feh civen ithe veacoia 2 ame as which is an error in cabling. tions, 1 incl special re aisitig and repairing of the Sy le that the steamer referred | sels sunk in Manila Ba A at e The three v under construction, R ] the Tsla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon and Don | Juan de Austria, bout at equal stages of completion, which I estimate to be | CHEAP FAB.ES ANNOUNCED about 80 per cent compared with the v en T SEnt camianed WL Y| Los Angelenos May Witness the Ar- et g S alant i, e B - |a: « o as imate that the time of completion will | PDes pe g e Houthern about six weeks after the arrival of Company announced to- that |l will make a_round-trip rate Los Angeles to San Francisco of $15, so that people may go to witness the ar- rival of the returning California Volun- by | the armament and electric plant. of the: I estimate the value e vessels, exclu { when completed | ta out as follows of i | ?{)ulll)e !?ll;ijrvl h.m: l'(: | teers. The date of sale of the tickets will chinery, $75,000; total, be made knmown to-morrow. It is ex- '} ¥ 3140, pected the soldiers will arrive about ol The tickets will be good for Hull, efc Lk $150,000. 4 three ve $610,000. . provided the arrival is not delayed. | troop: e s | pany B, Sixth ENCOUNTER WITH FILIPINOS AT QUINGUA Insurgent Forces Under Del Pilar Scattered With Heavy Loss. AN A\IERIC&\ KILLED { | The Rebels Were Attemptmg to Destroy the Railroad Between Bocave and Biga. Sl s Special Dispatch to The Call. J MANILA, Aug. 1 A force of United | States troops from Quingua, four miles northeast of Malolos, and from Baliuag, near Bustos, about six miles northeast | of Quingua, encountered a body of in- surgents about half way between Bus- | tos and Quingua. In the engagement that ensued, the Filipinos were severely punished and scattered. The Ameri- cans lost one man killed. The insur- gents’ force is believed to have been under the command of General Paolo del Pilar and to have had in view the tearing up of the railway between Bocave and Biga, about three miles from Bulucan. | A battalion of the Twenty-first In- fantry will be sent to those points this afternoon to strengthen the railroad | guard and to reconnoiter the country in the direction of Norzagaray and on the Bustos road. General Wheaton, with troops at Calulut, made a reconnoissance on An- | geles, about four miles to the north- west, where he found 500 of the enemy. He silenced their fire and then returned to Calulut. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IMPRISONED AT VIGAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The Secre- tary of the Navy to-day received the fol- lowing from Admiral Watson at Manila: aped Spanish prisoners report that | Gilmore and thirteen other Americal eight sailors and_five soldiers—are con- fined at Vigan. Four of the soldiers are in the hospital with sore legs. Gilmore is being well treated. The supplies sent by Admiral Dewey were never received _ “WATSON." - OTIS’ LATEST LIS | OF CASUALTIES v a period of ten | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—General | Otis has reported the following deaths in his command: Drowned—July 20, Patrick Duffy. cor- | poral Company H, Twenty-first Infa; try; William Stafford, Company H, Twenty-first Infantry; August 7, Albert Peruitski, Company A, Twenty-first In- | fantr : Dy: entery—Thomas Maloney, , Seventeenth Infant Ffutchinson, Company A, Fifty-first : Frederick S. Bailey, Company B, Twelfth Infantry. Typhoid fever—William Kunzig, Com- Infantry; — Rodney, Company B, Fifty-first Jowa: Frank J. Halfey, Company E, Twelfth Infgntry. Arterial scleresis—Joseph Walker, | Company M, Fourth Cavalry. Emanayea—Alvin_ Elder, corporal Company G, Third Infantry. | Erysipelas—Gilbert Smith, Companv | B, Seventin Infantry. | “Enteritis—Emil Jessiam, Company K, | Third Artillery. From wounds in action—Nicholas Nola, Company D, Seventeentn Infan- try. FOOD FOR SUFFERERS FROM THE HURRICANE NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The transport | McPherson, with a cargo of supplies for the storm sufferers of Porto Rico, left her pier in Brooklyn this afternoon. About -thirds of the original cargo of ariny supplies left behind to.make room for the quantit clothing, lumher immediate neces | to within a rludrlpr of an ho! | voluntary donations kept piling in. expected that San Juan will be reached not later than F Romana Declared President. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 189, by James Gor- don Bennett. LIMA, Aug. 14.—At the close of an ex- | clting session to-day, the Peruvian Con- | gress formally approved the recent Presi- | dential election and proclaimed Eduardo Romana President and Senores Alzamora | and Bresani First and Second Vice Presi- dents respective | He then shows that the raising and refitting has cost about $343,000, mak- | ing a net gain to the Government on the three vessels of $306,000. He gives | the credit for these results tc Naval | Constructor Capps, who made the con- | tracts. | | "Mr. Hobson speaks of the general | | good condition of the ve: 1s and sa | This is particulariy the se with parts that remained Therged. | Thus s scarcely injured at E This feature has an ‘n\[m | upon the wrecks 1 | which I expect to { when_the vessels now in ;pm.vd The longer period | been immersed may not ha Tred the principal parts and there may the | <ub- | were When pnwlegcs tailors g ant bearing anila Bay. with divers )¢ similar advantage to the Go; it in further salvage, particularly | Don Antonio de Ulloa and the Velas ster ships to the Don Juan de Ausiriz which, from all accounts, suffered less damage than those that have been raised. Mr. Hobson then urges the desirabil- ity of a well-equipped United States dockyard in the Far East as, he say the cost of private work is very high. | He adds: There would be great advantage to the Covernment in the establishment in the Philippines of a yard thoroughly equipped | With docks and a plant capable of doing all the work of docking and repairing of fhe Mavy. The British Government I8 un- dertaking such an establishment here, though at great cost, involving the mak- ing or reclaiming of a large part of the land required. Attention should be called, however, to the fact that the success and advantage of such an establishment, as, indeed, the success of any industrial establishment in this part of the Orfent, would necessitate the employment of Chinese labor. This labor is not only unlimited in supply. but it is equal to practically all the require- ments of modern industry. YELLGW FEVER IS SPREADING IN MEXICO All Travelers From the South Are Being Detained at the Texas Border. AUSTIN, Aug. 14.—State Health Officer Blunt to-day received a letter from TUnited States Marine Hospital Service Surgeon Turpine, stationed in the City of Mexico, announcing that the yellow fever epidemic in the cities of Cordova and Orizaba, Mexico, is growing worse. There have been a great many deaths | *NWo00o04co in every suit Self- to those who it comes to a question of tai'or-made clothes, you know what Suits Qe it because w ive. but did youever hear of any other tailor giving his customers the protec- tion that we do? We ‘say with every suit: () Money re- turned if you want it; or Suit kept in repair free for one A year. We don’t do this just to be dif- ferent from other tailors—we do e have entire faith we make. Write or call for samples of our $1o suits. easurement blank issent cannot come in for me; asur-mcnt. S.N. WOOD & CO., 718 Market Street and Cor. Powell and Eddy.