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N FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1900. TWOQ CHILD-VICTIMS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Services of a Physician Refused in a Pennsylvania Home Where Diph- theria Was Raging. . RG, Jan. T tian Science have had a bitter , w0 weeks htheria has won , ¢ child i er are danger- ® | . $ fe have been belic “hristian Science for $ $ doct are hey have seen & S o e willing to see thelr ¢ bt the hands of the @ : would the parents $ b . r refused to give the ¢ p-4 the fam- o 4 n an under- ¢ s d there was € * He found the second child, & $ Boyd to treat him. i\ P 4 . . ) = ® . - ) 4 2 Bea up over the matter, and it is ¢ e likely t ent leaders in New Brighton, will § B~ @ . . Qeieteteteioivioboietotsssivisteioivsistoteioteretoiod® LAND EJECTED ~ ALLIEN'S STRANGE FROM OFFICE LAPSE OF REASON Result of Sacramento Wandered Blindly About Mayoralty Contest. | the Country. SEEEPISSE to The Call. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Julian E. Alllen, who p 8.—There was & y Hall a few mysterfous disap- ago sing agents in New ily and friends home. Very little wanderings since he from a short ac- sisters and wife under a fit of is known of Alllen left New York. but L erration when he 2 time he has s r scover his own i- e o e their grand- York, had paragraph the observation of reason returned to him as uad left the moment his his own me. He then he had old and very in Chicago, to told his story. They plied him with funds and he left for ew York to-night. M Allien when told he news was overcome with joy. WORK OF A SECOND “JACK THE RIPPER” Robbery Was Not the Motive for GERMAN MINISTERS SAY the Murder of Eachel FRIENDSHIP IS GENUINE “ihiey i TORONTO, Jan. T.—Investigation In connection with the murder of Miss Ra- | Ferguson last Friday night discloses fact that the motive was not robbery 4 that the crime was in all probability Regret the Publication of the State- nts Credited to the London as “Jack the Ripper.” Within an hour before the murder two other young giris were chased and a third knocked down by the same man in The post mortem ex- s the fact that the skull the jail gate and dragged is still at liberty. - Rode the Brake-Beams. NTO, Jan. 7. — Thomas s, & boy eleven years old, to-day arrived In this city from Los Angele He traveled by brakebeam and ran aw: from his home, 117 North Avenue 13, East Los Angeles, four or five days ago. e | i detained at police headquarters. & represen- pes, he say 1 be gi ADVERTISEMENTS. SAVE YOUR HAIR WITH SHAMPOOS OF And light dressings of CUTICURA, purest of emollient skin cures. 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Deded ebe The Algoa was built in England e Beieieisisie iriesisieieieies THROWN ON BEAM THE CAPE OF STORMS Tempestuous Voyage\ | of the E. B. Sutton. | A CRAZY JAPANESE STEWAR WANTED TO KILL THE CAPTAIN | AND CHIEF OFFICER. | ———— | The Ship Was Caught in the October 1 Storms That Damaged the Over- | due Fleet—Accidents on the Water Front. SR After being thirty-six hours on her beam ends and being buffeted by every | wind that blew for thirty-four days off | the Horn, the American ship E. B. Sut- | ton finaliy reached port yesterday. Dur- ing the vovage the Japaneses steward ran amuck and had to be put in irons to pre- vent him from murdering the captain | | and mate and killing himself. There are 1000 cases of lubricating oil among the | cargo of coal, and when It began to leak Captain Carver was in great straits for | fear of spontaneous combustion. All the | dangers were finally overcome, however, | and the E. B. Sutton reached port with the Japanese steward in irons. Joe Koch was shipped in Philadelphia and proved himself to be a surly individu- al from the start. He had to be repri- manded on several occasions, but made no outbreak untl last week. Last Fri- day he had not been attending to his work and when spoken to about it started for- ward after telling the Japanese cook that he was going to kill Captain Carver, Mate | Saunders and himself. Upon reaching his | room he armed himself with a revolver and came out on deck again. | In the meantime one of the crew had | told the mate that the Japanese was | armed and meant mischief. The chief | | officer at once went forward and as soon | as Koch attempted to draw his gun the | mate knocked him down. He then called the watch and the Japanese was placed | in_irons. Captain In his report of the voyage, | carver says: | Octover 7, 1atitude 56 16 south, longitude 68 | 27 west—Had & heavy gale from southwest, | | filling decks to the ralis and flooding forecastle | ; ship laboring heavily. 15, latitude 8 13 south, —Had a west southwest g tull of ter; blew away several sal October 18, latitude 58 south, longitude 66 13 west—Had & very heavy southwest gale and snowstorm; stove in doors in the forecastle and flooded the forward house and stove in | the galley doors and washed away the contents | and shifting the gulley range; decks full to the | rails and cabin flooded and damaged some | stores; shig on her beam ends for thirty-six bours; had to use oll bags to keep sea down. October 25, latitude 56 49 south, longitude 6 50 west—Had a heavy southwest gale, with | seas rolling mountain high; shipped a sea on | the port quarter, smashing the wheel house end after companion way and taffrail and gtarting the main rail and windows and doors in the after house and washing overboard everything_movable on deck. October 26—Had a very heavy south south- west gale; washed away skylights and boats and rail; decks flcoded fore and aft. The Sutton carries many signs of her| hard usage. The railing is gone, the hull bears a _battered appearance and the ship | has a slight list to starboard. During her encounter with the Horn weather the | cargo shifted, but after several hours’ hard work the crew got the vessel on an even keel again. All in all, the E. B. Sutton had an experience during the month of October that nobody aboard wants to repeat. The vessel sailed in and came to an anchor off the Presidio. To- day she will be towed up the bay and will be docked under one of the bunkers. Mrs. Dennison, an elderly lady living at 716 Montgomery street, was nearly | asphyxiated yeslerdl?‘ morning. She did | not turn the gas fully off upon retiring, and when the escape of ths deadly monox- longitude decks | | | yesterday. During the afternoon F for New York via the Straits of Ma; The story of the rejuvenation of th ever, and she will now take a band of cruise. When the Hartford was read BIGGEST “TRAMP” THAT HAS EV HE largest cargo that has ever come to San Francisco in one bottom reached port on The vessel is under charter to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, nto quarantine, and there she is likely to The Algoa’s cargo is composed about as follows: gacks and % bags coffes. There is no one wharf at which all this merch: off part of her cargo at the Mall dock, after big tramp has eight hatches and eight winches, to get away for the Orient again about Saturday n net burden, 455 feet long, 58 feet broad and 2 ship Company) of Liverpool, and has b Honolulu she went on the reef at the entrance to the harbor, but was not s she would have to go on the drydock here, but the captain says his vessel is not damaged in any way. The captain and crew of the Algoa report that the plague has been stamped out at Honolulu. | the man every chance to become good, | {FARRAGUT’S OLD WARSHIP ONCE AGAIN IN THE BAY: ARRAGUT'S old warship, the Hartford, came down from Mare Island oinity of Red Rock, and once that was accomplished she came along the front and anchored off Folsom street wharf. In a day or so she will probably go for a trial cruise outside the heads, and then she will start been told from time to time in The Call. ed on a cruise that was to have taken in all the ports of the world, with a stop in France for the Paris Exposition. her timbers were decayed. This necessitated her being put on the drydock again. Now she is as sound as the day she was launched. ER COME As soon as the United States quarantine remain for a couple of days tons of cargo, 9614 tons, or about twice as much as any single vessel has ever brought to San Fra brought a 5000-ton cargo of general merchandise from the Orient some years ago, g iron, 1876 packages tin, 8000 boxes dates, which she will go back to the seawall ext. in 1896 by W. feet 4 inches deep. She is owned by | ide was noticed the old lady was nearly lead. Policeman J. E alled in and he hurried M 1 Later in the her relatives. of age. from the | on the corner Kearny and Sacramento streets in an | intoxicated condition by Officer T. Con- | way and taken to the Harbor Hospital for treatment. Ambrose got drunk on Chinese gin and the Salvation Army icked him up and tried to fix him up. iis scalp was cut and his right eyebrow Army pen. He was and not_let the S do anything for him. On way to the Ha rbor Hospital he fought Policeman | Conway like a tiger and another police- | man had to be picked up on the road to | keep him quiet. He was fixed up at the hospital and sent back to the California- street tion. | lark and A. Anderson were ted at the Harbor Hospital for dog bites yesterday. Both men were fool- ing with Newfoundlands and both got in- to trouble for their pains. Clark was bit- ten at 1 Montgomery eet. He teased the dog a plece of meat until it made a snap early took the palm of his right hand out. ~Anderson was fooling with his animal at 2 Steuart street when it grabbed him by the right arm and worried him. Both men were treated | at the Harbor Hospital by Dr. Cherry. | CONVICTS AND LUNATICS Rev. James AT? Wfison on “The | Lessons of the Century.” | Under the caption of “The Lessons of the Rev. Dr. James A. B Wilson discoursed on the present and past conditions of lunatics and convicts, in his n the State of Connecticut, it was the custom and du- ties of the keepers of convicts to chain their wards to iron bars during the night time. This was done not as a precautiorn of safety, but rather as one of punish- | ment and degradation, and as it was in Connecticut, so was it in other New Eng- | land States, not to mention the countries | cf Y'urope, whete criminals were looked upon and treated as so many wild beasts. Flogging, branding and other barbarous | punishments were invariably inflictad | upon persons convicted of crime, though | the cffences might be no more than mis- | demeanors. Insane persons were looked | upen as being possessed of evil demons | and to extract the demons from the in- dividuals was considered the duty of the persons having charge of those unfortun- ate ones. “These conditlons have changed witnin the st fifty years, and to-day perscns convicted of crimes against the communi- ty are being treat>d with humans ccn- deratfon, always with the view ¢ cor- recting the individual and making him a better man than he was before he fell | from grace. Inducements are being held | | out to the convict to better his condition after he has paid the penalty for his mis- deeds. The laws as now framed offer to whereas in former times there were no | such inducements offered. The treatment | of the insane has also been changed for the better, and the disease of the brain is no longer looked upon as a crime, but rather as a misfortune over which the in- dividual has no control, and one he should not be punished for. “This wonderful change has been brought about by the enlightenment of the age ana through the instrumentality of Christian influence, together with the almighty aid of the public press. To the | press, perhaps, more is due than to any ! other influence, the bringing about of this | great information in the treatment of the criminal classes and the lunatics. The public press draws public opinion to abuses and no power can withstand its influence when rightly directed.” —_———— FUTURITY NOMINEES. Entries for Stakes at Coney Island Jockey Club Very Large. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The nominations for the stakes of the Coney Island Jockey Club are larger in number this year than ever before. The increase in nominations for the Futurity for 1902 is marked, there being nearly more received to date than in any previous futurity. The number of nominations follows: Su- burban, 67; June Handlcap, §7: Advance, 63; Switt, 65; Spendthrift, 63; Great Trial, 193; Double Event, 124; Autumn, 116; Flight (first closing), 27; September (first clos- ing), 29; Flatbush (first closing), 39; Great Eastern (first closine’) 40. Second and last closing on_July 16th for the Flight, Sep- tember, Flatbush and Great Eastern. The Futurity for 1902, 1226. $ $ she adjusted her compasses in the vi- gellan. e historic old fighting machine has Months ago she was to have start- This has all been changed, how- apprentices on a deep -sea practice y. to safl it was found that several of ; i i but as 2240 tons were discharged at Honolulu she comes in with 13,000 mats rice, 1158 packages tea, 31 boxes oranges, 54 cases andise can be discharged, so the Algoa will put so she will not take long in discharging and loading and should be able Doxford & Sons of Sunderland. She is 7575 tons gross and 4397 tons een engaged in the trade between China and Eurcpe erfously damaged. | | | TO SAN FRANCISCO. the British tramp steamer and comes hers from Hong- officer boarded her the vessel was to come. neisco. The blg sailing ship Somall and that was the largest up to the 36,149 bales matting, 1354 gunnies grain and then to Lombard street. The Crow, Rudolf & Co. (the Algoa Steam- ‘While making port at It was at first thought MURDERER OF R R . Copyright, 1899, b; POPULAR STUDIES Contributors to this course: Dr. W. Mabie, Dr. Albert S. Cook, Dr. Scudder and others. IX.—OTHELLO. The Play as an Acting Drama. Considered simply as a dream of passion in action, . “Othello” is kespeare's greatest play, and the greatest play the world has seen. ‘“Hamlet” may send its plummet down to greater depths of wis- dom and philosophy, and may also rise to much higher flights of poetic expression “Macbeth” and “King Lear” may reach their tragic culminations by a subtler evo- lution of their dramatic motives. But| “Othello,” in its swift and certain devel-! opment of theme from simple beginning to awful end, stands supreme. As a trag- | edy of elemental human passion it is un- equaled in literature. The history of “Othello” as an acting | play justifies these statements. Its popu- larity in this respect, with the possible R i et S . ] Edward WONG YUEN 1S IN THE TANKS | i D o o o o i [ Rata ool 2ot 2 ot e b do o 94‘-. ECWIN FORREST AS OTHELLO. exception of “Hamlet,” is without rival. “Othello” was popular In Shakesperean times, when Burbage played the Moor. His Companions Now Sought. WAS READY TO LEAVE CIT et CHIEF OF POLICE VISITS CHINA- TOWN. % More Trouble Between Warring Tongs Hourly Expected—Chinese o Shibboleth Is “A Life for a Life.” 4 e — The suspected murderer of Wong Yuen has been arrested and last night the po- | lice spent their time in an effort to ap- prehe man was taken by Sergeant df Police An- derson and Officers Foule, Carr and Ahern in a house on Washington street. h Mun. His name is He was taken to the California- later placed in the tanks, pending an in- vestigation. It is probable that to-day he | will be charged with murder. Yesterday Police Officer Foule received information that the Chinaman who shot the inoffensive carpenter to death at 28% Waverly place on Saturday night was still in town and occupied a room in a build- ing on Washington street. That the offi- cer might not be misled, the | | From tHe time of the Restoration ( | ception of some shortenin, d his accomplices in the crime. The | street police station and was | informer | And, except in the puritan and Crom- wellian epoch, when all plays were for- bidden, it has been popular ever since down to the very present there has never been a year in which “Ot has not held its place on the boards as one of the best “drawing” plays in the theatrical repertoire. And in one respect “Othello” done “Hamlet” in its hold ‘on po; VOr. '* has never been *“ It has always been presented, with tk , practically nn Shakespeare wrote it. Th be of “Hamlet.” Even Garric! Shal perean lover as was, altered Shal peare’s “Hamlet” to suit his fancy. And | other adapters and improvers of “Hamlet” | there have been of lesser fa But no | playwright, great or small, has ever pre- | lay desecrating hands on i ‘'Othello™ is as an acting play, its quality as a play for reading only is equally fine. No other play that Shakes- peare has written holds the attention of the reader from beginning to end with such enthrallment of mind and sense. Its spell is continuous and complete. The acting editions of “‘Otheilo™ do not present the play in its entirety. Theatri- [ cal representations in Shakespeare’s day | were much longer than those of our day. None of the time of the spectators was | taken up with scene shifting, orchestral performances, etc. A play as Shakes- peare wrote it has, therefore, to be con- siderably condensed to make it fit the con- ditions of a modern representation. Notwithstanding that this is so Othel- furnished him with a diagram of the|lo” as it was originally written is so logi- building and gave the exact location of the murderer's room. Foule was also warned that the man was preparing to leave town and might depart building at any time. e Sergeant of Police’ Anderson was com- municated with, and in company with Po- licemen Foule, Smith and Ahern visited the place. They climbed a labyrinth of stairs and succeeded in finding the room which was indicated in the aiagram. t admittance was refused them, but the door was finally opened and the oc- cupant of the room placed under arrest. It was found that the fellow blankets_all packed and was ready to ape. He answers the description of the nan who did the shooting, and Sergeant Anderson stated last night that there is scarcely any doubt that he is the man. His name was placed on the small book | at the California-street station. He has been in town about three days, and came here, it is belleved, as a hired murderer. There were three men implicated in the crime, and last evening was spent by the Yollce under special instructions in search- ng for the imprisoned man’s companions. Until a late hour last night no further ar- rests had been made. Chief of Police Tobin, accompanied by Acting Chief of Police Wittman, visited the scene of Saturday night’s crime yes- terday e\‘enln% and made a thorough in- vestigation. efore departing they ~de- cided that more vigorous methods must be emploved to suppress crime in the Chi- nese quarter. More trouble is hourly expected by the olice. Matters have come to such a con- itlon that further bloodshed is almost unavoidable. SIS, PROCLAMATION Chinese Consul General Speaks to His Countrymen on “Peace. ISSUED. Yesterday the Chinese Consul General for the port of San Francisco issued a proclamation calling for peace among the Chinese of this city. He urges his people to remain quiet and threatens them with serious interference from the Chinese Six Companies and the Merchants’' Assocla- tion if they fail to do so. The document was posted in front of the consular residence on Stockton street, and was read by thousands of Chinese last night. It is as follows: 1 implore my people to keep the peace. a country so far from our native land, a col ony such as exists in San Francisco should bs in & condition of peace. We should be as one brother to another. There should be no more quarreling, as it is shameful in the eyes of other nations. Only two companies are engaged in the pres- ent war and this is not their first quarrel. These men must change their ways and not fight ltke wild beasts in the jungle. If this trouble s not settled without further blood I will invoke the aid of the Six Companies and the Merchants' Association and bring the of- fenders to American justice. Seek to Stop Revolt. LIMA, Peru, Jan. 7.—In consequence of the reported attempts on the part of Caile to Chileanize the provinces of Tacna and Arica, the revolutionary chiefs residing in Iquique have resolved to paralyze all ef- forts at revolt by issuing a manifesto to the nation, leaving the Government's hands free to devote entire attention to the ransom of those provinces. ——————— ‘Wedding invitations and visiting cards, fine writing papers, tablets and papete- ries in our stationery department. Great- est variety and best values. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. . At | had his | | With bone so large, and nerve so uncompl! cal and complete in {ts dramatic con- struction that scarcely a line ean be struck out without weakening it. Hence | those who know “‘Othello” only from see- ing it played do mot know it completel No person should go to “Othello’ upon the stage without first reading and studying the play in printed form. “Otheilo” has the distinction among | plays of having two parts of almost first- clacs fmportance for male actors, and one part of almost first-class importance for & female actor, while several of its minor parts call for acting of more than an or- | dinary character. It follows then that the history of “Othello” as an acting play | would be ‘a history of the entire lish stage. This consideration will show how | imperfect a treatment of its histery is possible here. A point worthy of remembrance is that 1t 'was in “Othello,” in the part of Desde- | mona, that the first woman impersonator of a Shakespearen heroine, the first Eng- lish woman to act any part of any sort, | ever appeared. This was December &, 1660. So extraordinary was the innovation | that it was thought necessary to apolo- gize for it in the prologue. A Dart of this prologue ran as follows: “In this reforming age We have Intents to civilize the stage. | Qur women are defective, and so siz'd Yowd think they were some of the guard dis- 1s'd; | For to speak truth, men act, that are between | Forty and fitty, wenches of fifteen: When you call ‘Desdemona,’ enter ‘Gfant. This, it must be remembered, was In| the first few months of the Restoration | period. In the days of Shakespeare and | afterward until Furilsn ideas became so | dominant that all playing was prohib- | fed, the parts of women in plays had been taken by young boys, duly appren- ticed and trained. It was from the ranks | of these boy players that the players of men's parts were generally recruited. | Theatrical playing was then a respecta- | ble and lucrative profession. The puritan regime changed ail this. When the Res- toration again allowed playing to b done, the apprenticeship system was nl longer in vogue. AsS a consequence, fe- male parts were soon generally assumed by women. ‘All the great players in tragedy known to the history of the stage have taken part _in “Othello,” either as Othello or as lago, and in some ses as These great players in “Offiello” form a of regular succession of drama.” Beginning with Sha Burbage, the succession, or may be set down as follows: Burbage, Betterton (who in 1709 played Othello for | the last time at the age of 74), Barton | Booth, Quin, Macklin (who, however, | played only Iago), Garrick, Barry (some- times Garrick plaved lago to Barry's | Othello), Thomas Sheridan (the father of Sheridan the dramatist), John_Hender- | son, John Kemble, George Frederick | Cooke (who, like Macklin, also played | only 1ago), Edmund Kean, Junius Brutus | Booth (who played Tago to Kean's Othel- lo), Edwin Forrest (who also played lago to Kean’s Othello), Macready, Samuel Phelps, Edwin Booth and Henry Irving. Booth ' and Irving at one time played Othello and Iago together alternately. Of disti ished foreigners who have layed Othello, the more noted are the renchman, 'harles Fechter (with whom, however, the part was much in- ferior to his Hamlet,) apd the great Ital- jan Othello, Tommaso Salvini, Interesting notes could be written on the parts taken in the play of “Othello™ by all these players; but on the princi- ple that something about one thing is a great deal better than nothing much about many things, let us confine our at- tention to that Jrostest of all Othellos, that greatest, indeed, of all Shakespeare- an actors, Edmund Kean. Though Kean's genius for the highest form of acting was so transcendent, it must not be understood that it was Hiram Corson, | without Nmitations. | words THE OTHELLOS AND IAGOS OF STAGE HISTORY ¥y Seymour Eaton. IN SHAKESPEARE. Dowden, Dr.- Wiliam J. R Dr. Hamt Dr. Isaac N. Dem v . Dr. ¥ unive bl sal. mishes t 1 fame Moreove N Mrs. Siddons. Othello was Kean's part. As to this there is a ful t evidence. The elder Booth tol Booth that “no_mertal man 1 Kean In the 1 rage” e the words, gone,’ »cean One char ri sonation of Othello Actors_prior to him, and John = Kembl. Othello as as African, the play of te it to of negro ¥ other char- out: of a Mauritanian, and Othello as a * nothing more. eridge said of Kean s reading tning. foor, t “seeing him are by flashes was as ever, enact who was R P throw passion of w-off only 1 thro D R S A A 2 R Tk B R e e A B S S M+@+g+9+o+om. EDWIN BOOTH AS OTHELLO. father and son had appeared together. Expectation was on tiptoe, and in an swer to the applause which the per- formance of his favorite part evoked the great actor seemed t himself oncs more. But in the third act, at the f: ello’s occupation’s gone,” while the applause seemed even deeper and more fervent than it had ever been before, he hesitated and stammered. A moment later, in tottering toward lago, to utter the injunction, “Villain, be sure thou prove it,"” he fell into his son’s arms. he cried, “I am dying! Speak to them, Charles, implored. These were his _last The career of the greatest Othello, the greatest Shylock and the greatest Richard IIl the world has known was ended. A few weeks later he was in his grav Questions for Research and Review. 1. Are you prejudiced against Othello at the outset? Why? Are you still prejudiced act 17 By what means does W in your es- f the play? affairs of state are 4. Is De: great with Othello when both are on trial in the pres- ence of her father? Does Brabantio’s de- scription of Desdemona’s character show complete compre on of he: ing 5. Is Desdemon: e cone the handkerchief a dramatic necessity? How is her lie just before her death to be re- garded? . What is Othello's motive in killing Desdemona? Is It T What use is mac of race differences In bringing on th c concluston of the play? Is there anything unnatural in Des- demona’s love for a Moor? Does Othello show race_ peculiarities? S. Does lago become efther better or worse as the play advances? How explain Othello’s esteem of him? 9. Do you nk lago's face and form completely belied his character? Is he old or young? Has he real excuse for his villainy? Any real motive? 10. How do Iago and Richard IIT com- pare as villains? Which is the more artis- tic? Which the more cruel? Which the more_plausible? 1. How does Tago gain his ascendency over Othello In act 3, scene 37 Does he take lower moral groud apparemtly? In the reunion scene (act 2 scene 1) what is the significance of lago's part? 12. By what means does Iago keep Rod- erigo on the road to ruin? What are the successive steps In Roderigo’s degenera- tion? How often does Roderigo serve the main plot? At what point does he ceases to be necessary? 13. Is Cassio necessary? At what points in the play? 14. In what scenes {s Emilla most ser- viceable to the plot of the play? '](5._’13 Othello’s suicide a dramatic neces- sity? 16. For what sins do the various offend- ers against moral laws pay the extreme penalty ? d. & .Omu; Ohto State Tniversity. DEATE OF A VETERAN. Passing of Captain Fair:zloth, Who Served Through Three Wars. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Captain F. M. Fatrcloth, commander of the transport Segurancia during the Spanish-American war, died at his home in Jersey City to- day, aged 70 years. He was a veteran of the Mexican, Ctvil and Spanish wars. In the war of the rebellion he was com- mander of the Government steamer Bos- ton, which was burned to prevent the Confederates taking possession of her. During the battle of Santiago Captain Falrclfa(h stood on the bridge of the bat- tleship Indiana.