The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1900, Page 1

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VOLUME LXXXVI[—,\'(V). 100, GREAT BRITAIN THINKS THE END OF THE WAR IS NEAR Chancellor of the Exchequer Announces That All the Money Asked For Will Not Be Needed, and There Is a Lull in the Sending of Reinforcements to South Africa. AFGHA ISTAN'S AMEER STANDS WITH ENGLAND —The Ameer of Afghanistan has auhtorized his agent in following statement of the policy of Afghanistan Kruger and Steyn Make Proposals for Peace in Such Form That the Imperial Government Can’t Entertain Them. Aft he had devoted much | of Ru taking advantage of the 1 Afghanistan and India, his Highness ssia feared Afghanistan, as war with of all Islam. which would spread )ps enough to combat such a rising. Mussulman countries she has conquered Is inse They hate times her power Russia could not fight Afghanistan and India fer death to slavery, and their women and chiidren Russians.” he is will ut adding send numerous troops to help Great Britain in unaccustomed to the sea, the ans are nd's troubles are alwaysmy troubles; her strength fs my strength, ess is my weakness. Eng st remember that I am always fight for her on land here orin In ready tc All ot isorg or intervention would end the struggle, | he | but that it would end quickly, within the | next month, he strongly believed.” LATE OPERATIONS AS REPORTED BY ROBERTS| LONDON, March 9.—The War Office has e following dispatch from Lord Boers er reports tend to ation of as we sion is that t f the British to Bloem- | ot be opposed. of ammunition was de- f which the Boers factured for the British Government KRUGER AND STEYN TRIED TO RALLY BOERS LONDON, March 9.—The War Office following dispatch from Lord Clements has occupied Norvals Pont and the adjacent drift. As soon as the ngineers, pontoon and troops arrive he will cross the river, when the necessary repairs to the railway bridge will be com- menced, acre occupied Burghersdorp March Friday Morning, 7 and was greeted with great enthusiasm lents Kruger and Steyr the part of the loyal inhabitants. His | at the fight of March 7 scouts report that large numbers of the ir | rebels in their neighborhood are anxious s complete, | to surrender. could not DT aiery ano KRUGER MAY ASSUME KRUGER WANTED A SHOT | AT THE ENEMY HIMSELF force of c: ‘ormidab THE CHIEF COMMAND LONDON,; March 10.—The Berlin corre- spondent of the Dafly Mail says: “I learn that there is dissension between President | LONDON, March 8 ches from | Kruger and General Joubert, and that the [ERtx ety 2 LOUreNZ0 | atter has resigned. Probably President € a rific and inyvit. | Kruger will assume the chief command eyt he General Schalkberger and other prom- | wished to have a shot at the enemy him- | inent commandants are also likely to re- | sign for similar re »ns and because Pres- | quoted as hav- | ident Kruger ignored their advice to make | ess to the troops | peace overtures r the first Boer vie- | that he ““did not know whether arbitration | tory.” i Dot Pttt 9000000000000 0009000000000 0040 40040040 . . . « . . ® . . - < B + . . B B Py - . . + . + - - . @ o+ >ebeo-+0 o%@»o—o*%.@ # ruse of the Boers to gain | o 2 ; ? st consider that President | & ready to consider the sweep- | 7 which Great Britain will | ¢ reimbur t for the lo it life | @ t expenditure. It was understood | ¢ at President Kruger's advan had et | g th an emphatic rejection at the nands | J of Lord Salisbury, who is believed to have | i said that no such attempt to retain the | % ¢ - independence of the Transvaal can be con- | + E dered for a moment by the British Gov- | & - AETS ernment. . ekl MARCH TO BLOEMFONTEIN WILL NOT BE OPPOSED OPLAR GROVE, Orange Free Stats, rch 9.—~Generai Fremch, who Is fea iiee ahead, reports that his front is clear (From London TIllustrated News). 4‘ I | > f : p | formed that high officlals SCALING THE TUGELA HEIGHTS. Sotee s Boers Have Planted Mipes Under Johan- nesburg and Declare They Will Blow It Up Before Surrender. [Special Cable to the right, 1900, by pany. Republication of prohibited. Al rights TUnited States and Gi LONDON, March 10.—The special corre- spondent of the Daily Mail sends this dis- patch: LOURENZO MARQUES, March 8.—Very little rellable news is reaching here from Transvaal source All newspapers are stopped, and ever: passenger is rigorously searched to pre vent the slightest clew to the Boer move- ments being published. I am reliably in- at Pretoria openly avow that the British never fly over Johannesburg, as the place will be razed to the ground, mines being constructed at various parts of the city. They are electrically connected with the w York Herald Copy- York Herald Com- ch is the Thursday, SAN FRANCOISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1900. ; [ Eaam s e el e s ] é PRICE FIVE CENTS BERKELEY SHOCKED BY A MADMAN'’S ACT Alexander Carter, While Insane, Slays His Brother Charles and Then Commits Suicide. Mania Developed From Excessive Smoking and the Use of an Awful Tragedy Morphine Causes in the University Town. B T e e ] flag will | fort and will be fired as occasion arises. | Most of the gold mines, except those con- trolled by the Government, are shocking state, being full of water, while the machinery is rusting or willfully smashed. -— PREVENTED THE BURNING OF THE QUEEN’S EFFIGY WINNIPEG, Gretna Mennont thizers, attempted strong Boer sympa- to burn the Queen’s in a| Manitoba, March 9.—The | effigy, but a dozen Englishmen with rifles | arrived on the fire on the disl lighted. The mately dispersed. The Altona Mennonites are also giving trouble drive the English-speaking people Yfrom the town. val crowd If the effigy S L INDEPENDENCE NOT TO BE GRANTED TO BOERS LONDON, March §8.—The Standard, which is in closer touch with the policy of the Government than any other minis- terial organ, says this morning: “We have reason to believe that an authorita- | tive statement will be made by the Gov- ernment reaffirming the impossibilty of conceding any terms of peace to the Boer republics which would involve a perpetua- tion of the political and military independ- that led to the present costly and sanguinary conflict.” D R e B ' Y General Hart’s (Irish) Brigade Making the Assauit on the Boer Position on the North Side of the Tugela River During the Third Advange for the Relief of Ladysmith. | scene and threatened to | Mennonites were ulti- | threatening to | B e O S R R S I S e BB L R S S e R e S S S S S o S S SR SR SCER SRCES S S o S o T 2 A S A e e O R e e S S | | Oakland Office San Franecisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, March 9. | HILE asleep in bed this morning | Charles Carter, a freshman at | the University of California, was shot and killed by his in- | sane brother, Alexander Carter, who im- | mediately afterward committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The double tragedy occurred in the brothers’ bed- room at their residence, 2111 Rose street, | North Berkeley, where the family has | lived for six months. The brothers were sons of George W. T. Carter, formerly an Assemblyman from Contra Costa County, | and for seven years past a rancher in Fresno County Tliness and excessive cigarette smoking | ars the causes which led to Alexander | Carter's insanity. Por several years he had been suffering from an abdominal trouble, the result of an accident, and was | low=spirited because of the failure of an operation to relieve him. His inveterace | use of cigarettes combined to upset his mind and induced a form of melancholia. tecently he had told his parents he was fraid of going insane. They insist, as do the young man's friends, that insanity alone can explain his terrible deeds. | The two brothers occupied a rear | bedroom In the trim cottage which is | the home of the Carters. In the house | were Mr. and Mrs. Carter and a daughter, | Miss Mary Carter. The father was awak- | | ened about 6:30 o'clock by two pistol shots. | Miss Carter was also aroused, and they | intuitively realized what was the trouble. | | The elder Carter rushed to his sons’ room and found the door locked. His calls fail- ing to elicit a response he attempted to force the door, but failed. Then half dressed Mr. Carter went outside and with ! the assistance of nelghbors a window to | the room was opened and the aged parent | | | climbed in. A horrible sight met his gaze. In the bed lay the younger student, the coverings drenched with blood, while og the floor {lay Alexander with a bullet wound in his head. Blood covered the floor and was spattered about the room. At the older brother's side was the pistol with which | he had done such terrible execution. Wounds Prove Fatal. Drs. H. N. Rowell and J. E. Kelsey were called, but told the horrified relatives that the wounds of both men were faial. Three hours later Charles died, his broti- | er living until 1 o'clock this afternoon. As soon as an examination of the room could be made it was discovered chat Alexander had risen and half-dressed himself, evi- dently without disturbing his brother, who occupied a separate bed. On the floor at the foot of the fratricide’'s bed was his canvas traveling-bag, open, and its con- tents strewn about. In the bag he had kept his pistol, an old-fashioned five- chambered weapon, on the model of a Emith & Wesson. Alexander had shot his brother evident- ly while the latter was fast asleep, for he lay under the bedcovers, which were undisturbed. The maniac brother had stood several feet away and had shot di- rectly at his sleeping brother’s head, the bullet entering a couple of inches back of the right ear. He then placed the muzzie of the pistol in his own mouth and sent a bullet through bis brain. There was not a particle of evidence in the room to indicate that the deed was premeditated. Every appearance was that the shooting was the resuit of a sudden impulse of insanity. he family had no suggestion Last night t of the coming tragedy. Alexander Carter retired early, his brother rem-‘jx?(mgl up e late. ori: over his books until ?«m:‘ot the family heard anything *frem the young men until by the shooting. - ,’nxo brothers had been much attached to each other. While Carter and his wife had knowledge of Alexander's never gl;;urbod m&nt..ll condition, - B Hie oty of sulcide. at times, but it was not considered seri by the members of the family. Crippled by an Accident. Three years ago an accident occurred which somewhat incapacitated Alexander they were aroused DD+ S deoeitg (1T BI (LAY /4 11 o B e e e S A e T R e L 2 + YOUNG STUDENT KILLED BY HIS CRAZED BROTHER.: .Mw-o—&o— B O R SCRY S SRS S o B e o e ol e ot Y ] | Carter from following his trade of ma- chinist. For many years he had been in charge of thrashing outfits for his father. Last December he had an operation per- formed at Fresno by Dr. Davis and since then he had been in the German Hospital at San Francisco for relief. Over his con- ditfon he had brooded for months, and friends of the family assert that he had been melancholy for years. “I cannot make any other explanation of the cause of this dreadful affair,” said his father, “than that Alexander was overcome by a sudden fit of mania. He had been insane I am satisfied now for years. While he had talked of suicide, none of us took any stock in his threats. I realized immediately what had occurred when I heard the pistol shots this morning. It was Charles, then Alexander, 1 thought. as the reports reached my ears. There had not been the least warning. Both boys went to bed last night as usual. ‘“When I got into their room the sight was awful. 1 saw at once that both boys were gone. Charles lay quietly in his bed | just as if he were sleeping. At the side of the bed on the floor lay Alexander. found his pistol beneath him.” Vietim of Cigarettes. “There is every indication,” explained Dr. Kelsey, “that the insanity of the young man was due to excessive cigarette smoking. In the room were dozens of half-smoked cigarettes and his features | were those of a confirmed user of the paper rolls. It does not seem credible that the physical trouble from which he suffered was sufficient té have turned his brain. There is no doubt that the over- indulgence In cigarettes could affect the brain and cause such a violent form of mania that would have led to his deeds of blood. ‘““There never was a chance for either of them, as the big bullets tore through the brains, causing wounds beyond all surgical rellef. The members of the fam- fly were so afflicted thatSour attention was needed to soothe them during the shock following the tragedy.” During the past two months Alexander Carter has made two trips between Berke- ey and Fresno. His father accompanied h%n once, in order to have him given medical attention. Two weeks ago Alex- ander returned to Berkeley and had in- tended, he sald, to remain here until summer farming work began. }}u ‘brother, Charles, had been devoted for several years to study. He attended the Lowell High School In San Frane two years and graduated last from the Fresno university in August. _ Inquest to Be Held To-Day. Charles was 2 years old, his brother violent | 1| Miss Ann2 McCleave, Miss Bnldr;dg!. | being nine years his senior, They were | born” at Byron, the Carter's ‘old home, and there the funeral will be held Sun- day. Coroner Mehrmann took charge of the remains and upon request of the fam- | ily permitted the bodies to remain at the | home, where an inquest will be held to- | morrow. | “In searching the clothing of Alexander ‘r(‘aner. Deputy Coroner Streightif found a nearly full vial of morphine in the | trousers pocket. Carter had been a uscr | of_the drug. The Carter family came to Berkeley in | order to give Charles a home while he | was attending the university. Besides the relatives at Berkeley the ys had a married sister, Mrs. Thomas Hosle, who resides in Madera. | The news of the tragedy cast a gloom over the university town, where the young student had made many warm friends | during his residence there. This afternoon | a special meeting of the freshman class | was held to arrange suitable testimonials of condolence. President Sibley- appointed as a committee on_ resolutions F. T. Berry, C. F. Stern and C. G. Bailey. The | floral " tributes will be_ arranged by A. E. Jackson, J. A. Morlarity, P. S. Mad- { dox and Carl Jones. Representatives from | the class will accompany the family to | Byron and act as pallbearers. During the meeting addresses were deliver v President Eschleman of the sophomore | class, C. F. Stern, P. 8. Maddox and F. T. Berry. CITIZENS WOUNDED IN BATTLE WITH DESPERADO | Samuel Sandoval, a Bad Man of New 1 Mexico, Is Killed While Re- sisting Arrest. DENVER. Colo., March %.—A special to | the Republican from Albuquerque, N. M., | says: Samuel Sandoval, a young desper- ado, was killed and several citizens wounded in a battle at the town of Atarique, which followed an_attempt to arrest Sandoval and Juan Mestas. who had been “‘shooting up the town.” Mestas ‘was captured. SIXTEEN MEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION IN COAL PIT Galleries of the Mine Collapse and the Victims Are Buried in Y- for the Debris. NIMES, mm‘kflh‘d‘? 9.—8ixteen have been an explosion oal pit at Be: The galleries 6F the mine collapeed, ine bodies of the victims.

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