The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1900. DAMAGING DOCUMENTS ARE FOUND IN PRETORIA Pro-Boer Members of the House of Commons May Find Themselves in . an Unpleasant Predicament. garse Sty + NDON. Aug. 2—The Daily Telegraph, | PRETORIA, Tuesday, July 3L—Mrs. | o of its Cape Town corre tha was the gues Lord Roberts at | [ ; s that documents of P s B g, RSP 3 ’ ating from t that he ¢ d in Pre- £ . P the Hous > = 3 P ¢ -ial circular as- was forced to and that Lady - debate in | for a m Verr wing to tary budg William adde: esmen of the st authority were impressing upon at they are the b rid. ord Salisbur; : reason, but Lord se of this hatred ared the empire ory desir- to its own 1 stood In the Exchequer. Sir : " in reply i the 1o 1 v ng. A ted, but he would BTy s Dosn -ofiierall 15 n why | make & return showing how they had : was disobeved | been reached. ALTGELD MAKES BITTER ATTACK ON RODSEVELT Former Governor’s Speech | Before the Ohio Demo- cratic Clubs. — i n for the recent re sia rsed NOMINATIONS MADE | BY I0WA REPUBLICANS DES MOINES P Iowa, Aug. 1.—The Re- nvention to-night nominated ate ticket: State, W. public the fol of B. Martin of F. Merriam of Manchester. ! G. 8. Gilbertson of Forest | General, C. W. Mullen of | preme Court, Emlin McLain Commissioner, D. J. Palmer of lectors il E (at luffs large)—John and Oleo O ions Adopted at the Conven- Reaffirm the Kansas City orium was mok’ed to suf- Platform and Ask for g Yeciegutes and visitors. W. 4 L Muscatine was temporary Explanations. 1 at J. rewin of = s perman. - resolutions Hedge of reported B ifter indorsing the urling State tribute izing his “onger, ange and TICKET NAMED BY KENTUCKY POPULISTS ; Aug. 1—The Kentucky S : 2 onvention (middle of the road) to-day nominated for Governor O, Spanish war, of Crittenden County, and also | a war of hu’ al electors. The plat- | to a war of con- s the Omaha and Cincinnati | relarations; indorses Barker and Donnel- | denounces the Republican part Roosevelt. tor | Saw Wit orhee Bl 1 capitalism,” and the Democratic N alone uba- | party as “the servile imitator of the Re- | s W e puhllruuf in all the \'1l|§hmu,~' legislation | Pompous - | of the past thirty years”; declares im- | he_Sett the ¢ perialism sham battle between the two old parties to obscure real issues’: denounces restr s upon the ballot in c various Southern States, and especially | the Goebel election law in Kentucky, and b ! res for initiative and referendum. £ tions denouncing s criminal both the | Democratic and the Republican adminis- | tration -of affairs in Kentucky were | stricken out.~ This was not done, howev without a strong opposition from Jo A Parker, who had drafted the platform and wanted it all adopted. The S e platform took place under a big more tree on the banks of the Ohio Ri The convention was held at River View Park, and 1% delegates, representing all the Kentucky Congressional districts, were present. —_— HOAR WILL CONFINE HIS WORK TO MASSACHUSETTS NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Senator Scott ra- o-d letter at the Republican 1l headquarters grom Senator Hoar itation extended to the tor to take an active ign. Senator Hoar ex- A Tale of Taxatjon. 7- 1 a Ped ympathy with the | publican National Com | no man in the countr desires more earnestly Republica; ess 1h 1" wrote he. But he added he D ever - taroughout his public is_rule never | putside of his uld do all he 3 nr in that w 1-as by correspor with leading citizens here and by the publication of his views, b R ‘ OKLAHOMANS WILL SUPPORT POPULISTS | | OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., Aug. L-—T‘hei Territorial Democ Convention to-day | s—a most richt- |.agreed.to the rt of the Populist con- show e th 2 | fere sion The ¢ committee nd 7 nte gress. n in | the Democ < settle after mianight < oo the naming of J. 1 | ily of pros m. | a bitter fight -t | - brought one of | Jacobs [actions T Tos elected T. J. Gr Oklahoma City | solutions Adopted. National Committes man 1 1< adbpted heartily. Feaf. Social Democrat Nominee, of principles adopted K ntain the following: ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1L—The Social Demo- [ : protection and blessings | <rats of the Tw Congressional Dis. triet h e nomi Charles 8§ h! T | Congress, Mr. 8; bt is one of p!eh‘-‘ ‘mt’;t prominent trades unionist in St. Louis. — Reed Is Silent. < | BOSTON, Aug. 1.—Thomas B. Reed, for- square miles of . laska, and i distiose how | mer Speaker of the House, who was in f any, has lately been given away | the city to-day, refused to say whether avored imperial scions of royalty. or not’ it was his Intention to make a That we further demand of the General Gov- | speech in Maine during the campaign. masan [ R e R A T | 3. R. Richards was sunk in the Detroit WILL INVESTIGATE . CHINESE SITUATION Commissioner Rockhill Arrives Here on His Way to His Duties at the Theater of War. R R o R s B S SR SRS 1 et THE NEW COMMISSIONER TO CHINA. A e e e e e e e e e e e s ] W. W. Rockhill, United States Commis- | until he gets to China. ner to China, accompanied by Mrs. | °Has your mission anything to do with Rockhill, arrived here yesterday from | “A’.‘,';“lv‘i‘l"f“'l‘ (':x{m ,““_5,~‘°“"'d- Washington, en route to the Orlent. Mr. | s e hue 8 5 | think it safe to s that the President is Rockhill's mission is to report on condi- | not ving much thought to mediation or tions at the theater of war to the Presi- | indeed to any measure at 1 until he has and § of State I To en- | mor definite information was the an- SWET, able him to do this the executive commit- tee of the Bureau of American Republics In reply to a question as to whether his rt would deal with the identity of the | has excused Mr. Rockhill from his duti murderous hordes Mr. Rockhill s director of that department he expected to to America Commissioner will sail to-morrow | thing that was of importance in the hina c o i % 4 z ent situation '(\r China on the America Maru and will L re fhe o e arrival at Shanshal by Gan- ks highly. *“He is the only native in sular Clerk Hubbard Smith, who is at bz to-day whe ihnrous il v oeterttands | present acting Consul at Canton. Hub- an affairs and customs,” he said bar ith will serve ary under he present Commissioner is by virtue Mr. Rockhill. Shanghai has been select- | of vears of experience in the country for 1 sckhill as his headquarters. | which he is bound the right man in the he right pla 1 sec 11 de inted Going to China in 1884 as sec- of the Peking Legation, in to b ind to have been killed a year h B raised himself to the posi- “My mission is simply to report on con- | tion of first In 1588 he returned litions in Chi t the presen: time, to Ameri aving resigned h Mr. Rockhill last nigh I hope t | consular position to make a tour of in- work will soon be fin vestigation through China In the inter- be able to return to V s of the Government. In 1889 he re- my regular duties.” The only nation besides tates send a Commi: n the state of affairs whose representative is Sir W | turned, to the Orient, traveling through Western and Central China for the Smith- sonian Institution. From 1883 to 1897 the diplomat served as i to Greece. This position he resigned to ac- ver. Mr. Rockhill is extremely reticent as | cept the directorship of American Repub- to the obj of his expedition, claiming | lics, which office he held when the Chinese that he does not know what that will be | dificulties began. the ssioner to Great United ) report WoUfided *ChineSe WPut United States Consui | toDeath at the Point of the Bayonet During Seymour’'s Disas- trous Retreat. ICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 1L—Lieutenant von Krohn, a German officer who arrived at Yokohama in company with 300 wounded and incapacitated Germans and others on the steamer Korn, chartered by the German Gov- ernment, in an interview given at Yokohama just before the Glenogle sailed savs of his experiences with Admiral Seymour’s column: “Everything went pretty well until the column reached Langfang, where the rallw was found destroyed. They had then to leave the cars and the wounded were placed on junks on the river and the march backward along the river be- gan. Up to then they had only been opposed by Boxers, but soon regulars armed with the latest patented rifles also opposed them. On account of the wounded they had to march along the river and storm every village in their path. One day seven were taken, the next six, working and fighting from 3 a. m. to 8 p. m. The Chinese used s powder and their position could not be found. The villages w and burned down.” ‘Asked what the Chinese did with their women and old men, Lieutenant von Krohn said they emigrated with all speed, but if this was not possible, as In the case of one village taken by the allies, they cut off the heads of the women and children and threw them in the riv On the allies went until they reached Sfu- kiao arsenal across the river. Here a thousand halte@ for the others behind. They tried to parley, but the Chinese fired big guns, foflowed by rapid fire. The gunners fought well, many being wounded, among them Lieutenant Krohn. Finally orders were given to storm. The British enginegrs tried to take it, but failed. Reinforced by the Germans, they charged again-and took it. Immense numbers of guns and munitions of war were found. Six thousand Chinese had held the fort. The allies garrisoned the fort and prepared to make a stand there until relief arrived, but after a stay of four days, Admiral Seymour having come to the conclusion that in case a larger force attacked them they would not be able to hold.it, they decided to destroy it and move on. Consequently, as they were unable to take any of the guns along the engineers prepared an explosive charge and the next night at about 2 o‘clock they saw it burn and explode. Shortly afterward they were relieved by forces from Tientsin. “We did not take prisoners,” said Lieutenant Krohn. “As far as the capture of prisoners is concerned, this was an impossibility, as the Chinese are not clvil- jzed for that kind of warfare.” Lieutenant von Krohn was asked about the statement of a German that the Russians had dispatched the wounded with the butts of their rifles. The leu- tenant said it was not quite so bad as that, but under the circumstances of the present war in China they had been and probably would in future be compelled to kill the wounded with the bayonet. In the beginning they had even sent the wounded tg the hospitals in Tientsin, but they soon found out that as long as a man was dble to raise a hand he would try to stab the foreigners, and as, more- over, they found the prisoners very refractory and had all they could attend to themselves, they had been compelled to kill all wounded with bayonets and, generally speaking, accept no prisoners, but kill everybody who stosd up against them. Frequently they found Boxers who had taken their red badges and clothes off in the hope of trying the “amigo” trick on them, and while the trick worked at first the allies soon gave orders to kill every Chinese who would stand. The Chinese in turn decapitate and mutilate every foreigner who may be wounded or killed and who is unfortunate enough to fall into their hands. On one occasion a large number of Boxers succeeded In encircling an Italian officer with eight men, and while four of the men cut thelr way through the other four and the officer were simply overwhelmed by the numbers and literally hacked to pieces with the long knives of the Boxers. When Lieutenant von Krohn afterward saw the body of the Italian officer, the head was split into four pieces and his entire body cut up. PEACE BUREAU PLANNED. PARIS, Aug. —The International Peace and Arbitration Conference adopt- ed a proposition for the establishment in connection with the peace bureau at Berne of an international press service to be known as_the Peace Agenc: duty will be the publication of :'bfix}:flf: TWO SAILORS DROWNED. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 1.—The schooner River in a eollision with the steamér John W, Moore early to-day and two sailors, John lves of Sandusky, Ohio, and John Kelly of Rochester, N. Y., were drowned. The Richards was in tow of the tug Cressel and was loaded with pig fron. When off Walkerville the vessel and the Moore crashed together and the schooner soon filled. Ives and Kelly were sleeping in the forecastle. of peace. It will be furnished free to all the papers of Europe. Funds will be ralsed by subscription’to carry out the plan. Dr. C.C.0'Donnell in the Field Again. This time for Congressman from the Fountain pens are just the thing for school use. We have the “Marshall” pen | pourth District. He is a hard man to at one dollar and a most complete stock | heat, California needs him in Con, of Waterman's Ideal from $250 to $7 each. | this year as an experienced authority on Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. *|the Chinese and Japanese question. =~ * showing the advancement in the interests | | guan Government admitted the ju | vened in its favor. | of raisins, or 100 carloads. MARITIME CANAL COMPANY LOSES TS CONCESSION Its Property Seized by the Nicaraguan Government. All Time Granted to Construct the Wat- erway Has Expired and the Gov- ernment Acted Under Rules of the Agreement. S A MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 1—The Government of Nicaragua has taken pos- session of the property of the Maritime Canal Company and removed the com- pany’s cars and rails and property to the interior from Greytown under article 54 of | the concession. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The seizure of | the property of the Maritime Canal Com- pany has long been expected. Under the | terms of the concession the Nicaragua Canal Company was allowed a period of ten years after the completion of the pre- | liminary surveys in which to complete the | construction of the canal. at period expired nearly two years ago. 'he Nicaraguan Government, foreseeing the failure of the company to comply with the letter of its contract, entered into an- other arrangement with what was known as the Cragin-Eyre syndicate to take up the original concession promptly upon its | expiration. The Nicaragua Ca Com- pany, or rather its successor, the Maritime Canal Company, was notified that the Nicaraguan Government had vacated its concession and intended to seize upon its properties according to the terms of the concession. The canal company protested | and appealed to the Government of the | United States on the strength of an arti- cle in the concession providing that “should events of main force arrive, duly | Jjustified and sufficient to impede the reg- ular progress of the work during a period | of the ten years an extension shall be granted,” etc. The company claimed that this contin- gency had arisen, and asked for the ex- tension referred to. The last article of the convention provides that in the event of a misunderstanding between the-Gov- ernment of Nicaragua and the company the dispute should be submitted to four arbitrators, two to be selected by each party. The company, upon the refusal of | its claim by the Nicaraguan Government, demanded this arbitration. The Nicara- stice of the demand, but required that all four of the arbitrafors should be native Nicara- guans, The company refused to commit its interests to the care of such agents and United States Minister Merry, at the instance of the State Department, inter- Tt appears now that the arbitration had failed, as, the Nicara- guan Government claims, by the expira- tion of the period allowed for its work the Government has proceeded to make | the seizure of the canal company's prop- y. | The State Department has not yet been notified of this action and when it is will probably take some steps to ascertain what motive influenced the Nlcaraguan | Government DEATH COMES SWIFT | AS THE LIGHTNING | ———— Five Thousand Volts Shot Through an Electrician and He Falls Dead While Flames Play | About Him. Special Dispatch to The Call. GRASS VALLEY, Aug. 1.—Tuesday | night’s fire besides destroying $150.000 | worth of property is directly responsible | for one death, at least. J. W. Lufkin was instantly killed by coming in contact with a live wire this afternoon, Lufkin was engaged with a crew of men in fastening wires to a pole in the burned district. Suddenly a hum was heard from e wires and Lufkin's body was seen lying across the wires and flames shooting from all parts of his body and from the instruments with which he worked. A fellow workman grabbed Lufkin and pull- ed him off the wires. Three doctors work- ed on him, but without avail. Five thou- sand volts had passed through his body. | No human being couid survive such a shock. How Lufkin came in contact with the wire is not known. He was strapped to the pole and engaged In lapping joints. | An examination of his body showed that | | bis left thumb and ear must have formed | a circuit. How the current came to be on is a mystery to the Electric Power | Company. Hancock, superintendent | of the company in Grass Valley, says current was turned off all day and w not turned on by any employe of tg;; company, to his knowledge. | J. W. Lufkin was from Nevada City, | where he has been in the employ of the Electric Power Company for a number | of years. He:.was 32 years of age and | leaves a widow and two small children. BIG RAISIN DEAL IN FRE3SNO COUNTY Colonel Forsyth Arranges to Pur- chase the Entire Crop of A. B. Butler for a Sum Approx- imating $40,000. Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Aug. 1—The biggest raisin deal in the history of the county has been arranged between A. B. Butler and Co! onel Willlam Forsyth, the latter purchas ing the former's entire crop for a sum approximating $0,000. Forsyth was at one time in the raisin packing business | with Butler and for the last four years the complications which grew out of te | partnership have been the subject of liti- gation between them. The litigation is not entirely settled yet and the announce- ment of sich an important business dea] ! between them has created a good deal of surprise. . The Butler crop this year will make 4000 tons of green grapes, according to the | best estimate. If this whole quantity | were dried it would make about 1000 lons Colonel F syth intends, however,.to cure only abou three-fourths of the crop, or seventy-five | cars. In addition to that he will have this ‘year the crop on his own place and | that ‘on two other ranches that he con- trols this year. Mr. Forsyth is not a | member of the packers’ combine and But- ler does not belong to the growers’ comn bine. This may lead to complications be fore the deal is completed: COLORADO TOWN SWEPT OUT OF EXISTENCE Every Building of Importance in Gil- man Destroyed and the Loss Will Reach a Hundred Thousand. DENVER, Aug. 1—A special to the News from Red Clff, Colo., says: The town of Gilman, of 600 inhabitants and the center of the mining Industry of Eagle County, was wiped out of existence at 2 o’clock this morning. The buildings destroyed include the Con- gregational church, the opera-house, the 0Odd Fellows’ Hall, two general merchan- dise stores, three saloons, the postoffice, two dry goods stores, two livery stabies and upward of fifty dwellings, and wiil foot up a total loss of $100,000. KENTUCKY CO. NUMBERS. MONTREAL, Aug. 1—The regular monthly numbers for August of the Canadian Royal Art Union, by which the winning numbers of the Kentucky Lottery are decided was held hede to-day. The first six prizes were as follows: | between the brilliantly | mer | taln_had finished his | screams and yells of terror, some real and ADVERTISEMENTS. The above picture shows the house where 26, 1837. It was occupled by the Dewe miral's father. It then came into the pe sold It to its present owner and occupant, Mr. Gordon moved it to its present s Mr. ) visit this s A recent letter from T. R. Gordon to the Peruna Drug M 1859, has occupied it until the pres courtesy to the thousands w nt time. as follow: w: orge Dewey s_born December ey family 1 after the th of the Ad- s Captain Edw Dewey, who . Gordon, Euq., in summer of e in the following Feb ry, 1880, and and Mrs. rdon are unfailing in their the birthplace of Admiral Dewey. Co. umbus, O., t is with great satisfaction that I find myself able after an extended trial to write you in this emphatic manner of the good your Peruna has done my wife. “She has been troubled with catarrh from childhood, and whenever she has a cold, or any unusual condition of the weather it was worse than usual, and seemed mors than she could bear. The dropping in her throat at night prevented refreshing sleep; in fact, we had come to look upon it as incura- ble, and from the many remedies used ““We are thankful and happy to in vain we had reason say that your ‘Peruna’ ‘has been of great benefit to her, and | confidently /ook for a complete and entire cure. High praise is not too much to bestow upon your remedy. Address The Peruna Medicine Co. T. R. GORDO tumbus, O., for free book on catarr! POLICE RAID FAMOUS RESORT IN NEW YORK Two Hundred Well-Dressed Women Taken From the Tivoli to the Police Station. W YORK, Aug. 1.—No such whole- sale raid of well-dressed men and women s been recorded in the tenderloin un- der the present administration as that which closed up the Tivoll in West Thirty- fifth street to-night and landed 200 men and women in the West Thirtieth-street station. Several patrol wagons made trips ighted resort from 11:30 until midnight. Captain Thomas and forty of his men made the raid. The place W full, an orchestra was playing and waiters were serving drinks when the captain and his men in uniform entered. At once moge men in plain clothes, who ed around at the table wome: ang to their had been s nd aisplayed their shields. swore and women screamed. Many to whom a police rald was not a new thing resigned themselves philosophically to the inevitable and begged only that the policemen. handle them carefully. All the women were arrayed in expensive sum- finery and sleeveless and low-cut bodices of almost transparent material were the rule. Many wore diamonds and much jewelry. Captain Thomas went through the place, which is a large hall, luxuriously fitted up, and arrested everybody except the one man most ' desired—Ackron, the proprie- tor. Ackron has kept out of the jurisdic- tion of the police for three or four days, ever since he learned that a warrant for assault was out for hip. Chief Devery announced early in the day “that the Tivoli must be closed” and the ald was not unexpected. The women were nervous all the evening and several of the more hardened of the tenderloin habitues kept close to the door all night. Others who had recelved no intimation of the general demand for the Tivoli's sup- pression—a demand which the police at last have complied with—were taken un- awares. These women were the ones who screamed and w Fairy Tales Told. Many of the male prisoners were evi- dently prosperous business men of middle life. All sorts of false names were given at_the police station. g The raid was the most theatrical ever made in ihe tenderioin. Old timers all sala so. Captain Thomas marched at the head of his men up Seventh avenue to Thirty-fifth strcet and then to the door of the place so sharply that no one had Ume to run in and warn the crowd. The captain left five detectives and a. rounds- man at the doors and exits and then en- tered. In almost no time word spread all | over the Broadway and Sixth avenue dis- trict and _Thirt ifth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, was packed with people when the patrol wagons start- ed on their trips The prisoners were greeted with derisive hoots and yells. Another crowd number- ing 1000 gathered around the police sta- tion. Captain Thomas’ entrance was dra- matic. He was in full uniform, and when he had marched his men inside he took a position in the middle of the hall and red around him for a full minute. f:uryhody was scared, and when the cap- tain had satisfied himself of this he ex- claimed theatrically, “Every man and woman in this place is to consider himself or herself under arrest.” Moment of Wild Uproar. Bedlam broke loose as soon as the cap- declamation, and some simulated, filled the place.. Many of the women tried to faint and a few suc- ceeded, and the men who had ‘“just dropped in to see what the place was like don't you know,’ looked sheepish enough. The women, nearly all of them expen- sively attired, were taken to the wagons first. There were fifty-four of them, and mary had never before been under arrest. Some wept, others screamed, but the crowd cheered derisively as they were driven away. At the Tenderloin station their pedigrees were taken and they were locked up. Three well-dressed couples, apparently | respectable, who said they were married and were seeing the sights, were permitted to go free after close questioning. De- tective Clennon won the plaudits of the crowd in_ the street when he escorted a pretty Salvation Army lass with a bundle of War Crys, to the door and bade her de- part in peace. It took several trips of the wagons to carry the men prisoners to the police sta- | tion. There were 154 of them, all ages and conditions, many of apparent refine- ment and respectability. Names and addresses were taken at the station and_after Captain Thomas given warning that he would hold them if caught again. they were permitted togo. WOULD SUBMIT PLANS FOR A WATER SYSTEM New York Man Wants to Send En- gineers to Make Necessary L Survey. The Mayor received a communication yesterday from F. H. Garman of 71 Broadway, New York, in which he asks permission from the Board of Supervisors to send his engineers to this city to make surveys and lay before it plans and esti- mates for a municipal water system. In his letter Garman says: I am building the water system of Grand Rapids, Mich, without the city bonding itself for the works and if the board will agree to consider my plans before' closing with others 1 would send my men to San Francisco at my expense to prepare the necessary plans. In the Divorce Court. 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