The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1900, Page 3

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF NEGROES IS CARRIED White Voters of North Carolina Deprive the Colored Man of the Ballot. ™ ¥ N 2.—After one the fight over the amendment. Many m 1 contested cam- voted for the amendment. The gBS eve in North Caro- Livingston Collége, at Salis- e D prominent negro t in the South dment was opposed g blicans and Popu- nators Butler and ns and Pop a poll of the ing the de on as United negroes, as a gen- ay from the polls. . passed off excepting at a little A fire there, which ore wherein was kept nuQooks, _destroy ' op, e work being ¢ ngth, which, combined and some Populist and 1 ballots, rolled up a large ma- on nominee for defeated by Charles B. Democr nominee, and all Democratic . candidates were Legislature is Democratic in cklenburg County, of D s to those > is the county seat, gave nds were u Democratic county : of the alie ery eastern county was carried the majorities in some or State officers, mem- | of t Most of the centra s r v are also Democratic. Retu west are incomplete, tic. Chairman Simmonds sald I think we ma- CHIEFS CEDE TUTUILATOTHE | PEACE CONGRESS UNTEDSTATES, NEARLY SPLI Aunuu and Several Other|Trouble Caused by Discus- of the Samoan Group sion of the War in the Relinquished. Transvaal. for - 2 nd, speaking The Hague confer- st the war in the expressed astonishment sests for arbitration made by republics had not sh dele- would )t Eng on imply- id it astde the ions fon {he adh ,00¢¢¢’000¢¢¢v¢0000¢0.* Jhe Day’s Dead § 4444444544440 4444440 Daniel W. Chichester. The Call —Daniel Wood Mr. ’4“) & DR. TANNER SUSPENDED FROM s cisco carly after a | v 2 ound THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ners Irish Member Defies the Chairman, i the Entire Body and the Whole > Railr miles nort of Mr. Chic ork and was aged son and three | Joel Doss. i to The Can PETALUMA, Aug. 2.—Joel Doss, a high- respected pioneer farmer, succumbed an attack of peritonitis this morning at his residence east of town. Mr. Doss widely known throughout Sonoma County He was born in Indiana and in 1554 he - | came to Placerville, where he was occu- g uproar r %»}\,.,., a number of years as a Th he time he wi lot THREE PERSONS DIE FROM TOADSTOOL POISONING He w Loy Legion and succeeded ti e Phil Sheridan as the head Illinois commandery of that mil- Lives of Four Others Saved by One ation. tims, Who Heroically w e Professor G. L. Farnham. BINGHA Y., Aug. 2 Farnham of Rive: . ly of heart disease for a Doctor. y ~Three side ied here sudde evening, aged He was visiting s his eity, where formerly Su- x f S Later he S 8 at ( and af- ru, Nebr. From there lifornia. William Halif-clad anc crazed t alive. that almost J. Nay. Y r ack to Homewood . and fell exhausted ae th of a physician. He ¢ the doctor reached to save four of deadly toadstoo's. where in, o o - | He was a } r. A daughter, DYNAMITE EXPLODED | o brgthers “and ‘throe sisters Survi UNDER A STREETCAR — Six & Motormen in the City of | BOSTON, Aug. 2.—Delos A. Goldsmith, <, ssclai | 2 well-known young journalist of this Dallas Disclaim Knowledge city, died this afternoon at Quincy, aged of the Affair. 20, In 189 Goldsmith figured in a duel Ang 2.—There was an cks of the Dallas Street Railway 1 Harwood streeti this of its cars passed. |The with swords with John Crowley, lawyer, the affair of honor ce early one morning in Bos- aking Franklin W.il;winr St;;w‘ « but not wrecked. The 5 unior who have been on strike | CARACAS, Veneznela, Aug. 2—Infor- 1 = laimed all knowledge | mation has reached this place of the K death of the United States Consul at Bar- o, anquilla, Colombia, from cholera. Charles Kahn. PR g et o The Unite: ates consular lis ives ~mf‘;’d’;5_."‘flffi‘:‘; the mame of W. Irvin Shaw of Pennsyl: Louis Johnson. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 2.—Louls Johnson, at one time one of the best known bicycle racing men in the coun- try, dled at his home to-day after a lingering {liness. vania as Consul at Baranquilia. stock yards s ent municipal SRS Gold on the Mariposa. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Aug. 2.-The steam- er Mariposa, which left this port to-day for San Francisco, carries £30,00 gold. | neer box factory and THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, O s [ | | R i SR R FRIDAY, MAYA INDIANS IN BATTLE AGAINST MEXICAN TROOPS Display Great Bravery When Surprised by a Force of Government Troops-Englishmen Said to Command the Redskins. AXACA, Mexico, Aug. 2.—The military authorities here have received information th'ut there has been continued fighting between the Maya Indians and the troops i Yucatan for the last five days and that the rebels have been forced to abandon several of their strongest positions adjacent to the city of Santa Cruz, where they have their headquarters and tribal government. The Indians were taken by surprise several days ago by a force of gbout two thousand Government troops commanded by General Bravo coming in on their right flank. After firing a few volleys when this first onslaught was made by the Government troops the Indians retreated a short distance and then made a determined stand, which they have held with persistence and great bravery. It is charged the Mayas are led by several Englishmen, suppossd to be from British Honduras. AUGUST 3, 1900. ASHANTIS DEFEATED BY THE BRITISH FORCES Major Beddoes, Who Was in Command of the Detachment, Receives a ' Severe Wound. EKWAI, Ashanti, Aug. 1.—Major H. R. Beddoes, with guns, started July 24 to locate the enemy's war camp. found, the warriors numbering 3000 to 4000 men east of Dompessi. Several hours’ fighting resul 500 men and The after three & in the two - Ashantis after a stubborn resistance. Major Beddoes' losses were heavy He and Lieutenants Phillips and Swaby were severely wounded. Thirty men were also wounded. More troops will be necessary before the campalgn can pos- sibly finish. TIVOLI PRISONERS ARE !BOMB EXPLODES IN HALED INTO COURT | CITY HALL AT PATERSON Two of the Sixty-Two Persons Ar- No Damage Don» Beyond the Start- rested in a New York Dance ing of a Report That Anarchy FOSTER CHILD HEIRESS T0 THE THORNE ESTATE Judge Smith Hands Down a Decision in the Long Pending Suit. | e / | Decedent Had Deeded Over All His Property to a Woman of Whom He Was Enamored a Short Time Before Death. —e | | | | | i i NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Justice Smith of he Supreme Court rendered a decision to- ¢ finding for the plaintiff in the long pending suit of May Thorne Brantingham against Eunice E. Huff over the will of Thorne. . Thorne died on May 4, 1897. had died only eleven days before. The | t was over a transfer to Mrs. Huff by | Thorne of the record title of stock pa; monthly dividends of 5 per cent on $300,- 000 and various other property owned by a His Mr. Thorne, estimated in_ail at_some- | thing like In 1863 Joseph Thorne and his wife adopted May Lillian Lee, the plaintiff, then nearly t The child was the Aeutenant William Henry who had been drowned at San Fra C The plaintiff lived with the Thornes as ir child from December, 1863, unuil the th of April, 1895 Rich Mr. ‘Thorne tion upon her, vished all his affec- jid his wife. But one me a sudden change. ation_in Boston Thorne | L Huff. The Thornes | = living a t New Brighton, 1 > daughter had married G. S. Brant- | and had children. She lived in itiful home next door to the Thorne | mansion. | Mrs. Thorne, who had spent forty happy | her hus ued for divorce. 5 years old, bought a new Sing. M friends or relatives nd he so continued under the | and control of the defendant, | Huff, down to the time of his | May, 1897, the old man dled. Then Huff produced a paper to prove her | im to his estate. This paper showed | l‘n Mrs. el that Thorne had assigned his property to Mirs. M Huff for the consideration of 31 yrne had died, broken-hearted, s before her husband passed ntingham sued for her rights - which she be- daughter. » before reme Court, Brooklyn, and he de cided in favor of Mrs. Huff. On the ap- peal he wi uled, and rial of the ci s. Br: r rights. Mr: urt to turn over d on the new i b te which s fd the got from Thorne for $L —— GENERAL BOTHA IS ON VERGE OF SURRENDER| Indications That the Boer Command- ant Is Tiring of the Difficult Task Before Him. i LONDON, Aug. 3.—The Pretoria corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing | Wednesda: “Commandant General Botha is weak- ening. He has sent a messenger to Lord | Roberts asking for confirmation of the | report of ‘the nder of General Prins | mun! x et.” CAPE TOWN, Aug. 2—W. P. Schrefner, the late Premier of Cape Colony, speak- ing in the House of Assembly to-day, an- nounced intention an ‘mendment to the Government's trcason bill, which, without disapproving the law, | declares its continuance in certain dis- | tricts contrary to the rights of British | subjects. He tpok the ground that the | ameéndment would not hamper imperial action. | “The ' occasion was seized by Mr. Schreiner to make a long and eloquent ex- | planation of his attitude throughgut the | war in South Africa. “If I have been | guilty,” he exclaimed. “regarding the in- sufficient colonial defenses, the military authorities have been ten times more guilty. I delayed calling out the volun- 1 until the invasion of the colony com- | pel it 1 not aware at that time of_the weakness of the imperial forces.” He vigorous denied the existence of an | Afrikander conspiracy, deciaring that | sympathy with the Boers did not mean | disloyaity, provided true allegiance was | maintained. Mr. Schreiner paid an_ en- | thusiastic tribute to the humane methods | of Lo rd Robert |LETTE R BY TAYLOR IS PLACED IN EVIDENCE | Resolutions by the Mountaineers | Held to Be Incompetent Testimony. GEORGETOWN, Ky., Aug. 2—The de- | fense in the Powers case offered the testi- mony of six new witnesses in court to- | and much of the two sessions held | was taken up by the wrangling of attor- neys for both sides, the jury being sent out a-half dozen times. One of the fea- | tures of the day was the presenting by Colonel Mengel of the First Kentucky | Regiment of States Guards of an auto- graph letter from Governor Taylor writ- ten on January 18, two weeks before the shooting of Goebel, in which he instructed | him to obey ‘“all s and _signals’ orders given him by Adjutant General Collier. Th | officer offered to explain the cipher | messages “all gight.” sent out by Colller | immediately er the shooting. The de- fense was overruled on two important points during the day. Judge Cantrill re- Pusing to allow one witness to relate a conversation he claimed to have had with Wharton Golden relative to receiving pay for testimony and refusing to allow an- other witness to read to the jury the resolutions adopted by the mounfain peti- tioners, and which they attempted to pre- Eont to the Legislature. The defense ex- pected to show by these resolutions that the assembling of the petitioners was not for an unlawful purpose. Fourth District Fair. PETALUMA, Aug. 2.—Santa Rosa has been awarded the Fourth District Fair. Petaluma was desirous of getting the award, but Santa Rosa outbid this city in the amount of its subscription, Santa Rosa ralsing $3000, against the $2000 subscribed by Petaluma. i | each weighing over | board LOTTIE GILSDN SECRETLY WEDS I, K EMMETT Latter Was Once the Hus- band of the Actress, Emily Lytton. Several Years Ago in This City She Caused His Arrest for Having Shot Her. pSEh DS Spectal Dispatch to The Call. / YORK, Aug. 2—Miss Lottie Gil- son, variety actress, is once more a bride. This will be a surprise to most of her iends, and they will be still more sur- d to learn that her present husband K. Emmett, actor, son of Fritz Em- once a famous German comedian. are spending thelr honeymoon at the Belvedere Hotel, at Far Rockaway. Miss Gilson coyly admitted to a Call correspondent who saw her at Far Rock- away to-night that she and Mr. Emmett were quietly married in Jersey City on July 23 J. mett A Judge married us, but I've forgotten his name,” she sald. ‘“Maybe Mr. Em- mett Know: But Mr. Emmett w: she did not want to d Miss Gilson had hoped the new wedding would not get out, for she was | afraid it might hurt her actractiven the After the marrl her husband_had gone to Pearl River, N. Y., and the n s lying down and her home at t day they had returned to this city. They then went | down to Far Rockaway for a brief stay. Later they will appear together in a sketch. This 1s Miss Gilson's third venture in matrimony. Her first husband was Thomas J. W who was sent to the | penitentary in 1892 for setting fire to his | wife's crime \ivorce married Lem B vorce from Mr, he contessed. She him and then she She secured a di- few months ago. Mr. k »tt also has had some matri- perience. His first wife divorced him in 1894 and he soon afterward married Emily Lytton, leading lady of his com- pany. They did not live happlly together and he was accused of trying to kill her in San Francisco in 18%. The next year she granted a divorce. Recently mett has been playing in short sketches in vaudevilie houses. HEAVY FALLING GIRDERS INJURE FACTORY HANDS Crash Through Eleven Stories of a Building, Burying the Inmates in the Debris. NEW YORK, Aug. 2—Three persons were seriously injured a: others bad- 1y cut and bruised to-da ¢ the falling of five heavy pieces of ructural iron from the top of a twel tory building in course of construction at Broadway and Walker street C vears of Morris . 16 vears old, and d Waldemann, 19, were so badly In- Jured they had to be taken to the )hos- pital and six others were painfully hurt. All will recover. All of the injured persons were y by M. GOIdberg & Co. PocketbooR: mat ers, who occupied two floors of the five- story building on Walker street, directly in the rear of the building in course of construction. Four heavy iron girders, a ton, were being hoisted to the top of the big building. They were being swung around to the top of the building, when they slipped out of the chain. Three of the heavy girders crashed through eleven floors to the base- ment and the fourth stuck at the second floor. Over a hundred workmen were at work in the bullding, but they escaped injury. When the big boom of the derrick was released of the girders it swung around | and struck a_fourteen-foot iron upright, snapping it off and throwing it over the side of the building. This pilece weighed over a ton. 1t crashed through the roof of the Walker-street building, where thir- ty people were at work on the top_floor. They were buried in the debris. Those who were not hurt badly made a rush for the fire escapes, leaving a number of women who had fainted and the injured persons lying helpless on the floor. Alfred F. Norton, foreman in charge of the iron workers, was arrested on a charge of criminal negligence and ar- raigned In_ the Center-street court. He was paroled until to-morrow. TWO CASES OF YELLOW j FEV_ER AT TAMPA Quarantine at Once Ordered by the State Health Officer of Florida. KEY WEST, Fla., Aug. 2—Dr. Porter, Florida State Health Officer, who is now in this city, received to-day from Dr. Weedon, medical representative of the at Tampa, @& message an- nouncing two cases of vellow fever in that city and saying that he believed the infection to be general. Dr. Porter at once wired Dr. Weedan to place quaran- restrictions on all travel to and from e b It is belleved that the disease can > confined to Tampa. PMONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 2—The Governor of Alabama, acting upon infor- mation of the existence of yellow fever in Tampa, Fla., has issued a quarantine proclamation’ against that place. e SEEXKS THE POLE. German Naval Officer to Start for the Frozen North. BERLIN, Aug. 2—Captain Banendahl of the imperial navy will start for the north fortnight. He will sail directl; Tt the”pack ice region morth of Spitz. bergen and then westward to the open sea, when he believes he can reach the pole. He will take three years’ pro- vislons. REE RN ‘Wales at Coburg. LONDON, Aug. 2—The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and the Duke of Connaught have gone to Coburg to at- tend the funeral of the late Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha. Among those selected to represent the Admiralty at the funeral are Admiral Sir Frederick Richardson and Captain Sir Archibald Berkeley Miine. m- | Hall Are Sentenced. Was Rampant. NEW YORK, Aug. ghty-one| NEW YORK mb was a women and eleven men, who were arrest ily explode of the ed in the Tivoll, a tenderloin resort, we Hall, now used as a Recorder's arraigned in the Poll Court here to- E Two of the women were fined 310 for The fact that the latter is thus honored is taken as evidence of royal | regarding the Astor controvers NICARAGUAN CONGRESS. ide: disorderly conduct and another was ser- o President Zelaya Personmally Ac-|{i00q (o three months' imprisonmen dresses the Body. a_vagrant. e nlk:’e’r ;*n xwem w - MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 2.—The | Fhe men all were disc narged exc A small dynamite bomb which was Nicaraguan Consress convened last even- [ 2000 510 Givan” whe was heid in $a00 | Scized by the police from an Italian bomb Ing and was personally addressed by Pres- | bail for examination, and John F. Me- It b i e e N - ident Zelaya, who declared that the condi- | Avoy, the waiter, who is alleged to have uecid icked by ¢ tion of the country, especially from the aulted State Senator Ford in the Tivo- g i ficials and explosic MEETS DEATH IN A a: If a few nights ago and against whom Senator Ford appeared as the complain- ing witnes: .\{r.-\\'n,\ was held in 31000 bail for examination to-morrow, his coun- sel stating that he desired to bring coun- viewpoint of the finances, showed distincy improvement. He announced the termina- tion of the concession to the Maritime Canal Company and formally proclaimed the existence of the Eyre-Cragin canal crl:'mn 1ls pr‘rl‘gr.xrlnme for extending the —_—————— | - oot S b L artesived FULL BLOODS WIN. }s».lemasn Killed by Bullet From His ————— ¥ | Revblver That Is Accidentally Superior Mine Sold. Election in 'Choctaw Nmtitl)(n Rf.esults: Discharged. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. in Selecting Judge Dukes for EW YORK, Aug Jascom Governor. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SOUTH McALLISTER, L T., Aug. 2— The election of Governor of the Choctaw nation was held yesterday. Returns re- ceived show that Judge G. W. Dukes has been elected by a large majority. Dukes ran on the fullblood ticket, whiie his op- ponent, K. Wright, ran on the progressive tickeet, which wants the opening up of Indlan Territory to white settlement. PLACERVILL] Aug. 2.—A deed was filed in the of the County Recorder in this city from W. H. Martin of Oakland, conveying to Alvinza Hayward the Superior mine, on the mcther lode, a mile south of this city. Fifteen thousand dollars was the price pald for the mine. Tayward has been operating the mine un- der d bond for a number of months past and has done a great deal of development work on the propert Wyatt, a traveling salesman vicetim of an unusual z He was In a comy train. His coat was near where suddenly tu threw the against the side discharge of the weapon. through Mr. Wyatt's head. instantaneous. lothes alf price If you will overlook the noise, confusion and inconvenience made by our carpenters while at work, we will make amends for your trouble by selling you suits at one-half less than you would have to pay at any other time. Below are a few of the reductions: Suits which sold one month ago ror $13.50 and $i5.co are now made in the same manner for - Made-to- Order Suits $10.00 $5.25 $6.85 $8.45 L] Cheviots of good weight, formerly $10.00, are now reduced to - Other Cheviots in very desirable patterns, which were $12.50, are now on sale for Fancy Cheviots and black clay worsteds, worth $15.00, for they once sold for that, price now Ready- Made Suits Suits of blue Cheviot, ages 3 to 8 years. We have sold them for six months at $2 25, but now they go at Boys’ Middy _Suits $L.45 - Tecks, Four-in-Hands, Puffs, Impe- rials and Band Bows, all pure silk ; best neckwear ever shown in Cali- fornia for the money New Neckties 25¢ Good wearable hats in stylish shapes and popular colors ; material is better than you think, although we sell them for - D0D 718 Market Street. Derby Hats