The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1900, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1900 WILL FIGHT AGAINST | THE MODUS VIVENDI Senator Mason Returns From Trip of Investigation in the Porcu= pine District. Declares That Valuable Rights of Americans Have Been Surrendered to the Canadian Government. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTC B. C., Aug. 12.—After hav- | district was u,lsofi\'en the Senator by the ing personally investigated the effect of | Specimen of gold which came out from there when he did. the Alaskan modus vivendi, from an ob- | W. E. Mason and party returned to Skag- | with Senator’s party from Haines uay from the Porcupine district on Aug-|on the steamer Alert, and he brought ust 7, having spent a week in looking over | out six hundred ounces of dust from Dis- the temporarily established boundary line. | y_claim of Porcupine. “The consign- - e - " | men s very coarse gold and included The investigation has not changed Sen number of goodly sized nuggets. | the Mr. Dalton in conversation with ator told him that the specimen was t W ator Mason's expressed ideas on the ques- tion On t contrary, he is more resolved | rights in eve fon that | While at Skaguay awaiting the arrival is of the Secretary Hay made an ignoble Surren- | o¢ the steamer Alki, on which he was to der. During his visit to the Porc il for -the south, Senator Mason was district the Senator addressed me g of miners and heard their cc plaints against the cesgion of their rich Arctic Brotherhood, to- Weare, President ofl : 3 ) s epeech the | . Captain Rant, who has been appointed | e g g B R speech the | by the Canadian Government as Gold | vor to have the tempo 3 ssioner for the Porcupine district, | hrough Skaguay en route there st 7. The steamer Danube also brings news Canadians are doing the trade of the Yukon. They are freely shipping | goods from Dawson and do not have te pay duty, as there are no American offi- cers on the boundary. t aside b; { the quest ator Mason is entb wealth of the Porcupine distr said his trip had given full re at importance of th: hich Secretary Hay had a permanent ad- over the and he temp: s ed D she 5 e said That d."-,,f.,-:n‘\hfi,.f_i'&“lfl.-' A A e Skaguay Council has declded’ to O ereement was rich _was | tax forelgn ships landing there. him when assisted in a The body of Walter Monastes, one of on claim 1 below sovery, | the victims of the Florence S disaster, has | Captain Havey _assisted the | been found, Three men from Douglas at eighty-four ounces of and and a Jupeau man re shot at work of six | with rifle by 1 an_Indian hiding behind cabins on August 6. The JDanube brings $75,000 in gold dust. ONCLE SAM WIL NEDATE IF TIE | MINISTERS ARE SAFE —— | hope his appointment will be acceptable to the powers, and 1 know the results of the negotiations conducted by him will be satisfactory alike to Chinese and to for- | eigners, for he will be just,and honorable n all his dealing priinsdi SR AMERICANS SHELLED BY B B L e e e S BIG FLEET OF TRANSPORTS SOON TO SAIL FOR CHIN | and horses. moment’s notice. | | | | | | LINFESSES T0 THE MURDER O MESSEAGER LANE BRITISH BY MISTAKE Continued from First Page. o SRR I ——— | Ten Men of the Fourteenth Infantry Were Wounded Before Error ‘Was Discovered. Acting Secretary Adee madef edict. i by the Washington | n th public the text of the W e i offic mee of PIENATY | g . a1 Cable to The Call and New York Her- o negotiate with ald. Copyright, 1800, by the Heraid Pub- th P T f § ment of existing | lishing Company. troubles is a step in the right direction, it | yANGTSUN, Aug. 6, Evening, via Che- is by sured that the United| fy Aug. 9 and Shanghal, Aug. 12—After Sisten O t will consent off-hand rching fifteen miles from Peitsang the negotiations with the dis llies to-day captured Yangtsun. The | mands of this | fighting lasted four hours. The Chinese ave been made | Jines extended from the raflway bridge without equivoca They | eastward three miles. It is estimated the erstood. Assuming that | e ¢ numbered The Russians, | nt is acting in good | British and all the Americans were en- | e reasonable and can | ggznd. Colonel Daggett led a beautiful | charge. é | Chaffée estimates the casualties and | prostrations from the terrible heat pre- | vailing amounted to 40 per cent of the | force engaged. The English and Russians | confounded the Fourteenth United States Regiment in the night with the Chinese | and shelled them. Ten Americans were nded before the mistake was discov- The Americans had ten killed and ! -five wounded in the fighting. The | British had fifty wounded, the Russians v néluding a colonel. The Chinese s are unknown. The troops will rest -mOrTow. annot be misun verr m, 8 -4 & States , all of the Unite n Governm: which a as this Gov- with the sole pur- e besieged leg rer lined to take an op- | situation, but it can his view is trations™ »f the MESSAGES ANENT THE { CHOICE OF WALDERSEE WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—The Depart- ment of State made public to-night the correspondence with the German Govern- | ment and or relative to the lecti of Fi Marshal Count von Wal- for the chlef command of the co- forces in China. Follow- nessages: are the decision of the can and German sol- v—has randum roment rtment imperative memorandum as alities, united le. Field Mar- ho will have the honor is mot a stranger to an American by birth y to accept my heartfelt nee of the United States rehip of Count von Walder- WILHELM IL the President cabled g acknowiedgment to-day: ified to receive your Majesty's mes- | 1 will in relation to the selection of and, like you, I see in our that the n the t_goc it Waldersee, on effort to discharge a common duty to | aitional _recognition the s and mutual interests that exist be- country and Germany. WILLIAM McKINLEY. IMPRISONED FOR ‘ HELPING MINISTERS | LONDON, Aug. 1 the ¢ ge ready committed o7 VON WALDFRSEE WILL FIRST GO TO ROME —Cheng Yen Yuang, A4 Marshal Count | the Cantonese who was the special Em- | E to the Ber. bassador of China at Queen Victoria's liner Tageblgtt a =pecial mis- | jubiice and who is now in banishment at | sion to F -dered, according to teh, to commit suicide, an g for China. |1li, has been o ELATION OF MR. WU OVER LI’'S APPOINTMENT a| | imperial edict having been issued to that effect. Shanghai correspondent of the | referring fate of Cheng | avs he was executed and | for this barbarous | w -\.\HV\?T’ N, Aug. 12-Mr. Wu is he same correspondent understands | much clated over the appointment of Li 3 ident of the Board | 3 gl en imprisoned on a | 8 s d dering assistance to the . thy ers of the foreign legations. s the re- gl i e . would be | RUSSIAN TROOPS ! OCCUPY SANTCHAU N Li's designation a capi- he said tal one “Aside from the Em-| peror and Empress he is the highest offi- cial in the Government, and he has the | LONDON, Aug. 12.—General Grodekoft implicit confidence of all Chinamen. in | reports to the Russian War Office the | many ways he is eminently qualified to | oceupation of Santchau and the passes | ct as an intermediary between his own 2cross the Chingau Mountains. Orders | vernment and the representatives of | have been issued for the formation of two additional Siberian army corps. A | semi-official Shanghai telegram publish- | ed in 8t Petersburg describes the send- | | ing of British troops to Shanghai as| “without the least necessit the powere which may be appointed to act with him. He has done excellent work for the Chinese and they have great con- fidence in his discretion and wisdom. I w ASHINGTON. Aug. 12—The War Department’s dispatch from Minister Con- | presumed the dispatch of General Chaffee was dated at Yangtsun and that his ability and determination to “hold” until relief reaches him. That General expression of hope that b long looked for reiief may soon reach him simply adds ’ B | CONGER’S MESSAGE EVIDENTLY DELAYED. ger transmitted through General Chaffee, had evidently been delayed long | in reaching Chaffee. as his own dispatch was dated four days ago, It is | an error was made in transmission. While the message of Minister Conger con- tains nothing new, it is encouraging to the officials to have renewed assurances of Chaffee will communicate to the besieged Minister tidings of hope and good chi i the opportunity be afforded him, officials here are certain. )llnl-t:r- Co:g::«r.' to the determination of the Government to press forward to Peking as idly as possible. It is evident that the distance half-way to Peking has been co:r?;td., SIR ROBERT HART’S MESSAGE FROM PEKING l ONDON. Aug. 12, 3 2. m.—“The sooner we can be got out of this the bettes for it is inconvenient for the Chinese Government and upsafe for ourselves. This 1= 8 message received last evening from Sir Robért Hart, dated Peking, August on. Cheng. Director General of Railroads and Telegraplis according to a Shanghat spatch fo thié Standard. exprésses grave fears for the members of the legations wkhen the defeated Chinese troops return to the capital. , and =ent in cipher to the Chinese maritime customs office in Lon- | remaining shots at the Killed His Friend to Secure Money Enough to Get Married. ¥R Charles R. H. Ferrell Tells How He Accomplished the Robbery of Adams Express Com- pany’s Safe. PR A COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 12.—Charles R. H. Ferrell, a former employe of the Adams Express Company, was arrested this afternoon in this city and confessed to the killing of Messenger Lane and the robbery of the way safe of the Adams Ex- press Company on the Pennsylvania east- bound train Friday night. One thousand dollars of the money he stole was re- covered. Ferrell was to have been married Thurs- day next to Miss Lillian Costlow, daughter of an engineer on the Pennsylvania line. He had been discharged from the employ of the Adams Express Company and con- fessed that the motive of the robbery was to secure money for the approaching mar- riage. The money recovered he had given to Miss Costlow to keep for him, saying he had saved it from his earnings. Ferrell is but 22 years of age. He was at the home of his aflanced and in her company when placed under arrest. The confession of Ferrell disclosed a premeditated and bloodcurdling crime al- most_impossible to belie He said he had become desperdite because of his in- ity to secure employment and a tion of the fact that he must have the expenses of his ap- ‘I'he robbery, in- rea mone proaching marriage. cluding the murder of Express Messenger Lane, had been planned carefully. Hav- ing provided himseif with a sixshooter ‘errell went to Urbana I’rldflwnrnlng and waited for Lane's train. en the train arrived Ferrell went at once to the express car and told Lane that he was out f money and asked permission fo ride to I"ymmhus. Lane consented. For a short 12t Urbana they ne sat in the chair th his back slight- Wh had_finally erved himself for the crime he'drew his revolver, stepped up behind Lane unob- served and fired three shots in rapid suc- cession into the messenger's back. Lane rolled off his chair and Ferrell fired the prostrate body. but Ferrell, fear- ime after the train hatted pleasantly. in the end of th y ot . Lane was unconscious ing that the wounds already inflicted would not cause death, took Lane's re- yolver and fired two more bullets into the body. When confronted with the evidence against him, Ferrell broke down and con- fessed to the detectives HANKOW MISSIONARIES PARIS, Aug. 12.—According to dis- patches received to-day from Vice Ad- miral Courrejels of the French naval command, native Christians and mission- aries on the line to Hankow, 500 kilome- ters from Peking, are in great danger, the point being entirely ~outside the sphere of the allied operations. He has also received bad news regarding Niu- chwang, captured August 4, which, as he is advised, has since been evacuated. According to his advices from the French colony in Peking, eight marines, one cadet and one customs employe have been killed. He savs a Danish company has lald a cable from Chefu to Taku, Pt awy KOREA WILL WELCOME JAPANESE TROOPS LONDON, Aug. 12.—Korea, according to a Seoul dispatch, consents to Japan send- ing troops there to provide for emer- gencies. NO FAITH IN PLEDGES. LONDON, Aug. 12.—The Dafly Mail pub- lishes an interview with the Chinese Min- ister in London, Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng | Luh, quoting him as urging the fofelgn Ministers to leave Peking. % “‘Some geuple uaé'." remarked Sir Chih Chen, “that the Europeans are stifl be- sieged. It is not so. When you are be- sieged you are not atlowe g&mum&- on wi e outside world, you are receiving messages, - cipher ‘eu&“, from Sir Claude Macdonald.” i Commenting ugon the various proposi- tions made by China Lo the powers Daily News well expresses the predomi- naflng British opinion as follows: “What the Chinese authorities say in effect is this: Stop your advance upon Peking and we will give your Ministers a safe conduct to Tientsin. "If you do not at once Instruct them to leave Peking we cannot answer for the consequences. ““To this abominable and not very thickly veiled threat there can be onl: one answer, and M. Delcasse has given it in very cogent terms, The Ministers can- not leave except under absolutely con- Vinelng guaranjces of safcty., In the the only speedy advance of the allies Wes real hope of saving the Ministera he Dalily’ Telegraph In the same Vi “American statesmen thke up what be the flly logical attitude Shen gf: tell ‘ha Rever for & M:m a: of his placing himself at the mercy a Chinese official pledge. HERE will be an exodus of transports from San-Francisco to China before month is out. Eight vessels are now being quietly got ready, and some of them will carry the most formidable instruments of war ever sent out of this country. On one of the first ships that sails will go a battery of siege guns, a light battery and the requisite men The Siam is loading with horses and provender at Folsom-street wharf No. 1, and the Azt Joaded at Folsom 2. The Rosecrans and the Strathgyle are to take a siege battery and the lccomp;;;i‘n:’l;i;:ufls men between them, while the Warren will take the colored troops. The Sherman and the Logan are ready to sail at a The Sheridan will be ready to depart for the Orlent in a week or two. There will be no trouble in getting all the troops ordered to China away inside of two weeks. O+4444444444444444440 FIFTY LIVES LOST 3 BY SINKING OF A, FRENCH WAR VESSEL PARIS, Aug. 12.—During maneu- vers of the French fleet off Cape St. Vincent last night a collision occur- red between the first-class battle- ship Brennus, fiying the flag of Admiral Fournler, commander of the fleet, and the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Framee of thirty-one tons displacement. The Framee sank immediately. Only fourteen of the crew, con- sisting of four officers and fifty-six men were saved. The losses include three officers, Captain’ Plassix, the second lfeutenant and the chief en- gineer. Admiral Furnier in a dis- patch from Cadiz says that at the time of the accident the Brennus was steaming ahead of the Framee on the left. The flagship and the torpedo destroyer were exchanging signals, when the latter approached too near to the Brennus. The cap- tain of the Framee ordered his helmsman to steer to the left while he increased the speed. The man misunderstood or badly executed the order, steering to the right, which brought the destroyer under the ram of the Brennus, the Framee + + + - & + + & RS + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ¢ 4+ + + + + + + + + + + > 4+ being cut in twain, RS maaads st AASOAEASAAASBASBOOASS + B++4++4444 444444444440 WILL WEAKEN GARRISOAS IN PHILIPPINES Many Volunteer Regiments Must Soon Be Brought Home. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLING- TON HOTEL; WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— Imperative as is the need of troops in the Philippines, the authorities; to thelr great regret, are compelled to begin ar- rangements for the withdrawal of volun- teers. Transports which are now con- veying regulars to China will be used to bring back volunteer regiments, which under law must be discharged in the United States before July 1, 1901 If the backbone of China's resistance is broken, as the authorities hope and an amicable settlement of the Chinese ques- tion is accomplished, the regulars in China will be ordered to the Philippines. It is apparent, however, that the forces in China cannot be withdrawn until ne- gotiations for the solution of the Chinese question are coneluded, and in official cir- cles it is belleved that these will con- tinue until next spring. The withdrawal of 35,000 volunteers will sadly curtall the military force in the Philippines and necessitate the reduction of garrisons. In order to prevent recruiting to the in- surgent army Major General Young, com- manding Northern Luzon, has issued an order declaring that after June 10 no na- tive over 14 years of age will be per- mitted to travel outside the limits of the jurisdiction of his pueblo without a written pass from the president of the pueblo. Ten years' imprisonment is the penalty for violation of this rule. The situation in the Far East and re- sult of the Presidential election will have much to do with the recommendations to be made by the President this fall for an increase of the army, If McKinley be re-elected and the Chi- nese question is settled he will recom- mend that the strength of the regular army be fixed at 65.000 men. If the situa- tion in China necessitates the presence of American troops ‘then he will ask that the army be increased to 100,000 men, some of whom may be volunteers, Q+++ 4444444 4444444440 FILIPINOS UNDER - COLONEL GRASSALAY DOWN THEIR ARMS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12— The ‘War Department received to-day the following dispatch containing cheerful news from- General Mae- Arthur: MANILA, Aug. 12 — Adjutant General, ~Washington: Colonel Grassa, August 12, in vicinity of Tayug, surrendered his command to Colonel Freeman of the Twenty- fourth Infantry. It consisted of one major, six captalns, six lieu- tenants and 169 men. One hundred’ rifles and 50 bolos were also turned . over. ‘Rg 3 Bisssbtisbsssbisniiie P Y P S P TS RIS P44 4444444444444 0+0-0-0—0+0—0—0—, D S e B o S I =Y L PURSUERS HOPE S00N T0 CLOSE i IN ON KING Murderer Believed to Be| Surrounded by the Two Posses. R AREe Men Under Zaccarini Seen by a Rancher and Give Evidence of Having TUndergone Hardships. | s t Special Dispatch to The Cail. | COVELO, Aug. 12—Information was received here to-day from George Ray- mond, a hog rancher, who lives in the vicinity of Anthony Peak/ the country recently traversed by the posses In pur- suit of Murderer King. Raymond states that he saw Zaccarini’s posse Baturday | morning emerging from a canyon where the men had camped the previous night. They had not struck the trail, but had | been advised by parties the day before | that King and the half-breed Indian who is piloting him were in hiding in a rock | canyon at the mouth of one of the Mad River tributaries, and Zaccarini's posse was heading in that direction when Ray- | mond left them Saturday morning. Rock | Canyon, on Mad River, Is only thirty-twa™ miles from Weaverville, Trinity County. | ‘Word reached here to-day that Sheriff Taylor and posse touched at Redding Thursday and immediately left for Weaverville on a good clew. The position of both Zaccarini's and lor's posses | now wouid bring them together close to | ‘Weaverville to-morrow, where, it is be- ' lieved they will certainly surround their | man. Raymond further states that Zac- carini’s posse showed signs of having undergone great hardships, their clothing being torn in shreds from contact with | the brush thickets. The posse struck out | directly into the mountains from Covelo | Thursday morning and has not touched | on a_ highway yet. | greatly alarmed at not being able to gain | any information from Sheriff Tayior's | pursuing’ party. — LOUBET REVIEWS DEPARTING TROOPS Continued from First Page. in this international army, which is formed for the defense of _clvuization, those wearing the French uniform must not yield in discipline, endurance or cour- age to any.” At the luncheon following the cere- mony M. Loubet, replying to a toast to his_health, said: “I came here as I went to Cherbourg, in order to dispel the criminal equivocation | which party spirit attempts to create and | which it wishes to perpetuate by trying to | dig a ditch between tne army and the na- | o 3 *‘This monstrous effort will fail. It has already failed, I am certain. Is not the army a part of the nation itself? When military service is completed will not the army return to their own firesides? The army and the nation make one, and are only inspired with the same devotion to France and the republic.” The transport Melbourne, with a thou- | sand troops of the China expeditionary | corpe, left at midnight. i The strike of the firemen of the Trans- | Atlantic Steamship Company, which be- | gan this morning, seriously interfered | with the arrangements for the departure of the transports, orly one, the Poly- neslan, getting away. The stokers of the oz#}e‘{s lef(t the veisels.flk s afternoon the strikers tri - vent the Polynesian leaving e tat: by blocking the entrance with a number of barges. Ten strikers entered by the scuttles and threatened the firemen with death. They were arrested. It was only by the greatest difficulty the company's tugs succeeded in driving the barges toward the quays, where all the rioters, some fifty, were arrested. M. de Lanessan was appealed to for mediation, and after a conference he de- cided to act as intermediary. RESTED THREE DAYS. Allies Took Time to Recuperate After the Fall of Yangtsun. LONDON, Aug. 12—The Austrian na- val commander reports to Vienna that the allfes decided to 1est for three days after the taking of Yangtsun. A dispatch to a news agency from Tientsin says: ‘“Junks and stones bluck the river bevond the advan posts of the allies for a considerable distance; but the dryness continues and the country is in good marching order, subsidiary dykes having made the enemy’'s dammin; ineffective. It is belleved that some have been added to the expedition by the increase in the number of the British na- val brigade.” g seAR AT S Social and Entertainment. An entertainment and social will be given by the ladies in charge of St. Pat- rick’s booth, in St. John's fancy bazaar, bet Seven- at n Opera tween th and Eighteenth streets, next Wed- mwm?umn edg cl promise _everybod; ln.u.nl- . e .‘Jm“- un\lum.nt.r’ Ty - AP | stacked and forgotten. OLDIERS OF ENGLAND STARVE ON THE FIELD Criminal Negligence on the Part of the Higher Authorities. S MANY KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN A STORM Four Persons Lose Their Lives, While Two Others Are Fatally Hurt. —_— Burning Attack on the Red Tape of the British War Office by a London Newspaper Correspondent. ——l LONDON, Aug. 4—A, G. Hale, repre- sentative in South Africa of the Daily News, is the latest war correspondent to attack the methods and the red tape of the British War Office. He says: “Let me tell you how our army in Af- rica is treated by the incompetent people in the good city of London. I pledge my word as a man and a Jour- nalist that every written word is true. I will add nothing nor de- tract from nor set down aught in malice. If my statements are proven false then let me be scourged with the tongue and gen of scorn from every decent Briton's ome and hearth for ever after; for he who lies about his country at such an hour as this is of all traitors the vilest. “I will deal now particularly ‘with the men who are acting under the command of Lieutenant General Rundle. This good | soldier and courteous gentleman has to hold a frontage line from Wjnburg via Senekal almost to the border 'of Basuto- land. His whole front, extending nearly a hundred miles, is threatened constantly by an active, dashing, determined enemy— an enémy who knows the country far bet- ter than an English fox-hunting squire knows the ground he hunts over season after season. To hold this vast line intact General Rundle has to march from point to point as his scouts warn him of the movements of the tireless foe. “General Rundle’s task Is a colossal one, and any sane man _would think that glgantic efforts would be made to keep him amply supplied with food for his sol- diers. But such is not the case. The men are absolutely starving. Many of the in- | fantrymen are so weak that they cam | barely stagker along under the weight of their soldierly equipment. They are worn to shadows and move with weary, listless footsteps. People high up in authority may deny this, but he whp denies it sullies the truth. This is what the soldiers get to eat, what they have been getting to eat for a long time past and what they are likely_to get for a long time to come un- less England rouses herself and bites to the bone in regard to the people who are responsible for it: One pound of raw flour, which the soldiers have to cook after a hard day's march, is served out to each man after every alternate day. “The following day he eats one pound of biscuit. In this country there is no fuel excepting a little ox dung dried by the sun. If a soldier is lucky enough to pick up a little he can go to the nearest wa- ter, of which there is pienty, mix his cake without yeast or baking powder and make some sort of a wretched mouthful. He gets one pound of raw fresh meat daily, which nine times out of ten he cannot cook and there his supplies end. “What has become of the rations of | rum, of sugar, of tea, of cocoa, of gro- ceries generally? Ask at the snug little | railway sidings, where the goods are | Ask in the big stores in Cape Town and other seapor: | towns. Ask in your own country, where countless thousands of pounds’ worth of foodstuft lie rotting in the warehouses, | bound up and tied down with red tape bandages. - Ask—yes, ask; but don’t stop at asking—damn somebdy high up in power. Den’t let some wretched under-| ling be made the scapegoat of this erim- inal state of affairs, for the taint of this shameful thing rests upom you, upon every Briton whose home, privilege and prosperity is bein, sdegu%med by these famishing men. The folk® in authority will probably tell you that General Run- dle and his_splendid fellows are so isolated that food cannot be obtained for them. I say that is false.” Hale censures the transport people for their lack of activity and continues: “Our men on the fleld of war are fam- ishing while millions’ worth of food is lying rotting on our wharves anu in our city, food which ought with ordinary management to be within easy reach of our fighting generals. Britain asks of Rundie the fulfillment of a task that would tax the energies and abilities the first general in Europe and with a stout heart he faces work in front of him, faces it with men whose Kknees knock under them when they march, with hands that shake when they shoul- der their rifles—shake, but not with fear; tremble, but not from wounds, but from weakness, from pn\'er!i of blood and muscle, brought about by continual hun- . Are those men fit to storm a kopje? | Are they fit to tramp the whole night through, to make a forced march, to turn a position and then fight like their fath- ers_fought next day? I tell you, no. And vours be the shame If the empire's flag be lowered—not theirs, but yours—for you—what do you do? You stand in your music halls and shout a chorus of songs full of sen timents, full of pride for your The Hot Spell Throughout the East- ern .Cities Is Broken by a Violent Display of Electricity. NEW YORK, Aug. 12—In the storm which passed over this section this after- noon four persons were killed in Brook- lyn and two others stand very little chance of recovering from injuries re- ceived. Thomas Dunn, (8 years of age, was killed by lightning while standing under a tree. Frank Valentine was crushed in the wreck of his barn that had been set on fire by lightning and Clarence Weeks, a farmer, who was uxl me‘-bnlrn before the lightning struck it, is missing. %hauncey Lay, 16 years of ago, became entangled In a broken electric wire and was burned to death. Fannie Byrnes, 17_years old, was badly burned and shocked in alighting from a Brooklyn Heights trolley car durlng the storm. The arm of the trolley car broke and fell upon Miss Byrnes' shoulder. She tried to pick it from her arm and was badly shocked. Her condition is despair- ed of. Angelina Rosa, 30 years of age, stepped upon a live electric wire and was burned and shocked so badly that she may dle. At Tenafly, N. J.. Lizzie North was killed and her mother and two sisters were so severely injured by a bolt of lightning that they will probably die. The kbone of the hot spell was broken to-day by a violent thunderstorm. A large number of Pr')slralion: occurred in the early part of the day before the storm. Twenty-two fatalities were re- ported up to to-night. In New York the havoc wrought by the lightning and wind was unusually severe. Lightning struck the Gilsey House, split one of the flagpoles and shock the' hotel to its very foundations. The great gilt ball and a twelve-foot plece of the pole fell into Twentyninth street. Another section of the pole struck the street on the Broade way side. It weighed more than pounds. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12.—The heat to-day resulted in seventeen deaths and fifteen prostrations. The maximum tem- perature was 99 degrees. USED STRATEGY IN ARRESTING MADMAN Special Officer Samuei Daggett used strategy in arresung a violently insane soldier on Barbary Coast Saturday night, and by employing the tactics that he did he saved himself a desperate battle, which would undoubtedly have resulted In njury to the unfortunate fighter. About 10 o'clock in the evening Dag- gett, who was standing at Kearny ard Pacific stree as approached by Johu Leahy, an i from the Pre: the officer could ed the seldier h: Daggett imm was demented ately and a § “Shall we charge shouted the soldier us hard.” The aker 1 crowd of men behind him Filipinos. Daggett saw his chance to use strate; and not his club. Breaking himself lo from the other's grasp he said: “No. Let us retreat for ments.” The soldier, innocent of any trick that was being played on him, followed Dax- lown Kearny street, at ious mob, which served to make the soldier more spry in his reinforce- movements. When California street was reached Dagget turned the cormer and lead Leahy into the police station. In this place he was subdued with the as- sistance of four men, and handcuffed. He was retunred to the Presidio yesterday. ADVERTISEMENTS. soldier, full of praise for his patience, ais luck and his devotion to duty; and you R:z him go hungry, so hungry that I have often seen him quarrel with a nigger for a handful of raw mealies on the march.” YANG YU TRYING TO CHEER THE POWERS Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald Copyright, 1900, by the Herald Pub- lishing Company. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12.— Yang Yu, the Chinese Minist® here, says there is every reason to suppose that the Ministers have left Peking under the escort of a strong detachment of Government troops commanded by General Yung Lu, and that they may be expected to arrive at Tien- tsin any day. TROOPS COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO . NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Battery C, Sev- enth United States Artillery, Lieutenant Johnson commanding, which has been ordered to China, will start to-morrow for San Francisco. The command consists of sixty-five men, ninety-five horses and six fleld pieces, and is at present at Fort Adams 3 LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. 12—Co pany A, First Infantryhas received " ers to proceed at once to San Francisco. { It will leave to-morrow. Tl COAST NEWS IN BRIEF. SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 12.—Troop B e mento, after & Weelts oncambment at Dol Park, bas struck camp and left for home, PHOENIX, Ariz. 12.—A dispatch re- ceived here ‘to-night from Aztec says W. S. Moffatt was murdered and robbed, presumably ;y Mexicans, near Harrisburg, Yuma County. o further particulars are obtainable. i 12.—George , Landers, anted in Kadsas City. Kans., on a charge of swinall Evans” Snider-Buell Commission Comp’;‘ny!hfin hc"‘l‘:;e deals, has been a d %€t fo the Biate Iaans sayime and ‘ordered . SAN JOSE, Aug. 12—The last [ames. Hart, “‘the coffee king,"" was fllt:“(lm?(p‘(’nh‘,tl yesterday. The estate is valued at 350,000 Oscar D. Dewey, Eunice Dewey, Ann Murrer, James Murrer, John Murrer, Kate Stefan. James Cogan and Kate Law are legatees under the will. MONTEREY, Aug. 12.—John P. - retary of the Indiana Forestry Am?;:]‘l’;-_ ‘has spent past week in this city and vicinity in the interest of the Tvation and renewal of forest areas in this try. Mr. Brown has in the West wce May last, and a considerable measure of suc- cess, it is said, In inducing the people at large to take an interest and an active part in the important work which he represents. 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