The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1900, Page 1

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" YOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 145. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LAMP EXPLODES AND AGED WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH Mrs. Mary Rogers, Too Old and Feeble to Save Herself, Per- hes Miserably in Her Room--—-Firemen Arrive Quickly, but Death Is Before Them. IS THE HOUSE AT 1080 HOW A TERRIBLE DEA of the the i ate woman ign the carried the flames tc abowut oll all parts ICERTD SLAUGHTER SOLDIERS PRASERTLEIR 1% Russia Takes Advan- tag:ofChina’s Farei- cal Resisfancs. . | o+~ iy was when one of the firemen nd the woman found that her long be- irrived anf met death quickly vlv burned to death is it is thought that she did the attack of the the firemen arrived they = doors and started to sub- and it was not until the t the fire was well under way body of the woman was discov- ing he floor of her one of the windows, and was dead the firemen found was | when her. An ambulance was summoned at once as it | and she was taken to the Recelving Hos- pital, but it was only on the chance that floor. She was | Whether she in- | | Reichstag an extra credit will be lald be- of Mrs. | there was still life in her body. Her hair | was burned completely off, leaving the | stalp charred and blackened, and her arms and legs were sbriveled and crisped e left but the bones. ROOSEVELT’S REPARTEE there was lit urned almost beyond recog blaze ally gutted, the flames did not 4 to the remainder of the buflding, and =o the house escaped with but little The owner, Laurence Carney, amage. mates his loss at but $100. The dead woman has a daughter. Mrs. | G. Rugg. who lives at 1153 Market street AUSES CONFUSION TO BOLD BRYANITES u or the Nebraskan Promptly M=t With the Query, “Why Don’t You Hurrah for Altgeld and Aguinaldo?” One Interrupter Put to Flight. former place, an candidate for r, t a vast assemblage g to speak in two places. Specta- nterrupted the speaker with ques- t ? n every instance receiving a2 rep! A Nyack a2 man close to the car - ed, “Hurrah for Bryan! osevelt replied, “Why don't h for Altgeld and Aguinaido? The ng ceased. Another called Wk ice trust?” and he election will be decided by the coun- r-shouters ewburg said in Why did you call 8 low I & and dishonest?” R e h and flung quickly this ¢ y: “It's,a lie. I ne ng. It is Democrats, &oC rats, who swell our majority.” ¢ his rerfarks at New- was interrupted a shouts of “What is “Down with sevelt remarked: e symptoms of was greeted R se. with laughter an Then, walk- 1 ver to one s of the platform and king direct ward the point from which the " sl arose, the Governor eald: *You e one of those men who work exc What do you mean bale lusively with their mouths. do with the cotton t trust of Mr. Jones or the ice trust of Croker?” (Cries of “What is the mat- ter with Bryan?” “He's all right!”) “That is an argument of wind. You are afraid to bear the truth. You interrupt - ing els ¥ class that is natu against us. represent the yple who not only who don’t get any e you won't work. (Applause.) hack to your fellow hoboes and learn after this (more yeiling, and the m | stand against the fi this meeting because you are a hoodlum | honest. evidently turned to depart) that you! You haven't got|the heart and not of words; I appeal to How would Tammany Hall feel if that principle was read and applied to its organization? And now Tammany Hall, which has reduced the government of New City to a byword, is grasp- ing for the government of New York State, and I appeal to every Democrat; I appeal to every Democrat whose loyalty to Jefferson and Jackson is a loyalty of | every Democrat north of the Harlem to a particle of patriotism in you. I am glad you are going away. I think you h, learned enough hereafter not to monkey with the buzzsaw. (Long con- ed applause.) Now, gentlemen, in the | wporary absence of the local police, I| e driven off that disturber of the meeting.” (Appiause.) At Newburg, as the Governor stepped forward after being introduced he was presented with a dinner pail filled with products of various kinds. The Governor sald: farm “This is what Mr. Bryan calls an as- sorted argument,” and noticing that it was | wrapped around with an American flag { he continued: “Now, gentlemen, I want to call your attention to one fact—they | have presented me with a full dinner pall and the American flag.” (Applause.) Then he proceeded: “I come here to appeal to you, no matter what may have been our political affiliations in the past, to appeal to you as Americans, as honest | men, as good citizens, to support Wil- {llam McKinley for re-election to the Presidency. (Great applause.) 1 appeal to the very men who are sensitive as to’ the good name of both state and nation to support the United States when we stand against Bryanism and that local form of Bryanism — Crokerism. (Ap- plause.) I appeal to both Republicans and Democrats, mind you, because the principles of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Croker have nothing in common with Democracy as Democracy was understood in the days of Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Jeffer- eon laid it down as a rule that the art of L good government wa3 the art of being | | see to it that his party is not prostituted as it has been prostituted south of the Harlem.” For Civil Court-Martials. PARIS, Oct. 22—General Andre, former French Minister of War, has almost con- cluded the drafting of a bill court-martials, by the substitution, at least in time of peace, of civil Magist for military judges. e for while | to refer | | EXTERMINATION OF THE TROOPS'IN MANCHURIA T R |As War Lord of Germany William Will Seek Extra CreditintheReichstag PLEEER v ONDON, Oct. 23.—The Times pub- lishes the following from its cor- respondent in St. Petersburg: It is safe to say that the visit of the Chinese Minister to Lividia, where the Russian court and the principal Min- isters are now staying, and whence the Russian Government Is directed witi | more secrecy than would be possible here, | s connected with an endeavor to make a separate arrangement concerning Man- huria. The Russians will continue to extermi- nate the-Chinese in the most ruthless manner in order to protect the future of the raflway. A critical study of the offi- <tal resorts shows that Chinese resistance has been a mere farce. The Russians have been only too glad of the opportunity to every Chinese soldier and to destroy | very vestige of Chinese authority in Manchuria, and they have taken advan- tage of this farcical resistance with a vengeance. Last vear's budgets show an unprece- dented surplus pf 155,000,000 roubles of rev- enue over and above the total expendi- tures. Up to the present only 40,000,000 roubles extra have been spent in conse- quence of the troubles in Manchuria and China proper. % BERLIN, Oct. 2—The Berliner Tage- blatt learns that upon the meeting of the | | fore it for the expenses of the China ex- pedition. This expedition will be described in the bfll as a puniti~e one, which the Kaiser, as war lord of the emptre, had the right to fit out. The semi-official Berliner Post says that the powers have agreed to acquaint L! Hung Chang with the demands to be made | | upon China. No news has been received here regard- ing the reported iliness of Count von Wal- dersee The Freissinnige Volksparte, whose | leader is Herr Eugen Richter, In conven- tion at Gorlitz to-day adopted a resolu- tion against Emperor Willam’s Chinese policy, particularly condemning the un- | due prominence assumed by Germany, | which the resolution declared to be in no way justified by Germany's actual inter- ests. The convention also denounced the | recently proclatmed doctrine of world em- | | pire as “leading to ceaseless interference | everywhere endangering Germany’s inter- rational position and the maintenance of peace and calculated to retard her trade asplrations.” ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 22 —The Vied- omosti thinks the Angio-German agree- ment is enigmatical, since the mainte- pance of the integrity of China is accept- ed as the fundamental principle by all powers. It adds: “The agreement, therefore, alms at the protection of that which needs no protec- tion. To the question as to who will threaten the integrity of China there Is only one answer—those who have ar- ranged to crush any one who thinks of preventing them from taking as booty those ports in China which they have re- garded as belonging to them. Russia will in the meanwhile know how to protect China.” The Novoe Vremya regards the terri- tory north of the Peiho River as belong- ing ta Russia, “who will not admit the application of the ‘open door’ to that ter- ritory.” Deaths Among the Troops. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—General Chat- fee, at Taku, reports the following deaths: September 29, at Mahg, Hugo C. Kraft, Company G, Fourteenth United States In- fantry, dysentery; October 11, at Peking, Joseph Lyons, band. Fourteenth United States Infantry, dysentery; October 19, at Pekinz, Henry Kirkland, Company B, | Ninth Infantry, dysentery. ble injury which an accident has inflicted | | a scalp which will bear hair, not as beau- SURGEONS STRIVING TO GRAFT HER A NEW SCALP Laura Lambert Becomes' the Subject of a Daring Surgical Operation—Heroism of Her Sweetheart and | o is a girl, pretty, patient, walting in suffering and hope for the decision which will tell her whether or not the craft of surgeons can repair the terri- upon her. The physicians are testing their skill in an effort to give her a new scalp— tiful perhaps as that which was torn from her head, but abundant enough to hide the scars and the lacerations which mark minufes of torture that she will never for- Bet as long as she lives. Her girl friends have volunteered to give parts of their | @in to the surgeons’ knives that she may be restored. Her sweetheart is ready to disfigure himself that her beauty may be with the returned, and the wise men | knives give hope that the offerings will not be in vain. The girl for whom all this is being done, for whom the surgeons are putting their science to the test and for whom heroic friends are ready for splendid self-sacri- | fice is Miss Laura Lambert, the youngl choecolate dipper, who a few days ago in a local confectioner’s shop was whirfed by the hair of her bead on the belt of a great | wheel and dropped bleeding, insensible and with her scalp torn from her head. | It was thought that she was dead or that | brain fever would end the torture of her terrible experience. She was taken to St. Winifred's Hos- pital and carefully nursed. She was saved from further suffering, but her lacerated scalp could not be saved: It was torn past all recovery. Then Dr. Winslow An- derson, in whose charge the girl placed, determined upon heroic measures. He decided to give the girl, if possible, a new scalp. He was determined that from | this new scalp hair should grow. His task was a serfous one, even in these days of surgical wonders. The entire scalp of the unfortunate girl is gone. Even her eye- brows disappeared in the terrible moments while she was being whirled into insensi- bility. From her eyes to the back of her neck the scalp was clearly lifted. N the St. Winifred Hospital in this city | was | Her Young Girl Friends. LAURA LAMBERT HAS BEEN SURGICAL OPERATION. MADE THE SUBJECT OF AN EFFORT IS BEING MADE TO GRAFT A DARING 288 SQUARE INCHES OF SKIN UPON HER HEAD. It was a daring thought to replace the lost scalp with a nmew ome, but Dr. An- derson determined to try, and the work has begun. By the slow. tedious, eritical process of skin'grafting the surgeon hopes to give the girl a new scalp and to re- store, if possible, much of her beauty, as she is a very pretty girl. In this task. which to the layman if not to the surgeon is a remarkable ome, 258 square inches of skin must be grafted upon the girl's head. Innumerable pleces of living skin, in most cases about the size of a split pea, must be transpianted and made to grow. That the hair may igmw upon. this surface full thicknesses of the transplanted skin must be uséd. | The operation will be a long one and no mistake may mar its progress.” It will re- | } | quire fully three months to complete it, | but long before that the surgeon in charge | i | Will know whether or not success will crown his efforts. The first step in this painful and tedious operation was taken yesterday, when a thin strip of caticle, left attached to the back only by a slender thread, was lifted and planted on the back of the girl's head. The connectlon with the cuticle on the back was continued. in order that heelthy circulation might be maintained. The pa- tient bore up heroically under an opera- tion which will have to be repeated many —b | times. Miss Lambert is now comparatively trea from pain, but while the skin grafting process is in progress she can never re- cline. No weight must be piaced upon the delicate surface of her head, and the gir! 1 sits In bed, her Pead swathed in bandages. Only her eyes, nose and mouth are visi- +bie, and. nunlike In appearance, she waits | for the surgeon’s decision. Thus far skin from different parts of her own body has been used, but she will need much more than she can give. Know- ing this, Dr. Anderson has sought among her friends for the sacrifice of thefr own skin, and he says that already six of them have volunteered to submit themselves to the surgeon's knife that their friend may | be helped. One of the most critical in the serfes of operations which must be performed is that in which an effort will be made to | sive the unfortunate girl new eysbrows. | And Dr. Anderson says that he will rely | upon Miss Lambert's sweetheart for this sacrifice, the greatest perhaps of them for the giver must saerifice his own. In choosing the volunteers girls of about the same age and complexion and with the same colored hair as Miss Lambert will be selected. This daring surgical effort is perhaps without parallel, and it is hoped that success will reward it. BRYAN TALKS OF THE RIGHTS OF BROWN MEN AND OF BLACK MEN Tries to Stir Up Dissatisfaction Among the Colored Voters by Telling Them the Republicans Have Given Them Janitorships for Presidencies, INTON, W. Va, Oect. 2.—The line of the Chesapeake Raliroad, traversing the picturesque val- leys of the Big Kanawha and New rivers, was the scene of Mr. Bryan's campaign to-day. Speeches were made at Huntington, Hurricane, St. Al- bans, Charleston, Brownston, Eastbank, Montgomery, Bewell, Thurmond and Hinton. The size of the audiences va- rled, but all of them were large in propor. tion to the population of the towns and of the surrounding country. There were especially fine crowds at Huntington, Charleston and Hinton, people coming : CHAIRMAN STONE REFUTES that Bryan would carry California: San Franeiseo, Oct. A SENSATIONAL STATEMENT The following telegram was sent yesterday, as the best refutation of the story sent out from Democratic headquarters to the effect M. A. HANNA, Chicago, Il Many business men in this eily having seen reports from Chairman Jones of the Demoeratic National Committee and Mayor Phelan of this city say the Stats of California will go for Bryan de- sire it announced that any part of one hundred thousand dollars is offered at odds of two to one that California will give its full electoral vote for MeKinley. Money ready. 22, 1900. GEO. STONE, Chairman Republiean State Committee. | into the towns from the adjacent region fore and further than he and there was quite a numl people scattered through the crowds all the stopping places. Mr. Bryan dently noted their presence and took casion to address portions of his especially to them, appealing to do justice by the Filipinos, as they would have justice done by themselves. The first point at which he touched upon this | question was at St. Albans. There he sald: “When we complain that the Repub- licans ‘are applying in the Philippine Islands doctrines that deprive people of the right to govern themselves, the argu- ment that a Republican makes is that some of the Southern States have adopted amendments requiring an educational qualification for voting. I want to sub- mit this question to the Republicans: Do they approve of what is being done in the South, or do they oppose it? If they op- pose it, why do they propose worse things 8 voting age of the right to vote; not only this, but they deprive them of the pro- constitution of the United Philippine Islands they that the brown to a voice In that he ticket, I £ wan? the black man to ask him this ques- tion, If a brown man In the Philippines has no right to a vote, what about the black man? and I want to ask what black man can stand on his own right to & volce in this Government if he votes the Republican ticket and denfes to the people in othes islands a right to & voice in this Government. And If the Repub- licans tell the colored man that he is un- der obligations to the Republican party, let the colored man reply that he has paid his debt of gratitude. If Lincoln were here the colored man might vote for him, but the modern leaders of the Republican party have bad more from the colored man than they have ever given him. The colored man has bestowed Presidencies upon the Republican party and received Janitorships In return. I want the colored men before they vots the Repub lecan ticket to know that the polley of the Republican party is to send a few white men to the Philippine Islands and hold those white men in authority over 9 per cent of the population, which will be brown, and this is to be done by a standing army. Instead of using the race question as a reason why we should annex the Philippine Islands, let the race Question be a warnidg to us not to bring Into this country a class of people who are not to share in the full destiny of our nation. I want the Filipino to have his own flag and his own government and to work out his own destiny, and I want this nation to stand by him and say to the world, “Hands off; let this republic live!" " Mr. Bryan reverted to the race question in his speech at Charleston. There he sald: “Forty years azo the Republicans said a black man should not seil for a thou- Continued on Second Page.

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