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

VOLUME LXXXVIII—-NO 163. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS, STRANDED STEAMER OLGA IS TORN FROM THE GRIP OF THE OCEAN SANDS ——— Hours of Toil in the Fog Are Rewarded. Imperiled Ship Damaged but Little. Part of Cargo Is Jett'soned to Save Her. » I S T S e ] SENATOR PERKINS CALLS ON R e L S o o o . : WASHINGTON TO TAKE ACTION * : SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 1900. . Captain Thomas Perry, U. S. N., Naval Secretary, Washington, .' D. C.: I strongly urge substituting of some steamer at entrance San e Francisco harbor while lightship uadergoing repairs. Two vessels + already ashore, presumably account withdrawal lightship. At this ': foggy season other accidents liable occur. Think immediate action « should be taken. GEORGE C. PERKINE, U. §. S. . L S e e e e e e o s ] RS WAS BEING BELOW THE CLIFF ING TOGETHER STRANDED AUSTRIAN STEAMER OLGA AS SHE APPEARED YESTERDAY MORNING AS SHE DRAGGED FROM HER DANGEROUS POSITION ON HOUSE THE "SANDY BEACH THREE MILES || BY THE TUGS RELIANCE, RELIEF, ALERT ‘AND SEA QUEEN, ALL PULL- WITH TREMENDOUS POWER. — | | | e i e brought the steamer into port. hed to the wge, Is as follows: “On November § at 4 p. m. went ashore in a dense fog about two miles so Had to jettison 100 b cing badly, Mer- but "I never saw a steamer have a closer Captain John Stlovich of the ht “Luckily it was a dead | let go and the Sea Queen and Monarch | calm and she lay like a baby in a cradle. The cap-| Still, that cradle was likely $o-de-her athbed and had we not kept hold and lled and pulled the sand would have a u have got her off. As it was it was touch and go and once or twice during the night 1 thought we would never get her off. Maybe we didn’t burn up coal dur- ing that little fight and maybe the Re- liance and Alert, also the Rescue, Mon- | arch and Sea Queen did not run some around her and we could never close chances of going ashore them- selves.” e The Olga came in about 2:30 p. m. in tow of the Sea Queen and Monarch and was taken direct to the sugar refinery. There her cargo of sugar will be dis- charged in a hurry-and after that the | vessel will go on the drydock for an over- | hauling. Rosenfeld’s Sons to carry coal from Brit- ish Columbia to San Francisco. The | chances are that the question of salvage She is under charter to John | | will be settled in the courts. | The crew Of the vessel, owing to the llong voyage, which occupled ten days | longer than that of the average tramp | | steamer, had very little to eat during the | | Jast few days of the trip. When the life- | | saving crew boarded her, all their store- | | rooms contained was ¢offee and “hard- ! | tack.”” The first trip ashore of the boats | from the Golden Gate Park station the | keeper sent to town for 125 pounds of | fresh meat and other edibles for the half- | famished sailors. FIERCE GALES SWEEP THE ATLANTIC COAST Damage Also Done to Shipping on the Great Lakes and Vessels Foundered. ris f extreme danger storm York State wind ris- EW YORK, at n st the wind became so high e observer in the s forced to leave his pc ling swayed much + would collapse. A sloop, Hook, dropped her s out of New York were v the storm. 4 high tides at Coney extended to the old fully one mile from spray dashed high heads in front of the , but no great dam. Sheepshead Bay er ts highest velocity m., when it blew at y-two miles an hour 9.—The terrific tinues to-day with bated fury. The captain of the pas- cenger steamer City of Erie, which ar- rived early to-day from Buffalo, reports at he sighted the mast 0f a sunken ves- <] sticking out of the water about twen- P y-five miles off this port. i’rhp tugs sent out to locate the supposed rm on Lake E riven on to the beach. | be the highest ever known | of | gula riding at anchor thirty miles out. | | They could find no trace of the wreck. £T. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9.—The Novoe Vremya s two steamers and twenty | 0dd sailing vessels were wrecked in the .a during the recent storms, sev- undering with their entire crews. STEAM COLLIER SUN IN ENGLISH CHANNEL Sole Survivor Clings Twenty-Seven Hours to Vessel’s Keel After Collision. LONDON, Nov. 9—The steam collier City of Vienna, from Swansea for Rot- terdam, sank in the channel after col- lision with an unknown vessel. The sole survivor of the colller, a Ger- man fireman, spent twenty-seven hours on the keel of the capsized vessel. Two Duteh companions dropped off from ex- haustion e v b s 2 PRESIDENT REPLIES TO MR. BRYAN’'S CONGRATULATIONS Acknowledges Receipt of the Message and Extends His Good Wishes to the Defeated Candidate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—President Mc- Kinley to-day answered Mr. Bryan's mes- sage of congratulation in the following dispatch: “EXECUTIVE MANSION “WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 190 “Hon. William J. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebr: cknowledge with cordial thamks your message of congratulation and extend you my good wishes 'WILLIAM McKINLEY.” Bryan's message to the President ton after Mr. McKinley had ngton and was forward- Mr. reached Ca started for Wa | ed to him ther: CARELESSNESS CAUSED | EXPLOSION IN A MINE | One Man Is Killed and Five Others | Fatally Injured in Buck Moun- tain Colliery. J MAHANOY CITY, Pa., Nov. 9.—One [ man was kilied. five others probably fa- tally injured and twenty others more or less seriously injured in an explosion of | gas at the Buck Mountain colliery to-day, | about two miles from here. The dead: JAMES GRIFFITH. Fatally injured: Joseph Storkenaus, Edward Gallagher, Charles Jones, Henry O'Bright and John McGiynn. As far as can be learned the explosion was apparently caused by the careless- ness of Edward Gallagher. He went into wreck returned to the harbor to-night. | an abandéned working with a naked They rel ported finding the steamer Kali- | lamp, which lighted the accumulated gas. | of BILOXI LAID IN ASHES BY TERRIFIC FIRE All the Buildings in the Resort Are Burned and Many People Homeless. el R NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9.—Biloxi, Miss., situated on the sound, eighty miles from New Orleans, was swept by a terrific fire this morning, which destroyed upward one hundred builc.ngs hundreds of people homeless. Biloxi is a town of 7000 people, and a well-knowa summer resort for Mississippians and Louisianians and a winter resort for northern people. It has a small fire de- partment and contains many frame build- ings, and the fire simply burned until it had nothing further to feed on. The fire started shortly after midnight in a saloon near the Loulsville and Nash- ville depot, and after destroying the depot swept through to the beach, a dis- tance of several squares. No lives were lost, but many of the poorer people lost all their possessions. The Catholic church, school and convent, two news- paper offices and several fine brick stores were among the buildings destroyed. The total loss is estimated at 3$300,000, with $125,000 insurance. SHERIFF HOLDS ANDERSON JAIL AGAINST ARMED MOB As Result of Recent Tragedy Busi- ness Ceases and Lynching Is Feared. NAVASOTA, Tex., Nov. 9.—As a result of the tragedy of Wednesday, in which three men were killed at Anderson, ex- citemert runs high in that town. Sheriff Garrett Scott and a few friends are hold- ing the jail against a crowd of armed citi- zens, numbering about 100. All business is reported suspended at Anderson and armed men are hurrying there from the country. It is believed that there will be an attempt to take Scott and his follow- ers out of jail to-night or to-morrow and serious trouble is feare BRITISH SUBJECTS CHEER NAME OF McKINLEY President Pronounced Greatest States- man of the Age by Cape e Breton Orator. SYDNEY, C. B, Nov. 9.—At a gath- ering of successful Liberal candidates of Cape Breton to-night J. K. Armstrong pronounced President McKinley the greatest statesman of the age. Dr. Ken- dal, member-elect for Sydney, proposed three cheers for the great republic, after which the compony joined in singing the wgtar-spangled Banner.” and rendered | Republican rently reported here that the Republican managers are in communication with Fed- eral officials with a view of having an in- vestigation of the election in the State 80 far as the Electors and Congressmen are concerned. It is stated that this would indirectly have some effect on the claims for Governor. The only State office voted for this year was that of Governor, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wil- llam Goebel. The other State officers hold over under the contests settled In the courts last spring. It is stated that the investigation wlil be made for contests in two or three Congressional districts and that it will be extended into certain counties not in the contested districts. Republican managers have already com- municated with National Chairman Han- na regarding the situation. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 9.—Leslle Combs, chalrman of the Republican Cam- paign Committee, to-night made the fol- lowing statement concerning the Ken- tucky election: “We have discovered great frauds per- petrated by the Democrats in various sec- tions of the State. In Breathitt County frauds amounting to over 400 votes in fa- vor of the Democrats have been discov- | ered. In one precinct In that county the Democrats refused to allow the Republi- can inspectors inside of the booth, and the precinct, which usually goes Republican by a majority of 88, was carried by the Democrats by 30. In another precinct in the same county the Republican chal- lengers were put out of the booth by force and the inspectors were refused ad- mittance. In another precinct the returns showed that only fifty-five Republicans voted, yet there are 140 who gave their names and are willing to make affidavit that they voted the Republican ticket stralght. The Republicans usually carry that precinct, and this year it went Demo- cratic by 150. Other frauds in Breathitt County indicate that we lost over 400 votes. “Numerous and flagrant frauds have been discovered in Logan County—frauds that permeated the entire vote. In Olm- stead Precinct the returns showed that only eighty Republicans voted, yet we have positive information that 135 was the actual number, and other frauds in the county will amount to fully 400 votes. The entire Third District is permeated with the Goebel methods. Republican voters who were challenged were not allowed to make affidavit and were rejected by direc- tion of the Democratic sheriffs. Democrats challenged by the Republicans were al- KENTUCKY THE SCENE OF WHOLESALE FRAUD Managers to Cause Investigation of Democratic Steals. LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. S.—It {8 cur-|lowed to vote without making afdavit by | Federal the decisions of these same sheriffs. In | one precinct in the city of Bowling Green ‘ the election officers refused to certify to | eighteen votes because there was a blur | on the ballots.. Mr. Moss will contest his | election in this district, and there is no | doubt that it will be given to him. | “The frauds in the Third District were | | too flagrant to stand an honest investiga- | tion, and in many places in the Eighth | District Democratic challengers were | sworn In as deputy Sheriffs and wore | i badges in the booths. In the Seventh Dis- trict over 400 Republican voters in the city of Lexington were deprived of votes by the delay tactics practiced by the | Democratic officers, while the Franklin | County and Owen County returns were padded so bodly that it cannot escape the notice of any one acquainted with those | counties. “There are also extensive reports of frauds in Lawrence, Rowan, Nicholas and Mason counties in the Ninth District, with great efforts to Increase those frauds in the final count. The Commissioners of Lawrence County attempted to throw out the vote of the precinct of Charley on a trivial technicality. It gave the Republi- can candidate 127 majority. In a number of counties the Commissioners refused to allow any Inspection of the work of elec- tion officers by representatives of the Re- publican party. Reports of fraud of five | to ten votes to a precinct are so numerous | that the Inference cannot be escaped that it was systematically planned beforehand. “In many Democratic strongholds the Democrats are said to have failed to com- ply with the provisions of bill No. 19. In every such instance this committee_has instructed the representatives of the Re- publican party to make no technical ob- jections if they believed the votes to be legally cast and counted. There Is no question that, if the face of the returns fail to show Yerkes' election, we can make specific exposures that will show that he been defeated, not by a ma- jority of the voters of Kentucky, but of tne fraudulent use of the advantage given the Democratic party by the Goebel elec- tion law.” | BURNED TO DEATH IN WRECKED TRAIN OFFENBACH, Hesse, Nov. 9,—Two ex- press trains came into collision to-day be- tween this place and Frankfort on the Main. A gas reservoir exploded, setting fire to the wreckage, and seven persons were burned to death and four injured, | mercial honor. | and in view of this abandonment which PREMIER'S TALK IS REMARKABLE Significant Speeeh of Salisbury on the American Elections and on the War Poliey. * GO0 04000000340 0000000040000 00000000@ ONDON, Nov. .—What is prob- ably the most brilllant of all functions in England—the Lord Mayor's banquet—took place this evening. It will be memor- able even to Americans, by reason of the following utterance of Lord Salisbury, wko, In the presence of 90 guests, includ- | ing United States Embassador Choate, | the members of the British Cabinet and many of the leading men of England, spoke as follows of the American elec- tion: e believe that the cause which has won is the cause of civilization and com- We believe those prin-i- ples to be at the root of all prosperity and all progress in the world. Therefore we | claim that we have as much right to re- jolce in what has taken place as the dis- | tinguished gentleman (referring to Mr. | Choate) who sits at my side.” | This was followed by loud and pro- longed cheers, which made the gold plate on the oaken shelves shiver and the great rafters of the Guildhall ring and ring again. Lord Salisbury’s tfcursion into the na- tional politics of the United States was preceded by an apology, in the course of which he said: “Of the current circumstances which gratified me most during the past year one has been the hearty feeling displayed be- tween this country and the United States. I hope Mr. Choate will forgive me if there is any irregularity In my expression. It| is quite wrong for a Secretary of State to make any observations with respect to the international politics of ‘another coun- try, but I am soon to give up my office, is close at hand, I hope Mr. Choate will | forgive me for expressing the supreme satisfaction with which all of us have heard of what has recently taken place in | the United States.” Mr. Choate Replies. Mr. Choate, replying a few minutes | later to the toast of the diplomatic corps, declared that Lord Salisbury had stated with such truth, simplicity and earnest- ness the result of the election that he (Choate) would not attempt to add to it, | although he would venture to congratu- late the noble Lord upon the fact that his remarks had been made after instead of before the election. (Laughter.) Except in its references to the United States, the speech of the Premier cast an extraordinary gloom over the gorgeous banquet. Following directly after the colonel com- manding the City Imperial Volunteers, Lord Salisbury startled his hearers, who | caught the drift of his remarks, by satir- izing the war fever, although praising the courage of the soldiers, and declaring that the passionate admiration of military valor evinced by the populace must pro- | duce a change of attitude on the part of the outside world when viewing English character. Causes Tears to Be Shed. Then, with lowered voice and almost trembling accent, he went on to speak | of the price of victory and the ravages | of death, dealing especially with the Queen’s bereavement In the loss of Prince Christlan Victor. Finally, with bent head and hands clasped, he uttered a hope, almost a prayer, that Lord Rob- erts might be spared the sorrow now hanging over him by reason of the ecriti- cal condition of his daughter. Tears sprang to the eyes of women and men| moved uncomfortably in their seats. The| silence and solemnity grew oppressive. | Awakening from self-abstraction the Premier reviewed the events of the last| twelve months. Mr. Kruger and the Em- | press of China, he went on to say, had | forced war upon Great Britain. He main- | tained that the British War Office de- | served great credit for the way in which | it had handled these emergencies. “Despite nebulous and factitious attacks ' we should be glad to improve all the de- fects of the War Office,” he continued, “and our utmost efforts will be devoted to that task, but I should rather depre- cate any unnecessary examination Inw} what has occurred. You will not add to | the enthusiasm of your troops by doing so.” | Anglo-German Compact. | He dilated upon the strengthened ties | between the mother country and colonies | during the present year and poked fun at the delay consequent upon the European | concert when dealing with China. It was | not appropriate for him, he declared, to comment upon negotiations while in| progress, but he said he would make an | exception In the Anglo-German compact. | “This,” he remarked, “represents the! feelings of most if not all the powers allled. It is impossible to lay too| much emphasis upon- the integrity of | China and the ‘open door,” and I think it a matter of great advantage that the | powers should have expressed themselves in favor of these federal principles, for it they are achleved the issue of the China problem need not concern us very anxi- ously.” He maintained vegy earnestly that the | idea of invading China with “our scanty | force” or of approaching the stupendous task of governing China Instead of leav- ing it to be governed by the Chinese was most dangerous. Relapsing into pessimism, Lord Salis- | position that no s | ers believed that this warn { Orange and Transvaal colonfes will | a wonderful | bury as perhaps the most : Lord Salisbury made a most remarkable speech at the Lord b ¢ Mayor’s banquet last night. He said Britons claimed the right to * + Tejoice at the result of the American elections, and spoke so feel- : o ingly of the sickness of Lord Rcberts’ daughter that tears wers o | ¢ shed by many of the guests. Then the aged Premier reviewed re- ¢ & cent war events, and approved in no uncertain way the policy of ¢ + maintaining the “open door” in China. b 4 bury admitted that the trend of recent events has almost put an end to the hopes of the Russian Emperor and others who took part in the peace conierence at The Hague. Gives Due Warning. His extraordinary speech closed with a fervid appeal to the people of England to maintain their defenses in such a per- fect condition that “‘we shall not be ex- posed to any sudden interruption of the peace upon which our prosperity de- pends." “The supreme condition,” exclaimed the | Premier, “is that no reform, no improve- ment, is of the slightest vaiue uniess se- curity against external interference is ob- tained by putting our defenses in such a ident may habpen be- yond our borders that shall make our sc- curity doubtful.” The majority of Lord Salisbury's hear- g, W delivered in his most impressive manner, referred to the possibility of French an- tagoniem. Mr. Choate’s speech consisted chiefly a humorous sketch of the h Downing street, which he said was name-d after a Massachusetts boy. In conclus: he expressed his belief that “so iong a Lord Salisbury and McKinley continue to hold the reins of government there wiii be no danger of any disturbance of tae honorable and friendly relations now ex- isting between the United States aud Great Britain.” Other Speeches Made. George J. Goschen, the retiring First Secretary of the Admiraity, who used tha | occasion for a dramatic farewell to public life, bespoke the support and confidence of the British people for his successor, the Earl of Selbornme. Other speakers were Lord George Ham- | ilton, Secretary of State for India; Baron Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor: Lord | Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice; Charies Thompson Ritchie, the newly appointed Home Secretary, and Sir Robert Banna- tyne Finlay. Attorney General. Lord Salisbury, winding up the proceed- ings, proposed the health of the new Lo:1l Mayor, saying that some of the younger men present “will live to see the da when members of Parliament from the present on such an occasion.” The enormous crowd was dotted with brilllant state, military and municipal w forms, with which were interm mass of moving color ths wigs and robes of all the great judg the court costumes of the members of tha Cabinet, the scarlet of the regulars ard the khaki of the imperial volunteers. A dance followed the banquet and con- tinued to a late hour in the shadows of the grim statues of Pitt, Nelson aad Wellington. Among the celebrities present were Sir Francis Jeune, president of the tribute, divorce and admiralty division of the Su- preme Court of Judicature; Willlam St John Broderick, the newly appointed retary of State for War; Sir Thomas Lip- ton, the Maharajah of Kapurthala, full regalia, and all the available ecivil and national dignitaries, who were her- alded with a series of trumpet fanfar:s that would have done credit to feudal days. -— CHOATE PRAISED BY PRESS. Relieved Seriousness Which Threat- ened to Bscome Too Marked. LONDON, Nov. 10.—The Standard and Daily Telegraph dilate editorially upon the importance of Mr. Choate's asgur- ances regarding Anglo-Saxon amity at the Guildhall banquet last night. The Daily Telegraph thinks the American Embas- sador’s tone was quite significant and re- gards his glowing eulogy of Lord Salis- remarkable feature of the banquet. The Times says: “A Guildhall audi- ence always looks to the American Em- bassador to contribute to the enjoyment of the evening, and it very rarely looks in vain. Mr. Choate fully maintained the reputation established by his predecessor. He managed to relieve a serfousness which threatened to become too marked for a convivial occasion by turning aside into the paths of politics. “Lord Salisbury ventured upon the par- donable irregularity of expressing the uni- versal feeling of this country regarding the Presiuential election. Had its issue been different, we should not have aban- doned our faith in the ability of the Amer- ican people to avert many of the evil re- sults that might have been inferred from Mr. Bryan's electoral speeches; but since things turned out so happily, there is no indiscretion In expressing our satisfaction at the striking trlumph of political com- mon sense and commercial honor.” The Times, like the other morning pa- pers, is evidently not altogether pleased with Lord Salisbury’s lukewarmness on | the subject of army reforms. —_— Sentenced to Death. MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 9.—Judge Methorn this afternoon overruled the motion for a new trial and semtenced Rosslyn Ferrell to be electrocuted on Fri- day, March 1, for the murder of Express Messenger Lane on August 10 last.