The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1900, Page 1

Call, VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 166. SAN FRANCIS CO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEGRO YOUTH THE BRUTAL MURDERER OF LOUISE FrROST Sheriff 1§ Determinéd to Take the| Prisoner to Lincoln County. Lynching Will Promptly Occur. and yunted for his mainder of the re his two sons ur Porter ved have a con- uliar erime oceed- was run- k to Lincoln it 1 I r ba ver be sat- 1 wil 1 o border m iy yards sure to lynch men are will snon vertheless e " n of the | golng to mm along.” [ ert hat he is eriff Freeman is of the op!nion that the g hn Porter's father and brother had John Porter is ears old. He |nothing to do with the crime, and they q - e s gang n the »bably be relea d BUSINESS BOOMS IN ALL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY * of Burial Bryanite Heresies Yollowed by Most Brisk Trading. Special Dispatch to The Call. eet of the revival Throughout the able are reports mani- | dustries, and the indications of faith the burial siness conditions received from various e ballots of ding citie < ‘ rading of un-| From Phladedphia come announcements gnitude has marked the | of many business developments which are w street with a rush of | most marked in orders for buildings t. e, taxing apacity of | add to the Industrial establishments and ¥ouses ‘and of a nature to in- | in other directions. widespread public trust in the pro Men of affairs in Boston see {ndlcations . me mere spirit of | of a steady, solid increase in business to follow the boom now ‘n progress. St. Louls has experienced a remarkable stimulation in speculation, and confidence there is strong. Furnaces have been lighted in burg. Pa., as a result of the election great activity is showi in manv lepari- ancy of the market and millions to rth w beer the added ments of industry. BRITISH ARE VICTORS IN MINOR ENGAGEMENTS Lord Roberts Reports Repulses of Detached| Bodies of Boers. Eny LONDON 12 —The War Office hus ) eral non-commissioned officers behaved re - owing dispatch from ! with gallantry, but the Hussars would 1 have probably suffered severely, as they | Nov. 10.—Me! got into Boer ground, had they not been & andants Snyman and Ver- | supported by the mounted infantry. Dur- nburg yest Three | ing the morning the artillery and infantry E we found and thirty pris- | joined Chetwode’'s force and completed wagons were captured. | the Boer rout. They are said to have lost w asualties among the Brit- Mnm isth ith-Dorrien’s wounded, who re- K -Ker reports that Major Mac- | turned from the Boer cump, report that intosh of aforth Highlanders occu- | Commandant Prinsloe and General Fouric wolis. November 8. The Boers| were killed and General Grobelar was iirections. Three wounded were wounded in the recent fighting.” ou }r—yflal Surgeon Hart- | General Buller, accompanied by his wife ven men were wounded and daughter, arrived here to-day and re tleton reports that Kitchener suc- | ported to the War Office. Large crowds, prised the Boers during the | November 7. A mounted party of the Nineteenth Hussa d the Man- r Mounted Infantry, under Captain | Chetwode, managed to pass the Boer out- | post, and while the latter engaged the enemy’s picket, the Hussars surprised the Boers, sabering many. Chetwode and sev- | which had assembled station and in Pall Mall, eral. Parliament will assemble December 3 to vote the expenses of the war in South | | Africa, which are now expected to amount | to fully £100,000,000. Before Christmas an adjournment will be taken until the end of January. at the Waterloo cheered the gen- ches HAD A CLEVER PLAN TO DEFRAUD A BANK! NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 12—The ar- | fiv. rest of T. P. Brady upon a Federal war- rant sworn out by F. O. Watts, cashier of the First National Bank, has caused a | sensation here. The firm of Connor & ay .nmpuud of 3. H. Connor and T. | wholesale grocers and liquor | pade an assignment to-day snd: arr of Brady followed. In (Ms! cction the disappearance last July of | W. W. Lea, an individual bookkeeper of | he First National Bank, is explained. e two are charged with collusion in | frauding the bank out of $44,000. Book- per Lea left on his vacation July 15 jast and at the expiration of his two weeks' rest failed to return to his desk. Lea had been a trusted employe of the institution for over twenty-two years and his faflure to return upon ihe date set esused little concern among the bank of- 4ciale, but as the days rolled on without tidings from the missing bookkeeper, they vest: nk commenced an Investigation of his bank | fo . o pragy. It 1s stated that affairs. v b Aiandaa nt of | Brady acknowledged the ecrooked trans- 4'(l;|1n:: ’kd;;:;;r;d-: h::-o:‘:c-::imc‘;plem }“‘“‘""- taking all the responsibility upon were put to work. It is charged that | himself, stating that he had put the faise entries aggregating $56,%00 had been | money Into the firm’s business, with the made by the bookkeeper in the accounts | exception of a small amount, which he of this firm, extending over a period of 'sald he uud as an Individual. vears; that over $23,000 of this amount 1 been fraudulently obtained since May and that the work was carried on by Lea deposits on the journals of the institution and decreasing the amount of the checks drawn by the firm against the bank, fol- m i Br jers, sion balances. The bookkeeper wouid, upon a certain date, make an entry through which the bank would be defrauded of a certain sum of money, and later on make such entrie always through the accounts of the firm as would reduce the shortage. By operating this scheme it is allegel that the two men drew from the bank $56,000 in cash, but through the system of entries had pald back, through the firm's account, the sum of 312,000, leaving a net shortage to the bank of $44,000. The bank officlals held a consultation ke } shoes | at | able to get him | I am . 1888, up to the date of Lea's departure, | by increasing the amounts of the firm's | lowing this transaction with false exten- | | MOROCCO DECLINES TO MEET L THE DEMAND FOR INDEMNITY[ ‘Uncle Sam Will Have to Send a Warship to Compel Settlement for Essigian’s Murder. | The State Department has come to the MORE WORRY OVER CHINA New Complication Caused by the Ministers. i o) ‘ CALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HO- | TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Lieuten- | ant General Miles, acting Secretary of War, was advised to-day of the depar- | ture for Manila of the last of American | | trocps under orders to leave China. The | | American force now under General Chaf- | | fee’s command consists of one regiment (lf infantry, the Fourteenth; one squad- | ron of the Sixth Cavalry and Battery F of the Fifth Artille The troops that | | sailed to-day comprised one battalion of | Infantry, oue squadron of cavalry and one | | battery of artillery. The United States is | therefore in the position of having with- drawn its troops after the necessity for | their presence had passed. At the same | time the protection of American interests | and the American legation is assured by | the maintenance of a legation guard of | 1900 men. Minister Wu is anxious that this force shall be still further reduced, | and Secretary Hay has announced his | willingness to comply with his wishes pro- | vided other nations shall withdraw. But there is no disposition on the part of any | of the European governments or Japan to | | reduce their forces even to the extent the | United States has done, each being exces- sively suspicious of the purposes of the | others and desirous of losing no nd\an-\ tage which may be of importance in case of partition. Secretary Hay is very much irritated over reports which have been put out from Peking showing that the Ministers are determined to punish a great many | Influential Chinese whom they find re- | sponsible for the recent outrages and in- dicating that the indemnity to be demand- | ed will reach $600,000,000. The Secretary is | extremely anxious to induce the powers | to submit demands which will be accept- able to China, and he does not see how | this will be possible if the Ministers insist | u])nn the decapitation of all the influential | men and the payment of an indemnity | which is clearly impossible. The officlals | are of the opinion that examples should | be made of those conspicuously guilty and that the amount of indemnity should cer- tainly be not more than $200,000,000, and much less if possible. It is pointed out that if all the influential men are sen- tenced to be beheaded, they will, as a | measure of self-defense, inaugurate a re- sistance which will necessitate further military operations, the end of which no one can foresee. The President and Secretary Hay are awaiting anxiously the result of the de- liberations of the Ministers at Peking. | Minister Conger wired that another meet- Ilng would occur on November 11, but no | advices were recetved trom him, and it is presumed that it occurred to-day. It is evident, however, that the authorities are not very much pleased over the develop- ments of the past few days. Another possibility of friction lies in the reported efforts of Belgium, Denmark, Holland and Spain to take part in the ne- gotiations. This might be allowed in the case of Belgium, the subjects of which Government obtained an important rafl- road concession from China, but it is not seen how the interests of the others are affected In such special nner as to call BERLIN, Nov. 12.-The following re- port, dated November 8, has been recefved | here from Field Marshal Count von Wal-| dersee: | for their panlflpfilln.x in the negotiations. | IC IMS O l | “Major Graham, with two companies of | the First East Asiatic Infantry, the sec- ond saquadron and second battery, pro- ceeded from Tientsin, via Chung Ying. sixty kilometers north, on the left bank of the Peiho, where he had a slight en-| counter with mounted Boxers, arrived at Tungpa, twelve east of Peking. Russian troops have suc- and has Shanhatkwan, losing four kiiled and six- ty-one wounded. The British columns have returned from Paoting-Fu to Peking and Tientsla. The latter column destroy- ed several Boxer camps.” - DEMANDS OF THE MINISTERS. Eleven Princes and Officials Selected for the Death Penalty. LONDON, Nov. 13.—Dr. Morrison,wiring to the Times from Peking Sunday, rays: “Pressed by the common desire for a ‘xpeedy termination of present conditions, the foreign envoys have finally agreed to the following terms, to be presented in a | conjoint note which, subject to the ap- proval of their Governments, will be pressed upon China as the basis of a pre- [Ilmlnary treaty: “China shall erect a monument to Ba- ron von Ketteler on the site where he was murdered and send an imperial prince to. Germany to convey an apology. She | shall inflict the death penalty upon eleven princes, and officlals already named and suspend provinclal examinations for five vears whence the outrages occurred. In future all officials failing to prevent anti- foreign outrages within their jurisdiction shall be dismissed and punished. (This is a modification of Mr. Conger's pro- posal.) “Indemnity shall be paid to the States, corporations and individuals. The Tsung- Li-Yamen shall be abolished and its func- tions vested In a Foreign Minister. Ra- tional intercourse shall be permitted with the Emperor, as in clvilized countries. “The forts at Taku and other forts on the coast of Chill shall be razed and the importation ‘of arms and ‘war material prohibited. Permanent legation guards shall be maintained and also guards of communicafion between Peking and the sea. “Imperial proclamations shall be posted for two years throughout the empire, sup- pressing the Boxers. “The indemnity is to include compensa- tion for Chinese who suffered through be- ing employed by foreigners, but not com- pensation for native Christians. ' The words ‘missionary’ and ‘Christians’ do not occur in the note.” Commenting upon what it calls “Mr. Conger’s excellent suggestion for the dis- missal of officlals permitting anti-foreign outrages,” the Times remarks that ‘“this is the only considerable addition to the terms which the ministers proposed to submit to China last month.” It says that “American sense of justice and humanity is t0o strong and American intelligence too keen to be deluded by the pitiful Chinese appeal against the ex- cution of the Paoting-Fu official “Great. Britain has made @ courteots protest to Russia,” says the St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Daily Mail, “against a few regrettable incidents in China where Russians have owolod the hoisting of the Brl'.hh flag.” - will M«lnhnd. LONDON, Nov. 12—Tt is officially an- rounced that the Prince and of Wales intend. to visit Belfast next April. ; kilometers | fully encountered 6000 Boxers north of | HOTEL FIRE by the Greedy _Flarnes. —_— POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.. Nov. 12.— Hemmed in by flames in the upper storles | of the Gifford House, an old frame struc- | ture that burned like tinder, a number of | persons were burned or suffocated | deatn; | t suffered the loss of limbs and other in- Jurles, from which some died, and only a few of the forty-five sleeping guests got out without injury, and none saved any- thing but the night clothes that were worn at 12:30, when the alarm was given. Four are known to be dead. one s miss- Ing, three are fatally injured and more than twenty are burned or otherwise hurt. In the halls of the hotel a dozen or more persons were overcome by heat and smoke innd this leads to the belief that the loss of life will be much greater than is now known. There was a number of unregis- ter~~ guests at the place. The casualties so far reported are as follows. Dead: CURLY BERRY, Poplar Bluff. HECK CLARK, St. Louls. SHELBY D. HART, Poplar Bluff. REBECCA OWENS, Poplar Bluff. Missing: Eugene Dalton, Hot Springs Arkansas. Fatally injured ita Hargrove, Poplar Bluff, both legs broken, internally injured by jumping from third-story window; Winslow Stowe, Tennessee; unidentified woman. . Serfously injured: R. A. Smith, Poplar Bluff, terribly burned about the face and hands; Barney Pernaud, De Soto, Mo., hands and face burned; Charles Stradley, Poplar Bluff, bruised and burned; Mrs. Benjamin Shelby, Poplar Bluff, back in- Jjured, burned and bruised; Pink Berry, Elmer Freshear, James Upchurch, Poplar Bluff, severely burned. About a dozen more were slightly burned or received brulses in trying to escape from the building. Only one person, the watchman, was awake when the fire started, and he was unable to warn the guests, for the flames had spread so fdst that he was driven from the building. Escape for every one on the second and third stories was cut off, and the Fire Departinent was unable to glve them any assistance. Here thc deaths occurred, and in jumping from the windows the others were hurt. There were many acts of heroism in the rescue of women and a number of guest had very of women and a number of guests had very narrow escapes, several having their hair and eyebrows singed. It will be sev- eral days before the number of dead is known. FEARED ANOTHER CRAFT MAY HAVE BEEN YARMOUTH, N. 8, Nov. 12—The ma- hogany stern nameboard of a longboat has been picked up on the coast at Co- meaus Hill, near here, bearing the name “Plequa,” and it is feared' that another craft besides the City of Montieello may have met with disaster. - The 'only vessel named Picqua known here is a steamer owned by the Mediter- ranean and New York Steamship Com-' pany. According to shipping records, this steamer sailed from Blcflv October 9 for New York. |Guests Hemmed in| | their arrest, T/Health Authorities | tic measures to stamp it out. THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO, MULEY ABDUL AZIZ, IS SHOWN IN THE FOR ROUND WITH AN ATTENDA HOLDING OVER HIM AN UMBRELLA REPRODUCE FROM THE LONDON GRAPHIC, WHICH POS- S THE ORIGINAL PHOTGO, THE ONLY ONE E. ek A e el o - ———— —_— A ———— - — + ASHIN Nov 124"1‘hu last request was made by United cnn‘(‘luslnn that the Consul's representa- The Government of Mo- | States Consul Gummere, and the latest | tlons will be more effective it he is sup | rocco has again declined | declination of the Government of Morocco | ported morally by the presence in Mo- to meet the demands of | was accompanied by an intlmation of its | rocgan waters of a United States warshiy, | the United States for | freedom from liability under the terms of | and it is probable that he will make his | the payment of an indemnity on account | the convention between Morocco and | visit to Fez to again present the case as . | of the killing by a mob of Marcus Es- | Spain. | a passenger on a vessel to be selected by siglan, a naturalized Amenican citizen. | the War Department for that purpose. others leaped from windows and | ARE ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING FAMOUS JEWELS Two Mexicans Captured in New York With Valuable Diamonds Worn by Empress Carlotta. EW YORK, Nov. Mexicans, who gave their names as Velo M. Preza and Alejandro A. Maroucel. were arrested to-day, charged with smuggling into this country part of the | famous jewels at one time worn by Car- lotta, the widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. The jewels in the men's pos- sessfon are said to be worth $76,000. The men were shadowed, and this morn- ing Special Treasury Agent Theobald saw them. with another man, meet at the cor- | ner of Broadway and feventeenth strect. He approached them and told one of them that he was a prisoner. The man pro- tested and, as he did handed tw) packages to one of the other men. so, The third man was not arrested, but went to the West Thirtieth-street sta- tion in a closed carriage. At the station the men protested against but were held notwithstand- ing. The packages were opened and in one was found two diamond rings. The stones | were single diamonds, set in plain gold, said to be worth about $18,000 The other pn(kage containing a and are aplece. 12.—Two | dlamond pendant, A po- | monds for $20,000. | liceman was called and the two were ar- | rested. which is sald to have been formerly worn by Queen Carlotta suspended from a jeweled necklace. The pendant consists of a iarge diamond sot around with cighteen smaller stones and two large stones hanging beneath. The stone In the center is said to be a famous dlamond. It is of thirty-three carat. flaw less, and the pendant is said to be wort $40,000. The jewels were turned over Agent Theobald. The men were arraig ed before Commisgloner Shield 1w held in bail of 35000 and their examinat! was set for November 17 It was learned that among the which Preza had on him when he arrested was a bill of sale for the Tt ‘s sald th the men told the officials that t were given to them by a woman to This woman is said to Preza's The jewels were in a red leather ca: In the case was a pleca of paper on whi was written in English. “Diamond neck lace is from Maximilian’s crown The center stone is 33 7-10 karats none of the elghteen surrounding st less than one karat. The stone in one the diamond rings seized was in Max milian’s ring at the time he was shot papers was dia 1860." - lNCREASE OF DEATHS FROM HYDROPHOBIA of Greater New York Adopt Most Drastic Measures. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Hydrophobia has reaped so large a harvest of human ltves in this city during the last year that the Board of Health will take dras- | The Pas- teur treatment will be given out without charge to sufferers from dog bites. perts will the evil. ' Board_of Health, this morning gave out this statement: “The Department of Health desires to call the attention of physicians and others to the occurrence of the number of cases eft. persons are bitten by strange dogs or stray dogs they immediately consult a physician and have their wounds cauter- with the Depart- ment of Health.” President Murphy said to-day that the recently decided to take under its con- trol the suppression of this class of dis- Ex- | apply all their skill to quell | Dr. John B. Cosby, Commissioner on the | of rables among dogs throughout the | , apd would request that wherever | ized, and then if there is any question as | to the existence of rabies in the animal | | communicate at once Board of Health at an executive session | ease. He believed that there could be no more useful work for experts m ployed by the department than the stud and treatment of patients affticted wit rables. As a precautionary measure he desired it made public that any bitten should have the wound cauterizel at once and then notify the Board of | Health. There will be a special laboratory in Willard Park Hospital. President Mur- phy sald he belleved the deaths from hydrophobla were due in many cases to the fact that many persons were u to or @id not care to pay for a preventive system of treatment at a private hospi- tal. It is planned that the Pas | treatment by the city shall be free all residents of Greater New York. Dr. Herman Biggs, bacteriologist the Board of Health, said to-day: “There have been eighty-nine deaths from hy- drophobia during the last year. This | number 1s far out of proportion to other years. Usually we have two or three deaths annually from the disease. . city plans to give gratis prevent: treatment to victims of dogs believed t have rabies.” person Ve to WELLINGTON HO- TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. I12.—Sena- tor Harris of Kansas, member of the Isthmian Canal Committee of the Senate, is one of the first national legislators to arrive In Washington since the election. He sald to-day that he did not anticipate any great delay In the passage of the Nicaraguan canal bill, which, under a spe- clal order adopted late in the last session, will be taken’up on December 10. “I know of no disposition on the part of ahy Senators to unduly delay the bill or to offer amendments of a radical char- acter,” sald Senator Harris. *“The great- est danger of delay lies in the fact that oppesition may be expected from those who favor the Panama canal route rather than the Nicaraguan route. The strength they will be able to muster will CALL BUREAU, report of the Walker Isthmian Canal Commission. I understand that we are to have a preliminary report by the com- mission by the time Congress fonvenes. This report will contain the conclusions of the commission, which is all we need.” Real Admiral Walker said to-day that depend to a very large degree upon the| SPLENDID PROSPECTS FOR THE NICARAGUA CANAL Senator Harris Believes Bill Will Be Rushed Through Congress. the commission was making satisfactory progress, and would have its preliminary report in the hands of the President ample time to be transmitted Con- gress at the opening of the session. He said this report would be full enough to meet all requirements of Congress would give all the conclusions which t commission had reached. The admiral will not discuss the conclusions of ti commission, but it is understood th both the Nicaraguan and Panama routes were found to be practicable from an en- gineering standpoint, and it is found th the cost of completing the Panama canal would be practically the same as the cost of constructing a canal by the Nicara- guan route. The questions .to be con- sidered by Congress are, therefore, which of the routes is the most favorable from a commercial and military standpoint, and where the most favorable terms to concessions and control can be tained. It is expected that there will be a lively contest between tHe advocates of the two routes, but unless a very strong case can be made out for the Panama canal it is probable that the Nicaraguan route will be adopted. as ob- WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—The French Government, through President Loubet and also through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Delcasse, has forwarded formal congratulations to President Mc- /Kinley on his re-election. The message from the Minister of Forelgn Affairs came through M. ebaut, the French Charge a'Affaires here, who conveyed it to Secre- tary Hay. To this Mr. Hay has made the following reply: NOV. 10, 1900.—My Dear Mr. Charge: I have receilved your kind and courteous note of the 7th inst., conveying an expression of the grati- fication With which Mr. Delcasse learned of the re-election of President McKinley. 1myouwlll-unm!::eflh~1ylnhh PRESIDENT McKINLEY REPLIES TO LOUBET civility is highly appreciated both by the Presi- dent and myself, and that you will accept for yourself our very best thanks for your friendly sentiments. The President was also gratified to receive a cordial message from President Loubet, of which I inclose a copy, together with a copy of Prestdent McKinley's reply. JOHN HAY. The congratulations of President Loubet were made public last week. The Presi- dent’s reply wus as follows: NOVEMBER $.—Emile Loubet, President ot the French Republic, Paris: Your message of congratulation is most gratifying to me. 1 trust that during my renewed administration, as In the past, I may fortunately continue to give earnest expression of the sincers regard of the American people for the French mation. WILLIAM McKINLEY.