The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1900, Page 2

o THE DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER, WHO WILL BRING HER TITLED HUSBAND TO AMERICA THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1900, & @ i \ RN TORMERLY MISS HELENE ZIMMERMAN, ) IS COMING TO AMERICA SOON. SHE IS NOT NOTED FOR BEAUTY, BUT HAS | ER AND A RICH PAPA. DAUGHTER OF A WBALTHY | MINISTERS AT PEKING AGREE O ALL POINTS Reach a Full Understanding as to the Demands Upon China. ! A | Native Residents of the Capital Must Hereafter Dwell Between Walls of Tartar and Imperial Cities. S EETRAl Special Dispatch ‘to The Call COMELY DENVER WOMAN IDENTIFIED PEKING, Nov. ~The Ministers had another meeting to-day to delimit the future boundarics of the legation grounds. | The matter was df ed and settled so | far as the Ministers are concerned. Their | decision, however, is subject to the ap- proval of the military authorities, who | will look over the limi: greed upon and | decide if the grounus. as proposed by the | Ministers. be easy to defend. If they | decide re are military objections the boundaries wiil be cnanged The important action of the meeting, however, was the tasing up of the ques- | tion of the last point emvodied in iue Ministers’ demanas upon the Chinese government, concerning which there heretotore had been a consicerable di- | vergence of opinlon. v (b all ex-| pectations the pomt was agreed —upon, and the Miaisters then agreea to demand | that hereatier Chinese residents of the city be restricted to U ce between | the walls of tne Tartar and imperial | citles. ‘inis space is a mile long and & | third of 2 mile wi ‘ In the discussion of the note containing | the demands to be ated to the Chi- pr nese government through its plenipoten- tiaries, M. de Giers, the Russian Minister, | persisted in the refusal to agree to the! provision that China should agree to pa indemnity for the outrages committed b; Boxers and glve guaranices against repe- | tition. 'The Britis rman govern- | ments had made no ch: in the instruc- | tions to their Mifisters, and it appeared | as though no agreement could be reached. | A compromise was suggested in the word- | ing of the point. ‘I.is was adopted and a satisfactorr agrecment ched. It is | understood the c¢ wording, and does of the provis| The Minister Cninese pea . party of Americ went to- | day to dispe village sixieen miles from Peking. The village w round strongly fortified, but the Americans attackea and captured it, | killing seven Chinese. - A secret edict from Singanfu to the | provincial Viceroys and Governors orders | them to cease the manufacture of modern | to arms and to revert ve of | weapons, utterly u: t the old “ha THREE FLYING CARS HURLED FROM RALS Continued From First Page. SUICIDE RATHER THAN TORTURE RCERONE T How the Last Survivor of| Custer’s Command Went to His Death. was the d, and mor in . having te of the Indians that no the Bad Lands acre. through a for his life. t a bullet through e and torture. n Indian who 1 Then they the hill,” says young officer, rom among his r lands and their ter mounted than the chase, and Lieuten- finally began to ed rapidly. Then ed man floundered Harrington raised a bullet ¥ in the miles from the accounts discovered tenant Har- at her hus- the Indians She brooded ally, an 53 73 ® 3 advertising In a lit- bouts of | rrington, wife of Lieuten. 3t Harrington. Then the woman recall «d that that was her name and this seem £4 to restore her memory of her sister and | thers. She communicated with her | sister, who went to Arkansas and took | Mrs. Harrington to Wichita, Kan. | During the two years and nine months | f her absence it i= belleved Mrs. Har- | rington wandered aimlessly over the West | and 5 hwest unconsclous of her identi- | and without funds or means of living, | She had on the same dress when taken to her sister's home that she wore when she disappeared. Her gown was in rags. Mrs. Harrington's face showed the strain caused by her suffering. Her features were drawn and she was deathly pale. All she remembered was that she left Fort Worth to find her husband’s body. Relatives have always belleved that Mrs. Harrington sul ted on the charity of persons whom she met. Mre. Harrington has been cared for by her relatives sipce she was found. BShe is mow living with relatives at Hacken- sack, N. J. The Government has been E D ekore Congress 10 $ive Her & a s before ve larger allowanes — | ican occupation t! | the | there was only one really good road, that CRYING NEEDS OF PORTO RICO Good Roads Necessary for| the Development of Country. TP S WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The Commis- sioner of the Interior for Porto Rico, Wil- m H. Elliott, in his annual report to the ecretary of the Interior says that the most expert manipulation as well as de- tective ingenuity will be needed to untan- and lapping of grants and concessions and unauthorized occupation of public lands that have grown with the centuries of rule in the Interest of the favored few. The archives of the island were found in a disordered condition. Many records of cases never have been closed and are mixed with those dfSposed of. Rearrange- ment and classification are necessary prior to_investigation. During the early history of Porto Rico Governors and Captains General held or assumed the right to make grants of land. Grantees appropriated land in excess of | their original boundaries and their suc- cessors claim ownership. Many grants were abandoned. ‘In numerous instances intruders took possession. Prior to Amer- - Spanish Government ordered a careful listing of real property in each municipality, but either because of the expense or for political reasons failed to execute the work. This listing, according to the Commissioner, must be accomplished before the numerous ques- tions of ownership can be definitely deter- mined. The first great, crying nmeed of Porto Rico, the report says, is good roads. time of the American occu tion from Ponce to San Juan, and most of the island remains without other means of reaching a market or communication be- tween towns than over dilapidated and dangerous trails, often impassable for Gays, as all streams there are torrential. The productiveness of the sofl is so great and the necessities of existence so | pensive that people can and do live and multiply in the mountain districts, but re- main forever poor and ignorant. Perma- nent roads, it is predicted, will work out the sadly needed reforms in education. The Commissioner proposes to suggest to the Legislature that a loan be floated large enough to build the roads at once. The report of the president of the Board of Health of Porto Rico says the number of lepers in the island probably does not exceed 100, and it Is confidently believed that the disease can be totally extermi- nated in a few years by careful segre; tion of every case as it is discovered. | MAYOR OF HAVANA TO FIGHT WITH AN EDITOR City’s Executive Seeks Reparation for an Alleged Libelous Article. HAVANA, Nov. 25.—It is said that Gen- eral Redriguez, Mayor of Havana, has challenged Benor San Miguel, editor of La Lucha, to fight a duel in consequence of an alleged libelous article attacking the integrity of the Mayor's office. General Rodrigiez has nam second. La Lucha published a statement to-day that it had no intention of attacking the character of the Mayor. Both parties deny that the matter wiil be carried any further, but the friends of both say that the denlal is only a ruse to put the police off the scent. -— To Maintain the Army. ROME, Nov, 2%.—The Itallan Chamber Senor Alonan as his |of Deputies has refected a proposal brought forward by the socialists to re- duece army expenditures 100,000,000 francs 2nd to cut down the army corps from twelve to eight. —————e Rifles for Venezuela. CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 25.—The vms;:lm Government has received from Germany 10,00 Mauser rifias and 000,000 the mass of cross titles, duplication | At | nex- | | ing with the necessary anchors and haw- | LARGE STEAMER GOES ASHORE Stranding of the Margaret Jones Near Delaware Breakwater. head of the train when I felt a sudden jolt and the rumble of carwheels as the brakes suddenly jammed down upon them. There was a sudden sag in the track perceptibly felt on the running train just before the accident. Several passengers noted the drop and said there was a bad place in the track. As soon as the train !u?ped 1 jumped out and ran back and found the diner and two other cars—a sleeper and a day coach—lying half turned over against the bank. The car windows and the end of the diner were smashed. ““When we got back to the diner we found the Wellses and the two theatrical people the only occupants. It was only | that embankment that prevented the wreck from being a serlous disaster."” it R R THE TRAINMEN’S STORIES. L. Bardo, conductor of the train, sald: LEWES, Del, Nov. 25.—The British steamer Margaret Jones, Captain Thomas, | in ballast, from Malta for Delaware | Breakwater for orders, stranded at 3 o'clock this morning directly opposite the Isle of Wight life-saving station, near Ocean City, Md. She was immediately discovered by the life savers, who manned their surf boat and went to her assist- | ance. The steamer is well upon the beach, about fifty yards from low-water mark. She is lying easy in a moderate sea and perfectly tight. The captain and crew re- | fused to leave the steamer, so the life savers returned to shore with dispatches from the captain. It will be necessary to lay heavy an chors and run large hawsers to the steamer and heave her off inch by inch to | deeper water before the tugs can move her entirely clear of the shore. | ing barge left the breakwater this even. sers. It will no doubt take several tides to float her. [4 The Margaret Jones is owned by the | Margaret Jones Steamship Company of Cardiff. She is consigned to Peter Wrigh & Sons, Philadelphia, The vessel is 30 feet long and of 4842 net tons burden. Steamer La Lorraine Sustains In- | | juries Due to Storms. | NEW YORK, Nov. %.—The new French | line steamship La Lorraine, which arrived | to-day, experienced a hard trip across the | Atlantic. In addition to the weather, | which was very rough, several accidents | occurred to the machinery which caused | the vessel to slow down while repalrs werc. | being made. Her bridge rail was smashed and there was a dent in the smoking room roof caused by the giant waves which broke over her forward. * Two seamen are in the ship's hospita!. Ome man was struck on the head by the | nozzle of a hose. The other was swept across the deck by a wave and landed ! against the rail with his knee badly hurt, | COOKED TO DEATH i IN A BOILING sRING| Man Who Gave the Name of Smlf.hl Ends His Life at Pay . PAGOSA JUNCTION, Colo., Nov. 25.— The citizens of Pagosa Springs were this morning horrifled by e discovery of the | body of a man in the hot springs. The | body was at once removed and was found | to be literally cooked, the temperature of | the water of the springs being over 130 | Gegrees. Investigation disclosed the fact | that the man was a stranger in town, | who had arrived the evening before and | whose name was Smith. Anyway, that | was the name he gave as his own. ‘Noth- ing could be found that would solve his identity. Ho was without money and com- mitted suicide by leaping Into the scald- ing spring. HEIRS TO A FORTUNE. Nephew and Niece of the Late John Sullivan Found. BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 25.—8everal weeks ago John Sullivan, an old bachelor, died at Seattle, leaving an estate valued at $300,000. Since then attorneys for the es- tate have ed all over the country R A e nephe man They are Dennis SlllllVl.I:1 ng in Butte. c‘l‘lfi miner, and his sister, Mrs. Charles ‘mer. ——— . _ ' Btops the Cough And works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo- Tablets n)‘{vl’u, s?‘"i“"m..“. r. “We were running fifty miles an hour | when the engine broke the rail, an acci- dent that would happen on any railroad. | We were an hour and fifty minutes behind | time. When the rail broke I was in the | sleeper going through the train. I felt the | jolt and jumped for the overhead straps, to which I clung until the train came to | a standstill. Then I rushed back and | found the three coaches, including the | diner, off the track. The drawhead had | broken and separated the train. As soon as possible I had Mrs. Wells' Injuries at- tended to. | ““Then I found the broken rail that caused the trouble. It had been severed | four feet back of the fishplate joint. | “In_order to save the passéngers and | Mrs. Wells, who we believed was seriously | hurt, I chained on the first sleeper that | was not damaged and brought it through to Oakland. “We were running late, but wers not making up time when the break® oc- curred.” Engineer A. B. Neff said: “] was running at my usual rate of speed at that point. I_don't know how | the accident occurred. It is one of those | peculiar affairs that the best of rafiroad men cannot account for.” Division Superintendent Agler said: “A broken rail caused the accident. I} am glad that there were no serious inj ries to any of the passengers. The train- men report that the rail was snapped by | the engine, a not unusual occurrence, in spite of the fact that this was a steel rall, | weighing sixty pounds to the foot.”” TALE OF A PASSENGER. Jacob Marx, a New York drummer, was | on the train in one of the cars that safely | crossed the point of danger. In speaking | of the accident he said yesterday: “It was a miraculous escape. Think of it—a train of heavy coaches plowing along, some say, at fifty miles an hou but my actual experience leads me to be. lieve the actual speed was greatly in ex cess of this estimate—leaving the track. 1 cannot see how so few escaned death | and injury but for the fact that the ac- | cident ‘cccurred in a cut and the cars ran ! into the embankments softened by the | heavy rainfall. “Two young bo; which was ahead o row escape. m the chair car, he diner, had a nar- They came out’with but a few scratches, but say they had a lively shake-up. 1 think we can all think our- selves lucky we came out alive.” Sansone and Delila, a team of equil- ibrists. who were billed to open at the | Orpheum Theater, were in the dining car | at the time of the accident and Miss De- | lila was so badly shaken up she cannot | appear at the theater this week. he l’nllowh;% named were among thos Jon the wrecked train, but all escaped ury: Lynn Hehn, Los s-ansfield, New York; F. H. erman, s; F. Dobson, Seattle; Mrs, 1. Denver; , New York; and family, St. Loul York. ———— FILLMORE'S TRITE REPORT. “The official advices inform me that the train made up of cars forming .ue com- bined Owl and Sunset limited left the track between Antioch and Cornwall at | 10 o'clock this morning. I understand that though four cars left the track and be- came total wrecks no one was seriously injured. The cause was a short rail. The train was running behind time. The traf- fic will be sent by way of Livermore until he t i Sy ki B ks VAL Sl e the way J. A. ral superintendent of the Sou! serl road accids # | what may be done by | detailed for the recruiting service. | ments. | tober 4 for Subig and Sulamoga. The gun- t is_appare: i red in the taired in %ofl P AS A DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBER = Wity i ) //// 4 - e’ e + i MRS. BESSIBE HODGE, DENVER'S FEMALE FOOTPAD, WHO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY MRS. FLORA BETTS AS ONE OF THE ROBBERS WHO ASSAULTED HER AND TOOK FROM HER §060 WORTH OF DIAMONDS ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST L ¥ o= . -+ ENVER, Nov. 2.—Mrs. Bessle| “That woman is one of the robbers. She | ver ten years, and seven years ago was Hodge, now an inmate of the| Wore men's clothing and carried a revolv- lliam Hodge. & plumber's Denver prison, has been identi- | ©T- She took the earrings from my ears | and my rings from my fingers and dan- fled by Mrs. Flora Betts as one | gled them front of Barr's face. She | tion c of the footpads who on August | helped Barr to beat me, and did most of | * y of this thing. 27 last - assaulted and robbed her | the beating herself.” Mrs. Hodg ity fail, “I would n\t ©of dlamonds to the value of $700 near| . ATe you positive?' asked Captain Arm- | be here now i have killed myself Valverde. This ldentification apparently | leaves no doubt that Mrs. Hodge was lhe; “man” who accompanied J. K. Barr and | assisted in despoiling Mrs. Betts of her | Jewels. The case is one of the most sen- | ational that has ever come to the at-| tention of the Denver detective force. ‘When brought face to face with Mrs. | Hodge in Police Captaln Seymour's office | Mrs. Betts, after a careful examination | of the suspect, exclaimed: You can make no mistake?" | “Impossible. I could never forget her | face. She's the woman who struck me with the gun. I am positive it was she who held my aiamonds in the light to see if they were genuine, just as I said at | the time. I have no doubt it was she, al- though dressed in man’s clothing when she helped to rob me.” Mrs. Hodge is vehement in protestations of her innocence. She has lived in Den- first. I'm not guilty and I propose to see it out until I am proved innocent.” Mrs. Hodge, however, refused to tell Captain Armstrong where she was be- tween the hours of 7 and 10 o'clock the evening of the robbery. She insists, how- ever, that she will be able to prove whers she was during those hours and that she was not in _the vicinity of the robbery at the time. The poilce laugh at these pro- testations and are confident not only of curing convictions but of recovering diamonds. Barr still refuses to talk. the BECRUTSFOR THE REW ARMY Belief That the Proposed Increase Could Quickly Be Made gt WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%5.—In view of the probable call upon the War Department OBUECTS TOTHE FRIE-PANE BLL Commercial Club Discusses| Merchant Marine Interests. CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—Merchant marine | interests were discussed last night by the DISCRIMINATION HGAINST AMERICH Alleged Agreement Between the Railways of Russia and Prussia. E R WASHINGTON, Nov. German press reports 25.—According to negotiations are | to make a sudden increase in the enlisted | Commercial Club at its banquet at the now pending between the Russian rail- strength of the army, after the present | Auditorium Hotel. The Frye-Paine sub- | roads and the Prus sian Governmental regular force has been discharged, it is |sidy bill, which is expected to be Intro- | railroads to carry Into execution a project a matter of considerable interest to see | the new regiments when the number and | strength of these is determined by the passage of the army reorganization bill. | It is said at the War Department that for | several months past the principal trouble | is to keep from overcruiting the various | regiments now in the service. In spite of | the fact that active war hardly can be said to exist even in the Philippines, there has been strong pressure for enlist- ment, and the recruiting offices, it is said, i have been able to pick and choose men of a high standard of excellence, owing to | the large number of appilcants. partment counts with considerable confi- | dence on the re-enlistment of a large number of men whose term of service will expire on June 30, 1902 At the same time, if the army reorgani- zation bill provides for a permanent torce of 60,000 men or over (and it is not thought ltkely that it will fall below this figure), thers will be 33,000 men to eniist between | the date of the passage of the bill and the discharge of the present regulars on the 30th of June. The chief recruitng offi- cer of the department, Major Johnson, says it is impossible to make any predic- tions as to the speed with which the re- cruiting 1s being carried on, but it will de- pend largely upon the number of officers ‘When the Spanish-American war was officially | declared to be ended and the discharze of the volunteers rendered the recruiting of fresh regiments impossible there were 25,000 new men added to the regular estab- lishment in the space of about six weeks, in spite of the fact that the volunteer offi- cers at that time were recruiting all over the country to fill up the volunteer regi- The first regiments realized for the regular service were recruited, | equipped, drilled and ready for trans- portation_on an average of forty-four days each, more than ten days quicker than the average for the regiments enliist- | ed at the beginning of the Spanish war. WORK OF KEMPFF'S FLEET. Roar Admiral Reports of the Patrol of Philippines. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—In a report fo the Navy Department dated Cavite, Octo- | ber 15, Rear Admiral Kempff, senifor squadron commander of the Asiatic fleet, tells of the disposition at that time of the many American vessels under his com- mand. He says that the gunboat Villa- lobos had returned to Cavite with Captain Devereaux Shields and the company of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, who were captured by the insurgents in Mnrlnduq‘ue. Twelve hundred soldfers scoured the Isl- and, Admiral Kempft says, and compelled the insurgents to surrender Ihe. prisoners. The gunboat General Alava salied on Oc- | Basco arrived at Cavite October 11 e B eport. concerning the _circum- stances attending the recovery of the re- mains of Naval Cadet Wood and Machin- who were killed on the Urdan- etta in the Oriana River. She reported some insurgent activity ashore on the north side of Manila Bay, Reports of ves- Eis around Cape Leyte, Bohu! and Samar indicate considerable actlvity among the insurgents. The nboats Quirris and Bennington had sailed with an expedition against Binangonan. At the date of the It the gunboats Bennington, Castine, Concord, Leyte, Manileno, Samar, Urdan- etta, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Manila, Basco, Arayat, Callao, Panay and Para- ey MY oig patrol duty throughout St land: the naval patrol stations in the arch- been given distinctive letters. aso heve Trm the statement con: L nbaals that ‘the const of 3 9 Bi Pt Hid T 5, ety arcl '\ D o 1 &me. Manila, Cal- (soon to be relieved by ‘alamianes) being assigned to that nt duty. ——— Christmas cards for 190 and calendars 1901 now on sale. Sanborn, Vall & Co., Merkes strget, 5 | enough of the resolution to indorse it,"” he duced early in the next Congress, was limited number of companies. President W. J. Chalmers presented the | subject to the club with a review of ma- rine statistics illustrative of the decline of the American merchant marine. Henry | W. Peabody of Boston, with large inter- ests in thransoceanic trade, who Las beea active In efforts to secure a revision of the Frye-Paine bill, analyzed the features of the measure which he considered detri- mental to the general interests of the| merchant navy. | In place of the subsidy bill he urged one | McKinley and Secretary Gage, as made | twice to Congress. The bill, he sald, was supposed to represent the wishes of the administration, but he declared that was widely divergent from what the Pres- | ident desired. The objection to it, he| claimed, aside from the fact that it ad-| vanced the interests of the committee on | promotion and favored six companies, was that it did not guard the ownership of the vessels and insist that they should re- | main in American hands after they had | been registered. “"This bill is not in the interests of the | country at large,” said he. “It does not said Tepresent the interests of the commitee on promotion. If it becomes a law there can be no hope for the American mer- chant marine for twenty years to come. Mr. Peabody advised enactment into a law of the President’s suggestion that a certain number of foreign built vessels be permitted to come under the American flag and be registered as American ves- sels upon the provision that an equal | number of tons be constructed in Ameri- can shipyards by the companies making the foreign purchases. “If ‘the members of the club think well said, “it may encourage the administra- tion to recommend it again, as it has twice in the past. Former Congressman George E. Adams proposed the recreation of the merchant marine by a consolidation of {ts three branches, by which it would be made pos- sible for the shipyards on the lakes to compete with shipyards on the coast. The linking of coastwise trade with for- eign trade, he sald, could be made possible by the building of the Nicaragua canal and the consolidation of inland and for- | eign trade by the construction of a twen- ty-foot canal from the lakes to the gulf. DIE WHILE AT SEA Captain W. Reid of the Steamer Adler and Captain Pecken of the Arnold Pass Away. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The British fruit steamer Adler arrived to-day from Port Limon and reported that Captain W. Reid of that steamer had dled of yellow fe- ver on November 1. The authorities at Port Limon would not allow- the burial of the body ashore and the Adler was obliged to steam outside the harbor and bury_the remains at sea. Captain Reid was 30 erdeen, a; The chief officer, ‘Waite, brought the steamer to this port. The Adler is held at quarantine for dis- infection. LONDON, Nov. 25—The German bark Arnold, which arrived at Falmouth to-day from Victoria, B. C., whence she sailed June 7, reports that her master, Captain Pecken, died during the voyage. Germany and the Ottoman Govern- ment in a Dispute. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. %.—A diffi- culty has arisen between Germany and Turkey. The Ottoman Government objects to Germany using Farsan Island in the io“-ubll:.h ‘then a "'fi:fl 5:'.7'“ u:een' stble to all the - ers. ever, insists Mm will of the Russian Minister of Finance which various | criticized by the speakers as a measurs | wil] involve a discrimination agalnst the recruiting offices toward building up the | designed to promote the interests of &| exportation of American ralls, locomo- tives and machinery to Russia United States Vice Consul General Han- auer at Frankfort, Germany, in a recent communication on this subject to the State Department, declares that by the terma of the proposed arrangement Ger- many is willing to ca Russian petro- leum on her roads at a low figure, pro- vided Russta will reciprocate by giving low railroad rates for German fron. The press reports have it that this ar- rangement has been agreed on and_that freight schedules are now being made on The de- | framed upon the suggestions of President | this basls. 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