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

o e : This Paper not | to be taken from the Library.++++ 10. SAN FRANCISCO. , MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1900, PRICE FIVE CENTS. REPLACING SANTA FE STRIKERS SRS Company Will Not Take Back Men Who.Quit. ick ed with operators.” ombs, chief dispatcher for the ision, reported that all the running satisfactorily. Some b it t use where as soon as they are the west be W n we ild ff was of little importance de very motions maining at Their ding cutoff from Argentine | to Those were former- over their e road can o the lication com- Some ay T will be oy without suffer for zer 1 company f Is of his him. and the was given rs are out on Mr, McClel- ve men in sight for all these coming City and to-night St from was a natural conse- that the plan has been all the west-bound they could take The the east-bound dispatched on the main most of the men on the Ar- of the so-called uld attempt to send a ondition of the strikers would im- id the effect of the lost. However, he d that i hen ar tie be of the strikers there little inconvenjence. ascertained | Louts and | tions on the division will |BENT UPON PUNISHING | WEST POINT HAZERS lCongressman Driggs Determined That Bocz’s Death Shall Be Investigated. —y | | THE FORMER WEST POINT C VHOSE DEATH AS THE RESULT | | OoF = > T POINT MILITARY ACAL | BE | | Vas o = e i _ + DRIGGS of | Former Cadet Booz refused to the last mined to press! to name those who participated in the | stigation | hazing, though pressed to do €o. | scar L. Booz, “It is a matter of honor.” he repeatedly | Point cadet, who ac- | declared annot give their names.” or , his parents was brutally beat-| Col A. L. Mills, superintendent of | en and forced to swallow a flery potion in | the military academy, who at first denied | J 538, while at the military academy Booz was the victim of haziug, now ¥ on December | ! harged, was direc due to the treat- ment which he recefved from his Mvmr[ f« a cisposition on the part of ar Department officials to let the case without an inquiry, but Mr. Driggs declares this will not be permitted. i dmits t the lad was roughly handled by his fellow cadets, but excuses their | cruelty on the ground that Booz refused | to fight another cadet when called out. “Cowards are not tolerated at West Point,”” Colonel Mills has declared. The | colonel’s attitude has incensed those who are demanding an investigation of the af- | fair. MAJORITY FOR SHIP SUBSIDY MEASURE Careful Poll of M. mbers of the Upper House | Shows That the Bill Is Certain of Passage. Special Dispatch to The Call L HEADQUARTERS, 06 G REET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, Dec. | attitude of the Senate at this time subsidy bill is as follows: -ans supposed to be for the bill, blicans supposed to be d.g«un-\y the bill, 2; Republicans doubtful, . Democrats classed against the bill (with votes wavering), 34. E Republicans supposed to be for the | are: Allison, Aldrich, Baker, Bur- | rows, Carter, Chandler, Cullom, Clark, Depew Dolliver. Deboe Eilkins, Frye Foster , Gallinger, Hanna, Hoar, | i Hansbrough, Kyle, Kean, | ymas MeCumber, MeBrid i Mason elson, Penrose, Per- ¥ (New York), Platt (Connecti- | > ,rd. Quarles, Sewell, Shoup, | Sc rt. Spooner Thurston, War- - etmore Wolcott posed to be against the Beverid, Proctor. or Republicans and Pop- the bill: Allen, Bacon, Butler, Caffery, . Culberson, Dante (Arkansas), IN THE SENATE| Pettigrew Pettis Rawlins Sullivan, Talia- | ferro, Teller, Tillman, Towne, Turley, Turner, Vest. Supporters of the bill confidently expect | at least four Democratic votes. They de- | clare there has been considerable change in Democratic sentiment since thk in- dorsement of the measure by the Southern Industrial Congress in New Orleans, which is said to have been the most rep- resentative business gathering that ever assembled in-the South. The opposition to ship subsidies that is developing in the West, particularly in Indiana and Illinols, Is causing Senator Hanna and his friends some uneasiness. Senator Hanna is determined that there all be a vote on the measure in both houses. The subsidy debate in the Senate will be interesting this week. Senator Ciay of orgia will maké a speech of | about twenty thousand words against the bill. Senator Hanna intends to reply to Senator Clay on Tuesday. Senators Petti- grew, Wellington and Allen are expected to fight the bill, but it Is not believed they will resort to obstructive tactics to pre- vent a vote being reached. Sepator Hanna said to-day he expected | the subsidy bill would be out of the way | in the Senate before the Christmas holi- days. Superintendent Scholes of the telegraph, service unite in expressing the same views the other officials, and all profess to believe that the strike will soon be set- The officlals have kept in close con- | and have mot let the | | smaliest detafl of the developments | | escape their attention. They have had detectives in Topeka all day watching the movements of the strikers and reporting | | to headquarters. tled | sultation all day TRAINMEN MAY WALK OUT. Strike Threatens to Assume Disas- trous Proportions. | TOPEKA, Kans.,, Dec. 8.—The indica- | tions now are that the Santa Fe will have | more strike trouble before long if the present trouble with the telegraphers con- | tinues. Dispatches received here to-night | Indicate dissatisfaction among the train- | men in some division points. At § p. m. General Chairman Newman sent the fol- lowing message to R. N. Long of Den- ve! “Everything solid. I understand the west end trainmen are out. Trainmen on | the Guif division bhave given the officials until $ a. m. Monday to settle.” A dispatch from Galveston sa; ““Guif men are standing firm and every- thing is very encouraging.” ; | | i Chairman Newman wires from Wichita General Superintendent Ressegule and | that Sania Fe trainmen west of Wichita are threatening to go out unless the strike is settled. PUEBLO, Colo., Dec. 8.—A special to the Chieftain from La Junta, Colo., says: There are strong rumors that other rail- road men will take up the cause of the operators and order a <ympathetic strike, It is also stated that two carloads of operators left Chicazo this morning to take the places of the strikers. About a hundred and fifty men in the mechani- cal department at La Junta have been laid off. Six offices are still open be- tween La Junta and Dodge City. Trains are late but are movlng. MANAGER NEVIN OPTmIBTIC Says the Strike ]‘.l a Failure West of Albuquerque. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9.—Regarding the strike situation General Manager W. G. Nevin of the 8anta Fe Raiiroad made the following statement: “So far as the strike of the telegraph operators on the Santa Fe west of Albu- querque is concerned it has been a faflure since the order was issued. On our Val- ley division every telegrapher is either at his post of duty or his position has been satisfactorily filled by a new employe. On the Southern California division all va- cancies are filled with the exception of Continued on Second Page. | they | disappeared in a little blind aliey | as Bonita street, | what | toward Vallejo. The girls WITH A BOTTLE OF ACID CRANK ATTACKS THREE LITTLE GIRLS AND RUINS THEIR HATS AND DRESSES WITH DEADLY STUFF Daughters and Niece of Dr. Frederick Bass Have an Exciting and Dangerous Experience While on Their Way to St. Brigid’s Church—They Escape Without Personal Injury and There Seems to Be Little Hope of Finding Their Vicious Assailant. ITH a bottle of some corro- sive acld an unknown man sprinkied three little girls yes- terday. The lquid ruined their jackets, burned holes in their dresses and stained and burned their hats. It was by the merest chance the acid did not reach their faces and disfigure them for life. The assault took place on Green street, between Franklin and Van Ness avenue, It was in the morring, and the children were on their way to church. As it hap- pened there was no one in sight when the man came up behind them, and when saw what he was doing and called he escaped down Green street and known which opens into Polk between Green and Vallejo. Two of the chiliren are the daughters of Dr. Freder! s, who lives at 2044 Green street, and the gther is his little niece, Marguerite Tuckey, who lives at 2042 Green. Mabel Bass, the is 13, Marguerite nearly as and Helen Bass is 9. out street, eldest, is ola, Yesterday morning, dressed in their pre - tiest, the three chidren started for St Brigid's Church, on the corner of Van Ness avenue and Broadway. They went down Green street, and had reached Franklin, when they saw a man coming down the latter s t from toward Va- ilejo. They took but little notice of him, except to remark that he was not partic- ularly well dressed, and that his clothes were dark. The ckildren paid no at- tention to him, but kept on down G street untl), when close to Van Ness avenue, they noticed that one was them, and attracted their attention was that Mabel believed the man had spat upon her. She turned indignantly and spoke to him, and as she did so she saw the jack- of her two companions spotted all over with dark stains, She called to them and thev turned, and all three loosed their indignation on the man behind them, who immediately started across the n yme following ets | street and down the other side. The three litile girls followed him. He walked the faster, and they started to run. He, too, broke into a run, and thus | the four went on down Green street as far as Polk, where the man, who was by this time quite a distance abead, crossed the street agaiy. and turned up Pglk iched the cor- ner in time to see him turn into Bonlta street. They then continued on to the house of a friend, a dressmaker, who lives on Green street, between Polk and B VALLEJO sTREST UNION eTRERT He said he wanted it for cleaning bricks. He had no bottle, and the clerk told him he would be charged 10 cents extra for a bottle, so the man said he would wait for a while. He then left the store. Yester- day morning he came in again and bought the acid. The clerk was put through a rigid cross- £ were holes also in the dresses, but the jackets were only stained. The worst stain was on a little sailor hat that Mabel wore. It was evident from the number of the stains on the jackets and dresses that the man had come up quietly behind them and had sprinkled them as they walked down the street, but as they Sl iy ATTACK ON THE LITTLE GIRLS, CHURCH, AND HOW UNKNOWN FLUID UPON THEIR HATS AND CLOTHES. WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY TO MISCREANT THREW DEADLY | | | % DOTTED LINE SHOWS PATH OF GIRLS; HEAVY LINE THAT OF ACID THROWER; CROSS WHERE GIRL SAW HIM; CIRCLE WHERE HE DISAPPEARED UP BONITA STREET. -+ g g Larkin. To her they told thelr story and showed their ruined clothes. She took them home. The assault caused a great deal of ex- citement, and Dr. Bass at once notified the police. Dete¢tive Coleman was sent out to the house, and after questioning the girls and their parents he started on a hunt for the acid thrower. He inquired all through the neighborhood, but could find no trace of the man. The only Infor- mation he could find that might have a bearing on the actd thrower's identity was the statement of a drug clerk in the drug- store on the northwest corner of Jackson and Polk streets. The clerk said that late Saturday evening a man came in and asked for two-bits' worth of muriatic acld. (A examination as to the man’s appearance, but he could not give even so good a de- scription of his customer as the little girls could give of the man who followed them. It is believed, however, that the man who bought the acid is the man who sprinkled acid over the children. The stains made by the stuff on the girls' dresses are not distinctive of any particular acid, owing perhaps to the dyes used In the cloth. The jackets they wore were new ones of the tan shade, so much in vogue. The spots on the jackets were black or dark brown. On the woolen dresses the spots were red, and on the hat of one, where the acid had been poured, the cloth had burned black and the stuff had eaten a hole clear through it. There approached Van Ness avenue he reached over and poured what was left in the bot- tle on Mabel's cap. It soaked into the cap and ran down into her hair and onto her jacket. It was this that made her turn round, and as she did so, she says, she saw the man with the bottle still in his hand, holding it as he would have held a clgarette. The acid on tue child's hair was washed out as quickly as possible. The cause of the assault and its object are as much of a mystery to the girls and their parents as to everyone else. It was some wild freak of a crank, and a danger- ous one. and from his actions it is not known whether he was attempting to dis- figure the children with the burning liquid or merely wished to ruin their clothes. Had any of the stuff touched the skin it would have burned its way deep into the flesh of the children as quickly, if not more quickly, than it did into their clothing. The man spoke no word. The description the children give of the man makes him out a person of not over average height, with a full, red, round face: no beard and perhaps a small mustache, heavy set and with sandy hair, and dressed in dark clothes, his trousers rather loose so they flapped against his legs as he walked; his coat short, around his neck a black silk em- broldered muffler with purple flowers, or as one of the children thought, white ones. This he wore around his neck and crossed in front of his chest. As to his hat the children could not agree, but they belleve it was a derby. The neighborhood is quite worked up over the occurrence, as it has always been considered a locality particularly fres from any danger to children, and boys and girls have been allowed to come and go almost as they pleased. To have such a character roaming around is most dis- quieting to the parents, for there is no means of knowing when the man will make his presence known again in a similar way, and the next time his vic- tims may not escape with only ruined clothing. A plece of Mabel's sallor cap was taken by Detective Coleman and the character of the fluid used will be ascertained. It it prove to be muriatic acid the clew from the drugstore will be of considerable value. In any event the police will make a special effort to find the miscreant. for he Is a menace to children who must travel alone upon the street. BOLD THIEVBS OPERATING IN BRITISH CITIES Crooks. Hailing From the United States Invade London. 1 Clbl. to The Call and New York Her- B et 190, by the Herald Pub- LONDON, 9.—A gang of well- dressed thieves, who recently arrived in London from the United States and who have been operating at Paddington Sta- tion, are suspected of several daring rob- beries, which have just taken place at Euston. The Daily Mail describes a most re- markable haul at Buston. A gentleman arrived with six pleces of baggage. They were loaded on a trolley and the owner went off to take his ticket. When he re- turned in a few minutes’ time the whole of his baggage had vanished. There were dozens of porters about and many. persons were arriving and departing with luggage. No one had noticed anything unusual. The presumption is that the haul was ac- complished by several thieves acting in concert, one to shadow the owner, others to detract the attention of the porters and the rest to get the baggage quickly re- moved to a cab. The loss is £300. FINDS HE WAS A BROTHER OF MARCUS DALY Inmate of Soldiers’ Home: Maekes an Interesting Discovery. PSR Speclal Dispatch to The Call. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. 9.—Rev. Mr. Daly, who has been an inmate of the Sol- diers’ Home of this place for the last few vears, was reading the blography of the late Marcus Daly yesterday, and to his great surprise discovered that he and Marcus Daly were brothers. Rev. Mr. Daly knew that he had a brother named Marcus, but they were separated when young, the family being poor, and the boys never again met one another. Mr. Daly says he had often read of Multi- millionaire Daly, but never for a moment thought It was his little brother, who left home ragged and penniless, Daly is a pious Christian, belonging to the Free Methodist Church, in which he served as pastor at Eastern places during a number of his active years. He has never corresponded with his brother nor ever heard from him, and mwpoud he ‘was dead long ago. BIGHT PERISH DURING A GALE ON LAKE ERIE Iron Ore Barge Goes to the Bottom With Its Crew. ey s Special Dispatch to The Call. ERIE, Pa., Dec. 9.—In the midst of one of the most bitter gales that ever swept Lake Erie, the iron ore barge S. H. Fos- ter, in tow of the Iron Duke, went to the bottom at 4 o'clock this morning ten miles off Erie, and elght persons were drowned, as follows: CAPTAIN JOHN BRIDGE of Cleve- land. FIRST MATE, name unknown. SECOND MATE. name unknown. SEAMEN ROBERT WOOD and WIL- LIAM KELLY of Port Austin, Mich. COOK MRS. MAY of Detroit. Two unknown deckhands. The Foster was one of the fleet of James Corrigan of Cleveland and for two months has been runming from Duluth to Erie with fron ore. Her cargo consisted of 1500 tons of ore. Captain Ashley of the Iron Duke made Erie in safety. COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE 1 POOR HEALTH Illness Due to Worry Over Her Husband’s Finan. cial Troubles. ——— Specfal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—The Journal has the following from Paris: The poor lit- tle Countess de Castellane Is reported seriously {ll as a result of worry caused by Count Bonl's creditors. The last blow fell on Friday. It was the seizure for debt of the Count's big auxiliary yacht Valhalla. This broke the hearts of both tne Count and Countess. The affair came off at Havre. It was in- directly the result of the recent announce- ment that the Gould family in America had decided to resist the payment of un- Just debts incurred by the Count—an an- mouncement made by the Coudert Brothers, their Paris representatives, who informed the Countess in most emphatic terms. Montana’s Official Vote. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 9.—The official canvass of the vote in Montana shows the following result: Bryan, 37.146; McKinley, ,3%5; Debs, 108; Woolléy, 298 )