The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 17

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He made beds, swept out the tent Booz water and cicaned my gun a.m{‘ P VS ROBBER CAPTURED | WITH HIS BOOTY | Four Men Blow Open the Vaults of a | Tennessee Bank and Take the Coin. LLAHOMA., Tenn, Dec. 2.—The| s of the Coffey County Bank at Man- | er were blown o early to-day by robbers and all the currency in the ank, amounting to $5000, was stolen. The robbery was discovered by the town hman, who notified the authorities at homa, toward which place the rob- | bers fled on a handcar. A Deputy Sherift and a policeman from Tullahoma met the robbers a mile from town, and, after a fight, captured the thief with the His four companions escaped. The captured robber refuses to disclose | his name or the identity of the other four | men. He claims to come from Ohio, and | it is belleved that this is the gang which has been ogermlnx recently in that State. s Bloodhounds have been put on the trall of the escaped robbers. —_— Big Blaze at Bridgeport. | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 22—The Pooie of Michigan swore | potchkiss Company’s bullding was de- azed BooL. H°ah§.4 n:i | stroyed by fire lcrflafi entalling a loss of beax W48 | 90,000, Besides the Hotchkiss Company, were present a spirit of fun oo, found no diM- &l Clous the witness t the taking of tly mor indirect- rculosis of the throat e cause of the death years his par- { . the Ives Manufacturing Company and one of the UPPEr | the Comnecticut Clasp Com occupied b classmen? | the burned building, and all suffered a to- DE- | tal loss of stock. CLAIMS TO HAVE CURE FOR LEPROS George Pratt’s Condition At- tracts Attention at Honolulu. HONOLULU, Dec. 14—George Pratt, the leper who came here from San Fran- cisco and who is to * fective cure for lepro: has aroused much in: and his condition est among the doc- tors. Physicians who have examined him { say that the disease is arrested in his case. He refuses to expl his alleged y. Pratt is said to have been treat- ed by a Ban Francisco doctor. Little con- fidence is placed in his statements here owing to many contradictions in them. A sensational controversy has broken out between Chlef Justice Frear and Judge Humphreys of the First Circuit Court, with Clerk Henry Smith of the Supreme Court as a party to the row. Humphreys made an corder that all the court funds be placed In bank, to be held | at the order of the court, and he charged | that in the past funds had been used by those who had control of them, among the users being the Judges, who took cash 2 bitter reply to the charges and the con- treversy attracted much attention. Hum- phreys stuck to his order and the funds are now Jept as he directed. The transport Meade lost seven firemen ~ sent back on the | | steamship China, claims to have an ef- | and that he forced them to work only when told by the ship’s doctor they were not {1l but were shamming. LURED FROM HOME AND TARRED AND FEATHERED | Edgar Plato, a Kansas Salesman, Makes Grave Charges Against His Wife’s Relatives. TOPEKA, Dec. 2—Edgar Plato, s plano salesman of this city, weas lured from his home and tarred and feathered last night, and to-day he swore out war- rants for the arrest of Peter Hamilton, | the divorced husband of his wife; William Hamilton, his wife’s son, and John Won- dell, his wife’s brother, charging them | with committing the crime. Plato mar- | ried Mrs. Hamilton a month ago, after he had been repeatedly warned by her relatives against the union. | Last night three men appeared at Pla- ty's home and called him out on some pretext, and when he reached the street the men seized him, and putting him in a | buggy, drove out of the city limits. They | stopped at an out of the way place and | applied a coat of tar and feathers to Pla- to and warned him to leave the county within five days. Plato suffered intense- Iy in the cold air. He managed to reach home and scraped off his coat of feathers. He put on clean clothes and came to the MIISTERS SIcY THE JOIT HOTE China Not Able to Pay In- demnity, Which May Be a Billion Taels. it PEKING, Dec. 22—The last obstacle having been removed the joint note was signed to-day by all the foreign Ministers, including the envoy from The Nether- lands, who arrived only recently. The note will be delivered to Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching, (he Chinese plenipoten- tiaries, as soon as the former shall have sufficiently recovered from his_indispo- sition. The Chinese close to Li Hung Chang still Ere!er 10 believe, despite the signing of the note, which they did not believe would take place, that the present negotiations must carried on in Eu- rope or America. They resent the British modification, of the note, for they say city, where bc swore out warrants for | some power or powers might not be sat- his assaflants, whom he claims positively | isfied until the indemnity n to have identified. > in full, which would mean the occupation s | URGES RUSSIA TO WATCH GERMANY Pear] Fisheries Agreement Said to Be | Only a Cloak for Political Plans. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.—Taking the unconfirmed rumor that Germany and Turkey have signed a pearl fisheries con- vention in to the Persian Guif tor Vremya urged that of Peking for an indefinite time, as it can- not be expected that China can raise what would be required—possibly 1,000,000,000 taels—at once. As a matter of fact it will *“[f Hung Chang's condition is reported ung s on is repo: to-day to be so much improved that ne was able to be out of bed for a short The cavalry and infantry detachments which have been Investigating the re- osiwu have re- that All the troubls, to cause alarm. they say, side of the river, which is on_the othe: e Russian Government exercise eternal | the allles are not prot It was dis- watchfulness on Germany's progress and | covered that a iy of Catholic Chris- de-l{m in the nearer Orient, declark has started on an expedition, but hes Industrial and commercial activity 81its whersohouts is not known, loak poli rlans. & —The ais- 5 gt A b trom Fleld Marshal Count von - A Challenge Out. ,'"""‘-n_.._ abcotyatl. _.-D"’"" A great challenge will take plase| A Paoting-Fu, ‘Wednesday, January & 2 Jcommanded by Major Haine, engaged & 17 FOR MEN Winter Suits for Men -WE'RE DOING THE SANTA CLAUS ACT FOR THE MEN FOLKS MONDAY........ 0000000090000000000002000000096000000000€00 RAFTS OF H STYLISH WORSTED TROUSERS FOR MEN The In All the New and Smart ldeas in Stripes. Parazon oi Style, Fit and Finish, at An Overcoat 220080 To Beat The Band force of Chinese regulars December 15 at Yung Tsingtien noriiwest of Paoting-Fu. Our losses were one officer and two non- commissioned officers wounded. The Chi- nese losses were considerable. A columa was sent December 1% from Tientsin, com- | mandeéd by Colonel Gruber to Yutienshien, one hundred kilometers north of Tien- tsin. .Cn;\NTON. Dec. 22—The rebels in the | ‘Wachon district descended from the hills and pillaged the lowlands. The soldiery are unable to prevent their raids. Troops to Be Reinforced. AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 22—A dispatch from Oaxaca, Mexico, says ernment troops now w. the Mayo Indians in the St tan were to be rein: ments of infantr be sent to the fr in the States of Oaxac Sen Luis Potosi, where th risoned. The milita Government is bu to the stronghold of the rebels w | be compieted. 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