The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1900. J AMES w RE A K[LL H S w FE M. R. Beard Alleges He Was Tendered Money to ! | itomized Clai W Well as Men Suifer and Are Mad . Approve of Unitemized Claims. , omen as Well as Men Suifer and Are e —_— —_— . 3 T, e M- bl . A I i 0 He Mrs, William Oldham IS| ~t Tyiceaticfi iscrable i oubles. Declare He Has Blocked the Mrs. William Oldham IS Dissatisfied With His Man- y Kidney and Bladder Trou Pay i ‘ Payment of Certain Attacked by Her agement of the Asso- |To Prove What Swamp-Root, the Great Kid- Claims Husband. ciation ney Remedy, Will Do for YOU, Every N e Tl ‘ 2 Reader of The Call May Have a Sam- o { e T ALLEGATIONS OF THE PLAINTIFFS BOTH ARE DEAF AND DUMB {1 \SAY PRICES ~ ARE T00 HIGH p]e Bottle Sent Free by Mail. IR i el S N e Bt | SIEP S oE Ry Woman Flees to the Home of a }Onl W sAmong the many famous cures of | that the cares of ife are more m:'x“ she 2 - e 3 i = y a all Portion of the Prume |Swamp-Root investigated by The Call |can stand. s a boon to the weak an: nipulating Rules of Order to eighbor hl.e Her H\-.sbud | Orin: Fiab Beot D 4 0f none seem to speak higher of the wonder- | &!n&- e Is Searching for His | e spose ful curative propertles of this great kid- | Suit His Own Con- e Erant e PR | and the Owners Need ney remedy than the one we publish this | wenience. | Money. week for the benefit of our readers: | MRS | Mrs. H. N. Wheeler of 117 High Rock St., cait foecs], Dispasehs 1 Te 0 { B e o o sea L | o BANTA ROSA. Dec. 3 Wiliam G| Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. tremely sick for three weeks, and when I R was filed in | Ola rcher of records of this SAN JOSH, Dec 2 —The ainsatinfaction | Wit exseaciating vris. 1o oy tacn” tar the 3 ch charges | city to kill his wife yesterday which has assumed a threatening shape | Water at times looked very much like coffee. | Samoe e president of the de-|afternoon while in a crazed condition. - 3 ; I could pass but little at a time, and then | S ok, with Mlochin A ’ in the California Cured Fruit Association oniy after suffering great pain. My physical | fu < t €| It seems Mr. Oldham met a relative of | took shape at a meeting of fruit growers| condition was such that I had no strensth | = 5 owed :.{‘ ,::;“:;;i | his wife at the Donahue dPnh: orlxhsund’flyl | to-day which may result in. the retire- fl:flwas e et ;irh;axnvltc‘r-‘ said = 1 ’ S 2o preseste 7theireie- | aeri ot Fresident. Hon: e¥s were not affected, but I felt certain : » of the organ-| aia not e Jate in the | | §evercly’ aoosedis Ao 1o Do defintte | sister, Mrs. C. E. Littlefield. of Lynn, ad- 5 rs tution. | afternc when h asked him 1 S n‘ e sen ‘mED of the vised me to give Dr. Kilmer's € "TVRM( a o S { where he had been and why he hdd meeting was decidediy adverse to the| trial. I procured a bottle and Inside of three X irly two years | [\ Ved so long. He attacked her, throw- | present policy ot the assoctation. An-| GRIF SOTRRCEd DL releh b flowed B £ on one | ine’Yer down and dragging her around gther meeting will be held next Monday. | tion of this one found I was completely cured ' £ lance of $583 34 | in his attempt to choke her. He then told | Some predict that before that time tie| My strength returned, and to-day I am as | long over- | her he would shoot her and went to get | president will change his policy. well as ever. My business is that of can- t President | his pistol. Mrs. Oldham then left the| The stagnation of the prune market vasser, I am on my feet a great deal of the A d e bank $5000, | house and wen neighbo: where ghe | seems to be the cause of the trouble, and time and have to use much energy in getting I 000. | told her story. A telephone message to | this some of the growers blame to the | — My cure is, therefore, all the more | Jones, | the police stati brought officers, who | | prices set by the association, which are | kable, and Is exceedingly gr: g to w ie 2 mo- | had quite a fight with Mr. Oldham before | | claimed to be too high. These prices it is | > H. WHEELER. k k I= be compelled to | he was subdued. It is thought by all his | alleged antagonized the middlemen of the | Swamp-Root will do just as much for | - - gy et oy . * Mr. Oldhasm i& knffbring trom | | East that have combined to prevent the | any nousewife whose back is too weak to « nt Rea declared | a ;n"p ain for r!me time, which has | i:ale of the bfrutlt.m'rwh‘emxlvrune C;OD th)s‘lpertnrm her necessary work, who is al- unbala his mind year was abou ,000, ounds, and | ways ti: a 2 ught, s N Rea boasts ');M A Oldham and his wife are deaf | % | cnly about 31,000,000 pounds hgve been sold | BH Jog. sut u\r:rwm g l”l]: used to ":f{%n }Z'n;\r d that only N nt the | and dumb and both are from prominent | s 1 | by the assoclation, realizing about $700,0. ow to Find Out and bladder troubles were fo be traced to the f 25 been a searcher of tec-| | TRUSTEE M. R. BEARD OF SACRAMENTO, WHO ACCUSES W. W. LEbis g;;‘\;!g;‘s Shns ) the thousands iIf You Need kidneys, but ¢ modern science proves that | ‘esteemed, o o) RHOADS OF TRYING TO BRIBE HIM TO WITHDRAW HIS OPPOSI- | | Growers outside the assoctation have Qis- | T o T RUTD A MRS T . aw of County Sur-| TION TO PAYMENT OF THE CITY SURVEYOR'S CLAIMS. posed of their fruit and received their | Swamp-Root. *The kidneys fiiter and purify the blood— by arbitrary, un- mythe and has relatives | | 3 | money. They held about 15,000,000 pounds | g their work. So when your kidn are weak or out of order you can under- ate ruling of Presi. in_¢ rd.” Mrs. Oldham's rolksl - +| s atmen Sos growers are in neea| Sand how quickly your entire body fs affected, and how every organ seems to fail (0 5 - - . = t i | of ‘money and cannot get it. Their,re- | 36 aons wed ol “feel badly,” begin takin x " Kil= e z Special Dispatch to The Call. | celpts, which were supposed to. bel of | mer.s)Sn‘:“:;;_Rr;):]:rb”‘;].wau soonfl;sn \_aki :g_ the famous new discovery, Dr. Kii your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince any one. Many women suffer untold misery because the nature of their disease Is not correctly understood. They are led to believe that womb trouble or femaie weak- | glit edge security, are not readily receiveu | he might secure a consideration of $25 by the banks, and only small loans can | or_$3) per month. | be secured on them. These growers now | ACRAMENTO, Dec. 24.—A sensa- tion developed at the meeting of WILLIAM SCHLLLING, 6 a 5 Beard satd -that he declined to be ! favor the offering of differentials to buy-| pess of some sort is responsible for the many ills that bes vo kind | g stees to-day e ere u n : < < any ills that beset womankind. A FARMER, Is FATALLY | e AL R, Doard Shecs ot 4oy | brived, saying that he told Rhoads he was | €rs of large lots or a reduction of the Neuralgla. nervousness, headache, pufly or dark circles under the eyes, rheuma- * ! Trustees. representing the rest. | TUlUng to add to his income by doing|Dbasis price of the four sizes ome cent a| tism, a dragging pain or dull ache in the back. weakness or bearing down sensa- | ustees, representing the resi-| clerical work at night, but not by any ; pound. { tion, profuse or scanty supply of urine, with strong odor, frequent desire to pass it t is dence section of town, arose and charged | questionable methods. Within a haif | While the dissatisfaction has not yet!| night'or day. with Scalding or burning sensaiion. these are sl unmistakabie SIEns t suff [ that an attempt had been made to bribe | hour, Beard testified, William Mullenney, shape It is beleved 1t | OfSuidnsy aad Dladder trontle, termine Dun- ection. INTERESTS THE COAST. Surgeon General Provides for Less Delay at Quarantine. I~ D4 —Postoffice es- Santa Postmaster. December 31, Joseph re- widow—Mary E ne H. Wood Burn- > =2 CYCLIST TAEKES A BRIDE Wedding o ndo Stevens and Miss Lottie Theuerkauf. immec | | to-¢ had bee Al Accused Man Surrenders Himself at| Madera, but Declines to Makea | Statement Regarding the | Tragedy. Special Dispatch to The Call MADERA, Dec. 24.—William N. Schill- | ing, a farmer living at a Chinese store | about sixteer s and almost He sh, miles from town, w hot | killed at his home | enough to state he | n Dennis, a man ln! instantl urman and the Coroner left of the shooting early this man accused by ) town to-night and stable Cramer. He re- ut th ir. —_——————— CHILEAT CHIEF DIES. Lively Contest Regarding the New Ruler of the Tribe. E. De Chief Kodowatt of d suddenly on Decem- fuses to talk at tribe di supposedly from some stomach tt who conceived disputes of | giv- ! to tinued dead Kodowatt | grounds than | d he was | »rge Short- following. | i < ung mer has riridge g cheock forn Iitchcock,” it is the general will become rec- | oung and popu- | through Kluk- hosts together ign.” ATTACKS WIFE WITH REVOLVER B. 0. Alborgnsiorfil‘vhreatens to Do Meurder at San Rafael. 24.—An overdose of de B. O. Alborgasio the ter- | home and neighborhood this | Armed with. & revolver he ife and daughters from the red wine ror of hi m with wife's life. i numerous threats to take nis | When his son Fred interfered ect the mother the infuriated man yunced upon him and the boy barely | 1 with his life. C. ble Treanor ived upon the scene just as Alborgasio | seding to # neighbor's house where wife and daughters had sought | PRISONERS ARE PAROLED T and Todaed Bk bt Saik." This 1s 5 Fred Hughes, John Smoot and Ramon | Bodden t morrow s | Orosco Are Released From the ROBRER SECURES GOLD. { Arizona Penitentiary. | | Ransacks a Cabin in San Bernardino OENIX, Ariz., Dec. 24.—Fred Hughes n f and prominent law County. e president of the| SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 24.—Burglars 1 a parole by the Gov- The parole sential citizen of surer of the he defaulted r gambling. The was four years. He are very plentiful in this vicinity and | have now taken to the mining districts. Saturday night between midnight and 1 o'clock the Luna brothers of Holcomb Valley were awakened by the entrance of 2 mesked robber with a Winchester, who held the owners up in approved style, and keeping them covered with the gun went through the cabin and secured $350 in gold amalgam and $30 in He backed out and made good his escape. The robber was Frank A. Day, alias Curtis, who committed burgl at Oro Grande a month ago. and, aithough admitting his guilt, the Justice let him go on a sympa- thetic plea. Officers are hot on his trail TO COMMIT SUICIDE |and will probably capture him, { —_——— Former City Marshalof Fresno Found | Wi;l‘l 5:“ 1“3 Suez. = ot Fho: i OMA, Wash., Dec. 2.—The British Bleeding ut; Asl‘m"L - | ship Glenloch, now in the harbor,*is to in the Stree establish a precedent in the exportation period of gerved tw from “oconino County » which were mitigat- and Ramon Orosco of for ry, received FRESNO, Dec. 26.—Ex-City Marshal | of Pacific Coast wheat. She is to load 3 3 arker was found this morning in | with 221,000 busheis in sacks and will safl - almost Trosen to Benth frogs ex- | for erpool via the Suez canal, being the first steam vessel to o from Tacoma to Europe over that route. difference in faver of the Cape Horn route of 3800 miles, brt the price of fuel at the ~~aling morts {p South America Is so much higher that it is believed it will be econ- omy to steam the additional 1800 miles. The Glenloch will coal In Japan and at Port Said, which it expects to reach n sixty-five days or less. Two Men Drowned. STOCKTON, Dec. 2¢.—Robert Kirkland oeure to the cold and bleeding from a wound over the heart, seif-inflicted. The for the act is said to be poverty ment over the result of the on_which, as a Demoerat, he od his hopes. The wound fortu- ved trivial and he will recover, suffering much from exposure. He s a mother in Merced, who has been summoned. There is a - _Murphy Pleads Guilty. SPOKAY Wash., Dec. 24.—Tom Mur- hy, the desperado, who held up six men anu sawes mchanon, two men employed and robbed the Warwick gambling hall in | on tae Koss Sargent ranch, near New A e heart of the city last Tuesday morn- | Hope, were drowned some time during pleaded gullty to the charge of rob- |last night by a cart in which they were v to-day and was sentenced by Judge riding turning over and throwing them hardson to six years in the Walla |into a large drainage canal. The ditch Walla Penitentiary. J. J. Adams, the last | was dragged to-day, but neither body was of the gang of safe blowers recently cap- | recovered. Kirkland was a bookkeeper tured, was sentenced to eight years in the had relatives in Honolulu. McMahon penitentiary. was a laborer and came from Canada. ’ dangerously fll. W him to approve, as chairman of the Fi- | nance Committee, the unitemized claims of the City Burveyor’'s office. He openly declared and subsequently testified under oath that W. W. Rhoads, who is a well known attorney and former County Clerk, visited him at his office and | told him that if he withdrew his oppo- | sition to the City Survevor's claims as | they were presented from time to timo ! ENT TAKES PROMIN il ATIVE SO City 'Surveyor, call bim employment to work at nliht when necessary. Beard testified that he flatly refused the offer Both Mullenney and Rhoads were called before the board to-day and upon oath entered a positive deniai to Beard's alle- gations. The Board of Trustees resolved to bring the matter to the attention of on him and offered s _assistant a ountan:, the Grand Jury which was sworn in to- | day. A FAIR BRIDE H. R. MeNoble and Miss Sadee Williams United in Marriage at Visalia. i = | H. R McNOBLE, GRAND ORATOR OF THE NATIVE SONS, AND MIS8§ SADEE ROBERTS WILLIAMS, WHO WERE UNITED IN MARRIAGE AT VISALIA YESTERDAY. + 2% fl ] Special Dispatch to The Call. TOCKTON, Dec. 24—After a lescent a few days ago the couple agreed courtship extending back to ilhnt the ceremony should take place childhood days spent In old Cala- | without further delay. Yesterday. Mr. veras, ble and Miss | McNoble was able to travel, and went to Sadee Rober day united in marriage. The ceremony was performed in Visalia by Rev. G. K. Foster.. The couple went to Pixley, Tu lare County, the home of the bride’s par- ents, to spend a few weeks Three times has the day for the wed- ding been set, the last time for the 20th of the present month, and each time it has, by a strange fatalit found the groom When he became conva- ORK IS PLENTIFUL AND WAGES G0OD ON JACK WADE CREEK Steamer El Dorado, Which Was Caught in the Ice, Is Breaking Up and May Be a Total Loss Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 24.—Jack Wade Creek, In the Forty Mile district, Is enjoy- ing wonderful prosperity this winter. Wages are high, there is plenty of work and many men are headed in that diree- tion from Pawson. Such is the statement of J. L. Banks, who arrived from there last night and who owns No. 4 below on that famous creek. He says: “There are 300 men on Jack Wade Creek. All are working for $1 an hour, which is the best wages pald in any Yukon camp at the present time. “At the company stores at Forty Mile, below Jack Wade, flour is $8 a sack ani bacon sells for about 50 cents. “Hansen and Tennant have twenty-five men at work on No. 7 and have let No. 11 out on lays, there now being about thirty men at work. ““There are twenty thawing machines at work on Jack Wade Creek this winter and I met several going in. The claims are rich and we beileve they will rival | those of the best Klondike preeks.” Banks went into the Forty-Mile country Visalia, where he was met by his flancee. The bride is well known and highly re- spected In Stockton. During the severe illnesses df the groom her ministrations were faithful and unceasing. She is an accomplished vocalist, a clever conver- sationalist_and possessed of a charming tace and figure. Mr. MeNoble Is the grand orator of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Police Commissioner of Stockton and an attor- ney of State-wide reputation. B M e ) four years ago, and this is his first trip out since then. Dawson arrivals state that the steamer El Dorado, which was caught in the ice &t the mouth of Hells Gate, lles in a very dangerous position and is being gradually broken up. It is believed she will be losf when the river opens. Her owners are preparing to make an attempt to life her up on solid ice and skid her to shore. Arthur Moffatt died December 14 near Dawson as the result of exposure in a blizzard while hunting on Eureka Creek. He started after caribou, was overtaken by a storm and lost for two days. When rescued by searchers his hands and feet were badly frozen. He died while bel hauled to Dawson in a basket sielgh drawn. Moffatt went to Dawson last year from Oregon City, where his people live. ————— PNEUMONIA AT DAWSON. Five Deaths From the Disease in One Week. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 24.—The steamer Danube brings news that on December 13 there had been five deaths in a week at Dawson from pneumonia, and the people were greatly worked up over it. The epidemic of typhoid was subsiding. Small- pox had almost disappeared, and there were but two cases in the district. Five thousand vaccine points reached Dawson on December 18, and compulsory vaccina- UIE 15 Teported that discoveries of s repo; af verles of rich quartz mines have been made on Bonanza d elsewhere in the Klondike district. ples assay over to the ton. None go less than $10, and one went $96. Six automobiles have.reached Dawson and will be used on a run to the creeks. LR L VALLEJO, Dec. 24.—H: . was captured a_month later at Woodland, was sentenced to-day b; Judge Buckles to serve three years in rohum’ 4 of the discontented | ones even go so far as to want the resig- | nation of President Bond demanded and | more experienced men put in charge. | . President Bond lays the stagnation of the market to the law of supply and de- mand. He does not favor a reduction m ,E‘r!tos or a differential on large orders. e says the association is doing the best but any time the great body of rowers are dissatistied the management s willing to resign and let others take thelr places. The Farmers'- Club and Grange have | passed resolutions endorsing President | Bond's action and favor holding up price: belleving that the association will woi out all right HERALD CHANGES HANDS. Corporation Formed to Run the San Jose Paper. | SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—~The Evening Her- | ald, which has had a troublous career for | the past year under Senator Shortridge’s management, was to-day transferred to Nicholas Bowden, who represents a cor- poration that will take charge January 1. The price paid is about $12,000, the claims of the various creditors having been pur- cnased at thirty-five cents on the dollar. E. A. and J. O. Hayes of Edenvale are at the head of the new corporation. The paper will be independent Republican and much improved and enlarged. The new company will have plenty of money back of it and proposes to run a clean family paper. A manager will be brought here from San Francisco and it is said the paper will not be subject to any of the entangling political Influences of the or Shortridgge will go into the ol | and develop some property h» | | has in Kern Count - . Ready for Work. | SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 24—Work on | grading for the Salt Lake, San Pedro and | Los Angeles Railway will commence from this city in a few days. A trainload of cropers and other implements for grad- | together with seventy-eight mules, came In_on a special to-night from the Moshave Desert, where they have been em- ploved on the Santa Fe repalring (he track after the recent storm. The owner the outfit, J. W. Thurber of Long Beach, has the contract to commence grading for the new line from this point toward Los Angeles, and has put the mules out to pasture for a few days’ rest ard then will begin work. This is San | Bernardino's Christmas present. | N T Boothe Company Sells Out. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—The C. B. Boothe Manufacturing and Supply Com- | pany, dealers in machinery and machin- | ists” supplies, has sold out to the recently | orgarized Pacific Coast Manufacturing | Company. The capital of the latter is £100,060, fully paid up. Valentine Peyton, | at one time owner of the Mount Lowe | Raflway, is president; J. H. Haskett, manager of Fafrbanks, Morse & Co., at | Kansas City, vice president and manager; Arthur awes secretary and treas- urer. The aforementioned, with N, E, Rice, a waalthy coal operator of Pennsyl- vania, constitute the directory. BAILEY TO ORGANIZE | MAMMOTH NEW CIRCUS | Will Be Ready to Open at Madison | Square Garden on March | 15, 1902. NEW YORK, Dec. 24—James A. Bailey, the famous showman, has made an- nouncement that he is going to organize an_entirely new show for America, to be caMed ‘Barnum and Bailey's New and Greatest Show on Earth.” Work will begin at once, and the new enterprise will be ready to open on March , 1902, at Madigon Square Garden. It will require all at time to get ready, collect the animals, build the cages and the chariots and cars for its transporta- tion. Altogether it will cost more than £500,000. Mr. Bailey came to New York from Eu- rope last Wednesday and will sall again to-morrow on the New York. He said yesterday: “It has always been my ambition to bulld an entirely new show, new from tent pin to centargcle. 1 have built up several big shows from small beginnings, but I Iway: had the nucleus then to ‘with, This 1_am starting absolutely at ginning. Barnum and Bailey's greatest show on earth, which is in Vienna this winter, is now_an English enterprise, owned by the English stock company. I am, of course, the chief shareholder, but still it has become a British institution and I shall not bring it or any part of it back to America.” — - % Tiffany Bankrupt. NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Perry Tiffany has declared himself bankrupt, and in a petition filed to-day he places the amount of his Mabilities $83.897 and his nominal assets at $66,200. Mr. Tiffany was former- ly vice president of the Sterling Supply & Manufacturing Co., trading in rallroad supplies. Mr. Tiffany is a grandson of Commodore Perry and a_son of George Tiffany of Baltimore. He marrled a daughter of the late Theodore Have- eyer. His brother William, who was with the Rough Riders, died in Boston af- ter his return from Cuba. « Rubber Company Formed. _TRENTON. N. J., Dec. 24.—The Inter- natifonal Crude Rubber Company, with an authorized capital of $30,000,000, was incor- poCktal e 4 to manufacture and leal in rubber Is of all kinds, Of the tal stock $10,000,000 1s to be preferred, with 6 per cent cumulative dividends. The incorporators are all of Jersey City. If there is any doubt in your mind as to your condition, take from your urine on rising about four ounces, place it in a glass or bottle and let it stand twenty-four hours. If on examination it is milky or cloudy, if there is a brickdust settling. or if smail particles float about in {t, your kidneys are in need of immediate attention. Other symptoms showing that you need Swamp-Root are sleeplessness, dizziness, frregular heart, breathlessness, sallow, unhealthy complexion, plenty of ambition but no strength. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is used in the leading hospitals, recom- mended by physicians in their private practice, and is taken by doctors themselves, because they recognize in it the greatest and most successful remedy that science has_ever been able to compound. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root s what you need, you can pur- chase the regular fifty-cent and one-dollar bottles at the drug stores everywhere. EDITORIAL NOTICE_Swamp-Root. the great Kidney, Liver and Bladder remedy, is so remarkably successful that a special arrangement has been made by which all of our readers who have not already tried it may have a sam- ple bottle sent absolutely free by mall. Also a book telling all about kidney and bladder troubles and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of testi- monial letters received from men and women cured by Swamp-Root. Be sure and mention reading this generous offer in the San Franeisco Datly Call when send- ing your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton. N. Y. INCHCAPE ROCK’S CAPTAIN PLUNGES INTO THE SEA Driven Insane by the Fear That the Crew of His Storm-Tossed Vessel Would Starve. Special Dispatch to The Call ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 24—Crazed with)the stcrms to enter the stralts. Saturday fear that the men aboard his vessel would | Dr‘vl“:fl"mml“r.id» and the Queen Margaret starve before reaching port, Captain Por- | “3ed Larous . he British ship Rathdown sailed from ter of the British ship Inchcape Rock | yiyorama a week ahead of the Queen committed suicide early on the morning | Margaret from Hongkong, and Captain of December 20 by jumping into the sea. | Logie expressed great*fears for her safet The vessel arrived to-day, her men half- The'Rznh{}nwnh is now eighty-one da G i )£ First Officer Wil- | out from Yokohama. Being lightly laden ffii’:l‘:h“d' A CHATRS it s feared that the ship went dowm I | some of the terrible storms which The Inchcape Rock comes from Shang- | peen raging. and having encountered terrific ther consumed ght days wes 3 making the passage. wenty-five days | MANY SE.AX}-HG’ PERISH. ago provisions became scarce and as the | storms continued with unabated fury, | Dense Fogs Cause Disasters in the Ceptain Porter became despondent. A | British Channel. the food supply grew scarcer his mental e P condltion became worse, and at 3 o'clock | LONDON, Dec. 2.—Dense fogs on ths on the morning of the 20th his reason | coasts are greatly interfering with navi- fled. Rushing from his cabin, he plunged | gation and several wrecks have occurred. headlong over the rail before the officer | The British steamer Brunswick grounded of the deck could stop him. In the dark- | jn the British Channel, keeled over and ness Cz‘u}\l Storm all attempts at rescue |gank. Seven of her crew were drowned proved futile. The reports that several Shetland fish- The steamship St. Bede, Which arrived | ing boats were In great peril from the to-day from Morovan, also lost @ man off | storm and had probably been lost are eon theyriver. The unfortunate man died in | firmed. Only one boat out of five has been fearfui agony of lockjaw, resulting from | found, and it is known that no fewer than dysentery. | twenty-two fishermen have perished. Vessels reaching Astorfa report much it s vrecki \l the coast, and it is be- wreckage along the STEA A o lieved a coasting schooner has foundered. Her Two Passengers Are Taken Off by Life Savers. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Dec. 24—The British steamer Antilia, commanded by Captain 8. T. Montell, from Nassau for Jew York with a general cargo. ran Into h British Ship Is i;:y Days Overdue From Yokohama. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 2#.—The British bark Queen Margaret reached Tacoma to- night, fifty-one days out from Hongkong to the cape, after having encountered se- verer gales than Captain Logie ever heard reported. Captain Logie sighted the cape a week ago, and from that day until last Saturday he was forced to beat around outside, waiting an abatement of OIS I CHURCH DURING THE SINGING 0F THE LAST HYMN Sudden Demise of Oscar Murphy, an Aged and Respected Citizen of Sebastopol and Veteran of the Civil War. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 24.—Oscar Murphy, an old and most respected citizen of this county, died very suddenly while at church in Sebastopol Sunday evening. Mr. Murphy, in company with his wife, a tended the evening services of the Congre- gational church, of which he has long been a prominent member. - He was stand- ing during the last hymn when he fell to the floor dead. He was apparently in the best of health before the service and his sudden death was a great shock to his friends and relatives. The deceased was 71 years old and leaves a widow and one son, Albert Mur- phy. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of Ericsson Post. G. A. R., of Sebastopol. He was deputy Tax Col- lector of this county under Sheriff Sam I. Allen two years ago, and was a prominent Regluhnun politician. The Ladies’ Ald Society of the Congre- tional church of Sebastopol, of which rs. Murphy is president. had planned to resent Mr. and Mrs. Murphy with a utiful chair as a Christmas gift at the conclusion of the services at which Mr. Murphy breathed his last. idine WillTha Buried at Bebestopol " commiane r s afternoon. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24—The Santa Fe i a dangerous position on_the bar of the south channel of Great Egg harbor Inlet early to-day. A wrecking tug is standing by and will try_to get her off. Two pas- sengers, John Sherman of St. Louls and Charles Brown, the actor, of Denver, wers landed by lifesavers and started home by rafl. Caac o ] Land and Improvement Company was in- corporated here to-day with a capital stock of $10.000 and_the following direct- ors were selected: . U. Mudge, general manager Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Topeka; W. G. Neviu, general manager of the Santa Fe system west of Albuquer- que; C. N. Sterry, attorney of the Sania Fe; H. J. Stevens and T. J. Norton. The company is organized for the purpose of owning and handling real estate, mines, hotels and waterworks; operating dining- cars and eating-houscs; dealing in stocks, bonds and sécurities; operat vessels and doing a general mercantile business. It Is stated the corporation will have charge of the lands of the San Joaquia Valley road. R R CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Mrs. A. J. Hough of Los Angeles Do- nates a Business Block on South Broadway. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Mrs. A. J. Hough of this city has made the Univer- sity of Southern California a Christmas present of a business block on South Broadway valued at $40.000. The gift is conditional upon the raising of an addi- tlonal $160.000 in two years. Fifty thou- sand of this has already been subscribed and 1t is confidently expected that the re- fl‘:s:m" will be ralsed within the time e FUNERAL OF FIRE VICTIMS. Bodies of Four Ruff Children Buried in One Grave. SAN JOSE, Dec. 24—The remains of the four little Ruff children, who were burned to death in Saturday morning's fire, were burfed to-day In Oak Hill Cem=- tery. The charred bodies were all placed in one coffin and consigned to one grave. medmother and father were unable Lo at- Flowers covered the casket, which was laged in the center of parlor at ablishment, aad ended. ard’s undertaking est: the ceremonies were well att Mary Ruf?, the young girl who was cued, Is in a ous condition, and doubtful if she will res- itis