The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 66, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. VICTORY OF BOERS OVER THE Republican Troops Cap- | Force of One Thousand 'BRITISH ture a Post on the Gaterrand and Take Pris- oners Among the Defending Officers and Men SMIT AL -DORRIED AND DELAGOA BAY. COMMANDER OF ONE S IN EASTERN HEROES g NoT | the post are arriving at Vereeniging.” A special from Lourenzo Marques says: is a commando of 2000 Boers on territory. It is supposed that on is rescue the Doers e Portuguese authorities have d to remove to Madelira such Boer gees as decline to surrender to the itish. A Bloemfontein special says: The Brit- ish have reoccupied Petersburg. to RECEIVED PROMOTION So Far the Government Fails to Advance Hobson, Clark and Others. 1 of the Gove: nzress. I do not say ft the responsibility. he co-opel secured in this respect you and other ve branch feel in ion of kee e K t ¥ whose feat is he < over. T have repeatedly talkod = President, who, as you st cordial interest He canpot sep- from the e do so. ton against Captain fer and who 1s two an if there had an injustice to ia men. nor CAS | served in the As It would be | f, who planned and | BOND IS DEMAND upon him r on th. riminate against who have yet h: nelth- tion ck of every shipmat It would the enjisted men ks nor m are h warship on umiliated o which the thelr Santlago men have 1 feel almost like invoking the :elp ourself and every other Senator and Representative as to what seems the sim- their medals the an none. t content with what has hitherto been done, it was only a few days ago I wrote a.letter to Senator Hale, an of the Naval Committee, a copy ich iIs enclosed, asking him If he would not, as a last resort, have the Na- val Committee, or a sub-committee of it, take up the matter consider the rs- and upon the deserts of these officers. erday I wrote another letter ta the ient, a copy of wh I enclose, re ting recommendations which T made to in my annual report of 1899, that Le e the same recommendation to Con- ss in the case of the Santiago squadron which was made in the case of the Asiatic squadron, viz., that the thanks of Con- gress be tendered to the commander fn chief be extended through him to the officer nd men. “T think yo that the Pres will cordlally acknowledge nt by his speedy nomi- nations for promotion has been prompi; | hat this department has left no stone un- turned to do justice n this matter, and that it is now for Congress, of which you are so distinguished a member, to acr. | ing that we may all co-operate and last secure to these ofiicers and men an expression of the country's apprecia- tion of their services, I am very truly yours, “JOHN D. LONG.” FROM DEFAULTER NEELY His Attorney Refuses to Deposit Cash, However, Fearing b. The military me a cash bond from C. F W. Neely, the alleged defauiter. Wh the amount will net been stated, as Neely's law; v refuses to deposit cash, fearing “hat it will be seized The charges will aggregate an embezzle. ment of over $100,000, with the possibitity of he amount being materially increased. « Judge of the Covrt of First Instance | ed to hold that Neely is guilty of stealing surcharged stamps to the amount of $30,000, and =s the question of bail at | present rests with him the cash to be de- | posited would excecd that figure, The spe- | cial counsel for the Government are con- | fident of convicting Neely apart from the | i { bas been att It Will Be Seized. -— stamp-burning incident. W. H. Reeves, who will probably be the star witness for | the Government and who has been under. £oing almost daily examinations by the postoffice inspectors for a month, asserted | that the whole method of Neely's | 10-d; “lleged stealings had been revealed under promise of immunit —_— Damaged ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 3.—Fire in the trimming department of the Krug Pack- ing Company’s plant did $100,000 worth of damage. e, Plague at Cardiff. CARDIFF, Feb. 3.—A Cardiff workmin acked by a disease which iv diagnosed as the bubonic plague. HANY STATES 1N THE GRP 0 BT Snow Is Drited to - Second Stories in | Chicago. In Many Sections of the Middie West the Storm y Is the Worst in Years.. CHICAGO, Feb. 3—Six inches# of snow | en the level gna drifts in many cases, in | the outlying districts, piled as high as 1 windows is the condition Chicago is in to-night. The snow began to fall early in the day and by the mid- dle of the afternoon & regular blizzard was raging, with the wind blowing a gale from the west. Toward night the wind | | died down somewhat and as the tempera- | ture began to rise the snow turned into | | sleet. | | The steet car lines, with the exception { of the elevated roads, were the worst | | sufierers. Many of the surface lines| were compelled to abapdon their sched- | | ules entirely until the worst of the storm | | had passed, when they were able to. clear | | the tracks and resume traffic. * | Omcials of the rallroads centering in | Chicago report trains generally on.tlme or nearly so and claim that unless the temperagura should drop suddenly they | will be to k the tracks clear. | SNOW AND WIND STORM. sec tory | Movement of Trains Impeded and ! Wires Blown Down. | | OMAHA, ¥eb. 3.—The snow and wind storm which began Saturday night con- | tinued until noon to- nd was general throughout Nebraska and Western [owa. | Three inches of snow fell and a strong | | wind blew it into deep drifts, which some- | what impeded the movement of trains, | but not to a serious extent. Wire com- | | munication suffered most, telegraph and | | telephone wires being badly blown down, | | Owing to the short duration of the storm | it is not expected livestock wiil suffer. | In Omaha strget cars were hlockaded for | a short tlme in the morning, but the sweepers cieared the tracks at an early | hour. | | | SR WORST IN SEVERAL YEARS | Passenger and Freight Traffic Tied Up by the Storm. ATCHISON, Kans., Feb. 3—~The worst several years prevailed in Northern Kan and Southern Nebraska last night 3 Three hundred | miles on the central branch of the. Mis- | sourl Pacific, Northern Kan- | are tied up and not a train has come in off the road to-day. Passenger and freight trains are snowbound at different | Atchison street car lines are tied | ywdrifts six feet deep are reported v places along the Central branch. | spowstorm for to-c versing points up. in ma | ¥rom various towns in Northern Kansas 2nd Southern Nebraska the snow is re- ported from ten to eighteen inches deep. | The storm begs y night, the snow- fall being light until late last night. The sky is clear to SUFFERING AMONG CATTLE. | Storm Is General Over Missouri and | Kansas. | KANSAS CITY, Feb. 3.—The greatest | orm of the winter visited here last nd this morning. The storm was general over Missouri and Kansas, vary- ing in depth from three to fourteen inches. "A" strong wind followed the fall of snow and In s the snow drifted badly. No &erious Interference with rafl- | read traffic has been reported, except on the cent cific. ¥ o] ring schedule time. | suffering among Wes snowst Sia some attle in unsheltered but will be no serious losses. The snow will be bene- ficlal to wheat. To-night indications are that the storm s over. FIERCE BLIZZARD RAGES. MILWAUKEE, Feb. 3.—A blizzard from the northeast has been raging in this city all day and continues with unabated force to-night. Only a few street cars are running. The snow is drifting badly. | The steam raflroads are hampered some- 1 what also, many trains being reported | 1ate. orn Kar there | LITTLE BOY WITH X-RAY IN HIS EYES i i % ; i AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 3.—A dis- patch from Uvalde, Texas, says: Joel C. Fenley, father of Guy Fenley, the l4-year-old boy with X-ray eyes, who sees water, oil or minerals at any depth in the ground, is receiving letters from all parts of the lUnited States from persons who have read the ¥ newspaper accounts of the re- * markable gift of this boy. Many of these letters are from oculists and members of sclentific socie- ties of the north, where thorough tests may be made of his X-ray sight. Mr. Fanley is also offered large sums of money from oil and mining .prospectors to have his son locate oil and minerals be- neath the earth's surface. The boy has located several wells of water at depths ranging from 200 to 400 feet on ranches in West Texas during the past week. | caused the death of his s KILLING OF MISS MAY FOSBURGH A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL MYSTERY Story of Millionaire Father That Daughter Was Slain by a Trio of Burglars Repudiated by the Police, Who Claim That the Fatal Shot Was Fired by the Brother of the Vietim, the Bullet Being Intended for the Sire ITTSFIELD, Mass., Feb. 3.—The tragic fatal shooting inthiscity on _ August 20 of Miss May Fosburgh, daughter of the well-known mil- lionaire manufacturer, has been transformed from what seemed. to bta a very simple, albeit a very distress- ing, affeir into a remarkable criminal mystery. Until the indictment a few days ago of Robert Stewart Fosburgh, presum- ably no one outside of a limited group in the confidence of Mr. Nicholson, the Chief of Police, doubted that Miss May Fosburkh was shot and killed by one of a gang of thres burgiars who were ie- ported at the time to have invadéd the Fosburgh house in the Gead of night. Tho theory now set’up by the, Chlef of Po- lice and the District Attorney Js that Miss Fosburgh came to her death, not at the hands of a burglar; but at the hands of her own brother, Robert S. Fosburgh, the young man now under arrest; that the three burglars are three myths; that the direet cause of the young woman's death was a fearful family fight, in which the father of the murdered girl had his ribs broken and was-otherwise badly in- jured, and that the stories told by all the members of the household, as well as by a guest, are sheer falsehoods con- cocted to shield the family from disgrace and to save one of its members from pun- ishment for a dreadful crime, ~_ s BOBERT & FO S8R e In substantiation of this theory these officers of the law have been able to bring forward sufficient evidence to convince a grand jury that there was warrant for an indictment against young Fosburgh for manslaughter. -He was so indicted and is now at liberty under $12,000 bail. RBut now the mystery is heightened by the allegations that trouble with the la- bor unions is responsible, and then again that certain tramps known as “the wire gang” were guilty, one of them having intimated that one *“Quinn’ did.the job. It is a -great mystery, however, and the fact that the family offers to pay the entire cost of a quick trial rather than walit is not an uninteresling symptom. The defense in the case of the common- wealth of Massachusetts vs. Robert S. Fosburgh, who is accused of having ster, Mary Fos- burgh, in Pittsfield, by shooting, showed plainly * that {ts ~forces would be centered in an ‘effort to prove that the | murder was committed by some member of a gang of wire thieves, who are alleged to have been in the vicinity of Pittsfiela on the night of the tragedy. Judge 8. D. Taylor, an eminent criminal lawyer of St. Louis, Mo., has been in Pawtucket, R. I.. hunting down the tracks of the “wire gang.” He was assisted by the best de- tective skill obtainable. He did not di- culge the nature of his discoveries, but left Pawtucket suddenly and returned to @it HITES LEAD INDIANS IN DISASTROUS BATTLE Pittsfleld. Mrs. R. L. Fosburgh, the mother of the accused, went to Provi- dence to see Miss Sheldon, the witness by whom the police expect to prove their case when it comes to trial. Chief of Police Nicholsor was the prin- cipal witness before the Grand Jury, and it was his testimony which influenced the jury in bringing an indictment. He gave to the jury photographs of the interior of the Fosburgh house, calling attention to certain angles. He also showed pictures of the porch, with marks on one of .the piilars, which, he said, were made by the man who did the shooting. The exact bearing of that was made apparent the jury, but has not been made public Chief Nicholson convinced the jury that the story of the burglars was told for a purpose, and it is said he persomally re- quested that a true bill be found. On the morning of the day that Miss Fosburgh was killed a guest whom she had entertained for several weeks at her home left the city and has never visited the city or family since. She did not at- tend the funeral of her friend. It leaked out that the name of the guest that Miss Fosburgh was entertaining was Miss Bertha Sheldon of Providence. R. I, tho daughter of a prominent architect of that city. ¢ Chiet of Police Nicholsori has known of the presence of Miss Sheldon in the house | > ; b2 -+ THE SLAIN WOMAN; HER BROTHER, ACCUSED ‘OF MURDERING HER: THE FATHER AND MOTHER OF THE' UNFORTUNATE | YOUNG PERSONS, AND FAMILY HOME AT PITTSFIELD, MASS. | b e Encounter With 'Mayas Lose 300 Killed and Wounded in Mexican Troops. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.—A special to the Globe Democrat from Oaxaca, Mexico, says: The military authorities have been advised of another engagement which took place between the Government troops and a largé force of ‘Maya In- dians. The battle occurred about nine miles from Santa Cruz, the stronghold of the rebels, and resulted in a victory for the Government forces. ° S ANTILJESUL The casualties on the rebel side were heavy, it being estimated that-they. lost over 300 men killed and wounded. Sev- eral hundred reinforcements have joined General Bravo's command. It is asserted that there are several white men among the officers of the Maya forces. They are believed to be Englishmen from Britlsh Honduras, which country borders on the Maya ter- ritory. OUTB HAVE SPREAD TO VALENCIA Mob Marches to-a College and Stones the ; Windows and Doors. VALENCIA, Spain, Feb. 3.—The anti- Jesuft onstrations, which Kegan in Madrid in connection with the anti-cler- ical play “Electra,” have spread to Valen- cla. To-day crowds gathered In front of the B 2t 2 e 8 ool @riiieilefefedefoede ool Jeshit Church of ‘the Sacred Heart, Where a confirmation of children was in pro- gress, and shouted “Liberty forever” and S‘Down with the Jesuits!” A Jesuit who. was leaving the church was hooted, and then the crowd marched to the Jesuit college and stoned the win- dows and doors, still shouting “Down with the Jesuits!"” Finally the demonstration was dispersed by gendarmes. 7 | i PG TR A . LOBE-TROTTER'S BOD + on.the morning of the murder, and it i sald that he recently went to Providenca and had an interview with the girl. Just what he learned has never been mads publie. A summons was sent to Miss Sheldon at the opening of the ‘inquest, on the mur- der to come to this eity to testify. To the great surprise of the officers Miss Shel- don, who was at that time at the home of ‘her parents in Providence, positively declined to come to Pittsfleld to give her story of what occurred at the Fosburgh house on the morning of the murder. The police are of the opinion that Miss Sheldon can throw some light on the shooting of her friend. Just why she left this city on the first train very early in the morning after her friend had been killed and just what she can tell of ths affair in the Fosburgh kouse is, of course, unknown. Shé occupled the bed with Miss Fosburgh when the girl was aroused by the struggle in the hall. It is, of course, probable that Miss Sheldon was awakened at the same time. The reason of her flight has a deep significance with the police. When interviewed at Providence Miss Sheldon said she knew nothing of the struggle which took place, and slept through it all until the two shots wers fired. On account of tne excitement and grief intp which the household plunged Miss Sheldon returned to home almost immediately, and her first complete knowledge cf the tragedy was obtained from the newspapers. AMONG UNCLAIMED DEAD Starts Around the World on a Wager and Winds Up in a Workhouse. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Willlam McDade, self-styled globe-trotter, has ended his long journey in-the morgue, where his body lies among the unclaimed dead, the conditions of his wager unaccomplished. McDade, according to the story told by an acquaintance, left San Francisco in 1804 in a paper suit and with a capital of one cent to walk around the world on a wager of $285,000 that he would visit every known country in a year. Several sporting enthusiasts, who paid McDade's passage on the Majestic when he sailed to England, identified his body at the morgue to-day. They shook thelir | heads sadly, and sald that)the globe- trotter's inabllity to raise the $500 neces- sary to win his wager on his return had broken his heart. McDade started on his trip with a great flourish of trumpets, and his wager won him notoriety in the lands through which he traveled. He displayed presents from famous personages and told wonderful tales of adventure. His pretensions van- ished when he was sent to the workhouse from the Center-street Powce Court in November, 1599 In “the company of an Englishman named Rolf, McDade left a Turkish bath- house in San Frahcisco in September, 1594. The men left their clothes behind and were clad in suits made of newspapers. They were arrested by the police, but were discharged. Their appearance ex- cited such comment that contributions poured in to them. . TORNADO SWEEPS TEXAS. Houses Wrecked, One Person Killed and Several Injured. COOPER, Texas, Feb. 3—A tornado last night did great damage In the west- ern _portion of Delta County. The home of James Moody, at Honest, was wrecked and his four-year-old daughter fatally in- jured. Tink Surret was killed and his | two daughters seriously tnjured at Ratan, where a number of houses were wrecked. At Denton an ofl mill was wrecked, but no one was hurt. i COVERS THE ENTIRE STATE. Strong Northwest Wind Drifts the Snow in Iowa. DES MOINES, Feb. 3—The spowstorm that struck here about midnight Saturday covered the entire State and is the meost sevefe of the winter. A strong north- west wind has been blowing all day. drifting the snow. The temperature has been falling steadily. and will go to zero before ‘morning. Railway trains have been much delayed.