The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1901, Page 1

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—— VOLUME XC—NO. 76. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1901. VENEZUELA’S CASUALTIES HAVE BEEN VERY HEAVY IN NUMEROUS PRICE FIVE CENTS, ROBS TWO STAGES NEAR 1. HELENA: Lone Bandit Holds Up the Calistoga-Clear Lakes Coaches. Sixteen San Francisco Pas- sengers Surrender Their Valuables. 14.—Two Calistoga , which left here ng, were held out from town The robber ob- ash and sev- who being com- nd Clear ers, of them he had a His work vy and thorough- been found up to a late Sheriff Dunlap and a posse 11 with bloodhounds robber’s tr »p that stage and throw up your heands e command Al Palmer, driver of the first outgoing Calistoga and with as he turned nd & sharp curve go- Helena road early ling in the middle of th a Winchester rifle aimed driver's head, was a me- with a blue-colored hand- m lower part of his ped on the brake and y,” was the next The comm stage stopped around the hester over the Ts of the first coach mpelled William Con- er of the extra, to hold up Wir Continued on Page Two. w 200 SCALE OF MILES "EREJIDEN 1 GAS TR o s == SICENCE , e, T VICTORY ON BOTH SIDES IN GREAT STEEL STRIKE Amalgamated Men Close the National Tube Works, While the Trust Reopens Several Mills. ITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 14.—There were victories on both sides of the great steel strike to-day; but the furnish no direct line on the ul mate result of the conflict. The succeeded in finally fo: g the Tube Works at McKeesport, probably the largest individual plant in the United St teel Corporation, to close down. On the other hand the steel corporation reopened the big Painter mill in this city and also resumed opera- | tions with non-union men at the Cresceut plant of the American Tin Plate Com- pany at Cleveland. Two mills were run- ning at the Painter plant, although one of them broke down during the da: ing to the statement of the offi half the mills in the Crescent plant were moving. named are to be increased and the man- agers as: will soon havi them working in full. They make the accor: | fiftk and sixth plants which the steel cor- lining up with | poration has succeeded in starting with non-union men, the others being Wells- ville, Hyde Park, Clark and Lindsay and McCutcheon. Big Labor Demonstration. There was a great labor demonstration at Wheeling to-day and President Shaffer made a stirring appeal to his followers to work on. In an interview before he spoka he said that If the Western lodges did not heed the final appeal of Assistant Secre- tary M. F. Tighe and come out they would be expelled from the Amalgamated Asso- ciation and their offers of financial as- sistance spurned. "There were few other developments of importance during the day. Locally the strike seems to drag and Interest to flag. The forces at both the plants | l TLarge numbers of the strikers have gone away, either for recreation or to work, and there has been scarcely any excite- ment, much less disorder. | McKeesport and Wheeling are stirred | up periodically, but there has been no | violence at either place. Rumor again to-day settled the strike and lent a hand | to restart the stilled mills of commerce. It was related that President Shaffer had | acknowledged that he could not win, that the stecl corporation feared that its rivals would profit by an extended strike and that they were going to settle. No shadow of confirmation of the story was possible. The general strike situation is thus briefly summarized: Spread of the Strike. The spread of the strike at McKeesport | and Wheeling has brought the number of men who answered the final strike or- | der to something over 20,000, and increased the total number of men rendered idle by the three orders to about 65,000. Many of the men drawn 'into the movement, will- ingly or unwillingly, continue to accept other employment, and the exact number now idle is a guess., The strikers are fully in control at McKeesport, Wheeling, New- castle, Bellaire and Mingo Junction, and show some strength here. The manufac- turers hold South Chicago, Bay View, Joliet, Youngstown, Columbus, the Kis- kimingtas Valley, the tin plant at Mones- sen and the Carnegie group. Of the last named property some doubt is expressed as to the Lower Union mill in Pittsburg. Some men left their places there, and the strikers boast that they will close it. It T SCENE OF STRIFE IN SOUTHERN REPUBLICS AND MEN WHO FIG- URE IN REVOLUTIONS. SECOND ARMY NOW INVADES THE REPUBLIG Government Loss In- cludes a General and Four Colonels. Soldiers in Castro’s Army Killed or Woundgd Num- ber Three Hundred. SAN JUAN, P. R., Aug. 14.—Mail ad- vices received here to-day from Caracas, under date of August 10, give accounts of numerous engagements in the State of Tachira, between President Castro's forces and the revolutionists. In Gen- eral Castro’'s official bulletins he men- tloned the Colombian army. He reported engagements since the battle of San Cris- tobal July 29, at Pirineos, Las Filipas, La Parada, La Grita, Encontrados, and Las Cumbres, all in Tachira. The Venezuelan casualties, according to Castro's official bulletins, were General Rosendo Madina and four colonels killed and 300 men killed or wounded. Madina was a prominent man. He was formerly a Governor and Senator. August 8 there was an encounter at Las Cumbres with a second force of revolutionists. The News' Caracas correspondent, writing August 10, says another army has invaded Venezuela. This second force is reported to number 5000 men. Friday these troops attacked Las Cumbres and were repulsed. The main divisions of the armies have not yet met. e FRENCH CRUISER AT COLON. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—There has Colon Continued on Page Two. Continued on Page Two. 1 <csrsor ENGAGEMENTS WITH REVOLUTIONISTS IN THE STATE OF TACHIRA ESQIPION CANAL | .4 p A ol s e L KRR MEN PERISH MISERABLY IN A LAKE ERIE TUNNEL Five Burned to Death, Four Drowned and Four | Are Suffocated in the Crib at Cleveland. LEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 14.—Five men were burned to death, four were drowned, three and possibly four were suffocated and several were injured as the result of a fire which destroyed a temporary water- works crib two miles off the Cleveland harbor early to-day. The dead, so far as known: ARTHUR HASTY, drowned; body covered. MARK SNYDER. drowned. ARTHUR HASTINGS, burned. PLUMMER JONES, suffocated. JOHN MARTINE, drowned. JOHN KOWALSKY, drowned; body re- covered. Four unidentified men, burned. .The injured, so far as known: John Leese, probably a broken back, fatal: O. Braddock, burned about hands and face; Charles Smith, overcome by gas re- in tunnel; David Kelly, rescuer, overcome | by sgas. Still imprisoned in tunnel: VICTOR KAUFFMAN, Canton, probably dead. JOHN ENGING, probably dead. ADAM KENT, probably dead. Take Refuge in the Water. Twenty-six men obeyed the order of Manager G. C. Van Dusen when the flames broke out and took refuge in the water on floating pleces of wreckage. Four of them lost their hold upon their frail floats and sank beneath the waves just as help reached their comrades. The crew of the tug R. Sprienkle heard the fire whistle blown from the crib and raced to the scene from the harbor. She Dpicked up eighteen of the survivors, who Ohie, had drifted to the west of the crib on their floats of boards’and wreckage. n Dusen and three of his men were Langing in the water from a two-inch line pended from the crib. Just as the line ® burning away above the men’s hands a yawlboat from the barge Wilheim, manned by two men, dashed into the veil of heat and smoke that enveloped the crib and rescued the four men on the rope at the risk of the boatmen’s lives. T men picked up in the water were brought to the city on the tug Sprienkle. They were naked, exhausted and badly burned. Many of them were cut by falling tim- | | bers. Total Loss of the Crib. The crib is a total loss. It was a frame building 200 by 30 feet, the sides sheathed with iron. It contained valuable machin- ery. It is now a charred, shapeless mass of wreckage, and mingled with the black- ened timbers are blackened, rusted and twisted pieces and plates of iron and steel. The crib ana machinery were the prop- erty of Shaller & Schneinglau, contract- ors. Their loss will exceed $200,000. Mayor Tom Johnson expressed great in- dignation to-day when he learned that no boat or life-preservers were provided as a safety measure by the contractors at the crib. He declared that the case would receive the closest investigation ané those found guilty of criminal negligence in the | matter would be presecuted to the full ex- tent of the law. Late this afternoon Plummer Jones of ‘Warren, Ohlo, an employe of the tunnel contractors and one of a party of res- cuers, who descended into the shaft to look for the missing men, was overcome by gas and expired within a few minutes. His body lies in the tunnel seventy-five feet from the bottom of the shaft ana is covered with water. TERRITORIAL - GOVERNMENT - A MISNOMER |John Em meluth Talks of Needs of People of Hawaii. Leader of the Opposition to Dole Makes Caustic Complaints. e John Emmeluth, leader of the Hawatian Home Rule party at the Occidental, ostensibly on his way to visit his old homs in Cincinnati, Ohio. He arrived Tuesday evening on the Peking and will leave in a few days for the East. When seen yes- terday and asked concerning conditions in the islands and the object of his trip, Mr. | Emmeluth id: | “I am going back to my old home in | Cineinnati for a short visit and while I am East will do all T can toward helping along the effort of those right minded peo- ple who are endeavoring to obtain an American system of government for the | American territory of Hawail. As things | are now in the islands very little of the | American philosophy of government is manifested. All t offic from the | Governor to the lowest constable are ap- pointees, and every man of them is using his official position, not for the public good, but to further the ends of those who secured his appointme “The Governor and t islands are Presidential appointees. They in turn have the power to appoint the lesser executive officers who control the positions of the hundreds of lesser official | lights. This system makes these two gen- tlemen the political autocrats of the place | and the only ones benefited by their ruie | are those who stand in with the ring. It | 1s a splendid exemplification of what you | people have been fighting here—bossism. “Yes, I am chairman of the tax com- mission, the legality of which body is new a matter of contention. The bill creating Continued on Page Two, is secretary of the

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