The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 1

g ¢t Ee Call.=™ VOLUME XCL—NO 16, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1901: PRICE FIVE CENTS. e ——————————— e INVENTOR ARGON! DESCRIBES FOR THE CALL HIS SUCGESSFUL EXPERIMENTS IN SIGNALING AGROS3 THE ATLANTIC BY MEANG OF WIRELESS TELEGHAPHX VENEZUELAN PORT WILL + BESEIZED i |Germany Sending Three ‘ ‘Warships to Coerce | Republic. VICTIMS DIE | IN FLAMES Fire Destroys Wrecked | | Trains on Illinois ‘ Central. Eight Persons Perish and| Eleven Are Seriously | Injured. { American Cruiser Will Follow the Vineta to South - | America. Men Pinned Down Beneath the Debris Berlin Government Resolves Upon a erated Before They | Course to Enforce the Imme= Be Reached by | diate Payment of Its Rescuers. Claim. - . 1 e P 1 Special Dispatch to Thy Call. orders is | ~ ot a | NORFOLK, \a. Dec. the Tllinois Central i I Perry Engineers of lhe‘(‘s;m;m cruisér . DD P | | Vineta, now here, say the vessel and a freight | | B ad 5 L i rd. Bight | | will sail for Havana on T'uesday s S an | | | to meet three German warships. cago, engineer | | Then they will go to seize a Ven- - | ezuelan port if the debt claim is Freeport, fireman | | 1 . . . of | not paid. The American cruiser ¥, Dubugque, o ! § o X 3 e i e iPraxne will go with the Vineta o, brakeman of | | | and will follow her when she sails &I i f > or Venezuela. EHAN, Freeport, engineer of | | ‘ J ¥ } | BERLIN, Dec. 15.—The re- Freeport, frelght 1 i ; o e | port that diplomatic relations to be dead: News- | | ' GUGL‘E‘-M . < i i “ }bet\\een Germany and V ene- name unknown; | Nl = = 7 5 | zuela have been broken off is rene, name un-| O N | s FE o . e ¢ [ 5 < | semi-officially denied. The seri ured, so far as names | | WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Dee. ¥ 3 ascertatuell Bae:: L 45 WaRA-1 15.—The Venezuelan General Vicente San- i Spsaipepercgy ot (Mo B iy =\ chez, who is now here on his way from to Rockford City Hospital, | Maracaibo to Caracas, reports that 1000 o =pro i Do g | | | Cotombian Liberals. distantly supported N; 3. 5. Qutnian: paw- | | | by 4000 Venezuelan troops, captured the ghis i = { | Colombian seaport town of Rio Hacha takhe tb Bock -1 (on the northwest coast of the Guijira s Roneaiind s K| | peninsula) on December 10, after Generals sy et s i | | Clodomiro Castillo and Cirlo Bipo, both Stadleman, ' New Athens, | | Venezuelans, had defeated 2000 Qolombian verd; 2 oo a1 1 | |Conservative troops near Treinta. (Tre- 3 Cent ap. hraieey {.|inta is about thirty ‘miles soutawest of o % ; | | Rio Hacha, in Colombian territory.) Crash To ether at Full Speed. | ¢ | Uribe-Uribe Directs Campaign. - o bef: e W k . S 3 General Rafael Uribe-Uribe is directing % iy | t U L St t A this campaign from Maracaibo, ‘where he xpress and ;‘ ;g“a‘g(‘::r’; WT“e( Orks In ecre n arge ations re has obtained lukewarm Venezuelan sup- | . ' port. Upon learning of the Liberal vie- tives, pinning down the | t I T h I t B E t d | tory : T T = y at Rio Hacha, General Urbe-Uribe fros Lr hal-Gosen ] I nump S 0 e rec e immediately proceeded south to the pro- “‘f‘“ Rer er';z"ef' 1;“; A h. d vince of Tachira. The Colombian Cone y t roastes t 0 servatives made an attempt to interce deat} re instant . > pt 0 death wers ifi:.li.:l .‘.(S and thelr | C Ieve . a nce' Uribe-Uribe, but were foiled by means of :m.ee e%:,rt \l' J);::m(‘:h Al fieflorts Ofi a deeoy armored train. the survivors to rescue the victims were 5 X R ABCas . : % Uribe-Uribe's forces are now movin Prely wiehiny, Ladlimanetiiund, g gy A ek o A gl T. JOHN, F., Dec. 15 HEESBE RS N . shareholders to ar’nounce for their ben- | a1ong the Venezuelan-Colombian frontier. at every polnt. % | saw Marcom to-day and in- OXN S3IGNAL MILX.. 3 5 efit the successfulfissue of the long-dis- | Their objective is said to be Bucirmanga, The ot wue 20 degrees belowi formed ihim that 'the report — tance experiments. in Colombia, which, it has been_reported, :;ro ani(:n‘hces 2;1;( v:hu hl‘zwing a;ross] that wireless signals had been k “When we left England I arranged | has been lost to the Colombian Govern- e m-fi,“!'m%: et afli’;;me:"c ‘°°' { seceived here direct from Eng-log o2 o o p e BT 3 | with operators at The Lizard, in Corn- | ment. The Liberals are also sal¢ to have ‘::ec:r;e Sjuren were umwft ::lr,oaecé land had created a tremendous wall, to send a signal consisting of the | taken possessjon of the capital of the z‘?'ierefl lE"'Jb])' By the united eflcnszf‘ sensation in New York and that cable | INVENTOR OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND VIEW OF A STATION. letter ‘S’ at a certain hour each day on | Colombian district of Tolima. l“; s bt iy -Cox ks pushea | €Xperts and electricians were incredu- - the receipt of a cable from me that 1| Venezuela has rencwed her war meas- back from the wreckage to escape the ‘ lous and thought the signals were sim- was ready to receive the same. - T cabled | ures since. the rejection of Chile's ofter flames and the injured were placed on the | PIy a result of a(mosphenc conditions. | ery was made that messages could be | lic at present, but I did not wish that | tant stations in-Cornwall and Cape Cod | them on Wednesday that I was pre- ::;:egi;”‘;“_‘ H“" "r"sef“f “"'r‘“‘"" 1‘1' Baniicn Sahls: ! In reply he said carried by electric currents. without | remark reported at the time. These | have been kept secret for this same rea- | pared and I received the signal ‘S’ seven c:un; - ;Id:;? ;r:""}:: :;‘“‘;;D;"‘;Zn; Two hours elapsed before any relief was| “I have no doub( that there will be a | wires. I am confident that Thursday’s | long-distance tests are what I referred | son. times on Thursday, one signal being Castro.. THe folliwars of Castr < Sl &t hand. Then an engine arrived from the | good deal of criticism. Many will find | tests were in no way affected by at- | to.” I purposely refrained from making RECORDS DAILY SUCCESS. very distinct, showing no doubt what- [ " ", C. o " O ; east and p car to Irene, | the news difficult to believe. If I were|mospheric disturbances. You will re-|any mention of the fact that I hoped to| “I may say that if I were working on | ever as to the result. The signal was S Accu;;d of Murder. three miles d at. A rellef train from | a novice at wireless telegraphy I might | member that in my first interview I said | receive a signal right across the Atlan- | my own account alone these results |received twice on Friday. [th:n cabled SR e ! m_“a‘ 2 Rockford & the scene of the| possibly be misled by such things as | that there were some matters in connec- | tic, as I preferred to wait to see if a | would still be kept secret, but, after | again and on Saturday received a cable- s g R A - i | P y ’ Y : ; ¥ A 4 P been charged with wholesale ihefts of wreck at 10 In H;’ meantime the | atmospheric disturbances. )i | tion with my visit t6 Newfoundland | successiul result could first be obtained. lthinking the matter over yesterday, I Second P caille. on’ (he- Glira-penfnghts - R been HT‘EM back from Irene | “It is now five years since my discov- | which it was not desirable to make pub- | Particulars about the large and impor- | concluded that it was my duty to my Continued on Second Page. e e e € Sntds . TR car and were transferr . & e nd browsht to Rod | . —% | Guijira, and caused the arrest of the ehief .x‘,rnp]x H. v“ Well S, N s F N | | ot staft of General Vicente Sanches. He S ko e v\-‘zl,;’):‘::,l eral Olivarez. The charges against him ve the tracks clear to- ’N SSI VE DA Ys are brought by President Ferrera of the : b e [ | . 5 dtion in disgust. Davila has heen for- + were charred beyond recogni- | | 7 : 2 ; J : 5 f . pos G i von Aok 14 | HEN wwe left England, I arranged with operators at The Lizard, in Cornwall, to send a signal consisting of the-letter “S” at a certain hour each day on receipt of a ca- Rl accused of mirder. Tis N et R ’4 y Willfully Disobey Orders. } ble from me IIm[ 1 was ready to receive the same. 1 cabled them on Wednesday that I was prepared and I received the signal “S™ seven times on Thursday, one signal to be Vx‘m.de rprx‘m;:r,\- (‘r::nmand;r at l‘axl'a_ “AG dec. 15.— y. iggins cas. Maracaibo is restless and a popular HICAGD, Die. X e “;fi?m | | being very distinct, shozoing no " doubt whatever as to the result. The signal was received twice on Friday. I then cabled again and on Saturday received a cablegram from Corn- S e appeaI | superintendent o no W-entral, places the blame for the wreck | wall, absolutely confirming what had taken place. The weather was unfavorable yesterday for further tests or I believe we would have had the signals repeated. t Perryville, Tll, on the "mf‘u_;]“-r and | | I can quite understand that it is difficult to believe that England has communication direct zvith Newfoundand and can well imagine the excitement it creates in mble MAK::‘ZX l;‘:)?h%"_'::e"w?:m:;nh e neer of the freight train hey are | | . 2 . . - i A Bt They w1 circles. Al I can say is that Yhe nezws is true and events will prove my words.—From a statement made by Signor Marconi for The Call. b, quake shock since 1553 was felt ‘iere this i 5 ot 3 morning. One house was wrecked and Conunued on Page T‘""’- i‘.——— ___—_—————-2__.‘. l many Houses were damaged. 3