The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1902, Page 2

DAY, JULY 28, 1902 ° THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, GELL DOOR MAY YIELD 10 LYNCHERS Threats Made Against a Yreka Prisoner’s Life, The Authorities in Siskiyou County Securely Guard a Jail { | Mob of Enraged Loggers and Rail-| road Builders in the Klamathon Region Are Likely to Use | Desperate Measures. | Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Jul; —The jail attack by the mob, the pri the rope and the e convenient tree are features | limb of t th resent them t Yreka to-night ary the doubling of ves to the authorities nd have rendered nec guards inside and It is not en- improbable that John McDonald be lynched. Something of the sort appened in Siskiyou before. to advices received here to- d is half beside himseif in ne Yreka jail through fear ever have a chance to fight | bis life against the two murder ges against him, because a mob com- | jetermined loggers and rafiroad nay slip into Yreka from Kia- e he committed his crimes, ail and lynch him. GUARDS AT THE JAIL. | The fact that he was placed in the most remote cell in the jail, and that guards c out of the little country jail. uirely who are no part of the regular force of ihe Sheriff's office are stationed nightly e and outside the prison, is | worry. McDonald's fear is Sheriff himseif. Warnings from Kiamathon, twenty-five that within the next few | rly but determined and des- of men may ride into the of Siekiyou epared, if ans to compel their urderer of their fr Hoover driven off his team If McDonald had re a single hour he have been seized er men which rang into his a to give him- | ay at the camp of the rail- Foreman Ed Loucks at- the slayer and without sent a bullet througa on without waiting rn if red his second victim. ks’ dea ich occurred late yes- s brought the feeling to a criti- Both Hoover and Loucks were and both had been 1d. from information The Call| ent received here to-day that g of Loucks by McDonald .near » was not done on the spur of ent, but that it was the result of that McDonald had made months John L. Sullivan, an employe of the Hotel in this city, is an intimate of McDonald. He worked for him aloon at Klamathon and of some facts concerning the murder. | ys McDonald always believed | i it in for him on account of | sle McDonzld had with a friend McDonald was in love wit ady of Klamathon and accord- a man named Williams n with her. McDonald Willlams out of the way | ng to Sullivan's statement to respondent to-day.tried to in- 1 to assist. McDonald always | and swore he would kill | s was a friend of Will- says McDonald be- d attempt to kill hi te: POPE BLESSES | THE FEDERATION The Catholic Societies of America to Meet in Chicago. | CINCINNATI, July 27.—National Secre- tary Anthony Matre, of the American Feceration of Catholic Societies, reports the progremme complete for the second rational convention in Chicago, August 5, € ard 7, and that the indications are that the convention will be the most represent- Stive gathering of Catholics ever held in this country. The convention will be opened by pontifical high mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Right Rev. P. J. Mul- doon as celebrant and Bishops Messmer, McFaul and other prominent church dig- nitaries in the sanctuary. All the priests of Chicago have been invited to partici- pate in the church services, and a general invitation has been sent to all the clergy in the United States to represent their parishes at the convention. At 1:30 p. m. Tuesday, August 5, the business sessions of the convention will be formally opened at the Association Hall, 153 La Salle street, where addresses of weicome will be delivered by the Gov- ernor of lllinois and the Mayor of Chi- cago. Responses will be made by promi- nent officials of the federation. In the evening of the same day a great mass meeting will_be held at the convention hall, to which the general public is in- vited. The business sessions, Wednesday and Thursday, will be beld at 9 a. m. and 2 p.m The Chicago committee has selected tha Great Northern Hotel as headquarters, where & bureau of information will also be opened for the accommodation of the delegates. The national executive board will meet in executive session with the supreme officers of the various national organizations at the Great Northern Mon- day evening, August 4. At this meeting the heads of the German, French, Polish and Bohemian federations will also be in attendance, and a plan will be adopted on which ail will agree to unite. The fed- ion has received letters of approval from several archbishops and twenty bishops and the blessing of Pope Leo XII1. These letters will be read at the conven- on. —ee Officers May Capture Assassin. ALTURAS, July 2.—No arrests have yet been made in the murder case of Ed Kennedy. Sheriff Street and Deputy Fleming are on the ground and word to- night says they ase close on the trail of the assessin and his arrest will probably follow to-morrow evening. District Af- torney Bonner left here at § o'clock to- night in answer to a call from the Sher- | i, A second inquest will be heid at | Lopkout at § o'clock to-morrow on the | body. RSN Chinese Murderer Ends Life. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., July 27.— Yip Hay, the .Alaska Chinese murderer, taken from the steamer Dolphin yester- dey evening, committed suicide in the city jail last night by strangling himself with's shoe # | Herbert Welsh. | opinion, do mu; | ing all branches of the service, and all grades | burn” order, and says: { unmercifully dealt with. | stdntiate any or all charges here advanced, 515 THE FACT M SUPPRESSED Anti-Imperialist Com- mittee on Cruelties in Philippines. Comments Upon President’s Review of the Smith Court-Martial. LAKE GEORGE, N. Y., July 2.—At a meeting of representative anti-imperlal- ists held in New York City last spring, a committee was appointed to investigate | army conditions in the Philippines. That | committee has since then been prosecut- ing its inquiries. President Roosevelt's recent review of the court-martial of Gen- eral Jacob H. Smith secemed to the com- mittee to demand some reply, and at a | mecting just held at Lake George an | open letter to the President was adopted. The letter was-signed by Charles Francis | Adams, chairman; Carl Schurz, Edwin | Burritt. Smith, Moorfield 8. Storey -and | It says: to exprese gratification afforded us eview of the 14th inst., as commander- | court-martial Taken in ot the findings- of -the of General J. H. Smith. 1 with the previous memo that review will, provided i corresponding general toward the re-estabiishment of the national prestige and the restoration of | the morals of the apmy. Especially opportune, in our judgment, is your very commendable reminder to officers in high and responsible P ns that in a warfare with national de- pex such as that recently waged by us.| in the Kast, it behooves all such officers to be ‘‘particularly careful in their bearing .and their conduct as to k any acts of an im subordinate officel The level here reached is hearty and is in | healthy contrast with that spirit, far too prev- ep a moral check over oper ..character by thelr alent, which seeks excuse, if not justification, for the excesses of the pre: in every instance of inhumanity which can be exhumed either from cclonial history or from the regretable records of our Indian warfare. | While thus, however, expressing our sense of obligation, we wish most respecttully to call your attention to certain conclusions which we | have in urse of our own inquiries found oursel ompelled to reach. CULPRITS ARE NUMEROUS. Coming directly to the point, and speaking historically, our Investigations have led us to conclude that the demoralization of officers and s s of our army in the Philippines, includ- of rank, was far more general, as well as pronounced, than might be inferred from your review of the court-martial findings in the case of G 1 S The essential facts charged se, we believe we have reason to say, er notorious than exceptional. Demor- fluences, very prejudicial to any high dard of military morals, were, under the circumstances, inevitable. This led to lament- @ results, calling for the firm hand and | rn correction found, and most fortunately | pplied, in your orders of April 15 and July 14. Meanwhile, we would respectfully submit that the good of the army and the future of | our Eastern devendencies demand that inves- | tigation should not stop at this point, or Wwith | results already reached. The inquiries we as | a committee have made, necessarily imperfect, | isfy us that Gen- | e Smith and Major Waller were mnot the sole culprite, nor should they suffice in the character of scapegcats. | In your review of July 14 you say thatthese | cases were exceptional. Your means of in- formation on this point should unquestionably | be infinitely better than ours. Meanwhile it is always to be borne in mind that one side only of this painful story has been heard and that side only in vart. The testimbny of repre- sentative Filipinos has been jealously and sys- tematically suppressed. Judicial and impartial examination on the spot has been denied or { have | | prondunced imoracticable. 1In the present case, occasionally and by accident merely, fragments of information come to general knowledge—broken glimpses only have been permitted to reach the public eve. To our minds they indicate unmistakably a condition | of great and general demoralization. Of this the findings of the court-martial referred to | afford conclusive evidence, as also do the pub- lished orders of commanding officers. and the reports of provincial Governors. DEATH TO THOUSANDS. The letter then discusses the “kill and As the not unnatural result of military oper- | ations so insvired an officlal report indicates | that out of @ total population in a single dis- | trict of 300,000 not less than 100,000 perished. The letter then alludes to the “water | cure,” saying that first reports of its ractice met_with denials, while evidence | efore the Senate Philippine Committee roved conclusively that this and other orms of torture had been used, and adds: | Where inquiry revealed the systematic use of torture by eubordinates, the officer in re- sporsible command is pronounced free from blame on the ground that his praiseworthy abe gorption in other duties of his position was so complete that such trivial incidents failed to attract his notice. Such a finding is certainly suggestive. Finall every severity known to the state of wa: practices which have excited the spe- clal reprobation of the American people when reported as features of the hostilities in Cuba, under the Spanish regime, or in South Africa, | during the Boer war—have been of undupuled; occurrence in the Philippine: From the early beginning of operations there it has been the general practice, it not actually the orders, to kill those wounded in a conflict. In like manner, @ respecis concentration camps. These, as = feature In recent Spanish and South African operations, excited in us as & people the deepest indignation, combined with the mcst profound sympathy for those thus ‘When resorted to by our officials in the Philippines, these camps are represented as a epecies of recreation grounds into which the inhabitants of large districts re- joiced to be drawn and from which they de- | parted with sorrow. Reports to which we can, on the other hand, refer, give accounts not essentially different from the accounts received of similar camps established elsewhere. The letter then quotes a communication to the Senate by Secretary Root on February 14, in which Root says: The war in the Philippines has been con- ducted by the American army with scrupulous regard for the laws of civilized warfare, with careful and genuine consideration for the pris- oners and the non-combatants, with self-re- | straint and with humanity never surpassed, if | ever equaled, in any conflict worthy only of | praise, and reflecting credit upon the American people. CRITICISM OF ROOT. Of this the letter says: These words of sweeping commendation and unqualified indorsement were written by the honorable Secretary when all the essental facts since brought to Jight were within his officfal cognizance. You'have given public assurance that the Secretary is more desirous than your- self, if possible, to probe to the bottom every | responsible allegation of outrage and torture, | o the end that nothing be concealed and no | man be for any reason favored or shielded. The draft on our credulity thus presented is large, but we accept your assurance. Meanwhile, per- | mit us to point out that such very sweeping ' &nd somewhat uncalled for commendation and approval, o far as we are advised altogether | unpredecented in character, coming directly 2nd in the midst of active operations from the fountainhead of military authority, is scarcely 1 calculated “‘to keep a moral check over acts of | an improper character by subordinates.’ It is charitable to assume that the pressure | of officlal business at the time of the commu- | nication referred to was, such that the secre- tary fafled to recall what correspondence had brought to his notice, or fully advise himself s to what the files of his department might | have to disclose. We stand ready to co-operate directly and | in utmost good faith to the end that all of- | fenders may be brought to justice and the. guil- ty punished. In this communication we have ! made reference. the personal application of which is obvious and of record. To those thus referred to courts of military inquiry are open: and, if demanded, would doubtiens ‘be at omes accorded. Before such courts, It once con: | vened, we will hold ourse | es prepared to sub- ALLEGE MANY CRIMES, We find ourselves though with deep regre «compelled to take fssue With You on one e portant order. n your review of July 14 you say *‘al universally the higher officefs have o' bowme | themselves as to supply the necessary checlk | over acts of an improper character by thelr subordinates.” We, on the contrary. have found ourselves impelied to the bellef that the acts referred to were far more general, the demoralization more all pervasive. We hold ourselves ready to di- Tect your attention to concrete cases, the in- vestigation of which we would demonstrate the following criminal acts, contrary to all recognized rules and usages of warfare, on the part of the officers and soldiers of the Unlted States: 1. Kidnaping and murder under clrcum- slnnc;!:éelgmvl'.ad brutality. . Ro & Ty. 3. Torture, both of men and women, and rape of the latter. 4. The infliction of death on other parties, on the strength of evidence elicited through t::- | lanta to Augusta, and which SCHWAB'S ILLNESS QUICKLY GIVEs WAY TO TREATMENT President of the Great United States Steel Corporation Leaves His Sick Chamber and His Complete Recovery Is Assured T f TLANTIC CITY, N. J,, July 21.— Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, who is spending a few days with his family athis cottage here, is annoyed by the stories printed | to-day to the effect that he was attacked by a critical illness last night. Schwab arrived yesterday afternoon from New York. During thé evening he became sud- denly i1l and the physician who has been attending his family was called. The patient remained in bed until about noon to-day when he arose, and, after dress- ing.himself, sat for a while on the porch of his cottage. There were so many tele- grams and personal inquiries rcgarding his condition, however, that he soon re- tired indoors and denied himself Lo news- paper reporters and other callers. Schwab expects to return to his New | York office in two or three days. NEW YORK, July 27.—Judge E. H. Gary of the United States Steel Corpora- tion received a dispatch from gresident Schwab to-day, dated Atlantic City, say- - * STEELTRUST MAGNATE WHOSE SUDDEN ILLNESS CAUSED GRAVE ANXIETY. B £ ing he was almost fully recovered from his attack of {liness yesterday. Schwab added that he had not been very sick. MORGAN FIGURES INA BIG DEAL Atlantic Coast Line May Absorb the Nash- ville Railroad. BALTIMORE, Md., July 27.—It is impos- sible to obtain an authoritative expression of opinion on the rumor that negotiations are pending looking to the absorption by the Atlantic Coast Line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which is con- trolled by J. P. Morgan & Co. In financial circles here the general impression pre- vails that the report’'is well founded. “I thifik Mr. Morgan has already practi- cally turned the road over to the coast line,” sald a member of one of the leading banking firms. “The two roads do not parallel anywhere and have a physical connection at Augusta, Ga., through the Georgia Rallroad, which runs from At- is leased Jjointly by them. “SBuch a deal would eliminate that hostil- ity in Tennessee and Kentucky which has ! been aroused by the rumor that the Louis- ville and Nashville will be merged with the Southern Railway. These roads are parallel and are competitors in both Btates, and following the report Governor McMillin of Tennessee has threatened to call a special session of the Legislature to pass a law that would prevent a merger. It is thought that when Mr. Morgan pur- chased the Louisville and Nashville he | had in view its transfer to the coast line. “Morgan & Co. manage the Southern Railway and have been working in com- plete harmony with the coast line. The nb!o?tlon of the Louisville and Nashville would give the coast line control of the railroad situation in the South, east of the Mississippl River. “The outstanding stock of the Loulsville and Nashville amounts to $60,000,000, and-if the plan of Morgan & Co. to pay $160 a share for it is carried out $90,000,000 will be required to complete the deal." In round numbers the combined mileage of the coast line system and the Louisville and Nashville is 9400. FUGITIVE POLICE CHIEF RETURNS TO MINNEAPOLTS Friends Meet Him at Railway Station but Detectives Are Unable to Locate Him. MINNEAPOLIS, July 27.—Under indict- ments that have failed of service for mnore thah two weeks, Police Superintendent Fred W. Ames was to-day seen here. A friend shook hands with him In a railway statlon in St. Paul this morning, and later the Superintendent was seen in Minneapo- lis in a carriage with his private secre. tary, E. Wheelock. But up to midight he had not been located. Search for him was futile, and those who are believed to know of his whereabouts declined to talk. His wife declared, however, that he would be on hand to-morrow, ready to accept ser- vice under any warrant that many be pending against him. DRUNKEN MEN GAUSE A WRECK Place Obstruction in the Way of an Elec- tric Car. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 27.—An at- tempt by five men to stop an incoming trolley car at the rifle range, a short dis- tance north of this &ity, late to-night, re- sulted in a rear-end collision in which seven passengers were seriously and sev- eral others slightly injured, while two- score more narrowly escaped. The seriously injured, all of whom re- side In Rochester, are: Horace D. Bryan, head badly cut by being Jammed in a window; Miss Nellie Ritter, back serious- ly injured; Mrs. John Haley, badly bruised; William Brodie, back injured; W. P. Hamlin, back wrenched and side bruised; Frank Farley, back spraired, ccndition serious, and Joseph R. Webster, several painful bruises about head and shoulders. Shortly before 10 o’clock car No. 147 left Somerville, on Lake Ontario, bound for the city. It was heavily laden with pas- sengers and had orders not to stop at the rifle range, which is a fiag station. As the car neared this point the motor- man discovered an obstruction on the track and brought his car to a stop just in the nick of time. The obstruction, which consisted of several lengths of rlcket fencing and other material, had been placed on the track by flve men un- der the influence of liquor, because, as they said, they had attempted to flag other inbound cars without success and determined to make sure of the next at- tempt. While the crew was trying to clear the track in order to proceed, car No. 454, also inbound, came along at high speed and crashed into the rear of the car ahead. The vestibules of both cars were smashed and their interiors wrecked. Most of the irjured were caught in the wrecked vesti- bules and between broken car seats. The men who caused the wreck disap- peared and have not been arrested. BOTHA SAYS THE BOERS ARE NOT YET VANQUISHED Distinguished General Declares That Faith and Hope Will Guide Them Through Darkness. CAPE TOWN, July 2I.—In a recent speech at Paarl, Cape Colony, General Botha said that all of South Africa was under on€ flag, but that the Boers had not been vanquished. Darkness was in front of them, he said, but faith and hope would guide them through it. Africa was their fatherland, their birth- right and_their inheritance. ONDON, July 27.—General Lord Meth- uen, who was wounded and captured by the Boers, but subsequently released and who - arrived in England early this month, has undergone a successful opera- :Ilf.nl e’z" the extraction of bullets from |Interesting Result DEMOCRATIC ~ |STRIKING MINERS ' MAGIC RELIC STIL HOPEFLL, " [RIVES AWAY MA33Ea YET WANT BRYAN of Poll of National Committeemen. Leaders Not in Accord With ‘Wishes of ths Rank and File. Realize the Nebraskan’s Strength; but Say He Cannot Again Hope to Head His Party’s Ticket. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 27.—William J. Bry- an’s speech making trip to the Eastern the requisite number of miners could be | States has revived interest in his present position in the Democratic party, and in what attitude he and the party will stand toward each other in the Presidential campaign of two years hence. To ascertain the Democratic view of the present situation and that which is likely to be presented in 1904, the Herald asked the members of the Democratic National Committee to express their opinion upon Bryan's standing in the party and wnat they regard as the leading issues in the coming Congressional campaign. Answers recelved from many of the committeemen show a general belief that, while Bryan must be considered a very important factor; he is not at all likely to be again nominated for President, nor is it generally believed that he desires to be nominated. As for the issues to be fought out, trusts, tariff revision and imperiaism ap- pear to be regarded as the most import- ant. Here are some of the replies: Bryan is not a canu.date. Imperialism chief {ssue.—T. C. Blanchard, Louisiana. Parker and Shepard types of comMg can- didates.—Josephus Danleis, North Carotina. the Bryan stands well with party and will so con- | tinue, but cannot be nominated.—John H. Senter, Vermont. Bryan's influence stronger than at any_time since he entered public life.—James C. Dahl- man, Nebraska. z Has the largest personal following and should be considered in shaping party issues.—L, k. Ryan, Wisconsin, Revision of tariff laws and opposition to trusts, two of the leading issues.—John T. Mec- Garry, West Virginia. Btyan is undisputed party leader and as pop- ular as ever.—Hoges 8. Cummings, Connecti- cut. Bryan strong with the masses, but without any chance of being their nominee.—R. M. Johnson, Texas. The people believe in Bryan, who neither de- sires nor expects a third nomination.—H. B. Ferguson, New Mexico, Kentucky Democrats are devoted as ever to William J.” Bryar and ready to vote for him.— Urey Woodson, Kentucky, Opposition to tanff and to great trusts the Democratic campaign issues. Bryan Is there- fore a_lost_important factor.—Norman Mack, New York. Party reorganizers may do much to bring ! about Bryan's nomination for a third time.— Henry D. Clayton, Alabama. Bryan is the loglcal and natural leader and will yet be President.—John G. Johnson, Kan- sas, Tennessee Democrats look for another man than Bryan to run for the presidency.—J. M. Head, Tennessee Bryan more popular than ever and sure to be_nominated.—John E. Osborne, Wyoming. Bryan stands very high with his party, but too early to predict who will be nominated for President by the Democrats.—Joseph R. Ryan, Nevada. J. Bryan left Bridgeport late this after- noon on a yacht owned by Lewis Nixon of New York, whose guest he will be for the next two days. The yacht put into New Haven harbor to-night and will cruise to the eastward through Long Js- land Sound to-morrow. It is expected that on Tuesday Bryan will land at Block Island, where he will stay for several daays. @ it il O STRANGE STORY OF WHITE RACE g Continued From Page One. and such hair as they had was fair and straight. After waiting several hours for the parents’ return, the surgeon decided to take possession of the twins. This he did, and by dint of great care got them to Manila, alive and in good health. He took them to Spain, where he adopted them and brought them up as his own. One ne educated as a lawyer, the other is to-day practicing medicine near Madrid. PLENTY OF VIRGIN GOLD. ‘When the boys reached manhood they were told the story of their babyhood. The lawyer expressed a desire to visit the scene of his birth, find his parents if alive, tell them of the great outside world, and, ‘it possible, bring them to Spain. He secured permission to make the journey, | and, armed with detailed directions from the surgeon, started out on as search for his parents. About a year after his departure the surgeon recelved a letter from his foster son. He had found his parents, and had decjded to cast his lot with them and their people. They were Mahammedans, he said, and he proposed to devote his life to i troducing the Christian religion and in other ways to give the people from whom he had been kidnaped the benefit of his wider knowledge. The young lawyer, it is said, is now the ruling Sultan of this isolated people. Un. der his influence many of them have e braced the Christian religion and a lim. ited and strictly commercial intercourse has_been established with the outside ‘world. Manuel Castro is one of the few out- siders admitted to the privileges of trade with these shut-in Caucasians. He exhib- ited to Lieutenant de Clairmont photo- raphs of some of these strange white folk.' and told in circumstantial detail of his trading operations with them. They are a well formed race, according to Castro and the photographs; perfectly white, with aquiline features and light hair, which they wear long. The men fio naked, except for a breech cloth, and the wemen wear one sash-like garment, which hangs from one shoulder and extends n fancy fringes to the knees. They are expert cloth weavers, and from the amount of crude gold jewelry with | which they adorn themselves, their sup- ly of the prectous metal In its virgin }Jorm seems to be plentifuls There are few products of the outside world that they want, and these they get througn Castro and about half a dozen other trad- ers, in whom they have confidence. REGION WELL PROTECTED. “I investigated Castro’s gtory,” said Lieutenant de Clairmont, “and satisfied myself that a race of whites really exi. on Mindoro Island. I had an opportunity to go In with an exploration glrly' but the state of my heaith forbade. I re- ported the matter to the government trib. al bureau, which is engaged in trying to find out just.what we have in the Philip- glne!. and was informed that they also ad heard of the tribe, but had been un- able to locate it. I gave them all the in- formation I could, and expect to hear very shortly of the organization of an explora- tion expedition. “Nobody will get\jnto that country by force. From what I could gather these whites have every approach to their cap- ital well sprinkled with vigilant outposts. This capital is located in a valley and sur- rounded by almost impenetrable jungle. Located on the surrounding eminences, armed with their poisoned arrows, the in- habitants could make it interesting for an unwelcome Invader who would be unable to strike a blow either in defense or re- taliation.” Lieutenant de Clairmont was selected for duty with the Philippine scouts on ac- count of his knowledge of the Spanish people and their language. He is a na- tive of San Francisco, but a graduate of the Guatemala Military Academy. Much of his early life was spent among the d BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 27.—William | Revival of Rumors That One of the Mines Is to Start: Up: Men Say That the Operators Cannot Get Hands to Go Into the Workings. WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 27.—The be- ginning of the eleventh week of the anthracite miners’ strike finds apparent- ly no change in the situation, although the rumor has been revived that an ef- fort will be made some day this week | pantes to start one of their collieries. | The companies have a sufficient number of coal and iron policemen enmlisted now to prevent trouble should it arise and all that would be necessary to get a | mine in operation would be a sufficient number of miners and laborers to blast the coal and load it on the cars. No doubt plenty of ordinary laborers could | be secured, but it Is a question whether persuaded to go into the workings. | At strike headquarters the belief is as strong as ever that the operators cannot Tesume and that it is idle talk to eve: | suggest such a thing. § President Mitchell implicity says that the situation is about the same, and that the strikers are as firm as ever. A great deal of telegraphing passed to- day between Wilkesbarre, Indianapolis and the headquarters of the United Mine ‘Workers in West Virginia, the nature of which Mitchell would not make public. Three hundred delegates, representing the 10,000 Polish and Lithunian residents of the Wyoming Valley, met in conven- tion here to-day and after indorsing the | strike_appointed a committee of ten to { visit New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, |Bllftl\o and other large cities and solicit aid from the Polish and Lithunian peopie | for their countrymen now on strike in the anthracite region. President Mitchell has consented to i serve on the board which will arbitrate the differences between the Scranton Ellec(nc Rallway Company and its em- ployes. MINERS HOPE FOR RELEASE. | Habeas Corpus Proceedings Will Be Rushed by Their Union. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 27.—At the Mine Workers’ national headquarters it | was announced to-day that no time will be i lost in pushing the habeas corpus proceed- ings for the release of members of the or- ganization arrested under the edict of Judge Jackson of the United States Dis- trict Court at Parkersburg, W. Va. Secretary Wilson to-day explained an- According to Wilson not one of the men arrested was proved to have made any | gpeeches, inflammatory or otherwise, after uedge Jackson's restraining order was is- Su ‘Wilson, in speakln( of the matter, sal ““The injunction was issued on June 19, and the meeting complained of was held the next night. ‘Mother’ Jones was the only speaker and none of the men arrested | sald a word publicly to the miners. The | only thing proved against them was that | they applauded the remarks of ‘Mother’ Jones. They were arrested the moment the meeting was over, so that they had no ! chance to speak if they had wanted to do | so. I do not see how men can be commit- and I believe the habeas corpus procees | ings will set them free.” No cherges wiji be filed against Judge Jackson, Wilson said, until the habeas corpus suits have been decided. Messenger Boys\Win Their Strike. CHICAGO, July 27.—The strike of the Iilinois District Telegraph Company's | messenger boys, which since Friday has hampered the telegraph companies in the delivery of their messages and caused great annoyance to brokers and business | men throughout the city, was settled at a | late hour to-night. By the settlement the boys will receive increased wages and extra pay for overtime. @ it e @ EUGENE GRISSOM aHO0TS HIMSELF Noted Alienist and Neu- rologist Commits Suicide. — e WASHINGTON, July 27.—Dr. Eugene Grissom, formerly of Denver, and once well known as an alienist and neurologist, committed suicide here to-day at his son’s home by sending a buflet through his | brain. Dr. Grissom had been dejected and morose for several weeks, and had | becdme physicaly and mentally weakened | from the use of strong narcoties. Dr. Grissom was a native of Granville, | N. C., served on the Confederate side until | wounded during the Civil War, and after- ward was a member of the State Legisla- ture. For twenty-one years he was su- | perintendent of the North Carolina insane | asylum at Raleigh and gained a wide rep- utation as an allenist and lecturer. Be- fore the American Medical Society he de. livered a lecture entitled “The Borderland of Insanity,” that attracted great atten- tion. He was the author of “True and | False Experts,” a work devoted to show- | Ing the alleged inaccuracies of the expert | testimony in insanity cases. Dr. Grissom was at one time first vice president of the American Medical Soci- ety, and several times presiding ‘officer of ! the Superintendents of American Insane | Asylums. He was the president of the convention of 1886. Dr. Grissom was a M!nmn of high degree. He was Tl years | of age. SINGING SOCIETIES OPEN THE TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL Twelve Thousand Members Attend the Gathering of Sweet-Voiced Throngs at Grase. VIENNA, July 27.—The sixth triennial festival of German singing societies ted to jail for such a trivial offense as lhdifl ‘opened at Grase to-day. The attendance | , of members from societies throughout | Austria ‘and Germany exceeded 12,000. 1 J. P. Frenzel, of Indianapolis, addressed | the gathering, bringing greetings from the German societies in the United States. He sald that, though thousands of miles | apart,-the same songs were sung on the | banks of the Minissl%pl. the Missouri and | the Ohio as on the banks of the Rhine. Frenzel read verses written for the occa- sion by Pedro Iigen, of St. Louis. The speech and verses were enthusiastically received. The festival will last a week. The next | meeting will be at Frankfort in 1905. sgieeeleirieleinieilei e @ Latin people, and in the Philippines he was able to gain the native confidence zs did few American army officers. He was wounded during the early part of the Philippine campaign when he was at- tached to the ird Cavalry. He was shot through the lungs and had barely re- covered from his wounds w! his as- signment for duty with the Philippiue scouts took him out to the tropics again. His health broké down d the rainy season, and he was obll,:g to return io the States. He arrived from the pines on the Sheridan. upon the part of one of the large com- | other point in the miners’ case on which | they will base their claim to be set free. | HUNAN 115 Thousands of Pilgrims Visit the Shrine of St. Anne, Tell of Miraculous Cures Wrought During Novena | of Prayer. | The Lame Are Made to Walk and the | Blind to See by the Touch | of a Sacred Piece of Bone. — e ' i | NEW YORK, July 2I.—Miraculous in- deed are the cures reported from _ths | basement of the ehurch of St. Jean Bap- tiste, where a novena of prayer has just come to an end and the noted relic of St. If the unequivocal | Anne was exposed. statements of parents, relatives and | neighbers may be Dbelieved, the lame, | blind 2nd halt can waik, can see and talk, all the result of prayer and contact with the emall bone to which miraculous pew- ers are ascribed. Thousands of pilgrims visited the shrine | during the nine days of prayer, many coming from distant citles. Iver since the relic of St. Anne touched the frail | little body of 7-year-old Elsie Markdoff, | who for the last three years and a half | had been a constant sufferer from spinal trouble, she has taken on a new lease of life. She both slee and eats as she rever did before and no longer needs an iron brace for her back or a plaster-of- is cast for her right leg. Her parents e so strongly impressed with the ef- fielency of the cure wrought that they ill embrace the faith of the Church of Rome. Little Marfon Oates, 7 years old, had a fall when she was 3 years old. _Since then the child has been afflicted with a spinal and joint trouble of so serious a | character that it seemed to baffte the sur- geons of several hospitals. Except for a trifling stiffness of some of the muscles ! of her left leg she is thoroughly cured. To her neighbors Irene Brennan, 11 years old, of 71 East One Hundred and Twenty-first street, is a marvel. One year ago she was given up for dead. Her | bedy wasted away until she remained but a shadow. Besides spinal trouble, whica had made one of her legs shorter than the other, she developed tuberculosis of the right leg and curvature of the spine. Ir despair, Mrs. Brennan last year took Jrene to the little church where the reiic was exposed for the veneration of the { faithful. As soon as the piece of ths | enced a peculiar sensation, and was abla enecd a pecullar sensafion, and was abls to walk without trouble. Her iron braces | were left in the church as an attestation | of her cure, and since then she has been | in ‘perfect health. Both of her legs are now of the same length. Alma Whitlock, 10 years old, who lives with her grandmother, Mrs. Fall, of 1441 Lexington avenue, who was also cured of lameness last year by the relic, went to | church during the novema just ended and gave a prayer of thanksgiving for her equally wonderful restoration to a normal physical condition, Hundreds of other cures are reported. 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