The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1902, Page 8

8 WAKE ISLAND T0 BE CLEARED OF JAPANESE United States Warship ‘Will Drive Out the Asiatics, Government-Moves to:Check Encroachments of'the Mikado. Acknowledges Japan’s Claim, How- ever, to Complete Sovereignty Over Disputed Marcus i Island. Spyclal Dispatch to»The Call, WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The United | States has determined to take action to | prevent the encroachment of Japan upon | islands of the Pacific. The policy the son has decided to pursue is report received by the War Department fiom the master of the frans- port Buford, who reporved that when ap- proaching Wake Island, midway between | Hawaif and Ggam, on June 23 he found ft inbabited by a party of Japanese. This he constdenad decidedly surprising in view | of the fact that the island is an American | e Japanese explained that they had | left on the island by a Yokohama r mnd that they were engaged in The mavy oficial suggested that ment was intenGed to deceive the men were reaily pearl hunt- © The attenfion of Acting Secretary of | the N Danling was dizected to the of the master of the Bu- ling Geemed the matter of im- nce and at once brought it to the n of the State Department, with ibe suggestion that representations be made 1o Japan with a view of obtaining some explanation of her procedure. Dar- I:ng will issmie instructions #o the Adams to visit Walge Island and otler islands of Pacifi i¢h are claimed by this | urpose of asserting | and ejecting ail | ho are illegally there. The Ad- be commiesioned next week un- | [ sel, will proceed first to Hawaii, | at every island, iarge or small, | grcmp. She also will visit the | | isancs. = of the Japanese legation do not thefr Government has counten- | v action on the part of its sub- ingimg upon American sover- | the Pacific. Japan is 4nxious to | he ‘most cordial relations with Sttes. ! A, Rosehill has Jost his fight rfyip of Marcus Island. The ment will this week issue a t Rosehill and acknowledge though the State De- | ous of\ conforming with ihe decision might have re Captain Rosehill left | ptatn Rosehill clalms he islazd in 1889, but the law Staies bearing upon the a red bef e ownership and the working of guano isl- ands provides that'a claimant shall file 2 bond with the Secretary of the Treas- When Captain_Rosehill filed his | not file the bond, which was 0%. In facz, he did not file the last year, and therefore his not compiete until that time. LIVES ARE SACRIFICED | TO TEEIR FOOLHARDINESS Surviving Guide Describes Deaths of His Three Comrades on Mont Blanc. CHAMOUNIX, France, Aug. 10.—The | two residents of Paris whio recently per- | rom exposure on Mont Blane, and ! guides were reported to have been | sile descending the mountain in | &earch of assistance, were namd Staehling | and Maudit. | The bodies of the men, together with | of Guide Culeiv, have been brought | e ac, wha, was supposed to | € been killed, was found ‘altve at the bottom of a crevasse. of fall the guides .into the cre- | £ nessed through telescopes e and led to the supposition that 2 men had been killed. Blanc had a | miraculous escape. He had a sheer fall | ©f about 111 feet, but_was .almost unin- E}rpu although he suffered from the ef- | fects of six hours’ exposure. Culelv was Killed instantly | rview Blance said: £Both of the Frenchmen, who were between 2 and 30 years of age, were experienced Al- #in s. They were not inclined to fol- 16w the advice of the guides. I counseled a re- thirn. but they persisted that they could easily mkach the refuge of the Valot Observatory. The storm increased in violence and compelled us W in the snow for protection. We | aved thus, all four huddled together, for ten ‘clock in the morning Stachling 1stion and ten minutes later eathed his last. He had just ength enough to whisper **Adiew.’” | was 4 o'clock in the morning -before the _abated. Culeiv and I tried to find our way down to the Grands Mulets. Our hands @nd feet were frostbitten. We met parties as- cending who gave us cognac and coffee. Cu- jeiv was too ill to speak We were so exhausted that we were really madmen for the time being. We were beset by one idea—to flee by the shortest way from what had happened. | It is said that several guides warned | the party not to start, as a storm was brewing. TYPESETTERS TO MEET | IN ANNUAL CONVENTION | Golden Jubilee of the International Union Will Be Fittingly Cele- brated at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Aug.10.—The annual con- vention of the International Typograph- jcal Union meets here to-morrow for a gession of four days. President James M. | Lynch of Syraucse, Vice Presidents C. E. Hawkes of Chicago, James Mulcahy of St. Louls and J. F. O'Sullivan of Boston and Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Bramwood of Denver have been here the past week | &c work with various committees, and were joined to-day by delegates from all | perts of the country. Most of the dele- | gates seem to favor Washington for the pext convention, although Newark, N. J., }; 2 Strong rival. It is conceded that St | _ouis will get the convention in 1t Nashville wants it for 1905. ey avention this week will be of un- nterest, as it is the occasion of the golden jubilee, the international union having been organized here in 1852, after P : efforts in New Yark in 1850 and Ju Baltimore in 181. There are now bbd Lmdl unions, with more than 40,00 mem.- ers. The first local uni « in Bosten more than a centurs mege 20 = ndtetringy ¥ To Report Upon Wireless Tests, | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Acting Secre- tary of the Navy Darling has appqinted | the Board which is to witness and report upon the tests of the various wireless tel- egraph systems brought from Eu y Licutenant Hudgings and which areiy o | placed in operation for experimental pur- poses between here and Annapolis. The board will consist of Captain Harry Knox now on duty at the Newport War College: Commander G. L. Dyer, who is on duty at the Annapolis Naval Academy; Lieuten- ant Commander Willlam S. Hogg, who is on duty at the Washington Navy Yard, and Lieutenants Albert M. Beecher and John M. Hudgins, whq are attached to the Bureau of Equipment. —_— PARIS, Aug. 10.—Three persons were killed and twelve seriously injured as a result of the derailing of an express train between ville and Lilly, | lead maniifacturing interests of the coun- | er, but will be the basis of a second cor- | known | ing in from many quarters now and the LEAD GOMPANIES 10 FORM TRUST New Combine to Take in Largest Plants in the Country. Eastern Millionaires Are to Furnish the Necessary Capital. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—The Zinc and Lead News will say to-morrow: What will be the greatest lead combina- tion in this country is now nearing its consummation. While its promoters are more than ordinarily reticent, it is defin- itely known that the scope of the merger will Include most of the large white lead plants east of the Mississippi River, the prineipal pipe and sheet lead plants, a number of sheet and company manufac- turing products in which lead forms one of the chief components. Included in the merger will be the Union Lead and Oil Cempany, which was organized last year by the Ryan-Whitney coterle of capital- ists, with a capital of $10,00,000, and which controls the Bailey process of man- | ufacturing white lead. Overtures made | tc_induce the National Lead Company to join the merger are sald to be favor- ably looked upon by a portion of the di- rectorate. Behind tHe merger are the Ryan-Whit- ney and -American Smelting ‘and Refining | Company interests. Options have been secured on a number of corroding pla.ms“ of the country, notably the Chnadwick Company of Boston and the Raymond Company of Chicago. If the merger is completed: successfuily it will control the try and indirectly, through its alliances, the plg lead market. The plans of the promoters favor a cor- poration with a capitalization of not less than $50,000,000. The papers will probably be filed in New Jersey during the next sixty days, although definite announce- ment of the status of the merger is looked r before the expiration of that time. The lead producing properties in south- | eastern Missouri, Colorado and the Coeur d’Alenes will not be included in this merg- poration with a capitalization of not less than $25.000.000 to be consummated after the manufacturing merger has been ef- fected. HEAD OF AUGUSTINIANS TO VISIT UNITED STATES Says the Friars Are Not Hated s by a Majority of the Filipinos. ROME, Aug. 10.—Thomas Rodriguez, general of the Augustinians and supreme head of the whole order, which is very | powerful at Rome, will leave here to-mor- row for Naples, where he will board thé eamship Ligura, sailing next Wednes- day for New York. Father Rodriguez will pay his first visit to the United | States. The general of the Augustinians re- ceived a representative of the press here to-day with great cordiality. As it was that his journey to the United | | States was attributed to an intention to send American Augustinians to replace the Spanish members of the order now in the Philippines, Father Rodriguez, when | questioned on this matter, said nothing | definite had been deeided. “Nothing can be done,” said Father Rodriguez, “while the negotlations are | still pending between the Holy See and | the United States. Whoever is impartial | must admit it to be strange that while Washington cannot or will not expel the friars from the Philippines it should re- | duire this to be done by the Vatican, whose principal duty and interest are to | protect the friars, both materially and morally. “The truth is that the friars are not hated by a majority of the Filipinos, but only by that faction which wanted to get rid of them in order to be left without curb or law. “With regard_to the substitution of American for Spanish Augustinians in the islands the difficulty is that while the friars of our order in the Philippines at one time numbered more than 300 and ven now amount to 135, those in the United States, who are mostly at Vil- lanova, near Philadelphia, number only | about 100, and of them scarcely ten could be spared.” e STRIKING COAL MINERS EXPECT A LONG SIEGE Contributions to Relief Fund Are Coming In and All Dissatisfac- tion Disappears. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Aug. 10.—The fourteenth week of the anthracite min- ers’ strike will begin to-morrow. Presi- dent Mitchell is authority for the state- | ment that the strikers are in goad shape. Contributions to the relief fund are com- dissatisfaction which was at first evinced over their distribution has disappeared and the strikers have settled down to | what they believe will be a much longer siege than was at first expected. While the strike leaders are inclined to throw cold water on all reports that an attempt m. made to resume mining at an day in the Wyoming region, it would not be at all surprising should one or two mines in this section be started this week. The same story has been told | for weeks past, but theré is a well au- thenticated report in circulation to-night that the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal | Company may start work at its Wana- mie colllery some day this week. At the office of the company, however, those in charge refuse to give out any information. Boy Caused Fatal Wreck. OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 10.—Delbert Pres- ton, a 15-year-old boy, has made a con- fession to the authorities of having caused the wreck of a passenger train on the Reck Island near South Omaha, July 24, by which one man was killed and several others .injured. 'According to his story he was spending an idle hour on the track and picked up an iron spike, which he inadvertently left lying on the rail- rcad, With the head toward the coming passenger train. ——————— Good Ways for Destroying Vermin. It is well known that many diseases re propagated by vermin. Fiies trans. port tubercolosis, mosquitoes yellow fever and malaria, rats the plague. V. Haa- zen in the Annales de Pharmacie reports the results of experiments on the de- struction of vermin that are of imme- diate practical importance. Bedbugs re- sist exposure for twenty-four hours to an atmosphere containing six grains of formic aldehyde per cubic meter. With eight grains a certain number dled. All perished with nine grains per cubic meter. The gas - furnished by the burning of twenty-five grains of sulphur per cubic meter also destroyed all these, pests. Flies and mosquitoes are kilfed by two grains of formic aldehyde per cubic me- ter of air. Fleas are destroyed by seven grains per cubic meter, or by burning sulphur. Rats and mice are destroyed by thirty-six hours’ exposure to an at- mosphere contajning fifteen grains of formic aldehyde per cubic meter, but the | full exposure of thirty-six hours must he | given. Twenty-four hours is not suffi- cient. —_——— Low Rates to St. Paul. The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con- gress will be held in St. Paul August 13 to 22. The Southern Pacific will make rate of $70 40 for round trip, both ways, via direct route, or $82 %0 one way direct the other through Portland, Or. Call at Information Bureau, 613 Market street, for details. ——— Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED, Sunday, August 10. Stmr Geo Loomis, Bridgett, 38 hours from Redondo. Bln;dseqnflh. ‘Winkel, 23 hours from Port Schr Mary C, Campbell, 8 hours from so-l dega. - | publican State Committee. | persons in the hotel and all { second. THE. SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1902. DEATH LETS THE GAVEL FALL FOR SENATOR JAMES M’MILLAN Heart Failure Robs Michigan of Her Senior Representative in the Upper House of Congress, Deprives the Nation of a States- man and Takes From the Republican Party a Noted Leader ASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—A dis- patch was received here to- day announcing the death of Saenator James McMillan of Michigan at an early hour is morning, at his summer home 3 Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Death the result of heart failure fol- was lowing congestion, after an illness of a very few hours. The news cam as a great shock to his friends here, for when the Senator left Washington shortly after the adjournment of Con- gress he appeared to be in good health and locked forward with much satisfac- tion to-a quiet and restful summer. Senator McMillan was in his usual good health up to yesterday afternoon. For several years, however, he had suffered from a heart affection, principally a weak- ness brought on by overwork, and had guarded himself against it; but the ex- tra responsibilities in the Senate thrown upon him last winter, together with the shoek of losing a brother, son and grand- son within one year, are belleved to have aggravated his trouble. g’fhe Senator. was at the Essex Country Club yesterday afternoon, and while play- ing golf was obliged to pass over a small hill, which so affected his breathing that he was obliged to stop. Being overcome by slight faintness, he sent for a stimulant, which revived him, and the attack passed away. He went home with- out finishing the game, and at dinner time was very jovial and light hearted. He re- mained up quite late in the evening, talk- ing and Jjoking with his family, but at midnight suffered a severe illness, being pressed for breath and experiencing con- siderable pain. A physicilan was called, who administered the usual heart tonics, which had the desired effect, and the pa- tient rested comfortably until 3 o’clock, when another attack came on, more se- vere than the first. The physician applied the most powerful heart stimulants known to medical science, but the drugshad no ef- fect whatever, and the Senator contin- ued to sink until he lost consciousness, ten minutegbefore his death. For some years Senator McMilian has made his summer home at’' Man- chester-by-the-Sea, having erected a fine cottage there. \Wiile 1o I formation on that point has been re- ceived here, the expectation is that his body will be taken to Detroit, and de- posited in the family vault at Elmwood Cemetery. Theé body of his son, Captain John H. McMillan, who served in the Spanish war and who died several months ago, rests there. The Senator left a widow and three sons—W. C., Philip and Frank, all of Detroit—and a daughter. Mrs. McMillan and her daughter accom- panied the Senator to Manchester-by-the- Sea after the adjournment of Congress. Senator McMillan was a native of Onta- rio, having been born in Hamiiton on May 18, 1838, but in early life went to Michigan. For many vears he was prom- inently identified with the business and political life of that State, having been for a number of terms chairman of the Re- He had beei: a member of the United States Senate since March 4, 1889. He was chairman for the District of Columbia in that body and was a member of the committees on Ap- propriations, Commerce, Naval Affalrs, Relations With Cuba, Coast and Insular Survey and Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia. As chairman of the District of Columbia Committee Sen- ator McMillan was identified with District affairs and became very well known to the citizens of Washington, by whom he was - highly regarded. He took a lively interest in the wélfare of the District and was Qe of the foremost advocates of the improvement of the ci Senator McMillan's fam nent in social circles in W the Senator himself was a member of the Metropolitan and the evy Chase clubs. f the family desire it a Congressional committee from both houses of Congress will be appointed to accompany the body to its last resting place. The designa- tions will be made by Senator Frye, the President pro tem. of the Senate, who is now in Mainre, and by S ker Hender- son, who also is out of the city. rs promi- shington and e e e e e e e oo x ;. . [ 1W‘H‘PH“I‘P+'X‘H°?—X—H«HH++H“M. HOTEL GUESTS EIN A FIRE Sevsn Persons Perish Be- fore Assistance Can Reach Them. SAN ANGELO, Tex., Aug. 10.—A fire discovered in the Landon Hotel at 2 o’clock this morning destroyed the struc- ture, burning seven' persons to a crisp and doing a property damage of $75,000. | The dead: MRS, LANDON, wife of the proprietor of the hotel. ED HENDRICH of Waco, Tex. MRS. FOWLER of Houston and her grandson. MRS. SCHULIMPSKY of Houston and two sons. All of the bodies that have been recov- ered are fearfully charred and in no con- dition to be moved except in blankets. When the clerks discovered the fire the interior of the dining-room was a gulf of flames, which could not be got through. He rushed up the main stairway, kicking in doors and calling out at the top of his voice. Most of the sleepers were aroused by this means and by the d scharge of firearms by some of the guests as they were going out. There were seventy-five of them emerged safely except the seven named and three others, who have not been lo- cated but are believed to be safe. The' persons who perished got out on a small balcony and were appealed to jump into blankets which were being held for them, | but they delayed until the gallery fell back into the flames which were licking up the big frame house. In addition to the hotel three stables and a half-dozen stores were burned, only the greatest efforts preventing the whole of the business section of the town from being destroyed. SIZE AND MOTIONS OF MOLECULAR BODIES Infinitely Small Bodies Move With Wonderful Speed and Many Collisions. In an address on measurement and cal- culation Professor Woodward of Columbia University presents an illuminating view of the philosophy of the subject with ex- amples of special applications. The whole address (as printed in Science for June 20) should be read by those interested. A few paragraphs on a special topic are here presented. To begin with quantities near the lower limit of determination, think, for a moment, what is going on in the air around us. It is known that there are about a million million million molecules in a_ cubic millimeter of air. Notwith- standing this apparently crowded assem. blage, .the individual' molecules move about in the liveliest manner, their aver- age speed being about 300 meters per sec- ond. The average length of their unim- peded journey is barely visible in the best microscopes.” Each molecule collides with its neighbors about 5,000,000,000 times every The properties of the individual molecules are especially interesting in cases where they are made up of two or more atoms. Such miniature systems are probably comparable in complexity with the Martian and Jovian systems of our solar system and exhibit certain constant habits; for instance, their rates of vibra- tlon, as determined’ by the spectroscope, are invariable. The vibrations are ex- ecuted at the rate of some hundreds of mlllllomls of zlnflllons per second. Cadmium olecules, for example, vibr: 600,000,000,000 times per seeond.a'e et Recent investigations point to the con- clusion that there is another order of bodies of much smaller dimensions, pos- sessing more wonderful properties. These have been called corpuscles. Their density is only about one-thousandth part of that of hydrogen; they are freel; given off by several of the so-called radio-active sub- stances, and they move with speeds of the same order as that of light. ————— STOCKTON, Aug. 10.—Showers fell i Stockton and’ generally throughout San Joa- quin County to-day. Hay Is in stacks or baled. out of danger. but much wheat is still standing. Unless the rain should be heavy, however, little damage will result. Table .t'rll‘pel may be damaged should warm weather ollow. FILIPIND CHURCH 10 BE ORGANIZED Members of Katipunan Working on Igno-. rant Natives. - Special Dispatch to The Call, MANILA, Aug. 10.—A number of agi- tators belonging to Katipunan, a wide- spread secret organization, are using their influence among ignorant natives in the direction of organizing a Filipino church and renouncing the Roman Cath- olic religion as administered by the rep- resentatives of that church in the Philip- pines. It is proposed to make Father Gregorio Aglipay, the renegade excommu- nicated native priest, Archbishop. The Wwould-be founders of the new church have named Governor Taft, Agulnaldo and Senor Tavera as honorary presidents of their church council. It is proposed to_appoint thirteen Filipino Bishops. Threats are made to take the Catholic churches, including the Manila cathedral, it belng claimed that the people bullt those churches and therefore are the owners of them. The movement is gener- ally ridiculed, but it is possible that it may prove serious. Aguinaldo and T'avera are indignant at being named presidents of the council. They denounce the scheme @s a money making one and intended to have a political eftect upon the Congres- s|9n.’ll elections in the United States. The Civil Government 1s preparing to prosecute eighty-three members of Ka- tipunan who recently organized them- selves in the Rizal Province. They pro- fessed to be revolutionists, but it is prob- able their only object was to loot the ig- norant provincials. General Sumner, commanding the Amer- ican forces on the island of Mindanao, has sent a dispatch to General Chaffee, saying there are two Moro parties at Bacolod, Mindanao, one peaceful, and the other hostile. Captain John J. Pershing of the Fifteenth Cavalry, who is in command of the American forces at Lake Lanao, Min- danao, has expressed his doubt of the suc- cess of the efforts now being made by the Americans to placate the hostile Moros. The situation in Mindanao is not regarded as serious. Cholera continues to decrease in Zianila and in a majority of the provinces, and the prediction that the disease would be worse in the month of August has not been fulfilled. Forty-one American cruisers and gun- boats assembled and were dressed at Ca- vite yesterday and fired twenty-one guns at noon in honor of the coronation of King Edward. “JOSS PIDGIN”’ RITES FOR LATE LI HUNG CHANG By Imperial Command Temple is Being Erected for His Worship. The Governor of Shan-Tung, in obe- dience, doubtless, to the imperial com- mands, is now erecting a temple in Chi- nan to the memory and for the worship of Li Hung Chang. Were the imperial com- mands strictly ebeyed and worship every- where pald to each of the worthies whom the puissant maker of the gods appoints to divine honors the Chinaman would be as religious (or superstitious) as the an- clent Athenians. Fortunately for his tem- poral interests_however, the average man pays but little attention to these ‘new gods lately sprung up,” and restricts his devotions to a few, who for ages have had the reputation, at least, of making themselves useful. Even with regard to some of these, especially the god of war, it seems as if it were fully time to act | on the advice of Mencius, to remove the incompetents and appoint others in their place. One of the amusing things about this “joss pidgin” is the pertinacity with which the Chinaman contends for the function of divinity appointments as a prerogaive of the dragon throne.—North- China Herald. The superstition that London tailors and London men combine to produce the best dressed men in the world, says Town Topics, dies hard. —p | 1 i + < L MICHIGAN STATESMAN WHOSE LIFE HAS COME TO A SUDDEN END. : o EARTH CAAGHS AT L0 ALAMDS Temblors Happen Along Again and Rip Up the Soil. Special Dispatch to The Call, L.0S ALAMOS, Aug. 10.—The troubled earth continues to wobble around here with such alarming persistency that the fears of the townfolk and the farmers will not down. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon there was a very distinet rumbling and an earthquake, and at 2:40 o'clock to-da; a double detonation was followed by a considerable trembling. The direction was from northeast to southwest. On the ranch of B. Ferrini, about two and a half miles west of here, an acre of land on a hillside settled eight feet. The place was visited by many Yeople to-day, and there was much marvel over the fissures in the rocky ground. The land in that neighborhood shows many cracks, some of them eighteen inches wide. DANGER OF AN ERUPTION. One of the Masaya Volcanoes in Nic- aragua Is Emitting Vapors. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 10.—The Santiago, one of the Masaya volcanoes in Nicaragua, has been emitting vapors, ac- companied by groaning sounds, for the last twenty days, The commissioners and the goverrment of the department of Ma- seya, in which the volcano is located, re- port that in their opinion there is danger of an eruption occurring shortly. The town of San Fernando de Masaya is situated at the foot of the volcano of Masaya. It has a population of 22,000, nine-tenths of whom are matives. The volcano is about 3000 feet high. Mrs. Eliza Young. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Mrs. Eliza Young, the oldest actress on the American stage, died to-day at the Actress’ Fund Home on Staten Island, aged 92 years, She played with many of America’s prominent actors and actresses until her last appear- %M}: in 1889 with Mrs. Langtry in “Mac- eth.” —_——— Fiesta Week at Richmond. Commencing Monday, August 4, and during the Richmond carnival season the Santa Fe will have boat and train service as follows between San and Richmond: a. m., 1:05 p. m. 4:20 p. m., ILeave Richmond 7:00 a. m., a. 11:35 a. m., 1:35 p. m., 5:02 p. m., 6:45 p. daily; 10:30 p. m. Tuesday and Friday. Other days last train will leave Richmond 11 p. m. Round trip ticket, good for ten days, d5c. . ——— “The Highlander From Wapping. In the House of Commons Mr. W. Allan complained that we no longer saw sturdy Highlanders in the Highland regiments. The other day, the London Star relates, he met a soldler in kilts. Hr sald to him, ‘““Whaur are ye frae?" 'Sir?”” the m: replied. He again asked, “Whaur are v “‘Sir?” queried the mMan again. lan then said, ““Where are you from?’ “I'm from Wapping, sir,” said the soldier. This was the sort of man H!shlanQ regiments were composed of. m., m. FCH AMERIGAN URNS MADMAN Startles the Guests of the Hotel Cecil in London. Announces Successful Auto- mobile Trip From Heaven to Earth. —_— LONDON, Aug. 10.—D. S. Fannin of New York, a passenger on the North-German Lloyd steamer Friederich der Grosse, which reached Southampton yesterday from New York, July 31, arrived in Lon- don yesterday and was taken to St. Giles Infirmary this afternoon under the “‘wan- dering lunatic” act. Fannin is connected with the firm of Hass Brothers of New ¢, and his parents are spending the summer at Newport. Fannin startied the guests who crowd- ed the court yard of Hotel Cecil at noon to-day by driving into the court in an au- tomobile and deciaring he was the Savior and had just come from heaven on his machine. “He insisted on shaking hands with all the guests present until he was | finally taken to his room by the hotel people. | derich der ‘Grosse on the way over. i world. Upon Fannin's arrival in London i his friends had difficulty in persuading | him to leave the railroad station and go | to a hotel. This morning ne started in an automobile toward the railroad station, saying he was going to run down and kill all the pedestrians he met on the way. | He fell in with and picked up an English | Lancer corporal, with whom he drove to | Hotel Cecll. Fannin was known to have had a large he arrived in London. He threw his money about the streets and returned to the hotel penniiess. | UNCLE SAM’S STRENUOSITY MAXES WORLD WONDER Expenditures This Year Seventy Times Greater Than a Cen- tury Ago. : There can be no.doubt of the strenuosity | of your Uncle Samuel. s He is growing and expanding and | reaching out at a rate most astonishing. Incidentally, he is throwing his money about at a rate that would make his foretathers gasp “with amazement could they but return to earth long enough to witness some of his prodigalities. In the last year of the aaministration of President John Quincy Adams he spent $13,000,000. That was considered woefully extravagant at the time, and there was | much talk of appointing a political guard- | fan for the young spendth: ! This vear he will spend 3925908,262—and nobody has a word of complaint to offer, at that. In spite of his apparent extravagances | and of the enormous amount of outstand- | | ing indebtedness which he has canceled | | during the past year or so, he is unable ! to reduce his cash surplus to an amount | sufficiently small to remove the grounds | for insinuations that he is becoming plu- | tocratic. After taking up all the bonds of his Government which holders could be in- duced to surrender during the fiscal year 1901-1902, he still finds himself with a clear balance 6f $208,620,022 in his treasury, with | more coming in faster than he can find | means of getting rid of it. | Last year his receipts exceeded his ex- | penditures by just $92,193,360, even after he had abolished the greater part of his war | taxes. | Now he is going to build a $200,000,000 canal, and the Napoleons of finance are so anxious to lend him the money to do it with that they are offering it at 2 per cent. Small wonder that the impecunious gal- lants of the rest of the world are turning green with envy. - —_————— READY TACT OF A YOUNG FRENCHMAN Saves Friend From Trouble and Gets Vacation for an Actress. In French theaters the doctor of the theater has a seat given him for every performance. He must be there each evening. A well-known writer, M. B—, says that when he was a young man a friend, the doctor of a certain theater, gave him his seat. Just as he was becom- & manager rushed up; nervous attack and required medical ald, In the lady's dressing-room he found the manager, with anguish depicted on every feature, and the lady wringing her hands and shrieking: “Now, doctor, quick! What's to be .done 7" He took the lady’s hand in a wild at- tempt to feel her pulse. She - shrieked more than ever and writhed like a snake. ‘“Have you poured any water on her head?” he asked. b ‘None.' “Then give her a sniff of eau de co- e e “Haven't any,” was the answer. “Then go and fetch some.” Off rushed the manager and the stage manager together, and B— was left with the patient. Suddenly she opened her miled. “‘Doctor,” she said, “you are a good fel- low, aren’t you?” “Yes, ma'mselle.” “You must be, doctor. Now, listen. There is nothing the matter with me. You would have found that out scon. I want a couple of days’ holiday. Can't you manage i Delightful,” he replied, joyfully. “No ma’'mselle, you're a good sort, too. I'm not a doctor. I came in on the doctor's ticket, so you must not give him away.” By this time the manager and the stage manager came back, each with a bettle of eau de cologne. He told them the lady was quite composed, and could eppear again without danger. But she must have a few days’ rest. They made wry faces, but granted the holiday.—The London Quill eyes and ————a—— Turkish Baths of the Finns. A primitive sort of Turkish bath is in- dulged in by some of the Finlanders of of the country the thermometer averages 40 degrees below zero and water bathing is_not practicable. These Finlanders, unlike the Lapps fur- ther north, have an instinct for bodily cleanliness, and manage to preserve it af- ter the following fashion, Paul du Chaillu, who knows from personal experience, de- clares the method fine. Each hamlet has a bathhouse for common use. It is perhaps fifteen feet long by twelve wide. It boasts no windows and only when the door is opened can air, or light enter. In the mid- dle of the interior iS an ovenlike structure of bowlders piled one upon the other. Rows of seats constructed of the branches of trees run along the sides of the wall. There is no other furnishing. Bathing day comes once a week—Satur- day. Early in the morning of that day wood is brought'and a fire started. ‘When the stones become hot the fire is put out, the place cleaned, a large vessel of watér and some slender birch twigs brought in and the preparations deeclared complete. As no dressing-room is provided, toilets are unmade and made in the various homes. It is scarcely necessary to add that no time is lost in the progress from the home to the bathhouse. No clothes and a temperature of 40 degrees below zero are incentives to haste. ‘When all the boys and men are in the bathhouse and the door closed water is thrown upon the hot stones until the place is filled with steam. Perspiration pours from the sweltering bodies, yet more active exercise is demanded, amd switches come into play. Each bather lays on his neighbor with a will until “Enough!” is cll'ledil Again water is thrown upon the sto; more steam raised and another lwltcl?l;-g' indulged in. As may be imagined, the bodies are ed lobsters and the now as red as bol blood circulating actively. bAmron in the snow completes this novel | bath. ing interested in the first act the stage | the heroine had a| Northern Norway. In winter in this part | Fannin developed a mania on the Fr;f-i | | declared he owned all the vachts in the | TONN YIELTS NFTER THREE DAY STRIF Revolutionists in Ven- ezuela Capture Barcelona. Government General Puerto Bravo Is Among the Killed. Train Bearing Captain Nickels of the American Training Ship To- peka Is Held Up Near La Guayra. PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trinidad, Aug. 10.—News has reached here from Venezuela that after three days’ very se- vere fighting in the streets of Barcelona, in the State of Bermudez, the revolution- ists under the command of General Pena- loza captured the town from the Govern- ment forces. The Government lost sixty men and General Puerto Bravo. WILLEMSTAD, Aug. 10.—The Red D | line steamer Caracas, which has arrived here from La_Guayra, brings the news that Captain John Nickels of the United States training ship Tepeka, now at La Guayra, had been held up revolution- | ists when returning by train from Cara- sum of moneéy in his pocket-book when ; whither he had gone to confer with i The men United States Minister Bowen. | who stopped the train which carried Cap- | sational reports tain Nickels showed him great courtesy and the train_was permitted to proceed immediately. Trains runzing between La Gua and Caracas have been held up several times lately by revolutionists. The position of President Castro at Cua, twenty-five miles from Caracas, is sgill difficult. His forces cannot advance De- | cause of the heavy rains and the conse- quent difficulties in the transporting of artillery. The revolutionists have found it very difficult to march over the coun- try, and their proposed operations wiil take longer than was expected. K NORWALK, Ohfo, Aug. 10.—Fred Wil- son, brother of Dr. Wilson, whose report- ed capture and subsequent sentence to death has been the subject of corre- spondence between the United States and | the Nicaraguan Governments, arrived ! here to-day en route to his home near Milan. Wilsen says that when he left Bo- cas del Toro, two weeks ago, his brother was well and that up to that time no word had been received regarding the sen- sent to this country. Neither Wilson nor his brother had been in Bluefields for a month, and he is at a loss to understand how the report started. Hopetoun Arrives at Vigtoria. VICTORIA_B. C., Aug. #.—The Mio- wera reached port to-day three days late from Australia, having broken down as a result of trouble with her _condensers after leaving Suva. Among her passen- gers was Lord Hopetoun, Governor Gen- eral of Australia, who resigned his post, in which he was succeeded by Leord Ten- nyson, because he could not carry on the establishments required by Augtralians on the $50,000 a year paid him. He was given a generous farewell, salutes being fired and the Miowera escorted to sea by war- ships. S P b Gambles With Bank’s Coin. DENVER, Aug. 10.—Leonard M. Dingle, former teller of the First National Bank it A was arrested in this city to- Say, charged with embezzling $40,000 from the bank. It is said that his peculations have been going on for some time and that he lost the money in gambling. It is also said that gamblers of Aspen have | returned about $15,000 to the bank. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 05 PHILADELPHIA, IN THE STATE OF Pennsylvania, on the Slst day of Decem- ber, A. D. 1901, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commis- sioner of the State of California, pursuant to provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank fur- nished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, pald up in Cash ... - $400,000 00 ASSETS, Real Estate owned by Company.. $209,500 00 on Bonds and Mortgages.. 738,633 33 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company.. 3,908,826 00 Amount of Loans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stocks and other marketable securities as collateral . a 107,700 00 Cash in Company's Office. 212 45 Cash in Banks .. 129,926 50 Interest due and Stocks and Loans . 797 61 Interest due and acerus and Mortgages 6,018 01 Premiums in due tion 338,149 34 440,663 54 Losses adjusted and unpaild...... $13,100 69 Losses in process of Adjustment or Losses resisted, including expenses 8,391 02 Gross premiums on Fire Risks, running one year or less, $1,774,- 207 18; reinsurance 50 per ceni 887,108 59 Gross premiums on Fire Risks, runni; ‘more than 31,871, ; cles Total Liabilities . INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire premiums . $2,156,913 42 Received for Mortgages 374 03 Recotved Tor interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and from all other sources . 177,389 03 Recaived for rents ... 4,435 94 Total INCOME «.eecereeennenens $2.370,162 42 EXPENDITURES. B Net amount paid for Fire Losses | (mcluaing &——. losses of o vious +$1,449,023 81 Dividends to Stockholders . 00000 80 Paid or allowed for Commission or Brokerage ... ivceseeen.. 503,016 93 Pald for Salaries, Fees and cl for officers, clerks, etc. 94,916 00 Paid for State, 71,693 24 tuzes .. . 109,555 50 Total Expenditures .i.........32,328,205 43 Fire. Losses incurred during the year...$1,477.433 33 Risks and Premfums.|Fire Risks.| Premiums. Net_amount of Risks yea $269,343.016 $3,010,797 41 Net amount of Risks! ' expired during the| Year ...............| 247,716,450| 2,568,112 45 Nat amount in_force| December 31, 1901..| 359,232,678| 3,645,235 63 R. DALE BENSON. Prest. W. GARDNER CROWELL., See. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 21st day of January, 1902. S. J. HUNT, THO! A Commissioner for California in Philadelphia. T. EDWARD POPE, Manager. R. W. OSBORN, Assistant Manager. 508-510 California Street. LEO POCKWITZ, City Agent, ’ 317 California Street. B