The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1902, Page 1

v | VOLUME XCII-NO, 15, HE the cable ship at | | | 5 PRICE FIVE CENTS. p— SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1902. SHORE END O IS SUCC. great Trans-Pacific Cable planned by the late John W. Mackay will soon ‘ ¢ landed yesterday, after a narrow escape from disaster, and the Silvertown is how on her way to Honolulu. A message was received from 8:55 o’clock last night saying that a good start had been made and that all was well on board. | ABLE SSFULLY LAID — | SHIPS QUICKLY REDUCE PUERTO CABELLO FORTS Venezuelan Shore Batteries Return the Fire of the Allies” Bombarding Cruisers. Bpecial Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1902, by the Herald Publishing Company. I A GUAIRA, Venezuela, Dec. 14—War has actually be- gun in Venezuela, and Venezuelan blood has been shed by the guns of the warships of Germany and Great Brit- ain. For three-quarters of an hour last evening the Ger- man cruiser Vineta and the British.cruiser Charybdis united in bombarding Fort Solano and Castle Libertador, the chief harbor defenses of Puerto Cabello. yy S R After reducing the forts te ruins, dismamling the shore bat- teries, wounding two Venezuelan soldiers and making prisoner of the commanding officer, the allies took possession of the cas- tle, and then, leaving the dismantled fortifications, put back to La Guajra. The Venezuelan garrison feeble resistance to the superior power of the cruis its old-fashioned guns being soon silenced. : This summary action taken by the commanders of the British and German warships had its provocation in the seizure and pillaging last Wednesday of a British tramp steamer Iyving in the harbor of Puerto Cabello by a Venezuelan rabble, which subjected her captain and crew to arrest and other Jities The steamship Topaze, which sailed from Cardiff, Wales, h a cargo of coal on November 4, under command of Cap- the warships made only a ers’ big guns, indig- Continued on Page 3, Columns 1 and 2. 'fifv@;gfgz.. /////// // L AREIVCE 77 I Jl!zm'd? LUCIILE P ——b: an accomplished fact. The shore end was successfully LB = Ao , 2 oA s ) STy Mot A8 S0 Al 1y % ,—_————— - - —_— . % NOTABLE INCIDENTS DUR’NG LANDING AND CHRISTENING OF PACIFIC OABLE.; og— s D e BRI - First Step in Union of Hemispheres Is Taken. HE final belting of the world | has begun and' the long- cherished dream of the late John W. Mackay will soon be realized. Then distance will be measured only by seconds instead of miles and the scat® tered nations of earth drawn together in | | neighborly intercourse by -the endless thread of talking metal that robs even Continued on Page 2, Column 7, MACKAY CABLES THE PRESIDENT AN FRANCISCO," Dec. - 14. — HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT - OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, D. C.: I have the honor to inform You that the end of the-Honolulu cable was successfully brought on shore this morhing, Goverior Gage being present. : C. H. MACKAY, « President of ‘the Pacific Commercial Cable Company. & Governor’s Daughter Christens the Great Wire. “T O - the ' memory of' Mr. John - W.' Mackay, ‘I christen thee Pacific Ca- ble: Good luck to thee. messages of happiness.” Thus spoke pretty little Lucillz Gage yes- | terday -morning as she christened 'the tyans-Pacific csfje Sfter he, abidre, and ||, ival of thn train at’s o'eloei had been successfully landed. The spec- tacle, from the moment the sinuous Hne May you always carry © 7% 7z AEMORY NS Y AR Tonr W M ACKRY, T CopesrZlP THEE FRCIFIE . | AL MOB FURY SENDS HIM TO DEATH Benicia Citizen Killed During a Tumult on Streets. Special Dispateh to The Call. BENICIA, Dec. 4.—Jacob Jensen, an employe of the Benicia Agricultural Works and a resldentv_ for twenty-five years in this town, was shot and killed this afternoon during a disturbance caused by a large number of Greeks em- ployed in the Kullman, Salz & Co. tan- nery. Many shots were fired in a riotous dem- onstration on the streets, and the rela~ tions between the Greeks and the uniom men involved in a strike, from which the trouble originated, have become more se- riously strained. The people of Benicia vigorously denounce the conduct of those who participated in the disturbance, and indignation fs increasing with every hour. The trouble is by no means over. At about 11 o'clock to-night three shots were fired In the part of town where the Greeks live. It is not yet known if any person was killed or wounded. ATTACK BY GREEKXS, The trouble had been looked for for some time: Recently 125 Greeks were im- portéd here to take the places of the un- ion men on strike. Some of these Greeks congregated in a saloon near the South- ern Pacific depot this afternoon. A largs crowd of citizens, men, women and chil- dren, had gathered at the depot awaiting On leaving the depot a number of boys no- ticed three of the Greeks standing near Continued on Page 2, Column 3.’ Continued on Page 2, Column & i