The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1903, Page 2

FRANCISCO CALL 9, UARY 14, 1903 PITALIST DIE3 PNEUMONIA After Weeks of Illness Henry Pierce Yields to Disease. Leaves Behind Him Great Record for Financial Ability. 35 SRR e, Jover of horses and cap rday morning at his resi- treet, of pneumonia. De- . gl unable to battle 1 Pierce, on the astern fepresentative, he aca ol o sed_in. existence until z waen the firm was changed to the k w ) 1 H. & W. Pjerce 1l in this venture eat bi the w survivor e firm ir for the s was a pioneer manufacture ws the Pacifi SPREADING RAILS CAUSE WRECK OF ST. PAUL TRAIN Eaginesr Is Xillod anll' Bour OWEIS ) . of the Crew Are Severely yaggage, mal four in all r sides and ghe Pullman r bruises The ANK HORN, Beards- G. L. Mitchell ail Clerk E leg crushed; k Isl- Pollard m Pollard, F or A. H. bruised. - BOY IN ORPHAN HOME COMES IN FOR WEALTH Late Mrs, Charles Fair Said to Have Made Special Provision for the Lad. ANGE, N. J., Jan. 1 —James Web- to have and for brothers the sisters will receive his . * s said, as she was a P r The boy’s father, ge Le 1 inmate of the Or- in the home by his who lives at Ne She supplies him with p nd pays his board. The boy . kept in the home until he is 12 r which he will be sent to —_———— GREAT BRITAIN BRINGS THE SULTAN TO TERMS Imperial Irade Permits Passage of Khedivial Steamships Through Dardanelles. STANTINOPLE Jan The I has obtained the anting the any of Alex- privileges for its sugh the vears with no ¥ ordered the Khe- to pass threugh €. This was i | Street. were | BURGLARS TAKE DRUGKISTS COIN Robbing of Pharmacies Is Made Specialty by Thieves. Hohlweg's Dispensary Latest to Be Entered, $180 Being Taken. SRR } Burglars who for some time have op- erated on Polk street committed a daring theft in Fred Hohlweg's drug store, on heast corner of Polk and Jackson | | the no | strects, Monday night shortly after 10 | o'clock. The Central Police Station was | immediately notified and the deteciives have since «pprehend been watching the locality to the thieves. Hohlweg left his place of business and | locked the door about 10 o'clock. He vis- ited a restaurant in the neighborhood and irned very soon. When he entered the he observed that a chair, piled with 1 been placed near it and, be- picious, he made an examina- oks. coming n. As a result the druggist found that | two money drawers had been broken pen and about $189 in 1 stolen een effected through »m over the front door and a Jimmy had been used in opening the tills. Within the last month several crimes f a similar character have been report- to the police from #this locality. Val midvs drug store gn lhe- opposite °r was robbed in the me manner a drug store near Bush and Polk household effects stolen. The police be- liev t thefts were mmitted by a gang thful burglars, nging in age from 1 ) vears. expected that somé of them will be landed Aehind the bars before many days have pas A LIES ACROSS TRACK AND IS CRUSHED BY A CAR Unidentified Negro Meets With a Serious Accident on East nknown colored m: by an eleetric car, of which T.J Curtis was motorman, last evening fatally injured an was probably drunk/and un- elp himself. Curtis ¢ him on the track car. The wheels the victim's legs 1 time and fend and frac to d man seems to be about Mullen Finally Convicted. s P. Mullen, charged with forging ering money orders, after two pre- vious trials in which the jurors failed to agree, was convicted yester in the States rict Court. Judge de and will pass sentence Thursday. Mul- en, being found guilty on two sparate rges, probably will have to serve at least eight years. Mullen a member f th Marine Engineers’ Association and it was for forging the name of J. J. rey, treasurer of the organization, t Mullen was forced to answer. zold and sfiver veral hundred dollars two weeks | Akl the tim: »f the latter theft ir resid s on F street, near S amento, were entered and vaiuab WADE TO BE SUPREME COMMANDER TROOP REPEL ASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Briga- W dier General Wood has applied for service in the Philippines, and his request has been! | granted. It is expected he will be assigned to Mindanao. He will be- ceme a major general in August, and it is quite likely that he will soon thereafter be assigned to command a division in | the Philippines. General Wood will sail | { for the Philippines in April. A number of important changes in the army will take place in the Philippines, | the chief of which will be the assignment | | | of General Wade, now commanding a de- | | partment in the Philippines, to the su-| preme command in the islands, to suc- ceed Major General Davis, who will retire for age on July 2. General Wade, who is now a brigadier general, will be made a | major general on the retirement of Major | General Hughes on April il | Generals Davis, Sumner and Baldwin | | will be relieved from duty in the Philip- | pines during the summer, and General | Wood, either General Carter or General | | Bliss of the war college board, or both, and Colonel Francts Moore of the Elev- enth Cavalry will be assigned to the com- mand of departments there. Colonel Moore, who is now in that country, will | be made a brigadier general. The purpose of the War Department is to have a major general and six brigadier | generals on duty in the Philippines for some time to come. Other changes will | be made in the relief of officers who have | served there a long time. - TAFT TO REMAIN GOVERNOR. Relinquishes the Honor of a Supreme Court Justiceship. | 1 = ASHIN: )N, Jan. 13.—After mature consideration it has been decided by the President that Judge Taft shall remain | in Philippines as civil Governor F r several weeks it has been regarded | as seitled that Governor Taft would r\'v} turn to t country, perhaps in a few | menths, to become a Justice of the Su- | preme Court of the United States. Pres-| | | idey Roosevelt jindicated to Governor | Taft in a letter dispatched to the Philip- | pines more t month ago that he | could ¥ sointment 'to the Su-| | rem It was the purpose to name General civil Governor of the Philip- it was learned in the ernor Taft was likely s cabled protests to the President esident th the position of Governor and that any change at this time would be disastrous to leave the OF AMERICAN ARMY IN PHILIPPINES Successfully Defend the Venezuelan Town ! of Cumana: Capture Two Hundred Insur- gents and Quantity of | Ammunition. | | | | cArAcas, Jan. 13.—About 1190 res | | tionists under General Manuel Morale: | | attacked Cumana, in the State of B mudes, on the 4th, 5th-and 6th of t month. Cumana s defended Government troops. On January 6, aft a hard fight, which lasted for severa hours, and which was witnessed by the ] British eruiser Tribune, the revelution- | | ists abandoned the field, leaving 300 ! | Mauser rifles and 29,000 cartridges behind them and 200.0f their number prisoners in the hands of the Government forces. The statement has been obtajned from rebel prisoners that if Cumana had been taken the revolutionary lea ld have al- lowed his soldfers to sack the town for etght hours. The revolutionists have been very ac- tive for the past week, knowing, as they | | do, that if “the blockade is raised their | cause will become muck more diffifult. —_——— TRIES TO RUN BLOCKADE. Two Blank Shots Cause Russian | Vessel to Heave To. LA GUAIRA, Jan. 13.-The Russian bark Feodor, from Cardiff with a cargo aira-Caracas d, ar rived off this port during the morning and 1 | i | | for the La @ Rai \ The bark, how- was notified to heave to. ever. continued heading for the port un- til the British cruis®r Tribune arrived, fired two blank shots and signaled to th British dispatch boat Cclumbine to ap- proach. e Feodor then anchored out- side the port and her ceptain was al- lowed to land and communicate with the consignees of the vessel's cargo. The Feodor will be permitted to remain here only five d i DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT | MAKES FORMAL ANSWER Informs Minister Powell That It | . Cannot Accept the Propositions Submitted by Him. SAN DOMINGO, Republic of Santo Do- ment to-day informed United States Min- ister Powell that it could not dccept any »pment of the islands fully five is known, as one high official ex- “to be thoroughly wrapped up | | in his work in the Philippines.” His am- | | FORMER LEADER OF ROUGH RIDERS, . WHO WILL IN MINDANAO, AND VETERAN WHO WILL DER-IN-CHIEF IN THE PHILIPPINES. BEE SERVICE BECOME COMMAN- of the propositions submitted by him look- ing to a settlement of the several ques- tions now pending between the two gov- ernments. The recent decree of the Do- minican Government changing the former bition has been to round out his career of the United States 3 ourt, but he has be- imbued so entirely with the spirit of the great work to be accomplish- G in the Philippines, and is so perfectly in sympathy with the ideas of the best | classes of -the inhabitants, that he hesi- | tates to relinquish his post at this time, even to accept the distinguished honor the President offered to confer upon him | To-day, in response to the Preside: |letter offering him the Supreme Justice-’ | ship. & cablegram was recelved from Gov- ernor Tatt suggesting, with a sincere ap- | preciation of the tender made to him by | the President, that it might be better | for him, in view of all the circumstances, | to remain where he was was announced, unofficially, authoritatively, that Governor Taft would | remain indefinitely as civil Governor ot the Philippines. Pomona’s Officers Testify. K. Bulger, steam vessels, relative to After this it | place on the bay January 9. but entirely | J Shea, J. C. Robinson, chief engineer, Moller, crew, United States Inspector of the collision occurring between the cruiser Marblehead and the steamship Pomona, which took Captain J. Eagle, chief officer; R. G. | and Leopold | third officer, all of the Pomona's testified that the Marblehead was not blowing her whistle and in the heavy fog she was not discovered until the Po- Testimony was heard yvesterday by John | mona was tog, close to veer her course. | | | port dues is considered in some quarter ] here to be an indirect duty on the portation of sugar, amounting to ton. Forelgn shipping is derlving be decree. Norwegian steamers at present are employed in carrying sugar to the prejudice of American shipping interests, et Bark Founders and Crew Perishes. MADRID, Jan. 13.—The bark Santa Po- logna has foundered off the coast of Co- runna province. Her .crew. pefished. REBEL ATTACK mingo, Jan. 13.—The Dominican Govern- | from the conditions brought about by the | ADVERTISEMENTS. Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic that he feels as if his joints were being dislocated? Y He knows that his sufferings are very much like the tortures of the rack. E What he wants to know is what will | » Sand ermanently cure his disease. | PoThat. according to thousands of grate- | ful testimontals, is ‘ Hood’s Sarsaparilla | 1t promptly neutralizes the acid in the blood on which the disease depends, com- | pletely eltminates it, and strengthens the rstem against its return. Try Hood's. R EXPENSES T0 BF DIDED Transvaal Agrees to Pay $150,000,000 to Britain. IURG, Jan. rberlain and t of munity have an the matter ancial Under this agreement the war contribution will a $150,000,000. guarantee will be g an of $150,000,000, whi in public work the Orange River ( imperial I for a is to le Transvaal and ony. An unde was also reached regardi It is believ. ed the will LONDON, Jan. 14.—Detalls of the agree- reached Colonial Secrets and leaders of the ity of Johannesburg are lack it is understood that the agree- t the Transvaal m ! guarantee the interes If of which is to be blic werks, while the other 2 war contribution to the Im- nment. It is estiated that this will amount to $50 per head yearly on the white population of the Transvaal, ndon papers this morning wel- 6 arrangement as an equitable | compromise and as likely to have a bene- ficlal effect upon the Rand industry by removing the uncertainty as to the Trans- | vaal contribu ing ing but $300,000,000, voted to half will be perial Gov on. Cardinal Nine Out for Practice. | STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 18.— Yesterda afternoon the candidates for | the varsity baseball team came out on the diamond for the first regular pra of the season. 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