The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1903, Page 3

-~ xiru ; fAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1903. 21, CLEVEN MEN MEET DEATH I FLAMES St Terrible Disaster in a Fire-Trap Hotel at Cedar Rapids. e Guests Obliged to Plunge From Windows to Escape | Fire. In Addition to Those Who Perished Over Forty Are Seriously In- jured by Falls and Burns. - . gates bee - P The properts A. MOWERY, What Cheer, Towa. TED MEN, bodies re- covere NS Angeles s in Gebris | G. Young, foreman of 1 Company nd and Pacif WS et below the IT WAS JUMP OR BURN. 2% with w that erally driven to street brutsed tained f more with beir thiefi compara R. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. "HANDICAPPED. The man who started to run a race in chains and fetters wouid be visibly hand- fcapped. No ome would expect him to D organs are diseased is cqually handicapped. In the one case his gth other ned demands above all else a sound stomach. Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical cures food digested ‘and as- ted and the body receives strength in the only way in which strength can be given—b3# tion derived from digested and as- ted food. ise T woul perie nutr! il ke to give your * Golden Nedical Discovers ' 1 cangot utter in words or N She with pen.” writes James B. Ambrose, Es%q., O 4 Mifflin Streei. Huntingdon, Pa 37%ua% taken with whai our physicians here i m. 1 doctored with the best md vou scnt me a question blank to fili out, G o, and you then advised me 1o use pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1 took . es and 1 felt so good that I stopped, red. 1 have mo sy Tndigestion now ent no substitute for “Golden Med- » ‘There is nothing " just Ace 1 Discove o Pierce’s Common Sense Medical wer, semt frec on receipt of stamp: cover expense Of mailing only enty -one one-cent stamps for }he o0k aper covers, or 31 stamps lor book in paper conL O 3 s v X. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. A€ - f the ! The man who runs the race of | I wrote to | symptoms of gastric | 'SONOrA’S CITRUS FAIR | IS A DECIDED SUCCESS iVisitors From All Parts of the State Enjoy the Big Display in the Pavilion. * | 3 S = — | | TWO LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE EXHIBITS IN THE CITRUS FAIR | OW BEING HELD IN CLOVERDALE BY NORTHERN SONOMA AND | | WHICH CALL FORTH MANY WORDS OF PRAISE { | — —- ——— — LOVERDALE, Feb. %.—The cit-te the varied resources of Sonoma Coun- rus falr was well attended this|ty. The citrus fruit display is one of the afternoon and evening and the | D€St over given in this State and the jel- management is highly elated. The | 11€5: Wines and olive oil on exhibi(ion 5 P y bring forth their share of praise. committee having the arrange-| yake and Mendocino counties will cele- ments in charge worked hard and ear- | brate at the falr'to-morrow and it is ex- nestly and now that success has crowned | pected that in addition there will be many thelr efforts they feel amply repatd visitors from ancisco. Speclal rates the time and labor spe Director ( & been offered by the railroads and ) Wilson b iyety Gt Aol Bery incoming train is bringing sight- seers. Ample ngements have b th the iibition will eclipse | made r the accommodation of visitor past years 1 the committee will see that nothing 1 town glected that will add to the pleasure EXPLORER TRIES TO ENTER MYSTIC LAND OF SHADOWS Deeds Property to Medium Believing She Is Mother's Ghost and Wants It Back. Feb. 21.—H. 8. S the explorer, is plaintiff nary case in Chancery he_charges Major Strutt Mrs. Strutt w influencing him through spiritual \\:n'lvu execute a deed by which his prop erty goes Mrs. Strutt and her chil dren exclusion. of the plaintift's LONDON, Cavendish in an extraordi- to the own w Mr. Cav set asic Mrs ndish has appe: d to the court he deed, which he contends utt obtained by preten be his mother, be speaking from he to so dispose of his prop who, represented i advised him PRII) O fosgengort legraph wires which interposed in their ownward flight. A fAumber of the guests to converse calmly f that they bodies as The flames m and the smoke most impossible to breathe. The proprietor of the hotel placed his estfmate of the numfer of people in the building at between seventy and eighty. Many of them were delegates to the State convention of the oung Men's Christian S80C fon which began here yesterday. TRANSFIXED BY TRAGEDY. Those who were first to escape, where they were not too severely injured, stood | for some time barefooted in the smow, | rendered unconscious of the cold by the | horror of the scene. Many of them had to be led away. | Among those injured are: | Mine Burns, head waltress,. jumped from third story; L. C. Burnett, Nebraska | City, Neb., badly burned; Sinda Williams, waitress, face badly burned, leg injured; Lazzie elly, waitress; F. C. Outing, Ce- dar Point, left arm sprained; Emma | Smith, waltress; N. W. Bremer, Lyons, lowa; F. R. Moore, Chicago; Beatrice Netolicky, Shueyville, Towa; J. U. Winni- ger, Waterloo, face burned and right wrist sprained: J. Anderson, Chicago, back sprained; A. 8. Farrow, Boone, { Jowa; F. G. Gardiner, Woodburn; D. F. Taylor, Davenport, head injured, elbow fractured, hip injured and body burned; | Louis Thompson, Ced Raplds, badly burned; A. M. Larsen, Oelwin, foot bruised and lungs burned; C. G. Roberts, Cedar Rapids; L. cut and right side burned; May Reel, | waitress, badly burned; M. P. Hooper, Tasna, lo P. J. Dailey, Cagton, 1ll.; J. A. Eylar, Davenport, slightly hurt; C. L. Benedict, body burned; D. P. | Hawes, Decorah, lowa:; O. Redmon, mail clerk, Tama, Iow: Templeton, Monticello, Jowa; George Taggart, St. Paul, hands and face burned; Jim Lewis, colored porter, slight; John Lewis, Ot- tumwa. bruised, not seriously; J. M. Dun- bar, Monticello; Dr. 8. C. Grove, Cedar Rapids, terribly burned while hanging to fire escape, probably fatal; P. E. Strick- land, Clinten, Iowa, jumped from the third story window, leg broken and In- | jured inte: lly, probably fatall: Celia Willlams, waitress, badly injured; C. F. Hambury, Leroy, Minn., limbs badly burned: R. C. McConnahy, Aurora, I, | hands and face burned; O. J. Lamb, Cen- ter Point. lowa, seriously burned; F. G. eser, Walker, lowa, face and hands burned; C. A. Roseman. Independence, lIowa, legs and arms sprained by jump- | ing from top floor, struck wires and land- | ed in a snowbank; F. A. Chasc, hands | injured. prost ate E w Court, in which O. Vernon, Delta, Iowa, | | and comfort of County’s gu. JEST OF A YOUNG GIRL RESULTS IN A TRAGEDY }Aruuses Jealousy of Lover, Who | Kills Her, Wounds Her Brother i | and Then Shoots Himself. | NEW DECATUR, Ala { comes from the . Feb. 20.—Report mountain district Winston County of a terrible tragedy, as the result of which Maggie Scharf, aged ars, is d her brother, John | Scharf, is riously and her lover, Wil- | liam Jones, fatally wounded. The broth- ;nr has been living at Shelbyville, Ind. i He ro ay without the knowl- “How do you like my new sweet- It § lleged Jones immediately hot the young woman through the heart, and then he fired at her brother, the ball ng his breast. The brother made |oF INTEREST To PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Postmasters Appointed, Pensions Granted to Veterans and Army | and Navy Orders Issued. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—FPostotfice discon- tinued, February 28: Oregon—Tremont, Mult- nomah County, superseded by rural delivery, mail to Lents Postmasters commissioned : California—D. D. Deaver, Ethanac; Danlel McSweeney, San Bruno. ~Washington—Hiram G. Billi, Moni- tor; Willlam Prass, Licking. 5 Fourth-olass postmasters appointed: Call- fornja—E. G. Bird, Bi Landin, County, vice J. P. Slebd, resigned Thoms, Plymouth, Amador Count; Scoble, removed; B, B. Hinman, Sheridan, Placer County. 'vice Leroy B. Hinman, re. signed; Leila F. Day, Sherman, Los Angeles County, vice Leander D. Quint, resigned. Oregon—Bruce ~ Hamar, Nashville, ~Lincoln County, vice Matilda J. Hamar, removed Rural free delivery will be established March 2 at Healdsburg, Sonoma County, and April 1 at Colfax, Placer County, Cal. Pensions granted: California—Increase, re- issue, etc.—Henry 8. Bozz_Pomona, $8; John Dysart, Veterans' Home, Napa, $12; George W, Devis, Bakersfleld, $6; Walter F. Hargis, San Jose, $12 (Mexican war). Widows minors and dependent relatives—lda E. Kenworth: Winters, $8. Oregon—Increase, relssue, etc James S_ Rathbun, Mount Labor, $12. ington—ingrease, reissue, eotc Swiggart, Spokane, $8; M. Cole, Olympia, $10; Henry McChesney, Tacoma, $8. Robert Miller, Artondale, $30, Widows, minors d_dependent relatives—Abble C. Brenner. Whatcom, $12. Army orders—Captain Alexander M. Davis, commissary, from Philippines to San Fra clsco, for further orders, Navy orders—Lieutenant A. E. Kalbach to Independence and to Bennington. when com. missioned; Midshipmen J. 8. Abboit, W. T. Neumann, J. S. Arwine and M. 8. Davis to crulser New York; Midshipmen L. H. Lacy and Leahm to the Bennington; Acting Assist. ant Surgeon V. Dabney to the Pensacola, Na- val Training Station, San Francisco; Medical Inspector D. Bertolate, _detached from crulser New York as fleet surgeon Pacific sta- tion to home and wait orders; Surgeon D, 0. Lewis, detached from the Pensacola to crulser New York as fleet surgeon Pacific station. iz Snow Blockade Is Cleared. OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 20.—Transcontl- nental trains between Omaha and the ule time after one of the worst battles with blockades ever experienced. The Wyoming division of the Union Pacific road suffered special inconvenience from the blockades, which it has required con- siderable effort to clear away. Other roads have also felt the effect of the storm. of | edge . whom he had never met. He w versation with his sister, 11t is claimed, when Jones pproached | them. The sister tauntingly asked her tionship to the young lady know of fright, and it is said Jones turned his revolver against his own | | brea and fired, the bullet taking effect | near the heart. Pl G | both occupy BATTLE ENDS IN DEFEAT OF INSURGENTS Heavy Losses in an En- gagement in Ven- ezuela. —— Castro’s Army Routs One Di- vision of the Enemy’s Force. Prevents a Juncture of Three Strong Columns That Are Advancing Upon the City of Caracas. P ED Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1908, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. CARACAS, Feb, The first division of the revolutjonary army, commanded by Generals Salognie and atilla, has been defeated by Government troops at Urachiche. There were many killed and wounded and the Government troops cap- tured onme gun, many rifles and much ammunition. A revolutionary army, estimated at 2800 men, has reached a point about twenty miles south of Caracas. The rev- olutionists and the Government troops strong po: volution organized by The r General | Matos during the course of the blockade | by the allles was reorganized and three armies formed. One, under the command of Antonio Fernandez, numbering 1800 men, was routed near Calahozo, in the province of Miranda. several days : { and its chief is now fleeing in the dir | tion of the river Apure. The second rmy, led by Matilla and Solagnie, 1200 rong, was the one defeated near Urachiche. The third army, comm: by Generals Rolando P and which was expecting to mee t the first two armies, arrived steraay at a point about ten miles from which is about ten miles southe Caracas, | after having lost 500 men from desertion en route. The strength of this third rmy is est ated at 2800 men. It has taken up a strong position and the troops sent against it by the Government are also strongly placed. The revolutionary army is not believed to be strong enough to attack and if a few days are allowed to elapse without the rebels taking the offensive President Castro, it is r that they will be The morning ps directed to V. garded as certain defeated. pers publish the a prolest United States and tl n nations, as follows: 1 “m the public may know how Germany, Great Britain and Italy execute their agreements, we call atten- tlon to the grave fact that up to date, v 20, the ships taken by the three have not been delivered to the | Government of Venezuela, as stipu'ated in the protocals The German commodore has notified the authorities at Puertc Cabello that the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador, which captured by the Germans, will be re- turned to Venezuela on Monday, Febru- ary 23, at 3 p. m., “and not before. i A KAISER i’B.AISES SCHEDER. Satisfied With the Commordore’s At- tack on Venezuelan gforts. KIEL, Feb. On the r: ng of the blockade of the Venezuelan coast by the allicd powers Emperor William cabled to Commodore Scheder, the German com- mander, as follows: | | Pacific Coast are again running on sched- |. It 1s with satisfaction that I have gained the conviction from your reports that you, to- ther with the commanders and crews of my ships in Venezuelan waters during the block. wde, did your duty and accomplished your task in every ‘particular and under difficult condi- 8. It fs with gratification that 1 take the opportunity, now that the blockade is ralsed, 1o express to you and the officers and men our command my ‘fullest ‘satisfaction with services you have rendered. I direct you » make this known o it T D N — Clifton Wins Election Contest. WILLOWS, Feb. 20.—The Long-Clifton election contest was this afternoon decid- ed by Judge Pierky in favor of Clifton. At the last election R. L. Clifton, Repub- lican, was elected District Attorney over R. A. Long, Democrat, by a majority of scven votes. Long brought a contest, claiming that enough ‘“no nomination” ballots had been cast for Clifton to give Long the office. The recount gives CHf- tor a majority of twenty-one votes, B Society Man Sent to Prison. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—George H. Pell, who some years ago was well known in treet circles and in fashionable so- , was sentenced to-day to three and alf years in the State Prison for grand ce! to which he pleaded guilty some Pell in 1890 sentenced to seven years on charges arising out of the failure of the Sixth National Bank, and was pardoned after serving two years. His wife and relatives are wealthy. JUBILEE RECEPTION DAY, ——.- - Continued From Page 1, Column 3. = Catholic universe. After bestowing the apostolic blessing the Pope returned to his apartments amid the enthusiastic plaudits of the multitude. He completed the functions of the jubllee without fa- tigue. On returning to his apartments he exclaimed: “This {s really the happlest day of my life.” In St. Peter's this afternoon Cardinal Rampolla celebrated a solemn mass and Te Deum at an altar erected next to the papal altar. He was surrounded by twenty-four Bishops. A special feature of the ceremony was a procession through the immense basilica, in which 300 Ca- tholic assocfations took part, carrylng hundreds of lighted torches, with mag- nificent effect. The congregation numbered 30,000 and included the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Count- ess of Tranl and Prince Hohenlohe-Wal- denburg. Prior to his public reception to-day the Pope recelved in audience Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Day and Mrs. James Butler of New York, who were presented by Rev. Dr. Thomas Kennedy, rector of the American College. 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FOR SALE BY ALL LZ'ADIL "G DRUGGISTS. Laxative Many Millions The Well-Informed Throughout the World— IG \?‘fvp an Francisco, Cal. New York, N. Y. PRICE FIFTY CENTS PER POTTLR PETITION HOUSE |BRAVES ATINDID |FIGHTING NEGRO 10 PA33 BILL New Yorkers Make a Plea for Ship Sub- sidy Measure. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—President C. B. Parsons of the Maritime Association of New York has sent to Chairman Gros- venor of the Committee on Merchant Ma- rine and Fisherles in the House of Rep- resentatives a letter urging the passage of the ship subsidy bill. The lettex part o The Maritime Association of the Port of New York, the the United States, If not in the world, with a menbership of over 1000, has resolutely placed itself on record by formal resolutions as favor- ing such legislation. In our judgment s pending before your committes should be pass at the present session of Congress, with certal amendments which we have suggested to your | committee. American labor in the shipyards and Ameri- labor afloat refuses this makes it impossible for owners of Ameri- can vessels to profitably compete with the more cheaply built and more cheaply operated for- eign ships in our foreign carrying tra American capital, therefore, as we have seen during the past year, to the extent of more than $100,000,000, has been invested in foreign bullt_ships, officered and manned by foreigners. Thus we see that, while under ex- isting conditions profitable employment is de- nied to American labor in our shipyards and o3 beard our ships, profitable employment ot American capital o ship owning has extended in a manner unprecedented in our national history. It remains for Congress by the action it takes or falls to take on the pending bills to say Whether 1t favors the butlding up of Amerfcun shipping in the foreign trade without diminish- ing the rates of wages paid in our shipyards and on board our ships. There can be no doubt people desire a great mercl owii: that through unprotected competition wifh cheaper bullt, subsidized and bountied foreign shipping Amerjcan tonnage has been driven out of American fdrelgn carrying tiade; that over 90 per cent of our foreign commerce is carried by foreign ships; that Congress has by its at- tentlon to this subject of recent years led (he people to expect affirmative and effective legis. Jation; that those now in control of the legis- lative and administrative branches of our Gov- ernment have resolutely pledged themseives to provide it; that a_well considered bill is now pending, having already passed one branch of Congress; that the session Is drawing to an end; that if long needed and long delayed re- lief must come it must come now, and further postponement is s unjust to the great Industry affected as it is perilous to the nation and sub. verrive to our true independence. @ et e @ JURY SUMMONS MAYOR HARRISON CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Mayor Harrison. James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank, and John A. Spoor, a di- rector in the First National Bank, were summoned before the Grand Jury to give evidence in the investigation which the Grand Jury is making into allegations that Alderman Frederick Hart has sollcit- ed bribes. The original charge against Hart was made by the Municipal Voters' League, which declared that he Is unfit for re- election and accused him of seeking bribes. The Grand Jury took up the mat- ter and summoned before it Secretary Fisher of the league, who had declared that E. R. Graham of the firm of D, II. Burnham & Co., architects, had said that Hart had practically solicited a bribe in connection with the repeal of a portion of the city building ordinance which would have a marked effect on a new structure which is being erected by the First National Bank, of which Burnham & Co. are the architects. Graham was summoned before the jury and said afterward that he had declined to make to that body the same statement which Fisher asserted he had made to the Municipal Voters' League. Neither Mayor Harrison, Mr. Fergan nor Mr. Spoor went before the jury to-day. It is expected that they will give their testi- mony to-morrow. that the American ant marine of their CINCINNATI, Feb. 20.—The Ohio River be- gan falling slowly here to-day and reports from above show that the fall between Pitts- p————————————————} ! busg and Cincinnati continues, rgest organization of its kind in | - WAKING TROUBLE {Six White Men Driven| Off the Reserva- f tion. SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 20.—A report | has come from Indio to the effect that | trouble is again brewing among the In- dians on the reservation near that place and that six white men were driven off the reservation one night this week by |a large band of armed Indians. Several | | months ago the Indians became alarmed |at what they feared was an tttempt on | | the part of white settlers to oust them from the reservation and for a time it lcoked as though an outbreak was im- minent, but their fears were quleted be- fcre any real action was taken Recently, however, the Indians began to | grow uneasy and when a few nights ago | | six white men camped on the regervation len route to a place beyond, where they | intended to locate upon Government land, | | a large number of Indians armed them- selves and compelled the party to move | lon. No actual fighting took place, but bad the white settlers resisted it is prob- able bloodshed would have resulted. The Indians have heard of the removal of their fellow tribesmen from the reser- | vation at Warner's ranch and restless | spirits among them have fired them with reports to the effect that the Government intends <o take similar steps with them (SER GIVES RO, | —_——e | Continued From Page 1, Column 7. | | 5 | more religious, is that which leads to the | manifestation of our Lord. It was in- troduced with Abraham, slow, but for- ward-looking, for humanity was lost with- | out it. ow begins the most astonishing ac- | tivity of God's revelation. Abraham's | race and the peoples developing from it regard faith in one God as their holiest possession, and its followers hold fast to it with fron-like consistency. Split up during their Egyptian captivity, the di- | vided elements were again welded to- gether by Moses, ever trying to hold fast to their monotheism. It was the direct intervention of God that caused the re- | juvenation of this people, thus proving through centuries, till the Mesglah, her- aled by prophets and psalmists, finally appeared, the greatest revelation of God in the world, for he appeared in the son | himself. | “Christ is God—God in human form. | He redeemed us and inspires, entices us to follow him. We feel his fire burning | in us. His sympathy strengihens us. His discontent destroys us, but al=o his inter- | cession saves us. Conscious of victory, | building solely on his word, we go through | lahor, ridicule, sorrow, misery and death, for we have in him God's revealed word and he never lies. INSPIRATION OF MOSES. “That is my view of these matters. It is to me self-evident that the Old Testa- ment contains mamy sections which are of a purely human and historical nature and not God's revealed word. These are merely+historical deseriptions of incidents of all kinds which happen in_the politica! religious, moral and intelldtual life of this people. The legislative act of Sinal, | for example, can be only regarded as | symbolically inspired by God. When | Moses had to reburnish well known par- agraphs—a law, perhaps, derived from tne code of Hammurabi—in order to in- corporate and bind them into the loose, weak fabric of his people, here the his- torfan can perhaps construe from the sense or wording a connection with the laws of Hammurabi, the friend of Abra- ham. That is, perhaps, logically correct. But that will never disguise the fact that God incited Moses thereto and in so far revealed himself to the people of Israel"™ There Should Be No Good Reason for \ Failure To obtain a copy of The Sunday Call, with Art \Supplement, from newsdealers. train news agents, etc. | to be | it SHOT T0 DEATH i Resists Efforts of the Police to Arrest Him in a Room. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 20.—After hold- ing half a hundred policemen at bay for several hours, during which a number of shots were exchanged, lgfayette Sims, a desperate negro, was killed by the po- lice early to-day In a negro boarding- house situated on South Rampart street. The room i which he was be: had t on fire and the fire ¢ put before Sims could be driven post he attempted to called cape, still carrying his gun, he was shot down. The origin of the trouble was trivial Sims occupied a room in the boarding- house in which there were seven beds. locked t On retiring last night he and when the landlord early this m. asked him to open it so that another lodger might be admitted Sims refused. Then the landlord t for the polide. Efforts to persuade Sims to open the door fafled and a hole was smashed Through the opening Sims shot a pis- tol from Policeman Winstein's right hand and a lantern out of the other as he tried to enter. Thereupon additional police were sent for and the house surrounded. After the additional police had arrived the landlord and a policeman again went to the room and pleaded with Sims to come out and surrender “No, I won't,” he answered, with an oath. “T'll shoot if you don't go away. I am not going to leave here. They'll burn me in oil. They'll fry me."” Sims had piled some of the furniture in the room against the door and was prepared to fight for his life. As the land- lord and the policeman reated the des- perado fired at them, without g any damage. All efforts to Induce the pris- oner to surrender having proved abortiv Superintendent of Police Journee decide that there was nothing to be done bt to smoke the negro cut. An alarm was turned in and a portion of the fire de- partment brought to the scene A quantity of cotton, eil and sulphur was sent for, the cotton rolled inte balls and saturated with oil, a match applied and the blazing substance hurled into the room, every avenue of escape being guarded. The furniture in the room caught quickly, filling the place witl smoke and flame. Sims hung on until he was nearly suffocated and then made a break to escape. As he appeared at the door Patrolman Fred Smith fired at him. The negro staggered, mortally wounded. Instantly other policemen fired on him. He had scarcely fallen to she floor when he was dead. The fireman tinguished the flames and the body was dragged out and driven through a lane of excited negroes to the police station. Examination of the reom following th tragedy showed that Sims had got pos- session of Policeman Winstein's revolver after shooting it from his hands. REBELS MAKIE SRENT HEADWA PANAMA, Feb. 20.—The revolutionary movement in Honduras is increasing. At Choluteca, Macome, Pespire, Yucaran, Dauli and Gracias outbreaks have oc- curred in favor of President-elect Be nilla. General Emilio Herrera, chief of the Presidential forces. has been defeated at Olancho. General Sierra, President c Honduras, has since then assumed su- preme command of the army. General Fidel Bulnes, with the assist- ance given by General Regalado, Presi- dent of Salvador/ has invaded Honduras by way of Ocotepec with 500 men and will support General Bonilla " Fifteen Congressmen of Honduras' re- cently escaped from Tegucigalpa and fled to Salvador, whence they left to n join General Bonilla at .\mm Island, his headquarters,