The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1903, Page 4

L THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1903. MORE FIRMS ARE VERGING ON FAILURE Wall Street Looks for| Further Suspensions | To-Day. ‘ Tottering Concerns Are Not Among Those of First | Magnitude. YL Their Embarrassment Is Due to the Tying Up of Capital in Some Outside Under- takings. PEZERE NEW YORK 3 street men gathered 1o one topic of conversatic > the probable of 1 ket to-morrow and the possil f fur- ther faflx 't s a complete unan- i of that further faflures would b need. Even c vative b kers a tted that and s manner that med to indica y had full knowledge of the facts. But with | his statement came the comparatively Jeasuring opinion that the failures expect. 1o occur W not be of great magni- de and would involve no financial insti- tio The names of the houses reported as be- ng olved were mentioned with con- siderably more freedom than is usual in such cases. In each instance the house was identified with some undertaking or ther which, it was inferred, had locked P capital in the same thanner as the f W. L. Stow & Co. became un- apit fi which had been with Stow & Co. or in their more im- i most prominent. i probably up in a another is ough a street rall- rprises. while still ing and manufacturing In some instances these mat ed as though an- dy been made, hat- the re- ! best and the rms class, the s the names of oth in and out up, but s belleved out exception, at they know of no im- or institutions involved. | matter of further sus ¥ an incident of Frida means of clarifying the rtant hot They regard mosphere That matters cannot be regarded as r ers sav. is evidenced by »ank presidents did tion sufficiently serious while many left aturday. e only a few who took a con- to general theory that t be some additional recko: » pointed ou t the expected red. He was hopeful that thing would be arranged over Sun- t Lond: & extreme prices » stocks fell on Saturday. would come in as a buyer and steady the mar ket, and that this might resuit in quiet- ing demoraliza- pull themselves —_—— SITUATION IN LONDON. British Stock Market Closes in Gloom With American Securities Firmer. ONDON, July 26.—The influence combined with the threaten of affairs in the far East, speedil ssipated the hopeful feelings with which the stock market here closed the previous week and threw zlrom into the markets during the past week ceased to buy and was disin- w ventures. The rsely affected all in- ks. Foreign securities were being =upported by Paris, ortance was attached to the One feature of the the heavy selling and de- ese urities. Americans were dominated by all street and closed somewhat firmer in the hope that the worst was over. —————— Reach Summit of Hungabee. MONTREAL y 26.—Professor H blic adv c rker of Columbia University and a Swise guide, Hans Kaufman, ascended Mount Hungabee July 21. This peak, close to the continental divide head of t the the Paradise Valley, has n considered the most difficult in the northern Rockies with the exception of Mc Delraform, w as vet has never been ascended Professor Parker found the elevation of t f e summit 1o be 115 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. }' USEFUL DISCOVERIES | Are Not Always Startling, Neither | Do They Create the Most Talk. It is not always the g . MOSt start- ling discoveries of science that are most useful to the Comparativ 1y ple were directly interested ir ) finding of the new planet Uran but many thousands have been benefited by Professor Unna’s experiments, which proved beyond ques- tion_that dandruff and baldness are the | results of the inroads of a parasitic germ which invades the roots of the hair. The discovery of the true cause of bald- ness made Newbro's Herpicide possible. Herpicide effectually kills this germ, “De- #troy the cause, you remove the effect.” 8oid by leading druggiste. Send 10¢ in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co. Detroit, Mich 1 CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the M——:: Biguature of CUTLERY BLADE WARRANTED 1 OTARY PUBLIC AND ATTORNEY-AT- . lmmhu senth #loor, Room 10 Residence, 821 st below Powel. James 1501 perintendent of GENERAL COBOS OF THE COLOMBIAN ARMY THE GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA OVE RTHROWS §— UTAH MURDERESS TIRES OF FLIGHT Aurora Hodge Surren- ders to the Grand Rapids Police. Claims Killing of Ryan Near Salt Lake City Was in Self Defense. —_—— GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, July 26.—A | young woman giving the name of Mrs. Aurora Hodge, her age 19 and her home Denison, Towa, entered the office of Su- Police Carr to-day and she wanted to give herself up, de- aring that had killed a man near Salt Lake, Utah, on July 11. She said she had ted from her husband a few months after their marriage and went on the road with a traveling medicine ven- der as his bookkeeper. “When on & lonely road near Salt Lake City on July 11,” she said, “he attempted to assanit me and I shot him with a re- volver I had been carrying. I left him in the wagon and went to Salt Lake City te give myself up, but my nerve falled me and I took a train for Denison. 4 told my brother, and when he went to tell the authorities 1 fled to Chicago. Then I se- cured a position in a Spring Lake (Mich.) hotel, but could not rest with the tragedy on my mind, so I came to Grand Rapids to give myself up. Mrs. Hodge refused to tell the name of the man she killed. The woman is in jail A telegram late to-night from Acting Chief of Police Burbridge of Salt Lake to Chief Carr confirms Mrs. Hodge's story, states that there is a warrant for her arrest for murder and asks that she be held for the Salt Lake City authorities SALT LAK Utah, July 26.—) Hodge is wanted in Salt. Lake in_conn: tion with the killing of William X. Ryan, she a traveling spectacle peddler, in a canyon south of this city about two weeks ago. The object of the murder is supposed to have been robbery, as Ryan was known to carry a considerable amount of money with him. When the body was found the arms and legs were tightly bound and the head had been crushed with some blunt instrument. The police of this city suspected that Mrs. Hodge was connected with the crime nd a few days ago issued a warrant for her arrest at Denison, lowa covbama s elitalD 2 Mountain Sheepmen in Arms. BUTTE, Mont., July 26. Miner spe- cial from Big Timb Mont., says that the of one of the largest sheep camps and pens in this section of Montana. The de- struction is believed by sheepmen to have been the work of cattlemen, with whom they have been on the verge of war for the past six months. The sheepmen have organized and a search of the surrounding country is being made for the incendia- | The situation is said to be extreme- 1y serious. Nl S To Found a Danish Colony. MONTEREY, Mex., July —The ries. Val- b pany, composed principally of California capitalists, is looking for a colony site in Mexico for 30 Danish families. The com- pany hopes to obtain a sufficiently tract of land soon, as 100 families now at Tillamook, Or.. are awaiting its decision. When they have been settled the com- pany will provide transportation for other colonists from Denmark until the ——e———— Incendiary Causes Death. ALTON, Iil, July 26.—Fire belleved to have been started by an incendiary to- day destroyed a steam laundry, a row of flats and a lumber yard and resulted in the death of one person and injuries to six others. Miss Ruth Meyers was burned to death. All of the injured were badly burned but George Alchin, who was hurt in jumping s e ‘Woman Outlaw Captured. GUTHRIE, O. T., July 2%.—Dora Cox, alleged horse thief, has been recap- tured and placed in jail at Watonga, after cessfully eluding the officers since 1898, st when she escaped from the county jail at Kingfisher. The woman for sev- eral years a member of a gang of Terri- tory outlaws —_———————— Falls From a Car. Leon J. Jacobson, a bartender residing fell from a Mis- at 2% Greenwich street, sion street car at the cormer of Six- teenth street yvesterday morning and re- ceived severe injuries. He was removed to St. Luke's Hospital, where it was dis- covered that he was suffering from con- cussion of the brain and internal injuries, which are likely to prove fatal, ——————————— ) MADRID, Jul —Reports have been pub- lished here of excesses indulged in by eailors of the United States squadron at Lisbon. The Associated Press correspondent learns from Lishon that the affair that gave rise to the re- port was quite unimportant and that it has been ratisfactorily adjusted. WASHINGTON, July 26.—The determination of the question whether seal snall be protected in the Bering Sea or whether all the seals on the rookeries shall be destroyed at once, as proposed last seagon. will be referred to the joint commiseion which will sit in London in Eeptember. ————————— NEW YORK, July News of the sudden death in Buite, Mont., of former Congressm: John M. Clancy, one of the most widely known Democratic poiiticians in Brook relatives in that borough to-da —_———— Not a Kleptomaniac. As most of the world knows, Senator Hoar of Massachusetts—but why localize | him?—there is but one Hoar—delivered the apnual commencement address at the State Univergity of Jowa. The exercises, in order to accommodate the immense crowd of auditors, were held in a big tent | on the colleg campug. The wind from the prairie blew high and it threatened at times to blow the Senator’s manuscript up into the region of the Great Lakes. Colonel George R. Burnett of the United States army borrowed a knife from the V. eorge L. Cady, chaplain of the ul . This, as an improvised paper- weight, the colonel placed on Senator Hoar's manuscript. At the close of a par- ticularly eloquent period the Senator's hand came in contact with the knife, and he thrust it quickly into his trousers pocket. The audience, having noticed the incident, burst into laughter. The speaker saild something about the “jester never seeing the point of a joke,” and proceeded | W{:h lhet:ddgeel& ater the Senator was reproached b, nr. Cyrus Northrop, president of - th University of Minnesota, for “preaching honesty to the boys of Iowa and then set- ting them such an example of misappro- priation.” Then the affair was explained, and ator Hoar drew forth the ‘“bor- rowed” knife, and a knife case as well. The latter contained an exact duplicate of the instrument that he had taken. Senator Hoar had carried the duplicate of the borrowed knife continuously ever gince he received it, forty years ago, from his wife as a wedding anniversary pres- ent—New York Commerclal. P ecepmen of the Bridger Creek country | e up in arms as a result of the burning | lla Colonization and Improvement Com- | large | full | quota of 0 families shall have come over. | reached his | the Colombian Confederacy. tion. | | | '? | ANAMA, Colombia, July 2.—Not since the days of the last revolu- tion, when an attack upon the city by the Liberals was feared, has there been such a panic in Panama as occurred last night. Shortly after 9 o'clock the office of El Lapiz, the organ of the Liberal party on the isthmus, was visited by officers of the general staff | of the army, who destroyed yesterday’s edjtion of the newspaper. One of the di- rectors was slightly wounded, but man- aged to escape, The news spread rapidly. TIn the Santa Ana neighborhood, where most of the Liberals reside, sentiment arose to a high pitch and a few of the prominent citizens counseled retaliation. They took no ac- tion, however. The next event came like a bombshell. A company of soldiers, apparently under the orders of General Vasquez Cobos, commander of the national. forces, sur- rounded the residence of Governor Mutis, but the Governor and his wife, who is an American woman, having been warned a few miniites before the arrival of the troops, succeeded in escaping. General Huertas, commander of the bat- talion of Colombia, when he learned of the EI Lapiz incident, retired to According to current reports, the latter ordered General Huertas to remain in BICYGLE RIDERS DEATH'S VIGTIMS Two Los Angeles Men Succumb to Serious Injuries. LOS ANGELES, July 26.—Two men died in the Receiving Hospital to-day from in- Jjuries received last night while riding bi- oy William H. Cameron, a grocery sales- | man, was struck by a Central avenue | electric car at Central avenue and Thirty- fourth street late last night. He was | taken to the Receiving Hospital and died this afternoon. George J. Saku, bicycle repairer, col- lided with a Long Beach electric car at Ninth street and Central avenue and was terribly injured. His left arm, both jaws and collarbone were broken. He died at the Receiving Hospital early this morn- ing. e ——— | THE KEEPING OF EGGS BY COLD STORAGE | How They Are Tested and Stored For Months at a Time. Cold storage of eggs Is one of the great- est conveniences of modern times, giving housewives eggs in abundance at a sea- son when there would otherwise be an | egg famine, and enabling the produce merchant to control .the market the year round. Before this was done there was | no certainty of obtaining fresh eggs ex- cept in spring and early summer, and | speculators were continually arising to “bull” the market, a process which often met with abject failure. “No sooner was the market cornered than hens all over | the country began laying," said an un- fortunate speculator. “Afd there was no possible way of controlling the hens,” he | added, sadly. To-day the prices of eggs are definitely controiled by the cold stor- age houses. The demand seems to be al- ways equal to, if not greater than, the It is estimated that every fiv vears the consumption of eggs doubles, | and only the process of cold storage keeps down the prices. In cold storage houses eggs may be kept for an indefinite time as fresh as if they were just laid. The secret of success in this matter lies in careful sorting and packing of the eggs in a uniform temperature. An old picture in the Dresden gallery represents a Dutch housewife ‘“‘testing and shows that the method in use CRES, to-day in vogue more than a hun- dred years ago, except for the substitu- tion of a strong electric light for the ancient oil lamp. The interior of the egg is examined by the glow of light which shines directly through it. If a perfect ball of rosy red is found floating in clear liguid in a clean shell, the egg is fresh. If there is a slight vacuum at one end it is fresh enough for ordinary use, but not quite so fresh as the first one. Evap- oration has set in, but for cakemaking and for many purposes this egg is better | than a perfectly fresh one. Finally when the egg has decomposed, the yolk sticks to the shell; it is stale and unfit forjuse, though it may not be odorous. Eggs which this test shows to be practically fresh laid may not have been in the barn- yard for months, while those that have not been properly stored will not bear “candling,” though they have been laid only a few weeks, The cold storage houses begin to store eggs in the month of February, and stop storing after the month of June until cold weather comes again. In the hot, { sultry weather of August eggs, like all | other perishable products, spoil easily, | and are usually unfit for storage pur- poses by the time they are brought to market. The first eggs to reach the great pack- | ing houses come from the far south. In March the middle States and those near | by send In their eggs for storage. In April | and May eggs from the north and the | Bustern States reach market in great quantities. Before the end of June there are often a thousand carloads in market to be stored for the dull season “when hens will not lay.” At these packing-houses the tempera- ture is kept at 30 degrees Fahrenheit by means of pipes through which brine cir- culates, exactly as steam does in mod- ern houses. The secret of storing eggs successfully consists in keeping them at only 2 degrees below freezing point, in surroundings of spotless cleanliness, and in sorting those that have begun to be stale from those that are strictly fresh.— | N. Y. Tribune. — “Goveérnor,”’ asked the inquisitive per- son, “why have you never married?” Ihe governor that had refused all offers of marriage shuddered. i “I'lIl tell you,” he said, “but this is in strict confidence. I think I never could bear to hear my wife referred to as ‘Mrs, | Gov. Soandso.’ "—Chicago Tribune, head- | quarters, where he found General Cobos. | - tides Arjona, Secretary of the Govern- ent; Fernando Arango, Chief of Police, and Etram Navia, a member of the de- partmental superior tribunal of justice, are under arrest, the last named for try: ing to argue with General Cobos the ille- gality of his action. An attempt also is raid to have been made to arrest Senor Guerra, Secretary of Finance, but he refused to accompany the officer who went to arrest him. When the officer returned with soldiers to ef- fect his capture Guerra had departed. The only civil officer on the street this morning was Mayor Ossa. Governor Mu- tis spent last night at the British Con- sulate, but it is rumored that he will take refuge in the American Consulate. It is rumored that General Cobos of. fered the Governorship to different Con. servatives, who refused to accept, and that he himself will assume civil cém- mand. It is said that Consul Gudjer at- tempted to send a cablegram to Arthur M. Beaupre, the United States Minister at Bogota, but that the agent refused to accept the message. As this dispatch is being sent It is learned that Dr. Arjona and Judge Navia have been set at liberty and that the Chief of Police, Arango, remains under arrest. The Associated Press correspondent has interviewed General Cobos, who admittted differences with Governor Mutis because of the latter’s refusal to pay thé soldiers, who, Cobos said, were hungry. He said that Governor Mutis had systematically LOUISIANA MOB HANGS NEGRESS Woman the Victim of White Avengers of Shreveport. SHREVEPORT, La., July 26.—Jennie Speer, the negress who administered poi- son to Jennie Dolan, 16-year-old daugh- ter of John Dolan, from the effects of which the latter died, was lynched by a mob last night. The woman was pursued by a posse, which found her crouching in a hayloft. She refused to come out and had to be dragged from the place. She asserted her innocence, but was identified. The mob took her to a nearby tree, placed a rope around her neck and again asked her to confess. She was stubborn to the last, however, and was Strung up without making any admissions. While the body was dangling in midair several bullets were fired into it. Miss Dolan was a beautiful young white girl. She died in horrible agony and her death caused intense excitement. PV s TR MOB SEEKS THREE LIVES. Murderers of a Little Girl Are Saved From Lynchers. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 26.—Thomas, Nicholas and W. R. McComb, charged with having assaulted and killed Gertie Gibson, aged 9 years, at Bloomfield, were brought here to-day for safe Kkeeping, as a mob had attempted to take the prison- ers by force at Bloomfield and lynch them. The little girl's body was found during the fore part of last week and the Cor- oner's verdict was that she had been criminally attacked. it T Train Crew Prevents Lynching. SCRANTON, Pa., July 26.—An attempt to lynch John Peel, a Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Rallway detective, was made last night at Foster by a crowd of the villagers, who were infuriated upon learning that he had gained evidence that would connect a score of families of the village with wholesale thievery of brass and other junk from the company’s prop- erty. He was rescued by a train crew. The ringleader of the mob is said to be one of the leading citizens of the town, and it is alleged that; because the detective had gained eyidence in connection with the thieving which would disgrace him and his son forever, he gathered the mob. —_— e CURIOUS MYSTERY OF WILD ANIMALS ‘What Becomes of the Bodies of Those That Die Natural Deaths in the Woods. “The forest has many mysteries,” said an old woodsman, “but none decper than that of wild animals that die natural deaths. The four-footed dwellers of the woods certainly do not live forever. Age and disease must carry them ol regular- ly, as human beings are carried off, but what becomes of their bodies? I never heard of any one's coming across a wild dead bear or deer or wildcat or fox that had died from natural causes. T found the carcass of a big five-pronged buck in the woods once, but a rattlesnake, also dead, had its fangs buried in one of the deer’s nostrile. There had evidently been a fight to the death between the reptile and the beas! “Anothr time I followed the trail of a bear from a clearing where it had stolen a half-grown lamb. I came upon the headless body of the lamb a mile or so out on the trail, and half a mile farther on, near the edge of a swamp, I was sur- prised to find the body of the bear. Its Jjaws were open and its glassy cyes were pushed far out of its head. I held a post- mortem examination of the dead bear and found the lamb’s head lodged in its throat. How or why the bear ever per- mitted it to get there I am unable to ex- plain. I have many times found other dead animals in the woods, but never one that did not show unquestionable evi- dence of having died from violence of some kind. Every woodsman will tell you the same. What becomes of the dead wild animals gl! die natural deaths?"— Chicago Inter . —_—————————— A Come-Down. “The formative period in a young man's character,” said the professcr, ‘“is usu- ally the period when he is at college. His behavior there invariably Indicates what his future will be. veplied the street railway magnate, “but there are exceptions. We had a conductor once wl;lo too:“ a Y:nedul for good conduct at college, but he was not a good conduc- tor."—Philadelphia Press. EAVERAL_ VASQUEZ COBOS, an officer of the Colombian army, has seized the reins of government in the department of Panama. Governor Mutio and his American wife escaped arrest by taking refuge in the British Consulate, having been warned of the coup d’etat. Other officials were temporarily imprisoned. General Cobos, having failed to induce any leading Conservative to accept the governorship, will himself assume civil command. there have been rumors of a revolution in Panama and the secession of that and other states from The discontent has been due to tardy action on the canal treaty, those’ Colomibians living along or near the route of the proposed waterway being eager for its construc- General Cobos’ sudden move may be the first incident in the carrying out of this programme. For months past — had intended to arrest the Governor. He said: I was asleep last night when informed that the editors of El Lapiz had been attacked by some officers. 1 ordered seventy men out to | punish the oftenders. Passing the Governor's house, 1 went upstairs to inform him of what had happened, because of his lenfency tow the Liberals, who daily insult the military thorities. vernor Mutis sent word that he was out, which, being untrue, I concluded he had re- fused 'to see me. It was far from my mind to arrest the Governor, who had no reasons to side against me. Iam anxious to end the situation, which was really created by Governor Mutis himself. Genera! Cobos assured Bishop Junguito that for his part the controversy was ended. General Cobos’ statement was transmitted to Governor Mutis this af- ternoon by the American Consul. The Governor says that yesterday he com- municated to General Cobos a decree from Bogota suspending the general staff here. General Huertas, he said, ignored it yes- terday, but to-day offered to protect the civil authorities. COLON, Colombia, July 26.—This eity is perfectly quiet, as last night's coup on the part of General Cobos against Gov- ernor Mutis of the Department of Pana- ma is known only to a few here. Devel- opments are expected to-night or to-mor- row. General Luis Maria Gomez, Gov- ernor of this province, has been called to Panama and left in haste on a train this afternoon. BOGOTA, Colombia, July 24, via Pan- ama, July 26.—The Colombian Congress is discussing the creation of mints and the 1 quarters. Exactly what has taken place | opposed everything emanating from the | question of the adoption of ' the gold iz unknown, but it is said that Dr. Aris- | military authorities, but der,lled that he | standard. | o, s, .. R TR e O a2 e e e 2 e e el ) TRAGEDY 3TIAS - NEW YORK ROTEL Syracuse Man Shoots Supposed Wife and Kills Himself. NEW YORK, July 26.—A well dressed man, accompanied by a fine looking and handsomely gowned woman about 23 years of age, registered at the Morton House this morning as “'C. Weiss and wife, Syra- cuse, N. Y. Late in the afternoon the woman was heard shrieking, three shots followed and when the room was entered she and the man were dead. The woman had a bullet in her heart and another in the wrist. The man was shot through the heart. A pistol lay by the man's right band and it is believed that he shot the woman and committed suicide. There is no clew to the motive for the shooting. The woman was five feet four Inches in height, with black hair and blue eyes. The man was six feet tall with a sandy moustache and reddish hair. In the man's pockets were found two railroad tickets from Syracuse and a letter addressed to C. E. Weiss, the contents of which the Coroner refused to divulge. —_———— “UNCLE SAM” TO PAY MORE FOR HIS STENOGRAPHERS Present Salaries Do Not Induce First-Class Operators to Leave Private Service. Uncle S8am has finally awakened to the fact that he does not pay his stenograph- ers enough money. At least, he is find- ing extreme difficuity in inducing com- petent male shorthand writers to enter the Government service at the rates of pay now ruling. This class of employes start working for the Government at $60 and $75 a month. The requirements of the civil service examinations aregvery se- vere, and any man who.ds able to pass them usually has no difficulty in getting a position with some business firm at a bet- ter salary than the Government pays. The Civil Service Commission is cone stantly holding special examinations for stenographers in an effort to get enough good men to supply the demand. Unfilled requisitions for competent shorthand writers are always on hand at the com- mission. The poor pay held out, however, attracts an enormous crowd of incom- petents, the experience@h. stenographers preferring to pay no attention to the Government calls. This fact was well illustrated in a svecial examination for stenographers that was held In various cities in April last. More than 700 can- didates appearcd, of which about 123 passed. These have all been offered po- sitions, but one-half of them refused to leave their old places for the meager sal- ary held out by the Government. It is easier to get women stenographers to work for $0 and $75 a month than men, but nine-tenths of the requisitions are for male shorthand writers. The chief examiner of the commission has conferred with the chief clerks of the various departments in an effort to secure a remedy for this situation. A scheme has been devised by which it is hoped to make the Government service more at- tractive to the competent stenographers. In the past it has been the custom when a vacancy occurred in a $1000 or $1200 clerkship to fill it by promotion from the clerks in the lower grades, keeping up the promotion process all the way down to the lowest grade. This left a vacancy at the bottom, which was usually filled by the uppointment of a stenographer. Hereafter there will be only occasional promotions of this sort, for the high-class vacancies are to be held open for outside stenographers. This will undoubtedly in- duce many first clas stenographers who now refuse to take examinations to con- sider entering the Government service.— Chicago Tribune. ———— Original and Actual Sin. A wealthy Augtralian Scotsman, named Allan, died some years ago and bequeath- ed a considerable sum of money to pro- vide perpetual prizes to the Presbyterian children of the commonwealth for pro- ficiency in scriptural knowledge. The lat- est report of the Allan bequest commit- tee, presented to the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly in Melbourne, contains some entertaining reading. ‘“What is the difference between original sin and actual sin?" elicited these answers among oth- ““Original sin is sin without murder; but actual sin is sin, meaning swearing.” “Original €In is the things we ought to do; actual sin is the things we ought not to do.”” “Actual sin means a want of obe- dience; but original sin is a work of Providence.”"—London Chronicle, d Residents. + BODY OF WOMAN FOUND IN SEWER Mpysterious Crime Puz- zles Mount Vernon Police. Victim of a Brutal Murder , Oannot Be Identified by —— e Special Dispatch tp The Call. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., July 25.—The body of a woman about 26 years of age, |2 blonde and good looking, was found this afternoon in a sewer pipe on the out- skirts of Mount Vernon. A shoestring was tied tightly around the neck and there were fingér marks on the throat which | indicated that she had been murdered. | The discovery of the body was made by | two little girls who were picking apples | near Sixth street. In order to place the body in the sewer the murderer evidently had to break the pipe. The theory is that the body was | lowered into the hole with a rope | The woman apparently was a German. | She welghed about 147 pounds, was five | feet seven inches in height and had large blue eyes and a prominent nose. The body was neatly dressed in a blue and white polkadot shirt waist and skirt, with black | hosfery and patent leather ties. A large | white straw hat, trimmed with blue and white ribbon, was found about a hundred | feet away, in Sites’ meadows. Coroner 'Welsendenger, who ecxamined | the body, said the woman had been dead | | no more than a day. The part of the city where the sewer is located is known as East Mount Vernon. Who the murdered woman is or where she came from Is a mystery. No one had | ever seen her in the neighborhocd. —_—ee—— | Political Reform at Denver. DENVER, July 26.—A large attendance | is expected at the conference of political | reformers to be held here to-morrow. The | conference will be of informal character | |'and members of various parties are invit- ed to participate, but the national com- | mittees of both branches of the People’s | party are called to meet here in conjune- | tion with the gathering, and it is believed | | that some arrangement will be reached | for harmonizing the two factions of that | | party if an amalgamation to include | | other reform parties is not effected. B S G Dt | Flood Does Damage in London. | | LONDON, July 26.—Heavy rains Satur- | | day night throughout the south of Eng-! |1and caused serious floods and damasge | | in London. The underground rallway was | | flooded and many printing rooms of Lon- | don newspapers built in the underground ! ;dlslrh:l between Fleet street and the | | embankment were flooded and unable IUI | print Sunday editions until late this af-| | ternoon. *The heavy rains coincided with a high tide on the Thames, inundating several low-lying districts, H ot oot 1 OMAHA, July 26 —Extremely hot w-nlh-r! prevailed throughout Western Nebraska and Jowa to-day, the maximum in Omaha being | 98. At Schuyler one death was caused by the | heat Hot winds with lack of moisture are beginning to have a serious effect on growing corn. ROCKEFELLER 15 RATED A5 BILLIONAIRE Standard Oil Magnate Is Richest Man in the World. Quadruples Already Enor- mous Fortune Within Three Years. Wealth of Others Regarded as Kings of Finance Sinks Into Insig- nificance in Com- parison. PRRSEES Sttt Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 26.—Wall street gos- sip estimating that the slump in stocks had caused a shrinkage in Rockefeller properties approximating $100,000,000 was read with general surprise, and, by some, with Incredulity. John D. Rockefeller is now classed as | a billienaire and reported to be the rich~ est man in the world. Before the South Afric Alfred Beit of Kimberley was, aceording to an English list publish- ed in 1900, the world’s only billlonaire. Li Hung Chang of China stood second with $500,000,000, and John D. Rockefeller third with $230,000,000. Only seven others were given fortunes of more than $100,000,000. Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York was rated at $125,000000, Andrew Carnegle at $120,000.000 and William K. Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, William Rockefeller and Willlam Waldorf Astor at §100,000,000 each. Lord Rothschild of England was credit- ed with $5,000,000 and Baron Alb Rothschild of Vienna with $70.000,000. T English Dukes of Devonshire, Bedford, Norfolk and Buccleugh each had $50,000.- Alfred Krupp, H the gunmaker, had Armour had $40,000.- 000 $45,000,000 and 009, D. P. on. George Gould and J. Pierpont Morgan were credited with 75,000,000 each and Marshall Field, Harold McCormick, W. L. Elkins and James J. Hill with $25,000,000, Fifty years ag Hu the millionaires wers confined m the princes and dukes and ban rope. The American millionaire came with the era of develop- the mineral and ment of railways and manufacturing resources of the country. Since the census of 190 there have been great changes, Rockefeller has quad- rupled his wealth and the South African millionaires having lost ground. Many Americans who were simply hard work- ers twenty and thirty vears ago have advanced to the rank of millionaires. e ' ~ Bishop Denounces Sunday Outing. SCRANTON, Pa., July 2.—Bishop Ho- ban to-day vigorously denounced Sunday | excursions and commanded all Catholie organizations to desist from conducting them in the future, The denunciation has caused much concern to a number of Catholic organizations which have are ranged for Sunday excursions this sume mer. ——— MANILA, ly 26.—Major Gens W. Davie ransferred the comman. Department of the Philippines to Ma: eral James Wade. General L was to review all the troops about Outing Girl's, | New Picture Fad | You'll Never Guess What It Is Until You See the Full Page of Dar- ingly ‘‘Strenuous” Photographs From Mountain and Seashore in the NEXT SUNDAY CALL THE PRICKLY PIG WHY YOUR PHOTOS ARE BAD. By Charles Taylor Jr. Also Two of the Best Short Stories of the Season, Which, of Course, Are Exclusive of the Clever Half-Hour Storiette Page. ~ATS0—— TABLES FOR THE FOOLISH. NO. I---THE SORROWS OF A SOUL. ——ALSO— ——ALSO— Fourth and Most Exciting Installment Yet of THE SPENDERS By Harry Leon Wilson. ‘Wherein Uncle Peter Bines Brings Billy Brue to New York to Show Him Fashionable Life in the Nickel Plush Hotel in the Most Unique Way Imaginable. RED MOUNTAIN NUPTIALS NEW INDIAN CRUELTIES. By Gen. A. A. Burt, U. §. A. HEISKELL’S . qlntment Tzgirndts st Rae PISESREAT. 8 co. rr: CURES McBURNEY'S KIDNEY # &= g.flclt’l disease, brick dus’ For -wetti gv- d beter W. !' rney, 418 8. w:'h.{n!n.."hp.. Cal., for Sdays treatm't, H.50 Draggise LASHS B PLEASANT INTOXICATINC