Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-29
CHILEAN SPIES ARRESTED.
They Try to Survey sa1 Francisco Harb5r
ard Locate Torpodoes.
HELD AS SUSPlC oJS CHARACTERS.
Plot to Assassinatc Assistant States
Attorney Elliott of Chicago by
Criminals Whose Enmity He
Has Incurred-Gossip.
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CHICAGO. Ill, Dec. %.
One of the officers on the staff Of Gen
cral Miles, whose regiment is stationed
at San francisco, received a telegram from
a brother officer last evening announcing the
arrest by the police of that city yesterday of
two foreigners, one n Spaniard and the othor
a native of Chilli. The two men were arrested
on a charge of vagrancy, which probably
can not be sustained. as each is well supplied
with money and the possossor of an elaborate
wardrobe. The telegram to the local army
man from the San Francisco Office says tharo
Is little doubt they were engaged in collecting
data regarding San Francisco's provisions
for protecting herself in case of an attack by
a naval force. In the harbor of San Francisco
there are planted a large number of the most
destructive kinds Of torpedoes, each con-
nected by wire with a tunnel under
an excavated chamber which leads to a
large room in which each torpedo
that is planted out In the bay is represented
by a wire. In the room, an officer OF the
navy Is constantly on duty, as Is also a man
on tho bluff above. The efforts of tho
strangers to get some plan of this COMPARE
lively unknown means of protecting the
harbor of San Francisco hove confirmed in
the minds of naval officers the suspicious
they had entertained Tor some days that tho
pair were emissaries of the Chtlian govern
ment.
A later dispatch received from san Fran
cisco says ''Diligent inquiry hero shows
that no arrests have been made here OF
alleged Chiliau spies.n
Plotting to Kill an Ofhcer.
Hounded by threats of criminals whose
enmity he has incurred in the line of duty,
Assistant States Attorney William S. Elliott,
jr., hes at his home suffering from nervous
prostration. Within the last two weeks a
dam laid ,lNt IN nIr hiv life tunc taNnnlnI
by a prisoner in the county jail, and although
every precaution has been taken, it IS feared
that the danger is not yet past. Elliott ad-
mits the truth of the story about the plot,
but refuses to give any details.
Another Grcii's Hall Resolution.
AT a meeting held last night of the various
trade organizations resolutions denouncing
the recent police raid on Greif's hail were
made. The following resolution was adopted,
the preamble thereto setting forth that the
meeting In question was peaceable and law
abiding in every respect, and that the raid
was in violation of the rights of American
citizens
Resolved, That a be appointed
to lay before the grand Jury the facts of the
raid and our protest against it.
Odds and Ends.
Negotiations are on foot looking toward
the absorption of the Mutual Fuel Gas com
panv by the Chicago Gas trust. Ever since
IuO ORGANIZATION " Juc Nlubudl company III
1889 it has been a thorn IN the side Of the old
gas company, aud from time to time des-
perate efforts have been made by the latter
other to obtain control of the company or
re strict it's use below a paying basis.
The police Of the Thirteenth Street station
will be called upon within the next twenty
four hours to answer to a charge of brutally
aSsaulting the members OF the German turn
verein at the Ogden Avenue hall, near
Twelfth street, on Christmas night and fore
ing them to close the festivities. The turner's
say they were attacked by a crowd OF toughs,
and when they called on the police for assist
ance the latter joined the rowdies and beat
the turner's numerically and compelled them
to put out the lights and go home.
w. Fl. Hinrichsen of Jacksonville, who
was one OF the Springer 'boomers" at Wash
ington during the speakership contest. and
who passed through the city on his way
nome. says there is a strong movement among
Illinois democrats in Washington to make
General Palmer their candidate for the presi-
dency.
Miss Minnie Huckberger negotiated a mar
riage through a lawyer with a man in Pack
waukee, Wis, named II. j. Secord, who rep
resented that he had great wealth. She had
never seen him before the marriage, and
when she learned that he had deceived her
she left and returned TO Chicago the same
day. Now Secord has employed Chicago do
tectives TO kidnap her and return her to
Packwaukee.
B p. Hutchinson returned to New York
today after a stay of forty-eight hours, dur
ingiwhich he went out only at night.
Della Blakemen went hunting for Kate
Lewis, and seeing a woman on the street
whom she took for Kate, shot her. She found
the woman was a stranger, apologized, but
was arrested.
Western People i'm Chicago.
The following western people are in the
city:
At the Graud Pucifc-Mrs. c. Welch,
Cedar Rapids. Ia. Z. c. Joy, Sioux City, La.
At the Palmer. Z. Sharp, Omaha; j. p.
Maun, O'Neill Neb.
AT the Welllngton-R. B. Schneider, Fire.
mont, Neb.
AT the Leland-E. a. Benson, F. E Alex
ander, Omaha.
At the Auditotium-W. w. Baldwin, Bur-
lington. Ia. ". Y. Auld, Guide Rock; Mr..
and Mrs. s. ID. Barkalow, Oscar Vanderbilt,
Des MONIES, la.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Hennessey Of Dubuque is
a guest at the Grand Pacific,
Will koenig of Omaha passed through the
city this evening on his way to New York
for n short visit. +. A.
ON FIRE II SEI.