Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1892-01-16

afternoon my gig. while lying off the
landing place, was stoned by three men
IN crowd of bad characters. No one
was injured. / immediately visited tie
seniOr naval officer of Chile and req uest-
ed him to notify the police authorities.
j demanded protection and said If the
otfense WAS repeated / would take the
matter IN my own hands and protect my
me- With arms. Much regret was ex-
pressed by the officer, who went at once
TO the police. Today have assurance
that the parties will be punished and
protection given,
BALTIMORE INVESTIGATION.
VALLEJO, Cal, Jan. IA genuine
sensation was developed in the Balti-
more investigation tOday,a thing entirely
unexpected at this late stage of the pro-
ceedings. The case had dragged along
slowly IN the morning session, number
OF sailors being recalled to testify as to
the soberness Of Riggin, Turnbull and
Davidson before and during the riot
After recess, however, Surgeons Stitt
and White of the Baltimore took the
stand After testlfying TO wounds OF
| members Of the Baltimore'5 crew. they
1
directly caused by neglect in this hos
pltal where he was carried by the police.
The Chlleans refused to ALLOW the Balti-
more surgeons to treat their men and
| declined to do it themselves except In a
/ very superficial way.
4 For four days the surgeons vainiy
begged Judge of Crimes Foster to allow
them To remove the sailors too the Bali
more, but not until it became probable
that Turnbull would soon die would he
grant them permission. The men were
taken to the ship but it was to late for
Turnbull. Blood poisoning set in ana
Turnbull died five days later. The sur
geors were positive that death resulted
from neglect and imperfect treatment 10
| the hospital. Sisters OF Charity who
had charge seemed to regret their ina
olllty to help the sailors but had TO obey
orders OF their superiOrs. From the
summing up by the surgeons it appears
| hat as result of the mob two sailors of
the Baltimore were killed, i've were Sc
yerely wounded, being disabled from
nine to forty four days, and twelve re-
| ;elved sllghter wounds, being disabled
| from two to eight days.
| VALLEJo,sJa I3.-A number Of Wit
uesses testified in the Baltimore inquiry,
today, the most important being John
Davidson. who said:
Il saw Riggin, the bOatSWaiu's mate,
lying senseless in the streets. / attempt.
I'D to aid him but the mob drove me off.
| [ returned again, but the crowd once
| more droTe me Of. / saw Hamilton,
| carpenters mate, of the Baltimore run
| nlng, chased by man with a knife. /
knocked the latter down. A policeman
then cut me with sword and / knocked
him down with 81 one and ran towards
the mole, followed by mob Of Chilsans
who stoned and finally drove me into
the water. | was struck in the back
| OF the head with a stone while in
| the wafer. | finally succeeded in
| reaching land, when l was again attacked
by the mob, who hit me with long pieces
If boards. l was badly hurt. / ran and
lodged into doorway. French naval
officers came up and escorted me across
tie street into clothing store where |
renamed until arrested by a policeman
and taken to Jail in a cab. / was so
badly bruised l could not stand. / was
perfectly sober and acted entirely in self
defense. This ended the morning session
| and practically concluded the exaInina-
| tion Of officers begin
Lieut.. Sebree, of the Baltimore tesli-
fed today that a German sailor was
beaten by Chileans prior to October 10th,
and the latter excused themselves by
saying that they thought him an Amer
can.
He and Captain Schley went ashore
on the 10th and he remarked that the
sailors were behaving well.
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.--In reply to
the inquiry as to the truth OF the report
that an ultimatum demanding instant
apology and reparation had been cabled
to Chile the president this afternoon
said he had sent no ultimatum to Chile,
and that he is still devoting himself to
careful examination of voluminous Chill
can correspondence.
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 1.-THE United
States authorities are informed that
CARA is ten miles east of Laredo. Spies
have discovered that there will be a
concerted move of the entire revolu-
tiouary forces made in Mexico in the
next ten days. The United States forces
will be concentrated there as rapidly as
possible.
The TROUBLE AT AsCENCIoN,
ST. Louis, Jan. IA special dis
patch from Deming says that no courier
has arrived there from Ascension, Mex
up to late hour last night, but one is
expected today. The latest informa-
ton from Ascencion, is to the effect that
the town IS still in possession of the rev.
Olutionists. Everything is quiet, but
what the result will be when the troops
from Chihuahua arrive it is impossible
to determine. The INSURGENTS are we'll
ar ned, under good discipline, strong in
Numbers and will not submit without
battle. The troops only comprise one
hundred men and they will be tagged
out erom their five days forced march.
The Mexican government is making
every effort to suppress the news OF the
trouble.
SANTIAGO, jan. IA special CORES
pendent to the Associated Press SAYS
that Capt. Schley informed the navy
department. of the fact of the German
physician who lives in Valparaiso saws
that be saw higgins shot by the police
officer and that he went into a drug
store where Rigginsswas taken to see if
he could assist him and two policemen
We're present to whom the physician said
that he thought they would get into
trouble for having shot the sailor The
policemen replied. at made no differ
ence as the man was only id Yankee
and they intended to shoot more OF
them Efforts are being made to have
this testimony produced in court.