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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-08
CLEVELAND THE ARBITRATOR
Of the Big Controversy Between
Brazil and Argentine.
AWAITING THE RULING.
1t Means Much to the Strategic
Strength of the Two
Republics.

WASHINGTON, Oct. president Cleve-
land is expected to give his decision as
arbitrator of the important boundary dis
Dute between Brazil and Argentina soon
after his return from Buzzards Bay.
Baron Rio Branco, special Envoy from
Brazil, accompanied by large suite. is
now here awaiting the decision. The case
has been in Mr.. Cleveland's hands eight
months. and as The treaty OF arbitration
provides the decision must be made within
year it is being looked for almost any
day. The time for the decision expires
February 10 next but as Mr.. Cleveland
will be busy with Congress and public af-
fairs after his return he is expected to dis
pose of the arbitration question before
taking up domestic affairs.
1t is understood he has made the arbitra-
tion his special study during working
hours at BuzZards Bay this summer. 1t is
very complicated case, the brief of Baron
Rio BraDco filling several large volumes,
while the mans. old treaties. etc., and the
brief of DR.. Zsballos, the Argentine Min
lister. make falr-siZed library
MIR. Cleveland has not turned this mass
Of documents over to the State Depart
ment, but has undertaken personally to 20
self-imposed task which the President
does out of courtesy to the southern re-
publics and in the extent of interests in
volved and legal complications it is as
large as any case pending in the United
States Supreme Court.
Mr.. CIeveland's decision will settle
whether the eastern boundary of Eastern
Argentine remains as usually given iu the
ma ia Wiz 6ah hy
projection almost to the Atlantic Coast.
If Argentine gains this strip it will have
considerable effect on Southern Brazil, as
it will almost sever the great State of Rio
Grand 90 Sui from Upper Brazil, the re-
naming connection being a very narrow
istbmus compared with the general width
of Brazil On the other hand it will give
Argentine narrow arm of land stretch
ing from the north to within forty leagues
of the Atlantic.
Mr. Cleveland's coming decision is
awaited with much interest by the SOUTH
ern envoys, as it means much to the strate-
gic strength of the two dominant South
American countries. Moreover, the dis
puted territory is itself very valuable for
its mineral and agricultural resources. 1t
embraces 1882 square miles, with towns
and villages having population of 5793,
most of them Brazilians.
Mr.. Cleveland's arbitration is the result
of the treaty made when Dom Pedro was
Emperor of Brazil Ii has taken since
then to make the surveys aud present the
case and MIR. Cleveland's decision will
cioss the controversy. He is obliged
under the treaty TO give all the disputed
| territory TO Brazil or TO Argentine, so that
there is no opportunity for a compromise.
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there from the United States of Ye
Sung 500, the Korean Minister to Wash
Ington, who Is on his return to Korea.
They also give some interesting details OF
that celebrated chapter in the correspond
ence between the United States and Japan
which eliminated in the letter from Sec
retary Gresham to United States Minister
Dunn. touching the japanese attitude
toward Korea. which had been the subject
of much comment in the United States.
1t Will be remembered that at the time
japan was in complete military control oil
Seoul, and her demands were very sweep
ing, being as follows:
a reorganization of the duties and
service of the revenue officers OF the var
ious departments. The appointment OF
new Minister in charge of the commercial
intercourse and foreign relations. The
public roads must be wideDed and rail-
roads and telegraph lines built by the
Government between Seoul and other i'm
portant places. The number Of govern
ment bureaus must be reduced and the
salaries of officers sufficiently increased so
they NAV live properly. The system of
records of receiptS and disbursements of
the Government must be changed and a
way of increasing the public rev.
enues determined upon. The none
tary system must be changed. New rules
and regulations for the management of the
Custom-houses must be adopted. The
farming lands of all the provinces must be
resuryeyed and numbered for the pur-
poses Of taxation. in order thatthe amount
needed for public Improvements may be
raised. The administration of justice
must be changed. Military officers must
be educated and the other system of the
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BILLIARDS. RAGING.
Severe Snowstorms Set in Up in the
North.

NOEtns
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. IA blizzard is
raging through North Dakota and portions
of South Dakota and Northern Minnesota
tonight. In many places the ground is
covered with snow, and the cold is severe.
Telegrams indicate freezing conditions in
the sections named.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 7.-Reports from
various parts of Eastern South Dakota
and the western part of Minnesota are TO
the effect that severe snowstorm pre-
vailed to-day, accompanied by high winds
aud heavy rains. The snowfall at huron.
S. D.. was heavy and lasted for three
hours. while west aud north Of that city
the storm was even more severe. This is
the first snow of the season aud it seems
likely to report for duty in this city before
morning. the mercury being on the down.
grade with a stormy wind from the West
blowing at lively rate.
OMAHA, Nebr.. Oct. There are ex-
cellent prospects of a blizzard in Ne
braska tonight. The mercury has been
rapidly falling since noo0, and the wind
is blowing gale. The freezing point had
not been reached at 10 p. NJ, bnt it was
rapidly nearing that point. No killing
frosts of any importance have yet oc-
CURED in Nebraska, but one is expected
tonight.
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MURDER SUSPECTED.
Strange Death of John Tierney
and Wife.
The Couples Marriage Five Weeks
Ago Was Opposed by the
WOman's Son.

MIDDLETowN, n. Y, Oct. IA mys-
teriOus morder and suicide, or doub BILE mur-
der, occurred in this city this morning.
John Tierney was found with a bnllet
hole in his temple. His wife was lying
near him with bullet hole in her right
breast while pistol lay . few feet away.
The affair occurred in cafe owned and
conducted by Mis-. Tierney.
An aged uncle, Robert Flynn, awoke at
6 80 o'clock this morning and went down.
stairs to the kitchen in the basement and
built fire. While thus engaged he heard
report, which did net seem to him, he
says. like that of pistol. and the fall of a
body. A moment later it was folio wed by
another report. He sent young man who
had just come in the back door of the cafe
to ascertain the cause of the noise. The
young man returned, reporting nothing.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Tierney's son
Thomas, who was said to have been asleep
on a sofa in the kitchen, went up and
found the two dead bodies. His mother
lay in the parlor with her feet in the bed
room adjoining. and lis stepfather lay in
the center of the parlor. He ran to his
mother and found the body still warm.
Tierney was gasping and frothing at the
mouth.
What at first appeared to be suicide
and murder now LOOKS to the authorities
like double murder. Tierney married
Mrs. Mcclure. widow with son, five
weeks ago. Thomas was very angry at
the marriage and left the house for two
weeks. About the time of the marriage
he took 44-calIbsr British bulldog re-
volver and threw it behind trunk in a
closeti in his bedroom. He claims that no
one knew 1t was there but himself. Young
Tierney gives it az his opinion that his
mother was murdered by her husband,
who, he asserts. committed suicide.
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army and navy must be abolished and re-
organized Oh moderate basis. The police
system must be thoroughly reorganiZed
aud stations esta ablished in Seoul and
other important places. The school sys-
tenn must be recognized.
To these demands Korea replied she
was, and for many years had been, substi-
tuting such changes in the governmental
system as the public revenues would sup
port, and that while they realized the
superior military power of japan, which
they would not resist, they hoped the
national independence would be respected
and Japanese troops then iu possession OF
the capital of the country would be
withdIawn.
Al the same time the King instructed
the Korean Minister atWashington to rep
resent the conditions to the United States
to the end that the good Offices Of the
United States be used to bring about the
withdrawal of the japanese troops.
He was further instructed to say that
the exact condition described in the treaty
of 1893 with the United States had arisen,
and to beg the United States to carry out
the obligation it had assumed in the article
reading: ''If other powers deal unjustIy
or oppressively with either Government
the other will exert their good Office on
being Informed of the case to bring about
an amicable arrangement. thus showing
their friendly feelings"
Secretary Gresham responded TO this
appeal by communicating with both China
and Japan in Korea's interest. China
agreed to withdraw her troops, but Japan
declined to do so. Then the Secretary
added the celebrated note Of instructions
to Minister Dunn, which. after summing
up the situation and the obligation of the
United States, concluded in the following
words: "Cnerishing sincere friendship
for both Japan and Korea, the United
States INDUCES the hope that Kores's In
dependence and sovereignty will be re-
spected. You are instructed to say to the
Government at Toxic that the President
VIII be painfully disappointed should
Japan visit upon her feeble and defens e.
less neighbors the horrors of an unjust
war"
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were noted. and the removal was thought
advisable. 1t proved, however, very ia
tiguing. and the doctor did not regain his
frrmer coudiiion.
Last Friday sudden attack of heart
failure, which, with long-standing
asthmatic trouble, prostrated him, but this
morning he had apparently recovered.
After his physician had gone, however,
the doctor was seized with a severe spasm
aud before medical aid could be called he
had passed away. He was unconscious
for short time previous to his death.
Around his bedside were gathered the
members Of his family. Judge Oliver Wen-
dell Jr.. the only surviving son, Mrs. Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr., and Edward j.
Holmes, nephew of the poet. Although
the poets death occurred shortly after
midday. il did not become known until a
late hour tonight The house was
darkened and police guarded the entrance
to prevent the household from being dis
turbed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at
Cam bridge, Mass. August %, 1909. He
was graduated at Harvard College in 1929
and began the study of law. which he
abandoned for that of medicine. Having
attended the HOSPITALS of Paris and other
European cities he began practice in Bos-
ton in 1886 In 1888 he was elected profess
sor of anatomy in Dartmouth College and
in 1S47 was appointed TO similar profess
sorship in Harvard College from which he
retired in 1886
Oliver Wendell Holmes verses began to
appear in various periodicals in 1881, in
which year he was % years old, and his
reputation as poet was established by
the delivery of a metrical essay entitled
Poetry" which was followed by others in
rapid succession.
DR.. Holmes father was long pastor OF
the first church in mbridge. then a
rambling pleasant country village. The
little boy as soon as be was old enough
was sent to DANES school in Cambridge
port. He was an imaginative, fanciful
child. easily frightened and there was a
glove-maker's sign, big wooden hand.
which he had to pass on bis daily walks
to and from school. which always filled
him with terror. sob. the dreadful hand y
he says in one of his essays. always hang
ing there ready to catch up little boy,
who would come home 10 his supper no
uOIc, hui kct W Uou-MHOoC puttiukCi
would be laid away empty thencefortb,
aud his half-worn shoes wait until his
smaller brother grew up to fit them"
1t was ip 1857 that Dr.. Holmes flashed
upon the American public. There are a
great many who can remember the delight
fui surprise with which they greeted the
"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" that
brilliant series of articles which brought
the Atlantic Monthly into immediat e
vogue. Before that the doctor had given
his life both to law and to medicine, with
occasional dips into poetry. With the
"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" he
became the most popular writer in
America.
His life was busy enc. While attend
ing to his arduous duties of many kinds
in different colleges, he still found time to
write. and has turned out something good
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-08
EIGHT COACHES CONSUMED.
Ten Men Receive Very Serious
Injuries.
LIVES SAVED BY A MIRACLE.
The Disaster Caused by Bolt
Having Been Placed in
Rail.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Oct. IA special
from Bristol. Teun.. to the Times says:
At few minutes past / o'clock train l
from New York on the Southern Railway
jumped the track about three miles south
of Bristol.
The engine tell across the track and the
express and mail cars jumped over it and
falling ON their sides were soon a prey to
the flames, which consumed all the train
of eight coaches. with the exception of the
last Pullman. which was cut loose and
backed from the train.
A train with physicians from Bristol
arrived about an hour after the wreck and
Immediately set at work to relieve the in
jured. The injured are:
Samuel Smith, engineer, leg broken and
scalded; buried under the wreck in the
train; taken out with difficulty; will pro b.
ably die.
VIII Holmes, fireman. head cut badly
and scalded.
w. w. Rogers. express messenger, arm
broken and head injured.
Tucker. postal clerk. ankle broken,
cut in the head and back.
{. n. Markwofth of Bristol, postal clerk,
badly hurt; arms, legs, back and head in
jured.
w. 81. Simpson of Messy Greek. bag
gageman, arm broken and internal iu-
juries.
Thomas McDermott, Michael Coleman,
John Coleman, emisrants from ireland,
sustained severe injuries on the head. thigh,
chest. legs and arms.
A foreigner, name unknown, was badly
hurt on the chest aud legs; very seriously.
Everybody was bady shaken I'D and it is
miracle that many deaths did not result
CAPTAIN Bell conductor. escaped with
slight bruises. The accident happened in
cut between TWO high embankments and
was the result of bolt having been placed
in a rail by unknown persons.
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Wien living in Boston DR.. Holmes
occupied house in Beacon street, from the
which he could see the town of Cam
bridge where he was born, and the village
of Cambridgep0ft, where he went to
school. The old gambrel-roofed house III
which be was born was pulled down a few
years ago, but during the revolution it
was for time the headquarters of the
American army. and for several genera
tons 1t was one of the sights of the town.
The group of Americans TO which
Holmes belonged included Hawthorne,
Longfellow. Thoreau, Emerson, Lowell,
Whittier and Margaret Fuller. He was
the last of this great company and it is
perhap, too soon to fix with accuracy his
relative place in that group. But it is not
too soon to say that none of them has had
more readers and few of them have been
so universally enjoyed. Posterity will prob
ably not rank him with Longfellow and
Lowell as poet. nor give him credit for
the same ascetic love of nature that dis,
tingushed Thoreau. His novels. Elsie
Venner" and 'The Guardian Angel" can
hardly be placed in the same category with
Hawthorne's best work, and he was not
tue man of affairs that Lowell was.
DR.. holmes loved all poetry and poets
and had a sincere love for Longfellow.
Poems with a tender sentiment gave him
most pleasure and work without fancy
had no charm for him.
The list of poems and other works
that DR.. Holmes turned out during
the last sixty-6ve years would mount
up into the hundreds. But all of
them have afforded pleasure to millions of
people. ana will continue to do so for gen.
erations to come and keep his memory
forever green, no matter what niche in
literature the cri ties assign him.
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antlquated fashion and there is consider
able disagreement among the Chinese
generals.
The Chinese are gaining the sympathy
of the Korean people by paying for their
supplies and maintaining strict discipline.
The dispatch concludes with the statement
that the admiral Of the French fleet has
arrived.
A Standard dispatch from Berlin says
the negotiation of the powers with the
United States with a view to the joint
protection OF their subjects in China are
said to be much advanced by the Anglo
French agreement on the subject, and a
general entente may shortly be expected.
The dispatch further saws that Austria
has intrnsted the protection of her sub
Jects in China to Germany.
The Japanese Government has in
structed Field Marshal Yamaga to inform
the diplomats at Seoul that he will not
allow the japanese army 10 plunder
Peking 10 case that city is taken. This
assurance will probably induce the dip!o-
mats to stay in Peking, even should the
Emperor leave the capital. They will. at
any rate. attempt TO negotiate peace by
asking Japan to be moderate in her de-
mands.
The Emperor's palace in Peking is now
guarded by Mantcnu troops only.
The Japanese army advancing on Peking
Is said to have many Koreans in its ranks.
The recent statement that American offi-
GERS had entered the Japanese army has
been rectifed. 1t now appears that Gen.
eral Ruggles and several other American
officers were readily permitted by the
Japanese Government to follow the CAM
psign, but solely as spectators
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SAYS 1T is MALICIOUS.
Arrest of the Manager of an Invest
n1ent Syndicate

NEW YORK. Oct. Hubert Fallen,
financier of Brighton, England, the mana
ger of the Langes Property Investment
Syndicate of America. with offices at 155
and 157 Cannon street, London, was ar
rested yesterday morning by detectives
and arraigned this morning in the Tombs
Police Court. The arrest was made on
telegram from Chief OF Police Frederick
Atchison of Des Moines, Iowa, charging
Allen with obtaining $500 from Dr. B.
Lyons of Des MONIES on false pretenses.
The company. of which the defendant is
the manager, was organized for the pur-
pose of interesting English capital in
American farm loans. Allen characterzes
bis arrest as malicious. and saws at best
The case is an attempt to settle a civil
matter by criminal proceedings. The
amount be is charged with stealing was,
he alleges, given to him for preliminary
expenses, and his arrest WAS the first in-
timation he had of Lyons dissa tisfaction.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-08
BETTER MAN-kILLERS
Superiority of Small CaIiber
Rifles.
Satisfactory Tests Made With the
Krag-Jorgensen Weapons
for the Army.

WASHINGTON, Oct when the War
Department decided to abandon the old
heavy calioer Springfield rifle and arm the
troops with the Krag-Jorgensen small
caliber repeating rife, IL was predicted by
the adherents of the old arm that the ne "
weapon would dissrroi-t its friends 10 its
destructive power.
This prediction has proved unfounded.
by experiments made by the medical staff
of the German army, and repeated by our
bureau of military informal on. The ter
rible destructive effects of the new weapon
appear strkingly set out in this report.
1t is said the wounds inflicted by the
small-bore bullet. Notwithstanding its
small size. are highly destructive, owing
to its enormous speed of rotation, which
causes the tissues struck to be torn within
a radius of four inches. The report says
up to 66O yards bullet striking the
neck or abdomen means death. From $50
to 1000 yards most serious. and in many
cases fatal, results are certain to be in
fiictad. Beyond 1900 yards the injuries
cused resemble those inflicted by the
round bullets which were in use before
1860.
gressed to the line of safe practice when
they adopted the calber of 62 bilimeters
or 3 of an inch for their rifle in 1892. and
they were disposed TO criticize the Navy
Department when it went beyond them
and still further reduced the caliber of
their rifles to milmeters. or .236 inches,
only trifle larger than % pocket-pstol.
But now in the last report they concede
the tendency of the best authorities seems
to be toward a still smaller caliber, some
professional men asserting that the calber
should never be larger than SIS MILNE
ters.
zone result of the reduction of callber is
shown by the new navy rifle, which will
shoot point blank up to 725 yards. This
means that at any distance within two
ffths of mile the men can shoot accu-
rately without any allowance for the
dropping of the bullet. and are thus re-
lieyed from the necessity of adjusting
their sights for each range"
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offered $500 for information leading to
their recovery. Last week inquiry was
made as to whether the reward was still
good. The reply was in the affirmative.
After some mysterious negotiations the
pictures was given into the possession of
the family and S1500 was paid to lawyer
in this city, to be turned over to the man
who gave the information.
Everybody concerned in the transaction
was pledged to secrecy in regard to the
identity of those concerned In the transac-
ton. a short time agoa man was arrested
in New York for murder. He had no
money with which to pay his lawyer. In
this extremity he told the lawyer he could
get $500 from some pictures that had been
stolen by. a gang Of which be had been a
mem ber. and he told him the story of the
robbery.
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each year, as we'll as adding to his long list
OF short poems that have made him

each year, as we'll as adding to his long list
of short poems that have made him
famous.
The death of Oliver Wendell Holmes
robs literature Of one of its most shining
lights and the world of one of the most
gentle and kindly men that ever lived
For many years past visitors TO Boston
might have seen walking through the
streets a slender, white-haired old gentle
man with most distinguished bearing.
But he was old in appearance only, for his
heart was as light and buoyant as in the
days OF his youth, and he took the keenest
interest in the problems of life.
Said the old gentleman not long since,
at his beautiful country home at Beverly
Farms where he as accustomed 10 pass the
summer months each year. place redo
lent with pleasant memories to the Auto
crat: Yes, l am interested in all that is
taking place in the world nowadays.
though no more than ever before, for, as
a more than octogenarian, / would not, of
course, be expected to take deeper in
terest-if as deep-in the worlds move
ments now than formerly. However,
am a keen observer of each days incidents
and events, Notwithstanding
AT his summer residence at Beverly
Farms. DIR. Holmes has spent the greater
and the pleasanter part of his mature life.
II is plain country homestead. standing
little way back from the road. with a
bed of flowers in front and great rock
behind covered with clambering vines. 1t
is the Z, picsl New England home. without
obtrusive elegance, but everything be-
toking substantial comfort. Beside a
broad open fireplace in the study was the
poets favorite chair, and near it was an
other, always awaiting the expected guest.