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The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
The Motives That Prompted
George A. Craig to Com
nit Arson.
IS ARRESTED AND CONFESSES
He Wanted to Burn Up His Fur.
niture and His Divorced Wife
and Her Husband.

Actuated by feelings of jealousy and re-
venge. George A. Craig admits that he set
fire at an early hour yesterday morning to
the dwelling occupied by his divorced wife
and her husband at 16 Bernice street,
Potrero.
The alarm was rung from box 70 at "a
O'Clock. The fire started in the basement
of 16 Bernice street, two-story frame
building, owned by John Ryan. The first
floor was occupied by Joseph Casey and
the top floor by Ryan. The flames spread
to the one-story frame dwelling, No. IS,
owned and occupied by L. Murphy, and to
the two-story frame dwelling, No. II,
owned and occupied by Mrs. K. Latch. The
loss to Ryan's building and contents is
$1100; to Murphy's building and contents,
$3.50, and to Mrs. Latch's building, $3.50.
The cause of the fire was at first at
tributed to an overheated chimney, but it
was subsequently learned that it was
case of incendiarism. District Engineer
Fernandez, after returning from the fire,
went to a restaurant on Ninth street. near
Market for a cup of coffee. While there
Fred Starr, the waiter told him that about
half-past O'Clock q man came into the
restaurant and ordered coffee and cakes.
When he was paying his check the man
asked Starr if he had any gasoline or coal
oil that he could give him. Starr replied
in the negative and asked the man what
he wanted it for.
81 have friend" said the man, "who
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summer campaign of the islanders, how
ever, has in every way, he says, been re-
markab.y busy one.
He saw in some places as many as seventy
five heads In punch. They were stacked
up over the canoe houses as trophies of
prowess. The bodies were eaten, in con-
Iormity with the long-standing custom.
Mr.. Harrison has been absent from the
United States about year, and was in the
Solomon Islands. from which he has just
arrived, for three months.
II went down there from Sydney on the
little coasting schooner Chittoor," said Mr..
Harrison at the Palace last night. land
cruised about. visiting many different
parts of the islands. Among the passen-
gers was Charles Atkinson, bright young
Englishman, who became my friend and
companion in visiting different parts.
There was also on board a sailor named
Flood, formerly of Philadelphia. with
whom we became acquainted. He was
very good fellow, and after we had landed
at the native village of Rubiana we all
three became very good friends.
"Ohe dav 1T was proposed that we all go
aboard the little schooner Narova, that
had touched there, for a cruise up the
island. 1t was agreed to and we were all
ready to go aboard. My baggage was
already on the vessel, when at the last
minute decided not to go.
II did not like the looks of things. I
had been advised by white man at Ru-
biana not to risk it, as the natives were
esp cially dangerous where the little craft
proposed to go. 1t was too late for me to
get my baggage off, so let it go. 1t was
lucky thing l did.
THAT night, ten miles from Rubiana,
while the little schooner was tied up, the
natives came aboard and killed everybody,
and Atkinson, Flood and the rest were
killed while they were sleeping on the
deck. Then the natives stole all the goods,
rided the baggage and finally dragged the
bodies to the bush and ate them.
Just before that two white men who had
been wrecked near the same place were
also killed and eaten.
Besides these, twelve Solomon Island
boys, who had been working in one of the
colonies, and who were on their way home
were landed at the wrong village and were
killed and eaten by warning tribe.
Early in September an attack was
made on another schooner, some of those
aboard being killed. I was in twenty or
more different places, and everywhere I
went saw evidences of cannibalism.
"a native may take you into his house
at night and treat you the best kind He
will never molest you there on the score of
hospitality, and you can remain there and
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
MISSION FOR MEN.
Opened Last Night at Sacred Heart
Church by Fathers O'shea and e
I,iendner.

At the Church of the Sacred Heart last
night a mission for men was opened by
the Redemptorists Fathers O'Shea and
Liendner, and will continue every evening
until a week from next Sunday, or until
the last Sunday of the year.
A mass will be celebrated and a sermon
delivered each morning at o'clock and at
o'clock and each evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Ladies are invited to attend the morning
mass at o'clock.
Father Liendner said in opening the
services: at is the object of the mission to
arouse the good within you, and this can
only be accomplished by the earnestness
of your devotion and your constant at
tendance: and, therefore, overcome all
obstacles and make all sacrifices to attend.
Father O'Shea found inspiration for his
sermon from tie words spoken by the
Lord, what would it avail man to gain
the whole world and suffer the loss OF his
soul?"
"None has ever been able to answer this
question" said he, from the time of our
Lord until the present day. There are
many men in this enlightened day who re-
fuse to believe in the existence of God or
in the immortality of the soul. The reason
is that they have never been properly in.
structed in the truth, and are taken up too
much with worldly things. There are two
distinct creations-man's body and his
soul. The first made from the dust of the
earth, and the last from the very breath of
the Maker. Mans unity of being reflects
the unity of God, and his trinity of intelli-
gence-intellect, memory and will-retects
the trinity of the Father.
''All men are forever seeking to acquire
happiness. Men have different ideas Of
happiness, yet the only real happiness and
power is gotten by doing the will of the
Father in heaven"
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w. P. Harrison's Narrow
Escape From Death at
Their Hands.
KILLED HIS COMRADES.
They Then Dragged Them Into
the Bush and Cooked and
Ate Them.
OTHER CRUEL BARBARITIES.
Harrison's Graphic Story of Numerous
Deaths Caused by the Head.
Hunters.
OTHER CRUEL BARBARITIES.

William Preston Harrison, formerly one
of the owners of the Chicago Times, arrived
here yesterday on the Australia. after some
narrow escapes in the Solomon Islands.
He pushed into some of the wilder parts
and fell in with the head-hunters, and his
partner and a sailor, who had gone down
with them from Sydney, were killed and
eaten.
Many other people, among them over
dozen white men, shared similar fate
just before and after Mr.. Harrison's ar
rival. He says that the natives are prac-
ticing nnlbalism all the time, and that
no native is considered fairly in the swim
till he has taken head. This used to be
so in the old ii mes, as most people are
aware, but most of them have an idea that
the custom was now nearly obsolete. The
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
HOSPITAL BENEFIT.
Actors Appear at the Baldwin for Bin
and Deaf Children.

Actors Appear at the Baldwin for Blind
and Deaf Children.
An excellent programme was presented
at the benefit for the blind and deaf ward
OF the Children's Hospital yesterday after
noon at the Baldwin Theater. The
weather interfered somewhat with the az
tendance, but there was by no means a
poor house.
Robert Downing and his company ap-
peared in the fourth act of Julius Caesar"
Mr.. Downing played Marc Antony, and
quite outdid himself in his rendering of
the part. The first act of 1892" was
given, ana Bessie BonehilI also appeared
In number of her specalties. The Stand
ard Quartet also sang
Dan'l Sully and his company appeared
for the first time in San Francisco in his
original comedy-drama, Daddy Nolan"
and won warm applause for the perform
ance. Taken altogether, the benefit was
quite an artistic success.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

lace as superintendent of the Childr en- $
Hospital Training School for Nurses. The
lady will assume the duties attendant
upon that position January 1.
Miss Wallace resigned month ago to
accept similar position in Roosevelt Hos
pital, New York, and left for her home in
Canada recently. Miss Pennewill is a
graduate of Blockley Hospital Training
School, and has since had charge of the
same. She leaves similar position at
Rush Hosoital, in the City of Brotherly
Love, to the one she comes to fill on the
Pacific Coast. She comes highly recon-
mended by the medical fraternity OF the
East
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
TROUBLE OVER A DEBT,
Otto Kotelman and Fred O'ConnOr Ar
rested by Floor-Walker at the
Golden Rule Bazaar.

Otto Kotelman and Fred O'Connor were
arrested last night at the instance of Henry
Schueman, a foor-walker at the Golden
Rule Bazaar, on Market street, near Geary
The young men were charged with dis
turbing the peace.
Young Kotelman is the bar porter at
the Russ House. Some time ago he gave
Mr. Schueman, who was then stopping at
the Russ House, $5, with which Schueman
was to buy him pair of shoes. Kotel-
man did not get the Shoes and he claims
also tnat be did not get the money either.
KoteIman is spoken of very highly at
the Russ House. He was bailed out by
his employers later in the evening.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
ROLLING UP NAMES.
The Buckley Primary Enrolment Con-
tinues to Prosper.

L
tinues to Prosper.
Reports FROM twelve districts were re-
ceived by the Buckley primary committee
last night as follows:
Twenty-eighth district, II; Twenty-ninth, a,
1873; Thfrtieth, 165; Thirty-first, las Thirty
second, 21l; Thirty-fourth, 90; Thirty-ffth, /,
12o; Thirty-ninth, So; Forty-second, 100;
Forty-third, 40; Forty-fourth, 50; Forty-fifth,
12S.
The total officially reported was last
night 6872. At the usual average, the
unreported districts would make the total
last night $500. 1t is now certain that the
remaining two nights of the enrolment
will bring the total up to more than 10000,
which is more than the most sanguine
Buckley1tes counted on last week. Should
the average of the eighteen districts be as
great tonight and tomorrow night as it
has been since Monday night the total
enrolment will exceed $1,000.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
Will Become Priests.

Saturday morning at o'clock five young
students of the Dominican monastery at Beni-
cia will be admitted to holy priesthood, the
exercises occurring at St. Mary's Cathedral in
this City. His Grace Archbishop Riordan will
otiiciate The names OF the young students are:
F. P. Driscoll, w. r. Thompson, F. P. Henry,
c. " Lamb and J, f. Barragan. On Sunday at
ST. Domnic's Church Rev. f. P. Driscoll win
celebrate his first mass.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
About a Sign Board.

Nolan Brothers Shoe Company has com.
menced suit against w. H. Nolan to have him
enjoined from using the name Nolan
Brothers" over his shoestore on Market street
The plaintiffs allege that for years they have
used the name "Nolan Bros.," and now the
defendant has q sign with Nolan Bros" in
big letters and just above in very small ones,
'W. III. Nolan, successor to-" The plaintiffs
want the sign taken down, and ask Sic. 900
tor the damage they allege IL has done them.
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SUCCEEDS MISS WALLACE.

Miss Eva Pennewill superintendent OF
the Children's Hospital Nurses.
Miss Eva Pennewill of Philadelphia has
been engaged to succeed Miss Elsie Wal
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
A shakespearean Recital.

This evening at O'Clock Benjamin e. Chaplin
OF New York, the dramatic interpreter and i'm
personator, will appear. for the first time in
San Francisco at the Young Mems Christian
Association Auditorium, Mason and Ellis
streets, when he will give by special request
''The Merchent of Venice"
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

Local Inspectors Talbot and Phillips yesterday
recommended that the license of Captain W. F.
Higgins of the steamer Cleone be suspended
for twenty days. On the afternoon of Novem.
ber % the Cleone ran into the pilot-boat Lady
Nine, d on tn ane seaWaii, while the iatter having
just getting under way with the aid of the tug
Alert The inspectors found that the Cleone
could have steamed around without colliding
with the Lady Mine. The latter vessel was
damaged about $500 worth.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
SHERMAN AND THE MONITOR
The Catholic Newspaper Says That the
Major Misnnnted L.

Major Misquoted 1t.
The Monitor takes Major A. E. Sher-
man to task for misquoting it when he
stated in published interview in THE
CALL yesterday that the Catholic publica-
tion gave him the title of 1.-The Greatest
Liar on the Pacific Coast" Upon the is
sue in question the Monitor Publishing
Company submits the following:
To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-DEAR
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GOOD paper, well sewed, fat opening, strongly
bound ledgers, cash journals, etc. Myself Rol-
Inns Company, % Clay street.
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Office draughts don't bother wearer of Jaros
Hygienic Underwear. He is protected from
climatic changes. Morgan Bros, 229 Montg. st.*
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

Jaros Hygienic Underwear for ladies, for gen.
tlemen: for children, for all places, all the
year. Morgan Brothers, 229 Montg. st.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

Jaros Hygienic Underwear the one under.
wear that is comfortable; absorbs moisture
keeps folks well. Morgan Bros, 229 Montg. ST. I
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
10 TLEASANT 81,
SAN JoSE Cal nac 10 1908

DAN JUSE, CdI, DtC. 10, ISJO.Y
Editor CdII-DEAR SIR: VIII you allow me
little corner in your paper in which to express
ing statement made by DR.. Bovard and pub
ished in to-day's CALL DR.. Bovard stated
that the Catholic church is the mother of all
the Protestant churches. Unintentionally, no
and a history OF which the Baptist churches
are justly proud, as they claim that their or
dination and fundamental principles have
been handed down through an unbroken line
of French Protestants and other Christians,
who have at ali times since her organization
been free from and prosecuted by the Roman
church.
AS your paper has such wide circulation
among Christian people, we are anxious to
have this statement published as an act of
justice TO our denomination. Yours, respect
fully, ]. q. LAWSON.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

suit of Jaros Hygienic Underwear worth a;
barrel of cures. Morgan Bros. 229 Montg. St.
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CLAIMS OF THE BAPTIsTs.

j. G.. Lawson Replies to Statement of Rev.
DR.. Bovard.
j. G. Lawson of San Jose writes to cor
rect a statement made by Rev. DIR. 3ovard
of Alameda in an interview, published in
THE CALL yesterday. His letter is as fol-
lows:
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20

The Rev. Father Yorke makes the fol-
lowing reply to the letter of G. A. Hub
bard of the American Protective Associa-
ton nnhIished in The CALL Yesterday:
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-23

York store an lays Jim on some boxes
an a wagon cover over him for a
corpse.
"'Cl'ar things out of the way along
by Jim's head. says Moore, who was
taking a big interest. We want to
FIX things so Jen gets at him easy. You
hyar me? She's goin' to come STAN
pedin' in yere like landslide when
she gets the news.
when everything's ready Tutt and
Moore. who concloods it's well to have
a good deal of shootin', bangs away
with their guns about four times
apiece
"'Jest shootin' once or twice.. says
Moore, might arouse her suspicious.
II would be over heap too quick for
the real thing
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-23
MY REWARD.

/ met her at the sea shore; twas lovely July
night:.
The band yaas playing gayiy, and the moon was
shining bright
I met her in the ballroom, and / danced the
two-step SO
men know"
walked upon the saffron, wave-beat SANDS
with that fair maid.
And told her that loved her, that my love
would never fade.
And she, she smiled so sweetly that l knew
that she was NINE
1t needed not her yes" to prove my blessing
so benign
I bought a rlng-a beauty-'twas brilliant
solitaire;
1t dazzled all behodlers; twas, indeed, beyond
compare
It cost two hundred dollars, and it came from
Bifany,
And when she put 1t on she seemed o'ercome
with ecstasy,
We drove together. walked together, braVed
the sea and storm;
We strolled at eve when it was cool, at noon
when it was warm.
bought her books and roses, and took her 10
the dance,
And told her that my best reward was just one
smiling glance
And all went we'll until one night another fell
low came
I never knew and do not wish to know, that
fellow name.
But when she introduced MIN, when we met
that awful day,
Said she to me: Il want you, George, TO know
my fiance.
And in the fall, when we are wed hope that
you will be
One of the ushers; you have been SO very good
to me.
You've helped me while away the long, dull
hours at the shore,
While poor old Jack was toiing in the city at
the storel"
-Harpers Bazaar
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-23
BROTHERLESS GIRLS.
They Are Very Apt to Grow to BE Priggish
Women.

Women.
The single daughter of house with
out sons is, of all women, the most apt
to grow into self-sufficing prig, and
number of daughters without broth
ers will often display, in less degree,
the same proclivity There is often,
too, furious spirit of rivalry. Broth
erless women have had no chance of
learning, as children. in what they can
rival or surpass men, and in what they
must infallibly, by the operation Of
the mere laws of nature, be out
stripped They have not the oppor-
tunity of learning, without thinking,
wherein men intend to rule, have
ruled from the beginning, and will
rule to the end. 1t is not, as a rule.
from the houses where there are sons
and daughters both that mannish
women come, but from the houses
where there are no sons, or where the
sons are exceptionally weak.
The boys in mixed household beat
the girls in all boys work so easily, SO
continuously and so permanently that
rivalry IN their pursuits dies away, and
the girls turn, without effort and with
out much disappointment, to their own
proper field. Above all, they learn
early and without pain the grand art.
first, perhaps. of practical feminine
arts, of putting up with things" in.
GLIDING a certain amount of what many
women now describe as oppression
the greater expenditure, for instance,
on boys, who are destined to maintain
households; their greater liberty. which
proceeds from unalterable circum-
stances and can not be changed, and
their much later introduction into the
active life and business of the world
The girls with brothers. we think we
may assert with confidence, are as
wives much less liable to get irritated
with their husbands than the girls
without them.-London Spectator.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-23

"The minute the shootin' is ceased
we ali takes Tut and surges over 70
the Red Light to try him; pendin
of which Dan Boggs santers oyer ~ :,
the o. X. restaurant an remarks al
casooal an careless like:
".Dave 'rutt down. Jim Wallace
minute back-good clean gun play as
ever / sees, too. Mighty big creai. 10
both boys this yere is. No shootin up
the scenery, an the bystanders, nor
sech slobberin' work, but everything
goes straight to centers.
".Whar is hep says Jennie, lookin
breathless an sick.
".Jim's remainder is in the New YORK
store, said Dan.
ISIS he hurt?' she gasps.
"'I don't reckon he hurts none cause
he's done futtered from the perch'
Why, girl, he's dead-eighteen bullets,
caliber As, plumb through him.
".No, but Dave! Is Dave shot" Iuc-
son Jennie says, a-wringin' OF her
small paws.
Now, don't you go to feelin AIS
couraged none says Dan, beginnin TO
feel sorry for her. we fixes the wretch
so his murderin' spirit won't be an
hour behind Jim's gettin' in. The
Strangers has him in the Red Light
maxim plans to stretch him right now. ,
1--WE had just consoomed drinks all
round an Enright was in the chair,
an we're busy settin' up big front
about hearin' the case, when Tucson
Jennie with scream as scares up sur
roundin' things to sech limit that
five ponies hops out of the corral an
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Harvard Rrduuatcu VIZ NNNNNtt w
| this year, and Yale $40.
The Church of England has fsis
eiehty-three years spent$ 45, o00 2 week
upon her schools.
Fifteen Vassar students have 1oIneI
the Salvation Army as result OF the
work of Mrs. Booth
The University Press at Oxford
has appliances for printing one hum
dred and fifty different languages.
DIR. Edward Andrews, of Chicago,
and Mr.. 7. r. Chase. of Detroit, are
said to be the oldest living graduates
of Ann Arbor university They be-
long to the class of 40.
The Unitarians in Boston have un-
dertaken Sunday open-air services on
the common this year The audience
numbered about one thousand at the
first meeting, and DR. Z. E. Hale was
one of the first speakers.
The year at Lafayette has been a
very gratifying one to it's officers and
alumni. There has been marked prog
ress in many directions, notably in en-
larged facilities in some of the scien-
tific departments and enlarged labora-
tory rooms.
Woman suffrage has made point
in Maine. The right of women to vote
in parish meetings of the Episcopal
church in that state was granted at
the diocesan convention, held in Port
land recently, by vote of 16 to Ii.
The right to hold Office in the church
is still withheld.
At a gathering of ministers and
members of various denominations at
New York recently the question arose
as to how many in the company could
repeat the books of the Bible in their
order. Out of the two hundred or more
present, one person only, and that per-
son a woman, had the confidence to
raise her hand and acknowledge that
she was equal to the occasion.
-Thirty-nine converts to a new sect
called the New York Light Community,
which seems to be run by some new
women, were baptized by woman
evangelist and exponent Of the new
doctrine in a creek near Arthera, III.
There were fourteen men and twenty
five women converts, and fully five
thousand spectators lined the banks
The woman preacher, Mrs. Kate Mil
Ter, who put the converts through and
under, is fifty years old, about five feet
six inches tall, and weighs $50 pounds,
and she immersed the big batch, which
included persons of all ages and
weights, with ease, exactness and ex-
petition.
Within the last five years the inn
possibility of any scholars mastering
uhaided the literature of his subject
has produced in Germany series Of
philosophical encyclopedia outlines.
"Grundrisse," in which number of
scholars combine to give the latest in
formation in their special field. Ivan
Muller has edited the outline for
Classical philology, II. Paul that for
Germanic, and G. Grober that for Ro-
nance philology. A ''Grundrisse" for
Indo-Arian language, edited by DIR. G.
Bahler, of Vienna, is now announced,
for which Prof Lanman, of Harvard,
will write the Vedic grammar, and
Prof Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins,
the history of Sanskrit literature.