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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
Sad Los ANGELES ACCIDENT
A RUNAWAY HORSE DASHES INTO
A CROWD OF ORPHAN
CHILDREN.
THREE LITTLE GIRLS RECEIVE IN
JURIES THAT May PROVE
FATAL

Los ANGELES, March 8.-Three of the 400
little orphan girls who attended the citrus
fair this afternoon upon the invitation of
the managers are lying in the hospital
bruised and injured, the victims of run
away accident.
The Catholic Sisters had conducted safely
their long line of small charges to the pa
vllion, and had started on the return trip.
An electric car was waiting on Broadway
for load of passengers, and the girls were
Just beginning to find seats aboard when
runaway horse came tearing down the
street The animal was going at terrific
rate of speed and dragged behind him a
two-wheeled cart. The crowd of children
filled the street completely, and before the
pedestrians on the sidewalk could give
warning the horse and cart were through
the line of girls.
Susie Brussuille, aged seven years, was
thrown high in the air, and landed on the
hard pavement, heap of bruised flesh
and broken bones. Leonita Teaver aged
eight years, and Virginia Morillo, aged
ten, were knocked down and trampled
underneath the hoofs of the frightened
horse, which continued its mad course down
the street until it collided with the tele-
phone post and was secured.
All of the injured children are still alive
but grave fears are entertained for the re-
covery OF any of them. The sad accident
spoiled the holiday for the orphans, and
the little ones talk in mournful whispers
at the asylum tonight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
COUNTY DIVISION.
AN EFFORT TO BE MADE TO PASS
ALAW GOVERNING IT.

SACRAMENTO, March S.-One more heroic
attempt will be made to pass general
county division bill to supplement the con-
stitutional amendment adopted at the last
election. Senator Linder's bill was amended
satisfactorily, it was claimed, to those who
desired to form new counties and to those
who were opposed to their formation.
Twenty three votes in favor of the measure
as amended were secured, but at the last
moment they Topped and Linder's bill was
killed.
On the same evening that Senator Lin
ders bill was refused passage, Assembly
man Davis measure, an identical instru-
ment with the Senate bill originally intro
duced, was withdrawn from the special
urgency file, and it was given out that no
further attempt would be made to pass a
general law.
Tonight this programme is all changed.
A strong effort will be made tomorrow to
have the division bill introduced by AS
semblyman Davis restored to the urgency
file. If this is done amendments similar to
those engrafted on the Linder bill will be
be offered and fight for the passage OF
the bill made.
1--WE have definitely decided to make one
more effort to pass general law in ac-
cordance with the constitutional provision
for the division of counties, said Senator
Linder tonight. ''I do not know whether
we shall succeed, but have hope that we
may. The people of the State declared by
an emphatic majority that they desired to
take county division fights out of the Leg
islature. 1t remains to be seen whether
the legislators will respect the wishes o.
those who sent them here to make the
laws of the State"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
Fatal ACCID ENT AT BELLA r1srA.
A RancIser Shoots Himself While Clean
ing RiGe.

ing a Rife.
REDDING, March 8.-Mrs. Spiegel, who
lives with her husband on the road be-
tween here and Bella Vista, about nine
miles from Redding, yesterday went to call
on her brother, Henry Hoppinger, who
lived by himself in cabin about a mile
from their home. On entering the cabin
she saw him lying on the floor with rifle
across his breast. On closer examination
she found he was dead, with bullet-hole
through his head Coroner Earnest was
notified, and with DR.. F. P. Mitcell went
to the scene of the tragedy, where a jury
was summoned and post-mortem exam
ination and an inquest was held From
the appearance of the room and the situa-
ton of the body, it appeared that Hop
pinger had been standing at workbench
engaged in cleaning a rifle. He had evil
IDENTIFY been holding the gun with the bar
rel pointing upward, and trying to look
through the barrel, when the weapon was
discharged, killing him instantly.
The Coroner's jury came to the conclu-
sion that Hoppinger came to his death on
or about the 9th day of March, 1895, from
a gunshot wound inflicted, accidentally, by
his own hand.
Hoppinger was in good spirits when last
seen. He was aged % years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
THEY ARE DESPERATE MEN.
Pursuing officers VIII Take No Chances
With the Robbers.


With the Robbers.
SACRAMENTO, March S.-Eastbound pas
senger train No. 3 was held up by train
robbers at 30 o'clock this evening few
miles west of Stockton, between that city
and the town of Lodi.
The first intelligence received of the
hold-up was forwarded over the wires by
Conductor Wyllie of the Oregon Express,
which was following close after No, 3, and
was tagged by brakeman who told him
that No. 3 was robbed The man could
furnish no particulars other than consider
able shooting had taken place, but whether
any one was injured or whether the rob-
bers succeeded in obtaining any booty he
was unable to state.
Conductor Wyllie Immediately backed
his train into Stockton and informed the
authorities, who started a posse in pursuit
of the robbers. As soon as the news was
received at Sacramento Sheriffs Cunning
ham and Johnson, with possee of officers
armed with double-barrel shotguns, OBJ
tanned a light engine and started imme-
diately for the scene of the robbery.
The two men who committed the deed
are supposed to be the same parties who
attempted to rob the same train near Sac
ramento last Saturday night, and upon
the failure of that attemat they procured a
horse and cart, robbed Schell's brewery
the following evening and fed by way of
the upper Stockton road.
The pursuing officers fully realize that
they have desperate men to deal with, and
express an intention to take no chances
should they be fortunate enough to over
take the desperad oes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09

when he reached Sacramento at AS this
morning, there were three robbers.
One of them climbed over the tender.
The first he knew of his presence was when
his fireman tapped him on the arm and
said:
Look over there, will you?"
He looked, and moment later had
gun at his head.
"The man had some dark knitted sub
stance over his head for mask" said Mr..
Ingle, with holes cut in it for his eyes. A
second man climbed over the tender a
moment later. They told me to stop
the train, and then they made the fireman
and myself get out and uncouple the ex
press car. After that they walked up to
the engine and one of the robbers said,
Now you go ahead, we've got gang up
here and we want You to go up to them "
when we had gone some distance with
the express-car he made me stop. The
train was about quarter of a mile back
and the robbers seemed TO fear no danger
from that quarter.
'They made me and the fireman get out
and walk to the express car. Then they
ordered Messenger House to open the car.
This he did, taking shot at the
robbers and then retreating to the back of
the car. They tried to get the express
messenger to come out. He refused and
threatened to shoot them if they came to
the door.
after parleying for several minutes they
gave me a dynamite stick and told me to
light it and throw it into the car. got
out some matches and tried to light the
fuse, but every time the wind blew my
matches out.
while was trying to get the fuse lit 1
was talking to the messenger trying to get
him to come out and telling him he was
fool to run the risk of getting blown to
pieces and having the rest of us blown up
too. He said there was no use of their
coming in as there was nothing in the car.
The rest of the story has already been
told.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
Russian River Fishermen canmo, Use Net

SANTA Rosa, March s.-There will be no
net fishing in the Russian River, even if
the fishermen who live at the mouth of the
river have succeeded in convincing many
residents of the northern part of the
county that ordinance No. 80, prohibiting
seining, basket trap or set-net fishing.
should be repealed. The repeal of the
ordinance was asked for in petition to
the Board of Supervisors this afternoon by
R. S. Logan and others from Healdsburg,
but the board by a unanimous vote refused
to repeal the ordinance on the ground that
the changes wanted by the fishermen
would be contrary to section 633 of the
Penal Code
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
Erpedittous Justice at Jackson.

JACKSON, March S.-J. H. Colburn, who
was convicted of robbery at Weiland and
sentenced to eight years in Folsom, and
who was granted new trial by the SUI
preme Court, was brought up last night
for retrial. He was at once arraigned,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six
and a hall years in Folsom. He had been
in prison fifteen months. He was re-
turned to the penitentiary to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
attempt at s,icsde In sacramento.

SACRAMENTO, March S.-Patrick Kennedy
attempted suicide to-day by slashing both
wrists with razor, but the instrument
being dull he failed to accomplish his pur-
pose and will probably recover. He tells a
sensational story of his alleged ill-treat
ment at the County Hospital, and claims
that after bong excluded from that insti-
tuition he was refused a permit to re-enter
by two of the County Supervisors. He
was found this afternoon in dense
growth of willows on the border of the
overflow at the foot of Twelfth street and
was removed to the Receiving Hospital,
where his wounds were dressed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09

where with his wife. for I desired that she
be removed from George as far as possible.
Tom and his wife went to the Berkey
ranch. 1 had no suspicion of anything
being wrong until Tom came searching for
his wife The trouble l had feared had
come all too soon."
Mrs. Woods and her family which con-
sists of two daughters and two sons besides
Tom and George, keenly feel the disgrace
brought upon them by the latter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
ARIZONA RAILROAD JUBILAT1oN.
Opentng.of the Line That Joins Northern
and Southern Sections.

o''o 50stF'''T It ''tCttUHS'
PRESCOTT, Ariz., March S.-The formal
opening of the Santa Fe, PRESCOTT and
Phoenix Railroad next week will mark an
epoch in the history of Arizona.
While Salt River Valley is one of the
most productive to be found anywhere
that section has been unable to find a mar
ket for its products. Northern Arizona
while only from 100 to $50 miles distant.
has been compelled to purchase supplies
from California and Kansas. The COM
pletion of the road brings the two sections
within a few hours communication, and
Northern Arizona will join with Phoenix
next week in three days celebration of
the opening of the road. Excursions are
also booked from Chicago, Denver and
other cities
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
INDEX RAIL RIDING INCIDENT.
Washington Miners Carry an Itinerdnt
Preacher Ont of To,rn.

TACOMA, Wash, March s.-A dispatch
from Index says H. J. Jacobs, an itin-
Grant minister, arrived here last night and
announced that he was "traveler from
hades," sent to purify the town. He took
charge of the Courthouse and began an ad-
dress in loud voice on immortality and
gambling. He declared that Christianity
was doing more harm than good. This was
disputed by the miners and the wayfarer
"from hades" left town on rail.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
The Mystery of the Leg.

Los ANGELES, March s.-Nothing new
has developed to-day in the matter of
the mysterious disappearance OF Mrs. Eta
Hoffman. Many people are inclined to
have faith in the theory that the woman's
leg found in Broadway yard belonged to
Mrs. Hoffman's body Detectives, how
ever, now claim that the theory of murder
is not at all reliable, and that it is probable
that the limb found was one that had been
amputated by surgeons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09
TIE ENGINEER,s sToRT.

Hosr the Three Robbers Held Up Him
and His Fireman.
SACRAMENTO, March 9.-According to the
story told by Engineer Ingle of the train,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29
GEN. LEES LAST YEARS.
Great Confederate, Leader Never Seen
Smile After the War.

Great Confederate, Leader Never Seen to
Smile After the War.
Gen! Lee never left Lexington after
he assumed the presidency of the col
lege," said S. d. Mccormick, recently.
'''He had distinguished visitors from
north and south and from Europe, and
they still come to visit his tomb. Hun
lreds of invitations came to him to at
tend army reunions and like, but he
always courteously declined them. But
every evening he would mount his
horse and take an hours ride. l have
often met him at these times. He
would always give the military sa-
Lutte. Sometimes he would rein his
horse and talk.
His demeanor was always dignified
and serious; indeed, sad. l never saw
him smile. One could feel the very
personality of Lee pervading the at
mosphere around old Washington and
Lee university. Every student was on
his honor. Not one of them would lie.
You have some idea of what college
boys are and what many of them
will do. They will stop at moth
ing in their pranks. Yet students at
that university have convicted them.
selves of pranks that caused their
expulsion because they could not lie
when brought face to face with Gen.
Lee. He was absolutely pure man
if ever one lived. He neither drank,
chewed nor smoked, nor ever used vul
gar language. He was clean man.
Washington was his idol. He pat
termed his life after that illustriou.
patriot. In his very bearing and per
sonality he reminded one of Washing
ton. You know how closely he wa'
allied with the family of Washington
The name of Washington university
was changed by the Virginia legisla
ture to that of Washington and Lei
university. Gen. Lees wife, Mary Gus
tbs, sleeps by his side in the tomb un
der the chapel platform at the univer
sity.
Directly opposite the crypt, wher
Lee lies, and on the same floor, is hi
private Office, with everything just a
he left this chair, his pen, everything
just as he had it in life. Above tn
crypt rises the monument, and upon
the reclining figure of the general i
military trappings, executed in tn
finest marble by Valentine. Custi
Lee, his son, is now president of tn
university. y."-Cincinnati Times-Star
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29

Texas fel,er were. he saw Magruder's
table all spread, with a heap of good
fixin's on it, and I'll be hanged II he
didn't walk in, pert as you please.
grabbed knife and fork and opened
fire all along the line on them fixin's.
"Magruder heard something in his
tent and hurried in and asked that
Texas chap what brought him thar.
The Texan lowed he were hungry.
Then the general, stiff and grand-like,
said: DO you know, sir, at whose
table you are eatin'?'
The Texas chap he kept drivin' in
the piclsets on them chick'ns, and he
said to the gen'ral, said he: No, old
hoss; and amt noways particular,
neither, since I've come soldierin'.'"
what did Magruder dop" asked a
| Yankee listener.
DO? Why, he saw them chicken
fixin's were spilled, and he jest put his
arm under his coat-tail, pulled his hat
over his eyes and walked out. And
that Texas hoss didn't leave anything
on that thar table cept the plates-not
even his compliments.
"Who were he? Well, no matter.
He hadn't no manners, he hadn't. He
were powerful hungry, stranger, that
chap were. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29

They told OF battles in days gone by,
Till 1t made my blood run chill
The leg was lost in the Wilderness fight
And the arm on Malvern hill
They sat on the stone by the farmyard gate
And talked for an hour more,
Till their eyes grew bright and their hearts
seemed warm
With fighting their battles DER,
And parted at last with u friendly grasp,
In u kindly, brotherly way,
Each asking OF God to speed the time
Uniting the blue and the gray"
Then the mother thought OF other days,
Two stalwart boys from her riven;
How thoy'd knelt at her side, and, lisplng,
prayed:
"Our Father, which art in Heaven"
How one wore the gray and the other the
blue;
How they passed away from sight,
And had gone to the land where gray and
blue
Merge in tlnts OF celestial light
And she answered her darling with golden
hair,
While her heart was sorely wrung
With the thoughts awakened in that sad
hour
BY her innocent, prattling tongue;
sThe blue and the gray are the colors OF God;
They are seen in the Sky at even,
And many a noble. gallant soul
Has found them passports to Heaven"
Springfield Republican.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29

says he is positive that he can find it,
for where he threw it into the water
the stream was very sluggish and
deep, and the bottom, as he knew,
was covered with two feet of mud. 1t
was at the bend of the stream, where
there was small likelihood of rise or
swift current that would be able to
carry the old weapon down the stream.
He also declares that he will be able
to recognize the gun from its being
bent and broken. Whether there is
any chance of finding the gun or not,
the friends of Capt. Jones are going to
afford him the opportunity of revisit
ing the old field and searching for the
lost rife, which, if found, will fulfill
the last hope of the old soldier and
cause him the greatest happiness that
can possibly come to him. Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29

and applause from the audience, she
thought to herself that if they could win
cheers and hand-clappings, cat could
too. So she made up her mind to try
an experiment. But she did not tell any
body. One night, when there was
fashionable concert in the hall, and
several beautiful women and handsome
men were taking part in the entertain
ment. pussy surprised everybody by
appearing suddenly in side entrance
and proceeding leisurely to the foot
lights, where she set up most un-
musical ''meowing." The audience at
first began to smile, then to laugh.
The singers semed amused, but, as
they were not supposed to laugh at all,
they had a hard time to keep from
smiling. The tenor stopped short on
high note, the soprano hid her face be-
hind her music score, and the basso
looked with profundo displeasure upon
the intruder. But pussy did not move.
She knew her rights, and was de-
termined to assert them. How to get
her off the stage without creating
ridiculous scene, was the problem that
vexed the singers. The stage manager
was appealed to, and he saw that there
was only one way to do it. He wore a
swallowtan coat, and he had a clean,
white shirt bosom in which beautiful
diamond sparlxled. His hair was CREASED
to perfection, and his nustaches were
waxed so that they stuck out at each
side of his face. He took nah ogany
cane and walked boldly out upon the
/ 80 10, tnh tho
Pussy saw him coming, but waited
for the cane to get near her. Then she
darted to the rear of the stage, be-
tween the exits. A recess was taken
by the singers, and all eyes were fast.
ened upon the handsome stage mana.
ger and the agile cat. The cat had the
advantage.
Here, pussy, pussy!" cooed the stage
manager, but pussy would not obey
him. He approached her and made g
sudden dive for her, but she bounded
lightly over his shoulder and was in an
other part of the stare. The manager
Redeemed, the singers laughed audibly
but the audience roared. Pussy was
nightly pleased with her first efforts
to entertain. She had made hit anc
; she knew 1t.
1t became necessary then to abandon
ell attempts to appear dignified, ant
the stage manager and the male sing
ers made a united attack upon poo
pussy, who, surrounded by a superior
force, had to surrender. She was car
ried triumphantly off the stage to th'
) cellar, where she was locked up, anC
the concert was resumed.
Since that eventful night of her debu
,, pussy tsls managed to escape from tn
, cellar and appear unexpectedly in othe
performances. Her ambition to shin
= as a star, however, is not appreciated
and the stage manager says that If sh
repeats her offense many more time
he will drown her in an unsympatheti
y tub of water.-N. Y. Recorder.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-06-29
THE CIRCUS GROUNDS.
Clever Work Done by the Man Who Lays
Them Out.

"Out of the way, you boys" says
Hunt, tape measure in hand, as he
starts forward to mark the long diam
eter of the big top" Two men trot be-
side him, their arms filled with iron
rods two feet long and pointed at one
end. Two others help him with the
measurements, holding one end of the
tape while he runs out the necessary
distances. He locates first the five
center poles of the big tent, an iron bar
being driven at each point. Then in
the same way he marks the circumfer-
ence of the tent, indicating the points
where the 20s poles will stand. A little
red or blue flag hutters at the top OF
each iron rod, making the plan of the
| tent stand out on the sod like geo.
metrical pattern.
The big top" 44O by $50, being thus
laid out, Hunt and his men hurry to tho
side of the menagerie tent, which is
connected with the main tent by neck
of canvas This they mark out in the
same way, the iron rods being topped
with white flags. All is done with in
credible rapidity, the plan OF the two
great tents being finished within
eight minutes from the start. In other
parts of the field are as quickly laid
out the dressing-room tent, two horse
| tents, the wardrobe tents, the side
show tent, the freaks tent, the freaks
drcssing-room and half dozen smaller
tents for the blacksmith shop, the re-
pair shop, etc. Thus, by four o'clock,
Jack Hunt, who never went to college,
has disposed Of enough angles, circles,
diameters and radii to drive profess
sor of mathematics frantic; and he has
made no mistakes, there being no pro-
vision in the programme of q great
CIRCUS for mistakes. Maga-
zine.