The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Mr.. Saeres, a resident of Peru and who is said
to be political refugee, arrived in the city
yesterday and is at the California. He says
that the revolution from which that country
is now suffering began last April and that its
object is to GUST President Caceres from his
position. That official, Mr.. Saeres says, has
worked himself up to the Presidency from
the position of a common soldier. Tie
present leader of the revolutionist forces is
named Pinola, and the fighting has been
almost without cessation for the first five or
six months, with success alternating between
the two forces When the trouble first began
there were not over twenty-five or thirty men
engaged in the outbreak, and they were led
by big farmer named Seminareo In
the first trouble that occurred an American
named Sarberg was killed. He was the con-
ductor OF train on the road extending from
the port OF Payta to the interior city of Piura,
which the revolutionists attacked and cap
tured. They held possession of the road
and train for several weeks and ran up
and down the line extorting money
from the friends of the Government with
which to purchase munitions of war. The
forces OF the rebels now number from 5000 to
1000 soldiers, Mr.. Saeres says, and they are
now endeavoring to capture Lima, the capital
of the country. Mr.. Saeres brought with him
a huge sack of gold, which led to report that
his mission here was to purchase war supplies
for the rebels
J. 7. Phillips, commercial man who repre-
sents Philadelphia house dealing in holiday
goods who was at the Palace yesterday, be-
leves that the outlook for the present years
business in California is of an encouraging
nature and states his reasons for the belief as
follows: "My duty takes me to almost every
city OF Importance in this State" said he, "and
/ have taken particular pains to ascertain the
results of the late holiday trade among nv
customers and others where it was pos
sible to obtain data. Almost every re-
port goes to show that the stores which
cater to tradespeople of moderate means
and the poorer classes did a better
business in that season this year than they did
last or even in the concededly prosperous year
of 1892, while on the other hand, the stores
which look to the rich for the greater portion
OF their patronage report marked decrease in
their sales. There are exceptions to both in
stances, OF course, but the proposition holds
good in the main. This indicates, to my mind,
the fact that the incomes of the wealthy people
have suffered greater during the past business
depression than have those of the poorer peo-
pie, and believe that the State will enjoy ex-
ceptional prosperity this year if present indica-
tons will hold good"
''The recent death of one Of your most prom
inent millionaires and the much-discussed
probability of contest of his will recalls to
my mind the history of a very wealthy man of
my city who died but short time ago." said
A. Webb of the New Haven Arms COMPANY
at the Occidental yesterday. '"The gentleman's
name was Edward Heaton, and at the time of
his death his property was estimated as worth
$300,0 900. Mr.. Heaton was engaged in bust
ness enterprises which brought him in a large
yearly income, and the reason he did not
leave millions behind him was because of
q peculiar resolution formed by him in early
life. 1t was said of him that when he first en-
tered business he openly declared that $500 900
was sufficient capital for any man, and that he
never proposed to retain more than that
amount. Men who sustained close relations to
him say that he had accumulated the amount
specified many years ago, and that he persist
emily adhered to his resolution and disposed of
additions to his capital by an un-
system of charitable bequests He
was said to have had horror of will contests,
and took this method of distributing his sur
plus means, the $500, 600 being divided among
his three children
Z. w. Allen, representative of q Chicago
railway supply-house, who was on the Southern
Pacific train which was wrecked at White
Plains, twenty-five miles east of Wadsworth,
New, Wednesday evening, is at the Palace. He
says that from an examination Of the wreck
and track he is convinced the wheels on
the front truck of the engine must
have taken the track all right at the
switch where the derailment occurred, but
that the driving-wheel took the switch rails
and the accident followed. The force of the
whip-like motion of the engine threw the en-
yineer, the fireman and the top OF the cab in |
which they were sitting fully seventy-fve feet
from the track. BY the wreck two of the mail |
ears were thrown into position representing |
The letter "V" inverted. Mr.. Allen thinks it is |
miraculous that the two mail clerks were not |
killed.
Colonel John A. Cockerill, recently managing |
editor of the New York Commercial Adver- |
User, and for many years prior to that time |
Joseph Pulitzer's right-hand man in charge of |
he New York World, is expected in this city in |
/ day or two, en- route to Japan for the New /
York Herald. Colonel Cockerill is given credit /
among newspaper men with having done more
o bring the World up to its present successful |
standing than any other man, with the posi-
Die exception of Mr.. Pulitzer himself.
Paul Jones, the individual who started from
Boston several months ago, ostensibly to make
! trip around the world on a wager of $4,000,