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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
La PRESA HAS A MYSTERY.
Mrs. Schaffer'S Son Believes
That His Mother Was
Murdered.
Fire Supposed to Have Been Set to
Her Store to Conceal
Robbery.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, July 22.-The son of
Mrs. Louise Schaffer, found burned to-
death in the ashes of her store and post
office at La Presa Friday morning, is
working on the theory that she was MUIR
dered and robbed.
He believes the murderer was in the
house when she entered at 1915 o'clock
that night; that he stunned her with a
scale-weight, found near her remains, then
poured oil from the lamp over her and
started the fire. The burner was found
off the lamp. and under her body was bit
of glass as from the lamp-chimney.
The arms, head and legs were burned
away, and the trunk charred to crisp.
The light frame work building would
hardly have caused sufficient heat to &C
complish this without an additional in
fiammable material, like oil. Keys were
found sticking in the locks of two trunks,
including that kept by the widow in the
front room, where The postagestamps,
amounting to $34, were stored. The other
trunk was in the bedroom.
Mrs. Schaffer had lost money by bank
failures, and it was known also that she
had some money concealed in the house,
probably $500 or $780, A search under the
floor revealed $35, and some melted coin
made a total found of about SIS. The son
thinks the man got some money and
escaped.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
VICTIMS OF THE MALTA.
Two More Italians Shot Down
by a Louisiana
Assassin.
It Is Thought the Dread Society Has
Inaugurated Another Crusade
of Crime.

NEW ORLEANS, La, July 22.-Two
more horrible crimes were perpetrated by
an Italian to-day in the parish of st. James.
and very near the scene of the late whole
sale murders by the Sicilian. Naska. The
murders occurred in the rear of the Oak
Alley Plantation, on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. The victims were an Italian
named Sogoro and his wife, and the muir
derer was supposed to be another italian.
The bodies were found by negro on the
public highway about a mile from the sta
ton.
The negro says that he heard three shots
fired, and hurrying forward, found the
woman lying dead and filled with buck
shot. The murderer must have been close
to her for her dress was badly powder
burned. From where the woman lay there
were bloodstains on the ground for some
distance to the railroad crossing, where
the body of a dead man was lying face
his neck His shirt was also burned with
powder.
The cause of the crime was evidently
not robbery, for the bodies were undis-
turbed and money was found on them.
The man and woman had come from
Locust Point plantation to visit their
daughter and son-in-law. The indications
are that the murderer sneaked up behind
them at close range and fired, killing the
woman first and then the man.
The Italians in the neighborhood are
very much wrought up over the late
murders of their countrymen and fear that
the Malta has again inaugurated crusade
of blood.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
increase Richard S. Baverstock, Block
House. Reissue-Mathias Zeltler, Mount
sEAMEN ARE WANTED.
Government Vessels Kept oms of Commit

Government Tessels Kept Omt of Commits
sion for Lack Of -Mem.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 22.-The re-
turn of good times has SO reduced the
number of applications for enlistment in
the navy that it looks to the authorities as
if there will be some delay in placing the
Maine, Texas and Lancaster in commits
sion, despite the fact that one is completed
and the others will be ready for sea by
August l. Although strenuous efforts are
being made to secure men only few more
than 800 have been enlisted since June and
it is said by the department. that only 800
are now available for three ships. This
number would not make up the compile
ment for one ship. The Maine and Texas
each take 80 men and the Lancaster about
the same number.
When the Texas is placed in commission
it is the intention to make trial trip to
ascertain whether her machinery will
give 5000 horsepower as required by her
contract.
The board, composed of Naval Construc-
tors Linnard and Taylor and Assistant
Naval Constructor Dashiell, which has
been investigating the comparative merits
of cocoa cellulose and the plth of corn
stalks for cofferdams in ships, has sub
mitted its report to the Secretary of the
Navy, and that official is expected to act
favorably upon it this week. The board
made a strong finding for the cornstalk
product and recommended its adoption in
place of cocoa cellulose, now in use.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
HIS SEARCH TOO BRIEF.
Had knowledge of There Be-
ing Survivors Afloat on
LiferaftS.
THE CoLIMA WAS ToPHEAvY
Her Lifeboats and Rats We're En-
tirely Unfit for Their
Purpose.

SEATTLE, WASH, July 22.-J. E. Chill
berg, one of the survivors of the Colima
disaster, wrote letter from Guatemala.
Captain Pitts of the San Juan.
He says that about 8 o'clock on the
morning following the disaster, he, En-
rique Boeder and Louis Peters, cabin pas
sengers: Fred Johnson, sailor, and Robert
Gonzales, messboy, were on a frail raft,
being rocked about at the will of the ocean.
Three of their number had already been
washed off the raft, and those that re-
manned had concluded that death was not
far off, when they sighted the San Juan.
Just then second raft containing six sur
yivors ran alongside of Chilberg's raft
1--WE both raised signals of distress on
oars writes Chilberg. Then we watched
the steamer with beating hearts. she
see her white houses. We were confident
of being rescued. Our messboy, who was
Peruvian, stood up and shouted for joy,
Viva barracuda, viva barracuda Then
she turned and went out to sea. Twice
more she came close and then steamed
away.
"Why did Captain Pitts sail away from
the scene of the wreck without completing
his search? Ten men have escaped to
prove that he left them to suffer the pangs
of hunger and thirst and possible death.
Who shall say there were not others on
pieces of wreckage, who saw the San Juan
sail away that Tuesday, and lost hope and
were drowned? l am told by Mr.. Thorn
ton that he himself and others told Cap
tain Pitts that two liferafts were afoat
with men on them, and even begged him
to search little while longer. He refused"
Chilberg alleges that the Colima's deck
load OF lumber was so great that it made
her topheavy. The lifeboats and iferafts
were covered with canvas.
"Why," asks Chilberg "did we have a
mast with no sails, holes for rowlocks but
no rowlocks, fourteen-foot oars where eight
or ten foot oars would have been much
more useful? Why is there not keg of
water on liferaft and supply of bread 2''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
LIBERALS STILL LOSING,
Made a Gain of Two Seats, but
Lost Three in Their
Stead.
Martin White Won by an Unex-
pected Majority In a Con-
sentative Division.

LONDON, ENG, July 22.-The polls de-
clared to-day show a gain of two seats for
the Liberals and three for the Conserva-
tives. Forfarshire followed the example
OF the Briggs division OF Lincolnshire by
reversing the verdict of the election in No
vember, 1894, and giving Martin White,
the Liberal candidate, a majority of AL.
At the November election, which was occa-
stoned by Sir J. Rigby, the then Liberal
member for the county, being made a
Judge, Charles Maule Ramsay, the Con-
servative candidate, was returned by ma
iority of 226.
Sir R. 7. Reed, Attorney General under
Lord Rosebery, has an increased majority
in Dunfreisburgh. T. NJ. Healy, who rep
resented the Nationalist in Louth, also
had an increased majority. Four Liberals
and two Conservatives show gains over the
votes by which they were returned at the
previous election.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
AN EARLY SAN JOSE FIRE.
Two People Had a Very Narrow
Escape From the
Flames.
The Clothes and Hair Of Mrs. Harry
Hartman Were Ignited as
She Fled.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-The resi-
dence of Harry Hartman on Grant street,
between Marliere and Delmas, was de-
stroyed by fire about O'Clock this morn
ing. When discovered the flames had
gained such headwav that Mr.. Hartman
and his wife escaped with only their night
clothes.
In going downstairs Mrs. Hartman
clothes and hair caught fire and she ran
screaming into the street, where neighbors
extinguished the burning garments before
she was seriously burned,
Mr.. Hartman made his escape by jump
ing from second-story window. 1t is
supposed the flames resulted from spon-
taneous combustion, as a lot of inflamma-
BILE material was stored under the stair
case.
The loss on the house is about $780, with
$500 insurance. About $3.50 worth of fur
niture and personal effects were destroyed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
LONG HELD A PRISONER.
Spanish Volunteers Demand
That Jose Aquirre Be
Executed.
ARRESTED WITHOUT WARRANT.
The State Department. Denounced
for Not Interfering in His
Behalf.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July pa letter
received to-day from Havana by George
w. Aquirre, young Cuban, temporarily
in this city, said that his uncle, Jose M l.
Aquirre, who has been held prisoner IN
Havana for several months, was in danger
of being put to death. The killing OF
Santosciides. he said, was the immediate
cause of his uncles present danger, and
the young man was very angry at the State
Department, which he denounced roundly
for allowing his uncle, an American citi-
zen, to be kept in prison until this danger
overlook him.
According to Mr.. Aquirre's story and
some copies of correspondence between
the State Department and Senator Call
of Florida and A. A. Aquirre of ST.
Louis, Jose Aquirre was arrested
without warrant on February "a, the
same day on which Julio San
gully, another American citizen, was
arrested, both being taken on suspicion OF
being connected with the insurgents.
Aquirre's nephew says that his uncle had
no intention of aiding the revolutlonists,
and that the Spanish Government has
made no charge against him and can make
none His uncle had lived here for num-
Der of years, the nephew says, when he
went to Havana in the winter.
Aquirre says that the letter he received
to-day said that the killing of Santoscildes
had aroused the resentment of the Spanish
volunteers in Havana, and that they had
demanded that Aquirre and Sanguilly be
delivered up to them for execution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
FOUND Il BLOODY ROPE.
Result of the Search of Holmes Chicag
Residence.

CHICAGO, ILL, July %. = Important
discoveries, which throw additional light
on the murders commit ted by III. III.
Holmes in the house which he once occu-
pied at Sixty-third street and Wallace
avenue, are being made almost hourly by
the detectives who are engaged in the in
vestigation of the premises. While work
ing alone yesterday afternoon Detective
Sergeant Norton found half-inch rope,
about twenty feet long, with a running
moose at one end and plated loop at the
other. What lends mystery to the find is
the fact that there are red stains on each
side of the running knot, and those stains
resemble blood. In a toolchest which
stands in the storeroom on the second floor
of the building the discovery of the rope
was made.
The police inspector in charge of the
search of the Holmes residence here says
he is not yet ready with an opinion as to
had for the rope found in the cellar The
theory that the former druggist strangled
Minnie Williams and Howard Pietzel with
it by hanging them down the elevator
shaft the inspector admits as being posi-
bly, correct. but beyond that he will not
commit himself.
From the knowledge already possessed
of the willy Holmes and his schemes the
theory is scarcely tenable.
More secret rooms and passageways were
discovered in the house yesterday by news
paper men. A trapdoor in the floor of one
of the upper rooms, when opened, dis
closed steps leading to secret door enter
ing Holmes Office. A letter addressed to
Holmes and marked personal was found
in rubbish pile on the second floor. 1t is
from the mother of Mrs. Conner, express
ing anxiety as to the whereabouts of her
daughter.
Mrs. Pietzel had an agent in the house
yesterday looking for vault that has not
yet been discovered.
Later in the day old bones, probably a
dozen of them, and the sole of woman's
shoe were discovered by the laborers dig
ging in the cellar of the Holmes house.
The bones look as though they might have
belonged to some animal. The sole is
about AZ or size and is half rotted from
is long rest in the damp dirt. Arrange
ments are being. made for better ventila-
ton in the cellar while the search con-
tinues, as another explosion is feared.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
BEAD-END COLLISION.
T,co Trains Crash Together Filth Ter
rifle Force.


rifc Force.
BRADFORD, Pa, July pa head-end
collision occurred this afternoon at
o'clock between the passenger train from
Olean and a freight train on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Western road.
Emmett Burdick had his ankle sprained,
and II. NJ. Saunders, passenger of Smith
port. was thrown over several seats and
had his head cut and leg injured. An I'M
known girl had her arm broken, and sew
eral others were badly bruised.
The freight train had orders to meet two
trains at Smithport, but in some manner
the engineer misread the order, am after
the first train had passed he started out
with his train. The two engines came to-
gether with terrific force, and both were
almost completely demolished. The loco
motive of the freight seemed to have
fairly leaped on top of the passenger en-
CINE, and the tender went whizzing
through a boxcar on the passenger train.
Strange to say, neither of the engineers
nor the firemen were injured, notwith-
standing that the account states they did
not jump from their cabs.
The passenger train was running at its
usual rate OF speed, but the force of the
collision was so terrific and unexpected
that all the passengers were thrown from
their seats, and the greater number of
them received slight bruises of some kind.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
GYPsIEs COMING WESTWARD.
Another CaraUam FOLLOWING king Juar's
Trait to California.

another CARAVAN Following king Judfs'S
Trait to California.
NEW YORK, N. Y, July 22.-Another
colony of Syria-Brazilians has sailed from
Puerto Cabella, Venezuela, for New York.
They are due about the last OF this month.
The foreigners are coming on to join King
Juan Miguel and his army of Brazilians,
who departed from New York in wagons
at noon Friday for Southern California.
Before King Juan left the metropolis he
arranged with NJ. V. Marcelja, the inter
prefer, to meet the party at the steamer
and fit it out with another caravan and
start it westward.
This news will carry gladness to the
hearts of the First Ward horse and wagon
traders. Marcelja asked the king to leave
his itinerary with him, so they could start
the second party in the right direction,
but the King refused. He said:
"Show them the ferry crossed by US and
point them toward the setting sun. They
will find us. Ny people were born with
the instinct to successfully find their coun-
trymen without asking a question when
once put on the proper trail"
King Juan left Jersey City last night by
rail for Washington, where he will spend a
week with the Brazilian Minister, joining
his caravan when it arrives at the capital.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
ROsEBERYs MISTAKE.
Should Have Confined Himself to Re
forming the House of Lords.

forming the House of Lords.
TORONTO. ONT, July %. - Professor
Goodwin Smith, in an interview with a
United Press representative to-day on the
elections now in progress in Great Britain,
said he believed Sir William Vernon Har-
court s local veto bill had done his party
much mischief, and that socialistic rad
icalism had received final blow in the de-
feat of Mr.. Morley. Mr.. Chamberlain's
socialistic proclivities, if he retain them,
may give trouble.
Professor Smith believes Lord Salisbury S
majority dangerously large, and that his
Lordship is not good leader. The Duke
of Devonshire would make better one.
He believes Lord Rosebery's most hopeful
course would have been to lay home rule
aside, and take up in broad and patriotic
way the reform of the House of Lords. He
has marred for time bright career, but
his gifts and his personal attractiveness are
such that he will probably come to the
front again. Mr.. Smith says meantime
all of British blood may rejoice that the
mother country has been saved from dis
memberment and revolution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
Prosecuted or His Son.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-William La
Montague, who was brought to the County
Jail from Los Gatos yesterday to await an
examination as to his sanity, has been
charged with assault to commit murder.
The complainant is Ed La Montague, a
son of the accused who charges his father
with assaulting Bob Edwards at Los Gatos
Saturday night with knife. The trouble
is the outcome of drunken row.
The accused is a well-known rancher of
Union district and is we'll off. He has a
penchant for liquor and while under its in
fiuence is very violent. Every effort has
been made to cure him of this failing, but
without avail
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
TWO LIVES FOR A DEBT.
Il Chicago Laborer Fatally BOUNDED a
Won1an, Then Killed Himself.

woman, IHen ftttcu ht'HscI'
CHICAGO, Ill, July 22.-This morning
at Ii o'clock Draidde Balingona went to
the home of Mrs. Rosalie Davido, 239
One Hundred and Fifteenth street, and
drawing razor from one of his pockets
and revolver from the other, asked her
which way she preferred to die. Three men
who were in the room rushed to Mrs.
Davldo's assistance to save her from her
assailant, when BaliDgona opened fire.
The first shot struck the woman on the
right side of the head; second one went
through her neck. Balingona then turned
the weapon on himself, receiving a bullet
in his own brain, dying instantly. The
woman will die.
Last winter Davido, who is laborer,
had little work and was not earning sufi-
cient money to support his family. Balm
gona loaned him money from time to time
and helped the family through the winter.
For month or more he has been urging
Mr.. and Mrs. Davido to repay the loaned
money.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
The Stanfeld Estate.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-James ].
Stanfield to-day filed petition for letters
of administration on the estate of his
father, John Stanfield, who was killed in a
runaway accident Wednesday,. In the pc
tition it is set forth that the estate is
valued at 100000 and consists of the fol-
lowing: House and lot in Santa Cruz
County, valued at $1,000; 262 acres of inn
acres of unim proved land in Kings County,
$1,000; stock in Los Gatos Bank, $500;
stock in Union Savings Bank, $2400; Farm
ers' Union stock, $780, Electric Light and
Power Company stock. $44OO, and mort
cages amounting to $1,000. The heirs are
Margaret J. Stanfield, the widow; the petit
toner, James ]. Stan6eld, son, and Mrs.
Phoebe Fretwell and Mrs. Sarah Fellows,
daughters.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
OF interest TO THE COAST.
Pensions Granted Veterans of the Pacific
CTo~e

WASHINGTON. D. c.. July 22.-George
A. Miller has been commissioned Post
master at Cotati, CAL, and Pendleton M.
Epperson at Durham, Cal.
Pensions for Californians were granted as
follows:
Original = Felix Fitzpatrick, Arroyo
Grande; John Franklin, East San Jose.
Restoration, reissue and decrease-Hen
Johnson, Santa Monica. Increase-Thomas
Martin, San Francisco; Francis McHugh,
Los Angeles. Reissue-Alvin Gibbs, Pasa-
dena; John Joy, alias William Brown, Ala
media; Joseph H. Dustin, San Jacinto;
Henry Stoddart, Santa Barbara; Charles
o. Hutchinson, Alpine; Theodore E. Gill
bert San Jose. Original widows. etc.
Minors of Frederick Raymer, Fresno.
Widow Indian war-Elizabeth P. Berry,
Sebastopol.
Oregon, original-Allen L. Broxson, Mil
ton.
Washington. original-Charles D. Wood,
Spokane; William E. Newton, WEIGH ;
William Hensel, Seattle. Renewal and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
GLADSToNE HOPEFUL.

Said the Liberal Party Could Afford to
Stand Upon Its Record.
LONDON, ENG, July 22.-G Gladstone, in
a letter to friend, writes:
at is too early to speculate upon the
causes of our defeat. We should learn les
sons from the fact, but the Liberal party
can well afford to stand upon its record.
The disasters that are Astounding on every
side enhance the satisfaction afforded by
the successes where courage and patriot
ism stem the prevailing tide"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
MUST RECEIVE DECENT BURIAL.
cities Viii Not BE Reimbursed for Inter.
ring Reterans n. Pofter,s Field.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 22-Assist-
ant Secretary of the Interior John M. Rey-
nolds to-day decided that municipal
corporation that cares for sick soldier and
burles him as pauper in the potter's field
has no right to reimbursement under the
pension laws: Had the corporation cared
Tor and buried him decently, then the
claim would have been allowed.
The case IN point was that of Edward
York Infantry, who died in iail at st.
Cloud, Mimi, where he had been confined,
the result of spree. He left no property,
and the city buried him as pauper and
asked the Interior Department to reim-
burse it. Judge Reynolds disallowed the
claim.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
4 Prisoncr Attempts Suicide.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-Charles Niles,
prisoner serving fifty days in the County
Jail for mis- demeanor from Santa Clara, at
tempted suicide by cutting the arteries of
both wrists with pieces of glass this morn
ing. He was discovered before he had lost
a great deal of blood and the wounds were
dressed. Niles would give no reason for
making the attempt at suicide other than
that he was tired of life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
Sutts Aaat,,st rhe Southern Pacific.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-Suit was
brought to-day by E. NJ. Lincoln against
the Southern Pacific Company for $3.50, 900
damages for the death of his son, IS years
of age, who. it is claimed. was pushed
from train by a brakeman while passing
through this city July %, 1893.
The trial of the suit for 500 900 damages
against the Southern Pacific Company,
brought by Stephen Cuthbertson. the old
man who had his foot cut off while in the
railroad wards, began to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23

moved from Coyote station to the in
Urinary. His death was the result of a
drunken row at dance at the house of ].
Cunier, Portuguese rancher, on the night
of June %. During the progress of the
row Verugo was struck over the head with
a club by Demetro Cano. A few days later
he took to his bed and complained ofpains
in his head. He was neglected and death
resulted from meningitis, caused by the
blow on the head. The jury returned a
verdict accordingly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
WalHam,s Ne,o Yacht IN q Race.

SOUTHAMPTON, Eng, July 22.-Em-
peror Williams new twenty -rater yacht
Vinetta, which was designed by Watson
and constructed at Kiel, made her debut
under the auspices of the CASTLE Yacht
Club to-day finishing third in race with
the Audrey and Inyoni.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
Com,nittcd to Glen Ellen.

SAN JOSE, CAL, July 22.-Judge Rey-
nolds to-day committed Mrs. Annie
Green to the Home for Predetermined at
Glen Ellen Mrs. Green is about IS years
of age and has been an inmate of the in
Urinary for some time. OF late she has
shown such an inclination to be giddy that
Superintendent Circuit charged her with in
sanity