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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05


fortunate ones, and will continue to draw
$1,000 per annum under Sheriff Whelan.
Special Officer Mcdonald was there
with bis star. He gets place, too. He
was one Of the don t-remembar" wit
nesses in the recent inquiries into election
frauds and irregularities. and was sharply
rebuked by Judge Wallace when giving
his testimony. This fact was recalled to
his memGry by number of his brother
deputies, who joked him about finding the
atmosphere of the courtroom not con-
genial.
a clean sweep is made of the head
iailers. or superintendents, at the jail on
Broadway and branch iails and 2. In all
there are SeYenty-two deputies who take
Office under Sheriff elect Whelan and
some eighteen keepers in addition.
There is sure to be trouble between the
new Sheriff and the Board of Supervisors
In regard to the patronage OF the House
OF Correction. Among those whom MIR.
Whelan has appointed are sixteen guards,
a superintendent, deputy Superintendent,
matron and her assis ants and few other
employees at the branch county iails.
These appointees will succeed the pres
ent staff In day or two. Before many
days pass. however. they will find to
tnelr oismay that they may not be able to
retain Tue positions assigned them, Tor the
reason that Others will likely be appoin ted
to their places by the new Board of Super
vlsors.
Mayor Ebert and the present board took
all responsibility of the House of Correc-
ton management out of the Sheriff's
hands. The Finance Committee passes on
pills OF that institution, pays all the salar-
les. and il it so wishes can refuse TO audit
salary warrants for the guards or other
employees.
AS the Board of Supervisors assumed
control OF the House of Correction thew
claim the right to likewise control its
patronage. and it 10 believed the incoming
board will look out for some of its friends
in this connection. The effect of this will
be to remove between twenty and TWENTY
five Democrats from municipal positions
and replace them by Republicans.
the Republican mem bers of the incom-
ing Board of Supervisors were to have held
a caucus in the Palace Hotel last night
but two of them rould not be present and
the meeting was postponed.
Several meetings have been held pri-
vately already. but much difficulty has
been experienced in so arranging details az
to please all concerned. What took place Il
these gatherings has been kept secret to
great extent and yet enough has transpired
through reliable sources TO warrant the a n
nouncement that Superintendent Spreck-
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known each other for several years. Last
fall, when the young lady went abroad with
her father, Mr.. Paget was passenger on the
same steamship. Subsequently he accepted
an invitation to join the party In a cruise up
the Nile. The young people were really en-
gagged before they got back to the United
States The date for the marriage Is not
known yet.
The prospective bride Is Mr.. Whitney
oldest daughter. She Is about twenty years
of age, distinguished looking, and has q
charming personality. Besides her physical
attractions she has many accomplishments.
She has long been belle in society, and
there was always much speculation as to her
choice. Since her mothers lamentable
death In February, 1898, Miss Whitney has
not been socially prominent. She came near
dying last summer from a severe attack OF
diphtheria. Her complete restoration to
health was not accomplished until after the
trip up the Nile. She has two brothers and
sister.
Mr.. Paget is about thirty years old, and
came to America when sixteen. He spent
several years on ranch and then settled IN
st. Paul, Mimi, In the real estate business.
He had no financial backing Of consequence
IN this undertaking, but had something
worth more than capital-health, nerve, am
bition, tireless energy and a natural talent
for business. He won his way against not
competition and his success was good news
to relatives and friends In England. This
connection, by the way. opened up prof1ta-
BILE field for him, and he became the accredtt-
ed agent for important English investors.
He Is little known in the East as yet; but In
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and other
Western cities Is popular with men OF means
and reputation.
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TWO SHOTS At OUR FLAG,
The American Schooner Carrie A. Lam
Fired on by Spanish Gunboat.

The American Schooner Carrie A. Lane
Fired on by Spanish Gunboat.
The American schooner Carrie A. Lane
was fred upon by a Spanish nan-of-war on
July IA, and one Of the schooner's crew
narrowly escaped being killed by can
non shot Two solid shots were fired direct
at the schooner. The vessel was made to
heave to and give an account OF herself be-
fore being allowed to proceed.
The schooner was of Cape Antonio, fully
12O miles from the coast Of Cuba, and max
ing good time before stiff breeze, when she
sighted steamer flying the Spanish flag fol-
lowing her. Captain Quick, of the Carrie A.
Lane, at first paid no attention to the
stranger. but after an hour or 80 noticed that
she was signalling him to stop.
While he was trying to guess why she was
following him q puff OF smoke curled up
over the steamers bow, and a round shot
whistled uncomfortably close to the schoon-
er's mainmast and plunged into the water on
the lee quarter.
Captain Quick gave the order to haul IN
sail and bring the vessel to- and while this
was being done one Of the crew ran out
on the bowsprit. As he stood there
the gun on the Spanish warship
doomed again, and another shot sped on
its way towards the American craft, tnts
time coming 80 close to her that the sailor
on the bowsprit declares he distinctly felt
the.wlnd caused by Its rapid flight.
The Lane soon came to dead stop and
the gunboat drew up under her quarter
A boat was lowered and four Spanish
marines under the command of leu
tenant in the Spanish Navy came
aboard. They were fully armed, and their
leader very civilly lifted his cap and de-
mauded to know from what port the Lane
had sailed and whittier she was bound.
Captain Quick gave the required informa-
ton and produced his clearance papers IN
proof Of his assertions. No further search
was made and the vessel was permitted to
continue on her course without further mo-
lestation.
Captain Quick considers the incident e
tritie, and believes the Spanish vessel to
have been we'll within her rights when she
ordered him to heave to of coast upon
which 1t Is notorious that flibusterlnS ex-
peditions are constantly being landed.
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The Labor World.

In Spain more hands are employed In the
cotton industry than any other save agr1-
culture.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Company has advanced the wages OF mine
aborers ten per cent.
Within four months 10000 Alabama
worNngmen have had their wages increased
from ten to fifteen per cent.
Greensboro, N. G., is to have cotton mill
built by New York men, who guarantee to
spend $685. 900 within a year.
The Western railroads in order to be able
to transact all OF their business have been
obliged to increase their force OF employees.
With all wage scales settled. the iron trade
entered upon the second half of the year
with PROSPECTS OF the heaviest summer out
put in years.
A cotton mill is to be built at North Adams,
Mass, which will employ over 1000 people,
will have $1,000 spindles ana 2100 looms, and
will cost 81 100000
The newspapers which have been attempt
ing to keep record Of the manufacturing con-
Germs which have increased wages have
found the work too heavy.
New England has q greater proportion Of
wage Garner than any other section OF the
country, in Rhode Isladd the proportion
reaching forty-two per cent, or nearly one
half OF the entire population. This remark
able state Of things Is due to the employment
Of women and children in the mills.
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WE'RE MEXICAN coioNlSTS.
Pitisble Story OF Deception Told by Col
ored Victims.

Pitisble Story OF Deception Told by Col
ored Victims.
Aspecial from Ciudsd PorArio Diaz, Mex
loo, says: One hundred and seventy colored
colonists arrived from the City Of Mexico In
box car. Quarantine Officer Evans has
isolated them In cars under guards, where
they will be held until all danger Is past.
United States Consul Sparks wired for more
rations, as several hundred more were ex-
pected to arrive of the 700 who took part In
the exodus from Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and other Southern States, passing
through Torrean last February to make
their fortunes through the aid of a coloniza-
ton company.
Nearly 400 of them, starved, half naked
and diseased, have been camped for the past
few days near Torrean. Such miserable.
hungry, bare-footed lot will be hard to equal.
They tell a pitiable tale of deception.
They were assured that the place was on q
railroad, good house to live in, five acres
Of land to cultivate their own vegetables,
etc., plenty of game, and all were given q
blank contract which was to guarantee
them half of the crop Of sixty acres. which
each was to take care of-hfty In cotton
and ten In corn. After their arrival they
vainly endeavored to get the contracts
SlSAOu, UuL IL S00u1S laO COulEdClS nOAO
never sir ned or fulfilled. The houses were
miserable adobes. The water was vile and
killed good many with q species OF ma
laria and swelling Of the limbs. The death
rate averaged Ave week, and they claim
nearly 100 died there, principally owing to
the water and lack Of medicine and medical
attention.
Finally they were told that they had no in
terest in the crop, and that the company
would pay them fifty cents a day. This was
done for about two weeks, when 1t was cut
to thirty-seven cents a day. If they were
sick they received nothing, and If what they
say Is true, many one died crying for some
thing to eat. The manager about this time,
it is alleged. told them the company had
broken its contract and he could do nothing.
and advised them to "go."
This, after planting and raising one of the
finest, If not the best. cotton crops ever
grown in the State OF Durango. Then they
left. Many Of them. In order to do 80. hal
to sell their personal effects, bedding, furni-
ture. etc.
It Is estimated that there are about ITO
more at Tahuanilo and twenty-five at Me-
pi1ni station awaiting transfer.
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cLoUDeURSTS IN THE WEST.
Colorado and New Mexico Visited by Fa-
tai Downpours.

Adelaide. COL, flourishing mining town
on the line of the Florence and Cripple Creek
Railroad, about seventy-fve miles from
Cripple Greek. was struck by a series OF
cloudbursts that flooded tho entire
district and devastated over fifty
houses. Three persons were drowned
and swept away by the rusn
of water and many narrowly escaped drown
ing to be rendered homeless. Those
drowned are R. NJ. Cove. Dick Dolan, Frank
Colwell Fatally injured: Mrs. Carr, pro-
prietress of the Adelaide Hotel: Lea Iravey,
a waiter; John Watson, COOK. Inc nrst
rush of water occurred at about O'CLOCK a,
M. and came down Eight Mile Creek IN the
shape Of an immense wave. This resuiten from
a cloudburst ut the head Of the creek. fifteen
miles north of the town. The Adelaide Hote!
was carried away before the vast volume OF
water, guests scrambling amid their e1ects
In mad rush to save themselves. earned
along in the seething waters we're timbers
from cabins along the creek, which tended
to make the work OF rescue more oan-
gerous. The cloudburst was followed oy
second one. and again another, which razed
many buildings to the ground, including ia
stores and residences. The damage TO tne
town will exceed 100000.
A heavy rain from the east met q cloud
from the west near Snake Ranch, eight
miles from Socorro, New Mexico.
The wave was twenty feet high and came
down in the Arroyo and submerged Chi
huahua and Cuba, two small SUBURBS,
washing down houses and rushing
through others. Women and children were
struggling In the waters. Eight bodies were
recovered. There were many narrow es-
capes. Mrs. A Mayer and her mother were
washed away. but rescued. Forty houses
were destroyed, q hundred more that VIII
fall and others badly damaged. water
is three feet deep and all the principal
street are strewp with furniture and large
boulders. The water main OF the Socorro
Water Company was badly damaged ana no
drinking water was to be had. Hundreos OF
people are in distress. Damage to the town
Is estimated at S700, 900.
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The National Game.

Duffy again leads the Bostons In hitting.
Fuller. New York shortstop. made bis first
sacrifice hit in his sixtieth game.
Already FIVE teams have at various times
held the lead in the League race.
The Nashville Club excepted $500 offer
from New York for Outhelder Butler.
Cincinnati Is utilizing Pitcher Parrot as an
outfelder because OF his heavy batting.
McPhee Is the only member Of the champ
ion 's2 Cincinnati Reds still playing ball.
Cleveland was the first team since 1898 to
win four consecutive games from Baltimore.
Latham, OF Cincinnati, this season, as
| usual, is up among the leading base run
ners.
Thompson, Of Philadelphia, still leads the
League In home runs. He has made nine to
date.
The closeness Of the big League race has
practically killed prospects OF trades OF any
| kind.
The Bostons have more games to play on
| their own grounds than any other team In
the League.
| ALI five of Cleveland's pitchers-Young
| Cuppy, Wallace, Knell and Wilson-are now
| In good trim.
Maui and Mcclure, Of Washington, for ELL
| around work make one OF the best batteries
| In the League.
Sheehan, first baseman Of the Little Rock
| (Ark.) Club, takes Connor's place at st.
| Louis's first base.
| Louisville has at last won two games In
| succession and has also reached double
| figures In victories.
| The Baltimores knocked all hopes Of the
pennant out OF the Chicagos by defeating
| them three straight.
Hoffer's work for Baltimore so far stamps
him as the best young pitcher developed TINS
| wear. Wallace OF Cleveland, and Dolan, OF
Boston, come next.
New York has found Chicago and Louis
! Vile very easy this year, winning seven our
Of nine games from each.
Springfield, Providence, Wilkesbarre and
Syracuse are making grand race for the
Eastern League pennant.
| Clarke. who was recently purchased by the
| New Yorks from the Scranton team, is the
| coming first baseman OF the League.
| Murphy seems to be mascot for the New
| Yorks. az their winning streak began with
| his taking Burke's place IN left Held.
Roger Connor and Jack Glasscock, the
| Leagues oldest veterans, next to Anson, re-
| tired within two weeks OF each other.
| Brooklyn has already won the series with
| Louisville, having taken rine games. 1t was
| the first club to win series this year.
The Maysyille (Ky. )team beat Washington,
| Boston and Cincinnati, and then went down
i, in three straight before Knoxville's team.
| To think that 80 small man as Keeler, OF
| Baltimore, should lead all the League slug
gers! Truly it is the eye and not the size.
| Rusie's performance in his two games
| against Chicago on July and 9 Is unparal-
| leied. So far as memory serves, no pitcher
previous to this time ever shut out an oppos-
ING team two successive games in the same
] series.
Nicholss great distinction has always been
] an extraordinary control Of the ball and q
courage to put it over the plate whenever
| necessity demands it. Fewer men get bases
| on balls from the Bostonian on the average
than from any other pitcher in the National
League.
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BOGUS GINSENG DISCOVERED.
Cheap Ginger Roots With tho Genuine
Article.

Cheap Ginger Roots With tho Genuine
Article.
The ginseng industry in the United States
and Canada, amounting to $4,000, 900 an
nuslly, Is threatened with ruin through the
rascalty Of a smart lot Of unscrupulous
tradesmen. The plant grows wild in nearly
every section Of the United States. New
York and Canada produce the choicest root:
The Chinese are almost the sole users OF
ginseng. They regard 1t as an all round
panacea. The root sells all the way from S2
to $40 pound. New York ts the centre OF
the trade. There are in New York City
about twelve dealers and eight buyers.
Fraud was discovered by the Chinese buyers;
In looking over some lots Of root they found
scattered through the genuine ginseng. q
quantity OF Japanese ginger, which sells for
only thirty cents pound. Further investi.
cation showed that from 10000 to 2o,eoG
pounds Of the Japanese stuff had been mixed
with the American ginseng. It is feared
that the country Is flooded with the counter.
felt article. It is asserted that unless
check Is put to the fraud the legitimate In
dustry will in all likelihood be destroyed:
This would mean loss Of revenue to greaf
number Of rhe farming class.
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TRAIN ROBBERS FolLED.
Six Charges Fall to Open q Dynamite
Proof Safe.


The westbound New York and Chicago ex-
press, train No. 81, on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad, was held up
by six masked men shortly after midnight at
Reece siding, about ten miles west OF "au'
seon, Ohio.
The robbers were mounted, and evidently
familiar with the train and with the fact that
an unusually large sum OF money was in the
stationary safe in the express car. Ihey
brought the train to stop by displaying
red light, compelled the engineer to dis
mount aud placed him under guard.
They then attacked the express car, intimi-
dated the messenger, and easily opened the
way safe, which, 1t Is said, contained only
s15O. They next proceeded to dynamite the
heavy stationary safe, but after exploding
six charges failed to force the door open.
None OF the passengers was molested, alo
the robbers rode away into the dense woods
which skirt the track at Reece Siding.
The many express robberies throughout
the West during the past few years. with the
consequent heavy loss to the companies and
the added expense of employing detectives
and armed guards, led the United States Ex'
press Company, about year ago, to Gull tol
designs for safe constructed especially
TO resist dynamite. The new safes
are massive affairs, and the locks
are provided with removable dtals,
duplicates of which are kept at terminal sta
tions. The combination is unknown to the
messenger, and would be useless to him If he
did know 1t, as the removal OF the dial locks
the safe 80 that it cannot be opened until the
dial is replaced. This arrangement is in
tended to prevent loss by completely of mes.
sengers with robbers, and also 20 prevent
robbers from getting at the contents
of safe by compelling the messenger to
open 1t at the point OF gun, as has oeen done
in many cases. In this attempted robbery the
safe withstood six charges of dynamite. So
confident were the officers OF the express
company of the efficiency OF the new safes
that as fast as they were supplied to their
trains the company discontinued the armed
guard which they had Heretofore employed.
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Prominent People.

Professor Stickel, Of jena, the orientalist,
is still lecturing at ninety-one.
James R. Keene. the owner Of Domino,
was a school teacher in his youth.
There Is no truth in the reports that the
sons Of Captain-General Martinez de Campos
were wounded In CUBA.
Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister,
weighs 2sO pounds, and suffers with neither
insomnia nor indigestion.
Mrs. Stanford will sell the Palo Alto stock
in order to raise money for running the Le-
land Stanford University during the next
term.
Lord Acton nas private library OF go, 900
volumes, which Is believed to be the largest
in England.
The will OF Thomas o. P. Burnham, Bos-
ton secondhand bookseller. gives nearly
s4O0.O 900 to charities aud otner public pur-
poses.
The friends of Elizabeth Cady Stanton are
preparing great demonstration upon the
occasion Of her eightieth birthday, NJ vem-
Der 12.
NJ. de Giers, the late Russian ambassador
in London. died 80 poor that his family WIS
in actual want until the Car allowed them Il
large pension.
They say that Justice White is tho wit O!
+be United States Supreme Court, and That
crave body is not always able to prevsrs a
smile at his sallles.
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KILLED IN A RIOT.
Bloody Outbreak at Brookside, Ala, Be-
tween Colored and White Miners.

Bloody Outbreak at Brookside, Ala, Be-
tween Colored and White Miners.
Brookside, mining camp twenty miles
west Of Birmingham, Ala, was the scene OF
a bloody riot that resulted in the death OF
half dozen men, and the wounding Of many
more.
Mine Boss Culverhouse, of the Sloss Iron
and Steel Company, discharged colored
mine driver, Jim Smith. Smith cursed the
boss when he was ordered to leave the COM
pany's premises. This he refused to do. A
warrant charging him with trespassing was
obtained.
Deputy Sheriff A. T. Woods went to serve
the warrant, accompanied by Special Deputy
Joel Baxter. Smith, who had heard OF their
coming, had called in his friends, all Of whom
were armed. As the officers approached,
the colored men fred upon them, and killed
both. Woods was shot in the head and
heart and Baxter in the abdomen.
As soon as the white miners heard OF the
murders they gathered and attempted to ar
rest the murderers. A collision occurred
between the colored men and whites. More
than 100 shots were fired, the colored men
being put to fight.
The shooting continued at intervals for
two hours. It Is said the dead bodies OF four
colored men were found, and many men
were wounded.
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THE NEWS EPlToMIZED
Washington Items.

baron Harden Hickey protested to Score
tary of State Olney against England occupa-
tion of Trinidad.
Il was announced at the State Department
that the Spanish Cabinet has agreed to pay
the Mora claim In three instalments.
The ballistic test Of turret, representing
those to be used on the battleships Mas i
chusetts, Indiana and Oregon. will be made
at the naval proving ground, Indian Head,
In the near future.
The State Department took action IN re-
ference to the arrest Of Louis Stern, OF New
York, at Kissingen. Germany. His arrest. at
the instance Of Baron Won Thuengen, created
storm among the hotel guests. many Oh
whom threatened to leave the resort.
William Willis. President Cleveland's g
coachman, who was stricken with paralysis
few days ago, Is dead.
Peter Miller, an old soldier, walked from
shamokin, Penn, to Washington to have
his name restored to the pension list. He
was In starving condition. The Pension
Department fed him and sent him home.