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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
OLDEST BURYING
PLACE ON THE EARTH
Your Friends Rent Your Cof-
fin for a Brief Period
Only.
Then You Go to the Boneyard,
Where Your Fellow-Citizens
Lie Twenty Feet Deep.
Affairs Down Deep in Strange Old
Mlne-Queer Crypts and Mum.
miftd Bodies.

Ex-Assemblyman P. H. Mack of Inyo
County, who is engaged with Attorney
Patrick Reddy in some mining enterprises
IN the strange little State of Guanajuato,
Mexico, 1000 miles below FL Paso, is at the
Russ. He tells remarkable story of the
queer burial customs in the ancient city OF
Guanaluato, the capital of the little State,
place $50 years old.
1t Is story of strange human bone.
yard. OF crypts in mountain side, and oil
mumm1ied bodies, the like of which have
not been seen since the explorations
among the Egyptians. II is different from
anything of which he has ever heard or
read, and filled him with awe as he con-
templated it.
1t IS at the old city in the heart of Mex
leo where the burying- ground is that Mr..
Mack is interested in the mining enter.
prise alluded to.
The bury1ng ground is on high point
OF mountain near the town." said he
yesterday, "and is nearly 100 wards square.
1t is inclosed by a wall twelve feet in
height and eight feet thick, and in the
walls are pigeon-hole-like places, or crypts,
for the bodies.
when man dies ais relatives can, on
the payment of $40, get him put in one OF
these crypts. The ends are sealed up, and
he is allowed to stay there for five years.
cat the end of that time, if his relatives
come forward and pay 500 more the re-
mains are allowed to remain there per-
petually. If, however, the relatives have
died, moved away or fail to put up the
500 the remains are taken out, carried
q U @ nd Tor1fT IN 70
at hand, where remains have in like man
ner accumulated and where bones now
lie twenty feet deep.
There is flight of steps leading down
into passage way, which is 300 feet long
At the end of this passage-way is great
yard. or excavation, for the cast-off bones.
1t is here that they are piled to such an
immense depth.
There are to be seen arms, legs, skulls
and other bones at pleasure, or to your
horror, just as you take it. The skulls
piled so high and thrown about in such a
disordered way seem to leer at you. The
sensation is peculiar and utterly unlike
anything ever experienced before.
mot many Americans have ever been
there, and Of those who have, including
some lady tourists, mum Der have tainted
outright The sight was too much for
their nerves.
There is potter's field aside from this
as a part of the burying ground already
told about, and this consists of a trench in
which bodies are buried three deep with
out any kind of coffin.
This being burying-ground managed
by the authorities, the collins that are
used are owned py the municipality, and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14

The average weight of the brain in
various nationalities appears from the in
teresting researches of Bernard Davis to
be as follows: Englishmen 47.50 ounces,
Frenchmen 1885, and Germans 1888.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
SHOT WHILE IN JAIL.
Virginia LyncherS Open Fire on
Elisha Johnson Through
Grated Windows.

FarmviIle, Va, Nov. 16.-Between II
and / o'clock last night a lynching party
visited the jail of Prince Edward county,
located at Farmville, and attempted to
take the life of Elisha johnson, colored.
awaiting trial for an assault and highway
robbery alleged to have been committed
by Johnson Tuesday night upon white
man named WAX" Price.
There were in the party half dozen
determined men, one of whom climbed
the high fence surrounding the Jail and
unlocking the gate admitted the others.
The prisoner was confined in a lower
floor cell and when a prisoner was asked
through the window if he was Elisha,
the reply came that the man wanted was
III the next room. The would-be lynchers
Immediately opened fire upon the prison
er, who was lying upon his couch
paralyzed from fright. He could not be
seen well through the window and cell
bars and only one load of shot from the
volley fired at him took effect. His
wounds are not serious.
Johnson, it is alleged, waylaid ''Wax"
Price near Prices depot in this county
and struck him on the head and robbed
him. Prices injuries are not serious and
there is much surprise that an attempt
at lynching was made.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
L. g. N. Passenger Ditched in Wild,
Uninha bited Portion of
Alabama

ST. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 13.-A special to
the Globe-Democrat fran Montgomery.
Ala, says:
1.-THE $50 train from Louisville this
morning on the L. & n. bound for New
Orleans was wrecked four miles from
this place in very wild country by
train robbers The engineer saw an OBJ
struction on the track but too late to
stop the train, which went crashing down
a steep embankment.
"A rail had been torn up and spiked
down again three or four inches out of
line. The train, comprising two mail
coaches, baggage car and two tirst-class
coaches, was completely wrecked The
track was torn up for fully 200 yts'ds.
Three persons were seriously injured,
John Thwatt of Atlanta, bound for Dali
las, Tex, and w. G. McGovey of Mon
roe being the most seriously hurt. Two
other passengers were pinned under the
smoking car and only after an hours
hard work were they eXtricated. Their
names could not be aScertained, but both
came from Louisville.
'Bloodhounds have been set on the
trail of the vreckers by railroad de-
tectives, but as yet no clue has been OBJ
tanned to the guilty parties. Suspicion,
however, rests on a cOlOred track-walker
who was captured near the place. He
claims to have been posted there to
watch for train wreckers by the COM
pany. He has been held. The damage
is fully $4,000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
LOBBY WOULD KNOCK" TT.
Some Reasons Why the Beer Tax
will Not be Doubled at
This Session.

New York, Nov. 16-A special to The
Evening Post from Washington says:
''The government needs $3O,00Q,00O
more revenue a year. The present tax
on beer nets 921h cents a barrel, or about
a quarter of a cent a glass. This pro-
duced an income last year Of somewhat
more than S31, 100000.
ITO double the rate of tax, assuming
consumption to remain the same, would
give the government almost exactly the
increase of revenue required, and would
not call for the services of an additional
clerk or collector throughout the coun-
try. The bureau of engraving and print
ing would simply turn out So instead Of
81 stamps for the beer business, and a
perplexing problem would be solved.
whether the increased tax would affect
consumption is question, but probably
it would not The price of glass of
that it would rise from to 6 cents be-
cause of quarter of cent more tax; if
neither brewer nor retailer could afford
to stand the difference, the chances are
that it would be made up by a scarcely
perceptible reduction of the size of the
glasses, but the public would go on drink
ing the usual amount, and the revenue
would practically be doubled.
Simple as the beer plan is, however,
nothing short of an overwhelming popu-
lar demand will ever bring 1t to the seri-
Gus consideration of Congress. The
tariff agitators, as we have seen, would
oppose it. Senator Mitchell of Wiscon-
sin declared in an interview last winter
that a further tax on beer would be- as
unjust as tax on bread, and that he
should take a determined stand against
If.
"Finally. there is the purchasable ele
ment in Congress, which would promptly
close hands with the lobby, especially at
a short session. which is the lobby's mil
lennium With all these forces arrayed
against it. the beer tax proposal will
probably have to wait while longer
for a chance to be heard. unless the peo-
pie themselves clamor for it"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
Has Grown and ProSpered Beyond
the Expectation of the
Most Sanguine.

New York, Nov. 16-The second ses-
sion of the first annual convention of the
National Council of Jewish Women
opened with Mrs. Solomon of Chicago,
president Of the council, in the chair.
The meeting was devoted entirely to
routine committee business and reports
from sections in the order of states
In the course of her report the secre-
tarv. Mrs. Carrie NJ. Wolfe of Chicago,
said: at has been our effort to make
policy of the council conciliatory and
liberal. The council has grown beyond
the expectations of the most sanguine
and it has prospered. May it continue
to prosper and become more and more
potent factor in American Judaism"
The following standing committees
were announced by the secretary:
Religion-Miss Julia Felsenthal. chairman.
Chicago; Miss Lille Hirschfield, New York;
Miss Sarah Lyons, New York. Miss Mary NJ
Cohen. New York
Phianthropy-Mis Carrie s. Benjamin,
chairman, Denver; Mrs. l. NJ Appel, Den
yer: Mrs. Holman Denver; Mrs. j. G..
Wallace, New York, and Mrs. Pauline Wit
konsky, Chicago.
Religious Schools-Miss Julia Richman,
chairman, New York; Miss Ella Jacobs Phil
adephia Miss Rebecca Leselm. Quincy, H.;
Mrs. Emma Schuber, Kansas City, and Miss
Sadie American, Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
TRY TO BLOW UP 4 HOTEL
Three Sticks OF Dynamite Found
After an Explosion in a
Boston Suburb.

Boston, Mass, Nov 1G.-There was
an attempt made early today to blow up
the Hotel Highland, Roxbury, by the
use of dynamite. The hotel is q four
story apartment house. The chimney
and one Of the upper stories was badly
wrecked by the explosion. 1t is alleged
that the dynamite was used for the pur-
pose of revenge. After the explosion the
police found on the roof three unex-
ploded sticks of dynamite eight inches in
length. They think the intention was to
have the bombs explode simultaneously
which would surely have caused terrible
destruction.
Cornelius O'Brien of ROXbury is the
owner of the hotel. 1t was purchased
some time ago from Nicholas Bolande.
Il contractor, who built the house for
speculation. After the sale some ques-
ton of ownership arose and O'Brien was
sued by Bolande. who lost the case.
These facts have been reported to the
police together with the information that
there have been five new janitors at the
building within n month. Each janitor
left without giving any reason for doing
so. What bearing these conditions may
have on the case the police decline TO
say, yet they are following up all posi-
Bile clues
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
ACADIA ON THE ROCKS.
Crew of the Big Steamer Reach
Shore After a PerilouS
ExnRriAnCR,

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Nov. 1.-THE
Canadian steamer Acadia, which has
been missing several days, is ashore on
the rocks near Michipocoten and will be
a total loss. The master of the steamer,
Capt Clifford, with four Of the crew,
belonging to the lighthouse department.
Since a week ago Thursday they have
been fighting for life against cold and
hunger on the bleak, desOlate Wllds on
the Canadian shore of Lake Superior.
The Acadia measured SO6 tons, and is
owned in Hamilton, Ont. Her cargo was
10000 bushels Of wheat, the boat clear
ing from Fort William last Wednesday
for Kingston. Two of the crew were
left to watch the steamer and nine others
are at the Gargantua lighthouse, Capt.
Chamberlain and the three other mem
bers of the crew being the ones Who
made their way to Sault Ste. Marie.
Capt. Chamberlain and the members
of his crew will leave as soon as the
weather permits for the scene of the
wreck. On the way he will pick up the
men at Gargantua. An effort will be
made to rescue the steamer if anything
can be done for her.
The names of the crew so far as OBJ
tainable are: John Clifford, master;
James H. Brown, chief engineer; John
Hughon, second engineer; Thomas Col
Inns, mate; Stephen Saxby, second mate;
John Grand and - Toutin, wheelmen;
George Heard and - Williams. fire.
men; George Friend, purser; Annie Per-
kins, cook; Thomas Saxby, deck hand.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
BIG REPUBLICAN GAIN.
Pennsylvania in Four
Years.

Harrisburg, Pa, Nov. 1.-THE official
returns of tho late election have been re-
ceived at the state department from
every county in the state They give
Mckinley 726,99S votes and Bryan
422, 054; Republican plurality, 304, 944.
The prohibition electors polled 1891;
Peoples party, 61O3; Free Silver, 5073;
Jeffersonian, II, zoe; Mckinley Citizens,
1903; Socialist Labor, 1858; National,
$40. The actual gain in the Republican
electoral vote over that of four years
ago is about 215, 600.
Gov. Hastings issued proclamation
this morning declaring the election of
twenty-eight district congressman and
two congressmen-at-large for Pennsylya-
MIA. Of these George j. Benner, Nine
tenth district: Daniel Ermentrout,
Ninth district, and William McAleer,
Third district, are Democrats. The rest
are Republicans.
Columbus, O., Nov. 14-The official
count of the vote in Ohio has been maue
public. While it does not differ greatly
from the later estimates, Maj. Mckin-
ley's plurality is shown to be somewhat
smaller than was announced in Garlic
dispatches The tables show he receive
527 ,945, while Mr.. Bryan received froI.
Democrats and Populists 1854. The
other four candidates for President re-
ceived 1884 votes. SO that Mckinley's
majority is reduced to 1864. His vote
over Bryan was 49,39S.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 14.-Returns are
practically complete for the vote on
President in Nebraska. All but six coun-
ties have concluded the official canvass,
and these six have been estimated close
~. Mr.. Bryan's plurality in the state
is under $4,000, and will likely remain
there. Eight counties are still to be
heard from on governor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
TELEGRAPH MARKETS.

:. Milwaukee, Flour-Less firm. Wheat
s5c; DeeembeR2 781zc 5or m ARC ens and
firm; No. 3, 25@251ac; oats--steady; No. 2
white, 21@2115c; No. 3 white, 19@21Ac. Bar
ley-Weaker; No. 2, 3613c; sample on track,
26@3612c Rye-LoWer; No; l., 3Sac. Pro
visions-Lower; pork, $50; lard, 400.
Flour is held on the basis of 4.4OCd47 70 for
patents in bbs in CARROTS; low grades, in
jute. 1.50l165; bakers. in wod, 325@3. so;
do in jute. 3.O0G3.30; rye, in bbls, 2.4O0f2 IS.
Millstuffs steady at 6.75@7 90 per ton for
sacked bran, 775@S.00 for fine middlings;
white, do, 900.
Chicago Close Wheat-Noyember, 7s14c;
December, Zoe; January, S01sc; May, S23sc.
Corn-Novemher, 25c; December, 25Ac;
May, 2S3sc oats-NNoo,yember. 1850; Decem-
Der, 1914c; May, 221ac. November.
6.S1h; December. 6.S7h: January, 1850
7;S7h; May, S:2213. Lard-,Soyember, 400;
December. 400; January. 4.221a; May, 40.
Ribs-November. $50: December, $50; Jan
uary, 39003.0215. Flax-771aGc7S7ac. Tim
othy-2.5 30.
Minneapolis e-Wheat-Lower; No
yemher, 76Ac; December, 1870; May. S1b
MS1%c: No l hard on track, S0%c; No. 1
Northern, 1914; No. . Northern, Tic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
FORMAN IS APPOINTED.
President Cleveland Takes a Fling at
A1tgeld.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 16.-The
President has appointed William II.
Forman, ex-congressman from Illinois,
to be commissioner of internal revenue,
to succeed Miller. resigned
Commissioner Miller of West Virginia
was reported to have quarreled with
Logan Carlisle and resigned his office
There has been constant friction between
the commissioner of internal revenue and
the son of the secretary of the treasury
ever since the latter first undertook to
play the car over the department. but
Mr.. Miller succeeded in maintaining
his own position because of his person
relations with the President. They al :
great cronies out of office hours, and fire.
ouently go fishing together. There is no
doubt that the President desired to show
his appreciation of Mr.. Forman's course
in the late campaign, because he can
not express his dislike for Gov. Altgeld in
a more forcible manner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
JONES" IN CHICAGO.
The Spy Spent an Even Month ct
McCoy's Hotel During
the Convention.

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 14.-Thomas NJ.
Jones, the informer whose testimony
created a sensation in London yesterday
was IN Chicago and registered at Nc
Coy's hotel September 2, 1895. He was
guest of the house until October 3
and occupied room 234. Mr.. Mccoy,
IN speaking Of the man, said:
Il Fave no recollection of Mr.. Jones,
and If | met him | have forgotten. /
attended one session Of the convention
but the rest Of the time was busy at
the hotel and did not keep the run Of
the proceedings. / believe his evidence
is rubbish. He is probably in the en-
ploy OF the British government and his
story is told in order to make a bluff at
earning his salary. AS to the secret
meetings., they are more imaginative
than real. | did not know of anything
except the caucuses which are usual at
all conventions"
Delivering ''Go1d Bricks
:. New York, Nov. 14-C. O. McLaugh-
lin, secretary of the Irish National aIli-
ance, said: Il have known Thomas M.
Jones for about three years. I think the
cabled reports have COMPOUNDED the Irish
National alliance with the United Irish
men. The books of the alliance are open
to the public and the English govern
ment can send its representative to ex-
tlAI1IS IlIeLH IL II WISHES TO 90 SO. Jones
frequently asked me to publish some arti-
cles which he had written for the Irish
Republic. But they were too wild and
idiotic in character I threw his stuff in
to the waste-basket and I am sorry now
that L am not able to show a specimen
According to the cable reports, he says
himself that he has been employed by
the English authorities since 1890, and
to my mind it is very evident that he is
delivering gold bricks to the Scotland
yard people IL return for a fat remunera-
ton. This trumped up evidence is an
other part of the old worn out scheme of
Scotland yard when its sleuths want to
secure the conviction of any Irshman
who may be unfortunate enough to fab
into their hands,
Clones was in Dublin.
Dublin, Nov. 14.-"Jones, the govern
ment spy who created such a sensation
yesterday at the Bow street police court,
was in this city within the last fortnight.
he tried to establish relations of a SEN
sational character with persons who are
supposed to hold extreme political views.
He also stated that two persons men
toned by him in his evidence as being
lrlsh-American agitators were really in
the pay of the British government
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
TEST OF HoRsELEss CARRIAGES
An American Motor Wins an Inaugural
RaCa In England.

London, Nov. 14.-An enormous con-
course of people witnessed the start today
from the hotel Metropole of about sixty
motor cars and cycles, under the auspices
of the Motor club in an inaugural jour
Bey from London to Brighton. this being
the date when the new highways act
comes into force. The start was preced-
ed by breakfast at the Metropole, after
which the chairman, the Earl of Win
chelsea, amid loud cheers, tore up the
red flag, which, according to the law, it
has hitherto been necessary to have car
ried IL front of road motors.
4 number of the motor cars are electrics,
others belong to the Britannia's COM
pany system and to the Great WheelIess
Carriage company. The first motor
which reached the three bridges knocked
down little girl and she was taken to
the hospital seriously injured
The American Duryea motor was the
first to arrive at Brighton, reaching that
place in four hours.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
DYNAMITE EXPLODES.
Two Men Killed Outright at Niagara
Falls and Several Others
Injured.

Niagara Falls, n Y, Nov. 14.-By an
explosion of about thirty pounds of
dynamite in the office building of e. D.
Smith q Co., contractors in charge of the
extension OF the wheel pit and tunnel
of the Niagara Falls Power company
today, two men were instantly killed. one
was fatally injured, three others were
severely injured. and several were cut
and bruised by flying rocks and timbers
The office building, a frame structure,
40 by 10 feet, was totally demolished and
windows many yards distant were brok-
en- by the shock. The dead are
HAKKEN HAMMER general manager Of
Potsdam n. Y.
ALBERT REYNOLDS, negro workman.
George Barloa fireman of a Niagara
junction engine, standing on the track
near by at the time of the accident, was
injured but not seriously. From what
can be learned of the accident Reynolds
had just thawed out the dynamite in the
powder house some distance away and
had brought it over to the Office prepara-
tory to q blast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
IMMIGRATION REPORT.
Aliens Who Arrived Last Year Were
of q Hardy, Sound Labor
ing Class.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 14.-The COM
missioner-general of immigration in his
annual report shows that during the last
fiscal year the arrivals of immigrants in
this country aggregated 343, 267, of whom
$40, 46S were landed and 2799 debarred
and deported at the expense of the yari-
Gus steamship lines by which they came.
Of those deported 776 were found to be
under contract to perform labor in the
United States, made prior to their ar
rival, and 2023 were returned as he
longing to other prohibited classes. In
addition to the number deoarred there
were 23S who became public charges
within year after the arrival and hence
v~Nre returned to the countries whence
tney came The commssioner-genera
states that he knows of no immigrant
landed in this country during the last
year who is now a burden upon any pub
lie or private institution.
With some exceptions, the report
states, the physical characteristics of
the years immigration were those of a
hardy, sound. laboring class, accustomed
and apparently well able to earn live
lihood wherever capable and industrious
labor can secure employment. As to oc-
equations, it was composed largely of the
classes designated as skilled and I'M
skilled laborers, with some professionals.
The amount of money brought into the
country by immigrants was at least 81
OF ,31S and probably was largely in ex-
cess of these figures.
The statistics at hand, the commits
sioner- general states, do not justify the
conclusion that our alien population is
growing in undue proportions. COM
parison of the figures for the past year.
343, 267, with the average annual immi-
grafton for the preceding ten fiscal years,
49,, 0S5, diScloSes a decrease of 81. S1S,
or over 81 per cent. Such data as the
commissioner has been able to obtain as
to the number of those who annually
return to their own country, though ap-
proXimate only, leads him to doubt seri-
ously that there could be any material
increase in our foreign-born population
since 1893 The arrivals for the fiscal
year 1S94-5 aggregated 25S, $50.
The report shows that the total num-
Der of immigrants oyer II years OF age
that arrived during the year, 5066 could
not write and 1870 could neither read
nor write, which is 2S.63 per cent of the
whole number. Of those who could
neither read nor write 81 ,374 came from
Italy, y, $40 from Russia proper, 1854
from Hungary, 6107 from Bohemia and
Moravia, 52S1 from other parts of Aus
tria-Hungary, 2473 from Ireland, 1866
from Arabia and Syria and 1889 from
Portugal. The report shows that of the
whole number of arrivals, 212, 466 were
males and 130,S01 females.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-11-18
MISS WIZARDS HEALTH.

No Foundation for Reports that She was
Ill.
st. Louis, Mo-, Nov 14.-As state
ments have been sent out by unauthor-
lied persons to the effect that Miss
tional W. G. L. T., was in poor health,
the following, issued by officers of the
union. will set the fears of her many
friends at rest:
To the Associated Press: AS much anx-
lety is evidently felt among Miss Willard s
friends, owing to the wholly incorrect
statement that she was III, will you Kindly
correct that announcement and make it
plain that Miss Willard Is in her usual
health and presiding over the national con-
vention, as her custom has been during all
the years since 1879.