The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-19
Mail Company will now have to take them

Mail Company will now have to take them
back 10 Yokohama.
Among the cabin passen gers were E. P.
Baldwin, w. c. Davidson, E. +. Eckhardt,
j. Il. Monaghan, f. Il. Freeman, W. H.
Stanley and d. w. Toad, all cadets IN the
way to Washington to pass their final ex-
animation, after which they VIII be
gazetted as full-fedged officers of the
white squadron.
DR.. W. Fl. Abercrombie was United
States Consul a Nagasaki under Cleye-
land and MIN Sang Ho was the mem Der
o. the Chinese EN- bassy who was left be.
hind at Hongkong when the Coptic sailed
for this port with WI Tang Fang and his
suite.
In regard to the war in the Philippines
the general impression among the passen-
gers was that the Spaniards were getting
the worst OF it, in spite of all kilograms to
the contrary. Said Shanghai merchant
VINO came over on the steamer yesterday:
Reliable information in regard 10 the
operation of the Spanish troops in the
Philippines is hard to obtain There is a
superabundance of highly colored reports
appearing IN the Spanish press, but the
Information received from our agents is
very different. The Spanish troops are
meeting with a stubborn resistance in
Cavite, and It will be months before the
province is cleared of rebels The latter
continue to attack all convoys with ammu-
milton and stores for the front, and the
movement of the Roy alists are in con.
sequence greatly ham pered. This Captain
General, / learn, has applied to the
Spanish Government for 5000 additional
troops, IS those operating in the province
OF Cavite are suffering severely from
disease.
Executions are of frequent occurrence
in Manila, and from our last advices there
were eighty untried prisoners in the iais
awaiting punishment. Large number. of
the native troops are going over 10 the
rebels, and Judging from the last reports
received over the underground wire, the
rebels have received large supplies of fire.
arms"
From the above it looks as if Spain
were meeting with no better success in
the Philippines than Is attending her
arms In Cuba.
When three days out from Yokohama
the Peklng ran into very heavy gale
gineer Mcclure put little extra pressure
on the boilers, however, and the big
steamer made up $50 knots during the
run.
The two cruisers now being built for
Japan by the Union Iron Works are to be
called the Kasagi and the Chitose, accord
ing TO the Yomiuri, the japanese official
paper.
The schooner Jessie Matson came in
from the wreck of the steamer Sunol yes.
terday with 300 bars of silver and lead
valued at $4,000, one cultivator a harvester
and quantity of miscellaneous wreck age.
Put" Jackson OF the Olympic Club had
narrow escape last Saturday night. He
stopped at The newsstand in the waiting
room 10 buy some papers and only knew
that time was up when he heard the
steamers whistle. He sprinted for the
boat, but the Piedmont was three feet
away and gathering Roadway before he
reached the apron. He made O iump.
failed 10 connect and was left struggling
IN the water. 1t was the 10 P. NJ trip and
no one noticed his predicament. The noise
of the paddle wheels drowned his cries
and ne had to swim for pile. The shells
cut and lacerated his hands and it
took all his skill as a swimmer to keen
himself afloat. When the noise of the
steamers paddles had died away he made
himself heard.
The night Waterman hauled him out
and PUT went TO the Ferry Cafe where
Teddy" Osborne fitted him out in an old
suit that the cook had left behind and
sent him home on the next boat. Yester-
day Jackson recovered his own suit and
returned the cooks.
The schooner Eppinger, which cleared
from here on an otier-hunting cruise, has
done well along the coast. She was re :
ported yesterday as being off the mouth
of the Columbia River with lao sealskins
and doing well.