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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
GENERAL PUGA IS DESD.
Was the Talk of the Medical Profess
sion, Because He Regained Speech
After losing His Tongue.

NEW YORK, Oct. I9.-General Freder-
ico Puga, at one time Secretary of State of
Venezuela and late Consul General for
that country at Philadelphia, died to-day
in his apartments at the St. Lawrence, at
Madison avenue and Eighty-eighth street.
General Puga, several years ago. was the
talk of the medical profession throughout
the country, having at that time had his
tongue excised at the roots on account OF
cancerous growth which threatened
MS life.
He was informed by his physicians be-
forehand that after it he would remain
speeChless for the rest of hs life.
After trying every other remedy known
to medicine the general at last resolved to
submit to the operation.
1t proved an entire success, but he sui
fered great agony for months afterward.
When be finally regained his normal
health he was able 10 utter only a lew
cultural sounds. Gradually he learned to
speak very clearly even difficult words.
Medical journals discussed his case at
great length, and several treatises were
written on it by eminent physicians. 1t
was. according 10 the best authorities, the
only authenticated cure of the disease of
cancer of the tongue.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
CRUISER BALTIMORE
ORDERED TO DEPART
Will Leave the Mare Island
Station for San Francisco
To-Day.
Crew Kept at Work Thr oughout
the Night Receiving Stores
for the Vessel.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

Special Dispatch to THE CALL
VALLEJO, Oct. l9. Urgent orders
were received at the navy-yard to-day for
the cruiser Baltimore to leave the island
tomorrow for San Francisco. To enable
the order to BE- carried out, the crew will
be kept at work all night receiving stores
from the general storekeeper's depart
ment. The entire force under Paymaster
Bacon will be kept on duty until after Ii
o'clock tonight.
CAPTAIN Dyer expects to leave the yard
for the city a. 10 o'cocS tomorrow morn.
ing. While at San Francisco an additional
supply Of coal will be taken into the bunk.
ers.
To-day powder and ammunition were
sent board and the last will be rec eived
some time during the night. A mum Der
of minor alterations to the cruiser were
requested to lie made but, owing to the
sudden summons to leave the yard, the
work cannot be done.
The Baltimore is in splendid condition
in fact, far better than when she first
went into commission. The Secretary
of the Navy complimented highly the re-
cent rush work of the mechanics a. the
yard. Copies of his letter were posted in
the various shops, that the mechanics
might see for themselves how their efior s
were appreciated by the Navy Depart
ment.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
Rico Morasco Demands
the FaVorS Due a
Murderer.
Placed in the Condemned
Mems Row at His Own
Request.
The Assassin ObJects to Being
Fed on the Fare Given
Other Prisoners.
Special Dispatch to The CALI

SAN QUENTIN, Oct. 19.-Murderers
row has another occupant, and thereby
hangs tale. Among the condemned
men in the San Quentin penitentiary
there are two who have not been confined
In murderers' row. One is Dennis Nc
Carthy, who is under observation in the
prison hospital because he has shown
symptoms of insanity, and the other is
Rico Morasco, murderer whom the San
Quentin authorities have had at work in
the big jutemill
Associating and working with the other
convicts. Morasco has been compelled to
do as they do, live as they live and eat the
same kind of food that is served to them
This morning he struck and went to Act
ing Warden Edgar, who is also captain of
the yard, and complained. He asked that
he al SO be treated as the other condemned
men were and be given a cell in murder
ers' row, where he would not be com pelled
to work.
Captain Edgar granted the request, and
now there are nine men occupying cells
in the row. Morasoo's request was
strange one, and has caused considera BILE
comment. He will now receive his meals
from the officers mess, for that is the fare
Scltcu " III bdn QuenIlD.
Common food is not good enough for
them, and it is said that the change from
the convict's fare to that of the murder
er's portion is one of the reasons why
Morasco asked to be placed in the row
with the other condemned men.
To work Ike a common petty larcenisr
in the jutemill was far beneath the dignity
of a murder r.
Rico Morasco was found guilty of ahor-
rible murder committed in Soano County
He is native OF Italy. slightly over go
years OF age and is cunning and schemlng
to a degree. He was working rs a farm
hand and shot down his victim in cold
blood with a weapon which he borrowed
from the man he murdered.
Mora, CO was to have been executed on
August 13, 1894. but was reprieved by the
Governor until next April. The prison
authorities had Morasco put in the iute-
mill, thing seldom, If ever, done with
men who come to the prison under sem
tence of death. The murderer proved to
be one of the best workers in the mill
His daily portion of work was always
done on time. No fault could be found
with him.
II is thought that the other convicts in
the yenitentiary have been talking to
Morasco and telling him that he is foolish
TO work in the jutemill when he could
have a cell in murderers' row and eat
good food without being compelled 10
labor like slave.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
Yellow Jacks SWay Is
Yet Unchecked at
New Orleans.
New Cases of Single Day
Reach the Number of
Fifty-Six.
So Far There Have Been 900 Af-
flicted at the Crescent City and
Over a Hundred Deaths.
SPECIAL Dispatch to THE CALL

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 19-There was
neither hope nor encouragement in the
local stu alton to-day. The deaths did not
run up to an unusual mark, but there
were enough Of new cases ana fatalities 10
disappoinu those who believed the fever
was on the wane. As early as O clock
this evening the total cases of the day
we're perilously near the number of the
record breaking cay recently. There
were at that hour forty-three cases, and
there have never heretofore been more
than forty y-nine. Cases are being reported
from all sections of the city. There have
been in this city up TO the present time
nearly 900 cases. OF these more than a
hundred have died. The record is bad
enough as it stands, but it is quite possi-
ble that cases are being hidden, and, as a
matter Of fact, if they were reported tine
death rate would be less than it is now.
These were the deaths to-day: Anita
Vickor, Ignazia Buransalte, Antonio
Ramos, Emma Stock halen.
At the hour of issuing the official report
OF the Board OF Health tonight the num-
ber of new cases to-day had reached fifty
six.
Two of to-day's deaths were among
cases that were reported but Jew min
utes before the fatalities became known.
Barring the fact that the cases have
been numerous, there is little of interest
in the situation locally. The weather is
warm and sultry, and business is de-
pressed. Among the new cases is DR.. Mil
Ier. promising young physician.
MOBILE, ALA, Oct. 19.-The sixth
week of the fever begins with five new
cases, no deaths and eleven recoveries.
The temperature has steadily fallen ali
day and to- nigh. the weather is chilly and
fires are comfort.
The little town OF Flomation is depop-
ulated. There were about 200 inhabitants.
thirty of whom have taken some form OF
fever. The exodus is so complete that only
the nurses and the sick remain.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
WILL NOTIFY DURRAHT.
Mother of the Murderer to Inform
Him of the Supreme Courts
Decision.

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Oct. 19-To-
morrow Theodore Durrant will learn
from his mothers lips that the Supreme
Court will hear his appeal on November
Is. Mrs. Durrant will see her son early in
the day. Durrant to-day exercised in the
prison yard as usual. Some stress has
been placed on the fact that the M murderer
did not leave his cell last Friday. The
reason for this was that Dnrrant wished
to write. Yesterday he exercised as usual
and appeared 10 be in perfect health. His
mustache has grown quite large and he is
stout and carries his head erect.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - Attorney
General Fitzgerald said to The CALL cor
respondent tonight that by rea- on of his
motion to dismiss the appeal in the Wor-
den case 1t would not now be necessary to
ask for its advancement on the docket.
He does not know definitely when to look
for a decision in either the Durrant or
Worden cases. but it is reasonably certain
that they will both have been decided
within thirty days.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
Langtry Provided For
by the Jersey
Lily.
But He Was Permitted to Deny
That He Received Money
From Her.
The Actress Much Affected by Her
Husbands Death and Sent
Flowers to the Funeral.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Mrs. Langtry
statement that she had for many years
made adequate allowance" to her late
husband is direct contradiction of his
reiterated assurances early this year tha,
SO far from having ever received assistance
from her, she had squandered his fortune.
Mrs. Langtry's assertion is quite true,
for it is vouched for by the eminent
solicitors, Lewis & Lewis. The agreement
between them made a continuance OF the
allowance dependent on his refraining
from molesting her, while it was under
stood that he was at liberty TO deny that
he received any such allowance.
Mrs. Langtry has been a good deal af-
fected by her husbands death, especially
since she learned that he seemed to be
suffering from the deIusion that she was
engaged in conspiracy to do away with
him. She sent s. beautiful wreath oi
white flowers tied with her racing colors
to the funeral to-day, but did not go her
self. According to Detective Perkins,
who was employed many years ago at
Holyhead when Langtry lived there, he
then was still infatuated with his wife.
Perkins says:
"Mrs Langtry often passed through to
and from Ireland. Every occasion when
he knew the time she would arrive he was
invariably at the station some hours be-
fore the train or boat was due. He would
walk up and down, growing more anu
moro excited until half an hour be-
fore the time of her arrival, and
then he would single ont the porter and
say: Boy. l can't stick it out any longer.
Watch her for me. Look closely at her.
Tell me how she looks. Does she look
well2 Is she as beautiful? What she
wears? Be careful about h.r dress-tell
me all about it, Then he would dart out OF
the station. After the train or boat had
gone he would come back and question
the porter most minutely, sob as if his
heart would break as he learned details,
and walk off from the station sobbing,
apparently dazed.
al have seen tears come into the eyes of
the porter" said Perkins, "at the exhibit
tion of emotion. Latterly, however, he
got over this sentimentality and spoke of
her with the utmost Indifference
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
ANNUAL CON VENHION
OF FRUIT-GROV VERS
OrChardiStS to Meet in the
State Capital Next
Month.
Special Railroad Rates From Ali
Points In the State Offered
to Dele gates.
spe cial Dispatch to THE CALL

special DlSpatch 10 1HE CALI.
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 19-Great interest
centers in the coming State Fruit Growers
convention, which will meet in Sacra-
mento on Move N Der 16 to 10 inclusive.
This will be one of the most important
meetings affecting the fruit industry that
have ever been held in this Stase. Eminent
horticulturists will present papers dur
ing the session, treating on subjects Sc
lected by each as important for the con-
vention's consideration. The Southern
Pacific Company offers special one-third
rate ticket for return 10 starting point
from all points on its lines.
The convention will meet in the Senate
chamber of the State Capitol, morning.
afternoon and evening.
On Tuesday, Novem ber 16, President
E!lwood Cooper's annual address will be
delivered. Committees will be appointed.
inc. uding one of five mem bers to act on
marketiag, TRANSFORMATION and freight
rate questions. Various topics concern
ing the orchard will be discussed. Wednes-
day will be consumed in discussions on
markets and marketing. Thursdays and
Fridays programmes include numerous
papers on subjects of interest TO fruit.
growers, and following each there will be
extended discussions OF the topics treated.
IL is expected that the attendance at the
convention will be very large, and that
every county in the State will be repre-
sented
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
BARRON ESTATE COMPROMISE.
Appointment of Trustees for the Trust
Fund Considered in Court at
San Jose.

SAN JOSE. Oct. 19.-Ths matter OF ap-
pointing trustees to handle the $l00 600
trust fund created by the late Edward Bar
ron for the benefit of his son, George 4.
Barron, was up before Judge Hyland to.
day. This is another step in the COM
promise of the contest OF Edward Barron S
VII! by George Barron.
James A. Thompson, James E. Walsh
and William Barron were named as trus-
tees of the fund in the will of the de-
ceased, but the former died and Thomp-
son and Walsh never qualified because of
the contest that was begun. Two weeks
ago they rendered their designations. The
appointment OF new trustees was discussed
at length in court to-day. Attorney Nj ore
house suggested the names of I. S. Mont
gomery and o. A. Hale as trustees, and
Attorney Devlin suggested that the
Union Trust Company of San Francisco.
take charge of the trust. No agreement
could be reached and the court took the
matter under advisement.
Attorney More house announced that one
of the terms OF the compromise was that
George Z. Barron shonld receive outright
$4,000 o the 100000 trust fund and the
accumulated interest that now amounts to
$l9 000 The balance of The fund will re-
main in trust. The rest of the terms OF
the compromise were not announced. The
Barron estate is worth ST. 800 900.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Peterson, the kerondut, Takes an
Easy Flight to the FLYER With
q Parachute.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20-Charles ]. Peter
son, the aronaut and high diver, jumped
from Brooklyn Bridge at 1880 this morn.
Ing. Peterson flew rather than jumped.
He wore pair of parachute wings de-
signed by Prince Leo Stevens, the IA
nous aeronaut. who made countless
ascensions in every part of the world, and
who was first to use the parachute.
The result of Peterson's Jump shows
that Prince" Stevens parachute wings
are an unqualified success. Peterson
jumped from the highest point of the
bridge and was not even winded.
He had secretly tried the wings before
and his faith in them was SO strong he
went to his hazardous leap without the
least nervousness.
lie left the New York side at about
midnight. DR.. Walker of East Eighty
hrst street accompanied him. They took
a cab, rode slowly and then started back
on the other side of the bridge. Mean
while Peterson was adjusting his "wings."
When the cab reached the center of the
bridge he stepped from the cab, leaped
lightly to the rail and jumped out into
the night.
Below boat was in waiting. In it were
Mr.. Stevens and another friend of the
jumper.
They had been waiting for some minutes
and had begun to fear that something had
gone wrong, when they saw a dark object
drop toward the water as straight as an
arrow. Suddenly it seemed 10 stop, then
10 grow larger, then it sailed away for fully
thousand feet before it struck the water.
The men In the boat pulled for their
lives. Before they could reach the spot
they heard cry, Here am"
When they reached Peterson he was
resting easily on the water, not at all in
Iured, not even out of breath.
He was quickly pulled aboard and
rowed ashore. In u few minutes he was
as fresh as before he jumped He saye he
could have flown for miles without diff
Guilty. and the wings worked perfectly.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
WILLIAMS CON FESSBD
In STOCKTON PRISON
Sensational Denouement in
the Trial of the Young
Outlaw.
Officials Tell of His Atte mpt to Es-
cape by Turning States
Evidence.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

STOCKTON, Oct. 19.-Sheriff Cunning
ham and District Attorney Nutter sprang
sensation to-day in the trial of George
Williams, the young man who is accused
with another ex-convict named George
Schlagei with having attempted to wreck
two trains on the Southern Pacifc, be-
tween Lathrop and Modesto, a few months
ago. Williams is native of this county
and schlagel i, young friend of his who
was in trouble before. Williams is on
trial before his partner and was frhting
q circumstantial evidence case which
Cunningham and Detective Thacker OF
Wells Fargo have built up against him.
To-day Cunningham told of the chase
for the pair and their capture near Hills
Ferry. After Williams had been in Jail
for some time he sent for the Sheriff and
wanted 10 get out of his trouble, he said,
but the officer advised him TO send for
District Attorney Nutter. To him VIII
liams said he wanted 10 turn STATES evil
dence and inform on the third man in the
second attempt, when they placed fire
on the track and stopped the passenger
train.
Nutter refused to accept his offer TO turn
States evidence, and later Williams called
in the Sheriff again and asked him in the
presence OF Thacker to try to induce the
District Attorney to accept his offer to
confess He confessed the crime 10 the
two officers and pointed out in Cunning
ham rogues' gallery the picture of the
third man, who participated in the second
attemp pt but not the first.
Ihacker told the same story on the
stand. He said Williams wanted to turn
States evidence and acknowledge that he
and Schlagel were the two who piled ties
on the track the first time, few days be-
lore the second attempt to wreck the
train. On the second attempt, he said,
there were three of them.
In addition to this the people had
strong clrcumstantial evidence and the
testimony of young man named George
COOK, who was sleeping with Williams
for time. He told how Williams pro-
posed to him to go with him IN the train
hold-up, aud, wheE he refused, threat
ened to kill him if he divulged the story.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20

gestion NJ on the subject. the Secretary OF
the Navy is lett 10 MAKE any Iecommenda-
tion which he pleases for the action OF
Congress.
Senator Penrose says that the present
situation is caused by the failure OF Con-
gress 10 appropriate money for armor-
plate, as a result of which three of our
great battle-ships are held up in the course
of construction.
1t was reported that the Bethlehem Iron
Company had fixed $40 900. 600 as the price
at which it would s I'll its works to the Gov
ernment, but officials decline TO say they
have placed any definite figures upon their
plant.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
Gompers Summons the
Affiliated Unions to
Assemble.
Many Wrongs of Laboring
People Remain to Be
Remedied.
Employm of Ch !dren In Fac
tories Among Important Sub
jects to Be Discuss I'D.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - President
Samuel Gomper by Frank Morrison, sec
retary, has issued a call to all affiliated
unions for the seventeenth annual con-
vention of the American Federation OF
Labor, to be held at Nashville Tenn, in
the b all of the House of Representatives
at 10 o clock Monday, Dece Der 13, next.
Resolutions of any character or propo-
sitions for changes in the constitution in
tended for consideration by the conven-
ton must be submitted to the secretary
at least two weeks prior to the meeting.
The call makes a strong plea tor full
attendance OF workmen at this convention,
and states that no convention In recent
years has been called upon to deal with
more momentous questions than confront
the workers of to-day.
The objects of the convention are. in
part, thus set out in the call:
'The seventies of the industrial stagna-
ton of the past four years has not been
abated; the wrongs from which the
workers suffer have not been righted; the
in justice imposed upon our people re-
mains unremedied; the overworked large
mass and the unem ployed many are still
testimony TO the folly of our age; the en-
ploy of children in our factories and
workshops, though modified, fingers with
US still, and the spectacle is with essed of
idle men and laboriousIy busy children;
legislation more concerned with the prlv1-
leges to few than to the rights of the
many, with public assemblage and free
speech invaded, threatened or forbidden
and the modern judicial weapon of in
junction utilized in the effort to crush
labor. These rights and wrongs and
others OF equal Importance, but too nu-
merous for reference here, must of neces-
,iiy be considered by the forthcoming
convention, and such action devised as
shall tend to attain the one and Sc aside
the other"
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-20
Counsel for the People
Unexpectedly Rests
Its Case.
Irving Mann Not Called TO
the Stand to Give His
Testimony.
Strong Evidences Said to Be Held
In Reserve, to Be Offered
In r buttal.
Special Rsp.tcn to THE CALL

SAN JOSE, Oct. 19 The prosecution s
side of the trial of Dan butcher for the
murder Of Rancher Schofield came unex-
pectedIy to an end at clock this alter
noon. This was great surprise TO the
defense and to the spectators, as 1t was
expected the peoples testimony would
continue the balance of the week. Irving
Mann, the 17-year- old son of Mrs. Scho-
field, who first confessed that butcher
killed bis stepiather, was not called as a
witness, aud it is rumored that the prose-
cution could not find him. One witness
testified that butcher admitted at the
county trial he was the man who killed
Schofeld.
DR.. ]. T. Higgins of Morgan Hill, who
held an autopsy on Schofeld's body, was
on the stand most of the day. He de-
scribed the wound in the head and the
position OF the body when he arrived at
the Schoteld ranch. A skull was pro-
duced and the range of the bullet de-
scribed. His testimony was principally to
prove the time of Schofield's death, but in
this the prosecution was unsucce essfui, for
Dr. Higgins was not certain whether
Schotield died on the morning of August
or the evening before. He was closely
cross-examined by Attorney Scheller.
DR.. John Mcmahon was sworn and tee-
titled that he made a post m ortem ex-
animation of the body of George w.
Schotield at Oak Hill Cemetery on the
morning of the 20n OF August. He de-
scrlbed the nature of the wounds more
minutely than DR.. Higgins had done, and
said that the course of the bullet was up
ward and then downward. Nothing was
left OF the head but the soft structure.
Death, in his opinion, must have been in
Simultaneous. Bullets, when they entered
the BODY and struck bone, were always
deviated from their course, he said.
The fractures of the head were produced
both by the bullet and the impact of other
bones. The course of the bullet upon
entering the head was upward. II a bull
let came from right angle as this one
aid, it would drive the bullet upward.
Fen Massol was the last witness for the
prosecution. at the request of the Dis
trict Attorney he went into the Jail about
week ago and had conversation with
butcher. He asked the defendant who
killed Schotield, and butcher said he aid.
This was all the witness testified to.
District Attorney Harrington then an
nounced that the prosecution would rest.
Schelier said he was not prepared to go
ahead with the defense at once, and a
continuance was had until tomorrow
morning.
1t is said that the prosecution will offer
some strong testimony in rebuttal. Con-
stable Fay, to whom Irving Mann and
butcher confessed, has not yet been on
the stand, and his testimony will ne used
to upset butchers story of killing Scho-
field in defense of Mrs. Scbofieid.