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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-02
MORE SPANIARDS LEAVING.
Another Large Batch OF Our Santiago
Prisoners IBID Farewell To the Scene
of Their Defeat.

Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 2s.-Th.
Spanish transports San Francisco,
san Augustin and Colon left Thurs
day afternoon for Spain with I,j6s
Spaniards. including Is officers and
their famnles aud four priests. Eight
men died on the way to the ships
Their corpse were checked on a.
passengers. II appears that there
have been many instances OF this kind
during the embar.ation IF the Span
iards. the transportation company
thus being enabled TO collect the pas
sage money. a thing readily managed
under the easy inspection of the
Americans.
Words Of Comfort by Gen. Torsl.
Cen. Toral, when bidding adieu TO
the Spanish officers and men who
were leaving. said
Conquered. we yield with honor t.
ourselves and TO Spain Whatever may
be the future Of Cuba. history will
preserve the story of your heroic and
noble deeds i'm this country. We re-
greet our failure and its cost in treas
IRE and in blood; but you have nobly
fought and nobly lost"
Gen Shafter and stan sailed.
Gen. Shafter and his stan sailed
Thursday on the United States trans
port Mexico. Ills departure was not
marked by special incident. On arriy-
ing AT MontauN Point Gen. Shafter
viii go with Maj. Miles to Washington
to meet President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Alger. aftcrward proceeding to
san Francisco.
Col. Greene. of Gen. Skaters staff. in
of the signal corps. will re-
main for another ten days. or untilhc
; relieved by Capt. Leigh. who. with
20 men of the signal corps. is expected
,n the Seguranca.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
SECRETARY LONG ON THE NAVY'S NEEDS Talks of the Work of the Personnel
 Board. COngratulates Roosevelt on the Excellence
 of His Report. Delicate Questions Relating to Line and Staff Deftly
 Handled. REMEDIES ARE REQUIRED. Three Great Objects Sought in the R organization of the Naval
 Service.
Delicate Questions RelatinQ to Line and Staff Deftly
 Handled.
REMEDIES ARE REQUIRED
Three Great Objects Sought in the R organization of the Naval
 Service.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BOSTON, Dec. 31-To-day The Call correspondent met the warm, cordial smile of Secretary John D. Long, home for flying visit, only to wind up the holiday recess. He returns immediate ly to Washington. Referring to the matter of the Charlestown navy yard, involving Major Meade and the post leadership and the succession of the command of Major Pope of Mare Island, the secretary said:
 Tn respect to the matter the depart ment acted with the utmost considera- tion and care, and with sole regard to the interests of the service
 The conversation was given a fresh query as to how the new change in the navy personnel, contemplated in As sistant Secretary Roosevelt's report, the synopsis of which in the morning papers aroused at once so keen an intrest among resident naval officers
 MT. Roosevelt is to be much con- graduated upon the force and excel lence of his report" said Secretary Long. His service in the matter is illustrative of the man and perfect answer to those who predicted that he would be an impracticable assistant I was asked to-day if 1t was true that there had been differences of opinion between Mir. Roosevelt and myself
 'I was happy to answer that there had been great many, and that it would argue that we were a pair of chuckle-heads if there had been none. These differences have always been settled by discussion, and strange to say, where Roosevelt has been right I have given in and where I've been right he has given in, and then every thing has gone along with a harmony and smoothness and a common shoul- der to the wheel unparalleled else where. It is fair to say, however, that
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
LESSONS TAUGHT BY TIME.
Impressive Serpon by Hrcbbishop Riordon at St. Mory's Cothe-
 dYdI

A New Years eve vesper and bene- diction service was held last night at St. Mary's Cathedral, on Van Ness avenue. After the singing of the yes pers. "Adeste Fideles," Magnificent and "Emitte Spiritum" by the choir and a quartet, the Most Rev Arch bishop Riordan delivered an impress sive sermon on the New Year and the thoughts it should bring with it. He said that the old year was one of the resting-places in the journey of life. He said that it was the duty of all to look over the year that had passed and see if the pages were not marked with deeds and acts that might have been better performed. He urged that profiting by the experience of the past every one should have clean pages in their life history when the year now dawning was ended. Tt was a time for earnest thinking" said he, and we now stand on the bank of the river of life and see time bearing every thing before us. The New Year is a time for solemn thought. Let us all profit by the past and lead lives that will insure us peace and rest when we reach the next milestone in our jour- ney. Let us be sorrowful for the mis- takes of the past and hopeful for the future"
 The services concluded with benedic- tion and the singing of the '"Te Deum'' by the congregation.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
LIFE WENT OUT
 WITH THE YEAR
An Unknown Woman Killed by an Electric Car on
 Kearny Street.
She Fell on the Track and the Motor man Was Unable to Prevent.
 the Accident.

Mrs. Rose 'Kenness, wife of William Kenness, a baker, was run over and killed at the corner of Jackson and Kearny streets by Mission car 1176 southbound about o'clock last even- ing.
 When she was taken up by the policeman she was found to be still alive, and the patrol-wagon was called to take her to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, but she died before it was reached. Her body was badly crushed. and death probably resulted from in- ternal injuries. There were also some ugly bruises on the head
 C. l.. Skelley, the motorman, was ar rested and booked at the Central police station on the charge of manslaughter Skelley's account of the accident is corroborated by Frank Kennedy, living at S0I Folsom street, who was stand- ing near the woman when she was struck. According to these two men there was another car going north just before the accident, and, after it had passed. the woman made an at tempt to cross. and fell directly in front of Skelley's car. When he saw her ly- ing on the track the motorman re- versed the car, but was unable to stop it before the woman was struck. The reversal of the lever prevented the car passing over the body. but the front wheels struck the woman and in ficted the injuries which caused her death.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
FIN DE SIECLE
 LITTLE 30 PEEP
Amateur Lillian Russells and Francis Wilson's at the
 Concordia.
Fashionable Club Celebrates Witt Eclat the Coming of the
 New Year.

In accordance with the usual cus- tom the Concordia Club gave an elab- crate entertainment to gloriously mark the vanishing of the old year and to graciously welcome the new one.
 The elegant club house house was kindly placed by the members at the disposal of the 450 ouests. and was made gorgeous in a holiday dress of greens, holly and red berries
 The event of the evening was the production of brand-new burlesque. 'Bo Peep" with book by George E. Lask and music by Leo Bruck. The play was happily cast, and the par ticipants managed to surprise even their most ardent admirers
 The waits between the acts were filled in with excellent vaudeville ma terial. The famous. Bon Bon" sisters were applauded to the echo, as was also the scenes from the Girl From Paris"
 Al Liebenthal, the chairman of the entertainment committed, was over whelmed with congratulations at the close of the very excellent perform ance.
 After the play an elaborate supper was served by Wheeler, and then the magnificent New Years ball followed.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
Spouse of the Slain Man Stated That She Had Given
 Him Poison.
WANTED TO BE RID OF HIM
Now It Is Believed the Woman Enher Hired the Assassin or Did the
 Deed Herself
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 BOSTON, Dec. S1.-More arrests are expected immediately in the Sach murder case. Herman Sach has been acquitted of shooting Bertram Hotch- Kiss. the Killingworth game warden, but who did the deed?
 The State of Connecticut will inves- tigate still further. Sach gave to-day one of the most sensational statements ever made in a murder case. It is sub stantialiy as follows:
 Early last spring I went to work Tor Bertram Hotchkiss and worked there about five months, and left hlm early in August At three differ ent times his wife asked me to kill her husoand for her, and told her if she asked me again I would give her away. She told me MT. Hubbard sent out some poison to poison skunks and woodcocks that were stealing his birds. After left there she told me she had the poison in the house still. One day in the latter part of Julv I went down there to her house. When got to the door, I saw Bert Hotch- KISS ana he asked me if I would drive up 10 the doctors for him. I then went " eAAC bcln tO lllIcn LID his horse He could not walk.
 lie wanted me to go to Darien for pr Markham. When I went down to hitch up the horse his wife came down and told me not to hurry or drive fast I sad: Whats the matter?' She said :. T Will tell you when you come back , droVe as fast as I could, however. to pr. Markham's. The doctor hitched m his own horse and came down after me When the doctor had gone she said she had given Bert that which the doctor could not find out
 What did you do?' I asked. She said: I put poison in his coffee at Breakfast ] went home the next morn ing. Before l went home she said to me: I will fix him next time; he will not see the poison in his coffee again. Afterward, when T went there again, she told me she had given him the poison again in ginger tea, but he would not take it. I went up to work for Hoffmann after this, and every time I passed the house and Bert was away she would call me in. A few days be- fore Bert was shot she asked me if I would kill him. I told her I would not. I worked for Hoffmann all day August 27, the day of the murder, until ten minutes past in the afternoon. Then went down toward my home"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
DEATH UNDER
 TRAIN WHEELS Brakeman John COnbOv Loses His Life at
 San Rafael
Thirteen Heavily Laden Freiqht Cars Pass Oyer the Younq
 Mans Body.
Distressing Accident Occurring at Night on the San Francisco and
 North Pacific Railway.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN RAFAEL. Dec. 31.-John Con boy, brakeman on the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast Railway, met a frightful death this morning at about o'clock. Thirteen heavily laden freight cars. passed over his body. crushing the bones and tearing the flesh into shreds.
 Conboy was employed as an extra brakeman by the railroad company, and his home was in Petaluma. He was only a lad, not having yet reached the age of 20, and the manner in which he came to his death while in the per- formance of his duty was sad in the extreme. The brakeman was with En- gineer Donohue and Conductor Cum mlngs, and had charge of the thirteen cars which passed over his body. Just before reaching San Rafael a hill is encountered.
 Owing to the heavy train last night 1t was cut into two sections, as is GUS tomary when the hill is reached. and the engine showed the first section of thirteen cars to the top of the grade Then the cars were allowed to descend the other side by gravity, while the en- zine went back after the second sec ton.
 Brakeman Conboy was given charge or the hrst section. The night was dark and foggy and cold, and it was while the cars were going down the grade that he met his death. No one saw the accident, but the supposition is that Conbay, after cutting the engine off, and While the cars were going down the grade, climbed to the top of the cars and walked over the roofs toward the first car. In the darkness and fog he possibly stepped off the first car, think ing there was another one ahead of him, and that he plunged down upon the track, while the cars, one by one passed over his body.
 When the second section came along Conboy's lifeless body was found lying beside the track.
 Conboy was well liked by the em- ployes of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railway. The funeral will take place in Petaluma.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
OLD SAN FRANCISCAN DEAD. Lombert of Wollo Wollo Who Was
 Here in Viuilunte Times.

F. D. Lambert, who came to this city in the bark Brant in 1852 and re- sided here until 1868. taking meantime a prominent part in the Vigilantes' Committee, died yesterday morning at his home in Walla Walla, Wash, where he had lived for. the past thirty years. 1t was Mir. Lambert who, with pistol in hand. jumped in front of and stopped the carriage that was being driven to the jail to rescue Murderer Casey at the. time of the riot following upon the assassination of James King of William, the popular editor of the Bulletin.
 In Walla Walla Mir. Lambert was successively Justice of the Peace, Cor oner and chairman of the City Council He was born in Devonshire England. in 1928. He was an ardent Republican and member of the Knights of Py- thias. Two months ago he celebrated his golden wedding, and on that day his favorite brother died in England. This grief seemed to have hastened his end. A widow and seven children, of whom William F. Lambert of the Pre- sidio is one, survive him.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
T have had the advantage of the last

I have had the advantage of the last word in deciding who was right.
 ..This question of personnel" con- tinued the Secretary, '1s, or course. the most delicate of all questions in the navy Naval officers are not to be hla1ned for being exceedingly sensitive as to their rights, their rank ana their pay. The fortunes of themselves ana of their families are at stake. Hitherto all attempts at an agreement as to reorganization have failed. In tnlS m stance a large board, representing me and staff, age and youth, consefgdtiVe and radical, was appointed, and MT. Roosevelt put at the head of it. 50 Tar from showing impracticability, he has presided over the board with Sucn QlS- erection and ease and good sense that the result. although covering different, delicate and important questions or personnel, is practically unanimous '.iTbe three great objects sought were: First-The consolidation Of the line and engineer corps, the time nav ing now come when the captain or ship must be familiar with the engines which are it's motive power, Just as oio Isaac Hull was just as good a sailor III the rigging as he was hghter at tne guns. Second-The quicker flow or pro motion and the bringing to the top of the best deserved and the highest merit, and third, the introduction or the machinist as warrant officer, the time having come, with the immense amount of engineers aboard the shlp' when those who have their hand di- rectly upon the lever should be thor oughly competent for their duties.
 The bill is now in my hands for re- vision. and then to be transmitted to Congress. I am heartily in sympathy with it's purpose and general erect, although there are some minor matters of detail which I held for further con- sideration
 ''The only risk the bill will encounter is, in my Judgment, the increase Of the cost, which MT. Roosevelt estimates at something like half a million dollars.
 As to this it is to be said that 1t only gives naval officers the same pay which is now given to officers of the army and marine corps; nor is half million dollars very large increase to pay for active present service when we are paying S15000O000 a years for serv- ices rendered a third of a century ago. But in all these points I commend you to a careful reading of MT. Rooseveltg report. For vigor of statement, clear ness of presentation and earnest en- thusiastic devotion to the service in which he is engaged it is splendid performance"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
Escaped Prisoner Killed by Officers at The
 DalleS.
Draws a Pistol When Given an Order to Hold Up His
 Hands.
Before He Can Open Fire Two Bullets Are Sent Crashing Through
 His Skull.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PORTLAND, Dec. 31.-Harry Hes sey, who escaped from the Clackamas County Jail, was shot and istantly afternoon by Night Watchman Julius Wiley and acting Deputy Sheriff Will liam Spencer.
 Hessey and Frank Williams met at Troutdale and tramped it to The Dalles, reaching there yesterday morn ing. From the conversation of his companion Williams became convinced that he was the man who escaped on Sunday night from the Clackamas County Jail, and last night Williams informed policeman of his suspicious and asked if a reward was offered. 4 telegram was sent to the Clackamas County Sheriff, and the description re- turned tallied with that of Williams companion.
 This afternoon Officer Wiley, Coro- ner Butts and William Spencer start ed for the east end of town, where Hessey and Williams were camped. Just beyond the WaSco warehouse the officers came upon the men, and after some short parleying ordered Hessey to throw up his hands. Hessey imme- diately drew his revolver and leveIed it at Coroner Butts, but before he could discharge the weapon Wiley and Spencer both shot, and the jailbird fell to the ground dead, with a bullet-hole near each temple.
 In his pocket were found a mask and other articles of disguise. Hessey was wanted for robbery in Woodburn. No blame can be attached to the off cers, as every act of Hessey showed that he was desperate, and that he meant to sell his liberty dearly A re- ward Of $40 had been offered for his caDture
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
NEW YEAR FOOTBALL.
Lightweight Olympic Meets Green Colleague of Cross HnnuoI
 Championship.

At Recreation Park at o'clock this afternoon a football match will be played by the Olympic lightweight eleven, formerly the Y. M c. A. light weight championship team, and the Green c eleven, formerly the champion team of the League of the Cross Ca dets. The latter players will have an advantage of about twenty pounds to the man in weight, but the light weights, in addition to a remarkable three years record of victories, have this season scored as follows: Six to Army and Navy 6, to Stanford fresh men 1, to California Freshmen 6. 10 to Petaluma Athletic Club 0, 19 to Im- perial Athletic Club o, to Centerville Athletic Club 0. and a game won by de- fault from St. Ignatius College.
 The annual match for the company championship of the League of the Cross Cadets will be played this after noon at the California League grounds. corner of Sixteenth and Folsom streets. Game will be called at 2 o'clock. with the following teams as contestants:
 At Recreation Park on Saturday. January 8, at D. m., the Olympic team will meet the Centerville Athletic CIub in their second game of the series for the football lightweight championship of the State, each team weighing, ac- cording to agreement, not over l4O pounds on an average to the player. En- forced equality of weight will probably make for an open game with more end running and bunting than usual Car ter, the well known Reliance half; La Cuna, who played end for Reliance last season, and Morgan, the Berkeley freshman quarterback, will participate in the game.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
THE SCHEME FAILED.
Turner, the Convicted Real Estute AqeDt, WoDts Frennd Arrested.

Turner, the Convicted Ke0I EStdte
 Agept, WoDts Frennu Arrested.
 J. B. Turner, the real estate agent who was recently sentenced to eight years in San Quentin, tried hard yes terday to outwit J. P. Frenna, the com- blaming witness against him.
 Turner has obtained a writ of proba- ble cause, and it will come up for argu- ment on Monday. Meantime he is out on bonds.
 Yesterday, accompanied by Attorney George D. Collins, he called upon As- sistant Prosecuting Attorney Mann of Judge Campbell's court and presented a warrant for Frenna's arrest for threats to kill. Mann's indorsement was wanted to the warrant, and, he says, he was led to believe that the trouble was about civil suit that would come up for hearing on Monday. Nothing was said about the writ of probable cause.
 Mann ascertained that Turner had attempted to get Judge Conlan to sign the warrant, and he went to him and learned why he had refused to sign it. Mann was angry, and freely spoke his mind to Turner, when he firmly told him that he would not indorse the war rant, as he believed it was simply a scheme to get Frenna arrested so that he could not testify Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
MEXICANS HAUL DOWN OUR FLAG Elm blem of Their Own Nation Raised on
 Clipperton. Am orleans Had the Island
 and Hoisted "Old
 Glory" Man-Of-War DemOcrataS Sent to Compel the Invaders
 to Evacuate. ARMED MARINES LANDED. Encounter No Resistance and Peace fully Establish Their Govern b naents Rights.
Man -Of-War DenOcrataS Sent to Compel the Invaders
 to Evacuate.
ARMED MARINES LANDED.
Encounter No Resistance and Peace
 fully Establish Their Govern ment's Rights.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. S1-The steamer Albion, which arrived this morning from the lower Mexican coast, brings the story of the man-of-war Demo- cratas' trip to Clipperton Island to in- vestigate the alleged seizure Of the island by the British. Instead of fnd- ing Britishers in possession of the island the American flag was found flying gayly there, and the incident raised, if any, was between the United States and Mexico instead of between Mexico and Great Britain. The Demo- cratas landed a few marines and dis placed the American flag with the tri- colored banner of Mexico, with her eagle standing on an uncomfortable footing of cactus barbs while swallowing a ser pent. But there was no bloodshed, and the guano poachers there acquiesced without any spread of jingoism. A passenger on the Albion tells the story as follows:
 "On our return we took on a sailor at Acapulco, and from him I learned that he had been brought to that port by the Mexican gunboat Democratas from Clipperton Island He, with two other men, had been employed by a guano company to take charge of about 40OO tons of guano that was stored in the warehouses on the island, and when they were landed there some nine months ago they hoisted the American flag and notified the Secre- tary of State of their actions.
 "On December 14 the Democratas dropped anchor a short distance from the island and sent a boats crew of marines to the island. On attempting to land the boat was dashed against a coral reef and suffered considera bIe damage. Finally the marines were landed, and, after an official ceremony. the stars and stripes were hauled down from the flagpOle that had been erected by Americans and in its place the Mexican flag was hoisted. Having taken formal possession or the island the marines withdrew and notified the man who remained on the island not to allow any one to take away the guano under penalty of imprisonment under the Mexican laws.
 "The island is about 800 miles off the Mexican coast, almost due west of Acapulco, and is known as an atoll or coral reef. It is about four miles in c1rcumference, with a large sized lake in the center Two palm trees con stitute the sole vegetation of the is- land, which is made the home of mil lions of sea fowls. Thousands of tons of the richest guano is to be gathered on the island, and this represents its sole. worth apart from the value of the coral.
 When the marines landed to take possession of the island on behalf of Mexico they were fully armed and prepared to do battle with whatever resistance might be offered"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
hnNind TheIr Elm

The members of the Produce Exchange had their annual celebration in honor of the closing day of the year yesterday at the close of the forenoon session The battle began at the close of the morning session and pandemonium reigned for about a half hour. Bags of four hand- fuls of grain, interspersed with a fire cracker here and there to make things a little livelier, were freely exchanged, and when the war was over the corner of California and Leidesdorff streets looked as though a cyclone had emptied its accumulations there