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VOLUME LXXXII.-NO. HO.
MEETS THE
VENGEANCE
OF A MOB
Anulfo Arroyo Is Put to
Death by Infuriated
Citizens.
NO MERCY FOR THE
ASSAILANT.
Taken From the Guards and
"V His Body Riddled With
Knife Wounds.
OFFICERS COULD NOT PRE
VENT IT.
Before the Populace Broke Into the
Jail the Prisoner Told How He
Intended to Kill Diaz.
CITY OF MEXICO. Mex., Sept 17.—
Anuifo Arroyo, the miscreant who yester
day made an attempt on the life of Presi
dent Diaz, was set upon by a mob of infu
riate : Citizen ■> last night and killed with
knile slaos. General satisfaction was ex
pressea here to-day as the news of the
lynching of Arroyo spread through the
city, al 1 hough the more reflective people,
especially business and professional men,
said they deplored the : ct of mob violence
and feared it would be misinterpreted
abroad.
Some of the highest officials of the Gov
ernment said that they were wholly nuz
zle! to account for this outburst of popu
lar feeling and regretted that measures
had not been taken to guard the prisoner
more carefully. From the moment Arroyo
was arrested yesterday in front of the
Alameda, or central public park, masses
of people kept clamoring for bis life, and
taunted Lieutenant La Croix, who had the
prisoner in charge, with not using his pis
tols on the criminal.
>_l great crowd of people followed* the
.jUndarmes to the National Palace, where
WS prisoner was searched, and then, de
|'' ,tue remonstrances of the army
*» 'ief *, turned over to the civil authori
ties by request of President D ai, who was
opposed to having the man tried by court
martial, and in fact advt ed a len'ent pol
icy. Accordingly the prisoner was allowed
hi** full constitutional rights.
Actinic en the wish expressed by Presi
dent Diaz, ti.e prisoner was taken under
guard to general police headquarters in
tbe City Hall. Arroyo -vUently felt ap
prehensive of the crowd, who were deter
mined to seize and lynch bim, ami he was
carefully locked up at headquarters, when
lie began to feel less tearlui. At nigbt he
was taken, clad in a strait jacket, to the
office of the inspec or of police, wh'ch
consists of two rooms with two windows
opening on the street. The prisoner was
given a mat to rest on and was carefully
guarded. Near at hand, in an adjoining
apartment, were four officers of the secret
service.
As Arroyo lay on the mat he conversed
with one of the officer- who had known
m for years. He was asked how h- could
have come to make the murderous assault
on the P.esident, knowing as he di 1 how
severely the law would deal with him, es
pecially as he had studird the law. 'Ar
royo manifested a cynical indifference,
and was in no way incined to regret his
act, and declared he bad iutei.ded to stun
the President, and then taking the Presi
dent's small sword to kill him.
The apartment was very still, except
for the murmur of the conversation be
tween the officer and prisoner, who.seem
ingly enjoyed smoking bis cigarette, when
suddenly there was heard the formidable
noise of the tramping of many feet on the
stairs leading up to the floor on which tne
office i-, situated, and there were confused
shouts of "Long live President Diaz!
ilong live Mexico!" "Death to anarchists!"
•'-I Arroyo shuddered, his fear anarchists!"
Arroyo shuddered, hi-- fear of tbe mob
'attacking him growing stronger, and with
good reason, for immediately the door was
burst open and a great crowd of people,
apparently of the lower class, entered,
the leader bearing a small Mexican flag on
a stick. Officer Sanchez cried to the crowd
to fall back, and advanced on them with
his sword, whet; the mob overcame him,
and throwing him down, advanced over
his body to where Arroyo lay trembling,
and at the same time other members of
the party tied two gendearmes in the
room. Yells went up, "Kill him!" "He
belongs to us," and a din arose as of a
borde of savages. Windows were broken
and the noise aroused the officers of the
secret serv cc in the adjoining room, who
rushed to the scene, but did not fire on the
crowd, fearing tbey might kill some of the
comrades of the police inside, so they con
tented themselves with firing shots irom
ihe windows, thus calling together the
police on neighboring corners, who were
ordered to prevent any person leaving the
city ding.
Meanwhile, in the room above, a fright
ful trageiy had been enacted. Many
knives weie plunged into the body of
Arroyo, who, of course," was entirely help
less. Inspector Velasquez had just left
the National Palace, where he had been
accompanying the family of the Governor
of the federal district, when be heard the
firing and went directly there.;
Over twenty arrests were made, and all
t wer-- locked up incommunicado, and have
Inot been released pending a strict inquiry
A'hich is to be made. The question has
urally arisen why the officers guard
it--; Arroyo did not carry their revolvers,
but it is explained thai they bad nothing
to fear from tne prisoner, who was quite
helpless. The body of Arroyo had been
dragged to the balcony with the evident
purpose of 'throwing it into the street.
Arroyo's arms were badly cut, as he had
evidently struggled with his murderers. 1
When the tumult bad subsided the body
The San Francisco Call
[ was taken to the Fourth Ward police sta
| tion, where an examination was made,
showing a great gaping wound in the leu
lung, a deep wound in the left side, one
on the right shoulder, and others on the
arms and feet. There were nine wounds
in al!. One of the gendarmes was
wounded in the tight with the mob. Offi
j cer Sanchez suffered contusions from be
ing trampled upon.
BRYAN- BECOM.NG ALARMED.
Deplores the New York Democracy's
Lisposiiion to Sidetrack Late
National Issues.
NEW YORK, N. V., Sept. 18.— The
World prints the following: William Jen
ning- Bryan, in a letter to a well-known
Tammany man, deplores the disposition
of the local Democratic machines to
tnrust into the background the principles
which guided the National Democracy in
1806. Vf ?^W
He recommends that the flag under
which the Democrats fought a year ago,
and which attracted the support of more
than 6 000.000 voters, be set at the mast
bead and kept there throughout the battle
for control of the greater city of New-
York.
He calls atteution to the fact that an
other tight for the control of the Inderal
Government will soon be here, ana won
der- what the position of those Democrats
will be who, through a mistaken idea,
desert those principles for which they
loudly clamored a few months ago.
He wants all the Democrats who were
loyal last year to be loyal this year. He
says that loyalty cannot be shown by de
serting the platform adopted at Chicago
or by indicating that it is unclean by per
sistent and public refusals to recognize it.
It is Mr. Bryan's opinion that an open
indorsement ot this platform would
strengthen the Democratic party in this
city and maKe surer a Dsmocratic victory.
He applauds those Democrats who are
openly protesting against the determina
tion of the State machine and of the
machinery in this borough and in the
borough of Brook yn io crush out of
the local fight the jdoctrine that, born
under the Democratic'banner in a national
convention, swept recently through the
whole United Slates. He frankly admits
he has no right to use it in any local fight,
and he says he will not do so. He does
not believe that bis letters to pergonal
friends can be properly construed as an
in ter. erence. S_Sfe&B9Qß>
FEARS LF MORE BLOODSHED.
Friends of the Lynched Men Are In
dignant at the Action of
the Officers.
OSGOOD. Ind., Sept. 17.— 1t is feared to
nig .t that there will be more blood shed
here than was shed at Versailles on Tues
day night, when five men- were lynched.
Sheriff Bushing sent twenty-five deputies
here to-day to search the houses of the
lynched men and others' for stolen goods.
The only search warrants known to be
issued were for the bouses of Mrs. Ritten
house, who wa* suspected of* having a
•fence snd of Jenkins, one of the vic
tims. Mrs. Rittenhouse and her son had
been called to Versailles b-fore the Grand
Jury and the deputies broke into her
house and ' captured many goods. Mrs.
Rittenhouse and her son were afterward
arrested, but were released on their own
recognizances and left for North Vernon
to prevent trouble. The citizens say the
deputies made a mistake in going through
tbe house of Mrs. Rittenhouse in her ab
sence and taking her goods.
Merchants in this place say they; will
identify them as purchased from their
store-. .■ .:..;■* • ;v „,z ;■•„ .*.
The deputies say they found silverware
and other: articles that were questionable
in tbe house of the late. William Jenkins,
bat they did not take anything from that
place.'
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897.
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THE 1...A.5T SAD RITES.
VICTIMS
OF FAMINE
IN INDIA
Pathetic and Alarming
Condition of Stricken
People.
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SIX MILLIONS * MAY
STARVE.
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Terrible Suffering Despite a
Marvelous System of ;'.";•
" ' Relief.
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CHILDREN OFFERED FOR
SALE IN VAIN.
Appeal of James Smith, Who Says
That Less Than a Dollar Will Keep
a Person for a Month.
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CHICAGO, li.it., Sept 17.— Inter
Ocean to-morrow will print a letter pre
senting a pathetic and alarming view of
the condition of the people of India. The
famine victims thus far are estimated At
I 3,000,000 persons, and unless relief, comes
i the number may be doubled. : The letter
1 is dated Ahmednajar, July 22, and is
| from James Smith, who is at the head of
j a large industrial and mechanical school
I there, und addressed to Morris Trumbull
lof this city. It is as follows: /
1 "You may remember my visit to your
| office in November last in the interest of
industrial* work in India. Since then the
i famine. here bas emphasized the need for
' that work as never z before. We have
j passed through nine . months of awful
; suffering. The Cosmopolitan, which sent
out Julian Hawthorne to India as a spe
cial correspondent, puts tiie loss of m life by
the famine at '3.000,000. This, in spite of
the most marvelous system of relief .ever
devised by man, carried out in -the most
! energetic way vby the most thoroughly
I trained band of Government officers in the
I world. .-,.'.. f *
"But 1 regret to have to say that we
seem to be at the beginning, not the end,
of the famine. We 'looked forward to
June 1 as the date which was to bring de
liverance by sending rain." June has
come and gone, and July, too, has almost
gone, and we have neither sign ( nor hope
even of rain. The , season for rain is now
past, and * until September there is no
hope of rain. ' ! We may * get some - then, as
later rains sometimes give us crops when
early rains 'ail, but even then we shall
have no crop until January. * -. '•
- "Prices i in "-• the z meantime have risen
until they are five to six times what they
were in September of ji last year. Fodder
cannot be got at all, and our working ani
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mals are nearly all dead. -The verges, of
a.workingmrin will vtily two liounds
of i he coarsest grain. }
i "Tbe . Government is employing orre
ievihth of " tl;e whole' population in the
district of Ahmednnj-ir and 1 the numbers
are rising by 20,000 to 30,000 per f week.
What the end is to be no one dares to
think.
' "The people have nothing left but their
children : and their own bodies, and ere
offering both for sale, but there are few
buyers., 1 have myself employed about
130 persons and supported them and their
families, 500 in ail. for - the past four
months, at a cost of $300 a month. I ex
act work from jhose^who'cah work as a
test of ooth i eed and worth, for I have no
money lor vagabonds and idlers. In this
way 1 keep myseli from; being overrun by
thousands of such good-lor-nanghts.
' "I am nearly out of funds, and hence
appeal to you and your friends. It is now
or never with millions. Without help,
before the end of tbe year they must die
of starvation.' Less than $1 a month will
keep one person from death. Please send
direct by check or draft or Pustoffice
money order, or through American Board
for Famine Relief, care of Rev. '. J. Smith,
Anniednajar. ' James Smith."
ROMANCE OF FORT LLGAN.
Trooper Clinton Wins the Hand of an
Officer's Daughter by Working His
Way Up to a Commission.
DENVER, Colo.. Sept. 17.— A romance
has just been unearthed at Fort Lo_an, a
romance worthy tne pen of that able de
picter of army life, Captain King, but on
a subject on which he has not yet touched.
On Saturday last Second Lieutenant
James W. Clin on and Miss Isabella How
ell, a daughter of Lieutenant Howell,' were
married. Lieutenant Clinton i, one of the
officers who has worked his way to a com
mission from the ranks. He was a cav
alry troop -r, a plain private, when he first
saw Miss Howell, but they fell violently
in love, desp te the different e in rank.
They had many opportunities to be to
gether, although army caste forbids any
thing of the sort, and . finally in de pair
Trooper Clinton decided to promote him
self. He began to study with that end in
view, the result being, with such an in
spiration before him, he pa?s?d with a
high average and obtained the coveted
commission. The only objections remain
ing to a marriage was age. Miss Howell
being but 15. but love conquered in the
end and the marriage took place. The
bride, however, has been tent to school in
Kansas City, while Lieutenant Clinton has
joined hi-i troop at 'Broadmoor, and ac
cording to the conditions of the marriage
they are to remain apart until Mrs. Clin
ton reaches the mature age of 18, which
will not b: for three lon™; years.
transfers of Army Officer-.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17 —The
Secretary of War to-day ordered the fol
lowing transfers in the Third Artillery:
First Lieutenant ; Charles *" B. r Satterlee,
from Light Battery" F, to Batiery L; First
Lieutenant Henry H. Ludlow, from Bat
tery L to Battery B, vice First Lieutenant
John P. Hams,* who, under- instruction**
heretofore given.' will serve out his time
of duty * with "'? L-fhi Battery F; Second
Lieutenant Edward P. Ohm, from Ba'tery
H to Liiiht BiittervF.vice Second Lieu
tenant, Percy M. Kessler, transferred* to
Battery H. :■■■■- : , :
Mail to 2Sic iragua.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept-, 17.—
United States Consul at Managua, Nica
ragua, reports! to the State*; Department
that the mail service, which has been in
terrupted by quarantine ' measures, |is
asaia in operation. forty days' quar
antine expiree July CL ' "
NEW CASES
OF FEVER
REPORTED
Serious Aspect of the
■ Plague Admitted at
New Orleans.
HEALTH OFFICIALS
f£ DISAPPOINTED.
They Had Hoped That Cooler
Weather Would Check
the Epidemic.
QUARANTINE MEASURES
MORE RIGOROUS.
!
Now the Doc ore of the South Con
fess That They Are Grappling-'
With a Dangerous Foe.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 17— The
fever situation in New Orleans to-day as
sumed a somewhat more, serious aspect
than at any time since Sunday, when six
of the St. Claude cases were declared to be
yellow fever. , At ' 6 o'clock this evening
the Board of Health officially announced
the appearance of eight new cases and of
these one* death, that ot Zena Brainier.
At the office of the Board of Health to
day the reports were considered some
what surprising and disappointing.
Yesterday was about one of the hottest
days of the month, and as yellow fever
thrives in that character of weather there
seems to have' been a rapid development
of germs. The new cases to-day represent
extreme upper, the extreme lower and
the central portion of the city, but there
has been no serious spread irom original
foci, and the hopeful opinion is still ex
pressed i that the disease may be con
trolled and " that there is no imminent
danger of an epidemic. .'...-.
The Brauner case was .brought to the
attention of the board early in the week.
Close attention had been given to it, but,
while the symptoms Justified suspicion,
they were not sufficiently aggravated to
warrant an absolute declaration that the
case was yellow fever. The Board of
Health authorities* were, therefore, sur
prised "morning ':. when they received
the news of the woman's death. . At first
it was decided to, bold an : autopsy, but
subsequent ly, after a visit of the. doctors
to. the residence, the board became satis
fied that the case was i one of yellow fever,
and so officially declared it. ' i'Jz".' f '.yl , !
In the meantime there has been no J re
laxation of the -efforts on the part of the
authorities to control the disease.' They
admit that they 'are grappling with a dan-";
gerous and insidious foe, and neither time
THE BONDS
ALL TAKEN
LOCALLY
Entire $6,000,000 Issue of the
Valley Road Assumed
by a Syndicate.
LEADING CITIZENS PROVE FAITH
IN CALIFORNIA.
•
After This Gratifying Event Progress of the
People's Line Will Be Steady and
Labor Still More Largely
Employed*
Last night it transpired that a syndi
cate composed of leading citizens of this
city had taicen the entire issue of $6,000,000
of bonds of the Kan Francisco and San
Joaquin Valley Railroad
This announcement will be hailed with
delight throughout the State. The bonds
were taken by: ■
I. W. HELL MAN,
A. BORtL & CO.,
NEVADA BANK,
JOHN D. SPRECKELS,
■ BANK OF CALIFORNIA,
BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO.,
ABBY M. PARROTT.
This event secures the ready cash for
the extension of the road to Bakersfield
and the Iding of the line from Stock
ton to San Francisco.
The intelligence comes from an authen
tic source that the work of railroad con
struction will bo commenced with vigor
at once-' and carried -forward with all pos
sible dispatch, consistent .with the con
struction of a durable road, until the en
tire line between Bakersfield and San
Francisco is finished.
The most gratifying fact of -the bond
subscription is the faith in the future of
California which is so amply manifested
in the investment in Valley Railroad se
curities by citizens of San Francisco.
When' the directors of the corporation
decided to issue bonds to the amount of
$6,000,000 the, idea was entertained by
many tbat the securities would have to be
d-sposed of in the money centers of the
East or Europe. The public spirit dis
played by tho capitalists of San Fran
cisco in taking all the bonds is
a sure sign that San Francisco intends
nor money is being spared in fighting it.
The force of inspectors and police officers
is being steadily increased, and quaran
tine measures are becoming more and
more rigorous.
On the whole the weather conditions to
day were advantag -ous. A heavy rain
storm th afternoon, lasting for several
hours, fko-J-'l the streets, thoroughly
flushed the gutters and tempered the at
mosphere, and while cooler weather is
somewhat dangerous for the sick it ii a
material aid in obviating a spread of the
disease. People continue to leave in small
parties, but there is nothing like the wild
exodus that depopulated Mobile, Jackson
and other cities. The situation was some
what quieter to-day at Ocean Springs.
Three cases, however, were reported.
The report of the Board of Health at
Biloxi to-day says that there are nineteen
cases of actual yellow fever under treat
ment, with diagnosis reserved as to
twelve cases. There were seven new cases
reported in the twenty-four hours ending
yesterday. The doctors at Biloxi are
tempted to no longer class cases as suspi
cious, but to come out boldly and say that
they are yellow lever. •
The New Orleans Board of Health an
nounces to-night that many of the older
cases of yellow fever that have been here
tofore reported are rapidly progressing to
ward recovery.
JACKSON, Miss., . Sept. 17.—Informa
tion has been received at the Governor's
office that there was one death from yel
low fever at Augusta. It is feared that a
new focus will be started by this case in
the southeastern portion of the State.
MOBILE, f Ala;, Sept. 17.— T0-day's re
port shows no increase in tho ratio of
cases and but one additional death — tbat
of J. L., Taylor, a bricklayer -who came
here from West Virginia four weeks ago.
He bad been in a bad condition physically
ever since his arrival. There are three
suspicious cases and others are spoken of
to-night, but they have ; not been re
ported.
y BILOXI, Mm, Sept. 17. — The City
Council to-day adopted resolutions calling
on the public for aid, stating i that all fac
tories and other industries have closed
down, thus throwing all the laboring peo
ple out of employment, that nearly all the
sick are of that class and unable to pur
chase medicines and other things neces
sary in such urgency. Therelore an ap
peal is made to the public for subscrip
lions, to be u.-ed for tbe purchase of medi
cines, etc., for the sick . who are unable to
care for/themselves. The appeal is signed
by Harry T. Howard, Mayor, and -the
members of the Council. „"'•;' ; i "
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., Sept. 17.—
The situation here is not encouraging to
night/ Mr. Brantford, who was reported
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
to strengthen her position as the metrop- '■
olis of the Pacific Coast. .
It is too early now to speculate on the ..
future developments connected with the i
construction of the Valley road, but it is
regarded as certain that as soon as the
work is done for which this large sum of
money has been raised steps will be taken
to connect the line with an Eastern sys
tem of railroads. The extent of the indi
vidual subscriptions is not made known,
but it is a sufficient cause for congratula
tion to record that the whole issue is
taken by the local syndicate.
Throughout the San Joaquin Valley,
and in fact in every section of the State,
the news will be received with joy. The
public spirit of San Francisco will be com
mended and the enterprise of her public
men will be complimented.
* The contracts which* must necessarily
be awarded to assure the early completion
of the work will open a wide field of labor
to the wage-earners of the State. Money
: will -be i expended for rolling-stock and
construction material, and there will be
renewed activity all along the line.
When it is contemplated that the bonds
are held in California, and that tbe inter
est is to be paid to citizens of this Stale,
the full measure of benefit to California
will be comprehended.
It is learned that the work on the
Bakersfield extension and the work on the
line connecting San Francisco and Stock
ton will be simultaneous. The directors
will hot wait to complete one division of
the line before , beginning on the other.
Work will proceed on both divisions at the
same time.
Men who are familiar with money
affairs believe that the members of the
local syndicate have made a prudent and '
profitable business investment.
by Surgeon Murray yesterday, is in a
very critical condition. Several of the
dengue patients have taken a turn for the
worse, although none of them are con
sidered as critically ill. There were seven
cases of the prevailing fever reported in
day. Total number now sick, twenty-five.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 17.— A special to
the Republic from Cairo, 111., says: Two
men were suddenly taken ill to-day at
Point Pleasant and brought to this city
and placed in the Marine Hospital. The
physicians have not declared them to be
suffering from yellow fever, but they aro
being treated as suspects.
ATTEMPTED - l< It'LK ■ MVBDEZR,
Augustus Cook Tries to Kill Sis Wife,
Child and Avrir,
NEW YORK, N. V., Sept. 17.— Augustus
Cook, an actor, was locked up here to
night on the charge of attempting to kill
his wite, baby and nurse.
Mr.-. Cook is suffering from severe scalp
wounds, the nurse bas her fingers cut and
the baby, although besmeared with blood,
escaped unhurt.
The alleged attempt in the triple mur
der occurred in the luxuriantly furnished
apartment of the Cooks.
The weapon with which the women
were attached is supposed to have been
an ax. Mrs. Cook . will make no state
ment. Cook denies that he tried to kill
the woman. Cook played the part of Na
poleon in "'Mme. Sans Gene" last season,
nnd was with Daniel Frohman at the
Lyceum Theater several years hl-o, where
ne made many bits in character roles.
; The trouble with his wife 1* believed to
nave sprung from jealousy. Mrs. Cook has
gone to her father's home with the baby
and nurse.
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loelet's Remains. Arrive.
WICKFORD, R. 1., Sept. 17.— The body
of the late Ogden • Goelet . of New York,
who died off the Isle of Wight recently,
arrived here from Newport to-day on the
Mayflower. The body will be taken to
New York for interment. z .
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