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POPULACE OF . ROME- VIEW
ING THE REMAINS OF THE
POPE. I
Continued on Page 2,, Column' 7.
Continued on • Page 2, Column 4.
Life Passes Century Mark.
VANCOUVER. B. C. July 23.— The old
est.white woman In British Columbia died
here to-day. She was Mre. Anna Gill,
aged 101 years. She was a native of Ire
land and had lived In Canada for forty
der Fire.
WASHINGTON, July 23.— Postofflce In
spectors are now investigating the affairs
of H. H. Rand, former confidential clerk
of the Postmaster General and now a«
eistant superintendent of the division of
salaries and allowances. Rand has' not
been at the department for some days.
INSPECTOBS LOOKING
INTO RAND'S AFFAIRS
Postmaster General Payne's Former
Confidential Clerk Un-
NAPLES. July 23.— An eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius began yesterday and is in
creasing in violence. A stream of lava
eight metres broad and one metre deep
is flowing- In the direction of PompeiL
It has destroyed an old cottage and
threatens to reach the road. No dam
age Is expected, however. a*nd that side of
the mountain is almost deserted. Tha
eruption Is not visible from Naples. There
are occasional explosions attended by
rumhlings. The cone of the mountain has
been engulfed in a crater which 1* rapid
ly filling with lava. - . Ajfj
Stream of Lava Is Flowing Toward
Pompeii, but No Serious Dam
age Is Expected.
MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTS
WITH GROWING VIOLENCE
BOGOTA, Colombia, July 23.—Oppon
ents of the canal treaty assert that the
Hay-Herron convention is too favorable
to the United States. They say- that
.$25,000,000 should be paid to Colombia by
the United .States instead of $10,000,000.
They point out that the United States
wlir seize a; zone of territory along the
route of the, canal of five kilometres on
each side and a group of small islands
In the. bay... of.'. Panama, named Perico,
Naos, Culebra and Flamenlco. l They in
sist that the Islands alone are worth
more than $10,000,000. .
The' treaty opponents also say that the
Panama Railroad," which would, in time
pay Colombia well if the canal were not
built, is worth J at v least $25,000,000. They
declare that ; the United States should pay
Colombia, a percentage * of tho profits
say six per cent— instead of the / $230,000
a year agreed' upon.' • ... ¦ . ;.
have been so notified,, but the law is very
plain: I will wait, until, sundown to-mor
row, but at that time if the documents
are not here Howard' must die,"
Special Cable td The Call and N>* Tork
Herald. Copyright. 1003. by the New York
Herald Publishing Company.
Opponents of the Canal Treaty De
mand Twenty-Five Mil
lion Dollars., }j'.
COLOMBIA WANTS MORE
UNLTED STATES GOLD
TRINIDAD, Colo.. July 23.— Because she
rejected his attentions. David Aguillo shot
and killed Mrs. Celia Dussart this morn
ing at a coal camp five miles from here.
The murderer took to the hills and Is be-
Jr.g pursued by thirty miners. The Sher
iff and a posse are also in pursuit. Should
the miners capture Aguillo it is believed
he will be lynched. Should he be taken
by the Sheriff's posse the miners will try
to secure Aguillo, and trouble is looked
for. The murdered woman was only 19
years of ac.
Thirty Colorado Miners in Pursuit
cf Murderer and May
Lynch Him.
REJECTED LOVER SHOOTS
OBJECT OF AFFECTIONS
Sheriff Collins was informed .by ', tele
phone of the attempt to wreck the train
and hurried to the scene. He has been
there all the afternoon Investigating the
case, but - up to a late hour to-night •' had
made so arrests. .
The train was runninc only six miles
an hour near Farmersville. The engineer
saw the obstruction but nbt soon enough
to stop. He made every effort to avoid
a collision but failed. The engine smashed
Into the rocks and was almost thrown
from the rails." All. of the. cars were well
filled with passengers and men. , women
and children were tnrown from their' seats
and some. were slightly bruised.
The train wreckers had planned to ac
complish their malign purpose near
Farmersville, a small town a few miles
east of this city. They- had j gathered
large pieces of rock and heaped them into
a stout barrier against the passage of
the train. Every effort, as an investiga
tion afterward revealed, had been made
to cause a pmash-up attendant with all
possible horror. •' f I.*','
VISALIA, July 23.— That the east-bound
Southern Pacific train was not' piled/up
in a mass of wreckage and that scores
of passengers were not killed or injured
this morning, was not' the fault of the
unknown miscreants who piled rocks on
the track at a point where an appalling
disaster at any other time would have
been almost Inevitable. It happened, for
tunately for those aboard the cars, that
the train was running slowly and the
collision with the rock pile resulted In
nothing more serious than a severe shak
ing up of the travelers.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
"The law expressly provides that* a
hanging must occur between the hours of
sunrise -and .sunset upon the day. spec
ified,"-said 'Aguirre to-night.- VOf- course
there is probably no doubt ." but ;.the
appeal - has •*- been taken, and in fact I
"SAN RAFAEL, July 23.— Upon the ser
vice -of * the mails j hangs the life of a
negro 'murderer in San Quentin prison.
He. is :. Wilson R. Howard, the man who
deliberately killed and robbed an aged
garbage gatherer at San Jose in . Feb
ruary-of last year. lie confessed his
crime and .was sentenced to death. To*
morrow is the day the law appointed for
the payment of the -penalty.
The Governor yesterday took note of
an application- made for a stay of execu
tion until, the Supreme Court may decide
some technical point in the case. A re
prieve • was granted. Voluminous legal
papers were prepared in San Jose and the
necessary documents to prevent' the hang
ing were sent by mall to the Warden of
San Quentin prison.
At a late^ hour to-night the Warden
had not received the mailed papers.
Preparations for the execution go on as
usual. Should the mails miscarry, re
prieve or no reprieve, Howard must hang.
The Warden has" only the law. to observe
and the law is clear; and emphatic.
Aguirre states, he will hang the man to
morrow unless the official papers are re
ceived-by him. lie asserts that in the
face of a" notice of appeal having been
published he will not have the execution
at 10:30 o'clock to-morrow .morning! the
time scheduled, but that unless the papers
are received by him before sundown How
ard must die. -
Epeclal Dispatch to The Call
TRAIN RUNS
INTO ROCKS
ON A TRACK
MURDERER'S
LIFE HANGS
ON A LETTER
arms. . , '..
. An important political factor .was intro
duced, into i the ceremony by the entrance
into St. Peter's of Italian soldiers, who
remained there throughout the day to pre
serve order. • Their presence there In such
a capacity, . unprecedented . In ; the history
of -modern Italy, is taken; as an indica
tion of better relations between the Gov
ernment) and the Vatican, "as it was by
the consent, If not by the desire, of the
Vatican ; that they employed
troops of tho Qulrlnal in-papal territory.
; - Another feature that '-is > causing com-
; -*J^^~ OME. July '23.— From sunrise to
. £ J day until sunset thousands of
JpC^ persons passed before the bier
• of Leo XIII. lying in state in
" - ..the basilica of St. Peter's. It
was o'riglnally intended that this oppor
tunity to view the remains should run
through three days, but to-night the press
learns that it is likely to be curtailed and
that the funeral may he beld on Friday
instead. of Saturday night, owing to the
evidence that decomposition is""Ietting in.
This is due to to-day's severe heat, from
which no embalming could perfectly pro
tect the body. „
The will of the dead Pope was opened
at to-day's meeting of the congregation
of cardinals. •• It consists of thlrty-slx
pages in • the handwriting of Leo XIII,
and leaves . all the property ~of which
he died possessed to his successor for the
use of . the church. To each member of
his family he leaves ' a ~ present, to.' be
chosen j from the valuable objects In . his
apartment.' , Similar, presents, are be
queathed ,to ;his ; physicians. .Tho total
amount of, the property which he left is
not yet known.
The impression of those who' to-day
passed before the gates of St. Peter's <o
view the remains was one of intense pity
combined with a certain sense of horror.
The body, was tilted up on the catafalque
In. order that all might see the terribly
shrunken face. An ordinary skull in a
frame of gold lying in the midst of a
mass' of red robes could' scarcely have
been more typical of death.
KING'S TROOPS IN VATICAN.
Except at sunrise, when the crush
threatened a panic, all those who wished
it had entrance to St. Peter's. During the
day; many. of those who passed in stopped
before the ¦ catafalque to say a quiet
prayer. Hundreds of women, and even
some of the men, carried children In their
SCENE OF THE LAST STAND OF THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION- I
ARY ARMY,. AND LEADERS OF THE OPPOSING- FORCES IN THE
RECENT SANGUINARY CONFLICT.'
Pontiff.
Cardinals Open the
Will of the Late
fcorrible carnage, during which greal
courage was shown on both sides
The jail arid the Capitol were the centers
cf the. most severe fighting and many men
were killed or wounded there. When
these places were captured only a few
blocks behind the Capitol remained to be
taken. At midnight the fusillade ccaseti
er.d the silence of death reigned over the
city all the rest of the night.
At 5 o'clock in the morning a press'cor
rcf-pondent followed General Riveras, the
Government commandrr. who met Gen
eral Gomez, the Venezuelan commander
in chief, near the Capitol and confirmed
the announcement that the Capitol, the
Jail and all the rest of the city were in
the hanCs of the Government soldiers.
General Gomez informed the correspond
ent that the resistance at the Capitol had
been of a nature worthy of a better
cause; that each yard of rampart was
covered by the dead, and that General
Nicolas Rolando, the last representative
of the revolution, and his two lieutenants.
Generals Pablo and Guzman, and General
Vasquez had been taken prisoners.
No adequate idea can be cabled of th^
scene which Ciudad Bolivar presents.
The city appears to have been swept by a
cyclone, accompanied by a conflagration.
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Hope had not come yet. however, and
the child was sent 'to a special room to
die. v There, to the wonder of all. as the
day wore on, she continued to revive. To
day she was _ the medical wonder of New
York.
The pperation ended with the little girl.
to all appearances, dead. Her heart had
ceased to beat and the pulse waa still.
Her limbs were cold. Dr. Schall resolved
upon extraordinary remedies as a forlorn
hope, although everybody present thought
the clrl dead.
, Hot salt solutions were prepared at 113
degrees Fahrenheit. Two gallons of so
lution were used In the patient's ( stomach.
The fluid was applied to 'the exposed or
gans. Then a vein was opened in one of
the little arms -and a pint and a half of
the hot salt solution Injected. Besides;
all recognized means of inducing respira
tion were used. '\- ;
'Then, to the astonishment of the doc
tors, slowly and after much labor, the
patient began to show signs of returned
life.j After a. few minutes the pulse could
be felt beating faintly, The little lungs
showed natural emotion.
Chuckling gayly. the little patient to
day, apparently well on the way to re
covery, played with dolls in her cot In the
hospital, while many medical men beheld
her in wonder.
Dr. Herman E. Street. Dr. Walter Iz
ard and Dr. Welgle. resident physicians
at the hospital, assisted Dr. John Hub
bel Schall in the operation. Just previous
to the administration of ether the little
patient's pulse was 164 and her tempera
ture 104J-. - - >";;.;:
NEW YORK, July 23.— Unique In { stJt*
gery was an operation performed in Mem
orial Hospital, Brooklyn, 'on Tuesday,
July 14, on-Vera Stark, a delicate 11-year
old girl. After having her appendix and
an adhering tumorous growth, as well as
five inches of intestines, removed she was,
while practically dead, restored to" life
by an Injection Into her veins of a pint
and a half of hot salt solution and the
application into her stomach of a simi
lar solution..
Special Dispatch to The Call.
"Happily, however, we can still count
upon a national characteristic of under
lying common sense that will not permit
us to look upon these untoward condi
tions as incorrigible^. We may still hope
that the balance of right between the con
tentions that now afflict us .will be ad
justed as soon as passion is made to yield
to .the American sentiment of justice and
love '¦¦ of *fair : i>lay, and when- these shall
insist that among those' who lead, as well
as those who follow, in these labor con
troversies, there ¦ shall be created and
stimulated^a .peaceful mood and.a.con
ciliatory sentiment.
' VAny intermediary attempting to bring
parties in difference together for, amicable
deliberation should v be absolutely- disin
terested and impartial and should pos;
sess the unqualified respect and confidence
of all concerned. The National Civic Fed T
eratlon and like organizations established
in various localities have illustrated the
beneficent uses of such : an intermediary.
Many labor, troubles have been prevented
and many'have been settled through their
interposition. ; _ ; Operating* on' the ¦ same
lines,, we have seen voluntary, arbitration
resorted to by contesting parties, on their
own motion, with most reassuring " re
sults.'!';. .
- "To" these ; influences . both ; the working
NEW YORK, July 23.— That the force of
public sentiment will lean toward general
arbitration in labor disputes is the posi
tion taken by former President Cleveland
in an article entitled, A Few Plain
Words on Labor Troubles," which ap
pears in this week's, Collier's Weekly. •
The national characteristic of underly
ing common sense, he maintains, will
force a change in the present attitude
assumed by capital and] labor and ulti
mately the patriotism and general senti
ment of all classes will prove irresistible
forces ' working " toward conciliation
through arbitration.^ This article is copy
righted by II. F." Collier & Son, through
whose permission the following extracts
are printed: „. • ' . - .
"We have also loved to think of Amer
ican" patriotism," writes Mr. Cleveland,
"and to dwell upon "it as a sentiment' so
thoroughly, pervading, our people and so
pure and genuine that, in its name, all of
our countrymen would be willing to fore
go selfish and personal interests if, there
by the welfare of the great body, of our
people could bo advanced. We know that
this patriotism is not dead and that it is
still able to > foster and bless the best
American citize/ishlp; but is there not
reason to fear that It is so weakened
among/ those enlisted in contentions be
tween employers and employed that 'they
are either, unconscious 1 of its restraints or
seek to avoid its exactions by giving lodg
ment to the deluding 1 notion -. that their
Quarrels do not concern the general good?
1 AMERICAN COMMON SENSE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Friendly Relations
Between Church
and State.
Sage of "Princeton
an Exponent of
; Arbitration.
Injection of Salt
Into Veins Re
stores Life.
SEEMINGLY
DEAD GIRL
I S REVIVED
CLEVELAND
ON RIGHTS
OF LABOR
PHOENIX. A. T., July 23.— It is report
ed from Jerome that during Tuesday
night's storms there was a cloudburst in
the canyon above the United Verde Smel
ter, which did several thousand dollars'
damage. The flood occurred in tho same
manner and with j similar results as the
flood a year ago. There was also another
flood in Chase Creek at Clifton, but
smaller than that in June, in; which so
many were drowned. Several business
houses suffered damage, but there were
no fatalities. ,
The people of Benson have taken steps
to relieve the inhabitants at Fairbank
who suffered from the flood and pro
visions will be sent if found necessary.
l<ive bridges on the branch line to
Tombstone were washed out, blocking all
traffic by rail. At Tombstone it j is re
ported that following the storm the roar
of the* waters in Walnut Canyon, a dis
tance of seven miles, could be heard. Had
the storm reached as far as Bisbee not a
single house would have been left, as that
city Is built in the heart of two canyons.
No estimate of the damage could be
obtained to-night,' as the waters are just
beginning to subside, but it is known
that it will run up into the thousands.
Fairbank was the greatest sufferer and
part of that junction town will have to be
entirely rebuilt. As many of the build
ings were adobe, they were utterly ruined
by the rush of waters. Reports from the
outlying, districts are" anxiously awaited
and In some directions expeditions have
been sent out to determine the extent'of
the damage done by the storm.
At Fairbank a tremendous wave of wa
ter with a ten-foot breast rushed down
the valley, carrying with it the .wreck
age caused by the wind. Those houses
which escaped the wind . were caught by
the flood and their inhabitants were com
pelled to flee to higher ground, while the
wind still blew a gale. Many narrow
escapes were reported In the town of
Fairbank, but at this hour none are posi
tively knowirto have been lost, although
several are reported" missing.
Tombstone has been cut '.off from all
towns by the. storm, bi^t a stage suc
ceeded in getting over the road late this
evening and reported that Tombstone had
been on the outer edge of- the storm and
that, on^on^/sec^^ottg!* :jhe city .had, sufc
fered greatly. .. . ~,~- * ... v'
Both the Southern Pacific and the El
Paso Southwestern lines between^ Benson
and Fairbank are washed out, all bridges
are down and it is estimated that it will
take $50,000 to repair the damage to the
railroads alone. Both lines put gangs of
men to work this morning and the South
ern Pacific reported that they expected to
get a train into Fairbank over temporary
trestles to-night.
ROAR OF THE WATERS.
TORRENT IN A VALLEY.
As the wires are down." the first reports
of the terrific storm did not reach Tucson
until this afternoon and they are but
meager. It will be v l several days before
the supposed loss of;lifeand the full ex
tent of the damage -in,^he sections out
side of the towns will' be known.
The storm started with a high wind
about 6 o'clock last night, wrecking
houses, uprooting trees and breaking down
telegraph poles. The' inhabitants of both
Tombstone and Fairbank were swept off
their feet and sought the low adobe
houses for protection. But while the
wind still raged the water burst from the
clouds, adding horror to the already hor
rible situation."
Fairbank is under six feet of .water, the
railroad lines are washed out "and it is
impossible to reach the flqod sufferers.
TUCSON. Ariz., July. 23.— The towns of
Tombstone and Fairbank were devastated
by a terrible tornado; and .cloudburst last
night and it is thought'that many ranch
ers in- the valleys of that section must
have been drowned in the flood.
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Special Dispatch to The Call.
Sen .TT A D T Venezuela* July 2L—
CS'Jiad Bolivar was captured at 11
o'clock last night, 1 after fifty-two
¦tours cf a desperate struggle and
Tombstone Mho
Suffers From a
Deluge.
Fair bank Houses
Are Covered by
JVdier.
Last of the Insur
gent Leaders a
Prisoner.
Venezuelan Army-
Takes Ciudad
Bolivar.
DEAD COVER THE RAMPARTS
OF THE REBEL STRONGHOLD
Lives May Have
Been Lost th
jt Luua,
ITALIAN TROOPS ON GUARD
IN BASILICA OF ST. PETER'S
CLOUDBURST SENDS TORRENTS ON ARIZONA TOWNS
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