The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THUKSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900. | | WOLCOTT WRECKED BUT NO LIVES LOST Struck_on the dlaskan Coast and Bassengers and Crew Landed During Heavy Storm. Special Dispatch to The Call. OLCEMD | ON NEW YORK | RESTALRANTS Arrested Music for for D 2 ® * ® * € . b¢ * [ R PP SO A A e i it dnaad ] ¢ the Apollo at Unga, who came from Unga. \ the mine was saved, ails and the baggag: E. H. Ben- rs, Deputy ga; John Wild, Trafine Tu- lost 1. Benjamin, the mining expert, who ne of the p \gers on the fli-fated lcott, has beer C on this ¢ t 4 has an office in this n Madison street, Oak- of the wreck of the Wolcott xiety not only to the fam- indreds of friends of Mr. T W >t kn to ard the ves me ago to ex- Place in the Pres- Thousand o Passenger Engine Derailed. CHICAGO, Mz Chicago- 3 the Burling- night twenty Ta ceord- ttumwa d the pas ge C. Ma D O WILCOR TELLS STORY OF Hi BRUTAL CAINE Taken to Santa Rosa and Given a Preliminary Hearing. | Says He Took Poison After Killing His Wife, but It Did Not Even Make Him Sick. e Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, March 14.—George F. Wilcox, the Kelseyville farmer whose brutal murder of his wife at Lytton Springs last Wednesday caused such a sensation, was brought back from Pasa- dena by Sheriff Frank P. Grace to-day and lodged in the County Jail. He was arrested at Pasadena Sunday afternoon, having gone there to visit relatives. Shortly after his arrival here he was taken before Judge Brown for examina- tion. He admitted his guilt and the ex- amination was waived. Wilcox sticks to the story he told when arrested at Pasa- dena and ys he was insane at the time he committed the deed. When examined arrival he denied his d made a complete on. vs he left his home at Kelseyville re down to Lytton Springs, where his wife was living with her brother, Wil- liam Price, and family, with the intention if possible of inducing her to return and live with him. If he failed in this he had fully made up his mind to kill her. Ar- riving at Price’s home, he at once began a discussion of the subject. Before he entered the house in which the crime was committed, he says, he and his wife were quarreling. As they entered Mrs. Wilcox started to build a in the kitchen stove. She was kneeling over the stove apply- ing the match when the first shot was It struck her in the neck, inflicting She screamed arid, looking , don’t."” fired a flesh wound, cried, “Oh heeding the s murderer, once_ tired his wife’ ‘Without floor, and he fir the smoking revolver close to the pros- trate woman's cheek before pulling the trigger. The prisoner declares that when he left | home it was his intention to kill himself as soon as he had killed his wife, if that became necessary, and for that purpose he m a small quantity of poison. 2 d_changed his mind. Although his w | evidence of he having been clubbed as ox denies that he struck her. with a blanket, but this he what happened until found ~ himselr walking rapidly away from the scene of the crime. He he took the poison as intended, 1 not even make him important details the pris- hang together, and it body when found gave | At first he denied that he had cov- | STEPHEN TOWNSEND WEDS MRS. BURNETT Couple Met in Genoa, Where the Ceremony Was Quietly Performed. COUER DALENE INQURY LEADS TO ACRIMONY Clash Between Republican and Democratic Commit- Lae ot D040+t ++Q e S g e 1 tee Members. oy a3 boe : ' 7| Lentz Objects t5 “Outside Coaching” i‘; ‘ &l by a Lawyer in the Employ P . | of Governor Steunen- e i? berg. WASHINGTON, March 14—Feeling ran | high at the Coeur d'Alene investigation before the House Committee on Military | Affairs to-day and there were several spir- | ited exchanges between Chairman Hull | and Representative Lentz. George Cornell was on the stand, relat- {ing his experience during imprisonment, | which differed only in detail from that of other witnesses. One of his recitals re- lates to an old soldier, who, because of the brutality of the negro guards to- ward him, tock his Grand Army button from his coat and with tears in his eyes threw it away. Cornell said he made a memoranda of the affair, but the book was taken from him, and he saw it after- ward in the possession of Bartlett Sin- clair, the Governor's representative dur- ing the troubles. inciair, who was present, ared th, as had been described. Pedbev e e b MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT-TOWNSEND. GO0 0+06+0 006000 600000003 eded+oeiel® arose and uch soldier B G 0 A S A, . S0 S nst statements not CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLING- | a fortune. Mrs. Burnett first met Mr, | UBder sath. R AT & = - e, s 3 Car e call on Sinclair to produce all his books TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, March d’ through the introductions of | 21 of Sinclair o produce all his shortly thereafter aged ary. A few weeks later own from her carriage and A great London physician country post haste finally n charge of Mr. Townsend, whose skill he knew and recognized in this im- portant crisis. Mrs. Burnett was still far | from recovery when she received intelli- 14.—A cablegram just received announces _and the marriage of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett to Stephen Townsend, F. R. C. S. of the Inner Temple, Continental Club, London. Mrs. Burnett came over to this country in October last, and after having spent Chairman Hull here interposed to re- mind Lentz that he was not the entire committee and was not in a position indl- vidually to order the production of books. This was the province of the committee, and without such action Lentz's notics amounted to nothing. Lentz said that this was the usual no- the winter at her Washington residence | gence of the us fllness of tice that books referred to in testimony sailed for Genoa on February 2. On her | Lionel, and left on the first ;‘z‘mhr;;rs?". would be called for. He asked that the Stitval it Hende ihe wei wisk by M| iNs‘e e take Him pacycamer for | committee make the request, and without Lentz _movea r all roils, rec- objeetion th that the com pe Townsend and th€ marriage was quietly celebrated. ords, etc., s g s of those Mr. Townsend Is the son of the late Rev. keld in the “‘bull pen g€s against George Tyler Townsend, late incumbent them, etc. The mmittee went into ex- ecutive session to pa: upon the motion. At the executive session the committee voted by 6 to 5 against calling for the im- mediate presentation of cords, etc., of the “bull pen.” It was agreed, however, that General Merriam an ers be requested to present any such pa- pers when they are heard. ‘Was Steunenberg’s Lawyer. of St. Michaels, once chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland, also Bishop of Tasmania. By profession he is a phy: cian, having won the degree of fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, but | while attaining great skill and eff in his calling he has never cared for it alndgeseveral Yyears ago gave it up for the stage. he Riviera and before going to Maytham Hall, of the oldest and finest properties in ent 2 session was res wThe romance beg 1t was at Maytham Hall that the greater | joouanine OPeR session ¥ aupr:-dhflr‘vevd Fo 3 portion of Mrs. Burnett's latest book. | gther exciting controver: One of the “oncerning the De Wilioughby Claim.” | 2ttorneys present in behalf of the State Lady of Quality,” on the American rights | was written. Her next i n idmitted. When he left the of which each of the playw IeT ot ar . o F hext important work | of Jdaho occupled @ seat near the head by ot quite dead, but | the playwrights realized | of dramatization will be cn this book. | of the table, and Lentz referred to the he would not live iong. | = — ST -~ |“outside coaching” which was going on. fon of his crime the p t oL T o also questioned the attorney as to ittacked by & | X a whom he represented. by whom he was after firing the first s c ERGYMEN PRINCIPALS | retained and what retainer had been paid. v and hardly knew | The answer was that Governor Steunen- IN A DAMAGE SUIT ad_given hi 350 check as re- Then the following colloquy oc- | B la Methoc Berry jist Book Concern, and editor of Epworth oy, he man Hull—What erence does that ent that the to_drive Dr. church and acy to Drive Him Out of the Church. | CHICAGO, March 14—Rev. lSchell, D.D., formerly general New York—Don't be so timid, Mr. Minnesota—There 1s such a thing T get a little of ft. to the | ulting re- CIVIL | @+ eo e 3 \ Examination s |} Held - TWO DEATHS IN TH 'lnltlal BEECHER FAMILY Successfully ® 5 2 Pas Mary Foote Beecher| 1N the Girls High ? ) el s School Building. . Nearly Five Hundred - . Appecar to Compete - . for Positions Under - . the New Charter. . . . DS . . DrE I S . ADVERTISEMENTS. ® - e, 1 Life insurance is ialy 490 ppauced far, the )¢ - »mmod. d L 4 good for your family. I TN e ? ) - itorium. Seatad upon the Stag2 | ¢ Health insurance is | bl Sffevien s 4 i and MeCs 3¢ J or Pond g good for both YOU : 1 : ? an 1II’ i * ”"‘d yo fa‘ Y- hool Director Di Y 1 health insurance by | mer Mahion of ey Soard L i Vou have to die before life | the City Hall.. The gallery | T 1 be collected. a large number of spectu- 2 w your health was n all the competit had seated | ¢ on’d insure it if you mse in their allotted places, Pres- | & can insure your health. t Fre isslon made a | ¢ s short addre unced the | § ach is the wvital center 5t Hhe Toliverie Dot hire 1 ? The whole body is miners, who had volunteered g 1 services, at the same tlme paying | rom the stomach. The | 5O BT0e, T ent Tor so doin B4 in the stomach. A 5 acke. Mt PY stomach means disor- . R g ered body, disor- ® brain. You never heard of E ; a rson with a sound stomach. o e 2 B your stomach sound and AP insure your health. | P Mary A Scherer, | . How? As thousands of others | X livan, Mics Efic Smith, Miss 3 G. | * done by the use of Doctor | Wood, §. A. White, Miss A. J. Clark. | z .'s Golden Medical Discovery. | Chief Examiner Edward F. Moran had | [ - 2 for th | for his assistants in supervising the direct one sure medicine for the | 0.7 e examiration President C. W. | h. It heals. It strengthens. | Mark and Mrs. Kincaid of the Board of | ¢ hat T suffered Education. | & v fail to express w! - | After Mr. Freud had read some of the | ¢ r=, with cold chills, palpitation riness of breath, and low spir- | rules governing the examination a strong | ¢ | box which contained the Questions was s Mrs. A. C. nne_g,!ozo:l’;“:;' | openea by Secretary Moran, and the first | $ Co., S. 3 1d die. | subject, that of writing from dictation, | ¢ s y thought I would S iead | was commenced. A passage from the new + roaring through my charter relating to public utilities was | @ @ Was so emaciated and weak 4 myself. My aunt induced & Picrce's Golden Medical Dis- | € y b 1 did, only to please her, and | wred me. Today am sound | D the three years I was | ick I hac five erent physicians.” Consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence private. Ad- | dress Dr. .V, Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. | £ et 'BEECHAM'SPILLS! ' taken &t night will make you - feel right, act right and look; { right. They cure Constipation. 1 10cents and 25 ceats, at all drugsteres. WMJ read by Mr. Freud, who found it neces- sary to leave the stage and take a posi- tion in the center of the hall in order to be heard distinctly. Even then some of the competitors found it difficult to under- stand what was being read. The second subject was copying from | plain copy and was intended as a test of the applicant’s bandwriting. The matter was taken from the first part of a deed, and it is significant that the women in most cases finished first in the wagk of transcribing. The third subject consistea in copying from a rough draft section 12 of the charter, in which the words were nearly all misspelled, abounding in inter- lineations and utterly devoid of punetu- ation. After the competitors had put the copy in proper shape the papers were handed In to the chief examiner, after ex- Betly one hour had been consumed in the roceedings. P Board of Examiners busied ftself with numbering the examination papers and attaching bearing_the con- name of the writer. The latter was then ied and will serve to iden- | y examination paper similarly num- 'gsegmB)- this system the identity of the | ene examined will not be disclosed until | the final announcement of the result, which will be in a week or ten days. —ee Benefit for St. Teresa. St. Teresa’s Church will receive a ben- efit next Saturday evening by the ladies ! of the Potrero who will present “A Col- | ored Reception.” Miss Annie Rooney, | Miss Etta Welch, the Columbia Quartot, | and thirty well-known artists will par- | ticipate. The performance will be held in | 8t. Teresa’s Hall. | , ————————— ) | Cameras and photo supplies in artists’ | material department at Sanborn & Vail's, 741 Market street. . COPYISTS PUT TO A VERY SEVERE TEST. ———0-0-0-0-0-0-0-¢ blowing his brains out on the lawn near the Southern Pacific palse?er depot was identified this morning as C. Hall of Sar Francisco, that being the way he regis- tered at a local hotel. ESSAY CONTEST. C. M. Bradley Wins the Prize Offered to Stanford Students. Special Dispatch to The Call < STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 14.— The announcement was made to-day of the result of the Cosmopolitan Magazine prize essay contest which was instituted last December. The prize offered was $100 to the Stanford student who should write the best essay upon the following sub- e Was a San Franciscan. STOCKTON, March 14—The man who committed suicide here last evemning by ject: “What order of studles is best suft- ed to fit the average man for his duties in the world of to-day?” Nine essays were submitted, from which royalties on a fethodist Book New York to the | published by the 3 Concern. CHARGED VWITH PERJURY. | Bertha Chatelaine Is Arrested in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, March 14.—Bertha | Chatelaine, the woman who testified in @ | the suit of Mme. Durand against Theo 4 | Bauer, alleging that she recognized Bouer as Durand, was arrested to-day and 4 | charged with perjury. She was taken be- fore Justice Austin and her prelimi ination set for Monday next. S il unable to furnish bai you want to do here. You can Mr. Dick, you are anything you can ot at all sensitive t say Sulzer—We will have our say here. The manner of the exchange showed that the members were very much in earnest. The witness then went on with his testimony. He told of the vileness of the barn where the men were first con- fl‘x;wd and of the harsh treatment accorded them. | | exam Suicide of a Young Man. LOS ANGELES, March 14.—O0. J. Brown, manager of the Fortuna mine near Ynum who reside: this city, received word to- day that h n. George Brown, commit- ted suicide at the mine last night by now known t | the money e third pa shooting himself through the heart. No through her. Sensational developments | particulars are known, but it is presumed | are e al takes placc. | despondency caused = the act. Young Brown was associated with his father in | the management of the Fortuna property. Ended His Life. | EL PASO, Tex., March 14. of Marysvilie, Mont., 57 years of age, com- here t ht at his room »oting himself through Despondency due to {ll e. Shay had been a minence and was well fic Coast. He left an ddressed to his wife at Marysville in_which he said he had de- cided to end his life and asked her for- | givenes M. A y oo Thrown From His Horse. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ROSEBURG, Or., March M.—To-day as Dr. E. V. Hoover, a prominent physician of this cit as returning from a_pro- fessional visit to Camas Valley. his horse became frightened at the train near Sandy Point and he was thrown violently to the ground, striking on the left side of his face, and received injuries which may prove serious in a hotel by the forehead health was the | mining man of pro: | known on the P the double-breasted, silk faced sack suit, which is A one of the eight styles of | B \j ) suits and overcoats that we are making to order for . *13.50 We can make the suits without silk facing, if you prefer. B e S S S I ST S S S S S o N We give you a large selection of cloth to choose from—some new, light patterns for spring. Every suit or overcoat is guaranteed. A VR TR Samples are freely given. B e e i T S B o S A SRS & that written by C. M. Bradley, '01, was given the first prize. H. W. ‘Grunsky, "9, received honorary mentfon. The judges were Dr. J. C. Branner, Professors Hud- son and Murray of the Stanford facuity, | Professor McGown, Messrs. F. J. Symmes, | Out-of-town orders are filled. Write for samples and self- measuring blank. Mention that g E! Pl‘xle A JI" S. Hiulchlnzun and G. W. | No. 2. ickie of rancisco. H want catalogue X .M. Bradley, the winner of the prize, | e ‘ is a_junior in college with his major in | the English department. Before entering ngiy) college he was engaged in newspaper work {n San Francisco, S.N. Wood & Co. 718 Market Street and Cor. Powell and Eddy. Our Nation’s Wealth. and stiver are poured abundantly into the lap of the nation, but our material wealth and strength is rather in fron. the nost useful of all metals, just as the wealth of a human les in & useful stomach. If vou have TR R OEERE 0