The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXX SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENT BULLER AND WARREN | ARE TO BE RECALLED | { | { | | While Britons Are Trying to Reorganize +he Army in Natal, Rains Delay Oper- | ations in the Free State. e tPeDePIOIIIOIPEOID D 4090000000000 000 Do edebedbedeiedrece@® - res e LIEUT. COLONEL A .\ THORNE YCROFY - EUT.GEN . SIR CHARLES WARREN . GO+ 000000 o s e e ] [ L IN HONO™ OF MAREUIL. B O S O . A S s is not ta the acre is 1 ing South Africa this week to | resume command of a local district. g any fon of the reso- des : TORE OFF RED CROSS BADGES. LONDON 19.—According to a dis- patch to Mail from Lourenzo Marques nearly half the members of the Chicago ambulance corps, when offered Mausers on their arrival at Pretoria, tore | off their Red Cross badges. United States Consul Hay notified the Transvaal Gov- Colony. has t closely investe 11 become accordingl, The Governor, asking ACCRA rica, April 18 bere that Kumass Gold « —~New that the si*uation w grave if relief is dela Sir Frederick Mitch for all e fore office . which alarint 1 LR b e LoMicer ernment that he must report the circum- des of e it 7S “" | stance Was on. ST TN b oo e—p myg e sl gl phson to Washington the | peljef is forthcoming soon it will be fm- possible te hold out. The first relief force is expected to ar- rive at Kum je to-day, and it will at- tempt to force the cordon. Natives here are convinced that French influences are operating against the British. GATACRE ALSO COMING. ——— DRENCHED WITH RAIN. NDON, April 19.—The Bloemfontein yondent of the Morning Post, tele- graphing Tuesday, April 17, says: “The town has been drenched with rain during the last three-days, which has caused the | | greatest discomfort, especially as the Thirteenth Brigade is not provided with | LONDON, April 15.—Colonel Crofton, | tents.” B s ! D00, W who was in command at Spion Kop from | ! ed, the k the time General Woodgate was wounded | TO INTERCEPT CARRINGTON. | y was The Gov- until Colonel Thornycroft was appointed ! [ ONDON, April 18.—The Lourenzo ! e memorials | to the position and whose heliograph mes- | yraroves correspondent of the Daily Mall sending | sages to General Warren caused Genmeral | tolooraphing Wednesday, —says: “Two | a and will Buller to appoint Thorayeroft to the £ ielena hundred and fifty Boers started to-day | to Great Britain on the command. was placed on half pay to-day. from Waterval Onder marching through | Private information from Shrewsbury | {ha Zoutpanberg district o intereept Gesn-i State Reitz says the Trans- | to-day 18 to the effect that General Gat- | eral Carrington's force.” Secretary of | Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. R ) | own country have refused it. EARL RUSSELL MAY BE A BIGAMIST Failing to Secure a Separation| From His Wife in England, He Marries in Nevada. Countess Enraged by the Announcement of | Her Husband’'s Act, and Wili at Once | Brinz Legal Proceedings. Copyrighted, 1900, by the New York Herald Company. his Trish bride are returning to England next month.” The appeal by Earl Russell f. 18.—Society’ appearance cabled to the adve judicial | and separation, to which the C re- that ferred, was decided by the House of Russell, was Lords in July, 1887. The qu C Mollie, dat cision was whether Cou of Cumbernauld, on been guilty of legal cruelt s appeal | last. E Russ been in America | was dismissed with costs. e v 1o i Lord’s Doings in Nevada. ev April 18.—Earl 11, once Prime N = and d a descendant of Bedford, has been masqueradir Reno and along the shor a good part of the past y of “J. F. Russell.” companied by a woman going name of Moll y said to be her son, but who be Stanley Watson. At the Ri tel, in Reno, about a ye: 11 and Mollie Cooke his marriage ently he had no to secure a divorce » Duke of about | f Lake Tahoe ar under the | een ac- ider the affected her that night she said, er country pe ing husband and ce left th roomis together, gether and altogether |and wife. “Later repc | from Glenbreok that th cottage on the s were there keep! relationship. Reno accompanied by to be the son of Mc they arrived here George Cheek, clerk at the Rivers married with: formed that i offense they procur moned Judge trict Nevada ( of George W. Stanley Wats lie Cooke, were the Riverside H As Seen Smoking Together. As seen smoking cigare th | Russell on the lawn at t about a year ago M dark and forty, a well as bearing take care of hers liege lord she compactly if coarse, sharp- | dark eyes, her ja | ing in particular wovld give | pression that she would make a mighty | | * -5 @ not tures. in and reli ine to almost any massive 1ssell would do for the oak. He is tall, of reddish edmplexion, featured and has that gawkish, we coarse lounging with certain E | With his outi and cap, taken in connection w glishmen In costume, tain superio: of man: attention and naturally sugg | nobility. In their conversations h *“flocked by themseives,” and British they ling S S S S i 4 L | of the real identity of any of tr ever " | leaked out. | # | There is absolutely n wn here | | of the past histor Cooke, 4 | though it had been s she 4| came from Ireland. Earl Russe ¢ | tered at the Riverside as “J. F. & | and party.” He signed the ma | | tificate as “John Francis 1 | of London, England.” marrted to * @ | Cooke of London. England.” . | £3 +|SHOT AT HIS DOOR )4 BY A WCODCHOPPER @ + | Thomas Owens Fatally Injures Ed Hale Near Lytton Springs and Escapes. SANTA ROSA —Ed Hale wa= shot and Kkilled Thomas J | Owens, who escapes this evening | 2 man named Thomas J. Owens came to | the cottage « jed by d Hale, near | Lytton Spri and wanted t ad- | mitted. Hale ref im adm | Besides Hale there were two women ir the house, one of hom was M Hale. | On being refused admission Owens drew a gun and shot Hale, who was standing in the doorway. Owens then ran away Hale dled In half an hour, the bullet hav- ing passed through his body. | Owens is a woodchopper and lives in Alexander Valley. The Sheriff and depu- B S L : | ties left here upon receipt of the news . | of the murder and they are now in pur- : sult of the murderer. Officers from the 4 country north of here are also on his 4 3 | trail. No cause has thus far been as- ¢ Abandonment of Spion Kop, Which Lord Roberts Strongly Censures. r*mfl fae the shcotiue ‘ g This position, it will be remembered, was occupied by the British troops after three days’ fight- | GAVE UP A CAPTIVE ¢ ing in the vicinity, on the night of January 23, the Boers really evacuating it in order to entrap them. | FILIPINO T0 DEATH # From dawn till dark of the 24th the Boer attack was pressed and rifle and cannon fire poured upon the ‘ + top of the hill. General Woodgate, the officer in commanc of the British force, was killed, with 27 officers | SO : 4 and 177 men and 33 officers and 670 men wounded, besides 101 taken prisoners—1008 in all.. During Colonel James S. Pettit of the Thirty- ¢ the night Colonel Thornycroft, then in command, gave the order to retreat, which was begun at 1 o’clock First Volunteers Court- 4 and accomplished by daylight on the 25th. “ Martialed. : § The above picture, taken from the London Graphic, shows the manner of removing the wounded, I T At oo hSath, fome % the place being utterly impracticable for wheeled vehicles. | Pettit of the Thirty-first Volunteers, in Boosioioisiedsisiesieseietsiedsdedsieieieisdotsbedododsioiel® | command at Zamboanga, has been court- martialed for hending a prisoner of war over to President Medell of Zamboanga, who killed the prisoner at once, without trial. Pettit is the officer with whom Lieu- tenant Colonel Webb C. Hayes, who re- cently resigned, is said to have quarreled, owing to Pettit's dickering with a Morro for the right to land troops and compell- ing his men to submit to indignities from the natives. ‘ SURROUNDS THE BRITISH. | and get a divorce after the courts of his | It is not | true that the Earl secured a judicial separation from me. The House of Lords | decided against the Earl's petition for a | separation when It heard the case. The | ;;}ow is a terrible one to me; I hardly be- eve it."”” The Countess has placed the case in the hands of her solicitcrs. The BEarl's soliei- tors, Messrs. Vandercom, professed to be in total ignorance of their client’s action. Lady Scott Speaks Freely. Lady Scott said she and heér daughter know the Earl had been in America about | a year, but they had heard nothing from | him. She added: PRETORIA, April 17.—The latest official reports from the Free State are to the ef- fect that General De Wet is still sur. rounding General Brabant (Dalgety's) - i tish £ “Lady Russell has placed the mattbr in ;‘:,'f,fi",y ‘::,’f,i:c '::f lnBrBoer Sunbicn. T the hands of her solicitors and is not at | jicatins that they are colonials. all inclined to resign, herself to the ac- | Gommandant Fronemann reports that ceptance of her. noble husband’s family | ;. “thased 400 troops across the river in motto, which is: ‘What will be. will be.” * | o= Qe 1" of Aliwal North, capturing A close friend of Lord Russcll, on con- | gaverar prisoners, It is sald that Bethulie firming the amnouncement of the Earl's bridge has been blown up. marriage, adds: i —_— “For some time Lord Russell feit that | | his years of suffering and annoyance had | Goes on a Bicycle Tour. released him from all obligations, moral | WASHINGTON, April 18—Second As- or otherwise, connected with his first mar- | sistant Secretary of State Adee left THage, and therefore that he was priv- | Washington to-night for a two months' fleged to do as he pleased. I do not be- | pleasure tour a-wheel in Northern France, lieve the question of bighmy will be along the Rbine and through the Black raised, but at any rate Lord Russell and | Forest. | P S A S S N S | recetved a fat package of KERSHAW WANTS HIS BONDS BACK Jule C. Gamage Secures Posses- sion of Railroad Stock and Goes East. Tale of Wild Life in Two Cities in Which a Wealthy Philade!phian and a Local Man Figure ‘05—0—9. M R R S L] B R S e e R e RSHAW, a young ad 2 I AX K man riety Kershaw Had Money to Burn. For more ear Max Kershaw thar has be this city, and he calls t tle Par His home Is in Philadelphia, where the stone gathers the moss, and hat 22 his the change from the peaceful life o great city to the swirling, flerce, existence of San Fr: isco has been financial undoing. Every month Kershaw e - his uncle, J. Henry Kershaw, his brother in Philadeiphia, both are men of weal position. Max pockets heavy 1g gol an ever-ready hand to spend it. But late the money went out of the exchequer faster than it came in. One year of c stent remitting exhausted the patience ty of uncle and brother, and shaw was left without ready ard and a last resource in the young Philadelphian al- on his person several the worth of railroad Gamage d this out, and now h ock and Kershaw is using every to recover it. He claims that ood nuture, his kindness of heart and his ire distress were ai! instrumental in drawing the railroad securities away from him and placing them in the hands of Gamage. Besides obtaining possession of the stock Gamage secured from Kershaw a general power of attorney to do as he saw fit with all his possessions. The wer of attorney was secured J. E. Shain, who acted for Gamage, and forwarded it to the latter in New York City. Gamage Is in New York. Gamage has been located in New York and he will be soon foreced by legal pro- cess to deliver the stock in his po if he has not disposed of it. The power atiorney was revoked )‘esle_rd' V. Kershaw, a graduate of Yale. has trav- eled from one end of the worid to the other, dipping into the pleasures of life | with abandon and utter lack of restraint. In Denver he owns property worth thou- sands of dollars, but it is tled up in an estate, and he could not use the income 5% he ‘desired. In this city he associated Sith all the young men from the East who have good conneetions and periodic remittances. One of this class was Mor- an Smith, who enjoys the reputation of :nvlng squandered a fortune on the track and following the rapid road to_ ruin. ith is a nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan SPNew York. His sudden dash and | splurge in this community is a thing of the immediate past, and he is at present a rounder who has run course. “Smith told Gamage all about stock,” says Kershaw, “eise he PRINCIPALS IN A BUSINESS DEAL THAT ONE REGRETS. B+ 00000000000 e0e000esedsiebedrdedete ‘would | “(Continued on Third Page) MAX KERSHAW . g 0 stock arted With His Bonds. w_had sessi a M Takes a Whirl Kershaw with his $500 was in Chicago. with himself ed, check-suite pril 5 mage separated this efty, bound to the far Ea: ver, where the real property is situated, Gamage stopped f Chicago was to his lik content smooth- fashion From New York came all manner wild tales about the collector. Ha repre- wou sat hold it for a rise. When he grows of New York. if his e th, G , B ties are a After that ean fast, ‘that Kershaw Ha Just such a time as indulging in in New ¥ G amage h k Ker been having at this end Women and gard f and now perspt streaming from his n Whe d what he had 4 h w s in Philadelphia they engaged the Pinkerton Det Agency and an attorne: for the y man. < Gamage is still in New York herever ke goes in his incandescent wanderings as he plays the but of fashion - torrid tenderl fatew of a detective inal ac tion will be taken ershaw is yet unknown. Gamage Explains Matters. Gamage was seen last night in New York, and gave the following interview “A week or two ago Kershaw came to me—in the Maison Riche I belleve it was—