The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1900, Page 1

The Tall, VOLUME IAXXX\'Iifx(). 17¢ ). SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOER STORMERS FELL Colonel Baden-Powell Permitted Them to Seize []N STEAMER F T S ded Them, Killi One Fort, and Then Surrounde , Killing Fif f the Federal Troops iitty oi the Pedera roops. / 3 —_— D46 900000099000000006000060+000000000000000009 $ g ¢ | Six Men Killed and as Many ‘ H i b i€ More Injured by One . b I Man. * Y - ¢ 0 . w ASSASSIN IS UNDER ARREST : ¢ ASSASSIN IS 1 . s e ® + | Confesses to the Crimes and Says He ) { Had Stolen Money From the . Captain of the Ves- D : sel. - ° : z i OPENHAGEN, May 17.—A telegram ) | from Koping. Sweden, reports that @ 24 as the steamer Koping last night - ! was passing the Prinz Carl, a man | - | sprang upon the deck of the latter . @ | vessel and shouted: “If any one comes p ¢ 4 | near I will shoot.” At the same moment & | @ Woman was seen hanging over the ship's ) § { | side, shrieking for hélp. The man escaped ¢ ? |in a boat. When the Prinz Carl was| - ® | boarded, it was found that twelve men on | @ ¢ | board had been shot, six of whom, 'in- | 3 @ | cluding the captain, were dead. The rest | 1 ? ‘ were found locked In thelr quarters. One ? of the wounded has since dled. * | The wounded say they were playing ® | cards in the smoking room about half . | past 11 with other passengers, when some- ¢ | body put his head In the room and ex-| { | clatmed ok out! There is a massa- | : ¢ | cre on board. @ | At the same moment shots were heard. * I All sprang to their feet in order to leave ! | the cabin, but they found the door fas- * @ | tened on the outside. Whtle they were | 4 4 | trying to force the door a shot was fired | . & | through the window and hit one of them— | ¢ {a man named Karson, who fell to the| floor. The other three—Schnelder, Kondi- P ? | tor and Lindquist—burst cpen the door. 4| Lindquist, who was the first to step | - @ | through, recefved a bullet in his head ¢ | Disregarding the wound he ran after the | . @ | assassin to the steering room. The fu- | . ve shouted down the speaking tube: % ® d zhead.” ~ The engines were | 3 full speed. and the en; “Is that the captain?” re - ® | the answer: rtainly; drive her to the | ? | deviL” i P ®| The engineer put the engines ‘at full ! ¢ | speed assin tnen ran down | . ADVANCE IN NATAL—Thorneycroft's Hountain Infantry ¢ !0 the =n B d g the Boer Positions on the Biggarsberg. 1| The engineer barricaded the room. At | * 3 ? | that moment the Koping came along and | In tk rd the Transvaal border General Buller’s army has passed ¢ | the murderer fled {n a boat. . * 5 bleod shed ir the war--Reitfontein, Elands Laagte, = ©| SHEOUMALM. May o o "’,’, . : u a Hill on the 20th of October last the first battle was $ Uracked 1n BERUStant, (Miv-seven miles f now v y's march of Majuba Hill, where a little over nineteen years ago ;‘aut'hor of the Prinz Carl tragedy. Hp‘, E der § met the disastrous defeat at the hands of the Boers under the late [ | tried to fire a revolver at the officers. | 2 " abe . | When arrested he gave his name as Phillp | & . ¢ | Noraluna. B . = & | On being questioned about the murdors, | Qoo +E 0PI eDe eI eI tEIOI e IR0t D0 D000 009 005640400 @|tne prisoner replied that it was a mat- | 3 ter for the police authoritles to unravel. : b o ek House of Commons this arther _questioned. Nordlund | T o~ v during smes Kitson announced that | oo feated, his CHmEE. and sild. e hag Boer . at there n relieved. The War | stolen eight hundred kroner from the cap- v n serving unable to confirm the | tain. | el sert if as conse seven | f at the 1 he got there not face Lord and this re- from Lou- o0 evacuate ks N nstad w witho battle. 8 Great Stand of Federals. he Stand ays: “From pro-Boer the first great stand b s on the ridges near L on has been ok he burghers be- 2 some time. If int part of the force Pretoria to withstand 1 body will retreat strict with the inten- guerriia_warfare ion. They be- postpone a pacl- m 1 indefinite country.” Lourenzo here is general nt Kruger con- nediate departure from iere seems no longer any intention of the Transvaal to of government to the t and to endeaver to stand there. The Raad is 1 the proposal.” At a number of preparing for retary Reitz has America as his future officially asserted that Lord 1 command of the Mafeking 1at news of the relief t be received until Mon. & ia of Presides R GENERAL HUNTER HAS OCCUPIED CHRISTIANA —The War Office has received following dispatch from Lord Roberts: “KROONSTAD, Wednesday, May 16.— Rundle occupied Mequatlings Nek and Modderpoort without opposition. Hunter has entered the Transvaal reached a point opstad road with- Natives and local out seeing the enemy. whites have confirmed the previous re- | ports of the disorganization of the Free Staters. The situation here is un- | unchanged.” | KROONSTAD, May 17.—Hunter has oc- | cupied Christiana without opposition, the | | en having retired to Klerksdorp, un- der the impression that the latter was reatened by a portion of this force from | Parys. Rundie’s force was clcse to Clo- | colan yesterday evening. The country was clear of the enem The resident commissioner in Basuto- land reports that a number of Boers liv- ing in the Ficks:x:;rg and ?ethlehem dis- b ] ve applied to him for advice and :‘:‘ ct; t(I:e cog‘d’mons of surrender. This is very satisfactory Relief an—ntnrely Announced. LOXDON, May 17.—In the committe« » Fourteen of trans. MASSACRE May 17.—A dispateh from Plague Spreads in Sydney. dated ro-day, says that| SYDNEY, N.'S. W., May 1.—Two hun- Eloff. grandson of President | dred and thirty-five c s of the’ bubonic a patrol ntered Mafeking, ave thus far plague been offy £ 0 | land. B R e e R R o ) COLONEL R. S. S. BkDER-POWELL, the Gallant Defender of Mafeking. hether Mafeking holds out until the relieving column, which is sald to be very near, reaches it or falls before the desperate assaults which the Boers are reported to be making, the story of its defense will cover one of the most brilliant pages of the history of the whole war. Hurriedly sent to the scene by Lord Wolseley some weeks before the war broke out, Colonel Baden-Powell lald his plans for its defense, and assisted by Lord Edward Cecil, son of Lord Salisbury; Major Vyvyan, and a number of other of-/ cers, with a force of some 600 regulars and colonials, with some residents, had good preparation made ‘when the Boers appeared before the town on Oc- tober 16. The ‘first assault in force, November 8, was successfully repelfed, as have been the many made since, and at last accounts the little garrison, now almost decimated. is still bravely holding its own against shot and shell from without and disease and hunger within. To Colonel Baden-Powell, cr © “B. P.” as he is popularly called, the brave and able commander, belong laurels even larger than those won by Sir George White at Ladysmith or Colonel Kekewich at Kimberley. ally re- n Colonel Baden-Powell opened | ported. Of these seventy-nine have proved ers, killing seventeen of al. second death from the plague | - Eloff and ninety of his rred at Rockhampton, Queens- SHE DOESN'T WANT TO | OCTETY got an unlooked-for shock | vesterday when Eila Countess Fes- tetics de Tolna (formerly Eila Hag- gin) filed a sult for divorce from | her rov and, Rodolph Count Festetics de Tolna, once lieutenant in the Eleventh Austrian Hussdrs, in the Supe- rior Court of this city and county. Desertion, fallure to provide and crue are the grounds®mon which the 1 the court to rid her of her noble foreign spouse. And there is a speclal little pray- er in which the Countess entreats that she be no longer burdened with a titie but allowed to resume her maiden name. The complaint in full is a terrific eye- | opener and cruelly punctures the touch-| ing romance of one long, continuous | honeymoon with fthe deck of the yacht Tolna for the scene of action. Stripped of its legal verbiage, the document tells a tale of hardships, dangers cncountered, privations, uncongenial surroundings, crueltles, impalired health, a wife’s devo- tion and a man’s selfishness. All this the American girl wearing a foreign title un- complainingly submitted to until April, 1899, when Count Festetics declared his intention to sail his yacht for Colombo, Ceylon, and to other places in the Indian Ocean, and thence to the east coast of Africa. To this trip the Countess demur- red. Her health had become greatly im- paired by her long life upon the yacht Tolna and the many and constant dangers she had encountered. She besought the 1y begs | man who had promised to protect and | cherish her to abandon the yacht, alter this mode of living and to procure a home upon land at some place convenient and satisfactory to himself. She explained to her titled husband how the contemplated ~oyage was fraught with unusual dan- gers and entirely beyond her strength and powers of endurance. The wife's -appeal did not touch the Festetics heart. He re- fused to alter his plans and she asserted her true American womanhood, and then and there told him it was impossible for her to live any longer upon the yvacht. Thereupon on April 20, 1889, Count Fes- | tetics salled away on his yacht for To- lombo and left the Countess at Singa- pore, alone, unprotected. without money or other means of subsistence and with- out any place of abode. The Countess’ stay at Singapore was brief. She applied to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louls Hag- gin, and they furnished her with the means to return to the United States. ‘Married Life on the Tolna. The long cruise of the Tolna, with her many hairbreadth escapes and the many adventures of her owners, pass from the realm of the “romantic” and “‘delight- ful”—as they have been characterized by the admirers of the titled couple—to cruelties as set down in the complaint. The cruelty charge‘is a complete’ itiner- ary of the couple and is as exact as a seaman’s logbook. It runs as follows: That from the date of their said marriage until October 9, 1803, the plainti¥ and de- fendant, during most of the time, lived with the parents of plaintiff at the hous: of her said parents In the said city and county of San Francisco and made their home at that place of abode. That on sald 9th day of Oc- tober plaintiff and defendant left said city ‘| and county for the Hawaiian Islands upon the yacht Tolna and reached the port of Honolulu on the 20th day of the same month. That =aid yacht was about one hundred feet in length, ot seventy-eight tons burden, propelled only { all this time the plaintiff not onl: 4 "y by salls, was and owned by the defen and unfit and - fnadequate for the poses to which It was put as hereinafter s Thbat from the sald 9th day of October. until the month of October, D. plantift upon sald safled from - He reaching ‘the ‘latter in thence to the Saroan Isls t was pur- ated. 1803, I Wales, ing and left the latter g for the New Hebrid following month about the New Hebrides, arrived at pelago about the end of December, ce In February, 159, sifled for Islands, and after staying there about two weeks sailed for Jupan ching Yokohama in May, 1596. Dur- i . A | making Villa | thence Cruz and Britain in th | Ing this last crutsé and while the plaint!ff and aid yacht countered a typhoon which nearly wrecked the faid yvacht, and which ried a y all Its salls 1 other injurie: From May, 1896, until July, 1597, sald yacht remained at Yoko- Ing and repairs, and In the lat- aifed for Kobe, reaching the lat lage about the end of that month. During Hved with defendant upen said vacht as aforesald, but with ' the exception of about ome month at Matupi In New Britain she usually remained thereon at night while in the varlous ports before mentioned Left the Yacht in Despair. After reaching Kobe, as aforesald, plaintiff visited the interior of Japan in company with defendant for about two months, when they returned to Kobe and resumed their living upon said yacht until early In October, when plaintiff ‘received news of the sicknes: of her motheér, ‘and by reason thereof took pas- sage by steamer for California, leaving de- fendant “at sald Kobe, and arrived at San Francisco about the st of November of the same year. Plaintiff lived with her parents in the United States from sald November until about April, A. D. 18%.. During this period the defendant remained on said yacht, and in the meantime sailed it to Hongkong, whers plaintiff joined him early. in May, 189, and they lived, thereafter upon sald yacht until about the end of that month, when defendant announced his intention of proceeding thereon to Manila. On or about the first day of June, 1995, plaintiff objected to staying longer on said vacht, and stated to defendant that the same was an unfit place for her to live, that to remain thereon was extremely dangerous and injurfoue to her heaith, and that it was un- reasonable for him to expsct her to- it en 1 hama for refi tér month ter all of which satd statements were true: but da. fendant insisted that plaint!ff should remain with him on said yacht, and plaintift yielded to his commands and wishes in this respect and proceeded with him thereon to Manila, reaching that port in June, 1388, and thence they sailled to Borneo, reaching Sandakan, on that island, In August, 159, and remained there about six weeks, and then Labuan, remaining there about month, and thence tled to Singa- pore, arriving at the latter place iIn month of November following. During all this one time, with rare exceptions, plaintiff lived on | sald yacht by day and by night, even when in port. From November, 1895, until April, 1899, the plaintiff and the defendant remained at Singapore, iving on the yacht a part of the time, when not visiting residents of said place. Not Mentioned in the Complaint. The only journey not mentioned in the complaints is the Countess’ trip across the continent from the palatial Haggin man- sion on Fifth avenue to the deserted J. B. Haggin home on Taylor street in this city. ‘Without any fuss or flurry the Countess Festetics came about two weeks ago, tak- ing up her abode at the Haggin home and now and then honoring her grandaunt, Mrs. Lloyd Tevis, with her presence at the latter lady's dinner table. The Countess lost no valuable time during her brief stay. She sought the advice of E. S. Pllls- bury, whose name as “attorney for plain- " is affixed to the complaint, and then went for rest and recreation to the beau- N werper Tl L {m«,‘ salled to | the | BE A COUNTESS ANY MORE Eila Festetics de Tolna Has Brought Suit for Di- vorce From Her Roving Foreign Husband, Alleg- ing That He Left Her Destitute in Singapore. O e i e CovmTELS FESTET/CS | titul place in Napa Valley, the home of her aunt, Mrs rge Hooper. The lady who has appealed to the law to rid k le was form- | erly M daughter of Mr | and Mrs. and grandniece of | Mrs. | during a years' sojourn in period Miss Haggin elaborate educa “finished off,” that fes. The Cou quite a dash i capital. He } gation, but wa r-in-hand verican girl | the Austrian le | for her hom business to call him to | tropolis. The wed | a quiet but elegan | tials of the daughte millionafre and a nob | trian empire. It § the society & | building the ¢ | gentleman’s an | be. Count Festet an Episcopalian. cording to the rites church. There was no specls tion. After ting these fac sips argue t r those c Eila Haggin w | ognized | Festetics de | the Count will mak | known as the Cour legal wife | HAROLD COURTENAY GETS HIS DIVORCE Closing Chapter of a Story of Mar- riage That Proved to Be Stranger Than Fiction. American m cs is n the stand he married knowing him e ting, whose thought th. fnd and att Courter his woolng w tended bride wa He marri their departure Fulda a passe | Courtenay e | from the essel. | Mrs. n the suicide and be- lieved that her husband had gone to his death in the w lent. Wheneve sent himself to her af | that she saw only his ghost. | cination caused her several times. Courtenay filed suit for divorce Janu 23. He stated that his wife's reason co er be restored, and in this he was sub- stantiated by veral persons. BULLER MAKING : STEADY HEADWAY 1 her and senses. v resembling by Her hall to attempt his | LONDON, May 17.—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Gen- eral Buller: “DANNHALU" division has ER, May eached Dannhauser and hope that my advance patrols are Newcastle. The Fifth division is ech ed from Elands Laagte to Glencoe pairing the railway. The Fourth di is at Sunc s River Drift on | Newcastle road. Severa! Natal are handing over their arms. All agree that about 7000 of the enemy passed north very hurriedly May 14 and 15." { VOLKSRUST, South African Republie, May 16.—The Federals have abandoned Biggarsberg, arnd it is believed they also abandoned Newcastle this morning. though their mounted men are still on the other side of the border, keeping the Brit- ish at bay. 7.—The Second I | | OUTRAGES BY BOXERS GROW VERY ALARMING | Serious Outbreaks in a Province. Many Christians Being Burned Alive. LONDON, May 18.—The Peking corres- pondent of the Times says: The anti-for- | eign movement, headed by the Boxers, has attained alarming proportidns. There has | beer: =@ serious anti-Christian outbreak near Pao-Ting-Fu, province of Pe-Chi-Li, seventy-three native Christians being murdered, including women and children. Many were burned alive. The Catholic missionarfes report that the persecution i3 the most serious known for years. The danger is Increased by the apathy or connivance of the Government.