The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1900, Page 31

D444 404 4400040400004 @all. 3 3 O e Saamanss s s ot o s s o Pages @+4eres 04 B e eaaan S S S S S e e e : 3 . + + . - + . N & ] 3 O D e e e S e s SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1900, SCHOOL CHILJREN TO DANCE AND SING IN A OF THE RETIRED TEACHERS Elaborate Prerarations Being Made for a Unigue Benefit to Be Given Next Saturday at Metropolitan Hall. —% Amy Treacy, Reyna Belasco, Vera Ed- n,mndson, Aloise Gebhardt, Lella Coggirs, Veva Anderson, Edna Martin, Vera Litz, Ruth Maguire, Estella Jacobs, Ethel Schwaner, Gladys Weller, Robble Stack and Ed Litz. The entertainment will be under the management of Miss M. J. Hen- derson of the James Lick Gram School and under ths instructorship of W. J. O’Brien. The affair s to be given in a most worthy cause, and the prices of admission warrant that the audience will be large, Reserved secats are 60 cents and general LABORATE preparations are ng made for an ambitious ju- which wiil Hall o % A UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE, GIVEN NEXT SATURDAY, WHEN PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDRE v . PE M AT METRO- | POLITAN HALL FOR THE BENEF " RETIRED TEACHERS. | = 3 will be as elaborate as any seen on the admission 25 cents. Reserved seats for professional stage Among those who will take part are: en are 5 cents and general admis- sion 15 cents. BRUTAL MURDER IS COMMITTED WITH A CHINESE COBBLER AS THE VICTIM RHIPEAEY CTIM OF THE SHOCKING MURDE PERSONS BELIEVED BY THE [ | ATROCIOUS CRIME. SR IN CHINATOWN AND THE TWO OLICE TO HAVE COMMITTED THE ONG HONG, a Chin cobbler, was found mur dered ir: his shop at Jackson street la evening. He had bect attacked wh cooking his noonday meal end his he almost severed from the e body with a butcher’s cleaver. The In- strument of death was found on the breast of the dead man, where it had been placed by the murdere-. Shortly after the bloody crime was dis- covered Detective Ed Gibson and Police Officers Herrin and Dougherty arrested Lue Dock, who is empic a saloon at 506 Market street, and & C nese woman who is known as Ah ‘Moey | and charged them with the murder. The woman, who is 2 notorious slav dealer, owed the murdered man over $700, and as he thre: ake trouble for nduced Doc t him out of the » murderer br his victim it noon the vho is under | arrest, w Dr. Wong | Woo at 764 Cla i o formed him that she believed t cobbler had met with foul pla ed ad visited his hop and found th iace had been ransacked, presumably obbe; The Chine ctor, suspecting some- ement, n nervously lighted a candle an he rear of the place. L; his head resting again: was the murdered man e, a scream the woman, presumably horritied by the ghastly wound in his | throat, started to leave the shop. She was st 1 by Detective Gibson and under arrest. She denied that she anything about the murder, but Prison and Morgue Sergeant sted the woman’s Hotel on Jackson street, ere he w in hiding, and took him to police headquarters. Blood was found on the sleeve of his coat as well silk shirt which he wore. He Globe tried to explain away the damaging evi- dence by claiming that he had cut his finger some time ago and wiped the blood on his sleeve and shirt. He could not tell which finger had been cut, as it “was so long ago.”’ The police are satisfied that Dock, as- gisted by the woman, committed the hor- rible deed. They believe that the unfor- tunate cobbler was preparing his noon- day meal when the murderer, after en- gaging him in conversation, attacked him with the cleaver, inflicting the wounds which caused his death immediately after- ward. From the condition of the body Coroner Cole is satisfied that the murder was committed at least four hours before the body was discovered. CUNANE MAY BE SAILING UNDER FALSE COLORS Postal Clerk Charged With Robbing | Meil Said to Have Taken Brother’s Name. P Postal Clerk Peter J. Cunane of Station D, who was arrested by Inspector Bricker &t half-past 1 o'clock yesterday morning, as told in The Call, was turned over to the custody of United States Marshal Shine yesterday forenoon. Cunane made a desperate fight when Inspector Bricker caught him in the act of stealing & $ gold piece from a letter. In the struggle some of the furniture and much of the Windcw glass in the room were broken. Small sums of money had been missing from time to time during several weeks g and by methcds known to the post- Dnee ‘nepectors the leakage was traced Cunane’s department. decoy letter :',nhua genuine five-dollar plece (ncloued was sent into Cunane's department, and 3 o was concealed in the room, :{:A(;:“(S;l :r'-lon the clerk after he had cut Open the letter. The clerk was subdued only after other f!firkslhnd gone to the ussistance of the ini or. The prisoner the civil service ex- aminstion and was appointed in March, 1899, under the name of Peter J. Cunane. It is belleved that Peter J. is his brother's name and that the prisoner is Joseph Francle Cunane. He failed to pass the civil service examination the first time he | took it, and it is said that he changed his name to take the second. ————— A High 0ld Time. That is what last.week everybody had at the assignes sale of clothing, ladies’ and gents' shoes at 775 Market street. P. C. Kelly, the assignee, put on sale $13,000 worth of clothing in connection with the shoes. How everybody picked at the $10 overcoats which are selling at 3 laafés wool cheviot sulte. 51 gl o5 35 0t T men’s $2 call ‘will hold un- $4 real kid shoes at $1 90 at the Boston shoes at $135. These pri til the whole stock I!D!ofl; assignee sale, 775 Market ‘ourth. » Shoe Compan street, near Contract for Double 5 The Southern Pacific Company has awarded a contract to Charles Wehner of this city for double tracking its line be- tween San Bruno, which is about fifteen miles south of this city, and Milbrae. The work is already well under De Completed within ninety daya 0 TUSt CONSTANT STUDY CAUSES NERVOUS PROSTRATION Soldier Works Hard for a Commis- sion and Gives Way Under the Strain. A great deal of sympathy Is expressed in army circles for Lieutenant Jackson, who has been granted leave of absence for thirty days in order that he might re- celve treatment at a private sanitarium for nervous prostration. In his case it Is thought a more rapid cure can be effected by removal from an army hospital. TLieutenant Jackson was formerly a sol- dier in the ranks and £aw much service in the Philippines and Cuba. His conduct attracted the attention of his superiors and he was urged to study and apply for a commission. He transferred to the hos- fes for study and after a year's service in that branch went before the board. He passed a most successful examl; recelved an appointment as second lieu- tenant. The strain of constant stug: however, has wrecked his nervous sy: tem. Two weeks after he donned his sol- dier straps he sent in bis resignation, but no heed treatment. ed as a cook in | horrible pen two trunks terday after- accompanied the woman to | here they were met by Po- Dougherty and Hersin. On g the shop, which is In ba ON STAGE HE Maurice Grau grand opera company begins its short engage- at the Grand Opera-house to- morrow night. In one respect . the operatic situation has un- der~one an important change since Mr. Grau has come to the front .as an im- presario. Fifteen years ago singers and audlences were divided Into two distinct ¥ and hostile camps—the Itallan and the 55 German. To give German opera meant a v the exclusion of the Italian; to-day Mr. led all over the United| Grau s able to give Italian, French and read the Examiner to learn that an Amer- f:;';‘:;" OPARSi Wit gugs SpaliSie: seme i : ican can insult a woman. In that news-| The opening performance to-morrow Brutal Insult (o Women Resent- “I have traveled | States ana of the Best the - SENSATION | MELBA AND SALEZA WILL OPEN GRAND OPERA SEASON IN “ROMEO ET JULIETTE" OI: T'VOLI Lovers of Classic Music Are Preparing to Enjoy a Week Whole World Affords. paper you have two qualities which offend | me—biackguardism and untruth.” | 2 | These words created a sensation yester- | day afterncon. They were spoken from | the stage of the Tivoli Opera-house by | | Domenico Russo, the clever singer who | | has charmed thousands of San Francis- | | cans for many weeks. The speaker spoke | serlously, excitedly and sincerely, and his | words meant that the Yittle yeliow rascal | of local journalism has been at his tricks delivered by him In dg- | flance of the management of the theater | when the curtain had fallen after the first | act of the matinee performance of “Car- | men,” provoked a storm of applause which | has seldom been heard in the house. The | tittle tenor had struck a chord of sym- | pathy by his protest and he had good | reason to speak. The Examiner had out- saffroned itself the day before by pub-| | lishing a brutal attack upon two of the | | women members of the company now | | singing at the Tivoll. In a scandalous | | article, marked as emphatically by its in- as by its falsehood, the names of Signorina TLia Polletinl and Signorina | Stefania marini were “associated by the I at of Russo. The little tenor t speak good Eng- | lish. Many a shrug and gesture, not a | Jittle pantomime and a sprinkling of Ital- | fan must be translated into a meaning of indignation and p t in English, but when he appeared terday afternoon on the stage of the Tivoli in the costume of | Don Jose and the personality of Russo few misunderstood him. He brushed his way before the curtain and to the aston. ished audience began his protest. | 1 “I do not understand your language very well, ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “but T want to speak a few words in be- half of two women of this company. You | have o newspaper in this city, the Exam- iner”—and the speaker was fumbling for | paper—"which Is a dishonor to | T published a lie about two | women, They can find no redress, but in thelr behalf I want to sav'—and Russo stopped for a moment. He had found - ”””” - = | & ol Al 1l 1 i | it it 3 | | . i | it d corTmarT PreTen- & NI ey oo what he sought, and continued: > *“I want to v, he continued | | man who wrote the outrageous sla ERNEST VAN DYCK, WAGNERIAN TENOR, AND DAVID BISPHAM, i $heidpraminr Aul S AR THE FAMOUS BARYTONE, WHO ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO | o Attt 1 S b ctlen: YESTERDAY FOR THE GRAND OPERA SEASON. mean, infamous, vile and cowards.” [ % he little tenor was bristling with rage, .3 | }nl‘hl will be “Romeo et Jullette,” with | Melba and Albert Saleza in the title roles. | Great interest is aroused by the first ap- | pearance here of Saleza, who is accounted | the foremost tenor of the day in romantie | roles. Romeo is considered one of Sal- | eza's best parts. Other prominent artists | who will take part in the opening night | are the two great bassos, Edouard de | Reszke and Pol Plancon, and MM. Bars, Sizes, Giilibert, Dufriche and Masiero. ‘Eisnor Mancinelll, the well-known con- iduclor and composer, will lead the | orchestra. ““Tannhauser’’ will be sung on Tuesday evening for the debut here of Ernest Van Dyck, the great Wagnerian tenor. He has for many years been one of the fea- tures of the festivals held at Bayreuth. The Elizabeth on Tuesday _evening will be sung by Mme. Gadsk}, the prima | donna, who 1is well remembered for the glorfous work she had done here in the past. It will be a pleasure also to welcome again David Bispham, who will | sing the part of Wolfram. The orchestra will be conducted by Walter Damrosch. | The performance of *Afda” on Thurs- | day evening will be made attractive by the reappearance here of Madame Nor- | dlca in the title role and M. de la Tour as Radames. De la Tour comes from the leading theater of Brussels and is a tenor of great repute. The cast will also include Mme. Louls Homer, an American contralto; Signor Scoit, a’ great Italfan barytone, and MM. Plancon, Maslero and Journet. The cast of “Faust” on Thursday even- ing will include Mme. Melba as Marguer- ite and Albert Saleza in the title part. The Mephistopheles will be Pol Plancon, while the role of Valentine will be sung by Signor Campanari, a_barytone, whose great performances in the past have not been forgotten. The orchestra on this occasion will be conducted by M. Flou. “The Flying Dutchman” will be given Friday evening. me. Gadskl will be heard in one of her best roles, that of Senta, and David Bispham will be the Vandeérdecken. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to “Lucia di Lammermoor,” with Mme. Melba as the unfortunate heroine. Signor Cremonin{ will make his first appearance here in this performance as Edgardo. “Lohengrin™ on Saturday evening will have an admirable cast. M. Van Dyck will sing the title role and Elsa will be Mme. Nordica. Edouard de Reszke will impersonate the king and Herr Muhlmann the herald. A great feature of this per- formance will be the first appearance in this city of Mme. Schumann-Heink, the famous German contralto, in the role of Ortrud. The same scenery, orchestra, ballet and chorus used at the Metropolitan Ta- house in New York will be used here. The demand for seats has been unpre- jedented and everything iIndicates that from all points of view the short season of grand opera will be a memorable one. TREAT FOR LOS ANGELENOS. Grau Company Renders “Lohengrin” and “Romeo and Juliet.” LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11.—It was almost midnight when the last bars of “Lohe: grin” were sung before the biggest audi- ence of the Grau Company's brief but glorious engagement. Hazard's Pavillon, with a seating capacity of 3500, was pack ed to the doors, v rewarded Damre ers and the spl “Lohengrin” wa jority of the Ange hestra that he 2 of the ma- the receipts ce of the sindle pe were in the neighborhood of $19. Despite the fact that the mercury hov- the ma ered around degrees, ee at which Gounod’s “Romeo and _Jullet” was given was well attended and a bril- liant performance resulted. Suzanne Adams as Jullet not only sang splendid- iy but has remarkable magnetism, whi made her a prime favorite with her auc ence from her first appearance. greatest feature of the production was the magnificent singing of Pol Plancon as Friar Lawrence. His wonderful tones enthralled every soul in the vast building. The Romeo was Imbart de la Tour, a heavy person, but a splendid singer. Carrie Bridewell, an Alabama girl, who for some time has been under Sembrich's wing, donned the doublet and hose of Stephano for the first time and made the most of her single opportunity in the third act. M ridewell has rare nat- ural gifts and temperament besides. Her admirers belleve that she will develop into America’s greatest contralto. At the evening performance Nordica in- sisted that Damrosch should do the hon- ors with her, and she literally dragged him, still reluctant, from the wings to acknowledge the peals of applause that followed the first act of “Lohengrin.” Nordica was in splendid voice and knew it. Like Melba, who declared to-day that she had never sung better in her life than last night, she attributes it to the fact that she has enjoyed a long rest. Dippel's Lohengrin s a masterplece In every way he is suited to the role and was equal to {ts tremendous demands. %3 \ TENOR WH SSEN Ex-Congressman Geary worked very CRUEL INscl)'LTRP:rS(::s:s g hard yesterday forenoon before United MAN. WES States Court Commissioner Heacock to e exclude some of the testimony of Lawyer | L — W. H. Metson in the Dubose contempt % | case. But all his efforts in that direction innocence she | the body had | | the audlence was on the verge of cheer- ing. Russo was reading from a slip of paper which he held in his hand. He had sought a dictionary for with which to express his denunciation of the newspaper outrage, and the audlence | was on the verge of cheering because he had not found a word forceful enaugh to express their thought of the yellow sheet and its sensationalism. Russo finished his address and as far | as the stage of the Tivoll was concerned the incident was closed. He was seen | afterward and was in a mood not alone to talk, but to act. said, “to resent this outrage. brutal insult to women. scoundrels. ceive none in return. wemen do not fight men.” And Russo was the picture of contempt. orate lafiguage of the hands, sions which must have been severe in English words | “I have used every effort T know,” he I do not | speak your language with fluency, but T have seen enough of Americans to know that they resent as I do an unwarranted, For myself I do not care—I am able to take care of my- self even against American newspaper I have sent my card to the Examiner office and know that I will re- Men who Insult With many a gesticulation, with the elab- , With expres- Italian, he said he was willing to flf’ht the any- were parried by E. S. Pillsbury. Mr. Metson’ testimony was dam- | aging to Mr. Geary's client, Receiver Mc- 1| Kenzie, and Mr. Geary on cross-examina- tion exerted his skill to the utmost to break the force of the statements made . but Mr. Pillsbury, on the nation rendered all those efforts abortive. Then Mr. Geary pro- ceeded to object to many of the soul- searching, bedrock questions put by Mr. Pillsbury and demanded that the Com- missioner certify to the questions and ob- tain a ruling from United States Circuit Judge Morrow as to their admissibility. But Judge Morrow had gone out of town and Commissioner Hea;:ock ru(;ed thntl hle his usual procedure of al- ;‘:v‘:lr:ig (?'l‘l:ww“n”! to answer all the | questions, whether objected to or not, | and leave to Judge Morrow the task of striking out or allowing the answers to in the record. ngin:.mmnson told how Attorney Dudley Dubose had treated the writ of super- Sed@s after it had been served upon his clients. supersef sty the o the defendant. writ was void, according to contention. On_the same proposition, continued Mr. Mletson. .N{;‘.e lfi'y m ong a: real argued ot ine defendant, the writ of eas might stay the hands of the , but lgnl it_could not direct le- return of the personal property In that regard the Mr. Dubose’s Yellow Kid in all his variety wi thing from baseball bats to fists. tAs tl{ :3;5:33:‘3 had been complied with, and tenor is an expert swordsman, a dead that the writ could not require the return shot, an accomplished boxer and a vet-|of the gold taken from the mines before eran athlete his threat and offer meant | that document had been issued. aomething 3 With reference to the threats sald to “But what can I do?” he added. *“‘How | have been ma McKenzie's party do Americans treat with such - guards? How can I discuss the nm:le.-cgf These wo- “with them and admire in them what I !‘l'ope women in such an encounter? men 1 have met; they have been m: Sociates on the stage; I have acted hey see in me—the spirit of (.a.nl' 4 1 use their names becas has done s0?” If Russo an artist. norina Lia Polletini does. She won her well-ds that she has a leserved praise. Sh, utation which tl:..fix- nation and | aminer is not privileged to take from her nd yesterday she consulted with :t n'igl;noyl. ne:l;:fl%ed to bri) for 1 wmen ) Mxlmlnu. h n wl her :‘I!I‘l:. of her friends better a firm ited was paid to ,t. His condition than she with local conditions have not serious, but he will require eueh’u‘ vl::h her to ask that the 1‘;:‘"“‘ of fi _Lsyit be held before Judge use a rascal does not know how to meet problem of the Yellow Kid's existence Sia is th - fmu corps in order to have better facill- | tle woman whose singing and uun‘eh."‘f, Vs action and ‘McKenzle, acqualn! asked me to e been made blood would flow should the deputy %?::ged States marshals selze the gold dust in_the receiver's possession, r. Metson testified: When I first saw Mr. Geary on that occasion 1 told him that McKenzie was under ar- rest. J Mr. udge Dubose was with At that time, and Mr. Geary, the Deputy United States M: trw:n States were in the . Geary mm'ver':'men excited and that he bel rt :5‘:: '3‘.{‘1‘;. United States Circuit ‘would sustain the action of Judge Tow with nxme;.am’}m first 'rlt‘:le .;.m e deas ‘which reac! Vised McKenzle to bumwmgn?m; enz ol 2 ‘being very much ucludfi. (Geary) ®old to stand for a while, and he would = arrange it o that the matter would be was Court of Appeals about September. Mr. had the matter of peacefully wound up. T cald “Verv well'” and went awav. I went Mr. Dubose had argued that the | Mr. McKenzle | San Francisco, and United | Voods | back between 1 and 2 o'clock and I and Mr. Du- bose had a talk about the mistake he made in construing the writs, and he admitted that ing to acknowledge his mi vi ing to ack I istakes and was sorry Then Mr. Geary and I had another talk, and he intimated that McKenzie was not going to yleld. He said that he had advised McKenzie to give up the gold dust and that McKenzle Fad sald that he would not do it without a | Aght, and that If I persisted In taking the gold dust four or five men might be killed and I might be among those killed. and if I was not I would be responsible for the deaths of the men killed. I told Mr. Geary that I had laid down with one writ behind me: that I had ylelded to the writs issued by Judge Noyes and I didn’t think it was right to my people to | surrender the second writ of supersedeas when the United States Marshal was there to enforce it. Then I informed you that I was going to ‘ ;amcede’?, to open fire. You, Mr. Geary, sald that you didn’t propose to go into an o & ¥y row yourself | fighter. | I thought, Mr. Geary, that you were - | blating to ket a receiver appointed in another | case and that you would take that gold dust | away_from me. "I had seen Judge Noyes go up Il‘q:‘?‘:rvg‘(}xeln‘b!l olfife on that same day. and States District Atto was there also. 1 thereupen wese Bownios \lnii hitched on a gatling gun. | , In response to-a question as to wheth | he kad not always carried ‘“a gam:; gun” on his rerson In Nome the witness | sald that he had not up to that time, as | be did not care to be clapped in jail for | \'lolanx)? the law. | Mr. Metson continued: I told you that we would Break vaults in whi . et e ich the gold dust had been stored |and that I w, going off to get ready [ fight. At the time the vauits were brokes open | McKenzie was a prisoner in custody of the Deptty United States Marshal afterward bmlllsl e o the bank to {dentitying the gold bags S " Mr. Metson next narrated an exciti conversatfon he had had with Mr. Mncs Kenzie with reference to some gold dust that was in the sluice boxes on the Dis- covery claim on the day on which his clients took possession of the claim. Mr. McKenzie notified Mr. Metson that he wished to clean up the gold dust. Mr. Metson replied that his clients were very careful people and would ciean the boxes without letting any of the gold get McKenzie charged Mr. Metson's h trying to steal the gold, and he asked the soldiers to protect him while ke cleaned up the boxes. Warm words | pass een Metson and McKenzfe on that occasion, and for a time, said Mr. Metson, it looked as though there might be a personal encounter between the two. States —— 2 ] o The peculiar actions of United Di 00ds_were then nar- A L B X when a demand was made for the keys of the vault Mr. Wi surrender | them. He was then by the | 588 not Eive up. e kera"They Sl Iz;anl t{w boxes. ‘lood- b.: g’m&u;: about it and “Lat them 0 an with the writs ought to be obeyed: = obeved: that he was will- | T, was ors you had not been employed as a gun | Teupon went downtown | | of McKenzie's active partisans. 'METSON TELLS HOW HE WAS FORCED TO “HITCH ON A GATLING GUN” AT NOME their burglary and break the boxes.” Mr. Metson continued: I was credibly informed that Hubbard e a scheme to have McKenzie pointed recelver in another case so that might take away the gold dust from our clients. United States Attorney Woods was advising McKenzle and assisting him, and he was one 1 know that Woods did everything that he could to defeat us. T heard that he would try to get the Grand Jury to Indict us. On one occasion_in court when I asked for an order directing McKenzie to comply. with the first writ of supersedeas in the Chipps case and turn over the gold dust to the. defendants Mr. Woods sprang to his feet and sald that he didn't propose to yield the business of the United States to us any more. He thereupon: objected to the presentation of the motion and the court ruled with him. Mr. Woods acted in the same way in the Judge's chambers on another occasion. I understood that he was going to bave my cilents and Judge Johnson and Judge Jackson indicted. Judge Noyes made an order in the Chipps case to take away from the defendants everything they possessed at the time the receiver went into possession of Discovery claim. The order mads a clean scoop of all their personal property. Robert Chipps of Chicago and recently from Nome was put on the stand by Mr. Pillsbury. He denied that he ever em- loyed Mr. Dubose to act as his counsel. e understood that Dubose was the attor- ney for McKenzie. Mr. Dubose had in- formed him that it would not be necessary to give up the gold dust, that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter and that the papers were not right. Mr. Dubose had informed the witness that the clerk of the court, In writing the order, had at- tached more to the order than the Judge had told him to. At this stage of the proceedings an ad- ournment was taken until Monday morn- ng at 11 o’clock. eem—— MRS. ELIZABETH O'RIELLY X PASSES QUIETLY AWAY Had Reached the Ripe Old Age of One Hundred and Two Years. Elizabeth O'Rielly, possibly the oldest woman in this city., passed peacefully away at her home in this city yesterday. Mrs. O'Rielly was born in Butterant Par- ish, County Cork, Ireland, and was 102 “years. ' Up to a short time before her death she retained all her mental faculties and was a most in- teresting conversationist. One of her greatest pleasures was to gather her ndchildren around her and relate inct- §ents that occurred In the easly part of this century. Mrs. O'Rielly was the mother of Mrs. C. Connell, Mrs. M. Lane and the late Thom- as O'Rielly, and grandmother of Daniel and Polly Bourke, Joseph Connell and Thomas, _Tessle. Francis and_ Nellia O'Rielly, l(nr.{ Vs..':kunn“ua Mrs. E. Goodfellow. No has yet beea set for thae funeral.