The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1900, Page 25

Pritttiesie R | ; : | Pages 25 1o 36 44444 VOLUME LXXXIX. OSWALD OTTENDORFER, EDITOR OF THE STAATS ZEITUNG, HAS JOINED THE SILENT MAJORITY Closes the Career Participation in Exci of the Noted Writer and ian,Whose Early Life Was Distinguished by g European Revolutions. TTENDORF e OF THE NEW YORK | EER IN AUSTRIA AND He accor HAR FORTH MANY was not needed to ar rs of the President to th face g face to ~prese: 4 charge of the Mr. Harrison so severely criticized, day constitutional question which Mr. rrison discusses is now before the Su-) preme Court. I do mot believe that what said will influence the court. His . has not changed the conviction this subject when I signed | ¢ the Ways and Means Com- | he Porto Rican bill. I believe | be constitutional. It.is in ac-| with precedents of one hundred and I believe it will be sustained | spreme Court of the United | presentative Grosvenor of Ohio sald: | 1 would better not talk about Mr. Har- | ch, for 1 might say something 1l say this, however. I think e time has been reached in this ques- SON'S ATTACK at he would undoubt- ed he left rted for He- and French, two or three was offered a sub- ting room of d by Jacob when the en- devolved The latrer died in 185 gement of th Staats iage e that the had done Koeniggratz Au al of good, in that it that country what Se- 1570 @id for France Ottendorfer had ing a gen- d citi- inter- vs taken eing highly respected by is party; was on ore oc- ate for the veral times tor. In dorfer Zeitung Oty for e rumor Ottendorfer himself, a change in the the paper, ren- ¥ his advancing years ion of his health. He had, ation with the members ing the 50 shgres com- ck of the Staats Zeitung, 34,0000 Mr. of to Herman Ritter, a xperience and courage, ial department to rematn 1 of Mr. Ottendorfer, and i i ies P BRINGS BITTER COMMENTS >— modest men will modestly $vatt bunal on earth is set- d I will not inject volunteer € into the ear of the public at ime.” -imperialists with the pos Congress are de- fon taken by Mr. Representative DeArmond of ssouri said: Mr. Harrison's dcubtedly sound arguments are In my mind it is un- thinkable that legislation can go where the constitution does not.” Supporters of the administration com- | ment upon the peculiar circumstances un- der which Mr. Harrison delivered his in- augural address. He wrote it primarily as an article to be published. It would 10t ‘have appeared until after the argu- ments had been made in the pending cases in the Supreme Court. By deliver- ing it in Ann Arbor he has got it out so that his arguments will be avallable for | the use of attorneys in the pending cases, and he, rather than the attorney before the court, will get credit for them. While former President Harrison was in Washington last week he was enter- tained at dinner by Justice Harlan and by Justice Brown of the Supreme Court. All of the members of the court were at both dinners. It is suggested that Mr. Harrison may have had an opportunity to discuss the constitutional -question in- volved at these dinners. PAUL ANTOINE, ACTING FRENCH of these shares pro rata, | | he threatened to kill himself and end the | in his brain. un- | her. | that he would so so, and one night he de- CONSUL, SHOT A BULLET INTO HIS | BRAIN TO CLOSE A DOUBLE LIFE ‘Made Desperate by the Jealous Chidings of His Wife and Dared by Her to Kill Himself He Commits the Act Which Completes a Social Tragedy. e HE mystery in which the attempt of Paul Antolne, acting French | Consul at this port, to take his | own life was involved has been | dispelled and from it has devel- | oped a social tragedy. Rather than pub- | licly admit that he had married a woman whom he could not honorably introduce as his wife Antoine sent a bullet into hix | brain. He had been leading a double life | and the stress of it forced him to suicide. | To many people he was a brilliant man of affairs, well educated, soclally well connected, a good fellow, a generous host | and a welccme guest in the exclusive eire | cles of the city. His officlal position gave him prestige, his manners and education band made his home at 571 Ellis street. Again and again tne wife demanded that the marriage be made public. “When 1 make our marriage public,” %aid Antoine, “I will kill myself. It would cost me my friends and my position.” Antoine’s Threat of Suicide. The wife laughed at him and dared him to carry out his threat. Then there were stormy scenes, incident of misery, quar- rels in which outbursts of anger were fol- lowed by reconciliation. The climax was reached on Friday. Time after time the jealous wife had chided her husband and on Friday she determined to put her own suspicions to the test. She employed a messenger boy to follow her husband and PauL ANTOINE o+ LICLY AS HIS WIFE, AND WHO ENCE IN SUICIDE. THE WOMAN WHOM PAUL ANTOINE DARED NOT ACKNOWLEDGE PUB- TAUNTED HIM TO END HIS EXIST- + IN_ComZAny witr A woman, |, i3 FOLLOWED TS A DRVISADERQ oS TR=e L Saloon.. him respect and he was equal with the bohemian and social life He &dressed well, spent Lis | fect har- ss environment in found himself. other people Antoine was a t man. He was the com- a woman who had been long | the tenderloin to earn several as a roisterer who needed s, dangerous ife which begins after the electric lghts | go out. He was a patron, with his com- | panion, of houses which do not register their guests. He was a gay spirit when sober men are asie He was leading | two lives and those that knew him saw | cnly the surface of both. | Behind his staid polished behavior in the clubs and his boisterous midnight suppers in the tenderloin was another life, an ex- | istence of misery, of quarrels and crim- inations, of fisticuffs and disgraceful scenes. His companion was his wife, a | jealous, hot-tempered woman, who slapped his face one moment and car d him the | next; who had pleaded with him and won | from him the document which made her | his wife, and who then threatened to ex- pose him for an act which he had consid- | ered honorable. Misery of His Secret Life. By this woman Antoine was harassed | incessantly. His slightest movement was | watched by her jealously. She shadowed | him to his place of business; to the haunts | where he met his friends and found recre- ation. She chided him for his attentions to other women. She scratched his face, pulled his hair and upbraided him in vio- | Tent language. When he sought to calm | her she threatened to publish the fact that she was his wife and in that publica- | tion degrade him. When in desperation storm and stress of his secret life, she taunted him to keep his word, and now he is at the door of death with a bullet Paul Antoine met his wife three years ago. She was then Mrs. Belle Posener, the divorced wife of Jullus Posener, whose | father gave her $100 with which to secure | a separation. She had been a saleswoman in a local dry goods store, but after her divorce she engaged in no regular occu- pation. She was known as Belle Chapell-l and then as Belle Forrest. It was easier for her to change her name than her po- sitton. Antoine met her and fell in love with her. She seemed to reciprocate his feel- ing, and after two years and eight months of pleading she persauded him to marry On many occasions he had promised her clared that he was ready to keep his word on one condition. He insisted that their marriage be kent a profound secret. The woman agreed to this, and on August 13 last she went to the office of the marriage license clerk and secured a license. She deliberately misspelled her own name and that of Antoine. On the following day the couple were married by the Rev. H. H. Wikoff, with | F. Ellis Miller and A. H. Dorian as wit- nesses. The marriage did not change the current of affairs, which was drifting in- evitably to a tragedy. The woman be- came more and more exacting. She haunt- ed her husband at his office, followed him on the streets, and constantly upbraided him for what she insisted was undue at- tentlon to other women. She demanded that he acknowledge her as his wife. The couple had lived at various lodging: houses and then they decided that it was best to live apart. The wife took apart- ments at 358 Geary street and the hus- | tolue, last night. report to her his movements. did as he was directed. At 6 o'clock Antoine called at his wife's apartments on Geary street. She asked him where he had been. He fabricated a The boy | story to suift the odcasion and the woman reproached him. Ahtoine had been to the liquor store of H. Goldman, at 15% De- visadero street, where it was his habit to meet & woman of his acquaintance. When his wife accused him of having been there he confessed the facl. A storm of words Tollowed and the couple left the house to 80 to the husband's apartments. There the quarrel. was renewed with greater bitterness. “Again the husband threatened to kill himself and end the un- happiness he had brought upon himself. His wife laughed at him. He drew a pistol from a drawer, loaded it and placed the muzzle agalnst his forehead. The woman jumped forward to stop him. but she was too late. Antoine had fired a bullet into his bran In this domestic tragedy many people have contributed testimony to show the motive of the desperate act of Antolne. Fears of the Consul's Friends. “I have known Antoine for several years, and know him :o be a ‘splendid fel low,” said J. Clerf: a friend of A “When Consul de T briand left for Paris in April of this year, he left the entire consulate business in the hands of Antoine, of whom hs thought the world. This made Antoine's salary run to over $365 a month. Previous to his promotion he oniy earned about $163 a month. Antoine was a great bohemian and very much of a gentleman. He was to be found every night in Zinkand’'s with friends, but I seldom saw him in the com- pany of the woman wiio now claims that she is his wife. About a week ago I was up in Antoine's office 'n the French con- sulate headquarters aud saw Antolne. He seemed very nervous and complained that he was not feeling well. I noticed a scar across his forehead, which I thought wa a blow that he might have received fro the girl he was keeping company with He told me that he recelved the scar by stumbling against a door when he was shaving himself. “I was too good a friend to laugh at the excuse for the accident. but I made up my mind that it was a blow on the head that had made the wound.” A day or s» afterward I went up to the office again and noticed that a big glass door had been broken. I was told that burglars had tried to force an entrance to the place, but I did mot believe it. I am now certain that his wife had found him up | in the office late at night, after he had been trying to avoid her all day, and that the door was broken In the struggle. This morning the Minister of Foreign Affairs was notified of the sad affair. A telegram was sent him as follows: ‘Poor Antoine has either been murdered or committed sulcide.’ " Journey of the Jealous Wife. Henry Goldman, proprietor of a liquor store at 1535 Devisadero street, denies ab- solutely that Antolne ever came into his place. Last evening he was shown a pho- tograph of Antoine, but claims he would not know the man. He tells a story of 2 strange woman who came into his store and acted in a peculiar manner on Fri- day night about 8 o'clock. “I was on duty at the bar,” he said, “when a tall blonde woman, dressed in black, entered the place. She called for a glass of port wine and I ushered her into the front office. She drank the wine and stated that she wanted to tel She left with the remark that she would return later. Soon after her ance my neighbors came in one by one L o + and asked me if T was in trouble. They told me that a strange woman had asked them about me and claimed to be a female detective. She said she was working up a | divorce case “‘that meant half a million | dollars for her” and that she was anxious to find out about across the street.” she was anxious to find out if I was mar- | ried and if I lived tu the neighborhood.” Alder, 1538 Devisadero streei, was inter- viewed by the unknown woman. He con- ducts an uphoistery store and “The Wo- man in Black" bought a pillow Friday night in order to pave her way into his confldence. “I was in my store a few minutes after 8 o'clock last night,” Hansman said, “when the woman came in. She wanted to know all about Goldman. She asked was marrfed and where he lived. She then left.” For several months this year Mr. and Mrs. Antolne lived at “‘the Gotham.,” on O'Farrell and Mason streets. Mrs. Mor- ton, who conducts the nouse, has this to say about the couple: - “I never had nicer guests in my Mfe, and I cannot say enough good about Mr. and Mrs. Antoine. They first came to my house in April of this year. They.stayed two months and then left. They returned in September and again left in October. They always seemed happy and I never heard them have any trouble, nor did I hear a cross word exchanged between them.” The Wife Tells Her Story. The police have left nothing undone to clear away the mystery of Antoine's des- perate act. Amohg the persons interro- gated was Cirilo Elorduy, a music teacher who lives at 425 Eddy street. She was with Antoine and his wife on Thanksgiv- ing night, and then the acting Consul threatened to kill himself. H istol and declared that A roen “that man Goldman | She claimed to know | | that I was running with a rich man; that | H. Hznsman of the firm of Hansman & | 0 me_ several questions about whether he | Ot 44444 Pages 25 t0 36 Pre sttt +e0 PRICE FIVE CENTS. |JOHN ADDISON PORTER PASSES ‘AWAY AFTER SUFFERING WEEKS -+ WITH A MALIGNANT DISEASE Shortly Before the End Comes He Recognizes Mem- bers of His Family and Bids Them Farewell Was Private Secretary to President McKinley. a0l Mq + JOHN ADDISON PORTER, FORMERLY PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT McKINLEY, WHO DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A LIN- | GERING ILLNESS AT HIS HOME AT PUTNAM, CONN. 1 —— UTNAM, Conn., Dec. 15—John Addison Porter, former priva secretary to President MeKinle died at his residence here to-day. He had been sick for many weeks ! with a malignant Intestinal disease. An operation which was performed nearly gress of his malady, but could not en- | tirely arrest it. His condition, however. was such that he was able to sit about {the house, and on Wednesday last he went for a drive. On Thutsday he was attacked with severe sinking spells ani never rallied, being unconselous much of the time until he died, ~Shortly before the end came he recognized the members ot his family who were at his bedside and lbade them farewll two months ago served to stay the pro- | John Addison Porter was born in New | Haven, Connecticut, April 17, 156 His education was had at Yale, from which | he graduated in 1878. He had been a mem- ber of the General Assembly of the State | of Cornecticut. On more than one occa- sion he had been before conventions as | the nominee of the Republican party for | Governor of Connecticut, on each occa- sion recelving a large number of votes. For ten years he was editor of the Hart- ford Post. He was appointed private secretary by President MeKinley, hold- ing this position until fll health 'com- pelled him to resign. Mr. Porter was recognized as an author of great ability, his “Sketches of Yale Life” attracting | widespread attention | @ittt e {CALIFORNIA CHORUS GIRL [ MARRIES BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 15— Foster-Jor- dan—At New York, December 3, by Rev. | Dr G. C. Houghton, Gerard S. Foster of | Utica ana Jessie Jordan of Sacramento, This Inpocent little marriage notice tells the story of another Harvard-Columbia Theater romance, the lady in the case | being 2 member of “The Cadet Girl" cho- rus prior to her marridge, Whilé the man in the case is a Harvard student. She is | fafr to look upon, but defictent in wealth, | while he, Gerard S. Foster, Is the son of | David S. Foster, a_ millionaire merchant | favorite he is, is also rated as possessing at least one mililon.” It was In October that the young couple met. Miss Jordan. who is described as a beautiful woman, was in the chorus of “The Cadet Girl” | one night when young Foster and a chum | met herself and another chorus girl. It | was a case of love at first sight. They were together much, and there was great | happiness for both until Manager Cham- | berlyh announced that the company was | going on the road. That meant separa- | tion and both were disconsolate, , for ‘,ymms Foster was in duty bound to re- | main in Cambridge. Lovedemanded other- | wite, and as is usually tha case. duty lost. Foster decided to accompany the | and a few choice spirits followed the show | all over New England at a cost of over $1000 per week.' Late in November the company disbanded in New York and the young lovers' path was troubled. ‘Foster PEKING, Dec. 15.—Colonel Tullock has returned here. He reports mv:lm- had an exciting experience. His detachment was fired upon eight miles from Peking. He could not discover the assailants. as they used smokeless powder and modern called Kaollying, eighteen miles from here, meeting with slight opposition, but he was informed he would be attacked the next day by Boxers from Dehhal- ying, and sent for reinforcements. Fifty men under Lieutenant McPherson of the Twenty-sixth Beluchistan Regiment were sent to his ald. Immediately after their arrival Tullock attacked the town, which had been entered by the use of sc: ladders. In the attack McPherson distinguished himself. He led the scaling party which reached the town, jumping down Into the place and emptied his revolver, killing five men. He then drew his sword and de- fended himself until his men arrived in force and saved him from impending death. Colonel Tullock speaks highly of the letenant’s action. He says he be- Meves he did a deed which merits the Vie- toria Cross in his jump to what was ap- parent certain death. in order to lead his captured and brought to Peking. Owing to the Kkilling of the informer no treasure | $%.000 Tullock says the people of Peking did not realize the contempt In which they lare held in the country districts. He adds \o( Utica, N..Y. His grandmother, whose | troupe, hiring a parlor car in which he | guns. He camped for the night at a place | MILLIONAIRE’S SON Special Dispateh to The Call. | proposed marriage. The girl accepted. | This was on December 3. Where to get married was then the question. Both | were young. | -~ He will not be 21 until next month, and | his bride is some weeks younger, and trouble was feared in finding a clergyman to tie the knot. A friendly hotel clerk suggested the world famous “Little Church Around the Corner.” To that place they went in a carriage. The bride had no attendants, the groom no friends for witnesses. Dr. Houghton received them in his study, and after satisfying himself that the hearts were all right married them, members of his household acting as witnesses. That day Mr. Foster wrote his father, telling him of his marriage. The answer he received was not exactly in the “Bless you, my children” line, he objecting to “a theatrical person.” Then Mr. Foster's money began to give out, and-he left his bride to see his father. So far as it is known, he is with him yet. Mrs, Foster returned to Boston and re- sumed her stage work, signing with Mr. Chamberlyn for work in the chorus of “Miiadl” and “The Musketeers,” which are now rehearsing in this city. It IS not thought, however, that she will stay long on the stage. Indeed, it is said that she will soon retire to private life, setting up an establishment in Cambridge with her husband, as did Mr. and Mrs. Brice, whe, it will be remembered, married in much the same way. @ittt o BRITISH FORCES ARE FIGHTING WITH BOXERS NEAR PEKING that ode of the wounded Chihamen said while dying: ‘“You can kill me, but you cannot kill the Boxer movement, which will exist until every foreign devil in China is killed.” The French report the approach on the Chinese imperial city of 10,000 men, Pao- ting-Fu, their garrison fifteen miles west, being attacked by the advance guard They have applied to Li Hung Chang and demand that he prevent the march of these troops owing to the peace negotia- tions. The railroad opening which was to have taken place to-day has been postponed owing to the road not being ready for traffic. NO COIN IN TREASURY OF CHOSEN FRIENDS Thousands of Members May Never Receive a Cent for What They NEW YORK, Dec. I5.—It was stated to-day at the office of the supreme treas- urer of the Order of Chosen Friends in Newark, N. J.. that the appointment of | Cyrus J. Clark as receiver of the order in Indiana means the dissolution of the so- clety, and that the 22,000 members in the Urited States will probably not racetve a fn as n the assessments. hands of the lempo?urs supreme treasurer at present, it was , and the only as- sets of the order, it was stated. are the bends of the Fidelity Deposit Com- pany of Marviand. which furnished curity for e wn_zmdq.n?.mtw from bers on the December asaess~ men*