The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—-NO 28. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WANG S REPLIES T0 THE POWERS Ohjects to Cerain Demands in Joint Note. FLAICE R pposes Permanent Lega- tion Guards and Re- duction of Forts ung Chan H and Prince Ching Wiil the Answer Pending Further Conference. = ANCHORING WAR JUNKS | THE CHANNCL SHANGHAI, Dec. 27. — Many Chinese war junks < stone have been Wusung, pre- ock the channel emergency SOL ','} RS MURDERED. the “Temple of in Peking. * n Taku to - PILLAGERS TO BE PUNISHED. Trench Government Orders an In- 1iry Into Its Soldiers’ Actions. P 3 Chamber of Dep- stricts re- French m reproach than They had also . quiry, and would severely pu parfies, but a con- sle to say that the s d been much less bar- those of other nations. The ment, the Mini: inued, had 2 articles sent by General rned to China and restorefi Government. M. de Lanes- d with the expression of hope eprehensible acts committed renewed. GOVERNMENT WILL CONTROL. Transfer of Ma=churian Railways About to Be Made. | TERSBURG, Dec. 27.—The No- | Viadivostok correspondent | | | the story that the Russian about to take over the | an rallroads, He says Comman- | left Viadivostok to for- roads to the Gover: atiy The correspond- | « Chinese caused losses | 4,000 0% rubles, f large or small bodies of ina i# announced almost ern ports. e arriva from « from so “cigars INVADERS ATTACK AT MANY POINTS IN CAPE COLONY Ninth Lancers Lose Eight Men in an Attempt to Effect the Rescue of British Prison ers From Boers & o BB TS D e o1 vl 01 L. SIR FRANCIS W J., WHOSE FORCE HAS THUS | AR FAILED TO RES BRITISH PRISONERS IN THE HANDS OF | KRUITZINGER'S BOER CO; fANDO. | B - - - — =y ONDON. Dec. 28, 3 a. m.—The lai- | neighborhood of Leuwkop. Dewet hopes est dispatches from South Africa that Lord Kitchener h: eeded in holding the Boers in show k. But he not vet been s ling them from Cape « e different comm on- a ing over ar de field Color fell continues in touch with Kruitzinger's commando of 7% men. who arrying off the British prisone zinger abandoned his Maxims e Ninth I rn Kruitzinge t Dec mbe c es among the Lancers Lord Frederick Blackwood rts ni Boers upon Br each of > his official dispatches Northern Cape Colony It is questic whether Lord Kitche- amation will have much effect t has been captured. The Boers ard it as a sign of weak- wholesome dread om: h favors c f terms to ne Boers as a step the right direction Queen t it is said, has approved e proposal to institute a new order of knighthood to reward officers who have serv in South Afri The order will P be called the Star of Africa ispatch from Vryberg, dated Decem- ¥, says that Boers In considerable numbers were making a movement west- v had 150 wagc : a patches s that they were trekking to Dama i, although the Boers them- selves denied any such intentic The Evening Standard to-day says it understands that the squadron of yeo- manry which, as announced in a dispatch from Cape Town yesterday, ped and capt they were was entrap- the Boers, whom following from Breitstown, was released after the men had been relleved by of their horses and other equipment. Ten of the yeomanry, the paper adds, were wounded. CAPE TOWN, Dec Martial law has been proclaimed in th fort districts of Beau- West and Carnarvon. -~ BOERS ACTIVE ON CHBXSTHAS Every British Garrison Along Lines of Communication Attacked. NEWCASTLE, Natal, Dec. The | Boers celebrated Christmas in Stander- ton and Ingogo by more or less deter- | ed attacks upon every British gar-! rison along the lines of communication. | These, however, were in all cases success- fully repulsed. mandant sent in a demand for whisky, | and Christmas luxurles, failing | which he threatened to attack the town. | His demand was ignored, and the BoerSI attacked Utrecht in force on Christmas | | morning. They were repulsed with loss, | the British casuaMes being slight. | | KITCHENER REPORTS RAIDS. | { Tells of Numerous Attacks Which | British Repulse. | LONDON, Deec. 21.—The following dis- | patch has been receivel from Lord Kitch- | At Utrecht the Boer com- | ener: “PRETORIA, Dec. 26.—Knox, with Bar- ber, Plicher and Whits, Is engaged with Dewet’s force, holding & noaisine in 1ha | dresses. to break through and go south again. “The Boers’' eastern column In Cape Coiony is apparently hcaded by our troop: about Reitport Spruit.’ The Boers' west- ern column is repo in two have gone north rd Prieska and rtions. the other through \burg. They aio being followed up. following h from General ey was «d from Pretoria r to-day (T ¥) date: erday 200 attacked a small police post near Boksdorp. The police gal- lantly drove them before reinf ments from Johannesburg arrived. Boers dama the the miring machiner; neighbor hood he Boers attacke Utrecht at 2 o'clock this morning and were driven off. The Boers held up a rain three miles west of ¥ and were driven off. eastern f e cf Boers in . e vas headed yesterday and i of Venterstad. The I veing driven noi NETHERLANDS BACKS DOWN. Senate Disclaims Responsibility for Letter to Kruger. THAGUE On the reassem € Senator R Hisclaim of the Hous sonsibility. foi letter of ti president of the Senate to Mr. Kri Decembe T In so doing the Senator nted out that the Senate merely au- thorized President to express sy pathy with Mr. Kruser In the letter alluded 1o the president of the Senate of The Netherlands expressel approval of the “noblc purpose” of M- | Kruger in “attempting to put a stop to the unjust war forced upon him in such a barbar manner” and expressed the hope that dence will result in the indepes Returning Troops Welcomed. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec. 27.—Thou- sands of citizens stood in the chilly blasts two hours to-day awaiting the arrival of soldiers from South Africa. The welcome at the railroad station was most enthus astic. An immense procession was forme:l to Holy Trinity Church, where Arch- bishop ~Machray coanducted services. | Luncheon followed at the drill hall, dur- ing which the Mavor, Sir Charles Tup- per, Hon. Hugh John Macdonald, Chief Justice Killam and others delivered ad- To-night a zrand ball and con- cert will be held. SRATEE AR Mor: Rumors of Surrender. BLOEMFONTEIN, Orange River Colo- ny, Dec. 26.—There arc renewed but un- confirmed rumors here that General De- wet, President Steyn and General Has- | broek have had a conference and decided | to offer to surrender, providing the coio- nial rebels are not punished and (he | leaders, Including themselves, are not deported. MRS. CARRIE HUNTOON I’BONOUIGED INSANE Woman Who conlplred to Murder Divorced Husband Will Be Sent to an Asylum. CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 2l.—Mrs. Carrie | Sinclair Huntoon, the former society belle who was arrested last night on a charge of conspiracy to kill her divorced hus- band, Walter C. Huntoon, was to-day proncunced insane. She will be taken to wn asvium. of the republics being assured for- | PAT CROWE MASQUERADING AS A WUMAN Austrian Nobleman { Wife— Omaha SIISDGG‘; IS‘ Ass COUNT RUDOLPH CHARGES UNDER OATH THAT THE COUNTESS EILA FESTETICSDE TOLNA IS A FLIRT ails the Honor of His American Makes Claim That He Alone Was Sinned Against and Demands That Her Prayer for Divorce Be Denied -X- I Nearly Captured at Chncege Dodges a Detective Who | Traces Him to His ! Quarters. Fugitive Passes as a Young Widow | and Finds a Higing P'ae j Among Fri'nds AOTE" L | CHICAGO, Dec. ;Disguised as a woman. Pat Crowe. the notorious crim- inal, who is being sought by the palice all | over the United States 6a the c that he was the kidnaper of Eddie Cu at | Omaha. has been seen in Chicago w | the Jast few dz d may =ti'l be hid'ng | here, according statements made to- | night by Dete: Sergeant James Storen | of the Chicago p who has arrested | Crowe a number of times in the past. With a view t1 discovering the fugitive's 0 “tive hiding place, a s-arch warrant of several houses in Sixty-third street, near Stewait | avenue. has been made by Storen, acting on information that Crowe had been rec- | ognized on that 1 Christmas day. In pursuing his quest the sergeant stum- bled upon evidence which he says con- vinced him that Crowe had been in CI cago recently, and that In the guise of street woman, clothed in a black robe and hea ily veiled, the suspect went abroad with in the streets of Englewood, the | | impur | suburb where he once was a resident and is well known to many people. | Storen claims to have (raced Crowe to a room where he was masquerading as a voung widow in mourning, but that Crowe received warning from his friends that the police were on ais trall and escaped before a capture could be effected. | “I feund ample evidence in the room | that its eccupant was none other than | Crowe,” said Sergeant Storen to-night.| | “Whether he is how in Chicago T vannot | ¥~ say. In Englewood, however. he ha&Ti- fluential friends, who in all probabllity have found him a hiding place.” 5,000,000 FRANCS IS STHLL DUE. EILA, COUNTESS FESTETICS, WHOSE SENSATIONAL SUIT FOR DIVORCE FROM THE COUNT HAS CALLED FORTH A DEPOSITION IN WHI H HE SAYS THE COUNTESS WAS A FLIRT, AND THAT HER DOWRY OF | 4 BOSTON SLEUTHS HAVE CLEW. * J "OUN' FESTETICS Believe Crowe Is on an Atlantic Liner | FDOLER, -C QUNTE FESTE | DE TOLNA, is in truculent mood, B Dogts o ey ind in defense of his own has as- BOSTON, Dec. 27.—The Boston police satled the honor of his wife, . have evidence to ‘ndicate that ‘‘Pat Countess Festetics de Tolna. So- / ©rowe™ and the other man who is wanted | ciety, the maids and matrons thercof. let on a charge of kidnaping young Cudahy are on the Watten 'iner Michigan bounl for Liverpool and a -able containing that | information has been sent to the Scotlaid Yard detectives. who will be on the Li erpool docks when the steamer arrives. fall a word of pity as Countess Festetics’ story of all the wrongs, all the cruelties she .hnd suffered at the hands of her ti- tled husband was unfolded before them | while she proceeded to prosecute her case in the divorce court. Now, soclety ex- Just before the Michigan sailed last | pectantly awalits the court's decision. for Saturday two men, who acted so suspi- Count Festeties, in a deposition signed by | ciously as to attract attention and wie | him urder oath, charges that it was his| answered to the descriptions of Crowe | wife's unseemly conduct with a British and the supposed kiunaper, boarded i naval officer that led to the parting cf steamer with a large amount of baggage. their ways. The steamer salled in a short time, but | Count Festetics ip his deposition draws, | not before word of the presence of the | to the least, an interesting pen pic- strangers had been sent to police hea ture of one Remington of Her Maj quarters. ship Immortalite, revived from a “faint- OMAHA, Dec. All hope of 'captur- | ing spell” by a smash on the skull with ing Pat Crowe in t vielnity has becn | a »\.m ky bottle, leaping from a downy abandoned and the poilce and special ic- couch provided. he aver by Countess {ectives on the case have now seitled | Festetics, with coverléts from her own down 10 a systematic search for evide bed, then over the side of the Tolna into from the wrath of the | nobleman—the depo- | nent. - This “big fiirtation” is deseribed | in detail; others are casually referred to. And again Count Festetics makes de- fense of his *“cruelty” in keeping his wife aboard the Tolna by charging her par- ents with willful breach of contract. One million francs was to have been his frem | | the Haggin coffers in return for the value | of his heart and hand, he alleges. rHe | took the offer in good faith. He married | Miss Haggin at New York City many | years ago. He is still without that million francs, and because poverty kept him afloat, because it awakened him from his dream of villas and impelled him to turn a deaf ear to his wite's importunities and | pleadings for a merry life ashore, he sees no reason why it should furnish her a ground for divorce. And his poverty. This he declares is due to his lavish expendi- tures upon his wife and her lavish expen- ditures upon herself. Her action for di- vorce, he concludes, is based upon the froth of discontent, born without cause or reason. Her separation from him was her own fault, he charges. Hence he asks that a decree of divorce be denied her; that even though apart she will hence- forth be known, as in the past, as his the gig and awa outraged Austrian in their but from the clews clew are few, lead to_important discoveries. The officers are ‘going ovsr the entire ground covered by the bandits | | on Tuesday and Wednesday nights of last | week in the hope thai they find ac | least two articles of evidence—the gaso- | on which the outlaws bolied | their coffee in the Grver-sireet cottage and the buggy used by them at various | stages of the case. pos: sion. Thexc may | line stove, “Up to date we have followed all clews | which promised a solution of the mys- | tery,” sald Chief Donahue to-nignt, “and have found that the; d to nothing anil we are now ready to o over the ground | again. this time giving attention to more | minute details of the matter.’ Logically St. Joseph, the police think, is | the last city in the Middle West that Pal| Crowe would visit at such a time as this. | So far as the police know Crowe has no | relatives in or near St. Joseph, but it is Iwell known that he has friends there. One development in the case is the fact that ‘the man who rented the cottage on | Grover street gave the name of J.D, Con- | nor. Crowe has a brother-in-law named J. F. Connor and thcse working on the matter are more inclined to belleve, in view of this fact, that Crowe rented ths wite. * ! house. The Count’s Accusations. DES MOINES, Dec. 2.—Detective| mha Count's story, as told in his deposi- Shaughnessy of Omaha arrived in the city this morning looking for traces of Pat | Crowe, who occupied the residence at 1525 East Lyon street here for some time. Crowe is sald to have been Intimate with Charles Price, who was shot dead while trying to mob a store in Quiney, III., a year ago. The detective believes that Mrs. Price, widow of the dead robber, will locate Crowe. He does not credit the report that Crowe is in jail at Laramie, for he was seen in Omaha only a few days before the abduction. S — | Other Telegraphers May Strike. ST. PAUL, Dec. 2.—An evening paper tion, is as follows: . | During our stay at Singapore the plaintiff ob- | jected to staying any longer on the yacht Tolra, after a quarrel that we had about a big firtation that my wife had with a man named Remington of the English man-of-war Immortalite. My wife would give no reason for her objection to staying any longer on the yacht Tolna except that she was tired of liv- ing on board of & yecht.: At Singapore she asked me to dispose of the vacht and live on land at any big city that she liked. This was after our trouble with Remington on board of the Tolna, and ' particularly when he stayed ver night on the Tolpa at the esvecial request of my wife, al- objects and told Remington that says: Events of to-day indicate that a ;n:“::m ‘hnveh:x:l taken to his snip in one of strike of telegraph operators on the! ., Toina's hoats. He said he preferred to Northern Pacific {s more than possible, | geep sn board the Tolna, and upon the fur- The company fis sending men West (0 ther urging of my wife and her objection to prepare for an emergency. ‘nmm‘mn leaving, 1 at last yielded and al- | | {a {= | | never to see my lowed him to sleep on board. my wife mak. ing up Fis bed in the main saloon. She took a blaniet off her own bed to use, and seelng this I took the blanket from her, but she got it again and put it on Remington's bed. The ! next morning about & o'clock 1 heard my wife in the saloon. calling to the boy: ‘“Boy! Boy! Bring quick fairting! Mr some cognae! The Countess as a Nurse. I immediately went out and sawemy wife nursing Remington, and 1 told my wite: “Wiil you please go in your room. ' It is my busi ness to nurse him.”" Then my wife said: “N. 1 am not-going to my room. nurse him." the meantime the boy had the cognac. My wife took it. and, pusking me away, went toward Remington to give him the cognac. 1 pushed her aside, and thei: T took a whisky botfle standing on the table and breaking this on Remington's hedd he immediately amd went after him, I am going to n brovght recovered from his I staved below, but my wife ran and [ heard that he jumped quickly in the gig w 1 was in readiness to take him When my e came down below T told her that I had quite enough of this sort of flirtation, having already seen her engaged in similar flirtations at Samoa and Yokohama, and that T had had enough of this sort of thing. and 1 told her: and go back to your people.” right, and taking her hat went graph office. and upon my talking with Sir Alexander Swetnam and my counsel, Mr von PBrandt, Remington apologized and promised wife any more. I asked my wife not to make any further scandal and con- tinue to stay with me on board the Tolna, and that I would pardon her. She said she would have stayed if her father had not sent her money in renly that her father had sent her money she would &o. Marriage Settlement That Fails. In reply tg my wife's request to live on land, 1 suld: “If your people give me the amount that they promised, as you know, before our marriege—that is a ‘million francs—then I can She sald all Remington s | ‘You would better pack up | | | apartment was beautifully fitted up . a large apartment, % Avenue de Jena. in Paris, which 1 occupied before my marriage. with my own furniture and fittings. Besides I there my own horses and carriages. This whol estzblishment was sold out in 1 no longer pay the rent 1 never remained away from the Tolna over { night, leaving the plaintiff on the yacht. I | 4t not remain away | appraved of my from the yacht at any place except with my wife. When I left Sing- apore my wife in no manner objected or dis- departing without her. A receiving the money from tele her father by | &raph she spent the interval of the four or five da; before I.sailed in carefully packing wup her belongings. She not only used all the trunks she had on board. but bought severs | targe chests, and when all were filled had them: taken to Mr. Bond, who was to ship them else- | where for my wife. We lunched the day my sailing with the Austrian Consul, Mr. Bond, | faintness | wite and Mr. and then with him we went to the T Bond came on board the for a short time just before the yac anchor. My wife and Mr. Bond then descended to the launch and I also went down, where my wife and T kissed and parted in ths | of Mr. Bond affect but my wife ev a. My Toina t weighed ence ate, Our parting was in no manner wha - or ok Jected or disapproved of my departing withous | her. From the first two letters written by my wife to the tele- | to her telegram, but now | | wife and his public denial that she ha after our part her to retarn te me. After which I :cceived at Port that there was something . the mat than a fortnight after leaving Port Said I arrived at Trieste and I was astounded to re in the newspapers that my wife was a divorce. which I did not ve'teve to be se and publicly denied. Praises His Yacht. From the story of nis parting with his % at Singapore [ fully expected the third the | sued him for divorce Count Festetics give up the yachting and live where you like | on shore.”” My reason for keeping up my yachting life so long, besides my love for the sea, was that I was always walting for the payment of the money which the parents of my wife promised me before my marriage with their daughter. They promised that I should have it at the time of the marriage, but it | was never given me, although they continued to rromise that I should have it later. I only had money enough myself to own the yacht, and could not afford to keep an establishment or land, too, especially as my wife was rather lavsh in her expenditures. If T had the means it wovld have been a pleasure to me to have had a house on land and to keep the Toina as a racing yacht. 1 cannot state the exact money furnished by me to the plaint!ft for her maintenance and support from the time of our marrfage until May, 1900, but the amount was about 150,000 guldens, some $60.060. If I had been alone I should Have lived on my Income, as I did befcre my marriage, but the amount Just speei- fled T drew from my capital at various times to cover the demands of my wife for money. Between April 2, 1599, and the commence- ment of this action, May 17, 150, 1 gave the plaintiff no money; first, because she had re- ceived a large credit from her father; second, because she did not ask me for any, and third, | because she was living with her parents, were supposed to be wealthy. Until we ar- rived at Japan en May 8, 1387, my wife did not receive altogether from amy source more than 325, as she herself expressly toid me. I had for two years, that is from 1593 to 1595 who { i drifts into a warm defemnse of his yacht and concludes with a dramatic descrip- tion of the loss of the little vessel. Ha shows some elation over the fact that he chelted the savages of the Malabar co. out of the enjoyment of his vessel afte their refusal to aid him in getting her afloat after she struck a reef. His de- fense of the vessel :s for the purpose of proving that Countess Festetics and her relatives had none and could have objection to the Tolna, her fittings or her seaworthiness. His Gescription of the loss of the vessel has the object of prov- ing that even though had Countess Fes- tetics been aboard her life would not have been endangered and to establish his contention that it was not lack of strength of the vessel's beams but lack of skill on the part of mariners that tock the Tolna to her doom. He says: The yacht was well constructed by Captain Turner of San Francisco at Beniefa, and [ know that she was stanch, for I saw every plece of wood that went into her. She was luxurfously furnished, commodious and a fine sailer. My wite's family all saw the yacht before we set sail on her and they never ob- jected to her as a place of abode for my wife. Though we always sicpt ashore when the op- portunity afforded, it was not because the Tolna was not safe and comfortable. Often we stayed at night on the vessel when we were visiting the South Sea lslands. for they wers too wild and dangerous % admit of our re- maining on shore over night with safety. On the island of Minicol, on the Malabar coast. the Toina was lcst on February 1L, 19, about 1 o'clock in the morning. Owing to the 0