The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1900, Page 1

IX—=NO SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS PPALLING L0SS OF LIFE IN A STUHM?Damel Burri Many Ships Founder Off the English Thirty-Four MTn G0 Down With the Bark Prim- rose Hill. SR Aid Large Reports the Tug Sent t in dteamer the Channe Vi essel's pearance - a & three m Holy- L One man out y was saved sooner seks In vet identified, stone near Cliveden, ir steamer eamer te d nine of while baggage yesterday 1 her moorings and at or proceed- t the P, Enreuri nd bre kwater. rful seas run- ng prevented t ] e saved. Twenty-two of the crew managed to reach the breakwater, but five are still on board. It feared that Enreuri will list and f British steamship Penopol, from s na November 23 for Dublin, is ashore e sands betdy Aberavon. and No fatalities {Swe occurred ) steamsh, Jersey b rived at Bristol on December 25 City, from ew York, reports that she had a boiste « passage and that on December 1% tu N. and longitude 30 W. she labored and strained heavily, ship- quantitics of water and had rails and nchions broken The British steamship Rosefield. which at Antwerp on December 22 from of her deckicad on pir arrived t part dispa from Cardiff indicate the Pegasus, which was reported has pot foundered. The statemen: of her loss ofiginated with the sailor from her crew who landed at Cardif this morn- the Brit- | | who called to e REV. just in time to catch the Alian e steamship Tunisian, which sailed on | the 15th for Liverp. The reverend gen- | tieman's actions while here were of a de- cided nature, bu no ome bothered about him except the clerks the Windsor Hotel, where he roome The cause of th an- is not known | was | he took at the Welland cafe. empted to res- | lieved they | { | 'ADDS NEW LINK TO | CHAIN OF EVIDENCE AGAINST PAT CROWE s ldentifies the Pony Ridden by a Cudahy Kidnaper as One He Sold to the Suspect | LI VINE, ALIAS D 18 ACCOMPLIC PA" EDWARD CUDAHY JR. + 1 ALTAS ALL SUSPECTED OF BE- | T CROWE THE ABDUCTION OF | bay pe of thre 1 he at once picke t twe Mrs ose of Crowe. res we Coop- rtosaphs which -+ | #he was *ure were those of this man. The identified him with a likeness of now feel sure that vanted. nxious to lo- we nd the police he is one of the men are who is alleged to have friend of Crowe. The as employed at hotels in The detecti Bur Lizzie been an irns wo She was scen with Crowe d Chicago. While been connected South Or > have the er, crime by locati Lors; for his Ariest ple police feel sure they can, secure some valuable in- atout Crowe which wili lead to She is 30 vears old, light com- tall, large, with gray blue eyes. ion, ecfoenfenfesfoforfos LE BARON L e e oot il @ JOHNSON SAILS FOR LIVERPOOL Handsome Brunette Accompanies Clergy- man on the Voyage. Special Dispatch to The Call. L. d beyond rees James Le It has just been able do Johnson, f York Fi 1an whose Baron ew wo spent some time in nth and left this city on identi ' established m v | was for a lady f us to the red two fi lad arrival Johnson had | the steamship 1 Saturday for L unisian, which sailed last erpool. One of the cabins The two left Montreal on | the Intercolonial Railway and it is estab- | Hshed that they reached Halifax ailed on the steamship. Miss Gleesor s that Mr. Ruggles was | a quiet little talking gentleman Some of have the relatives of the been in Montreal s have been taken to allow nothing to v facts are bevond dispute. why he should re NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—At the home of Montgomery, Louisville, Ky.." when Archdeacon Johnson at New }Brightor ter of fact he was to all appear- | s Island, it was said to-night that ne in the Mr. of December 9 and took one of companied him to “Mrs. Mont- seen, I city Johnson arrived here on the trunks which t the Windsor not_to be two was paid no one asked any He left there Monday 10th, and was driven to a ing house kept by Miss Beaver Hall Hill, having that he wanted a nice, He told Miss Glee- mer as bill questic on uiet board son that that he wishe He had wit » remain with her for a him at the time a e and was given n decorating the telling Miss Gleeson He ¢ room with flowers, room. that his wife was g shortly and would go with him to England. Johnson d to take breakfast at the ding hojge. His other meals He received during the days, explaining, to the landlady that they were from his wife. Thursday morning there arrived at the boarding house a tall, handsome brunette, who was received rapturously by “Mr. Ruggles,” who fairly loaded the room sh flowers in her honor. They v together and had dinner at the house. They scemed to be very much in love with each other. Pré- Gleeson boar numerous letters @ i iiesieefeosiesfeenfesfoonfeeiecfefesfosfefenfecfocfefrfonfosforfonfonfofofonfonfonfoc oot ing.{ It now appears that the Pegasus grounded off Lavernock Point, but she was subsequently floated and towed to a place of shelter. When she grounded her boats were made ready for lowering and the falls of one of them carried away, precipitating five men into the water. They were all drowned with the exception of the sailor landed at Cardiff. This man was picked up by a wg. Wales appears have suffered the worst effect of the gaie, both on land and sea, but everywhere the telegraph wires are much disorganized and reports sre therefore incompicte. Considera®:s o to t as a| s Mr. Ruggles, and | next few | had been received from James Le Baron Johnson and that ail his family knew of him was learned through the | newspapers. Mrs. Johnson spent to-da: | at her father-in-law’s house, and it was | learned that her mother had gone to | Pennsylvania to visit friends. Miss John- | d her brother had not been home | for at least six months and had been suf- | fering from nervous prostration, which | took the form of great nervous depres- sion. His resignation, she said, was vol- | untarily made about two months ago, and this depression of spirits, which utterly changed him, was the only the family reason could assign for his absence. The fact tha: Mr. Johnson was formally eposed from the ministry of the Protest. ant Episcopal church about a week ago has become known to his friends in th's | city. He deposed at his own request | and the announcement of his deposition states that there is no reflection upon his | moral character in the proceedings. i all | |a i No News of Miss Hoffman. | NEW YORK, Dec. Training School fer Nurses it was said | to-day that nothing had been heard of | Miss May Hoffman, the missing San | Franciscan, since her disappearance. | Miss Brennan, the head nurse, said to The Call correspondent to-night that she | had ‘not heard from the relatives of Miss Hoffman in San Francisco. il @ age to property inland is certain to he ’repnrted. Some fifty barges and salling | craft broke from their moorings in the Thames alone. At Oswestry a theater was destroyed. PARIS, Dec. 29.—Storms of extreme vio- lence have swept the west and northwes: coasts of France. There has ‘been some | loss of life, together with considerable | damage to shipping. a1 | Colonel Buck Returning. ATLANTA. Ga.. Dec. gram received here to-day from Colonel A. E. Buck, United States Minister to Japan, says he safled to-day for San Francisco, en route home ALCER OPENS - HIS ASSAULT - UPON" MILES Flays the General in 2 Magazine Article. Eulogizes Eagaa and De- clares There Was No “Embalmed Beel.” Ex-Secretary Charges the Army" Commander With Dishonesty and Insineerity. P Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Dec formerly Secretary of War, publishes in .—Russell A. Alger, up to the time of the Cud- | since which event sh s | ince which event she has | .. "y T with | with private detectives, and though much | 2.—At Bellevue | | too, that “it does not s fth person who saw this man | | American Review an article “ on *“The | the forthcoming number of the North Food of the Army During the Spanish- American War,” which is a very bitter | attack upon Lieutenant General Miles, a very warm eulogy of General Charles P. Eagan, former commissary general of the army, and a very sharp denlal that the beef furnished to the troops during the war was “‘embalmec unfit for food or the cause of fllness General ger does not mince words in comm s upon the commander of the He calls General Miles' charges aga t the beef “scandalous to fact,” and “made absolutel particle of evidence or exc ontrary without a He says, pear that General | Miles was even in making the | charges, and he discredits and sneers at the volunteer surgeon who declared he honest | found chemicals in the beef served to the | soldiers. In his defense of General Eagan, the for- mer Seccretary p that officer as “honest and able,’ and declares that his | vituperative language in his reply to Gen- ‘conceived in an indigna- tlon pardonable, perhaps, in its existence, but inpardonable in its mode of expres- sion.” General Alger’s articl, the substance of a ses is announced as te coming book on the ~American war. General Alger calls attention to the| fact that General Miles appeared before the commission investigating the conduct of the War Department on December 21, 1868, and that he “refused to be sworn Drl affirmed, as every other of 49 witnesses and for the past year he had been her | the marriage. had been, declaring in substance that he | most ardent admirer, hoping all the while | Bovers on would make his statements without be- | | ing sworn, and was responsible for what | he said.” General Alger quotes the zllegations of | SEEKS SOLACE IN DEATH WHEN SLEDGEHAMMER FAILS TO FORCE THE WIDOW TO BECOME HIS WIFE Knowing That the Officers of the Law Are After Him George F. Woodcock Abandons All Plans of Revenge Against Mrs. Boyer and Kills Himself. HEN George F. Woodcock, a motorman on the PBryant- | street electric car line, pressed | his suit for the hand and heart of Mrs. Flora Letts, now Mrs. Boyer, he emvhasized his love with a sledgehammer, so the lady says. Later | when his ardent and ‘“‘mechanical” woo- | ing availed him naught and the object of | | nis affections was led to the altar by a | conductor on the Imore-street line, he serenaded the newly married pair in a 1 and weird fashion and swore that he would have their blood. Last night he was found a suicide in a lodging-house, | with a letter in his pocket telling of wn- requited love and a wasted life. While he lay lifeless and cold, officers were | | searching the city for him, that he might | answer for his rough wooing with the | sledgehammer. Knowing this, he had | sought seclusion and cheated justice In | death. Ten years ago Woodcock became acquainted with Mrs. Flora Letts, then a | widow about 30 years of age. He was| about ten years her senior. He had just | arrived from England, where he had re- | entidren fn the churge of relatives. Wood- | cock rented a room in Mrs. Letts’ house at 2677 Mission street and lived there un- til three weeks ago. He was delicate in health and Mrs. Letts cared for him and | nursed him. The friendship - Woodcock | held for his landlady ripened into love | that she would become his wife. Mrs. | Letts sympathized with the man, but | would not reciprocate his love. Woodcock | secured a position as a motorman on the | bad meat by General Miles, which he de- | Foisom-street line and held it for a num- | s cabin passages on | and | and pleasant gentleman, but did | | gations of General clares quotes, which General Miles repeated his charges, and declares that the general's written and official reply was “evasive and | equivocal. | “Upon Commissary General Charles P. | Eagan,” the former secretary, “‘the charges fell with the suddenness and | sharpness of a blow from an ass in's | Xnife out of the dark.” . General Alger adds a warm tribute to the energy, honesty and zeal of General Eagan, who, he says, was nearly pross trated from overwork. He then sa “‘General Miles should have known that neither the Secretary of War nor Com- missary General could legally alter nor add to the rations of the army. The | ration is fixed by law, and its components | can be changed only by the President of “grave and scandalou: also, a published interview He in | says the United States. An examination of the records of the War Department or inquiry of the Commissary Gen- eral would have speedily developed the fact that canned fresh beef (or, as it is known, canned roast beef) had been recognized as part of the army ration for nearly a quarter of a century. After showing that canned beef was made part of the army travel ration in 1875, General Alger continues: “The alle- Miles that canned fresh beef was not a part of the army ra- tion and that it was issued under the pretense of an experiment were not only contrary to fact but were made absolutely without a particle qf evidence or excuse. If General Miles really believed his se- rious charges, his conduct is all the more blameworthy in that he apparently made no effort to assure himself of their truth- | fulness, nor to report them to the Secre- tary of War before publicly uttering them. . “If ‘General Miles did not look into the question of food for the Santiago expedi- tion; if he did not consult with the com- manding general of that expedition con- cerning the ration to be taken with the troops and its method of preparation; if he did not consult with the chief commis- sary of that expedition concerning this important feature of the campaign, he was as culpable as though he had fafled to inspect all other important matters, such as ammunition, transportation, ete., and he must share whatever responsibil. ity attached to the use of canned fresh beef on transports.” | ber of years. | A short time ago C. H. Boyer. a con- | ductor on the Fiilmore-street line, com- | menced paying court to the widow and | at lensth their engagement was an- | nounced. Woodcock heard of this and he | became desperate. He pleaded with the | widow to forget her new suitor and mar- ry him. His pleadings were in vain and the marriage of Mrs. Letts and Boyer was | set for last Sunday. | On Saturday night, so Mrs. Letts claims, | Woodcock visited her. Earlier in the day | he had sent the widow a set of dishes as | a wedding present, and the object of his | visit in the evening, he sald, was to ex-| tend congratulations. Instead of finding | ‘Woodcock reconciled to the loss of his| suit Mrs: Letts discovered that he still | desired her love, and he again demanded her promise that she would marry him. She refused to listen to him, and then it | was that he seized her by the throat, and | after trying to strangle her, drew a sledgehammer from under his coat and | struck her on the head with it, until, finding that he would murder her, she | gave the long-sought-for promise and Woodcock left the house, carrying with @i STRIVING FOR SUPREMACY IN THE BALKANS ARSI Germapy and Austria cing Trouble for Russia. Special Cable to The Call #ind New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1000, by the Herald Pub- lighing Company. VIENNA, Dec. 28—Reports which have arrived here from Bucharest give an ac- count of & new configuration of the Balk- ans of the greatest political intere:t, which, If it should turn out to be true, will throw curious light on the relations of Germany and Austria to Russia. It is said in the Bucharest press that at the suggestion of Count von Bulow an of- fensive and defensive alliance has been concluded between Turkey and Roumania, General Alger quotes the inspector gen- eral of the army in praise of the conduct of the commissary department during the war, and in conclusion says: “The charges of General Miles, twice proven false in spirit and substance, are therefore more heinous in their effect. Yet the present Congress promoted General Miles to he lieutenant general, and has thus far failea to give to General Shafter the rank of major general to retire upon in his old age, and this after his magnificent cam- paign at Santlago, as well as his former distingustd service.” . which was directed against any power which would try to disturb the peace in the Balkans. This is perhaps only de- signed to distract Russia’s attention to a certain degree from the Chinese problem. With a view to paralyzing this alliance, an entente has been come to between Servia and Bulgaria, under the patronage of Russia. In well-informed ecircles in Vienna the news was(at first registered without comment. but the fact that the information has been circulated allows the conclusion being drawn that the con- vention bhetween Russia and Austria re- garding the Balkans s no longer as solid as It formerly was. g G~ — him the bloody hammer. But this forced his forth- |.cently buried his wife and left his four | promise Mrs. Letts had no. intention of keeping, for on the following day she went to San Jose, acvording to arrange- ment, and married Boyer. “I called it a ‘sledgehammer’ promis Mrs. Boyer explains, “and I didn't pro- pose to stand by it.” Wednesday night Woodcock, learning of visited the home of the Mission street. He was in- toxicated and demanded that he be ad- mitted. His language was flerce and wild and he sat on the doorstep for three hours, leaving shortly after 1 o'clock Thursday morning. This act Mrs. Boyer and Thursday afterncon she visited the Hall of Justice, where she procured a warrant for the arrest of the disturber, charging him with assault with a deadly weapon. Mrs. Boyer also said that Woodcock had sworn to get revenge for the loss of her hand. The warrant was sent to the Seven: teenth-street station and an officer dis- patched to Woodcock's room, which was in a housge adjoining that occupied by the Boyers, to arrest him. Woodcock had heard that the policemen were on his trail and when the sleuth came he was not | there to receive him. Officers spent most of yesterday trying to find him, but their search was unsuccessful. The first inti- mation the police got concerning Wood- cock’s whereabouts was furnished by the Morgue deputies last night, when the body | was taken out of a Sixth-street lodging- house, where the man had destroyed his own life with carbolic acid. About 7 o'clock Thursday night Wood- cock applied at the Saratoga House, 118 Sixth street, for a room. He said he de- sired good apartments and after paying Woobcoc. enraged | o8 | NCIPALS IN A TRAGEDY T IS ENDED IN A LODG- HOUS! o+ | 1ate yesterday afternoon failed to respund to the call of the chambermaid. The door | of the room was forced and he was found | dead on the bed, with two empty carbolic acid bottles beside him. Coroner's Deputies Meehan and Dona- hue searched the body and in one of the | pockets found a letter that had been hasi- | 11y written. In his farewell note Woodcock ;charged the woman with having wrecked | his life. He told her of his friendship | and asked the Lord to forgive her. as he | could net. He denied the charge that he used a sledgehammer to press his suit, and said that he came to the house on the evening In question at the woman's solicitation. When seen last night Mrs. Boyer did not manifest much grief at the thought that | Woodcock had taken his own life. In hep own way she retold the story of the as- | sault and spoke of the kind e had | bestowed on the man for years ac- count of her sympathy for him. She had no intimation that he would take his own life, but rather had expected him to try t | take hers. In fact, she had prepared to the clerk 50 cents departed to return in a | give him a warm reception if he ever short time. The guest went to bed and | dared to visit her again. B e ] ELECTRICITY BRINGS DEAD CAT TO LIFE Chicago Expert Conduects a Novel Experi- ment. o Special Dispatch to The Call ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 28.—At an ex- periment in the telephone office in this city to-day it was demonstrated that life taken by electricity can be restored by the same power. N. Schellinger, an electriclan of Chi- cago, in the presence of a number of per- sons Interested in the progress of science, electrocuted a cat. When the heart of the fellne had long ceased to beat he reversed the current and the shock restored the heart beats—faintly at first, but growing in strength until finally the cat was re- leased and was as playful and frisky as 1t ever had been, none the worse for its electrocution. To all intents and purposes the cat was dead a few seconds after the current was first turned on. Two hours later when the current had been reversed ¥t was a very much alive cat, ready for a mouse or a midnight promenade. Tesla has con- Aucted experiments on the same line, but the perfod of suspended animation was never so long in the cases he treated, |PURCHASES AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC s Uncle Sam Closes a Deal With Guam Na- tives. Spectal Dispatch to The Call CAILL HEADQUARTERS, 48 G STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Secretary Long has purchased for the TUnited States Government another Pacific island. This island s under the American flag and les in the harbor of San Luls de Apra, Guam. It is proposed to use It as a site for a coaling station. The price paid for the island was 3909 in Ameriean gold. It 1s 130 acres in extent, is healthful and, it is belleved, will make an admirable site for the projected station. The island was owned by several prominent natives of Guam, who, officlals say, will live In affluence as a result of the sale, In compliance with a eable request from Rear Admiral Remey, commander in chief of the Asfatic station, Rear Admiral Bndicott, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, has forwarded to Guam large quantities of material to make repairs 1o bulldings destroyed in the recent typhoon, which resulted in the loss of the Yosem- fte, The autherities expeot the Newari to arrive at Manila in a few days, when details of the devastation caused by the storm will be cabled by Rear Admiral Kempff te Washington.