The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1901, Page 1

= = "YOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 76. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IESHIS | CHILD FROM KIDNAPERS DESTINY O < To-Morrow by And J. Pierpon SCHWAB WILL GUIDE STEEL COMBINATION Largest Deal of the Century Will Be Closed NEW RIOTS BREAK OUT IN MADRID F-THE NEW rew Carnegie and t [organ. George H. Springer’s| Long Quest Ends in Stceess. Scotia Woodsmen Threaten | Abductor With Tar and Feathers. e e— R ( spateh to The Call 3.—George H. Springer merchant, who has been this coast sinc t Ma who w whose charge , arrived here g 3 his boy a t Scot 1a miles south of here 4 with him and will les Millmen hast n of administer- When t in which Coleman that had th 1t eathers him Police and Troops Charge Mobs With Drawn Swords. Royal Wedding Festivities Abandoned Because of People’s Ugly Mood. —— MADRID, Feb. 14.—A" state of siege has been proclaimed here. LERUTA G Xir MADRID, Feb. 13.—Music on the public squares and a general holiday had been arranged as to-day's programme of the Asturlas-Bourbon marriage festivities, but | all this has been abandoned on account of the attitude of the populace. With nightfall every approach to the | Puerta del Sol was jammed with the idle populace. Insulting remarks were hurled } at the police and the civil guard. A trum- | peter sounded a charge, which was made with. drawn swords. Heads were not | spared. Many persons were injured and there were numerous arrests, The scattering crowds sought the shops and hotels. All the front doors of the Hotel de Parls were smashed in, a great | crowd assembling there. The police and | | guards charged into the streets, but the | dispersed throngs quickly reassembled. As was anticipated, the funeral of Don Ramon de Campoamor was attended with serfous disturbances. The weather was beautiful and enormous crowds gathered alomg the route. s 3 the Prevention of Cruelty e case In hand § T OF THE CARNEGIE AND MORGAN. possession of the nswering an M. SCHWAB, WHO l\ REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN | Considerable disorder marked the pas- sage of the procession, but the troops sta- i | tioned at strategic points prevented any formidable outbreak, until the end of the city was reAched. At that point the dem- | EL COMBINE ENGINEERED BY | hat the child respectable ITTSBURG, Feb. 12.—The new fea- tures to-day in the Carnegie-Mor- gan negotiations, according to the | Pittsburg leaders, are that the deal will be closed Friday: that Charles M. Schwab will be the head of the | new company to be formed, and that An- | drew Carnegie is to recefve a sum larger than has been given in any of the many | estimates sent but from New York. The | intelligence was brought to Pittsburg by a well-known bLanker, who has been In New York for several days, and late this afternoon the statement that Mr. Schwab had been chosen president was confirmed | in a telegram from a gentleman partici- | pating in the conference at New York. The banker further sald: “From sources which are in possession of fi ormation I learned that an ef- possession of Springer probation, fore Springer dis- was not as tenderly | to belleve. | ans that the them be obtained. In was to be placed visited the home fort will be made to round up the nego- o he found it de- | y;0ione, sign all the papers and close the es was de-| go51 on afternoon. If that can N SRawe. s will be attended to on be On Saturday President Schwab to Pittsburg and next week. n will start on a vacation to the Mediterranean countries of Europe. The m er then will be allowed to rest for several weeks.” meai his arrival IMPOBTANT CONFERENCES. | Compani-s That Will Enter the Mor- | gan Combination. \ YORK, Feb. 13.—Several import- on the (‘arnl-x{XP-Mornnn SW f the death i DOonnty, Or. 101——1—. Miller, a p . M 4 'Owners Believe the Vess Aboard Hav ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 13.—Tt is almost | certain that the steamship Lucerne was v her hed Sc the victim of the disaster near Bairlieu. found ¢ ing in a tent. ¥ - e M et A message from the agent to the owners e oy o ; e b T: 2 | of the ship says: the ch for playhouse and be This he od at SiEht With two tarse | “Identified wreckage, the. same as Lu- e T b v a"';:; cerne’s fittings, found at Lead Cove.” . < | The owners and mariners conversant 114 not keep out the cold was covered | @=mimirinirieimimimirinirieieieimigininininieid with bruises 2 nning sores. The babe | bad not been bathed in weeks |WANTONLY SLAYS As soon as th s heard on the | streets S s and woods- formed » tar and feather of town. Cole t was on foot and with? Constable Is Hurried to flight He was & n stood at bay | Escape Lynching Near Yuma. y one who As no one in the r‘rm“‘d; ad to abandon the pun- Coleman w t seen at Alton, six miles from Sco He was| SAN DIEGO, Feb. 13.—A mining pros- a hotel when inger and his bapy | PeCtor, who has just come across the des- n arrived 1 stia on thelr w to | ert from Yuma, brings the news of a trag. edy in the Calorado Valley, near Somer- | ton. in which Constable H. H. Alexander | shot and killed Mrs. J. J. Burns while en- | eka, but wisely kept out of st ge H. Springer conducts a clothing st 79 Folsom street in this city. He | geavoring to eject her obiokes ) track of was time co 1 well to do, but | jand, The "affalr caused much bi‘ter | lost his business through the cont | fecling ana for a time it seemed likely | ess of his wife. When she died he w that lynching would follow. At his own left with three children, one a tiny babe. | request Alexander was taken to the Ter- | at it was impossible for him for the proper care of the little | ied to find some family that | eman, who took | e a milkman liv- where ~he is safe from | ritorial prison, arm. For some time past J. J. Burns and A. B. Miller have been quarreling over the possession of a certain tract on which | Burns resided. but which Miller claimed | by purchase from a former claimant. Mil- | ler had engaged the service of Constable Alexander in ejecting the Burns family | from the premises. An attempt was made last Wednesday to force Mr. and Mrs. Burns to vacate, but they refused’to do 80. Early Friday morning Burns went to Yuma to consult his attorney, and during member of the famous is making a fight to fifty acres of land in heart of Wilmington, Del. The land is valued at $14,000000. Should the claim be established, the babe that has just been scued from alleged kidnapers would be- me heir to a fortune of upward of §1,- 000,000 | deal, w '»{STEAMSHIP LUCERNE MEETS ' WITH DISASTER ON THE DEEP, —_— HE IS ATTETPTING TO EJECT Special Dispatch to The Call. | | panied by Willlam Fain, | away 3 onstrators, who included many students, steel deal were Meld in this city t0-daY. | raiceq the cry of “‘Long live liberty!" and, o official announcements were made, but | h;ying broken up into small partles, pro- there was the usual stock of rumors. One | ceeded to various parts of Madrid to re- | of these was to the effect that President | noyw the demonstration. One band of stu- | Schwab would certainly be made the head | gerits stoned a convent. | of the new steel combination. In the evening fresh riots took place at Perhaps- the most authoritative state-| geveral points. The gendarmes charged ment given out was made by Judge D.| with drawn swords and a number were Reld, & factor in the so-called | sunded or.bruiseds Tho 4 aonstritors “Moore Steel Companies,” orsanized and | repiied to the charges of the gendarmes promoted by Judge Moore, formerly of | with showers of stones. Chicago. Judge Reld is the president of | Altogether some thirty arrests were the Amerlean Tinplate Company and a | made'during the day. including a military prominent man in the four allled compa- | officer, whose arrest resulted in a protest nles—the American Tinplate. the Amerl-| by his brother officers, the matter belng | can Steel Hoop, the American Sheet and | referred to the captain general. | the National Steel companies. Represen-| The authorities have warned the news- | tatives of this group of companies met in | papers to abstain from the publication of | Judge Reld’s office this afternoon to dis- | news or comments calculated to fan the cuss the offer which is sald to have been | present agitation, made for their stock by the representa- tives of the Morgan syndicate. At the | BMKEM.AN KILLED ON conclusion of the conference Judge Reid | RUNAWAY FBEIGHT TRAIN practically intimated that these corpnm-' tions would prebably become part of the | | On the Grade the ] Brake- Fail to Hold | and the Engine Finally Leaves | great Morgan steel combination. | The World to-morrow will say: Andrew the Track. M. Moreland, a minority stockholder in| BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 13.—One of the the Carnegie Steel Company, in an inter- | Northern Pacific freight trains while haul- | view regarding the Carnegie-Morgan steel | ing supplies to the Alice mine on the hill as asked: | got beyond control of the brakes this noon “Are you here to fight the transfer?” |and ran away. As a result one man is “I don’t know. So far, there is no ad- ‘ dead and another is likely to dle, while versary, and I cannot tell what I shall | still another was hurt, but not serlously do until I learn what has been done,” | The dead: was the reply. WILLIAM FIDLER, brakeman. e il fefodeiieto@ | ThE Injured: John Harden, engincer, may die; John Cahill, not serious. The train was working up the slope | grade leading to the mines at Walker- | ville. The wheels began to slip and lhr" brakes rcfused to hold. The train went down hill about a mile when the engine, el and the Thlr’ty Souls! which had been pushing the train up the e Been L’)St. | hill, left the track and turned over. En- gineer Harden was mixed up in the wreck. The brakemen had stuck to thelr posts but in making a sharp curve Fidler was with the facts agree that the ship has | hurl 1 he t v gone. Her Toss involves thirty lives, twen- | (‘:;fi?mr:,:nj; o S e b ty-three of her own crew and seven oth- | TIpES A eacaped Wil game ers, shipwrecked seamen and passengers, | Pruises. he supposition is that she either burst | er boflers and went to pieces, or struck | SEAMSTRESSES STRIKE TO the cliffs and foundered. -As all the Lu- SUPPORT THE TAILORS cerne’s crew resided here, the disaster has | Parisian Students Cheer the Girls, appalled the whole community. B ] ‘Who Parade Along the Rue de la Paix. A WO”AN PARIS, Feb. 13.—To-day was fixed for | the opening of the strike of the seam- stresses in support of the tailors. Only a thousand girls, however, left the works. Bands of tailors and seamstresses par- aded the Rue de la Paix all day long. There was no disorder until bands of stu- dents began to arrive as evening ad- vanced. These lustily cheered the girls and the police then cordoned the streets. Lzgeedy i GREAT DAMAGE IN LA PAZ DUE TO FLOODS Many Lives Lost by the Overflow of the River and Property Destroyed. LIMA, Peru, Feb. 13, via Galveston.—A dispatch from Pa Paz, dated February 11, 5 p. m., says that the overflow of the river has caused the inundation of the city and the destruction of bridges. The elec- tric lighting system has been disabled and the city has been in darkness for two nights. Many lives have been lost and the damage will aggregate a million dol- lars (Bolivian). g PLAGUE SPREADING RAPIDLY IN BOMBAY BOMBAY, Feb. 13.—The spread of the ;:"ue is Increasing. There were over deaths in the city during the past week, of which 923 are known to have been due to the plague. The Government is devoting its attention to succoring the sick rather than to preventing the spread of the disease. brakeman, brulsed, Arizona’s Penitentiary to bis absence Alexander and Miller, accom- called the Burns ranch to compel the occupants to vacate. When the men arrived Mrs. Purns was some distance from the house. She had evidently anticipated trouble, as she had a Winchester rifle in her hands. Alexander told the other men to remaln where they were and Le would go over and séttle the difficulty with Mrs, Fyrne. He rode up to within a few feet of her and alighted from his horse. A quarral ensued. Alexander, becoming enraged took a double-barreled shotgun from a scabbard on his saddle and deliberately fired both barrels at Mrs. Burns,the shot taking ecffect in the abdomen. Tha constable and his companions then roda A messenger was sent to Yuma to in- form Burns of the tragedy. Burns lef: | immediately for the scene, Alexander later went to Yuma and gave himself up to the authorities, and Miller and Fa'n were placed under arrest. Mrs. Burns was about 30 years of age. L | as to prevent his going to Savannah, | where he would demand a | which, he asserts, would prove his com- | | plete innocence of the charges for which | CHOATE WILL REMAIN AS EMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES Prefers the British Mission to the Portfolio‘ Soon to Be Surrendered by Attorney ‘ General Griggs. e o+ - HON. PHILANDER C. KNOX, A MEMBER OF THE LAW FIRM OF KNOX & REED, PITTSBURG, PA., WHO IS PROMINENTLY MENTIONED FOR THE POSITION OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL. + 3 ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET. | desiring to get the strongest available N. W.. WASHINGTON, Feb, 15, | Man to succeed Mr. Griggs. Mr. Choate § % < * " |'wishes to continue as an Embassador to | —President McKinley has In-|ihe court of St. James if that is satisfac- formed the Cabinet unofficially | tory to the President, and no change at that he has heard from Embassador | that post is expected. Choate, and that Mr. Choate is not dis- posed-to accept the Attorney Generalship. The President made the tender of the place to Mr. Choate several weeks ago, e d Hon. Philander C. Knox, a well-known attorney of Pittsburg, Pa., is another man prominenitly mentioned as a candidate for the portfollo soon to be surrendered by Mr. Grigss. L e e e e I na w ] 'CARTER’S ATTORNEYS CLAIM HIS CASE IS LIKE DREYFUS’| They Threaten a National Seandal if the Con- vieted Captain Is Not Released. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Feb. 13.—De- ) velopments in the Oberiin M. Carter case | late this afternoon point to a national | scandal which his attorneys claim will equal the noted Dreyfus case of France. John H. Atwood, Carter's local attorne: | recelved word that should Carter be ad- mitted to bail by the Federal court Fri-| day he will be immediately arrested, so Ga., civil trial, he was convicted. Officers, it !s sald, are on the way to | arrest him should the court grant bail, but an effort will be made to have the court refuse to admit him to bail, as there | 15 a strong desire to keep him from going to Savannah. | | | The intention of the officers !s to effect Carter's arrest and take him to New York, where other contractors are implicated for alleged defrauding of the Government, and hold him there until the Supreme Ccurt passes upon his application for ha- beas corpus. Carter's anplication to be admitted to bail will be argued before Judge Hook of the “United States court Friday morning. He has fited an affidavit setting forth that each dav that he is kept in confinement lessens his chances of proving his inno- cence, as several of his witnesses have died sincé he has been in prison. He also | states that the confinement has impaired his health and in the event of his acquit- tal he would be entitled to indemnity from the Government for unlawful con- fiement. RASSIEUR SCORES OFFICIALS FOR NOT AIDING THE VETERANS/ Commander of the G. A. R. Criticizes President MecKinley -and Congressmen. Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 13.-In his address before the Massachusetts Grand Army of the | Republic on the sccasion of its annual meeting in Faneuil Hall to-day Colonel Leo Rassieur, the commander in chief of the national body, criticized President McKinley directly and charged Congress- ‘men who are members of the Grand Army with being disloyal to the organization in the matter of legislation. The commander in chiet sald in the course of his address: | “1 know that words mean little unless accompanied by action. The finest speech amounts to nothing unless accompanied by acts. At Washington, I am sorry to say, we have not had the success I hoped for. At Chicago last year matters looked bright, but they don't look so now at Washington and the White House. Your committees have worked like Trojans. The trouble is with Congressmen, and chief among them are some who wear the little bronze button. They think they know better than you what you want. The time may come when the head of this organization may be called upon to report on their actlons and he will not be slow to so report, though it may re- flect upon the comradc who stands in the highest place in the land. “If a comrade is false to his obligation we had better know it now when we are strong than when we are too weak to have any influence. My responsibility will cease when I make my report to the éncampment at Cleveland. There may be time before March tor a change at Wash- ington. I hope that the occasion for mak- ing an unfavorable report will not come, but if it comes I shall make the report.” The applause tha" followed the words of the commander in chief showed plainly that his audlence.was in sympathy with the attack upon th: disloyal members of | the Grand Army. WOULD LEAD A CRUSADE. Rev. C. M. Smith Ready to Wage War on Stockton’s Saloons. STOCKTON, Feb. 13.—Rev. C. E. Smith | of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church | of this city created quite a sensation last evening at a reception given to Mrs. | Sturtevant-Peet, the noted lempemnce worKer. During the evening, in replying to a toast, he drew a small hatchet from his pocket, tied with a white ribbon, and offered to lead a Mrs. Nation crusade against the saloons of Stockton. His | sentiment was vigorously applauded, but it is not believed that any such iteps will - be taken, as the saloons here are icensed. SERIOUS STREET FIGHT IN CITY CF BUDAPEST BUDAPEST, Feb. 12.—There was serious | street fighting here to-day betweem men | out of.'ork and the police. About 1200 | of the former attacked the labor bureau, smashed the windows and attacked the police, who attempted to disperse them. The police charged them with drawn swords and arrested thirty persons. The rioters attempted to rescue them and were only scattered by the arrival of a force of cavalry- | | dows and doors. | | servea AX AND GUN ARE USED IN THE CRUSADE ' Saloon Wrefikmg in || | || - Kansas Causes . Bloodshed. |Disciples of Mrs. Nation, Led by & Minister, Make a Raid at Winfield. | —_— WINFIELD, Kans., Feb. 13.—A mob of 200 men and women raided Schmidt's sa- loon, the finest in the city, at an early hour to-day. Some of them fired a half dozen shots with shotguns through the | front dcer, that started a general slaught with rocks and guns on the win- Emma Denny received a pistol ball in her face and was slightly hurt. Although this was an accident it to enrage the mob and the eru- saders swarmed into the saloon. There | they found Charles and Henry Schmidt. After driving them from the building through the rear door, the mob created havoc right and left. Cigar cases, mir- rors and pictures swere smashed, and | those that could not be reached with axes were shot full of holes. The mahogany | bar was hacked to splinters, bottles were broken and barrel ends knocked in. This | was the work of but a few minutes. | The Schmidts ran.to the front door and attempted to defend their property. Rev. Charl Lowther prevented Charles Schmidt from entering the place by strik- Hrg him with an ax. The blow was a | glancing one and made “only a sealp | wound. As he feil to the ground, Henry Schmidt made a gun play in defense of his brother that ne cost him his life. One of the crusaders, following up the preacher’'s attack, had raised an ax to strike Henry Schmidt, when a companion | wrested the weapon from his hand. The greatest excitement followed the | rald, and for a time serious trouble seemed likely, and the Mayor called a | spectal meeting of the Council to plan | means of quelling the disturbance and 'provmmg against further outbreaks. To- night he decided that all joints must close at once. A mass meeting was held to- night and an attack on other joints is expected before morning. The jointists are deflant and bloodshed Is feared. This morning’s attack was decided upon at a secret meeting held in the Baptist | chureh last night. The crusaders met at the church by prearrangement this morn | ing and marched directly to the Schm!dt ‘plue beginning the assault without the "!‘fll! warning. RETURNS TO TOPEKA. | Mrs. Nation Did Not Accomplish ! Anything in Chicago. CHICAGO, Feb. 13—Mrs. Carrfe Natlon | left Chicago for Topgka to-nigat. She is under bords to appear ‘n the Kansas capi- tal to-morrow for trial in connection with | the destruction of property in that city. | Before leaving she aunounced that as soon as she had “cleaned up things™ at home she would come back here, and !f things were not properly taken care of by the authoritles she and her friends would | fake matters in their own hands. and, to use her own expression, “we will make souvenirs.” Her meeting with the saloon-keepers, which she had announced dil not mate- rlalize. and in defauit of having them for an audience she went cnce more to tho saloon in State street (hat she had visited last night and In which her grandson Is manager. She deliverad a talk to the peo- ple she found there, a motley throng, em- bracing all classes. Mrs. Nation mounted a table and for fifteen minutes talked with great energy, urging her hearers to abandon both the use and sale of lquor and denouncing In the most unmeasured | terms all those who permitted "ts sale. As she left the place she accosted a woman who possessed a rich black eve. “My, my, what a olty! Who gave that | to you? “You'd better ask vour grandson,” was the retort. “He knows as much about tha giving of it as I do.” To this Mrs. Nation made no reply and hastened to her carriage. Previcus to calling at this saloon shs had made a stop in a place at 3§ State stieet, owned by E. D. Dreyfus. The pro- prietor remarked that he was a relative of Captaln Dreyfus of the French army. | fow do you think that he would like | to see you In this business?" she Je- | manded. The saloon-keeper replied that he was making an honest living. This ealled !dnwn a torrent of wrathful words. and | after informing him that'he was a “mur- derer,” “devil's scullon.” ete., Mrs. Na- tion departed. To-night her meeting at Willard Fall attended by about 3 people, nearly kan of them temperance people, who ap- | plauded everything she said. Her talk | was not long, and in closing she declared | that she did not want any hatchets used. and that she believed In peaceable means | of elosing saloons as far as possible. “Now I am going back home for a few weeks," she declared as she closed, “and, as I have got through out there and wiil not be long, I will be back here again, and if the authorities have done nothing and are willing to do nothing we will see what is best to be dene, and If it is neces- sary we will go to smashing things. We will make some souvenirs, I teil you." | She departed with the assertion that the | rum power in this city and other large places in the United States was tottering to its fall. During her stay Mrs. Nation made in- effectual attempts to interview the city officials. She also made unsuccessful at- tempts to interview prisoners. |