The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-NO. 22, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1901, PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY SAYS THAT AMERICA IS FAR BEHIND EUROPE IN HIGHER INTELLECTUALITY Asserts That While the Western Hemisphere Leads in All Things Material It Has Yet to Produce a Genius Whose Name Will Shine With Those of Raphael, Shakespeare, Goethe and Darwin . - SR - = RN, SO THACA,K N. Y. June 21.—President l Schurman of Cornell University, in se to the graduating class, Ame who wealth as stewards of the g Carnegle and Rocke- He declared that, save America was of Europe, es- of higher culture. an millionaires, however, id in part: ich Mr. Rockefel- ler and Mr. Carnegie making for Is, colleges, universities ume the pro- portions of millior sllars for a sin- gle ob preaches the gospel kes it a d grace and, if he lives long out his pur- poses, T doubt n e will %illustrate 1 have come to re- h they hold w-men may be the future historian of Amer- significant can habit rsities is s the mos: The Amer nd uni one of the twe uraging features of our intellect The other is the public school, in which the children of the people are freely ed the expense of the people Lacking in Higher Culture. “Undoubtedly we ma: be proud of 2ll the material agencies strumen- —hy JAPANESE STATESMAN MEETS HlQ DEATH AT THE HANDS OF POLITICAL ASSASSIN Hoshi Toru, Former Minister to Washington, Is Stabbed at a Meeting of the Yokohama Assembly. YOKOHAMA, June 21.—Hoshi Toru, who was Minister of Commerce in the last Ito Cabinet, was stabbed to-day at a meeting the City Assembly afterward. Hoshi Toru Japanese Minister at Washington and was formerly President of the House. The assassina- tion is supposed to have been due to poli- of was tics. The assassin of Hoshl Toru is a man of | sbout 50 years of age. occupying a good social and public position. the blow was struck in the interests of D o e e e e e FIERPONT MORGAN MAKES A GREAT ART PURCHASE Pays $110,000 for a Famous Por- trait Group by Sir Joshua | Reynolds. i NEW YORK, June 721.—The World has | this from London: J. Pierpont Morgan has made another great art purchase. He has just .acquired Sir Joshua Reynolds’ famous portrait group, “Lady Delma and Her Daughters.” He bought the picture from the dealer, Charles Wertheimer. and died shortly | He declared | talities of our educational work. Nay, the product, so far as general average is concerned, is also a subject for congratu- lation “The indictment lies elsewhere. It is that, while in the industrial sphere we have developed world leaders, in the in- tellectual we are content to be underlings. In art, in literature, in scholarship, in science, we are a long way behind Eu- rope. ances, let us also recognize the far less plegsing fact that in letters, science and | philosophy We occupy at the present time a position distinctly inferior to that of European countries, and in all our his- tory have no name to compare with their greatest. “In all things material we are tha win- ning empire of the world; in things of in- tellect we still live on the bounty of Eu- rope.” o & ! NOTED EDUCATOR WHO SAYS | AMERICANS ARE® LACKING i IN INTELLECTUALITY. “Let me speak with the utmost frank- ness. Apart from the domain of politics, invention and trade, America has not produced a single man or woman whose name will shine in the intellectual firma- ment with Raphael, Shakespeare, Coper- nicus, Newton, La-Place, Goethe and Darwin. ““While 'we congratulate ourselves on the prosperity of the nation, on the benefi- cence of its rich men, on the multitude of our schools, colleges and universities, and the variety of excellence of their appli- feieforfmfefoferiert the country. WASHINGTON, June 21.—Officials of | the Japanese Legation were shocked when Informed of the assassination. Mr. Hoshi’s service here as Minister lasted from 1896 to 1838. He is well known in dip- lomatic and official circles. Before com- | ing here he was prominent in the politics | of his country, and on returning to Japan | he became a member of the Cabinet, serv- ing as Minister of Commerce. His official life in Washington and at home was marked by vigor and decisive- {ness. and these characteristics brought B e a2 2 ) Reynolds, masterpleces and is an ex- tremely attractive work, changed hands at Christie’s auction room nine years ago at $55,000. - Mr. Morgan is now said to have paid $110,000 for it. Reynolds painted it in 1780 for Lady Delma, who was a sister of the then Earl | of Carlisle, and a great beauty. Reynolds got $1050 for it. Editors En Route to San Francisco. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 21.—The Ai- abama State Press . Association after a two-days’ session adjourned to-day and This portrait, which stands bigh among to-night a party of ninety started on an excursion to San Francisco. * When questioned to-night regarding the I statements in his commencement address, President Schurman said: : “It is undoubtedly true that in America there have been.no first class creative productions of the human mind like those of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and Dar- oy - Americans have been compelag ot B be content with literary productions of the second class and with devefoping to | the highest degree the mechanical or in- dustrial arts, The fact is, however, that we are living on Europe for the best there is in poetry, art, literature and science, and the great danger is that we are apt to be content to go on living on Europe and neglect to use our own creative in- stincts. Therein lies the greatest danger. The Chinese had the rudiments of science centuries before Europe’s greatest gen- juses rose and gave them these rudiments. The Chinese did not use their own cre- ative genius for higher development, and | therein lies the cause of their low stand- ard of civilization to-day.” “How, then, would you raise this stand- ard in America?’ asked the representa- tive of The Call. 5 ‘Where Lies the Remedy. “Before any betterment can be expect- ed,” replied President Schurman, “‘we must come to realize that we do occupy an inferior place in this sphere of culture. We must forget the fact that in many things we lead the Old World, and this is the hardest thing for us to do. When I made this statement in my address an alumnus of this university was so indik- nant that he said to a friend who repeat- ed it to me that T had better go to Eu- rope and live there if I thought it so much better than America. Realizing our posi- tion then, T would say that I believe that the hope of the country is in its colleges and universities. Education will not pro- duce genius, but it will nurture and tend to develop it. It is impossible to say how many generations it would take to put America in her proper position. It may take fifty years or it may take 500.” \ e B e i e ] ) him much enmity in certain political cir- cles 'of Japan. This resulted in charges affecting his integrity as a member of the Cabinet, and r»‘her than compromise his associates by the controversy he tendered his resignation and began Ilibel suits against his detractors. Feeling ran high over this affair, and it is probably due to this that the fatality occurred. . Mr. Hoshi is survived by a wifow and one son, the latter nine years old. He was 48 years of age, and besides his promi- nence in politics was a studert and a man of literary accomplishment. MISS VIVIAN SARTORIS NOT TO WED BALFOUR Paid Announcement Conveys Infor- mation That the Engagement Is Broken. NEW YORK, June 21.—The World has this from London: Among the paid an- nouncements in the Morning Post of to- day appeared this notice: “The marriage between Miss Vivian Sartoris and Mr. Archibald Balfour will not take place.” London society is completely. mystified, Nobody knows the meaning of the sudden notice and many refuse to believe it true. GLE BLOTS OUT HOMES AND LIVES Nebraska Tornado Car- ries Death to Many Persons. Victims Are Hurled Long Dis- tances From Wrecked Dwellings. i Of Two Familios Nine Members Are .- Killed and the Others Badly Injured. —_— NAPIER, Nebr., killed were members of the Greening and Anderson families. The casualties are: JACOB GREENING, aged 40, fatally injured. MRS. JACOB GREENING, still living, but not expected to survive. | GRACE GREENING, aged 14, seriously injured. MARGARET GREENING, killed. MAGGIE GREENING, aged Q killed. JOHN GREENING, aged 4, killed. JACOB GREENING, aged 2, killed. Out of the Anderson family of six two children, Ida and Clara, aged respectively 7 and 8, were killed, and the mother and her daughter Bertha and son Theodore, aged respectively 10 and 12 years, were injured. One of these children has since died. August Anderson, the father, was away from home at the time. Carried Long Distances. aged 7, Mrs. Greening's shoulder is broken and | Grace Greening | she is injured internally. is very seriously hurt, but may survive. The father of the Greening family was found a quarter of a mile from the house, | Both arms and legs and | badly mangled. his back were broken. Little Maggie and Jacob Greening were found 609 yards from where the house stood. They were stripped of all their clothing, but were not disfigured. The other two children were close to the house and were in full view of their mother and eldest sister, who, both fa- tally injured, could see them but render no assistance. sun was shining. The storm cloud ap- | peared at about 5 o'clock and traveled down the Keya Paha River. Tt seemed to rise up and miss'some houses and then swoop down and demolish everything. The tornado was preceded by a severe hailstorm. Stones fell that measured tef inches in circumference. Babe Togn From Her Arms. Mrs. Anderson took refuge under a bank near her home with three children. “I saw the cloud coming,” she said, “and T grabbed the youngest child and took two with me. When the storm struck the house it took it right into the air and that was the last of it. I hurried to my children, but the storm took two of them away from me and killed them. 1 laid down and held my baby. The wind also took it away from me. A timbBer struck me and broke my shoulder. After the storm all my clothes and my shoes and stockings were gone.” The big wagon bridge across the Keya Paha River was completely destroyed. DEATHS FROM PLAGUE INCREASE IN HONGKONG United States Transport Is in Quaz- antine Becanse of a Suspi- cious Case. VICTORIA, B. C., June 21.—News was received by the steamer Victoria, which arrived to-day, that plague is becoming violent in Hongkong, wheré up to the end of May from the beginning of the year 529 Chinese, six other Asiatics and eight Europeans had-been attacked and 495 Chinese had died, as well as four other Asjatics and five whites. The China Mail says it is impossible to deny that the outbreak is in a virulent form, and one of the serious facts con- nected with the epidemic is that cases are found in every part of the country. The transport Kintuck and the steamer Empress of China are quarantined at Nagasaki, a Chinese fireman having died on the former, which has 180 United States soldiers and six officers aboard. No particulars were received of the Em- press, but cable advices received here re- port that she will be released on the 24th, = STEAMER BRINGS NEWS OF THE DEATH OF TEVIS Late San Francisco Millionaire Said to Have Suffered Greatly Be- fore the End. VICTORIA, B. C., June 2L.—News was brought by the stezmer Victoria, which sailed from Yokohama on June 8 and ar- rived to-day, of the death of Hugh Tevis of San Francisco there on June 6. With his wife he was staying at the Grand Ho- tel and was taken ill with appendicitis. He suffered considerably; a doctor was called in and it was decided after consult- ation with other physicians to operate, but the Operation proved unsuccessful and Tevis succumbed. Mrs. Tevis, who, with her late husband, made many friends in the Japanese port, was prostrated. She was to leave by the next San Francisco-bound steamer, taking the remains of her husband to San Fran- cisco. The Yokohama papers contain no details of Tevis’ illness. e Million Dollars for Churches. CHICAGO, June 2L.—On the Rockefeller and Carnegie plan of endowing colleges and libraries, a Western benefactor, whose name for the present is withheld, has placed in escrow in a Denver bank $1,000,000 in securities for the purpose of establishing people’s churches through- out the country. June 21.—Seven lives |- ware lost in a tornado here last night. The | ruvs-before. the stogm passel ifte DR. VICTOR POPPER ENDS HIS LIFE IN PRESENCE OF DETECTIVES WHEN ACCUSED OF CAUSING WOMAN'SDEATH Viola Van Ornum, a Trained Nurse, Dies From Effects of Drugs at City Receiving Hospital, After Removal From the Rooms of PRICE : FIVE CENTS. NE of the most sensational trage- dies ever enacted in this city oc- curred yesterday when Miss Viola i Van Ornum, a pretty nurse vhose home was in Chico, died at the City Receiving Hospital from the use of medicines taken for an uniawful purpose, her death being followed by the deliber- | ate suicide, in the presence of detectives, of aged “Dr.”” Victor Popper, who was accused of prescribing the drugs for the unfortunate woman. C. H. Parent, a real estate dealer and mining man, who has an office in the Mills building, was exposed by the tragedy as having led a double life, While his wife and #amily were residing in Los Angeles, he was living with Miss Van Ornum at 107 Taylor street. Popper, who committed suicide on learn- ing of the death of Miss Van Ornum, had evidently contemplated self-destruction for many years, judging by the letters found in his home after his body was re- moved to the Morgue and, by an irony of fate, placed on a siab beside that of the young woman whose death was laid at his door. Captain of Detectives Seymour and the men of ‘his office had but little difficulty in securing all the evidence laid bare by the tragedy. Although two of the princi- | pals had met violent deaths, Parent, the third actor in the affair, was induced to tell all he knew. Further investigation furnished the missing links in the sad drama of real life. ‘Woman Resided in Chico. Viola Van Ornum was a - resident of Chico and was a graduated nurse from a hospital. A year ago, while engaged in her professional Work in the city of Se- attle, she made the acquaintance of C. H Parent, 2 mining man and real estate dealer. Parent is a man about 50 years of age and his wife resides in Los Angeles on account of the state of her health. Parent anf Miss Van Ornum became very friendly and when the woman returned from the north the two maintained a steady correspondence. Some weeks ago Parent visited Miss Van Ornum at Chico and then he came to this eity, intending to settle here in business. When Miss Van Ornum came to this city three weeks ago Parent met her at the Ferry depot and took her to his rooms at 107 Taylor street, where he introduced the young woman as his wife. For almost three weeks Par€nt and Miss Van Ornum passed as husband and wife, until the grim reaper stepped in and sud- denly ended their illicit ®elations. A few days ago Miss Van Ornum in- formed Parent that she was worried as to her condition and that she intended to see a doctor. Understanding well the serious nature of the proposition she made, Par- ent claims that he warned her against such a proceeding. Sought Aid of Popper. Parent claims that a few days Miss Van Ornum informed him that she had called on “Dr.”” Victor Popper, at 1514 Devisa- dero street, and had secured a guantity of drugs to be used for her relief. Par- ent insists that he again warned her against the use of the medicines and that Miss Van Ornum agreed to return them to the man she had purchased them from. Parent asserts that Popper then had as- sured Miss Van Ornum that his medicines were harmless and that they were used by thousands of women. Parent told the police yesterday that Miss Van Ornum had informed him that Popper had shown her testimonials from his:clients and also his express company’s books in order to prove to her that he was doing a big business and that his remedies were well thought of. The drugs furnished by Popper to Miss Van Ornum were therefor; used by the unfortunate woman and her death adds ‘but another name to the large list of vic- tims of those who thrive by this unlaw- ful practice. Thursday morning Parent left his room with Miss Van Ornum and took breakfast in a restaurgnt on Market street. He parted from her and went downtown on ‘business, agreeing to meet her in his room in the afternoon. - At 2:30 p. m., Thursday, Miss Van Or- num was found by the landlady of the T - 1 C. H. Parent, a Mining Man, Formerly a Resident of Seattle i u“mlnn'wm ,!I / [‘[ I : ‘ WL i g PRINCIPALS IN THE TRAGEDY IN USE OF DRUGS AND THE MAN 1 P THE SAME ENDS HIS LIFE, FEARING ARREST. WHICH A WOMAN DIES FROM ACCUSED OF ADMINISTERING house at 107 Taylor street lying on the floor of the room she occupied with Par- ent. The landlady had been attracted by screams, and when she discovered Miss Van Ornum the latter was writhing in pain and unable to talk. The police were called and an ambulance was summoned from the City Receiving Hospital. ' Dr. ‘Thrasher arrived with the ambulance and removed Miss Van Ornum to the hospi- tal. It is claimed that Police Officer Jov, who had been' first summoned to the house, positively refused to assist the hos- pital people in removing Miss Van Ornum from her room to the ampulance, and his actions will be investigated by Chief Sul- livan. Died at Receiving Hospital. At the Receiving Hospital Miss Van Or- num was treated by Dr. Morgan. He found her unable to speak and in an hys- terical state. Suspecting that she was suffering from poison, the stomach pumpn was applied, but the patient showed no signs of rallying. She was so violent that it was necessary to strap her to a cot. ‘When Parent arrived at his room on Thursday afternoon he was surprised to learn of what had happened to Miss Van Ornum. He hastened to the Receiving Hospital and gave certain information to the doctors. All that was possible was done by the physicians for the suffering woman, but she slowly sank and dled at 6 a. m. yesterday, Parent having remained by her side all through the night. As soon as Miss Van Ornum died the Coroner was notifled and Deputy Coroner Meehan was sent out to secure the body of the dead woman and also to make an investigation. Parent told the Deputy Coroner his story and showed him the bottles of medicine used by Miss Van Or- num. In the dead woman's pocketbook the deputy found a card of Dr. V. Popper. Detectives Confront Popper. Accompanied by Detective T. Dillon, the Deputy Coroner proceeded to the house of Popper at 1514 Devisadero street. Pop- per was told of the death of Miss Van Ornum, but he declined to give any infor- mation. He desired to speak to the Dep- uty Coroner alone, but would not do so in the presence of Detective Dillon. 'The actions of Popper caused Detective Dillon to ask the Deputy Coroner. to telephone to Captain Seymiour, and the latter at once sent "Detectives Wren and Bailey to the house with instructions to arrest Popper and bring him to police headquarters. While Deputy Coroner Meehan was tele- phoning to Captain Seymour, Detective Dillon remained by the side of Popper and ‘was with him when the other officers ar- rived at the house. After a number of questions had been put to Popper he admitted that the bot- tles of medicine and the labels on them, — found in Miss Van Ornum’s room, had been prepared by him, but defled the de- tectives to arrest him. The detectives at once placed Popper under arrest and then commenced a systematic search of the flat in which Popper resided. It aid not {ake but a few minutes to discover enough evidence to show that Popper-had been engaged in his unlawful practice for many years. Popper maintained a stolid silence whila the detectives were searching his house, but ‘when confronted with the positive proof of his work, he exclaimed, “Well, you have the incriminating evidence against me.” Suicide of Accused Man. Under the pretext of getting an instru~ ment from a small bureau, Popper threw the detectives off their guard. He stooped down, and, as he arose, he exclaimed, “Well, I've fooled you all.” Popper had drained the contents of a bottle labeled “‘carbolic acid,” which he had taken from the inside pocket of his coat, and as he sank backward into a chair, ha threw the vial at the feet of the officers. ‘While some of the detectives sought to aid Popper others hastily telephoned for a doctor, and flnally Dr. A. B. Grosse answered the call. He administered anti~ dotes to Popper, but in a few minutes the man who had feared arrest was lying dead at the feet of the representatives of the law. For the first time in his career Deputy Coroner Meehan witnessed the suicide of a man whom he was destined to remove in the morgue wagon. The wife and little son of Popper were not at home when the officers called at the house, and were thus mercifully spared being witnesses to the tragio affair. Parent, the companion of Miss Van Ornum, was taken to police headquarters yesterday afternoon and detained by or- der of Captain Seymour. The man felt his position keenly and wept bitterly when questioned. After being examined by the chiet of detectives Parent made a state- ment to the newspaper reporters and was released by Captain Saymour, after being warned not to leave the city. Parent Willing to Talk. Parent was willing to answer all ques- tions put to him and begged that the character of Miss Van Ornum might be spared, and also requested that no men- tion be made of the residence of his wife and family. Parert's statement was as follows: “I am a mining man ana real estate dealer. I formerly lived in Seattle and came to this city six weeks ago. I first met Miss Van Ornum in Seattle. We cor= S R eI U s S AR M S Continued on Page Two.