The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 152. SR VI NESh=W N ATE B o PRICE FIVE CENTS. GHOOTING OF THE COLORED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY INFURIATED WHITE UFHIGERS AT THE DUNGAN GHAPEL GAMP-MEETING IN LOUISIANA ON SUNDAY MISS STONE, CAPTIVE OF BULGARIAN BANDITS, WILL BE LIBERATED WITHIN.A FEW DAYS BY OUTLAWS, WHO WILL ACCEPT MONEY OFFERED —_—— Washington Authorities Are Hopeful That Representations Convincing Rob- bers That the Full Amount of the Ransom Demanded Cannot Be Raised Will Probably Soon Result in the Freeing of the Woman Missionary o MISS m—— She TR | _}-vc-..e S — Bakhmetleff, the Russian representative at Sofla, who s married to an American, 18 displaying much energy in co-operating with United States Consul General Dick- inson. In Government circles at Sofla tho impression appears to be that Miss Stone is dead. Measures are being taken by Mr. Dickinson and M. Bakhmetieff. Dick- inson is trying to learn definitely whethar she s alive or ro(. NEGOTIATIONS WI'I'H BANDITS. Direct Communication Opened With Miss Stone’s Captors. LONDON, Oct. 30.—"“It s officlally stat- ed that the United States Legation in o i | A\ BRIGSAND criee | WiTH B°'P7GUAK§ 3 MISS STONE AND PARTY WERE ABDUCTED NEAR THE VILLAGE OF GRAVODESHTE, WHERE THE ROAD PASSES THROUGH THE JELTEPE HILLS, AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM BANISKO TO DJUMA. THEY HAVE SINCE BEEN DETAINED IN THE ALMOST INACCESSIBLE FASTNESSES OF JOKORUDA HILLS. 3 - ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STEET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. While officials decline to make public the character of the nego- tiations that are in progress with the Bulgarian brigands who have Miss Btone -in their possession, the belef is steadily growing stronger that she will be liberated in a few days. Additional aispatches were received by the State De- partment to-day in relation to the loca- tion of and negotiations with the brig- ends withheld from publication. The authori- ties are hopeful that the representations which are being made showing that it is impossible to raise the ransom demanded will convince the brigands that it is use- less to delay longer the delivery of the prisoner, and that they will accept the sum avallable. As soon as Miss Stone is liberated, and not before, the United States will make | representations to Bulgaria, and perhaps | Turkey, for the purpose of securing rep- eration. This will include the punish- ment of the brigands, if they can be cap- tured, and all who are involved in the ®onspirecy, including members of the 29.— | but for obvious reasons they ars | | | Macedonian committee, and heavy in- demnity. The authorities are satisfiel that the American demands will be sup- ported by Russla, which has cordially | co-operated with the United States to ef< fect Miss Stone’s release. Information Not Satisfactory. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29.—Spencer Eddy, Secretary of the United States Le- gation here, and W. W. Peet, treasure: of the American Mission at Constantino- ple, had a long conference on the question of Miss Stone to-day. The information from the missionaries who are near the brigands’ retreat is far from satisfactory. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 2.—United States Consul General Dickinson has left here for Samakov in order to be able to super-| intend more closely the measures being taken for the release of Miss Stone and her companion, Madame Tsilka. Belief That Captive Is Doad. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 20.—The Rus- sian Foreign Office-is ‘still co-operating heartily with the United States officials in efforts to obtain the release of Miss Stone, the American missiohary, and her companion, Madame Tsilka, who were captured by brlmd.l Bepumber 3. ML Constantinople has opened direct negou- ations with Miss Stone’s captors,” says a dispatch from Sofia to the Daily Tele: graph. “The Bulgarian Government has allowed the celebrated Rilo Kloster (southwest of Samakov) to be searched and two suspected mohks to be arrested.” FOUR-MASTED SCHOONER ASHORE ON SMITH ISLAND Stranded Vessel Is Believed to Be the E. K. Wood, Sailing From San Pedro. PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 29.—As a re- sult of last night's storm a four-masted schooner 18 ashore on Smith Island and the seas are breaking over her. The re- port was: brought here this evening by the steamer Lydla Thompson, which _passed_the scene of the disaster late in ‘the afternoon. Owing to heavy seas she was unable to approach close enough to ascertain the name of the vessel. - _ Shipping men belleve the stranded ves- sel is the B. K. Wood, from San Pedra, bound for Whatcom. Three tugs left here to-night for the scene. RECOMMENDS THE NIGARAGUR CANAL ROUTE B oy Commission Will Not Consider Panama Com- pany’s Offer. (REPRPELS Definite Arrangements Are Not Submitted by M. Hutin. Walker Board Still Favors the Shorter Route Which it Has Estimated Will Cost About $200,000,000. ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STRETT, N. W., WASHINGION, Oct. 2.—Bave for the proposition of tho Panama Canal Company and a few finishing touches, the Isthmian Canal Commission has complet- ed its final report. This report will recommend the adop- tion of the Nicaragua route, and it is becoming evident that no matter what character of proposal M. Hutin and M. Boeufve may submit, unless it is ab- surdly low, the commission will not change its present conclusion. M. Hutin returned to Washington to- day from New York, where he attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Panama Railway. It is expected he will call upon the Canal Commission and continue his discussions. The commission thinks it hopeless to éxpect from him a definite and final proposal of the sum for which the company will sell its conces- sion. ‘Will Not h% In his ‘conversation: the commls- sion, M. Hutin, it was learned to-day, has repeatedly. brought up the proposal to the final determination of the value of the canal property and concession by the Board of Appraisers. Rear Admiral Walker and his assocl- ates have emphatically declined to rec- ommend the adoption of any such pro- | posal, holding that to do so would be to | place the treasury of the United States at the disposal of a board of three per- sons, one of whom only would be a cit!- zen of the United Btates. Colombia has made every effort to in- duce M. Hutin to fix a price, but appa- rently because he belleves that the sum he would name would be so ridiculously high that it could not be considered, the French representative has declined to do so. Shortening of the Route. Shortening of the route befween the eastern and western coasts of the United States by the use of the Nicaragua in- stead of the Panama route is the princi- pal advantage of the former whicn has appealed to the commission. The commission does not regard its esti- mate of $200,000,000 as the cost of the canal excessive, when the width and depth of the waterway and the engineering diffi- culties to overcome are taken into con- sideration. STATE AGENTS TO MAKE ARRESTS WITHOUT WARRANTS LSS e Superintendent of Elections Will Wage War on the Stuffers. TR LR NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—According to in- formation which the Herald will print to- morrow, Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh ‘has prepared a letter to be forwarded to Police Commissioner Mur- phy, demanding the co-operation of the police in preventing illegal voting next Tuesday and in bringing about the pun- ishment of those gulity of ap attack upon the integrity of elections. A copy of the letter will be gent to Mayoer Van Wyck and another copy may be sent to District Attorney Philbin. Affdavits will accom- pany the letters. Superintendent McCul- lagh will call Commissioner Murphy's at- tention to the fact that illegal registra- tion has been resorted to in all of the downtown districts. Mr. McCullagh 1s quoted-as saying: “I shall ask fér no more warrants. My agents will make arrests without war- rants. The law gives us the right to do 0, and it will be done. ‘This will enrage certain police officials, but I don’t think any attempt will be made to interfere with us. If any attempt to interfere is made there will be trouble and it will be for the courts to settle.” After a confererice with President Mor- ris of the Eepubllcau County Committee to-night Superintendent McCullagh de- cided to subpena in the morning 600 men who are alleged to be.illegally registered from houses in the Secona Assembly Dis- | trict alone. i P he submitted some months ago in relation | FREDERICK GEBHARD MUSTPAY HIS DIVORCED WIFE A FORTUNE AND MAKE OVER GOTHAM ABODE Financial Settiement Ordered by the South Dakota Court Following a Decree and Culmination of a Romance That Began in Rhode Island in 1892 ———— 4 IOUX FALLS, 8. D., Oct. 20.—The divorce proceedings by which Frederick M. Gebhard and Loulse Gebhard - are legally separated were ‘concluded here to-day by the order of the court that Gebhard pay &is former wife $185,000 and maKe over to her his New York residence. Freddy Gebhard’s Career. “Freddy” Gebhdrd is K of course best known for his one time infatuation for Lily Langtry, and beauty. When he was yet quite a youth he attached himself to her train and hung on until he had the field almost entirely to himself. He accompanied her all over the country, hiring a special car for her accommodation, and lavishing upon her all the attention that could be thought of and providing every luxury that a plethora of money could buy. They came together to California and established themselves on a ranch in Lake County with the avowed purpose of rais- ing blooded racing stock. A great deal of outlay .was made, but Freddy stuck to the pace until the lady returned to Eng- land and there married Hugo de Batha. Even then he did not repine as was ex- pected, but cast about in otuer directions and after a time announced his intended marriage. Marries a Noted Beauty. The lady who became his wife was Miss Louise Hollingsworth Morris, daughter of John B. ‘Morris of Baltimore, Md., and was weil known as one of the “big five” most beautiful women of that city. Gebhard met Miss Morris at Narragan- sett in 1802. “She was a beautiful woman, just 20 then, and the leader of the social set there. “Lulu” she was to all her friends, and her hand and heart were asked for by many an ardent swain with- out success. She was a girl of rare cul- ture and wit. She was fond of fun and a practical joker par excellence. At Narragansett once she suggested to a young adorer that he prove his devotion by walking into ‘the surf in his evening dress. He agreed to do so if she would go with him. She led the way and in they went, emerging with drenched and ruined garments, but thoroughly satisfied with the lark. Returning from a dance in Baltimore late one night, with Harry Lehr, she dared him to walk through the big basin of a fountain in Mount Vernon place. He hesitated, and she caught him by the arm and literally dragged him after her as she waded knee deep through the water, while the descending stream from the fountain ‘soaked their headgear and cloth- inge : Separated Last Year. Her marriage to Gebhard oc_cur_rg! on the famous English actress | = * ‘“WOMAN WHO HAS JUST SE- CURED A DIVORCE AND A FORTUNE. 3 1 “ 4 March 24, 1894. Freddy's gift to the bride ruby helped to make it one of the most notable affairs of the day. The Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock of the Brick Pres- byterfan Church, New York City, per- formed the ceremony. There have been no children as the result of the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard had not lived to- gether since the summer of 1900. Then she went to Narragansett with her moth- er, her sister, Miss Mildred Morris, and her brother, “Jack” Morris. The latter married Miss Willing of Philadelphia, a cousin of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, last fall. L e e ] REFUSES OFFER OF A FORTUNE TO STAB CHAMBERLAIN —_—— Remarkable Story Told by a Frenchman Convicted of Murder. ———— . . LONDON, Oct. 20.—Af the Old Bailey to-night Martial Faugeron, a Frenchman, who was committed for trial September 11 on the charge of murdering Herman { Jung, an old jeweler of Clarkenwell, about ten days previously, testifying in his own behalf repeated his statement that Jung had promised him a fortune if he would stab Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial ‘Secretary, with a knife and make him suffer greatly before he died, as a lesson for the suffering he' had caused by the South African war. The jury found Fau- geron guilty and he was sentenced to death, i 1 | small child. of a $0,000 diamond necklace and a §20,000 | MrS: J- J. Ball HORRIBLE DETAILS OF AACE WAR |Negroes the Attackers in the Awful Carnival of Blood. Whites Then Begin the Terri- ble Slaughter in Church « and Tents. ——— Nine Darkies, Including a Minister, Are Slain and More Than a Score of the Wounded Flee for Life. —_— BALLTOWN, La., Oct. 20.—The race war between blacks and whites started at a negro camp meeting at Duncan Chapel Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock has left a carnival of blood up the FPearl River Valley unequaled in the history of the country. One white man is dead, an- other is now dying with bullet-hole through his stomach, and a third white man is badly wounded. Nine negroes were killed in the bloody affray, five men, three women and one A dozen—or perhaps more— negroes escaped to the woods and swamps with wounds that are believed to be cer- tain death in the brush away from medi- cal care. Victims of the Fray. The dead (white): JOSEPH SEAL, son of Willis Seal, aged 32, residence Varando, La. ‘Wounded (white): Charles Thomas El- liott, aged 26, fatally woundeéd, now dy- ing, residence Varando; ‘Edward Thomp- son, aged 45, shot through thigh and fleshy portion of leg, residence Varande. Dead. (colored): REV. ALEXANDER CONNELLY, aged 50, pastor Duncan Chapel. MARY DAVIS, aged 3, his dau‘hter. CREAR LOTT, aged 4. JULIA PETERS, his daughter, aged 2t MELTON PETERS, her child, aged 4 years. AMY TONY, aged 75, mother-in-law of Crear Lott. LEWIS DUNCAN, aged 18, son of Helen Duncan, living in Poplarville. THOMAS PARKED, aged 24. KID BEVERLEY, aged 18, a turpentine worker from Georgia. Wounded Negroes Escape. No one is able to estimate the number of wounded negroes who escaped the car- nage behind the church. They scattered to the four winds. Some are knmown to have been shot, but they have not been found. The flerce conflict raged for half am hour. Those at a distance say the firing sounded like a pitched battle between troops. To the camp meeting negroes had come from 200 miles, all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan of New Orleans, for whom the chapel was named, was present. Last Thursday the meeting opened with several hundred negroes encamg2d around the church in tents and in rudely com- structed shanties. It was to continue one weei. There they ate and slept and held services in the chapel. One day previous to the opening of the camp meeting the negro, Bill Morris, had been burned at the stake near Balltown for an assault on Public feeling was at a high pitch. Under those conditions the negroes gathered at Live Oak. There was trouble over a license and Crear Lott's tent became the center of contention. Some trouble occurred Saturday evening, but no bloodshed. It came up Sunday afternoon, when Constable Boon and a posse went up to Lott’s tent with a war- rant. He came out and is said to have shouted with an oath: “Ome negro has been burned, but a damned white man will be next!” The Slaughter Begins. Wade Walker, one of the constable’s ,posse, was struck on the head with a ‘Winchester and then the slaughter began. The blacks fled from the frail wooden church, for it was no shelter from the rain of bullets. Lott retired into his tent, shooting and fighting. Joe Seal received his death wound. A torrent of lead was sent Whizzing into the tent and church as the negroes fled. Preacher Connelly was shot while stand- ing in his yard. His daughter fell just inside the house. The other negroes around Lott's place kept up a steady rain of bullets. It was death and biood and the shrieks of the wounded and dying were heard on every side. Lott's old mother-in-law, his two daughters and the little boy fell in a heap inside the shelter. Sophla Lott saved her life by concealing herself behind a stove. Thera she escaped and the men did not harm her. They were after Crear Lott. He was barricaded and the next move was to fire the place, which they did. When the fire forced him from under cover he appeared in the doorway and twenty rifle balls went crashing through him. He fell in a heap, head foremost upon the ground. Parker and Beverly, both blacks, fell with him. ‘Washington parish has never seen such a slaughter. Joseph Seal and Charles El- liott and Edward Thompson, the wound- Continued on Page Twa