The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-— ‘\;0. 19. PATERSON SILK MILLS ARE WRECKED AND THREATS MADE TO APPLY TORCH LOOKS ON |CENSURES CAPTAIN ASFATHER' OF CRUISER CHICAGO IS SLAIN = = Crowninshield Makes Caustic Comment on Agnes Nierhoff Says Row at Venice and Will Cause Friction. Assassin Kept Her Silent. —e b Guarded by Glover, for Hours Before the Murder. Coroner’s Jury Fixes Guilt Upon the rothers. B AUBURN | eigned r Freder: N Shat Socean: Bt i d= of William Glove we f Oscar D o e to the crime s aise & the best of our knowledge the crime This w rdict returned to-day by the Co of the In- < . derick Neir- | hof?, the r, was shot by Wednes ¥ his verdict came at cable recital the voung daughter the betrothed of the the girl's re the young man, lurked about the . awalting the op- ol man’s life, that he prevented her e first word rema s Nierhoff. victim and It was shown by that for hou: a take the threaten- ng to shoot Which- ever way £ne ned Trom sun up till 2le of tha shotguy | her direction the wl vouth s murderous pt e her AGNES NIER A hof! as sk for HOFF'S STORY. Glovers themselves witness of the tragedy in her own w d. aside from a few querics { e nees. was not interrupted. | fiss Nierhoff eaid that she would be 14 of age on July 31 and she had | ® Glover brothers for about one had been calling upon f 1 about six months prior to the | 1 e whe e s taken into th Nier- | hoft asehold lodger. He did mot | t meais 1 | . wit | CAPTAIN Jarmes H DAY ToN r Clipper Rt together late Nierhoff ranch. At r of Miss Nierhoff ws te ebsent in Sa o and she _— —— elone wit father. | 38 —f 2 FLAG OVFICER IN CHARGE EUROPEAN SQUADRON, AND THE % IGNORES PARENT'S ORDER | g F O Q RON, AND THE (OM- Gl 50 that gkt a1 1 ;T;\;DER OF CRUISER ('HI\SAG?,I\“'HO 18 CENSURED FOR NOT at nigh e house | | PEREONALLY AIDING SUBORDINATES ARRESTED IN VENICE tgteas: b T RRESTED IN VENICE. it Pl I. BUREAU, 1406 G | they declined t - s e e _BUREAU, o 3 0 do. Rear Admiral A. 8. SO The Shats. Sh ot v:':nYr h VTRALET_ N.WsW Aslu:\u- Crowninshield, commanding the European to take the horse, simply telling TON, June 18.—Considerable | squadron, in reviewing the findings of the father that she wishiod to 5o to i it ‘"']"’“" was ":"g"““’“"'] 1:" | ourt, severely censures Captain James 5 shed & > ton val circles here to-day by | Dayton, co 5 - : SR ity o . | Day . mander of the Chicago, for s 3;" na I ot vty . ke "r“"f "l"' | not personally attending to the deffrfie of 5 e T miral ¢ shield’s disapproval of the | e officers and comments on the “revelt- srt-martial o | recomm tion for a ¢ by the court appointed by (‘aptain Ci to Inquire into the arrest of the four offi- | cers of the Chicago at Venice. It is pre- | dicted that changes will soon be made in turned ‘with'ber, £9- | tne assignments of. Captain. Dayton, or Frank Withall. The | Captain Wynne, Lieutenant Deddridge > he )r}] :«:;‘:mu»r BCt UD | 5ng Surgeon Ledbetter, who were arrest- » his , as was his 1t is predicted by naval officers here afterward . she | fon will arise between those offi- r open and footsteps and - Captain Dayt xSty | an aptain Dayton, who 3 o0 | was prestdent of the court. It fs consid- room. unusual that Captain Day- ing indignities” suffered by the officers Wwhile confined at Venice. Under the cir- cumstances Admiral Crowninshield holds “a court-martial would be a farce.’ ‘aptain Dayton's court of inquiry mi- traces the movements of the offi- rs of the Chicago om the day of their rest, and says Lieutenant John S. Dod- se and Surgeon Robert E. Ledbetter 1 mever come He f into ser forbade Glover | ghter. ving but a short use again om going witt nut ar were “affected by liquor to a noticeable ed. that fric accused i extent, but were not intoxicated in the ordinary meaning of the term, and there is no evidence that the other parties were affecied by drinking.” The disturbance continued inued | ereq somew ton should be made the head of a court to Il Glover coming out | houlder He told o condy n inquiry regarding his own affi- arose when Captain old man' | .ore Captain Dayton, it appears, had, | W¥nne, commanding the marine guard - it ebing. M€ | perore the court was ordered. expressed | the Chicago,.seeing Doddridge and Leg- iy i, Py ”“‘h d‘”f‘ 1{ an opinion on the case in his telegram ex- | better sitting outside of the Florlan parges of buckshot 0 WO plaining the situation. Tn that message | Cafe. gave a hail, unusual in this place CpS O puckshot apll wanied Sic that ; | resembling i . e o & he =aid that one of the officers was drunk: | 1, ¥i,'y b el Datioes-t er meant death. | e Chicago left Gibraltar yesterday for | IN SELF-DEFENSE. ast, and while he : s A X was partaking of the meal Glover stoog | F&VF®- Lieutenant Doddridge and Surgéon T.ed- behind a convenient door, gun in hand.” NEW LIGHT ON AFFAIR. | better ran toward Captain Wynne, upset- GUN POINTED AT HER, LONDON, June 18. —-The\exl of the find- | ting chairs and two small tables, A | ings of the court of\inquiry in the case of ime United States naval officers impri | oned at Venice in the latter part of April | throws a new and important iight on the | affair. It now appears that thesUnited- States Consul at Venlce, Henry' A. John- son, and the lawyer provided by him for the defense, urged the officers to plead that they were violently drunk. This rge crowd and the police immediately urrounded Lieutenant Doddridge, who endeavored to explain. “The crowd,” the findings continue, “pressed on, shouting and gesticulating, [Tut were not well controlled by the police. The police secured Lieutenant Doddridge and apparently at the same time the crowd attacked him. Lieutenant Dodd- ridge was roughly handled by the police, In anewer to a question as to why she did not warn her father while serving the al Miss Nierhoff exclaimed: “My lands! When went in the first he pointed the gun toward me and he would watch cvery move T made. I came out he made a motion with Continued on Page Tw: . | | plan \CASTRO { SEVERS CABLES Venezuela Prevents Sending Out of g Bad News. D oty American Warships to Take Vigorous Action. : Revolutionists Gain Very Important Victory. ' CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. | Special Dispaich to The Call. W WASHINGTON, June 18.—Vene- zZuela was the target of all eyes in the State and Navy departments to-day. No advices bearing on the situation were re- ceived from any source, The State De- partment is now thoroughly convineed that the cable is cut at La Guaira, or that Minister Bowen is mot permitted by the V nezuelan Government to send_any in- formation to this Government. There is reason to believe that the latter is the case, because the cable was reported cut on June'7, but @& commercial message was received here from Caracas under date of June 10. No message has been received from Minister Bowen since May 51 The cruisers Cincinnati and Topeka both left San Juan for La Guaira to-day. Commander MeLean's instructions are extremely elastic he two ships will be able to land fully 200 m 1, still leaving enough aboard to fight. The Cincinnati carries one three-inch field gun, together with numerous smaller caliber guns. | ‘Senor Pulldo, Vehezuelan charde a'af- faires here, has reeeived no advices from his Government. Neither has the Colom- bian Legation here, which'is watching the sitgation closelys % 1 WITDEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Fri- day, June 13.—News reached here to-day e that after five hours fighting June 11 1000 Venezuelan revolution{sts, commanded by Generals Riera, Penaloza and Slerralta, captured La Vela de Coro, a seaport town b S on the Gulf of Coro. Of the Government forces twenty-seven men were killed and 128 captured. Coro, the capital of the state of Fal- where Vice President Ayala is in command of the Government troops, is besteged by the revolutionists and when advices left La Vela de Coro was expected to surrender at any moment. After a reveolt of the Government troops in the barracks at Cludad Bolivar, | capital of the state of Bolivar, Governor | Sarria retreated with his followers to Port | Tablas, where President Castro had sent him 600 men with instructions to make an attempt to reoccupy Ciudad Bolivar. considered to be chimerical. ] The French cruiser Suchet is at Caru- con, pano, Venezuela: the British cruiser Alert |1s at Ciudad Bolivar and the Dutch | cruiser Koenigen Regentes has arrived at | La Guaira. @i e @ and it required the assistance of citizens | to effect ‘his arrest. But therc were no means of distinguishing the pergons as- sisting the police from those who were wantonly attacking the prisoner.” Captain Wynne, Surgeon Ledbetter, Na- val Cadet James C. Kress and Langle a marine, all forcibly endeavored to help Liéutenant Doddridge, retaliating for the asgistance of the civilians, but not at- cking the police. “At the station,” it is added in the find- ings of the court, “there was much ex- citement. The crowd was at first allowed therein, and no ohe appeared to be high i in authority. The crowd shouted and ges- | ticulated and the officers made demands and protests. Their treatment in prison was severe and extremely humiliating, hut there is no evidence that the prison rules were exceeded.” | The officers pleaded self-defense against civilians, that no police were knbwingly | resisted and that their intention was not | to release Lieutenant Doddridge, but to protect him from violence inflicted by | outsiders. : { AT A DISADVANTAGE. | The court refers to the disadvantage at | which the officers were placed at the trial, | owing to their ignorance of the Italian language and laws, and says: 3 “The interpreter, who was a consular | clerk, was not successful or satisfactory. The strong feeling agalnst the officers among the audience was frequently mani- fested and no cfforts werc made by the | mogistrate to suppress the manifesta- | ticns” | In summing up the court finds that, | while the actions of Cadet Kress were in- | discreet, no further proceedings against i him should -be taken. The same conclu- sion is arrived at regarding Langley, and {the court récommends that Lieutenant | Doddridge, Captaln Wynne and Surgeon | Ledbetter be tried by court-martial for { “ccnduct unbecoming an officer and a | gentleman”’; that Lieutenant Doddridge | £na Surgeon Ledbetter be tried for “he- ling noticeably affected 'by liquor and up- | setting tables’ and chairs,” and that Cap- tain Wynne be tried “for his unusuai hail in the quiet of St.. Mark’s square” and rurning among chairs and tables in a public cafe, % In quashing all the recommendations Continued on Page 'rwo.. The |/ PRICE FIVE CENTS MAY CALL OUT ALL. = | SOFT-COAL MINERS Convention to’ Consider a Plan to Involve Nearly Haif Million Men in Strike. | o g v PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, WHO HAS CALLED A SPECTAL NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS TO CONSIDER THE COAL STRIKE. o NDIANAPOLIS, June 18.—An of- ficial callfor a national convention of the United Mine Workers of America was issued this afternoon from the national headquarters in this city by Secretary-Treasurer Wilson. The convention will meet here July 17 to determine whether the soft coal miners of the country shall go out on strike to assist the striking anthracite miners of Pennsylvania. The basis for the apportionment of del gates to the convention is one for every hundred members of the local unions or fraction over fifty. This will give the convention a voting strength of from 1700 to 1800. A bare majority can declare a strike. The anthracite regions have 747 votes, Virginia and Michigan, which joln- ed in the call for the convention, have 52, making 799 votes from these five districts, which united to cail the convention. As stated at headquarters, Jconditions are not satisfactory to the fniners in Missouri,, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian from these sections will vote for a strike. WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 18.—There are approximately about 450,000 coal min- ers in the United States. Of these about 350,000, President Mitchell says, are af- filated with the union and an additional 50,000 comply with the legislation of the | miners’ union. | 1t is utterly impossible at this distance to forecast what the national gathering will do, because not one delegate has ye: been elected. The anthracite delegates will go Into the convention with 1424 striking hard coal miners at their backs for a general strike. The West Virginia delegates will. have approximately 25,000 | behind them for a strike, and in Michi- Territory and it is believed the d(‘lfig‘a(es‘ PROSPECT OF GENERAL STRIKE | 3 gan, where the union has been having trouble, the delegates will also be in-| | structed for a national suspension. Cen- tral Pennsylvania will contributc a cer- | tain number of delegates who will wan a general _strike, as will also Kentucky. | It remains for Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tllinois and Indiana to offset this, | as it is offielally understood the miners in these districts are not very enth siastic ‘for a general stoppage of coal | preduction. MITCEELL HAS A PLAN. There is a strong bellef here th President Mitchell has some plan to sul mit to the delegates, and this bellef is ! strengthened by the fact that he delayed | the call so long. He had a conference with ' President Patrick Gilday of the Central ‘Pennsylvania bituminous district on Sunday, and has been In frequent | cemmunication with soft coal leaders in ! the West. The great barrier to be overcome In the campalgu for a national suspension is the early .wage scale agreement that many of the soft coal miners have with the companies. These agreements are locked upon as contracts, and a large percent- | age of miners in the West are rather averse to breaking them. The principal bone of contention in the anthracite re- gion is for a yearly wage agreement. Those who are opposed to a general strike use the argmament that i¢ the soft coal miners break these contracts and go on strike to help the anthracite men | they ‘would Le losing in the We what | the hard coal miners are fighting for in | the East. Some of the national leaders \Who have discussed the subject at strike | headquarters say that if the life of the | organization was in danger the conven- | tion would not hesitate to call for a na- tlonal strike. X B, | threats | the Mayor hesitates about asking Gov- | latter an Ttalian. | archist circles. have also been quietly fan- | presided. | all branches of the silk trade. | faver, and a committee was appointed to | consider means for bringing the silk work- | ers out. | mittee. | group shouting something tn Italian. | and flew about his head. | them that the employes had gone ot | the rear doors and the o Qi FURIOUS CHARGES BY MOBS Anarchists Stir Up Violence on Part of Strikers. {Comrades of Bresci Participate in Onslaught. | Many Persons Receive Injuries During Encounters. PATERSON, N. J.. June 18 —This ity was in the hands of a mob to- lay, and as a result of the riots a number of persons were shot and at least two will ai The police were so few.4n number that they could make litile headway against the mob. Mills were wrecked with stones and bul- lets by striking silk dyers, helpers or roughs acting for them, and there wera to the torch, but =o far to resort ernor Murphy for troops. There seems to be every Indication that the riot was the result of a pre-arranged pian to involve the would-be peaceful ele- ment in the affair from the start. Among the leaders of the trouble a maw named McQueen and another named Gal- leano, the former an Englishman and the Othérs, agents of an- was ning the flames. This morning Chairmpan McGrath, who. has held the strikers in leash since he has obtained control of the second day of the strike, was on hand and He spoke; =o did McQueen and Galleano and the latter worked his coun- trymen into a frenzy. LEAPS INTO CONTROL. Then McQueen leaped Into control of the meeting. He called for & vote on the question of calling for a general strike of All voted in Galleano was one of this com- It gathered among a babel of tongues and a scene of confusion. Five minutes later Galleano came from the In- stantly a mob had formed about him. Into it rushed the Italians and the other for- eigners and a moment later the mob led | by Galleano swept down Belmont avenue. A quarter of a mile down Belmont ave- rue stands the Columbia mill, a silk rit bon factory. The doors had been locked the mob appeared, but when they were | forced open, and with the crash of the doors came a volley of stones which rid- dled the windows in the front of the building. President Grossgebauer telephoned for | the police. Stones rained into the office Twenty young women on the first floor stoed at bay and threatened to fight, and the weavers on the second floor ran down to their aid, but all were thrown out of the mill. GALLEANO AT HEAD. The mob then swept on down Belmont avenue. Several members of the Group of Existence, Brese comrades, with Galleano at their head, were in the lead. A half mile march brought the mob to the Cedar Clff mill, where they stayed until all.- the operatives were out. Just beyond the dar Clft is the Rynewarner mill. The doors were burst | open there d the men and girls were found ready to go out. The mill was closed. The next place visited was a cot- ton braid factory. Tt seemed to make no difference to the mob whether it was In any way connected with the silk trade or not. The women bekame hysterical as the howling rioters climbed in windows and burst in the doors. Mr. Reinhards, the owner, ordered his employes to quit for the day. The mob rushed works and did mu through cotton h damage and cont the ued down the street to Bamford Brothers’ n mill in Clff street. Here four policem faced the mob for five ‘minutes, tell works were ¢l but they wn, were unable to pre serfous damage being done to the . and were themselves much & Helpers Wanted, at the mill entrance, particuluriy the BULLETS AND STONES. A section of the mob made f ford home, close by. The polic nt to head them off and /dld so, bu hot was fired and a bullet went through Pa- v the so a trolman Robinson's right arm. 1t s gergd him, and as he was regaining fedt a jagged stone hit him on the hea laying open the scalp. Supported by | comrades Robinson w taken to the Eamicrd home. The remaining three po- licemaen drove back the mob from the house and the attack on the mill was re- newed. The young women in the mill tried to get out and were driven baclk, wut escaped later by the rear. rtha Huyser was struck by a stone one of her arms was badly hurt. ..& who was in the mill was hit on d with a stone and his sealp laid oper. The mob swarmed into the imill, and it would have been wrecked Inside as well as out had not a patrel wagen Continued on Page Two.