The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 6 6 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENT ADMITS CUPID’S CAPTURE| Reginald Vanderbilt| Will Marry Miss Neilson. Two Families For-! mally Announce | Engagement. ‘ New York Society Bud to Become Bride of Millionaire. \ Epecial Dispatch to The Call NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 4—At last the | ouncem of Miss Kathleen Nellson’s ‘engagement to Reginald Clay- poole Vanderbilt has been made, but as society has been ecting it for a long time, it cannot be said that any sensation has been caused. Mrs. Cornelius Vander- bilt and Mrs. Frederic Neilson have been busy to-day sending o friends a formal notes to their intim: Even the were ¢ young people them- 1t at a luncheon party, hey were engaged, was only a dental of ng diplomac: v the suspense is relieved, and from are coming mes- sages of n. Some of these messages even from across the ocean, as } were sent ten days ago to frisnds t e on the C inent or living in Eng the news st nd, so that they would get ultaneously with persons at Newport and at other places in the United States ORDERS FOR GIFTS. No s00 the announcement. been delivered t ers were rushed to flior- ists and jewel for engagement gifts. It would be it m ; that Miss Neilson received at the Margaret, a pri- vate hotel where she is with her mother, 2 cartload of flowers Miss Neflson is the second daughter of | alrs. Frederic ) of 100 Fifth avenue, who, before her marriage, was Miss Belle | Gebhard. It very doubtful if there is & more popular woman in all New York society s Kathleen res her moth- er's beauty and popularity. She is lithe, graceful and a brunette, with a wonder- fully fine complexion. She inherits her mother's fondness for horses, and is one of the best whips in the country. For sev- | eral seasons she has exhibited her own horses Ne open air.show, r failing to get.a blué ribbon. Miss Neilson is about 20 yvears old, and has been educated by governesses in New York, some time at a convent near port passing also Paris ALSO A CAPITAL WHIP. Mr. Vanderbil ! Corne is the youngest son of Vanderbilt. He came December last, e left him by ssession. At when the splen- his father came | Yale University, he e last June, ater part-of his life He a capital *h their mutual at brought the together as anything else. Mr. Vanderbilt bought a Point, about six miles from is one of the most at- in this section, consisting 2 acres of well kept lar too, is m with fine 1 egetable dens. The house is of e architecture and com- s of the sea, being also situ- ated on the bank of the Seaconnet River. y contracts have been given provement and extension of chis doubt, honey- couple will be passed. re, bey moon of the y« TINWORKERS REFUSE TO ACCEPT LOWER WAGES American Company Will in Conse- gquence Close a Number of Its Plants. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 4—The proposi- tion made by the American Tin Plate Company to its employes, that they ac- cept & reduction in wages of twenty-five cents, has been rejected. The vote, which has been in progress for several weeks, was tabulated to-day. The proposition was thoroughly under- stood by the workers, it having been ex- plained that in order to secure forelgn trade and a big contract with the Stand- ard Ofl Company, amounting to about 1,600,000 boxes, the general wage reduction would not be more than 3% per cent and that the production would be increased fully 16% per cent, which would increase the earnings of the workers about 12 per cent. It is expected that while the majori- ty of the men would work at a slight re- duction in order to secure more employ- | ment, mest of them are friendly to their | fellow workmen across the ocean. If the proposition had been accepted the tin workers in Wales would be deprived of employment. This fact influenced many | to vote against accepting the offer. The American Tin Plate Company will now be unable to secure this increased business | and as stocks are large it will close a | number of its plants. The largest in the | world, the Shenandoah works at New- castle, Pa., has been shut down indefinite- | ly and several others have closed. The | two works at New Kensington also are | idle. All‘the non-union plants of the com. | pany are in full operation. w st Fatal Quarrel Over Card Game. FORT BENTON, Mont., Aug. 4—In a fight over a game of cards last night, | John Reavis, a bartender, and John Al- len, & sheepman, were fatally wounded. Allen shot Reavis through tbe stomach, ,but before the latter fell he crushed his onnanent’s skull | costs, | stepmother. WILLIAM 10 YISIT NICHOLAS German Emperor Sails From Kiel for Russia. Czar Will Meet Him in the Roadstead of Reval. Disarmament and a New Treaty to Be Discussed. KIEL, Aug. 4—The imperial yacht Ho- henzollern with Emperor Willlam aboard sailed this morning for Reval, Russia, where his Majesty is going to pay a visit to the Czar on the occasion of the Rus- sian naval maneuvers. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 4—Extensive preparations are being made for the re- ception of Emperor Willlam on his ap- prcaching visit to Russia. He will be met by the Czar in the roadstead of Re- val and together they will witness the manevvers of the Russian squadron off the island of Carlo. DISARMAMENT A DREAM. BERLIN, Aug. 4—The King of Italy’'s proposal of a contraction of European armaments is a subject on which the Czar and the German Emperor will con- verse at their meeting at Reval, on the occasion of the Russian naval maneuvers. Emperor William almost certainly wiil give the suggestion no His opinion, well known to diplomats, is that disarmament is a dream of the fu- ture and a fantastic idea when consid- ered in connection with the existing con- | tinental situation. “Germany ‘cannot consent to impair her finest Instrument of offense, which Is the defense of her existence,” he is quoted as saying, “because other natlons are un- able to equal it. pense and besides I consider that the returns to the nation all that it in discipline of character wholesome training of the boy.” army Opinion here does not regard the meet- | ing of the Emperors as of large import- ance, though it cannot be called a.mere visit of kinsmen, for the reason that the Chancellor, Count von Bulow, and Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Minister of For- eign Affairs, accompany their respective covereigns. - - - s TO DISCUSS NEW TREATY. A new commercial treaty between Rus- sia and Germany is regarded as still a long way off, but the Tageblatt thinke this is one of the subjects to be discussed the Emperors. Some Government journals express regret. that there is still a strong anti-German feeling in Rus- sian political social circles. Prince Henry jolned the Emiperor on the trip, and this seems to have been a late thought, as nothing was known pub- licly about the Prince’s intention to go Reval until the official announcement tc Prince Henry went on board the Hohenzollern last night. The Prince, two or three days ago, assisted in saving the life of the 4 by ay. sckneider, whose balloon collapsed over Kiel harbor. The Prince saw the dert, went in a pinnace himself to r cue the balloonist, and took him on board the Kaiser Frederick IIL WOULD ANNUL MARRIAGE OF HIS INSANE FATHER Thomas Martin’s Wife Made Defend- ant in Suits Brought by His Son. SALINAS, Aug. 4—The first move was made in the Superior Court this morning in a contest over an estate valued at more than $150,000. Two suits were brought by Henry Martin, as guardian of Thomas Martin, an incompetent, against Alice Bralee-Martin. One is to annul a mar- riuge contracted on May 17, 1902, and the other to set aside a deed to forty-six acres of Rancho las Salinas. The plaintiff alleges that at the time of the marriage and for several years pre- vious Thomas Martin was insane; that he was inveigled into giving the deed to Mrs. Bralee and then into a marriage with her, so that in case of his death she would secure a widow's portion of the vast estate. The defendant denies this, and says that Martin offered to deed to her property valued at $10,000 if she would marry him. She says he was then sane. On June 30 Martin, violently insane, was brought before the Insanity Commission- ers and sent to Agnews, where he is still incarcerated. His son, Henry, the eldest of seven children, was appointed guard- fan and brought the suits against his Thomas Martin is 65 years of age and Mrs. Martin 52. Appeals for the Militia. CATTLETSBURG, Ky., Aug. 4—Super- intendent Gathright of the Camden Rail- road Company to-night asked Governer Beckham to send troops at once, as the property of the company was in danger of being destroyed. Sheriff Haney also telegraphed the Gov- ernor, saying that the civil authorities were unable to cope with the strikers and asked that State troops be sent here at once. The Governor stated that he would take no action until he sent & representative there to investigate. The Sheriff is busy swearing in deputies. Roosevelt’s Visit to Omaha. OMAHA, Aug. 4—Senator Millard's pri- vate secretary to-night announced that arrangements have been made whereby President Roosevelt will visit: here on September 26 and 27. He will spend the evening of the 27th in this city and will witness the fall carnival encouragement. | We can stand the ex- | and | strian balloonist, Stroh- | | FARMERS AND RAILROAD KINGS HOLD CONFERENCE Heads of Great Transportation Systems Meet Tillers of the Soil in a Unique and Profitable Hear_t=to=Heart Tal i | | 1 i POKANE, Aug. 4.—Grain rates will be reduced from all points in Eastern Washington and the reduction will take place in time to benefit the farmers on this year's crop. The amount of reduction is yet to be de- termined, but conjecture ranges from 1 to 2 cents a bushel. The Great Northern and the Central Washington branch of the Northern Pa- | cific will be connected by a cross road, to | run from . the .terminus of the Central | Washington in the Grana Coulee to Ad- | rian on the Great Northern. It will be | eighteen miles in length, will cost about | $350,000, and will be built as soon as the | surveys can be completea, contracts let and the work done, under pressure. It | may be completed before January 1. As a result of this arrangement the Northern Pacific will cease hauling grain eastward ‘to Spokane and thence west- ward to the coast and will move its share of the tonnage to the terminus of the Central Washington branch. There it will be taken by the Great Northern and car- ried to Seattle, instead of to Tacoma as heretofore. GATHERING IS UNIQUE. These announcements were made by President Mellen of the Northern Pacific at Davenport to-day. The occasion was unique in the history of American rail- roading. Three rallroad presidents, in response to petition from the leading farmer§ of the Big Bend couhtry, had CAPE HAYTIEN REBELS ° ARE LOSING GROUND Commander M;(fi'_eu Cables That There Is No Further Danger of Serious Disturbances. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hayti, Aug. 4— General Jimineau, the Firminist com- mander, has started for Gonaives, in or- der to defend that city, which probably will be attacked by the government troops | tnder General Nord. The forces sent to subject the town of Petit Goaiva have re- I velted in favor of Firmin. M. Jeremis, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government, has re- signed becduse he disapproved of Firmin’s acts during his candidacy for the Presi- dency. General Firmin seems to be very much compromised. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Since the ad- vent at Cape Haytien of Commander Mec- Crea and the gunboat Machias there has been no disturbanece dangerous to Amer- ican interests, despite threatening condi- tions, and now the situation is so quiet that the Machias has gone to San Juan for coal. The following dispatch was received at | | | | C s RAILROAD PRESIDENT WHO PROMISES RELIEF. . .FOR WASHINGTON. FARMERS. assembled at the county seat of Linecoln County to hear the farmers' case and to plead their own interests. Thev were James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern and the Nortiern Sccurities Company, a combination with securities rated on Wall street at more than a bil- lion dollars; President S. C. Mellen of the Northern Pacific, and President A. L. Mohler of the Oregon Railroad and Navi- gation Company’s lines of the Harrlman system. With them were a group of less- er railroad notables. Public addresses were delivered by the three presidents. Then an adjournment was taken to the armory, where an old- fashioned country dinner was served to the railway guests and visitors from the surrounding country. The presidents en- tered heartily into the spirit of the oc- casion. Mr. Hill deposited his hat under his chair, remarked that he had not en- joyed himself so thoroughly in many a vear and rubbed elbows with a wheat B e i e e e e e e ] the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department to-day from Commander Mc- Crea: ‘‘After interviewing the authorities the aspect of affairs is more satisfactory. The national forces are well armed. The rebels have been driven from a eritical position. Little enthusiasm. No further danger of serlous disturbances. T request permission to proceed for coal to San Juan.” General Firmin's revolutionary move- ment, which breaks out intermittently, received the hardest blow it has had since the establishment of the present provis- fonal government last week, when Gen- eral Colin drove him back to the ship of Admiral Killick, from which he had land- ed. Admiral Killick, who has been de- clared a pirate by the provisional govern- ment, threatened to bombard Cape Hay- tien, and threw that city into a ferment of terror. The Machias arrived in Haytian waters about this time. Commander Mec- Crea, with the widest latitude in his or- ders, sized up the situation, reported it as grave to the Navy Department and no- tifled the revolutionists that he would pre- vent any attempt to fire on the city with- out due notice. Since then the disturb- ance has subsided. ¥ ! ‘grower from the Egypt country and an- | -+ other from-the Cedar Canyon camp. After dinner' hundreds of persons gath- | ered around the railway presidents, shak- ing hands and listening to spirited discus- sions. Mr. Hill talked farming and stock raising. Mr. Mellen elaborated on his| previous announcement and Mr. Mohler spoke of ‘the immigration plans of the Harriman roads. All this was preliminary to the real con- ference of the day. Various counties and districts' had sent delegates to the con- vention and after dinner these delegates reassembled in the convention hall and through their spokesmen laid their wishes befare the railway presidents. The spec- | tacle-was impressive. The large hall was packed to the doors and scores of farm- ers, frult growers and miners stood In the aisles. . Many sat on the carpeted floor. Earnestness ~was stamped upon their features and earnestness ran through all their speeches. | ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS. Mr. Hill was the only president to speak | at this conference. He answered many questions from time to time, offered num- erous voluntary explanations of matters | that seemed all wrong to the farmers and | repeatedly asked ‘the farmers to speak‘[ out their beliefs and convictions. He was frequently applauded and the convention was always alert to applaud any telling pojnt, whether made by delegates or by the president, The entire proceedings were characterized by good ' spirit and there was much good nature in the bad- inage. The special train bearing the railroad men and newspaper correspondents re- turned to Spokane this evening. Later their party left for Colfax, in the Palouse country, where a similar conference will be held to-morrow. They have decided not to hold a third conference at Walla Walla. SUBVERSION OF BRITISH RULE THE AIM OF BOERS Prominent Leaders Are Assembling at The Hague and Tell Doubt- ful Stories. LONDON, Aug. 5.—The correspondent of the Daily Mail at The Hague says in a dispatch that it is becoming in- creasingly difficult to combat the gener- ally accepted Dutch theory that the Boer leaders here are campaigning toward the ultimate subversion of British rule In South Africa. The Boer general, Lucas Meyer, who has just reached here from London, instead of going to Germany is going to visit Kruger, while several other prominent Boer leaders are assembling here. Nobody at The Hague, continues the correspondent, bellieves their story that their mission is to collect funds for Boer widows. ———— Pullman Employes Strike. CHICAGO, Aug. 4—Six hundred and fifty blacksmiths, blacksmiths' helpers and body builders in the car shops of the Pullman Palace Car Company at Pull- man went on strike to-day for an increase of 60 cents a day. SUSTAIN SEVERE LOSSES Rebels and Federal Troops Continue the Battle. Peace Commissioner: Arrive Too Lateat " Agua Dulce. Colombia and Nicara- gua to Patch Up Peace Terms. Special Dispatch to The Call. COLON, Colombia, Aug. 4—Reports reach here to the éffect that the fighting at Agua Dulce between the Insurgents and which began on There have been Governmert Tuesday last, continues. troops, | heavy losses on both sides, but the in- surgents’ losses are the heaviest. The attacks are principally made at night. The insurgents have asked for and re- celved an armistice, during which they buried their dead. The troops engaged are from the departments of Santande and Cauca, and are under the command of General Morales Bertl. The Peace Commission from Panama arrived too late to be of any use, the fighting hav- | ing already commenced when they reached Agua Dulce. WASHINGTON, Aug. dated to-day, lombian legation to-night from General Zalazar of the Department of Panama, reports that the fighting between the 4—A dispatch | Government troops and the revolution- ists of Agva Dulce still continues. The battle has now raged since last Tuesday. COLOMBIA AND N_CARAGUA. Cordial Trelations between Nicaragua and Colombia will be re-established if the negotiations now being conducted by the diplomatic representatives of these go ernments in Washington meet with suc cess. It has been years since either has maintained accredited representatives at the capital of the other, and while hos- tilities have never broken out in full force international relations have very precarious. Colombia has been open- 1y suspicious of Nicaragua because she felt that the Nicaraguan Government was covertly encouraging the revolutionists in Panama in the hope that the continued disturbances there Wouild delay. the con summation - of the canal negotiations. Nicaragua has-been displeased with Co- lombia, and has charged that the Gov- | ‘ernment-at Bogota winked at the outfit- ting of the filibustering expedition which General Reyes recently led against Blue- fields, and in which Dr. Wilson, an Amer- ican, was captured. Three weeks ago Minister Correa called on Minister Concha and informed him that the Nicaraguan Government would give no ald to the Panama revolutionists. This led to further negotiations, and the end aimed at now is the exchange of dip- lomatic visits, explanations and apologies. If the negotiations are successful spec!al' missions representing the two govern- | ments will exchange visits. SEEKING MISSING GUNBOAT. Captain Porter of the Ranger has cabled the Navy Department from Panama that the Governor of Panama requests that the Ranger go to sea and endeavor to lo- cate the steamship Boyaca, which, it is reported, has been lost and aboard of which were a large number of people. The department has authorized the Ran- ger to proceed on this mission. The text of Captain Porter's dispatch is as follows: “Governor fo Panamarequests Ranger to gearch for Boyaca, supposed broken down and in distress. Many lives In danger. Ccnsul indorses.” NEW YORK, Aug. 4—The vessel re- ferred to in Captain Porter's dispatch is undoubtedly the Colombian gunboat Boy- aca, which left Panama July 28, after having taken troops and provisions to General Morales Berti at Agua Dulce. It was at this port that a settlement with the revolutionists was attempted on July 30, and it may be that the Boyaca was again sent for reinforcements to Agua Dulce. —_— TWO TURKISH PRINCES ARE ORDERED IMPRISONED They Are Accused of Unlawfully Having Assailed the Young Turkey Party. LONDON, Aug. 5—The Constantinople correspondent of. the Daily Chronicle says Prince Reshad, heir apparent to the throne of Turkey, and Prince Djimat, ths next in succession to the throne, have been arrested and imprisoned, accused of assisting the Young Turkey party. Thée correspondent says also that the Governor of Bagdad reports a terrible conflict between the inhabitants of two villages near Dvanieh, on the Euphrates, in which about sixty of the villagers were killed. The fight was the outcome of a quarrel about the ownership of a spring situated between the two villages. y & 2R B Fearful Crimes of Brigands. VIENNA, Aug. 5.—The Politische Cor- respondenz reports a serious state of anarchy in the villayet of Monastir, European Turkey, due to the activity of Albanian brigands who are said to be murdering and mutilating people in order to extort ransoms and under the pretense of seeking Macedonian revolutionists, LM SR One Thousand Years Old. BERLIN, Aug. 4—The quaint old Wur- temburg city of ‘Ravensburg has cele- brated the one thousandth anniversary of its founding by a historical procession representing the successive centuries. The King and Queen of Wurtemburg attended the ceremonies. and received at the Co- | been | POLICE = SAY IT IS MURDER Startling Theory of Many Recent Deaths. Believe Victims of Gas’ on Barbary Coast Were Slain. Will Force Unsavory Lodging=-Houses to Close. Murder, the police believe, is being done in San Francisco, more subtle and dan~ | gerous in its form than any ever dreamed | of by the Borgias. The police have just | awakened’to what many suspicions point to as a fact that in the haunts of the city the thugs and vampires have found a new | way to dispose of their victims without suspicion. The alarming number of gas | asphyxiations since the first of the year | has started the police on a new trail. | They are perfectly competent to catch a man who shoots, cuts or sandbags a man ‘or his money, but in this new phase of robbing their only weapon must be the | force that their official pogition gives | them. Nearly all of the victims who have been found dead with a gas jet turned on, and who were known to have had money im= mediately before the apparent accident, have been soldiers, men from a forelgn | State, who had been going wild a bit and found their environment on the Barbary Coast. There has been no friend to ‘In- quire for them, and they have died and been burfed as any common pauper would be. But the evidence behind their deaths will bear out the theory that they have been murdered for their money. Even on the Barbary Coast there are men who will not murder for money, -and from them come the stories that for two years there has been a steady practice of ren- dering a man insensible from knockout drops after his money has been filched from him and leaving him in a closed | room with a gas jet turned on. TWO WEEKS’' VICTIMS. Within the last two weeks two men have been taken from a lodging house on Pacific street, one of whom died, the | other who still lives to tell of his ex- {'perience. This latter one knows that he | went to sleep with a considerable sum of money in a Pacific-street saloon and awoke in the Emergency Hospital with not one cent left. The comrades of the other man report that he went on a spree with $700 in cash, yet after one wild night he was found asphyxiated in a ladging- house without a sign of money upon him. He had no reason to commit suicide and he had coming to him from the United States Government $2400 in back pay and trapsportation from service in the Phil- ippines. The soldiers in the Seventh In- fantry are still wondering about his death. The police officer who reported the casa says that there was no key in the door when he broke it open, nor was there any key found on the inside of the room. It seems to be inconceivable that a death could occur without a more thorough in- vestigation, but a Coroner’s deputy's du- ties are perfunctory. He handles so many cases that unless a throat is slit or a head is broken he glances over the room and makes up his mind it is suicide. It can only come from the men that are close up to this eriminal element that these deaths were purposely caused in order that the police may not inquire where their money went to. WATCHING REPORTS. It may be sald for the police that a more thorough watch than ever before is being kept on the Coronmer's reports, and any time, day or night, Captain Martin has detectives to look after any mysteri- | ous deaths that occur. But the perpetra- tors of these crimes are able to so shroud the circumstances that the only remedy seems to be to force them to close their disreputable resorts. This will be the procedure re= sorted to by the police, and every unsa- vory lodging house on the Barbary Coast having any tinge of suspicion regarding these kinds of crimes will be forced out of business. FANATICAL FILIPINOS ARE DEFEATED BY POLICE Many of the Followers of Roberto Rios Are Either Killed or ‘Wounded. MANILA, Aug. 4—Governmor Bandalits of Tayabas province has written Acting Governor Wright that the combined po- lice forces of seven towns attaacked and defeated a force under Roberto Rios, leader of a fanatical Filipino soclety. Many of Rios’ followers were killed or wounded, but only a few of the police were hurt. The fight occurred near Anti- monan. General Davis has arrived here from Mindanao and has had an extended com- ference with General Chaffee on the gem eral situation. e Senator Cameron Injured. LONDON, Aug. 4—While former United States Senator J. Donald Cameron and Mrs. Cameron were driving this after- noon from Fort Willilam, Inverness-shire, Scotland, to Inverlochy Castle, Locha- ber, which he has leased for the summer, the horses shied and the carriage col Hded with a cart. Both Mr. and Mra. Cameron were thrown out and the Sena~ tor was severely Injured in the groim. With the exception of the shock Mrs Cameron was not hurt. Temblors in Portugal. LISBON, Aug. 4—Earthquakes were felt here at midnight last night and 7 o’clock this morning at Leiria, capital of the province of the same name. &