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

S Eull, VOLUME XCII-NO. 80. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POLICE SUSPECT HUSBAND Mystery Veils Lake| Tragedy Near ; Seattle. Probable Murder of a| San Francisco Woman. Mrs. Newten’s Death by Drowning Not Accidental. ; Special Dispatch to The C: SEATTLE, Aug. —The police are| who rented the | co and rons will —that of Mrs. | believe that murder was e purpose of robbery, as | known to have a large | her person. The au- | circumstantial them that New- set the boat out in the | woman to drown, while himself ashore. | with a man's hat| 1 on Sanday morn- | be dragged thoroughly | body of the woman only | termined effort will be made | the supposed murderer. ew tending to establish the | was given by a woman | e refuse to divulge. | Chief Sullivan this morning and woman came to the city | ed the oars to fleat y of Puebla and took a room | Fourth avenue, a lodging-house | d by Mrs. A. Adams. On Friday | the couple left the house and have | returned. | WIFE HAD THE MONEY. Lane and Adams were de- nake an investigation. They | Mrs. Adams that the man | years of age and his wife ten years younger. He wore his hair | closely cropped and his face was smooth- | Iy shaven. While his clothes were of good material and of the latest cut, the | wite was poorly clad in black garments. | She had brown hair and a light complex- She dom left her room.and ap-| peared to be gloomy in spirits. The huss* bend was absent most of the time and seemed light-hearted under all circum- stances. The room rent was paid in advance by the wife, who seemed to handle all of the ion se money. She told Mrs. Adams that she und her husband had come from San | Francisco, where she had recently dis- posed of a farm located near that city ‘ E£he also spoke of a boarding-house which | she formerly conducted there, and said | had sold her interest in it a short | before leaving for Seattle. | s. Adams could not remember that | d ever heard either the man or the | an speak to one another. Guests in | her lodging-house are -not required to | register. | 1 searching the apartments the detec- | »s found that everything tending to lish the identity of the couple had | en destroyed except one small scrap of in a box in a bureau drawer.. Even | de of a package, which had evi- dently been written upon, had been torn off and destroyed. The slip of paper found | was part of a receipt given Mrs. Amanda | Newton in San Francisco by Nellie E, | Emith for the payment of $100 on a piano. The passenger list of the City of Puebla on the trip made by the couple contains | the names of T. P. Newton and Mrs. T. P Mrs. Anna Elmore of 319 | Twenty-fourth avenue South made the | trip from San Francisco with the New. | tons and directed them to Mrs. Adams’ lodging-house. HEARD WOMAN’S SHRIEKS, The boat rented by the couple was turn- | ed over to them by Thomas T. ‘Wilson, whose mother conducts a boathouse at Green Lake. His description of the cou- ple fits that of Newton and his wife, as given by Mrs. Adams and by a Mrs, Bud- long, who saw them frequently in the lodging-house. The couple started to row out on the lake between 7 and 8 o'clock in the even- ing. They had been gone several hours when two or three plercing shrieks in quick succession were heard by Mrs. Wil- son and others and then all was quiet. The next morning the boat was found floating keel upward, with a black derby hat worn by Newton underneath. The theory of the detectives is that Mrs. Newton had been a hard working woman &nd had acquired some property. New- ton’s hands were soft and white, proving that he did not belong to the ranks of tofl and it is theorized that he gained (he, affections of the woman and induced her | to marry him and dispose of her property. Then the trip to Seattle was planned. Mrs. Newton paid all the bills and refused to let her husband handle the money. Be- ing unable to get possession of the money by fair means, according to this theory, Newton planned the trip on the lake. A significant fact is that the oars of the | boat are missing. The detectives believe after the boat was capsized, New- used the oars as buoys and with swam to the shore, then hid them brush along the lake. lake will be dragged to-morrow for | woman's body. The police are sat- that hers will be the only one| overed. the Newton. The the 1 i Devotes Gift to Hospital Fund. LONDON, Aug. 18—King Edward has devoted the gift of $50,000 received from y from San Francisco on the| | the Maharajah of Gwallor to the hospital fund. SULTAN OF TURKEY RENEWS OLD TACTICS | Informed by the United States Minister That Terms of Settlements Agreed Upon Must Be Carried Out Without Delay ONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 18.— The non-execution by the Turk- ish Government of agreements reached long ago on several questions affecting the interests | of American citizens has led to somewhat strained relations between the United States legation and the Porte. The United States Minister, John H. Leish- man, has informed the latter that he will not discuss other matters until the terms of the settlements already agreed upon are carried out. Diplomatic critics antici- pate further undue delay, and that this may possibly lead to a sharp reminder from the United States. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The State De- partment is fully informed of the position of Major Leishman, but neither his action nor that of the Turkish Government will be discussed. e o COLOMBIAN REBELS GATHER AT AGUA DULCE They Dig Trenches Around the Town TUnder the Fire of Government Soldiers. PANAMA, Colombia, Aug. 18.—Com- mander William P. Potter of the United States special service steamer Ranger, United States Consul Gudger and Port Captain Beers of the railroad terminal sailed yesterday morning on the tug Boli- var to make a tour of inspection along the coast. They went as far as San Car- los and returned here to-day. Gudger savs that the party found no traces of | revolutionists as far as they could see, and that without doubt they are concen- trated at the siege of Agua Dulce. According to the last reports, the sol- diers of General Herrera, the revolution- ary leader, had dug intrenchments about 500 yards from the town, where they re- mained all day, because the sharpshooters of General Bertl, the commander of the Government forces, picked off every man ‘who dared to leave these trenches. “These men are exposed to the rain and sun. In Government circles it is believed that the position of Generals Bert! and Morales is mot desperate. The British cruiser Phaeton left here hurriedly Sunday. It is belleved she sailed for Buena Ventura. Consul General Gudger will leave Colon to-morrow for New York. General Sala- zar, Governor of Panama, to-day sent Gudger & very complimentary letter thanking him for his services to the Co- lomblan Government, which, General Sal- azar sald, have always been very valu- able. Will Cruise Of Venezuela. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—A dispatch was sent to-day by the Navy Department to Commander Nickels of the gunboat Topeka, now at Puerto Cabello, giving him authority in his discretion to cruise along the Venezuelan coast, stopping at such places as he may see fit. The coast centers of activity in the revolution now going on are not so very far apart, so that the Topeka and the United States vessels in Venezuelan waters will be available at short notice to render any | protection to American interests. L RS B Loan Association Suspends. NEW YORK, Aug. 18—After a secret ceting to-day of its board of directors, the Mutual Bullding and Loan Associa- tion of Passaic, N. J., suspended business. Its books were closed and turned over to | State Examiner Johnson, pending future action. Willilam Malcolm, the former secretary, through whose alleged errors the association’s funds were $100,000 short, ' was not in Passalc to-day. | gomNn & IEIsHM™MAry ©s MmirMiIsTER yo TORWEY - + RULER OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1 AND AMERICAN REPRESEN- TATIVE AT THE PORTE. | % 3 | MUST AWAIT ACTION i OF THE GRAND JURY Men Accused of Conspiring to De- fraud Express Company Are Held in Heavy Bonds. FORDSVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18.—After a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Evans here to-day J. H. Boatner and A. B. Schlitzbaum, charged with complicity in a congpiracy to defraud the American Express Company out of $28,000, were held to answer to the Grand Jury with bail fixed at $30,000. The charges of a similar nature against Willlam A. Ault were dis- missed and ‘he was given his.liberty. Boatner and Schlitzbaum- were unable to glve bonds and were removed to jail at Hartford, Ky., to-night. During the examination of Boatner, he was placed on the stand and denifed em- phatically that he was interested in any conspiracy to defraud the express com- pany. The prosecution introduced a number of witnesses, among them C. J. Abbott, route agent for the American Express Company, who told of Boatner’s sending money from Owensboro to Fordsville and stated that Boatner claimed California as his home, refusing, however, to give a postoffice address, saying his father was about to leave for South America, being a fugitive from justice, and had given him the money to invest in Xentucky coal mines. J. H. Schumacker, superintendent of the Pinkerton National ~Detective Agency, told of an interview he had with the prisoner. “Boatner said he had no home,” said the witness. “He gave his father's place of residence as.Californfa, but intimatea his father had killed a man on a race- track and was a fugitive from justice in South America. England’s Exhibit Will Be Limited. LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Government’s official exhibit at the St. Louls exposition will be limited to subjects of education and fine arts, but it is expected that the wider range of non-official exhibits w1l include various features of applied arts, The fine art exhibit is to be controlled by a committee of the Royal Academy. Ar- rangements for this exhibit are being made by Sir Edward John Poynter, presi- dent of the academy. The Foreign Of- fice will facilitate all industrial exhibits, | brought out the most contention between FRIARS TO QUIT ISLANDS Pope Gives a Verbal| Promise of Their Withdrawal. Secular Clergy to Be Soon Replaced by America_sns. Substitution Is Likely to Occupy About Two Years. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—In the opinion of Major John Biddle Porter, one of the members of the American mission who has just” returned to Washington, the negotiations with the Vatican for the sale of the friars' lands in the Philippines concluded very favorably for the United States. Major Porter stated that in the final audience with the Pope both his Holiness and Cardinal Rampolla gave to the Amer- ican mission verbal assurance that the Spanish friars and monks in the Philip- pines would be withdrawn from the archipelago. This is the point ' which the representatives of the Philippine Gov- ernment and the Vatican. Governor Taft would not consent to the remaining of the friars, contending that theiy presence was odious to the Filipios and inimical {c the establishment of government with the elements of state entirely separated trom religious affairs. Governor Taft desired to secure a writ- ten promise from the Vatican that the friars would be withdrawn. This was a step the Vatican would not consent to. Thus negotiations terminated with the Pope's verbal promise that the friars would be withdrawn. The Vatican would | not even verbally give any assurance as to the date when the last friar would be withdrawn from the Philippines, but it is safe to assume that it will not be less than two years. That was the limit which the American mission desired to place on the withdrawal. The difference between the regul,lr*_nd secular elergy 6f fhe Roman |, Catholic church is responsible for the Vatican's | reluctance to give any written promise for the withdrawal of the friars. The regular clergy has at the present time the upper hand in affairs of the church and is unwilling to take any overt step, such as making an agreement to withdraw mem- bers of the secular clergy, which includes the religious orders from the Philippines, against their will. It is the intention of the Vatican to replace the friars with- drawn with others from America. But the fact that there are few in this country who have much knowledge of Filipino dialects and customs prevents a rapid substitution. MORE WORKMEN LEAVE UNION PACIFIC SHOPS Painters Carpenters, and = Coach Builders Join Ranks of the Strikers. OMAHA, Aug. 18.—The ranks of the striking shopmen on the Union Pacific Railroad were to-day augmented by the walkout of nearly two hundred carpen- ters, painters and coach builders in the shops at this point. Both the car men and the machinists, however, say the strike is not a sympathetic one and that the car shopmen's strike is a protest against the piece work system recently instituted by the railroad company. At Union Pacific headquarters it was stated positively that the strike was with- out significance so far as it may result in any inconvenience of the company’s business. One very prominent official said that the men had simply violated a con- tract to which they had agreed and that there was nothing to do but fill their places. Beyond a statement of Governor Savage that the State militia would not be called out to guard property and men at North Platte nothing new developed in the situ- ation at that place. CYCLONE IN KANSAS DOES HEAVY DAMAGE Grain Elevator and Five Residences Are Demolished and Several Persons Injured. “WICHITA, Kansas, Aug. 18.—Meager information reached the Rock Island of- fices here to-night that a cyclone struck the town of Lost Springs this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, demolishing a grain ele- vetor, a church and five residences and blowing three freight cars off the Rock Island tracks. Three men, whose names are not given, were serlously hurt and several persons slightly injured. Lost Springs is a small town on the Rock Isl- and, a few miles west of Harrington. GRAND FORKS, N. D, Aug. 18—A terrible storm passed over the eastern rart of this State last night. Reports re- ceived from Rolla say that four deaths occurred eight miles east of there as a result of the tornado. The house of g settler, name unknown, was blown down and his wife and three children were Kkiiled. el inth ok Minister to Bun for Congress, CLEVELAND, Aug. 18—Rev. Dr. Mor- gan Wood, pastor of Plymouth Congre- gational Church and one of the most widely known ministers of his church in the United States, announced to-day that he would be a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket from the Twenty- first Ohlo District. The Republican nomi- nee is Theodore E. Burton, the incum- bent. WRITES TO FIANCEE AND KILLS HIMSELF Sensational Suicide at Newport of Robert R. Remington, Who Was Engaged to Miss May Van Alen, Daughter of Millionaire — o i | { - : ! ‘DAUGHTER OF 'DISTINGUISHED I MILLIONAIRE AND SUICIDE TO _i_ WHOM SHE WAS ENGAGED: istered. Miss Van Alen’s family Is wide- i ly known here and abroad. ‘Ix- & 4 | James J. Van Alen, a man of inherited EWPORT, Aug. 18.—Robert R. Remington of New York, whose engagement to Miss May Van Alen, eldest daughter of James J. Van Alen, was recently brok- en, committed suicide this afternoon in the Newport reading-room by shooting himself in the head. The second shot, fired through the roof of his mouth, caused instant death. The engagement of Remington, who was the head of the advertising firm of Remington Brothers of New York,- and Miss Van Alen was announced last spring. Until the suicide it was not defin- itely known to have been broken. Mr. Van Alen believes Remington's mind was unbalanced, and he declares that it was because of this derangement that the engagement between Remington and Miss Van Alen was severed. However this may be, the suicide was preceded yesterday and to-day by an ex- change of letters between Remington and his former flancee, though several of those sent by Miss Van Alen were never opened. Remington selected the quietest part of the reading-room in which to end his life, going to the second story in the rear of the building. This is a small room, little frequented at this time of the year, when members of the club prefer to sit on the plazza. Here he sat and wrote for a while, it is believed, for there was every evidence about the room-that he had done so. THEN THE SUICIDE. Then followed the firing of two shots, the first of which caused a mere flesh wound. The second was more carefully aimed, ending his life. Remington received a note yesterday from Miss Van Alen, and it is said at his boarding-house that it made him very blue. All the rest of the day he sat around the plazzas with his head in his hands. He answered the letter at once, telling the messenger he employed to rush it to its destination. This morning there came an answer, which was read and immediately destroyed. Still there came cther letters to him from Miss Van Alen, tut they were never seen by Remington, for when' they arrived he was dead or had left his apartments never to return. These letters were sent for by Miss Van Alen this afternoon and.were found at the La Forge cottage with the seals un- broken. Remington spent some.time at the telephone a short while before he killed himself, but it is not known with whom he talked. News of the shooting reached Wakehurst, Miss Van Alen's villa, within a short time Mr. Van Alen was much distressed, but he had considered Remington mentally unbalanced for some time. » MISS VAN ALEN OVERCOME. He broke the news to Miss Van Alen as gently as possible, but she was over- come and restoratives had to be admin- -+ Her father, wealth, married Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Astor. After the death of her mother, while she was quite young, 'Miss- Van Alen and her sister were taken by their father to Eng- iand -t6 be educated. She inherited an independent fortune from her mother, es- timated at . $5,000,000. . Robert Reading Remington was a son of | the late Edward Remington.: His father's | family was prominent in society and business life of Philadelphia several de- cades ago. His mother, who died about two years ago, was the daughter of Judge Reading of New Jersey, and great-grand- daughter of a. colonial Governor of New Jersey, John Reading. He was related to the Stocktons . of Bostem, Morrises of Fhiladelphia, and was a cousin of Mrs. Christopher Robert (nee Remington), who lives at Homburg, near Frankfort-on-the- Main. Through her influence he was in- troduced’ into Newport society’ about ten vears ago, when she was prominent so- cially there. & ————— INDICATIONS OF A SPLIT IN RANKS OF ORANGEMEN Nominee of . Protestant Association Elected to Parliament From ° 'LONDON, Aug. 18.—A bye-election for a successor to Willlam Johnston, formerly Conservative Member ‘of Parliament for the South Division of Belfast, who dled July'17, has restlted in the selection of Thomas ‘Sloane, nominée’ of ‘the Protest- ant’ Associdation, with a majority of 826 votes;over Charlés ' W. D. “Buller, the Unionist candidate. Johnson twice: received * pluralities of 2600 and-he was: three ‘times returned without ; opposition. i The_ election of Sloane has no bearing on the question of-home rule. It rather indicates a serious split in the Orange ranks and dissatisfaction with the Gov- ecrnment’s policy.. This is the second se- rious defeat of a ministerial candidate in bye-elections and it is thought to bode fil for the administration ‘of Prime Minister Balfour. —_— On Trial for Sedition. MANILA, Aug. 18.—Judge Ambler, who ‘has conducted the tridl of Frederick Dorr, proprietor, and Edward O’Brien, editor of Freedom, who was charged with libel- { hammedans. TROOPS REPULSE NATIVES Moro Braves Again Becoming Very Aggressive. Chaffee Decides on a More Vigorous Campaign. Aftacks to Be Made on Strongholds in Mindanao. MANILA, Aug. 18.—The Moros in Min~ danao are renewing their attacks upom the outposts and pack trains of the Amer- ican column at Lake Lanao, which is un- der the command of Captain J. J. Persh- ing of the Fifteenth Cavalry. The Amer- icans have successfully repulsed the Moro attacks and have suffered no losses. The commanders of the American forces in Mindanao report aggressive action against the Moros to be necessary, and ask permission to move against Bacalod and other strongholds of the hostile Mo- There are about 2000 Ameri- can soldiers in Mindanao available for the desired aggressive movement. It is be- lieved this number is sufficient to defeat the Moros, although it would possibly be necessary to strengthen their base before undertaking the movement. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—A cable dis- patch has been received from General Chaffee stating that in his judgment an active campaign against the Moros in Mindanao was necessary in order to curb the opposition that has been growing against United States authority. The dis- patch was considered of sufficient im- portance to be repeated to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. General Chat- fee has been directed to use his own dis- cretion in the matter, and will no doubt engage in an aggressive movement against the insurgent Moros. Some time before Secretary Root left Washington the Moro situation was un- der consideration, and from a dispatch then at hand the Secretary was of the opinion that the Moros must be dealt with severely before they would respect the authority of the United States. General Chaffee is now In Mindanao, having left Manila some days ago. If the campaign should continue for seme time he no doubt will remain in the, Philip- pines, instead of leaving on September 30, as he had planned. It is understood at the War Department that General Chaffee has sufficlent troops to make an active campaign. —_— FIGHTING THE LADRONES. Constabulary Engages a Band Near Caloocan. MANILA, Aug. 18.—A force of native constabulary engaged a band of ladrones in a sharp fight last Saturday near Ca- loocan, about four miles north of Mantila. The arrival of reinforcements for the constabulary won them the victory. Four members of the constabulary were killed and one was wounded. The ladrones left three of thelr number dead, but carrfed off their wounded. The chase of the Cavite ladrones through the mountains of that provincs continues. Forces of native constabulary have had encounters with bands of Fell- ardo and Montallon. Several of the la- drones were killed or captured and a' quantity of their supplies were destroyed. —_— WELL-ENOWN ACTRESS IS BURNED WITH ACID Rose Coghlan Applies It to the Face Instead of a Harmless Lotion. HELENA, Mont., Aug. 18.—Rose Cogh- lan, the well-known actress, who some weeks ago announced in the Distriet Court her intention of becoming an Amer- ican subject in order that she might pur- chase land and engage In the cattle busi- ness, returned to Helena last evening af- ter having bought a large tract of land, which she will stock with thoroughbred cattle. In her apartments at the local hotel last night, she applied carbolic acid all over her face, having mistaken it for a mild solution she has used for years as a lo- tion. She had rubbed -her features with the acid quite thoroughly before discov- ering her mistake. It was several hours before doctors relieved the excruciating pain. It is thought her features will not be permanently injured. PASRAS W FAMILIES PERISH IN FOREST FIRES BL PASO, Tex.,, Aug 18.—Travelers from Sonora, Mexico, report that tremen- dous forest fires are sweeping across the mountains in the northwestern portion of that State and leaving devastation in their wake. Thousands of acres of val- uable timber have been destroyed and in many Instances settlers on remota ranches have perished with their entire familles. A drought has prevailed for mary months and the forests are un- usually dry and burn freely. For this reason the fire is making great headway and its progress is unchecked. Herds of wild animals driven before the flames are seeking refuge in the valleys uear the ing a Filipino member of the civil com- mission, announced to-day that he found the defe dants guilty. They were not sentenced. 4 The trial of Dorr and O'Brien on a charge of sedition ‘began to-day. —_——— Falls Over a Precipice. ZEBMATT, Switzerland, Aug. 18.—The body of Dr. Largin, Chief Ju of the Berne Court, was to-day found'at the bot- ‘tom of a precipice of Mount , Which he climbed last Saturday. : W R TR SR water courses, but hundreds of head of cattle and horses have perished. At last accounts the fire was still raging. —_— Czar Receives Threatening Letter. VIENNA, Aug. 18—A newspaper of Cracow, Galicia, publishes a report that “the Czar of Russia recently found ou: his Gesk a missive from a revolutionary committee, threatening him with death unless he conceded constitutional govern- ment to Russia. The Czar, according to the newspaper, was greatly alarmed.