The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 8 1. SAN FRANCISCO, TH{TRSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BULLETS AWE THE CONVICTS Desperadoes Make a Bold Dash For Liberty. Capture Foreman and Use Him as a Shield. Penitentiary Emeute Ends in Leaders | Being Shot. \FLYING FLAG OF REBELS Colombian Govern-= ment Gunboat Is Captured. Fights for Two Hours Before Making the Surrender. Conservatives Still | Hopeful of Beating the Lib:rals. FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 20.—Waliace Bishop and Thomas Mulligan of Kenton d Lafayette Brooks of Morgan murderers and desperate crim- to escape is morning, to-night from Lreast. Brooks is er and Aifred Ran- a Louisville murderer, who essayed to follow the rs, is suffering from a bulder. rted while Brooks, Mul- were coming out of the | wer a hospital call. f the convicts drew a re- compelled Guard A. H. Gill Guard F. F. Hurst, nd in his , colored, arms. ain Madi- ed forward, h, but no one was hit. then running across the convicts factory, eman. They covered and, placing him nd the guards, retreated rocker department, in the chair whence they could com- ew of the entire yard. ow they stood Willis, and Brooks Iver in his hand, took a po- of the captive, resting the weapon on Willis’ shoulder. n defied Warden Lil- liard to attempt to capture them, shout- g that they would kill the foreman at the first move made against them. By this time several hundred citizens, many of them heavily armed, had gather- ed at the prison gates, but the Warden | denied “adm ce to all. He issued or-| ders for all departments to close, and for | ers to be returned at once | lls. He then placed a guard of ‘ men around the bullding in which | the desperadces had barricaded them- | selves, and called on them to surrender. The only reply was a taunt. For ection of Foreman Willis, the Warden then determined to starve the desperadoes into subjection. In about an hour a note was dropped from the dow of the room where the convicts bad taken refuge, asking Warden Lil- liard and Deputy Warden Madigan to come up under a flag of truce and deal them. This demand was ignored. FIRE FROM THE ROOF. y after Jam, , r city workhouse k ewer, a former gu . the roof of back at the pe a aken refuge and fired ots into the room where the does were intrenched. They were lied to desist, however, as Foreman was forced to the window in the fire. He then called to the men ooting and informed them that convict whom the desperadoes a negro bad fc ulder. a note was dropped from icts’ window offering to surren- men were insured safe delivery house. This request was also The convicts asked that Cap- Lilliard and Captain Madigan come in person to escort them, but it was be- Meved that this was merely a ruse to he officials. er another letter was brought from desperadoes by Frank Brooks of Bond County. The note stated that if the Warden would come to the head of the steps leading to the reed department the convicts would surrender, first send- ing their weapons down by Frank Brooks. CONVICTS ARE RECAPTURED. ‘Warden Lilliard appeared to accept the terms of this note and as a matter of precaution half a dozen guards were placed in the hospital, overlooking the reed department. Warden Lilliard, ac- companied by eight men, ther proceeded to the foot of the stairway. Suddenly the crack of a Winchester was heard. The prisoners had emerged from the reedroom as they had promised, with hands up, but as they proceeded down the stairway Bishop dropped his hands to his sides as if to araw a weapon. He had hardly made the motion when one of the Warden’s party fired, the bullet striking Bishop in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. When Bishop fell Mui- ligan and Brooks sank to their knees, begging the Warden to save their lives. By 10:30 o'clock the two desperadoes, heavily shackled and accompanied by ten men with drawn pistols, were placed in their cells and quiet was restored. After the men had been securely locked up it was discovered that Brooks had been wounded in the shoulder, though he was not seriously hurt. kK the Transfer of Lumber Interests. NEVADA, Aug. 2.—The Reed Lumber Company has purchased the vast lumber- ing interests of Towle Brothers in Ne- vada, Placer and other counties, which include more than 10,000 acres of timber land. In the transfer are included all miils, rallroads, steam wagons, ete. CAPTURE A FOREMAN. | ntrance to the reed depart- | captured | At | rced into service had been shot in | PANAMA, Colombia, Aug. 20.—The for- | mer Government gunboat Boyaca, which ieft here July 29 to carry 300 soldiers to Agua Dulce and which was captured by the Colombian revolutionists, is now at sea | fiving the revolutionary flag. The rumors that the Boyaca had been sunk are, there- fore, refuted. | Before she left here General Salazar | ordered the commander of the gunboat not to fire the guns of that vessel because | he feared that the bad condition of the Boyaca would endanger those on board if her guns were discharged. evolutionary reports of the capture of gunboat state that she fought two hours before being captured, and it is believed in Government circles that some accident to her machinery or rudder | forced the commander of the Bovaca to accept unequal battle until further resist- | ance was impossible. The Boyaca was a | very old ship and her machinery and keel were in very bad condition. She was built in 1883 at Wilmington, Del.,, for the Co- lombian Government. | | DEPEND ON NEW SHIPS. ‘ The hopes of the Conservatives of Pan-‘ the are now centered in the steamer which Senor Concha, Colombian Minis- | ter at Washington, is supposed to have bought recent: San Francisco. Should | with good gunners on board it is believed by Government officials that with the re- | inforcements now expected here, from Barranquilla, General Salazar need have no fear of an attack from the revolution- ary forces under General Herrera. | The steamer Palena reached port this | morning from the south and her captain | reports having met the Boyaca flying the | flag of the revolutionists off the island of Taboguilla, about fifteen ,mies from | Panama. Nothing s known here of the reported surrender of the Government general, Morales Bert!, to the revolutionists at Agua Dulce. No news has been received from this general for some time past, but Government officials express the belief that he would only succumb after a gal- lant fight. The situation here is serious, but there s nothing to show that General Herrera intends to attack Panama fmme- | diately, and the statement that he is now marching toward this eity is discredited. Tt is not true that the revolutionary gun- boat Padilla has demanded the surrender of Panama. The Padilla has been seen | frequently off Oloque Island. EXPECT REINFORCEMENTS. COLON, Aug. 20.—Persons who have ar- | rived from Cartagena say that according to General Velez the Government cruiser | Cartagena will shortly leave that port for the isthmus, bringing 8% soldiers and | | $80,000 in gold. The Government gunboat General Pin- 7on has arrived at Cartagena from a trip from Colon. This vessel also will bring | reinforcements to the isthmus as soon as | possible. With the excepticn of the revolutionary army under General Herrera at Agua Dulce there is at rresent no organized | Liberal army in any part of the republic, | All trade at Cartagena and Savanilla and | other points is at a standstill. Imports and exports continue to decrease at an alarming rate and all commerce is suffer- | ing from the continuance of the revolu- tion. ——— COMPANY’S PRESIDENT SAYS HE IS BANKRUPT | | Chauncey Forward, Head of a Promi- | ment €leveland Firm, Acknowl- edges Liabilities. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 20. — Dr. Chauncey B. Forward, president of the Forward Reduction Company, to-day filed 2 petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court. His schedule shows that he owes $478,587 and has assets worth $4225, of which $910 is exempt. Dr. For- ward's creditors, as named, are scattered all over the United States, it is said, and he owes them each all the way from $100 to $50,000. Dr. Forward went into bankruptey be- cause of the financial embarrassment of the Forward Reduction Company, of which he was president, a principal stock- holder and a heavy indorser. The For- ward Reduction Company will follow him into the bankruptcy court. The holdings | of the company are located in Orange and Jefferson counties, Tex., and across the State line in Louisiana. They represent lands owned in fee simple and held under a long term lease. Of the leasings it is estimated that 80,000 acres are alive, some of the poorer territory having been aban- doned. Fully 12,000 acres are owned out- right. The company was engaged in the refining of oil and other similar products under a secret process of Dr. Forward's discovery. Dr. Chauncey B. Forward and L. V. Denis organized the company in Cleve- land in 1897. It has a capital of $5,000,000, of which $2,800,000 has been issued, the balance being held in the treasury. "The stock is held all over the country and a lot of it abroad. There are about 800 stockholders. The attorney for the com- pany said: ““The company will be reorganized along lines already defined. Creditors will be satisfied by giving them stock if possible, at any rate in the best manner that can be arranged. The concern will not go to| pleces.” Lawyers, doctors, clerks and many tofl- this vessel sail promptly for the isthmus |* | stop that enemy. RIVAL FLEETS OF THE NAVY ENGAGE IN MIMIC WARFARE ON RUGGED ATLANTIC COAST Maneuvers in Which Rear-Admiral Higginson Will Attempt to Prevent the Capture of a Port by Commander Pillsbury’s Slower Vessels. T g o+ OCKPORT, Mass., Aug. 20.— The New England coast, from Portland harbor to Cape Cod, is on a war basis and will be so for some time to come. The men who are the most interested are the officers and crews of the vessels of the North Atlantic fleet, which Rear Admiral Higginson com- mards. To put the situation in a few words is to say that somewhere in the Atlantic is a fleet supposed by the North Atlantic Ly il “i“‘"{‘ il i i i i ! izl{}'“f Ik i a?h'.lj i) / «N“. A i fleet to be a hostile one which, by strat- egy purely, intends reaching the New England shore. On the other hand, Rear Admiral Higginson is to use his fleet to It is a war game to be worked out with real men manning ac- tual fighting machines under unavoidable conditions of wind and waves, with the probabilities of fog and storm and what is more important, the ever-present dan- ger of disaster on the reefs and shoals which naturally guard much of this coast line. GAME BEGINS AT NOON. The war game began at noon, when Rear Admiral Higginson moved his fleet out of the harbor of refuge here and went in search of the enemy. To-night the picket line has been established and mimic war without the burning of gunpowder may begin at any moment. The condi- tions, however, make it appear certain that Commander Pillsbury will not at- tempt to land until at least to-morrow night; in fact, his attack is expected then. The question that confronted Admiral Higginson as he studied his map on the Kearsarge to-night was the location and hour of attack of the opposing squadron, He has his naval Intelligence bureau con- necting all points along the shore from Portland to Provincetown, and the central point is in a shed on the shore of the har- bor of refuge. By telephone communica- tion the flagship can be informed of the appearance of any strange vessel off the coast and in such an event the admiral can quickly assemble his fleet and proceed to that point and endeavor to crush the enemy. All was activity on the defending squad- ron to-night, although the night was one of the most beautiful of the summer, making it almost certain that Commander Pillsbury would not be so rash as to at- tempt to run into the coast when his craft could be seen miles away. CONDITIONS OF STRUGGLE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The mimic naval war began at noon to-day. Admiral Higginson and Commander Pillsbury, in command of the rival fleets respectively designated Blue and White, the latter under the command of Commander Pills- bury, being the attacking fleet, were sup- plied with confidential instructions which went into effect at noon. The problem for ers in shops and factories are numbered among the shareholders. M\» ;i YN CorTITANDER. JOHN E PILLSBURY .. 1 fect a landing between Portland, Maine, and Cape Cod before Augyst 2. To be successtul the attacking fleet must seize some undefended anchorage between . the points named—Portland harbor being in- cluded, but not Casco bay—and hold it for six hours without being ousted by a su- perior force.. The instructions defined the harbors being seized as one that must be capable of gun and mine defense, with not less than six fathoms of water, an- chorage for several large ships and in all respects suitable for an advance base for an enemy's fleet, including heavy ships. Under the instructions defining the character of the harbor he must seize Commander Pillsbury is much restricted. The Prairie, which is the heaviest draught vessel In his fleet, draws lightly under 26 feet, the Panther 18 feet 2 inches and the, Supply 20 feet. Naval officers have gen- erally agreed that the chances against the white squadron, in the game which is on, are very great, and that practically its only chance of success will lie in the ex- istence of a heavy fog, under cover of which Commander Pillsbury might slip through the cordon of scouts and reach an anchorage in an undefended port. The distance between Cape Cod, the southern extremity of the coast defended by Ad- miral Higginson’s fleet, and Portland, Maine, is only about 100 miles. In addi- tion to the torpedo craft and his light- ship, which he could use as scouts and string along between these points almost within signal distance with each other, while the heavier ships were held to- gether ready to move at some central point, Adimral Higginson has stationed ensigns all along the shore to report the enemy the instant it is sighted. TASK OF WHITE SQUADRON. These naval officers will be reinforced by all marine observers along the coast. To win the white squadron must be in port for six hours, without being con- fronted with a superior force. Within that time, after the white squadron was sighted, Admiral Higginson, if he held his heavy ships midway between the two extremities of the line to be defended at Rockport, for instance, could reach his enemy by steaming ten or eleven knots an hour. From Cape Ann, which is just outside of Rockport, to Cape Cod is only forty-two and a half-miles and from Cape Ann to Elizabeth light, outside of Port- land, is only fifty-eight miles. the White fleet, which is at sea, is to ef- | Another feature of the situation which COMMANDERS OF THE BLUE AND WHITE SQUADRON ENGAGED IN MIMIC NAVAL WAR. | 73 his directions read, the speed of his squad- will militate against the chances of the white squadron is the instruction which requires Commander Pillsbury to enter “an undefended harbor,” one ‘“with deep water approaches,” “with six fathoms” of water, one capable of defense by “guns and mines,” and one in which heavy ships could anchor. These restrictions will con- fine him to at least a dozen harbors, among them Portland, Portsmouth, Rock- port, Salem and Provincetown. None of the many other places, like Newburyport, Ipswich, Anniquan, Gloucester, Manches- ter, Beverly, Marblehead, above Boston, or Plymouth, Barnstaple and other ports below would be available. FULL MOON A FACTOR. A full moon is also another factor against the enemy’s success. In the cir- cumstances, the naval experts generally agree that an attempt to strike the coast during the day would be foolhardy for the attacking fleet, but that at night, with very thick weather, it might be possible for Commander Pillsbury with his ships darkened, to creep in, pass the scouts and quietly anchor without being reported un- til too late for Admiral Higginson to reach him with a superlor force. The speed of Commander Pillsbury’'s fastest ship, the Prairle, is 14.9 knots, the Panther can make 14, but the Supply only 9%, so that if the fleet is kept together, as ron cannot be more than its slowest unit. namely 9% knots. If sighted outside, therefore, by one of the swift torpedo boats, which can make from 20 to 25 knots an hour, the scout could scoot away to the nearest land point and report the enemy to Admiral Higginson, who could be on his way to intercept him before the lat- ter could reach his destination. ——iie UNCLE SAM SHARPLY INSTRUCTS VENEZUELANS Blockade Will Not Be Tolerated Un- less It Is Maintained Efficiently. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — Minister Bowen has * bluntly notified the Vene- zuelan Government that this country is not disposed to recognize any blockade of the Venezuelan coast unless Venezuelan warships are there to maintain it in an efficient manner. A cable from Bowen at Caracas received by the State Department stated that the Government troops had evacuated Cumana. Cumana is an im- portant city of 10,000 inhabitants near Carupano and has been besieged by the revolutionists, who, however, have never made any strong demonstration. Minister Bowen stated also that he had been informed that the representatives of Germany, Great Britain and France at Caracas had Jjointly characterized the blockade declared by Castro as ineffec- tive. The Government thereupon asked for evidence of its inefficiency and sug- gested that a merchant vessel be sent to test the blockade. Minister Bowen dic not say if this method had been employed. —_—— William Phitzenreiter. MARYSVILLE, Aug. 2. — Willilam Phitzenreiter, aged 75 years, who had lived in Sutter County since 1866, was stricken by paralysis yesterday and die? to-night. Lol R | five are missing and | about six feet in diameter. NINE DIE IN A MILL DISASTER Workmen Perish at the Delaware Pulp Mills. Others Are Mangled in Ruins of the Buiiding. Christiana River Dis= aster Due to Burst- ing Digesters. WEALTH GOES TO FAMILY Contents ‘of the Will of Mrs. Fair Are Known. Legacies for Mother, Brothers and Sisters. Heirs of Her Husband Are Anxious to Settie. WILMINGTON, Del., workmen are known to have been killed, four others were badly injured by the explosion of the steel digesters in the Delaware Pulp Mills of the Jessup & Moore Paper Company on the Christiana River to-day. The known dead are: FRANK HARRIS. WILLIAM BURKE. JAMES NAGLE. JOHN McCORMICK. ZACH COLLINS (colored). JAMES STOKES. JOSEPH LUMBACHER. GRANVILLE WATERS. JOHN HENRY, fireman. The missing—William Scott, fireman; Joel Hutton, fireman; William Ruth, fire- man; E. H. Mousley, James Sweeney. The injured—James Jester, badly burned, recovery doubtful; John Collins, burned and inhaled flames; Thomas Reeves, skull fractured in two places, may dle; George Durham, burned and scalded, recovery doubtful. The digesters were located in a two-story building. There were ten of them in the building, each one resembling a vat and They were vsed for reducing wood pulp. Eighteen men were at work in the building. There were two terrific reports, and the next in- | stant the building and mills about the structure were completely wrecked. One digester was blown into the air and feil | to the ground 250 feet away. A dense vol- ume of smake for a time prevented the outside workmen from going to the im- mediate rescue of those who were caught in the ruins of the falling building. Sev- eral men made their escape without any injury. 4 An alarm of fire was sounded and the entife firé department of the city and a large force of police was soon on the ground and the work of rescue was im- mediately begun. Several of the work- men were taken out unconseious, only to die after being removed to hospitals. The wreckage was piled up for more than thirty feet and the escaping steam made the work of rescue difficult. Those who were not killed outright were mangled and burned by escaping acid that flowed over their bodies from the brokeén digesters. The monetary loss is only $35,000, GENERAL CRONJE LEAVES HISTORIC ST. HELENA Famous Boer Commander Among a Thousand Prisoners Released by the British. LONDON, Aug. 20.—According to a dis- patch from St. Helena a transport sailed from that port to-day with 1000 Boer pris- oners for South Africa. General Cronje and his family were among the passen- gers. A big demonstration was made by the crowds that lined the streets to say farewell to the departing Boers. UTRECHT, Holland, Aug. 20.—The Boer generals, Botha, Dewet and Dela- rey, accompanied by Dr. Leyds and Fis- cher, Wessels, Wolmarans and Reitz and others, arrived here to-day from The Hague to visit former President Kruger and ccnsult with him on the South Afri- can situation. Large crowds warmly ap- plauded the Boers. station sang the Boer national anthem. The conference at Utrecht between the Boer generals and the delegates and Kruger lasted for three hours. According to some reports it was rather stormy. At the end of an hour and a half the dele- gates withdrew, leaving Generals Botha, Dewet and Delarey together with Kruger. Little is publicly known as to what took | place, but it is understood that the gen- erals found the former President of the Transvaal in no way inclined to acqulesce to British dominion in South Afriea and still clinging to the idea of a united South Africa under the Boer flag. Kruger is even said to have bitterly upbraided the generals for giving up Boer inde- pendence. The general returned to The Hague to-night. S BERI-BERI AFFLICTS THE CREW OF A BARK PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 20.—The Peruvian bark Santa Rosa arrived this morning from San Buenaventura, United States of Colombia, with most of the crew sick with beri-beri. The Santa Rosa left San DBuenaventura seventy-three days ago. Beri-berl soon broke out and when the vessel was twenty-five days out three sailors died. Others were stricken and on the first of August the only persons left to navigate the bark ‘were Captain Rentrie, one man and a boy. The Santa Rosa had been off the entrance to the Straits of Fuca for twelve days and was picked up yesterday afternoon. The sick seamen were sent to the Marine Hospital and the bark or- dered to Diamond Point quarantine sta- tion for disinfection. —_— Miner Cheats Grim Reaper. NEVADA, Aug. 2.—Frank Nugent, while working in the Reddik mine this mcrning made a misstep that caused him tc plunge headlong down a shaft. For- -tunately his head struck a railing, which turned his body and Nugent grasped the prctruding object and was saved from death. Aug. 20.—Nine| The spectators at the | The contents of Mrs. Charles Fair's will | are no longer a secret. The information | which the attorneys and the Faif heirs have been guarding so carefully since the first news was received of the horrifying | automobile accident in which Mr. and | Mrs. Fair met their deaths leaked out yesterday. The will of Mrs. Fair, which is now in the kands of Attorneys Knight and Heg- gerty disposes of an estate consisting of cash, real property and railroad and Gov- ernment bonds, approximately valued at $300,000. To her mother, Mrs. Hannah A. Neison, of Newmarket, N. J., Mrs. Fair left the | sum of 52500 to be paid her annually during her life. Mrs. Nelson is in the neighbor- | hood of 70 years of age. | Willam B. Smith, a full brother of { Mrs. Fair, who also lives at Newmarket, | N. J., is remembered in the sum of $10,000. Charles Smith of Boulder, Colo., another full brother of Mrs. Fair, is also given | $10,000. Frank Smith, another brother, whose present address is unknown, is bequeathed | $10,900. ! Abraham Nelson, a half-brother, who | ives with his mother at Newmarket, N. | 3., is bequeathed $10,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Bunnell of Union County, i N. J., a sister of Mrs. Fair, is to receive $10,000. To another sister, Mrs. Joshua Leonard, of Caldwell, N. J., Mrs. Fair left $10,000. She also provided for the children of | Mrs. Sarah Leffler, a dead sister. The | children live in Orange County, N. J." | The remainder of the estate Mrs. Fair | 1eft to Ber husband. | OFFER ENTIRE ESTATE. The above provisions in Mrs. Fair's will | distribute her entire estate, but if Mrs. | Fair's relatives agree to certain proposi- itions which will be put to them by the | Fair children and their lawyers upon their | arrival Lere that portion of the estate which Mrs. Fair left to her husband and which reverts as a matter of law to his helrs,eélll be divided among Mrs. Falr's legate@s, share and share alike. The Fair children are tired of lawsuits. They realize that any legal controversy over an estate is costly and inconvenient de they have decided to do everything [in their power to keep the two estates 1fr0m being tied up in litigation. They | have decided to offer Mrs. Fair's relatives | her entire estate if they will sign writ- | ten agreements to forego all claims which | they may believe they kave to any of the | wealth left by Charles Fair. This course | was decided upon at a conference held last week at the office of Knight & Heg- | gerty, who were the attorneys for both | Mr. and Mrs. Fair. HARVEY WILL BARGAIN. Hermann Oelrichs was authorized by the Fair children to make the above propo- sition to Mrs. Fair's relatives. Joe Har- vey, who was perhaps the most intimate friead the Fairs had in the city, left last night for Ogden to meet Mrs. Hannah | Nelson and her son, Charles Smith, who | joined his mother yesterday at that place. | Harvey, it is said, will lay the proposition made by the Fair children before Mrs. Nelson and her son and by the time the party arrives in this city it will be defi- | nitely known whether or not they will | make a contest or be satisfled with receiv- | ing Mrs. Fair's entire estate. If they de- | cide to accept the offer of the Fair heirs | there will be no contest over the will of | Charles Fair and no necessity of bringing witnesses from Paris to establish whether or not Fair survived his wife in the ter- rible accident which brought sudden death to poth of them. In the meantime the attorneys and the heirs are on the anxious seat. The key to the situation is held by Mrs. Hannah Nelson. If she refuses to accept the offer of the Fair children and decides to make a legal battle for that portion of Charles Fair's estate which he left to his wife—and those who have seen his will say that he decreed the bulk of it to her— the Fair estate will be dragged through another long contest in the courts. The fight will be mhde simply on the propo- sition of which of the two victims of the accident died first. HAVE DETAILS FROM PARIS. If Mrs. Nelson can prove that her daughter survived her husband, then the dead wife is heir to all of the estate which Fair left. The lawyers for the Fair children claim to have special information from Paris, gathered at the scene of the accident, which proves beyond a doubt that Charles Fair survived his wife by a few moments. At all events the Fair children are in a better position to prove that Charles Fair survived his wife than the Nelsons are to prove that he did not. “The Fairs have representatives in France who investigated the details of the acci- dent the day 4t occurred and it is inti- mated that should Mrs. Nelson be dis- satisfied with the compromise the Fair children are willing to make, friends will interfere and demonstrate the uselessness of entering into a legal controversy. Mrs. Nelson and her son are expected to arrive here to-morrow night and until then the contents of Fair's will will mot be made publie. i