The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII—NO. 9 3. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SHOOTS A MORO |, SULTAN American Sentry Pre- vents Prisoner’s Escape. Ruler of Binidayan Makes Dash for Liberty. Bullet From a Sol- dier’s Rifle Brings Him Down. POISON CHEATS A MOB Dying Wife Murderer Escapes Avenging Neighbors. | Death in Prison Cell ; Follows Wild ‘ Race. | Awful Tragedy Closes | Illinois Doctor’s ‘ Debauch. MANILA, Aug. 3L—The Sultan of Bini- deyan, who was held as a hostage by the American forces at Camp Vickers, Island of Mindanao, attempted to escape from his guards on Thursday and was shot and killed by the sentry. The Sultan had been arrested after the recent murders of American soldiers in Mindanso and was being held pending the surrender of the murderers. As result of the war, rinderpest among the cattle and the epidemic of cholera, agriculture is at present serious- ly depressed throughout the Philippines. Governor Taft estimates the area under cultivation year as half that of an Many districts are badly nery ¥ overis! creasing. Yesterday 340 rted in the provinces. Up ases and 19,640 deaths from e been reported. TALKS POLICY. was given a banquet by Chamber of Commerce of TAFT the Philippines. He said the tes wouild retain th with the view of e self-government nich would en: r they preferred to be into a Australia under made the said the Americans did ads for selfish purposes, t American capital f the im- ible. He ¥ relaxation s was | dard of fluctuatio tage to OF THE ISLANDS. who acted as civil Gov- the recent ab- > spoke. He the true fut 1 upon the admis- American mar- t regretted that ex- to been made a COMPANY WILL BUILD A RAILROAD IN UTAH the office ated to be 1d equip- phone in the 1 terminus of Lake Cit t a point on he State lines also may be rail- one of would k al Rallway, projected from proposed Kollock, the line connect with wiich §s now Coos Bay e It first intention of t the articles in Tt ; it was decided to n an Oregon corporation, then to ——— Yellowstone Tourists Escape Death. LIVINGSTON, Mont., Aug. 3L—It was learned to-day that no one was killed in age accident near Gardinier yester- May Leonard of Chicago sus- tained a dislocated collarbone and severe bruises about the body. Joseph Baird and family of St. Louis also were bruised and tched of the lead horses was in- tly killed, and it is marvelous, consid- ering ure of the accident, that the passengers escaped without loss of life. Beli gy Mine Sustains Big Loss by Fire. BUTTE, Mont. Aug. 3L.—The entire hoisting plant, pumping station and shaft house of the Alice Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company were destroyed by fire to-day. The plant was one of the most modern in the State. The loss is es- timated at $100,000. Part of the fire crept down the shaft, but being Sunday no lives | were lost ] | Match Reveals Robber’s Identity. REDDING, Aug. 3L—David Pesenty was | robbed near Trinity Center, Trinity Coun- ty, Friday evening of $225. While he was | at the barn after dark he was knocked down, choked and beaten. His assailant it a match to look for something and Perenty saw and recognized the robber as James Ryan. The Sheriff later ar- rested Ryan on & warrant sworn to by Pesenty. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALTON, Ill, Aug. 31.—Crazed by drink, Dr. O. A. Miller of Rockbridge termin- ated a week’s debauch this morning by shooting his wife to death and then end- ing his own life shortly thereafter by drinking tincture of opium. While Mrs. Miller was seated at a pi- ano Miller entered the room and without warning drew a revolver and shot her in the back. Mrs. piano stool to the floor dead. Miller then walked into his study, pick- ed up a pint bottle of tincture of opium and drank nearly half of its contents. Neighbors, including Marshal Wool- bridge, heard the shooting, and upon en- tering the house found the doctor stand- ing in the middle of his study with the bottle of opium still in his hand. At their approach Miller placed the bottle to his lips anc attempted to drink the remain- ing contents A mob having formed C. W. Hickman, with the assistance of Constable Clark, took the prisoner cut of a rear door and placed him in a carriage. Then ensued a race of fourteen miles and a mob to the Green Carrollton. Mile after mile urged to greater effort. ler became more W an efforts of Constable Less than two seen a two-horse rs of the mob, with against death County jail in the horse wa nwhile M: herculea When five miles had been covered the m had been lost, and Dr. Miller was in the sleep of death. Officers d prisoner reached the county jail one and fifteen minutes after the race teen miles had begun. Sheriff Isaac Conley, fearing the mob, at oncesputtdiilier in . the stael cage of the jail and telephoned to Dr. E. S. Gouch, who appeared on the scene five es later and worked over the now unconscious man with all his medical Within twenty minutes after he i been placed in jail Miller was dead. Miller was the son of John a capitalist of Chanute, Kans. Mrs. Mil- e only child of Mr. and Mrs. en of Rockbridge. The parents Before her marriage social favorite and yminent in musical circles. Dr. Miiler s a graduate of the Morton-Sims Med- 1 College of St urvive the couple. hou a Louis AND KAISER SAY THEIR ADIEUS Victor Emmanuel of Italy Ends His Visit in the Father- KING land. POTSDAM, Prus! Aug. 3L —King Victor Emmanuel of Ital o has b vis ng mperor Willlam, started for home to-day. The King and the drove together to the Wild Park the leavetak of the monarchs al, they embracing one an- most cor other repeat Crown P: ce Frederick William and Prince William Eitel Frederick and Count Bulow, the imperial chancellor, were on the station platform to bid farewell to | the King of Its and a large crowd cheered the departing guests. The King »od at a window of the carriage wav- ing his hand to the Emperor as long as von the train was in sight. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, Prus- sia, Aug. -King Victor Emanuel ar- rived here this e He inspected the Thirteenth Pru: Hussars, of which organization he honorary colonel, dnd later dined with the Hussar offices The King resumed his journey to Italy at 9 o'clock. It is said that as a result of King Victor Emanuel's visit to Emperor Wil- liam Italy has obtained certain conces- sions it desired for a commercial treaty with Germany. PRESIDENT DETERMINES ON CANAL COMMISSION He Will Appoint a Purely Military Body to Take Charge of the Work. HOTEL CHAMPLAIN, N. Y., Aug. 31— The President has determined to make the Panama Canal Commission a purely mili- tary body. Army officers will superintend | the building of the canal. The man for the head of the commission must be a man in whom the President has unlimited faith. There are many men in the army who have the President’s confidence, but none on whose honor and integrity he leans more heavily than on General Leon- ard Wood, his boon companion and com- rade in arms. He would like to make General Wood chairman of the commis- sion, at least that has been the conviction of those with whom he has taken counsel. Dismissed From the Army, BERLIN, Aug. 3L—The Berlin Tage- blatt publishes a dispatch from Gumbin- ner, East Prussia, saying that Lieuten- ant Hildebrand, the pardoned duelist, has been dismissed from the army on account of the ovation given him some time ago at Gumbinnen upon the occasion of his pardon, and for participation in which Captain von Frankenberg and First Lieu- tenant Neumbauer have been dismissed already from the service.. Miller fell from the | Miller, | Three children | HURLING SHOWERS OF ASHES Mont Pelee Bursts Into Violent Eruption. Dust Clouds Envelop the Surrounding Islands. Series of Loud Deto- nations Alarms Basse Terre. BASSE TERRE, St. Kitts, B. W. L, Aug. 31L.—A series of loud detonations | were heard here last night, from 7 until 9 o'clock. | ST. JOHN, Antigua, B. W. L, Aug. 81— Many very loud detonations were heard bere from 9 o'clock last night to mid- night. POINTE-A-PITRE, Island of Gaude- loupe, Aug. 3L—This entire port has been cevered by a cloud of fine dust since 5 o'clock this morning and the populace is -stricken. Fine ashes are falling con- ticually in a slight drizzle. Semi-dark- ness is over the sea and the ships in the harbor seem to be enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Advices from Basse Terre (Island of Gaudeloupe) assert that since daybreak to-day the entire island has been covered by a cloud of dust ‘coming from the southeast, the direction of the island of Martinique. The population of Basse Terre is greatly alarmed. | MIST ENVELOPS ROSEAU. ! ROSEAU, Dominica, B. W. L, Aug. 3L —The thick mist which enveloped Ro- resterday was taken, as it approach- The dust is still falling, although lightly, but during the the 30th the quantity of dust here was greater than on any occasion since the first eruption Mcnt Pelee. At nightfall of the 30th durk cone-shaped cloud, emitting elec- flashes, arose in the south, but it ually was obscured by the mist caus- ed by the falling ashes. Rumbling noises and a few detonations were heard during the night of the 20th. The people here arc quiet. No news has yet reached here from Martinique. seau y ed, for a rain storm. previous A severe eruption of Mont Pelee, Mar- | tinique, was reported to have oceufred. at {noon'un August 2. This report was brought to Castries, island of St. Lucla, Ly oficers of the French steamship Da- home. This eruption was followed by to- tal darkness five miles away from the volczno. A dispatch received from St. Thomas, D. W. L, on August 26 said that between | | 10 o'clock in the morning and 3 in the afterncon of August 25 clouds of dust were seen in the direction of Mont Pelee from the island of Dominica. Detonations were heard and there were light showers of volcanic dust on the island. IN VIOLENT ERUEPETION. The following message was received from Dominica cn Tuesday, the 26th: “Since 2 p. m. to-day (Tuesday) pro- longed rumbling noises in quick succes- sion have been heard from the southward. There is every indication that Mont Pe- lee is in violent eruption.” A dispatch from Paris dated August 28 said the latest dispatches received at the Minjstry of the Colonies from Fort de France, nd of Martinique, were dat- Monday, August 2. They made no mention of the reported eruptions of Mont | Pclee. The Paris dispatches also sald | that the cables to Martinique, both north | | and south, continued to be interrupted. | Efforts made to communicate by cable direct with the island of Martinique have proved uns sful. WHOLESALE SHOOTING 3 BY DRINK-CRAZED MAN | Winds Up a Debauch by Killing One ! | Man and Wounding Three ’ | Others. | ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Aug. 3L—Louls Sarka, a Hungarian miner, while crazed from the effects of drink, ran amuck here | | to-day. Before he was overtaken by a| | mob and beaten so unmercifully that he | wiil probably die, he had shot and killed | | Joseph Spiack and probably fatally | { wounded Stephen Spiack Sr., Stephen ! | Spiack Jr. and Stephen Motto. The trouble resulting in the murder occurred | in a saloon. After shooting the four men Sarka bolted for the door and started down the street in an attempt to escape, shooting right and left. A mob of in- turiated citizens, friends of the dead and wounded men, started in pursuit. The police also gave chase, but the mob caught the Hungarian first and beat him almost to death before the officers caught up with them and rescued the uncon- sclous man. ed JUSTICE SHIRAS SENDS ‘ IN HIS RESIGNATION | Place on the Supreme Court Bench ! Will Be Offered to Attorney General Knox. | HOTEL CHAMPLAIN, N. Y., Aug. 3L.— | Justice Shiras of the Supreme Court has | sent his resignation to the President. This |is not an authorized statement, but it | comes from one who speaks with author- | ity. 1f Philander C. Knox desires to wear the robes of Supreme Court Justice he will have the opportunity offered to him, if he has not already. Mr. Knox is not expected to decline the offer. Decide to Issue Mortgage Bonds. DENVER, Aug. 3L—At a special meet- ing the stockholders of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad decid- ed to issue $22,500,000 of fifty-year 4 per cent first mortgage gold bonds and ratified the contract with the Colorado-Utah Con- struction Company to bufld the road. The contract provides that work is to begin September 1. HIGGINSON DELAYS THE WAR GAME WHILE HE ENTERTAINS A DUCHESS Mistress of House of Marlborough the Cause of Strife Between Admiral and Captains of His Fleet. BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE OF MARLBOROUGH (FORMERLY MISS CONSUELO VANDERBILT OF NEW YORK) AND THE AMERICAN ADMIRAL WHO ABRUPTLY SUSPENDED IMPORTANT NAVAL MANEUVERS IN ORDER TO ENTERTAIN HER ABOARD HIS FLAGSHIP. N BOARD THE CALL-HER- ALD DISPATCH BOAT AVENEL, OFF MENEM- SHA BIGHT (via Woodsholl, Mass.), Aug. 3L.—There is war in the fleet of Rear Admiral Higginson—war more real than the make-believe in which hitherto united services are to begin at midright— and woman, lovely, harmless woman, is the cause of it all. Captain French E. Chadwick, president of the Naval War College, was a visitor 1o the flagship Kearsarge yesterday after- noon. Shortly after his appearance on board the general signal was made by tne flagship, “‘Commanding officers report on board flagship.” There was &n immeciate caliing away of steam cutters, and one alter another the captains of the ileet of warships went trooping up the gangway of the flagship. When all the captains had. reported and were assembled in the flag officer’s quar- ters on the Kearsarge the adriral arose and announced that the fleet would re- main inactive, arrangements having been made to recelve the Duchess of Marl- borough, and that to this reception, the admiral added, all of the commanding of- ficers of the fleet were cordially invited: There was a moment of embarrassing silence, ‘and then one captain, who has a reputation for straightforward speech, made vehement and open protest. There was, he‘explained, no objection to the re- ception to the Duchess—there could be none—but the time, he urged, was inop- portune. Here was the fleet, he impetuously pointed out, ready to move at an instant’s notice—kept in constant, wearing readi- ness for this very time—and, just at the very moment when it should strike, everything must give way to a social function, which could take place at any time. All of the other captains took the same view; all believed and all said that this was no time for social matters; that if the navy was going to play at war, let 1t | at it serfously and have no non-| play’ sense about it. Their view was that the maneuvers, regarded by them as of incal- | | culable value when earnestly worked out by both sides, would be of no consequenc: whatever If played out as a summep di version for soclety folk—that it would make a farce of the whole proceeding and benefit neither service. HIGGINSON IS OBDURATE. The 'admiral abruptly announced his in- tention to adhere to his plan of enter- taining, and the council was scon dis- L o solved, ' the captains returning to thelr ships and giving orders looking to the re- lief of the strain on the engineer forces, which had been keeping the vessels under fires so heavily banked that it was equiv- alent to actual steaming under service conditfons. Sunday came, and with it the Duchess and her party, who arrived on the Astor yacht Nourmahal, which was in turn es- corted by the torpedo-boat Morris. It was shortly after the noon hour when the Nourmahal came to anchor near the flag ship- and a flag leutenant went in a steam cutter to bear greetings of wel- come. Luncheon was served on board the Nourmahal, and about 2 o’clock the Duch- ess of Marlborough's party boarded the waiting launches and set out for the flag- ship. The party included the Duchess, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Miss Alice Blight, Mr. Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War, and Harry Lehr. CAPTAINS REMAIN AWAY. The quartermasters of the flagship were on an eager lookout for other visitors— the commanding officers who had been in- vited. But nore of them appeared. There was unlimited comment on the fleet to-day over this visit of the Assist- Social Function Sus= pends the Naval Maneuvers. Commanders of the _Warships Refuse to Atrtend. L . ant Secretary. Theoretically the army and navy now are at war. The admiral will declare none of his secrets to his com- manding officers or to any one else, and vet it was pointed out that he receives this high emissary of the “enemy.” COGHLAN TO ATTACK NEWPORT. Up to the hour of the Avenel's departure to-night with dispatches the plans of | Rear Admiral Higginson were as follows: The fleet to leave its present anchorage to- | night, steam to an appointed rendezvous, there divide into two squadrons, one under Rear Admiral Coghlan to attack Newport and the other under Rear Admiral Hig- ginson to attack other defenses. Rear Admiral Coghlan flies his flag from the Brooklyn. There have been included | in his division the protected cruiser Olym- | pla, the monitor Puritan, the ecruiser Montgomery and the converted yachts | Mayflower, Gloucester, Aileen and Peoria. | Rear Admiral Higginson has reserved | for his squadron the battleship Kearsarge (flagship), the battleships Massachusetts, Indiana and Alabama and the Panther, Supply, Scorpion, Nina and Leyden. The Indiana, Montgomery and Supply, | Joined the fleet to-day. Later in the after- noon the Gloucester came in, laden with ammunition, and at sunset every vessel had its red powder flag fiying. Indicating to all concerned that ammunition was be- ing taken on board. The fleet was still thus engaged when the dispatch boat lett it in Menemsha Bight. FLEET PUTS TO SEA. Higginson Makes No Move Until Late in the Night. NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 3L.—Under cov- er of fog and the blackness of night the North Atlantic fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Higginson, slipped its cable in Menemsha Bight shortly before 10 o’clock to-night and put to sea, making the first move afloat of the war game between army and navy in the imaginary war | along the southern New England coast. Ou land from Fort Rodman, at New Bed- ford, to Fort Wright, at Fishers Island, every fortification is manned by artillery- men and every headland is patrolled by | the signal men just as carefully as | though a really hestile fleet were about to descend upon this part of the seaboard. The actual period of war began at the expiration of forty-eight hours of prep- aration and while the fleet appeared to take things easily during that interval, the land forces under command of Major General MacArthur were drilled at the | guns and at signal stations with all the vigor that forecasts real conflict. Never In the history of this country ! has such a grim aspect been given to the | defenses that guard New Bedford, the | cities on Narragansett Bay, the Connect- | fcut shore, and, more important even, the | city of New York, from attack under cover of Marthas Vineyard and adjacent islands and through the great waterways | along Long Island Sound. To-night when ‘“‘taps” sounded at all the forts nearly 5000 artillerymen went to sleep beside their guns, ready to spring up for action when the alarm should sound. On the walls of the fortification paced guards and along the beaches sharp-eyed signal men swept the sea with their night glasses, anxious lest the light of a hostile Continued on Page 2, Column 1.