The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1902, Page 17

B44444444444404504 4440444 028 et e e s S e e e s S RS 1068 Sresssds o + + + + + + + ® VOLUME XCII-NO. 99, SAN FRANCISCO, UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1502—FORTY PAGES. Pages et S e e e e e PRICE FIVE CENTS. BODY OF MURDERER BARTHOLIN IS FOUND IN AN IOWA FIELD INCURS TRUSTS’ ENMITY ————— Roosevelt’s Stand Is Offensive to Platt and Morgan. Men of Money Intend to Make a Fight Against Him. Purpose to Deny an Indorsement at Saratoga. Special Dispe NEW YORK snte forcing the t issie able que sident Roosev P. Morga: ve sought, reats, to_dissuade He has if he in- that ple that trusts he in the law, Presidency aken ect, but because and that he with eiled policy h have ap- mong the Re- rst gun of the campaign ready -Roosevelt shotted ired whep the Republican n meets Bar: ga. MAY REFUSE INDORSEMENT. to be ers w go further to support of State intend to the by him beé sustained or over- depends upon the ntion by Gover- toward v understood State that > the indorse- e nomination the trust issue the platform, he shown ng Repu sovernor Odel esires s hand POWER OF GOVERNOR ODELL. That Governor Ode dorsement of the I’ nt and hi ies in th convention, even of Sepator Platt and ubted. The possession im in a difficult sit- enders the manner in exercise 1t problematical. tigok for the coming election in is of such a chzracter that the feels his own chances of i mperiled if he offends either Senator Platt and the interests represents or the friends of the ator rsement in the con- regard it as fitting hould make such a will be made, how- and it will be coupled ing that the occupant of the ‘White House ot be ‘gnored, even to please Mon without creating danger of the wreck of the Republican machine responsible for the affron: TRUST MEN PAY MONEY. CALL BUREA STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sert. 6—Chairman Griggs of the Democratic Congressional Committee, with the assistance of Ben T. Cable, who has been in charge " of the work of alding the Democratic campaign » a money way, has proved himself the test money raiser since William C. nitney and Don M. Dickinson in 1892 Chairman Griggs was in New York City several days this week and returned last ight, accompanied by Cable, bringing with them 2 “boodle” which is understood to be sufficlent to meet all the needs of the preliminary work of the campaign. This money is understood to have been contributed By Democrats and Republi- who in recent campaigns either did contribute at all, or gave their money eely to the Republican committee. The statement is made that this money really came from sources which have hereto- fore supplied cash for Republican cam- paigns, from men angry with President Roosevelt for his speeches on trusts and s power to force re-elec an, 1406 with Chairman Babcock for his change- | able position on the tariff, It is further: more stated that an absolute money fam ine still prevails in the Republican Con- gressional ‘Committee and that Demo. crats can have more money if they want it to elect & Democratic House. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland has wotified the Democratic committee that he does not negf a cent from them and that be will put $100,000 into the cam- palgn in Ohio. main antag- FOR FORWOOD iRETlRED LiST | Brigadier Robert O’Reilly | Is Surgeon Ueneral. ASHINGTON, Sept. 6.— Brigadier General Willlam H. Forwood, surgeon gen- eral of the army, to-day retired under the age limit. He will be succeeded Mon- v Brigadier General Robert O'Reflly. neral O'Reilly was recently in charge the medical department corps of the Department of Caiifornid and was ‘the of- ficial White House: physician-during the two terms of President Cleveland. TUpon entering the army O'Rellly was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of first lleutenant. In 1868. he was made post surgeon at Camp McPherson, Ariz. in 186¢ post surgeon at Fort Whipple and later at Fort Halleck. He was the chiet surgeon of the Sioux expedition of 1574. In 1884 he was assigned to duty at the White House and was President Cleve- land’s physician. In 1890 he was in South Dakota with the troops that were operat- ing against the hostile Sioux and three vears later was back again in Washing- ton, acting as President Cleveland's fam- cian throughout his second adsin- Chief surgeon the independent n and chief surgeon of the Fourth Army Corps, chief surgeon of the Division of Cuba and finally chief surgeon of the Department of California, which post he | ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED BY A RUNAWAY “AUTO” Horseless Carriage Adds to Its Rec- ord of Destruction in New Jersey. VINELAND, N. J., Sept. 6.—One person was killed and two were injured by an automobile here to-day. The dead man was Alonzo Wilberg, aged twenty-seven His father and a friend were the other victims. Young Wilberg was rid- ing a bicycle. His father and friend were driving a few feet ahead in a carrlage. Suddenly an automobile came up from It was going at a high rate of and struck young Wilberg. He was thrown from his wheel and the au- tomobile passed over his body, killing him instantly. The machine carried Harold Morgan, the eighteen-year-old son of a wealthy Philadelphian, and Miss Lulu Barker of Vineland. Morgan did not appear to have control of the vehicle and it swept on, colliding with the carriage. The occu- pants of the carriage were thrown out and severely bruised and the vehicle was | wrecked. At the inquest to-night the jury rendered a verdict exonerating Morgan and terming it an unavoidable accident. years. Troops Fire on a Mob. | CARBONDALE, IlL, Sept. 6.—The trou- ble at El Dorado over the presence of colored citizens and the establishment of a colored normal and industrial institute, and which caused Governor Yates to send a detachment of militia there, has broken out anew. A colored woman had been driven out of town and a mob stoned her house. The guard of soldiers | which for many nights had guarded the house ordered the mob to disperse, and on |its failure to obey, fired. So far as known there were no casualtles. Americans Did Not Retire. BRUSSELS, Sept. 6.—It is officially an- pounced that the report that the Ameri- {can delegates retired from the interna- tional commercial congress at Ostend be- | cause of thelr treatment s unfound- cd. The Americans were among, the | speakers at the closing session who con- | gratulated the conference on its work. | There was no attack, either direct or in- direct, on the protectionist policy of the United States. £ e e o e e o R i i + RETIRED SURGEON GENERAL OF THE ARMY AND HIS SUC- CESSOR. 5 occupied until his assumption of the of- fice ©f surgeon general of the army are a few cf the posts he has filled to the satis- faction of his Government and with honor to his dual profession of soldier and doc- tor. He was appointed assistant surgeon general February 14, 1902. e e el @ TRIBUTE OF ROOSEVELT ON THE BIER OF CRAIG Funeral of Secret Service Agent Killed in Accident Held in 3 Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Funeral services for- Willlam Craig, the secret service man who was killed while .ccompanying Pres- ident Rooseveit on his tour, were held to- day. The services, which were conducted by the Rev. Willlam W. Wilson of St. Mark’s Episcopal’/Church, were simple. Mrs. Craig was so overcome by grief that she was unable to attend the funeral. President Roosevelt ordered a large floral design and one was sent by the members cf the national secret service stationed at Chicago. The interment was made in Oakwood Cemetery and the pallbearers were all colleagues of Cralg, including Chief Por- ter and Lieutenant Gallagher of the Chi- cago station. The offices of the depart- ment in the Rand-McNally building were closed all day out of respect to the mem- ory of Craig. English Workingmen Will Assist. LONDON, Sept. 6.—The Trades Union Congress at its final session here to-day re-elected Sam Woods secretary and ap- pointed Edward Edwards of the Miners’ Federation and M. Armandale of the United Mine Workers as delegates to the congress of the American Federation 'of Labor. The congress passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the American workingmen in ‘“resisting trusts and rail- road presidents,” and promising them im- mediate financial support. Another reso- lution congratulated the tinplate workers of American on “resisting the reduetion of 25 per cent in their wages attempted by the trust,” and expressed the hope that everything would be done to prevent un- fair competition in the wage rate of the men on both sides of the water. ’ Salaries of Priests Stopped. BREST, France, Sept. 6.—The Gove: ment has stopped payment of the salariés of sighteen priests, belonging to the vari. ous parishes of Brittany, who took promi- nent parts in the recent troubles accom- panying the . closing of unauthorized schools. 4 _— ARSENIC POISONS SCORES Thirty Are Dead and Hundreds Dying at Mapini. Spring Water Carries Scourge to Mex- ican City. Wholesale Havoc Due to Natural Supply of Drug. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 6.—Thirty dead and several hundred in a dying con- dition is the report from Mapini, Mexico, as the result of the poisoning of the wa- ter supply by a natural spring of arsenic at that place. The news of the catastrophe reached this city this afternoon in a telegram from that place from a source that is re- liable. The sick number close on to 300 and many will die, according to the dis- patch. The spring of poison broke out on the mountainside and mixed with the wa- ter of the reservoir unknown to the in- habitants. of the city, evidently in the night, as the people were taken ill near noon, when they had just about time to get the fresh water from the mains and get _the poison through their systems. As the water supply of the city comes from immense natural springs on the mountainside, the arsenical spring could easily run into and mix with the water that was thus cgrried through the mains to the unsuspecting victims in the town below. - ~CAUSES AWFUL FEAR. Thé*Poisoriing' catised a great sensation at first, and the municipal and State af- ficlals were puzzled, thinking that some terrible plague had struck the place when the people began dying by the dozen. As those nearest the reservoir on the moun- tainside seemed to be affected worse than those In.other sections of the .city, this gave the officials a clew, and later it was discovered that the water was reeking with the most deadly poison. Further investigation gave the startled officials a successful clew to the apparent plague, and remedies were at once sought to save the afflicted. Messengers were | dispatched to all the mining camps and |'surrounding towns for medical assistance, | and arrangements were made to supply the place with fresh water, as every one | feared a repetition of the poisoning should the springs in the vicinity of the town be used. Physicians were more easily secured than fresh water, owing to the primitive method of carrying it, and now there promises a water famine among those | who are not dying from poison. MANY AMERICANS THERE. The city of Mapini is the headquarters for a large mining section, and many Americans are there, and as a result there is much concern here lest there be Americans among the dead or dying. The bellef of doctors i8 that most of the suf- ferers got their water from the farther the reservoir. The phenomenon of the arsenical spring alone has caused a sensation, but the great destruction has appalled even those accustomed to hear of most strange things from Mexico, and there is great concern among the people lest more of the springs acting on the principal of the West Indian volcanoes follow the ac- tion of this one and break out through that section which is largely inhabited by miners and mine operators from the States. BODIES OF THE FAIRS ARRIVE IN NEW YORK Remains Occupy Chapel on the Ves- sel, but No Friend Accom- panies Them. NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The steamer St. Louis, which arriyed to-night from South- ampton and Cherbourg, has on board the bodles of Mr. and Mrs. Fair, who were killed while automobliling near Paris. The bodles are in hermetically sealed coffins and they are in a mortuary chapel made expressly for them. The chapel is richly decorated with flowers and draped with black. No one accompanied the re- mains. s EECICS. Plans for the World’s Fair. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6.—The first ground plan to include the entire territory to be covered by the bulldings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and World's Fair just issued gives the location of the fol- lowing features on the site: Agriculture building, horticulture” buliding, camping grounds for the military companies and uniform rank of non-military organiza- tions, the French Government pavilion, the Philippine exhibit (to cover forty acres), concessions, State buildings and the press. buildings. This plan locates State buildings definitely on the plateau at the southeastern end of the grounds. ———— Troops ‘Suppress Riots. AGRAM, ' Hungary, Sept. 6.—Serlous anti-Servian riots Which occurred at Broad, Slavonia, have been suppressed by 2 battalion of infantry. Two editors have been arrested for printing scurrilous arti- cles which incensed the Croatians. end of the supply pipes far away from | Chicago Man Who Killed His and Mother Commits Suicide. 3 7 \ )Sweetheart SEVENT Y-FOURTZE. \SZZT‘.’F 077?!2‘73, CHICAGO, WHERE THE TIITCHELL VYRS FC BPoo = TILNNIE 5 e oo HICAGO, Sept. 6.—The body of a'man believed to be Willlam Bartholin, accused of the mur- der of his ‘mother and sweet- heart in Chicago a month ago, was found in a field near Lowther, Towa, 290 miles from Chicago. 'He had been shot in the head ard a pistol lay near by. In the man's pocket was a letter con- fessing to the murder of ‘“‘two women” in Chicago, and one signed ‘Minnie Mitchell,” the name of Bartholin's mur- dered flancee. Nothing was said of the death of his mother, Mrs. Anna Bartho- lin, whose body was found in the base- ment of her residence in Chicago three weeks after her son fled. The body was -removed to:Riceville, where it was recognized as that of a man who had been in the vicinity for some time. A number of persons who had talked with him recalled that he had given the name of “Willlam."”” To others he had said he was ‘Willlam Boscoe. At the hotel he had registered as “Willlam Edwards."” 3 to-day, and it is presumed that l( was then that he took his life in despair . of eluding the police and in terror of being captured. F : The town authorities at once noted tho resemblance the body bore to the descrip- tion of the Chicago fugitive. It was then that a more - careful examination was made and the note confessing - the murders was found. WILL EXHUME BODY. The town authorities buried the body, but it will be exhumed to remove —any doubt as to the identity of the suicide. Bartholin's note referred to the two murders and declared that no one except himself was concerned in the commission of the crime. The note filled one and a quarter pages of letter-paper and was signed “Willlam Bartholin.” & Other letters found on the body were written two years ago and were signed «M. M. The initlals are supposed to stand for Minnie Mitchell. The body it- self furnishes several points which are similar to those in the amended police description of ‘Bartholin, issued August 13. ' Chief of these is the upper false teeth. The undertaker who handled the body found in Towa said to-night that the dp- per teeth were false and ‘'set in a white plate.”” As to whether there ywere ‘two gold crowned teeth in the body—another means of identifying Bartholin—the un- dertaker could not remember. It was ap- parent that death had occurred several days ago and to this fact is due the ob- literation of some of the points relied on for a full identification. & Unable to receive any of thg informa- tion from Riceville, Chief O'Neill to-night sent two officers who were personally ac- quainted with Bartholin to the scene to establish his identity. They were accom- panied by Robert Mitchell, brother of the murdered girl. He disappeared a‘' week ‘ago, * The confession ' was dated August 31, and-in it ‘the writer declares that he killed his mother for her money and-later murdered his sweetheart. ~Bartholin ac- cuses Minnfe Mitchell of being a party to the plot to0 murder his mother. The murder of Mrs. Bartholin, the con- fession runs, was accomplished according to a plot arranged between the two 'lov- ers and later Bartholin killed Miss Mitch- ell. o The confession states that Thompson, Claffy and Counselman, the other sus- pects are gullty of no complicity in the murders. STORY OF THE CRIMES. The Bartholin murder mystery, which has kept the police of many cities on the alert for the past month, has been a most difficult one to unravel. ” On’ Thursday evening, August 7, the police of Chicago discovered - the dead body of a woman lying in a vacant lot in one of ‘the busiest portions of the eity. The corpse was entlrely -destitute of clothing and no clew to Its identity could at first be fovnd. Later developments proved that thc body was that of Miss Minnie Mitchell. In- searching for .the murderer the police ascertained that 4 young man named William Bartholin was missing from his home and on the fol- lowing Saturday evening they discovered another dead body, which ‘proved to be that of Bartholin's mother, Mrs. Annie Bsr‘mlln‘ The -second body was found burfd beneath the cellar floor of the house in which she had lived and in the left temple was a jagged wound. The neck and head showed that the woman had been strangled or smothered. As soon as Mrs. Bartholin’s body was found the search for the son was re- doubled, as the police were in possession of evidence that he had slept in the house where the body was found three weeks after his mother had been murdered and six days after he was supposed to have killed the Mitchell girl. BARTHOLIN WAS IN DEBT. There secems to have bgen no apparent motive for the Kkilling of either of the women, except it be that Bartholin was in debt and by getting his mother out of the way he would come into possession of considerable property. As for the mur- der of Miss Mitchell, it is thought that Bartholin suspected that sne knew of his first crime and murdered her to prevent her informing on him. The search of the police of Chicago has been unremitting and subsequent devel- opments substantiate their theory that Bartholin committed the crimes for gain. A few hours before Mrs. Bartholin was murdered she received $40, and possibly ‘more, as she was about to sell her house. Before her body was found the police discovered several articles of clothing which were saturated with blood and ‘which must have belonged to some nr‘ ¥ | A CHICAGO MURDERER, ONE OF HIS VICTIMS AND SCENE OF HER DEATH. | * +* son other than Mrs. Bartholin. Other evi- dence’ pointéd * to the fact that Miss Mitchell was murdered in the same house and’ her body carried to the place where it was found. SEEN ENTERING THE HOUSE. Bartholin was seen to enter the house where he lived on, the evening before the body .of Miss Mitchell was found and it was learned that he and Miss Mitchell were tcgether that night. Several wit- nesses were found that testified to have Ing seen a laundry wagon drive up to the house of Bartholin on the evening of the finding of the body of Miss Mitchell, but none of them could identify the occupants of the vehicle. A number of suspects have been at- rested in Chicago and two of them have been held by a magistrate pending furthex developments. Bartholin is known to have had a violent temper and those best acquainted with the family say that he ana his mother often quarreled and for weeks would live in the same house without speaking. — ORDERS OF JAPANESE STOP ISLAND SEIZURE State Department Informed of’the Peaceful Occurrences at Mareus Island. TWASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Acting Secre- tary Adee has been informed by the Jap- anese legation here that Captain Rosehill, who undertock to lay claim to Marcus Island and take possession, arrived om that island on July 30 last. He was met there. by a Japanese warship, the com- mander of which handed to him letters addressed by the State Department, point- ing out the advisability of his avoiding any forefble demonstration to support his claim. The- captain accepted these letters as sufficient and left the island about a week later. He has not lost any right he might have had, according to the State Depart- ment, and if he has any just claim it may be pursued to a conclusion in the usual diplomatic channels. ™ ’