The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCHI-NO. 29, all. ¢ SAN FRANCISCO, MOFDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902. YEI 003 T0 WEALT 0F MOREHN Wall Street’s King| Richer by Fifty | Millions. | Enormous Profits Mergers He Has Engineered. in Substantial Gifts in Store for Employes of the Financier. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—J. Plerpont Mor- | ¥an is expected to play Santa Claus next | Wednesday for the benefit of the ma employes of the firm of J. Pierpont Mor- gen ‘& Co., and, although a little | out of season, the performance will have | Gramatic interest for the auditors. Last | rear the big financier gave his clerks a | cash gift equal to 100 per cent of their salary for twelve months and this year he expected to make an equaliy hand- scme gift. It is said that the year now nearly at &n end has been a ha T one for Morgan. The net profits of his firm in the various big enterprises he has put through are conservatively estimated at $42,000,000. This is independent of interest and divi- | dends from investment the amount of which no one knows, but estimates of | $10,000,000 are believ to be within the rk The profits which the firm has received r from financing -big indust ial -combinations are thus » estimated: lle N merger with c Coast Line Company, $6,000,000; | Yurchase of Marion Railroad, $350,000; At- | 2 steamship combination, $2.500,000: | x 1 Securities Company, $4.500.000; | ger of harvester compani. £.500000; financing Real Compa underwriting tes S and plants, United States | $3.000,000; additional | syndicate o teel Corporation, $2 90,000, the ear. The biggest ng v r Morgan was his un ful attempt | to get franchises through the London | an under- | Yerkes and badly at that | d the franchises that he MONSIEUR TISSIER STRIKES AN ADMIRAL | Two French Public Men Have an Exciting Personal En- counter. PARIS, De The Figaro this morn- | §ng says that Ad mi al Gervais r"Pfllll])" had a personal 3! t the Ministry of e with M. 1 who is Chief of Cabinet under ) Pelletan, the M ister of Marine. M. Tissier uck the th his fist and was afterward of the office. The Figaro adds ffair will come up at the coun- rs to-morrow Gervais, until he was retired , owing to having reached the age , was the admiral designated to the preme command of the French navy in case of war. - SEVERE EARTHQUAKE JARS THE ISLAND OF SICILY Subterranean Rumblings Precede Temblor That Shakes the City of Syracuse. | 25.—A severe earthquake experienced at Syracuse, s evening. It was preceded by nean rumblings PETERSBURG, Dec. 28.—An earth- k which lasted twenty-three was felt at Bigsk, in the Govern- ment of Temsk. The Governor General of Turkestan in | 2 report to the Czar on the Andinjan dis- | aster says he hopes that within a month will be possible to find temporary ac- modations for the troops and the au- s at the devastated city. ——— ROME. ock Dec PITIFUL TALES COME ZROM SOUTH RUSSIA All Europe Suffering From Cold Weather and Gales at Sea. , Dec. 28.—There have been es along the coast of Great| renewed fall of snow in Scot- mber of vessels were com an for shelter and there wer: exciting rescues off Holyhead and | nas raged for three davs| elsewhere on th are causing much damage. The v of the weather in South. great destitutior brings reports of people eath there. | MESSAGES SENT DAILY TO EUROPE BY MARCONI | Repeated - Trials Bring Constantly Increasing Efficiency and Facility. BAY, N.S8. De t Glace 1 gales causing rozen tc is still ber wiil le ghortly for the Cape Cod station. In the meantime he is sending two or three wessages hy wireless telegraphy | to Europeaily. Some of these dispatehes | sre lengthy. ©ne of the patches w. flirecied 0 cx-Empress Eugenie, 'Holds His Position | vicinity of Coro. | thoritative | Venezuela to Place No Obstacles in | that she RIERA WINS BATTLE IN VENEZUELA Against Castro's | Troops. | Revolutionists Meet a| Government Force Near Coro. Fact That They Are Supplied With Modern Artillery | is Significant. Special Dispatch to The Call, WILLEMSTED, Curacao, Dec. The Venezuelan revolutionists have sumed active hostilities against President Castro. There occurred yesterday morn- | ing a lively engagement hetween 100 revo- lutionists under General Riera and the Government forces at Cauyarao, in the Details of the engage- but it is known here 28— | re- | ment are lacking, that the revolutionists had modern ar- tillery. The Government forces wer cemmanded by General ereno Castillo. The and General Riera retained his position. armistice between the Government the revolutionists has just expired. The fact that the revolutionists have been supplied with artillery is regarded | here as significant. It has been charged that the allies were giving powerful at to the revolutionary foes of Castro, News has reached here from an au- source in Caracas that V cente Gomez, First Vice President of the | republic, intends to carry a bold stra- | tegic stroke against President C tro. General Ziolio Vedal and five other lead- | ing supporters of General Matos, who| had sought refuge here, left the island of Curacao early this morning in a | sailboat, which took them in the direc- | tion of Cumarebo, near Coro, on the | Venezuelan coast. The departure nf[ these men is taken as proof that the re- | volt against President Castro is strength. HOPES TO END BLOCKADE. This Government Concerned Over | Damage to American Shipping. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The Venezu- | elan Government is now in possession of | the complete notes of Great Britain and Germany contaix tions made by the decision was reached that the between Venezuela and the Kuropear governments having claims again: should be referred to The Hague tr for arbitration. United acted as interm in the g up to the of s | | ) ary st ps arbitration | ceptance and now turns over to the Venezuelan » Government the formal work of complet- | ing the basis for a fi hearing before | The Hague. The notes were transmitted to the Venezuelan Government through | United States Minister Bowen at Caracas, | Otfic are hopeful that the govern- ments interested will work harmoniously and conscientiously to reach an early and final solution of the trouble. The admin- | istration is anxious that there soon may | be amelioration of the blockade. It is cer- tain that this Government will use every effort to the blockade called off pending consideration of the questions at issue by.The Hague tribunal, for the | double reason that its continuance is al- | ways a menace to peace and. order and | because of the harmful effects on Ameri- can shipping to Venezuelan ports. have WILL MAXE ANY CONCESSION. | the Path Toward Peace. CARACAS, Dec. 28.—United States Min- Bowen and Lopez Baralt, Venezu- Minister of Foreign Affafr lcaz conference last night. Bo ing instructions from Wa ister con- veyed to Baralt President Roosevelt's re- fusal to act as arbitrator in the Venezu- difficulty. He recommended that the dispute be taken to the international | court at The Hague, which had expre: organized to consider | questions in which the honor of a coun- | t the disposition of territory Wfl'e“ no. concerned. He suggested the organi- | zation of a commission to sit in Wash- ington, the allied powers to be repre- sented on this commission by their Em- bassadors to the United States and Ven- ezuela by a delegate. The commission is to sign @ document setting forth the is- sues to be decided at The Hague court. Bowen also that Germany would not press for an immediate payment and had agreed to accept a guaran- d on a percentage of the cus- eipts. result peace been y or said b: tee om As a telegraphed turn of this conference Baralt to President Castro to re-| from La Victoria. The President reach here to-morrow and Venezu- s answer to the foregoing proposal will be given ther Senor Baralt s expressed the desire that Bowen represent Venezuela on the | commission. If Bowen cannot accept the i= suggested in official circles that given to W. W. Russell, secr: American legation, prepared post it 1 to t the following | agrees to pay ments to be guaran of the e of I beliey all her d ced by stom re 1 loan s, | rantced ubmit the acceptable sorry that President R able o act as arbitrator.” a spe the propes Hague will Castro. | evelt was to | be | i | am un- SN RAFAEL County, is suspected of having | cal crime is preposterous. | than $15,000. | The structure was frame and two stories | demolition of the. structure and .its con- | story Cypress Villa Hotel adjoining was | 'l be out of a job.” Cassidy’s chief ac- | cuser and upon ‘whose statement he wiil | be arrested is E. S. Lansdowe, who con- | o'clock T went in the rear way to feed my IREBUG 15 flLL UG Crafty Incendiary Burns Another Building. | Starts Blaze in the, Business Center of the City. e Authorities Suspect William Cassidy, Son of a Prom- inent Citizen. e Special Dispatch to The. Call SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 28.—For the thir- tieth time San Rafael’s firebug has suc- cessfully caused the destruction of prop- erty. A blaze was discovered about 6 o'clock this evening in a building located on one of the principal business streets | of the city and in one of the places um‘lel'v the suveillance of a watchman. | William Cassidy, son of Patrick Cas s, one of the best citizens in Marin | started the fire to-night. Young Cassidy vehs-i mently protests his innocence and his | father and mother say the idea of their ¢ being the perpetrator of the diaboli- | | | The watchman went home to supper at 5 o'clock, and soon after he left a fire| was started that caused a loss of more The heroic efforts of San Rafael's fire department saved a whole block of business houses from destruc- tion. The Cypress Villa Hotel, adjoiming the building In which the fire was start- | ed, suffered several hundred dollars’ dam- age. The department responded quickly to an alarm that was sounded when a fire | was discovered in the rear of the Wil-| liams block, at B street. Peter Wil- | llams conducted a furniture store and | storage warehouse, and E. §. Lansdowe an upholstery busifess in the building. high. So well had the work of firing (he‘ bullding been accomplished that the total | tents was inevitable. Every attempt to| get the furniture out was futile, and the firemen devoted all their energies to save the adjoining structures. CYPRESS VILLA IS SAVED. | It was with difficulty that the three- | saved. The roof and one side of the hotel were badly damaged. Peter Williams owned the building de- stroyed. It is a total loss and there was only $2000 insurance upon it. The furni- ture store, which contained $8000 worth of stock, is totally destroyed; no insur- nce. , Lansdowe, who carried on an upholstering business, will lose about $1000, partly covered by insurance. Nearly $5000 worth of furniture which was stored | in the warehouse was all burned. | Willaims, the greatest lofer in the fire, 1 had been warned twice before of the in- | tention of the fire bugs. The first time a lighted candle placed in the center of a pile of rags saturated with coal oll was discovered in the rear of his furniture ore. The second warning of impending disaster was in the form of a note found under the front door of Williams' es- tablishment. It bore the inscription, “Look out or your place will be next.”” | Williams took every precaution possible to prevent the destruction of his property. He was unable to secure any insurance on his stock or a larger policy on his build- ing, but he secured a double-barreled shotgun to use on any one found prying | around his place. THIRTY FIRES IN ONE YEAR.| George Williams, a son, took up his | vigil at 6:30 every evening and femained | until morning. To-day being Sunday | young Williams went to his watch tower | in the rear of the store earlier than usual, but left about o'clock to get his supper. Lansdowe was in the rear yard and fed his horse about 5 o’clock, leaving the building about fifteen minutes later for his home. The fire was discovered a very short time afterward. O#f the thirty fires started in San Rafael during the past vear all have been con- fined to a certain district and as a rule have been started in barns. The Cypress Villa Hotel was set on fire 1 months ago, but the blaze was discovered in time and no serious loss re- sulted. The building of H. Gieske, situated on the west side of the Willlams block, has been twice set on fire anc once was badly damaged. The total loss thus far caused by the fire bug will amount to more than $0,000. The fire to-night is by far the most serious one. WILL SWEAR TO A WARRANT. Williams, whose loss will amount to $10,000, asserts that he will swear to a war- rart for Cassidy’s arrest. Young Cassidy employed by Willlams as a delivery gon driver, He was at the fire to- night and to a companion voéiferously la- mented his employer’s loss saying: ‘“Now seve ducted a business in the Willlams block. lowe said in an interview late to- night: “When T went to my store at about 5 horse. 1 noticed that the door to my workshop was open and I entered. As I @id so 1 met young Cassidy. I asked him what he was doing there, to which he re- plied he was there to get his gun. I told him to get out. I looked all around, but did not go in the hair room, the place PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRETENDER TO MOROCCO’S THRONE . ROUTS THE ARMY OF THE SULTAN Complete Victory for the Invader, Whose Identity Is Not Known to the Ruler Whose Crown He Seeks. 1 | | (2 - -t TORPEDA SHILS. I} MIDAIR LIKE SOIING B Professor Myers Re- ports Success of Invention. Has Full Control Over Move- ments of His Aerial Machine. * Special Dispatch to The Call. UTICA, N. Y., Dec. —Professor Carl Myers of Frankfort to-day reopened his balloon farm and announced the comple- tion of an electric aerial torpedo. The aerial torpedo flies like a thing of life. It is driven by two aluminum screw blades which make 2000 revolutions per minute. The blades are rotated by an eléctric motor which obtains its power from an ordinary incandescent lighting current of 110 voits, The movements are directed by twe aeroplanes, acting as. rudders, which move #he vessel up or down, right or left, in circles, spirals or cycloids—in all direc- tions in midair as freely as a bird flies. ORDERS EXCOMMUNICATION OF NEW CHURCH IEADERS | Pope Takes Steps to Combat the Na- tionalist Movement in the Philippines. ROME, Dec. 28.—The Tribuna says the Pope has ordered , the Aréhbishop of Manila to excommunicate all persons who endeavor to promote the creation of a national church in the Philippines. @ il @ where the fire was started. 1 locked the rear door.” The driver for E.- H. Conway, a plumber, claims he saw Cassidy emerge from the yard just before the fire alarm was sounded. Young Cassidy was seen by the police and closely questioned, but they did not take him in custody. When a Call reporter visited the Cassidy ho: the lad could not be seen. The fatl protested his son’s innocence, claiming his boy was at home between 5 and 6 o’clock. Young Cassidy’s conduct here- tofore has been exemplary. The au- thorities will not divuige yet just what their evidence against him is, but re- luctantly proclaim he has. been under suspicion for gome time. Cassidy is 18 years old & As I went out : . o, PSS oo | | | * DIRECTOR OF THE MOROCCO SULTAN'S AGAINST THE PRETENDER, COMMANDER OF THE FORCES AND A COMPANY OF HIS FIGHTING MEN. -} MILITARY OPERATIONS IMPERIAL SIS GOVERNNENT REFLSES O EXPEL PRINCESS LOUIGE Gives Refuge to the Eloper Despite the German Legation’s Re- quest. e GENEVA, Dec. 28.—Newspapers here allege that the Swiss Government has refused the request of the German lega- tion to expel the Crown Princess of Sax- ony from Switzerland. VIENNA, Dec. 28.—According to an in- | terview published here Archduke Leopold has refused to sign a renunciation of his rights as an Austrian subject. Emperor Francls Joseph insists that the Archduke resign evetything and never return to Austria. The Archduke claims the pay- ment of his appanage and dcclares that he will take every legal step to fight against exile. He says he will never abandon his rights as an Austrian sub- Ject. BRUSSELS, Dec. 28.—The Petit Bleu has published M. Giron's own story of his relations with the Crown Princess of Saxony, in which he admits the pater- nity of her sixth child —————— MILES TAK.S LUNCHEON WITH DOWAGER EMPRESS Ladies of the American Legation Also Guests of the Chinese Imperial Family. PEKING, Dec. 28.—The ladies of the American legation and Lieutenant Gen- eral Miles and his party were entertainzd at luncheon to-day by the Dowager Em- press and the Emperor. United States Minister Conger also gave a diplomatic dinner in honror of the general. To-mor- row the Minister will entertain at dinner a number of Chinese officials to meet | General Miles ; GREATER NEW YORK'S SUNAY GHAPTER OF VIOLENT DEATHS Four Cases of Suicide and Five Fatalities From a Variety of Causes. W YORK, Dec. 28.—Nine persons met violent deaths in Greater New York tc-day. Four were clear cases of sui- cide and the others resulted from a va- riety of causes. Mrs. Hugh Mooney drank carbolic acid and died before a physician could attend her. Her husband said she had tried twelve times before to commit suicide. Mrs. Mary Clarke, aged 45, wife of the chief officer of the steamer Beverly, died from the result of gas poisoning, self- acdministered. George Simon, 46, and Jacob Schwartz, %5 vears of age, died after drinking car- Lolic acid. i Mary Stack, aged 24, of Whitonsville, Mass., was found dead in a hotel. Escap- ing gas is given as the cause. An un- identified man was found in her room un- conscious. Mary Serles, aged 38, drank wood alco- hol and died in a hospital. Henry Bunkey, aged, 27, was found on the sidewalk with a fractured skull and died later. Two men are dead as the result of falls, one in the power-house of a street raiiway company and the other in a lodg- ing-house. An 18-year-old girl unsuccessfully at- tempted suicide by swallowing carbolic cid and a woman 32 years old hanged herself in a police station, but was cut dowr in time to save her life. Death of Bishop of St. Albans. LONDON, - Dec. 28.—Right Rev. John Wogan Festifig, Bishop of St. Albans, dead. £ B s e Imperial Sol- diers Flee to Fez. —_— ONDON, Dec. 28.—The complate rout at Taza of the Moorigh imperial army by rebeis under the leadership of the pretender to the throme, which was re- ported on December 23, has been officially confirmed. The imperial forces abandoned their guns, rifles, am- munition, tents and beasts of burden and fled precipitately to Fez. TANGIER, Morocco, Dec. 26.—On De- cember 22 ten thousand Sherseflan troops, commanded by a brother of the Sultan's Minister of War, received orders to con- centrate and take the offensive against the pretender at Taza. Before the Sheree- fians moved upon him the pretender at- tacked them with large bodies of cavalry. The imperial army was surrounded, com- pletely routed and fled in disorder toward Fez, abandoning all materfal of war. The first fugitives arrived at Fez on the morn- ing of December The gates of Fez at present are shu shops there are closed and the populatiom is greatly excited, but there has been ne disorder. The European colony of Fes, numbering about tweaty persons, is tak- ing no steps to leave the town and appear to be satisfled that there is no !mminent danger, although the situation is regard- ed as serious. It is said that the pretender's followers have received numerous additions since his successes and he is already negotiat- ing with the tribes of the Wedmaweb Valley. The population of Fez is reported to be generally hostile to the Sultan and ready to acclaim any pretender who will guarantee the town from pillage. No details of the imperial losses have vet been reported here, but it is rumored that 2000 of the Sultan's soldiers were killed or wounded. The authorities here are trying to minimize the disaster. It is declared that a section of the imperial troops sent as reinforcements deserted to the rebels and aided in driving the loyal troops back to Fez. The identity of the pretender is still shrouded in mystery. The ract that Moors of high station have accepted inferfor positions under him conveys the impres- sion that he is some chief of note, but the Sultan is in ignorance as to who is threatening his throne, PREDICTS FALL OF FEZ. Correspondent Says the City Is In- capable of Defense. LONDON, Dec. 29.—In a dispatch from Fez, dated December 23, the correspond- ent of the Times says he believes the situation to be critical. “I have reasons to doubt the loyalty of the inhabitants of Fez” says the cor- respondent. ‘“Both the Governmesnt and the Europeans here ridicule my appre- hensions of an acute crisis and my esti- mate of the pretender’s strength. I am leaving Fez imediately.” The Times also publishes a dispatch from Tangier, dated December 27, in which the correspondent says: “I got away from Fez just in time. I arrived here this morning with the first news of the disaster. The rebels are reported to be marching on Fez, which is incapable of defense for more than a few days, owing to its position. the absolute lack of a supply of provisions and the ruinous state of the town walls. The population will remain loyal only as long as the Sultan can protect and feed them. Continued on Page 2, Column %