The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. ROCKEFELLER S AUTHOR OF TELEGRAMS Messages Not Same as That Sent to Quay. President’s Anger at * Their Tone Leads to Publicity. t denjes telegrams ncluded the egrams were signed by at least was REPORTED IN PARIS THAT POPE IS ILL — SYMPATHIZES WITH THE HUMBERTS Celebrated Case De- ps Some Interesting Fea- tures and Facts. \ e hearing of the taking Humbert case for both sides Rosseau , Cattui; ded Mme. The- er Humbert in PUBLIC n of the tim which of the y. Sev- motion for Cortelyou. Geo i | | i i o~ | | PRICE FIVE CENTS. 'S ALARM RINGS THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA. DIPLOMATS WILL STRIVE WITH BALKAN CRISIS TROOPS AWAITING BATTLE > HE difficulties existing in the Central American republics | threaten to precipitate a general war of startling propor- tions. The mustering of armies and the rapid preparation for strife, particularly along the frontier of Guatemala, appear to \ indicate that the little nations are sertously minded and combat. desire L 4 DEPEW'S MERBINENT WERES Y WOES FOR THE GOLONEL Flow > Bingham Interrupis of Wit and Arouse Vrath Senator quite sure the President so much noise out here. cases.” ant, but made Later he urged fer to another post. CONSTABULARY REPULSES ATTACK OF LADRONES —A hundred ladrones MANILA, Feb. ttacked the town of Nanjan, lsiand of esterday. constabulary after cattering fight, lasted several hours, during which killed and one wounded tidren living in the 1 them a town were Inspector of mounted through Balacan.e rating, bu them ckett, with a large force copstabulary, has swept rthern Rizal and Southern ere ladrones - ave been ope- he failed to find a -trace of B o SAILORS BADLY BEATEN BY PORTLAND “CRIMPS” Feb. 12.—Three s Pearson and d .ast night by PORTLAND, Bengt ailors, harles ur 1o Cyren, ay Buren is belleved to have murdered and his body thrown into the river or secreted somewhere on the water front i Cyren and Pearson are badly beaten The men had not paid tribute to the | saflor boarding-house masters and were | on their wdy to the ship Riversdale, ly- ing In the stream. On reaching the Vie- | toria dock they were attacked by four | men. Buren never reached the ship and his nions assert that he was thrown |into an express wagon and hauled away. WOMAN OF WEALTH HIZARDS HER LIFE CATCHING A TRHIR Spectators Cheer Mrs. Cor-‘ nelius Vanderbilt in the £outh. The Call 12.—It ‘was die 58 of footy that bilt this a sec- escaped 't forty hundred d in catching the train as it drew dash several tor saw Mrs. Vanderbilt 1 gallantly pulled the bell cord, t the train did not come to a stagdstill until after she had reached it. If the cen- ductor had not pulled the bell at all Mrs. Vanderbllt would have caught her car. There is: a local ordinance which pro- hibits trains.ruhning within the city iim- its at more than six milés an hour, and Mrs. Vanderbilt was certalnly making a ten-mile clip. GAS PLANT ACCIDENT FATALVTO FIVE MEN CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Five men met death and ‘ten were overcome to-night.by gas escaping from the purifying box in the plant of the Northwestern Gas Light and Coke Company at Blue Island. The men, under the direction of Super- | intendent Russell, had been engaged in changing “the purifying box. According to the statements of men at the plant, when the men finished the work of chang- ing the substance in the box they did not clese the covers of the box. When the gas was turned into the box for the purifying process it escaped in volumes end the men were overcome where they stood. The dead: s MARTIN C. RUBSELL, superintendent. GEORGE ARNOLD, fireman. JOHN LUNONG, laborer. J. LARSON, laborer. ALBERT KATOLPH, laborer. The injured: Willlam Black, foreman the engine-room, serfous; ‘Carson Kng- d, foreman of digging force; eight la- borers, names unknown. Jumps From Second Story Window. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12—Delirious and imagining she was taking part in a stage | gascar give detalls of a serious outbreak were attacked by Government troops on | scene, Miss Lillan Nester, an actress, sprang from a second-story window of the Baptist Hospital to-day and struck on her head on the granitold pavement. She sustained injurles that may prove fatal swinging ! \J ALEXANPER, 7700 EUROPE NOT VER VIR, EAGER FOR VAR HE situation sn Turkey continues to disturb the European nations, and a strenwous effort is being made to prevent a war, Austria and Russia are especially anxious, and have sent warmng to Bulgaria that there must be no acts which would involve the mations. | \GovernmentsFear | the Clash of | Armies. 1 1IE A, t is reported i i A ol A 1 he that and Russia | ROYAL PERSONAGES WHO ARE CONSPICUOUS IN THE MACEDO- “ | Bave. werened Tlgarin. tu. alinteis NIAN AND BULGARIAN DIFFICULTIES AND A VIEW OF THE | | from Spy. metgiten: BRALY (8. jee- TERRITORY, BLACK LINES INDICATING RAILROAD ROUTES. 1 cipitate war and that It was this " | | warning that induced Bulgaria to semi- Rt A offiially deny to-day any mobilization of her army. + Three Thousand Salvadoran Troops ANAMA, Feb. 12 ¥ Three thousana Salvadoran to be near the frontier of Guate- mala. This startling information was conveyed in advices which | reached here to-day from San Jose, Costa Rica, saying from the republic of Salvador arrived at San Jose February 6, bringing several proposals for the formation of a triple alliance between Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rlca against Guatemala and to further the plans for the proclamation of the union of the Central American repub- lcs. | REBELS BURN VILLAGE | AND KILL INHABITANTS in the Southern Part of Mada- gascar. | LONDON, Feb. 12—A dispatch !rom‘ | Paris announces that mafl advices re- | celved there from the island of Mada- which occurred recently in the southern | part of the island. A force of rebels at- tacked and destroyed a village and mur- dered its inhabitants. Detachments of troops pursued the rebels and killed a hundred of them. The French also- sus- tained serfous losses, | Near Guatemala’s Frontier. troops are reported | that a diplomatic mission | | Serious Outbreak of’ Natives Occurs | Fifty-Five Soldiers Killed in Vene- ST. PE SBU Feb. 12.—M. Bakh- metieff, the ‘Russian diplomatic agent at Softa, who came here to see the Czar and r, Count Lamsdorft, is said to have described the situation Macedor.ia as leaving little hope of a peaceful solution. The Russian Govern- ment is therefcre now more intent in ef- f forts to localize the outbreak than hope- ful of any outcome to the Austro-Hun- 1 In pursuance | the Foreign Ali n | According to these advices the whole of Central America may be invelved in war, as the political conditions are most critical. The civil war in Honduras con- | tinues and Guatemala is alding the ad- |Barlan scheme of reform herents of Bonilla, the elected Presideat |of this object Russia has advised Bul- of Honcuras, who is unable to assume |8aria to declare a state of siege in agi- office owing to the opposition of General | tated districts. Slerra, the President of the °republic CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 12.—Fourteen whose term has expired. | battalions of Redifs (emergency militia) Nicaragua and Salvador are understood |©f the Third Army Corps, whose head- to be co-operating agalnst Guatemala | QUATters are at Salonica, have been or- | and to be furnishing the enemles of the |deréd to join the colors. According to of- Guatemalan Government with arms and | ficial statemerits these troops are in- | ammunition. | tended to replace the reserve battalions g called out to quell the Macedonian out- * @ | break last autumn. The latter are still | under arms and it is generally | they will be kept with the colors. CONFIDENT OF PEACE. | Austrians Expect Diplomacy to Pre- | vent Serious Trouble. | VIENNA, Feb. 12.—The principal papers | to-day comment lengthily upon the situa- | {tion in the Balkans. A careful perusal leaves the impression that confidence is still unshaken in the power of diplomacy to prevent serious trouble. The Wiener Journal in a temperate article says: ' Allegations that Austria-Hungary entertains ultra: metives, regarding Turkey are to be em- vhatically denfed. - The fact that variane ra. believed* GOVERNMENT LOSES IN FIGHT WITH REBELS zuela and British Residents in Peril. i PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, B. W. L, | | Feb. 12—It is reported that Venezuelan rebgls Intrenched in hills at Cuanta 1w date not given and that the lattar were | ! repulsed with loss of fifty-five Killed. The troops threaten' to burn the town. The British residents will take refuge on ! the warship Pallas if ry. The Gov- | ernment troops at lona are dying } from feyer. Doctors ag "scarce, » ——— {* British Gunboat Captur GRS POT 0 POISON OFFEILS ' Inmates of Reform School Fertile in Crime. Plan to Put Bichloride of Mercury in the Coffee. Discovery Thwarts Con- spiracy and Full Confes- sions Are Secured. Spe <Pt . e O SALT LAKE, Fe 12.-Two girl in- mates of St T hool tried institu- their na tenden there fever. of weels turmofl Las the institution Idings and conceived the | of the bich! is pr »nstration a PROTOCOLS TO BE SIGNED. Venezuela Blockade to Be Raised for Cash Payments. WASHINGTON >, 12 probabil- ity is that the protocols for the raising of the blockade which has been ma tained by Englan Germany and Italy against Venezuela for more than a month will be signed by Minis representatives of { here to-morrow. E to that end T indication points Minister Bowen has ferring with the Eng- mbassadors and the rding various fea- very lish and Ital German Ministers re tures of the protocols. with the result that they are practically in final shape The protecols will provide for the rais- ing of the blockade at once for a cash payment of £5#0 to each of the three | allied gov 1 for the payment 1,700,000 bolivars in f to Germany in- staliments, less 00 paid sh. The first installment of the 1,700,000 boli- of March. The protoeols also will | vide for the reference referential treatment to £ the question of The Hague, a be so worded as to leave a loophole the event it is desired to settle the ques- ren, though it is understood this f tion without such re. — DENIAL OF BULGARIA. Semi-Official Note Issued Regarding Reported Mobilization. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 12—The tng semi-offici has al note n issued “The report mobiiization of twe atvigjons of garian army is en tirely unfound pacific t Th of mob- prevails in th T, re has not_ been iliming any part est idea army CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. The Brit- ish Yunboat Barrier has captured in the Red Sea three pirate ships with thelr eu- tire crews.