The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1903, Page 1

@ all, VOLUME XCIII-NO. 97, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 7T, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EENE PLANS & TROUBLEFOR - HARRINAN Wall Streetr“Pool" to Make Itself Felt. —e— Speculators Demand Dividends on Rail- road Stock. Gl lash Will Come at Annual Meeting of Southern Pac G COLONEL YORKE REPORTS ON AMERICAN RAILWAYS Decides That Compara o ely Little of System Is Available for Use nglish M are i of the Brit olonel Yorke points out and B urnish v to Lond matte: in t because those cities “out- needed and finance the t leaving the concessions for by private 5 SEARP EARTHQUAKES ARE FELT IN SAXONY Houses Rock for Several Seconds and Occupants Rush Into the Streets. E Mar hquake shocks : - 1. fo ys in the dfs-| gtla Sax in the Erze- Oy 1 ns. Yesterday's shocks of were vio- Grazlitz left the streets. as far as Plouen, Houses at Un- Asch shook for There w the al sec throughout WORKMEN STRIKE BECAUSE BEER SUPPLY IS CUT OFF NEW YORK, March 6.—About 20 em- yes of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating on strike because thelr daily y of beer has been cut off by the The men say the water is unfit to and that three days ago the com- { @ny ordered that no more beer be al- ~ wed in the place. One of the foremen id that every day there was a proces on of beer cans to and from the sa. ted disgrict. = great excite-{ com- | Glass ada ORMAN IS CHOSEN DEMOCRACY’S CHIE MOB CLAMORS FOR THE LIFE OF MURCERER Farmer Who Killed His Wife in Danger of Lynching. Special Dispatch to The Call ENTON A mob s the jail to-night, demanding that Boone d his wife, Ky.. March 6. eorge a farmer accused of hav- be delivered to it two miles »one, who lived about out to-day 1 his wife with a 1 intox was s of having kille club while wak in s He arreste on the ated cc was brought here and placed »on as the news ofi the mur spread to the surrounding a mob was formed and marched ating trouble, the officials pl r of guards around the jail, but be- ttempt will be made lynch the prisoner DEMENTED VISITOR CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE Wants to See the President to Urge the Payment of an Imagin- ary Claim. )N, March 6—A Sweds as Z. Berg of Provi- for an hour to-day t He was urged by the to reduce his’com- This he e One of the secret s interviewed hinf.and found d of hallucinations i id that several vears ago he had the United States Government Spaniards intended to blow up one of s battleships nd wanted tb President to see to it that he received )for h aded to return to ace his claim in the har information. Berg was per Providence and there | < of a lawyer. ADMIRAL GLASS REPORTS ALL IS QUIET AT AMAPALA Says News From Iuterior of Hon- duras Indicates the Success of the Insurgent Leader. WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Secre- tary of the Navy has received a telegramn from Rear Admiral Glass, commanding the Pacific squadron, saying that all is quiet at Amapala, Honduras, and that re- ports from the interior of the countrs indicate the success of Bonilla, the in-| surgent leader, and the restoration of | peace shortly. In view of the assured safe of American interests, Admiral his fieet would leave Ama- I to-day for Acapulco, Mexico, pre sumably intending to return to San Fran- clsco. The fleet co Kew York and the cruisers Boston, Mar- bichead and Ranger. e S YOUNG WOMAN SUFFOCATES IN A CROWDED STREETCAR Falls in a Faint and Dies Soon After Being Taken Into a Near- By Store. PITTSBURG, March 6.—Miss Ella Lyde, aged 2, a telephone operator, was suf- | focated this evening in a streetcar. She was forced to stand because of the crush and after riding seven or eight blocks fainted. After being carried into a nearby store she expired in a few moments. R Kyle Gets a New Job. SACRAMENTO, March 6.—Major C. W, Kyle, formerly overseer at the Folsom prison, was, apon the motion of Aszem- blyman McMartin, appointed assistant reading clerk by the Assembly to-day. He will receive $ per day. sts of the flagship | { in_opposition to | committee was named. | ators Gorman e & BECOMES | DICTATOR IN IMOCRAT WHO HIS PARTY'S CONGRESS Maryland Man té Lead Senate’s « Minority. Special Dispatch to The Call EAU, 1406 G STR 'ASHINGTON, March rthur P. Gorman and, who re-entered the Sen after an absenc> mously made Congress at Senators to- eorgia made the Every Senator pre: timents and th e was hardly necessary. hus became the practical di ¥ politics. Not only that, he choice of lieutenants ab- for the caucu: speech. con’s solutely addition making him leader, author- ed steering committee £ nine members nator Carmack of Tennessee was re-clected secretary of the | caucus. Two auestions now before the Senate— the isthmian canal and the Cuban r proeity tr —were only informaily d cussed and no. decision was reached a to the attitude to be taken by the minor- ity. Senator Mor ins the leader the canal treaty in its present” form, ‘and Senator Teller, aided » his colleague, Senator Patterson, will d the opposition to the Cuban treaty among the Democrats. With" the re-entry of Senator Gorman to the Senate and his elevation again to arty leddership in Congress comes at the same time a practical unanimity of senti- ment of the minarity in Congress—a state of affairs that has not existed since the beginning of the Fifty-seventh Congress with the exception of the last few days, when the Democrats in the Senate and House both stood together in a desperate filibuster. The Committee on Fdreign Relations will hold a meetiig to-morrow to con- slder the two treatles, and it is now ex- pected that they will be reported to the Senate again on Monday After the caucus le: to-day the steering It consists of Sen- of Maryland, Cockrell of Missouri, Martin of Virginia, Bacon of Georgla, Dubols of Idaho, Money of Mis- sissippl, Balley of Texas, Blackburn of Kentucky and Tillman of South Carolina, —_— NOMINATION OF STEWART IS PRACTICALLY ASSURED Wins the Majority of the Delegates at the Republican Mayoralty Primary in Chicago. CHICAGO, March 6.—Graeme Stewart, the present Republican National Commit. teeman of Illinols, secured a majority of the delegates at the Republican Mayor. alty primary to-day. The total number of delegates is 940; necessary to a choice 47l Of these Stewart had 531, with five wards to hear from, and John M. Harlan, his only combetitor, 265, and twenty-one delegates are uninstructed. Stewart and Harlan both reside in the Twenty-first Ward, and from it Stewart secured every delegate. o Y5 BOERS STILL GROWD THE PRISONG | | Captain McCallum ' Returns From | ' Captivity. f 'San Fravciscan Tells | Story of Awful 3 Suffering. ; ?Women and Children Herded Like Sheep in Deten- tion Camp. plf- ALl | Special Dispatch to The Call | | i PARIS, March 6.—Captain Malcolm | McCallum of the Irish Transvaal Bri- | gade vho has arrived in Paris on his home to San Francisco from the ish prison camp at Ahmednagar, In- dia, bitterly complains that 300 Boers, in- cluding women and small children, are | still ket there in close bounds, illy fed and clothed, simply because they refuse | to make forme! declaration of their ac- | ceptance of British soverelgnty. The cap- miserable creatures nd hunted night and ain says that these e herded togeth morning like sheep. Callum is hopeful that by giving pub- | to these conditions he nelp to ty eleased in November,"” said ien, because I madiled a MeBride announcing my release and including in my praise of onduct through the war the remark, they sent back r another two months, the cantain, postal card to Majc me bee: nerally supposed that the war is over, but such is not the case as far as concerns those martyred hun- | dreds in India. The camp at Ahmednagar | contains a number of matural idiots, transported from South Afriea simply to swell the weekly average of Kitchener's | pri 2 | ptain McCallum, who has been put his feet’ by the <Man-Na-Gael, res |'turns homre in rutted beetth, which, he . is due to bis having been torn from his b tors, although Kitchener had agreed with | Botha that hospitals and ambulances | | “on should not be molested. |1 MAYOR OF AN OHIO TOWN | SPENDS NIGHT IN PRISON, Takes Whisky to Guard Agninsti Smallpox, Becomes Drunk and | Marshal Arrests Him. FINDLAY, Ohlo, March 6.—Mayor J. B. | Smith of Deshler. editor of the Flag, was | arraigned before Justice Meeker to-ds | | @ charge of drunkenness preferred by his | own Marshal. He waived examination | and was bound over to the Two weeks ago the residents of Deshler had a smallpox scare and the Mayor jok- ingly advised them through the columns is paper to drink whisky The result was that drunkenness became alarmingly frequent and the Mayor called the Marshal up on the carpet and scored him roundly for al- lowing the town to run so loosely. The Marshal explained that many of the peo- ple were only doing as they had been told. Mayor Smith then instructed him to arrest the first man he found intoxi- ated on the streets. Several hours later the Mayor came down the street stagger- ing under the influence of liquor and the officer promptly hustled him to the po- | lice station. In spite of his protests he compelled to remain in a cell all night. | was 2 i hilen el | TURKEY ASKS FOR TIME | TO ACCOMPLISH REFORMS Grand Vizier Ferid -Pasha Says | Pledge Made to the Powe ‘Will Be Kept. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 6.—Ferid { Pasha, the Grand Vizier, to-night made | the statement that ‘the Turkish Govern- ment had been laboring for several | months to ameliorate the conditions of | | Macedonia, where it was spending large | sums, especially in the matter of provid- | ing better means of communication. The Government also had appointed capable and enlightened officials in order gradual- ly to form a new staff of gendarmerie for the whole of Macedonia, some first rate German officers having been engaged for this purpose. | Any outbreaks that might occur, he | said, would be suppressed solely by the | regular troops, but it must readily be | understood how difficult it is to suppress guerrilla bands. It was, therefore, to be hoped that Turkey would not be contin- | ually hampered by complaints of unavoid- | able hitches. The Government had the intention of carrying out'the proposed re- forms to the letter. SCRATCH ON THE NECK S IS FOLLOWED BY DEATH Chicago Millionaire and Prominent Clubman Succumbs to Blood Poisoning at Denver. DENVER, March 6.—James Stettauer, a prominent clubman and- financier of Chi- cago, dled at the Mercy Sanitarium in this eity of blood poisoning resulting from a seratch inflicted on his neck when shay- !ing. The Injury was received a week ago, fA day or two later erysipelas set in and | was followed by a complication of kidney trouple. The ‘body has been shipped to Chicago for burial. Stettauer left a fortune of $5,000,000, Ho came to Denver two weeks ago to attend to business in connection with mining en- terprises. t d in a hospital by his British cap- | | BURDICK MYSTERY GIDES POLICE ONE MORE CLEW — ST BURDIC T FHOUSE - —zoas SO PP - | | THE BURDICK W. PROSECUTIN' “HOUSE OF DEATH" IN BUFFALO, S BRUTALLY MURDERED, AND OFFICIALS WHO ARE A DILIGENT SEARCH FOR MYSTERIOUS ASSASSIN. WHERE WEALTHY EDWIN L. | | | | PISE AT T e W T | . . Young Woman Now Sought by De- tectives. UFFALO, March are at work on a new the Burdick murder mystery. They have found a hackman whe drove a young weman to the cor- ner of Ashland avenue and Summer street near the hour of the murder. She carrfel a satchel and walked toward the Burdick house. The police are shadowing some of the women who worked in Burdick's factory. It i¢ said that the new woman in the case has auburn hair. Several days ago it was reported that the police were in search of a.red-haired woman, but the report was emphatically denied by the po- lice and at the District Attorney’s office. It is now intimated that hints and sug- gestions dropped by- the autherities dur- ing the last two or three days fiave been 6.—~The police !a blind to cover up the-real object of | their investigation: In working the other clew they ran across certain evidence that led them to believe that they were on the wrong track. Instead of :breaking off thelr work abruptly it was continued, but with less vigor, while the new evidence was sifted out. An interesting development of the day was the statement made by Chief of De- tectives Cusack that the golf stick theory had been abandoned. He is satisfied that the putter was not used in committing L.the murder. He also expressed the con- viction that the weapon uséd was carried away from the house. He is sure of that, but he is not so sure that it was carried to the house by 'the- murderer. Neither will he venture an opinion as to the kind of weapon used: ¥ Dr. Paine left his office in Batavia to- day and pald a visit to his wife at their Elmwood-avenue home. Both Dr. Paine and Mrs. Paine have retainéd lawyers to look after their . Dr. W. E. Web- ster of Batavia, representing Dr. Paine, gave an interview to-day in which. he de- nounced the methods of the police. P. V. Fennelly, Mrs. Paine's; legal .ad- viser, called on her several times during the day. Mrs. Paine was In a happy mood when a reporter ‘called at her home to-night. “Do you know,” she said with a smile, before any question was asked; ‘‘do you know that the detectives have been with- drawn and that neither myself nor my husband is under surveillance of the po- lce. I feel so happy and free.” . Chief Cusack was asked to-day if his men were watching any « in the Elmwood district. He declined to clew in | INSURGENT FLAGS OVER J | 1 TWO CITIES 'Revolutionists Making | Great Progress in ‘ Venezuela. Special Dispatch to The Call received from the eastern districts Caru- | hera to-day from Maracaibo, Venezuela | cafried only one-third her usual cargo and | brought no coffee. The merchants of Maracaibo say they cannot pay the pres ent export duties, which, they add, are | more ruinous to them .than was the blockade of the Venezuelan coast by the fleets of the allies, Advices recelved here from revolution- ary sources In Venezuela say the revolu- tionists have gathered their forces around Caracas; that all the eastern part of Ven- ezuela except the -city of Cumani is held been unable to call a session of Congress bhécause of the lack of a quorum. KANSAS LIQUOR SUPPLY IS LIKELY TO BE SHORT Railroads Issue Order Prohibiting the Consignment of Shipments to, Fictitious Firms. LOUISVILLE, March 6.—The Courier- Journal to-morrow will say: Whisky dealers who ship goods to Kansas are faced with a proposition In the shape of an order issued by all rallroad lines in that State which ‘probably will have the effect of depressing trade to a consider- able extent. The order requires the pre- payment of freight and the guarantee of the return freight if the consignment is not delivered in ten days, and prohibits the practice of consigning shipments to fictitious individuals or firms. Kansas'is a prohibition State, and this order comes as the result of a State law ply of the “blind tigers” as far as pos- sible. It Is believed the order will have lquors, on consignment. b S5 SRR Police Arrest the Wrong Man. OLYMPIA, Wash.,, March 6.—Sheriff Mills has wired the North Yakima au- thorities to release the suspect they have ‘been holding. His photograph has reached Olympia and he is not Benson. @ g answer the question directly, but ad- ed” that a number. of his men were . detailed In that territory. CARACAS, March 6.—According to news | by ‘them and. that ‘President Castro “has | which alms o cut off the source of sup- | the effect of stopping all shipments of | 'POPE LEO NOW GAINING ' IN STRENGTH Dr. Lapponi Permits Pa- tient to Leave His Couch. ch to The Call. learned on ex- foreign pano and Barcelona have falien into the to delay hands of the revolufionists. The insur- |y e city to await develop- gent generals, Moanaga and Pablo Guz-|ments in con on with the Pope's iii- man, have captured Barcelona, while | ness. General Rolando, with 1000 insurgents, is | Owing to the possibility of there being operating in the direction of Guatire. |a conclave in May, this is regarded as WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, |only a precautionary measure, which pos Mar¢h 6.—The *steamship which arrived | sesses no alarm ficance. How ever, th btedly a feeling extreme pessimism ameng high dignitaries of the church with regard to the Pope's condition, though It is impossible to as- | certain the facts regarding the situation Dr. Lapponi found such improvement in the condition of the Pope to-day that he permitted his Holiness to leave his bed at 10 o'clock in the morning and remain up until 3 in the afterncon. He would not, however, allow the Pope to join the | Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, to he: | the Lenten sermon, which is dellve: every Friday by a Capuchin monk. | If the improvement continues the Pope | will resume his audfences on Monday. | BoLD mIGHWAYMEN ROB | TWO CUSTOMS OFFICERS | - st | Secure Twenty-Five Thousand Dol- | lars, but Money Is Subsequently Recovered by the Police. JOHANNESBURG, March 6.—A desper- ate attempt at highway robbery in the center of Johannesburg was made to-day Two men attacked two customs officers conveying $25,000 to the bank, and throw- ing pepper in their eyes secured the money bags, which they threw to a horse- man who galloped off. The horseman in his flight knocked down a man named Brandon, who was killed. Subsequently the horse bolted and unseated its rider, | who was then arrested and the money | recovered. —_— NEW YORK PATROLMAN DIES WHILE ON DUTY Telephones to Police Station for Help, but Expires Berore Any One Reaches Him. NEW YORK, March &—The telephone | tell at the headquarters of the Brooklyn | bridge police station rang at midnight. The sergeant heard a faint ery: | “Help—doctor—I'm dying!"” He knew the volce. It was that of Pa- trolman Sullivan, on duty at the center span of the bridge. | The patrolmen rushed to aid Sullivan and found him lying dead under the teie- | phone box by the Brooklyn arch, .