The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1903, Page 1

@ all. VOLUME XCIII-NO. 101. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1903. PRICE FIVE I.EADING FIGURE IN BURDICK MYSTERY STEERS AUTOMOBILE BEARING HIMSELF AND WIFE OVER THE BRINK OF PRECIPICE CHAW DEAF T0 PLE OF FINANCIERS Sees No Reason for‘ Assisting Wall Street. it Reckless Speculators May Be Taught Lesson. Regard Treasury as an Ad- junet of the Stock Ex- change Dispatch to The Call, G STREET,NW,, 10 money s interest, ent importance to t the Cabinet e the Secre ctal ation in and at he does not co resent of such a character &s to warrars the part of t elegrams end letter financiers who uation to-day, a: & large measure, re fallure of the passage 1. A majority of the Senate and House of ves were favorably disposed A in the Aldrica reached ve come to re- t of W prem- y Shaw has felt are not such as to jus- this t retary asserted by e principa for fin s the report persistently circuls a Dditter and desperate financial eatened between rival forces ; 3. Plerpont Morgan on one side D. Rockefel retary of the Treasury to become unduly se reports. ows no exercised BRITISH WAR OFFICE DEFIES THE OPPOSITION retary Brodrick’s Army Scheme Will Be Fought Out in Parliament. b 10.+The House of committee of the ed the debate on the army ecretary. Brodrick began ing that the Government 367 men of all stion of an efficient ing the attacks hither- on from both sides of both ses of Parliament. The empire’s de- ds, he sald, were ever Increasing and posed estimate would not be found essive for the colonfes, frontiers, and home defense in the event of the ntry being called upon to defend the ntiers, which was always liable to e pro After a short debate on an amendment reduce the estimate by 27,000 men, the ssion was adjourne —_— SUBSIST ON WILD HERBS AND THE BARK OF TREES VIENNA, March 10.—The distress in Dalmatia ie so severe that the people in parts of that province are reported to be subsisting on the bark of trees and on wild herbs. A committee has been formed in Vienna to raise funds for the relief of Secretary | fusing them | financlers that | ncia) | r on the other. | out on the proposition | 'SAYS VICE CONSUL . TAMPERED WITH HIS | PERSONAL LETTERS {Consul Robert McWade Ejects M. M. | Langhorne From Consulate at Canton and the Latter Hurries to Washington | 1 ECAUSE he thought that 1 Vice Consul M. M. Langhorne had tampered with his pri- vate mafl, Robert McW; United States C 1 at Can- ton, China, recently ejected Langhorne from the consulate, where the latter had been acting as the United States representative during the absence of McWade in America. Langhorne is heading for Washington and satisfaction in Canton and Hongkong tongues of | nations are wagging vigorously. f | | | | @ I | <+ i | is the story brought from the | n the steamship Coptic and s, | v for by men high In the councils R ; o e Government. UNITED STATES CONSUL AT | | McWade returned to his post at Can- | CANTON, ‘WHO FORCIBLY Sepewaieicrirgt it logliocn v |* :EJECTED HIS DEPUTY. | for the purpose of undergoing a sur-- g al operation. This was carried out in ladelphia and on January 3 he sailed As to whether McWade indulged in the on the Coptic. During his ab- Physical luxury of booting his junior down the consulate steps or whether the “kick- ing out” was done only metaphorically, the story from the Orient is not clear. That Langhorne got out, however, is certain. The story of his sudden change of headquarters was soon mnoised about Canton and as American residents and Consuls of other nations learned the truth Langhorne was bombarded with offers of all sorts of testimonials as to his standing in the community, as to his administra- | tion cf the consular office and as to the | utter absurdity of McWade's charges. LANGHORNE LEAVES. Just how much of this friendly aid Langhorne accepted is not known. The other foreign Consuls are said to have met and gravely discussed their posi- tion in the matter, but to have come to the conclusion that the affair “was not their pigeon,” and that beyond testi- fying In a general way to tlLe high esteem in which Langhorne was held in Canton, they could do nothing. ‘Within a few days after the rumpus with McWade; Langtorne left for Wash- ington. He is-coming home by way of the Suez canal and Canton and Hongkong soclety is ewalting with interest the re- sult of his visit to the capital. When the Coptic sailed from Hongkong the McWade-Langhorne controversy was the all-absorbing topic In officlal circles. Langhorne, it is said, has left behind him at Canten a city filled with his friends, who are making McWade's social atmos- phere just as chilly as well-bred freez- ing can make it. sence Langhorne was in charge of the and according to men recently Orient acquitted himself with under circumstances peculiar- ying McWade, it is said, is unpopu- lar witithe American colony at Canton and prominent residents are said to have | showed their appreciation of a temporary change of Consuls by showering many attentions upon Langhorne. McWADE UNPOPULAR. McWade, it is sald, realizes the slender | thread by which he hold the affections of | his countrymen in the Orient. He re- | turned to Canton to find his temporary | guccessor the most popular man in Caston. | Just how much this had to do with sub- | sequent events does not directly appear. It is a fact, however, that the storm | broke before McWade had been many | héurs in Canton. | He had faults to find with many things and is said to have criticized Langhorne's conduct of the consulate in pretty sevefe | terms. The climax came, however, when he accused him, the story runs, of hav- ing opened and read certain personal Jet- ters which had arrived for McWade dur- ing his absence in America. Langhorne made indignant denial. The more he denied the warmer grew his chief, until, with an outburst of the kina of language in which Captain Cushing, the officer recently suspended from the revenue cutter service, lately proved him- self an expert, McWade ordered Lang- horne to take his clothes and leave the consulate. o e e i e T ) the sufferers and the Croatian Archeologl- on strike in Brooklyn to-day in sympathy cal Society has started excavating at the | with the striking employes of the Town- consulate from the | Dalmatian village of Plavno, where in-| gend and Downey yards at Shooters Isl- teresting discoverles are expected, the Im-1 ;3 A¢ the Morse yards alone, 70§ men | mediate object being to provide work for| Lo\ e mye only plant [ the famine-stricken inhabitants of the S SR Y affected was that of the Robins Company commune of Knin. pour . s A where nearly all the mechanics are BOILER-MAKERS’' STRIKE Knights of Labor and where only & fow i EXTEND! el 1s RAPIDLY o At the W. and A. Fletcher Company’s NEW YORK, March 10.—Nearly 2000 | works in Hoboken, 150 boller-makers went “boiler-makers and iron shipbuilders went | on, strike. . | some heaaway. | small NCENDIRY RUINS RICH PROPERTIES Tremendous Losses| in Big Fires at Portland. | Damage Will Reach Over Half Million Dollars. Bl G Police Confident That Torch Was Applied in Sev- eral Instances. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, March 10.—The incendiary, who on several occasions during the last fortnight has applied the torch to prop- erty in and around this city, succeeded to- day in causing the loss by fire of more than half a million dollars. Not only was there a tremendous gon- flagration at the Victoria dock on the east bank of the W:llamette, resulting in $400,000 dama but earlier in the day half a block of frame buildings in Albina, near the Victoria dock, went up in smoke and to-night a large. blaze in the whule-’ sale district will cost the owners of the property $40,000. s the conviction of was destroyed by the police that the ctorfa dock a firebug and there Is evidence that the | er disaster can reasonably be attrib- to the same malign agency. Victoria dock was burfied about noon. The fire destroyed also 10,000 tons of wheat and 2000 tons of salt stored on the dock. | The total loss Is estimated at $400,000. The insurance is about $340,000. It is certain that the fire was started by‘an incendiary’ as a man wus seen leav- ing the dock after the fire had gained The police station was notified as soon as possible, but before an officer appeared on the scene the man disappeared. Three times during the past fortnight fires have been started on docks in this city and it is supposed tnat the same man is responsible for all of them. The fire broke out on the dock shortly before noon and it looked for a while as though the entire line of docks on the east side of the river would be burned and several times Irving dock, adjoining, caught fire, but by diligent efforts on the part of the fire department the flames were confined to Victoria dock and e few | small buildings near by. It was late this afternoon before the fire entirely under control, and great piles of wheat are still smoldering. The barkentine Amazon was moored neer the dock and had it not been for the | fact that the wind was blowing from the vessel she would have been destroyed. Several small houses near the dock were lestroyed, the loss on which will aggre- e $6000. The losses in detail are as follows: en thousand tons of wheat owned by the Northwest Warehouse Company, $250,- 000, fully insured; 2500 tons of salt, owned by M. Stevens & Co., $50,000, fully insured; Victoria dock, owned by E. W. Spencer, $65,000, insurance $35,000; flour machinery and other merchandise stored on the [ dock, $30,000. | Earlier in the day the half block of frame buildings bounded by Mississippi, | Russell and Goldsmith streets, in Albina, not far from Victoria dock, was de- stroyed. Eighteen families who lived in the block were rendered homeless. ground floor was occupied by several stores. The total loss is about $25,000. The fire to-night damaged the stock of Canning, Wallace & Co., wholesale drugglsts, to the extent of $20,000, and par- tially destroyed the building occupied by the firm. The total loss is $40.000, covered by insurance. The damaged building is owned by R. R. Thompson and is located on Front street, near Pine. — @ sieiirimiinieieielaieleeiefesl snjufolukede® @ 7 qlthougt as a matter of fact he had not DISPLAYS HEADS OF CAPTIVES ———— PEKING, March 10.—Yuan Shal Kal, Governor of Chill province, having been informed that the Boxer organization had resumed activity in the eastern part of the province, dispatched troops, who dis- covered that members of the soclety, well armed, were drilling at night in a town one hundred miles east of Peking. The Boxers were dispersed after a dozen of them and several soldiers had been killed. Yuan Shi Kai ordered the prisoners to be beheaded and their heads to be dis- played in public and issued a proclama- tion imposing the death penalty on mem- bers and abettors of the organization. VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION PRESENTS IMPOSING SIGHT NAPLES, March 10.—Vesuvius continues to cast forth colossal columns of flame and thick clouds of smoke, accompanied by subterranean rumblings and slight shocks of earthquake. The population of the villages around are calm and at Por- tici the people crowd the streets, watching i the imposing spectacle. The | Co-respondent in Divorce Suit Pending When Buffalo Murder Occurred De-= | I | | | liberately Races to a Tragic Death Special Dispatch to The Call. UFFALO, March 10.—Arthur R. Pennell, one of the chief figures in the investigation of the Bur- dick murder, was killed this afternoon while riding in his electric automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They were Kensing- ton avenue, near Fillmore avenue, skimming along the edge of the Gehres stone quarry, a huge, rock-ribbed exca- vation. Pennell's hat blew off. The au- tomobile swerved in some inexplica~ ble manner it leaped from the curb into on the abyss. Pennell was killed, his head being crushed. Mrs. Pennell was Injured so se- verely that the surgeons at the Sisters’ Hospital, to which she was taken, say her chances for recovery are very slight. Mrs. Pennell, when found, was unable to speak. She was on semi-conscious when taken to the hospital, and could ut- ter no coherent words. STEERS STRAIGHT TO DEATH. So pecullar are all of the circumstances connected with the affair that the bellef is quite general in this city to-night that Pennell deliberately steered his automo- bile for the quarry, with the intention of thus ending his life. Pennell was named as co-responde: in the divorce suit brought by Edwin L. Burdick, which was pending when the rich manufacturer was murdered two weeks ago. He was to have made an extended statement to-night, de- nying the charges that had been made by Burdick, and it was known that when he LL, VICTIM OF HORROR AT ARTHUR R. PENN AN AUTOMOBILE BUFFALO. BULLETS | WHIZ BY A STAGE Masked Bandit Tries to Loot | Treasurer Box in Ama- | dor County. RSN P R Special Dispatch to The Call. JACKSON, March 10.—In a lonely part of the road that winds through the thick brush from Ione to this town a masked bandit this evening attempted to stop and rob the treasure laden and passenger | crowded stage. ‘When David Phillips, the driver, seem- ingly disregarded the command to halt, heard it, the highwayman opened fire with a rifle and bullets whizzed about the coach. One of them struck a horse, but the frightened animal was not so badly disabled that it could not plunge along with its three mates on a break-neck gal- lop to the next stage station. There the horse fell to the ground and expired. LADEN WITH MONEY. The stage was two and ‘a half miles out from Ione at 5 o'clock, and at a point where the road is lined with heavy un- dergrowth and greasewood. Dave Phil- lips was on the box, and R. E. McCon- nell, the Wells-Fargo messenger, was sit- ting with him. There was a large amount of money aboard with which to pay off the employes at the Keystone mine in Amador City to-morrow. The robber, whose face was covered with a black mask, jumped from the brush just as the stage passed. The pas- sengers, of whom there were a dozen men, women and children, say they heard him previously order the driver to halt, but neither Phillips nor McConnell were aware of the command. SINGING OF BULLETS. Instantly there was the report of a rifle and a bullet zipped alongside the head of Phillips. Then came another, a 1: Continued on Page 2, Column 2. THEATER TRUST IS WARLIKE Decides to“Outlaw” Troupes | That Patronize Inde- | pendent Houses. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 10.—The theatrical syndicate has come to some sort of de- cision, which to-night was sald to be that its members would not allow their the-|* aters to be used for any play that had | been given in any non-syndicate theater. | This agreement will affect several man- | agers who have not been classed with the | independents. . One of these is Richard | Mansfield, who ordinarlly produces his | plays in several out-of-town houses which are not in the syndicate. Another is Kirke La Shelle, who, it is said, has| been responsible for the syndicate’s agreement, because he has announced | that he would take Augustus Thomas' | “Earl of Pawtucket” to the independent | Manhattan Theater rather than have the play barred trom New York altogether. The Independent Booking Agency nn<i | nounces that a new theater has been added to its list—the Ede Theater in San Francisco, to' be managed by H. W, Bishop. It is only being bullt and will be opened about January 1 next. The Independent Booking Agency also has signed contracts for five years for | the new Park Theater, in Buffalo, which will be completed by September 1 next and which will be under the management | of Mr. Shea. = Heretofore there has been no theater in Scranton, Pa., not controlled by the | theatrical syndicate. The new Dixle was opened there last season and has been de- voted - exclusively to vaudeville. Within the last week Henry Dixie, the manager, has made arrangements with the Inde- pendent Booking Agency to open his play- house next season to its attractions, | started upon the automobile ride he was suffering from deep dejection. Pennell left his office at 4:05 o’clock this afternoon. He went to his home at 208 | Cleveland avenue. A friend who called up Pennell on the telephone at 5 o'clock was informed that Pennell was in, but that he was just going out for a .. SHOWS EVIDENCE OF WORRY. Pennell him: answered the tel and said that he would be back between 6:30 and 7 o'clock, making an appointment with his friend at that hour. T he and Mrs. Pennell rode away in the autos mobi It was learned to-night that the subject mentioned in the telephone talk was one which he considered as most serfous and which weighed heavily upon him. It was in connection with the Burdick murder. Recently Pennell made the following statement: “About this case of Burdick, I have told the authorities I went away to New York before the murder and that I met Mrs. Burdick while I was away. In fact, [ saw Mrs. Burdick near New York two or three days before the murder of Mr. dick. I came home again on Wednesday, the day before the murder. I have told It frankly and the meeting was & proper one. But they seem determined to drag all this business out in the papers. I would do anything to stop it.” EXPERT AS A CHAUFFEUR. Pennell *and his wife left their home at 4:50 o'clock. It was a gloomy after- noon, as rain was falling. It seemed a strange day for a man to take his wifs automobiling In the northeast section of the city at such an hour. Pennell was not a veteran automobilist, yet he 3 an expert at handling the machine. He kept his vehicle in the Utica street stu- tion and it was to this station that he sald he went between 7:45 and 8:30 o’clock on the night Burdick was killed, return- ing to his home at about 10 o'clock. So far as could be learned he had never had any accidents. Certainly he was not re- garded as an Incompetent chauffc What was unusual about to-day's pr ceeding, according to the mald, was tha Mrs. Pennell had always before told when they would return. “To-day, however,” said the girl, “when they went out it was Mr. Pennell w told me. Mrs. Pennell went out ahead of him and he came back and called me and said: ‘Lizzle, we will be back & tween 6:30 and 7 o'clock.” I’ said, right,’ and they went away.” WITNESSES THE TRAGEDY. The only near witnesses of the events at the guarry were George J. Dunbar and ‘Willlam Lannen, young men about tweuty Continued on Page 2, Column 3, en w n )