The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 21

NTS. AN ABSOLUTE NECESS”Y; ; So. Thinks at Least NEW CLEWS THAT POINT 10 PEANELL Least One Traveling Man, ® soon think of starting out mileage ooks and , grip- as out on a trip without a box of ablets in my wvalise, T wo - ¥ Be- at all kinds of | have to | it food at all bt, and I don't h will stand that test; as to x Sold Him a Re- volver. about it, tell | nt medicine medicines are 8, « but T notice that they are v 2ining of their aches v and § igestion, while I can | Purchase Made Immediately | ¥ d of fare and feel work when it After the Murder of { I owe my good )] { 1 Burdick. | ¢ f St i the world will never con- Barber Adds Another Link to Chain e Ty vn about threo|” ~©f Circumstantial Evidence | headache about three Against the Dead | standing : ] vears I began Lawyer. i atch and found | SRR S | me the be: 2 1 3 be & Epecial Dispetch e Call psia Tablets, LO, March 28.—Arthur R. Pen- nell bought a revoiver at the N street st of Walbridge & Co. on the morning of F . February , within two hours after the discovery of Edwin L. Burdick's murder and before the news of the crime had been made public. Pennell was an old customer at Ibridge’s and that may be one of the re: s why the police did for I keep my 2 in first class order I don't care for hey are the most edicines and 18t | not learn of the until to-day. B. W. slarity and | gox who has charge of the sporting goods e advertised. | gepartment and who made the sale, told . 5 Ite are what | 7he Call correspondent this afternoon cour e as much as in t he had not related the incident be- il now he did not consider it very e nt "he revolver having been [ 11 P 1] EE ght aft the murder, he said, he al n dismissed from his mind any con- nection it might have with the affair. E e ates‘ les Fox was well acquainted with Pennell, having sold him golf sticks and other e ting merchandise. While waiting for he clerk to wrap up the revolver, Pen- walked nervously up and down. Fox noticed this and after Pennell's departure remarked to another clerk that Pennell | had acted strangely and that he seemed | to be in a remarkable hurry WHAT PENNELL TOLD POLICE. Pennell never told the police or District | about buying this revolver. He | m that when he came down town | o morning after the murder he went | » Hotel Iroquois and was shaved. Then he went to his office in the Austin build- | ing, and, about moon, took a trolley car to the automobile factory at Black Rock. | There, he said, he talked about some re. that were to be made to his machine. | While at the factory he telephoned to his wife that he was going to Nlagara Falls and asked her to follow him, saving he would like to have her view the ice bridge | before the thaw demolished it i Mrs. Pennell acce the suggestion | nd went to Niagara Falls by train, while | iell took the trolley that runs by the obile factory. Before leaving Buf- , Mrs. Penneil bought-the first edi-| of the evening papers and these| contained meager accounts of the mur-| They came from the presses at about 'k and up to that time no men- 2 had been made by the police or any else of the relations between Burdick | Pennell. | Per | saw thes> early reports as soon | as he met his wife at Niagara Falls. He told the police that was his first knowl- edge of the killing of Burdick. INCIDENT IN BARBER SHOP. The Iroquois hotel barber who shaved | | Fennell on the morning after the mur- | der told something new to-day. “Mr. Pennel Spring and Summer ens Now In, STRIPE and ar nply perfec he T PATENTED Spheroid 7 Eye-Glasses / 5 edge came to the shop at about | he sald shaved him. | 3id not get his hair cut, but when I | nished shaving him, he told me to cut his hair a little in front and T aid| =0, cutting it in just a couple of places| that he pointed out to me.” The barber added that Pennell did not | seem agitated. He spoke to Pennell about | » divorce proceedings and Pennell said ere was nothing new in the matter. | Dr. Fell to-day cut a small piece of | | wood from the casing of the front door | of the Burdick house for examination, | Somebody thinks the wood may have been | stained by the bloody fingers of Burdick's | | murder Nobody had noticed the al- | - | leged stains during the four weeks that | o 7‘-,.-‘:-‘72-:; ;h:a\‘e elapsed since the murder until to- | valuatie book for mes) 3 hsnds DDAN & C6.. 105 Market St., 8. F. (( | EVERY WOMAN is interested and should know about the wonderful % N WHIRLING MARVEL S7R5™° | The new Vaginal Syringe. Injection and Suction. —Safest~Most Con- enjent. ItCleanses Iastantly —_— Orders Miners to Suspend Work. BAY CITY, Mich., March 28.—Suspension | of all work by the miners in Mlchigar.l coal mines has been ordered by President Villiams of Michigan district, pending] the outcome of a conference between rep- | resentatives of the operators and the min- ers in the office of President John Mitch. ell of the United Mine Workers. The or- | Ger will go into effect on April 1 and the 1 declaration of a formal strike will depend |on the outcome of the conference. The | | firemen. engineers and pump men will re- | | main at work caring for the mines and | | will not be called out unless a formal | strike is ordered. About 2600 men will be ]mec d. | DT DTV ¢ Ask vour Gruggist for it MARVEL, 2 ed Lok monled. ] = I RN Go to See the White Father. LA, Mont., March 28.—A delega- is departed last night for M1 tion In of Washington, where they will lay before RUSS mousE he President a cemplaint against the - ation of their cattle at $1 a head, where | the number exceeds 10 head, as an- | nounced by Indian Agent Smead in a re- | cent order. In the party are Carlos, chief | of the Flatheads and all tribes on the reservation; Augustus, chief of the Koote- | nais: Insolkan, chief of the Pend | d’Oreilles; Joe Perre, Antoine Moiz and two interpreters. 400 rooms throughout. e head- al men. Located in car iines al IR Drops Dead in His Office. PHILADELPHIA, March 28.—Alexander Balfour Sr., a prominent business man, | dropped dead in his office in ‘the Drexel buldng to-day. Balfour was a director of several local banks, a director of the Keystone Telephone Company-and the Unton Traction Company, and a member of the Board of Inspectors of the Eastern Penitentiary. He was about 70 years of age. ro BITTERS CURES DYSPEPSIA ADVERTISEMENTS. HOSTETTERS ATEQ |Clerk Tells of HavinglEntire | selves are not the most alarming feature | { developed In the levee thirty miles north ! will be shut off to-night. | morning some of the cribbing at the lower | Ecuare HALL’S EGINVIGORATOR ps all los Jundred rewar wELz BIFrRS w sciled” 5 Eiedll | You Feel Run Down and in is “oraers - HALAS MEDL. | need of a tomic.. Most everybody S0 Markét son % | dops in the Spring. Take an oc- ~ | casional dose of the Bitters. It i:lle Weékl_y Ca“. Fwill purify the blood, tone up the system and cure Headache, Heart- $1 per Ycar. Yo of self- Sent sealed, § burn, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Liver :nd Kidney Complaints, promoters of the army in Sweden. HARLAN GIVES TORRENTS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, MARCH UP HIS OFFICE 29 REGIPROCITY WEAR AAY - *THE LEVEE Town of Green- ville Is Now Under, | Water. ! Crevasse Widens Despite the Efforts of an Army of i Toilers. i -—— | 1 Rescuing Parties Are Kept Busy | . Picking Up Endange>d Fam- | ilies on the Inundated | Lowlands. ] | ————— ! ! | YILLE, Miss., March 28.—The| | situation here to-night is quite as serious| | as it ‘was last night, and inch by inch the | flood is spreading to new sections of the | | city, foot-by foot the great crevasse in| the levee five miles to the south ot the| city is widening and mile after mile of | fertile delta land is being covered by the waters as they rush inland from the gap. The developments of the night are awalt- | i ed for with uneasifss, At the crev e forces of men have bat-| tled all day against the raging torrents, fighting for every foot of the levee that e W ANIRER “BY CBANS Island Senate ‘- Accepts the Treaty With All Amendments. Extra Session of the United States Congress Next in Order. H President Is Determined to Com- pel Action Upon the Agree- ment During the Coming Autumn. —_— HAVANA, March 28.—The treaty of re- clprocity between Cuba and the United | States, as amended by the Senate of the United States, was approved #t 8 o'clock to-night in the Cuban Senate by a vote is not hampered by any conditions, the questionable time limit having been dis- | pensed with through the recelpt of the ca- | ble message from Secrctary Hay, in | which it was positively declared that | President Roosevelt would call a speclal | sessfon of Congress prior to December 1. | The purport of this was transmitted to is being caten away at either side of the| g 227 s | the Senate and read at the beginning of crevasse by the seething waters. It Is | | the session, an understanding having very probable that the efforts must be ATTORNEY GENERAL OF POR- been reached previously with Senators abandoned and the levee allowed to 5o, | TO RICO, WHO HAS RE- Bustamente, Capote and Dolz, composing s the crevasse has grown wider with | SIGNED. the majority of the Forelgn Relations each hour, until to-night it is more than | ® Committee, that the objectionable condi- 44 yards across. 2 5% tion in the report be ellminated. This In Greenville very little of the town is free from water, and the rise continues. | although the river itself has fallen izore | Tenders His Resignation as was done by the offering of emendments by other Senators substituting the adop- tion of the amendments to the treaty by a hesdes he American Senate for the qualified ac- than a foot because of the crevasse. It : seems probable that the entire city will Attorney General of °°p'::'g;°°"'al;i;’ in 'h'x‘;"l::;'n‘;’"’"' suffer a disastrous deluge. Rescuing par- . AN HOUSE . ties have been busy all day bringing per-| Ter”torY' Final action was delayed for a long time s¥:1sh1n boats from the low-lying secticns | by hes dlsacus!lou ot an lnm;l;dmenl ot the city ti high ! fered tors Sanguily, Tamayo an thus ;:‘r(‘“’:ereoh;:(fbe;: 25 k!r:oc:\i:nls :;1“‘ ASHUINGTON, - Mareh S l;.er:la. ll"cq:l':n; the H‘o‘:mi to paa: upon life. There have been many reports of James N. Harlan, Attorney | the treaty. Senator Sanguily argued that families having been drowned In their homes and of individuals. having been | swept away, but without exception there tendered his has beengno confirmation in this city Of | take effect April 3, ese reports. The President expressed With the electric light plant disabled | and the town in total darkness and with | the water rising inch by inch, the night| will be a fearful one for the people of | Greenville. But these conditions them best wishes for the future. It is attach of the situation, as a critical point h of Greenville, at Catfish Point. A des-| perate éffort is being made to hold the | levee there and reports this afternoon | were hopeful, but the damage that would result from a break at Catfish Point would be =0 enormous that fear for the levee's cafety must remain until the| water subsides, even in the face of hope- | ful reports. Should a break occur at Cat- | fish Point there Is no -calculating what | would happen to Greenville, Tt 4s estimated that fully 1500 square | miles of territory between Greenville and Vicksburg is under water, and this area is being made larger with each hour. The situation on the Arkansas side of the river remains unchanged and no break is ncw threatened. It is probable that all communication Record-Breaking in Streets. kit 2 Speclal Dispatch to The Call LEVEE MAY MELT AWAY. | Outcome of Efforts to Close the Hy- melia Crevasse Still in ‘Doubt. | NEW ORLEANS, March 28.—Though a | great torrent of water Is pouring through | the break in the levee at Hymelia planta- | tion, the river here shows little tendency | to decline. The early morning reading | was 20.1. By nightfall it was | efforts to close the Hymelia cr S8 abandoned thé levee, built of river sand, will doubtless melt rapidly and produce a crevasse rivaling that at Davis in 1884, when the river here fell with great rapid- ity. Work at the crevasse has pmgressedl steadilyeduring the day. Early in the has brought the season’s record breaker. 1.25 inches fell. | fall to date 44.81 inches, against | season. | inch or so of water will fall | Rain is now falling hard and south wind prevails. done. end yielded to the force of the current, | but the line was raised and good headway | was made. The lower end of the broken | leyee is washing badly and the crevasse is said to be more than 300 feet wide. One hundred thousand feet of lumber | and 50,000 sacks were sent to the scene early this afternoon. The area of flooded land was largely in- creased to-day, but no lives or stock have been lost in the overflow. Locally the situation fs unchanged. While tHe expectation fs strong that the | Hymelia crevasse will be closed the en- | gineers are preparing to throw up emer- gency levees to protect Algiers and the | in the swift current. the men saved themselves by ropes. The boat is now too dangerous to cross. down the stream. many residents living along C General for Porto Rico, called upon the President to-day and resignation, to regret that Harlan had thought it advisable to leave the Government service and extended his id that no political significance to the resignation of Harlan. e o e s e i S R Y ) REDDING FEARS A RISING RIVER fall Causes Flood REDDING, March 25.—One of the big- gest storms of the season Is raging in Redding to-night, and the precipitation rainfall higher notch than it was at even date last ‘year, and last year's rainfall was a | During last night 1.26 inches of ratn fell. To-day and up to 8 o'clock this evening This makes the season's From present Indications another The Sacramento River here Is rising rap- idly, and reports from all sections tell of swollen creeks and much damage beiug This morning the ferry-boat across the river here came near being capsized Five passengers were on the boat. The rolling water, with logs and drift, swept over the boat, und disabled, and even if it were in commission the river is A large dredger that during the jast high water a month ago was carried and left high and dry a quarter of a iuile from the river bank was to-day floated Redding streets in many places are again submerged, and while the constitution was not explicit upon this point, the representatives: in Congress ought to be consulted-as well as the commerclal interests, whose opin- ions the committee had sought eagerly. He cited the action of the United States as a precedent and sald the committee evidently was afraid that the treaty would be defeated If submitted to House. Senator Dolz admitted that this was a good reason and quoted the consti- tution to show that reference to the House was not required. The amendment requiring the Hopse to pass on the treaty was defeated by'a vote of 5 to 16. An amendment to, or Substitute for, the committee’s majority report was then of- fered by Senators Frias, Monteagudo and Belancourt. This approved and ratified all the amendments by the Senate at Washington and recommended that.the Cubans ratify and take actfon conducive to effective reciprocity as soon as pos- sible To this substitute report was added the following: “‘This recommendation , must not be taken as an amendment to or a modifica- tion of the treaty.” Senators Bustamente, Capote and Dolz announced thelr acceptance of the substi- tute report, while Senator Zayas and an- other committeeman argued against it. The chief contention of the last named was the uncertainty as to action of Con- gress. SANGUILY’S VAIN APPEAL. Senator Sanguily, In a long and im- passioned speech against the ratification of the treaty,’ impressively pictured the gradual absorption of Cuba by the United States, In which, he said, the present ac tion was one step. He argued that it wa: practically disgraceful for Cuba to be a party to such a scheme. The vote was taken separately on each section of the substitute report. The vote on the unconditional ratification of the Rain- 1 to a 44.46 las LpEht | 11°to 9. The session of the Senate then ¥Y| adjourned. The ratifications will be ex- changed by cable. United States Minister Squiers sald to- ight: n'FThe ratification of the treaty without assurances given by President Roosevelt that he would call an extra session of Congress before December 1. This action of the President will be appreclated and accepted by the Cuban Government and people as an additional evidence of the most sincere fritndship and interest on the part of the Americans, in whom they have had faith and confidence.” @ it @ grabbing ing close watch to-night and are ready to move out at the least sign of danger. The water is flowing so deep at the east ap- “allaboose thickly settled towns on the west bank north of New Orleans SECRETARY HAY PLEASED. Says Extra Session Will Be Con- vened in the Autumn. WASHINGTON, March 28 —Secretary Hay, when apprised of the action of the Cuban Senate in ratifying the reciprocity tgeaty. expresséd his gratification. Dur- ing the last three days Secretary Hay has been in active cable communication with Minister Squiers and no doubt the actfon of the Senate Committee in receding from its position Was Influenck@® mere or less thereby. But three days remain of the tfme limit within which ratifications can .be ex- changed. Secretary Hay said, however, that as soon as official notification was given by cable of the mailing of -the nec- essary documents the ratifications could be exchanged at once without waiting for their receipt. Secretary Hay added that in his mes- sage to Minister Squiers he gave the posi- | tive assurance that the President would | call an extra session in the fall. The time was not stated, but the Secretary said that Congress would be convened shortly in advance of the regular session to as- | sure its action on the treaty, as required by the Senate amendments, before De- cember 81 Lurline Makes Quick Voyage. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., March 2.— | health for the child. It is of vital im is in control. scription when The little bark ‘Lurline passed Tatoosh | the advent Island this afternoon, seven days from ve them heall San Francisco, for Hadlock. This is one ;n“dnga of the smartest passages that have been made up the coast this winter. The Brit- | ish steamer Maristow arrived from San | Francisco to-day and will load lumber at Port Gamble. Considerable intergst is | manifested on Puget Sound ports concern. | ing the reported wreckage said to have been found near Quatsino. Sound, Van- couver Island. Some shipping men are in- Mrs, W. J. Kidder, of Hill Date burg Ceater), En . Vt., past year 1 found myself ex; aund in rlpllfi( failing health. I fully from was growing perceptil suffered IMK')I sharp pain at times. tved a bouties of Doctor DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. crowning joy ot hood is to have healthy children. But there can be no jo; motherhood without health, and without health for the mother there can be mno rtance for women to know that the health of mother and child i eral entirely within woman’s | The thousands of women who heve used Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- ing motherhood, have testified that it made them healthy and happy in the days of waiting, made tically painless, to give their chil- Farm (Enos- : «During the ng maternity, foating g:ld urin:ry dingdty. J v weaker e a 1 I m that ‘done. - T sought your reply. Took twelve Favorite P proach of the bridge across the river that materially interfered with. e RAIN IN THE COUNTIES. Plentiful Moisture for the Growing . Crops in Many Sections. STOCKTON, March 28.—Another gener- ous downpour has drenched San Joaquin The crownin, joy o ‘woman- that the coming season will be the most profitable ever experienced in the county in the matter of fruit and grain. [t rained steadily the latter half of the night and the indications are that there is more storm ‘coming. SAN RAFAEL, March 28.—Marin Coun- ty was visited by a rainstorm in the last twenty-four hours, season. incessant and 2.64 inches was registered for the storm, making 34.08 inches for the season. SAN JOSE, March 28.—Last night .60 of an inch fell, making a total of 15.57 for the season. To-day there have been sev- eral showers and the sky is black with clouds. The weather is warm and every- thing is favorable for every fruit in the valley. SANTA CRUZ, March 28.—All day long there has been a heavy rainfall. It was especlally heavy during the night. In about twelve hours two inches of rain had fallen, making 6.56 inches for March and 21.95 inches for the season. MILTON, March 28.—Seventy three hun- dredths of an inch of rain had fallen here at 7 a. m. The record for the season shows a fall of 15.75, which is .20 more than for the corresponding time last sea- son. Crops of all kinds are looking splen- did and grass never looked better. Sum- mer-fallowed grain Is now so far ad-. vanced that a crop is assured. . ‘WOODLAND, March 28.—There was an- other heavy shower last night and there . | have been Intermittent showers to-day. mother- in clined to belleve that some Liverpool ship | and aiso followed vour imstructions. I The rainfall now exceeds that of last has been lost, while others are disposed |to improve immediately, my health became | sopcon and has almost reached the aver- to be of the opinion that some vessel sim- | excellent. and.I could do all my own 'I:k’u: age. The distribution has been good and ply bad.s. bGat washed overhonta. e o oo i e | e s siiog, maos | the outlook for ‘both cereal-and fruit it oAb iy To Command Sweden’s Salvationists. OMAHA, : Nebr.. March 28.—Brigadier James Toft, in command of the Middle Western division of the Salvation Army, with headquarters here, has been as- igned to the command of the army in Sweden. Brigadier Toft was one of the oohiacment and hve'l»henllflly baby boy.* The People’s Common Sense Medical crops 'is excellent. The danger point, so far as frosts are concerned, has been ) passed and the yield promises to be heavy. BERLIN, March 28.—At the invitation of the - for the |.German Government a With _the k £ foundi {nternational an_internation R g TR R G e e o luly 28 to July 28, of 12 to 9. 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Shortly after noon the Board of Election Commissioners, acting under the advice of Judge Carter, decided to ig- nore the restrainng order of Judge Han- ecy. The decision to open the ballots came after Judge Hanecy refused to allow an immediate change of venue in the injunction case. The commission ad- journed until 10 o'clock Monday morning. In the meantime the ballots remain in the custody of the Election Commissioners. 2 ey Strikes a Vein of Coal. HAVRE, Mont., March 28.—A. G. Staten has discovered a rich anthracite coal mine about ten mflles south of here. The vein is vertical, four feet thick, and runs into one of the highest mountain peaks in the chain of the Bear Paw Mountains. A specimen sent to a laboratory was pro- nounced a superior grade of anthracite. BRIDGE BUILDERS READY Offer to Arbitrate Present Strikes. BUFFALO, N. 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To-day.. we ‘mention a line of youths”suits-at $7.50 They come in mixed tweeds -in various pat- terns and blue cheviots, in single and double- breasted styles;agesrange from 12 to 19 years. Spring Styles in Youths’ Suits, | Boys’. khaki suits, made of the same material as used by the U. S. Government soldiers; Norfolk coat and long pants; sizes 3 to 14 years; sale price $1.35, Boys’ laundered shirts, made of best French percale; our f1.00 shirt, special at 65¢. Boys’ tan yacht caps, special at 45e. \ We fill Mail Orders for anything in boys’ outfittings. ~ SNWOODs(® 718 Markct;s;reet. i % 1 Boys’ tan sailor hats, special at —_— FOR A FINISH FIGHT Employers Do Not Reply to Union's .—No reply has been received by the executive board ssociation of Bridge and Structural’ Iron Workers to their of- Na~ tional Association of Structural Erectors. The employes” assoclation has a member= ship. of 25,000 men, of whom 5000 are naws It is reported that the emw ployers and men are lining for a finisky which may involve all the mem=~ Several days ‘ago. the executive come mittee of the union sent a letter to the to arbitrate present” agreement in the: future. The men’s request for arbitration March 28.—Baron Whets nall, Belgium's Minister to Great Britain, of