The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1903, Page 1

— - @ all, i —_— VOLUME XCIII-NO. 142, SAN FRANCISCO. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VANDERBILT 5 FREE T0 WED AGAIN William K. Senior Obtains Court’s Permission. Divorece Decree Granted Jewelry and Money to| Attempt Former W.fe Is Modified. Financier Will Marry Mrs. Lewis M. R’ herford rope. bl W COURT'S PERMISSION. The Call tage wa as im- his engs igraham New the uaint Genera signed such * seldom apply to the consulate, charged, preferring to go which issues the certifi- Secretary Vignaud says he certificates yesterday. He r reads the contents, looking only at ure, which, If it is known to be f & reputable lawyer’ suffices. He believes, however, that he remembers the two name of Vanderbilt having caught his eye | as he was turning over the document, but he does 1ot recall the subject of the document, which did not concern him, he only having to vouch for the Qualifications. lawyer's ‘ LONE AOBBER - 100T5 HOUE ~ OF A PASTOR ‘Rev. B. M. Weeden . Suffers Heavy Losses. IR 43 Extent of $1100 Missing. | | DOMINIGAN REBELS WIN THE BATTLE One Thousand Fed- eral Soldiers Fall. to Retake the Capital City Repulsed. —_— Burglar Ransacks Premises Generals Cordero, Alvarez While the Family Is at Church. Rev Burr M Weeden and his rned to their residence at 1615 Larkin street Sunday night from St Luke's Episcopal Church, of which he is he past and where he had been hold- ing services, they were startied to find lower floor f the house in a state of nfusion. A hasty examination showed ace had been ransacked by a and elry to the Entrance had been ving open a window at the was well posted | the moveme of the oc- They had during se been ise and of time he had tried that could y closets search ng desks and his y the dis ery of a ase ning a gold bracelet amonds, va t 360, a solitaire dia- sliverware to the t $30 in cash, be! articles of APPAREL SEARCHED. to Mr. Weeden der's fancy and 1 garment of he left be ntity dress o hi sckets was the &¢ however The p! < mere be- w any perpetrat rime MRS. WEEDEN'S STORY Rev. Mr. Weeden be seen was ill last night and but his wife readiiy e scene of confusion that met returned home they wher agine for a timie what had he house said, “‘and )f it being burglarized diG ad until 1 saw the oper from the intrinsic s and ring t were taken ecially as the forther 1d the latter my I think our return must the robber away, as he without molesting ptacles where valuables The money he secufed > in much larger sum within and this he overlooked, (o- ith some other valuable jewelry. verware and other articles he took easily obtained, as no effort had been to ‘conceal them.” ft Captain Martin thinks that this latest burglary was the work of one man, who hes be ol ing persistently in the the city for a couple of trandes forced to a num- all been effected nothing has been E hs. The en m ber of in the same found 1o es have and resider way licate that more than one man | one of the drawers, | | Rober {isiand of St. | [ | % was i in the workJ Rev. Mr. Weeden and his wife have been married only a few months. He is one | nown ministers in the city church on Van Wess avenue and is ultra fashionable. the street BONILLA IS PRESIDENT AND ARIAS A PRISONER Era of Peace Follows the Success of the Honduran Revo- lution. NEW ORLEANS, April 20.—Bonilla is now President of Honduras, Arias is in prison at Tegucigalpa and Sierra is a fu- gitive in Nicaragua, having fled to that country for safety when the handful of Government troops deserted him in Ne- caome on April 6, when the rebels under | General Barhona and Maldonado made an attack on the Government forces undecr command of General Sierra and then marched on the capital. This, with the news that quiet prevailed in the erstwhile troubled Central Ameri- can republic, was the information re- celved from Honduras to-day. and Quezada Are Among the Slain. Sliage s SANTO DOMINGO, Republic of San Do- | | mingo, Saturday, April 18.—Troops of the Government shelled this city vesterday and several houses were damaged. The Government soidiers attacked the city in force at several different points this morning and the fighting lasted one hour. The Government troops sustalned heavy losses, General Cordero, Minister General Alvarez, Governor and General Quesada be- of the Interior of Puerto Plata, ing killed More than 1000 Government soldiers were killed or wounded, and the Government forces were obliged to withdraw. The revolutionists made several prison- ers and captured horses and ammunition. Their losses were slight, only a few men g killed or wounded. dent Vasquez narr ing shot The rebel gunboat Independencia has re- turned here, and it is reported that Gen- eral Navarro, with a quantity of ammu- nition, lJanded from her near Monte Chris- to. The revolutionists are surrounding Monte Christo,, MONKS ARE PROTECTED BY ARMED PEASANTS French Process Server With Sum- mons Is Prevented From Reaching Them. April 20.—The delays in most aving explred, the Government PARIS, instances is proceeding from France those religious orders which were refused authorization and which do 5t of their own accord leave the coun These measures are causing trouble but as the officials are idgments and obse: tr various places, careful to secure all legal formalities no serious disturb- ances have yet occurred. A process-server at Grenoble to-day whi attempting to serve a summons upon the monks of the Grande Chartreuse was driven away by a owd of peasants armed with pitchforks and was unable to approach the monastery At Havre 2000 clericals escorted a num- ber of Franciscans from the court whither the monks /had gone for the hearing of a summons, but as the case was postponed no disorders gecurred. A similar occurred at Nantes and a 10b of men at St. Etienne stoned and in- scene magistrate who was trying to se tice on the Marist \bishop of Lyons and the Bish- op of Nantes have written to Premier | Combes declaring that they are unable obey the recent circulars enjoining them to forbid members of unauthorized orders to preach or hold services in un- ithorized chapels. On the other hand, the Archbishop of Bourges has closed ail such chapels in his dlocese and would- be worshipe have manifested their dis- pleasur inst both the Archbishop and Government COMMANDANT OF NAVAL wly escaped be- | take measures to expel | OFFICER IS FOILEDIN ATTEMPT TO TAKE MRS SMITH TO SEAT'ILE | | | i B AN NG HE PRLISOW DRUNKEN MAN'3 TR Pl STATION TO BE ARRESTED' Revenue Officer " Accuses Captain Dunlap of Having Smuggled Liquor Into San Juan. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 20.—Chief | Hood of the Internal Revenue Depart- ment has sworn out warrants before a Juetice of the Peace for the arrest of Captain Andrew Dunlap, U. 8. N., com- mandant of the naval station here, and t Giles for bringing liquors from the Thomas on the lighthouse tender Laurel on December 4, 1902, without ing the duty thereon. appeared and was held under $1000 or trial before the insular District R Ladrones Reappear in Rizal. MANILA, April 20.—An armed band of ladrones has reappeared in Rizal prov- ince, Luzon, near the scene of the recent fight. with the ladrone forces of General fan Miguel. Detachments of scouts have been dispatched to Rizal with orders to disperse the band. + CHINESE DYING OF STARVATION BY THOUSANDS | HONGKONG, April | 20.—The famine in the province of Kwangsi is killing tens of thou- sands of persons, and women there are sell- ing themselves into slavery to escape star- vation. The American Consul in Canton has started a relief fund. s PISTOL GPEEDS ~ DEATHTOTWO Kills a Rough Rider Lieutenant and a Policeman. Special Dispatch to The Call. | RAWLINS, Wyo., April 20.—F. J. Keefe, | head of the Keefe commercial house and | ex-City Treasurer, shot and killed Thomas King and Policeman Baxter to-night and made his escape. Sheriff Horton and a posse are in pursuit. There is strong talk of a lynching if Keefe be captured. Policemen Baxter and Spencer had gone to Keefe's place of business to-day to ar- rest him. Keefe is sald to have been drinking heavily for some time and to have been disorderly. Keefe suddeny ap- peared at the door and began shooting with a pistol. Baxter was shot through the stomach, and King, who was pussing, was shot through the heart. ' King was a lieutenant in Torrey's Rough Riders during the Spanish War and had a splendid record. Gives Special Rates to Endeavorers. TOPEKA, Kans., April 2.—The Santa Fe Railroad to-day announced that dur- ing the meeting of the Christlan En- deavor Convention at Denver in July tickets good for the round trip to Pacific Coast points will be sold at the rate of $62 50 from Chicago to the coast and return. These tickets will be on sale from July 1 to July 10 and will be good on the west- bound trip for thirty days. Stopovers will be allowed at Denver and other points 3 RS. ADELAIDE LL()}[) SMITH, the handsnme ad- | venturess who was jailed here for alleged fraudulent oil stock transactions in Seattle, went through am exciting ordeal yesterday. She was started, much against her will, on her way to Seattle in charge of a Deputy Sheriff of that city, but before midnight the progress of the officer having her in charge was stayed and she will probably be back in San Francisco to- day. Mrs. Smith’s attorneys secured a warrgnt of detention here which was served at Suisun. T he discomfited Seattle officer con- sented to take his fair captive to Sacramento, and she will be brought back herc to-day. l s SR e BT i 3 v o8 | NOTHER chapter of dramatic | interest was emacted yester- | day In the case of Mrs. Ade- laide Tloyd Smith, accused of the embezziement of large sums of money in Seattle and this city and whose arrest here last Wednesday was made under cireum- stances of the most sensational character, The accused woman, after the hearing of her application for release on writ ot a SR | | | | | relatives, | mo, a brother-in-law of Madonio. | brother-In-law. ALLEGED WOMAN SWINDLER, WHO IS MAKING A DETERMINED FIGHT AGAINST EXTRADITION, S BARREL MURDER MYSTERY NEARS FINAL SOLUTION Victim Identified and Cause of Crime Learned. : SaAT T Guilt Is Fastened Upon New York Gang of Coun- terfeiters. e NEW "YORK, April 20.—Police Inspec- tor McCluskey announces the positive identification of the murdered man whose body was found in a barrel last Tues- | day as Benedetto Madonia, 40 years of age, of Buffalo. A plcture of the mur- dered man has been identifled by several One of these is Joseph de Pri- De Pri- | mo’ is doing a four-year term in Sing | Sing for counterfeiting. To Warden John- son this afternoon De Primo, through an interpreter, said: “The man is Benedetto Madonia, my I was sent here before there was a division of the money. All of us were not caught and I was entitled to my part. I sent for Madonia to come to see me. He came a week ago last Saturday, and I instructed him to get my share. Thev must have quarreled over the money and he was killed. There was no Mafia in the thing."” Two additional identifications of the body as being that of Benedetto Madonia were made to-day. Vincenzo Pecoraro sald he knew Madonia two years ago, when both lived in Elizabeth. Salvatore Magilisi, a barber, made the second iden- tification. On Easter Sunday Madonia visited his barber shop, there shaved him- self, and then told Magilisl that he was golng to Pittsburg and Chicago to see about the arrest of his brother-in-law. This brother-in-law was De Primo, who is already in Sing Sing prison. Chief Flynn says that he believes the motive for the crime is now clearly estab- lished. Madonia came from his Buffalo home to buy counterfeit money and to get possession of De Primo's effects and such money as was due De Primo from the workings of the counterfeiting band. It is belleved that Madonia was held off for two or three days; that it was learned // | 21 MRS. _ | | APPEARED Ll YsFERDAY | ‘ | k2 o teet —_— —_— + habeas corpus, was hurried to a carriage, extradition papers being in readiness, and was soon on her way to Seattle. Before { beyond th .-«r-nflm: of the Q!afe hoWe\ev AGRE |]|5TH||]] with a warrant of detention, and for the | time being, at any rate, Mrs. Smith has escaped being taken to Washington. Battle With the Bo- livian Forces Is Impending. Fl At 2 o'clock, the time set for the hear- ing of the continuation of the argument |on the application for a_writ of habeas corpus, the prisoner promptly appeared before Judge Cook and took her seat be- tween her attorneys, Louls P. Boardman and W. 8. Barnes. She was richly at- tired, wearing a large black picture hat. costly fur boa and gown of expensive crimson cloth. When in conversation sha adopts a fascinating, convincing charm of manner, but her features in repose bear PO i B Soecial Ceble o The Cun and New York|® determined. hardened and st times a eclal Cable to The Cal New Yor PHerald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York | desperate look. Herald Publishing Company. RIO JANEIRO, April 20.—The arrival of General Silveria at Empresa has been of- ficially confirmed. A battle with the Zorces of General Pando, President of Bo- livia, is feared, notwithstanding the mo- dus vivendl agreed upon by the two re- | publics. The War Office has received a dispatch annourcing that General Silveria has tak- en possession of the disptted territory in fhe neme of Brazil. A dispatch from Manaos says that Colonel Placido Ca tro has turned over the territory between Cunha and Gomez to General Silveria, de- ciagjng the modus vivendi arranged be- | tween Brazil and Bolivia is not satisfac- tory to the Acreans. @ iriirbeiiimimieite il @ that he was about to put himself into communication with the police or the Government secret service men, and that in.order to provide against this and at the same time not seem to be afraid of a single man the decision was reached to have him disappear. The murder accord- ingly took place. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 20.—The New York detective, Petrosini, arrived this evening. He went at once to Trenton avenue. Mrs. Lucia Madonia identified a ploture of the man found in the hamll as tbat of her husband. FREEDOM REFUSED HER. Attorney Boardman opened at once, ‘centinuing on the same lines of argument trat had marked the proceedings of last Saturday, being to the effect that the warrant in evidence did not show that a criminal action was now pending against the prisoner in the State where it was issued, nor did it show that a crimiral oftense had been committed there. Argu- ments pro and con were indulged in at length. Assistant District Attorney Har- ris, assisted by Attorney John Partridge, was on hand. Having in the meantime become conversant with the laws of Washington, Harris was in a position to fully demonstrate them to the satisfac- tion of the court. Attogney Boardman cited no end of authorities In his client’'s behalf, and finally the case was submitted to the Judge, who in a few brief remarks decided that the warrant in question was sufficient to hold the prisoner, and sie was remanded to the custody of the Cifef of Police. Mrs. Smith received the announcement without the slightest show of emotif, and at once arose and accompanied by Detective Thomas B. Gibson walked down .the main aisle of the courtroom, bewing and smiling to a number of la- dies who had been duped into investing Cont;n:ud on_ Page 8; Column 3, {