The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1903, Page 1

B v”’y Vel /x STATE AR 9 SraTE /4 4, 3:3-';-" ‘ - - UESFDRR2 0 Sane oY P | to be taken from | the Library.+++s | raper not VOLUME XCII—NO PRICE FIVE CENTS. CZAR STANDS CONVICTED OF VIOLATING TREATY OBLIGATIONS; RUSSIAN DENIAL OF BROKEN FAITH IS PROVED TO BE FALSE ALL SALOONS IN OMAHA ARE CLOSED AS A RES Governor May Be Asked to Send Business Is at a Standstill in | the Cif(y. AHA Nebr.. N he nsidered v o s sed we M g x & o re e a e . . =k < ¥ o e eir mer t . wer mber of m . dozen wagons were held . ok = gons reig has been move . een unable get signed the scale de- ande . e ‘arger concerns 4 a sing in -morrow something and es are preparing for the strugsie > — CHINESE GO TO CHICAGO. ie Strike of the rkers. Take Advantage « Laundry Ma nese are flocking age of the gold- MI GLADYS CROCKER BECOMES A MAY BRIDE Weds Powers Gouraud of London in st Clement’s Church in the Strand. aughter of Mrs kson Goura formerly Miss Amy Crocker of San Fra The bridegroom is a son of Colonel E. Gouraud, one of the first success- merican promoters in England we X raud is a young brother of | 4, who d Mrs. Amj « er of the former Miss Gladys ud married Mrs. d since that devoted marriage is said to of his brother | been very ar — - MECHANICAL TIME FUSE FOR EXPLODING SHELLS atistics Show a Great Increase Dur- | ing the First Four Months of Present Year. A watch: aker named e fuse for for $0,- o0 and & royalty of % cents for each de. a mechanica T the Krupp Compan vice used. The Schneiders of France have ulred the rights for Latin countries @ Vickers Sons & Maxim have se e rights for the United States Great Britain. The mechanism can sted #o as to explode in astonish tho long distances or im after penetraling a resisting | such as a shiy’s armor plate | fication wall. The new fuse is being especially useful in ex- mel shells. | Chicago to Own Street Railways. SPRINGFIELD, May 5.—The Senate to- concurred in the House amendments 1o the Muclier municipal ownership bill, The biil itself, which is primarily an act | to enable the city of Chicago to own, operate, lease. construct, etc., street rail- wave, will pass the Senate and the leg- ielation so long sought by Chicago will @© on the stutute books. | garian Government ULT OF THE STRIKE RIOT S b e MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF OMAHA, WHO HAS | CLOSED THE CITY'S SALOONE AND MAY APPEAL FOR STATE | TROOPS TO CHEC DISTURBANCES. | L > e i3 TURKEY DRIFTING NERRER 10 4 WA WITH BULCARN Recurring Clashes on Peace Between Chile| Frontier Hasten Crisis. Special Dispatch to The Call. Ma The relations be? key and Bulgaria are .un d strained. To some obser reatest danger of the moment seems the Turkish connivance of possibility that ex- at alleged the doings of the Macedonian the » will lead to a Turco-Bulgarian m which has been y noted in these dispatches, has by This feeling, tly intensified the. outrages ca and the persistent occurgence cious murders in Macedonia, which traced to the instigation of the committees. It is added to also by the constant fighting of Bulgarian-Macedonian with Turkish troops, in whick frequently is serious loss of life An unconfirmed rumor is current here th. anians have murdered the Turk- ish general of the Uskub district. The Politische Correspondenz states that, owing to the failure of the Bul to prevent armed Bulgarians crossing into Macedonia, the Sultan has ordered the construction of a line of blockhouses along the Turkish side of the frontier. The whole situation increasingly perplexing and serious. LONDON, May 6.—No further disorders e at Salonica. It is stated Vienna that the powers have agreed to withdraw all warships from Salonica, excepting the Austrian vessels. It is rumored in Constantinople that the Brit- ish, French, Itallan and hassadors there have handed a joint note to the Porte,' claiming compensation for the damages sustained by their respective subjects as a resuit of the explosion of bombs at Salonica. A newspaper of Budapest asserts that the "Klausenburg and Kronstad branches of the Hungarian state railroad have been ordered to keep 400 cars in readiness for the transportation of troops. All these reports should be accepted with reserve. The towns of Ipek, Dakova and Novi- bazar, European Turkey, are said to be stfil surrounded by Albanians. All com- munication with these places has been interrupted. Reports have been received from Vienna that the Bulgarian bands at Males, Kudina, Nevrokoh and else- where have sustained reverses, In a dispatch from Sofia the corre- epondent of the Times says that Turkey has forwarded a note to Bulgaria calling attention to the -alleged importation ‘of explosives from Bulgaria and the incur- sion of insurgent bands into Macedonia. The Bulgarian Government has taken ex- occurred Aception to the strong language of the German Em- | 1 | J 1 i 'SOUTH AMERICAN COVERMMENTS MY FORM FEDERNTION and ArgentinaOpens the Way. . Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, May lonel Sir Thomas Holdich, British ssioner for the Chile-Argentina boundary arbitration, ar- rived here to-day ' from:South America. In an intérview he said the whole of ihe disputed tract had now been delimited. Iron pillars had been erected at intervals along the with the words “Chile” on one side and ‘‘Argentina’ on the other Sir Thomas added that the award had been received with the greatest satisfac- ion by the governments of both countries concerned. The former alllance between Chile #nd Argentina probably would be revived now and might léad to a realiza- tion of the scheme for a federation of Scuth America. Sir Thomas remarked that this was what the thinking men of both countries believed would ensue, now that the boundary - difficulty, which for seventy vears had blocked the way, has been set- tled. boundary, GOEBEL MURDER LEADS TO ANOTHER' HOMICIDE Brother-in-Law of James Howard Is Killed in a Duel in Clay County. LONDON, Ky., May 5.—News was re- ceived here to-day of the death yesterday in Clay County of Sid Baker, brother-in- law of James Howard, recently tried for the murder of William Goebel. His death was the result of a duel on the highway with Willlam McCollum. Baker's grudze against McCollum 1s supposed to have arisen from the fact that McCollum had been summoned as a witness against Howard, though he had not been put on the stand. e WAl Rock Island Machinists Strike, HORTON, Kans.,, May 5.—Eighty ma- chinists in the Rock Island shops struck to-Gay because of the presence of an al- leged spy employed by the company. All the other men in the shop, 600 in rumber, say they will strike also iIf the man is not discharged by the company. Con- siderable excitement prevalls among the ‘workmen. @ il it @ note. SALONICA, May 5.—In the engagement between Turkish troops and the revolu- tionists at Okrina, on April 27, seventy revolutionists were killed and twenty-one were wounded, while the Turks had 1% killed and ten officers and six men ‘wounded. . | distinctly heard by the other TWENTY DEE IN CRAGH OF STEAMSHIPS Clyde Liner Sagi- naw Sinks After Collision. Half of the Passengers and Crew Are Drowned. Lifeboat Founders With Fifteen Colored Women Aboard. NORFOLK, Va., May 5.—A collision at sea that cost the lives of twenty or more persons and the sinking of the Clyde steamship Saginaw by the Old Dominion steamship Hamilton Winter Quarter . Lightship and Fenwick Island LigHtship, on the Virginia coast, at 4:40 o'clock this morning. The Hamil- ton left New Y 8 o'clock for Norfolk, and passed out the Virginia Capes last night at 8 o'clock, bound from Norfolk and Richmond for Philadelphia settled down a occurred between esterday afternoon at | the Saginaw | A dense fog | | ong the shore shortly after | nightfall, and while going through this fog at reduced speed, the Hamilton | crashed into the Saginaw's side about twenty feet from the stern. The scene of the collision is about thjrteen or four- teen miles off the shore and between 180 and 200 miles south of New York and be- tween 125 and 110 miles north of Norfolk. | PARTIAL LIST OF DEAD. Those known to be lostwre. A. GILMORE, pasgenger, "DLETON, passenger. CE NEWBY, passenger. EDNA WARD, passenger. JONES, passenger. MARY ROBERTSON, passenger. EDWARD GOSLEE, first mate. WILLIAM BILLES, first assistant en- gineer. MARY ANDERSON, stewardess. — e B0k —— MORRIS, steward UNKNOWN COLORED WAITER. Peter Swanson, a member of the crew, is among the missing. The fog whistles of each vessel were for several minutes before the collision occurred. Ac- cording to Captain Boaz of the Hamilton, his ship was making about nine miles an hour and the Saginaw about ten. The | fog was so thick that objects a ship's | | length away were invisible, and when the two craft hove in sight of each other, bow-on, there was but a moment's interim before they met. The Saginaw veered, as did the Hamilton, but they had | clear not time to each other, and the knifelike prow of the southern sound ves- sel struck the Clyde ship on the port | quarter about twenty feet from her stern, cutting the entire rear of the ship away. The in-rushing watgr caused the Saginaw to settle rapidly at the stern and the im- petus of the Hamilton took of sight of the crippled vessel. LOWERS TWO LIFEBOATS. The engines, already reversed, full steam to the rear and the Hamilton circled fo the scene of the wreck, at the same time lowering two lifeboats. There was consternation among the passengers of the Old Dominlon ship and the first thought was for their safety, but as soon as it was discovered that the ship was uninjured, save that some bowplates were stove in, all efforts were directed to the rescue of those on the Saginaw. When the Saginaw was again sighted her stern was under water and her bow was high in the air. Panic-stricken peo- ple rushed over her decks and scrambled toward the bow. Lifeboats were lowered and into the first fifteen colored women were placed, according to Second Officer W. L. Morelis, Who Wwas in command. The boat was swamped as it struck the water and its occupants were thrown into the sea. All were drowned, save the sec- ond officer and the colored stewarde: The latter died before the small hoat reached the Hamilton, more from injuries received by the impact of the collision than by drowning. She had been held up by First Mate Gosiee, who sank himself as the small boat from the Hamilton reached it. In the meantime the rush of waters into the bow of the Saginaw had caused the decks to burst from their fastenings with a roar like the report of a big gun and tons of freight of all descriptions goon littered the sea. To floating wreckage the struggling persons in the water clung awith deeperation and many of them were rescued by the boats from the Hamiiton, CAPTAIN TUNNELL RESCUED. Before the lifeboats of the Hamilton had reached the Saginawy the latter haq disappeared beneath the waves and noth- ing but her topmasts were visible, To these several men were clinging, one of whom was the aged captaln, J. S. Tun- nell. When he was taken off it was found tkat he had suffered severe internal {n- juries. The Hamilton hovered around the scene of the wreck for more than an hour, but no sign of life could be séen among the mass of floating freight. Twe bodles, one that of a man and the other that of a her out were put | cozIY ~EENCHLEN DO —— | | RUSSIAN EMBASSADORS TO WASHINGTON AND LONDON, WHO ARE ACCUSED OF HAVING MADE FALSE 87 FROM THE ST. PETERSBURG GOVERNMEN TEMENTS ON ORDERS e . ‘POPE WILL REFUSE T0 REGEWE CHIEF OF FRENCH NATION | Rupture Between Vati- can and Republic Imminent. h to The Call. ROME, May 5.—President France will visit Rome shortly after the visit of the Czar. The Fope, after con- sulting with the Cardinals, has declded not_to receive the French President. This decision will be semi-officially com- municated to France in the hope that M. Loubet will not ask an interview with his Holiness. It is feared, however, that he will ask for'one in order to court a re- fusal, which Is certain if Prime Minister Combes is still in office when Loubet comes here. The Pope's refusal to receive the Presi- dent of France will certainly lead to a diplomatic rupture between the Vatican and the French Government and the ab- olitlon of the concordat. e o woman, clad only in night dresses, were observed drifting between bales of cot- ton and cases of goods. The first news of the disaster was learn- ed at Old Point, where the Hamilton stopped for a moment on her way to Nor- folk. She arrived at her pier in this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Her bow plates were stove in and much wreckage stil clung to her. All of the damage, however, was above the water line, The survivors of the Saginaw on board the Hamilton had been given clothing by the passengers and seamen of the more for- tunate vessel and a collection was taken up among the passengers to be distribut- ed 'among them. It was some time before any definite statement could be obtained from the of« ficials of either line regarding the real number 6f persons lost and saved and even now, after official lists have been given out, there is a great discrepancy Letween the statements of passengers and the companies’ statements. According to the Clyde line officials the nomes -of only eighteen passengers are known, and it is admitted by Second Of- ficer Morris that fifteen colored women, all of whom are now dead, were in the swamped lifeboat. PASSENGERS ON SAGINAW. The crew of the Saginaw numbered twenty-six all told. From the officials of the Ciyde Company here the following list of passengers was obtained: E. B. Cole, Philadelphia; J. Treber, Philadel- rhia; R. B. Younghead, Chester, Pa.; Charles B. Hoon, Philadelphia; H. W. Continued on Page 8, Colm 6. Special Dis Loubet of | 'WARDS OFF DEATH WHILE HE PROTECTS Lot el {Dying Man Leaves His Couch to Pay a Premium. Special Dispatch to The Ca ST. LOUIS, May 5.—Frank S. Powell rose from his sick bed, went down tow and pald a premium due on his $5000 iife by his wife, returned home and was dead in six hours. Powell died on April 14, but only to-day did the fact of his strange journey become known. The man had been sick for a week. One day he told his wife he wanted some- thing which would make it necess: her to go down town. She made the trip and, returning, found him in bed. Doecu- ments retting forth the circumstances of his death sald he had been sick in bed for_seven days before death came W. Morgan, secretary of the Merchants’ Exchange, who managed the matter for the widow that Powell had been down town the very day of his death and had paid. the money due on the polcy into Bolin's hands. Mrs. Powell at first main- tained that this was impossible, but re- called that she had left him iong enough to go' down town herseif. Bolin says he would be inclined to doubt his own senses if it had not been that the money Powell gave him was not of the ghostly kind. ——— SERIOUS OUTBREAK OCCURS NEAR NANCY Riot Follows Attempt to Close a Con- vent and Many Persons Are Injured. PARIS, May 5.—An outbreak occurred to-day in the vicinity of Nancy, where the authorities, upon proceeding to close the convent of the Oblate Fathers, met with lively resistance from the crowds. A strong force of gendarmes and cavalry was called in and was obliged to carry two barricades before they succeeded in forcingan entrance to the building, During the fighting a number of persons were in- jured. —_— MANY IRISH IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, May 5.—Great increase in immigration from Ireland is shown by the record of the first four months of this year compared with the same period of other recent years. Statistics given out to-day show the arrival of $206 Irish im- migrants for the four months ended Aprij 30, against 4002 for the same period last year. }All the nationalities which come here show a larger percentage of males than females, but of the Irish coming this year about 0 per cent are females. Many are girls in their teens. INSURANCE POLICY | insurance policy without being detected for | | Agent Charles D. Bolin assured Charles 'Official Text of De- ‘ ' mands on China a ‘ Revelation. x | | Proves Truth of Min- | ister Conger’s First | Reports. America Deceived by the St. Petersburg Government. | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. YORK, May 5—The Sun wing from Lon- s necessary few plain words which has affairs of na- which virtual- »f every country, certain rules or ecardinal | prin f diplomacy without which in- ' tercourse between nations becomes im- possible. One of these is the sacredness | of treaty fons. Another is that of- ficial d ct or intentions made by governm: to another gov- ment be made and accepted in of good faith as similar he same sp| statements between gentlemen. It must be admitted that the history of diplo- macy, even in modern times, shows some e these principles. That openly defled simply brings diplomacy to an end and leaves the worl e ¥ of that primitive arbiter of destiny—force. It is impoksible to avoid bringing against Russia to-day a direct accusation kno of this almo: wn, but greatest of all crimes. Her recent course in both the near and the far East involves absolute deflance of the fundamental rules of in- ternational intercourse. FIRST BREACH OF FAITH. To mention a comparatively unimport- ant matter first:. Russla violated the treaty of Berlin the other day by sending several torpedo boats through the Darda- nelles. Instead of notifying the other sig- natory powers of her desire or intention to abrogate the treaty, or this portion of it, she resorted to the petty subterfuge of changing the flag and dismantiing the | guns of the boats during their passage No treaty ever drafted will be worth the paper it is written upon if its appiication is subject to such dishonest trickery | A far more flagrant case is that of Rus- | sla’s pending demands upon China re- | sarding Manchurfa and Mongolia. It is greatly to Russia's chagrin that the official text of her demands now be- | comes public. They suffice to show that | the denials made three -ays ago by the | Russtan Embassadors in Washington and London were nothing less than insults to the American and British nations in their | shameless mendacity. It requires no de- | tailed review well known facts to | make clear disgraceful position in which this unscrupulous power stands be- | fore the we BREAKS PLEDGE TO CHINA. “ e an unequivocal promise to m Manchuria he | withdraw and to res that province to the Chinese. Havir | fully established herself the province, she submi to China a li of so-called withdrawa ne, in p Iy 1 are designed to admit of an in h would all of Mon. | the province of ( | Peking 1s | trol. They o that Russia shall remain dominant in Manchurian affair The premature publication mands and the serious protests resu | 1ed Russia to deny the accuracy of t | report. Her representatives | specific details in their when with t | conaitions drawr brir golia and situated, unde vide of these denials, which, he official | ments later, showed they country”” with Secretary Hay, saved the situation, was obliged, aceord ng to the rules of the game, to th Russia for her frank statement. Then China, under the influence of the Amer- fcan protest and British and Japanese advice, refused to accept the demands and made them public RUSSIA STANDS EXPOSED. Russia now stands exposed in her per- fidy. Has she any sense of shame? An one familiar with her recent diglomat practices will be inclined to doubt it Still it is not improbable she will th the present situation suitable for old trick of repudiating her demands Peking. Nevertheless the fact compared “lied for the fiendish ingenuity whose protest had rea almost b at remains that M. de Plancon, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Peking, put forward the d mands, as he expressly stated to the Chinese authorities, “by command of tie imperial Government.” Such is the situation created by the unprincipled conduct of a great power Again it must be said that it constituies a grave crisis in human affairs. The United States could afford to ignore the material interests involved. No consid- erations of trade or commerce are lke!yv at the present day to drive America and Great Britain into a combdination, which the rest of the world so much dread An issue as great and fundamental that which Russia has raised might do so. VML JAPAN'S ALARM GROWS. Russia Manifests No Intention of Keeping Her Pledge. YOKOHAMA, May 5.—The continued reports which have reached this city of Russian military activity along the Yalu River and the doubts expressed of Russia’s intention to evacuate Manchuria are cans- ing keen anxiety here. The Jiji voices Japanese public opinion in saying that Russia’'s continuance in the Kingshing and Klrin provinces of Manchuria will have a serious bearing. not only on the trade, but on the very existence of the Japanese empire.