The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1903, Page 1

! PR b VOLUME XCIII-NO. 173. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ADUSTRIAL CRISIS NEAR N CHICAGE Employers Unite to Combat the Union§. AT General Lockout Said to Be Under Is Consideration. Series of Strikes Cripples Branches of Business. " PLANTS MAY CLOSE. which PACKING at tened walk- Xe pla thre: . 2 t g 1500 empl IMPROVEMENTS ABANDONED. t ere hirty strikes ago and has not the un- freight er out- bitration. of the Peo- , dis- o Board fight to close ce teamsters to struggle . - BISHOP POTTER ON UNIONISM. Says Labor Organizations Are Alien- ing Public Sympathy. J., Ms —Speaking on t a dinner of the Civic " ge last night, Bishop C, Potter =aid the condil- wiich confronted the people @ were largely of their 4 He declared that one per- | nde to do with the situation néelse, and that was the man- & or factory, not because he d@stand the interests of the but because ne wanted to eworkingman all he possibly benefit of his employer— gid Bishop Potter, “the f the lab§ organizations in several dicnated a great deal of thet would otherwise have e Jne thing that we must ize is that thi community is not made of either labyrers or capitalists, but har of those hetwees. who sre vary mpat the NS M 5 MENAGED BY LEPROSY Startling Warning Is Given by an Officer. New Danger Confronts Soldiers in the Phil- ippines. Case of 5;;;; Mix May Be Only the Forerunner of Many. IN CONTAC S. 1 1s T W. ITH LEPER! The men un- eting sur- mounta v, and therefore i is nat- s will de- will have t handling m or contact wit 1 —_——— DISTRICT OF MONTANA IS EATEN UP BY LOCUSTS Section Forty Miles Square East of Forsythe Is Pestered by Rocky Mountain Grasshoppers. AN, Mont., May 21.—One section Montana is eaten up by locusts, while other lles under three feet of snow. Protessor R. A. Colley of the Agricul- 1 College has received word that a1 rict forty miiles square, situated east Forsythe, is pestered by the Rocky tain grasshopper, which has eaten up everything. Cattle have to be removed from the infested district, as there fs nothing for them te feed on —_— LOSS BY RECENT BLIZZARD REACHES INTO MILLIONS Montana Officials Estimate That Nine Hundred Thousand Head of Sheep Perished. HELENA, Mont.,, May 21.—Statistics mpiied by PresidentT. C. Power of the Commissioners fix :mber of sheep lost in the 900,000. Up to the time of the storm 600,000 had frozen in the snow of previous blizzards, making the grand total of 1,500,000 lost in Montana since De- cember. means George Francis Train in Quarantine. | STAMFORD, Conn., May 2.—George Francis Train is quarantined at the home | of his sister, Helen M. L. Gulader, in this city, suffering from a mild case of small- pox. Train « here yesterday from | New York. physicians assert he has | | been 11l for at least a week. —_———— New Cure for Tuberculosis. EL PASO, Tex., May 21.—Dr. William T. Baird is experimenting with a new cure for tuberculosis. It is a liquid, which is to be injected, Its composition is yet | | a secret except to the surgeons in the army throughout the country. | @ i e i @ largely affected by these difficulties. “The time may come when organized | | labor may make itself so unpleasant that | it may not be able to stay in New York. | | The great stumbling biock in organized labor is that the freedom of the individ- ual is invaded, and that has got to be eorreatade’ FROI Wicl J7000 JEWS WAVE BEEN EXPELLED. i BHILAOAD D UNIONS END STRIFE Strike on the Union Pacific Is to Be Called Off spatch to The Call Special W YORK, Ma ' conferagce that has been held N ree da) n this city the strike of Union Pacific bollermakers, year, was ended to-day. The eatisfactory termina of the conference J tically insu n of all Union Pacific em- though the adjustment ' grievances yet remains to be set A member of the executive committee of the Internatio Associa- t h whom the ad- rences rests, said reason to be- he trouble would be me d with- at difficulty. There will be a con- thin two weeks in Omaha be- executive committce of the ists and offictals of the Union Pa- e he e eettlement of the Union Pacific ces will similar strike on the other lines. It was said to-day that the threat- ened strike on the Southern Pacific was nothing more than a sympathetic strike on account of the Unfon Pacific ‘trouble and that Southern Pacific shopmen were working under conditions almost ideal from the workmen’s point of view. The settlement of the bollermakers’ grievance was in the nature of & compro- mise. The employes conceded certain points and the company met them half way. Railroad officials and officers of the union alike said this evening that a final settiement had been reached, but said it had been decided not to make any of- ficlal announcement, as the matter was considered as private between the rafl- | road and its employes. John McNeil, president of the Interna- tional Boilermakers’ Union, who had di- rected the movements of the strikers’ rep- resentatives, although he was not pres- ent at the conference, sald to-night: “A definite settlement was reached this afternoon satisfactory to both the men and the company. I have been asked not to make public the terms of the agree- ment, and consequently I am not at lib- erty to do s0.” McNeil met Dan Hanna, a son of Sena- tor Hanna, to-day at the Waldorf Astoria in order to arrange & settlement of the boilermakers’ strike in Detroit and other cities of the Middle West. A conference to settle these differences will be taken up next week In Pittsburg. snes ot b e RIER GRAND ARMY VETERANS ENTER VIGOROUS PROTEST McPHERSON, Kans, May 21.—The Kansas encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to-night sent a dispatch to the President and Secretary of War protesting against the proposed memorial day programme at Fort Riley this year. The old soldiers object to the day being “desecrated by baseball, races and sim- flar sports.” : The encampment decided to try to get better rates to the National Encampment at San Francisco. Indignation was ex- pressed that the Grand Army of the Re- public s being given only one-half rates to San Francisco, while the Confederate Veterans are getting one-third rate to their gathering in New Orleans. 21.—As a result of a | which has lasted nearly a | remove all danger of a| Harriman | PRUNE CROP A FAILURE 'Almost Total Loss Because of Late Frosts. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, May 2L—Cable advices from Bordeaux, France, to the effect that | the French prune crop has been serfously | damaged were received here to-day. A. | B. Butler of San Francisco (formerly of | Fresno), who arrived here on the Kaiser Withelm II several days ago, was seen | by The Call correspondent to-night. But- ler verified the Bordeaux report. He said: “I have been sojourning in the south of France for about five weeks, and was there during all the severe frost that de- | stroyed almost the entire prune crop of | Southern France, and probably also the crops of Germany and Austria. Not only have the prune crops suffered, but also other products, such as almonds, apricots and grapes, This has been positively the most severe frost the Continent has ever experienced in April or May, and was especially disastrous from the fact thot during the fore part of April for two weeks there was unprecedented hot weather, which brought out the blossoms three or four weeks earlier than usual. I talked with some of the orchardists, as well as packers and shippers, ana they abandoned all hope of having more than 10 to 15 per cent of a crop in the most favorable localities. In other districts there is absolutely nothing to look for- ward to.”" Butler will be here a day or two and will then proceed to California. Mrs. But- ler accompanies him. They left their young sons and a daughter in Dresden, vears. IN FRANGE | { | | gissatistaction among the peasant classes | | | local reasons. | been compelled to suppress the facts that | CHRISTIANS AS WELL AS JEWS KILLED BY THE_ _FRENZIED MOB IN KISHENEV ARIS May 21.—The mas- | sacre in Kishenev has been followed by mutterings against the Hebrew race thYoughout ~all Southeastern Europe, and there are many in- dications that portend a general | outbreak. ment is under way for an anti- Semitic rising in Rowmania seems apparent, and the officials of that state are making no at- tempt to check it. From other sections of Southeastern E’uro[‘z come simslar alarming reports. | That some move- - —————— o ) / > 70 @) WA o ) ‘ N B Ty S QA Ao KER W ABRGY JYELUTIED 82/ 634;.7/&'//!/5/’? TINAGOGUE 2ES5oxD V), ). Aarow Keupink: ) OF KISHINEFF, b WULED W= = [ THE MASSACRE &2 | R 2 ‘ S [ | i | JEWISH RABBI WHO WAS MURDERED AND ANOTHER WHO ESCAPED DEATH IN THE KISHENEV MAS- SACRE, ONE OF THE DESTROYED SYNAGOGUES AND RUSSIAN CITY FROM WHICH A HEBREW POP- ULATION OF THOUSANDS HAS BEEN EXPELLED. -— — ERLIN, May 21.—The National Zeitung prints a letter from a well-informed quarter inSouth Russia stating that the Kish- enev affair is being viewed abroad In a wrong perspec- tive. The writer says it Is convenlent to the Russian Government that the world pelieves that it was solely an anti-Jewish riot. In reality the Kishenev exploston was only a symptom of the deep latent in Russia, the causes of which are well Xnown. The fury of the mob happened | to be vented chiefly on Jews for purely The Russian newspapers, however, have during the riot the windows of the Gov- | ernment ‘palace were smashed and the house of & nobleman named Krupenski was looted; that a Christian church was plundered and that many of the dead and injured were Christians. Moreover, the riot was not quelled with ease. There was much bloodshed. More than 1000 persons were arrested, many of whom will be tried by martial law. The Kishenev affair has been connected | by some persons with the anti-Jewish propaganda, which is perennial in Rou- mania and from which country Kishenev is only about forty miles distant. That Roumanian anti-Semitism Is just now un- usually virulent and widespread is evi- dent from the details appearing In. to- day’s Berlin papers. The ancient story ot Jew ritualists sacrificing Christian boys is doing full service. The Governor where they will attend school for twio{ Dorosol district has warned the Rou- manian Government that the situation o News That Is Gradually Escaping Russian Censorship Indicates That Even the Government Palace Was Attacked. there is critical-meaning that a massacre of Jews is Imminent. Nae Dumitreseu, an official of the Rou- manian Ministry of Education, is credited | with reorganizing the secret league to procure the massacre of all Jews in Rou- mania. The Government, according to the report, has adopted an attitude similar to that adopted by the local officials in Bee- | sarabla; and M. Lassar, Minister of the Interior, in an inflammatory speech, has announced that further repressive legisia- tion against the Jews will be adopted | shortly. | ORDERED TO MURDER JEWS. Claim Made by Participants in the | Kishenev Massacre. BERLIN, May 2L—The singular state | of mind of the people of Kishenev, Bes- sarabia, while they were killing the Jews there about a month ago is described In | a letter from a non-Jewish German of Odessa, received by the rellef committee here. He said: “The leaders of the bands on entering the Jewish dwellings often addressed the occupants good-naturedly, saying; ‘Pour‘ brethren, we must kill you. It is so or-| dered.’ Monstrous things were not done | until robbers began to participate and | when they with Christian zeal became | intoxicated.” | The state of terror of the Jews at Kish- | enev,’ the letter adds, continues. A fresh | massacre is expected there and the Jews | of Odessa and of all the! large towns of | Bessarabla are living in hourly dread of death. The whole province seems to be Jews. The writer of the letter then says: “The excitement is intensified through proclamations distributed in the streets and the tome of the bitterly anti-Semitic newspapers. The Russians say to their educated and tolerant countrymen who urge keeping the peace: ‘It is the Czar's will that the Jews be everywhere robbed Orders have been given that we start again at Pentecost The situation has | become all the worse since the important | Russian papers have been prevented freely expressing their opinions. Thelr behavior, almost without exception, has been excellent. U s the vernment adopts a more energetic policy the events at Kishenev will undoubted! be repeated in other towns. As indic the com- | plete disapproval of the best classes, re- spectable Russian lawyers are assisting the sufferers to obtain redress.” TOLSTOI ARRAIGNS THE CZAR. Blames Russian Government for the Kishenev Massacre. ST. PETERSBURG, May 2 (Wednes- day).—The circular of Interior Minister von' Plehwe, issued on May 17, ascribed the massacre of Jews in Kishenev large- ly to acts of self-defense on the part of the Jews, and continued: “The events at Kishenev have alarmed the Jewish portion of the population in many regions of the empird and have oc- casioned rumors among the Christians about intended Jewish persecutions. In some of the citles the Jews began forming self-defense associations. After I report- ed to his Majesty about the disorders his in a state of fanatical fury against the' Continued on Page 2, Column 4