The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1903, Page 10

10 PTOMAINE KILLS ONE OF JAPAN'S TWO CHILOREN' BRAINIEST MEN ;Professor Koto, Tokio’s | | Famous Geologist, | ‘ in This City. l | Jacquelin and Doris Baker Die in Great Agony. | i |Is on an Extended Tour of | World in Search of Parents Receive Sad Tidings While Scjourning in Honolulu ! Knowledge. | —_— | —_——— B hapter st sorrowful | B. Koto, professor of geology of the Im- ciosed yes- | perial University of Tokio, and ‘'Who was f death t uk‘} referred to by President J an of Stan- ) fe -yvear-old | ford University after his visit to the Ori Mrs. John Baker. | ent as one of the brainiest men he had | st W scquelen, the two- | met in Japan, is a guest at the Occiden- | ear-old sister ! one, passed |tal. The professor arrived from the| | aisse poisoning is ascribed as | Orient by way of Victoria and is on a | e ca th de ur of the country, during which he will | \ kes the e all the more piti- | visit the various prominent institutions | i arents of the children are | of learning, including the University of | - Honolulu on a pleasure trip, and | California and Stanford University, and | = e et £ about ten days | other places which h; importance in e 2 the best of | Beology and geography, of which Profes- | r Koto has been a careful student for a half centu: r from the ehts : i Xhnt Shey vrofessor goes to-morrow to Palo | eir ones » as the guest of President Jordan, . from there he will pay a visit to the A mys s inds the deaths Alm quicksilver mines. After | e physiolans who at- pects 10 the faculty of the e e o i ty, where he is well known | from his writing on various matters of | bso Jearning. he will start eastward, going | K f the Union Oil | firgt to Virginia City to inspect the Sutro my s t most promi- | tunnel, thence to Lewiston, Idaho, to view | i ustries of that section, and om the Washington to visit the Smithsonian Institution He also expects to visit the great steel Pi and, after a visit mer About ten days e mini terests in Harvard Koto is accredited to Japan sentative at the coming Geo- | ess in Vien and after the ended it is his intention to ¥ d the world, returning to his Sest of health by way of the Trans-Siber- e notoel ian Railway \ddenly became | For the last two years Professor Koto, D 3 d Clark were mnder the direction of his Government, o wanaiies Saiied has been making a close study of the | ot b cawe " geological and graphical conditions of i ea, of which the world of science, up und in ignorance. aking, was = . ing the w cations of the Toklo | i - University, the very coldest period in | - Korea, the profe: pursued his work the wilds of the little kingdom, endur- atest of hardships. Part of his at concerning the geographical | tors stated that the | !B effects of ptomaine | 18 1 eport poiso $o. meitty ihe ! conai he has already finished and M g Rsigptiiree recently he sent a copy of it to the Y e awtelle hg bureau of this State and to a € and the doc imber of prominent geologists in this s the ¥ country. In perfecting this particular | k of the children were noti- | wory "he experienced a great deal of ¥ d they immediately wired | yrouple in the matters or orthoepy and at the hurry back by the next | orihography so conflicting in the names ' mstructions 10 of Korea, and he finally conceived and th a vault in Lau- repared a valuable volume to which he el H ch was accord- | has given the title of “A Catalogue of done Romanized Geographical Names of | second child was taken suddenly ill | Korea While discussing the great in- | urday night and h mptoms in- | stitution of - learning in Tokio, in the . that she was suffering from the | faculty of which he is a prominent mem same disease that kille ber, the professor proudly =said last| dicd at 9:3) yesterday morning, evening: ‘“Japan, as you probably | dagh enner of her 3 | know, is making wonderful strides | Deputy Co Meechan learned that | iy the matter of education. The the habit of play- | Government is most liberal in i support of its schools and the people are iick to take advantage of the opportun- | ies offered them in this respel. At| we have a student body at the of the house and to have caten a quanuty of wh grew in the garden. | i possibly be whai caused their g0 far the Morgue officials of over 4000 and it is as well as the doctors who attended the - little ones arc at a loss 10 know how | @ seieieieiiiniiimimimimimmiiniiiii @ the poison entered their systems e parents of the children were no- of the death of Doris vesterday morn and the will leave Honolulu as soor P CITY PRISON AN HARBOR FOR OLD MAN AND CHILD Destitute Old Man and His Grand- child Are Seeking Rela- { tives in This City. DRAWING NEAR. District Attorney Will Bowed with weight of three score years, e little an d clasped fo y 10 s L L Syon Sty 19 3 Soon Take Neces- | breast, Jasper N. Owens, one of those 1 gran d men who fought valiantly and sar £ i bied to preserve the Integrity of the Un- y 8 eps. ! n uring the dark days of the rebellion, i this city vesterday from| District Attorney Byington expresses his | search of a married | intention of moving at an early date to| es somewhere in this »m he intends spending vears that he was not in lligible address, the o whom Owens ap- had him conveyed Prison where he spent the tie tot who has been his panion cried herself to the arms of Mrs. Con- have the case of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin placed on the calendar of Judge Cook’s | court. now that George A. Knight, her attorney, has returned to the city. The| second trial has been postponed from time | to time, owing to unforeseen circum- stances, but there is nothing now to cause any further delay, as the witnesses | from Delaware are ready at any time to come to the city to give their evidence. Mrs. Botkin was convicted at her first trial for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth | Dunning by sending her a box of poisoned n ns save he left Chevenne on May 22 v morning. His| candy four and a half years ago to Do- Mre. Ollie Olson, the wife of | ver, Del., where she was at the time stop- Olson, has been corresponding | ping with her father, since dead. Mrs. with her fat some time, and ac- | Dunning's sister, Mrs. Deane, also par- ording to his statement he has alwaye | took of the candy and died. An appeal addressed the lotters in reply to 1112, 8an | was taken to the Supreme Court and Mrs, Franc It is impossible to determine | Botkin was granted a new trial on the o what street the number refers, but the ground of an error in the charge of the | Judge to the jury. fact that ployed as a may assls man's da is supposed to be em- | some grocery store | Since the first trial Mrs. Dunning’s fa- in locating the old | ther, one of the most important witnesses | | for the prosecution, has died, but it is | claimed that an unmarried daughter can | | supply the missing link in the testimony. | { It was he who received the box of candy | from the postoffice in Dover and took it home. After the death of his daughters be locked the box of candy in his desk the police ———————— our printing and bind- ay, try 1o piease. * Aty i Hight ushers are wanted in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and over 14,000 ap- | Baker & Har ing. Myseil-R plications een rec for the | and kept it there till he sent it to a ch A D % 2 8 e em. posts, 10 W laries of about 1§ shil- | jst for analysis. Former Chief of Police | ings & week are attached. | Lees, who worked up the case against | Mrs. Botkin and was familiar with all | the facts, has also gone to swell the ranks | _ADVERTISEMENTS. of the great majority since the first trial. —_———— Cast Up by the Tide. While crossing Islals Creek at Kentucky street on one of the Santa Fe switch en- gines, Henry Patterson and Charles Lang- try, two switchmen, made a grewsome dis. | covery late yesterday afternoon. Lying | face downward on the mud was seen the dead body of a man. Patterson and | Langtry immediately secured a boat and after much difficulty reached the corpse and towed it to a landing place. The Coroner’s office was notified and the dead man removed to the Morgue. From dis- charge papers in his pocxets it was as- certained that he was a sailor named John Segelke, aged 5 years. The body was in a good state of preservation and had not been in the water more than a few days. The position of the remains in the creek | seem to indicate that the dead than had been v!va’:‘hfid up by the tide, but the man- ner of his death can only ety y be determined | ——— The Passion Play of Oberammergau 07 at Santa Clara College. is wonderful and movi be presented at Santa Clara '&n‘é’.‘? s::.'l ta Clara. on the evenings of May 2. o and 2, with matinees on the 2%th and 27th, Th‘e s«;nt‘rlx;:;n ’Pu'mc will sell tickets at rate of $170 for trains for these dates S 57 tradn rar turning will leave Santa Clara via Menlo Park at 11:30 p. m. on the 2th, 25th and , 2th. Tickets good to return on special . and on morning trains following date of | sale. Tickets sold on 27th good to return | on regular afternoon trains of that date . and following morning, L JOHN H. IETJEN)O. FINE GROCERIES 226-228 Powell Street Tel. Main 518, Monday, TlesdTy, Wednesday SPECIALS. Table Butter. . Fine quality es . Fine Navels. Jelly Glasses Covered or uncovered. Reg 38c. .ea. 20c and 30c Oak frame, wide. Reg. 25c, 35c. .per bot. 35, gal. $1.50 Fine old sweet wines. Reg. 50c and $2. WATCH OUR WINDOWS FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALSE, We have three deliveries daily to all parts of the city. Country Orders Solicited. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1903. KILLS WOMAN WHO LEAVES HIM, THEN ENDS HIS OWN EXISTENCE Antonio Calcagno Murders Madelaine Piccdni on Street and Sends Last Bullet From Revolver Crashing Through His Own Skull 3 | Y 7 T MADEL AL / Jrccanrs 4 -3 2 MURDERER AND SUICIDE AND THE UNFORTUNATE WOMAN WHOM HE FIRST DECEIVED WITH LAVISH PROMISES AND FINALLY KILLED BECAUSE SHE REFUSED TO LIVE WITH HIM. o S ADELAINE PICCONT, a wo- ‘man employed by the Standard Biscuit Company, was shot to death on Sansome street, near Broadway, yesterday morning by Antonio Calcagno, an accordion play er, who at once killed himself with the same revolver. The double tragedy was witnessed by many horrified spectators. The murder of the woman was an un- usually atrocious crime. The murderer had been pondering the bloody deed for some time and finally he waylaid the wo- man on her way to work and killed her on the public street. He fired at such close range that her thin dress took fire from the powder and would have been burned from the body as it lay had not a conduc- tor on a passing car jumped off and ex- tinguished the blaze. The story of these two creatures who came to such a miserable end is not an unusual one. The woman deserted her husband in Paris and fled to America with her two children to join Calcagno, whom she had known in the Old World and who held out alluring promises of a her. One struck her in the face, mutilat- ing it beyond recognition. After committing the bloody deed the murderer turned the revolver upon him- self and sent a bullet crashing through | his brain and fell beside his victim. | The woman wore a plain working dress and cape, which caught fire when she was shot, the flames being extin- guished by P. C. Holms, conductor of a passing street car. Friends of the dead man Maim that just before she left him Mrs. Picconi stole $100 from him, which he had saved. The unfortunate woman bore an excel- lent reputation, both where she lived and at the factory where she worked. She devoted most of her money to her | boys. Her emplovers thought so much | of her that they have decided to defray the expenses of her funeral. ADVERTISEMENTS. SPROATS bandsome home, silk attire and general ease here. The two had known each other An“ ET in Turin, where they were children to- - 8 gether. She subsequently married and : DAYB OF GREAT BAPGAINS. We shall place at your disposal one of the greatest selections of Groceries you ever Jhad the pleasure to select from and at prices that will simply surprise you. 20 lbs. Cane Granulated Sugar.....$1.00 (You get about 16 Ibs. at other places.) 50 cases Ranch Mission Eggs, 2 doz.356c 3000 squares finest Point Reyes Butter, . A went to Paris with her husband. DREAMS ARE DISPELLED. When the woman reached here she found that the handsome residence was a bare garret at the end of Pollard place and that Calcagno’s income consisted of a few dollars he earned as an accordion player in saloons. It was evident to her that he had brought her here to help sup- port him. His sister, Tumoti Glovanni, lived with him and the unfortunate stran- ger had to endure her ire. In desperation, starvation being close at hand, Mrs. Picconi parted with her two boys, sending them to the Sisters of St. Vincent's at San Rafael, and ob- tained work at the American Biscuit factory on Battery streét and Broad- way. She supported her brutal consort out of her slender earnings for some time, then could endure him no longer, and, leaving him, took up her residence at the Hotel Midi, 830 Pacific street, changing her place of employment to the Standard Biscuit Company, 701 Front street. Calcagno began importuning the wo- man to return to him and went so far as to assault her once as she was leav- ing work. For the last few days he had been hanging around her place of employment and several times, when she happened to glance out of the window, she saw him and, her companions say, almost fainted from fear and terror. SHOOTS FLEEING WOMAN. Yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, Mrs. Picconi was on her way to work and was in the act of crossing Sansome street, when she saw Calcagno approach- ing. She immediately ran up the street, followed by him. He fired rfour shots at e e e i e e e e ] DECORATION DAY. s Sultana Raisins, 4 Ibs. 24 sacks German Prunes, 14 lbs. 5 220 cases quality 20c 3-lb. Peaches, can now ... 180 cases quality 20c 3-1b. 5_cases qu 3 cans 196 118-1b tatoes, sack 340 4-1b cans can . Full Cream € 3 40c Union Brooms, sale price. 5-1b tins Cottolene, 25¢ 50c jar Roquet or Bries Carload Best Flour, 50 1bs. .. i S 3 bbls. Cider Vinegar, 1 gal 2 gals .......... 9 1bs. Rolled Oats, 25e: 80c Teas, 1b 50¢; 5 1bs..... $2. 4 bars Borax Soap and pkg. Force for.25¢ 4 bars Borax Soap and pys. Grape NUts fOF -..0podoesess 2-gal. pail Syrup or Preserves, pail. 120 cases Imported Soupe, b cans 3 cans fancy Salmon. eese, jar. Tbs. 20 cases §) 25c .pkg. lanke's Kofeko, same . R Postum Sae vy Giant Redwoods—Russian River. 15c pkg. Blanke's Kofeko, same as Postum .. The ‘“North Bhore” will run special train at 5:15 p, m, Friday, May 29, for Cazadero, || 20¢ box of Fine Table Sait. BOc_jars Beef Extracts, 30¢; 2 for. Duncans, Monte Rio Park, Camp Meeker, cte. | [ 3 Fell's Naphtha Soap and 1 Force Return Saturday or Sunday evenings, or Mon- | || 20 sks. Walnuts, 5 1bs. day morning. Low excursion rates, Friday, ||l & pkes. Tollet Paper Saturday or Sunday. Information Bureau, 626 Market street. Telpehone Private Exchange 1 . 2 Ibs. Mocha and Java Coffee. 10 cases gol. Fancy Pears, can 3-1b. can Ghirardelli’s Chocolate. —_—————— Dr. Charles W. Decker, Dentist, Phelan building, rooms 6, 8, 10, 48 (entrance 805 Market st.), informs the public that the late partnership has been dissolved, & { house convulsed with Mail orders filled. that he still continues his practice at the com to plac same place with increased facilitles & || oriee seseire. South 805 oF Brop. be a competent and eourteous associates. * postal. 10490 Market st., bes. Sixth and ——e———— . Jomes or Mc- Seventh, tel. South 894, opp. Trapper's Oll cures rheumatismand neuraigie. || Allister 'sts. 50c flask. Richard & Co.,406 Clay. * IMMENSE THRONG AT THE ORPHEU New Programme Greet- ed With Applause Unstinted. Augustin Daly Musical Com- pany Opens To-Night at the California. The customary animated crush greeted the Orpheum’s new programme at both performances bill one of the best seen at the local home of vaudeville in many months. Mary | Hampton, a great San Francisco favorite, | received a warm welcome on her vaude- ville debut in this city and the medium of her introduction, a comedietta by Ed- mund Day, entitled, “The Melodrama,"” certainly possesses the merit of original- ity. Miss Hampton plays three roles dur- ing the progress of the piece and wears two magnificent gowns and is splendidly supported by William Davis and George Chancellor, the last of whom is a violin virtuoso of no ordinary ability. His in- i troduced solos won repeated and enthu- siastic encores. Zelma Rawlston, acter impersonator, London with a new and good act, in which she first appears in some stunning habiliments of her own sex, after which she makes two changes to male attire with neatness and dispatch. Her piano los were excellent and her songs, 'Everybody Wants to See the Baby,” “Running Up and Down the Stairs’” and Sunnay Africa,” were sung with a snap and dash positively refreshing. The Per- mane brothers, English clowns, kept the laughter for fif- teen minutes. They played a game of ping pong with a rubber ball about two feet in dilameter, which finally bounced into the audience, where it created un- bounded merriment. They then brought on a huge pig, made of inflated silk, which they caused to perform the most ex- traordinary gyrations. They ended their turn with an imitation of two night- ingales making love, a novelty as original as it was amusing. Kartelli rode a bicycle and afterward a single wheel backward and forward over a slack wire, did feats of juggling and gave an exhibition full of cleverness, dar- ing and surprises. The two Baileys, the man black as ink and the woman a pretty mulatto, sang several of the latest coon songs in capltal styleand finished their act with a shadowgraph dance that brought down the house and had to bow their acknowledgments half a dozen times. The Whitney brothers, in their novel musical act; Martini and Max Millian, the' two comical conjurers, in new illusion the Freydo brothers, acrobatic marvels, and the biograph, with some highly interesting motion pictures, completed the entertain- ment. the favorite char- . . ‘Walter E. Perkins begins the fourth and last week of his engagement at the Grand Opera-house to-night, appearing in. Du Souchet’s clever comedy “My | Friend From India.” Beginning this morning the sale of seats will commence for the opening perform- ance of Rogers Bros.” famous musical eccentricity “In Washington,” which will | receive its initial production in this city next Sunday night. . . ‘White Whittlesey in “Heartsease” did such a splendid business last week at the Alcazar that in order to satisfy the de- mands of its patrons the beautiful play will be continued during the present week. e e Fischer’s Theater still continues its phe- nomenal run of the rejuvenated “Fiddle- Dee-Dee.” . Edwin Stevens commences his third week to-night at the Tivoli in Sousa’s comic opera, “El Capitan,” with the star in the title part. . Mary Mannering begins her third and last week at the Columbia to-night in the | “Stubbornness of Geraldine.” &L To-night under the combined manage- ment of Gottlob, Marx & Co., and Edward Ackerman, the famous Augustin Daly Musical Comedy Company will begin a summer engagement at the California Theater, opening in “A Runaway Girl.” R o Jimmy Britt begins a week’s engage- ment at the Central to-night in James J. Corbett's comedy drama, “A Naval Ca- det.” Great preparations have been made | for the event in the way of elaborate and effective scenery. Among the prominent | features will be a three-round sparring contest between the Fuller. star and George .. The Chutes for this week will offer an attractive programme. Ella Burt will coast the chutes on her bicycle, the one- pound baby is still to be seen thriving in the incubator and in the theater the vaudeville show includes Devaney and Allen, Christy and Willis, John J. Welch, Jessie Dale, Zarelli, the Wilson family and new moving pictures. ——————— RUNAWAY TEAM SENDS VEHICLE OVER THE CLIFF One Man Seriously Injured and Two Others Are Bruised in Accident. SAN RAFAEL, May 24.—Three guests of Hotel San Anselmo had a narrow escape from death this evening in a run- away accident. One man, giving his name as J. Albutini, is confined at a sanitarium in this city with several bones broken and is in a precarious condition. Two of his companions were bruised. The accident happened on Wolf Hill and the vehicle went over an embankment. —_——— Elks to Give Entertainment. On Wednesday the Elks will hold an entertainment at the Chutes. Lodge No. 3, under whose auspices the affair is to be given, has spared no pains to make the entertainment a great success. The show will begin at noon and last until midnight. Speclal features will be intro- duced, both in the afternoon and even- ing. Bigney will give one of his high diving exhibitions during the day, and at night there will be a grand display of fireworks, including set pleces and water pyrotechnics. Large delegations from the lodges of Oakland, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Stockton, Vallejo and other nearby cities will join in the general fes- tivities of the occasion. ———— House Entered by Burglars. The residence of Mrs. A. Summers, 4 Rausch street, was entered by burglars last Monday night and a quantity of crockeryware and wearing apparel was stolen. Policemen 4 Young and Hemenez arrested James and Thomas O’Brien on Saturday night on suspicion of having committed the burglary and locked them in the “tanks” pending further investiga- tion. — e — Rubber Boots Recovered. Five pairs of rubber boots, valued at $30, were stolen from the revenue cutter Bear at Union-street wharf a few days ago. The matter was reported to the police, and | on Saturday the stolen boots were re- covered by Detectives O'Dea and Mulcahy. They had been sold to a second-hand deal- er by, the (eVes, - <t Senayy vesterday and the first-| nighters, with one accord, pronounced the | comes back from | o SPECIAL SALE HIGH-CLASS NOVELTY | SILKS. | On MONDAY, Map 25th, we will have Special Sale of about 3500 yards NOVELTY SILKS. The assortment consists of All-Silk Colored Moire Antique, Changeable Louisines, { Corded Satin Stripes, monotone effects; Dres- den Striped Moire Velour and Jacgquard effects in heavy Armure Louisine. These Silks were formerly $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 per pard. The entire lot will be sold at 503 yard, We will also continue this week our sale of i SILK STRIPED FRENCH TAMISE O e | Former price 85¢ yard. i Mail Orders promptly and carefully executed and samples forwarded free to any address. | e 3 9 (772 7% ¥4 —(3 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. OLDBERG OLODBER BOWEN “ BOWEN (WSORPORAZ, W sz, 0 G G & CO. &LCO0. 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