The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1903, Page 3

ROARING WATERS JUBMERGE HOMES Cloudburst in Oklahoma Causes Great Loss of Property. B EPE S iouses Are Swept Away and | Occupants Barely Escape Being Killed i homeless and property | at $300,000 was done in | alone by a cloudburst f city at midnight aggregate damage will ch higher by losses Enid and the seat of GERMAN AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS ON STUDY BENT STRANGE DEATH GAUSES INQUIRY SPEND THEIR FIRST DAY IN GALIFORNIA SIGHTSEEING | |Son of a Manufacturer| Dies Under Peculiar Circumstances. Police Believe He Received Injuries in Mysterious Explosion. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., May 24.—The police are investigating an explosion that occurred shortly ater midnight last night and the sudden death of the son of the | proprietor of a leather dressing establish- | ment in this city. The explosion took place in an outbuilding in connection with the leather-dressing plant of Mills Broth- | ers, containing dangerous explosives used in the preparation of certain kinds of | TRAGES LEPROSY 10 FI3H EATING English Surgeon Ad- vances Some Remark- able Theories. Ex.presses the Opinion That the Dread Disease Is Not Contagious. S LONDON, May 2.—Jonathan Hutehin- son, the well-known surgeon and former president of the Royal College of Sur- geons, who recently returned from a tour of investigation in India as to the cause and prevention of leprosy, has written a letter to the Times, on the subject of fish eating as the cause of leprosy. He gives the opinion that the Catholic fast days tor t o'clock a bank of water ree feet high and 200 feet wide swept the bottoms, carrying > It came leather. are responsible for the spread of leprosy, Following the explosion a man with hiS | 3ng that wherever there is a risk of ob- clothing on, fire was seen to hurry from | t4ining unsound fish the use of fish on the building. Later a physiclan was sum- | fact days ought to be forbidden. Reiterat- moned to the residence of Michael J. Ken- | ing his opinion that neither contagion nor nedy, senior member of the firm of M. J. | the Crusades, but Christtanity, was re- Kennedy & Co., leather manufacturers, | sponsible for the prevalence of leprosy in and to-day the death of the former's s Europe during the Middle Ages, he ex- | John J. Kennedy, w announced. presses the fear that the same thing is family refuses to give out any informa- | now happening in India and elsewhere. tion concerning young Kennedy’'s death | “Wherever Catholic missions are suc- other than that at an early hour Satur- | cessful!’ says Dr. Hutchinson, “leprosy day morning he appeared at his father's | increases. My calculation is that the risk home and said he had met with an acci- | to a Catholic convert is twenty-fold that dent. Another son, Danlel, is alleged to | of one who remains in the Hindoo faith. | have accompanied his brother on his er- | Dr. Hutchinson says the Indian Jain, | rand and is reported to have been injured | who is a vegetarian, almost invariably also, but this statement is met with an | escapes from leprosy, while the Catholic emphatic denial by his family. suffers fearfully, and he expresses the The supposition the police are working | opinion that this is a proof that the dis- on is that John Kennedy entered the out- e is non-contagious building where the explosion occurred In conclusion, among several suggested with the intention of ascertaining what | preventives, he strongly urges the aboli- formula was used by their competitors in ' tion of the salt tax in India, to enable the the manufacture of patent leather. While | Hindoo to render fisH wholesome. there the explesion occurred and he sus- e i o e | tained injuries that caused his death. GOMPERS ADDRESSES The body of the dead man was badly burned and mutilated. The Kennedys are STRIKERS AT LOWELL one of the oldest families in Gloversville, i prominent in business circles and reputed | Ry S Ve Wiy A0t Tus T | to be wealthy. i Millmen in Their Pocket- —_——— | books. Alleged Detective in Jail. | LOWELL, Mass., May 24—President INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 24.—Charged | Gompers of the American Federation of Labor addressed an audience of 4000 strikers this afternoon. He said to win the strikers must touch the millmen in their pocketbooks. His most significant utterance was as follows s a hundred ho\mfl‘ submerged. | om their homes. 4 that several h Many pitiable scen people stood around » water to subside. Many uing they possessed. The | | engaged relieving the at an are io- 1 ten days at more Works, a man giving his name as Smith | of St. Louis, who claims to be a detective | in the employ ®f the Citize this city to run down the re that are under investigation by the City Council, is under a st. The charge | against Smith is that he offered Lougdon $1500 for permis: 150 slot ma- chines in the city. s asserted that he | first approached Lougdon on Saturday and that he carried with him a telegram pur- | porting to come from a manufacturer of | slot machines. . —_————— { Convention of Western Miners. | DENVER, Colo., May 24.—The annual| MADRID, May 24—Prince Henry of | conventions of the American Labor Union | Prussia arri here this evening on a | and Western Federation of Miners will | visit to the Spanish court. He was re- | open in this city at 10 o'clock mMOrrow ceived at the rallway station by King Al- | morning. Delegations from nearly all the | fonso and his Ministers. The Prince's States and Territories west of the Mis- | visit is made at the Kaiser’s wish to pre- souri River are expected to attend. One!sent his Majesty’s compliments to King of the important questions to be decided = Alfonso. by both conventions is that of permanent | headquarters. Among the cities that as- | | pire to the honor are Denver, Kansas | City, Omaha and Butte. | —_——— | | | Would-Be Suicide Blinds Himself. | SO I h Oat | | BUFFALO, N. Y., May 24.—Grant Blod- ! re r gett, general bookkeeper of the Bank of Quinsy, Laryagitis, Tonsilitis cad ol Buffalo, shot himself in the head to-day. | gl g throat troubles quickly relieved and | The bullet severed both optic nerv id | he survives Blodgett will be blind. Blod- | promptly cured by the use of | gett later said ‘he was short $519. | @ vttt ettt @ |LIVES LOST IN AUTOMOBILE HAC[' e e I recently issued a circular to all organized Jabor in Am a to aid the strikers of Lowell at so much money will come t miners, but I hope nt amounts to en- able you to buy bread and maintain your man nd hood; and u fafl it will e ithout sacrificing rade you, ) 1 make your lv 5 Prince Henry Visits Spain. ADVERTISEMENTS. By Trolley Car and Tally-ho They Visit the Seal Rocks and the Park and Give Un- stinted Praise to Many Beauties of Nature et = = | N S [ ¢ BEEE T Endorsed and recommended by leading physicians everywhere. It cures by killing the germs, without injury to the patient. Nature then promptly repairs the damage. Sold by leading druggists 25 cents a trial | Continued From Page 1, Column 7] ORTY-FIVE German agricultur- | ute. He stood on the revolving machine 5 A yesterday | at the foot of Market street, one foot on | | e e I e S s “Tnay | and one foot off, and when it started on | . b 4 S beaten S Hionor i usual tour was thrown a foot in the are on a s struck a tree with terrific force. His chauffeur was killed outright. Barrows | himself was picked up unconscious, but still breathing, and was taken to a hos- dead are t : - s = JLTU: 5 v ital, where his condition was declared | 3 ter. The air, but landed right side up, without MEMBERS OF THE GERMAN AGRICULTURAI SOCIETY GETTING pital, w titlon k ; ; | agricultural :tations, stock farms, | hurts. l THEIR FIRST GLIMPSE OF SAN FRANCISCO WHILE CROSSING i((; hz critical. His car was dashed to bottle. .Ix no‘l at yours, sent prepaid arid lands and irrigation districts of xh':' PATRIOTIC NATIVES. i O bA SRR A LOBG TR ANRGONII ENEAT TR e ok Teceipt of 23 cents; United States. The party is led by Herr Erich | cal = st > o The p left Hamburg on April 18 and | Fluegge of Spec, Pomerania, who owns a | .- me :;Lplls:ll-:v;l‘l‘h::;:e r;«h'cn rg;;fl::::dcgzp: S as ever sinc s vis- | feudal es! of 12,000 acres and is the son- | - ad , E RESJEOER b thie jeu Ever mince, 1“ ha{ sl e ot Commissioner A Sehiatom. | A. Frank™Hess and Colonel E. A. Den- | who declared thit nothing so fine exists | twenty-one miles from Poictiers, and that | Mol Bl fhe Supmiant ssconltnal o | president of the Vulcan Shipbullding | icke. in Berlin. Then the seals and the surf at | he was dangerously injured. The Auto-| | 61.0 pyisce Stroct, 3 — tricts of the South, and on i ack | P . i o > <& Company, which built the Kaiser Wilhelm| ENJOY RIDE THROUGH CITY. X H 1] S s will visit those of the North. While inj v W' o on piyegge was immensely in- | Laughing in their full throated | the tourists for a brief minute before the | patch at 4‘ o'clock s this part of California the distinguished | . teq in everything he saw on his first | German manner, bubbling over with | car was off again. | unconscious and, 3¢ was will inspect the vineyards, the| yisit to San Francisco and sald the usu- | epirits {mbibed from thé crisp air| From the Halght-street entrance of the | Louis Renault, Marcel's brother, was taecosaseasaasacld conveyed the party on | deeply affected by the news and at once §vnsn— DR. JORDAN’S uu‘rf the CIff House occupied the attention of | mobile Club of Bordeaux received a dis ring Renault was | as feared, dying. | Fire De- night to | orchards and ranches. The itinerary in- | ally nice things about Californfa and Its | presh from the ocean and the|park four buses tect 3 f B it i trip to the Agricultural College | metropolis. IHe also spoke of the mean-| prospect of nature gay with flowers|an hour's tour of the great pleasure spot. | started back to his brother's assistance. s e he U - of California, a ride to | Ing of their visit, | 2na foliage, the forty-five members of the | To the men from the Rhine country, well | Orders were given to withdraw all the rt Ross. at at the T nn‘c—rflt) ;f ul. um.,x-d“\,i ato| “We bave Visited' migtiy iaWriciRtural] socohe spent yesterday afternoon spin- | versed in the lore of tree and plant, the | Renault cars from the race. 1051 MAREET ST. bet. Geh a7, 5.7.0al, Mg avas the 1 the ¢ [:)‘(1" l;un( e st Stockton, | places and agricultural centers,” he said, | ning around the city in a private clectric | ride through the groves and flower beds | RUMORS OF OTHER DISASTERS. W Pt Ankomic Moseum o e LG 19/ S e asiaviioh Cloverdale, Santa Ru s .M .rey | "8nd we are all impressed with the way | car, trying to see all that is to be seen in | drew long nx-lfnrp.-(xnx::xlro wonder _an Many lesser breakdowns and casualties disease poaitively cmredby the oidest e . g Perbe- | Fresno, Los Angeles, Sa Ontere¥, | you Americans are doing things. You are | the short space allotted to them in San | delight. Young Comte Francois Kinsky, Specialist on the Coast. Est. 36 years csei rage. « The flames were | g, joge and Palo Alto. The German resi- | ; beyond us in_agricultural science, it is| Francisco. The Cliff House and park in | the blonde giant from Bohemia, declared | | are reported. An early report that one | | G Caliakely B 3t e enintory ooy faeclared | of the two brothers Farman had been | OR. JORDAN-—DISEASES OF MEN seen b s am investisation | dents will tender them a banquet to-moT- | wusy to see. You have so much to work | the afternoon and the fcarsome dens of | that he would immediately send his land- | 0% G, (N0, Sonfirmed pradurg oy et b, holl - B AR B | AOIINASS § e EOL: with here, too. The country iseso vast | Chinatown at night made a combination | scape gardeners over to California to had been thrown ng next to the | age room and Treatment personally o by leiter. A Pom Late in the afterncon an unconfirmed | tive Cure in every case undertak report came from Bordeaux that a se- | rious accident had occurred near Angou- | There is every degree of polite soclety represented among the party. Some are ounts, some are baron | estates, some are prof that you can never exhaust it. In Ger- | which was startling to these happy-go- |learn the art of beautifying his estates. many we have more to do than you have | lucky travelers who are fiitting over the | Like children the whole lom‘-fi\:e happy some own big | here. I mean that our soil, having been | length and breadth of the country bent | Teutons crowed aloud when they caught | [0 (U0 o nt %0 an automobile pa ors, some are | used so many” times, has (o be tenderly | as much upon pleasure as upon the pur- | their first sight of the bison and the griz- | FoA®, W8 SECTRRIS OF B0 Shjomonile be- | - - = young army officers out for fun. There 18 | cared for by the scientists. The members | suit of knowledge. zly. Scarcely less attention qid they de- | (M TWOWE, OO¢ S00 TNred, and two | DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS | every degree of personality among them, | of my party are all members of the Ger-| At 3 o'clock all of the members of the | vote to a Chinaman who sped by on a bi- Shre aiven: % oo | to0. Some are extremely tall and thin, like | man Agricultural Society. Every year we | soclety, scarcely rested after the weari- | ccycle with his queque rigld in the wind | "y Kok of the first stage of the race Z | the young officers, while some are ex-| go on a visit to some country. The mem- | some journey across the continent, took |behind him, The drive around Strawberry | =18 "9 OF B0 (U8 SRS of the race \tJ | tresncty: ahort Sna whonk: ke the BErous | sece i s0 stabe: oon expense. It is|an observation car at the junction of | Hill was hailed with pleasure. At the | ¢h.3 ¢ "5n3 heavy vehicles. Louis Re- J\ but none of middle stature. Some are | gimply to learn and they do it from pa- | Montgomery and Market streets prepared | sight of Prayer-book Cross tonguek I:uHsfly ault drove & Naht machine, Weighing &8 4 * |unmistakably German, while others are | triotic interest. The Government does not | for a four hours’ ride about the city. To wagged in recounting the history o IT | Lounds and of 30 horsepower, while Ga- quite English. help us at all. When we go back we will | act as cicerones for the party Hamilton | Drake.” The bronze Goethe and Schiller, | } 013/ ve o heavy machine of 70 horse. e N e T in San francisco | All showed a sufficient Interest in every- | all write and tell what we have learned | Wright of the Callfornia Promotion Com- [ hand in, hand, brought hats from the | S0 TRNS S oy ™ 00" 00 B —the Way Is Almost Hedged thing American and every San Fran-| from our observations.” mittee, Charles Bundschu, president of |heads of the loyal Germans. It was with The time and position of the winners of With Guide-Posts. ciscan. On the ferry boat they surged | These agriculturists are being looked | the German-American Society; Professor | regret that the party left the park at the the first stage, deducting the time allow- ver read a newspaper article | from side to side examining the bay and | after by the California Promotion Com- | Armin O. Loeschner of the University of | Sixth-avenue entrance and returned to| .o° T ® ot oCa wn S g MNE citles, @ glowing account of some incident told | asking questions about Uncle Sam’s war- | mittee, which has arranged the itinerary. | California, G. H. Hecke, B. C. Priber, | their hotels. are as follows: Gabriel, 5 hours 13 min- words to lead you on—and | ships. As a rule, they were not so unso- | The committee was represented by a re- | Fred Hess, Will Hess, Fred Hess Jr., C.| In the evening, under the guidance of utes; Louls Renault) 5 hours 32 minutes: up with a proprietary | phisticated as a native would think. More | ception committee—Professor E. J. Wick- | E. Bundschu and Editor Bergheim of the [a special detective, the agriculturists Salleron, 6 hours 46 minutes; Jarrot, 5 sment? Annoved ¥Ou, | than half of them speak good English and | son of the University of California, | Demokrat accompanied the agricultur- | made the grand tour of Chinatown; To- hours 51 minutes; Wirden, 5 hours 55 min- . ‘jg‘u“fffll‘,:f‘,f;dm"!’ exhibited a fluent knowledge of American | Charles Bundschu and Hamilton Wright— | ists. day they will take a flying morning trip | ytes: Baron de Crawher, § hours 1 min- _experience of some | Institutions. One with a cane and glasses | at _Sixteenth-street Statlon, Oakland, | After a quick run through the city the [to the University of California at Berke- | yoc®'voiot g hours 20 minutes; Barras, § town. To take | and abundant whiskers learned a whole | where they boarded the train. Among the | car stopped for a brief time at the Cliff. |ley, climb Tamalpais in the afternoon hours, 12 minutes; Rougler, 6 hours 16 ‘going it blind.” | lot about American cable turntables be- | other German residents present were E.|Sutro baths were the object of strong | and be banqueted by the German colony | minutes, and Mouter, § hours 17 minutes, ng whc,—ln a s;lte— fore he had been in San Francisco a2 min- | C. Prieber, Cesar Bertheau, Fred Hess, | commendation on the part of the visitors, | in the evening. —_—— 1 a citizen, from and that's the case | @ eeimimiminiiniiniinimuiiini etk B e e e e B B 2 s Y ph Jackson of 2 Rose avenue, resident. When Secretary Shaw was in v °d, SayE: : Of all the remedies Iowa several weeks ago with the Presi- ia ,.:”.“1 22 “T’-m;‘a“'n 1}1‘(‘{@_\ s, r;me dent, the latter signed a blank commis- ,A, 4 < 1 a Itjmio l!?{:; sion, thus putting the matter of the se- I had trouble ny back’snd lection of an assistant in the hands of tterly it ached all the time. I dreaded the Secretary. However, when Shaw de- to StOOp ©On @ccount .of - the acmte | clded upon Keep he telegraphed the Pres- wir which shot across my loins ident to that effect and has received an whes ”,.r:]",,ulmv.d to \Vfa:[,;m‘vn, and answer approving his selection. 4 — . N S = , nes Keep is expected to reach Washington increased. k s on the small of my back and and assume the dutles of his office Wed- ¢ T R G T BRISTOL, England, May 24.—A serious 3 nesday next. As there is to be no new The International Typographical Union | motor cycle accident occurred here yes- Secretary Shaw Fills assignment of duty for assistant secre. | Chancellor of Nebraska |win erect a monument in Colorado | terday. The motor swerved into a crowd s taries Keep will have ch: f th " 2 Springs to_Amos J. Cummings, the for- | of spectators, two of whom were killed Vacancy in Treasury ment as nis prede. | University Changes business of the department as his prede- mer New York Congressman. and many others seriously injured. cessor, Alles. | | | i Seeew Glad the Race Was Stopped. | LONDON, May 25.—Most of the papers quantily of that metal. This made it|this morning comment with satisfaction necessary that there be another 'standard | on the nstoppasz _t;_:‘ !h;"l"lfl&l(udrll’d of value. Time had proved the prophecy | automobile race. ey late on the of the geologist to be false. Instead of | dangers ot' ra&ms‘r::‘th“o:ter no l|:g- Ifln“"‘;’n;l:-‘nlzflfifrfizu' ing, said the chancellor, the out, estions as to the pi lon or regula- . Hoscn U8, Pt | on of such racing In~ general or the | Tenth Floor, Room 1015, Claus Spreckels bids. of gold has greatly increased and the sup- - Main 983. ply now seems inexhaustible, and, as a | James Gordon Bennett cup race, which is | poygence. 831 Coiitornin Tt below Powsil. result, prices of commodities, instead of | to be held in Ireland, in particular. it Tuicshone Jemses 1808, oing to a lower level, have constantl: TR tacres " Motor Cycle Kills Two Persons. hem into my for the slight tance that makeshift afforded. Two of Doan’s Kidney Pills stopped the he and positively remgved other toms of sluggish or overexeited kid I am only too pleased to recom a preparation upon which the pub. B AR e T T i i o DNpuIation 9 i Department. His Views. wate by all | Mass for War’s Victims. 5 i ‘_\I If'r"r"()': e - | ¢ 3 . | NEW YORK, May 24.—A field military s'. I‘h L] '. 'm"h:r the name, Doan’'s, and take | WASHINGTON, May 24.—The appoint- substitute. RADWAY’S READY RELIEF has stood nrivaied before the pubiic for 50 years as a Fain Remedy. It instantly relieves and quickly cures all Colds, Sore Throats, Influenza, Bron- chitis, Poeumonia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache, Tootheche and all pain. Internally for Malaria and all Bowel Pains. All druggists. ment of Charles Hallman Keep as As- to accept the vice p#sidency of the Riggs National Bank, was announced to-day at the Treasury Department. k.cep is a resident of Buffalo, N. Y., and was graduated from Harvard in the col- legiate and law courses. He is 40 years old. Keep has been a lawyer in Buffalo, his specialty being along investment and financial lines. It is understood that his appointment is satisfactory to both Sen- ator Platt and Governor Odell, and he has been strongly indorsed by Congress- sistant Secretary of the Treasury to suc- | ceed Milton Ailes, who recently resigned | | mase, in memory of the American soldiers nd sailors who were killed in the Span- ish War, was celebrated to-day on the marine barracks parade grounds at the | navyyard in Brooklyn. It was the first | service of the kind that has been held | since the close of the Civil War. More than 5000 persons attended the services. ——————— Two Young Men Drowned. SACRAMENTO, May 24.—Two young | men, Henry Seligman of Rio Vista and | Seth H. Joen of Newhope, were drowned near Walkers Landing tnis evening. The boat which they and another man were in began to leak and they jumped into the river, but were unable fo reach the shore. Their bodies nave not been re- man Alexander, in whose district he is a | covered, LINCOLN, Neb.,, May 24.—Free silver has lost an advocate in the person of Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews. The chancellor of the University of Nebraska to-day in an address before the class in ethics par- ticularly announced that he no longer en- tertained the views he had held upon silver coinage. In company with many others a few years ago Chancellor Andrews sald that he had been misled by the arguments of public men, and particularly by a cele- brated geologist of Europe, who had, after much study and Investigation, an- nounced that the supply of gold was be- ing exhausted and the world’s mines would soon cease to yield a sufficient | WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THR WILSON DISTILLING Baltimore, Md, OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogue and Priee Lists Mailed on Appliea.flo!. PRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & CO. &3 Rl Sain 1 & BLLIS, UBRICATING OILS. LEONARD S, LL?I; Front st., S. F. Phone Main 1719 E C. HUGHES,