The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1903, Page 1

T [ \:0 LUME XCIV-NO. 29. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FEUD GOSTS AT JACKSON Combat at Home of Kentucky Belle. Thoughtléess Remark Embroils -Visiting Suitors. One Man Dead and Two Dan- gerously:Wounded When . Fight -Ends, _Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. une 25 —Another sen Ted in this county to- Neat Daisy Dell, on the 3 e; Hiram Barnett and Hecker met the home of art of Barnmett, he girl thoughtlessly said that her k, had bought a after he had “hung” White. When t was John called Hecker outside other young men joined ng and when lights it was found that d been shot dead and i Hecker were both ded ies were held here to-night tinge sinée the opening of the year ago last Adjutant Gen- last week and r martial law the services in both .“Murray’ told County at if any more Hotchkiss gun at the i and walked away cad of the faction e killing. f Ed Thorp, the ‘burning of Witness were released on a bond of e back to work to-day arrested for his revolver , gaie the soldiers a them half an hour to ook bréy Allen arrived to-day and tia to-morrow. will take charge of DEPLORE THE LAWLESSNESS. iicky $ons of Revolution Con- démn Faithless Officials. EXINGTON, J —The annual ses- £ the Kemtycky Sons of the Rev Jused with the adoption of Kent S entucky Society of the Sons of the of those who etaked their all to win for for us freedom from tyranny theke laws guaranteeing Ifber- se, personil security and the & the rhemory uf toné and faithful interpreta- n be preserved stiict obed laws citizens. of this State, to be admitted to the ne recegnition of which they ehed e hereby S Thet we @o most sincerely deplore of .Jawlessness thet has brought r the State we love, and do most sol- n those offic whose criminal i inefficiency is due the disregard zens all officers of be they coun- do whatever p out crime and pun- are responsible therefor, be private citizens or public ser- those was . the Is te e — WILL- BLAME PETROVICS FOR THF ASSASSINATONS Official Account of Belgrade Tragedy Will Declare King’s Secretary Fired First. BELGRADE June 28.—King Pe- 1 tended the services at the cathedral hout an escort. Serv ¢, based on an, investigation made e War -Minister, is expected to be ed shortly It is acknowledged it will say. that the conspirators did nd to-kill their Majesties, but only deport them, but they were incited to ¢ murder by the attack of Lieutenant vice, the King's secretary, who fired first shot: 1 It appears that it was the and not the King of It King Peter on King of t uhgrmmavir,nz to turday —————— BRAZIL TO IMPROVE THE HAREOR AT RIO HINGTON, June 25.—United States er Thompson at Petropolis, Brazil, to the State Department that the ment has embarked upon a scheme vast harbor works at Rio, involving uilding of two and a quarter miles - dock. The cost of this great rk will be $42,000000, to be raised stone bonds are to be sold at % per cent bear 5 per cent interest, being se- cured by dock charges of 3 per cent on back to the Hargils- | s of the girl's home. | enture. on the strests | ¢h the first shot came. | GfAcial account of the recent assas- | v, who | KOREA IS INUADED ‘Russian JSoldiers | | | 1 { { i | | || | BY CZAR'S TROOPS NOTHER LIFE Cross the Yalu . River and Occupy Two Posi- . tions Within the Little Empire ORIENTAL RULER WHOSE SOV- EREIGNTY IS THREATENED BY RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. | OKOHAMA, June 28—A dispatch from Seoul. capital of Korea, re- ports that a Korean military of- | cer who has reached the Yalu | River states that 150 Russian sol- diers have crossed the river and are now stationed at two points on the Korean | side | LONDON, June 28.—According to the Tokio correspondent of the Times, the | excitement in Japan over the Manchurian problem is increasing and the nation is plainly resclved to support the Govern- ment in any measures waich are deemed essential to assert the riguts and safe- guard the interests of the country. Mar- quis Ito and Count Yamagata, who hith- | j L] TIRES OF LIFE -~ WITH WIFE AND ~ CHILDREN GONE 'Brazilian of Culture | Kills Himself in New York. NEW YORK, June 28.—Heart-broken by the deaths of wife and children, bankrupt | in pocket and hope, Theodore Wallkopt | put a bullet through his brain to-day. l His weapon was a French dueling pistol, its handle marked with six deep notches, | as in token of as many meetings on the | field of honor. The shot was heard by a servant and Wallkopf was found dying in his bed. Before a physician could be summoned he expired. | Wallkopf, a man of culture, had arrived | from Brazil two months ago. He carried | letters of introduction from the Brazilian Minister and spent money freely, but | shunned ociety. | “My heart is dead,” he said in explana- | tion of his solitary life. “I buried it with | my wife and babies in Brazil.” | Beside Wallkopt's body they found two letters, one addressed to “The Police Au- thorities.” In this he wrote: “I am going to commit suicide. I do this because life has become unbearable, Ill-fate of every description has been with me for several years. Please inform the Brazilfan Min- ister, John N. Prentiss, and John Palmer of Chicago. — e Albatross to Leave Quarantine. SEATTLE, June 28.—The United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross will | be released from quarantine after fumiga- | tion at Port Townsend to-morrow morn- | ing. The one case of smallpox discovered on the vessel June 25 was promptly iso- | lated and the patfent is now in the quar- h a loan placed by the Rothschilds. | antine hospital at Diamond Point. There was at no time danger of contagion through the vessel. The delay caused about six days’ loss of time on the im- portant summer work of the scientific merchandise. The work hes been let to & British firm. corps headed by Dr. David Starr Jordan, which is on board the vesser. % erto advised a waiting policy, now, it is | understood, advocate resolute action by | the Jananese Govesnment. WAEHINGTON, June 28.—The enemies | of Count Cassini, the Russian Embassa- dor, are losing no opportunity to make | him feel that his days of usefuluess iu | Washington are ended, o far as his Gov- | ernment is concerned, in the hope that | when he returns to Europe next week he | will remain there. Minister Conger at Pe- king is among the most active enemies of the Embassador, and, it is sald, may | bring his political infiuence to bear to | cause Count Cassini’s transfer, because | that Embassador denied the truth of the American Minister's dispatches about Russia’s Manchurian demands. Every movement by Russia in the Orient bear- ifig out the early accusations made by Minister Conger s hastily reported b; him as proof that he was correctly in formed when he charged Russia with questionable motives in. her treatment of | the Manchurian situation, | Thus far, the Washington authorities | assert, they have no ground for complain- ing to the Russian Government about Count Cassini’s conduct, even if they were disposed to do so, which they emphati- cally deny. Meanwhile the Embassador | declines to discuss his plans, except to say that he has no Intention of asking for a transfer. TURKEY GEEKS 10 FORGE WAR ~ UPON BULGARIK Persecutes Populace of - the Adrianople Vilayet, —_— LONDON, June 28.—A dispatch from Vienna to the Morning Leader says the situation in the vilayet of Adrianople is very grave. There are many indications that Turkey and Bulgaria regard an dut- breaK of war as a probable contingency. It is reliably reported that the Turkish authorities are organizing a regular per- | secution of the Bu.garian inhabitants, | thetr villages being razed to the ground and many prominent Bulgarians being im- prisoned on the slightest pretext. ¥The | Turkish troops In the vilayet number 14,000, —_—.—— EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE CAUSES BIG LOSS OF LIFE Twenty-Four Miners Are Killed and Fully Fifty Others Seriously Injured. BARRATOERAN, Coahuila, Mexico, June 28.—Twenty-four minets were killed and about fifty others seriously wounded by the explosion of gas Thursday night in Las Esperanza’s coal mines, the property of the Mexican Coal and Coke Company. The disaster was caused by tnhe ignition of gas by the flame of a defective lamp. The men were on the point of quitting work for the day. Probably one hundred men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. After the shock of the explos- fon, those who were able to move rushed to the exits, but the falling earth and debris carried many down to death, Fully fifty miners escaped with broken limbs and scorched flesh. At last reports the bodies of twenty- four dead men had been brought to light. Others may die as a resuit of their in- Juries. GITES TRACY 15 EXENPLAR FOR NEGROES Colored Preacher Urges Blacks to Outlawry. Sensational Sermon on the Lynching in Delaware. Pastor Tells His People fo Drink the Blood of Whites. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. WILMINGTON, Del., June 28.—*“The white man, in the face of his boast- ed eivilization, stands before my eyes to-night the demom of the world’s races, a monster incarnate, |and, in so far as the megro race is concerned, seems to give no quar- ter. The white man is a heathen, a fiend, a monstrosity before God, and | is equal to any act in the category of crime. I would sooner trust my- melf in a den of hyenas than in his arms. With the court, the law and the officers of law in his hands the despised negro can expect no mer- ey, justice or protection. The negro | is unsafe anywhere in this country. He is the open prey at all times of nd will not be restrained. | «There is but one part left for the persecuted negro, when charged with erime and when innocent. Be a law unto yourself. You are save yourself from torture at the | Save your race from insult and shame. Be your own sheriff, court and jury, as was the outlaw Tracy. Die in your tracks, perhaps drink- ing the blood of Yyour pursuer: Booker T. Washington’s charity, hu- manity, advice of forgiveness, love, industry and so will neyer be reciprocated by shite ma’ ™ Thus spoke the Rev. Montrose W, Thornton, colored, pastor of the First African Methodist Evangelical Church in this city, in a sermon to his congrega- tion to-night. His sensational utterances | stirred his hearers into a frenzy and the result is expected to show itself in the | attitude of the colored men henceforth. | Coming just at a time when quiet had been restored and the race riot resulting | from the burning at the stake of George ¥. White, the negro murderer of Miss | Helen Bishop, had been checked, the sen- sational sermon is deplored. It is cer- ain to arouse the fury of the negro popu- | lation and in the present mood of the whites any attempt at violence on the part of the colored population will result in bloodshed. DEFENSE OF A PASTOR. | | mington to-day the burning of White sup- plied the text for to-day’s sermons. The white preachers without exception con- demned the lynching, notwithstanding the fact that public sentiment is overwhelm- ingly on the side of the lynchers. Rev. Robert Elwood, the Presbyterian min- ister, who has come in for much criticism for his sermon last Sunday night, in which he suggested lynching in case the negro escaped speedy punishment at the handsof the law, did not refer to the lynch- ing or the criticisms. These criticisms were answered by his congregation to-day when the following resolutions were read during the services: We, the officers and members of the Olivet Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, | Dei., realizing the unjust criticism being made of our beloved pastor, Rev. Robert Elwood, by a large proportion of the pub- lic press, do place ourselves on record in the following resolutions: “First—We express our firm belief in our pastors’ honesty, integrity and Chris- tian character; our appreciation of his ministerial labors in our congregation, and our admiration of his manly Chris- tian courage as expressed by his pulpit messages and his life in our midst. “Second—We record our belief that his message of last Sunday evening was both timely and true, sensible and scriptural and in nowise can the actions of the citi- zens on Monday night be chargeable to that sermon. “Third—We order a copy of these reso- lutions placed on the sessional records, read in the church services of the com- ing Lord's day and given to the press for publication.” GATHER GHASTLY RELICS. Thousands of persons to-day visited the place where White was burned to death. They came from all the small towns in this vicinity and hundreds journeyed to the execution place from Chester, Pa., and Philadelphia. The burning took place on a freshly plowed field, about fifty feet from the roadway, which is hidden by high bushes. The field has been trampled almost as smooth and hard as asphalt by the thou- sands that have visited the farm. The only evidence that remains of the work of the mob are three cobble stones, on one of which this inscription has been placed in indelible ink: PASTOR nmrms—x, YNCHING. Pays Tribute to Spirit That Protects Pure Womanhood. CHICAGO, June 28.—“I am no advocate of lynching or of mob law, but I had rather see a community wrought to the highest pitch over crimes that would seem impossible this side of hell than to remain apathetic,” was the declaration of Rev. Dr. Bartlett at the First Congre- barbarians who know no restraint | taught by this lesson of outrage to | hands of the blood-seekipg public. | In all save one of the churches of Wil-| Bertha Michaels, LOUDE’S JEALOUSY BEHIND SHOOTING 5 5 Special Dispatch to The Call. | AN RAFAEL, June 28.—Miss Ber- | tha Michaels of San Francisco, the | pretty young - woman who was found last night near the Hotel Rafael with a_bullet hole through her head, is still alive. Part of her brain is entirely gone, but at a late hour to- night she still breathes and apparently is in no pain. Several surgeons made ex- aminations during the day and say there 18 no heope for recovery. Disappointment | the reason for the girl's effort at suicide. She is at the residence of her brother-in- law, Fred Williams, on Bay View ave- nue, and her parents are at her bedside. when the shooting occurred, declares that asserts, passed close to his face and he believes jt was intended for him. The second entered the girl's head above the left temple, passing through the skuil. Soon after the shots were fired there were several people on the scene. To these the young man explained that the girl tried to take his life and then shot herself. Sheriff Vaylor was notified. and for a time it was thought Lansdown would be arrested. After a careful in- vestigation of the facts, however, the Sheriff gave as his opinion that there was no reason for holding the young man. GIRL FAILS TO RALLY. The girl at one time to-day gave evi- !dence of regaining consciousness, and it | was hoped she would, so that her own story might be obtained. She dfd not rally much, however, and the surgeons now state that surgical aid can be of no avall. Lansdown had been keeping company | with Miss Michaels for the past seven months, taking her frequently to enter- { tainments, and it was rumored that the couple would be married. 'Lansdown a | few weeks ago began to pay attention to Miss iua Madsen of this city, much to the distress of Miss Michaels. About two weeks ago Miss Michaels asserted that she would commit suicide. Her sister | found a bottle of carbolic acid in her pos- session and thereafter watched her close- ly. A few nights later she was found at Point San Quentin and declared her in- tention to drown herself. Lansdown's version of the auair is as follows: “I met Bertha last night and we took a walk, as was our custom. We walked out near the Hotel Raracl. She acted all right at first, but later rather peculiarly. When it began to get late I told “her we must go home. She said she was not go- ing home. I argued with her several min- gational Church to-day in a prelude on “Lynching from Another Point of View.” Dr. Bartlett said: I have seen so many sermons, editor- jals and resolutions denouncing lynching and mob law that one gets the impression that the citizens who hang or burn the destroyers of life, home and all that is held sacred by womanhood are the of- fenders, rather than the monster whom they destroy. “We seem to be so absorbed with the majesty of this vague term, ‘law,’ that the notion appears to prevail that the real criminals are those 0 do not wait for legal processes, and the violator of womanhood is the abused party. “We shudder at the torture of the crim- inal who is burned, but apparently forget to shudder for the innocent girl whose mental and spiritual agony is tenfold greater than that of the fire. This is not a race problem, except so far as one race are the offenders. The white man who commits the same crime is just as guilty. ““The iadignant uprising of a commu- nity, and some of the best men in it, to avenge a wrong of such awful magnitude may be technically lawless, but the spirit which causes the uprising is the reflection of a higher civilization. There are crimes so dreadful that the pure and chivalrous and the strong find it well nigh impossible to endure the thought that such a de- generate should nollute the earth by his presence. It is easy to theorize about the in a youthful love affair is accepted as| Bert Lansdown, who was with the girl | two shots were fired. The first bullet, he | Who Fired a Bul- let Through Her Head in San Rafael, Unconscious and Dying | * * SAN FRANCISCO GIRL WHO SHOT HERSELF AT SAN RAFAEL. * - utes, finally walking slightly ahead of h and telling her to come on. TWO SHOTS FIRED. Just abort that time, when my back was turned, she fired. The first shot grazed my head. I turned just in time to see her have the pistol at her own head and fire. She dropped and I picked her up. Then I did not know just what to do.” 1 heard some people coming and called for help. - When they arrived I told them all that happened. “I liked Bertha and don't know why | she shou!d be jealous of me, as I went with very few of the girls. to a dance the other night and Bertha be- came angry, but we made up. I was in swimming with her yesterday afternoon. I have hgen with Miss Madsen but little. T am sorry this thing happened, as I had no witnesses, and it puts me in a bad light, but I had nothing to do with the shooting.” Miss Madsen in an interview said: “Yes, I know Mr, Lansdown pretty well. T hardly know Miss Michaels at all. He has pald me some attention, but we never kept much company together. I heard the Michaels girl did not want him to go with me, but I never thought anything about it.” Bert Lansdown is an upholsterer of San Rafael and has lived here several years. Miss Michaels is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Michaels of 1 Clover street San Francisco. She is a pretty girl, just past 18 years, and of a decided blonde type. L 30 e S 2 e e anarchy of mob law, .ut the same hand which penned the calm editorial might be the first to grasp the torch if it was a mother, wife or daughter who was the ~letim. “I say that when you look at a lynch- ing from another viewpoint it is simply the bursting forth of an indignation and loathing that will not be checked. In the Old Testament days they made short work of such an offender. “Lynching is certainly a bad method. and forms a habit of disorder and makes men bloodthirsty. But if it is to be avoid- ed ‘there certainly is called for a more sure and speedy trial of those wretches who often brazenly deny crime amid the red tape of legal processes, but confess abjectly when confronted with determined men. It is useless to bring to trial good men who rise up to protect their firesides. Tne community will not bear it. If the men oblect to being burned let them cease from crimes which make a nation sick.” R ST TR R Drowned in Sight of Friends. MEDFORD, Or., June 28.—John G. Van- dyke Jr., Councilman and prominent business man of i.is place, was drownel while fishing in the Rogue River near here this eveninz in plain sight of five companions, who were unable to save him. Fifty young men left here on re- I took a girl | WILL FIGHT FOR CUSTODY OF DDNHHUE Baroness May Have to Battle for . Control. Guardianship Case De- velops Info a Strife. Burke’s Children to Protest | Against Von Schroeder Petition. Some interesting developments are ex~ pected in the Superipr Court this morning when the petition recently filed by the Baroness von Schroeder for letters of | guardianship upon the person and estate of Pater James Donahue, her cousin, now a resident of Rome, is called for hearing. About a year ago friends of Peter Don- ahue, who has for 2 number of years lived in Rome and served in an honorary capa- | city as a chamberlain to the Pope, began to remark his eccentricities, which they later attributed to a religious mania, and finally advised his relatives here of his peculiar actions. For a time lttle heed was pald to the warnings from abfoad, but eventually Baroness von Schroeder, during a visit to Europe, personally. satis- fied herself as to her cousin’s strange con- | dition and upon her return to this city | several months ago she fled in the Supe- | rior Court a petition asking the isSuance | of special letters of guardianship upom | the person and estate of Peter Donahue | and the matter has since been awaiting | | the pleasure of the court. | " Until yesterday no one doubted that the petition would be granted, for it was not | supposed that aty ofie other than the | Baroness was sufficiently interested ia _the matter to oppose her. Suddenly, how- ever, it developed that strong opposition to her proceedings would be made, and this fact, it is expected, wiil be demon~ strated when the matter is called for hearing this morning. Although none of those interested will | talk about the case, it has been learned | trom a reliable source that Richard Burke of Ireland, at present stopping at the Occidental Hotel, is here mainly for the purpose of preventing the issuance of | letters of guardianship to the Baroness and that he has announced his intention of bitterly Aghting the case it the peti- tioner persists in her proceedings. IRISH HEIRS OBJECT. Burke arrived here about a week ago or the purpose, it was generally sup- posed, to represent his children in the | coming meeting of the heirs of the Dona- hue estate, when the future of the Ocel- dental Hotel property will be decided | upon. His children are heirs through the right | of inheritance from their mother. who | was the sister of the late Peter Donahue. | While waiting for this meeting it is re- | ported that he found time to confer with the Baroness’ attorneys regarding the pe- | tition and emphatically announced his in- | tention of opposing any legal moxe that | would give the property of Peter James Donahue into the coritrol of thé Baroness. This peculiar and unexpected situation lhad barely become a matter of public | knowledge before there arrived at the | Palace Hotel another of the Donahue family in the person of James Peter Don- ahue of Davenport, Iowa, also-a cousia. His presence here is accotinted for in the statement gained from one who is inter- ested In the case, that he has agreed to act as a sort of concillating medium be- tween the Baroness and her relative by marriage, Richard Burke of Ireland. PLANNING PETER'S SAFETY. While none of the contending parties are prepared to offer oppesition to the | Baroness' proceeding in so far as it per- | tains to the establishment, as a fact, of the alleged incompetency of Peter James Domahue, Burke prefers that the guar- dianship of his children’s relative shall be conferred upon some one other than the Baroness. It has been her plan, so her friends say, to have herself appointed guardian over Peter and then, if possible, effect his removal from Rome to his- ranch property in this State, where his immediate relatives would be afforded an opportunity of watching over him and properly administering upon his valuable holdings. It has been the Baroness’ contentions that her cousin, remotely located in Rome and with his mind affected to some de- gree, has become the victim of scheming physicians and attendants, and that the latter are making large inroads into his wealth without warrant, the only remedy for which she believed would be his re- moval to this State. A CONCILIATING MEDIUM. Richard Burke has taken the stand that the Baroness' fears in this respect have been greatly and unnecessarily exag- gerated, and that Peter Donahue is as well off in Rome as he would be here. | And so these differences of opinion waged until a few days ago, when the lawyers of the opposing parties conceived the idea of substituting some one in place of the Baruvaess as guardian, and they hit upon James Peter Donahue of Davenport. He was hurriedly communicated with regarding the proposition, but was not in. clined to accept the responsibility, al- though expressing a deep interest in the welfare of his cousin. He finally consent. ed to come to San Francisco for the pur-