The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1903, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from the Library. te e+t PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILMINGTON POLICE DISPERSE GATHERING OF COLORED MEN Prevent a Meeting Called by Negro Clergyman to Take Measures for the Protection of His Race Crtiz 7 OF PoLrcs Lo ACK BUNGLES IN EXPLAINING Murder Suspect| wimsoros orricias, axo . | CLERGYMA WHO SUG- Entangles Hlm_ GESTED LYNCHING. - i+ “ - Self- ILMINGTON, Del., June 2.— The proposed meeting of colored residents of Wilming- ton to protest against lynch- | ings and to take ste v tect the negro population of this vicinity = was not_held to-night. Chief of Police Black - made a request of influentia - T close AVeS-3 . )ored men to use their Influence against oAttty ely | the holding of a meeting at this time, for - 3 -Hatuie X for him: he'| the reason that such a gathering might g hrm, he | ;| cite further trouble between the whites ; ps - " | and the blacks. A small crowd gathered s parent EVi- |, " ihe vicinity of the place where the : W pdic g eting was to have been held, but the - DR 2 - | police quickly dispersed it. No one was neticand Motorman | o 5ieted to loiter near the hall. « = men, identified n who the this point »d to-day which was gathe ne police consider to be of importance, n effect that Barrington ha no intenti of leaving St. Le until last Saturday afternoon when upen learping of th finding of a body fiear Bonfils he had his trunk t to the Unlen station. His ar- rest follewed sgon aferwaid and his trunk vas se ed.by the: poljce’ 1 One arrest was made totday 1ff connec- tion with the ease.. ‘A. E. Mitchell, agent for a water company. was taken.into cus. | tody on suspicion that he knows ‘some- | thing of importance in connection with the alleged murder. He admittéd that hed was a “frier n and that at the latter's h 4 note w alelh KfeC n for the | purpose of allaying & garding her husband’s prolang/ Mitcnell was relepsed from custody to- ka4 made his statement night after | the police. . His.homé is in New York ne will go en, returning to te when Barbingibr is tried. He sald aid not kncw. that McCapn ws dead | when the note was sent to.Mrs. McCann. | oroner Joch will feopen”the inquest in ayton on Thursday, in view of the, riew ence that has deielopal sinct the | «t inquiry. To-night Corpner Koch swore | st & new warrant Uhargipg Burrlnktnn‘ with the murder of McCann. The_ for- | mer warrant Was SWIn eut yesterday Mrs, McCann. Barrington’s. prelim- ary hearing will be. held or July 8. | When asked to-day if he did net fear | ing lynched, Barringion replied: [ Not a bit of it. I am a British sub- and 1 expect to be legally tried on he charges against me. The Sheriff has. assured me that 1 will be well protected. 1 am innocent until you-prove me gullty.” —_————— Two Drowned While Bathing. VANCOUVER, B. C.. June 20.—While | bathing in the river near Mud Bay, B. C,, 1 Water Combs, aged 18, and Ethel Miller, aged 17, were drowned. The bodies were. recovered. Against Alleged Persecution by Delaware Whites | [ 1 [ 4 ! | | “Fhe Police Commissioners at a meeting to-day commended the course of the po- lice force during the past{ week. Rev. M. W. Thornton, the colored clergyman, who last night urged the ne- | to take up arms against the whites, causing the authcrities much uneasi- ness. It was he who called the meeting for to-night. Thornton said the purpose «f the meeting would be to take measures the protection of the Tmegro popula- n: Thornton’s sermon has greatly ex- ed the more ignorant negroes and he has bien going among them to-day, urg- ing them to put an end to persecution by the whites. Mws. Bishop, mother of Helen Bishop, the who was burned at the stake, returned this morning from a visit to New Jersey, much improved in condition. b NOT SUPREME. &TC is WHITE MAN Afro-American Editors Declare This Country Is for All Races. LOUISVILL! nual session of the Afro-American Press, held here to-day, a strong address deal- g “with the race gitestion was unan- imously adopted for issuange to the coun- try at large. The address calls on the people to enforce the principles of good June 29.—At the an- Ky., ‘| government in “‘the present crisis jn the history of the Afro-American people, wheil. a systematic and thoroughly or- ganized movement, begun in 1868, is work- i6g with malicious and malignant energy to, utterly destroy the civil and political rights of those Yor whom we stand in some part as spokesman. “We resent the relterated statement that ‘this is a white man's country.’ It was mdde in its inception and develop- ment by all of its people, irrespective of race, and the Kederal constitution spe- cifically places all of its citizens on an equality, before the law.” ——————— Stolen Securities Are Found. DENVER, Colo,, June 20.—A special to the Republican from Pne‘hlo, Colo., says the valise containing about $72,000 worth of securities recently stolen from H. L. HMHarrington of Omaha In the Union De- pot, was found to-day by two boys under a pile of lumber. The valuables were all intact girl mundered by George F. White, | — | | | WCE B0l INEDF | - HGCLSHON First Wife Says . Lieutenant Is Insane. | ecial Dispatch to The Call. | B | CHICAGO, June Lieutenant Wil- | liam K. McCue, First Infantry, U. S. A., | is putting up a remarkably bold front against the charges of desertion and big- amy that have been preferred against him. His actions to-day appear to bear | out the belief of his real wife, who re- sides in Cincinnati, that he is suffering from a mental derangement, due to ill- | ness contracted in the Philippines, where | the lieutenant had a splendid record as a soldier. | Throughout the entire day McCue was | Dbeing sought by an orderly from General Ba headquarters, who had orders to | arrest him. Late to-night McCue created ‘! | | surprise by walking into the Great Nor- thern Hotel, declaring that he had spent the entire day Fort Sheridan. He | aid the charges of bigamy and desertion | were false and issued the following state- ment: | *1 nmever was married to Ida Wescott, | | all reports to the contrary notwithstand- ing. My courtship was not a hasty one. 1 met Miss Simon in San Francisco be- fore going to the Philippines. I have ten days’ extension leave from Washington, which does not expire until July 1. “W. K. McCUE.” | General Bates, chief of the Depart- ment of the Lakes, was notified this af- | ternoon by General Chaffee that McCue was wanted for desertion and he at cnce sent out an orderly to place the man un- der arrest. The orderly failed to find him. Mrs. McCue No. 2 spent a miserable day in the Great Northern Hotel, where she and the man whom she supposed was her husband had been staying for a week. Soon after he left her she received a let- ter from her father, Sigmund Simon of San Francisco, informing her that he had obtained indisputable proof that Lieuten- ant McCue had a wife in Cincinnati. “At first 1 did not believe my father could be right. I feit there must be a mistake somewhere,” said Mrs. McCue to- night. “But when William did not come back I could not help worrying. Besides, it wasn't the -first thing that had hap- pened to arouse my suspicions. The other day a telegram came from papa which my husband intercepted. I came upon him while he was reading it, and over his shoulder I saw papa’s name and the words: ‘If you are in trouble or want money, telegraph me.” I asked Will to show me the telegram, but he refused, “Any doubt that remained in my mind of the wrong he has done me was dis- pelled late this afternoon, when 1 was shown a telegram from his wife in Cin- cinnati, I loved Will dearly and it was very hard for me to believe {ll of him. But I am convinced now.” Mrs. McCue will leave for S8an Fran- cisco to-morrow. She did not meet her husband when he reappeared in the Great Northern to-night. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 29.—Mrs. Ida at ‘Great Peak Is Rent ! west of this city, of the mysterious dvop- | by the creek side. | the mountain sank there is now a sheer MOUNTAIN'S BULK FALLS INTO ABYS5 Strange Happening in the Coast Range. and a Vast Portion Disappears. — Phenomenonina Sulphurous Region Startles a Sheep Owner. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, June 29.—A report was brought to Fresno to-day by Antonio Urruchi, a wealthy sheep man and land- owner living on Los Gatos Creek in the | Coast Range Mountains sixty-five :niles ping into the earth of the greater part of a large mountain on his ranch about a week ago. He is unable to account for | the phenomenon. There had been no earthquake and no visible trace of any | upheaval. The strangest part of the occurrence is that the sinking of the earth was not gradual, but very sudden, nothing of the kind having been anticipated. The moun- tain was right at the edge of Los Gatos Creek, sloping steeply down to the water. | The section that disappeared was on the opposite side of the mountain, and to off- | set the sinking on one side there was an | upheaval on the other, a bank of some cight or nine feet in height being raised | Where the sectlon of bluff of fifty feet or more. This is the | part of the mountain that did not drop. | Across the face of this biuff there runs | a ledge of reddish sandstone that gives evidence of containing quicksilver. Ur- | ruchi brought specimens of the rock to this city and proposes to have it tested. The country is kno® . to be sulphurcus. | Oniy elgut miics front there are the Fres- | no hot springs, and all through the inter- vening country traces of suiphur springs have been discovered. Urruch#s ranch is aleo within twenty miles of the Coalinga | oil belt. @ it @ | W. McCue, wife of Lieutenant W. K McCue, First Infantry, laid before the | Chief of Police to-day the fact that she had been receiving cards announcing the marriage of her husband June 12 to Miss Simon of San Francisco. She says she cannot account for this except on the theory that he has become insane through illncss. She and McCue were stationed at Fort Thomas. Mrs, McCue and her father, Leonard Westcott, requested Chief of Police Milli- ken to communicate with the War De- partment at Washington and have Lieu- tenant McCue relieved from active duty and placed in the Government Detention Hospital. Mrs, McCue says her hushand was stricken with malaiial fever in the Phil- ippines and she attributes his present con- duct to his mental condition resulting from- the disease. Sigmund L. Simon, in an interview last night, sald that he believed in Lieuten- ant McCue's innocence. “There are many features in the case which cause me to do 80" he said. “First among them is the fact that, of his own volition, he addressed a telegram to Ida Westcott Informing her of his“marriage | Had he been married to | | to my daughter. Miss Wescott such action would have been nothing more than a confession of bigamy and a plea that the jail doors be opened to him. “Had Miss Westcott been married to McCue as long as she asserts she was, it puzzles me to know why she did not take his name. The circumstances in the case, coupled -with the. frank manner in which the lieutanant has acted, are de- cidedly in his favor. “My daughter had known her husband but a short time—but two weeks—it is true, but he was introduced by persons who knew him well and who vouched for his respectability. During that time he conducted himself in a manner that won the friend:hip of us all. I understand from the dispatches that Miss Westcott and her father are desirous of having him declared Insane. This seems absurd, as his mind seemed unusually brilliant rath- er than weak. “My daughter is coming home. T con- sider it the best course to take, but the fact that she is to return does not mean that she is convificed of his gult. In a conversation over the wire with her to- night she said that she had seen her hus- band and that he had explained things in a manner satisfactory to her, or suf- ficlently, at least, to prevent prejudg- ment. The marriage was performed at our home in this city on June 12, Justice of the Peace Lawson officiated.”; —_—— ONE HUNDRED BODIES TAKEN @! WRECKAGE MADRID, June 2.—By midnight 100 bodies had been extricated from the wreck of the Bilbao train, which was overturned Saturday night from a bridge into the Nejerilla River, and'it is esti- mated that seventy corpses remain in the wreckage. Differences between the civil and military authorities rendered the work of rescue more difficult. That many, pros- perous persons are among the ‘victims g evidenced by the great quantity of money and jewelry coliected by the gendarmes. married | here when McCue was an enlisted man | CONFERENCE AT PORT ARTHUR MAY INSURE PEACE IN ORIENT Russian Representatives Are Hastily Summoned fto Discuss the Manchurian Situation and the Jap- WIFE ACTS IN THE ROLE OF SURGEON Operates Upon Her Husband for Ap- pendicitis. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. BETHANY, 11, June 29.—Advices from China tell how Dr. W. H. Logan, former- Iy of this city, was operated upon by his wife for appendlcitis and his life saved. | The missionary has returned to his sta- tion and resumed his work. Dr. and Mrs. Logan have been working | in a place 500 miles from the nearest Eu- ropean or American physiclan. Being taken ill and realizing that his only hope for recovery lay fn the removal of the vermiform appendix, Dr. Logan _called his wife, who is a trained nurse, and gave her minute instructions as to an opera- tion. He then took an anesthetic. Unassisted and gulded only by these in- structions, Mrs. Logan, with instruments of the missionary physician, performed the hazardous operation with entire suc- cess. In a short time Mrs. Logan determined to remove her husband to where he could have the benefit of skilled surgeons. With him and a young child she undertook a journey of 800 miles by rall and wagon. The doctor stood the journey well, and after an examination, the attending sur- geons told Mrs. Logan that her operation would have been creditable to the most skillful of them. —————————— ALLEGED WIFE MURDERER WILL FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE Alfred Knapp Will Deny That He Made a Confession to the Police. HAMILTON, O., June 29.—Eight wit- nesses were examined to-day in the trial of Alfred A. Knapp. for alleged wife- murder. The jury was completed at 11:30 a. m. and the statements of counsel occu- pied the session until noon. It is evident that the defense will try to upset the con- fessions made to Mayor Bosch and the Sheriff and police, as Attorney Darby as- serted in his opening speech that'Knapp absolutely denied all knowledge of his wife’'s death and would continue to do so, regardless of any possible testimony by the State. No new facts were brought out, but the identification of ‘the body was established by two witnesses and it was proven that-Soon after his wife's dis- appearance Knapp began to dispose of her goods and to tell people that she would never return. | OIL POURS N TORREAT FROM WELL Wonderful Strike Made in Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, June 20.—An oil well, near Careaga Rancho, in the north- ern part of the county, came in this even-’ ing. It proved one of the most remark- able wells yet discovered on the Pacific Coast, the first flow being at the rate of forty barrels per minute, according to the estimates of experts on the ground. Ofi shot fifty feet above the top of the der- rick. The depth of the well is in the neigh- borhood of 2000 feet. Drillers had been work on the well several weeks and ex- pected it to come in several days ago. This afternoon they pumped the sand from the well and a few minutes after drilling work was -renewed the gusher came. A number of oil experts were present from various parts of the State. —_——————————— BITES BY A SPIDER MAY END CHILD'S LIFE Southern - California Girl Suffers From Convulsions Due to Poisonous Insect. SAN BERNARDINO, June 25~The seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drewer was brought here from the mountains to-day, suffering possibly fatal injury from the bite of a black spider. The child was placed on the train and taken back to the home of her parents near Los Angeles. Yesterday in. breaking down a spider web a large black spider fell upon the child'’s neck and before it could be brushed off inflicted six severe bites. Halt an hour later the girl was seized with convulsions. It is doubtful if she will recover., LAND IN SUSANVILLE DISTRICT IS WITHDRAWN WASHINGTON, June 29.—The Commis- sloner of the General Land Office has withdrawn from general entry 272,000 acres of land in Susanville Land Dis- trict in Northern 'ornia, which is to be included in the Warner Mountains Forest Reserve * c % R, & 1 S RUSSIAN: NOTABLES WHO | {1 HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO anese Press Predicts a JSatisfactory Settlement EKING, Jufe 29.—The Russian Minister, M." Lessar, has been suddenly summoned to a corfere ence with General Kuropatkin, the Russian War Minister; Ad- miral Alexieff, commander of the Rus- sian fleet in the Pacificc' M. Pokotiloff, manager of the Rysso-Chinese Bank at Peking, and other officer's at Port Arthur, regarding Russia’s position in Manchuria. M. Lessar leaves heré on July 1 ST. PETERSRURG, Jyne 29.—The visit of the Russian .War . Minister, General Kuropatkin, to J .9an, has, accordinyg to the Japanese newspapers, had a very sat- Msfactory effect .on the rélations between Raussia and Japag and has paved the way for a rapprochement. The newspapers of Japan, in expressing satisfaction at this state of ‘affaizs, allude to Geaeral Kuropatkin as the harbinger of peace and point. out that fle hias been the Mi- - kado's guest at the Shiba. Palace, where no toreigners, except’princes of the royal blood, had ever before resided. OYSTER BAY, L. 'L, June 2.—While President Roosewelt manifested the deep- est.interest in the press. dispatch from Pekifig annougcing a ‘conference of ‘tus- sian officials at Port Arthur on the Man- — | A CONFERE NCE. o RS R churian question, he X:ade no comment upon it for publication. It was the first fews of the proposed conference he had received, but he was fully altve to its im- ‘portance. The President is in close touch, by telegraph, with the State Department, and any developments of concern in fore elgn affairs will be transmitted promptiy to him by Secretary Hay. LONDON, June 20.—A Shanghal dis- patch tg the Times says the correspond- ent of a native iournal there asserts that Viceroy Yuen Shai Kai, Governor of Pe- chili, is opposed to the opening to trade of places In Manchuria mentioned in the American and Japanese draft treaties, on the ground that it would be useless and would complicate a difficult question at the instance of powers which have failed to Induce Russia to restore either their own rights or the Chinese administration of -the long-established treaty port of Newchiwang. This argument, says the Times correspondent, appeals Ppowertully to the native mind, which 1s becoming gradually convinced that China's safest palicy is to make the best terms with Russia. ——— RUSSIA MAY RETREAT. Change in Her Manchurian Policy Now Seems Probable. WASHINGTON, June 20.—It was indk cated to-day that the Manchurian' ques- tion may be permitted to rest temporar- ly, sc far as action at this end of the Hne is concerned, since Secretary Hay has left the city for a two weeks vacation and Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador, s about to sail for Earope. There are indications, too, that the Rus- slan Government has found it possible to shape her policy respecting Manchuria so that it will be more acceptable to the United States. Secretary Hay and Count Cassinl, within the past week, have con- Continued on Page 3, Columa 4