The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1903, Page 1

l A:'-!-u'. 2 <l ~ gy YOLUME XCIV—NO. 37. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POPE AWAKENS FROM DEATHLIKE SLEEP AT DAWN PITIFULLY POLIGE SAY HE STOLE A MOTOR CAf John Lankershim of Los Angeles Is in Jail. Specia! Dispatch to The Call Mas BOSTO .+ July 6.—John Lanker- . f the class of y, was arrested the charge of breaking into the < th Skinner, in g there- the within packing who is now nkershim led the letectives, the & party of neft i from Boston, him, a weil- K talist. The son at Harvard two years and his ere say he is just completing his & T family is one of the best know this part of State, the ather being the owner of e of the finest real estate this city, owning a b bearing me which is | ed one of the ¢ office build- Lakershim very wealthy me son and a daughter. He ope and is expected home in aid has on is 0 two dobn w i 1 nkershim was raised in this e college | k, but the | a wealthy When | to Europe | SLIES DOWN LIGHT WIRE TOFREEDON 'Desperate Robber Risks His Life to Escape. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, July 6.—Wiiliam Rudolph of Union, Mo., who has been confined in the | city jail for several months on the charge | | of having participated in the robbery of | the bank at Union last winter, and who | s also charged with the killing of Detec- | tive Schumacher, who was attempting to | arrest him, made a désperate escape from jail at 4:45 o’clock this afternoon and is still at large. Shortly before his escape to-day Ru- dolph was let out of his cell to be shaved. The exercise corridor at the time. con- tained about twenty prisoners. The guards were engaged in locking up the prisoners for the night, when, as Rudolph passed through the east end of the exer- cise corridor, a fight broke out among the prisoners in the west end. The ma- jority of the guards ran to separate the fighting prisoners and Rudolph "quickly ran up three flights of stairs, jumped to the swung himself, by the aid of an iron girder, to the skylight and the next mo- ment had forced the skylight open and was out upon the roof, sixty ‘feet from | the ground. Rudolph grasped an electric light wire that led to the ground and slid down fifty feet, when the wire snapped, precipitating him to the ground. Regaining his feet in- tly, he ran through Sergeant Daw- s residence to the street and was city and has hosts of friends here. He Is regarded as a manly fellow and there has never been a breath of suspicion as to his honesty. His friends who have heard of arrest attribute it to an escapade of sire to bile steal. Had he wanted an automo- there was no necessity for stealing because be can readlly command suf- | ficient money to purchase one: ORI s & i 3 | Vanderbilt’s Condition Not Serious. | _PARIS, July 6.—The condition of W. K. | Vanderbiit Jr., who was injured by an ac- | cident in an automobile while out Hding | in Paris, is said to be not serious. One of | his eyes is injured and he is kept in a | dark room at the hotel top of the cells and in a flash had | t | Captain Taggart is one of the best known ge student rather than to any de- | | freedom. { army. NOTED ARMY MAN IS HELD I HOSPITAL Myster; Envelops Case of Captain Taggart. Special Dispatch to The Call. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., July 6.—Cap- tain E. F. Taggart, commanding Com- pany A, Sixth United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, has been | placed in a room in‘the post hospital. Mystery surrounds the case and the air at, Fort Leavenworth is filled with ru- mors. ~ It ‘is claimed by some that Cap- tain Taggart felt a “spell” coming over him and asked that he be deprived of his His wife closed their home at the post to-day and left for San Francis- co, where she has relatives. Captain Tag- [ Bart is about 45 years of age, while his wife is yet in the twenties. It is also ru- mored that Captain Taggart might have been placed under restralnt on account of the alleged abuse of officers of in- terior rank. The case has caused a declded sensation at Fort Leavenworth, where Captain Tag- gart has been stationed about a year. officers of his rank in the United States He has seen about twenty years of service. His record in the Philippines was particularly creditable. —_——— CABLEGRAM FROM GUAM RECEIVED OVER NEW LINE Commander Sewall Sends Respects of Officers at Station to Navy Department. WASHINGTON, July 6.—The first cable- gram from Guam was received at the Navy Department to-day. It was from Commander Sewall, commandant of (he station there, and is as follows: “Through courtesy of Pacific Commer- clal Cable Company people of station pay their respects to department.” Charles E. Magoon, acting chief of the Rureat of Insular Affairs, to-day sent the first Government commercial message over the new Pacific cable line to Manila, It was addressed to Governor Taft and informed him that the quartermaster gen. eral has asked the assistant quartermas- ter general at Manila to transport exhib- its for the Loulsiana Purchase Exposition | on the Government transports. HOSTILTES L00KED FOF IV FAR T Japan Is Said to "~ Be Mobilizing Her Forces. R Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, July 6.—A dispatch to the Standard from Tientsin says it is the opinion im Russian circles there that an outbreak of hostilities in the far East is inevitable. It is reported that Japan is mobilizing her forces. It is thought iIn Tientsin that the Japanese, in the event of war, would have everything in their favor. They are certainly better prepared than the Russfans. The Simla correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs that Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister at Peking, will arrive there July 7 to confer with Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. The visit is generally attributed to the aspect of affairs fn Man- churta, as an Anglo-Russian rupture would closely affect India through Af- ghanistan. S IR R ORIGINATOR OF THE RIOT AT STEELVILLE IS DEAD Young Starkc Succumbs to Bullet ‘Wound Inflicted During Fight With Deputies. STEELVILLE, Mo., July 6.—The street fight here Saturday night, which resulted in the death‘of Robert Starks and the se- rious wounding of Sheriff Taft and oth- ers, has been followed by the death of Henry Starks, a son of Robert Starks. Young Starks was shot through the ab- domen by one of the Sheriff’s posse while attempting to arrest him. At the Coroner’s inquest over the body of the second victim of the tragedy it came out in the evidence that young Starks was the originator of the contro- versy. The lad, who was not more than 20 years old, attacked the Sheriff and two deputies, as well as two city marshals, and succeeded in wounding them before he was himself shot. Henry Starks requested a young brother before he died' to avenge his death. Sher- i Taff is in a critical condition from his wounds. ————— Nixon Will Remain President. NEW YORK, July 6.—At the request of Recelver Smith, Lewis Nixon has con- sented to remain as president of the United States Shipbuilding Company. f— Jcenes in the Life of Pope Leo. FEEBLE BUT WITH MIND UNWEAKENED — Remarkable Battle for Life Drawing : to a Close. g ——t | perceptible breathing. Pope Leo |awoke wet with perspiration, | feeble in the extreme and his voice hardly audible. || The fits of coughing had | brought pains in his chest and shoulders, and, thinking his end was now near, he said to Dr. Lap- poni : “Tell me when the time really comes.” The doctor assured his Holiness that he believed the danger of his | immediate passing was averted for the night and for to-day. These seemingly last moments | of Pope Leo are full of solemnity. | Perhaps his last hours would be | less melancholy and sad if the | | august sufferer were less conscious | of the circumstances and his mind | less clear as to the duration of time remaining to him before he enters eternity. Although his physical powers are at the lowest ebb and his breathing becomes | | | e OME, July 7, 3:55 a.m. —Another morning has broken on the pathetic scene within the simple chamber of the Vatican, where Pope Leo lies dying. As the soft light of dawn penetrated into the room the Pontiff whispered to his devoted physician that he desired the shut- ters of the windows to be opened, saying : . “I wish to see once more, per- Extreme Unction Is Administered and Leo Calmly Awaits the End. OME, July 7, 9:20 a. m.—The pneumonia from which His Holiness has been suffering is now complicated with pleu- | risy, and the Pontiff has paralysis of the fingers. Pope Leo passed a restless, sleepless night. patient and listen to his hardly | more labored, the Pope’s mind is clear, as is manifest to all around him by his bright, expressive eyes and the few words he now and ‘then succeeds in ! uttering. The scene is so | touching that those present can | scarce restrain their tears. Count | Camillo Pecci, the Pope’s nephew, whom the dying man kept by his bedside yesterday, was so ex- | hausted last night by his contend- ing emotions that he had to be taken from his uncle’s room, com- | pletely worn out. A few moments | before, as he stood bowed beside ni had induced by a str | the bed, Pope Leo laid his hand po v a strong dose‘ on his head with paternal affec- of chloral. His sleep was so death-| © ;. “Tak > like that artificial respiration was | H0%: S2ying, lake lOllr?;}{t continued, and Dr. Lapponi every| Shortly after 10 o'clock at few minutes leaned anxiously over ! night the Pontiff received extreme the couch to observe the illustrious | At g o'clock his condi= haps for the last time, the rays of the sun.” It was just a short while after the Pope came back to conscious- ness from a sleep which Dr. Lap- unction. Continued on Page 2, Column &, ,