The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1903, Page 1

@all, VOLUME XCIV—NO. 38. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POPE LEO PASSES NIGHT IN BROKEN SLUMBER, EXPERIENCING MUCH DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING o~ WY DISRUPT | at the Vatican. cold, which would be absolutely fatal. HOHE, July 8, 6:55 A. M.---The Pope, awakening this morning, did not speak. He was somewhat irritable and 1t seemed as though the blankets and other bedclothes were too heavy, so he kicked them off, at the imminent risk of taking a fresh The doctors consider that altogether his Holiness has had a favorable night. Dr. Lapponi at 6 o’clock had gone to sleep. All is tranquil THe COMBINE 0F PALWAYS Stockholders Want ! Court to Name Receiver. Legality of Sale of| Streetcar Lines | Questioned. I [ United Railroads Threatened | With Suit by Local Shareholders. THO TRAINS INHEAD- VILLE, Va., July 7.- n Railway passenger train No. 33 southbound, ran into an open switch at Rockfish depot, twenty miles south of | this at 3 o'clock this afternoon, | 1g into a local freight head on. cnger engine and the express | were demolished and the baggag escoped through the second-class | coach in the rear. In the latter rty of immigrants, all of whom | d or injured. The dead number | four and the Injured thirteen. rhvu fied dead: JINEER JAMES McCORMICK nf <o | Charlottesville, | ENGINEER CHARLES DAVIS of Al- e had pre THOMAS SHEPARD of Charlottesville, | brakem: ight train. T. GAY of Charlottesville, fireman. LOWE, CHARI a change which, I ow the Santa Fe ts of way to the shore colored, Baltimore. . LEITCH, colored, dining- . car waite C. C. OWEN, Philadelphia. ADAM VOCOSAVLEVICH, Austrian ¥ perties involve | boy. e BARILANI GUGLIELMO, Austrian wo- PREARRANGED AFFAIR. We w estion the man. Two unknown Austrian women and an unknown mulatto woman. Most of the immigrants were Austrians and were bound for points as far distant as California. The freight train was in charge of Con- ductor Brubeck and Engineer fiale, and at the time of the accident was on the re- turn run from Lynchburg to Charlottes- ville. Rockfish station 1s midway be- tween these two points and the track there is a single one. Engineer Hale had orders to get out of the way of the fast passenger train, but for some reason he overstayed his time and had failed to take the siding so train could pass. right of any street rail- r its franchise to any nd that such a pro- franchise. Should thie I think it is, the interests of y be jeopardized, in ¥ time might proceed to have evoked on the ground of a pro 1t 1s a notorious sie street rafiway deal was a ged affair. in which a foreign corpora- after gaining & majority of the stock, of the boards of direct- Conunued on Pm 3, Column 7. isions. tion calied special meetings N COLLISION that the passenger 1 | | | | | The Dying Pontiff, the Papal Residence and Two Princes of the Church. X N —— Patzent Becomes Restless After Undergoing Surgical Op- eration and Is Kept Under the Influence of Drugs. OME, July 8, 2:15 a. m.—Pope Leo is now sleeping, but his head ]ms uneasy on the pillow. The alleviation ™ brought about by yesterday’s operation for removing the fluid from his pleura was followed later in the evening by-a rest- less period, and fresh doses of chloral, digitalis and caffeine had to be administered. Under their influence the Pontiff fell into a slumber, which, however, was not very peaceful, on account of the difficulty the patient has in breathing. Seeing Dr. Lapponi al- ways by his bedside, the Pope, just before falling asleep, said kindly to him: “Now it is your turn to-night. You must sleep.” Throughout the Vatican absolute calm prevails to-night, the excitement of yesterday having to a great extent died out with the revival of hope after the announcement that yesterday’s operation was ended with success. Jtatement by Dr. Mazzoni. Dr. Mazzoni fears a reproduction of the serum in the Pope's pleura, in which case the operation of yesterday will have to be repeated in about two days. Dr. Mazzoni was besieged by relatives ‘and friends of the Pope and by journalists inquiring as to the result of the operation and his prognosis of the disease. He made the following state- ment : “When one considers that the Pope should be dead by this time the unexpected may happen and there is still hope. His re- sisting so Jong and maintaining perfect lucidity of mind means that, notwithstanding the pneumonia, the affection of the kidneys and the difficulty in breathing, there is no poisoning of the blood. Between being at the point of death and returning -to what his Holiness is to-night there is certainly such a difference as to permit the most optimistic views. “To properly understand the change which has taken place it must be considered that on Monday the conviction was so sure that he would die during the night that, notwithstanding the con- trary opinion of Dr. Lapponi, those surrounding the Pope insisted on having extreme unction administered. Evil tongues even in- sinuated that some members of Pope Leo's immediate circle counted on the bad effects that such a function was likely to pro- duce on a weakened organism, but the Pope resisted splendidly. Indeed, he seems to have acquired fresh strength. Continued on Page 3, Columns 3 and 4. DISHPPEARS AND ADD5 T0 THE MYSTERY Dr. Woods Hastily Departs From a Hotel. "Body of Colonel Best to Be Exhumed for Autopsy. Officials Find Poison Vials in Marin and Requisi- tion Is Wanted. Special Dispatch to The Cail, —Determined to sift mysterious death of NEW YORK, July |to bottom the | Colonel William J. Best in San Rafael last April, Charles S. Best, one of his | sons, went betore the Prosecuting Attor- x County, New Jersey, in and made arrangements the body exhumed from the fami- A :(n have | Iy plot in the cemetery in Caldwell that an autopsy may be made to | | tain if death was due to other than natur- | al cav This V\l“ be done to-morrow aftermoon and the family is of the opinion, as out- lined in the son's affidavit sent to the Cal- | ifornia authorities, that it will be found that Colonel Best was killed by an unnee- essary administration of morphine. Coincident with this action the family heard some news which came in the na- ture of a surprse. It was that Dr. John Donald Woods, in whose home in San Ra- fael Colonel Best died, had disappeared fromr his hotel in Atlantie City, taking the.- woman who posed in California as his sister, and the little girl, who, she says, is her daughter. The doctor had promised to make an explanation in writ- ing to Colonel Best's two sons, telling all he knew of the which led to their father's ath. Thi as to have been done to-day, but on Monday night he paid his bill at the hotel, had his trunks moved from the house and now Is not to be found. It has been ascertained that Dr. Woods has had a remarkable career since he was pastor of a Methe church in Port Alle- gheny, Pa. Dismissed from the church after a conference of m n him guilty of a char; | wives, he forfeited his il rather than | stand trial on a criminal charge made by | his first wife. But she is now with him and it is said that ghe is the woman wao | | posed as his widowea sister in San Rafael, Of Woods' history in varlous parts of | the country, particularly in the Eastern | States, much is told by the head of a de- | tective agency in this city which was em- | ployed to look into his record. Woods was a | falsely in defen was indicted for cat 1 of offering to swear of a Dr. Blinn, who ing a woman’s death by malpractice, and asking $1000 for his | testimony. He afterwards confessed that he offered to give the testimony for a con- sideration. Woods was graduated from a “wild cat” medical college. puemR .20 OFFICERS FIND VIALS. Woods’ Former House Searched and Requisition Will Be Sought. SAN RAFAEL, July 7.—Detectives who have been working on the case of Colonel W. J. Best of New York City, who died at the home of John Donald Woods and Alice Cloy Wood in this city on April 6, 1903, have made rapid progress, and Dis- trict Attorney Boyd will to-morrow pre- pare the necessary papers asking Gov- enor Pardee to have Woods and Miss Wocd brought back to Marin County for trial. It has been ascertained that Woods, who professed to be a physiclan, pur- chased poisons from local druggists. P. Inman admitted that he sold Woods aconite. The authorities to-day unearthed a case containing several vials, but all were empty. Analysis, however. proved that they had contained aconite and other polsons. This case was hidden away in the house formerly occupied by Woods. A hypodermic syringe was also discov- ered. The officials declare now that Woods committed perjury on March 20, 193. On that date Deputy County Clerk Frank Holland visited his home and registered him to vote. At that time Woods swore he was a native of California and a phy- sician. The District Attorney says he has evidence to prove that Woods is nei- ther a native of this State nor a physi- clan. Dr. W. F. Jones stated to the District Attorney to-day that during one of his visits to 729 Fifth avenue, where Woods resided, and when Colonel Best lay ill, he noticed that Best showed most peculiar symptoms. These symptoms, the doctor asserted, under other ecircumstances would have caused him to be particularly skeptical, but from the fact that he had heen called in at first only as a consulting physician, and as Woods was at that time rated as a reputable physician, he only asked a few questions. Woods told his associate that he had noticed the same symptoms in Best's case during a prior Continued on Page 3, Column &