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

VOLUME XCIV—NO. 90. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1903. DICE CONSUL IN SYRIA UNHARMED BY ASSASSIN, BUT YANKEE GUNS WILL FROWN ON THE TURKS BEIR UT, Syria, Aug. 28.--Although the attack made on Vice Consul Magelssen was evidently pre- meditated, the bullets missed him and he escaped uminjured. FRYER, ' Treasurer of the Board of Presbyterian Missions. STREET OAR | HELD UP B | MISKED MEN Thugs Commit Bold | Crime on Elec- tric Line. Robbery Takes Place| in OQutskirts of | Los Angeles. | CANAL PLANS DISCUSSED N CONFERENCE President and Hay| Consider Alter- natives. Congress in Extra Ses-| sion May Deal With | Passengers and Operatives| Part With Their Coin and Valuables. | Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—An electric| car of the California Pacific Rallway, | running between Los Angeles and San Pe- dro, was beld up by three masked high- waymen to-night at the Santa Fe rail-| road crossing. The motorman, conduc- tor, three men, two women and a boy were on the car were searched for The car, which was in charge of Con- ductor W. P. Plerce and Motorman W. ¥. Thies, was ex route from San Pedro. | At the Santa Fe crossing cars on the! vs stop and the conduc- | hat the crossing is stopped to-night | t as & masked man weeds at the roadside him and the motorman ordered them to e pockets of the wome self with taking t 4302 Hortic purses tural avenue, lost 70 ce: J. 8. Fink, his wife an son were next searched. Fink gave up his watch and chain and $12; his wife lost her purse, containing & few dollars. E. Eng- mann, 323 West second street, surrendered $18 and & watch, but the robber falled to find 324 and another watch which he se- creted when they first appeared. DEFIES HIGHWAYMAN. A. M. Cooper of South Pasadena lost nothing, having put his watch and money in an outside pocket and the rob- ber searched only his inside pocket Cooper displayed great nerve. Although he was unarmed he called the robber a 24 offered to whip him then e 1f he would throw down his The robber threatened <o kill the conductor beg,€d him | g their worlk Jthe robbers | passengers nf //to leave the utes. By, #king the con- troller handle with thegjthey probably thought the car could n{§ be moved, but the nan found a m inkeywrench in his tool-box and used?)'nat as a con- sller handle and brought the car to this city. It was stopped at the first| store and the police were notified by telephone. Two hours later a milkman was found »y the officers who stated that shortly | before the robbery he had seen three men | aiving an open wagon in the vicinity ot] tie hold-up. He described the rig 5o | clsely that a search was made for it. At| bt & rig which answered the de- | sctiption was found and the officers are nov searching for three men who hired it. Tie robbers or two of them are be- lievd to be the men who held up a car here last Saturday night. On that occa- sion hey failed to find $ which the con- Lise | the 1ittle republic that if amendments the Problem. . Leaders Will Be Asked for‘ : Advice Before Final Ac- | tion Is Taken. Special Dispatch to The Call | 8.—Public sentl- led on to determine 1 States shall take a canal negotia- stion was the chief ident to-day. As the| | red at the extra 's visit was ar- | , while it yet seemed impossible for the United States to become involved even indirectly in the affairs of Turkey and her: rebeilions ww.‘ inces. | President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay | regard the treaty as probably dead. They | take little interest in dispatches from| | inister Beaupre at Bogota, which pur-| | to detall efforts being made by Co-| | ve the treaty” by amend- e United States long ago informed | ade to the treaty they would not | | le to this Government. It is | for this Government to recede ement and to consider the Ing a new treaty which | ombia greater advants of $500,000 instead of $250, e Colombians de- demand is termed blackmail. e of the President and Sec- y to map out a plan to be n view of the admitted fallure e several alternatives | ation, and none will be full consultation with is that the President t in accordance with the provis- of the Spooner law, and, having d to make a treaty of a satisfactory Colombia, turn to Nicaragua e ld the canal via Greytown Lake Nicaragua. »nd course is to delay this great til something transpires to make Colombid see the light and then negotiate for another treaty. This course might be followed if the treaty should come back without many Iimportant amend- | «— ments. JAMES G. BLAINE SAVES A HELPLESS LINEMAN Climbs a Forty-Foot Telegraph Pole and Brings Down Unconscious ‘Workingman. AUGUSTA Me., Aug. 25—James G. Blaine climbed a forty-foot telegraph pole to-fay to rescue a lineman, Edward Finn, who had touched a live wire and fallen conscious over the crossbars. Several men shouted for assistance when Finn but none thought of going up. aine was playing tennis near by and saw the accident. He jumped the fence, ran to the foot of the pole and rapidly climbed up. When he reached Finn he = gether they got the unconscious man to the groand with the aid of a rope. Finn was sent to a hospital, where it is expected he will recover. —_———— LARDY AND MATZEN WILL NOT ACT AS ARBITRATORS ROME, Aug. 28.—Dr. Lardy, the Swiss Minister at Paris, and Professor Matzen of Copenhagen University have refused to be arbitrators in the questicn of Vene- zuelan preferential claims. Count Lams- dorf, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, telegraphed to-day to the Italian Foreign Office, asking if Italy had any objection to postponing the first meeting of the tribunal so as to give the Czar time to choose two other arbitrators. Italy’s reply raised mo difficulties in the matter. L R e e ] ] ductor had secreted in his hip pocket. To-night when the conductor was being searched the robber sald to him that he would not leave $ this time. The de- scriptions of the robbers are the same called to & lineman to come up, and to- C ONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 28.—It transpires that the report that - s CAPITAL OF THE.SULTAN OF TURKEY AND TWO NOTABLE AMER- ICANS WHO ARE TAKING A CONSPICUOUS PART IN THE TROU- BLE THAT OCCURRED IN SYRIA. Fleet on the Way to Syria Will Not Be Re- - called Until Sultan Gives an Explana- tion to the United States. YSTER BAY, N. Y., August 28.—President Roosevelt has received through the State Department at Washington confirmation of the dispatches from Constantinople and . Beirut which show that the report of the assassination of Dices= Consul Magelssen at Beirut is an error. The President will not countermand the order to Rear= Admiral Cotton to proceed with the cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco and the gunboat Machias to Turkish waters. The attack on Mr. Magelssen is regarded as an incident which points to the necessity of a demonstration which would have the effect of insuring the protection of Americans in the Turkish empire. ’ TURKISH OFFICIAL EXPRESSES REGRET Due to Cipher Bungling. Vice Consul Magelssen was killed is incorrect. An unknown indi- vidual fired at him, and the bullet passed close to the Vice Con- sul, but did not touch him. The Vali of Beirut visited Vice Consul Magelssen, expressing his’ regrets for the outrage, and ordered measures for the arrest of the per- son who fired the shot. The error in stating that Vice Consul Megelssen had been killed arose from a mistake in a cipher telegram. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The State Department to-night re- ceived a cablegram from Minister Leishman at Constantinople confirm- ing the dispatch announcing that the report that Consul Megelssen had been assassinated was incorrect. The Minister says the mistake made by him in announcing the assassination was due to an error in the transmission of the cipher dispatch from Consul Ravendal at Beirut. the incorrectness of the report that United States Vice Consul Magels- sen, at Beirut, Syria, had been assassinated. The President expressed gratification that Consul Magelssen had escaped without injury from the’ aszault of the would-be murderer. He announced, however, that no change at present would pbe made in the plans of this Government, and that the European squadron, which he last night ordered to proceed immediately to Beirut, would go to its ordered destina- tion. It can be sald that the President and Secretary Hay both regarded it ad- visable, in view of the present state of unrest in Turkey, to have American war vessels in Turkish waters. - 0 YSTER BAY, L. I, Aug. 23.—President Roosevelt was informed to-night of as given of those in the former job, but are anything but complete or satisfactory. | Coutinued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 4. Mistake in Assassination Report -+ \ i | \MASSACRE THE ORDER . FOR TURKS Terror Reigns in the Homes at Adri- anople. tion in the vilayet of Adrianople continues alarming. The revolution- ists have destroyed all the Turk- ish posts along the fromtier. The Autonomye says the Turkish com- mander in the district of Seres has or- dered his subordinates to kill and destroy everybody and everything Bulgarian im- mediately the insurgent band appear. Eight hundred men, women and children bave gone to Yasiliki, and the Turkish Government is arranging to send them to Asia Minor. The Turkish population is fleeing toward Constantinople. A flerce fight has occurred at Passaqual, twenty miles from Adrianople, where three Turkish battalions surrounded a body of insurgents. A second band came to the assistance of théir comrades, who thereupon broke through the cordon, kill- ing 150 Turks. The Macedonian organization Is re- ported to be planning a big movement. General Zentchieff is sald to be organizing YOF& Aug. 23.—The general situa- % Continued on Page 2, Column 5.