The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1903, Page 1

* .s:conds VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 96. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CUP DEFENDER DISTANCES THE CHALLENGING YACHT IN FINAL RACE OF THE SERIES Start. Finish. Elapsed Time. LOREE it sa e 3:28:06 & o b TRPE C S TR Did not finish .. .. PRESIDENT'S SURRDS A HEINFORCED Morefecret Service Men for Oyster Bay. Executive Expresses Pity for Maniac Assailant. Scoffs at Danger and Will Not Change His Daily Movements. . Special Dispatch to The Call. OYSTER BAY, L. L, Sept. 3.—President Roosevelt laughs at the openly expressed fears of his official houseold while re- peatedly reassuring the llvelier appre- hensions of his family. His &entiments concerning the visit of Henry Wellbren- ner are only of sympathy and pity for the young farmer and his family. One of his inquiries to-day is said to have been whether the malady which has sent the young man to the Kings Park In- stitution is curable. The President has announced that the incident will make no change in the pro- gramme of his daily life. If he wants to go riding he will go; it he prefers a boat ride with his sons he will take it, and in all events he is confident that he can take care of himself. If .the President is without fear the Federal authorities as well as his own family are not. Ome of the results was seen last night and to-day when the guards around the President’s home were doubled and an order was sent out for four more secret service men to joih the eight already on duty. This delegation will remain with the President until he returns to Washington. Around Syosset there ig only sofrow ex- pressed tor the Wellbrenner family. Hen- ry Weilbrenner, known as a hard. work- ing, stlent farmer, had many friends and was simply the freak of di imag- ination. For a month or more it was known that he had delusions. He imag- ined that certain men in the community intended to attack him, for some un- known reason, and he bought a revolver to defend himself. He never went into the fields without taking it with him, brother said. Before Weilbrenner drove to Oyster Bay on Tuesday evening he stopped at Lang's Hotel at Syosset and drank a glass of | gin, a glass of beer, ayg bought three ci- gars. He talked with the proprietor, who | said there appeared to be absolutely | nothing unusual about the young man. | He drove from there to Sagamore Hill, | and secret service men thought yesterday that before driving up the hill he had reconnoitered afoot. It was he who was | seen by Mrs. Seaman, the gardener's wite. Then he took his horse and was stopped | by Connell, the man on guard JOHNNY BULL---“Well, Uncle, | Take My Hat Off to You.” PLOT AGAINST A PREMIER. Japanese Are Accused of Conspiring Result Pleases Managing Owner of the Reliance | EW YORK, Sept. 3.—C. Oliver Iselin said to-night: that the last race is sailed and won, I will say that the Re- lance is the better boat.. Her performance in the three races she kas won proves that comclu- sively. More than that I am sat- | isfied I cannot say.” | * | EW YORK, Sept la 3.—The Re- , the American cup de- ay won the third tender, t 1 end final race and the serfes | for that famous sea trophy, the America’s Cup. In Gense fog which prevented vision beyond 200 yards she finished the race at 5:3 fi The Shamrock III after running for more than an hour in the fog, missed the finish line 16 it from the t6 it opposite direction. As the Reliance was then being towed through the fleet, the yacht's fluttering from her truck and spreaders in celcbra- tion of her victory, the Shamrock III did ot cross the finish. As often said of the - historic race when the America won the cup, “there was no second.” This successful result was achieved on- after four futile attempts to sail off the final race, and after victory for the Reliance had been admitted by even Sir ensign ~Thomas Lipton to be a foregone conciu- * sion. To-day's was the eighth attempt to sall a race. After gne fluke the Re- liance won the followffg two races, one ‘v seven minutes and\thiee seconds and other by one minute &nd nineteen A week ago to-ay the first at- tempt to sail the third race failed, and al tempts have been made every day this week. - On these occasiors the Rellance led the Shamrock to, the finish line by a margin, but failed to reach it be- e the expiration of the time limit of »d one-half hours. To-day’s victory means that the cup is * destined to remain in America until Eng- lapd is able to produce a genius equal to Herreshoff in yacht desgning. Rarely, if ever; has there been & more the wid: the meclamations of the assembled | passed by it and returned | |Shamrock 1II Miles Behind at the Finish. | { [+ B3 spectacular finish than the Reliance’s to- day. After rating for more thafl an hour at térrific speed through a blinding fog, the Reliance burst through the wail of mist upon the vision of the spectators on the fleet assembled at the finish line, and, reeling under a great bellying balloon jib topsail, with her lee rail awash, flew | across the finish line almost before the spectators could determine for certain that it was she. boat had added to the long string of victories in contests for the honored old | silver trophy that carried with it the blue ribbon of the sea. A fleet of less than thirty vessels went down to the familiar waters of the inter- national course to witness this fifth ef- | fort of the Reliance to cover the course of thirty miles within the time limit. It | had become a race of the American boat | against time instead of a contest of two well-matched craft the lightship a gentle southeast wind of five knots, that barely wrinkled the sur- face of the sea, gave but faint promise | that this was to be the final day, but a shift of the wind to the south shortly after noon revived the despairing hopes | of the yachtsmen, for it blew away the | misty haze which had been hanging over. the course since the easterly storm of | last week. The regatta committee waited | until the last moment to send the boats away at 1 o'clock, after’ which hour, it had been agreed, no race should: be started. Signals were displayed to indi- cate a windward and leeward course of thirty miles and back. g BARR’S SUPERIOR SKILL. The duel between the skippers began at the sound of the preparatory gun and con- tinued through a series of brilliant man- euvers, in which Captain Barr again proved his splendid seamanship by out- generaling Captain Wringe, until the boats went across tue line. During the fifteen minutes before the starting gun Captain Barr held the British beat un- der his lee and for most of the time blanketed her. He never relinquished the windward position, which the Reliance Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Once more the Yankee | | When they reached | > Sir Thomas May Again Challenge With N=w Yacht EW YORK, Sept. 3.—Sir Thomas Lipton said to-night: “I would challenge to-mor- row if Ifelt I had a chance of win- ning, but who can design ‘& boat? | T am prepared to fight again if I | can get proper material in shape | of a boat. Mr. Fife has done his R —_— ONDON, Sept. 4.—The final de- feat of Sir Thomas Lipton's cup challenger, Shamrock III, was received in London with Most of pub- lished a special edition announcing the result, but the announcement had already | been discounted by the dispatches giving absolute listlessness. the afternoon papers the progress of the race. The consensus of opinion is that Sir ol X to Kill Viscount Katsura. LONDON, Sept. 3.—A dispatclr to the Daily Mail from Kobe, Japan, says three Japanese have been arrested on suspicion of -plotting the assassination of the Premier of Japan, Viscount Katsura. -—— COLLAPSE OF TRESTLE CAUSES A TRAINWRECK Six Persons Are Crushed to Death and Twenty-Five Injured, One Fatally. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 3.—Six per- sons were killed and twenty-five injured, one fatally and two seriously, in a wreck on the Southern Railway, near Yorkville, S. C., to-day. The dead: ENGINEER BRISKMAN. FREDERICK R. HINE. POSTAL CLERK SMITH. THREE UNKNOWN NEGROES. The more seriously hurt are: Julius Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C., probably fatale ly; W. L. Slaughter, Hickory Grove, S. C., seriously; T. C. Hicks, Lancaster, S. C., seriously. In addition to these, nineteen other white persons and three negroes, resi- dents mainly of South Carolina towns, were slightly hurt. - | jon ' that his visit his | | time and money could accomplish and Thomas Lipton has done everything that widespread sympathy for him”is shown. The chief hope expressed in the streets is that Canada will enter the lists next year and possibly succeed where the mother country has failed. It seems improbable that, in view of the failure of Shamrock 111, another challenger will soon be dis- patched from England. This morning’s papers publish editorials congratulating the United States " upon again retaining “the America’s cup and complimenting Sir Thomas Lipton on his gallant fighta All the journals agree that the contests were won by the better boat and the cleverer skipper and crew, and admit that there seems to be no reason why the United States should not retain the cup for many years to come, since it seems that Great Britain has something tolearn from America In the matter of yacht building. The wreck was caused by the collapse of a trestle forty feet high, over Wishing Creek. —_——— RUNS TO A TROUGH WITH CLOTHING ABLAZE Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Deluged by Burning Oil During an Explosion. VISALIA, Sept. 3.—At the Sharman ranch near this city this morning Earl McKim, a lad of 16 years, was placed in charge ‘of a crude oil engin e and tank house. An hour later there was an explo- sion, which set fire to the house. The boy was deluged with burning oil. He ran about 300 yards to a water trough in which he rolled and put the fire out. He had been so badly burned, however, that the -doctor says he will die. run from the tankhouse to During his the water trough the dripping burning oil from’the lt!’ GLASGOW, Sept. 3.—The announcement The Daily Telegraph expresses the gen- eral feeling, when, paying a tribute to the fairness with which the contests were conducted, it says: “It is an entirely honorable chapter ‘added to the history of the America's u boy’s clothes set fire to the field. B e i U e ) of, the Reliance’s victory was received here with a feeling akin to relief that the regret is expressed at Sir Thomas Lip- ton's failure after making such a persist- ent effort to win the America’s cup, 7 Tt Jong-drawn contest was ended. Uniform |. TURKS AND MACEDONIANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN mochi village and the losses on both-sides were great. A company of Albanians was captured and slaughtered by Macedonians. A " ENGAGEMENT AT DAMOEHI SOFIA, Sept.™3.—Heavy fighting is reported from Debre district. Turks attacked Da- | i | J2,28757 C. L7RGELSSEHN- AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS IN.THE SULTAN'S DOMAIN, AND CONSULAR OFFICIAL WHO WAS FALSELY RE- PORTED TO HAVE BEEN-FIRED UPON BY TURKS, THE GROUNDLESS RUMOR RESULTING IN THE DISPATCHING OF UNITED STATES WARSHIPS TO TURKISH WATERS. e SON HER AGCUSED OF COWARDICE Failure to Fight Duel Disgraces Prince. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Sept. 3—A dispatch . from Berlin to the Daily Mail says the forth- coming resignations of the Crown Prince of Saxony and General von Treitchke, commanders, respectively, of the Twelfth and Nineteenth Army Corps, are said to form a sensational secuel to the reeent scandal in regard to Crown Princess Louise, who eloped with Andre Giron, the tator of her children. It will be remembered that about that time her brother, the Archduke Ferdi- nand, thrashed the Crown Prince. Both the Crown Prince and General von Treit- schke have been practically custed from their commands owing to ‘the indignation felt in high military quarters here be- cause the former failed to fight a duel with the Archduke. The Saxon court of honor, presided over by General ven Treitschke, decided that it was not necessary for the Crown Prince. to fight a . duel The latter ac- quiesced in the decision and this oc- casioned such anger and indignation. that the positions of both men were made un- tenable. Their last appearance as army officers will be during the annual maneuvers next week. —_————————— FRENCH SOLDIERS AND AMERICANS IN FIGHT Yankees Receive Two ) Bayonet ‘Wounds During a 'Combat = - in Peking. PEKING, Sept. 3.—In'a 'fight to-day be- tween French soldiers and four Ameri- cans the French used bayonets and two of the Americans were badly wounded. Ministry of Bulgaria Holds Council - of War. OFTA, Sept. 3.—A council pre- sided over by Prince Ferdi- nand and attended by the Pre- mier and the Ministers of In- terior, War and Justice ‘was held at the palace of Euxino- grad, near Varna, to-day. The announce- ment of the result of the deliberations. is anxiously. awaited here. No definite news was received to-day regarding the operations of the insur- génts across the frontler. Bands vary- ing in strength are dally passing over the border. The insurgent general staff has issued a proclamation throughout Macedonia, asking for the support of the whole pop- ulation and pointing out that the revo- lutionary forces are not fighting for a neighboring power, but for human rights. The Turkish troops recently made an attempt to take a pass occupled by in- surgents through the valley of the Sates- ka River, but were defeated with great loss. - A special dispatch from" Rila, near the Turkish frontier, says a courier has ar- rived there with a copy of the proclama- tion of a general insurrection, which has been daily awaited. The document is ad- dressed to “Our brethren in Macedonia and Adrianople,” and begins by congrat- ulating them upon the heroic fight they have already waged. The proclamation continues: . “Armed with only your own strength against a mighty empire, -with pitiless foes, with the power of your right hand and the might of your spirit you have shaken the hateful Ottoman dominion. A hundred thousand of the Sultan's sol- diers and an innumerable infidel mob were unable to resist your advance. “You have sacrificed everything before the altar of liberty. Your villages were burned, your homes pillaged, your chil- dren massacred and your sisters, wives and mothers violated. A succession of valiant champions has persisted in the struggle and dyed the fatherland with their dear blood, but with greater zeal you have embraced the fight. Your smok- ing hearths have strengthened your man- liness; the cries of the children and the moans of the women exasperated your souls. From the breasts of the fatherland came new champions, replacing those who perished. The holy flag of liberty waves more proudly over the dear father- land. Your enemies are rendered speech- Continued on Page 2, Column 4. | | | | | | | LBORS FOE FEARS HAND OF SSHSSIN Prowlers Fire on Guards at the Parry Home. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 3.—D. M. Parry. president of the Natlonal Manufacturers’ Association, and organized labor's open foe, has doubled the guards he had placed around his house to prevent the possible kidnaping of his children by his industrial enerfies. This action was taken on:ac- count of a pitched battle that took place around his premises at an early hour morning. The fight was between Frank Smith, watchman, and two men whom he dis: ered in-the shrubbery along the bank: the canal that flows through Pan grounds. Smith found the men in hiding and nupon his confronting them they opened fire. Other guards ran to his as- sistance, and for a time the shooting was lively. A score of shots were exchanged, none, however, as far as known, taking effect. Parry is certain that the men prowling about his grounds do not intend to. take any one’s life. eir object, he belleves, s to kidnep some member of his family and thus strike at his purse. A watch-, man last night reported that he had over- heard a conversation two or three nights ago betwean two men, in which it was said that the job would bring 32000, and, that it would be useless to run any risks until a boat had been obtained. To-night fresh ammunition has been is- sued to all the guards. Another plot to murder Parry ~ was brought to light late te-night. The po- : lice were informed of suspicious charac- ters lurking in the shadows of the tun- nel that passes under the tracks of the Union station. Before any arrest could be made the men escaned. Parry has been repeatedly warned in letters addressed to him, threatening his life to beware of the tunnel. He 1 obliged to pass through it three or four times a day to and from his factory.” He goes armed at all times, and, when deive ing. his coachman also is ~