The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV—NO. 111. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, THOUSAND TURKS ARE REPORTED SLAIN IN A MOUNTAIN FIGHT; HUNDREDS OF BULGARIANS WITH OFFICERS FALL IN A BATTLE [ — DETECTIVE'S BULLETS END A LONG FEUD An Ofl"lcer Fires at | Men and Kills Himself, Two Fatally Injured and a Third May Not Survive. Five Hundred People Wit- ess Tragedy in a Tent in Indiana. LT R T “\‘A\:\wv‘ 1 the hot for known. wer ne of fire and it is kill Crow for at n Crow is m Trimble, the rt Captain ne of the most a and it is said e rioters in- 2 c- Brennecke is tz is believed to be fatally hurt —_———— MYSTERY SURROUNDS unconscious. IDENTITY OF PRISONER | Woman Accused of Robbery Claims to Be the Wife of an Arizona Official. son says that e of two men, who hough they are » him in a room streets. He says he 2 of the gang and was by means of knock- e gn ¥ t drops Anderson showed effects of the drug whe police headquarters and It was to the effect th i met the woman to-night and a the others had gone to ar an was spent in 3 drinks were » drank four he lost vived his ich had He lost and they of beer when nd when he companions and $% his pocket were missin » in notifying the police Jocated the woman and are now ning for her companions. When she told that the Mayor of Yuma is R. 1i. Patterson gnd asked if that was her true name ,n{ replied that the name of essey was an assumed cne, but 4 to reveal her identity. —_——————— CREDITORS WANT WATSON DECLARED A BANKRUPT Petition Filed in Chicago Against President of the Porter Bros. Company. pt. 18.—A petition has been bankruptey court to have mes 8. Watson declared a bankrupt. tson, was president of the Porter Bros. mpany, which fajled several months | His liabllities are placed at $1,000,000. tioners are the First Na- nal Bank, 000, and the Hibernian king Associat $10,000. —————— Steamer Probably Lost. NEW YORK, Sept, 18—Since the gale of Tuesday nothing has been heard of the fishing steamship Beatrice, which car- crew of thirty fishermen and was on the fishing grounds off Cape Charles when last seen. It is believed the Beatrice went “own with all on board. suddeniy ® Shaugh: she r CHICAGO, Among the Bz the convie- | CHAMBERLAIN MAY SNATCH . THE PREMIERSHIP AT THE TURN OF A POLITICAL TIDE w W TEN Zj-},{mem, - — GLISH STATESMEN, WHOSE NAMES ARE CONSPIC- STERIAL CRISIS CAUSED BY SUDDEN RESIGNATIONS OF HIGH OFFICIALS. _— Former Secretary for the Colonies Explains in a Letter His Attitude On the Tariff to the Astounded Britons. ONDON, Sept. 18.—A member of The Call-Herald staff to-day had a conversation with a well-known Londoner, who has been behind the scenes in British politics for many years past, and who said | an idea was prevalent that Mr. ng to do | “Austen Chamberlain, the Cabinet and the father’s voice son. Chamberlain’s resignation is part of a very carefully thought-out scheme. said this authority, “is going to remain in is bound to be heard through the “It is almost certain there will be a general election when the Lib- erals will come into power, but the Liberals cannot count on a long tenure of office. Then there will be a turn in the tide, and Mr. Cham- berlain will be carried on the flood to the Premiership.” This theory is of course purely speculative, and omits all consider- ation of Mr. Chamberlain’s loyalty, on which Balfour in his letter laid such stress, but it is worth recording as the view of a personage who is as well versed in politics as any man in London. ONDON, Sept 16.—Writing m his home Highbury, Birm- ham, Mr. Chamberlain made his t officlal statement since his ation. His letter is in reply to C. chairman of couneil of t riff Reform League, asked if Mr. Chamberlain coincides with his view that the examination of the tar iff may be vanced and that the league should now use its resources to advocate the employ- a tariff for the purpose of con- g and defending the resources of ie empire and defending the industries the United Kingdom. Mr. Chamber- lain says: “I agree with your views that we have sufficient material in the way of facts and figures. We have now to state our conclusions and endeavor to get the peo- ple to adopt them. Mr. Chamberlain then gives his under- standing of the position of the Tariff Re- form League upder two heads as coin- ciding with his position. Their objects, he “are, first, a closer union to en- deavor to make the empire self-sufficing as regards its food supply; second, the employment of a tariff as a weapon to secure greater reciprocity with foreign nations; or failing such arrangements to prevent the loss to the home industrial markets under the competition of pro- tected countries by retaliating upon them the treatment they mete out to us.” UNION HIS PURPOSE. “On this understanding as to our views,” Mr. Chamberlain concludes, “I wish the league success and the support of every one desiring the union of the empire and the continued prosperity of British commerce.” Consternation and excitement caused | by the announcement of Chamberlain’s resignation of the Secretaryship of the Col- ! onies prevails among all classes in the ] United Kingdom to the exclusion of every | other topic. The great majority of the | public only learned the news from morn- |ing papers and their astonishment in | many cases was so great as to prevent the expression of any coherent opinion. The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon apparently sums up the general feeling by describing the present crisis as the “most extraordinary in the whole history of constitutional government,” adding that what will happen unext no ome ¢, who to-day | foreca: the executive | | alsc considered as sufficiently ad- | with any degree of absolute cer- ta Pall Mall Gazette states that Pre- Balfour will fill up the vacancies and on the Government until he meets Parliament in 194 Mr. Chamberlain, , does not look for an immediate gen- eral election, expecting at least a twelve months’ propaganda before the electorate can decide upon his proposals. Other ru- mors are current that Mr. Balfour is un- able to find men to fill the vacancies and that he will be obliged to hand the King his own resignation. This, however, does not appear to be. likely. MILNER TO THE FORE. The Westminster Gazette and other pa- pers forecast Lord Milner, the High Commissioner in South” Africa, succeed- ing to the Colonial Office, and it is def- initely announced that Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary t6 the War Office, and probably James Lowther, Deputy Speaker, will be among those promoted to the Cabinet, but the details of its rec- ommendation are not likely to be known until Mr. Balfour has seen the King. Almost every paper has its own candi- date for the various vacant offices, but few of the papers agree. The attitude of the Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, being unknown to the pub- lic causes further uncertainty. Lord Rothschild’s statement yesterday, how- ever, can safely be taken as an indication that the Duke intends to support Mr. Balfour, at any rate until Parliament meets. The prediction that the markets would not be affected by the Cabinet crisis has been fulfilled; indeed, consols exhibited a firmer tone. From all parts of the United Kingdom and the empire editorial expres- sions of opinion on the crisis are pouring in, The Government organs frankly ad- mit that Mr. Chamberlain’s withdrawal came as a bombshell The Liberal organs, though announcing the “‘wreck of the Tory party,” which is described as being ‘“Hamlet” without the Prince, nearly all agree in saying that Mr. Cham- berlain’s resignation does not mean vie- tory for free trade. WATERLOO MAY COME. “Though the mar “as gone,” says the Star, “his policy rendins. This is Mr. Continued on Page 2, Column 1. The RUSSIA EAGER T0 NEGOTIATE KOREAN LOAN Agent From Seoul May Visit Cap- ital. Political Domination Is Anticipated by | Diplomats. Agreement of 1898 With| Japan Stands in Way of Plan. RSP | Special Dispatch to The Call. PEKING, Sept.18.—Private advices from | Seoul express apprehension that the Ko-| rean Commissioner who is to be sent to Europe for the ostensible purpose of at. | tending the postal congress at Rome will | be conveyed to Port Arthur in a Russian | warship, thence to St. Petersburg in charge of Russian officials. It is believed that he will be secretly authorized to borrow 5,000,000 yen, which it is known that Russia desires to lend to Korea, directly or through the French. The negotiations of the French in 1002 failed because the security demanded was tantamount 'to political -domina tion, e Unless Russia desires to dety Jupdi the agreement of 1898, by which Russia ac- quired the Liaotung peninsula, will pre- vent either Russia or Japan from secur- ing financial control of Korea. The diplo- macy arising from Russia’s aggressive- ness in both Seoul and Peking reached a stage of mutual browbeating between the Ministers in their competition for prom- ises of the two governments, —————— BRITISH SHIPS NEARLY FOUNDER IN TYPHOONS Two Sailors Are Washed Into the Sea and Sink in the Angry Waves. ASTORIA, Sept. 18.—The British ships Musselcrag and Pegasus, which sailed some months ago for South African ports | from Astoria, had terrible experiences on the trip, according to a letter received to- day from Captain Robinson of the former vessel. Typhoons were encountered, and for days the fate of the Pegasus hung in the balance. She lost three of her life- boats and two sailors were washed into the sea and drowned. Heavy seas swepti the vessel fore and aft, and she was fn} danger of foundering. She arrived at Cape Town in a disabled condition. The Musselerag reached Algoa Bay after losing two of her bo: nd jettison- ing forty togs of her grain cargo. Among her men was one who had been shang- bajed from this port under the name of A. Anderson. He had been taken aboard by Paddy Lynch, now serving a long term in the penitentiary for kidnaping, who asked him if he wished to view the ship. He was never taken ashore, but accepted the situation philosophically and signed articles after getting to sea. —_———————— GERMANY BLOCKS WAY TO CONGRESS OF POWERS Fails to Name Delegate to Convention to Revise Certain Rules of War. PARIS, Sept. 18.—Unofficial but reliable information has beea received here to the effect that the proposed congress of the powers for the purpose of revising the Geneva convention, establishing the right and treatment of priSoners of war, neu- trals, wounded etc., which was to have taken place shortly, probably will be in- definitely postponed. France, Great Brit- ain, Italy, Austria and Russia named delegates, but Germany has not named a delegate, as it is understood that she does not desire any change in the present status of prisoners of war, etc., during a state of belligerency. Therefore, in the absence of a general international accept- ance of the proposal to revise the rules of war, the meeting of the congress has been practically given up. RED DRAGON WRECKED ' IN FURY OF THE STORM ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 18.—The vacht Red Dragon, which left here on Tuesday on a long fishing cruise, was wrecked in the. storm of Wednesday morning. The bodies of Captain Dewitt Clark of the Red Dragon and Sailor Dan. jel Murdock were found to-day on the shore at Beach Haven, and the hull of the Red Dragon came ashore at Havre. Three other men, Sinbad Ducasse, John Elin and Louis Swansen, were in the party. D/SP‘ TCHES from the region in European Turkey in which the troops of the Sultan and the Bulgarian forces are engaged in an irregular but desperate warfare tell of the latest conflict, in which one thousand Turks were killed. Three hundred Bulgarians, including ‘many notable officers, are reported to have fallen in battle with the Turks near Okhridu. One of the officers left on the field wore a Russian decoration. The situation in the town of Mitrovitza has become critical. Y LI 'rg 7o T | YO TN s % e Reported Slain in Battle. 8. —A has OF severe fight i Sept: oc- curred at Ulavitsa, in| the mountains of Krat- ovo, between 2000 Turks and 80 1t continued for eight insurgents. hours. The insurgents used bombs with deadly effect. About 1000 Turks are reported to have| been killed and many more wounded. The insurgents had two men wounded. A fight is also reported to ha\e taken place at Ruhelpase, near Ceres, insurgent bands recently.| surrounding and annihilating a| whole company of Turks. The bands then fled to the mountains. Three battalions of Turkish troops have been sent from Sa- lonica to pursue them. A small body of peasant refu- gees, near Presba, who were starving in the mountains, started to seek for food. At Nakalets they were met by Turkish sol- diers, who killed them all and hor- ribly mutilated two women. A Turkish war balloon is re- ported to have been seen hovering for the last three days close to the housand Turks Are| The body of a man who was washed | Bulgarian frontier in the vicinity ashore to-day at Bonds is unidentified as vet. of Haskovo, RESIDENTS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY SEEKING TO ES- CAPE MASSACRE. L | ! <+ Children Are Baked in Ovens by the . Soldiery. Special Dispatch to The Call ONDON, Sept. 19.—It is n@t ‘surprising to find that cold water is al- ready thrown on the story of the massacre at Kastoria. The Monastir correspondent of the Daily Mail, who is strongly opposed to the Turks and who was threatened with expulsion re- cently, telegraphs thus: “It appears that the first mas- sacre at Kastoria occurred Au- gust 7, when seventy Christians were murdered. All villages in the,district have since been laid waste.” The same correspondent, how- ever, sends avfresh list of barbari- ties, which he says are not in need of exaggeration, as he claims they are thoroughly authenticated. Eighteen children, he says, were burned to death in a baking oven —_—p Officer With Russian Decoration Dies in Combat. ONDON, Sept. 19.—A dispatch from Salonica, dated Thursday, says that a battalion of Redifs attacked a party of Chris- tian gendarmes at Mitrovitza, wounding several. The rest es- caped to the Russian consulate, where they are now besieged. The situation is critical. It will be re- called that the Russian Consul at Mitrovitza was murdered by Al- banians some months ago. There is a report from the Turkish forces of an engagement near Okhridu, in which 300 Bul- garians, including many officers, were killed. One officer of high rank wore a Russian decoration. A dispatch from Samakov to the Times says it is calculated that there are about 20,000 Mace- donian refugees along the front- jer between Bourgas and Kos- tendil, and the number is con- stantly increasing. They are eagerly anticipating the day of reckoning with the Turks, but many are compelied to remain in- active because of lack of arms and ammunition. The revolutionary committees are apparently unable to keep pace with the demand for Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Continued on Page 2, Columa &