The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1903, Page 1

se vt ry VOLUME XCIV—NO. 118. PRICE FIVE CENTS, RUSSIA DECLARES IN A NOTE TO THE BULGARIAN GOUERNMENT THAT THE S ULTAN IS THE DOMINANT POWER IN THE BJILI('J?NJ‘ AN TRUST OF MILLON WORKINGMEN Bulldmg Tra,des5 Union Leaders | Confer. Amalgaiti; of All Minor Bodies Is Proposed General Organizer Declares Politics Enters Into the Scheme. ‘ are by | or-| for this pur-| n Indianapo- | fals ¢ esent the Brotherk ari n imarily to all 1 the ¢ gani- | General Organiz speaking of a conferer eed a national e nor do they | as they are conner ltd-yn of Labor the unions un the executive MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS IN CRITICAL CONDITION Widow of Confederacy’s President | Is Sick at Millard Fillmore’s Former Home. N | BUFFALO, Davis Y., Sept dow of the F , is still in a 1 in this ci well G. Park continuou; through At 11 o'clock Dr. Davis’ condition wa —Mrs Jet- ident of ferso the ( al cc R Jones have been tendance upon the patient arles Stockton, Allen an in day and night. ton said Mrs. changed There were some signs of improvement | proon, but they did not continue and | ard vening Mrs. Davis’ condition in assumed & more serious aspect. Stockton to-night gave the Asso-| PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 25.—Unless he | ed Press the first official statement | succeeds in starving himself to death or ding the nature of Mrs. Ds ill- | mits suicide by some other method, | s, He sald: | James Connors, the bandit, who was Mrs. Davis is suffering from an ob- | shot and seriously wounded while holding | truction of the allmentary canal. Her | up the O. R. and N. train two days ago, | ondition s serious, but not necessarily | will live to pay the penalty of his crime. | fatal ed at this time.” { Castle Inn, where Mrs. Davis is ill, was formerly the home of Millard Filimore, President of the United States. —_———— /JRENCH PROTECTORATE 1S GIVEN APPROVAL Control of loroeeo Said to BAve‘ Sanction of Great Britain and | Spain. LONDON, Sept. 26.—The Paris corre-| spondent of the Daily Mail asserts on un- authority that Great Britain ve agreed to the establish- ment of a French protectorate over Mo- A strip of land along the coast will be declared neutral in order to avoid international complications over fortified ports, impeachable and Spain b rocco. S— D —— Drifts Dangerously Near Shore. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. %.—A large full- rigged sailing ship is reported dangerously near shore at Village Island, in Barkeley Sound, off the Vancouver Island coast, she having drifted there during last night. Her identity cannot be learned here. | Dexter’s ,x..my, No surgical operation is anticipat- | 8 | manner. ; IE}VJ\!./], Jept. 25.—It is reported that a Russian note which was handed to the Bulgarian i Government to-night has caused excitement in Sofia. The note recognizes Turkey as the premier ! power in the Balkans and admits her right to suppress a rebellion in her own territory as she ; thmlrs best X DIL MAGHATE FEARS BLOW OF PRUWLER = NSt Rockefeller Keeps an Army of | Guards. | e |Adopts Precautions m; Forest Tract in the | Adirondacks. Murder and Hos- tility of Wcodsmen Cause Uneasiness. B0 S A Dispatch to The C Y., Sept do P There is no Dexter’s murder, hostile tude of aused great excitement where William Rockefeller | zIthough some and a few visitors ned behind. been put up within few days all around the clearing for Rockefeller's summer home. 1e nearbyv station of the New York and ttawa Railroad belongs to Rockefeller, whose tendent, John Redwood, has offices on floor. The lights are membe are said th to hay Large lights have arranged that > person can enter the ring at night from the dens woods that circle without being seen by ve been placed on duty | to his employer in | telegram s pable dete has been seen ut here low presence of w any stranger creates and any person arriving at would probably be greeted with a | There is id to b ard Ofl detective already stationed | ower of bullets Pond, but additional precautions emed necessary, although Rockefel- employs a regiment of guides who his preserve: against Rockefeller in the village of Brandon, property about three and Pond. ' There was | *h is on Alf miles north of E were more D in Brandon about four a1l occupled, the comn prosperous. v | there a bout fifty houses and teen families remain. Some of the dings were removed nd others were burned to get them out of the There 4 be nothing more deso than the village as it stands to-day, with almost all of the houses closed and their doors and windows barred. ng the railroad are posted notices gned by Will G. Rockefeller an- icing that the property is a private k and that there must be no trespass- : signs cover the approaches to and are posted at the ends of WOUNDED TRAIN ROBBER REFUSES TO TAKE FOOD | His Companions in Crime Success- fully Manage to Elude the Pur- suing Posses. taken into custody Connors 1 to eat or drink and the only shment he has had was forcibly »n to him this morning. The whereabouts of Connors’ compan- fons in crime, who escaped the bullets of Express Messenger Corner’s gum, is still a mystery. The hunt for them continues d is now being made in a systematic | Connors is as much a mystery to the dete s and officers as ever. They are unabie to get any clew whatever to his identity. SAN SALVADOR TO PAY BURRELL INDEMNITY Congress Approves Agreement Made by Lopez as to Compensation for Triunfo Company. LA LIBERTAD, San Salvador, Sept. 2. Congress has approved the agreement made by Senor Lopez, the Salvadorean Minister to the United States, to pay Alfred H. Busrell $5000 goid monthly dur- ing eight years as compensation for the the headquarters of his | | tract of land in the Adiron-| | Rockefeller pald a visit to his| Monday and left very soon af- | His son, Wi m G. Rockefelie BSalvadorean Government's treatment of the Triunfo Company. - W Ll kb 5 —_— & LEISHITAR U S [ RESIER = \\\“\.\. % ;Yoldiers of JAsia 28, Summoned by Abdul. J Simultaneously with IEE OFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. ing the mixed Macedonian com- mission the report comes ation ()‘. ordered the mobiliz additional divisions troops. that the Sultan is acting solely in view of the approaching meeting | between the Russian and Austrian Emperors and with the hope of convincing them that he anxious to maintain peace. is A dispatch from Rila says that | the insurgents, encouraged by their recent successes, doning a strictly defensive atti- tude and are preparing to take the | offensive. A large Turkish force sur- rounded an insurgent camp near Prespo, and the insurgents had forty men and eighty women and children killed. The Turkish loss was heavy. In an engagement near Kesola the Turks lost 100 killed and wounded, while the insurgents had fifteen killed and twenty-nine wounded. A telegram from Varna an- nounces that 600 old men, women and children, starving and nearly naked, have arrived there from Rargas, where they were unable to find shelter. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 235.—The coniposition of the mixed tribunal to carry out the programme of reforms in Mace- | donia was officially announced to- day.” Hilmi Pasha is president of the commission, and the other members are Khulussi Bey, presi- dent of the Municipal Council of Salonica; Rikola Roheff, Bulga- | rian, and Nouemie Nikursh, Greek, hoth members of the Court | of Justice at ‘Monastir; Niko, Ser- the | 1e of the irade appoint-| from | Constantinople that the Porte ]ms; ot two Asiatic | The belief prevails here | | are aban- | | | | | | 1 Sk | B 2 = e { DIPLOMATS OF POWERS TERE D IN ADJT | OF BALKAN TROUBL * Battles Fought in Troubled Regions. ettt @ Ak vian, member of the Court of Jus-| tice atUskub, and Kutso Yanu, Roumanian. The commission will sit tempo~ | rarily at Monastir. An irade has been issued ordering the civil and military authorities to obey the commission’s regulations. AMERICANS WORRY ABDUL. Sultan Desires That Warships Be Withdrawn From Beirut. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. —The | Porte has expressed a wish for the with- drawal of the American warships now off Beirut, “so that the settlement of the questions pending between the United States and Turkey can be proceeded with.” It is thought here that the United States will not consent to withdraw her ships. Minister Leishman had a confer- ence with the Foreign Minister, Tewfik Pasha, to-day. Official circles take a calmer view of the Balkan sitpation, and advices from Bulgaria point to a relaxation of the ten. sion. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—The State De- partment had no fresh news from Minis- ter Leishman to-day. The American Min- Cmfln_l_xed on Page 2, Column 4. /r‘\\ T K- OCoxor | Austria, strengthened with the sup- | parent apathy 1 [ l % | Britain’s Premier| LUrites About | the Crisis. e ONDON, Sept. 25.—“It is with | a problem such as this that | one has to deal, and I cannot | but believe that the best hope | of dealing with it lies in the con- tinued co-operation of Russia and port and aided by the advice of | the other signatories of the Berlin treaty.” In these words Premler Balfour in a lengthly letter to the Archbishop of Can- terbury, Dr. Davidson, sums up his selu- tion of thé Macedonian situation. The letter is in reply to the Archbishop’'s ac- tion in drawing attention to the growing uneasiness among chyrchmen at the ap- of the powers, “while unspeakable atrocities are perpetrated in Macedonia.” Mr. Balfour says he is in entire sym- pathy with the feelings of horror and in- dignation and fully understands the desire to give expression in public meeting to the sentiment of reprobation which recent events justified. Mr. Balfour then pro- ceeds to analyze the situation. He says: CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. “We have not to deal with a sample of misgovernment or oppression by Turkish officials, but with a problem complicated by the fact that the Christian population of Macedonia is rent in fragments by dif- ferences of race aggravated by differences of religion, and in addition to the ills in- flicted by a corrupt and incapable admin- istration and by an ill paid and undisci- plined soldiery and by a detestable sys- tem of taxation, we have to reckon with all the ills which, in a population not im- bued with western ideas of humanity, rival nationalities and sects do not scruple to inflict on one another. “The instrument whereby the situation may be dealt with is the concert of Europe. But this, even were they all in harmony, is necessarily slow and may easily be ineffective if the problem is com- plex. It was a matter of congratulation when Russia and Austria, acting with the authority of Europe, provosed to press the scheme of reforms, which, while lacking in theoretical perfection, came within the circuit of practical politics and would, if URDERERS | on | tin 200 feet, | rors it has s MIKE WEAPON OF DYNAMIT Atrocious Crime on| an . Eastern | Highway. Paymaster KiIled and His Secretary Fa- tally Hurt. Satchel With Big Sum of Money Disappears After Explosion. 3 —_— | WASHINGTON, Pa., Sept —A mur- | der and robbery occurred this afterncon | the Middletown road, miles from here. the Ferguson Pittsburg was secretary, about fifteen Samuel T. Ferguson of | ot Construction Company ¢ instantly killed h Charles L. Martin of Cincin- | was fatally injured. | The two men were driving along the | road in' o buggy carrving $600 in cash | with which to pay off some of their men employed on construction work along the line of the Wabash Railroad, whén sud- | denly an explosion of dypamite in the | roadway literally tore the rig to pleces. | killed Ferguson outright and threw Ma tearing his left arm almost from the socket. It has been learned that two men, sup- posed to be Poles, placed the dynamite in | the road for the purpese of Killing Pay- master Ferguson, and had arranged to | explode it by means of an electric bat- | tery. The satchel missing. and nati, containing the money is | | Two suspects are under arrest [ et o o et | | GIRL CUTS THE THROAT | +OF FAITHLESS LOVER | Fntally Wounds Man Who Married | Arnother Woman and Slashes Herself With Razor. MARION, Ky., Sept. 2%.—Miss Agnes | Travis, a young woman of good family, | to-day cut the throat of Milton Carley | with a razor and then wounded herself | in like manner. They will die. Carley | had for five vears paid court to Mi Travis, but a week ago married another girl, and this is thought to have prompted the deed. .'X‘FH‘I*'?"H‘H‘!‘FI—H—R—I-H—!—!’H. | | more earnestly pressed by the Porte and | @ more frankly epted by the Macedonian | population, h: pared the world the hor- witnessed. r these conditions was ful- The Porte, as usual, was dilato ailed to see that a policy of human- a policy of wisdom. The revolu- tionists have deliberately done their best to drive the Turk to excesses and furnish him with an excuse for deferring the exe- cution of reforms, meeting horrors with horrors and brutality with brutality for the deliberate purpose of driving the Turk to crimes against the innocent and thus play upon the sympathies of the world. Such methods as these are no more mor- ally tolerable than the misgovernment which js their excuse.” GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. Coming to the question of the attitude of Great Britain Mr. Balfour points out that Russia, Austria and Turkey cannot be indifferent to a territorial redistribu- tion in the peninsula, while Greece, Bul- garia, Servia and Roumania are all in- terested in the fate of the province whose Christian population is made up from ail their nationalities. These external com- plications are doubled by internal ones because of religious differences, the Mo- hommedans fearing Christian rule, while the Exarchists and Christians persecute the Patriarcnists; the Greeks, whq are Patriarchists, would sooner find protec- tion under the rule of tne Sultan than be left to fight the matter with the Bul- garians, who are Exarchists. These countries possess, Mr. Balfour as- serts, incomparable influence over the an- tagonistic forces in the peninsula. In fact, no other nation or group of nations could do it at all if Russta and Austria were hostile. Great Britain was not pre- cluded by the policy outlined from offer- ing suggestions, which had already been done, ard she will continue to do so. But it would be folly to forget that there are occasions when two powers are stronger than three, and that an addi- tion to the number carries a diminution of efficiency. These principles, concludes Mr. Balfour, direct the policy of the British Govern- ment in the near East and he has no doubt that they are in accordance with British interests and in obedience to them lies the best hope of improving the con- dition of the Macedonjans and the secur- ity of European peace. nce “Neither of filled. MIAN-F-WiR WILL HURRY [0 NICARAGUA ‘Gunboat Nashville Is Needed Near Bluefields. Lawless Element Ina terferes With Our Mariners. State Department Takes Rapid Aciion on Appeal for Protection. Epecial WASHI IN, Sept with American shippi lawless elemen near Bluefield the issuance Nashville, now a to that t to protect tk operty in- terests of ens of the United States. The Nashville, which is commanded by John Hubbard, will probabiy learned he character made to the § ouble. nt was Depart- ment by an Am that the operations ners had been seripus sons on St. Andreas lIsiand, Mosquito coast. St. Andreas Island, Corn Island and other small islands lying off the Nicara- sua ast, but under the jurisdiction of the Nicaraguan Government, have in the past been rendezvousing points for filibus- tering expeditions and revolutionary movements against Nicaragua. It is pos- sible that the trouble experfenced may be due to such influences, Acting@Secretary which is on the now f State Adee is not in Washington tc it N te De- partment officials seem to be aware of the character ¢ the trouble or the iden-~ tity of the comp ant —_———— SCHCONER CASCO RETURNS FROM THE BERING SEA Reports That Japanese Sealers Are Not Being Governed by the Modus Vivendi. VICTORIA. B. C., Sej —The sealing schooner Casco, the first of the fleet to ive from ing Sea, returned to-day with 665 skins. She brought the first news from the sealers. No seizures were made. The cked two boats lost from a » schooner, the Toyo Maru, and with three men was lost from that v The Victoria fleet of nineteen schooners made catches aver aging from 300 to 400 skins to the begin- ning of Se mber. More J nese vessels than ever en- tered vear. There were all were o within three 1 Japanese not ned by the modus ors stated that re most vigilant tic coast and they were prac- tically driven into Bering Sea. P BRGNP STEAMER IS REPORTED POUNDING IN BREAKERS Wreckage Thquhtfi to Be That of thirteen arms and going the rookeries ng fire- the them: vivendi. the Beatrice, Lost in the Hurricane. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 25.—The United States weather bureau to-night received information from the Currituck life-sav- ing station that the stern of a steamer bearing the name Beatrice—New York, was pounding bottom up in the breakers two and one-half miles south of Caffeys Inlet life-saving station. The wreckage is thought to be from the fishing steamer Beatrice, which was caught In the recent hurricane when south of Delaware breakwater, Septem- ber 16. She carried a crew of thirty-five men and was loaded with codfish. She was owned by the Atlantic Fisheries Com- pany of Cape Charles and was valued at - REFORM MAYOR INDICTED 01" TWENTY-NINE COUNTS Citizens of Illinois Town, Incensed by Immorality, Bring Case Be- fore Grand Jury. MATTOON, IlL, Sept. 25.—Mattoon's re- form Mayor, Francis M. Menke, was in- dicted to-day upon twenty-nine counts, charging him with malfeasance and mis- feasance in office. At the same time the Grand Jury returned nineteen true bills against saloon keepers, gamblers and keepers of houses of lll-repute. This ac- tion came, after a three weeks' session, during which evidence was presented by citizens who had become incensed over immoral conditions existing in the eity. Mayor Menke was arrested, but later released on bond. —_——————— Permanent Arbitration Court. THE HAGUE. Sept. %.—The Ministry for Forelgn Affairs has apointed a com- mission to take preparatory steps for the construction of the permanent arbitratien court meeting.