The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1903, Page 7

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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, ESCAPING BURGLAR BROUGHT TO EARTH BY POLICEMAN'S WELL-AIMED BULLET -Convict Frank E. Conlon, Wanted for Theft of Carpenters’ Tools, Refuses to Submit to Arrest and Runs for Freedom, but a Shot i nthe Leg Stops His Flight and He Must Answer for His Crime | -+ | - - : 4 EX-CONVICT AND POLICEMAN WHO BROUGHT HIM DOWN WITH A | Stustal e TOL BULLET AS HE WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE ARREST ON A | s oo CHARGE OF BUKGLARY. - S h % € i ke he e City Prison and tenced to one year in San Quentin. In 2 he was given six months in the City | n for battery on a young girl. Feb- 1803, he was again confined in the on for ninety days for stealing from a vessel on the water on was arested e carpenter’s tools Nichols, from a new r of Third and C was the steali belonging to bui ng at the cc treets F v short time ago he and some other men robbed 2 man named Michael Harrington, but escaped prison, through Harrington's He n 1901 - f Iway cars and was | refusal to prosecute. WANTED IN FOR PA CITY ‘VCONEY ISLAND DRAWS GRAND LARCENY | CROWDS TO THE BEACH | ¥ | Daring Balloonist Makes Ascension and New Attractions Are Se- cured for Next Sunday. HUSBAND COMES BACK AS FROM THE DEAD Whittier Woman Who Had Identified | Corpse as That of Spouse Re- ceives a Shock. | r Building and Is Arrested | The Coney I recently established | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.—Within twen- | ——— - at the each was crowded with | ty-four hours after she had positively | & 3 Halght.--- Ry o ;:r(r- ns ye murnlnfi and af[err;"mn, identified a corpse as that of her husband, . Brooks. .... 466 - g ngham | The res ing the center of at- | Mrs. T. C. C; - 4 Keniff. .. : \ r. O'Dea and | traction 2 and all who visit it | , ;r»,, ,.m;r (:1( ksl i i o ~iA o . 3, . o Shatud et st » see her husband, alive and in the best V. Brotherton ...191.3 v s of health, walk into the house in which Kenniff. 544095 8 p t n-air vaude- | ghe js living. Before he reached her the Kenniff. 98.8 he af- | shock was so great that she fainted and s radeet gk e ud- | pecame hysterical. Her condition is still Biode P in | serious. Blade. 78.4].... sketches Fredlander | Mrs. Carter came here several weeks SATURDAY CONT) sical co: s, entertained | ago from Greenville, Tex., to visit-friends Brothert 93.4 101.2/05 ¥ Vosmer made a daring | »n at the conclusion of | how and disappeared in the clouds. He is one of the s balloonists of the country and performed marvelous trapeze in Whittier. She was accompanied by her 1i-year-old scn. Ten days ago the boy fell off a house and fractured both of his | | three days. During the boy's iliness she work while on his journey upwara | telegraphed to her husband, telling him The programme next Sunday will be | t0 come to Whittier at once. She heard | rely new and “Soldier Ware" will | R0 more from him until she saw him to- | ave Coney Island in his monster airship | 8- for a trip to Mars. | A week ago the body of an unknown | nd had taken a| Ssaesr ¥ e PO | man was found In a lodging-house on room: The cetectives hurried to the hotel | (51cAGO, Bept. 27 Alexander Clark, pro. | NTth Main street. He had dled of heart nd soon had Evans t r Sheriff | moter of the Chicago Elevated Loop and the | disease, and there was nothing on his : formed of the arrest of | Norh Swre Electric bive war' found dead | person by which his identity could be that he would send for | el station at Annamh, “ni pads. | discovered. The body was burled in the heart trouble. Potter's field. Mrs. Carter saw the ac- | count of the finding of the body in the: | newspapers, and as she could find no { trace of her husband she decided to in- vestigate the identity of the unknown. | She obtained permission from the Coroner | | to exhume the body, and went to the cem- etery with an undertaker, who removed | | the body from the grave. When she saw it she declared at once that it was that | of her husband. There were certain | marks about the face, she satd, which | made her positive. She had the body re- buried and the grave marked, it being her intention to remove it to Whittier later. Then she returned home, grieving | over the death of both husband and son. | To-day Carter arrived in Whaittier, and his wife from the window of her room saw him enter the yard. Then she faint- ed. He explained that he had been de- layed en route from Texas because the conductors would not recognize his trav- eling card as a member of a railroad or-| ganization. The identity of the dead man may never be discovered. —_———— Find Destitute Woman and Child. Mrs. R. W. Owens and her small child, who arrived here from Chicago a few days ago, were taken to the City Prison last night by Patrolman Chopin and given in charge of the matron. The woman is sick and in destitute circum- stances. She states that she came here\| to join her brother-in-law, but as he has | a large family and is very poor, he could nothing toward helping her. She will be kept under the matron’s care till a home is found for her and her child. ——————— — WACO, Texas, Sept. 27.—A strike on the lo- cal street car system went into effect this morning and not & car has moved to-day. The men demand recognition of the union and an increase in wawes ROASTS ““A good dinner sharpens wit and softerns the keart.”’ A good roast is the foundation i—= of a good dinner. Roastsare made good, delicious and ap- petizing if just touched up with a teaspoonful of . LEA & PERRINS | SAUCE THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE. Add it to oyster stews, soups, fish, salads,chops, pot-au-feu, meats hot or cold, game, rarebit, macaroni, etc. J . OHN DUNCAN'S SONS, Agents, NEW YORK. o lege. Tetanus set in and he died within | 1 1903, C HANNA-GLARKE I][BME |5 [IH: Two Generations of C Senator Not to Meet Ohio’s Democratic Leader. Challenger Must First Ex-| plain His Stand on Farty Issues. COLUMBLUS, Ohio, Sept. 27.—The reply | of Chairman Dick of the Republican | State Committee to Charles Salen of the | Democratic State Committee, declin- | ing the challenge of John H. Clarke, | Democratic nominee for the United States | Senate, to a joint debate with Senator M. | A. Hanna, was given out to-night. Chair- | man Dick says in part: | I regret that candor compels me to say that r & ections - to the 1 here ought to as mutuality in a r you have overiooked Let me particularfze of yout e some separate int discussion. Propo: quality 1t has but onc set of prin Clarke’s party has a vast viples soun entire io; sefalistic doe party to ratic, Mr, stands 2d it is for free raw Clarke ail material and nished products; in Texas it Is for pr ed raw materials and for frea finished prod Does Mr. favor a t revenus tental only for revenue wi protectic o & Johnson no-tariff kind of a tariff, let Johnson, who is an absolute would repe law and sell ONE STRING TO HANNA’'S BOW. Mr. Clarke has all these strings on his bow and mors, too. What Hanna, who has only one have in disputation E 3 Hanna When Mr. Clarke joins a party that stands pat on anything, Mr. Hanna will talk with him. i Then there is the o age question. How does Mr Clarke stand on that? The abeo- lution Mr. Bryan gave him would argue that he 1s not a stand-patter: indeed, Mr. Brvan Then, it Mr, Clarke is really City platform and is bound to let him hunt up ttorm and debate he is still Hanna Towne Hon a gold bu on that is_the he has no g score—ex-Senator Charles man he is looking for, or John J. Lentz might do in a pinch. If Mr Clarke were elected to the Senate. would ha vote on the currency question with the gold Democrats or with free silv The Republican St ever: A the ing in honor up American citizen Why did Mr n his Akron speech that that pia up with a declara- tion that s to a nullification of the fifteenth amerdment’”? AS TO THE WAR AMENDMENTS. stand on the ‘‘war amen in them or wil in harmony wi boasted that whenever exercisa the elective fran in Carolina he will meet the attem a_shotgun? 1t arke join his armack, and the fifteenth willing to tal questions elected to the Senat colleague from Ten vote for his resolution amendment? Is lain his position on ‘here does Mr. ( pine question? T Bryan when he is lobl Washington for the ra that _ceded the islands to fr treaty 2 Or. later, when in the campaign {o advocated an “*‘American r when, still later, he de heir “‘absolute indé- pendence’? - ke stahd for any or all three of these pr tions? Does Mr. Clarke side with the Eastern Democrats, the ‘‘reorganizers’’ ? ¢ to-day wears <o many colors, ap- different shapes and assumes s ny disguises that I feel until he arns what particular brand of Democracy Mr, Clarke claims as his; until he knows whether he i expected to debate with Mr._ Clarke, the corporation I yer, or Mr. Clarke, the candidate for United States Sen- ator, — e FLYCASTERS TAKE PART IN RE-ENTRY CONTESTS Flycasting Clt the mem- bers met vesterday ar lay at Stow Lake to make up back scores. T. W. nd C. R. Ken- The official " Dellcacy. | ) i CONTESTANTS T JuaD g ¥ 26/92.5/59 Kierulff. .. 108/39.483 % Young. ..|so" oo . Young 88 89 Ascot Park Stake Races. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2.—James W. Brooks has issued the formal announce- ment of his stakes for the coming winter | meeting at Ascot Park. There are sixteen stakes listed, including three steeple- | chases, with added money running from | $1000 to $2500. Assurances have been re- | celved from the East that the liberality | of the inducements will result in bringing to Los Angeles many horses of high class. | b S Handball Match for George James. A large gallery watched George James and Louis Levy play a match game of handball yesterday in the Olympic Club court. Levy won the first game, 21-19, He | then became overconfident and lost the | next two and the match, the score being 21-15, 21-16. The players proved so evenly matched that they will meet again. It is, possible the club directors will offer a special trophy. ——————————— Died From His Injuries. James Ford died at the Southern Pacific Hospital yesterday afternoon and his body was removed to the Morgue. Ford was employed as a laborer on the South- | ern Pacific Rallroad at Concord, Contra Costa County, and while unloading rails on August 24 one of the rails slipped and fell on his foot, crushing it severely. He was brought to the Southern Pacific Hos- pital in this city, but gangrene set in, causing death. —————— Interested in Framed Pictures? 1f 80, look through our framed picture department and see how beautiful and attractive the mew pictures are and at | ch moderate prices. Sanborn, V: oo 781 Market street. o B Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Sunday, September 27. Schr Mary C, Campbell, 10 hours from Bo- DOMESTIC PORTS. | Mitchell and Drummond MacGavin and | J. F. Brady 1-6 and after three deuce sets | Charles Dunlap | Janes_(2-6), 8-6, T AGED COUPLE CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING hildren and a Host of Friends Gather to Offer Their Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Kauman Borren, Who Have Passed Fifty Years in Happy Wedlock _—_ b PIONEER COUPLE OF THIS CITY WHO CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING YESTERDAY, THEIR NINE CHILDREN AND FIVE GRANDCHILDREN BEING PRESENT TO ASSIST IN FESTIVITIES. 5 - URROUNDED by a family of nine | to entertain his numerous callers. With | children and five grandchildren | & memory as keen as that of a youth he | cot- | told of the opportunities grasped and lost | and scores of life-long and devot- PP grasped an 9 5 by the settlers. With all the hope that | ed friends, Mr. and Mrs. Kauman | o "o tortained for the growth of San ! Borren celebrated their golden Francisco no one, he said, anticipated in | wedding yesterday at their residence, 429 those pioneer days that the city would | Grove street. | develop so soon to be one of the most The house was profusely decorated with | important centers from a commercial and | choice flowers and bright bouquets and | social standpoint in the world. i vases of flowers were brought by rela- The golden wedding reception was to| tives, while numerous gifts were received | have 1asted from 2 o'clock in the after- | from friends from many parts of mej:“’""‘""“ 5 o'clock in the evening, bu country. he string of well wishers continued pay- | 4 | ing their congratulatory calls until long o r:::r Mrs, Borren were married on | ¥ U570 TN i epte 2, where the groom wi o+ 183, in New York Cit 18 o engnged in the fu Mr. and Mrs. Borren's children who | PASTOR DELIVERS INITIAL SERMON Rev. G. W. White Occu- pies Pulpit of Central M. E. Church. Eminent Divine of Southern California Discourses on Christianity. e it Rev. George W. White, the recently se- lected pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, appeared in the pulpit yesterday morning and gave his initial sermon. The edifice was well filled with worshipers, and the occasion was in every way a good augury for the future career of the new pastor. He chose for his text the second and seventeenth verses of the seventy-third Psalm: “As for me, my feet had almost slipped and my steps had well nigh gone * until I went into the sanctuary of God.” Dr. White is one of the best known men in the Methodist church in the State of California. He was born in Indiana in 1858, but spent most of his younger life in Tow He attended Corneil College, in Iowa, and entered the ministry in 1880. He came.to Southern California in 1584 and served as pastor for the church at Alhambra, Fallbrook and San Bernardine, and was made presiding elder of the Los J His brilliant suc- led the trustees of the University of Southern California to elect him president of that institution. He tired of this work and was chosen to take charge of the splendid church at Pomona. He has done a great deal of Chautauqua work in his ministry, and is regarded as highly proficient in letters. To-morrow evening « reception will be tendered Dr. and Mrs. White in the par- lors of the church ————— BUENA VENTURA CABLE SERVICE TO BE CLOSED Colombian Government Refuses to Grant the Demands of the Tele- graph Company. PANAMA, Sept. 27.—It is announced that the cable service to Buena Ventura will be closed at the end of September. The inspector of telegraphs has received orders from Bogota to close the Central and South American Company’s offices in this town on the suspension of the ser- vice to Buena Ventura. If the Govern- ment carries out its threat the company will lose heavily The Government in the meantime making efforts to establish the Marcont system of wireless telegraphy between Panama, Chiriqui, Buena Ventura, Colon, Bocas del Toro and Cartagena. It is als reported that the West Indian and Pan- ama Telegraph Company will offer to con. struct a cable to Buena Ventura. BOGOTA, Sept. 21.—The = Minister of State to-day made public the demands of the cable company, which asks for a new concession lasting twenty years and the privilege of raising the tariff. Among the reasons given for the Government's re- fusal of this proposition is that an Italian company has applied to establish a new system of wireless telegraphy. niture business. - He came to this country | were present at the golden wedding fes-| HOUSTON, Texas, som‘r —The Post to- from Berlin, where he was born Septem- | tivity inicluded Joseph, Saul, Abe, Ben,|morrow will publish a rt_showing that D Ciga. " Mrs, Borren also came from | Harry. Mannie, Mrs. L Fox. Mrs. Wil | STeat damage has been done to cotton over Germany, her birth place being near | llam Wolff and Miss Bessie Borren. | Sharpehooter and dry weather. =, Frankfort. | . The Borrens arrived in San Francl:vn; in 1864 Mr. Borren had some interesting | storles of the early sixties which served TENNIS PLAYERS COMPETE IN DOUBLES MATCHES | Interesting Tournament Games Are | Played on Both the Club and the Public Courts. tennis tournaments were plaved vesterday. The California Club opened the winter seasom with a handicap doubles for two new silver chal- | lenge cups. The handicap doubles tourna- | ment commenced on the park courts a week ago was completed down to the fin- als. Dr. Hill and Will Allen carried off the honors on the club courts. The suc- | cessful players on the public caurts were | Harry Routh and Charles Dunlap and the Baker brothers. Thirteen teams participated on the Cal- ifornia courts and considering it was the | first handicap event, the committee ar- | ranged the handicaps well. The scratch teams were Will Collier and Frank | Two interesting Grant Smith. The committee was desir- |* ous of giving the poorer players a bet- ter chance than usual and the scratch men were called upon to concede heavy odds. In the final match Hill and Allen beat Mitchell and Collier two sets out of three. In the first set through a, misun- derstanding the scratch team allowed odds of “15 and owe 1 15" instead of “15." In the last two sets “15" was allowed. The match was close and interesting from start to finish. Smith and MacGavin were put out by Harry Rolfe and Herbert ’ Schmidt, who received 15 and owe 13 15.”" ou a The scratch men did not overwork them- selves and the youngsters, aided by their three. 1f we make you a satisfaction. handicaps, won two sets out of The results: Preliminary round—Herbert Long and Sid- ney Smith beat W. H. Averell and Ben Wood, 6-4, 13-11; Bradley Wallace and Daniel Volk- mann (30) beat Ray Cornell and Homer Parker (owe 3 15), 6-4, 6-4; Frank Mitchell and Will Collier '(owe 18) beat Herbert Gray and Harty McAfee (30). 6-2, 6-0: Harry Roife and Herbert Schmidt beat C. J. Smith and A. aside. Beyfuss, 2-6, §-6, 6-2. First round—Long and Smith beat Dr. Lovegrove and W_ 8. Dole, 6-4, 6-3; Mitchell and Collier (owe 15) l;u ‘Wallace and Volk- we will readi!y do it, mann (30), 5-7. €-0, Schmidt and Rolfe 3 ith d MacGavin (owe 14 15), - 3 | SBypeat B Atien. T St fits to leave our establishment. Frank Stringlam and Charles Kuehn (4-6), 6-4, 12-10, Semi-finals—Mitchell and Collier (owe 15) beat Long and Smith (30), 6-2, 6-2; Allen and Hill beat Rolfe and Schmidt (1 15) 6-2, 6-4. Finals—Allen and Hill' (15) beat Collier and Mitchell, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Two of the four matches played at the park were extremely close. George Janes and H. Russell gave R. N. Whitney and fund your money. won by a narrow margin. Janes and Russell figured In another close match and one that proved the best of the day. With a handicap of “2-6” they won the first set from Harry Routh and Charles Dunlap, but lost the next two. The last set was an extremely long one, in which twenty-two games were played. In the two matches played by the Ba- Kker brothers, the other scratch team, they won easily. The matches played yesterday resulted as follows: George Janes and H. Russell (2-0) beat R. N. Whitney and J. F. Brady (3-6), 5-7, 6-4. 8-6; Baker brothers (scratch) beat C. Teller and J. Otes (5-6), 6-1, 7-5; Harry Routh and (scratch) ‘beat Russell and 6-4 12-10; Baker brothers beat Horace Mann and E. P. Finnegan (4-6), 62, —_— e President Will Entertain Mitchell. OYSTER BAY, Sept. 21.—On Tuesday afterncon the President will hat & as -guest at luncheon in Washington John Mitchell, president of the United Min> Workers of America. Several months ago the Presi- dent invited Mitchell to take luncheon or dine with him when he next came to ‘same price. In addition to style, fit 740 Market SEATTLE—Arrived Sept 27—Stmr Farallon, from y. Arrived m\m ved Sept 27—Ship Jaber ‘Washington. The mine workers' presi- dent is in Washington now and will be there until Tuesday evening. ADVERTISEMENTS. et us make suit to our measure suit you are sure to get You will be satisfied from the day you put the garments on to the day you lay them We know we can please you in fit and style. If perchance the suit should need a little aitering for we want only perfect Tf after purchase you in any way are dissatisfied we will make you We know the suit will wear to your entire satis- faction, for the quality contained in the garments is superior to that found in the usual suits made at the and value you get our re- pairing guarantee, which is your protection. All re- pairing, sponging and pressing we do free of charge. Why not place a trial order. Prices 810 to $35 Out-of-town customers can secure a satisfactory fit through our self-measuring system — write for blank and samples. SNWO00D5(0 Street and Corner Powell and Eddy Streets

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