The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 123. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1903. R 4 PRICE FIVE CENTSs, YOUNG ENGINEER OFFICERS 70 DEPART FOR SERVICE $ IN THE PHILIPPINE GROUP FICERS OF COMPANIES L AND BOGGS, LIEUTENANT BLLL, LIEUTED ST WILLIAM M, THIRD BATTALION, BOES SO0 CTOGIPTAL - OF MENELIK Consul Skinner Ex- plains Unique Mission. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. 406 G STREET N. | SGTON, Sept. 30.—Robert P. | €l States Consul at Mar- | *nd alert, and H. W. | ry rge, blonde and | he entire comple- | &xpedition which 2 19 negotiate a Mupelik. They | ate more definitely their plans | h Assistant | ancie B. Loomls, | on townight. ot consider the ventusy the in the world. He talked about it to-night. | ct has no political signifh, | * said he. “I have com- with the Prime Minister of Abyssinia and 1 have been assured of a cordial welcome at Addis Ababa. Amer- fcan products have so great a hold on the Abyssinian market that we should have & definite commercial convention. I ex- | pect to sail for my post, Marseilles, on October §, and to le for Djibouti, the | port nearest the Abyssinian frontier. We | expect to have a guard of marines from one of the warships of the European fleet and it wil cessary to employ many natives to care for the pack animals. The | expedition be organized at Harrar. | “I am carrying, on a silver platter, as it were, vitation for King Menelik to send an ibit to the Loulsiana Pur- | xposition. We believe such rep- 14 be extremely advan- | o the United States and to | sellles, Wa muscular. ment at preser Sor = ference to-m ve 2 chase Abyssi It is undecided as yet whether the en- | tire Euroy cet will convey Skinner | and his mis to Djibouti. It will de- pend altogether upon whether the Ameri- can warships may safely be withdrawn from Beirut, Syria, whither they went | fter the attempted assassinabion of Vice | Magellsen. The gunboat Machias, w at Port Said, will in any event be le for his use oSG Ll Assignments of Field Artillery. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30,—In the distri- Btion of the thirty batteries of field ar- tillery, toe following assignments are Vancouver Barracks, Wash., two; o, Ban Francisco, two; Fort Leay- , Kans., three; Fort Riley, Kans., Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., two; Phil- a n Ordered to Insular Possessions for Two Years. HE officers of Companies L and M of the Third Battalion, U. 8. Engineer Corps, have been assigned to two years’ Philip- pine service and will leave at noon to-day on the transport Sherman. They are Captains Kuhn and Taylor and Lieutenants MacArthur, Grant, Leeds, Moore, Rose, Guthrie, Boggs, Bell, Pope, Fiske, Williams. Adams, Schley .and Tyler. cent graduates of West Point Military Academy, are impatient to begin service in the far away islands, but at the same time find it extremely difficult to leave the hosts of friends they have made during their short stay at the Presidio. Lieutenant Grant is the grandson of the late U.'S. Grant and has already evinced many of the characteristics so familiar to those who knew General Grant. Lieut. MacArthur is the son of General MacArthur and graduated from West Point at the head of fis class, with Lieutenant Leeds a close enough second to afford a keen sense of rivalry between the two men, which is now a standing Joke among their fellow officers. The names of several members of the two companles figure prominently in the history of both the Civil asd Spanish wars. Captains Taylor and Kuhn are in com- mand of the two companies, which, at the termination of the two years’ Philip- pine service, will, in all probability, be { assigned to the different home posts. @ it e SPANISH WAR VETERANS ELECT THEIR OFFICERS Colonel Harold C. McGrew of India- napolis Is Chosen as Comman- der in Chief. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 30.—Colonel Harold C. McGpew of Indianapolls was to-day elected commander in chief of the Natignal Army and Navy Spanish War Veterans, Other officers were elected: as follows: Selior vice commander, Champ 8. Andrews, Yew York; junior vice com- mander, Lucier F. Burpee, Waterbury, Conn.; judge atvocate general, I. N. Kinney, Bay City, Mich.; inspector gen- eral, Fred C. Kueonle, New York: sur- geon general, Dr. Frank W. Heldley, Cin- | cinnati; chaplain gentral, Rev, W. H. 1. Reany, U. 8. N. More than seventy delegates were pres- ent at the meeting of the United States Veteran Navy to-day. T. A. Nerney of San Francisco was elected Heutenant com- mander. The Women's Auxiliary of the Spanish War Veterans elected the following offi- cers to-night: President general, Mrs. Isabelle “Alexander; recording secretary general, Mrs. Clara Bailey; treasurer gen- eral, Mise Margaret Bright. All are of Cleveland. The election was preceded by a strong discussion. Mrs. Isabelle Worrell Ball was asked, in a resolution, to resign from the order. She refused and was expelled. To-night she intimated that she will take legal steps- to compel the officers of the order to reinstate her to membership again, U. 8. ENGINEER CORPS, THE TRANSPORT SHERMAN TO-DAY. FIRST ROW, NT MACARTHUR, LIEUTENANT GRANT, LIEUTENANT LIEDS, TTHRAE, CAPRTAIN KUHN, CAPTAIN TAY- T POPE. , LIEUTENANT ADAMS, LIEUTENANT SCHLEY, LIEUTENANT TYLER. 2 : 5 1 l WHO LEAVE FOR THE READING = FROM LEFT TO LIEUTENANT BOTTOM ROW — LIEUTENANT GUATEMALR WERRIES OF TRANQUILITY Invasion of San The young men, most of whom are re- | Salvador Is Im- minent. Speciz Dispatch to The Call. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30.—According to information received in this city a plan to invade San Salvador has been under consideration for some time by President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Giatemala,: who In pu of this idea endeavored to enlist the ald of the Hondurear Govern- mént in war.’ Honduras lies on_the south and east of San Salvador and Guatémala on. the noith, and an expedition from each of thiese countries wpuld ¢atch San Salvador between two fires and place the repukiic in an interesting predicament. According to the plans it was intended that Guatemala was to have moved on San Salvador at the close of the rainy season, which would have made the date for the move somé time this mionth. However, the contemplated combine with Honduras appears to have. fallen through owing to the refusdl of the President of that republic to join hands with Guate- mala in the attempt. The project has by no means been abandoned by President Cabrera of Guatemala, and consequently news of an expedition is momentarily ex- pected. San Salvador is more closely eonnected with Guatemala than any other Central American country, and is most easily reached by troops, thus making it the natural objective point for expeditions from that country. Honduras is sepa- rated from Guatemala by a range of mountains, which would render the trans- port of soldlers a matter attended by much difficulty, but in the case of San Salvador only a tableland about thirty miles in width separates the two coun- tries. It is possible to travel in a day on horseback from the capital of Guatemala: into Salvadorian territory, and there would be no trouble attepdant upon the entrance of an army into the latter re- public. President Cabrera of Guatemala has frdm time to time massed troops on the frontier of the two countries. At one time, it is understood, he had 14,000 troops camped on the frontier, and at the pres- ent moment it is estimated that there are from 6000 to 7000 soldiers located at va- rious points. The reasons for the contemplated inva- sion of San Salvador are numerous and largely concern the internal affairs of Guatemala. The incumbent of the Presi- dency is one of the most unpopular of Central American Presidents. TURKS HURL BABES FROM HIGH ROCKS Fresh Atrocities in - the Monastir Vilayet. Totch Is Applied to a | Barn Holding Cap- tive Women. Porte Threatens to Destroy the Homes of Bulgarian Insurgents. v SOFTA, Sept. 80.—-A report issued by | | the revolutionazy eommittee at Monastir | glives details of a long list of atrocities committed by the Turkish troops in Sep- tember, Including the ruthless slaughter of a number of c¢hildren, who were huried from high rocks. It is said that the Turks killed more than 200 peasants in a num- ber of villages, and that while taking 130 | villagers as prisoners to Nevesko they‘ massacred seventy-five of them. At an- other place eighteen women were mal- treated and then shut in a barn, which was set on fire. A special dispatch from Rila Monastery says that troops recently attacked a! nelghboring village; that the men fled to the forests, and that the soldiers beat and tortured the women and children. Another dispatch from the Rila Mon- | astery gives a report that the wl\olei population of the Aistrict of Razlog has | | been massacred or has fled. Three thou- | sand women and children, fugitives from the Turkish soldlery, have arrived at | Rila. Many villages around Razlog are said to be burning. The town itself is surrounded with tents occupled by the Turkish troops, who avold fighting, and, according to the dispatch, attack only the innocent. A report from Philippopolis says the | ‘War Department {e again buring horses and that a battalion has gone to the fron- | tier. . | Letters from Monastir say the Turkish | authorities are posting a final invitation | to the insurgents to return to their homes. | The proclamation, after referring to the | remarkable clentency thus far shown,| concludes: - “Therefore, for the last time, the Bul- garians who have been deceived and who have left their firesides and trades are inyited to return to their homes and vil-| lages. Those who do not return and who refuse to trust to the mercy of the fm- perial Government will be pursued and their homes destroyed in a most severe fashion.” o i Horse Thief Breaks Jail. LEWISTON, Idaho, Sept. 20.—A special to the Tribune from Grangeville says | William Rooke, awaiting trial for horse | stealing, overpowered a special officer and made his escape this afternoon. To-night it is believed Rooke has been located in | a thicket and the fugitive is surrounded | by a large posse. B Sultan Summons Tewfik Pasha. BERLIN, Sept. ‘30.—Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Embassador, has been called | suddenly- to Constantinople. He left to- day and the inference is_that his advice is required in relation to developments in | the Balkan situation. The Embassador‘ saw the Forelgn Office before leaving | Berlin. 2 —_—— Turkish Recruits Called Out. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 30.—An im- | pertal irade has been issued calling out 50,000 recruits in the districts of the Sec- ond and°Third army corps, in order to | complete, the, effectiveness of the nizam (regular) battalions 1h Macedonia. SRR Cartridges for Sultan’s Soldiers. SALONICA, Sept. 30.—A consignment of 5,000,000 Mauser cartridges arrived here on Monday. An drade, dated Septergber 26, records the officlal recognition of Ser- vian nationality in Macedonia. —————— HOUNDING POSSES DRIVE FUGITIVE 'TO SUICIDE Supposed :Huderer of Three Kansas Woman Kills Himself in Nebraska. ' COWLES, Nebr, Sept. 30.—The dead body of Toin Madison, the supposed slayer of the Smith County (Kansas) family of three women, was found to-day in the flelds near here. He had been shot, sup- posedly: by himself. He had apparently been dead a number of days. The fugitive had seemingly heen hound- ed so closely by various posses that he was compelled to take his own life in order to escape his pursuers. He shot himself under the chin with a revolver and the bullet came out of the left side of the temple. A box of rat poison was found in his- coat pocket, together with an ear of corn, half eat Greenfield Bank Is Closed. GREENFIELD, Mass.,, Sept. 30.—The Packard National Bank, capital sfock $100,000 and liabilities estimated at $500,000, will not open its doors to-morrow. The Comptroller of the Currency has noti- fied the bank officials that a national bank examiner will be here to-morrow. Professor Rudolph Falb Is Dead. BERLIN, Sept. 30.—Professor Rudolph Falb, the meteorologist, is dead. Profes- sor Falb’s name is associated with a num- ber of predictions be tade of -approach- which-were not Teal- ¢ ¥ (B2 AUSTRIAN PREMIER’S WORDS INCREASE HUNGARIAN ANGER AND MAY HASTEN A CRISIS FIVE KILLED IN WRECK OF JTREET AR Chicago Racegoers in a Fatal Col- lision. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Five persons were ; killed and a score of otners were injured in a collision between the Wisconsin Cen- tral limited passenger train, which leaves here at 6 o'clock, and a Forty-third-ave- | nue streetcar at Fifty-second avenue to- night. The streetcar was crowded with passengers returning from the Harlem race track and every man in the car was injured. The motorman had received the signal to cross and had just reached the center of the track when the passenger train crashed into his car. None of the passengers had time to escape. The dead: F. ROBERTS. JOSEPH BUTLER, colored. WILLIAM GRIFFITH, Kansas City; helper at the Hawthorne track. J. WILLIAMS, jockey, who rode the second horse in the last race at Harlem to-day. JAMES GALLAGHER, Elmira, N. Y. The injured: Frank Gray, Lexington, Ky., badly cut and bruised; Louis Struby, leg broken and badly injured; J. M. Cor- rigan, arms and legs cut; J. Markely, badly cut and bruised; Charles Cross, se- vere scalp wounds; John Kilroy, motor- man, - bruised and cut; Dennis Enright, conductor of demolished car, ankle broken; John Luney, badly bruised and cut. All of the injured, with the exception of Kilroy and Enright, are employed at the ldcal race tracks. The blame for the accident is laid by Motorman Kilroy upon the wet rails of the track. He saw the danger in time to avoid it and applied the brakes, but the car slid along the track with locked wheels. The passenger train, which was running at a high rate of speed, struck the streetcar near the center, cutting it squarely in two. It was reduced to splin- ters ‘and the force of the collision was such that several of the injured were hurled high in the air. Two of the killed met their deaths by striking the ground after being thrown up with the wreck. Kokt Sk TRAIN PLOWS INTO GROUP. Five Persons of a Merry Party Are Killed. " PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.—A merry party composed of about a dozen per- gons was run down by a passenger train to-night at’Sharon Hill, seven miles south of this city, on the Philadelphia, Balt- more and Washington Railroad, and five were killed and three others injured. The dead: DAVID FARRAN SR., aged 60 years. DAVID FARRAN JR., aged 12 years. JANE W. BROWN. JAMES BROWN, aged 2§ years. JANE «CLARK. The injured: Thomas Brown, 18 years, serious; Martha J. Farran, 13 years; Miss Clara Osgood, 40 years. The accident occurred in front of the Sharon Hill station while the party was waiting for a train. There had been a family reunion at the Farran home and several members of the Farran family had accompanied the guests to the sta- tion. The Lamokin accommodation, for which the party was waiting, usually passes the station on the fourth track. This was known to some of the parfy and when the train was heard coming In the distance nearly every one passed over to the third or fourth track. Before any one could give a warning the accommoda- tion train came rapidly down the third track and plowed into the group. —e— Declared Free From Plague. SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 30.—The whole of the'province of Tarapaca, Including the port of Iquique, the capital, has been de- clared free from bubonic,plague. & & (1 | | | | il + + | POLITICAL LEADERS OF HUN- | GARY WHO FIGURE IN PRES- " ENT CRISIS. | * + Cabinet Resignation | -Is Announced by Hedervary. UDAPEST, Sept. 30.—After formally announcing his res- ignation of the Premiership | in the lower house of the| Hungarian Diet to-day Count| Hedervary asked the House | to adjourn pending the constitution of | a new Government. Immediately after- ward Count Hedervary, with the other Ministers, left the House. The President, however, ruled that the resignation of | the Cabinet was not sufficient ground for an adjournment and.invited the House to | continue its work. | Francis Kossuth after expressing sur- prise at the fact that the Ministry should have “struck,” said he hoped a Premier | would be appointed who would vigor- | ously contest the interfer~nce in Hun- | garian matters of Dr. von Koerber, the | Austrian Premier. The House ultimately adjourned pend- | ing the formation of a new Cabinet. Herr | Kubinyl, Ministerialist, declared, in be- | half of the Liberals, that they would sup- port no Cabinet which refused to repel the attitude of Dr. von Koerber, “whose remarks violated the rights of Hungary.” | The remarks of the Austrian Premier which has most irritated the Hungarians consisted of his statement in the Reichs- rath that Austria was prepared to go to war in defense of Emperor Francis Joseph’s declaration against the demand that the Hungarian language be used in orders given to soldiers .’ the Hungarlan contingent of the Austro-Hungarian army. Francis Kossuth, the opposition leader, is in favor of a peaceful policy, but Herr Barabas, who heads the majority of Kos- suth’s followers, is inclined to push the agitation to extreme: 2 Strike Riots in Budapest. BUDAPEST, Sept. 30.—A sanguinary en- | counter between the police and striking car men togk place here to-day. Revol- vers were used on both sides and many persons were wounded, several mortally. Fifty arrests were made. The collision was due to an attempt of the strikers, totaling about 2000 men, to prevent non- strikers working, and to the strikers at- tacking the yards of the carriers. —_——————— HOLDS BISHOP RESPONSIBLE FOR CHINESE OUTBREAKS Professor Nippold Makes Sensational Charges Against Church Digni- tary in the Orient. BERLIN, Sept. 30.—Professor Nippold of the Jema University, at the General Conference of the Evangelical Society of Germany at Goerlitz, Saxony, to-day charged that Bishop Anzperman, Bishop of South Shantung, China, was largely re- sponsible for the outbreaks in China, be- cause of his arrogance and ambition. The professor evey accused the Bishop of in- AOBBED MAN LEFT TODIE - ON THE AAIL ThugsExpectTrain to Crush Out’ " His Life. NACO, Ariz., Sept. 30.—J. W. Dooley was knocked on the head and robbed by highwaymen at Naco on Tuesday night and then carried to the rallroad tracks near by. The murderous thugs left him lying in an unconscious condition across the rails, expecting him to be killed by a train and his remains mutilated. thus con- cealing their crime. Dooley was struck by the first train which passed and dragged 100 feet, but miraculously escaped being killed. He was picked up by the train crew and car- | ried into Bisbee, where he was placed in the hospital. One arm an2 a leg had to be amputated and he is injured internally. At last accounts he Was reported to ba dying, but had recovered consciousness long enough to tell his story. Dooley owns a small ranch at Lowell, near Bisbee, and had gone to Naco for & good time. After winning a sum of mon- ey, which as far as he remembers was about $350, he left the gambling hall to find a stopping place for the night and was followed by two of the murderous thugs of the border, who hit him on the head and took his money while he lay un- consclous. He does not remember any- thing after being struck on the head ex- cept that while Iying on the rails he re- covered consclousness for a few minutes and long enough to realize his horrible position, for he was unable to move. He must have lain on the ralls six hours be- fore the train which struck him came along aund picked him up® The officers at Naco have a clew to the perpetrators of the crime, who are known to have crossed the line Into Mexico. It apprehended the Mexican authoritles will undoubtedly turn them over without troubling over extradition papers. —_————————— STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS WHILE GIVING PERFORMANCE Miss Jean Durell, a. Well-Known Sketch Artist, Is Suddenly Taken Il at Modesto. MODESTO, Sept. 3.—Miss Jean Durell, a sketch artist, who has been giving en- tertainments on this coast with Cyrus Brownlee Newton, a humorist, was strick- en with parflysis to-night in this ecity while in the midst of the performance. Mics Durell was at the plano rendering an imitation when her right hand became powerless. She stopped, arose and walk- ing to the wings fell to the floor, calling to Newton, “I am dome for.” Dr. F. K. Delanppe was summoned and had the actress taken to a Lotel and made an ex- * amination, which showed that her side was completely paraiyzed. Miss Durell was the San Francisco - respondent of the Chicago Herald bef: going on the stage. She came from that city several years ago. Her only relative on this coast is Mrs. Marshall, a niece, residing at 430 CHff avenue, San Fran- cisco. ————— . . No Evidence of Incendiarism. SARATOGA, Sept. 30.—A special from Racquette Lake says that there is noth- ing to show that the burning of the Adi- rondack camp of John C. Freeman, the New York publisher, located near that place, on September 24. was the work of incendiaries. to whom it has been at~ tributed. -