The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1903, Page 1

VOLUMEX€¥V=NO. 128 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, Call, 1993. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BALFOUR MINISTRY BROUGHT TO UERGE OF FINAL COLLAPSE HUNDREDS OF HEBREWS IRE SLAIN Report of Mohilev Massacre Is Con- firmed. { Rioters Murder andf Plunder in Rus- | sian City. Btricken Populace Sends Out | a Pitiful Appeal for ‘ Succor. M w ED ALL. | 1 and de- OF THEIR DESPOIL s town as | IRMED AN BATTLES 1N WHITE HOUSE Maniac Attempts to Reach the President. Tries to Use Revolver When Overpowered by Guards. Culprit Proves to Be a De- mented Socialist From Minneapolis. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Peter Eilliott, rate effort to er Rc seve 1 which he a rev pocket of clothin occupies a cell in a having been promptly nd incarcerated ad- He of two ¢ was D vehicle and as- the police van s panel with his and face. his head Sus ned a ser . two inches of f the fleshy part it loss of blood, The Hospital, Ciscle ar of both Zlliott were dressed. GIVES WARNING OF VISIT. 3 Loeb re- ago Secretary le ceived 1 postmarked W and written hington ely under the signature ter was registered at the hotel Iver which he car- | for the f time that he s under arrest, Elliott began a furious 1 his captors. He drew a ed to shoot Officer officer grabbed his | from his gles were so fierce the two officers, in the er quarters of the van, were un-| to overcome him | r Ciscle then drew his revolver red two shots to attract .attention Chief Usher Thomas Stone and Officer of the White House force, who ! fott to the | M [ I | his van | letter paper of the St. s Hotel of this city. The letter in- a photograph of Elliott and an in- | for an interview with veit. The letter was " the statement being | c > poorer | as Peter EIl It was evident to Secre- | J means t from the | tary Loeb that his correspondent was in- s them. | e d he issued directions at once that £ a J was found e officers on duty, both at the White | House and at the executive offices, should who was| 1 to escape | boring were vil- was compelled to of my blood 3 I Jetter and God knows what | v e end of us.” | FAILS TO FINISH LETTER. | To this the added the following note, w n next day by Nade's Mamma is no longer Yesterday she | to-day she lies | nd dangerously | ser breath. ssacres were Te- was attacked, Mamma re- nape of us terrible and save i, where Your Have mercy from this b dail, threatened. ghter, “HANNAH L. NADE.” ————————— ECHO OF EKENTUCKY’'S FAMOUS FAMILY FEUD William McCoy kémlly Wounds a Son-in-Law of the Hatfields. NOLAN, W. Va., Oct. 5—William Me- g member of the McCoy fam- shot and mortally wounded ympson, a son-in-law of the tragedy is the outgrowth id which has existed for twenty Coy, a y ————————— MURDER OF MISSIONARY BY BOXERS IS REPORTED News Is Received in Ohio That Rev. be on their guard against him. The photograph was turned over to the secret service officers. Nothing was seen of the man until yes- terday, when the President attended | morning services at Grace Reformed Church. Elliott went to the church early and during the first part of the services oc- cupied a seat in the gallery overlooking the pew in which the President sat. He left the church at the beginning of the communion services and leaned against the fence of the house just across from the church. When the President emerged from the church he walked suddenly up to the President and put out his hand, saying sevelt, shake hands with Eiliott.”” Without slackening his walk, the Presi- dent removed his hat and held out his hand, saying: “I am glad to meet you,” and passed on. ASKS FOR THE PRESIDENT. At 10 o'clocks this morning he appeared at the executive offices. Entering the vestibule, he inquired for President Roose- velt. One of the doorkeepers asked him why he wanted to see the President. “Oh, just for fun,” he responded. “The President sent for me, and I just want to see him.” Elliott was told to return next month. He smiled and walked away, not offering the slightest objection to the rebuff which he had received. His appearance attract- ed very little attention, and he gave no in- dication at that time of insanity. All of the officers, both at the White House and at the executive offices, how- ever, were warned again to be on the lookout for the man and not to take any chances with him. Shortly before 12 o'clock Eiliott walked up to the main door of the White House, stepped inside and inquired of Officer Ciscle if he might see the President. Chief Usher Stone and Officer Parker were standing just within the vestibule C. C. Kennedy Has Been at the time. Stone told the man that he Killed in China. could not see the President just at that DELAWARE, Ohio, Oct. 5.—News was | moment, as he was engaged, but that he received to-day at Acaley that Rev. C. C. | might possibly arrange to-see him after a Kennedy, who went from that place as a | While. . missionary to China several months ago, | Instantly, the man having been recog- had been killed by Boxers, nized, & hurry call was sent for a police At LOVER HOWL3 UNDER A HORGEWHIP Sacramento Youth Incurs a Moth- er’s Ire. ———— — Arrests for Battery Reveal Perils of- Courtship. Interesting Light Shed on a Sensational Incident on a Street. AR AL Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Oc Charles Bock- rath and his wife were arrested to-day on 5. | charges of battery preferred by Philip Douglas. The arrest disclosed the iden- tity of the parties to a sensational horse- P public street late es of a young man were heard by the neighborhood and were mingled with the swish of a horse- whip, but when the curious bestirred themselves they discovered hat the par- and their identity e pretty young step- daughter th. Her mother and Bockrath cbjected to these attentions and | resol When found a stop to them. Douglas was engaged in conversation with Miss Harmon near the telephone , Where she is employed. Alighting from thelr carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bockrath accosted the young couple. Bockrath seized Dou; wrists while Bockrath rained terrific blows upon his face and head with the butt end of a horsewhip. When the angry woman felt that she had punished the young man sufficiently she gave her daughter a rath- er severe taste of the whip. Doug! broke and ran, but he had not gone far when two unknown men as- saulted him with such violence that his face is a mass of bruises where it does the cuts of the whip. admits the particiy » and b episode, to be keep his promise Harmon. not sh Pock: tion imself in the horsewhip- aving the measure ause Douglas to cease his attentions ping resc van when 7 had the call been sent in ott became violent. The officers nts a brief but strenu- and attend struggle overpowered him. Officer | cle made a cursory examination of his pockets, but found only a pair of shears | and a large penknife. quiet, but The man became the White refused to leave House until he was forced to go. The of. ficers conveyed him to the police van, which by that time was waiting at the ite of the White House groun The struggle in the van occurred almost immediately after Elliott had been placed in the vehicle. He drew his revolver from a pocket which seemed to be an enlarged watch fob. As that is a most unusual place in which to carry a pistol, Officer Ciscle in his hurried search had over- looked the weapon. The pistol was an or- dinary bulldog five-shogter of a cheap haltern' SENT TO AN ASYLUM. At the Emergency Hospital, where his wounds were dressed, Elliott said he was a Swede and that his home was in Min- neapolis. At the St. James Hotel it was said that EHiott arrived there last Wednesday evening. He registered as “P. O. Ell, New York.” He had no bag- gage and paid for his room In advance. He conducted himself about the hotel in a quiet, gentlemanly manner, and nobody with whom he came into contact imag- ined that he was insane. Late this afternoon the police surgeons after a careful examination of Ellott certified that he was insane. An order was issued immediately for his removal to the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane. Among Elliott’s possessions were nu- merous clippings from newspapers throughout the country, describing and relating incidents in the life of President Roosevelt, and cards of the Minneapolis Patent Company of 28 Central avenue, Minneapolis. In one pocket were manu- scripts written by him in the Swedish language, with his pictures in different poses at the head of each. These con- tained lectures on political and religious subjects. On one of them was an address to the Americen people, written in a rambling and incoherent fashion. It was laudatory of President Roosevelt. The address spoke of the growing slavery to and shameful acts in “grafting” and robbing by the millionaires and capitalists on every side and said that “before it is too late the President wants to save the neck of the millionaires in their exist- ence, and their sons and daughters from the bloody hand of rebellion.” Finally he wants to ‘“crush the trusts in their childhood.” Reference of a pleasant character is also made to former Presi- dent McKinley. In his talk at the police station Elliott Continued on page 2, column 3. of | was | would not | ieefreiirirleoiefiminietel=l @ | | | | these unexpected £ = AUSTEN THAVMBERL~ ~ Rbes e S S e Premier Sends Bit- ter Letter to Duke. ONDON, Oct. 5. — The Duke of Devonshire, who was leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords, has resigned the office of Lord President "of the Council, and the King has accepted his resignation. The Duke of Devonshire wrote to Premier Balfour, giving his reasons for his resignation, which he at- tributed, among other things, to the Pre- mier's speech at Sheffield and his pamph- let on insular free trade. The Duke of Devonshire’s letter was not made publie until to-night, aft<r the following vitriolic acknowledgement of !ts receipt By Bal- four was made publie: “My Dear Duke: I received, this after- noon, two telegrams forwarded in quick successlon by my private secretary in London—the first from you, asking how soon your resignation might be an- nounced, and the second giving a full ummary of the reasons you to resign. I am not sure which of communications ' sur- prised me most. On the whole, perhaps it was the second. The first, however, was sufficlently strange. DUKE BREAKS A PROMISE. “Do you remember the circumstances? It was on September 16 that you in- formed me of your resolve to remain in the Government. This decision was pre- ceded by much confidential correspond- ence, and much intimate conversation. There was no phase of policy which I was not prepared to discuss and which, in fact, 1 did not discuss with perfect frank- ness. Men and measures alike were sur- veyed from every point of view, bearing on the present course and future fortunes of the party. “The decision arrived at after these preliminaries I had a right to consider final, and final I certainly considered it. Accordingly I consulted you, as far as the circumstances of the time and place permitted, as to the best methods of fill- ing the vacancies in the Government, of which you are the most distinguished member. You were good enough to ex- press some welghty judgments on the delicate matters submitted to you. You initiated proposals of your own, which I gladly accepted. “Our last communication on these sub- Jjects was in the letter I dictated during my journey to Sheffleld on Thursday afternoon. Less than forty-eight hours thereafter 1 received, in Edinburgh, telegrams which first announced your in- tention to resign and your desire to see the process of resignation consummated without delay and without discussion. STRANGE CHANGE OF FRONT. “The principal occasion for this sin- gular transformation was, you tell me, my Sheffield speech. This is strange, in- deed. In intentibn, at least, there was no doctrine contained in that speech which was not contained in my note on insular free trade and in my published let- ter to Mr. Chamberlain. The first of these documents you had in your possession before the generality of the Cabinet. The second you saw the manuscript of before it appeared in the newspapers. With both, therefore, you were intimately ac- quainted during the whole fortnight in which you lent your countenance to the Government after the recent resignations. “I must suppose, therefore, that it is some discrepancy between the written and spoken words which now drives you to forsake the administration. Such un- intentional discrepancies without doubt are very hard to avoid. No one, certainly not I, can always be sure of finding on the spur of the moment, before an eager audience of 5000 people, the precise phrase which shall dexterously express the exact opinion of the speaker on difficult and abstract subjects, to foil his opponents, who would wrest it either to the right hand or to the left hand. WORDS CONVEY A REBUKE. “But till 1 o’clock this afternoon, I had, I confess, counted you not as aa op- ponent, but as a colleague—a coHeague in spirit as in name. To such a one it would have seemed natural, so I should have thought, to take in cases of appar- which moved | BY DEUONSHIRE'S RESIGNATION AND WEAKNE Wt S5 OF APPOINTEES ONDON, Oct. 5.—The new Cabinet is composed as follows: Mr. Brodrick, formerly Secretary of War, succeeds Lord George Hamilton as Secretary for India; Austen Chamberlain, formerly Postmaster General, succeeds Mr. Ritchie as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Alfred Lyttelton, Recorder of Oxford, succeeds Joseph Chamberlain as Secretary for the Colonies; H. O. HArnold Forster, Secretary to the Admiralty, succeeds Mr. Brodrick as Secretary of War; Graham Murray, Lord Advocate of Scot- land, succeeds Lord Balfour of Burleigh as Secretary for Scotland; Lord Stanley, Financial Secretary of the War Department, suc- ceeds Austen Chamberlain as Postmaster General. — iafn o5 g | & BRODRICK. CHAMBERLAIN'S SUCCESSOR AS SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, OTHER MEMBERS OF RECONSTRUCTED BRITISH CAB- INET AND OFFICIAL WHO HAS RESIGNED. - o~ Retiremént of the Conservative Leader Proves a Crushing Blow. oE ent discrepancy the written rather than the spoken words as expressing the true meaning of the author; or, if this is ask- ing too much, at least to make an in- quiry before arriving at a final hostile conclusion. “But, after all, what and where is this discrepancy which has forced you in so unexpected a fashion to reverse a consid- ered policy? I do not believe that it ex- ists, and if any other man than yourself had expressed such inquisitorial subtlety in detecting imaginary heresies I should have surmised that he was more anxious to pick a quarrel than particular as to the sufficiency of its occasion. “To you, fortunately, no such suspicion can attach. Yet am I unreasonable in thinking that your resignation gives me some just occasion of complaint, and per- haps some special occasion of regret to yourself? Am I, for example, not right in complaining of your procedure in refer- ence to my Sheffleld speech? You fear that it will aggravate the party division. If there is anything certain it is that the declaration of policy then made produced, and is destined to produce, greater har- mony in the party than has prevailed since the fiscal question first came to the tront six months ago. Had you resigned on the 15th or had you not resigned at all this healing effect would have suffered no interruption. To resign now and to resign on the speech is to take the course most calculated to make harder the hard task of the peacemaker. DESERTS DURING A CRISIS. “#Again, do you not feel some special regret at having at this particular junc- ture to sever your connection with a Un- fonist administration? Doubtless there is no imaginable occasion on which you — greatest. Maybe, however, you are spared this aggravation of the inevitable pain of separation by holding, as I hold, that our opponents are in this mistaken. I firmly believe they are. I see no difficulty in carrying out the policy which for a fort- night you were willinig to.accept by the aid of an administration which in a fort- night you helped to construct. “‘On this point I feel no disquiet. I can- not pretend to view with light equanimity the loss of a colleague whose services to the Unionist party no change and chance of political fortune can tempt any Union- ist to forget. Yours sincerely, “A .J. BALFOUR.” DEVONSHIRE'S LETTER. The Duke of Devonshire’s, letter to Bal- four, to which the foregoing was the response, was communiucated to the press to-night. It is as follows: “My Dear Balfour: I have, since we last met, felt increasing doubt whether I had been well advised in consenting to separate myself from those of our col- leagues whose resignations were tendered and accepted last month, but until some new developments should have taken place I have not thought it necessary to trouble you with these doubts. The speech, however, which you delivered last night made it necessary for me to defi- nitely decide whether I am so near an agreement with yourself on the question of fiscal policy as to make it possible for me, with satisfaction to myself or ad- vantage to the community, to remain a member of your Government. “I must, especially as the representative of the Government in one of the houses of Parllament, in forming this decision, have regard not only to the different statements of policy contained in your speech, but also to its general tone and tendency. As to the former, it was pos- sible to arrive at a clear understanding without discussion, but as to the latter could have left without inflicting on it a serious loss. At the moment of its most buoyant prosperity your absence from its councils would have been sensibly felt, but you have, in fact, left it when in the opin- N Reconstructed Cab- inet Lacking in Strength. ONDON, Oet. The three weeks" Cabinet er has ended in a manner more remarkable and dramatic than that of its incep- tion. Balfour'’s new Ministry af- fords a measure of the enormous difficulty he has had to contend with in the task of reconmstruction, and its compesition seems to indicate that the Premier, him- self can have little belief in its durability. The most sanguine supporters of the Government to-night express the smallest hopes of such an administration living many months, and the prevalent idea is that thére will be a general election be- fore Parliament reassembles. The withdrawal of the Duke of Devon- shire is a heavy blow. Had he remained the Government might have survived an- other Parliamentary session by avoiding legislation dealing with the fiscal prob- lem, but with him goes the support of the strong party of Liberal Unionists in the country. Balfour’s extraordinary letter reproaching the Duke of Devonshire with breach of faith is the theme of universal surprise and comment. Though it is gen- erally admitted that it is difficult to un- derstand why the Duke did not resign when Ritchie and the others seceded, it is recalled that he publicly announced long ago that he considered it his duty to hold office as long as possible in the in- terest of free trade, and the ecuriously plaintive and bitter tone of Balfour's re- ply is regarded as altogether unjustified by the circumstances. LANSDOWNE GAINS POWER. One consequence of the Duke of Devon- shire’s retirement is extremely unfortun- ate for the Government. It will bring the leadership of the House of Lords to the unpopular Lord Lansdowne, No successor has 'yet been appointed to the Duke of Devonshire, and several minor Government offices still vacant. Of the few appointments announced to- night the most surprising is that of Hon. Alfred Lyttelton as Secretary for the C: onies.. Lyttelton is a man of acknow edged ability and a good speaker, but has had no ministerial experience what- ever. He is better known to the colonies as a cricketer than as a politiclan. He and his seven brothers were famous cricketers at Eton, while Alfred and his brother Edward displayed even greater prowess at football, racquets, etc. Al- fred Lyttelton was always an enthusfas- tic cricketer and has taken several teams on colonial tours. He was for fifteen years the champion tennis player and has won international football honors. Alfred Lyttelton is related to Balfour by marriage. He has been twice mar- ried. His first wife was a daughter of Sir Charles Tennant and his second is' a remain daughter of Archibald Balfour. He 1s a cousin of Herbert Gladstone, and his brother, Sir Neville Lyttelton, is com- mander of the forces in South Africa. Lyttelton presided over the commission sent to South Africa to deal with the Boer clalms, and he also took a promii- nent part in the Reid Newfoundland ar- bitration. OTHER APPOINTMENTS WEAK Although his appointment is likely to be keenly criticized, the new Colonial Secretary is almost sure of a hearty re- ception in the Ministerial ranks. He is credited with being In full sympathy with Chamberlain’s colonial policy and Lerd Milner’'s South African ideas, and he is personally popular. Austen Chamberlain’s appointment to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer has been fully discounted. Brodrick’'s transfer to the India office will probably evoke the flercest storm and much resentment in India, where the feeling will be that he has been sent to the India office because he was a fallure in the war office. Arnold Forster has always been a stu- dent of the question of defenses and a strong critic of war office methods. 1f allowed a free hand he should introduce drastic reforms. In Austen Chamberlain’s case doubts fon of our opponents its fortunes are at the lowest and its perplexities ~at the " Continued on page 2, column 5. Continued on page 2, column 4,