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

Friday, ensterly. Sau Francisco and Vicinity— Fair followed by vy weather aad probably at night; lght northeast ds, changing to fresh south- A. G. MADIE, District Forecaster. }| the Liprary. i e ——————— strels. Alcazar—“Too Much Johnson.” Allambra—Ellery’s Royal Ital- ian Band. California — Central—“At Valley Forge.” Coluhibia—“The Storks.” Fischer's—“Rubes and Roses.” Grand—“Ben Hur.” o Orpheum—Vandevilie. The Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoll—Grand Opera. Haverly's Min- TyoLuME WIv—No. 15¢ SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1903. PRICE FIVE C\ENTS. AMERICA WDILL PROTECT PANAMA FROM ATTACK BY COLOMBIA AND BUILD ISTHMIAN CANAL BY FORCE OF ARMS IF LOCAL TRAIN MAY COELET'S | NEW SERUM TELESGOPED B FREIGHT | A ROMANGE AITHER I —% bIVES GURE O CANGE Refrigerator Car Busy Denying Ru- Wars Upo; Germ Crashes Into Coaches. Truck Thrown Forty Feet and Men Are Hurt. Switch Crew Ignores Danger Signals Set on Ala- meda Track. d nt t« king train went t the scene, clear way the debris while another trair de up to take the Alameda people their destina- tion. There is no conflict in the various sto of the wreck o t ngs, although en and the Alameda men report Gifferently as to the cause. The Alameda local left Oskland pler on time, in charge of Con- ductor Harry Ed ds and Engineer Al Wright. They ran through the mole and the yards &s far as Peralta-street switch-house. There the train, under or- ders, slowed down for the conductor to iver the way b! for the yara ht department, & practice of nightly occurrence. The train had stopped for a ate and had just started to continue east-bound journey when the crash Behind the Alameda local on the track was a switch engine, 1108, 3 Whistler in charge, pushing ahead of it refrigerator cars loaded with heeves to be run up to a spur track at Market streets DID NOT SEE TRAIN. € to the switch train peopie, not see the Alameda local be- u ey claim, the tail end signal lights were not burn by the happen- the sw S fre me. , who reported the on Superintendent Pal- On their behalf it was as- ision Superintendent Palmer the switch engine crew was wholly “rdn o~er” -a set aut =witch at “danger, e profected the Alameda nside the block limits ay, Oakland. At any pushed the front terrific jolt into ed over the pas- € there like a huge s contents amid a wood and metal | me e serted by Div as ¥ with s hat it the lights in extinguished me the screams not injured peo- | : and Rue, who force of the blow, had moker were s s secores of frightene ple. Leflingwe!l received the ful ! wreck | resldence, This is denieq:| the Wrenched seats and torn out coup- i mors of Secret | Marriage. | ——— | Young Woman in Case a Hotel Telegraph Operator. i Statements by Her Friends and Millionaire’s Rela- tives Disagree. R i Special Dispatch to The NEW YORK, purported to be riage Multi-mill son of Mrs. Ogd Anderson, : tel, and d can —In an afternoon published what n account of the mar- najre Robert Goelét, Eleanor telegrapher in the Grand Ho- aghter of William Anderson, a Sixth avenue er of Miss May is to marry the Duke of Rox- next made in this article 1in > presence representative of tfie Goelet and nderstood, ap- 1 force to Goelet's cousin, Goelet was shown s Eleanor Anderson, who had been represented to be his bride, | and without any equivocation sald, that | he @id not know the young woman, aryl, S0 far as he knew, never had seen her features before. If Miss Anderson has been miarried to a man of the name of Robert Goelet, her husband !s ‘n no way related to the Goe- let family in this city, Goelet said. Eleanor Anderson, who until Mon- was telegraph operator in the Grand v was Goelet, to ) burghe on T 34 a Hotel, expected to be married to-day there can be no doubt. She had told her riends about it and some one in her be- half evidently called at the Catholic Ca- thedral on Wednesday to make arrange- ments for the ceremony. Many of Miss | ticular friends in West e lives with her parents, at the bridegroom was to be ors ‘Cue, rector of the Church Heart of Jesus, in West street, was led by some one to t bridegroom-to-be was The Andersons are parish- rs of Father McC elet Che reverend fat & H “I became aware of the contemplated lage ween “Robert Goelet and Anderson this evening, although I t you the source of my infor- | However, I do not think the | y been performed, because d officiate without 1 this parish.” their clothes torn from thejr backs and t and bruised from head to feet. g the scene Leflingwell said: three occupied the last seat in the 1 was on the way to Mr. Kel- at 2115 Eagle avenue, Ala- meda, as his guest. Mr. Rue was bound to his home at 2115 Clement avenue. Just | before the crash we heard a great toot- ing of whistles, and one of us sald, | There's a train passing.” But it was not passing. In a second afterward there was | a sudden darkening of the car, a roar and we were thrown in a heap beneath what seemed to be an Inextricable mass of wreckage. The seats we occupled were torn from their fastenings. A heavy fire extinguisher hit me in the back. Our gar- | ments were in rjbbons. Out of it all we | managed to scramble and then to survey | the scene. The big refrigerator car had telescoped half of the passenger coach and hung there a mere shell, CRASH WAS VIOLENT. “People piled out of the train, which was quickly stopped_ as it was barely moving when the collision occurred. In every coach and even.on the engine there were evidences of the violent impact by logg's residen lings. For the life of me I can’t under- stand how we three men escaped more serious injury.” After two Pullman coaches were made up the delayed Alamedans were taken home. George Stack, a switchman on the re- frigerator car, assisted in getting Switch- | man Lazelle out of the wreck. He said the first he knew of an accident was when the crash came, and it threw him | off the rear end of the meat car, but did not hurt him. Stack knew Lazelle was at the forward end of the car and as soon as Stack could recover himself he ran to fellow workman's relief. Stack sald he did not know what caused the Lazelle said he had just caught a glimpse of’ the end of the train when the smash came. He was removed to his 1774 Tenth street. ENGINEER'S VERSION. Concerning the collision Engineer Whis- | | ditions, That Installs Disease. SRR L Physician of Cologne Successful in Ex- periments, Remedy Is Preduced From Parasites That Cause Malignant Growth. gy Special Cable to The ( and New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. LONTI ~A new treatment of | cancer, which is believed to mark an im- | portant advance, was explained last night before the meeting Soclety of St. Bartholomew's Hospital by Dr. Jesse Johns a London physician, who has been examining the methods em- ployed by Dr. Otto Schmidt of Cologne. “Dr. S8chmidt's opinion,” said Dr. John- that cancer is conditional on the presence in the patient of the cancer pa- rasite, whick n, in the cells of the part affected. There has been no difficulty in finding the para- | es assoclated with cancer. Geyford in America Plimmer in this country and Schuler all have discovered and very fully described a comparatively large number of these parasites. “The difficulty has been to decide what v of them is the cause of cancer. Dr. Schmidt belleves he has isolated the specific parasite. His explanation of the number of parasites associated with can- | cer is that they are one and the same, varying In shape and appearance under different conditions. By altering the con- Dr. Schmidt says, his parasite assumes all of the different appearances which have led to its being described by other hers as several parasites. “With this parasite Dr. Schmidt has done two things—he seems to haye ster- flized it with liquid alr and he has in- jected it into animals and developed a serum which has the power of destroy- ing cancer ce 54 Dr. Johnsoen described in detall the ef- fects of these injections upon various pa- tients, One was a woman who had un- dergone no fewer than six operations for the removal of a cancer of the breast. She had also a malignant growth on the forchead, which it was considered quité opeless to attempt to remove. As a Te- Dr. Schmidt's treatment by in- there was a great 1 health and the growth on the forchead shrank to a mere scar. ———— DEATH OF MRS. SCHENLEY AT HER HOME IN LONDON sult jectic patien Deceased Leaves an Estate in Al-| legheny County, Pa., Valued at More Than $40,000,000. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 5.—The death of Mrs. Mary E. Schenley at her home in Hyde Park, London, was made known in Pittsburg to-day. Mrs. Schenley inherited much property from her grandfather, General O'Hara, the noted soldier and ploneer of Pitts- burg, and from her father, Colonel Crogan of Kentucky. She was the largest owner of real estate in Allegheny County and her holdings here are valued at between $40,000,000 and $50,000,00. Mrs. Schenley also owned valuable properties in some of the Western States. She had given much property and money to Pittsburg schools, churches and charit; ———————— ST. LOUIS CONTRACTOR SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS Elroy S. Platt. Who Attempted to Kill Himself, Is Said to Be a Defaulter. §T. LOUIS, Nov. 5.—Elroy §. Platt, the St. Louls contractor who attempted sui- cide in Pittsburg, Pa., yesterday, is charged with being a defaulter to the ex- tent of more than $20,000 by e stock- holders of the George Platt Cdntracting Company in a petition which they filed in the Circuit Court to-day asking that a re- ceiver be appointed for the company. George Platt, founder of the company and father of the man in Pittsburg, as- sumed the liability for his son’s alleged shortage. L4 ® tler is sald to have reported that he was given the right of way through to Mirst and Market streets, which is nearly a mile east of the point where the collls- ion occurred. Division Superintendent W. 8. Palmer sald: “As the matter has been reported to me the switch engine crew is entirely to blame. The Alameda local was pro- tected by a ‘danger’ signal set behindsthe train as it stopped at Peraita street. It was set against all trains on that ‘track and the cgllision could not have occurred had the engineer of the switch engine heeded that warning signal. The fact is in all likelihood that the enginecr thought the Alameda local had gone through and was not observing the signals.” of the Abernethian | produces a structural change | gain in the B ) | i1 | | | | | | Former Populist Leader on the | Warpath. Spectal Dispatch to The Call | THOMASTON, Ga., Nov. 5.—Thomas E. the Vice * Presi dency In 189, once leader 'of the Populist | party and later renowned as an author { | | } Watson, candidate for | on account of the success of kis Histori- | cal works, has for the last two days been at the head of an armed faction repre- | senting the ultra prohibitionists of the | town, which for time,__threatened to meet in bloody combat the so-called-liquor element, which also was under arms wait- | ing for trouble. McDuffie County is “dry” under the Georgla local option law, but there have been » number of charges of the exist- ence of “blind tigers.” ' Watson has tak- en a prominent part and for some time great bitterness has existed ‘between the former Congressman and the leaders of the faction which was charged with en- couraging violations of the liquor laws. A crisls was precipitated a few days ago, ,when Watson was informed that a young man of the town had used some opprobrious epithets concerning him be- fore a crowd In a local barber shop. Meeting th¢ young man on the street a few hours later, Watson told him what he had heard. The former not only ad- mitted his remarks, but repeated them, with curses. Bystanders prevented a per- sonal encounter, but Watson's antagonist And his brothers proceeded to arm them- selves, whereupon Watson also armed himself. 4 Friends of both sideswere quickly under arms and for a time it seemed impossible to prevent bloodshed. -Every dealer in the city handling flrearms and ammuni- tion was besieged and a battle was ex- pected. The affair was finally adjusted through the intervention of older citizens, who acted as intermediaries and both factions have now 141d aside their arms, though the bitterness has not been allayed and the trouble may break out again. o+ ende S i MISSING MILLIQNAIRE = Is HELD BY KIDNAPERS Congressman Slemp Says That Young Philadelphian Is a Prisoner in the Mountains of Virginia, BRISTOL, Va., Nov. 5—Congressman Slemp in Bristol to-night confirmed the rumor that Edward L. Wentze, the young Philadelphia millionaire who dlsappeared, is in the hands of abductors in the moun- tains of Southwest Virginia, and that a ransom of $100,000 is demanded for his re- lease. 0 $ a o ‘ erse Statement of Washington’ Larizrzd Ralizeasr S5% r1Iors TR TrET CREZLRT - SCENES IN THE DISTURBED AREA ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, WARSHIP FROM WHICH ,MARINES WERE LANDED AND AMERI- CAN DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVES. Policy Is Given to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W. WASHING- TON, Nov.*5.:—Around the revolution’ on the Isthmus of Panama and the proclamation of independence of the “Re- public. of. Panama,”. the United. States has framed a radical policy. Precedent is cast to the winds. American naval corimanders on the isthmus, whdse force will be increased if necessary, will pre- vent any conflict between Government and revolutionist troops. Colombia_must 'séttle her quarrel with her subjects péaceably, if at all. As the only way, however, to stop yearly, insurrectionary movements on the isthmus and relieve the United States of the burden of policing territory notits own, the new policy contem- plates either the recognition of the sovereignty of the new State or the construction of the Panama canal by force of arms, if necessary: 3 This mailed hand idea, however, will'not be turned to ac- tion without the approval of the United States Congress, to which the President proposes to set forth the situation in full at an early date, and which will be asked anew, in the light of later de- velopments, to indicate which canal route it desires—Panama or Nicaragua. 4 g e The Call correspondent was to-day given an authoritative statement of the United States’ policy on the isthmus. It was thus set' forth: : “THe United States is bound by treaty to preserve free tran- sit across the Isthmus of Panama. Heretofore it has always ex- ercised that right to the advantage of Colombia. The question now arises whether we shall continue to favor Colombia, which has behaved in bad faith in the matter of the canal treaty, or shall we shape our policy according to the conditions now prev- illent"Nearly every year the United Stgtes is requgre.d (o. send troops to the isthmus to preserve transit. The administration is tired of policing the! railroads:for Colombia. There is no indica- tion that, left to themselves, the revolutionists will not be flying at each other’s throats in the Afuture. Itis anoq;er case of Cuba, save that Cuba was an oversea colony of Spain, while Panama -is a province of Golombia. i “President Roosevelt regards the canal question, coupled with the reyolution, as advanced to the alternative whether or " Continued on Page 8, Columns 2 and 3. 3 NECESSARY Colombian Army Retires From Colon. | | Secessionists Are in . Possession of Isthmus. | OLON, Colombia, Nov. 5, 7 p. m. ! The Royal.Mail steamer Orinoc with twenty-eight officers, 435 men and thirty women has sailed. The United States _auxiliary | cruiser Dixie has just arrived. | “After a conference this afterndon, Gen- eral Torres, commander of the Colombian troops here, seeing that the situation was hopeless, agreed to embark his troopa on the Ortnoco, salling for Cartagena. A special train from Panama brought Gen- | eral Tovar, who also sailed “on the Ori- | noco. The people of Colon are now jubilant. The flag of the new republic flies at the | railroad stations at Gataun and Bahia So- lado near Colon. Troops from Panama will take charge of the city to-morrow. The Municipal Council of Colon has just notified the Provisional Government at Panama of its adherence to the new re- | public. It was arranged yesterday that the | Government troops should withdraw to | the outskirts of the town and they did so | during the night. This morning, how- ever, Colonel Torres marched the troops to the cemter of the town, which caused a landing of American bluejackets this morning. Commander Hubbard of the Nashville offered to re-embark the American force if the Government troops would return to their camp on Monkey Hill, where they passed the night. Colonel Torres, how- ever, refused to return to Monkey Hill, which is about & mile from Colon, saying the place was too unhealthy for the sol- diers and that it was necessary for them to come «to town. The American blue- jackets barricaded themselves behind bales of cotton in front of the bank and the railroad buildings and the commander of the Nashville distributed about fifty rifles to private citizens, who assisted the bluejackets in guarding the barricades. HUBBARD TAKES A HAND. American Nnv:laflcar Arranges for ‘Withdrawal of Troops. PANAMA, Nov. 5.—General Tovar and his staff have at last been convinced of the uselessness of their resistance to the provisional government and have accept. ed the terms offered by the junta. The arrangement to this end was made through the efforts of Commander Hub- bard of the United States gunboat Nash- ville and Superintendent Shaler and As- sistant Superintendent Prescott, of the Panama Railroad, who guarantee that both parties will fulfill the agreement. There is great rejoicing in the city, be- cause the stability of the republic now seems assured. The fact that troops were already moving toward the line probably decided General Tovar and his staff to ac- cept the terms of the junta. Telegraphic advices received from the interior provinces say there was great rejoicing there when the news of the declaration of ~ independen becams known. The Government trool ationed. at Penonome, sixty-five miles southwest of Panama, have joined In the revolu- Continued on Page 2, Column &