The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1903, Page 1

- Tivoli—Grand The Chutes—Vaudeville. Opera. ) VOLIME XCIV—NO. 165. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, COTTON MILL TOILERS RRE THE LOSERS Market Conditions Cause a Wage ANTI-=CHAMBERLAIN ORATORY IN FORMER SECRETARY’'S HOME — Reduction. Ten Per Cent Decrease in the Fall River Factories. CEENERNEIS I Other New England Plants Expecied to Take Sim- ilar Action. a1 a | SHALL THES e RADICALS . g CFCI% - bl ~ - - e | ’ . | Lord Hugh Cecil and| | ; Churchili/ Invade | ‘ - - | . : Birmingham. " ‘ = | ¢ | GHAM, England, Nov. | TWO STATES NOT AFFECTED. | s S Lolnvell . = | expectation of s us | | sit ne and New I trouble at the meeting ad-| | | - dressed here to-night by Lord| | f . Hugh Cecll and Winston | B M. P., in opposition to the fis- 25 mme of Joseph Chamberlair . ks -d that the crowds surround-| | OPPONENTS OF JOSEPH CHAM- - . hall during the progress of | BEQEAING | = RETATIATORE. 1 & numbered 40,000 persons. A | TARIFF POLICY. r were thrown and some win- | 5 t it is believed that the = es of re serious disorders was 5 earnest appeal of the support- on the | ers of Chamberlain, supplemented by the | s t e of the local newspapers to give | free fooders™ a fair hearing, as well to the excellent police arrangements. r The meeting was attended by 5000 per- sons. Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, for- | . g ] y Randolph Churchill and mother | . ) f on Churchill, was in the audi- | B rw join in a f ts this time Churchill devoted his speech to a de- BACK TO FORMER SCHEDULE |’ ion of Chamberlain's propaganda | : River | 200 urged the continuation of the free 4 g I v policy of Great Britain, which, he | o said, had done more to maintain the | E peace of the world than had been done | . . . by all Prime Ministers and Colontal Wllllam Hlmself s tw Secret during the past half century. v p Lord Hugh Cecll followed Churchill, | = A res tion denouncing the prnp«vsed‘ & . protective tariff and admitting the right | es in special cases was carried by a e large majority, 1 —— e — Special Cable to The Call and New Yo{k {{GQH. 1 Copyright, 3, by the New Yorl er- MAYA’;AVE PLOTTED aid Publishing Company. I AINST WHOLE FAM: " price ALY | BERLIN, Nov."IL—A painful tragedy to th Arrest of Father and Son on Murder | is at the present moment being played at Charge Recalls Suspicious Cir- | Within the walls of the royal palace at ber 2 4 cumstances. | Potsdam. For years past the Emperor . °| BURLINGAME, Ka Moyt auy: |8 bueofauntedby & fxed Jden that ho - [ ward Theit and his father, Charles Thels, | WOUld die of the same malady as his ' been arrested by Sheriff Freye of |father and fm‘h"'h i . o unco City on the charge of having | WheT tWo months ago, he began to A mills d William Smale, the farmer who complain of a pain in his throat, ter- . thS Jony £ atben 't at his h8me, northwest of here, | iDI® anxiety selzed the Empress and her = e are about '.zwm‘ night. Th‘a murder hag M“eé | children. She summoned Dr. von Leut- hands e in the Black- 5 hold and asked him to examine her hus- J(k;x valleys. SR SAVES $15,000,000 IN WAGES. Steel Trust’s Retrenchment Policy Is Costly to Employes. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—In the work of nchment w the officials of the ed States Ste “orporation have or- dered and pl ed it is proposed to reduce the wual payroll of the giant concern $15,000,000, or slightly more than 10 r cent of the wages pald last year. At & representative meeting of all the important steel and iron manufacturers ited States, which convened to- city, price schedules were rati- nd approved. No further cuts were e and it was agreed to maintain It also was decided by the officials e United States Steel Corporation to e American Tin Plate Company erican Sheet Steel Company anization. It Is expected that will become effective h STARTS PROJECT TO AID SAILING SHIPPING Liverpool Owners Ask That France, England and Germany Lay Off Ships. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11.—The depression in the salling shipping trade is so se- rious as to have led to a drastic proposal on the part of the Liverpool owners for combination, whereby a of the sailing tonnage Great B , France and Germany uld temporarily be laid up, with a view improving the freight market. The cert of sh to crigis is attributed here to the culun;l tactics of the French, | | | 1at at least two other members of the Smale family have died under sus- picious clrcumstances and the officers pro- | fess to belleve that a thorough investiga- | tion will disclose a plot agatnst the mem- bers of the family. It is probable that the body of a young daughter who died last summer may be exhumed and the | stomach analyzed for traces of poison. Several years ago the eldest son died sud- denly while the father was absent from home. HARVEYVILLE, Kans., Nov. 11.—The Coroner's jury held another inquest to- day on the assassination of Willlam Smale and recommended that the widow, Mary Smale, and Charles Overman, a farmer, be arrested as accessories to the crime. The brother and father of the woman are already under arrest, charged with the murder. It is the contention of the officers that Smale was killed in ac- cordance with a plot participated in by all the members of his family. —_—— SUGGESTS RESIGNATION OF THE ITALIAN CABINET | Premier Is Prompted by a Desire to Thwart Purposes of the Opposition. | | ROME, Nov. 11.—At a lengthy confer- | ence which Premier Gioletti had to-day with King Victor Emmanuel at the royal hunting lodge, the Premier suggested that the Cabinet resign, so as to render in- effective the campaign of the party of the | Extreme Left. The conference was made necessary by the suicide of Minister Ro- sano. The King, while expressing his confidence in Premier Glolett!, said he wished to give further consideration to the political situation, at the same time manifesting his determination to avoid, it possible, a new Cabinet, especially on the eve of his visit to London. band, without, however, exciting his anx- fety. The first examination only showed the existence of a number of granula- tions. The Emperor, nevertheless, be- came more somber and more taciturn. He epoke less and had fewer of those ac- cesses of the charming, frank gayety which render his company so agreeable. Moritz Schmidt, after an examination, | diagnosed a tumor of the vocal chords. He saw from the horror-stricken face of the Empress that, far from reassuring her, this medical expression only aug- mented her fear. By a fatal coincidence, this was the very expression which had been employed in the first bulletin published regarding the malady of the Emperor Frederick. ————— GETS SIX MONTHS FOR WRITING A BOOK Author of “A Little Garrison” Must Serve Time and His Novel Is Destroyed. BERLIN, Nov. 1L.—The military court at Metz to-day concluded the trial of Lieutenant Bilzen, author of the book entitled “A Little Garrison,” and sen- tenced the lieutenant to six months in prison and to dismissal from the army. One month, the time the officer has al- ready served in prison, was allowed to be deducted from the sentence. The novel was ordered to be destroyed. The decls- ion of the court was based on the fact that in his novel Bilzen insulted his su- perior officer and drew a picture of events happening in Forbach, Alsace-Lorraine, by which several persons living in that place were compromised. The court fur- ther says that the lieutenant disobeyed an order of Emperor William forbidding any officer to publish a pamphlet without the permission of his military superiors, MIS5 GOULD DIRECTS WAR UPCN SMo0T Engages John G. | Carlisle as Her Counsel. Polygamy Charge to Be Urged Against Senator, PR T Democrats Hope to Make Capital Out of Anti-Mor- mon Crusade. PSR Speclal Dispateh to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 1L—John G. Carlisle, former Secretary of the Treas- ury, has been employed by leaders of the opposition to the seating of Reed Smoot as Senator from Utah to conduct the in- vestigation of that case before the Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections. An- nouncement to this effect was made this afternoon by a Democratic member of the Senate committee before which efforts are now' being made to have the case of Smoot brought as early as possible. Who is to pay the large fee Carlisle is said to have demanded is not definitely known | and this appears to increase interes® in the affair, because it tends to hold an air of mystery which indicates that the movement for the unseating of the Mor- mon Senator is growing in strength and determination The Call correspondent, however, is in- formed by a person who assumes to have positive knowledge, that Miss Helen Gould has retained Carlisle. POLITICS IN THE CRUSADE. It is given out by a Democratic Senator from the Wast that one of Carlisle’s main efforts will be to establish the truth of the report long in eirculation that Sena- tor Hanna and Perry 8. Heath, as chair- man and secretary, respectively, of the Republican National Committee, pledged immunity to Mormons, so far as Congress and the Government in Washington were concerned, on condition that the electoral vote of Utah be given to the Republican party in 1900. This allegation has been repeatedly made by Democrats and anti-Mormons of the West during the past three years, but, except for an impassioned speech de- livered In the Senate by Senator Rawlins of Utah when news reached Washington of the election of Kearns as Senator, the accusation has never been publicly made in Washington. An effort also will be made by Carlisle to prove that Senator Smoot practices polygamy, in spite of his strenuous de- nials. PETITIONS OF NO AVAIL. The Senate to-day received a number of petitions protesting against Senator Smoot of Utah remaining in the Senate. In presenting a numerously signed peti- tion, asking the Senate to expedite the consideration of the charges against Smoot, Hoar took occasion to remind the senders of petitions bearing upon Smoot's case that the proceeding was out of order and improper. He based his remarks upon the fact that the determination of Smoot's rights would be a purely judicial proceed- ing, to be determined by the laws and the constitution of the United States. “With all due respect to the signers of petitions of this character,” he said, *“I want to say to them that their petitions are as much out of place when addressed to this court as similar petitions would be if addressed to the Supreme Court of the United States in any case pending before that tribunal.” Lt TR APOSTLE EVADES ARREST. Deputy Sheriffs Search in Vain for Heber J. Grant. SALT LAKE, Nov. 1l.—Four deputy sheriffs hunted all of to-day for Heber J. Grant, apostle of the Mormon church, ‘for the arrest of whom on a charge of polygamous cohabitation a warrant was sworn out last night, but up to a late hour to-night they had not succeeded in serving the warrant. Apostle Grant was to have left Salt Lake to-day for Europe, where he will have charge of the European mission of the church. He was to have been accom- panied by his second wife, Emily Wells- Grant, and their five daughters. She is a sister of Governor Wells and is the wife with whom the offense of polyga- mous cohabitation is alleged to have been committed. . It is belleved that Apostle Grant has succeeded in eluding the officers and has left the city, but outgoing trains are be- ing watched. DECISION IN FAVOR OF COUNTESS KWILECKI Court Experts Discountenance State- ment That Reported Heir Is Tlegitimate BERLIN, Nov. 1L—The commission, consisting of Dr. Stormer, Professor Strassman and Portrait Painter Woe- gel, appoint: ing WOoOD’S PROMOTION WILL BE BITTERLY FOUGHT IN SENATE AT S0~ GLE /Y | = szmpptk{‘yévcp | N Hanna May Join in Campaign Against the Ueneral Special Dispatch to The Call ALL BUREAU, 146G STREET, N. W.,” WASHINGTON, Nov. (1.—Senator Teller of Colorado to-day {instituted what prom- ises to be a sensational and | bitter fight against the con- | firmation of the nomination of Brigadier General Leonard Wood to be major gen- eral. Senator Hanna is expected to op- pose confirmation because he believes in the innocénce of his friend, Estes G. Rathbone, whom General Wood sent to jail for postal frauds in Cuba. There s no question that the Demo- crats will seek to discredit the adminis- tration by defeatinz the nomination of General Wood, who is one of the Presi- | dent’'s most intimate-friends, and who is | now in command of the Department of | the South Philippines. All those who are fighting the nomination will receive the active support of some and the tacit sup- | port of other army officers, over whose head General Wood has been promoted in his sensational climb up the army ladder since the beginning of the Spanish-Amer- jcan War. when he was a surgeon in the Medical Corps and a friend of President and Mrs. McKinley. | It was in the executive session of the Senate to-day, when the nomingtion of General Wood, sent from the White House, was read, that Senator Teller arose and requested that no action what- ever be taken in regard to this nomina- tion until he could file with the Commit- tee on Military Affairs a protest against | its confirmation and charges to substan- tiate the protest. Senator Teller is close to the leaders of the Democratic committee, representa- tives and members of which went to Ha- vana several months ago in an effort to get evidence that General Wood had re- ceived from a well-known sporting asso- clation in Havana several valuable gifts in return for having extended the char-- ter of this association for a period of ten vears, just as he was evacuating the {sland with the American troops in May, 1903. It is understood, however, that they gained no damaging information. After Rathbone was pardoned Senator Hanna took up his case. He believed Rathbone innocent and also believed that Gereral Wood exceeded his power as Mili- tary Governor of Cuba in influencing the Cuban courts against Rathbone. Rathbone then came to Washington to get his case reopened. He compiled a long statement of his case, which he submitted to the Cuban Affairs Committes of the Senate. He made serious charges agalnst Wood, alleging that Wood was guilty of extravagances in Cuba. In addition to this, the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate will be con- fronted with a mass of information in re- gard to Wood's promotion. The long lists of officers over whose heads he has been promoted will be brought forward as a reason why he should not now be made major general, although when promotea he was the senfor brigadier general in the army. ———— REBEL NATIVES NOT ANXIOUS FOR TROUBLE Arrival of Mounted Soldiers in South- west Africa Has Quieting Effect. BERLIN, Nov. 11.—The Governor of German Southwest Africa cables that 330 ed by the court which is try- mounted troops, with four guns, have ar- the Countess ' Isabella Wesjerska |rived in the vicinity of Warmbad, but Kwilecki, charged with presenting a false | he does not mention any fighting with heir to an estate to Wroblewo, to decide if any resemblance existed between the Countess and her supposed son, has re- ported that there: is strong physical re- semblance between them, especially in the mother of the Countess’ child. the rebellious natives, who_seemlngly are not combating the advance of the troops. ARMY OFFICER WHOSE RAP- ID PROMOTION WILL BE VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED. 3 BRYAN MIS HIS DAUGHTER FINANCILLY Poverty Is Sequel to a Romantic Marriage. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1l.—Dispatches re- ceived here to-day assert that Willlam H. Leavitt and his bride, who up to a few weeks ago was Ruth Bryan, are happy in the receipt of a check for $200 from the bride’'s father, Willlam J. Bryan, which the genlal Nebraskan sent them for spending money. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt are visiting at the country home of Thomas J. Alken, the St. Louls politician, at Humansviile, Mo. Thelr stay, it is said,-will be prolonged indefinitely. Leavitt, whose home is at Newport, R. I, is a portrait painter and finds little demand for his talent at Hu- mansville. According to the dispatches, the young couple were so madly in love that they forgot to be practical and they married without fortifying themselves against the flnancial distress which is sald to have overtaken them. Dr. M. Dwight Jennings of this city, a cousin of Mrs. Leavitt’s father, Willlam Jennings Bryan, said to-night: “I know nothing about the reported poverty of my romantic young cousin, but presume it is not unlikely that it is true. The young lady’'s father is not a man who is likely to change his mind. I have never seen Mr. Leavitt nor any member of the Bryan family since the wedding. The fact that Mr. Leavitt is poor, ‘how- ever, need not interfere in the least with their happiness, it seems to me. I hope that he is a good artist at any rate— there won’t be much romance in my fair cousin’s sacrifice if it turns out that her husband was originally cut out for a sign painter.” —_———— ‘Will Open Manchuria Tin Mines. BERLIN, Nov. 11.—The Frankfurter It is believed that, in consequence of | Zeitung says it learns from Viadivostok the German representations, the British | that a joint stock company is being or- form of the ears, and that there s no | and Portuguese police in the adjacent ter- | ganized there with a capital of $3,000,000 to resemblance betwen the Kwilecki boy ang | ritories will endeavor to prevent furthe the son of Cecllia Meyer, the reputed | supplies of arms and ammunition being | promoters hope to break the Anglo-Amer- sent across the border by traders operate the tin mines of Manchuria. The ican monopoly. | rather uncomfortable. MONGOLIAN ARMY READY 10 ADVANGE Chinese Soldiers May Attack the Russians. | |Generals Report That March Will Begin on Sunday. Forty-Five Thousand Men to Take the Field in Manchuria. Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON, Nov. 12.—According to dis- patches from Tientsin and Shanghali, Viceroy Yuan Shi Kal and General Ma have informed the thronme that 45,000 men are ready to take the fleld against the Russians in Manchuria and that they are prepared to march on Sunday next. The Berlin correspondent of the Stand- ard says that he has learned upon good authority that the Czar of Russia told Emperor Willlam during their recent in- | terview at Wiesbaden that he would not declare war against Japan under any con- ditions. TIENTSIN, Nov. 1l.—Admiral Alexieffl, the Russian Viceroy of the Far East, will leave Port Arthur for St. Petersburg on November 17. Governor Wogack of the Russian army is daily expected here. The report that the Russian capital of the Far East is to be removed from Port Arthur to Viadivostok is unfounded. Russia’s demand for the recall of the Taotal Yuan, who is a Manchu, from the Korean border, has been granted under pressure by the Chinese Government. There is creditable information that the Chinese are moving considerable troops into Manchuria. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. I1.—A dis- patch from Port Arthur received here says In reference to the statement on the subject published in the foreign press: “It is declared hers that the 400 troops ordered to Moukden were sent there sole- 1y for the purpose of restoring order. No other measures have been taken.” pa COUNT CASSINI RETURNS. NEW YORK, Nov, 11.—Before depart- ing for Washington to-day Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador, was shown a dispatch from Paris intimating that M. Nelindorff, until recently Russian Embas- sador at Rome, probably would be trans- ferred to the vacant post at Paris, in connection with which Count Cassini's name has been mentioned. He expressed no surprise, saying that he had heard of the matter while in Paris, and continued with a statement of his pleasure in re- turning to Washington, which, he said, “is now regarded as one of the most ‘im- portant posts in the Russian diplomatic service.” Speaking then of his own attitude, he deggared that he had gone to Washington prepared to become a firm friend of the United States, but was astonished to find in some quarters a feeling of enmity which had made his few months there He was apparently believed by some, he sald, to be an ad- herent of the Macchivellian school of diplomacy, whereas, on the contrary, he believed that perfect frankness was an essential in diplomatic affairs, especially toward the United States, with which Russia had been on terms of long con- tinued friendship and purposed to con- tinue the good relationship which had al- ways existed. Not only was the Russian Government friendly but the same feeling existed among the Russian people, and an Ameri- can Bishop with whom he had talked after a stay of several months in Russia had commented on this. “But the feeling has been somewhat strained in the last few months,” he said, “on account of the Kishenev incident.” The refusal of the Russian Government to receive the American petition could be easily understood, he sad, by imag- Ining with what spirit a petition from Russians in regard to the negro troubles in the South would be received. “Now, however, the whole incident is settled and, let us hope, in its grave,” he concluded. In regard to the situation in Macedonia, he said that Russia stood firmly for the maintenance of peace and order in the disturbed provinces of the Turkish em- pire and would Insist upon a restoration of order and good government there. —_————— ARMY OFFICERS PLOT A WAR ON TURKEY VIENNA, Nov. 11L.—A dispatch received to-day from Sofla attributes the recent arrests of army officers to the discovery of a plot engineered by Bulgarian and Servian officers to force war upon Tur- key, which was to be attacRed by the combined armies of the two countries. Revolutionary documents and pamphlets advocating a union of Servia and Bul- garia a® being essential to the preserva- tion of the southern Slav kingdoms were found. The Austrian officials here have no con- firmation of the story from Sofla. SALONICA, Nov. 11.—The trial of the men belonging to the Prizrand Battalion, who were charged with having committed atrocities on the inhabitants of the vila- yet of Adrianople, has been comcluded, With the result that seventy-five of the men were acquitted and that 705 were con- demned to be banished,