The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1903, Page 1

B joseph’s Hosp ) TEE WEATEER. Forecast made at San Pran- | cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, December 23: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Tuesday; light north wind. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. - | il the - | to be t4 Alcagar—“Blue Jeans.” California—“Foxy Grandpa.” Central—“Alphonse and Gaston.” Columbia—*“Dolly Varden.” Fischer's—L. 0. 0"/ Grand—“A Little Outcast.” Orpheum-—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY DECEMBER 929 iy 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MOBS ROPE EXFORCES CONFESSION | Lynching Threatened +— in 2 Town in Oregon. Young Man Pleads Guilty | to Save Himself From Angry Citizens. Disastrous Fire the Result of a Con- spiracy Between Two of the Shop- keepers of Lebanon. Special D O ck o The Cail. ALBANY around his Dec —With a rope and 2 mob of enraged g for his life, a young it made a confes- at an early hour town of Lebanon, s southeast of here. ched was due solely & few cool-headed resi- arrived in time to of the law Lebanon sed the destruc- »ss & Rogoway, on and a f Gre insurance. By banon hotel and SIGNS OF INCENDIARISM. bia tart Gross & Rogo- which had for a “closing ¥ of incendiary once pointed to store before the fire, A number and first he denied any r and*maintained r n asleep when His hat, however, admitted that he ng building. L siness men be- the position assumed secured a rope. A around the man’s r end was tossed -onvenient telegraph hemp commenced to throat Rogoway 4 the story. He said er-in-law, had re and had hired him fterward made a cen- ommittee b FOR ESCAPE. THANKFUL ers dur- ry exarhina- oon, and he nds to await “ourt. He was and was brought this city late this appears downcast ful that he escaped sides here, where -hand store, His goway, is a politician PORTION OF THE SPINAL VERTEBRAE IS REMOVED Bone Replaced After False Tissue Is Cut Away and the Patient Will Recover. 7, Towa, Dec. 21.—An ope- have no parallel in the surgical liam Jepson of the State Univegsity. John retrom fell from a load of hay, striking on his head and breaking his meck. He has been almost para- lyzed for weeks " A portion of the third cervical verte- removed, the false growth of was cleaned out and the bone The patient is doing well, t of recovery. MUSSULMANS MURDER JUDGE AND GENDARMES Appointees Under the Russo-Austria Reform Scheme Meet Death in Albania. CETTINJE, Montenegro, Dec. 21.—A ristian Judge and two Christian rmes have been murdered pointed to their positions in conformity with the Macedonian reform scheme of | resume the negotiations. Austria and Russia —_——— SPAINS KING MAY MARRY HIS COUSIN Japanese telegraph lines on the penin- Plan on Foot to Effect a Union of step has no military significance. Alfonso and Princess Del Pilar of Bavarie. MADRID, Dec. 21.—According to the Spanish newspapers a project is on foot for the marriage of King Al- fonso to his cousin, the Princess Ma- ria del Pilar of Bavaria. She is 13 years of age. ! | Japan Fixes the Time Limit for Final Reply From St. Petersburg. s $10,000 s a stock of v g, as the one made pe s around his neck thiless in court. | It is the expectation In St. Petersburg was performed in St. | al to-day by Dr. Wil- | | says that, owing to the rumors of"the | | in market quotations on all Japanese | | | | v by | ture of an ultimatum, but g at Gusinye, in Northern | Russia to reconsider certain essential Albania. The victims were recently ap.- | points in her reply to Japan. Baron de | | i | respondent of the Nattonal Zeitung, in CHINA IS WWARNED FROM TOKIO THAT WAR IS BATTALION CHIEF DI IV FLANES IMMINENT | 3 Fire Depariment ~ Loges His Life, Falling Walls of a Furni- ture Factory Pinion Martin Coleman, | | Man Who Won the Bennett Medal for Bravery Perishes While Directing His, Men. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The “two | nines’” fire alarm, summoning more fire | apparatus than any other alarm pro- | vided for in the New York department, | was sounded to-night for a fire which | destroyed the six-story factory build- |ing of the Hermann Furniture and | | { | | | 5 | ROSMUw ‘\R'gf U eeans BRITISH FINANCIER, WHO HOPE:! THE ORIEM PLY REJECTING THE RUSSIA o — T, AND MINISTER WHO PRESENTED JAPAN'S RE- - S AMERICA WILL INTERFERE IN ] N PROPOSALS, ! 5 Special Dispateh to The Call. PEKING, Dec. the receipt of a dispatch from thé Chinese Minister in Tokio, warning the throne of the imminence of war between Ja- pan and Russia and urging the Dow- ager Empress to prepare for the con- flict, 4 secret meeting of the Grand Council has been convened. The. high- est Chinese officials are greatly alarmed | and are helpless H The gravity of the situation is fully | verified the report of the dapanese and British Ministers that Japan has demanded that Russia consider her re- ply within a limited time. The report is generally credited. On account of the open.hostility of the entire Russian regime in Manchu- ria to American trade, the withdrawal of American capital invested there has already begun, LONDON, Dec. —The Peking cor- respondent of the Times says a report is current, and is believed to be true, that Japan's request for the reconsid- eration by Russia of her reply to Ja- pan’s demands was accompanied by a specification of a time limit. According to the St. Petersburg cor- 2 Because of | a dispatch quoted by the Berlin cor- respondent of the Times, it is believed in Russian officlal circles that a winter campaign in the Far East is possible. that the question of war will be de- cided within fourteen days. Russia, it is added, is determined not to declare war, in order to avoid the odium of tak- ing the initiative. The Tokio correspondent of the Times assembling of military transports at Hiroshima, there has been a sharp fall stocks. b A - JAPAN'S REPLY TO RUSSIA. Rejects Czar's Proposals, but Is Not in Nature of Ultimatum. TOKIO, Dec. 2l.—Japan's reply to Russia was handed to Baron de Rosen this afternoon at a conference between the Russian Minister and Foreign Min- ister Komura gt the Russian legation. Japan’s reply is in no way in the na. she asks Rosen is now sufficiently recovered to Sixty military engineers have been dispatched to Korea to replace the civil telegraph operators attached to the sula. It is officially asserted that this —_— FRANCE NOT TO BE DRAWN IN. Russia and Japan Will Be Left With a Clear Field. - PARIS, Dec. 21.—An authoritative denial is given of the reports from Peking that the French Minister has notified China that if she allied her- | self with Japan pending a settlement of the Japanese-Russian controversy France would advance in Southern | China. - It is said in'this connection that | France has not taken any steps what- | ever and is not contemplating action | in the event of a rupture between Ja- | official view is that France and Great | Britain' are not likely to become in- | volved ‘and that'Russia and Japan will be left to settle their own controversy. Reports received here from both cen- ters of the Japanese-Russian centro- versy lead the officials to conclude that the situation, while serious, does not involve an extension of the present crisis. A dispatch received to-day from Tokio frankly sets forth the agitated state’of Japanese public sentiment and the intense feeling against Russia and foreshadows - the possible- dispatch of Japanese troops to Korea; but, it is added, if this is donme it will be with the assent of Ruscia, which will re- lieve the expedition of .having the sig- nificance of a war move against Russia. The official advices from St. Peters- burg continue to have a hopeful tone, | and with advices from Tokio of the same tenor the authorities here assert they have good reason to believe that the situation. although serious, has not reached the point of a war crisis being imminent, A dispatch to the Hava Agency from Seoul, Iorea, says: “Numerous conflicts have occurred at Chemulpo and Monsampho between Japanese and Korean inhabitants. The Japanese telegraph operators have charge of the line from Seoul to the coast. The nvossibility of Japanese troops landing to preserve order is dis- cussed, but it would be done only with the consent of the Russian Govern- ment.” The feeling on the Bourse torday con- tinued depressing, owing to unsatisfac- tory reports regarding the Russo- Japanese situations. All internationals were affected, Russian securities the most. Toward the close a calmer feel- ing prevailed on the report that Japan was seeking to transfer the negotia- to St. Petersburg. Industrials in the depression, Rio Tintos | | | | tions STILL STRIVING FOR PEACE. France and Great Britain Exerting ° Their Friendly Offices. LONDON, Dec. 22.—Specials from Paris to the morning papers say that France and Great Britain are re- doubling their efforts in St. Petersburg and Toklo, respectively, to prevent g rupture between Russia and Japan, According to the Daily Telegraph's Nagasaki correspondent, the Govern- ment has given notice that it will re- quire all the drydocks in the country for the use of the Japanese fleet, tha vessels of which already are beginning to dock for cleaning purposes. The Continued on Page 2, Column 6. !and hit Coleman and Jones, Plumbing Cabinet Works in Mott street and the four-story varnish factory of | the firm, operated under the name of the Hermann Lumber Company. A quarter’ of a million dollars' damage was done. Battalion Chief Martin Coleman per- ished in the fall of two great walls of the factory, and a fireman is missing. There was a frightful panic among the inmates of the swarmfng front and rear tenements opposite, and the firemen and police reserves from thpee precinets had the utmost difficulty in getting the peeple out to the street. DEATH OF CHIEF COLEMAN. The fire started on the third floor, and | when the firemen arrived the first, sec- ond ‘and’ third floors were ablaze. The third, fourth and fifth alarms were sent in in rapid succelsion and about an-hour after the fire started the “two mines” alarm was sounded. Battalion Chiel Coleman had entered the building with a number of men, in- cluding Lieutenant Jones and Father Smith, the Fire Department chaplain. They were about twenty-five feet in- | side when the fire came through the walls and the bullding shook. The fire- men saw the danger and dashed out. The chaplain escaped, but a beam fell pinning them to the floor. Father Smith, with three firemen, turned back to the rescue and dragged out Jones, who managed to stagger to his feet. felt for Coleman. He found him so pinned he could not rescue him, but got his helmet, which he put on and es- | | pan and Russia. On the contrary. the | caped. Within a minute the entire rear and side walls fell. WON MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. After the building had been totally | Hero of New York Jones, in pulling himself out, | FOREIGN POWERS WARN COLOMBIA TO KEEP PEACE 10 LAUNCH CANDIDACY ~ (F PARKER New York Demo- crats Wil Hold Loflmt.- : | Grover. Cleveland and David | B, Hill to Sit at the Same Table, |Sage of Princeton and His 0ld-Time | Rival Are Expected to Advise as { to the 1904 Platform., Nations of Europe Bring Pressure to Bear. ; Are in Full Acco With American Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Judge Alten B. Parker’s boom for the Democratic nomination for President w be |launched next Monday evening at a | dinner to take place in Sherry at which former President Grover Cleve- | |land and former Segator David B. E | will speak. HEAD OF THE BUREAU OF NAVI- GATION AND SQUADRON COM- MANDER AT THE ISTHMUS. o+ [ ges: § WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Diplomatic pressure will be brought to bear upon Colombia by several European powers and the United States. THe first step in this direction already has been taken by several foreign powers through their representatives here, who have in- formed General Rafael Reyes of the fu- tility of any attempt by Colombia to rctake Panama, declaring that it will result only in precipitating the Bogota Government into ‘war with the United States. The result of such a catas- trophe, they declared, Colombia herself must realize. If this be not sufficient, the repre- sentatives of these countries in Bogota will be instructed to, inform President Marroquin that Colombia can expect no | sympathy from the European powers in any movement she may make, upon Panama, which would inevitably fn- volve her in States. REYES FEARS AN OUTBREAK. | | | | destroyed the -body of Chief Coleman | have been informed by General Reyes was found wedged under fallen debris in such a position that the firemen were tinable tc reach it. Coleman was made a battalion chief last August. He won the Bennett medal for bravery eight vears ago for rescu- ing two women from a boarding-house fire in East Tenth street. Richard Joyce, a fireman, who was appointed only ten days ago, was re- ported missing after the fire sas extin- guished. He was last seen in the build- ing just‘before the walls fell. e — it BANKS MUST IDENTIFY PENSION CHECK HOLDERS Government Will Not Bear the Loss -Should Fraud Be Practiced at Cashier's Window. WASHINGTON, . Dec. 21.—It f§ stated at the Treasury Department that where a pension certificate has been issued to a woman who imper- sonated the widow of a deceased pen- sioner and pension checks have been drawn payable to her and delivered to her upon vouchers executed by her and the bank cash such checks, which were indorsed and paid at the sub- treasury upon which they were drawn, the Government will make reclama- tion of the amount. In other words, bankers and other persons who cashed pension checks are charged with the responsibility of establishing the identity of the payees of such checks to the same extent that they are charged with the responsi- bility of establishing the identity of the payees of checks issued in ordinary commercial transactions. The &xhibi- tion of a pension certificate is not identification of a person named therein. ———— OPINIONS DIVIDED CATHOLIC FEDERATION Proponents Are Still in Doubt as to How the Proposition Will Be Received at the Vatican, ROME, Dec. 21,—The idea of a Catholic federatioh _in the~United States has again been ventilated, es- pecially after the Mesmer.was appointed Archbishop of Milwaukee, ¥ Attempts were made to see how the movement would be received at the Vatican and by the propaganda. Opinions here are much divided.. - The supporters of the move- ost Rev. Sebastian | himself that he fears he can with difi- | culty check his people much longer. | General Reyes is not talking for publi- | cation, but te several European Embas- | sadors he has confided his fears with | frankness and has said he is everything in his power to prevent an outbreak before the conclusion of his | missien, but that, although his | fluence with the army is considerable, | he is so far away that it is difficult for | him to make this felt as strongly as if he were on the ground and in com- | mand. Drr;lnmats whom General Reyes has approached on the subject say what he most fears is the result of an | announcement in Bogota of the failure | of his mission. He realizes that the most he can hope for from the Govern- inent of the United States is an offer that it will use moral suasion to pre- vail ypon Panama to assume her por- tion of the Colomblan debt. Frequently General Reyes has been told that he can expect nothing. “I came to Washington to save what 1 could from a shipwreek,” he said to a diplomat of' high rank. CANNOT BE ARBITRATED. Realization of the true situation, it is said, will not prevent General Reyes calling upon the United States for a refegence to The Hague of several of the questions at issue. It is on this point that European diplomats have told General Reyes that it is expecting too ‘much to ask this Government to gubmit any phase of the Panama mat- ter to The Hague. Several Embassa- dors have earnestly advised the general to impress upon his people the fact that Europe wants the isthmian canal, : and that Colombia can expect no sym- | pathy from that quarter. It has been | further pointed out by these diplomats that the proffered sympathy of several South American republics can avail Colombia nothing in the event of war with the United States. It is hoped that the receipt of this news in Bogota will do much to caim the feelings there and hold the Cologi- bians in check until General Reyes can return. Great Britain and *The Netherlands have taken pains to let General Reyes know indirectly that Colombia reckons witfiout her host if she interprets their delay in recognmizing the republic of Panama gs an evidence of their sym- pathy for Colombia or as due to other than a desire to protect the interests ment think they have Cardinal Mar- | of their financiers, who are the largest elli, former papal g‘n‘rzefl States, on their side. in_ the | holders of Government bonds. reached .Official = confirmation has to prevent war between- that couniry, war with_ the United The members of the diplomatic corps | doing | in- | that | ‘Washington of the landing of Colom- bilan troops on the Island of Los Pinos, | which lies close to the coast of Panama. _These troops number eighty and they have taken up a position on this high island with the intention of making paths through the jungles. It is safd here to be unlikely that our naval commanders in Panama waters i will go to the extent of dislodging the Calombian troops. On this point, how- ever, the policy of the Government has not been definitely decided. Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bu- | reau of Navigation and executive head | of the General Naval Board, to-day was iln conference with Captain John E. Pillsbur; assistant chief of the bu- reau; Captain William Swift, chairman of the general board's committee on the fleet; Commander Winslow and Lieu- tenant Belknap of the Bureau of Navi- gation, in the secret office of the Bureau of Navigation. Several which arrived from Rear Admirals tions in reply were prepared and sub- mitted to Secretary Moody for approv- al. Nothing official regarding the con- ference was announced, except that it concerned the isthmian situation. COGHLAN #ASKS FOR CRACKERS. A long cablegram was received to-day | from Rear Admiral Coghlan, com- | manding the force at Colon, in which Ihg requested that crackers instead of bread be dispatched to the isthmus, as | the latter fowd molds quickly in the | tropical ‘climate. Under the impression that war is surely to -occur between the United | Btates and Colombia, the quartermas- ter general of the army has been be- | sleged by railroad and shipping men ;desirnus of transporting troops. | It was pointed out to-day that, while | the landing of merines on foreign soil | occasions but tle comment and is tion of affaire, the embarkation of troops puts a different aspect upon the situation. For this reason the navy Wwitl be permitted to continue tq control affairs in isthmian waters, for the pres. ent at least, or until ‘matters reach a Stage necessitating the co-operation of the army. - CAVALRY MAY BE NEEDED. | Troopers of the Second “Believe They Are En Route to Panama. OMAHA, Neb, Dec. 21.—One hun- dred and four members of the Second Cavalry, United States army. with an officer, passed through Omaha morning on a special Union Pacifie | train for San Francisce, to safl on the transport Thomas on January 1. The men gome from Fort Sheridan. Al- though they are under orders to sail for Manjla, the men confidently profess the bellef that instead of being sent to the Philippines they will be held in readiness at San Francisco to be sent to Panama, should exigencies demand the presence of ..merican troops on the Isthmus. One private said: “All of the boys on the train thor- oughly believe we will be in Panama long before we ever see Manila. I don't know where the information came jfrom, but it seems to prevail in the | entire ferce.” | At the office of the adjutant of the Department of Missouri it was said this afternoon that there was no truth in the report. “They were ordered to Manila,” it was_stated, “to relieve the Eleventh, which in turn is ordered to Fort Des Moines, this depariment.” i MARINES ARE KEPT BUSY. PANAMA, Dec. 2L—THe United States® gunboat Concord returned thjs | Continuca on Page 2, Column 1. cablegrams | Glass and Coghlan over Sunday were | taken up for consideration and instrue- | only an evidence of a disturbed condi- | this | The dinner was arranged by Charles F. Murphy, and, it is ostensibly given in honor of Mayor MctClellan, it wili really show for the first time Murphy’s hand in natlonal politics. Murphy has been in communication with party leaders and has laid kis plans to carry this State for the Demo- cratic Electors. The fact that he has invited and has recefved acceptances from the Cleveland wing of the part is an indication that the Bryan element | has been thrown overboard. The features of the platform of the Democratic party may be outlined at | this dinner. CLEVELAND WILL ADVISE. Murphy has not only invited Cleve- land and Hill to speak but has been | assured that W. Bourke Cockrap, Au- gust Belmont, John G. Carlisle, John D. Crimmins, A. P. Fitch, Hugh J Grant amd other men of influence in the financial world will sit at the main table. Mr. Clevelang sent a letter of acceptance to Murphy to-day. Mr. Cleveland in his speech is ex- pected to outline what he considers will | be the paramount plank in thé Demo- cratic platform. Not even Murphy would teil what was to be.the keynote of Hill's address, but the’leader of Tammany Hall willlng to accept Hill's suggestion to the feasibility of nominating a Ne | York State man for the Presidency. Murphy. and Hill have come to an v | derstanding in regard to Judge Park and unless the dinner to Mayor McClellan develops a strong Cleveland sentiment Judge Parker probably will be the choice of the influential men of the New York Democracy. CLD RIVALS BURY HATCHET. Many Democrats said to-night that | I | | ec Cleveland and table. It will be this is regarded as | inte contact, and | an indication that neither leoks upon the cther now as a rival for t:: Presi- | dency | Cockran will speak for Murphy. Fs has received his portfolio as official an- nouncer of the Tammany policy. Cock- ran and Mr. Cleveland have not been the best of frifnds in the past, but they will have an opportunity to bury tha hatchet at the dinner 4o the Ma: elect. ——————e SHIP'S COOK CONFESSES MURDER OF THE SKIPPER NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—When Frank Henry Burris, a ship’s cook, was placed on trial in Brooklyn to-day for the murder of Captain George B. Town- send, skipper of the lumber schooner | Charles Buckley, on November 10, the | prisoner admitted his guilt and a writ- | ten confesston was submitted, in which he declared that he had shot the cap- tain deliberately and with premedita- | tlon because the latter owed him money, and that he desired to facili- | tate the trial because he preferred to | be executed rather than remain n prig- | on. The confession further stated that the prisoner had previously killed three | men. | —_————————— ‘Whitecaps Murder a Negro. BROOK HAVEN, Miss., Dec. | Eli Hilson, a negro, living eight m from Brook Haven, was assassinated | while on the way home from town | alone In his buggy. Last winter Hil- | son was warned by whitcaps to leave, |. which warning he disregarded. Hil- I'son is the second negro murdered by whitecaps in that portion of Lincoln | County within the last month and the other negroes are greatly alarmed over , the situation. | ——————————— Finland's Passengers Are Landed. | FLUSHING, Holland, Deec. 21.—The . passengesrs of the Red Star liner Fin- {land, which left Antwerp on Saturday {for New York and went ashore near :,ht‘re, have landed. The Finland is leak- |ing and cer earge is being discharged. | The .work is progressing slowly, owing | to'a lack of lighte 21— Australin’s Harvest Good. MELBOURNE, Vietoria, Dee. 21.—The | harvest is generally turning out excel- lent. It is estimated the total yield of | wheat for the six States will be 76,000, 1000 bushels. The previcus highest rogm | ord was 45,000,000 bushels.