The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 3

" FRALD CHARGE S DISPROVED Baldwin Esonerated of : the Placing of Cash Registers EXPLAINS SATISFACTORILY With Brandt Antedated His En- Serviee Government s al “ompa Perry Heath Brandt L« th Mr f th au- i that the although b with the present but ——— Was Jury iilling Finds slaughter h of Wal- ADVERTISEMENTS. . . Skin Diseases t Rheum, Pimples, , Ivy Poison, Acne troubles, can be cured by prompt] endorsed by leading powerful ‘healing rozone destroys par se these diseases. ite and see that tle bears my signature. Trial Size, 25 Cents. At Druggists or by mail, from ¢ 1.0 Frinee Bt. THE S VC ISCO CALL, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1903. ICURES SHOW SCHWAB'S PLOT Order to Withhold Dividends Pioiis Ly RECORDS ARE I'RE\'ENTED‘ e R Al I J | Accountant Rose Continnes| His Testimony at the Hearing Reforee Jefore Oliphant | ] { | NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—Alfred Rose : the accountani who made the investi- ! gation of the ancial status of the! chem Steel Company for Receiver Smith ed the stand at the ship- ding hearing to-day. The construc- n and repair accounts of Bethlehem were the first subjects of inquiry by ! v his object being to | exnenditures were holdirgs in order to n the Bethlehem | find made under these withhold stock held by the pbuilding com- pany. Rose answered that the con- struction account. $163,131, for the year | ending May 1, the 1902, was auditor's creased ac statements | cording to during the foliowing year to $883,500. ! . a account from 03, was in excess 1d not tell wheth- part of this should have been properly construction, al- ugh he had been informed to that epair 190 d to effe in regard to net earnings Rose's fig- s showed that the earnings for the months ended October 31, 1903, the monthly | July having suddenly 60 from an average of during the preceding . The value of material on as shown by inventory of July 31, higher than any pre- the history of the 0,000 higher than the By October 31, ! e had still fur- inventor: v, and $1 invento reased to $4.9 An increase of $884,23¢ in surpius cur- 1802, to Octo- | and after a . ther questions about fig- s in the C Rose, Untermyer relinquished the| Guthrie asked a number of questions designed to bring out Rose's experi- | n examining shipbuilding and | mpanies, and then cross-exam- | s the method in which | of the Bethlehem ' er gation anything in vour testimony this ! me seemed to be an aspersion ) integrity of the of- | Bethlehem plant, may I as vour intention e or charge should ainst them?” asked Guthrie “Assuredly not. That was not my in- tention, and if any such inferencé should be drawn T shouid be sorry,” re- piied the witness ———— AMERICANS IN BERLIN i | ARE TO ENTERTAIN BRYAN Fmperor William Is Informed of Ar- rival of Distinguished Visitor and He May Grant an Audicnce. R William J. Bry from Pe by Dr. Otto| 2+ member of the Reichstag > of ik “incipal advocates of in ny. Bryan left gen to-night and will re- aturday. He will be en-| privately at lunch by Embassador Tower. The Ameris can Chamber of Commerce will give eception Saturday i St. Copenh here ained turn Bryar His rought to the attention of Em- | William by Baron von Rich- | . the Secretary of Foreign Af- and possibly audience will | be the resuit. T GREATER POWER IS VESTED IN GOVERNOR OF FINLAND fairs, Mayors, Aldermen and Others in the | Municipal and Communal Ser- vices Subject to His Orders. PETERSBURG, Dec. .—The | Governor General of Finland has been empowered to summarily remove | ristrative officials and schodi | ers. excepting university teach- and to stop their salaries alto- partly without waiting for | n of an inquiry into their | Among the officials subject s are Mayors, Alder- | n the m pal and | comr services. It is officially ex- ! plained that the powers granted to the Governor General in August proved | inadequate because of the continued | agitation and obstruction of Russian measures by officials and owing to the | fact that an inquiry of this character | | often lasts six months. e e ——— | SERVIAN BURGLARS KILL, | THREE MEMBERS OF FA ILY | ['Samrider Focsier SEGoRacRbE Havia. | ovice, His Wife and Daughter in Their Home at Belgrade. BELGRADE, Servia, Dec. 24.—For- | | three years, until TO MAKE REA DY TO TRANSPORT TROOPS Tokio Preparing to Send Seventy Thousand Soldiers Across Warships Are LONDON, Dec. —The Nagasaki correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Japanese railways have been ordered to be prepared to trans- port 70,000 troops from the north to the south. The correspondent says that theré are xrow forty warships in the southern waters of Japan, the majority being fully coaled and ready for any emergency. The Times Shanghai correspondent says he learns on trustworthy author- ity that as a result of conflicting views on the policy and administration of the American and the Belgian interests in the Hankow and Canton Raiiway these interests will be separated and the razilway divided into two sections, the Belgians to control the northern section _and the Americans the south- ern section. The details of the nego- tiations to this end have not been dis- closed, and it is not known whether the Chinese Government will acquiesce in such an arrangement, which is op- posed to the terms of the Washington contract of 1898, The Daily Mail's Tokio correspond- ent says it is reported in Wiju that Russia intends to connect Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu River, with Liao Yang, on the railway between Moukden and Port Arthur, with the Empire From North to South---Forty Coaled and Read o object of bringing Yongampho within the Manchurian railway zone. SRS S RUSSIA MAY BACK DOWN. 1 Intimation to This Effect Revives | Berlin's Hope of Peace. BERLIN, Dec. .~—An intimation has reached the Jananese legation here that Russia will concede Japan's requesis. Inquiries made as to par- ticulars of this intimation, whether it came from Tokio or St. PPl?rsburg,! brought out nothing more than that | |a peaceful settlement is now highly | probable. The British Government it is understood from another source, nas represented to the Czar that Great Britain deems Japan's de- | mands just, and earnestly desires that | Russia grant them. This representa- ilon is supported by the utterances of | the British Embessadors here and in Paris and Vienna, who have informed the respective Governments to which they are accredited that Japan, in the ovinion of the British Govern- ment, will fight if Russia hold to the position taken in her recent note. The Russian Embassallor here has for several d been inquiring freely | what the opinions of the displomatic corps are. Yuan Shi Kai, the commander in chief of the ese army and navy, has taken steps for the rapid reorgan- ation of the Chinese army. Accord- ing to the Cologne Gazette's advices from St. Petersburg, Yuan Shi Kai proposes immediately to create mili- tary schools, with special courses for non-comm ficers, and a <cadet corps, a general staff and a military academy to be opened in 1205. .The intgoduction of general military service is planned, as | well as an in e of the artillery. Yuan Shi Kai is reported to have advised the court mandarins to wait | the reorganization of the army is complete before declar- | ing war on Russia. SETTLEMENT IS London Diplomatic Circles Expect Prolonged Negotlations. LONDON, Dec. 24.—Diplomatic circies {under fire than any nation ¢n earth, ! turned to Tokio this afternoon. The Japanese press is urging the im- mediate dispatch of troops to Korea, where, it is said, Japanese intcrests are d by Russian military pressure | menace: Seoul. The impression is growing in the best informed circles that the adoption of S S - SRR RS | ES Rt ———m——ee—<’| SUCh & policy. is now inevitakle. } 4 ——— YUAN SHI KAL COMMANDER | | . 2 IN CHIEF OF THE CHI- | A ORDEES SRe SOOI O KORES. NESE FORCES. ;S('rrflm'y Moody Acts Upon State De- —_—— | partment’'s Request. } | WASHINGTON, Dec. Z4.—At the re- raval attache, Captain Charles H. | T ebieton; b to repre. | Auest of the State Department, Secre- €entatives to-day that Great Britain's | taTY Moody to-day sent a cablegram to Rear Admiral Sterling, commanding the Phillppine squadron of the Asiatic extraordinarily developed mobiiization ! at the present moment was a great fac- | tor toward peace. “The Mediterranean fleet,” said Cap- tain Stockton, “hovering toward Japan, | is powerful. It is arouad Suez, half Under Minister Conger’'s persistent way. The British fleet now in the Far | urging the Chinese Government has East could quickly be reinforced by |taken another step in regard to the part, possibly even the whole, of the final ratification of the commercial Mediterranean flest, whose dutics would | treaty recently ratified by the Senate. then be taken up by the Channel squad- | Under to-day’s date Conger cables ron, leaving the Home squadron in | frem Peking as follows: British waters. Great Britain never| “The memorial for the ratification had so many ships and men in com- | ®f the treaty has been sent to Tientsin. ests there. T lacion KRR Pt dsisrs | to be signed by the Viceroy. It will The Unitefl States military attache, | then /be returned to Peking and J6ht 50 Pk Smitiarty promptly presented by the Prince e peinted out | that if Great Britain insisted on peace | she had “behind any such demand more | men of campaigning age who have b2en | (Ching) to the throne for ratification. e g RUSSIANS ARE ASSEMBLING. a military advantage which doubtless ' 1700PS (\’l'nnmlf :I;""' g-‘;:l:“ Haste to Manchurian Stations. is not overiooked by any European powe" | VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 24.—Advices were brought by the steamer Olympia ——— | ANGERED BY BRITISH PRESS. | im Manchuria from Russia. Corre- Russian Animosity Aroused by Eqi- SPondents at Moukden tell of the | transport of troops to the southern ! borders toward the Korean frontier y | at the rate of twenty to twenty-eight % d[’:pl"‘y“\gimilway carriages twice a day. The the liveliest irritation at the British ! total number transported toward the press, whose anti-Russian attitude in | beginning of December was 17,000, all the present Russo-Japanese dispute | of whom had newly arrived from Eu- has aroused even greater public ani- | rope. Reinforcements which had ar- torial Attacks in London. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24.—The Russian newspapers are | in the north and Russlan intrigues at| po, Korea, to protect American inter- | of increasing reinforcements arri\'lng‘ MORE CHEERFLL Aectivity in Holiday Trade aml;; Strong Demand for Staples! | | | | Are Features of the Week| 1 | 2T | {ENUSUAL EASE IN MONEY! e, H | Rates “Continue Moderate at | a Time When Disbursement! Preparations Are Looked For ¢ | NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—Bradstreet's to-morrow will say: Activity in holiday trade, with sales equal to or in excess of last year at most markets, quiet in | wholesale lines, as usual at this period. | with fair reorders from jobbers and ex- | ceptionally strong and active markets for speculative dealt-in staples, notably cotton, wheat, coffee and provisions, | ,;are the salient features of the week. | Other points brought out are the sus- | tained better feeling in iron and steel, and exceptional ease in money at a| time when disbursement preparations ! might be expected to lead to high rates. High prices for raw textiles are a drawback with which the cotton man. ufacturers particularly are struggling. | | Hides, leather and wool are stronger in | | tone. | In industrial lines the features are | the ending of the Colorado coal strikes |and the gradual downward readjust- | | ment of wages in coal, coke and iron | |and steel to meet changed conditions of supply and demand. The year is. | however, closing in many lines with a | rather more cheerful tone than seemed | H possible some time ago. | ! ‘Wheat ((including flour) exports for | the week ending December 24 aggregate (2,335,500 bushels, against 3,363,035 bush- | lels last week and 3,306,486 buehels a | | year ago. Failures in the United States for the | five days ending with December 231 | number 243, against 239 last week and 166 in the like week in 1902. Canadian | failures for the five days ending De- | | cember 23 number 15, compared with 22 | | last week and 13 in the like week of 1902. —————— | RESIDUARY LEGATEES ASK | FOR REMOVAL OF BRYAN Allege That He Has Neglected and Violated His Duties as Executor of the Bennett Will. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. A.\v-‘ plication for the removal ef William J. | Bryan as executor of the will of Philo S. Bennett was made by Mrs. Bennett | and other residuary legatees in the Probate Court to-day on the ground | that he has neglected and violated his duties, and because his interests, per- sonally and as trustee, are inimical to those of the iegatees under the will. In the petition is the following para- graph* | “Said Bryan. by appealing from the order of the court admitting said will | and by prosecuting sald appeal is pre«| ferring his own interests as an individ- | ual and as an alleged trustee to his| duty as executor of said will, and puts himself and his interests as an indi- | vidual in antagonism to the legatees | | under said will fo their interests as| | such legatees and to his duties as such ! | executor; and said conduct of said | Bryan is inconsistent with his retention | in office as executor under said will, | and has rendered him unfit and an un- | suitable person to continue ministering | the duties and enjoying the emoluments of said office.” The signers of the petition are Mrs. : Grace Imogene Bennett, the widow, | and Mrs. D A. Bigelow of Water- ville, N. Y., and George A. Cable of Yonkers, N. Y. —_——— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Several Minor Changes Are Made in | the Postal Service and Additional Army Orders Issued. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Postof- i fleet, to dispatch a warship to Chemul- | | ! fices established: Washington—Ruby, | Stevens County, Emery R. Conner, ! postmaster. | | Postoffice name changed—Black Mountain, San Diego County, to Lusar- {ai, cal. { | Postmasters commissioned: Cali- | fornia — Isabel Heikell, ‘Daulton. | | Washington—Clara G. Turner, Carle- ton. Fourth-class postmasters appointed: | | California—James F. McNamee, Fish- | rock, Mendocino County, vice A. M. | Duncan, resigned. Washington—Ase- | nath Edwards, Lisabeula, King Coun- ! ty. vice Florence Lawrence, resigned. | - Postoffice to be discontinued Decem- | ber 21: California—America, Sqnoma | County;; mail goes to Santa Rosa. Rural free delivery will be estab- hed February 1, 1904, at Porters- i\'x!le‘ Tulare County, Cal | Army orders—Captain Henry R. ! Stiles ordered from Philippines to San | Francisco to await orders: Chaplain P. i P. Carey, now at San Francisco, goes | | to Fort Bayard, N. M., for treatment. | ——— | INCREASE IN DEATH RATE AMONG THE OLD SOLDIERS | | eating all A SIS FUEL the Houses When the IlI- Fated Manauense Is Drifting TOR THE FURNACES s i Exeiting Inecidents on _the Vessel When the Coal Gives Qut Near an Oriental Port e S VICTORIA. B. C. Dec 24—The steamer’ Olympia. which arrived to- d; brought Messrs. Harrington and McDonough. mining ' engineers and counsel for the Northeastern Siberian Company. The engineers tell of an in- teresting voyage of the steamer Mam- aunense, which has since been totally wrecked. Owing to the failure to secure coal from the Northeastern Siberian Com= pany, the Manauense was left helpless when a day’s run from Hakodate. Her crew and passengers took axes and broke up the after hou tore up the "tween decks and broke up cases of sal- mon and the ship's fittings for fuel The timbters and preserved fish were fed to the furnaces, but the steamer was unable to make port owing to the heavy weather. She drifted 135 miles back to Akishi Bay, whence telegrams were transmitted to Hakodate and coal was sent. Since the departure of the Olympia cables have told of the total loss of the steamer after stranding on the Japan- ese coast. NSYLVANIA COLLIERIES SHUT DOWN FOR TEN DAYS FISH PE Fully One Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand Men Will Be Tempo- rarily Out of Employment. REDDING, Pa., Dec. 24.—All the collieries of the Reading Company shut down this evening and will re- main idle until January 4. The shut- down will be general throughout the anthracite region and fully 130,000 men and boys will be out of work. | The suspension in the coal regions | will also affect a large number of rail- road men and it is probable that at least 175,000 men will be out of em= ployment temporarily. | —————— LAR: DEPARTMENT STORE IS FOOD FOR THE FLAMES MEMPHIS, n., Dee. 25.—The large department ore of B. Lowen- stein & Bros. burning. The loss will be heavy steadily gain o’clock the fire was headway, and it seemed probable that the store would be destroyed. The company carries a stock approximately worth .000 largely insured. The . fire started shortly before 1 o'clock in the base- ment. where Jarge guantities of baled and boxed goods were stored. —— ADVERTISEMENTS. RICH MEN ARE NOT ALL HAPPY. Croesus, King of Lydia, Had Troubles of His Own, and There Are Others. Croesus, the John D. Rockefelier of the kingdom of Lydia. was very well-to-do in worldly goods and chat- tels. “As rich as Croesus” is a saying about 2300 years old. He had trou- bles, however, and some of them were full grown. He was taken captive once by Cyrus and only saved himself from | being burned alive by quoting a saying of Solon the sage. He finally had to fiee his kingdom for parts unknown. Many of the rich man’s troubles to- day come from high living and could be avoided. They are brought on by kinds of rich, heavy foods at irregular times, lack of proper ex- ercise, undue mental strain, unnatural stimulants, etc., and are commonly known as indigestion, dyspepsia and weak stomach. They are serious trou- bles all right, but not only can they be avoided, but can also be cured, and that without loss of time or proper food and nourishment. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are the certain relief of dyspeptics, rich and poor alike. There is no such thing as | stopping_their onward progress now. A great nation has placed its stamp of approval upon their noble work. The thousands and thousands of cures they have effected and the happiness result- ing therefrom have made their name a household word throughout the land. The story of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can be told in a word. They actually do the work that the weak | and wasted stomach is unable to do and allow it to recuperate and regain its strength. They contain all the es- | sential properties that the gastric juice | and+other digestive fluids do, and, they digést the food just as a sound and well stomach would. They relieve the stom- ach just as one rested and refreshed workman relieves the one on duty that is tired and worn, and Nature does her own work of restoration. It is a simple, natural process that a child can un- derstand. You can eat all you want without fear of results. Stuart's Dys- pepsia Tablets are for sale by all drug- gists at 50 cents a box. Druggists all mosity against Great Britain than ex- isted against Japan. The Japanese New York. { ol 4 C J,‘%Aflm g (Gookle! on tho ratio FREE | neni of diseases sont mal treat- free. mer State Councilor Bavidovics, his | in London look for geveral duys of (lu'l] wife and daughter were murdered to- | Russo-Japanese negotiations. ~Japan's day by three men, who broke into the [ counter-proposals possibly wiil entail | Minister, M. Kurino, has been indis- posed as a result of a chill for some days, and has had no interview with ;F‘Dreign Minister Lamsdorff. Neither | rived at Lio Yang had arbitrarily | taken up winter quarters in Chinese | temples and mercantile houses, caus- | ing great indignation and considerable | | suffering among the Chinese. Orders | have also been sent to hurry the com- | know better than to try to get along Brigadier General Burton Reports on Without them, as the demand for them vi i | somewhat prolonged consideration. house with the intention of robbing | b Lo s e e from Tokio says: by “The best informed circles in Japan do not share the pessimism which ap- it. Bavidovic§ was the oldest and | ) richest citizen of Belgrade. One of | ! the murderers was captured. | e { the members of the Japanese legation |ing of the Russian fleet, coming from nor the other Japanese residents here | Kurope to Port Arthud, consisting of are showirig any signs of impending | the battle-ship Osiabya, cruisers Au- departure.. | rora, Dimitri, Doukoi and Alwaz, sev- circles Conmitation free and strictly private Tomarnert persomslly of by lene v und -y B JORDAN & CD.. 105] Market 5t 8. F. WW ° ona found-o: If you Schilling’s Best, you an Schilling =zre- lesing som moncy. (R TDDDVDT DY Aweir DR, JORDAN'S crear ¢MUSEUH OF ANATOMY ) 102 MARKST 7. tat. G-heT, BT ® il on the ot e 0 OR. JORDAN—D'SEASES OF MEN Engineer Is Killed in a Collision. | pears to prevail in London, inasmuch MEXICO, Mo., Dec. 24.—Wabash | @8 the resources of diplomacy are by no fast mail No. 14, which left Omaha | means exhausted.” last evening for St. Louis, = collided | g | head-on with a northbound freight | attended Lord Lansdowne's reception | train two miles west of Benton City, | at the Foreign Office, is among those | Mo., at 5 o'clock this morning. En- who can hardly conceive that some way | gineer Thomas Whitten of Moberly | out of the difficulty cannot be found, | of the freight train was killed. C. W. | in order to avold a war which “must ® | Blodgett of Bussey, Iowa, and Charles | be disastrous to both nations and th: ———— | Robert Lamont of Vandusky, Moent., | consequences of which upon other na- | who were stealing a ride, were per- | tions cannot be foreseen.” | haps fatally injured. None of the| The reported *naval and military | preparations on the part of Russia and | passengers were hurt. BT S AR £ | Japan are regarded here as ordinary Wife Murderer to Suffer Death Penalty precautions which would inevitably be | { l HELENA, Mont., Dec. 24.—L. H.|taken by the disputants in such a case, Mott, who was convicted at Missoula “ and which have but slight bhearing on of murder in the first degree for kill- | the eventual issue of the negotiations. ing his wife, has been denied a new | On the supposition that Great Brit- trial by the Supreme Court. He will | ain, as a last resort, might threaten to be resentenced to death. forcibly interfere, the United States Embassador Choate, who yesterday | Japanese Interests Menaced by Rus- slan Military Pressure. LONDON, Dec. 24—A dispatch to | Reuter’'s Telegram Company from ! Tokio says Premier Katsura and War Minister Terauchi visited. Marquis Ito, president of the Privy Council, and Marquis Yamagata, chief of the Coun- cil of Field Marshals, at their villas, two hours distant by rail from Tokio, this morning. The meetings are be- lieved to have been connected with im- portant developments in the Russo- Japanese situation. The Ministers re- 1 The honefulness in official eral destroyers and ten torpedo-boats. iof a pacific settlement of the Russo- | Japanese dispute was reflected to- day on the Bourse, which largely re- covered from the nervousness which { has prevailed for several days. | —_— | MAY SEND TROOPS TO KOREA. — PREPARATIONS FOR A WAR. ders Indicating Prospective Hos- tilities. SEATTLE, Wash,, Dec. 24.—The Government has changed the sailing | ‘orders of the United States cable-ship Burnside, which was scheduled to sail { Janpary 1 from this port to Manila 1 by way of Nagasaki, Japan, directing | that she proceed to the Philippines by ! way of Honolulu, a fact which Is con- strued as meaning that war is antic- | ipated in the near future between { Japan and Russia. In this connection [ it is rumored that Russia already has agents, not only in San Francisco but this city, with instructions to purchase large quantities of supplies and forage foruse in the Far East. United States Cable-Ship Receives Or- | the Result of His Inspection of the National Homes. WASHINGTON, Deec. 24.—Accord- ing to a report made by Brigadier | General George H. Burton, who has Ijust completed a tour of inspection of thé various branches of the National | Soldiers’ Home, it was shown that dur- | ing last year 33,157 old soldiers have been cared for. The annual per cap- | ita ekpense of this maintenance was | $141.70, which is an increase of 20 per | | cent during the past three years, as- | cribed to the general advance in the cost of food products. During the past | year there were 1863 @eaths and 3582 | first admissions, which makes the | deaths 52 per cent of the increase, a | decided increase in the death rate. * —— e i Mayor-clect Takes Oath of Office. NEW YORK, Dec. Z4.—Mayor- elect George B. MecClellan took the | ogth of office to-day. He aleo an- 1 nounced twe more appointments— John T. 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