The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9. 1904 . 3 FOMAN COMMITS HIDEOCS CRIME et Tl Victoria Ferslow Jailed Baby's Flesh on Kitchen Stove S HER for Searing Redhot CONFESSES GUILT —e Asserts She Became f Correcting Little One and Decided on Brutal Method CRER w this un- B she is re- for t ¥'s burns, and in f her inhuman conduct bat she was unaware that the stove was & t seems to be a f te m L4 hment with according burned an- a hot lamp had asion she e one the la A. Taka minister, who Mre. Fersiow ton avenue doc- reported the A warrant g, ood that ng the matter t he would » STARTLED BY SCREAMS. king his Ferslow the child ch prac- intry- days that it was air to the au- years, four-year-old child Hall of Justice last n was booked on a to children. Baby ome, well-nourished and sat on Matron Casey’s lap in rmitory, contentedly mufiching a the other child, did traces of neglect, and children were suitably ssom clothed Mrs. Fersiow, who is a woman 40 DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. Cooling Off. POSTAL FRACIS | SENATE'S THENE Demoecrats Use Bristow's Re-| port as Execuse for Insisting | Upon Congressional Inquiry | s BITTERLY ASSAIL HEATH Platt of Connecticut Defends Conservative Course of Ma-| jority in the Upper House ooy 2l H WASHINGTON, £.—Alleged postoffice frauds were under discussion Jan, n the Senate to-day, the subject being in a set speech by Simmons of lina, who Insisted there be an investigation by the Sen- charges. Platt of Connec- vied that the Republicans were ) cover up any wrongdoing in ce Department, and said were contending that the Postoffice Commitee should ascertain what was to be investigated | The discussion was participated in by Burrows, Dolliver and Quarles on the Repubiican side and Carmack, Tiliman and Teller on the Democratic side. The Republican cont n was that there had been a thorough investigation by the Postoffice Department, and that a Senate investigation was now being i by the Democrats for partisan purposes. The Democrats insisted that press they wanted the fac and charged ! that the Repubkcans were trying to er them. Perry 8. Heath was bit- smoth terly assailed and former Postmaster General Smith was criticized by Demo- ratic Senators. | Platt of Connecticut ecriticized the Democrats for their failure to express one genuine, hearty word of praise for | the President, the Postmaster General | and the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General for the good work which had been done Tillma to an stig was characterized by partisanship. There was an appar- ent attempt at Congressional smother g He did not see how honest men in the face of House iment and try to prevent an inves- nd allow the statute of limi- prevent the prosecution of he had read the | report and had found no harge Heath needed investigat- ing. Tiliman started to read the refer- ences to Heath, and while looking for | said that the said caustically: if he was not besmirched by r he was tattooed—he is a ttooed man.” e Aldermen to Serve as Peace Guardians BLOO! GTON, Il Jan. 8.—Due | o ty to secure sufficient numbers ¢ ens to serve.as special officers during ‘the street railway strike, Mayor Morrison to-day served | notice on every member of the| Board of Aldermen that they would be required to serve as police officers Sat- | urday and Supday and possibly Mon- | day if there is any more disorder. | < +| years of age and shows no signs of | mental derangement, was not averse to | telling her story to the authorities. She | expressed herself with great volubility | and related the story of the punish-| t meted out to the child In a busi- | ness-like manner without a trace of nervousness or feeling. | Her statement is to the effect that| the baby, which she says is the illegiti- mate child of her daughter, was wn- cleanly in his habits, and that conlin-i ued whippings and other forms of pun- | ishment failed to have any effect upon him. “I once heard of a woman in Chl-1 cago,” sald Mrs. Ferslow, “who put| | mustard on her child to break it of bad | | habits, but I thought that punishment | [ too severe and decided to try the hot | stove. I warned the baby of the pun- | | ishment I intended for him, and on last | Sunday determined to try it. Mr. Ta-| kain and myself first placed our hands | ! on the stove and found that the heat| was only slightly uncomfortable. I then | charged that the opposition | PRESIDENT NAMES OFFICERS FOR PROMOTION IN THE ARMY Colonel Francis S. Dadge Is to Become Paymaster General and Colonel Alexander Mackenzie Is Nominated for Chief of Engineer Corps, With Rank of Brigadier General — | | RS - WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The Presi- dent to-day sent to the Senate the fol { lowing nominations of officers promot- | ed in the army: General officer to be lieutenant gen- eral—Major General Adna R. Chaffee, | vice Young, to be retired from active service. To be major generals—Brigadier Generals William A. Kobbe, vice Chat- fee, to be appointed lieutenant gen- eral; Joseph P. Sanger, vice Kobbe, to be retired; Alfred E. Bates, pay- master general, vice Sanger, to be re- tired; Wallace F. Randolph, chief of artillery, vice Bates, to be retired, and George L. Gillesple, chief of engineers, vice Randolph, to be retired. To be brigadier generals — Coloneis Alfred Mordecal, Ordnance Department, vice Kobbe; Harry L. Haskell, Third Infantry, vice Sanger. Forest H. Hathaway, assistant quar- termaster general, vice Mordecal, to be retired. Asher C. Taylor, Artillery Corps, vice Haskell, to be retired, and John C. Butler, Ordnance Department, vice Hathaway, to be retired; Frank M. Coxe, assistant paymaster general, vice Allen, to be retired: Jagob Kline, Twenty-first Infantry, vice True, to be retired; Willlam F. Dougherty, Eighth Infantry, vice Coxe, to be retired; Wil- liam 8. McCaskey, Twentieth Infantry, vice Kline, to be retired, and Albert L. Mills, superintendent military acad- emy, vice Dougherty, to be retired. Lieufenant colonels—Charles J. Al- The man who would sit on a cake of placed the child on the stove just for a | len, Corps of Engineers, vice Taylor, ice to cool off would be considered . t is a very common thing for a per- ed by exercise to stand in a coal is the beginning of many a cough which ultimate- iy iovolves the bromnchial tract and the lungs. For coughs in any stage there is no remedy so " valuabie as Pierce's Golden Medical Discov- ery. 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Send 21 one- cent stamps for ¢ book in paper covers or 31 stamps for it in cloth ing. dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Every good-enough grocer ng's Best ea opices cFee 0la Costs rad moneybazks ‘em. Costs ncbr;d)' anything, moment, without any intention of burn- ing him severely. It is my impression that owing to the fact that the lid was | not on the stove at the time we placed | our hands on it and was afterward put | on ‘. embers were fanre( to a| blaze and heated the stove more than I | thought.” | | NO AFFECTION FOR CHILD. | Mrs. Ferslow declares that when she saw the boy was burned she applied | cooking soda and water to allay the pain. She admits that she does not bear the greatest feeling of affection | for the baby owing to its illegitimacy, | and speaks of her daughter with no| kindness. The littie girl, Blossom, she states is not her child, but refuses to give the names of its parents, although it is understood that the little one's | Bameé is Violet Taylor and that her mother resides in this city. During her narrative Mrs Ferslow called in the little girl Blossom and asked her if she had ever been burned. The child replied in the affirmative and | in response to a question of Mrs, Fers- low said that r™= hal her fingers burned for playing with the lamp. In reply to a question Mrs. Ferslow said that the baby, Harold, fully understood why he had been punished, for after being burned he had said: “Mamma burnt me for being & 'rty boy.” In | conclusion Mrs. Ferslow sail: *I do | not believe that the pun.shmen: was | either cruel or inhumane) altkough 1 !did not intend to infure th: ckild. | Other punishment that I had given him | failed to do any good, so I Catermined to use drastic measures.” When the subject of her ca‘s was brought up Mrs. Ferslow with great ; pride referred to the fact that three of | her ieline pets, Royal Blue, Xing Rex |and an Auctralian cat, had carried ofr Ilhe honors at the last dog and cat | show. She denied the allegation that she possessed any sore-eyed cats or mangy dogs, and also denies that the | children lived in one room with the ani- l mals at her former home. She proudly states that she kept a baby farm at one time and has raised more than 500 children. Secretary White states that he will | apply for guardianship papers for the two children and that the woman will be prosecuted to the full extent of the {1aw. | —_——— CAPE TOWN, Jan. 8.—It was officiaily an- declared in Damaraland. German Southwest Africa, and that ‘the hostile Hottentots have surrendered. | to be retired; Theodore E. True, dep- uty quartermaster general, vice But- ler, to be retired. Staff Corps — Colonel Francls 8. Dodge, assistant paymaster general (promoted from lieutenant colonel and deputy paymaster general, vice Coxe, appointed brigadier general), to be paymaster general with the rank of brigadier general for the period of four years, vice Bates; Colonel Alexander Mackenzie, Corps of Engineers, to be chief of engtheers with the rank of brigadier general, vice Gillespie, Chlef of artillery—Colonel John P. Storey, Artillery Corps, to be chief of artillery with the rank of brigadier general, vice Randolph. el AT WELL KNOWN ON THE COAST. Retirement of Colonel Coxe Is Re- gretted by His Friends. Colonel Frank M. Coxe, assistant paymaster general and chief paymas- ter of the Department of California, is among those named for promotion and retirement by President Roose- veit. Colonel Coxe is well known on the Pacific Coast, having been stationed herg for the last ten years. For forty years he has been an officer in the army of the United States. When a boy he was always interested in the affairs of the State militia, and in 1863 he was appointed to the regular army as second lieutenant from the State of Pennsylvania, and he servea through the Civil War. He has occu- pied nearly every position in .the army. In every capacity he has serv- ed with distinction. For the last five years Colonel Coxe has been chief paymaster of the De- partment of California, and during that period has disbursed to.the army nearly $100,000,000. No officer is held in higher esteem than Colonel Coxe, not only by his associates in army life, but also by his many civilian friends. His retirement is coupled with honor and regret. Colonel Coxe will fn all probability ‘| enter the literary fleld, as he has aj- ways had a tendency for that line of work. ————— MILWAUKEE, Wis.' Jan. 8.—The will or Captaln Frederick Pabst, flied to-day, leaves an estate estimated at $10,000,000 in trust. No wu;c‘buo‘qnul:“ln w:c‘}e Tbe widow and four children an adopted daughter each recelves one-sixth of 1 ) | | | | e PAYMASTER OF DEPART- MENT OF CALIFORNIA,, WHO WON PROMOTION. | MINE INSPECTOR N THE STAND 4 Believes Explosion That Killed Amaigeinated Men Was Not Caused by Employes of Heinze | BUTTE, Mont.,, Jan. 8.—The inquest over the bodies of Samuel Olson and Fred Divel, who were killed in an al- leged underground dynamite clash be- tween the Amalgamated miners and those employed by F. Augustus Heinze, was concluded this evening. The feature of to-day's session was the testimony of John Byrne, State Mine Inspector, who on the witness stand stated that he believed that Olson and Divel were killed by a blast which they had set themselves, and that the miners of the Rarus property, owned | by Heinze, were not instrumental in causing the death of the two Amal- gamated miners. J. J. Barry, deputy State mining in- spector, flatly contradicted the belief expressed by Bryne. While making an investigation, Barry testified, he dis- covered two Rarus miners with three sticks of dynamite attached to six inches of fuse, cut and ready to be thrown. Barry said the foreman of the miners refused to explain the peculiar situation in which he found the men, Albert Frank, Heinze's superintend- ent, gave sensational testimony to-day, | acknowledging having ordered dyna- mite into the Rarus stopes for the sole purpose of keeping out the Amalga- mated men. Frank claimed he did. not know that the United States Court had issued an order permitting an inspec- tion to be made by the Amalgamated people. The session to-day Wwas decidedly heated, Attorney Evans for the Amal- gamated openly accusing County At- torney Breen with working in the in- terests of Heinze. v At a late hour to-night the jury was still out. —_—— LIBERALS WIN VICTORY IN THE BYE ELECTION H. T. Eve Defeats General Sir Rich- ard Harrison, the Unlonist Can- didate, in Devonshire, LONDON, Jan. 8.—The bye ejec- tion in the Ashburton or middle gjvi- sion of Devonshire yesterday to flll the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the death of Hon. C. s, Seale-Hayno (Liberal) resulted in the return of the Liberal candidate, H. T. Eve, by a majority of 1476 over the Unionist candidate, General Sir Rich- ard Harrison, thus doubling the Lib- eral majority. The victory was partly due to Eve’s local popularity. Other- wise it was attributable to opposition to Joseph Chamberlain's tariff pro- nosals. | had been murdered. | name of Mrs. Hume in the list. | Hume’s death and | the East, came out with Mrs. Hume, | WOMAN'S DEATH | NOT SUSPICIOTS Police Investigate Demise ofi Mrs. L. C. Hume at Requestj of Her Mother in the East [ REMAINS ARE CREMATED Doctor Says Acute Discase of‘i Kidneys Ended Life and He) Scouts Theory of Foul Play . PR T i | Investigation by the police of the | death of Mrs. L. C. Hume of Buffalo, | | N. Y., who died last Tuesday at the | Clara Barton Hospital In this city, | | proves that there was no foundation | | for suspicion that the woman's demise ; | was from other than natural causes. | Last Wednesday Chief of Police Witt- | man received a telegram from the! mother of Mrs. Hume from Toledo, | Ohio, stating that her daughter's death | was suspicious and asking that the! same be investgiated. Mrs. Mmllda.] Wise, the mother of Mrs. Hume, also | requested that the body be held sub-| Jject to shipment to Toledo. | Carelessness on the part of Detective | Anthony and officials of the Health Office resulted jn some excitement yes- | terday in police circles and for a time. rumors were around that Mrs. Hume Anthony was detailed last Wednes- day to locate Mrs. Hume or E. Beale in this city, and to find out| whether the woman had died. No rec- | ord was found at the Coroner’s office | and Anthony claims that he simply telephoned to the Health Office and re- | quested that if a certificate of the death | of Mrs. Hume was presented to refuse a permit for burial and to notify the| Coroner. 3 | CARELESS HEALTH OFFICIALS. ! The clerks in the Health Office took | the name over the telephone as that of “Eubie” and watched for a death cer- tificate in that name. | On Thursday afternoon the death | certificate of Mrs. L. C. Hume was pre- | sented by an undertaker and a permit for cremation was issued. | Yesterday morning the body of Mrs. Hume was cremated at the Odd Fel-| lows’ Cemetery. At about the same| time the death notices from the Health | Office reached the Coroner’s office and ! the attaches were surprised to find the i The Coroner’s office knew that the | police were seeking information of Mrs. at once notified Chief Wittman. Then it was learned | that the woman’s body had been cre- mated but an hour earlier. Detective Cody was at once placed | on the case and he made a careful ! and thorough investigation. It was learned that Mrs. Hume formerly re-| sided iny Buffalo and came out here for | her health. She sold her rooming house | in Buffalo and intended to locate in| California. H Mr. and Mrs. A. Boswell, also from | and they stated to Cody that Mrs. | Hume was very ill on the trip. E. M. Beale, a young man from Buf- falo, who is with his mother and his sister at 1414 Post street, was a close frignd of the dead woman. ,Beale in- formed Detective Cody that Mrs. Hume was separated from her husband and expected to secure a divorce. In that case she and Beale were to have been married. BEALE MAKES STATEMENT. “We all came to California about the same time,” said Beale, “and Mrs. Hume was a very sick woman. She had been in the doctors’ hands in the East. She asked all of us not to let her mother know of her illness. When Mrs. Hume died I at once telegraphed her mother, Mrs. Wise, In Toledo, Ohjo. A number of telegrams passed between us. Mrs. Wise wanted me to bring the body to Toledo, but I could not afford the money. I finally wired | her that the body would be cremated, | but I received no reply to my message. I pald for the crematjon and have sent Mrs. Hume's trunk and her life insur- ance policy for $2500 to her mother. The policy was in favor of Mrs. Hume's mother. “I cannot understand why Mrs. Wise should have telegraphed to the police here that her daughter’s death was suspicious, unless it was that she was excited on hearing of her daughter's death and had not previously learned of her illness,” . Dr, E. J. Wemple, who attended Mrs. Hume, certified that Bright's disease was the cause of death. Dr. Wemple stated yesterday that he had had Mrs. Hume under his care from December 22 to last Tuesday, and scouted any | idea that the woman died from any but natural causes. Mrs. Hume was 27 years old. No further investigation| will be made by the police. —— Parties Are Known in Toledo. The~ following dispatch was re-| ceived last night by The Call: { “TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 8.—E. M- | Beale formerly resided here. He left | for Pacific Coast some weeks ago. Mrs. Hume is also known here. She went to California about the same time Beale did. No news has reached the ‘woman's relatives of her illness and the only information they have had is contained in'-telegrams from Beale saying Mrs. Hume is dead. “Telegrams were sent to Beale re- questing him to bring the body to this city. Later he wired that arrange- ments had been made to cremate the remains. Beale also telegraphed for $400. The relatives of Mrs. Hume say she had her life insured before ghe left for the Pacific Coast, but do not know to whom the policy was payable. The sudden death of Mrs. Hume and the request for money led her relatives to suspect foul play and the police authorities in San Fran- cisco were notified.” The dispatch further says that Beale forwarded Mrs. Hume's trunk with $400 collect charges and that it had arrived in Toledo. This, how- ever, cannot be, as the woman only | died last Tuesday and her trunk was forwarded by Beale yesterday, —_————— Though not taking all the money he could find, a burglar who broke into a woman's house in Paris left a note say- |- ing he could not find it in his heart to take her jewels lest'they were heir- looms . M. |- : traced her to Springfield, Mo., | of her parents. | conduct POLICE DOUBT SUICIDE STORY Additional Light Is Shed on | the Mysterious Disappear- ance of Passengers on Steamer A HUSBAND SUES Mother and Reported to Have ot AR Special Dispatch to The Call her little daughter with her to death. They have for a month been working on the' theory that she quietly slipped ashore when the Queen reached Vie- toria and made her way eastward over | the Canadian Pacific. Two weeks ago her husband prepared papers in a suit against Dr. J. Eugene Jordan of this A DOCTOR| Daughter Now Been | Traced to Town in Missouri | SEATTLE, Jan. The po.ice of | Seattle belleve that Mrs. Harry E. Oldt did not jump overboard from the | steamer Queen December 5, carrying | | rooms previous | city for the alleged alienation of his | wife’s affections. These papers filed in the Superior Court to-day with a demand for $50,000 damages. Meanwhile Dr. Jordan enlisted aid of local detectives. have been ascertained that Mrs. Oldt left the Queen at 5 o’clock on the after- noon of December 5 at Victoria and at were | | Democratic party with power is. the | SOUNDS PRAISE OF DEMOCRACY -Attorney General Harmon Speaks at Jackson Day Ban- E qaet Given at Cincinnati ATTACKS ADMINISTRATION S Denies That His Party Is, or Ever Was, a Menace to the Prosperity of the Country IEREER L5 CINCINNATI, Jan. 8.~The feature of the Jackson day banquet-given by the Dockworth Club here to-night was the address of Judson Harmon, Attorney General under the second Cleveland administration. Mr. Har- mon was given a reception in the club- to the banquet, and was received with demonstrations throughout the evening' In his ad- dress he said 1 believe the people are now turning once Democrats for relief from the ex travagance, the unfairness and the undepend- ableness of the présent administration, and the brag and pretense still employed them id be punctured once for all It is false that entr a menace to the prosperity of th | is false, too, that thgy in dangef disturbunte in the pricess of reform in the tariff and other things to which the Demo- It is said to| 5:30 o'clock boarded another steamer | for Vancouver, taking her little along. Her valise, filled with clothing, and the dress she had been seen to wear on the Queen were found in her state- rcom, leading to the belief that she had jumped overboard in her night- girl | wear, but an Inspector on the dock at Victoria is said to have furnished evi-, dence that a woman carrying a big bundle and leading a little girl left the Queen after all the other passengers were ashore. Local detectives claim the woman traveled to Vancouver, thence to St. Paul, under the name of Mrs. Treagan. From St. Paul they think they have the home The motive for her if this theory is correct is shrouded in mystery. Oldt declares he belleves she is dead. Dr. Jordan refuses to discuss the matter. for her to appear to have committed suicide in order to carry out a carefully planned conspiracy. —_—— BUTTE, Mont., Jan. S.—As the result of long-standing differences betwsen the Machin ists' and Carpenters’ unions a strike was de- bullding now clared to-day on the Federal nearing completion in this city. It was necessary | agair ROO ADVERTISEMENTS. S BROS. cratic party is pledged PHILADELPHIA, Jan. $.—The prin- cipal leaders of the two wings of the Democratic party in Philadelphia were brought together to-night by the Oid Hickory Club, which gave a dinner in celebration of Jackson day. Demo« crats of prominence throughout the State and several members of Con- gress were present. In a letter of re- gret ex-President Cleveland wrote Of course, I need, not t ou how fully 1 am in sympathy with the objects and pure poses of the club and how fully I believe im the cause of the true Democracy CLEVELAND, Jan. 8.—At a Jackson day banquet here to-night John H. Clarke, Democratic candidate for United States Senator in the last Ohio campaign, strongly urged the nomina- tion of Richard Olney of Massachu- setts as the man whom all Democrats can support and ome who will win victory surer than any other nominee. ———— Acquitted Driver Sues Employer. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.—H. W. Ad- a driver. has sued his employer, D. W. Herlihy, for $10,000 damages because the latter brought suit t him for alleged embezzlement of Both persons are residents of Pasadena. Adams was acquitted of the embezzlement charge in a Jus- tice's court of that city a few days ago. ams Stock Taking Over Boys’ & Children’s Clothing Now Greatly Reduced Note These Special Values (@ After the Christmas vacation, back to school ---and the youngsters must be properly fitted out. (I Here’s something interesting for parents to consider: How to Get the Greatest Values in Children’s Clothes for the Least Outlay of Money. (@ The answer is easy. Buy them Here. 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