The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1904, Page 1

Alcazar—“Th To-Day. California—"The Eternal City.” Central—“Quo Vadis.” Chutes—Vandeville. Columbia—*"A Chinese Noney- moon.” Fischer's—“The Beauty Shop.” Grand—"David Harum.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee Pivoli— “When Johuny Comes Marching Home.” e Masqueraders.” » Bl R SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY o= 27, 1904, PRICE FIVE CENTS. WHITAKER WRIGHT COMMITS SUICIDE IN COURT AFTER HEARING SENTENCE CONDEMNING HIM, TO PENAL SERVITUDE WADE A FoRYUmE o ACITRELIAN WINES « \EW YORK MOl S Sgnamor’s Son Hurry- ing to His Wife's Be@side. is critically ill Fifty- £ nue. suffering from a al illness. ‘She was two weeks ago her »eful that her hus- Arizona. To-night she dence, simost condit band left is unconscious and her physician says for there is no hope for her recovery. Her husband is hurrying here on a special train. Mrs. Clark’s mother, Mrs. Cunning- ham, also is en route from Milwaukee. Mre. Clark s 30 years of age. She weas Miss Katharine Roberts before her marriage in June 30, 1890. They o children. or Clark is in this city recov- om an operation for an abscess He is able to take short ing of walks and drives and expects to sail for Bermuda with his daughter, Mrs. Culver. and granddaughter jn about a week e ¥OUT WORTH EXPRESS MEETS WITH DISASTER Southbound Passenger Train ¥From St. | Louis Is Wrecked Near Diaz and Many Passengers Are Hurt. ROCK, Ark., Jan. 27.—The exy . southbound from St. Louis, Iron hern Railroad, is Wortk Ark. woor Many pas- = ed. A relief train s dered sent from Little San Francisco m WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The Pres- ident s appointed delegates to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, to be held at St. Louis in September, 1904. Francis J. Heney of San Francisco is California’s represen- tative. iaz, five miles | WRRESTED TN HEW YORX - FAMOUS PROMOTER WHOSE i SUICIDE IN® COURTROOM |- FOLLOWED CONVICTION. 1Gr‘e'a’t Promoter’s Career Ends in Tragedy. -~ LONDON, Jan. 26.—At 3 e'clock this afternoon Whitaker Wright was | sentenced to seven years' penal ser- vitude. At 4 o'clock he lay dead on the floor of a small room in the law courts. Whether he took his own life by poison or whether death in its natural course robbed the law of its fulfillment will not be known definite- | | 13- until a post mortem examination is held. All indications, however, point | | to poisoning, and the great plunger's | { friends accept no other theory. The career of this man," who was known on three .centinents for his stupendous financial operations, closed in a startling tragedy. His entire life, | with his rise from poverty to enor- mous wealth, was full of dramatic in- cidents, but there was nothing that could compare with the manner of his death. All London to-night is thriiled with the news of it. No such human tragedy has been enacted in England | in many a year. LEFT LYING WHERE HE FELL. Until nearly 8 o'clock the body of | the man who formeriy had controlled | the world’s markets and who had been courted by royalty remained upon the floor of the room where he | | fell; for, as a convicted felon, Wright's person had become the prop- erty of the crown. The Home Office finally gave permission for its removal and the body was given over to the Jjurisdiction of the Coroner. It now lies at Westminster mortuary, where | almost all the corpses taken from the Thames are laid out. The inquest probably will be held on Thursday. Mrs. Wright, the widow, is an American. She now lies ill at the magnificent country home. which Wright had in Surrey. Dispatches from there say with a certain ingenu- ous pathos: “The news of Whitaker Wright's Continued on Page 2, Column 5, | feet below him. | ally transparent, -3 PLUNGES 10 DEATH Clubman of Portland Makes Dive and I Killd PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 26.—Not notic- ing that the water had been drawn from the. big swimming pool at the Multnomah Athletic Club, P. R. Boult- bee, a clerk -in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, ~to-day dived from the springboard to the cement floor, fifteen His skull was frac- tured and he will die. About 5 o'clock this afternoon Boult- bee was boxing with the Chief of the Fire Department and after the bout announced that he would take a swim before going home to dinner. Unknown to’ Boultbee, the water in the pool had been drawn off that the floor and walls |- might be scoured. Only some six inches of water remained In the tank. J In the dusk it was difficult to tell whether the pool was full or not, as the bottom is so white that even when filled with water the tank is exception- Boultbee, accompa- nied by Harry Corbett, a millionaire banker, went downstairs to the dress- ing room, took a shower bath, then ran .out upon the springboard and, without a moment’s hesitation, dived off to his death. His head smashed against the solid floor and he lay in- sensible in the shallow water. Corbett, who would have followed him in another second, shouted for help and jumped into the pool. He slipped upon the smooth floor and was unable to do more than turn Boultbee's body over and raise his head above the water. No one else was in the baths and for some time Corbett could get no assistance, When it finally came Boultbee was taken immediately to the hospital. The physicians have no hope of saving his life. > Bouiltbee belongs to a prominent Canadian family, and was transferred here from Toronto about four months ago. He was well known in society and club circles. He had also gained the reputation of being the best diver in the Multnomah Club and his invariable custom of leaping high and far out ex- cluded any possibility of his fall not being fatal. - Senator Daniel Re-elected. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 26.—The two* houses- of the General Assembly to-day, voting se, tely, chose John ‘W. Daniel to suc himself as Unit- ed Siates Senator for the full term beginning March 4 next. | | shaken. CZAR HOLDS 10 ALL HE HAN TAKEN Will Yield No Point ' to the Tokio Gov- ernment. General NMe Throne " 8ays Japan's Insistence Means War. ! Russia Will Fight' to Rifain Far | Eastern Outlet to the-fea Which Manchuria Provides. —_—— Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1504, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ST.' PETERSBURG, Jan. 26.—Much as I should like to echo the words of peace rumors, I am bound to recdrd the facts. A business man to whom I showed the report Sent to an English paper, to the effect that business men were con- gratulating themselves that the dan- ger of war had passed, was amazed. He said: “‘Quite the gontrary is the case. The | spirit of business men whom I am seeing every- day was very much The proof of this is that the banks have become very shy and make the utmost difficulties about doing business.” A further note of the moment is that all officers on leave in the Far East have been recalled and 100 naval officers have been sent out in haste. Three additional batteries have just been dispatched from Vilna. | i f | | | | { | jcd I have had another talk with a weli- known general, holding the highest of- ficial position and in elose touch with the Emperor. ~Hi ¥ o “Our poor Emperor would do any- thing to avoid. war, but he recognizes that the present crisis is the biggest :thst has gaced Russia during her his- tory and that any sign of weakness just now would be tantamount to throwing away the rebults of Russia's great efforts during a half centur which she has been able to crown with success only by a terrible ex- penditure of life and money.” I asked him whether it was true that his Majesty had declared that no concessions could ‘be made to Japan. He replied: “It is true. No concessions can be made. You know well emough our We are balked by The Baltic is closed six months in the year. We had to forge eastward and at last got there. | | desire to get to southern waters. | weapons and are trying to shut us in. | What second-rate power would toler- ate such a thing? Certainly not Rus- sia. It is impossible. We have not hithérto been a commercial nation, but the commercial spirit is growing | apace, and, having got our outlet, it is of vital importance to us to retain it."” A naval service paper to-day prints a detailed statement of the strength of the respective fleets in Asiatic wa- ters, and places Russia and Japan on about an even footing, Russia pre- ponderating with heavy vessels and Japan with torpedo-boats. An indication that public feeling is aroused in the interior is shown by a dispatch from Krostroma, 230 miles from Moscow, sayving that when or- ders were received by the local bat- talions, calling for twenty-four addi- tional-recruits for service in the Far East, several hundred men responded. ¥ S PRESS JUSTIFIES VERDICT. Liberal Newspapers Find Occasion to Assail ‘the Government. LONDON, Jan. 27.—Without excep- tion the London papers express satis- faction with the salutary vindication of the law in the case of Whitaker ‘Wright and admit ‘the justice of the verdict and of the sentence. The Stan- dard alone, in an ‘edjtorial, ex- pressed some surprise at the severiiy of the sentence,. on the . ground that there was a certain degree of extenu- ation in‘'the‘ peculiar circumstances which Wright was placed under. At the same time all the papers dwell upon the sadness of the finale of the tragedy in the vein which is reflected by the following remark in the Morn- ing Post: “Even these painful circumstances cannot cause the slightest twinge of the national conscience.” 3 There are indications in the = com- ments of the Liberal newspapers on the result of the case that it will be used as a political weapon against the Government, cute Wright, mier Balfour, acting on the advice 6f the law office of the crown, having announced in Parlia- ment in Decémber, 1902, that the case was not one for the Public Prosecu- tor. Th’e papers insinuate that the Government* wished to shield Wright lfl;ml;u he was a strong supporter, \cially and otherwise, of the Con- servative cause and because he had’ The Daily News contenids that the law officers; Sir Robert Finlay and Sir Edward Carson, ought to resign, and | greed and jealousy. | You Americans and | Englishmen are using the Japanese as | hich declined to prose-§ DMINICANS MAY BECONE O WARDS Protectorate Idea IS Growing in LA Europe Looks to This Nation! to Preserve Peace in the Republic. | Foreign Interests Constantly Endan- gered by Revolutions and Coun- ter Revolutions o LS | Special Dispatch to The Call. 3 CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. i“’.‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Strong | iInfluences are working it is said, with; | a fair show of success, to induce Presi- | dent Roosevelt to establish a protecto- | rate over the republic of Santo Domin- go. No move of any kind wiil be made | | by the Government, however, until | | after the ratification of the Panama | { treaty. | The chronic gtate of revolution in| |Santo Domingo ifterferes with the busi- | ness of American citizens who have | commercial interests there, It stag-| nates trade and endangers the lives of | neutrals and non-combatants. The | country js alternately taxed and devas- | tated by federal -and revolutionary | | governments. Three American war- | ships, two German cruisers and one | French cruiser are now engaged in pro- | tecting foreign commercial interests in Santo Domingo. This Government al- | ready knows positively that any ac- | tion on its part, however drastic, tosthe end of bringing order and stable gov- ernment out of insurrectionary chaos will bave the approval of Europe. The ‘Panatia #ction of the President in be- half of civilization has committed this Government in the eves of European diplomats to be the “policeman of the ‘Western hemisphere.” That there will be anything but con- stant revodtution in Santo Domingo un- | less the United States steps in and es- | | tablishes a protectorate nobody here | | believes. The administration, however, | i€ not unanimous in'its ovinion on this subject. Secretary Hay is against ex- tending a protectorate to Santo Do- | mingo. The President realizes the im- | } perative necessity for some kind of ac- | tion, but is not inclined to take up the | question fors final decision until the | Panama treaty is ratified. | DESTROYING PROPERTY. | n Insurgents Warring Upon | American Citizens. SAN DOMINGO. Thursday, Jan. 21. | It ‘was ledrned here to-day that the | insurgents are destroving American | property in Santo Domingo. The | United States cruiser Columbia left here this mornihg for San Pedro Ma- | céris to protect American interests there, an American Consul at San Pe- ! dro having telegraphed to Minister Powell advising him of the necessity | of the cruiser's presence and saying, also, that other foreign interests were | imperiled. The Government is un- able to afford the necessary protec- | tion. Certain American sugar estates | at San Pedro are considered to be es- pecially threatened, as they are some.| distance from the town and without | protection. | ; Dominica PLAYFUL DUEL MAY COST Lirg Men at Madera Open Fire at Each Other in a Saloon Just for the Fun of It LS AT T MADERA, Jan. 26.—William J. Mace, of Mace Bros., proprietors of the Yo- semite Hotel, was shot here to-night at 10:30 o’clock by John Brown, a sa- loon man of Happy Camp, this county. The shooting occurred in a saloon. Both the men had been drinking at the time, and Mace suggested that they step off thirty feet and take a shot at one another. Witnesses of the affair state that the men separated and both shot. Brown was not wounded. Doctors Byars and Reid were sent for and attended the wounded man. Unless complications arise Mace will recover. Brown was arrested by Sher- iff Jones and taken to jail. ———————— BURNING OF AMERICAN COLLEGE IN ARMENIA Fire Is Believed to Have Been of In- fto-day is that it is too mueh 181,000,000 in the two States cendiary Origin and Investigation tired 1s Begun. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 26.—Mail advices from Erzeroum, say that the American mission college for girls there was destroyed on Jan- uary 10 by a fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin. An inquiry has been opened by the authorities. The college was a fine modern build- ing, completed in 1903 Armenia, | BRYAN RADS (LD WING OF PANTY Venomous in Denun- ciation of Reor- ganizers, Says Sevin Years of Exile | Has Not Removed Stain of Clevelandism. Commends to the Democracy the Platform Adopted by the Con- vention of 1900. pE D ml e NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Every seat in | the Madison Square Concert Hall was taken to-night when William J. Bryan began his speech on “Moral Issues.” In the audience there were many wom- en, while the body of the hall was more than half filled with clergymen. There was no presiding officer, Bryan being escorted to the platform, where he was greeted with prolonged ap- plause. He said in part: “I have preferred to speak inde*nd- ently of any organization, because I do not care to embarrass any friends or supporters who may differ from me in opinion. Both I and they, therefore, | are left to pursue in the future, as we have in the past. the course that seems to us best. “I do not speak with authority; T am not a candidate for any office; I am only a private citizen, and I can prove by the editorial pages of nearly all of our leading daily papers that I have excellent prospects of remaining a pri- vate citizen during the remainder of my life. “The trouble with our Government -influe in its operations hy men W loyalty is loyalty to the money bags. CLEVELAND'S CAMPAIGN FUND. ““Will it pay? has been substituted for ‘Is it right? and as a consequence our legislative assemblies—city, State and national—are becoming auction rooms in which governmental privi- leges are knocked down to the higheat bidder. “One evidence that our party honestly seeking to secure justice to the masses in 1896 and 1900 is to be found in the fact that our campaign funds were insignificant in both cam- paigns. In 1892 the Democratic party collected a large campaign fund from the corporations. It spent more than of New York and Indiana alone—and what was the result? The most plutocratic ad- ministration this country has ever known. We witnessed a surrender to organized and predatory wealth, so ab- ject and so complete that seven years of exile from power have not entirely removed the stain from the party. You ask why I am opposed to the reorgan- ization of the Dembcratic party. Be- cause I want my party to define the rights of the people; I want it to be the fearless champion of their inter- ests; 1 want it to present the moral issue involved in public questions and to appeal to the public conscience. PLATFORM AND NOMINEE. “When the next Democratic conven- tion undertakes to write 4 platform it was will find the last one a model of clear- | ness and conciseness and of square dealing; and I hope that the delegates | | to the convention will Qe instructed by the various States to indorse it. “And how about candidates? It does not matter much what the name of the Presidential candidate is, but it does matter what he stands for, and in what direction he is going to lead the party. Let the Republican . party be chal- lenged to meet the moral issue present- ed—this is-democratic, this is patriotic. Let this be done, and unless reason and love of country have fled we shall fight without being ashamed. If we lose it will be but a temporary defeat and will bring no disgrace with it. If we win the victory will mean much for our country and for the world.” —_————————— CONFLICTING STORIES OF HANNA'S CONDITION Rear Admiral Rixey; Who Is the Sen- ator’s Physician, Says the Patient Is Much Improved. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Senator Hanna's great prominence in the public eye at this time has caused the great- est concern over his illness, and to-day there were condition. I It is positively” stated by Rear Ad- ! miral Rixey, surgeon generalsof the navy, Senator Hanna's physician, that his patient is not seriously ill. The | Senator dressed himself this evening | and sat up to dinner in his apartments at the Arlington Hotel. Senator Hanna is a bad invalid, and as a result of this he will probably have a sethgck to-morrow. Each time he has left his bed he has been the worse for it. Dr. Rixey said to-night: Hanna is better than he was yesterday. If he continues to improve as he has to- day he will be out in a short time. He did not entirely recover from the at- tack of the grip he had in New York several weeks ago, and has had a re- lapse.” hose only | {0 their standar conflicting stories of his “Senator | BEER GORS 0 WASTE IV A RIVER GiOOIIl Spreads Over the New York Waier Front. Twelve Thousand Kegs of Cheering Beverage Runs Into Sewer. {Destroyed to Save the Payment of $75,000 Revenue Bond to the Government. Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Jan. | River was not drunk this afternoon it ought to have been, for 12,000 kegs of | beer were dumped into it. | The beer came from the Conrad Stein’s Sons’ brewery. Some time ago ‘!the Lion brewery got control of the Steln business, but the bill of sale did | not include the building, the machinery {or the Supply of beer on hand. What 1'.he Lion brewery did get was the | other company's good will and out- | standing accounts. The Steins have de- | cided to retire from business and the | building and machinery are now on the market. When the Lion brewery got control | there were some 3072 barrels of lager in | the Stein brewery, and to keep it there | the Stein concern would have had to renew a bond for $75,000 with the inter- | nal revénue authorities. This bond ex- | pires about the end of this month. | The Stein brewery tried to sell the | beer at any price, but coyld not get a | purchaser. Representatives of the Lion brewery said that they did not want the beer, b‘caun 1t was not-up Moreover, if the | beer were sold $3060 would ha®e to be { paid out in revenue stamps. So it was deeided to let all this good beer go to | waste. | AIl the barrels were carried into the | cellar and the bungs were knocked out. | There are pipe connections between the | floor anc the sewer and the beer flowed merrily through these into the river. 26.—If North “It was a beautiful pale sea,” said | one of the inspectors, who gloomily |- watched the beer go to waste. “It took nearly all day to run the beer into the | river. When the news spread along | Tenth avenue and the river front the gloom was so thick that it could have | been cut.” —_— e | UNITED STATES APPRAISERS MAKE IMPORTANT RULING Coal Arriving Prior to January 15, 1903, Although Not Unloaded to a Subsequent Date, Must Pay Duty. NEW YORK, Jan .—Under the latest ruling of the Board of Unit States Ggperal Appraisers coal which arrived at ports in this country pre- vious to January 15, 1903, even though it was not unloaded until a subsequent | date, is not entitled to free entry under the act nor rebate of duties on coal | signed on that date. This decision has | been handed down in an opinion write | ten' by Judge Somerville overruling & protest -of Bunker & Co. of San Fraa- cigco, who received a vessel containing 1 at San Francisco, December The importers contended that the coal was entitled to free entry under !a subsequent act of Congress. This Judge Somerville denies and holds that | when a new law is enacted the rights {of parties are’only affected under it | after it has gone into effect unless it | is otherwise stipulated in the law. —_———————— | FAMOUS LIBRARY IN ITALY ! IS BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE | LA | More Than One Hundred Thousand i Volumes Are Destroyed and Many | Valuable Manuscripts Burned. | TURIN, Italy, Jan. 25.—The univer- :any library has been partially de- | stroyed by fire. It is roughly esti- | mated that more than 100,009 vol- | umes were burned, as well as many | rare manuseripts. | The university library was consid- ered one of the most famous in Italy, the others being the Vatican library, the Marciana library at Venice and the one at Monte Cassino. King Vie- | tor Emmanuel, upon hearing the li- | brary was on fire. sent instructions that everything possible be done to extinguish the flames. Every effort | was fruitless, howeevr, and five halls of the library were entirely destroyed. ————————————— | . Falls Into Scalding Water. TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 26.—A spe- cial to the State Journal from Man- hattan, Kans., says that Elmer Gard- ner, a student at the State Agricultu- ral College, was scalded to death to- | day by falling into the pit which sup~ plies hot water for the college. He was standing near when the earth caved, carrying him down. Seounl Police Levy Blackmail. SEOUL, Jan. 27.—The peddlers (se- cret police), with the permission of the Government, are levying blackmail on all wealthy houses in except those of the high officials. on the pre- text of guarding the houses. A thou- sand soldiers will be sent south to quel} the insurrection. I