The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1904, Page 1

» Forecast made cisco Tor thirty midnight, March 8 A. G District Forecaster. TEE WEATHER. ., San Francisco and vicinity— Olondy, nusettled westher Tues- day W«m.‘ sk southwest L -»—‘y at San Fran- o MCcADIE, | - THEE THEATERS. Alcazar—“At the White Central—“Rip Van Winkk \ Columbia—*“The Silver san." Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—"The Rounders.” Orphenm—Vandevilte. Tivoli—“The Gypsy Baron.” Horse SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY,V MARCH 8, 1904. JAPANESE SHIPS REAPPEAR AT ULADIDOSTOK AND RENEWED BOMBARDMENT IS REPORTED LONDON, March 8.—In a dispatch from St. Petersburg a correspondent of the Standard gives a rumor that the Czar has received a telegram to the effect that the Japanese fleet| bombarded Uladivostok all day Monday. JAccording to this rumor trivial damage was inflicted on the Russians, but one or two Japanese cruisers were sunk. No word confirming this story has been received in any other quarter, except a dispatch from Yinkow, received during the day, which reported that the bombardment had been renewed, but giving no details. Admiral Alexieff reports a return of the Japanese squadron to Dladivostok, but does not mention a new attack. e | - - | — % | l | { +\ 0 Ji { 1 9 9 11 11 - - ~ \ 1 | | O\ l W \J \ i | \ | {1 | | ! | L [ 1 J B4 I L 1 ' | | Trinity County Creek Men Riddle the Body | I 0 oner at || ' V- Springfield i erville pringtield. | | : e | [l Fired at Policeman’s | | During the Extraordi : I || n Assailant. i (| nary Storm. | l Wrath of the Populace Is Stirred and | | ‘ Butcher With Eorses and Wagon Is Angry Citizens Break Into Whirled in a Torrent and Cast Jail of City. | | on an Island. 11 — RINGFIELD, Ohio, March 7—A | | REDDING, March 7.—East Weaver IYA?W men ki;lhfirb(i at the County | | Creek, which sk the town of Weav- " . | o ; £ Trinity Coun- Jail to-night with the avowed purpose | etx;\llll:nz‘r:‘:;:n:\:m:t 4?: :‘._m.y,yfl J:- £ Iynciing TEsme S e 1l | t{r;ued ramsr Weaverville has been na, Ky., a negro, who shot Police- - istatas tor the colieving sstuy B8 e Charles Collins yesterday. | | bridges that spanned the stream at the At 8:31 Sheriff Floyd Routzahan ap- | | ‘ M And lowes Silof the Sem,. . PN red on the jail steps and pleaded | | ple there say over the telephone this th the mob to disperse, but he could | | f evening that they must commence con- heard with difficulty. His appeal | | }+| structing a temporary bridge in the rob Sailbacbai g | ! | morning in order to secure a means of R ;_.a.:: tual. and he was compelled | | | | travel'and communication with the out- t withir | | side world. 1 o'clock Dixon was taken from | | ’ |" A. W. Fetzer foll into the raging $hot $o Gesth fa the Jail | | | |creek to-day and was carried a hun- e body was taken from | | | I'dred feet, when he caught hold of a corner of Main street and | | | | tree, to_ which he hung until rescued. y avenue and hung high to a ] | | The stage to Deadwood from Weaver- tele pole, where the mob spent | | ville started to ford the creek. John dling the body | | | Daniels, a passenger, took fright and o % 4§ leaped into the stream. He managed e RneoR wn: | 4 { [to swim ashore, although handicapped The "Vl‘:fll‘f‘:d an entrance | ‘ | | by an overcoat and boots in addition = ‘1. g in the east doors to an ordinary amount of clothing. A Saibod it aly | | H. W. Goetze, a Weaverville butcher, . m The Seiesel st wanted to visit a slaughter-house this - ”,‘,“ ,:;< \:MV‘I .h»p mdn that no | | morning. He thought that in the ab- s OIS IS 1o toree sence of bridges he ecould ford the s = < : | | stream. The water washed his horses e ‘T;,,’i’,":’,‘,g‘“,“n"d;; | | | and wagon to an island, where the in- room in a hotel here removing his T 3 s vewsi = S ol ‘trepld butcher was later rescued. bag He h cid 1 e v 7. . i Shate . Tena e Ty e RUSSIAN CAVALRY ON THE MARCH THROUGH SOUTHERN MANCHURIA TO REINFORCE THE ARMY STATIONED ON THE YALU. | |BRITISH smIP sowa Corbin, 2 woman with whom he was L ’ % SWEPT BY FLAMES a ainted, Dixon asked Collins to go .4 e hotel with him. While in his room Dixon and Miss Corbin quarreled d Dixon is said to have shot her in the breast. The policeman then at- 4 to arrest Dixon, when the lat- | d into the officer’s body, inflict- wounds. SCHEME OF A MOB. tem ter ing fat At 10:45 the police said there was nothing more to fear and they with other officials and newspaper men passed freely in and out of the jail. Bhortly before 11 o'clock a diversion was de, a small crowd moving| around to the south entrance. The po- lice followed and a bluff was made at | Jostling them off the steps leading up to the south entrance. The crowd at this point kept growin while yells of “Hold the police, Smash the door,” “Lynch the nigger” were made, inter- spersed with revolver shots. All this time a party with a heavy railroad iron was beating at the east door, which yielded to the battering | ram as did the inner lattice doors. The | mob then surged through the east door, overpowering the Sheriff, turnkey and | a handful of deputies, and began the assault on the iron turnstile to the| The police from the south door were call side to help keep the mob from the cells and in five minutes the south | door had shared the fate of tine east one that further resistance wasl d the injury of innocent per-l sons useless the authorities consented | to the demand of the mob for the right | man. gHe was dragged from his cell o] the jail door and thence down the stone | £teps to the jail yard. | MEN CARRY VICTIM. | Fearing an attempt by the police to ue him the rioters formed a nollow | square. Some one knocked the negro ! tc the ground and those near him feil | back five feet. Nine shots were fired | his prostrate body and ulisnedi at he was dead a dozen men grabbed | e body and with a triumphant cheer the mob surged into Columbia street and marched to Fountain avenue, one of the principal thoroughfares of the town. From there they marched south to the intersection of Main street and a rope was tied around Dixon’s neck. Two men climbed the pole about fifteen feet above the street. They then de- scended and their work was greeted with a cheer. The fusillade then began gnd for thirty minutes the body was kept swinging back and forth from the force of the rain of bullets which was poured into it. Frequently the arm ng usel re FFICERS GIT Wi Ly Alleged Robber Gives Policemen Hard Battle, Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, March 7.—Lavipa de Lisie is in the County Jail at Ellensburg, having been arrested at Cle-Elum on suspicion of being implicated in a depot robbery at that place Tuesday night. The prisoner, who is a woman, was dressed as a man and gave the officers a hard struggle. She claims she has no relatives and expresses a wish that she be sentenced to six years, thereby securing herself a home for that time. The women em- ployes of the Courthouse are taking up a subscription to buy her woman's clothing. . Three weeks ago she applied to the County Commissioners at Ellensburg for relief and received a ticket to Olym- pia. A similar plea made there failed to obtain her any transportation. Soon after she appeared at Auburn and ap- plied for permission to fire a freight locomotive to Cle-Elum. She was ar- rested after reaching there. She was suspected of being a woman by the officer who arrested her. She was a hard prisoner to handle and fought like a tiger after leaving the train. * . A would fly up convulsively when a mus- cle was struck and the mob went nearly wild with delight. Throughout it all good humor and good order was main- tained and every one seemed in the hest of spirits, joking with his nearest T | neighbor, while reloading his revolver. | vostok, which has long been regarded ! province, Eastern Siberia, ‘has YINKOW, March 7.—An official dis- : patch received here says the Japanese are again bombarding Vladivostok. CHEFU, March 7. — It was learned yesterday at noon that six Japanese torpedo-boats were in sight off the en- trance to Port Arthur. The forts were signaled to prepare for an attack and, after waiting until dusk, as the Jap-| anese had not returned, the Pobieda, | the Novik, the Bayan and the Askold cruised out a short distance in the vi- cinity of Port Arthur, but no stgn of | the enemy could be obtained. All poor non-combatants among the Russians are now_being sent to Irkutsk at the expense of the Government. KOBE, Japan, March 7.—Two mem- bers of the royal family are about to join the headquarters of the army and take part in the operations against | Russia. They are Crown Prince Yo- shihito Harunomiya, eldest son of the Mikado and heir to the throne, and Prince Arisugawa. RUSSIAN SHIPS CUT OFF. LONDON, March 8. — Up to a late hour last night the Japanese legation here had received no official informa- tion regarding the bombardment of Viadivostok. It is believed at the le- gation, however, that the Japanese are now between the Russian cruiser squadron and Vladivostok, and there is reason to believe that the Russian squadron is in the vicinity of Possiet Bay. Russian official dispatches do not mention this squadron, and this fact lends color to the belief that the Japanese warships have shut it out of | Viadivostok. It is pointed out at the legation that if this is true the Russian vessels are in a eritical condition, since they must run the gauntiet of the Jap- anese squadron off Vladivostok or the Japanese squadron off Port Arthur before reaching a Russian port. VLADIVOSTOK'S DEFENSES. There is much curiosity here con- cerning the resisting power of Vhdi.l as the Gibraltar of the Far East. Viadivosték is known to be better equipped as a naval base and to have greater docking and repairing re- sources than Port Arthur, but doubts are expressed as to the character of its defenses. Russia has been settled there for forty years and it is conse- quently considered likely that the de- fenses and guns at this place are of a somewhat obsolete character. It is understood that during the past few years all the available new guns and war materfal which it was possible to send on the single line of the Trans- Siberian Railroad have been used for the strengthening of Port Arthur and points in Manchuria, leaving Vladivo- stok with old type guns of short range. It is reported that Viadivostok is ill- supplied with provisions and neces- saries. Dispatches from Tokio speak of the sacrifices being made by the Japanese nation. According to the Daily Chron- icle’s correspondent at Tokio, the Mikado is abandoning all luxuries, the court following his example, and all are going to live abstemiously until the war is ended. g RUSSIANS STRONGLY POSTED. According to the Chefu correspond- ent of the Morning Post it is expected that the Japanese will reach the left bank of the Lower Yalu about March 10. A large force of Russians isstrongly entrenched on the hills in the Antung district, adjacent and parallel to the river. Thelir position is similar to that which the Boers held on the Tugela River. o A Tokio correspondent of the Times says a Japanese squadron took pos- session of Haiyangtao, one of the EIl- liott group of islands, on February 29. They found only stores of coal and signaling flags there, the Russians hay- ing evacuated the island on Feb- ruary 23. A A Russian correspondent ~ of the Times says the - Governor of Amur been | Russian J'quadroanust Run Gauntlet of TN | Japanese Warships to Reach the EI\TOMBED | Harbor of UDladivostok. Special Cable-to The'Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. notified that in consequence of the impossibility of repatriating the Jap- anese at Port Arthur and Vladivostok because of the lack of steamships Viceroy Alexieff has issued orders that they must be sent into the inte- rior and not permitted to travel along the railroad line. Cabling ffom Pingyang, Korea, un- der date of March 6, a correspondent of the Daily Malil says that 2000 Rus- sian cavalrymen, with seven guns, re- treated last Wednesday through Ku- song and Sonchon toward Wiju. They destroyed the telegraoh line. The Russians continue -to push southward along the coast from Pos- siet Bay toward Songchin, the corre- spondent continues, and the Vladivos- tok squadron apparently is covering their communication with Vladivostok. Answering a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Premier Bal- four said the Government considered that Russia’s declaration that she pro- posed to treat coal as contraband of war was of the greatest importance. The Premier added that he was aware that the Russian plenipotentiary at the, West African conference, held in Berlin in December. 1884, in relation to the neutralization of the Congo, de- clared Russia never would accept an interpretation that coal should be con- sidered by international law as contra- band of war and that his Government would categorically refuse to consent to recognize coal as contraband of war, either in relation to the Congo or any other district whatever. In view Lof tHis, Balfour concluded, the British Government was taking steps to ob- tain more precise information in re- gard to the interpretation of the Rus- liin“éfllutlon respecting contraband | ST. PETERSBURG, March 7.—Rus- ‘authorities authority to fit out privateers NINE HOURS, BUT LIVES Reno Laborer Has Marvelous Escape From Death. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Nev., March 7.—Henry Pe- | landa, a Swiss laborer, miraculously | escaped death to-day. For more than seven hours he was entombed beneath | twenty feet of earth and rocks, suf- | fering tortures from broken bones, | thirst and threatened asphyxiation, | with tons of debris resting upon his | body. | Pelanda and a companion were | engaged in cleaning a well for Policeman McNeilly. Pelanda was at | the bottom of the well, filling a large bucket, while his companion manipu- lated - the palfrey at the top. After working an hour it was noticed that | water was rising in the well very taat} and Pelanda became alarmed and be- | gan climbing the rope to reach the | top. . He had ascended only a few feet .when the stone walls of the well tum- bled in, carrying the unfortunate man | to thke bottom and enhtombing him beneath tweénty tons of earth and rock. A rescue party was soon organized | to recover Pelanda's. body. When within ten feet of the bottom of the ! well the rescuers were startled by | hearing Pelanda calling for help. He shouted that he could hold out but| little longer. At 2:15 o’clock Pelanda’s outstretch- | ed arm was uncovered, and shortly | after his head and shoulders were | exposed. The rescue work at this| Fire Breaks Out While the Vessel Is in the Harbor at Port Blakeley. SEATTLE, March 7.—Fire on board the British ship Simla at Port Blake- ley this morning damaged the vessel and its equipment to the extent of $20,- 000. But for the fact that Fire Chief Ralph Cook of Seattle dispatched the fireboat Snoqualmie to fight the flames, it is very likely several other ships loading at that port would have been destroyed. From statements made by members of the crew, it is believed that the fire originated in the sail locker. After de- stroying new canvas valued at about $5000, the flames spread forward of the foremast to the stem. The vessel is burned a distance of about forty feet. —————————— MERCHANTS OF STOCKTON VISIT FLOODED DISTRICTS Reclaimed Tracts Are Safe, but One of the Islands May Be in Danger. STOCKTON, March 7.—Fifty busi- ness men of Stockton made a steamer trip to the flooded district of the low= lands in the northwest section of the county yesterday. None of the re- claimed tracts of the San Joaquin River are flooded, but Bouldin Island is vet in danger, owing to the high water from the Sacramento River. The water is near the levee top and men are watching every part of the levees and a patrol keeps steamers away from them. There was never any danger to Roberts Island or the large holdings of the Rindge Company on Old River and the flood water never came within fifteen miles of Stockton. —_——— Ship Sinks in Collision. BALTIMORE, Md., March 7.—In a collision to-day off Fort McHenry be- tween the Norwegian ship Siberia, Captain Jacobsen, from Baracoa, with a cargo of bananas, and the Norwe- gian steamship Simon Dumois, Cap- | tain Nieuwijar, from Banes, the former was sunk.’' The latter was damaged and- returned to port. " 2 to crib the entire wall before progress was resumed. So slowly did the work proceed, owing to lack of room, that not until 10 o'clock to-night was Pe- landa taken from the well. His Jeft leg was crushed, but otherwise he is not injured. « During the afternoon stage became very dangerous, for fear | and evening‘a doctor was in the well of further caving. It was necessary ' with him ministering to him.