The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1904, Page 21

eisc san dey; southeast winds. Yorecast made at San ¥ran- s0 for thirty hours ending inight, March 27: ancisco snd vicinity— Clounéy, unsettled weather Sun- probably showers; A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. fresh inee To-Day. To-Day. Orpheum—Vandeville. Matinee Tivoli—"“Mr. Plckwick.” DEAD WIFE \ CEMENT Atrocious Crime of a| Polyeamist in London. Muorderer Commits Suicide| During a Pursuit by the Police. ¥ive of the Women Who Married the Criminal Are Found Alive, but Two Others Are Missing. Crossman, and the the sui- wing 1 are absc have been LS. Cross- CRIMINA famous even a triple AS an engin- igmaker and s of su e been de- rents. enced to for bigam: f he was st e man, sting life He re- and the 2 | e e — <1y | ANTI-SEMITE GAINS e faintest sus- s living. EMENT. VICTIM IN THE ( Crossman g and sev- suicide occurred lodger_to wives in the dy of wife No. d in a trunk. The lodger e odor thereto and Crossman to take the trunk away. During ing of March 23, while moving he trunk, the lodger’s suspicions were ased, and when he saw a ooze out of the trunk he e station. Just as the was lifted into a cart ared. With a cry, Cross- and just as t! suers was on hi throat from ear to ear. nost instantaneous. ound in the trunk is that well-formed woman, only essed. n, portion of the skull, is now missing. e TORNADO DEVASTATES ISLAND OF REUNION Twenty-Four Dead and Persons Known to Be wusands Are Without Food or Shelter. PORT LUIS, Island of Mauritius, —A tornado caused wide- hroughout the island of 20 and e known to 1ds are without bridges and tele- DBRIGANDS FIRE VOLLEYS AT VILLA OF A PRINCE Trans-Caucasia, March surrounded Prince Bar- BATOUA, a t its occupants, who re- the fire, driving off their as- No one was injured. fire turned sailants. s aliases he | —Polygamy and | rbing public | 23 Crossman, | CONGRESS 70 FAVOR -~ STATENO Republican Leaders Agree on Plan | of Action. e Four Territories May Be| Enown as Arizona and ? Oklahoma. | Rapid Work Will Be Done in Effort to Make an Addition of New Stars to the Flag. Epecial D ch to The Call | W INGTON, March 26.—State- | hood for Arizona and New Mexico, un- | der the name of Arizona; statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory in 1906, under the name of Oklahoma— the this i verdict reached by the Re- publican leaders of the House. The bill embodying the details of this pro- gramme has been prepared, the Demo- | cratic members of the Committee on | Territories are looking it over and a meeting of a special committee au- to draft it will be held for final action. is to be absolutely pro- | hibited by the constitutions of both of the proposed new States. There will be no special discrimination about Suffrage limitation is vided for, however. | here is to be no delay in the ad- nission of Arizona and New Mexico Polyga |after the passage of the bill and a| | by- al of whom | For three-quarters | d for his life. The po-| The police theory is| while she was un - | e e e s undress- | from the car windows and when they during the night and | Commission says no delays are occur- convention may be called immediate-‘ The delay as to Indian Territory | and Oklahoma will be caused by necessary allotting of lands to the dians in these Territories, Under the terms of several treaties ‘with the In- | ians the lands so allotted are not taxed. For this reason the problem of suf- | ficlent revenue with which to estab- | lish and maintain proper publicschools is met by a provision for an appro- priation of $5,000,000 out of the United States treasury. This money is to be placed on deposit at 3 per cent for the establishment and maintenance of schools of the new State, although if necessary some of the principal may | be used in their establishment. the In- | SEAT IN REICHSTAG Dissatisfaction of Socialists Results in | Failure to Vote to Fill a Vacancy. BERLIN, March 26.—The Socialists | lost a Reichstag seat, that of Chop- | erday to an anti- ncy was due to the ath of Herr Rosenow, who won the seat in 1898 and was re-elected in 1903 | by 3740 majority. The Socialist can- | ate, Herr Pinkau, has now been defeated by 1600 votes, owing to the | | disaffection of Socialist voters because the National Committee Interfered | | with the local management of the | | campaign. | The district leaders unanimously | nominated former Pastor Goehre, who | had resigned another seat in Septem- | | ber, owing to Herr Bebel's attacks on | him at the Dresden convention. But | the national leaders, after Herr Goehre | had begun a vigorous campaign, pro- | nounced against his candidacy and forced his retirement. The Soclalist | voters as a result became disgusted and 4id not vote. PHILIPPINE NATIVES ALARM THE TRAINMEN Savages Throw Their Clothing Away and Then Develop Symptoms of Pneumonia. ST. LOUIS, March 26.—Three hun- dred members of the savage tribes of the Philippine Islands havearrivedand | have been placed in that section of the World's Fair known as the Cuartel de Filipino. On the trip from Tacoma they gave |the railway crews considerable con- | cern by the manner in which they di- | vested themselves of clothing. The | semi-civilized natives persisted in throwing their articles of clothing arrived in St. Louis many of them wore blankets, hurriediy furnished by I(he railroad company. The sudden rigorous change in the weather de- | veloped symptoms of pneumonia in a large majority. One member of the tribe was taken to the hospital in a serious condition. —_————— FRENCH REPRESENTATIVE ON WAY. TO ST. LOUIS Under Chief in the Ministry for For- eign Affairs Sails for the Exposition. PARIS, March 26.—M. Guillemin, under chief of Foreign Minister Del- casse, left Paris to-day on his way to St. Louis, where he will represent the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the opening of the exposition. He repre- sented M. Delcasse on the Rocham- beau Commission. M. La Grave and other officials will leave here early in April. The Secretary of the French ring in the shipment of the French ex- hibits, so far as the commission is aware, BANDITS General Kuropat- kin Arrives at the Front. ST. PETERSBURG, March 26.—“T shall feel relieved when General Kuro- patkin assumes command,” remarked the Czar yesterday at the winter pal- ace. To-night the Emperor received tele- grams announcing the general’s arrival at Harbin and bringing word that mob- ilization of the Manchurian army was completed. It is said that to-morrow General Kuropatkin will review the Mukden troops and will read to thém | a message expressing the imperial con- fidence that the soldiers will display valor and fortitude befitting the tradi- tions of the Russian army. General Kuropatkin will afterward proceed to Liaoyang. Thence he will make a fly- ing visit to Port Arthur to inspect the fortress. It is rumored here that the Russian forces will not withdraw to the strong line of defense prepared at Fenghuang if General Kuropatkin decides that he | can get together a sufficient number of men to make a stand at the Yalu River advisable. Important news is drifting to St. Pe- tersburg by mail. A letter.from Dalny draws a picture of its defenseless con- dition when the Japanese attacked Port Arthur. The correspondent says that the smallest Japanese force could easily have captured Dalny and de- stroyed enormous stores of coal, 500,000 pounds of tea and six Russian mer- chantmen lylng in the harbor. As the | Japanecse falled to attack Dalny, the Russians at once mined the approach, the haste with which the work was .performed being the cause of the blow- ing up of the Yenisel. Many of the mines were badly laid, so that the protected cruiser Boyarin struck one of them during a storm, The corre- spondent says the Boyarin was not sunk immediately. Her captain suc- ceeded In placing a collision mat in position so that the Boyarin was beach- ed. The Boyarin has since been taken to Port Arthur, where she has been re- paired, the correspondent says. A Port Arthur correspondent writes that repairs to the battleship Retvizan and the protected cruiser Pallada have now been completed, the battleship Cesarevitch being the only remaining lame ship in the squadron. The preservation of Admiral Maka- roff’s squadron intact is regarded as of vital importance, as it is now cer- tain that the Admiralty plans contem- plate sending powerful reinforcements from the Baltic during the summer. Six battleships and three cruisers will be ready to sail in July, joining the squadron of Admiral Wirenius in the Mediterranean, and, with the torpedo- boats, reach Fgrt Arthur in Sep- tember. The arrival 6f such a fleet would give the Russians an over- whelming preponderance in numbers. The Russian plans all look forward to the time when, with the co-operation of the fleet, the Japanese commpunica- tions can be cut off. Then General Kuropatkin, according to Russian cal- culations, will be in a position to take the offensive on land and settle the fate of the campaign and the war. A statement comes from Vladivostok to the effect that Captain Reitzen- stein’s squadron returned to port tow- ing a second-class Japanese cruiser. The inhabitants and the garrison, he added, gave a reception to the victors. 'The capture, however, is not ¢onfirmed in offictal circles. The departure of naval reinforce- ments from the Baltic will leave a fair- ly strong squadron of coast defense and other ships to protect Russia's European coast line. | FORTY-FOUR PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1904—PAGES 21 TO 32. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPANESE INFANTRY DELIVER- ING ITS PAMOUS BAYONET CHARGE AFTER INDEPENDENT FIRING. — i v Russians Active in Northern Korea. Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. _Copyright, 1904, by the New York Her- ald Publishing Company. SEOUL, March 26.—Russlan sol- diers have appeared in large numbers on the extreme northern frontler of Korea and are fortifying strategic points on the Tumen River. It is re- marked that fully 500 are there now. ‘The troops can easily be reinforced from Vladivostok, which is protected from all attacks from the south. ‘WASHINGTON, March 26. — The Russian Government has notified the United States Government that it has mined the mouth of the Liao River. This was supposed to be neutral terri- tory, but the action of Russia puts it in the fleld of hostilities. The Liao River emptles. into the Gulf of Liaotung. Near its mouth les Newchwang, which the Japanese are soon to attack by land and 'sea. The ice has just moved out, enabling the Russlans to make preparations for re- sistance to the Japanese ships. New- chwang is only a few miles from the Manchurian Railroad, with which it is connected by a branch.line. SYSTEM OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPH PLANNED FOR PORT ARTHUR NEWCHWA‘;G, March 26.—It is un- derstood that negotiations are about to begin, through Peking, for the pur- pose of arranging wireless telegraphic communicationr with Port Arthur from a small rocky island opposite Chefu which was acquired by France after the war of 1884-85, in which France, Great Britain and China were involved. ‘While the difficulties in the way of ob- taining information regarding the Jap- anese fleet and transports .by this means are apparent, vet the project is regarded as entirely new and as promising success, should France coun- tenance it. This effort to guard against isolation is a recognition of the impos- sibility of maintainng telegraphic com- munijcation in the No Mans Land from Newchwang to Shanhalkwan, which the knowledge of movements now depends. The establishment of a French: vice consulatg here for the protettien of French property and citizens and also of certain transferable Ri inter- ests has contributed to further the tranquillity of Newchwang insthe event of Japanese occupation or Russian re- secupation. ! ———— ¥ 1 5 2 March 26.—Discussing MOSCOW, s American sentiment In ‘connection with the war, the newspapers here claim that opinfon in ‘the United States has been influenced against Russia by the horrible impression of Russian life produced by the works of Tolstol and Gorky. RUSSIANS ANNIHILATE A BAND OF CHINESE ON THE FRONTIER OF MANCHURIA Brigand Allies of Japan Meet | - Reverse. ST. PETERSBURG, March 26.—A telegram from Viceroy Alexieff has been received by the Czar. It gives a report from General Mishtchencko, which includes the following from General Smyrnoff, dated Port Arthur: “Our company of irregulars has de- feated and almost annihilated a band of about fifty Chinese bandits near Vittsino. There were no losses on our side.” Concerning operations south of the Yalu General Mishtchencko says: “At 11 o'clock on the morning of March 23 I sent two sotnias to recon- noiter and ascertain the strength of the enemy’s forces. The troops crossed the river Chengcheng and one sotnia, when about a mile from Pakchieng, sighted a mounted post. of the enemy, consisting of thirty men, which, on the approach of our sotnia, was reinforced by, infantry. Our Cossacks requested the support of two half companies and opened fire against the post and pa- trol at 400 yards. One of the soldlers and a horse of the enemy were taken. On learning that the enemy's infantry was advancing, our patrol fired two volleys and retired. Scouts found Pakchieng to be occupied by the enemy. There were two companies and about three squadrons of cavalry of the enemy on the right of the Pak- chieng, with posts about a mile from the river. “There are 3000 Japanese in the town of Anju, and warships and transports are ¢onstantly arriving at Chemulpo. The troops are landed at Chemulpo and are marched’ to Pingyang, then pro- ceeding to Unsan and Kangive.” The Emperor has received the follow- ing telegram from Vice Admiral Maka- roff, under date of Port Arthur, March 26: haye the honor to report that I left port to-day with battleships, cruls- ers and torpedo-boats to make a re- connoissance of some adjacent islands.” The Officlal Messenger says that Grand Duke Cyril, cousin of the Czar and who arrived at Port Arthur recent- ly, was aboard the cruiser Askold, which headed the fleet when the Rus- slan shins left the harbor to meet the Japanese attack on March 22. 1t is expected that General Pulitzer will succeed General Sakharoff as chief of staff of the military district of Tur- kestan. Acording to information received by the Admiralty a Japanese squadron is now off Chefu. v JAPANESE HOPE TO TURN RUSSIAN FLANK ON THE YALU LIAOYANG, Manchuria, March 26— General Mishtchencko has been in- formed that the Japanese have sus- pended their advance on the Pingyang- Anju line. Three thousand Japanese troops are stationed at Anju and 1000 at Pakchieng, while forty Japanese warships and transports are anchored at Chenampho. According to Russian advices, the object of the Japanese is to turn the Russians’ flank, for which they are awaiting the concentration of their army. 2 A Cossack patrol encountered a Jap- anese post near Pakchieng on March 24 and exchanged shots. While retiring, the Cossacks met a Japanese patrol and opened fire, with the result that one Japanese officer, one man and a horse ‘were killed. The Russian force suffered no casualties. ot ‘War News Continued on Page 22. | LANILOR) LLED BY ROONERS Quarrel Over Broken Pitcher Ends in bt Proprietor of Spokane Lodg- ing-House Is Beaten t0 Death. blias a5t L Zn | Refosal to Admit Men to Apartment Until They Had Paid Sixty Cents Damages Causes Fatal Fight. Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANBE, Wash., March 26.—Killed because he insisted upon the payment of 60 cents for a pitche® broken by three of his rcomers was the tragic end of George Stevens, landlord of the Ma- rion block, to-night. The men said to /be implicated in the murder are Rollin English, a man named Harrison and another who gave his name at the| rooming-house at Smith. They are still at large. There are half a dozen different stor- ies told of the tragedy by the roomers in the house and by the children of the dead man, who witnessed the fight | which preceded the murder. The clear- | est story is that told by Earl White and Harry Stevens, a son of the vic- tim. _According to the story told by the boys, the three young men had been locked out of their room, which is off the main hall. Harrison had been drinking and a disturbance was raised at once, the roomers declaring they had paid their rent and would force an entrance to the room. Landlord Stevens went to the passageway lead- ing to the room and there met the young men. He told them they could not have the room until they had paid him 60 cents for a pitcher broken in their room after a night’s carouse. One of the men thereupon struck Stevens with his fist and a second man, sald to be Smith, showered a rain of blows on Stevens' face. “Pa was grabbing the man Harri- son,” said Harry Stevens, “and the other man jumped in to help Harri- son. English stood back and told them to go after pa. Then Harrison drew something that looked like a knife. It was black and stuck out of his hand. He hit pa three or four times and then pa grabbed him and they fell to the floor with pa on top. Then the other man pulled pa off the man and rolled him over. The man then put the weapon back in his pocket and beat pa with his fists, while the other man kicked him. One of the roomers tried to stop the fight. The men then ran down the stairs. “Pa got up, but fell down again and was dead when we spoke to him.” The Coroner and police believe Stevens was struck with a slungshot which Harrison drew from his pocket. An examination by Coroner Smith | shows that Stevens’ skull was crushed by a blow from behind. The police are searching for the murderers. — SEARLES BUYS CHURCH FOR HIS VAST ESTATE Millionaire ' Who Married Mark Hop- kins’ Widow Will Move Edifice From New York, BOSTON, March 26.—Edward F. Searles, the millionaire of San Fran~ cisco and Boston, has just bought the massive old Broadway Tabernacle in New York and will have the entire structure removed to his $2,000,000 estate at Great Barrington, Mass,, where it will be restored to its orig- inal condition. Searles paid $1,500,000 for the church and lot, reszlling the lot at a profit of $400,000. As a part of the contract the buyers agreed to remove the tabernacle to Great Barrington and place it on a site facing the main street. The mansion on his Gr at Barrington estate was built by Mrs. Searles, who was the widow of Mark Hopkins, the millionaire. Searles, who was an architect in her employ, laid out the property and afterward moved here. On it is a chapel built by Mrs. Searles, contain- ing the celebrated organ from Old Music Hall, Boston. Searles offered this property to the town of Great Barrington, which refused it. —_————————— BIG MASS-MEETING IS HELD IN LONDON Trades Unions Show Their Opposition to the Introduction of Chinese Labor in South Africa. LONDON, March 26.—A Liberal- Radical demonstration, in which 20,000 persons took part, against the intro- duction of Chinese labor in South Africa, was held in Hyde Park to-day. The procession, including trades unions, labor societies and religious bodles, with bands and banners bear- ing anti-Government inscriptions, par- aded the West End of London and as- sembled In the park, where the crowds were addressed from fourteen plat- forms by Messrs. Crooks, Burns, Bell and Shackleton, all members of Par- liament; Sir Henry Johnson, Dr. Clif- ford and others. The meeting p.mdl oft without any disturbance, S MILLIONS ARE 1(ST BY FLOOD Situation in Lower Michigan Less Hopeful. Point of Greatest Danger Is Thought to Be at Grand Rapids. Telegraph Lines Are Down as Result of Storm and the South Is Iso- lated From the North. i DETROIT, March 26.—The flood site | uation throughout Lower Michigan seems less hopeful to-night. The point of greatest danger seems to be at Grand Rapids and along the course of the Grand River. Estimates made at the various stations place the flood damages at several million dollars. The number of drownings reported was in- creased to three to-day by the death of Joseph Kirkbride, who while riding horseback was swept off a flooded bridge at Saranac. Eight bridges were destroyed at and | near Flint to-day. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 26.—A destructive storm to-day caused the death of three persons, injured several others and laid waste much property in Gainesville and vicinity. PORTLAND, Ind., March 26.—Two men were drowned here to-day and a boy was drowned at Huntington as the result of the flood. The loss here will reach $10¢ SPRINGFIE The worst flood in Springfield's his- tory threw a thousand men out of work, drove twenty-five families from their homes and completely stopped street car traffic. Policemen were called out early to get boats to rescue people hemmed in by the flood. Many residents are still unable to get out of their homes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 26.—Sel- dom if ever since the Civil War has the entire South been so completely isolated from the North as it is to-day. Destruction or paralysis of telegraph facilities by the storm was so wide- spread and unparalleled that not a wire was working south through Richmond, Nashville, Memphis or any of the great centers of electrical control on either side of the Alleghenies so far as beyond the Mississippi. The absence of intelli- gence from the South was keenly feit in commercial circles on account of the critical situation in the cotton trade, as a result of the semi-panicky condi- tions growing out of the sensational Government report yesterday on crop conditions, following so closely after the upheaval resulting from the sus- pension of Sully & Co. Anxiety was also felt as to the rumors of great loss of life and property damage as a direct result of a storm of such extraordinary nature. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March 26.— On the west side of Grand Rapids 2500 residences were surrounded by water to-day, and the citizens were compelled to use boats in getting from place to place. Grand River continued to rise throughout the night and has exceeded all high water records. The water is rushing through a large number of west side streets to a depth of from three to five feet. Grand River, which goes through the city on a bend, is tending to make for itself a straight channel. March 26.— KALAMAZOO, Mich, March The river is still rising and the sub- merged area to-day is much larger than yesterday. The police went about in boats taking people from the second stories of their hom BATTLE CREEK., Mich., March 26.— Both the Kalamazoo River and Battle Creek have begun falling, and it is be- lieved that the crest of the flood has been reached here. The cold is check- ing the floed. The total flood loss here is_estimated to-day at $300,000. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 26.— Several hundred houses in Indianapolis are flooded and 300 families have been driven from their homes. The property damage will be very heavy. WASHINGTON, Ind., March 26— ‘White River is ten miles wide in places and is rising rapidly. Thousands of acres of farm land are under water. p—— S — ‘Will Have Scientific Police. HANOVER, Germany, March 26.—An academy of police science is to be founded by the Government. Its pur- pose will be to fit persons for th¢ “pro- fession” of police commissioners and other peace officers. Students who fin- ish the prescribed course of study will receive degrees. There is even talk of giving post-graduates, under -certain conditions, a doctor’s degree. - ee———— Shoots and Kills His Father. QHEYENNE, Wyo., March 2 August Pache, a ranchman, living twenty miles from Wood Siding. Lar- amie County, Colo., has been shot and kiiled by his l4-year-old son. The father, it is said, threatened to kill his wife, who refused tos transfer property to him. ————————— Cadetship for Youns Zelaya. WASHINGTON, March 26.—On con= vening to-day the FHouse agreed to joint resolutions to appoint a board of managers for the National Seoldiers’ Home and permitting Alphonse Zelaya, son of ex-President Zelaya of Nica- ragua, to attend the Military Academy at West Point, Newspaper Man's Wife Asphyxiated. CHICAGO, March 26.—Mrs. Ros- well Field, wife of one of Chicago’'s best known newspaper men, was found dead in her room at their home. She had been accidentally asphyxiated. Mrs. Field’s husband is a brother of the late Eugene Field.