The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1904, Page 21

1 ) TForecast made cisco for thirty erly. A G THEE WEATEER. miduight, Aprll 17: San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy Sunday; light northerly winds, changing to fresh west- &t San Pran- hours ending McADIE, 21 TO POLICE OF PENSACOLA KILL ARTILLERYMAN AND WOUND BLUEJACKETS IN RIOT FOUR Fight on Street of a Southern City. Admiral Orders Marines to JScene. @ Tiot on a street here to-night between he war- OREGON CITIZENS BANDITS WOUND NEAR ASHLAND Capture Desperate Men, Called Upon to Surrender Pire Who, When Opened Upon Posse. UNITARIAN CLUB HOLDS QUARTERLY BANQUET Prominent Citiz Address the Mem- bers at Pu n in the City of San Josc. SAN JOS 1 were | dinner orchestra a was F. Leib was toa by Professor Bernard Moses Philippine Commissio He told of the work in the Philippines, and said in his opinion, no other country could have accompliched what the United States had there. Other speakers were Thomas P. Woodward of San Fran- ciaco and Colonel A. C. Girard of the Presidio. Monsieur E. Lanel, the new French Consul at San Francisco, was introduced to the gathe ———— FEDERAL BANK OFFICIAL IS ORDERED ARRESTED Inspector Finds Affairs of New York of the Institution in a Chaotic Condition. NEW YORK, April 16.—Assistant District Attorney Kressel, after mak- ing an investigation of the books and records of the Federal Bank, an- nounced that he had found things in @ very chaotic condition, and as g re- rult of his investigation he has com- municated with Inspector McClusky, who has issued instructions to the de- tectives to arrest a former official of the bank. —_——— MINE OFFICIALS WILL BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER PITTSBURG, April 16.—The Cor- oner’s jury in the investigation in the Harwick mine disaster, in which 178 men lost their lives on January 25 Jast, returned a verdict to-day State Mine Inspector F. M. Cunning- ham and Superintendent of Mines Mil- plosion. Warrants: have been issued for their arrest, charging murder. holding | [ | | | st ity ] | | | | HOT BY POLICE. ACOLA, WHO ORDERED { WHICH SOLDIER C MARINE GUARDS TO AND MBE OF WARSHIP | AGES THREATEX ILTHREAR Troops in Sonora Ar- rest Conspiring Yaquis. HERMOSILLO, Mexico, April 16.—A outbreak of Yaqui Indians serious 1 } working along the Sonora Railroad is | threatened trating government troops along. the route and wherever the Indians can, be | taken they are being hurried to Guay- mas and deported. A special train passed through Her- mosillo to-day carrying troops who_are picking up the Indians. At Ortiz, General Sanchez and & force surprised a party of Yaqui laborers, and after a short but sharp fight, the Indlans were compelled to surrender, and with them the Mexican troops captured seventy-five Mausers and a large sup- | ply of ammunition. It has been discovered that the Yaquis went to work along the rail- road to secure money to be used in the purchase of munitions of war and that a rebellion on a large scale had been planned. At the Sarpullido ranch between Ortiz and Lamisa a detach- | | ment of the Twelfth Battalion engaged |and defeated fifty Indlans, capturing ninety Remington rifies. was planned for May, when the In- dians were to gather and swoop down over the ranches. The discovery of the plot and wholesale deportation of;lhe.men, The confession clears up the | 209,180; Great Britain, 187,000; Rus- the Indians to Yucatan. has enraged | dlamond the Yaquis and caused a premature | outbreak. | General Torres personally command- | ed the Mexicans in a fight at Carrizal, | between Monas Prietas and Ortiz. The | Indians were easily dereatéd and cap- tured. On Friday a Mexican warship left | Guaymas bound for Yucatan with 150 | Yaquis recently ordered deported and | others will follow. Torres is confident | of being able to suppress the upris-|a new trial before it. The other men Captain Russe, from Hamburg for fred Souden responsible for the ex- ’lnl before it becomes general, while | who are in the condemned cell deny | New York, is aground at Schula. | yet been interfered with. The outbreak | General Torres is concen- | { | | | - | { 5 7 CONEESION CONDEMAS FOUR MEN Linderman,Convicted Murderer, Tells 0f Crime. —— CARSON CITY, Nev., April 16.—This afternoon a confession was made at the State prison by Albert Linderman, who is under sentence of death, that will result in the hanging of four men. Some months Ago a man by the name of Patrick Welch was thrown from a freight train near Winnemucca by. four men. As he was pushed from the mov- ing train, after being robbed, four shots were fired into his body. On his death bed he recognized the men who had beep arrested for the crime. A trial followed and all four were con- victed. The men are Albert Linder- man of Stockton, Cal.; Gorman, Rob- erts and Sevner. The four were sen- tenced to be hanged in December, but upon an application for a new trial the day of execution was to be post- ponéd. The men up to this day have maintained their innocence. Linderman's confession implicates the four. It laws the biame for the crime in itself upon Gorman and Sev- ner and . states that Roberts did not do any of the shooting, but was of the party. The confession reveals a system of wholesale robbery on the ‘llnes of the Southern Pacific, as it tells of half a dozen crimes committed by robbery case at Lovelocks and tells of the disposal of the jewels. Linderman also states that Gorman has a record of a dozen men and that he was regarded as the leader of the gang that* was robbing trainmen and other people along the main line. The confession is made to take all blame possible from Roberts, who is but a boy and not considered very bright. The effect of the confession will have no action upon the Supreme Court, whith now has the question of traffic on the Sonora Railroad has not |all knowledge of the confession and |sistance has been sent to the stranded have not offered any explanation, | in the darkness he was beaten into in- | OB ENDS NANS LIFE - FOR CRIME Mysterious Tragedy at Night in D@S}fl_flifi Assailant of & Child Is Beaten to Death by Citizens. Body of the Victim Reported to Have Bsen Thrown Into the Waters of the Sacramento. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, April 16.—A mob of a hundred indignant and determined res- idents of Dunsn r took B. H. Har- rington, a painter and upnolsterer, from the overiand train in the Dunsmuir yards at 8 o'clock last night, beat him to death and then threw his body into the Sacramento River. Harrington's crime, for which he was killed by the mob, was committed upon the eigh old daughter of W. Hodkinson, a resident of Dunsmu Harrington had been living in Duns- muir for a long time. Fully a hundred residents of Duns- muir got together, secured Harring- ton and dealt severely with him. They then dccided to put him aboard the overland train and send him south. He was placed on the train, but, on sec- ond thought, the mob decided to finish the matter differently. Harrington was taken from the train and dragged a short distance from the depot, where be was beaten and kicked almost to death by the infuriated pedple. He begged for mercy, but no mercy was shown. The spot where the final béating was administered ag a-small footbridge across the amento Riwer; about 200 yards below 'the Southern, Pacific roundhouse at Dunsmuir. Here' the mob hastened with Harrington before the officers of the law could- interfere. The victim cried and begged that: his life be spared, pleading innocence of the crime with which he was charged. No heed was pajd to his appeals, and sensibility. Then the mob quietly dis- persed. FIRE IN A HOTEL IMPERILS THE LIVES OF THE OCCUPANTS INDIANAPOLIS, April 17. —The Occidental Hotel is burning. The fire seems to be heyond control and hun- dreds of people are imperiled. NORDICA'S COU CHARGE IS Avers That Prima Donna’s Former Husband Will Not Secure a Setting Aside of Deccree. NEW YORK, April 16.—Madame Lillian Nordica’s answer to her hus- band’s petition to set aside her di- vorce decree will be heard next Thurs- day before Judge MacLean of the Su- preme Court. Closely following the aMidavits of her husband that the de- cree i{n the first instance was obtained by collusion into which he was forced by worry, iliness and lack of money, came repogts that as soon as the pri- ma donna is freed from her second matrimonial venture she will essay a third with a man of wealth. Wadame Nordica was said to be away from her home at 121 Madison avenue to-day. Neither the members of her family nor her representative in this city would discuss the case. Her present address was carefully withheld, although she was said to be away on a concert tour. “I have never before heard of this phase of the case,” said John Russell Soley, Madame Nordica's counsel, “and T will add that the charges of collusion in this case are nonsensical and absolutely without truth. We have no fear of any other conclusion when the case comes up for hearing.” ——————— UNITED STATES LEADS IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION LONDON, April 16.—In to-day's Parliamentary papers the Secretary of the Admiralty says that the total ton- nage of battleships now building and projected is as follows: United' States, sia, 125,700; Germany, 103,907. ———————— Obaldia Panama’s Minister. PANAMA, April 16.—The following appointments are announced: Former Governor Obaldia to be Minister of Panama at Washington; Senator Pab- Jo Arosemand, to be Panama’'s Minis- ter to Burope, residing in Paris, —_—————— Liner Aground at Schula. HAMBURG, April 16.—The Ham- burg-American line steamer Bulgaria, As- ! i ! vessel. - Fnict 34 PRICE FIVE CENT JAPANESE ADMIRAL TELLS OF DESPERATE SEA BATTLE OFF PORT ARTHUR HARBOR -+ RUSTED MEX ROB ENPLOYERS Clever Gang Is Ex- posed by Capture ol Ger. RENO, April 16.—This city is much excited over the wholesale robbery of the large department store of the Gray, Reid & Wright Company. The thieves were trusted employes of the firm, -and up to the time of their detec- tion they bore excelient . reputations. The robberies were committed in near- 1y all the various departments and dur- ing a period of nearly four months. The proprietors have known of the disappearance of goods for some time, but believed it the work of shoplifters. Yesterday Walter Woods, fn charge of Barton Fisher's candy department’in the store, was caught in“the act of ‘se- creting some of the stolen goods, and the general investigation made resulted in the arrest of Woods, E. C. Dalzell, E. W. Smith, J.-P. Rains; Clarence Woods and Harvey Blackwell. Other arrests will probably follow, some of those implicated being in other towns at present. W. Woods is the ringleader. ~Smith disposed of the stolen goods in this and other cities. Dalzell and Blackwell placed goods where they could be con- veniently stolen by the others. Their plan was to‘have the janitor pass through the store carrying a large ice cream freezer. The goods were thrown in this and taken to the cellar.~ From there they were carried to the homes of the accused. Nearly $500 worth of goods already been recoveéred. . —_—————————— NELLIE: GRANT SARTORIS LOSES PACKAGE OF JEWELS Detectives Search Tor Valuable Bundle, " Supposed. to Have Been Dropped ‘While Paying Visits. NEW YORK, April 16.—Mrs. Nellfe Grant Sartoris, daughter of the late General U. S. Grant, to-day lost a package containing jewelry valued at several thousand- dollars. Detectives, working with Detective Willlams of the Holland House, were searching high and low for the package to-night. The pawnshops in the vicinity of Twenty-third street were visited, but without result. sy ! > Mrs. Sartoris can form no. idea of where, during an afternoon’s trip with friends, the jewelry could have been lost. She was very much perturbed to-night and was unable to.give -the. detectives much assistance. 1 a full statéement to Detective Wil- liams of the Holland House, where she has been stopping with her daughter and maid since last Wednesday, when they arrived from Washington. —————— RAILWAY PROMOTOR IS FOUND DEAD 1IN ’T HOTEL Indications Arc That Wealthy Citizen of Missouri Committed ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 16.—Charles Lippman, proprietor of an electric line between this city and Marysville, was found dead in a hotel here to-day. A bottle of morphine was found’in the room and it is believed he committed suicide. With his brother, . Adolph Lippman, the man now dead was en- gaged in many financial enterprises. He was very wealthy. % St She made |- gELL ST LS NI A T W EXCLUSION CHAMPIONS ARE ACTIVE Legislation Proposed to Offset China’s Special Dispatch to The Call, WASHINGTON, April 16.—Legisla- tion” intended not only to offset the move by China in depouncing the | | treaty between that country and mei United States, but aiso to strengthen every weak place in the Chinese ex-| clusion-act, was drafted by Attorney General Knox and introduced in the House to-day by Chairman Hitt of the | Foreign Affairs Committee. The bill disposes of . treaty -disabil- ity by eliminating from the Chi- nese exclusion law the words “if not | inconsistent with existing treaty ob- ligations.” ~ Admission of Chinese per- sons in this country is limited to those born in the United States, those who are specifically granted such right by law, and no others. This bill is satisfactory to those in Congress known as exclusionists, with whom :the President and his advisers have at variance for some time on the question of exclusion. The meas- ‘ure is expected to pass_botlt branches of Congress before adjournment, and is considered by both sides as a satis- factory- solution of what promised to be a perplexing problem. Attorney General Knox has handed to the President-his opinion regarding the validity of the Chinese exclusion law. ' He holds that the denunciation of the treaty by China does not op- erate to-nullify the existing law, and ‘that exclusion can be enforced as rig- "1dly hereafter as under the treaty. MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE VERDICT IN SHOCKLEY CASE Utah Jury Refuses to Recommend Merey for Man Who Killed Mo- torman and Conductor. SALT LAKE, Utah, April 16.— James M. Shockley was to-day found guilty of murder in the first degree with’' no recommendation of mercy. Sentence will be passed on April 25. On January 6 last Shockley held up a street car and in a struggle with Motorman Gleason and Conductor Brighton he shot and killed both of them. Shockley was arrested a few days later and confessed his guilt. His home ‘is in Missouri. ——— Socialists Will Go to Chicago. OMAHA, Néb., April 16.—The count of the referendum vote on the question of removing ‘the national headquarters of ‘the Socialist party from Omaha to Chicago was co to-day, result- !ing In a vote of five to one in favor of ‘ Chicago. g - HOW THE JAPANESE NEWSPA- PERS ILLUSTRATED PORT AR- THUR BOMBARDMENT. — Russian Dessel’s Destruction Observed. TOKIO, April 16 (9:30 p. m.). —The long-awaited report or Vice,K Admiral Togo describing the seventh Japanese attack on Port Arthur reached the Navy Department to-night. The report is as follows: “The attack opened on April 1. Two destroyer divisions of our torpedo flotilla and one steamer reached the mouth of the harbor at midnight on April‘1Z. Despite the enemy’s search- lights, they succeeded in sinking mines quickly in several places. -Another destroyer flotilla, with the special mis- sion of drawing out the-enemy, while reconnoitering on April 13 southeast of the Liaothieshan promontory, out- side the harbor, encountered a four- masted destroyer of the enemy, which they attacked and sunk within ten minutes.” . ~ “‘About the same time they observed another destroyer coming from the di- rection of ‘Liaothieshan. They attack- edit, ‘but owing to thefr long range did mot succeed in sigking it. It fled and took refuge in the harbor. Our casualties were only two sailors slight- ly wounded. We had no time to pick up the enemy’s drowning, owing to the approach of the enemy's cruiser Bayan. ATTACK BY A CRUISER. “The third squadron, reaching the outside harbor at 8 o’clock in the.morn- ing, protected the' second destroyer flotilla and reconnoitered at the same time. At 9 a. m. the cruiser Bayan attacked us at- long range, but was soon repulsed. The enemy’s cruisers Novik, Diana and Askold, together with the battleships Petropavlovsk, Pobieda, Poltava and other vessels, joined the Bayan and attacked us. The third squadron gave battle, and gradually drew the enemy to the southeast for about fifteen miles. “At this time the first squadron, which was hidden in a fog thirty miles distant, received a wireless message, quickly advanced and attacked the enemy, which*retreated. We chased them to the harjor entrance, where a ship of the Petropaviovsk type was seen to blow up by a mine, sunk by us the night before at 10:30 o’clock. “Two other of the enemy’s ships seeing this showed utter confusion. Another ship was seen also blown up by mines, but she could not be identi- fied, owing to the confusion which prevailed for about an hour. - “The remaining ~enemy’s ships, shooting water from both sides, grad- Continued on Page 22, Column 3