The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1904, Page 1

= San Francisco Fair ‘winds, changing erly. TEE WEATHEER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending at midnight April 21, 1904: Thursday; A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. and vicinity— light north to fresh west- VOLUME XCV—NO. 1 | e SA FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904. $ PRICE FIVE CENTS. BLIZZARDS RAGIG I THE EAS Heavy Snowfall in States Beyond the Rockies. April Zephyrs Cause Great Damage to Orchards and Gardens. —_— Six Inches of Snow Checks Progress of Work on the Exposition Grounds at St. Louis. — Epecial Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, April 20.—Heavy storms prevailed in several States in the Mid- dle Wes > Reports tell of much damage tc t and early spring prod- traffic legraph and t n interrupted conditions pre- vailed six s of snow was measure The horse racing and the baseball game scheduled fo fter- roon were i off. At th 1d's was said the only sioned by the the work of ppepar g on April The wever, may be overcome by e force of workmen ed from Kansas City that storm would g of he ope 30, & was accompanied by a de- f n temperature in North- Missour Throughout Kansas e w heavy rain, an inch of - f € Vispatches received in Louisville re- « 2 heavy snowfall and injury to ps in Western Kentucky. At Bowl- ce Madisonville and Hender- re reached the freez- an inch and a half of rain Eastern Nebraska in the ghtee temparture zing point rop snogvfall Southern In- a v R s WILLIAMS CHARGES KNOX WITH NEGLECT OF DUTY Says Attorney General Has Failed in His Duty in Connection With the Merg = ON 20 a v P of the House Judiciary « eral had falled in his duty t those the ¥ the Supreme n to have and also »d the had failed to i 1 proceed- against the anthracite coal car- although the Attorney General in his possessions a report favor- able to prosecutions of these railroads. Through the failure of all but three of the Republican members to attend the meeting of the House Committee on Judiciary to-day favorable reports were au zed on two resolutions troduce by Williams, calling for in formation from the Attorney General ——— CHRISTIANS GATHER NEAR THE GATES OF JERUSALEM Fourth World’s Sunday School Con- wention Is Held in the Holy Land. JERUSALEM, Monday, April 18 (De- layed in {ransmission).—The world's fourth Sunday school convention opened day gate Archdeacon Sinclair delivered he opening sermon, taking for his text Matthew xxi, 15. The attendance in- uded 800 Americans and 500 British. other delegates from all quar- Many ers of the globe were present. E. K. Warren has been elected presi- dent of the convention. Numerous Turkish cfficials and Greek, Armenjan, Roman Catholic, Jewish and r priesis are honored guests of the delegates ———— FOUR HIGHWAYM ROB RUSSIAN TRAIN Raid the Mail Car and Escape With Regisicred Letters and Valuables Worth $50,000. TIFLIS, Avril 20.—A train on the trans-Caucasian Railway wgs held up between Novo-Sanakai .,UZ Abashy by four men, who entered the mail car, after binding the officials, escaping with registered letters and valuables worth $50,000. escaped T~ a huge tent outside Herod's | A jected both contests, GOLD FAILS 10 REVIVE LIS LOVE ‘Warrant of Arrest Ahsent Hushand’s Greeting. —— |Seattle Man Returns to Find Wife Married to Another. Presents for Children S;urued and; | Dejected Spouse Is Charged With | [ Burglary. e Epecial Dispatch to The Call. | SEATTLE, Wash,, April 20.— | Thomas Thornton went to Alaska a poor leaving a loving wife and To-day in a Justice Court to| | answer a charge of burglary, preferred | by his wife, who had obtained a di- | vorce during his absence and married { Joseph Allenby Mrs. Thornton (or Allenby) app and the | case was di Thornton did not his wife regularly the gold fields, and she, after trying to get trace of him, concluded he was dead and got a divoree. Later she fed Allenby. When Thornton returned to Seattle recently he had a big bank account and calculated on giving his wife and children a pleasant surprise. He suc- ceeded in astonishing her, but she | told him coldly that he had better go aws He did so, but returned with v tovs for his children. The next | day he went again to the house and | had another talk with his ex-wife. It appears that he wanted to inquire into the regularity of the marriage. What passed between them is not | | known, but later Thornton was ar- rested on a charge of burglary, made | by his former wife. Thornton did not | go near the house after getting out on | bail, but appeared in court to-day, and as Mrs. Allenby dld not Show up the case was dismissed. | —_———— | NON-RESIDENTS CANNOT man, two small children in Seattle. | he appeared mmunicate with he went to ma =4 HOLD OFFICE IN CHICAGO | | | Judge Hanecy Decides Windy City Is | | Large Enough to Provide Its Own Officials. | CHICAGO, April 20.—In a sweeping opinion as to the eligibility of non- | residents to become public officials in | this city, Judge Elbridge Hanecy, in | the Superior Court, to-day decided | against the certification of Charles B. Hall of New York. who was appointed f sanitary inspector of this city by Chicago Civil Service Commission. erry L. Hedrick of Chicago € ered to be certified to the office. the opinion Judge Hanecy de- | red it to be “against the fundamen- laws and the common sense and common policy of the people of Chi- | cago, with its population of over 2,000, 000, abundantly able to supply com- petent help for any office, to say that | me department or any department uld be permitted to go to New York any other place to get employes to | form services to be paid for by the | | ———————— FALL OF NINE STORIES DOES NOT KILL CRITIC | —- | itor of New York Paper | Injured in the Mor- | ton Building. | NEW YORK, April 20.—H. R. | Dramatic Ex Seriously | Hertzberg, dramatic editor of the| Evening Journal, was probably fatally | | iInjured to-day by falling nine stories | y of the Morton building. | into anareaw | Hertzberg had been playing billiards | at the Press Club and shortly after he | had started for home his almost life- | less body was found in the basement. It is suppose ;:ln stairs that while coming down he leaned over the balus- ade and lost his balance. | Hertzberg is 35 years old and un- | | married. He came to New York re- | cently from New Orlear | [MARK HANNA'S MEMORY } IS HONORED IN OHIO | For Third Time Legislature Ceases | | Labors Out of Respect to Late. | | Senator. COLUMBUS, Ohie, April 20.—For the third time since the present ses- | sion began the Legislature paused in | its work to pay honor to the late | Marcus A. Hanna. The second week | 1in January it elected him to a second | term in the Senate. A month later it | adjourned out of respect to his death | and to attend his funeral and to-day | the two branches met in joint sesston to hold formal memorial exercises and to pay honor to his memory. —_—— Boulder Creek Has a New Mayor. SANTA CRUZ, April 20.—The Board of Trustees of the town of Boulder | Creek organized by selecting W. H. Dool as Mayor of the town. Two de- feated candidates filed a protest and notice of contest—O. L. McAbee against Trustee-elect Dan Hartman and R. L. Seidlinger against Marshal- elect A. C. Clairmount. The Coun- cil, after listening to legal advice, re- d | anese expedition. BRON MEY [ALPINE AVA LAND WEST OF THE YALV Army Debarking in Rear of Russian Position. Invasion Mchuria Is = Begun at a Point Near Takushan. Czar's Frontier Army l;owerloss to Prevent Moyement Which Places It Between Two Large Forces. ST. PETERSBURG, April 20.—What may turn out to be the expected flank- ing movement of the Japanese troops is the appearance of a nuniber of Jap- enses ships off Potansa, near the Gulf of Chingtaitse, as reported to the Em- peror to-day by General Kuropatkin. Military experts here have long regard- ed that vicinity as the probable péint of disembarkation of the second Jap- It is not far away from Takushan (twelve miles to the east) and connects by road with Port Arthur (150 miles to the southwest) and Fengwangcheng (fifty miles to the northwest) where the Russlans will make their first obstinate resistance. Though the Japanese are building in- trenchments on the Yalu, it is believed that they will advance soon. The ar- rangements for a turning movement are complete and experts say that such a move could properly begin at Taku- shan, as Fengwangcheng lies at the angle of an equilateral triangle, with Takushan and the mouth of the Yalu as angles at the base of the triangle. The Japanese embarkation undoubt- edly will be covered by warships, and the Russians re ze that it will be impessible to prevent it. ““We will strike after they have land- ed,” grimly said a member of the gen- eral staff. General Kuropatkin is aware of the strategic importance of the vicinity of Takushan and it is understood that he has madc arrangements accordingly. General Kuropatkin’s report to the Emperor is as follows: “General Kashtalinsky reports as fol- lows on April 19: All is quiet on the Yalu. The Jap- | anese are throwing up intrenchments opposite Golutsky and farther to the north. The numbers of Japanese troops are increasing. They are con- centrating at Wiju and spreading toward the north along the Yalu. *‘Cossack sentinels have observed the lights of Japanese transports near Chingtaitee, opposite the village of Po- tansa, twenty-five versts west of Ta- tungkau. The vessels were anchored | at a distance of fifty versts from the | shore. ** ‘According to dispatches from Gen- eral Mistchenko, Japanese ships were also seen near Souchou.’” Sl s ITO GIVES TO PERRY FUND. Marquis Expresses His Country’'s Friendship for America. TOKIO, April 20.—Marquis Ito to- day contributed $750 to the Perry me- morial relief fund. In a letter accom- ng the contribution the Marquis “Permit me. to express my warmest sympathy in this work, which will not only perpetuate the name of your great commodore, who already is i revered and loved here, but which will also carry home to every one of us, even the poorest.of our families, the traditional friendly feeling of Amer- icans toward our countrymen. 7 “This enterprise, to a certain ex- tent, is interpreted as an endeavor on the part of those who first introduced us to Western ideals to lead us fur- ther toward a universal community and humanitarian principles. Before these national frontiers should vanish, as they will vanish. “I sincerely hope that this work will be crowned with unprecedented suc- cess.” The Perry memorial relief fund was organized in Tokio on March 31, on | the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Perry treaty by Japan and the United States. The purpose of the fund is te bring aid to | destitute families of Japanese soldiers and sailors, A number of prominent Japanese and Americans subscribed to the fund as soon as the movement was organized. B i e A POWERFUL RUSSIAN ARMY, One Hundred Thousand Troops in Northeastern Korea. TOKIO, April 20.—Russian troops to | the number of 100,000 are reported to be in occupation of Yonggan, in North- eastern Korea. A detachment of forty Cossacks has appeared ‘for a second time at Songjin, about 150 miles north of Gensan, where they burned the Japanese settlement and took possession of the post and tel- egraph offices. As there were no Japa- nese troops present the Korean officials of Songjin were friendly to the Rus- sians. Another detachment of seventy- five Russian soldiers has advanced as Continued on Page 2, Column 4, OF IHE SENERRL V/EW OF FRE SWISS SIDE LANCHES BURY MINERS AND PARTIALLY DESTROY A TOWN SrrIPLON BLACK MEN ARE BARRED Federal Recruiting Ofticer Draws Color Line. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW ORLEANS, April 20.—Several negroes who applied for admission into thé United States navy, through . the recruiting office recently established in this city, were not wanted in any capacity. Lieutenant Boyd, the recruiting offi- cer, explained that he had been in- structed by the. department to enlist only the most desirable men and he did not consider, negroes of -the. most desirable class. He intimated .that the exclusion of the negroes was on his own responsibility, .but there . is- geod reason to believe recruiting .officers have received a quiet “tip” that. the department’ is not desirous of enlist- ing any more negroes. Lieutenant Boyd said there was not more than 500 negroes among. the 30,- 000 men in the navy and the number was gradually decreasing. —_—— SPANISH WAR SOCIETIES ARE NOW' CONSOLIDATED Veterans of Late Action Unite and Major Megrew Is Commander in Chief. INDIANAPOLIS, 'April 20.—Articles providing for the consolidation of the three Spanish war societies under the: name of the United Spanish War Vet- erans have been signed. The new so- ciety embodies six hundred camps, lo- cated in every State, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, with a mem- bership of 160,000. The cogmmander in chief is' Major Harold C. Megrew. Among the members of the Council of Administration are Senator Charles Dick, Ohio; Governor Winfield T. Dur- bin, Indiana; Thomas F. O'Neil, ‘San Francisco, and Colonel ~ MeClintock, Arizona. . % —_—— LOSS OF LOVER DRIVES YOUNG GIRL TO SUICIDE Edith Bricont, Daughter of New York Manufacturer, Sends Bullet Through Her Heart. BERLIN, April 20.—Miss Edith Bri- cont of New York, K aged 23 years, daughter of a manufacturer, has com- mitted suicide with a revolver. Ac- cording to the Lokal Anzeiger, Miss Bricont became engaged tov a German engineer who went to New York for the purpose of studying engineering conditions: in the United States. The engineer, whose name is not given, re- turned to Berlin.recently and was im- mediately taken sick. The young wo- man, who came here with her parents, arrived after the engineer’s death, and the day after.the burial the parents | went to Wiesbaden. She remained in the house of her' flance’s brother, promising to meet her parents in Ham- burg. Before the time set for her de-| parture she visited the grave of her dead lover. She returned home over- come with grief and ended her life. The bullet pierced her heart, 1. anee to Wie- HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. VIEW OF THE GREAT MOUNTAIN,OF THE ALPS FROM WHICH THE AVALANCHES LOCATION OF THE VILLAGE OF GRENGIOLS THAT WAS PARTIALLY OVERWHELMED BY THE SNOWSLIDES, WITH One Hundred Men Entombed Near Preglato. Sliding Earth De- molishes Homes in Grengiols. TURIN, Italy, April- 20. = About 100 miners have been buried by an immense avalanche near the village of Preglato. A violent storm is sweeping over that locality, and- it.is feared that other avalanches may resuit. The whole population of the village and a detachment of forty soldiers have gone to the scene of the dis- e T e e e > § a - ROLLED AND MAP SHOWING THE . MURDERER | 10 PROFIT Court Awards Insur- Slayer, | Special Dispatch to The Call, SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 20.—That a man murders his wife does not pre- vent his being a benefieiary under an insurance policy carried 'by her, ac- cording to 'a decision handed down in| the Supreme Court .in the case of the| Supreme Lodge of Knights and La.dla\ of Honor against Olivia- Menkhauser. In March, 1893, Elizabeth Menkhauser was insured in the lodge for. $1000, naming her husband - as; beneficiary. | ‘Within six months Gustav.Menkhauser, her husband, who resided in St. Clair County,’ murdered her. .The jury im- posed the death penalty. but executive | clemency was extended -and Menk- | hauser's sentence was commuted-to life imprisonment. \ - While in the penitentiary Menkhauser brought suit on the insurance. policy, payment on which was refused. The court says the only question at issue was whether the fact that Menkhauser | murdered - ig wife was a bar to his | suit, but on trial a verdict was re-! turned for Menkhauser. The court con-| cludes by saying: L . “The contract between the society and the insured contained no provision ab- solving the society from liability in the event that she was murdered by the| beneficiary, and public policy does not require us to read such a condition into the agreement.” Famous Warrior to Visit the Fair. WASHINGTON, Ap&’ 20.—Major General Peter Joseph Ostenhaus, one of the famous cavalrymen of the Civil War, will arrive in this city from his present home in Mannheim, Ger- many, April 25. He will"visit Presi- dent Roosevelt and the World's Fair. HARRISON'S HEIRS AR N CO0AT Former President’s |- Children Oppose . Widow. —_— Special ' Dispatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS, April 20.—Bitter- ness between the widow of former President Benjamin Harrison and his two children, Russell Harrison of this city and Mrs. McKee of New York, was made manifest here again to-day. Probate Commissioner Walker was bearirg tke report of the Union Trust Company, General Harrison's exec- utor. . Russell Harrison objected in open court to the allowance of $159 ‘hade to hig steomother for repapering the. Harrison homestead. 'THe paper cost $2 30 a roll, and Harrison declared the expenditure was extravagant. He also_objected to $21 for a water color decoration in the house. His sister, Mrs. McKee, was represented by an| attorney. ! The Commigsioner decided that wall paper at $2 50 a roll was extravagant for mary homes, but.not for Mrs. Har- rison’s. . Her -expenditure for the water color decoration also was ap- proved. Russell Harrison represented = his children, who aré beneficiaries under their grandfather’'s will. tion that $125,000 of securities left. to the widow has now increased to $132, and should be divided was taken under advisement. ———— Sentenced for Horse Stealing. " STOCKTON, April 20.—Harry Wil- liams. who confessed to. the theft of four horses and pleaded guilty to two charges of larceny brought against him, was this afternoon sentenced by Judge Nutter to eight years in San Quentin on the. first charge and nine on the second, which begins at the ex- piration of the first sentence. The conten- | — | aster. hoping to save some of the | buried miners. GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20.—After three days of contin- uous rains many avalanches and landslides have occurred in the neighborhood of the Simplon Pass. At Gringiols an avalanche buried twenty persons and five houses. FIND OIL DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA Experts Say Discovery Near Mexican Line May Be Most Important in West. DOUGLAS, A. T., April 20.—Impor- tant oil discoveries have been made on the International line near here. Hun- dreds of people have visited the new field. Experts who have been on the ground say the strike bids fair to be one of the important ones of the West. Already arrangements have been made to erect derricks ‘on the flelds, and work will be pushed extensively until the country is thoroughly prospected. e el . Manila Canspirators Sentenced. | - MANILA, April 20.—Vicente Luc- | ban, who was an active leader of the | insurgents on the island of Samar in 1900, and Cyetano Lucban, his brother, who was formerly secretary of the Filipino revolutionary junta at Hong- kong. have been sentenced each to five vears’ imprisonment for conspiracy to overthrow the Government. —————— Citizens’ Bank Closes Doors. | ENID, Okla., April 20.—The Citi- zens' Bank, one of the largest here, closed its doors to-day. Williagn Ken- nedy, the president, said that he be- lieved every cent of liabilities would be paid in full. The failure was caused by slow collections. No statement was issued. g SR . £ Emil Paur Goes to Pittsburg. DRESDEN, April 20.—Emil Paur, the musical conductor, signed a con- tract yesterday to direct the Pitts- burg Orchestra for the next three sea- sons in consideration of $10,000 per season of twenty-five weeks, beginning in October. ————————— Ordered to Santo Domingo. SAN JUAN, April 20.—The United States auxiliary steamship Gloucester, station ship here, safled for Santo Do- mingo “last night, under orders 4he Navy Department. *