The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1904, Page 1

Exposition. Tivoll—"“A RBunaway Girl.” Alham! Celifornia—*Our. Minister.” Central — G.‘tl.""u aum— eville. bia—'Rogers Brothers in London.” SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPANESE WARSHIPS CUT OFF PART OF ULADIUOSTOK FLEET. KUROPATKIN FEARS DISASTER AND ORDERS GENERAL RETREAT -3 ELEVATED TRAINS COLLISION Sharp Crash of Cars Over New York Street. Pani( Pr;r énd Pas- sengers Leap Through Broken Windows. > Women Fush Frantically About a Platform Where the Mass of Wreckage Is Blazing. May 9. — A rear end i - two trains on the . evated R: be- and seriously Fire apparatus e firemen took ladders. The one of the busiest n, and traffic on lines was blocked. the southbound - st of the rear train ay through the rear car f ain n the exposed the wreckage. | to the . Passengers i through the shattered windows, the dangers of the third rail, fire and police arrived ment prevailed. did the rear train hat the cars were ks and then set- rash. Tottering on edg f the elevated structure two hung ou r the gide at an angle degree € soon propped up was the force of cars could not t the and’ it was necessary ved the passen- women, y on the ele- struggling to veral in- windows. )rs of both of the first were were n been held up by sixth street and was when the accident ain was running ————— HIS BROTHER DURING FAMILY ROW KILLS Tw Anstrians Have in Montana Town Saloon. Fatal En- Mining counter st night ich. an d his brother During a at Meader- Austrian, fat- Joe Connich, into an tter's were ng face un- The two men, who over family differ- saloon and dur- ange of blows Joe Connich down, whereupon his his face, crushing ce with the hobnails of shoes, commonly worn by nnich’s death occurred to- wr ng ences, squ ng an exck was knoc brother j doff ina 4 on his counter rs. Co night ——— COLONISTS SUFFERING FOR FOOD IN ALABAMA Appeal Is Made to TItalian Consul in New Orleans for - Relief. MOBILE, Als, May 9.—A jocal per has received 2 telegram from a member of the new Italian colony at 2lermo, forty miles north of Mobile, ® that the colonists are in a want; ildren need food, and that con. t the colony are pitiable. Ap @ for ald 224 the writer an Consul at New Or- has been advised of the situa- The colony is made up of Ita)- ne recently brought from their na- 185 m State Will Collect a Big Tax. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May Judge J. A. Eilston, appraiser for E tton estate, to-day filed his re- rt on the appraisement of the prop- of the dead multi-millionaire min- Judge Elston finds that the lue of the estate at the time h of Winfield Scott Stratton $6,307,166 and that the amount due to the State under the inheritance lax Jaw is $362,844. —— Lditor John P. Young in London. LONDON, May $.—John P. Young, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mrs. Young, after a ty ] The | | | | » GEN 3 || ZZNEVITCH EXPLORER STANLEYS ~LIFE ENIS { - ‘Famous Man's Career Is Closed in London, —_— ; LONDON, May 10.—Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, is dead. H Morton Stanley, the famous African explorer, was born in Wales in 1841. When three years old he was placed in the poorhouse of St. Asaph, o where he remained ten years and re-| ceived an education which enabled him to teach school. ‘When fifteen years old he sailed as cabin-boy in a vessel to New Orleans and was there adopted by 2 man named Stanley, whose name {he took in wplace of his original one, which was John Rowlands. He en- listed in the Confederate army, was | captured and afterward joined the Fed- {eral army. He served in Turkey as a war correspondent in 1867 and also in Abyssinia. Later he was sent to Africa but the couphings | “tra" I “Tivingston, who had mnot |Village, where the two attended the been heard from for two years, and he accomplished this mission and went to Africa again. It was at this time that he gained worldwide renown as an explorer, and his achievements won for him high honors from the courts of Europe and the most noted universities. In 1890 he married Miss Dorothy Tennant in Westminster Abbey. He wrote a num- ber of books which have gained great favor. —_——— ATTORNEY OF FRESNO BEATEN AND ROBBED Thugs Waylay Way D. Edwards on His Home and Take His Valuables. FRESNO, May 9.—About 2 o'clock morning E. D. Edwards, a well- 1 attorney, was attacked by mur- der thugs on way home. He was badly beaten with some weapon and his valuables taken. In a dazed condition he crawled several blocks to his home and went to bed. Nothing was known of the affair till his wife went to call him this morning. Ed- wards was returning home after a heavy night’s work. When he reached the corner of J and San Joaquin streets three masked men assaulted him. He was struck from behind and ren- dered unconscious. The thugs then beat him till his face is black and blue. A large gash was cut in his head, the blood from which wound left a trail | from the place®of attack to his home. The men got but little money but took several articles of value, including a | watch valued at $300. By this watcn, of which there are only a few in existence, the police hope to locate the footpads. | ———— 3 GOVERNOR PROBING | [ Esecutive Attends Mecting of the | Trustees at San Bernardino Institution. SAN BERNARDINO, May 9.—Gov- ernor Pardee, accompanied by Wal- ter S. Melick, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, _has been at Highlands to-day in attendance upon the monthly meeting of the board of trustees of the State asylum, where the books of the late secretary, A. C. Clarke, are undergoing an investiga- tion. Word reached here to-night that the experts who are at work on the books have found peculations to the amount of $4376. The work of the | accountants is not yet completed and the total shortage may be greater than this amount. The books show sums missing as far back as 1897. The shortage is entirely in the patients’ | fund, of which the late secretary had full charge. ———————— | Dies En Route ... Health Resort. | LODI, May 9.—William Rowe of | Modesto died between Lodi and Acam- po yesterday morning. The man was on his way to Bartlett Springs for the benefit of his hea'th. No physician was attending the man. The inquest his tour of Egypt, the Holy Land and the | was held this morning and the verdict Continent, have arrived in England. | was that death was due to heart dis- They will return to the United States | ease. Rowe’s wife and three children May 25. s —_— were with him when death came. means of | AFFAIRS AT ASYLUM | i S LITE LIVES | AFTER LOYG SEPARATION Miner Sends Abroad ' for His Childheod . Sweetheart. SR ST. LOUIS, May 9.—Separation for Ocean was powerless to dampen the childhood affection of pretty little Miss Catherine Jones of Wales and David J. Lewis of Keystone, Nev. The romance began in a small Welsh | same school, and ended last midnight | when the two were married by Rev. | Dr. Cunpingham. When Lewis at the | |age of twelve years came to America | with his parents little Catherine re- | mained behind. The boy entered into the race for fame and fortune in the | Nevada mines. When his position in | the mining State was assured, after years of strenuous endeavor, he thought f the pretty little girl he had left in Wales and opened correspondence with | her. | Ten years of letter-writing followed |and finally Lewis prevailed upon her te come to America and renew the lov- ing lifs which they had led as children. After tearful leavetakings of her aged mother and her three sisters the bride- to-be left her quiet home for America. Ske arrived in St. Louis Thursday night and went immediately to the Hotel Mil- [ton, where she was joined by Lewis. Age had altered both, but love recoz- nized itself and the scene when they met in the corridor of the hotel was affecting. Lewis owns- large mining properties in Nevada. VAIDEN ILL. OVER DEATH OF HER PUG Epecial Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., May 9.—Iiss Grace Parshall, a former resident of | San Francisco heiress of the Jate J. Oliver, the heaviest owner of realty in British Columbia, refuses to be con- | soled since the death of her diminutive | poodle “Tiny.” The dog passed away after an operation by an experienced | veterinary, who removed a stomach tumor. Since the poodle’s C.ath Miss Par- shall has displayed hysterical grief and has been confined to her apartments. Meanwhile the late lamented poodle has been carefully embalmed and cof- fined by a leading firm of undertakers and will be shipped to San Francisco, there to be given burial in the family vault of its owner. Miss Parshall has canceled a contem- plated visit to the East. She does not care to go anywhere, she declares, “Now that poor Tiny's dead.” —_——— Withdrawals From Clearing House, NEW YORK, May 9.—Three trust companies under supervision of the Clearing-house announced to-day their decision to abandon Clearing-house privileges rather than submit to the | 10 per cent reserve requirement, which | | | becomes effective June 1 next, After these withdrawals only three out of thirty-nine trust companies doing bus- iness in Manhattan will have Clearing- house privileges, and one of these is about to discontinue its relations with the Clearing-house, twenty-two years hy the broad Atlantie | LS FIGHT WITH CENTIPEDS —_— Perilous Battle Occurs in the Hold of a Vessel, SO Army of Poisonous Insects Makes Attack on the Seamen. —_— SRR AN T f TWO RUSS IAN' COMMANDERS AND OF THE WAR BAL- «}. ONE LOONS, -+ S Russia’s Force Not Ready to Battle. "LONDON, May 10. — The Daily Telegraph's Seoul corre- spondent says: “It is believed here that a por- tion of the Russian Vladivostok fleet has been successfully shut out and is now in the Sea of fapan trying to evade the Japanese.” PARIS, May 10.—The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the Echo de Paris says: . General Kuropatkin has ordered a general retreat and no doubt intends to avold a battle until he has sufficient forces. He has actually at his disposal not more than 150,000 soldiers, not ex- clusive of the garrison at Port Arthur, which consists of 30,000, and the garri- gon at Newchwang of 15,000. A general who knows the secrets of the mobilization tells me that the last one thousand men making the required 500,000, will leave Kagan July 11, add- ing, “We will be very sick if the rail- way is not working well. It is not likely that General Kuropatkin will fatigue his troops unnecessarily. If the Japanese press him he will retire from Liaoyang to Mukden, or even to Har- bin. Retreat certainly is painful, but it now is indispensable.” SHANHAIKWAN, May 9.—A mer- chant here who is.in a position to have trustworthy information has informed a correspondent that _at Port Arthur there is only coal sufficient to last the warships for six weeks and that the food supply there will suffice for 8000 men for three months only. The evacuation of Newchwang con- tinues. The Russian authorities have promised 1o leéave a sufficient rear guard to prevent pillaging by the Chi- nese bandite who are in the vicinity and awaiting an oppori-nity to get into the city. Nothing further has been heard of the Japanese trahsports which were seen recently near Kaichau, The Russians are commandering cat- tle on the west side of the Liao River and-the Chinese .are indignant at this procedure. Eight hundred head of cat- tle have been seen at Yinkow. A Ja:anese spy has been d.lscovered' at Newchwang. He was approached by Ri as, who pulled at his queue, which came off. He was taken pris- oner, but subsequerntly escaped with the help of some Chinese, who dis- tracted the ettention of the Russians. The dynamio connected with the mine at N.qcnwm-)umot”hew removed. THUGS KILL VICTIM AS HE SLEEPS Man and Rifle | His- Till. Special Dispatch to The Call BUTTE. Mont., May 9.—William Ax- | tell, a well known saloon man of Basin, ‘a small mining camp in the mountains forty miles north of Butte, and killed early this morning by ban- dits. It appears that Axtell was sleep- {ing in a chair when the command to throw up his hands was given him. With an‘oath, the robbers shot him through the mouth before he was fully awake. A number of men in a house near by, hearing the shooting rushed to the sa- lcon, frightening the outlaws away. Axtell was found with his. head lying on. a shattered show case, his life blood ebbing rapidly away. Axtell was a brother of Representative Frank Axtell of Silver .Bow County. The robbers secured little: booty. ————— REPUBLICS SATISFIED WITH THE CONFERENCE Presidents of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador Decide Ministers Have Arranged All Affairs. MANAGUA, 'Nicaragua, May 9.— Interior Minister Aitamirano of Nic- aragua, Foreign Minister Ordonez of Honduras and Foreign Minister Gon- zales of 'Salvador met recently at Amapala and discussed the political affairs of their respective countries. The result was so satisfactory that the proposed conference of the Presidents of the three republics is considered unnecessary. On their arrival at San Salvador Senors- Altamirano and Or- donez received an ovation. —_———— BROTHER 'TAKES LIFE OF YOUNGER SISTER Father of Children Buries Body With- out Reporting Crime to Authorities. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 9.—At Moose Lake John Schuster, aged 14, murdered his eight-year-old sister by beating out her brains with a_poker. The -boy’s father, it is alleged, buried the body with the hope of hiding the crime, but the matter became known and the boy was arrested. —————— Hungarian Novelist Buried. BUDAPEST, May 9.—The funeral of Maurus K. Jokai, the Hungarian novelist, who died Thursday last, was held yesterday. There was an enor- mous attendance. Among those pres- ent were all the members of the Hun- garian Ministry and the members of Parliament. To Advance on Lassa. ‘LONDON, May 10.—The Daily Mail this morning says it understands that a British advance on *is now inevitable and that preparations to that end are progressing 3 Bandits Slay Saloon, was shot | ROOSEVELT CHILDREN INAPAN Storm Causes Great Excitement at a Circus, a severe wind and rain storm suddenly arose, and for a moment there was a small-sized panic among the 10,000 peo- | ple in the big tent. President Roose- velt's children, Ethel and Archie, ac- companied by maids and the White House coachman, occupied a box di- rectly in the center of the tent =nd for a time were surrounded by hurrying | crowds of people pressing down from | the seats above. All in the box, how- ever, kept cool, and among those who seemed have the least fear were the President’s children themselves. The wind blew a gale for five or six minutes and the big show tent was filled with dust and sawdust from the streets and surrounding grounds. The big poles buckled, but stood the strain. Many women and children became frightened and there was a general rush for the exits. The circus attend- ants and, city policemen prevented ex- treme disorder and not a single mis- hap was recorded. After the wind sub- sided rain came down in torrents and the spectators again rushed back to the tent where, after a brief suspen- sion, the show was resumed. Instead of being frightened, the President’s children seemed to enjoy the incident and the excitement did not detract from their afternoon’s pleasure. —_—————— CABINET OF CHILE - OFFERS RESIGNATION New Body Will Be Formed, ported by a Large Majority of Liberals. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, May 9.— The Cabinet has resigned, owing to the organization of a union of all sections of Liberals, and a new Cabinet will be formed to-morrow and it will be sup- ported by a large majority of the Lib- eral elements. P e ——————— Hunter’'s Body Found in the Weeds. BUTTE, Ment.,, May 9.—An Ana- conda special to the Miner says that the body of M. Wright, who has been nissing since last November, has been found in the weeds of Georgetown Lake, where, with Welbridge Williams, he is supposed to have been drowned, their boat being capsized while the two men were duck hunting. Wright was one of the best known sportsmen in Montana and a prominent Mason. 7 —_—————— Bank Acquires Immense Capital. BERLIN, May 9.—The Deutsche Bank to-day decided to issue §5,000,- 000 new capital and absorb the Ber- liner Bank, whose capital is $1 Sup- 500,000. After the increase the Deutsche Bank'’ capital will be $45,000,000- p | Vicious Fos Is Too Numerous and Sea-Going Italians Are Obliged to Flee for Their Lives. ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, May 9—The Ital fan bark Aniat Menoth arrived in port | to-night with a cargo of bones. When | the hatches were lifted and prepara- | tions were made to unload the cargo, the sailors had an experience that ai- most turned their hair white. When the sailors went below they | discovered a horde of tarantulas and centipeds prepared to give battle As the crawling enemy advanced to the | attack, the sailors prepared to repulse them. They had armed themselves with long, strong bones and with these they fought and beat off tarantulas and centipeds. It was a fight against too heavy odda: The foe was too nu- merous. As fast as one tarantula wouid be killed another would take its place. { In the battle not a few of the seamen were nipped in the legs and were saved | from serious bites by the sea boots they wore. Those sailors who were in the hold of the bark soon became exhausted and others of the crew took their places. But they could not get rid of their tenacious foes. Then the fighting sailors clambered out of the hold upon deck, leaving the tarantulas complete victors. Some of | the tarantulas tried to follow the treating seamen, but as soon as th showed themselves above the hatches they were easily destroyed. After the retreat of the sailors, the tarantulas and centipeds again took refuge in the bones. Captain Ferrera and his officers held | a council of war. It was determined to kill the tarantulas and centipeds by fumigating the hold. This was ac- cordingly done. The hatches then were replaced and sulphur allowed to do its work. Later the hatches were was | | removed and dead were seen on top of the cargo of bones. ————————— STRICKEN PASTOR FALLS HEADLONG FROM PULPIT Worshipers in a Chureh Startled by Sudden Fatal Iliness of Minister. | MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, May 9.— Suddenly and without a moment’s warning to the large congregation, whose heads were bowed while the minister prayed for their welfare, the Rev. O. P. Newell, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church here, fell, stricken with paralysis in his pulpit. For a moment the parishioners were terror-stricken and the form of the pastor was allowed to pitch headlong to the floor. He canmnot live. —_—————— PLACES CREDENTIALS IN HANDS OF SERVIA ins Minister Jackson Goes Through Cere- | mony With King Peter at Beigrade Palace. BELGRADE, May 9.—Jokn B. Jackson, United States Minister to Servia, dellvered his credentials to King Peter to-day. The Minister was escorted to and from the palace by a detachment of the King's guards. _—————————— Railroad Employe killed. SACRAMENTO, May 9.—Richard Beskeen, an employe in the Southern Pacific Company’s shops, had his life crushed out in the railroad yards this morning. He was employed in repair- ing a car, which with several others was on a switch. The car under which Beskeen was working and the one next to it were supported on props. In some manner not yet explained one of the props under the car next to the one Beskeen was working under gave way, throwing the car upon the un- fortunate workman. —_———————— Young Griflith Still Missing. LOS ANGELES, May 9%—Vandell Griffith, the 14-year-oll son of Col- onel Griffith J. Griffith, the Los An- geles capitalist now in Jjail under sen- tence for the shooting of his wife. who disappez-ed from the home of his mother several da. ago and who was thought to have been kidnaped, is still missing and no trace of him has been found by his relatives. The po- lice are working on the case,