The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER. orecast /mede ot San Franm- G. E. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. T | | / THE 27 5 Central—“Power of the Cross.” . Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—“The Mormons.” Grand—"Du Barry.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“Robin Hood.” 1% SAN. FRAN CISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1904. CONTENDING FLEETS LOSE HEAVILY IN NAVAL BATTLE FOUGHT GFF PORT ARTHUR HARBOR CHEFU, June 27, 10:30 a. m.---A Chinese who has arrived here from the vicipity of Port Arthur in a junk reports that at daylight last Friday morning he saw two large Japanese warships and three torpedo-boats withdraw from the fleet off Port Arthur. All of the vessels were damaged, indicating that desperate fighting had occurred. Thursday’s battle was begun by the Russians, who sought to engage Admiral Togo while a portion of his ships were abs CHILD AIDS YNCHERS OF NEGRO Yomg Girl Takes'_ the Role of Ex- ecutioner. | Teads Horse From Under| Culprit, Leaving Him | Dangling in Air, | Banging on a Public | quare Follows Attacks Upon Daughters of White Men. June 26.—Stirling , wanted for an at- d daughter of ite man, near Belle- | s ago and who sub- three young ladies city, all during | y, was hanged square here to-day by a/ »se was placed about the me- the little Wilson girl, d him as her as- | > was then placed on < ck horse and at a sig- om the leader of the mob the lit- | e horse from under him. | 3000 persons, white and | sed the hangin, was as order On being ass as a le- ed that rned it over to relatives was captured on Friday na, Ala., after a running he was twice ght here last f this (Wilson) met the train at and an effort was , but the officers burn Dunl rge of the negrc er up the negro this jon. There was a for burning, but this d the lynching took | anging. maintained his inno- t and denied that he Wilson girl. He ad- place, but to use when s less than 18 years of age, wit- rching from a distance. | N, Miss., June 26.—Governor 3 was not notified of the cap- ng Dunham and his return ntil this afternoon. He im- telegraphed to the Sheriff of County asking if,troops were protect the prisoner. The red, however, before | Dunham had been —————— FRANCE MAY NOT ACCEPT - | THE APOLOGY OF HAYTI | Inclined to Hold That Stoning of Min- * ister Is Treated Too Lightly by Small Government. June 26.—Hayti's apology the t to the French Minister Port au Prince, M. Deprez, who was stoned by the palace guards recently, has been received by the Foreign Of- fi does not give satisfaction. It | seek to make light of the The officials here are not assume a belligerent atti- | tude tow a small power, but they expect Hi to adequately realize and redress the offenses. Orders have been | d 1o the mander of the French | de France, island of | to detach a warship for | PAR for | POPE IS PLEASED WITH RECEPTION OF SATOLLA ! His Holiness Praises the Loyaity of | American Catholics to the | Church. ROME, June 26.—The Pope has ex- | pressed himself as highly pleased with | the very cordial reception given in the | es to Cardinal Satolli. o Cardinal Merry del Val, | Secretary of State, his Holi- s & the papal id “The American Catholics surpass all cnurch.” dead the mob cut down | | \CLEDELAND SAYS THE NOMINATION IS NOT FOR HIM I | \ | | (1 3 & FORMER PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVE >, WHO DECLARES THAT HE IS NO. A FACTOR IN POLITICS AND THAT HE DOES NOT EXPECT THE NOMINATION "AT LOUIS. | - 2 fJ'age of Princeton Expects No Fur- ther Political Honors. PRINCETON, J., June 26— Former President Cleveland discussed to-day some of the questions relating to the coming campalign and election. “If the Democratic National Conven tion again nominates you for the Presi dency would you accept?’ he was asked. His first answer was a pantomime. He vigorously shook his head and lifted his hand deprecatingly. Then he ex- claimed with rapid utterance: “That will not happen, that will m')(l happen, so there is no use of talking about It. “I am out of political affairs,” he continued. “I have said it often, so that it ought to be well understood.” Asked what he thought of the sug- gestion that the Democrats would do wisely to take their candidate for Vice President from the Souihern States, the former President dictated the fol- lowing: “I must decline to enter into any discussion of political questions at this time. It cannot be possible that my opinion on any question that is about to be involved in the national canvass can be misunderstood. I do not expect to be concerned actively in the plans that are now occupying the thought and effort of the Democratic managers, and it is quite proper that I shouid be out of that account, inasmuch as I con- sider myself as absolutely retired from political activities.” —_— PLATT VERSUS ODELL. Senator to Make Final Stand in New York State Convention. NEW YORK, June 26.—Senator Platt is preparing to make a final stand in the Republican State Convention to es- tablish his political authority in New York State. The struggle between his friends and the supporters of Governor Cdell for the important privilege of naming the next candidate for Gover- ror promises to be more bitter than that which preceded the passing of control in the State committee from the Senator to the Governor. Senator Platt and his friends are expectations in loyalty to the |plenning to bring about the nomination | stand will be made against the £ of a candidate whom the Governor can- | anese, 3 not control, and to force the Governor, in his capacity of chairman of the State committee, to elect their man. Governor Odell and his adherents are | pulling wires to obtain a candidate who will perpetuate what the Governor has | already gained. The Platt men are pre- | dicting that no candidate nominated by | Odell can be elected. | Governor Odell’s action in Chicago, | when he tried first to bring about the nomination of Speaker Cannon instead of Senator Fairbanks for Vice Presi- dent against the wish of Senator Platt, and then attempted to adjourn the con- vention on the second day, are being used by the Platt men to enforce their |argument that the Governor and his friends are not sincerely in favor of the success of the Republican ticket in this State next fall. e T MILES IS NON-COMMITTAL. Prohibitionists in a Con- cerning Presidential Nomination. INDIANAPOLIS, ' June 26.— The | National Prohibition Convention will | meet in Tomlinson Hall on Tuesday | with National Chairman 0.-W. Stew- | | art of Chicago presiding. The nomi- nations for President and Vice Presi- dent will be made on Thursday after- noon. It is still an open question whether General Nelson A. Miles will accept the nomination for the Presidency. He | has left for an unknown resort with- out leaving any definite statement be- hind. There is a faction of powerful Prohibitionists who believe that Gen- eral Miles should be nominated by the | convention even if he be not heard from before the meeting. Others favor the postponement of the convention until that of the Democrats so that the platform and the candidates nomi- nated in St. Louis can be inspected before the Prohibitionists get to work. e e Russians Fortifying Tatchekiao. TIENTSIN, June 26.—It is reported here that 40,000 Russian troops are at Tatchekiao, fifteen miles north of Kai- ping, where intrenchments are being erected and where, it is expected, a | but between 8 and 9 p. m. the Russian Jap- |- i BATTLESHD T BY W0 TORPEDIES Details Confirm News of Loss to Rus- sians. ; B AR g Big ‘War Vessel Sunk by “Mosquito” Crait of Togo’s Fleet. S SR Two Others, Badly Disabled, Are| Towed Into the Harbor of Port Arthur, LONDON, June 26.—The Central News has received the following dis'\ patch from its Tokio correspondent, dated June 26, evening: | “A detailed account of the naval bat-"| tle at Port Arthur has just been pub- | lished here. The Russian battleships | Peresviet, Péltava and Sevastopol and | the cruisers Baydn, Askold #mn ik attempted to emerge from 1 at dawn on June 23, led by steamships used for clearing the mines. At 1L o'clock the battleships Cesarevitch, Retvizan and Pobieda joined the oth- e TS, “All the ships then advanced, en- deavoring to dispose of the mines laid by the Japanese, but they were hin- dered by two Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers, which had been guarding the mouth of the harbor. “At 3 p. m. the Japanese torpedo- boats exchanged shots with seven Rus- sian destroyers, which were covering the clearing operations. One of the Russian destroyers was set on fire and retired inside the harbor. “Subsequently the Japanese decayed the Russians out to sea and awaited an opportunity to bégin a general action, ships made for the harbor. The Japan- ese torpedo-boat destroyers and tor- pedo-boats chased the Russians and at 9:30 delivered the first attack, in con- sequence of which the, enemy was thrown into disorder. “During the night eight separate at- tacks were delivered, lasting until dawn on Friday. In one of these as- saults the Chirataka twice torpedoed a battleship of the Peresviet type and sank her. A battleship of the Sevasto- pol type and a cruiser of the Diana type were disabled and towed away. The Russian vessels re-entered the harbor during Friday. “The newspapers publish eulogistic articles upon Vice Admiral Togo's | prompt action.” e SRR RUSSIANS ADMIT LOSS. Inform Naval Attache, but Keep Popu- lace in Suspense. BT. PETERSBURG, June 26.—Up to to-night the Japanese report of the loss of three Russian ships at Port Arthur has not been published here, although the duthorities have allowed to be printed a statement that the squadron had made a sortie and also the news of the loss of the Japanese torpedo boat destroyers. ¥ An official explanation of the sup- pression of the Japanese report is tfit the Admiralty is unwilling to unneces- sarily alarm the public by the circula- tion of such statements entirely on the authority of the enemy and in the ab- sence of definite advices from the com- mander at Port Arthur. It is alsq sug- gested as possible that there has been a fight and that the Japanese have minimized their own losses and magni- fied those of the Russians with a view of effecting the new loan which. it is understood, Japan is negotiating. On the other heand, according to a foreign naval attache, the Admiralty to-day admitted that Rear Admiral ‘Withoeft, the naval pammander at Port Arthur, lost one battleship and two cruisers, but in the absence of details there was an inclination to believe that the ships struck some mines, the Ad- miralty not believing, in the face of the lessons taught by the injuries to the Retvizan and the Cesarevitch, that Admiral Withoeft would have remain- ed in the outer roads at night, thus in- viting the dash by the Japanese de- stroyers. In high court and army and naval circles, where the report of the Port Arthur affair has been freely circulated, the Japanese version is received with considerable reserve. The officials do not attempt to disgulse the seriousness of and the far-reaching consequences which might result from the loss of three of the Port Arthur warships, but they profess to be more inclined to be-] lieve that the vessels were lost in fight rather than as the result of a tor-| pedo attack. Should thi they say the Japanese s he the case.| g0 years of age, were struck by a Lake ent. — RILEY’S SLAYER IS FOUND —_— Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday | | morning Andrew Riley, a hodcarrier. | g was found in a dying condition near » the cormer of Sheridan and™ Ninth |streets. He died a few hours later. A byllet had crashed into his brain. | The Southern police later located I Harry Radcliffe, a porter, who ad- | mitted shooting Riley. Radcliffe said | the man had insulted his wife. Mrs. | Radcliffe contradicted her husband’s | | story and the police believe that Rad- | cliffe held Riley up and murdered him | | when he offered resistance. | Es - | ! I e 4 | — i | | | | | e g b “The King” Killed|| I | at Zoo by 0ld | 1 Enemy. "o SORNTRIE T NEW YORK, June 26.—After a bat- tle that was marked by ferocity and | | | cunning, The King, a fine specimen | _ — of the buffalo, the recognized leader of l MAN WHO WAS FOUND DY TERDAY MORNING ON NINTH the William C. Whitney herd in the STREET. HIS SELF-CON LAY AND THE LATTER'S WIFR New York Zoologlcal Park. and hither- | | WHOM HE CLAIMS HAD B INSULTED BY HIS VICTIN 1. to the undisputed champion of all buf- faloes, went down to défeat and death “I shot Andrew Riley because he in- to-day in a duel with Black Beauty, sulted my wife,” said Harry Radcliffe, an old enemy. For twenty minutes the big brutes waged bitter fight, resist- ing the efforts of the keepers to sep- arate them. No such conflict had ever been witnessed In the park, although Black Beauty had been worsted several times by The King in minor encoun- ters. Beauty resorted to tricks in order to avenge the humiliations The King had heaped upon him. While the ruler of the herd was lying on the grass enjoying a slesta his enemy attacked him, embedding his sharp horns in the side of The King. Then followed a fight for mastery that will go down in the history of the park as the most ferocious ever witnessed. Staggering to his feet after the first attack, The King, with a bellow of fury, closed with his enemy. Swaying their shaggy heads from side to side, charging and wheeling, the huge ani- mals gored each other with an aban- don that struck terror to the hearts of their comrades, who withdrew to view the conflict from a safe distance. The bisons struggled for supremacy, their loud bellowing being distinctly heard a quarter of a mile away. The keepers were attracted by the tumult. At the risk of their lives they attempt- ed to separate the infuriated animals with pitchforks and pikes. The King, although badly crippled by the injury he received at”the first attack, for a time proved a match for his enemy. But it was his last battle, for with a rush that was not to be denied Beauty “hooked” The King through the lungs and the champion fell to the sward. In vain he tried to stagger to his feet. But he had received his death blow and gradually,he sank to the gtound. Black Beauty! became the ruler of the combined herds. The King was the finest buffalo in captivity in the United States. NINE WIVES Octogenarian Must David Seeley, 80 years old, is under ar- rest, charged with bigamy. leged he has nine wives living. Mrs. Julia A. Blanchard of this city. Seeley married her last April, when, it is alleged, he had eight other wives. His first wife lives in Otsego, near here, and will testify against him. He has o Indianapolis, the omcers claim. Killian of this city and a short time i late- was sent to the Michigan peni- tentiary at Jackson for four years on a bigamy charge. has been free he married five times. ot anbra- bt aabbiine accused murderer, yesterday. Continuing, he said: “My wife was waiting for me at the corner of Ninth and Folsom at 1 o'clock this morning. Riley approached and insulted her grossly. I followed him and lkilled him.” 1 wa FOR A AN OF EIGHTY not with my husband at 1 o’clock,” said Mrs. Harry Radcliffe to Captaln Martin yesterday morning. “I have never seen Riley at any time and he has never spoken to me.” These conflicting statements have caused the police to adopt the theory that Harry Radcliffe attempted to hold up Andrew Riley early yesterday morn- ing. The latter evidently resisted with all his strength and Radeliffe shot him fatally. Radcliffe admits the shooting, but declares that it was done in defense of his wife's honor. Shortly after mak- ing the assertion that may place a noose about her husband’s neck, Mrs. Radcliffe disappeared from sight of the police. It is believed that Radecliffe’s half brother, Dr. J. J. Keefe, advised the woman to go into hiding until a law- yer can be secured for the prisoner. Keefe would neither admit that he knew her whereabouts, but when last heard of she was with him. Radcliffe’s victim was a hodcarrier. He lived at 25 Sheridan street for four vears and had born an excellent repu- tation. Former neighbors say he was a good natured, inoffensive fellow. who was never known tc harm anybody. Mrs. Cox, his landlady, said that in the four years he had lived at her house he had never missed a day's work. He had never been under the influence of liquor nor trombied her in any manner. He told her he was to Face Trial for Bigamy. KALAMAZOO, Mich., June 26. — It is al- The present charge is preferred by ives living in Chicago, Cincinnati and Six years ago he married Lucy In the two years he Attendance at Fair Increasing. be. married soon to a young woman SUENE B ' Agedd Couple, ST. LOUIS, June 26.—The total at- | Who bore the same name. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 26.— |tendance at the World's Fair for the| Policc investigations _corroborate er Frese, an ex-City Coup- |week ending last night, June 25, as thfse f?'l;):abl|~'l:‘x‘;v\:'t:.& “;-F:“!({,;;ah::.; v . v: acter. det Gt e and his wife, Louise, both over | officially announced to-night, was Tl he wae w0t {he fart:at v 540,485, an increase of more than would insult a defenseless woman. could not have| ghore electric car to-day while cross- 65,000 over the previous week, and more than 402,777 over the total at- tra the Clifton b vard A o _ ltendance for the first week. Dt s e R 3nd killed. Continued on Page 3, Columm f,