The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 1, 1904, Page 1

3 127799 Grand—"“Du VOLUME XCVI—NO. 31 SAN FRANCISCO, FERIDAY, Alcazar—“Soldiers of Fortune.” Central— Power of the Cross.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—The Mormons.” Orpheum—Vaudeville, Tivoli—"“Robin .Mfi” ) o e L 66— Barry.” JULY 1, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FLEETS ENGAGE IN A SECOND BATTLE ST. PETERSBURG, July 1.—It is reported here that the Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Lieutenant Burukoff, which arrived at Newchwang from Port Arthur on Wednesday evening, brought news that Rear Admiral Withoeft again on June 24 gave battle to the Japanese fleet. The J: apanese land forces are not yet within cannon range of Port Arthur, the siege operations proceeding slowly. The re- port that certain of the forts had been captured is untrue. + NS DEATH > SHROUDED IN MYSTERY Dr. Jarecki Is Found' Dead in House | atpenveh | to The Call —The discovery | the dead body of Dr. shed a mys- the famous ki e led to the pal char- | | for the past two years lived with his wife | 0 Ogden street of Bui h it ent with his family f David Michaels at 1424 [ a street, to attend a social gathering. He left the Michaels house E ut 1 lock this morning, his wife en remaining over night, and me ne. Shortly after 4 hbors heard two shots in from the Jarecki terrace. hour or so an investigation rted by the mneighb and found degd on the kitchen bullet through his heart. | s a revolver with two | A hole in the screen | kitchen porch showed that had fired the shot through door and the powder marks 1 that the weapon which killed s held almost against his breast cki was dressed only in his night gown, but though he had been et home almost three hours, the bed had been disturbed. His watch. money and other personal belongings were © n the dressing-table in his room. At first glance it looked like a brutal murder and the detectives are work- ing on this theory. A suicide thedéry has been advanced, but this is generally. discredited. It is T ored that Jarecki was murdered for revenge, and that e relative of ‘a woman whom he had wronged was re- &po ble for the deed. Dr. Jarecki was ed in his office in the Court- on the afternoon of December st hy sume persons whose. identity never been discovered. The de- tives working * on ‘the case found themselves handicapped by the alleged f the victim to give them | 2 description of the assailant. . His T regard to the matter and rent disinclination to -taik led to believe that he knew who ant was, but refused fo ‘tell ns best known to himself. The hre f the police was that murde: | t robbery was the object. | ing man riding fo his home | sed the Jarecki house yesterday | z shortly before 4. o'clock saw | alking in front of the place. | med disconcerted by his ap- | ce and quickly separated. De- | ms of the men have been fur--| the police, and an effort is to | made to apprehend them Jarecki rencwed several of his lite | nsurance policies on Wednesday, and | his fact ie the cause of the advance- | ment of the suicide theory. Dr. Jarecki | was well-to-do and certainly had no | financial reason for ending his life. | Jarecki beiieves that her hus- s the victim of a burglar, who was trying 1o enter the kitchen door of | the Jarecki home: that he arrived | home about 1:30 o'clock, returned | and fell asleep and was awak-| tned by the efforts of the bur-| glar. He went to investigate, lhe| presumes, acd met his death after grappling with the invader. The shoot- ing was dcne at close range, which ac- counts for the powder marks on his night shirt, and she aecounts for the powder stains on his hands by pre- suming that he held the revolver when 't was fired. be (i KEPT BUSY | at "Ceylon, |of the so-called B A T OF CRANKS fwmte House Police| Arrest Three in a Day. ial . Dispatch to The Call. Spe CALL BUREAU, HOTEL B‘\):Tr‘,\'.' WASHINGTON, June 30.—All crank | records ~‘were broken at the White House to-day by the appearance in one day of ‘three deranged individuals de- giring to see the President. The cranks were all men and ap- peared perfectly harmless, but the White House guards were somewhat worried over the unusual invasion. All of the men admitted that they had served time in asylums heretofore, and were sane Asylum The only visito Abel Crawford, vears old, a former inmate of St. Elizabeth’s asylum. old man carried under his arm a large picture of a horse, which he said was Hickey Clay, a valuable stallion be- longing to him. He said that his ene- mies were trying to poison the horse and he .wanted to see the President about it. The mext caller was Henry M. Huyl, who said he was 40 years old and lived Va. He was stopped out- side. the White House by a policeman, to whom he told a story of a vision he hed had from heaven in regard to a plot against the life of the President. Heé sald he had a great affection for Mr. Roosevelt and wanted to warn him. At the police station he admitted that he had been in an asylum at Staun- ton, Va. Septimus Pinci, a paroled inmate of St. Elizabeth’s, was the next This was Pinci’s second visit to the White House in the last few days. He carried a huge roll of manuscript un- der his arm, which he said was a poem written in French which he wished to present ‘to the President. —_———— PARIS IS AROUSED OVER ARREST OF THREE OFFICERS Prominent Officials in Jail Supposedly Because of Their Conncction With the Dreyfus Case. PARIS, June 30.—The arrest of three officers on active service, Lieutenant Colonel Rollin, Captain Francois and Captain Marechal, in connection with the case against M. D’Autriche has caused a sensation in Paris. The exact charge agali 5t them has not been made known officially. Lieutenant Colonel Rollin was chief information bureau of which M. D’Autriche was a sub- ordinate official during the Rennes trial. Captain Francois and Captain Marechal were also employed in the bureau at the same time. 2 It is assumed by the press that these officers are accused of complicity in the proceedings of . D'Autriche, who is charged with having by means of an erasure falsified the accounts of the in- formation bureau with the object of concealing the payment of a sum of consigned to St. Elizabeth's | ith a grievance was | The | caller. | { | | VIEW OF GENSAN, THE KOREAN JAPORT, WHICH WAS ATTACKED BY RUSSIA'S WARSHIPS. SE NENIANS 1E SITED BY BRITAIN Porte Yields to the Pressure From - London. —— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, June 30.—Great Britain has successfully brought pressure to bear upon the Porte for the relief of the persecuted Armenians, according to statements in a letter written by For- eign Secretary’ Lansdowne to the Anglo-Armenian Association. The letter says that President Nicholas O’Connor, the British . Em- bassador at Constantinople, in a long interview with the Grand Vizier on June 14, pointed out to that official the responsibility of the Porte, should the reports of Kurdish outrages prove true. The Embassador called the attention of the Grand Vizier to the design which had been accredited to the Turkish authorities of driving the Armenians from their mountain homes to the plains and urged that erders should be sent to the Vali of Bitlis that refugees be allowed to return to their homes and be given protection from the Kurds. The Grand Vizier acquiesced in the wishes of Sir Nicholas and telegraphed orders to that effect in the presence of the Embassador. The British Vice Conslil at Bftlis was notified of the Grand Vizier's action and instructed to report its effect. Lord Lansdowne said that the Porte had also granted permizsion for a Brit- ish officer to accompany any troops engaged in expeditions against the in- surgents. ——— TURKISH VILLAGE SCENE OF A HORRIBLE CRIME Bulgarian Band Reported to Have Murdered Entire Family and Servants of Greek Notable. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 30.—Ac- cording to a report received here from Serres, Buropean Turkey, a Bulgarian band in the village of Djigorovo mur- dered a Greek notable, burned his money to witness Czernuski who gave | family allve and disemboweled two of evidence at Rennes against Dreyfus. at his servants. v LATE CZARS [FORECASTS SON TVMATE | LONG SERIES OF A PRISON, ~ F STORY Ontario Jail Holds!Expert on Weather -Hali-Brother of | Makes Gloomy Nicholas. Prediction. —_— R Special Dispatch to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. TORONTO, June 30.—The "World to- CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, day published a curious-story, intimat- | WASHINGTON, June 30.—Devastating ing that a-half-brother of tHe present | storms in greater number and more se- Czar of Russia is a prisoner in the On- | vere than have been known in the his- tario prison, given a six months’' term | tory of the country for the last ten for fraud. years are predicted for the TUnited About the year 1867 there was intro- | States during August, September and duced into the royal household of Alex- | October by W. T. Forster, an unofficial ander III, the then Czar, an English | long-distance forecaster of this city. woman named Mabel Arnot, a member | Forster's warning is a grave one. These of the English aristocracy, but a per- | storms, he says, will be tropical hurri- sonal attendant on the Czarina, who |canes and transcontinental cyclones. formerly was the Princess Dagmar of | The hurricanes will come from the Denmark. The Czar and Miss Arnot |south and southwest, off the Gulf of became friends. The intimacy resulted | Mexico, while the transcontinental in a great deal of talk in the Palace. |Storms will wend their way from the Miss Arnot was ostracized by the court | territory west of the Mississippi Val- ladies. 1 ley. Soon afterward a marriage of con- Forster makes no attempt to locate venience was arranged and took place between Richard Easmin, an English contractor of armory supplies, and Miss Arnot (Mrs. Easmin) was sent back to-England, where she was given a fine estate and an income of £2000 a vear until her death. While on her es- tate her child was born—the man who is now a convict in an Ontario prison. Young Easmin (for he took the name of the contractor) was educated in the best schools and colleges in England. After his college course he had a com- mission in the Queen’s army. He scon tired of this and was sent to Russia, where he was appointed a member of i reach their greatest force. He confines himself to the announcement that they will come and the destruction with which they will be attended. For days and weeks Forster has been at work in the library of the naval ob- servatory completing his maps and fol- lowing conditions throughout the coun- try. So positive is he that his forecast is correct that he says he could foretell approximately when the storms would reach a certain locality, but that he is content in stating the fact that the hurricanes will surely come. B the consufar service. DEFACES UNITED STATES His promotion was so rapid that it COIN AND IS ARRESTED caused much jealousy among the younger members of the service. In- quiries were made and there was dan- ger of the old scandal being revived. He was finally discharged, his income cut off and he was told there was noth- ing more for him. Until his mother died, two years ago, he received an al- lowance from her. Upon her death he recejved some money from the sale of his m 1's effects. He landed in|the Mayor of Harvard, and admits he Philadelphia, ran some sort of a bro- | affixed to the coins some slips stating kerage office, left under cover, came to | that if the money was brought to his ’.l‘%:;o:to ;9 here got into trouble |store he would give its value in cloth- which en Brother of Mayor of Harvard in Jail for Pasting Advertising Slips on Half Dollars. CHICAGO, June 30. — Because he pasted advertising slips on United States half dollars, D. T. Phalen of Harvard, 11, has been arrested and brought to Chicago. He is a brother of in imprisonment. ing. Phalen was released on bonds. these storms or to tell where they will | | O e Decree I Granted to the Duchess of Valencay. —_— slal Dispatch to The Call PARIS, June 30.—The Duchess of Valencay, Who was Helen Morton daughter’ of Levi P. Morton, before her marriage, was to-day granted a | divorce. The proceedings were conducted in the privacy which the French courts give to divorce cases. The charges against the Duke were ill-treatment and neglect. The hearing was brief. The court, in pronouncing itself fa- vorable to the Duchess’ pleading, gave the defendant's name as Marie Archambault Bason, Comte de Talleyrand-Perigorda, duc de Valen- | e ay. The hearing took place in the pri- vate chamber of the court. It is un- | derstood neither of the principals in the suit was present. One of the consequences of the de- cision, under a recent judgment of the French. courts, —_—————————— SANTOS DUMONT PREPARES TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE Inventor, if Present Plans Are Car- ried Out, Will Leave New York July 7. ST. LOUIS, June 30.—Santos Dumont will, if present plans are carried out, sail from New York on July 7. Du- mont was not on the fair grounds to- day, but his assistants gave out this information. President Francis said, when asked what action would be taken on the re- port of Colonel Kingsbury “As yet there is but a theory. which the fair officials have not adopted. We shall take no action until we have posi- | tive evidence to act upon.” —_————————— NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS IS PAID FOR A VIOLIN | $tradivarius Once Pawned for $4 Brings High Price at Sale of Musician’s Estate. NEW YORK, June 30. —A Stradl- varius violin, onece owned by Joseph Jean Bolt has been sold by his estate for $9000. It was once pawned for $4 and after eight years was found again while a well-known dealer was on trial charged with having stolen the instru- ment. —_—————— SUMMARY PUNISHMENT IS METED OUT TO NEGRO Colored Man Who Killed White Taken From Train and Lynched in South Carolina. CHARLESTON, 8. C., June 30.— Cairo Williams, a negro, who killed Thurston McGee, white, at Scranton, in Willlamsburg County, last Febru- ary, was taken from a train at Scran- ton to-night and lynched. “Saint Louis | is that the wife shall | abandon her husband’'s name and title. | Women Are Seen on Warships During Battle. | | ' Two Japanese Ves- sels Destroyed at Gensan. TGRS ILONDON, July 1.—The Tokio { correspondent of the Standard says that Japanese officers who were engaged in the last naval fight at Port Arthur assert that they saw women on board the ian warships, and this con- firms the suspicion that the Rus- sians were attempting to escape to a neutral port and had no int=a- tion of fighting. The Tokio correspondent of the Times says: “There is consider- able uncertainty here regarding the Russian losses in the recent sortie from Port Arthur. It just possible that no ship was sunk. may have got into Port ‘Arthur at nighrt. The Japanese, on the other hand, feel certain that three torpedoes took effect on three ships.” 15 The Peresviet TOKIO, June -The Russian Viadi- | vostok squadron, accompanied by tor- pedo-boats, appeared off Gensan, on the east coast of Korea, to-d Torpedo- boats e ed Gensan harbor at § | n the morning, shelled the ment and sank a small steamship and a small »oner. The torpec | boats left the harbor at 7:20 o’clock. A | total of 200 sheils was fired into the set- tlement, but no serious damage re- sulted. The Russian vessels which took part in the bombardment of Gensan were the cruisers Rossiay. Gromeobol and Rurik and nine torpedo-boats. Later reports show that the vessels when they left Gensan steamed to the north, They were seen, however, to return from this direction. They were lost sight of at 10:30 o’clock in the morning. SEOUL, Korea, June 30.—Reports re- ceived here of the appearance of the Russian Viadivostok squadron off Gen- san, on the East coast of Korea, say the warships wer® first seen at 5:30 | o’clock in the morning. Four torpedo- | boats entered the harbor and sank a | sma.l steamship and a junk, while the | eruise emained outside and shelled the Japanese barracks on shore. At s end of a half-hour the Russians with- drew in the midst of a torrential down- pour of rain, which prevented the look- outs noting what direction they took The damage inflicted by the Russian | fire was slight and no casualties have | been reported news, how- o' tle: Further on | ever, is expected the telegraph wire between Seoul Gensan. which was broken by th s restored The Japanese was hit by a w shell, but the damage inflicted was | small. At the first shot by the hostile visitors the citizens fled to the protec- | tion of the hills. LONDON, July 1:—The ships sunk at ! Gensan, according to.a dispatch to the | Central News from Tokio, were the steamship Koun of 2876 tons and the i little coasting steamship Seitu. | R | BESIEGERS CLOSING IN. TOKIO, June 30.—Generals Fuku- | shima and Tnoguchi are to accompany | Field Marshal Marquis Oyama and | General Kodama, his chief of staff, { to the front on July 6. The Emperor has. presented his favorite horse to General Kodama. It is reported with authority that there is continual skirmishing in the vicinity of Port Arthur, and that the Japanese forces are closing in upon that place. _— ‘War News Continued on Page 8, !