The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, August 15: San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy Monday; fresh westerly wind, with fog. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. Central—“For Sake.” California—*Just Before Dawn.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia—*“Joseph Entangled.” Fischer's—"The Whirl of the " Grand—“The Lottery of Love.” Orpheum—Vandeville. Tivoli—“The Toreador.” Her Children’s PRICE FIVE CENTS. BESIEGERS BEGIN GENERAL ASSAULT UPON PORT ARTHUR INTRENCHMENTS CHEFU, August 15, 1.30 p. m.—A telegram just received here from a reliable source states that a general attack on Port Arthur began at 4 oclock this morning. General -Kuroki has sent 100 guns and a large force of men from the Flirst Japanese Army to reinforce the besiegers. News of Port Arthur's capture is expected SUNKEN RURIK'S CREID MAY ALL HAUE PERISHED Japan's Victory Over Vliadi- vostok Squadron Complete. Damage to Admiral Kami- mura's I'leet Insignificant. 0, Aug. 14.—Vice Admiral Kamimura encountered the tok squadron at dawn to-day north of Tsu the it of Korea, and attacked enemy at once. ted in a complete Japanese The Russian cruiser Rurik was sur and the cruisers 1d Gromboi fled to the northward, after having sustained th th mimura cables the Navy Department that ted upon his vessels was slight. e fate of the crew of the Rurik is not known. It is pre- r of her men were led or drowiad. ngth of the fleet under Vice Admiral Kamimura is , but it is presumed that had the kachiho and other light cruisers. he Adzuma, the is news, as it gives Japan the mastery and restores commerce. HOU, Aug. 15, noon.—The Russian flag has just 3 led down from the battleship Cesarevitch and the three which took refuge here. The lowering of the colors was ence of the Get man Governor. legrams have stated that there were three Rus- destroyers at Tsingchou, and it is probable that should read three destrovers instead of cruisers. fiving, ¢ mship Gaelic, bound for 10 o’clock yesterday morn- a Russian cruiser, evidently <, steering southeast by east. and of the Admiral Togo |1 cries of ts of vie Tk ¥ 5 Strait. This strait is ra. | 2bout Y south of Nagasaki and e the | it would be presumed from the Novik | heading in this direction that she pur- ! | poses trying to reach Vladivostok by € | the éast coast of Japan | - | SAH IS AIDING JAPAN. Chinese Admiral Evidently in Collu- sion With Rnssia’s Foe, CHEFU, Aug. 14.—Despite Chinese Admiral Sah’s statement to the con- trary, it is learned positively that two Japanese torpedo-boats entered the harbor last night, while two cruisers and three torpedo-boat destroyers re- mained outside. One of the torpedo- boats communicated with the Chinese Admiral. The Russian consulate fears an at- tack on the wireless telegraph plant vessels from the | tok squadron i sive to Ja t only was | here, which is reported to have been - tion tempting, but de- | working perfectly. The Japanese tor- manded by commercial int The | pedo-boats covered that vicinity. It is y, however, grimly refused to make n and stuck to Port Arthur certain that the sq away, maintaining a blockade against hat harbor soon | the Russians. . x for the Russian| The Japanese Consul, in an inter- that the Japanese would View. said that his nation was fighting get a fair fight in the open |fOr its existence and could not con- . ‘sea away from the Russian land bat- |fider the nice points of Chinese neu- teries and that they would win. The Tality, which, he declared, had so calculations of the navy were correct | ©fl€n been violated by the Russians and the Russians, with the chances The United States cruiser Cincin- : .evened, have been hopelessly defeated | 'l'S searchlight was thrown on the Admiral Kamimura, after D2TDOT entrance to-night for a few ary and patient waiting, :‘.7.',\_}‘:';:_1” an endeavor to discover finally got his chance at dawn to-day 4. He sank the Russian cruiser Rurik and sent the cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia fleeing beaten from the fight. Japanese guns dominate the dock- yards at Port Arthur and in view of | ihis fact it would seem to be impossible again to make seaworthy or fightable the four Russian battleships which have returned to Port Arthur. It is * probable that the Russian battleship | i ' cpo o6 W Russian account of Cesarevitch will disarm at Teingeholl. | the battle of July 10, which Tacludea " The best possible naval force that siatement that his' waeia lded a Russia could now concentrate at Vlad- { gerious, T, AR 8. jvostok is four cruisers. | In the fighting of August 10 the | squadron under Admiral Togo was | . 2 . practically uninjured. The battleship | d‘:;;"ip(‘)‘:;é fi“‘x;eg-l;ruf::::sltatfe:: Mikasa suffered the most, but she con- | gy oyichmen, as it was apprehensi, | " lon AP R Captain Matousevitch Reported Dead. CHEFU, Aug. 14.—Captain Ma- lfl_l‘]sfi\')"‘_h, the late Rear Admiral Withoeft's chief of staff, who was wounded during the Japanese attack on the Cesarevitch, h on te. , has died of his off Tsu Isl The foregoing report probably is erroneous. It was Captain Matouse- i D Japan’s Victory Pleases England. tinues on the fighting line. The cruls- showed her to be heading | -ers Yakumo, Nisshin and Kasaga also were hit, but temporary repairs already “’have been made and they are fully serviceable. Eleven wounded officers and sixty-six wounded men arrived at Sasebo to-day. The Imperial Prince Hiroyasu Kwacho ‘was hit in the region of the heart. His wound, however, is slight. | caused by the enormous power of the criusers Rurik and Rossia, two of the vessels which composed the Viadivo- stok squadron, which led the British Government to build the monster cruisers Terrible and Powerful. The naval battles are here with greatest interest. phasett S War News Continued on Pare 2. | | | | i day.” | would remain, » W ar Bulletins. LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Chefu cor- respondent of the Daily Telegraph, under date of August 13, says: “Ad- miral Sah says that the Japanese promised to return the Russian tor- pedo-boat destroyer Ryeshitelni to- LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Tokio cor- respondent of the Dafly Telegraph, in a dispatch dated August 14, says: “A Nemuro, Japan, telegram states that tussian soldiers at Kamchatka mas- sacred eighty-seven of the crew of the Japanese schooner Teichi.” CHEFU, Aug. 14.—The Japanese have ordered all steamships bound for Japanese ports to postpone their de- parture. CHEFU. Aug. 14.—Only one Rus- sian torpedo-boat destroyer remains at Tsingchou with the Cesarevitch. The Jananese demanded the departure of the Cesarevitch, but the Governor of Tsingchou replied that the vessel but would be dis- mantled. CHILDRENS SOORN MAY AWAIT HER Mrs. Maybrick IS to Face a New Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—When Mrs. Maybrick arrives here;this week on the Vaderland to prosecute her suit involv- ing a $1,000,000 estate, there will arise compiications 6ver her children, James C. Maybrick, aged 22, and Gladys E. Maybrick, 18 years of age. To just what extent mother and children are estranged Is difficult to determine. In her published interviews, Mrs. May- brick has said little of them and as- sumed an air of sorrow when they ware mentioned. Not very long ago she was asked if a reconciliation were con- templated and gave only an equivocal answer. The subject is painful t6 her. ‘When Mrs. Maybrick was convicted she became, under English law, so- cially dead, and the legal status of the | children, then not of age, in refergnce to property was apparently held in abeyance. Thomas and Michael May- brick were appointed to hold the prop- erty in trust for them. Whether the interests of mother and children will clash remains to be seen, ————— Cholera Prevails in Persia. ST. PETERSBURG, &u“ 15.—The Messenger announces the closi; f the land frontier of Tuns-cuph:‘ w:- ritory, owing to the prevalence of cholera in Persia. /, 77 i | 5 here. — _— MASSACRES OF JEWS IN {0 TOWNS Renewal of Rioting by Russians IS Alleged. Twenty Hebrews Said fo Have Been Murdered in Ostrowitz. . Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The Jewish Morning Journal will print to-morrow T S8 . g ON MEY WHO OWN THE] Nevadan Shoots Pair With Their Own Weapors. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Nev., Aug. 14.—Jack Madi- gan and Frank Hamilton, two gam- blers, to-day started out to kill O. C. Elliott, one of the best known sa- loon-keepers at Goldfield. The men met Elliott in his saloon and started | to shoot. Elliott first disarmed Madi- | gan and with the latter's own revol- ver shot and killed him. He then disarmed Hamilton and wounded him seriously. The shooting is thought to have been the outcome of a mining deal and a gambling argument. the men in defense of his own life, has not been arrested and it js prob- able that he will not be prosecuted for the act. —_—— WIDOW OF “GOLDEN RULE” JONES TO KEEP UP WORK TOLEDO, Aug. 14—The widow of “Golden Rule” Jones said to-day that she will continue his great life work along the lines he had so persistently followed. She will set aside one even- ing each week to meet the wives of all her employes, and the social principles J governing the factories will be contin- Elliott, for the reason that he shot | VLADIVOSTOK WARSHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN BATTLE WITH JAPANESE SQUADRON. BARK SINRS AND TWENTY NN DRON Two British Vessels in Collision Off Ireland. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Aug. 14—The British bark Inverkip, Captain Jones, from Mel- bourne for Queenstown, was sunk and twenty persons were drowned as the | result of a collision off Fastnet Rock, | with the British Ireland, last night, ship Loch Carron, Captain Clark, from Clyde. —_—— TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER IS SUNK IN COLLISION ‘British Warship Goes the Scilly Islands, but the Crew Is Saved. LONDON, Aug. 14.—The British torpedo-boat destroyer Decoy sank off the Scilly Islands last night as the result of a collision with another de- stroyer. The crew was saved. The Decoy was a vessel of 4200 in- dicated horsepower, 265 tons displace- ment and was capable of making twenty-seven knots an hour. She was equipped with three torpedo tubes and one twelva—rounder and three six- pounder rapid-firing guns and carried a complement of fifty men. Down Off | O MAN'S SON FALLS 10 DEATH DisSipation Leads to Ruin of a Gal- ves_@piad. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Leo Lewis, ! “On Sunday, July 31, | Ostrowitz, government | Jew was quarreling with a gentile. The | than 100 Jews were seriously -+ | the following from its Warsaw, Rus- sia, correspondent: in the ecity of of Rodom, a latter, who was an epileptic, fell during the encounter as a result of one of his | eplleptic fits. Christian bystanders, however, raised the cry that the Jew had murdered their comrade In a short time all the Christi of the town turned out a to avenge the alleged crim that ensued resolved itself into an awful mas: of Jews. of whom twenty were | were wounded. day. | “Another massacre occurred on Sat- urday, July 30, in the town of Potsevh, government of Seidlitz, in the follow- ing manner: “A local clergyman induced a small d and a great number The massacre lasted all Hebrew mbrace the Christian faith. f the girl went to the r daughter was confined, accompanied by some of their Jewish friends, and demanded her re- lease on the ground that the court had decided that the girl was under age and could not act independenmtly in such matters, and that consequently her parents had a right to interfere with her actions. “The clergyman, seeing that the Jews were determined to use force, if neces- sary, called the Mayor to his aid. The two Incited the populace against the Jews and a fierce riot ensued. More injured. The number of dead is unknown, be- | cause the police withhold the facts.” ———e————— — CORPORATION OFFICERS SUE FOR HEAVY DAMAGES Stockholder Defendant in Action to Recover Money for Alleged Defa- mation of Character. DENVER, Aug. 14. — A stormy week’s session of the Big Five Mining Company has ended in the bringing of actions in the Federal court against Dr. G. H. Suffa, a Boston stockholder, for $300.000 damages. Willlam P. whose father was the richest man in Galveston, Tex., and who had million- | aire relatives in New York, died t day at the Pacific Hospital from in- Juries sustained by throwing himself from a hospital window Friday night. | He had been injured in an automobile | so | weakened his mind that the injuries | accident and his dissipation had caused delirium. Escaping the vigilance of his nurses, Lewis leaped from his window, clad only in his distance of about thirty feet. ing body and when a search was made Lewls was found in an unconscious condition. To habitues of the Rialto the dead man was known as “Moose” Lewis, a patron of sports and a liberal spender. Left an ample fortune by his parents, who died in Galveston several years ago, the young man came to An- geles to live. His fortune was cared for by his uncles, the Hirschneim Brothers, millionaire tobacco dealers of New York, who carefully guarded fit, but allowed their nephew an independ- ent income. With ithe exception of a sister in San Diego, the dead man left no relatives in California. night clothes, and fell a| Attend- | ants heard the noise made by the fall- | Daniels, president, and M. C. Merrill, secretary and treasurer of the com- pany, are the complainants. Each asks for $150,000 for alleged defama- tion of character. The suits are based on charges al- leged to have been made by Suffa through the press and in conversa- tion to the effect that the officers named were guilty of various dublous lacts in the management of the com- pany as a gigantic scheme to defraud | stockholders for the benefit of the of- ficers and favored stockholders. The stock of the company is largely held | in the East. — e TURKISH TROOPS ATTACK A BAND OF ARMENIANS Kurds Are Said to Have Taken Part in Attack on Village of Schamirun. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. M—A band of Armenians has béen attacked by Turkish troops in the village of Schamirun, five hours’ travel north of Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey. Kurds are al- leged to have taken part in the attack. Two villages are to have been destroyed.