The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty midnight, August San Francisco o oA { erly winds, changing to brisk westerly, with fog. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. Cloudy Wednesday; light south- “ | st Sem Eran- 17: . E-e and vicinity— o | A Central—“For Sake.” Town.’ Grand—"The to-day. Alcazar—“The Manxman.” California—*“Just Before Dawn.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia—*Joseph Entangled.” Fischer's—"“The Wilrl of " Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—*“The Toreador.” Her Children’s Lottery of Love.” Matinee PRICE FIVE CENTS PORT ARTHUR CRUISER DIANA ARRIVES AT VLADIVOSTOK AND THE NOVIK IS SIGHTED ON HER WAY TO TH AT HAVEN p - TH Murder of Hodge Family Horribly Avenged. Two Confessed Assassins Wrested From a Mili- tary Guard. Their Clothing Saturated With Kero- sene Before Maich Is Applied to the Pyre. FELL ST R STATESBORO, Ga., Aug. 16.—With clothing saturated with kerosene, twisting in their agony, heaven for the not show, , negroes, murder and burn- his wife six miles from ks were to-day 1:20 o'clock a mob use secure overpow- Gato guilty d to be uar i sentence n and unex- been passed Reed, the d and a ve Both he and yesterday, were n September courthouse rday, nor was h for that mat- nuch parade, the quickly g quiet f ¥ little delay had d on its conclusion the fore, were hurried into where a strong mili- g placed over them. TO MOB. agitation began troom and entered before 1 o’clock d by a tall 1ame it greatly e about him to fol- VAIN APPEALS ch, of the Ogle- who was in com- realized that the desperate. He of the st r above, whe With , the surged toward al times. was yet to be stairway the greatest foned the crowd against ned. Prominent men, the Rev. Mr. Hodges, r f mur man, sprang lt” the front to addr the crowd. He vegged its m € to disperse. Sheriff Kendrick caut : equally & ) and Reed, but that only by rmation secured from the cond men could the others be convicted. The crowd demanded that he promise not to take the negroes back to Savannah. This he decglined to do. . Buddenly twenty-five men crowded around the guards. Before they could be prevented they had caught two of the guards, wrested their weapons from them and thrown open the breech locks. The weapons were empty. GUARDS ARE OVERPOWERED That was what the crowd wanted to ascertain. The troops had been given orders not to load their rifles. The captured soldiers were held prisoners. The same policy was followed with the other soldiers. Man after man, caught isolated, was relieved of his rifle after & struggle. At the front a member of the crowd crept along the wall until he got close to the guards. He threw himself upon them. Into the breach thus formed his companions threw themselves. Two hundred wildly cheering men followed and soon the soldiers, though they fought desperately and Inflicted bayo- net wounds upon some of their assafl- ents, were overpowered. The small guard about the prisoners withdrew into the room and closed the door. The mob crashed against it, bursting it easily. Cato, Reed, Handy Bell and the other prisoners cowered before the crowd. Cato and Reed alone were dragged out. Reed was taken down one stairway with a rope about “is neck and Cato down the other, both ding for their lives. MAKES A LAST CONFESSION. By this time the crowd numbe; 500 persons. The doomed men w:fe’ dragged, the crowd shouting and cheer- ing, along the roadway to the Hodges bomestead. The heat was so intense that the crowd wearied when two miles of the six-mile route had been tra- versed. Going seventy-five yards from | the woad, the crowd halted. The two negroes were told they had but a short time to live an that they should con- | tess. Reed confessed, implicating oth: - Muhmhmmr%w:” — Continued on Page 2, Column 6. twe of and | | | ! AN ¥ Al Ot FIPOM TAME SIMERE- > o says that the cruiser Novik of the Port Arthur squadron ONDON, Aug. 17—A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says a naval officer has telegraphed to his familv that T ~— i ‘.IIL{'[ f | comes Hawaiian Heiress. e Rich Mrs. La Conte of Hono- | -lulu Adopts Her as ' a Daughter, JAPANESE TROOPS OFF TO THE the cruiser Diana of the Port Arthur squadron has arrived at Vladivostok. The Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mail has been sighted off the Strait of Van Diemen, steering for Viadivostok. —_— — - B | | | ! - | \_Q';—__:K\*\. i - / N | Rosebud Land I@ery. Special Dispatch to The Call YANKTON, S. D, Aug. 16.—By par- ticipating in the Rosebud drawing for homesteads William Brewer of Illinois not only became the owner of one of the best farms In the agency, but he found his 70-year-old mother, whom he had lost trace of fifteen years ago. Out in California Mrs. Brewer read, | among the names of the “lucky” folk who drew farms at the Roesbud, that of her son, and wrote to him. has gone to California to. bring mother to the new Dakota farm. The Brewers formerly lived in Ili- nois. Willlam and a brother went to Chicago fifteen years ago to find work in that city. During their absence the | rest of the family moved to Oklahoma. | The brothers parted and lost trace of one another. William afterward came to Yankton. There he tried to discover the whereabouts of others of the family. and failed. His mother’s letter says that she and he are the only survivors. —_—— SOCIETY BELLE ELOPES WITH TROLLEY CAR DRIVER Daughter of Wealthy Pennsylvania Merchant Forsakes Beautiful Home for Motorman. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Miss Ethel | Barry, 19 years of age, daughter of | Amos Barry, a well known business man of Pennsylvania, who has a fine | summer home on Stone road, between Eatontown and Ocean Point, N. J., has startled all society folk near Long | Branch by eloping with Michael Rior- dan, a motorman on the West End and Long Branch trolley road. The marriage is said to have taken place in Long Branch this morning. Although the young woman’s pa- rents were aware that she knew Rior- is { He | gan and were strongly opposed to the friendship, no thought of their getting married had ever entered their minds. LER Dakotan IS Lucky in Brewer | |Kuropatkin Holds! a Very Strong | Position. 'Main Army Is Not Believed to Be in Danger. } | Special Dispatch to The Call. | ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.—Once | more the war party, confronted by a | double naval catastrophe in | East, invites the country to regard what has occurred as of little account in the long run and to concentrate its hope upon the army. Indeed, there is nothing else to do, in view of the admitted plight of the navy. It is a source of consolation that the Russian soldiers fought with great gallantry in the face of heavy odds and many discouragements; but nobody ap- pears to believe the result for a mo- ment doubtful and few dispute the magnificent behavior of the enemy. Temporarily, at least, the navy is eliminated from calculation and the discussion revolves around the army in Manchuria. Kuropatkin is declared to possess a perfect shield east of the railway as far north as Yingfau, enabling him to fight an effective rear guard action to | the south and southeast and still run | no risk of envelopment. The army is strongest on the left wing, which may be described as the pivot on which the Russian forces are slowly swinging around from the south and southeast. | The Japanese are gradually advanc- ing against Kuropatkin's right wing, but have so far to march before they can become dangerous that for the time being they are almost a negligible quantity. Kuropatkin has been reminded by the general staff that the situation at sea requires even greater caution in the field than hitherto, and that nothing could excuse a failure to preserve the main army intact for future operations under less unfavorable circumstances. The food resources in the north have proven much better than expected. The Russians monopolize the meat sup- ply in Mongolia. Flour, greenstuffs and tea are abundant. The mills of Harbin are grinding enough to supply the Russian army without cutting the non-combatant supplies materially. Bran, millet and beancake have been collected in quanti- ties sufficient for the autumn and win- ter. ‘War News Continued on Page 2. | the Far | ! how quickly they can transport 40,000 ! for the surrender of the fortness, was FRONT—EMBARKATION OF AN ARMY OF INVASION FROM NAGASAKL War Bulletins. ‘ TSINGCHOU, Aug. 16.—The of- ficers of the Russian battleship Ce- sarevitch assert positively that a Jap- se battleship sank within full view during the battle on the night of Aug- | ust 10, PEKING, Aug. 17, 8 a. m.—The Chinese rallways have been asked if they have sufficient rolling stock and troops to Shanhaikwan. TOKIO, Aug. 17.—The Emperor's offer to release the noncombatants at Port Arthur, coupled with a demand delivered yesterday (Tuesday). An answer is expected to-day. LONDON, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the Central News from Tokio says that a big oil warehouse at Port Ar- thur is blazing furiously and that the position of the besieged is such that the Japanese are urging them to sur- render. — — RUIN 1N PATH OF CLOTDBURST Water Fifteen Feet Deep Rushes Down Canyons, Carrying Everything Away, i i KINGMAN, Ariz., Aug. 16.—Report by telephone from Layne Springs, four- teen miles north of here, says that be- tween 5 and 6 o'clock last evening a cloudburst fell on the summit of the Cerfifat Mountains, sending a flood of water fifteen feet deep down through the canyons, carrying everything before it. At the Night Hawk mine a house was carried away and two men were drowned. George M. Bowers, a well known mining man, escaped from the building, but was imprisoned in the tunnel of the mine. He was dug out this morning by fellow-miners. The body of Ole Inglebrethen was found two miles down the canyon imbedded in mud and debris. The body of John Connor, another victim, has not yet been recovered. g At the Alpa mine, one hundred yards to the north of the Night Hawk, ore dumps were carried away and huge ‘boulders piled up in the portals of the tunnel. At Stockton Hill, and all along the range, shafts are filled with water and debris, and much damage done. ‘Many miraculous escapes from the flood are reported. General rain is falling here to-day and washouts on the rallroads are probable. Port Arthur's Am- munition Run- "ning Short. Slav Ships Targets for the Foe's" Cannon. Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.—The belief that Port Arthur is deomed in- creases daily. It is an open secret that, while provisions are plentiful, the am- munition expended since the beginning of the war is stupendous, and there cannot be a large supply. The official Viesenik publishes news of another attack four days ago, the| result of which is unknown. The news that the Vladivostok squad- ron has at last been tackled and badly battered causes the Russ to lament Russia’s singular lack of fortune in the | war. The Birschewya, referring to the | attitude of England and America, says: “It is hopeless to expect Europe to intervene to prevent breaches of inter-| national law. {f these powers show | themselves helpless, nothing can pre- vent other countries being drawn into | the war.” | Strong hopes are entertained of the| Novik and Pallada reaching Vladivo- | stok. CHEFU, Aug. 16.—To-day’s sortie of the Russian warships from Port Arthur is regarded as a confirmation of pre- vious reports that the Japanese have sian vessels to leave the harbor. not certain that they returned to their former anchorage after the sortie. It is said they did not encounter the Japa- nese fleet, which kept off some distance from the entrance to Port Arthur. last night, fearing danger from torpedoes in_the darkness. Junks which left Port Arthur on Aug- | ust 13 report that heavy fighting was continuing. e BALTIC FLEET'S FAREWELL. Vice Admiral Rojestvensky Goes on Board His Flagship. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.—Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, commander of the Baltic fleet, with his staff, went on board the battleship Suvaroff in the roadstead of Kronstadt on Sunday and Admiral Biruleff signaled him a farewell - message, expressing confl- dence and wishing him good luck. It is not known here, however, if Vice Admiral Rojestvensky has yet salled. THREATENN VILLAGES Settlers_@uggling ' Against Flames | in Forest, el i Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 26.—The worst fire in the history of Linn County is sweep- ing down upon four settiements in the eastern part of the county, and unless the wind shifts or rain falls unexpect- edly the villages are doomed. The fire is now utterly beyond control, though hundreds of determined men are fight- ing the flames. Thirty square miles of good timber have been burned over at a loss of many thousands of dollars. Gilbert Brothers’ shingle mill, a num- | ber of homes, farm buildings, etc. have been destroyed, though no fatali- ties have occurred thus far. The fire started last week fourteel miles from Lebanon, and began from a campfire left burning by careless ber- | ry pickers. The hamlets which seem certain of destruction are Coster, Sweet | Home, Sodaville and Waterloo. The flames have jumped three streams. The fire is of such breadth that it cannot be checked at all points, and it carries a strong wind with it. ————————— AUSTRIAN OR VWHNG EDWARD at Marienbad and Holds a Monarchs M Francl Reception. MARIENBAD, Bohemia, Aug. 16.— Emperor Francis Joseph arrived here to-day from. Vienna to visit King Ed- ward. The monarchs greeted each other with marked cordiality. After the presentation of the re- spective suites their Majesties drove to the Hotel Weimar. The route was lired with soldiers and gendarmes and immense crowds greeted the two sovereigns. The Emperor remained ten minutes in King Edward's apart- ments and then drove to the Villa Luginsland, where the British mon- arch later paild him a brief return visit. Emperor Francis Joseph after- ward held a reception, which was at- tended by the officlals and other prominent personages of Marienbad., | ‘| heiress, GREAT FIRE (UITS NEWS STAND FOR - A NAXSIO 'Poor Denver Girl Be- | Young Woman's Likeness fo a Rela- | tive Who Died Is the Cause { of Her Good Fortune. LB .3 Special Dispatch to The Call | | i DENVER, Colo., Aug. 16.—After de- | clining the offer of Mrs. Mabel La | Conte of Honolulu, a childless widow | with vast estates in the Hawalian Is- {lands, to adopt her and make her her Miss Gertrude Forbes, in charge of the news stand at the Metro- pole Hotel in this eity, has changed her mind and will within the next two weeks leave for Honolulu. Miss Forbes refused the offer when it was made several weeks ago because she was not willing to lea the aunt and uncle who had reared her from a child and | to whom she was much atta d. The death of the uncle, George C. Brand- lin, last week caused her to change her mind. To-day she notified Mrs, Conte that she was ready to leave her new home in' the Pacific Mrs. La Conte came to the continent | to visit the World’s Fair. On the w | Bast she stopped in Denver. At th | Metropole the Hawalian woman attracted to a dark haired gir lustrous black eves, who sold ne papers and cigars at the ho The girl reminded her of a relative dead. They spent much time together | ally Mrs. La Conte broached to ! Forbes a subject dear to her h Would Miss Forbes give up her toil and go to Honolulu as daughter and heiress? The bright future pictured appealed | strongly to Miss Forbes. She expressed a desire to go, but could not bec: of her uncle and aunt. After severar | days of importuning Mrs. La | went to the fair, but continued to Miss Forbes by letter to alter her de- cision. Last week, when Mrs. La Conte heard of Brandlin’s death, she tele- graphed to Miss Forbes that now she should be free, and after consulting with her aunt Miss Forbes decided she | would accept Mrs. La Conte's offer. It has not been settled whether Mrs. Brandlin will accompany her. Mrs. La Conte is expected in Denver this week. Plans for the journey to Honolulu then will be made. BRANDS STORT S ) CANARD IS Gt 16.—General WASHINGTON, Aug Nord never threatened to repeat the massacre of foreigners in Hayti in | 1904 according to Minister Powell, who has the denial from the President’s own lips. The Minister says that on August 1 several American merchants informed him that President Nord had made such a threat in a public audience. As this report caused great alaym in all classes, Minister Powell, at the request of the merchants, saw the President and asked as to the truth of the re- port. He replied that no statement of that character had been made. Minister Powell gives in detail an ac- count of the anti-Syrian movement He says the trouble originated in the | market, where a soldier, having made some purchases for which he tendered a dollar, was refused change. The market people stood together and attacked the soldiers, one of whom was | killed. For a time the situation looked angerous, as the solalers comrades came from the barracks fullv armed only to be met by a fully armed police force. Minister Powell hastened to General Ferrera, the Minister for Foreign Af- fairs, and demanded protection for the Syrians who were principally natural- ized Americans. He was told that the disorders were owing to enemies of the Government, especially to the friends of the Haytian Bank prisoners. Presi- dent Nord sa'd that before he would release these prisoners without trial he would cut his own throat, but he prom- ised full protection to the foreigners in Hayti. = —_——————— HIRSCHFELD DIES FROM SELF-INFLICTED WOUND San Francisco Jeweler Who Cut His Throat on Liner Passes Away in New York. * NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Emile Hirschfeld, 38 years old, formerly a jeweler of San Francisco, who cut his throat on the Touraine, which arrived here last Saturday, died in the Pres- byterian Hospital yesterday. Hirschfeld’s brother, Albert, who is staying at the Hotel Cumberland on Fifty-fourth street and Broadway, will take charge of the body. There is no known reason for the suicide.