The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1904, Page 1

AUGUST 25, 1904 SUBMARINE |CATHOLIC BOAT STAYS | FUNDS ARE AT BOTTOM IMPERILED CIeW of the Porpoise| Washington Univer- = ="/ Has a Thrilling | sity Fears Loss Experience. | of Money. All Efforts to Send .Craft More Than $800,000 In- @ the Surface Fail volved in the Thomas for a Time. Wageman Failure. Is Gone the Vessel Rises | Other Creditors Fighting to Set Aside fier B 5 Unexpectedly as She Had Sunk, a Trust Deed Given to the Institution. Spectal Dispatch to The Call HOTEL BARTON, re matched here in proceedings yesterday to force Thomas aire treasurer of ; o Wageman to show cause ber § why he should not be compliance with attorney for Wageman r Wageman desired the & practically triple securit T 4o not care to discuss the question of preferred creditors,” he answered. Wageman’s bond ameounted to only $200.900. He was charged as treasurer which would leave the university uni cured for about $700.000. Asked wh; the placing of the Wageman art gallery and library as security was at first re- ported as a gift, Willlamson said it would have been ancial suicide for s Wagen at that time to have ac- knowledged the trutk - authoritiesy & the instifitio bankruptey pro- 10 CONTROL Said to Hold a Majority of Its Stoc JEPORTERS Rescued From Miners —_— telegram Fork an- er the Central and rtions of the country tion of th inde- CRIPPLE CREEK, ( the West will give | Two men were arrested Bell to-day while attempting to deport Her- he | man Herz, a2 clothing merchant of Goldfield, from the district. In cc ¢ and the Southern Pac d thus | PARY With one other they forced H rect lines fr New York to | &t the point of revolvers, to accom: of Mexico and the Pacific | hem. saying they were wanted at In- is added that the next Santa | Sependence. jection probably will be controlled || After the men had left with their Harriman interests prisoner Mrs. Herz telephoned to Sher- iff Bell of the occurrence and the lat- w Y gram Erie, the Santa Fe ESPOUSES THE CAUSE wae then given over to one of the deputies, who is now guarding him to prevent any further efforts to send him away. has sent Phipps. his nephew, an ultimatum re- Herz says that a big crowd of armed | becam quiring h to return his two children | Men had gathered near the Hull City to their mother at once. In spite of | Property for the purpose of escorting | and ositive assertions by Pittsburg parties | him from Goldfield, but he was rescued » the famous divorce case that they| Py the authorities in time to thwart of such an arrangement, | their plans. is hat Henry Phipps has| Ten criminal informations were filed taken 2 hand in the affair and has/|in the District Court to-day by Deputy espoused the cause of the young wife | DIstrict Attorney Charles C. Butler | 2 T, of his nephew. He has taken Lawrence | charging about 75 personms, including be did so Murphy released the net and | the mortally wounded man staggered toward his house across the street. the steps his Phipps to task, accusing him of |8 number of the most prominent citi- yreaking his promises, and has warned | zens of the district, with being lead- arga is uncle will consider him a stranger | urday. The informations were based hereafter. | upon affidavits prepared in Denver by CHICAGO, Aug. 24 — It is asserted | the men who were driven from the @ere several Government Secret Service | camp. w are engaged in this city, through T D5 S T S u:nu;ncobnf Mrs. !h‘";m“ C. Phipps | MASSACHUSETTS MISS of ittsburg, wit! ormer Attorne; WEDS CHINES ENTIST General Philander C. Knox, in gather. s Mo ing evidence for her defense in the STON., Givorce proceedings instituted by her| Gearelanos Murre, a promioont st | and member of the f ernment detectives are believed to have | Congregational Chnrch:'evlvlucotg:‘!:n | the business | married 4 to . Tang Yawn Fon settiement sought by both Mr. and Mrs. | wealthy Chinese dentist, despite d‘th: man’s side. Phipps, representatives in | protests of her friends and relativee. Tang " was here her husband, who was sup- is a Christian 4 Ameri Denver. and is indifferent to criticism. WELL-KNOW] SHIPBUILDER OF THE P)TRERO IS KILLED SELE RICH BY A4 D:PUTY POUNDKEEPER Foporrr KIDVAPERS (INFANTRY 10 ATTACK CHICAGOAN. THE FORTS | | of the university with about $300,009, L GOV BOAT BUILDER., WHILE DEFENDING HIS DOG, WAS in a Struggle Over a Little Dog. After Scheif had fired the fatal shot the direction of Hunters Point. BROTHER SAW MURDER. . William Schultze's statement was in the same as Schumacher’s. . ——— his house or ascertain the extent of his | mounted the wagon, ping up his Yorses, d toward ‘Hunters Poi presence of:his i Scherf, whip- | e sight of the un- were unable man any as- outh San Francisco | expected and av | the shot deliberately and without prov- | panic at Asuncion i police station South San Francisco station and jumped into his buggy and rove rapidly to the ¢ Scherf was taken before Captain made the following state- There was a Pre th hatchets, hammers gotiations e ticks coming at us and I had to | the questions at issue I did not intend to kill the man. | olutionists and the Government are but when I grabbed the pistol it went | proceeding simultaneousl The belief and I do|is growing that the Ge in seif-defense. crowd of men the peninsula of land on were driving. He sent Policeman Mac- | phee over the hills south of Fifth ave- | nue to intercept the flight of the men, | which he belisved would be toward the | neck of the peninsula. then drove madly to | poundmen the part it played in the late tragedy | efell its master, and in the house, prostrated over the loss of their dearest friend and protector, sit the dead man's | , children and brother. iltze attempted to save It was not not know who loaded it.”" i The rest of Scherf's statement was The rumors that a land engagement an utterance of denials of the stories| has been fought between the revolu- First he said | tionists and Government troops. resuit- then the| Ing in the defeat of the latter and the gun went off by accident. Schert’s aim. | capture of 400 men, as announced In however, was deadly. The bullet passed | these dispatches through Schultze's lungs and internal yet been confir Sergeant Lewis | head off the| pass before ! Macphee could cut them off. Macphee secured a saddle horse and caught the | wagon on Fifteenth avenue, but Scherf | ! was gome. In his place driving was a | Wein! v man named Chariey Ford of 801 the vehicle and started | street, a character known around the huitze's d?g. Scharf sat upon | saloons in that part of the city. Fear- Rudoiph Schultze and his | ing to be taken, Scherf, after he had ?puaed Hunters Point, met Ford, then ght of the pound- | jumped from the vehicle and calling to into the street to|Ford to take the reins, made south over ive the dog into his yard. He had a | the hiils. He was afterward arrested by | Detectives Cody and Whitaker, hiding As | in the house of Mrs. eye-witnesses. ot in self-defense, arge of Deputy Poundmen Arthur Murphy and rf stopped in front of the and Murphy | hemorrhage caused death SHOT WAS UNPROVOKED. Charles Weintraut, the deputy pound- BY FOUR MASKED MEN man, made the following statement: 2 “We stopped to catch Schultze’s dog. Robbers Escape With a Sack Com- Schultze got caught in Murphy's net. | taining Five Thousand He had a hammer in his hand and In| Dollars. the struggle hit Murphy In the back. I do not think the blow was intended, but was merely the result of Schultze’s I heard the shot, then heard Schultze say ‘T'm shot.’ saw Gus (meaning Scherf) standing on | the front of the wagon with a gun in| Billy Schultze advanced to- and Gus said to him: 1 shoot PAny | hrother Willlam were working in the Rudolph ran v in his hand whith he had | sing but a moment before. Samusl Pierce, get the animal into the ‘ with two ties, ertook the| pe | wife of the bookkeeper for the pound- OF HIS NEPHEW'S would-be deporters and their victim| yard he was push : by ) ok i WIFE | ang arrested two of the former. Herz | who used h:sp{on:lh::dfid ;fl;‘_‘é:‘[’?g kee; Murphy and Weintraut were placed { under arrest by Lewis and Macphee | and taken to the Potrero station, fafterward to the Hall of Justice. | told a straight story to Captain Mar- tin, who, realizing that they took no | part in the murder, allowed them Scherf was booked for murder. The murder was witnessed by Wil- | liam Schultze, the dead man's brother, and Fred Schu- | macher, a butcher of 1109 Fifth avenue south. Schumacher said: “I was stand- ing on the hill above the street and saw the pound wagon drive up. One of the men threw a net over Schultze's head. Schultze struggled to get free. While he and the man with the net were struggling the other poundman | caught the dog and threw it in the| | wagon. All this time Scherf sat on the to mount three | wagon watching the confiict. steps and then sank overcome from |sudden, as if by some mad impulse, | he reached under the wagon seat, drew ‘were the last | forth a revolver, rose in his seat and words he ever uttered, and as his lips | fired point blank at Schultze. Schultze reeled and the man with the net let him loose. As he staggered up his stairs I ran to assist him. The driver. after he had shot Schultze, called to his ‘Come on here, you fellows: let’s his." Willlam Schuitze ran wagon as if to attack to keep the master from the Sye witnesses say ver Schultze’s head, imen aver that Schultze entangled in it through his own The net enveloped Schultze 3 struggled to free himself Scherf, who was sitting on the wagon, elf to a standing position, ward the wago while the poune 1 . ‘You have ded murder; for God's Are you crazy ' done a eold-bloc “sake put up that gun. Then we jumped into the wagon and 2 drove off. We met that fellow Ford ' DUSSY wslt,h re;’o{l:g;: and got away on Fifteenth avenue and Scherf called, “itn the Pag o Y- to him to take the wagon and ran over the hills to the sout ! coolly fired at the men B fSanghter; caught in the meshes of the ne “I'm shot,” Schultze reeled. A< fn that If he persists in obtaining a | ers of the mob that deported a dozen | he reached ree from his wife by a technicality | OF more men from the district last Sat- | Lthel. who saw the whole tragedy from | the window, ran down to assist him. CHILD KISSES DYING FATHER. Schultze managed It was Gus must loss of blood. “Kiss me, Ethel, dea: met for the last time those of his be- loved child he toppled over on his face Schultze, the brother, and a neighbor who witnessed the murder, rushed to the wounded home d d«.‘)n;:te e L an OTS Were graduated in San Francisco. Schultze was dead. 'ome:.ll:lia 2 prominent singer | —dead. is not good. men, get out of tl to! 45 years of | Crime. —_— Crowded Street the Japan's Guns Open ' Scene of Bold | Breaches in the Defenses. | Captive Is Hustled Into a Tokio Awais News of the Closed Carriage and Carried Away. His Whereabouts Is Unknown and Relatives Have Received No I Demands. Special Dispat The Call CTHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Seized by two strange men on one of the busiest | | downtown corners of the city. ‘ A. Vinnedge of 446 Dearborn was thrown into a closed carriage and carried away. The kidnaping v ean by hundreds of pe: but ried out with su realized the ar ne time was the head of an ex ve business in hardwood lumber and was considered ome of the wealthiest lumber men in Chicago. He | | is a brother of Samuel J. Vinnedge, head of S. J. Vinnedge & Co., hardwood lumber dealers, and is assoclated with | | other relatives in that firm The strange feature of the affair Is he man has | | been unnoticed by his rela His | | immediate family is spending t um | | mer at an Eastern watering place. H brother is out of the city and is n expected to return until to-morrow At the offices of S. J. Vinnedge & Co. the stenographer in charge de- | | clared she had not seen Mahlon A | | Vinnedge since Friday and that no one in the office knew where he | | The kidnaping took place in | | of the Fort Dearborn buliding at Clar! | | and Monroe strests a - few _minut { Tafter the noon hour on Friday T | | correr at the time Was crowded with | | pedestrians. oE g B3 ] - " (] | e, | 1 MIST YIELD ‘Suceess of the Revo- dog, whipped the aEsme [tion Appears He says his brother made no attempt to strike the men, but merely struggied lin an attempt to release himself from the meshes of the net; that Scherf fired BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 24—The cribable. For- elgners in all parts Paraguay are leaving under the protection of the diplomatic corpe arations for hostilities and ne- ng to a settlemen etween the rev- ernment must yield. yesterday, have not ed. ——————————— | PAYMASTER HELD UP PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 24—Four masked men held up Paymaster White of the O’Rourke Construction Company on the Ridge road, near here, to-day I turned and and robbed him of $5000. The paymaster, accompanied by two men, was on his way to the office of the company, driving in a buggy, when four men, one an American, masked goggles, came out of the woods. The American shot the horse. The robbers covered -the three occupants of the _— DYING WOMAN WANTS Howard TO SEE HER CHILDREN | street, the other deputy, corroborated i ‘Weintraut's statement and added that he had nlaced the gun under the seat. San Franciscans Who Are Vis- “[ secured it from Alfred Johnson, a iting the Fair. grocerymian at Fifteenth and Foisom .t streets, eight days ago to clean. not loaded when I placed it on the wagoa todr;lurn to Johnson. ve loaded it.” 2 hasrherl says there was a crowd at-| Marion of San Francisco. The latter, tacking him and his partners, but eye- | [0F Man¥ years a cripple and an inva. witnesses say there was no one near but the Schultze brothers, until after| S charged 'with murder i | (€T 3Fe Visiting the exposition. 24 years of age and has been with the | ¥+ pound for some time. Detective Cody says that his reputatio Rudolph Schultze wo® age and a native son. He leavesa widow, two children and three brothers. ‘With his brothers, Willlam and Au- gust, he conducted a small shipbuild- ing and repairing plant on Fifth ave- ley to-day began search for Mrs. Juliet V' Marion, daughter and son of a Mrs. in her children before she dies. The lat- auspices of the Masons. | that the Japanese have captured Et | of defenses. | breached and t completely, and three Italians wearing | Which a St. Louis Police Searching for Two ST. LOUIS, Aug. 24—Chief of Police| 25 €N 1id, is reported critically ill at her home San Francisco and is anxious to see — ! nue and had been in the business fif- teen years. He bore the esteem and /| respect of the residents of the Potrero. | He owned considerable property and | had some mines in Nome. He was a | Master Mariner and Royal Arch Ma- son. The burial will be held under the Final Assault and Port Arthur’s Fall Expects the Loss of Life to Be Enor- mous, but Is Confident of Victory. TOKIO, Ang. 25, 9 . m.—Two Ras- sian torpedo-boat destroyers struck mines at the entrance of Port Arthur last evening. The larger ome of the destroyers, a four-funneled one, was sunk. The names of the vessels and the number of lives lost are unknown. CHEFU, Aung. 25.—The Raussian guns silenced by the cruisers Nisshin ai#l Kasaga at Port Arthur were sta- tioned on a temporary position near Golden Hill and were not a part of the Golden Hill defenses. The latter are still intact. LONDON., Aung. 24—The corre- spondent of the Times at Shanghai in a dispatch dateq August 24. 11:35 p- m., says that orders from Emperor Nicholas have been conveyed to Cap- tain Reitzenstein, commanding him forthwith to disarm the cruiser As. kold and the torpedo-boat destroyer Grozovoi and that “the flags om both vessels were lowered at 7 o'clock to- night.” 4. —The final assanlt minent. Hundreds TOKIO, on Port Arthur s Aestry to the cfty and har- bor Hnes of forts and trenchments, preparatory to the in- fantry assault. It is evident that the es have been wezkened and penetrated in the vicinity of the Autzshan Itzshan forts. The line of Russian defenses imme- the harbor are within range of the Japanese guns. A number of Russian forts and bat- taries a vigorous fire. The Japanes be heavily in- creased befors they are captured The direct ¢ the Japanese attack creates the 1 sion here that the city and d either side of the harbor final stand a fall first. The at Liaoshan. J nels of infor ma the Navy Departme: announcement of the striking of 2 mine by the battleship opol and the firing upon the Rus- sers Nisshin an the only days confl- ead- houses and erecting arches and flag- staffs in preparatien for a national elebration of ected victory. RUROPATRIN REINFORCED. Thirty-Five Thousand Troops Join the Main Army. ST. PETERSBURG. sbite of the anxiety which is g the fate of Port Art ce and the Admiral closed to-day owing to the e royal infant and no official dispatches were given out. So far as can be ascertained, no fur- r news of the progress of the fight- ing before beleaguered Port Arthur has practicall christening of t | been received, except that contained in the reports from foreign sources. These latter are conflicting, some of them re- porting that the Japanese assault has become exhausted and others claiming shan fort, belonging to the western line ¢ this position has been taken and occupied it is realized that uniess the Japanese are at once dis- lodged the ain of forts will be sition of Port Ar- thur rendered al. The report, however, s considered as requiring confirmation. The simple fact that the day te large portion of the publie looked forward to with superstitious dread passed without the fall of the fortress suddenly encourages the peo- ple here to hope that the christening of the Czarevitch will mark a turn In the tide. Reports that General Kuropatkin is about to make an important move cons tinue to be circulated, but the char- acter of the move is not hinted at. As the reports from the front agreé that the rains have ceased and that the roads are drying, a resumption of mili- is expected. Since his retirement from Simou- cheng and the Yansgtse Pass it is estis rnon Buchanan and Clarence | ;;(.q that more than 35,000 remforce- | ments have reached General Kuropat- kin. Nothing has been received from Rus- sian sources confirming the report that the battleship Sevastopol struck a mine outside Port Arthur yesterday. St 2t THE HAGUE MAY DECIDE. Russia Seeks to Arbitrate the Question of Contraband. ’ LONDON, Aug. 25.—The absence of dispatches of any kind from the Far - i Continued on Page 3, Columm 3.