The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. MONDAY, OCTORER 17, 1904. BELL CONFESSES Congressman McLachlan Meets and Calls Down the Democratic Candidate of the Second District Dote on the Cuban Reciprocity Billl 100 ¢ we ot 3406 as we E BELL IS RATTLED. ional Record We ask every 2ill in every particular and icism we have fnade om it demerits of the terested in Dow. | merits are mos deceive them thinking that he ey asked for, in- B eek - American Republican | st night at Lyric Hall and | ically indorsed the Repub-| ticket. both national and local | in praise or Julius Kahn, | h were loudly applauded, were the | re of the event Pl p. o2 e Thronged With Candi- | it There were many representative Re- publ at headquarters of the S[alei committee, Palace Hotel, yesterday. In the throng were Cenmgressional nom- inees J. C. Needham. Sixth District; zes McLachlan. Seventh: Duncan E. Second, and Julius Kahn, ! | Paul Fowler, J. J s Quinn, W. Van Loon, John Tully, William Willlam H. Woodall and mmittee is to ar- ting in the dis- hen the Repub- ngress, E. A speaker. were made and much | d. Among the H. J. Truman, upervisor Eggers, 1 1 H. Captain M. V. Mayer, J. Mec( James MecCarthy —_———————— JAMES LE BARON JOHNSON ILL AND DEATH IS EXPECTED Romantic Life of Man Who Ran Away | With Bellevue Nurse Nears Its End. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Unless his rs can save him the last chapter antic career of James Le| on, the former fire chap- | be written. He is dying erside drive and reet, where he has ng since his return | flight abroad with Mary Hoff- | Bellevue Hospital nurse, for'! his bri d to be his nurse now, just as she| was when he t realized that he lcved her more than he did his wife. | sages are refused and none of th ends of the man who once shook | the hands of thousands has been to see : him. He has been forsaken by all ex- cept the woman for whom he changed | the whole course what might have been a career of giory. i Everything has been done to save the young man who has been in his day a social butterfly, an earnest clergyman, | a fire hero worshiped by the boys of the New York Fire Department, and a faithless husband. His mother, wife of Deacon George D. Johnson of Staten Island, declared to-night that he was| gravely ill and other friends said his life was despaired of. At his home nothing could be learned and his wife, the former Bellevue nurse, could not be seen. — EAMON CORRAL ON HIS WAY TO VISIT SAN FRANCISCO Mexican Vice President-Elect Departs With His Party From l World's Fair. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.—Ramon Corral, | Mexican Vice President-elect and the PG | being voiced against | order of the day reaffirming the right THAT HE HAS BEEN SAILING UNDER FALSE COLORS HOISTED BY DEMOCRATIC PRESS HOOSIER STATE NOT IN DOUBT. Young Voters Are Flocking to the Republican Standard Epecial Dispatch to The Call. ] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 16.— es M. Pepper, staff correspondent New York Herald, summarizes a situation as follows: . seen in the preliminary | ¥, is Republican, though not so strongly as it was at this stage of the campaign four s ago. I have been al and northern part 1 I noted that ange was work- The surv parties. ver, has to be studied Democratic localities, a question whether the up in sup- y are doing so of get the n the gas belt it has been a que: removal of voters, | tion of the gas flelds | the factories, would | tal vote. The Democrats ‘ t one of their campaign is- | trusts have closed the | the gas region as al Increasing Sp NEW YOR! Teasing Dem: > mark the rematn- | nat! algn in New | The Manhattan Club, the ub and Tam- | te orrow night g in Madison Square 11 mark the first ap-| « Dispatch to The Call 16.—Constantly in- | ressiveness is | } preside. ndidate speech N ork au- expected to be in the city arden wn tary Taft, EL Republican | peak. ur of the | a full week after his | his work on the stump. | to speak in Binghamton, | ther places e the op- l s | T0 BE EXCISED Chinatown in State of Ex- citement Over Imperial Order Concerning Queues PR S S inese papers for | t four days, in another year the | 1l be a buried | aps a curio in museums. ups of Celestials stand in Chinatown and dis- cuss the possibility of the enforcement | of a new imperial mandate which will pel them to the braided and | wanders gro Chattering st their girths and embellishes the ¢ their makeup. The local Chinese papers have it that the new order is being c i ed seri- | by the head of the Chinese Gov- re long queues | not be worn. It is but a few years | e the Japanese were adorned with queues, and the doffing of them was considered a mark of advancing ctvil- ization. The Emperor has decided that his subjects would look more civilizea | put the “pig tail.” Great excitement is on in the Chinese quarter, and much protest is already | the proposed | Another question that is causing | much talk is the ultimate disposal of | the 30,000 castoff dermal appendages when the order becomes a law. They | might be buried or made into hair mat- tresses. The latter course seems im- probable on account of the harshness of the Chinese hair. The Chinese papers say that inside of six months the quete will be but a memory, and the years of ecarefur growth and treasure will have gone to| naught. The Chinese barber will in- clude hair cutting in his price list, and reap a harvest from the owners.-of di- vested “pig tails,” and the queue, for| centuries the distinguishing mark of | the Oriental race, will be sold over the counter in curiosity shops and guarded in museums. Manv years hence when scientists are excavating that portion of land on which Chinatown now rests they may unearth questionable pieces of hairy rope, and treasure them as| mementoes of a long extinct race. ———————— ITALIAN PARTY MEETS TO VOICE A PROTEST Dissension, However, Breaks Out Among the Members and No De- cision Is Reached. ROME, Oect. 16.—There was a meet- ing to-day of the members of the ex- treme left of the Chamber of Deputies, composed of Radical Republicans and Socialists, to consider the proposal of a general resignation of seats as a pro- test against the Government. Ouly forty-six Deputies, or about one-half of the extreme left, participated in the meeting. The discussion developed such dis- order that it was impossible to reach any decision. The meeting voted an ernment and that b wi | | of reconvocation of the Chamber of Deputies upon the request of a ecertain number of Deputies. The dissension shown in the ranks of the extreme left as a favorable omen for | velt is about three out of five. The effect of | c | were in Repub New York Campaigners committee S — | cculd be heard for miles. whole, I could not find that the fall- | ing off in the vote would be large | erough to affect the general results. | “The proportion of young men, or | new voters, who are supporting Roose- In the | trouble that both parties have had in overcoming universal listlessness the ycung men’s clubs have not cut the| figure they did in former campaigns. But, where organization has been ef- fected, it has been chiefly by the Re-| “At Bryan's meetings it is gray-| ards—the old traditional Democrats | nent. At the Repub- 1y which I have had a nce to attend the young men are ! h more in evidence. | “In several places where I sought to make a test by getting names, the re- sult always was in favor of the Re- publicans. Making due allowance for the fact that ost of these inquiries can localities, the pro- new voters supporting portion of | Roosevelt would still be relatively 60 cent resident Roosevelt also has a de- cided lead over Judge Parker among the coal miners. “Another factor in favor of the Re- publicans is the dissatisfaction of the old soldiers with Judge Parker’s serv- | ice pension pronouncement.” Therr Activity position to him and to Governor Odell is pronounced. ——— WISCQNSIN'S BITTER FEUD. Court’s Decision Will Be Iznored by ! One Republican Faction. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct 16.—An- nouncement has been made by the Republican Sta Central Committee hat in the event of the courts decid- ing that John J. Kempt is entitled to a place on the Republican ticket as a | regular nominee for State Treasurer | the committee will run August C.| Backus of Milwaukee as an Independ- | e It also is announced that the| indorsed W. D. Connors, | of the National Republi- 2 Committee, to succeed Henry C. Payne. —— ——— Election Betting in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — Election betting =n thisscity’'ts 10 to 3% onm Rooseveit for President and 19 to § on Herrick (Dem.) for Governor. BANKER'S HOME S DYNAMITED of the President of ai Defunet Indiana Concern | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Oct. 16.—A| telephone message from Rensselaer re- | perts that the residence of Thomas J. McCoy, president of the defunct Mc- Coy Bank, against whom indictments were recently returned for alleged complicity in the wrecking of the bank, has been dynamited and totally | destroyed. The house was a frame structure, valued at $25,000, and considered one of the most beautiful homes in North- | ern Indiana. When the explosion oc- | curred the house was unoccupied. Mc- Coy is believed to be visiting friends in Chicago. The detonation was heard | for miles. Instantly hundreds of peo- | ple flocked to the scene. RENSSAELAER, Ind,, Oct. 16.—Feel- ing has been growing here since the| failure of the McCoy Banik last April. | The shoek of the explosion to-night . Windows in t yesidences for blocks around were shat- | tered and some of the business houses | suffered. The McCoy family was not at home at the time and it is believed that none of them is in the city. The wreck of the home is compiete. | The walls were blown outward, preci- | pitating the roof into the basement. | Fragments of the residence and pieces | of furniture were found hundreds of | feet away. i The loss cannot be correctly esti-| mated, but the residence alone is| known to have cost more than $25,000. It was elaborately furnished. There is| much excitement in the city. The McCoy Bank failed last April. and the liabilities greatly exceeded the | assets. Many families lost heavily. as the bank was one of the best known and oldest established in this part of | the State. Thomas J. McCoy is at present under $20,000 bond on a charge of embezzle: ment. The Grand Jury returned twen- | ty-two indictments against him indi- vidnally, two jointly with his father and two jointly against him and John ‘White, assistant cashie DEAD CHICKENS IN COFFINS INSTEAD OF HUMAN BEINGS A County Undertaker Sent to Prison in Kentucky for Fake Pauper Barials. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 16.—For fake pauper burials, W. C. McCoy is in jail to-night preparatory to serving three years in the State Penitentiary. McCoy was the county undertaker and when suspicion was aroused over 200 graves in the county cemetery were opened. In nearly all of them pleces of wood, dead chickens, bricks angd other things were found. —————— Faivr Makes Seventh Payment. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.—The World's | Belgian fort has enjoyed exceptional | ATROCITIES CONTIE . [\CHECKED i Helpless Natives of Congo| Land Vietims of the Most Horrible Cruelties at the Hands of Belgian Officers ST MURDERS FOLLOWED BY CANNIBAL FEASTS| | | Witnesses Tell of Barbaric Treatment of Inhabitants and Failure of Complaints to Check Agents of King | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ! LONDON, Oct. 16.—Advance proofs | of letters reporting the atrocities in the | Congo region reach me just at the time the honorary secretary of that distin- guished body known as the Congo Re- form Association is’preparing to set out for the United States to ask President| Rooseveit to take a hand in stopping the horrors connected with the Congo rubber industry, managed by King Leo-l pold & Co. Included in thege reports of | responsible witnesses are accounts of oppressions, tortures, maimings and| murders that would be well nigh in-| cridible if they had not been preceded by so many similar instances well au- ! thenticated. It should be understood that the poor| natives of Bolima bad done absolutely | nothing to provoke an attack. It was simply their misfortune to live in a re- gion where rubber trees abounded. | They had no particular use for rubber themselves, and, after the fashion of benighted heathen, saw no good reason why they should make slaves of them- selves to gather it for others. But the white aliens of the Congo Free State coveted rubber, because they could convert rubber into money. To get it on the cheapest possible terms it be- came necessary to convince the simple Bolima folk that if they did not make slaves of themselves to gather it worse things might befall them. ! KILL ELEVEN NATIVES. | In a charge of a sentry, a body of men in the employ of the Abir who had granted the concession was dispatched to enlighten the people of Bolima on the subject of rubber. “They surrounded the chief’s house while he was at his evening meal,” says | the narrator, ‘‘and shot him and.ten of | his people, including some of his wives. “A little child had its brains dashed out and was cut in half. The upper portions of the body was impaled en one stake, the legs and abdomen on an- other. The brutal soldiery then feasted on the killed. “A large number of people were sub- sequently killed, cut up and a quantity | of the flesh eaten on the spot. The re- | | mainder of the ‘meat’ was taken to town. “The terrified natives were, however, afraid to appear with their rubber after! this raid, and so a third attack result- ed, headed this time by the rubber agent himself, who was accompanied by ‘sentries’ and cannibal warriers.” EYE WITNESS TALKS. A missionary who having lived for| eightsen months in the vicinity of z; opportunities of observing the methods | of the Free State Government sends these samples of outrages and oppres- sion. Of some of them he was an eye- | witness, and what he did not see he| verified by personal investigation. An officer of the Congo Free State, | accompanied by some native soldiers, entered the district to collect carriers, | and apparently for no other reason | than sheer love of human butchery | put six persons to death. On the return journey a hunter was | encountered who had committed the heinous offense of killing some wild | animals and orders were given to bind his hands and legs and then hang him. To expedite his death the white man fired a shot into him, and after the soldiers had inflicted unspeakable mu- tilations on the corpse it was left to be devoured by hyenas. A native chief was once ordered to line up his wives, that the soldiers| might make selections from among| them. ROPES AROUND NECKS. This same missionary states that in | the course of one of his journeys he | saw thirty young men and boys tied | together with ropes fastened round | their necks being marched off to a Belgian station as recruits for the army of native soldiers. Yet accord- ing to the Congo Free State reports the system of enlistment is entirely voluntary. At the village from which the mis- sionary sends his account he says that a Belgian official declared he would order the score of soldiers who ac-| companied him to fire indiscriminately | into the houses of any of the men who attempted to hide from him. | Embracing the Christian faith af-| fords them no protection from thgir | white tyrants. | ‘Women, equally with men, are sub- | jected to imprisonment and cruel treatment for failing to bring in mh—‘I ber. The Congo Reform Association, | which includes eleven lords, four Bishops and many other of the most | notable folk in Great Britain, es | no stock in the committee appeifited by King Leopold of Belgium to in-g vestigate the great mass of charges like those made above. In a letter to Lord Lansdowne, as Foreign Secre- tary, sent this week, they preseat a formidable list of reasons mdkann" that King Leovold’s committee is a| fake, appointed soleiy for whitewash- ing purposes. What the Congo asso- | ciation is working for hmlmp‘mal‘ international investigation. bl T KOWALSKY BEARS MESSAGE. DECLARES WAR ON THE OMI0 Steel Trust Decides to Putl a Million Dellars Intoi the Fight if Necessary DESIRES TO CRUSH IT| Strike in Ohio of Amalga- mated Association Ends in | Bitter Industrial Strife PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 16.—The Uni- | ted States Steel Corporation bas de- clared that $1.000,000 will be spenmt, if necessary, to defeat the Amalgamated Association in its battle against the Carnegie Steel Company at Yolmp-} town and Girard. Ohio. 4 - The strike, if lost, will mean the | annihilation of the great Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workears of America. About $300,000 has already been sent to Youngstown alome and the steel people seem to have gained little or ne headway. It was learned to-day that the presidents of the various concerns of the United States Steel Corporation | voted to stand back of the Carnegle Steel Company, and if pessible crush the Amalgamated Association out of existence. } —_————— i EFFORT MADE TO INCITE ! ITALIANS TO REBELLION Extreme Party Brings About a Dan- gerous Situation Among GENEVA, Oct. 16—The following | dispatch from Rome, evidently mutil- ated by the censor, has been received here: “The Minister of War has addressed | a circular to the military authorities | saying that in the recent rioting the extreme party tried to induce soldiers to disregard discipline and rebel at| Padua. Subversive hymns were distrib- | uted to some of the soldiers, who de-| stroyed the coples handed them or gave | them to their superiors. The subver- | sive propcganda in the army is seen, | but It is powerless against the sense of | duty strongily rooted in the Italian army; still there is at present a’grave danger which must be fought. Besides the ordinary confiscation of all sub- versive publications, the Minister of War advises that officers undertake a propeganda to show the fallacy of cer- tain theories and for the observance of laws as a guarantee of liderty.” e FIERCE STORM RAGES ON NEWFOUNDLAND COAST Fear Feit for Vessels of the Fishing Fleeg Caught in the ! Gale. | ST. JOHNS, N. F., Oét. 18.—For for- | ty-eight hours past a severe gale, the worst of the season, has been raging bkere, and it is feared it must have worked havoc among the fishing fleets on the Grand Banks and on the coast of Labrador. Large numbers of ves- sels are homeward bound, the fishing season having closed, and many of them must have been driven ashore or foundered in the gale. | = -+ | has arrived in Washington from Brus-| sels, bearing a personal letter from King Leopold to President Roosevelt, | setting forth the state of affairs in the Congo Free State and denying the al- legations made by the British Associa- tion, represented by E. 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