The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1904, Page 1

THE WEA cast made at S THER Francisco for | ALCAZAR—“Tne | | TIVOLI— THE THEATERS. ALHAMBRA—Sousa’s Band. to-day. CALIFORNIA—“A Texas Steer." CENTRAL—“Davy ~ Way of the World." Matines [ T SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCT OBER 18, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS LEGIONS IN COMBAT ON THE SHAKHE FIGHT ON WITH BULLDOG FEROCITY AND ONLY THE ANNIHII__.ATION OF EITHER ARMY CAN END THEIR DEATH GRIP Reports from Russian sources give a more hopeful view of the situation of General Kuropatkin’s army. That commander has reoccupied and holds the town of Shakhe, the possession of which for several days was first with one and then with another of the contending armies. Reports It had been fighting ion of Tumen Pass, an important strategic point, but up to the time of sending the last dispatch the Japanese were still in possession of the pass. indication that the end of the great battle is at hand. from the Russian left for two days for the There tery committed by Mrs. Gay upon Gay -+ | the Japanese pursued the retreating Rus- p - =y — - - TT\YT 1T i [ I {4V | | I : 3 L VY ! ‘ E ‘ = (l 1y Ml ! L | il g - H 71 TAQ | : A \ H | [ ‘ NIRLIN | o e 1.0 | E Young Girl Loses Kills & Man and Is Millionaire Loses His | 2 | [ Reason Under Himself Near = Temper and Talks Strai Death A ' | train. eath. bout Wile. | R s Ll e e | Attempt Made by Man to Pugilist Accused of Murder, Breaks Long Silence With |. Pro ia e i | = Force Marriage Upon But Asserts It Was Sensational Charges || —r S | U N p ; i I = WOGL o o Her. an Accident. | Agaiost Spouse. || | ZAS Botio Teken From Her Home|His Pistol Takes Life of Fellow Negro! Says She Threw Dust Pans at Him| | i { in Ohio. but Is : . - I ! | in Ohio, but Is Rescued by and Shatters His Own ad Offored to Forgive Bim | T : n - | 1 3 | Conductor on the Train. Hand, for $100,000. s | o Dispat Special Dispatch to The Call Special Dispatch to The Call. 1 i | L Ohio, Oct. 1 fD“”"‘-g BOSTON, Oct. 12—Pugilist Joe Wal-| LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17.—John H.| | week a fi:' cott, the “Barbadoes Wonder,” ended | Gay of San Diego, the scandalized mil- | | - “_5" - | his fighting career at 1 o'clock this | lionaire, was before the Supreme Court, | | ] “hi #P" | morning by killing Nelson Hall at a|sitting in banc to-day, to fight another | | req oi. | mesTo dance and shattering his own | round in his famous divorce case. His | | " ®d 21" | hznd. He is at the City Hospital and | wife, who was the beautiful Lucile | | 1 \ Bf-"‘-”’“ y die from the loss of blood and | Daniel of Los Angeles before her mar- éFHSt I\CWS me Ihe Y. Fri-| i poisening. | riage, was not there. The motion to | the couple | (ooioieee story is that he was show. | GiSmiss Mrs. Gay's appeal was denied | ! . e E g train for s ? ~ | and the motion to kill the famous affi- | | Q L [ . e | in Hall a loaded British pistal bought | 300, 0% TOUCE P 0 ol SO SO | Hi Japaflebe lnes a s . . | abroad. when it exploded in his hand, | Djego of being drunk while trying the | | vent thTOUEH | firing three shots in quick succession, | case was lost. | H r h woman managed | peing automatic and firing until stop-| The court was sarcastic in dealing | | | On i n HIO ped. He clalms the: bullets went| wirh Gey, and stung by this fact and | | i . » through his right hand, entering Hall's | the lcng-continued notoriety he broke | | I art. Hall fell dead in his wife’s| pis silence at last. B 3 25 in an anteroom, where all were| [t was the first time he told his side | | il BeSle ers -‘re bllll Far ng out the dance. ; and he burst out in a blaze against/| | | i s 1:‘ u;!"';s'tw‘lhatfi“"fi;fl; h-:d his wife. He claims that she threw| | 1 | and that after Hall died the | gustpans at him, tried to kill him with | | | F Ih l ased Walcott, who then shot | carving knives and then tried to make | | | rom e nner k Three policemen guard his| him pay her $100,000 to come back to| | | t_ed and ‘“ala‘n!t is under arrest|jjve with him. Gay says the court| | | F I ck this morning and | of cruelty that Mrs. Gay made against | | | e n him. He claims the court found him to | ge— — | JHall had 2 large family and was a | be the injured one and that Mrs. Gay| | RIVAL COMMANDERS AT PORT ARTHUR AND IN THE BATTLE OF THE SHAKHE RIVER. | | HEADQUARTERS OF THE THIRD reighbor of Walcott. Some assert|was found guilty of numerous acts of JAPANESE ARMY (before Port Ar- ‘h‘:‘ “hasdbad b'ru‘;d and a grudge. | cruelty. | thur), Tuesday, Oct. 1l.—After the Others hold the accident theory. Wal-| “The principal of thes bat- o v e fad > PR Mmoo KUROPATKIN'S INFANTRY © [S2E5 220 to pay Vickel Plate e conduct- no opportu- 0 effect her uld tell her ok the train hat he could hange was made | cessor the o the new agent the e and suc- After in- € her to the agent., the chiv- airous conductor joined De Fava and ged him conversation, at the time summoning a policeman. conversation was in prog- the ag an to a nearby hotel and secured for her, warning the hotel port that she was not in case inquiry should be hiding until had lost her he strain of the was taken to a brother residing here He brought her The change in horrifying. She thinks She AUTOMATIC FIRE ALARMS FOR CHICAGO THEATERS Wires Arranged So That Heated Tem- perature Will at Once Summon the Department. CHICAGO. Oct. 17.—As a precau- disastrous fires automatic slarm lines. running direct to the Fire Department, are being installed in Chicago theaters. The wires are con- ected with the sprinkler systems and when the atmosphere becomes heated beyond a certain degree the alarm is turned in automatically. Thirty-six registers, controlling as many theaters, are being added to the fire alarm instruments now in the ser- vice of the city. As soon as a blaze starts the alarm rings in at the City Hall. Without waiting for further no- tice the nearest engine company to she fire is sent to the sceme. - tion again: every one | CLERGYVA) \CCUSED 1IN WILL CASE fCalirornia, Heirs Al- lege Undue Influence. i bt anl had hustled the young | Epectal Dispatch to The Cail NASHUA, N. H, Oct. 17.—A will case, one of the most interesting brought in a New Hampshire court in years, was begun in the Superior Court here this afternoon before Judge Pike. The dispute arises over the disposition of the property left by | the late Miss Mary A. Burms, a niece | of the late Father O'Donnell, the first | !lflsh Catholic clergyman to settle in | Nashua. nder the terms of the will certain | California cousins were given sums | ranging from $1000 to $5000 and sev- | eral public bequests were made, | among the largest beneficiaries being the parish of the Immaculate Concep- | tion in this city. The Rev. Philip J. O'Donnell, pastor of St. Phillips Church in Boston, was named execu- tor. JMiss Burns left an estate amount- ing to many thousands of dollars. The heirs, represented by Mrs. Mary A. | McCabe of San Francisco, contest on the ground that Father O’Donnell had exercised undue influeace. | The first witness to-day was Mrs. | May Manning Perkins of Pittsfield, | Mass. She said she spoke with Miss Burns at the making of her will and In opening for Mrs. McCabe, counsel dwelt mainly on the frequent visits of Father O'Donnell to the Burns home. As a result of these visits he attempt- ed to show that there has been undue influence, l | | | | | on the steps at their home with a dust- pan, by which she had inflicted upon him a severe wound above the eye. After having done this, he says indig- nantly, and while the blood still spurt- | ed, she coldly turned and walked up stairs without offering to render him any assistance or expressing a regret. One of the most sensational charges is one that Mrs. Gay offered to forgive him for $100,000. Gay claims he loaned Papa-in-law Daniel 390,000 at his wife's behest and when after two years he sought to re- cover the money she dubbed him a mi- ser, wretch and fool. She left him next d and brought suit for divorce. He he had to pay her to get nice treatment. ENGINEER FALLS DEAD [\ HIS CAB Train Races On With No Hand at the Throie Special Dispatch to The Call. McCOOL, Neb., Oct. 17.—Engineer James O’Connell road dropped dead of heart disease at his throttle soon after his train had left here on its run to St. Louis last night. The train was running at high speed when the fireman chanced to glance at the engineer and observed that a peculiar pallor had overspread his face and that his body appeared rigid. He went over and touched the engineer and was shocked to find that —$ she appeared to be in her right mind. | he was dead. The discovery was made when the train had reached a point a consider- able distance from here. The fireman backed the n into McCool, another engineer was plied and it went on te St. Louis. = of the Burlington | TAKES THIRTY-SIX GUNS; MUKDEN, Oct. 17, 1:30 p. m.—The Russian forces at 11 o'clock this fore- noon penetrated the Japanese center | and captured twelve guns and 150 pris- oners east of the railway. At another point during the day the Siberian regi- ments took twenty-four guns. The Russian operations to-day have been quite successful. The Japanese, after a terrifically stubborn resistance, | were compelled to retire along their whole line. The positions they aban- doned were found filled with the Jap- anese dead. In one large trench there were counted 600 corpses. In spite of their losses the Japanese are undaunted. They have brought up siege guns and have left no stone un- turned to maintain the mastery of the situation. Every step the Russians have pushed forward to-day has been in the face of a resistance that has cost the Russians dearly. The Japanese seem to be willing to fight until they are annihilated. TERRIFIC CANNONADING. Throughout the whole of Mukden there can be distinctly heard cannon- ading to the south, which is raging more flercely than on previous days of the fight, which is now entering on the second week. The desperateness of the battle, especially near Shakhe, has not been equaled since the war began. The ferocity of the fighting has driven out of the minds of the soldiers all thoughts of personal safety and the troops, living in an atmosphere of sud- den death, have lost every desire save to conquer. The losses on both sides have been enormous, but this is forgot- ten in the crowding of dreadful events upon one another. The fighting contin- yes without intermission. The wounded from the t at Tu- men Pass say that some positions were under fire by both sides, and that it ers. Some, it is said, sayed themselves by feigning death. The Russians re- moved about 300 wounded under fire from Japanese guns. STORM JAPAN'S TRENCHES. Yesterday the Russians were not only successful on their right but carried out some brilliant movements on the left, where they assumed an energetic offensive against the Japanese posi- tion at Soukhetung, southeast of Hun Pass. Soukhetung is on the high road which runs to Bentsiaputze, joining the Mandarin road where the Hun River intersects it. It is a mile north of Hun Pass, which is four miles north of Shakhe. The Petrovsky, Neuchlet and Wil- minstran regiments stormed the Jap- anese trenches at Soukhetung and car- ried them after desperate resistance, capturing ten guns. The Japanese losses were enormous. On Saturday at midnight the Valiko- lutsk regiment moved out of its posi- tion north of Shakhe to capture the village of Fishinpu. The Russians crept up quietly and then charged with the bayonet, clearing out the Japanese at the south end of the village. But at the other end stood a Buddhist Temple, which the Japanese had con- verted into a fortress. They dug a deep trench around its stone walls and sur- rounded them with wire entanglements, making it impossible to storm the tem- ple. FAIL TO BREACH THE WALLS. The Russians brought up artillery, under cover of the darkness, and tried | to breach the walls at a distance of 800 paces, but the shells proved inef- fective, and, unfortunately, not all the corps were provided with field mor- tars, with which they could have quickly converted the temple into ruins. Therefore the Russians were forced to leave the Japanese in pos- session of the temple, and during the whole of yesterday the Russians held one-half of the village and the Japan- ese the other half. A pool of water in the village square | were hea: | 'Russians Again Advance South of the River and| the Japanese Center |s Pierced. separated the combatants, forming a| sort of neutral lake. The Russian and Japanese soldiers -occupled neighbor- ing huts and‘from the shelter of the earthen walls of the Chinese courtyards they hurled abuse and jokes at each | other, to the accompaniment of occa- | sional rifle bullets when any one was| rash enough to show his head. The village of Lamuting, on the south side of the Shakhe River and slightly east of the railroad, also was simul- taneously occupied by Russians and Japanese. CARRIED BY ASSAULT. At 3 o'clock in tHe afternoon the Rus- sian offensive operations were crowned with success and the Russian right moved forward to the village of Wu- chang, which was carried by a bril- liant assault, the Japanese finally abandoning it with heavy loss. At 5 o'clock the Russians occupied the village of Chenlianpu, which lies almost parallel with Linchinpu, on the north side of the Shakhe River and to the westward of the point where it bends south. This concluded the fight- ing at the Shakhe River on Sunday. Owing to the capture of Chenlianpu by the Russians, the Japanese will be compelled to finally evacuate Linchin- pu, which is of the greatest importance to the Russians, as its possession will enable them to roll up the Japanese left and go to the help of the Russian center by enfilading the Japanese flank. J SRS S SIX ATTACKS REPULSED. Oku Holds His Fierce TOKIO, Oct. 17. — The Russians fiercely assailed General Oku's left column yesterday and made six counter attacks, all of which were successfully repulsed. At sunset, when the last telegram was sent from the fleld, the Russians were advancing for a seventh attack. Field Marshal Oyama reports that the Russian losses in these attacks Positions Against Assaults. sians to the southwest. Before their retreat the Russians evacuated Dalny. In their retirement the Russians swept past Dalny to a position on the heights six miles to the southeast. On the right flank along the railway the Japanese drove the Russians as far as Anshu Mountain, eighteen miles northeast of Port Arthur, where they made a stand. . Their line extended across the peninsula to Socho Mountain on the east coast. ten miles northeast of Port Arthur. The center rested on two hills, Waito Hill, which is 1100 feet high, and Fing Hill, renamed Ken Hill by the Japanese, which is 1200 feet high. The position' was a strong one, but owing .to the great height of the hills the Russians left many dead on the | ground. the irregular line of the Bus- sians making the approach of the Jap- anese under cover comparatively easy. The Russian force consisted of rem- nants of the Fifth, Thirteenth, Four- teenth and Twenty-eighth regiments of sharpshooters, but was later increased by some troops from Port Arthur, the number of which was unknown. The Japanese occupied the lower range of hills and held a line in front of the Russians across the peninsula from Daishe Mountain, east of Anshu Mountain, to the west coast. The dis- tance between the two forces was from a mile to a mile and a half. OCCUPATION OF DALNY. These relative positions were occ@e pied from May 23 to June 26, during which period there was no fighting, with the exception of occasional skir- Liishes between scouts in the valley which separated the two armies. Dalny was entered by the Japanese on May 29. Many public and private buildings there had been destroyed by the Russians previous to the evacua- tion and the city was looted by the Chinese before the Japanese troops ar- rived. Owing to the existence of many mines in the outskirts of the city and {in Talien Bay. the headquarters of the third army was landed on June 5 from Kerr Bay, on the seacoast, seven miles northeast of Dalny. In the reorganization of the second and third armies after the arrival of General Nogi. the first division, which pursued the Russians after the batti® of Nanshan Hill, was made part of the third army. On June 25 General Nogi a vanced against the Russian position. The ad- vance was begun by the left wing and . Continued on Page 2, Column 1.