The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 1904. TENEVENT FIRE FATAL T0 SIX In Addition Nearly a Score éccuuchement of Joy Is Changed to Sorrow Are Injured in Blaze in a Section of Brooklyn WORK OF INCENDIARIES Over a Hundred People Put in Danger by the Flames. Victims Mostly Children NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Six lives were lost, nearly a score of persons were in- | jured and the lives of more than a hundred others were endangered in an early morning tenement-house fire in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn to-day. With one exception all the dead are chiidren, and of eight who were #0 bady hurt that they were removed to & hospital the oldest is a 14-year-old girl Incendiaries are believed to have been responsible for the fatal fire, and this theory is strengthened by the fact | that while the firemen were at work on the blaze alarms were turned in for two other fires in the immediate neigh- | borhood. The dead: | BELLA GLASS, 20 years. B HENRY GLASS, 2 years. IDA SALTOFSKY, 6 vears. | BENYAMIN WARKOLSKY, 11 years. | GUSSIE WARKOLSKY. CHARLES WARKOLSKY. Twelve families, comprising 120 per- sons, were asleep in the big five-story, double tenement-house when the flames were discovered. When the alarm was sounded through the house the men and women, some of the latter with babies .n arms, others with little boys and gir ging to the night clothes of their mothers, ran to the hallway. There they were met with great clouds of choking smoke, while’ the flames were rapidly closing | Before the ar-by station had res- ersons from the blazing When the firemen came hu- e for m the fire es- women and to the pave- burst from windows i the clothes of mar y the fren- 10 had been yms. Many ach either roof or taken windows flames already were | | ere Infanta Is Fatal INFANTA MARIA, PRINCPSS OF THE ASTURIAS WIFE OF PRINCE . g . OF BOURBON AND SISTER OF KIN G ALF! SPAIN, WHOS | SAN FRANSISCO VISITORS | FOLLOWED WITHIN FEW HOUKS AFTER > BIRTH OF A DAT AT THE ST. LOUIS FAIR - - | People From This City Who Have MADRID, Oct. 17.—The Infanta Ma- | wife of Prince Charles of Bourbon, | ria de las Mercedes, Princess of the Registered Recently at the Cal- et of Srinr Alfofwd waia] ifornia Bullding. Asturias, gave birth to a daughter yesterday and | died to-day. | 17.—The follow- ns have' registered California building at “ DOLAR BEARS = I\ CENTER . e “Ransom’s Folly” Dramatized. INGTON Oct. 17.—"R: olly,” a story of army life on trontier, by Richard Harding Robert Edson in the title to the 2 GUARANTFECL MILK CONDENSING C® O, ORICINATORS & & e “PORated © This Cap Label is a guarantee of the purity and richness of our Pet Brand Evaporated Cream We offer $5,000 reward fo anyone zble to prove adulteration of our product. CUTLERY EVERY BLADE WARRANTED | i I | Strange Sight Meets, ational Theater a | nguished audience to- | | officer of his station for convenience of ! Yard, Mare Igland, Cal.,, November 1. OF ICEBERG Gaze of Arctic Wilrs SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—Lars Hansen, a member of the crew of the whaling | | schooner Barbara Hernster, which ar- | | rived in Seattle harbor recently from | | the Arctic Ocean, tells of a strange sight he saw while returning to the vessel from a lively chase after a big | whale. The small boat with three men in it was passing the face of a monster iceberg when three polar bears, a fe- | male and two cubs, were seen. All of them were frozen in solid ice, the cubs nestling against their mother. i Hansen says that the berg stood out | of the water fully 100 feet and that the | ice wherein the bears were intombed | was clear as a crystal. How long the animals had been locked in their winter | palace is a matter of conjecture, but| they were at least twenty-five feet, above the water [ —_——————— | Army and Navy Orders. WASHINGTON, Oct, —By order of the War Department Recruit George D. Hendricksen, cavalry, Fort | McDowell, Cal., is transferred to the Signal Corps. He will be sent to Be- nicia Barracks, Cal. Corporal Albert | C. Buckner, Troop K, Sixth Cavalry, Fort Keough, Mont., will be discharged from the army by the commanding | the Government. Sergeant of the First Class Mathew Neil of the Hospital Corps, Camp McKinley, Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory, will be sent to Manila, Philippine Islands. 3 Orders to naval officers: Lieutenant Colonel Dr. H. C. Gearing to the Navy —_————————— Accidentally Kills Mother-in-Law. BAKER CITY, Or., Oct. 17.—A dis- patch from Pine says that Leonard Foster,” a prosperous young farmer, | was awakened last night and, think- ing a burglar was prowling around the house, began a search, gun in hand. Spying a figure he fired, the death screams of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Beck, apprising him of his great mistake. No arrest has been made, the authorities believing Foster's story. —————————— Child Drowned at Reno. RENO, Nev., Oct. 17.—Harry, the four-year-old son of D. B. Goldstein, a merchant of this city, was drowned to-night in a ditch in this city. The family came here recently from San Francisco. | United State | there was an increase in buying from { having been iaid on all the roads, the Wawona -7 b DEALS N STOCKS AND BONDS Record Day of the Year in Wall Street, S bt O e o) Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Wall street | had another session of exciting trading | in stocks and bonds to-day. The total | transactions exceeded that of any prev- | ious day on exchange this year and ! comparisons <an be made only with | the heavy days of the spring of 1901. | Altogether slightly more than 1,800,000 | shares changed hands to-day. There| was considerable short selling by the | bear element and in addition heavy realizing sales fought further advances. Nearly a.million shares were traded | in during the first two hours of busi- ness, but a reaction about the middle of the sessicn dampened the specula- tive ardor of traders and business | tlackened. In the early trading a number of | ocks made high records for the year. | The most active stock on the list was Steel preferred, in which more than 205,000 shares were traded | in during the day. Missouri Pacific and Erie forged to the front later. Commission houses reported st that out of town quarters and the opinion was expressed that the bulk of the buy- ing came from the West and South. | e ——— YOSEMITE VALLEY. Full_ Waterfalls, Clear Weather, Per- fect Roads Make This the Time to Go. Those who fall to see Yosemite Valley this month will miss the grandest of sights. The early rains increased thé water volume so that every fall thunders in renewed splendor, and now the atmosphere has cleared so that superb views may be had of the entire valley. Reports say that the view from Glacler Point | is wonderful, Travel, too, Is ideal, the dust stage road being particularly fine. The visit to the Big Trees, made from Wawona, is more than usually atiractive, these greatest of all the forest glants seeming more regal after the refreshing rains, Fullest_information on all points connected with a Yosemite trip cheerfully furnished at Southern Pacific office, 613 Market street. * ———————— Californian Weds in Oregon. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 17.—Alexan- der M. Dollar, son of Robert Dollar, the steamship man of San Francisco, was married here to-day to Miss Bes- sie May Hamilton, daughter of J. A. Hamilton of Portland. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. W. S. Gilbert and took place at the home of the bride’s parents, 392 Hall street. The wedding was attended by the father and mother of the groom. —_————— Zhe Paraiso Springs are always opem. * |in his race for | of the Governor and his warmer ad- | some strong man to go up against Bab- | {issue, I come into Minnesota to find | ——— MAKING FIGHT |MIRIAM GRANT |Extortion Charged Against 0F HIS LIFE Chairman of Republican Congressional Committee | Fears for His Seat in House BETWEEN TWO FIRES; Factional Rows in Middle States Eagerly Taken Ad- vantage of by Democrats BY S. W. WALL, INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 17.—J. W. Babcock has said that the House of Representatives, as a Republican insti- tution, even in this year of a Presiden- tial election, is in danger. Mr. Bab- cock feels the importance of his an- nouncement the more, perhaps, not only because as chairman of the Re- publican National Congressional Com- mittee he has a certain responsibility | in the matter, but because, in spite of the conspicuous ability with which he has represented his State at Washing- ton, the enemy is so conducting the war in his own district in Wisconsin as to | create grave doubts ag to his own re- turn. The enemy in this particular case dees not mean merely the Democ- racy. It will be remembered that Mr. Babeock is a so-called “stalwart” in the Republican politics of Wisconsin and as such enlisted for the undoing of | Gevernor La Follette. In enumerating | the enemies of Mr. Babcock, therefore, | re-election the names | herents must not be omitted. It is a game that works two ways. It is given out as a true story of the campaign down in that State that the Democrats were influenced in their choice of a | candidate in Mr. Babcock’s district by | Governor La Follette himself. Herman | Grotophost, who is contesting for Bab- cock’s seat in Congress, is known as a | La Follette Democrat. He is a good enough Democrat, perhaps, but he is | also a warm friend and admirer of the Republican Governcr. So that when the Democrats were casting about for cock and were considering first this| man and then that with no special ref- | erence to Grotophost, they were given a very direct tip that if the halfbreeds, | or La Follette men, had a chance they would vote for Grotophost in preference to Babcock—whom they wouldn’t vote | for in any case. HOW IT HAPPENED. And this is how it happened that Mr. | Babcock has the fight of his life on| his hands for the next few weeks op- | posing a combination of the Democrats | with the wing of the Republican party | against which he had himself taken up a fight. It is this stress of circum- stances in his own district likewise that | probably colors his view of the pros-| pects throughout the country with re- gard to the House of Representatives ! and causes him to think that the whole world is falling away toward the dem- | nition bowbows. As chairman of the National Republican Congressional | Committee he has the disposition of some of the best of the spellbinders to send whege he thinks they may do the most good and a large consignment of them are scheduled for the Third Wis- consin District. Among those already having dates are Uncle Joe Cannon and Congressman Landis of Indiana. The Democrats are very sanguine of suc- cess in the district and are preparing | to match these speakers with the strongest available of their faith, choosing chiefly those of the Bryan wing. | But if the complexion of the House | is affected in this Presidential year by | local dissensions in the Republican | party the same may be said of the| State governments in what are ordinar- | ily safe Republican States. Stepping! across from Wisconsin, where the row | is of such complicated proportions that the State is in doubt on the national a situation, as to the State ticket, fully | as bad as is that of Wisconsin and for which neither the court nor any other | circumstance seems to offer a cure. In- stead it grows worse day by day and the Democracy watches its course with every sign of joy. | HOPED FOR SETTLEMENT. It had been hoped that the bitter con- test that preceded the nominating con- vention would end with the naming of the ticket and that all hands would join in a united puil to win in Novem- | ber, whoever might be the party's choice for ‘ate officers. ._nd for a time it seemed that this was the programme. | But the bitter war between Governor | Van Sant and the candidate whe hopes | to succeed him, which began when the latter was first mentioned for the place, is being waged again with an| energy and effectiveness that discounts ! the best efforts of the Democrats. R.| C. Dunn, the Republican candidate for Governor, charges it all to the jealousy and chagrin of Governor Van Sant. The mere animosity of Governor Van Sant would not probably have | counted for much, as his heretofore great strength in the State was shown at the time of the convention to have greatly diminished. But things have | developed as a result of the hot con- test calculated to at least embarrass the candidate and lend aid to his de- tractors. The campaign was begun early in Minnesota and Governor Van Sant took the lead like a man absolutely sure of his case. He was not eligible for re- election, but he proposed to bequeath his policy to his successor, and to that end he would choose the man. Judge L. W. Collins of St. Cloud was a mem- ber of the Supreme Court of the State, had bheen for eighteen years and might have so continued to be until he died. Confident in the support of the Gov- ernor for the place of the executive he resigned before the convention had been held. In the meantime R. C. Dunn, former State Auditor and now editor and proprietor of the Princeton Union, announced himself as a candi- date. Governor Van Sant began an active opposition, spent money to look up his record and finally preferred charges. But the charges and the op- position fell flat. Governor Van Sant’s influence was evidently on the wane. The Governor had appointed Attorney General Douglas to fill the place on the of Judge i ;Grant or Lieutenant | at Merryweather Farm, in Salem Cen- | nia before his furlough expires. 1S NOW A BRIDE the Hungarian Governn@g Fair Californian Is Quietly Wed to Lieutenant Macy | at Grace Church in Gotham NO INVITATIONS ISSUED Without Musie or ]:‘Iowcrs;| and in Presence of but Few ‘{ Friends the Knot Is Tied | | =) NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Miss eriam‘ Grant, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant Jr., and granddaugh- ter of Genéral Grant, was married to Lieutenant Ulysses S. Macy, U. S. N,, to-day at Grace Church, Broadway and Tenth street. It was a very quiet wed- ding, with not a note of music or flow- ers. No invitations were"issued and, in fact, very few friends of either Miss | | Macy were in- Special Dispatch to The Call. formed. Miss Grant, who passed part of the summer at her father’s country place ter, Westchester County, decided a short time ago and before the formal | announcement of her engagement was made to have a private wedding in| New York instead of a more formal | one at the home of her parents in San | Diego, Cal. 1 The only member of the family at| the wedding was her father, who gave | her away. The bride wore a costume | of tobacco brown voile. The corsage was trimmed with lace embroidered chiffon. Lieutenant and Mrs. Macy will prob- | | ably visit the bride’s mother in Califor- | —————— MINING BROKERS FIND 1 THEY CANNOT AFFILIATE | Members of Tonopah Exchange With- | draw From San Francisco Board After Two Days’ Connection. | The experiment in the association of | members of the Tonopah Stock Ex-| change with the San Francisco Stock | and Exchange Board was of short du- | ration—that is, so far as the majority | of them is concerned. Out of the twenty of the Tonopahs who joined | the San Francisco Exchange last| week, thirteen of them resigned on Saturday. | The first few of the Tonopahs who Jjoined were admitted without an en- ' trance fee. - The next seven paid $200 ; a seat. They all attended the meetings on Thursday and Friday and on Fri- | | day they requested the exchange that | < the rest of their members be admitted without a fee entrance and that fees | | paid by the seven members be re- | turned to them. | According to the by-laws of the ex- change it was necessary to take the matter under advisement. The Tono- pahs would not wait for this ruling| to be carried out and thirteen of them | withdrew on the spot. It was ru-‘ mored that this was only an excuse | of the Tonopahs for resigning, but | that the real reason was they did not find the rules of the exchange condu- cive to their ideas of conducting their £ o+ EMBASSADOR WHO WILL IN- QUIRE INTO TREATMENT BY HUNGARY OF EMIGRANTS. reatment of Emigrants to United States to be Investigated. Special Dispat NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Charging that the Hungarian Government is extort- ing fully $20,000,000 yearly from the em- igrants coming from that country to to The Call. He was to have been | business. The San Francisco Ex- " SH e hridver slbod AN R Troniitas this, through a system of discrimina- of TafneR: | tion in the matter of ocean transporta- listed upon its boards. Picture Frames. Our Eastern selection of frames and moldings for fall trade now in. Better and_more beautiful than ever before. Sanborn, Vail & Co. . ———— e e— Temperance Leader Passes Away. FOX LAKE, Oct. 17.—Mrs. Mary E. Warren, widely known as a tem- perance wogker, author and philan- thropist, is dead at her home in this village, aged 75 years. e Fall hats, 1904, just arrived, nobbier than ever. Tom Dillon & Co., opp.Palace.* and was a candidate before the con- vention for the nomination, but such was the opposition developed toward the Governor that the convention—be- fore which he would otherwise have found favor—turned down Mr. Doug- las, together with Judge Collins and every other candidate favored by him. Very strong and bitter feeling was de- veloped. OUT OF THE RUNNING. Judge Collins, who gave up his place on the beuch, is now out of the run- | nominated | nig entirely. Dunn was early and easily, together with a com- plete new ticket, not in any way asso- ciated with the administration. Dunn had made a good record as Au- ditor, and all efforts previous to and ! during the convention to discover any | flaws in his record were fruitless. Nev- ertheless, the opposition of the Gov- ernor continued. A few days ago Pub- lic Examiner S. T. Johnson, after la- borious searching, made a report to the Governor that Mr. Dann, while State Auditor, had signed certain leases for mineral lands in favor of Mabel Evans, one of his clerks, which leases are said to be worth millions. Mr. Dunn learned of the report and asked for a' copy of it, but it was not given him for some days. Mr. Dunn charges that the report was furnished to the Demo- cratic committee and to the news- papers before it was given to him. He does pot deny the truth of the report, but says he signed the leases without | noting what they were, and declares that had he noted them he would have signed them, any way, as ‘one man's | money is as good as another’s,” and there is no law against clerks or ojgers | in the Government employ leases. securing , . Much is being made of this by the’ Democrats, and Governor Van Sant has gome so far as to say in a speech that “no nomination would be so strong as to secure the election of an unworthy man to office.” This is the trouble in Minnesota. It is all ih the Republican ranks and is | offering much comfort to the Demo- crats, who hope to elect their Governor by its aid. The Populists also hav done what they could in not nominat- ing a State ticket this year. This is said to be worth 5000 votes to Johnson, the Demceratic candiate. No fear is sl SRl It deals with those that are | tion, an appeal has been made to the | State Department in Washington ask- | ing that action in the matter be taken. The American Embassador at Vienna has been instructed to make an inves- tigation and submit a report. | It appears that the difficulty arises { from the contract made last spring be- | | tween the Hungarian authorities and the Cunard Steamshin Line by which the former agreed to turn over to the company 30,000 emigrants annually at | a passage rate of $38 each. For every | one under that number the Govern- | ment was to pay the Cunard Company | & penalty of 320, while as a return con- [slderation the steamship company was | to pay to the Government $2 on every fsuch passenger it received. —_——e—————— | DEBATING 'LEAGUE HOLDS ] ITS FIRST MEETING The fifth and final debate of s Debating League took place at Golden Gate Hall last night. The Lyceum | Literary Society, for the affirmativi | won out against the California Debat- | ing Club of the California Business College, for the negative. The Ly- | ceum Society, therefore, becomes the | possessor of the silver loving cup, as they had previously won it twice be- fore. The subject for debate was: “Re- solved, That a Municipality Should Own, Control and Operate Its Public Utilities.” Speakers for the affirma- tive were Miss Lela Elise Dinklage, Louis T. Diebels and Fred J. Berg; for the negative, Miss Edna I. Old- ham, J. G. Campe and L. A. Kutner. The judges were Thomas F. Graham, Wallace Wise and Judge Murasky. L. A. Kutner was commended by them | | | | 66 Yo will be exhibited in volume itself, by Be: | on sale. the | of the San Francisco | S S— 1 KING'S MESSAGE 0 PRESIDENT Colonel Kowalsky Delivers Belgium’s Representations Anent the Congo Case Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — Colonel Henry 1. Kowalsky of San Francisco called upon President Roosevelt this morning by appointment to present the reply of the federation of defense of Belgian interests abroad to the attacks made by certain British interests upon the government of the Congo Free State. Colcnel Kowalsky in an extended in- terview with the President entered into the real motives lying behind the de- mand of British humanitarians that | the United States should interfere with the conduct of aifairs in mid-Africa. | Xing Leopold's representative made | the positive statement that the purpose of the British in this attempt to enm- tangle America in Africa affairs is not the amelioration of the condition of the natives, but to open the question of sovereignty over these regions by call- 1ing a conference of the powers, at which, it is hoped by the Britishers, England may establish the contention that Pelgium is impotent to maintain an effective government in Congo. Colonel Kowalsky pointed out that the proposal for such conference, made | officially by the British Government, failed entirely through the non-accept- ance of the powers. That effort being fruitless, it is now proposed to accom- plish indirectly, through the Congo Re- form Association of Liverpool, what the British Government itself is unable to effect. B | ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK EASTBOUND FAST TRAIN Switch Is Broken and Huge Bowlder Placed on Track—Robbery the Motive. RENO, Nev.,, Oect. 17.—It was learned to-day from the Southern Pa- cific officials that an attempt was made last Friday night to wreck the eastbound flyer at Laughtons, a small station near here. The engine on the flyer was dis- abled at Laughtons and an engine was sent from here to bring the train to Reno. On arriving at Laughtons the light engine found a switch brok- en and a huge bowlder obstructing for making the best speech of the|the track. Robbery is supposed to evening. The hall was packed. 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