The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 5, 1904, Page 1

ber 5: TEE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Franctseo for thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- San Franciseo and vicinity—Cloudy A G. McADIE, Districs Forecaster. | B TOOSEVELT SCORES "The statements made by Mr. Parker are unqualifiedly and atroczously false’ 3 —\TD RDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"Drusa Wayne.” CALIFORNIA—Harverly's Minstrels CENTRAL—"The Worst Woman In COLUMBLA—“Gllttering Gioria.™ CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND;—"Pretty Peggy.” MAJESTIC—"Hamlet." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—* The Messenger Boy.” Matinees at all theaters to-day. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IN SIGNED STATEMENT TO AMERICAN | PEOPLE, HIS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, 1UN 8. PARKER PRIN(Eéé WOULD RETURN TO WED} FOUR HER HUéBAND . NOW A KING [ TIMES 1§ Louise of .Saxon Whll BUREAT WL Appeal t0 the Vatican # ' Gay New Yorker Has + Quartet of Sad Brides. SR E SR “Edwa,rd H Laze Goes Out for a Lark and Preys | on Young Women. | | Excuses Antics in Ohio and Indiana by Saying Girls Were So Fetch- ing He Couldn’t Resist ; | Hdentity of the Person Who Took he { y S, 4—Broken- hearted, disappointed, their minds be- | wildered as to what course to pursue, four young women in high social circles in four cities are in tears because of the actions of dashing and handsome | Edward H. Lane of New York, brother of Dr. Thomas Lane, surgeon at Belle- vue Hospital, in marrying all four in| | less than four weeks. ‘ Lane did it, he said, because they| | were so ‘“‘fetching” and because he. | might want to write a novel some time, | and this would furnish a good plot. ! {une first showed up in Cincinnati on | {a visit to relatives in that place. He| | wooed and in two days won and mar- | ried Miss Minnie Veihling of that city. | | He then came to Indianapolis, where | he met Mrs. Minnie Wilson, & dashing | young woman. He wrote to wife No. 1 at Cincinnati that he was detained here | on business. The business was his mar- | riage to Mrs. Wilson. He spent two days | with her, showered gifts on her, left her | money and said he had to go to Marion, Ind. There he met Mrs. Lula Young Brush- wieler, a divorced young woman of 22| | years, of striking beauty. He wooed | and won her, wrote wives Nos. 1and 2| that he was detained in Marion on business and married ag‘ain after an| elopement last Tuesday. On went the gay Lothario to Logans- port, Ind., where to-day he was mar- | ried for the fourth time. The ceremony x was scarcely over when wives Nos. 2| | and 3 arrived. No. 2 had gone to Marion to look up Lane, and No. 3 had been | | turned out of her mother’'s home. She; | went to Logansport and had Lane ar-| | rested, charged with bigamy. He told | his own story, saying: | put through a rigid examination and SUSPECTED HAY SINGS AT FONERAL In Choir af Burial of Murdered | Rival, s St. Paul I;Et‘ist_ls Able to Bstablish Alibi When (Questioned. Life of Dr. Gebhart Remains Unfixed Special Dispatch to The Cail. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 4—To sing in the choir at the funeral of the man he was at first suspected of murdering was the unique experience of Dr. G. R. Koch of New Ulm, Minn. On last Thursday night Dr. Gebhardt, a deuntist, was slain in his office. The murderer beat him to death with a hammer and stabbed him twenty times. Asa H. Brooks, a newspaper man, whose office is underneath that of the dentist, heard an unusual noise above and tried to enter the dictor's room, but it was locked. He then-eclimbed up to the transom and there saw the murderer finishing his victim. Brooks ran down (o the street and gave the alarm. In the meantime the murderer es- caped. Robbéry was not the motive, for Dr. Gebhardt’s safe was open and a large sum of money untouched. Neither was the money on his person or his watch taken. When an investigation was begun a handkerchief bearing the | initials G. R. K. was found saturated with blood. Witnesses asserted that they had seen Dr. passing into Dr. Gebhardt’s office five minutes before the murder is said to have been com- mitted. On the strength of this he was satisfied his inquisitors by proving an alibi. When the funeral of his busi- ness rival occurred to-day Dr. Koch sang in the choir. Dr. Koch is 24 years old and has been practicing dentistry here for about one year. The my: 'y surround- ing the death of Gebhardt remains un- selved, as Brooks has failed to identify the murderer. ’===President Roosevell SLANDEROUS ACCUSATIONS EDOKE A SCATHING REPLY' New York Jurist Is Shown to Be Gw/t Of Conducting a Campaign of Fa/selmoa’ . AT — * WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—President Roosevelt to-night made the following signed state- ment to‘the American people in answer to the charges made against himself and Mr. Cortelyou m public speeches by Mr. Parker, Democratic candidate for the Presidency: “White House, Washington, Now. 4 “Certain slanderous accusations as to Mr. Cortelyou and myself have been repeated time and again by Judge Parker, the candidate of his party for the office of President. He neither has pro- duced nor can produce any proof of the truth of the charges. yet he has not withdrawn them, and as his position gives them wide currency [ speak now lest the silence of self-respect be misunder- stood. Mr. Parker’s charges are, in effect, that the President of the United States and Mr. Cortel- you, formerly Mr. Cleveland’s executive clerk, then Mr. ‘McKinley's and my secretary, then Sec- retary of Commerce and Labor and now chairman oi the Republican National Committee, have been in a conspiracy to blackmail the corporations, Mr. Cortelyou using his knowledge gained while he was Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor to extort money from the corporations, and I, the President, having appointed him for this special purpose. The gravamen of these charges lies in the assertion that the corporations have been blackmailed into contribut- ing and in the implication, which in one or two of Mr. Parker’s speeches has taken the form prac- tically of an assertion.. that thev have been promised certain immunities or favors, or have been as- sured that they would receive some kind of improper consideration in view of their contributions. “That contributions have heen made tc the Republican committee, as contributions have been made to the Democratic committee, is not the question at issue. NOT A PARTICLE OF TRUTH IN PARKER'S STATEMENT. “Mr. Parker’s as;erfion is, in effect, that such contributions have been made for improper motives, either in consequence of threats or in consequence of improper promises, direct or indi- rect, on the part of the recipients. Mr. Parker knows best whether this is true of the contributions to his campaign fund, which have come through his trusted friends and advisers, who represent the great corporate interests that stand behind him. But there is not the particle of truth in the state- ment as regards anything that has gone on in the management of the Republican campaign. Mr. Parker's accusations against Mr. Cortelyon and myself are monstrous® If true they would brand both of us forever with infamy, and for inasmuch as they are false, heavy must be the condemna- tion of the man making them. “I chose Mr. Cortelyon as* chairman of the national committee after having failed successive- ly to persnade Elihu Root, W. Murray Crane and Cornelius N. Pliss to accept the position. I chose him with extreme reluctance, because I could ill spare him from the Cahinet. But I felt that he possessed the high integrity which T demanded in the man who was to manage my campaign. I am content that Mr. Parker or I should be judged by the public on the characters of the two men whom we chose to manage our campaigns-—he by the character of his nominee, Thomas Taggart, and I by the character of Mr. Cortelyou. i PARKER GUILTY OF MONSTROUS FALSEHOODS. “The assertion that Mr. Cortelyou had any knowledge gained while in any official position whereby he was enabled to secure and did secure any contributions from any corporation is a false- hood. The assertion that there has been any blackmail, direct or indirect, by Mr. Cortelyou or by me is a falsehood. The assertion that there has been made in behalf of and by anthorization of Mr. Cortelyou or by any one else, any pledge or promise, or that there has been any understanding as to future immunities or benefits in recognition of any contribution from any source, is a wick- ED WIFE OF SAXONY'S 1y HO WISHES TO RETURN “Those deat girls were so fetching | =~ | that T couldn’t resist. I made love, ot INVESTIGATE 3 Department of Commerce Is to Look Into Car Shortage RAGEDY in the Pacific Northwest s A 7 TACOMA, Nov. 4—The Department of Commerce and Labor has pror to investigate the car s other these Northwest, and circulars have been dis- tributed by O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Interstate Commerce and | Labor at Washington, to commer zations in Portland, Tacdma and woman ln Northwestern clties. In glo“s erred that the depart- iook into the question | then take such steps as | renzy a,ys remedy the situation. | en claim that the rail-| dling the inc rezumg‘ ’ 1g from the lumber, wheat | es. They point out! t Bast of part of the |- MODESTO, Nov. 4—That Mrs. James require more cars than | Bonnett killed her husband, who was fewer consequence | found dead in bed last Wednesday spite the fact that the | morning, 15 now believed by the offi- ¢ are already suffering | cers here. t | James Bonnett and his wife lived on ed that the lumber indus- |a ranch near Turlock. They returned ing one-third of the gross | from evangelistic services Tuesday the Northern Pacific, Great | night. During the night they were he Oregon Railroad and | heard singing and praying with fervor. railroads, but that these | In the morning Bonnett was found dead ve done nothing toward in- in bed and his wife a raving maniac. eir car equipment except;She raves continually, saying that she vurchase 850 box cars. ! killed her husband because God “or- The appeal of the lumbermen states | dained it. that the 850 cars are supposed to take| Marks on Bonnett's face show vio- care of 10000 carloads ef wheat to bellenceA His nose is bitten through. Mrs. moved to the East and the increase of | Bonnett's hands show marks of human 800 carloads of lumber and shingles | teeth. Her hearing is to be held Satur- over Jast year’s shipments, not to men- | day. tion the natural increase in business et incidental to the growth of the Pacific!TOWN IN GEORGIA SWEPT o ptmons BY A DISASTROUS FIRE Carnegle Is Unanimously Re-elected. | Tifton Suffers to the Extent of Two EDINBURGH, Nov. 4.—Andrew | Hundred and Fifty Thou- Carnegie has been unanimously re- sand Dollars, % elected lord rector of St. Andrew's| MACON, Ga., Nov. 4—Fire swept University. The announcement was | Tifton, Ga., to-day, destroying several recelved with lond applause and the | business hm—ug-lmui-o! singing of “He's a Jolly Good Fellow.” $250,000. but they accepted my protesta- tions d two of the whole number| actually proposed marriage themselves rather than have me go away without them. T had to be game. I know this is a serious lark and my folks in New | York will be awfully shocked, but they’ == get me out of it.” el | AT NINETY SHE TIRES OF LIFE oigee Aged Woman in Towa Hangs Herself From a Hook in Her Room With a Ribbon Special Dispatch to The Call. MONROE, Iowa, Nov. 4.—Mrs. Martha Shellady, aged 90 years, com- mitted suicide this afternoon by hang- ing herself with a wide silk ribbon. Mrs. Shellady had outlived her entire family and had been blind for years. Usually cheerful, for some time past she has had a fit of the blues, declar- ing that she had lived long enough and that it was time to die. To-day the old lady had suffered from the blues more than ever and shortly after dinner went to her room. Am hour later she was found dead, hanging by a wide silk ribbon to a hook in the wall. ————— ONE HUNDRED DROWNED OFF COAST OF ALGERIA Natives Go to Watery Grave as the Result of a Collision at Sea, BONA, Algeria, Nov. 4—A hundred persons were drowned last night by the sinking of the French steamship Geronde, which was in collision with the French steamship Schiaffino near Herbillon, twenty-three miles from Bona. The Geronde left Bona with | Sudden End GOULDS MANDLE COUNTESS' COIN George J. and Helen to Act as Receivers of Income of Wife of C(astellane —_— Epeclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Another echo of the financial difficulties of the Countess of Castellane resounded to- day in the United States Circuit Court when Judge Lacombe signed an order authorizing George J. Gould and Helen Miller Gould to act as receivers of the income of their sister, Anna, to pay cer- tain lawyers an annual sum for attend- ing to the legal affairs of the Countess. Judge Lacombe ordered that John F. Dillon be paid $1500 per annum, Coudert Bros. of New York $3000 per year and Coudert Freres of Paris $3500 per year. Charles A. Gardiner of New York will receive a yearly payment of $1000. The receivers asked the court to au- thorize the payment to commence Feb- ruary 7, 1901, to mburse the lawyers for the time spent in straightening out the Countess’ affairs. RUSSIAN TROOPS CHARGE UPON POLES, KILLING SIX Put to Demonstration of Thousands Against the Mobilization. BRESLAU, Prussian Silesia, Nov. 4. Three thousand Poles marched through the streets of Czestochowa, Russian Poland, on Wednesday as a protest against the mobilization. The Chief of Police and gendarmes ordered the paraders to disperse, but they re- fused to do so and continued to sing Polish songs. A detachment of in- fantry then charged the mob with : the result that six per-. and ed falsehood. “That Mr. Parker should desiré to avoid the discussion of principles I can well understand, for it is but the bare truth to say that he has not attacked us on any matter of any action of the Government save after first misstating that principle or that action. prmmp.e or upon But I cannot understand how any honorable man, a candidate for the highest oitice in the gift of the people, can take refuge not merely in personalities, but inv such base and unworthy personalities. "ASKS ALI, HONEST MEN TO COMPARE ADMINISTRATIONS. “If 1 deemed it necessary to support my flat denial by any evidence I would ask all men of common sense to ponder well what has been done in this campaign by Mr. Cortelyou and to com- pare it with what Mr. Parker himself did when he was managing Mr. Hill's campaign for Governor, and to compare what has been done as regards the great corporations and money interests in this ad- ministration with what was done under the last Democratic administration while Mr. Olney was At- torney General; I would ask all honest men whether they seriously deem it possible that the course this administration has taken in every matter, from the Northern Securities suit to the settlement of the anthracite coal strike, is compatible with any theory of public behavior save the theory of doing exact justice to all men without fear and without favoritism; I would ask all honest and fair-minded men to rementber that the agents through whom I have worked-are Mr. Knox and Mr. Moody in the Department of Justice, Mr. Cortelyou in the Department of Commerce and Labor and Mr. Gar- field in the Bureau of Corporations, and that no such act of infamy have heen done without all these men heing parties to it. “The statements made by Mr. Parker are unqualifiedly and atrociously false. As Mr. Cor- telyou has said to me more than once during this campaign, if elected I shall go into the Presidency unhampered by any pledge, promise or understanding of any kind, save my promise, made openly to the American people that, so far as in my power lies, I shall see to it that every man has a square THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” deal, no less and no more. as Mr. Parker charges could ROOT SPEAKS IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Elihu Root made an impassioned defense of Presi- dent Roosevelt and George B. Cortel- | “Let the people decide between the two candidates, our President on the one hand and this slanderer by infer- you at a meeting in Durland’s Riding | ence, as to who has been guilty of Academy to-night. Seldom has a poli- tical audience in this city witnessed a making a compromise with decency.” Mr/ Root strode to and fro upon the scene equal to that which followed the platform, throwing into his words all wfimmmmmmmmn }bflm‘ht his audience to its feet with icheers and applause. But it was when he tock up the charges against Cor- telyou and shouted. “Who. who, I say, ‘was the choice of the great corporate interests of the East for the Demo- cratic nominee for President? Alton B. Parker,” that the applause was lheommld. Anhllfluclh he_greatest.