The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1904, Page 25

to-day. CALIFORNIA—West's Minstrels. Mat- inee to-day. L—*“The Littla Church Around Matinee to-day. Im Welssen audeville. TES— FISCHER'S—Vaudeville, GPAND—“In mey.’ di i s e MAJ [C—*In Mizsoura.”" ORPHEUM-—Vaudeville. TIVOLI— King Dodo.” Matines to- FIFTY-TWO PAGES— AN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1904—PAGES 25 TO 38. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COSSACKS SURPRISE SLEEPING FOE AND TAKE EIGHT GUNS Japanese Are Driven From| Camp in the Night. DARING RAID BY DON INFANTRY| clared a Travesly Brown Soldiers Who Escape the Bayonet Flee in Panic From the Field, . KDEN, ar Dec. 3.—All day Friday & bombarded b dressed as the at- calleq for regimentsevery man were occu < m their fro; t s ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3.—Gen- = g eral Sakharoff, telegraphing srday, & e N reports a successful reconnal e by X e : . | sharpshooters on Thursday night in . was slightly - the direction of the Japanese intrench- : 8t least| o ents southwest of Tunganon. The f as many | oo gy & 3 | e troops. apf’s Cossacks the Japanese t of the vil- 4 Dapinduni- - JAPAN'S TASK ONLY BEGUN. Captured Fort Is Not Part of Port t the import- -Meter Hill He explains ussians call of the rail- outer and not b te of ountain; cock Hill. about to at- 3 as occurred in n Hill after the cap- if hills on until four mber 30) that they 1 the permanent forts d northeast of Port Ar- How long the permanent defenses d fter the loss of the oth- > not v ure to predict,” con- officer, “but it is not unfair ation with what oc- topol. The last outer 4 capture of the Malakoff suBaBRn stopol had the advantage of ver been completely invested, through the siege to re- ents and supplies. On the natural strength of at Sebastopol were infe- f Port Arthur. The 203- twenty meters higher ent forts on the north- %00 meters distant eas the distance be- and the outer de- 1 was only 500 me- Japanese will try to ts by assault, and will revert to sap- EE T B - JAPANESE AG TS BUSY. “Asia for the Asiatics” Their Appeal to the Chincse Nation. N, Dec. 2.—The conviction pre. va in the highest governmental q ters that Russia isfighting for all of Europe in the present war is increasing in strength and is affecting Germany’s | attitude toward the belligerents, so that | BEF g her friendliness for Russia and her! coolness toward Japan grows with every | Russian reverse, The Government has | correpondence from China showing that | hundreds of Japanese agents are pene- trating into every part of the Chinese empire distributing tracts and dissem- inating the jdea that Asia should be for the Asiatics, that no European power has rights in {ts territory or in the trade of the East and that Japan is vil- | the Japanese to the | Cossacks in | ners and rifles. | efenses, which are | Hark | topol was carried in| ot follow until three months | fighting for all Asia in forcing Russia back. An opinion amounting to a certainty holds the minds of those directing Ger- many’s policy that a Boxer rising or similar popular movements against for- eigners in China will be led by the | Japanese, who are laying the founda-, |tion for a wvast Oriental empire that | might reach to the Urals. | — |READY FOR THE BALTIC FLEET J\\‘am.i.u of the Japanese Navy Are i in Thorongh Repair. FU, Dec. 3.—Evidence of the -ss of the Japanese for an nter with the Russian second Pa- jadron was seen by the of- of the French steamship Binh which left Japan on November evi- Forty 1 of the Shantung Promon- tory the officers sighted the battleship Asahi, which was similarly rehabil tated. The Asahi was steaming to the nerth. The work of repalring the Japanese fleet has been progressing with great secrecy since August last pedo-boat destroyer flotilla, it is re- ported, has been maintained in good stly at the naval bases and shape, mo at Port I SR OUTPOST BAYONETED. Russian Sharpshooters Surprise Jap- anese in Intrenchments. Russians first bayoneted a Japanese outpost of thirty men, surmounted barbwire entanglements, entered the intrenchments and bayoneted twenty more Japanese. Reinforcements com- ing up, attacked the sharpshooters with hand grenades, forcing the Rus- sians to retire. The Russians carried off five dead and fourteen wounded, scme Japanese rifles and ammunition. e o ARABIA’S CARGO RELEASED. Russian Supreme Prize Court Re- verses Viadivostok Verdict. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3.—The Supreme Prize Court to-day upheld the appeal against the seizure of 5000 sacks of flour on board the and siatic line steamship Arabia, captured by the Vladivostok squadron 29 on Ju , and quashed the Viadivos- tok dec n in the case. The Supreme Court, in the appaal of the German steamship Thea, char- tered by an English firm, which was sunk off the Japanese coast by the Viadivostok squadron, decided to-day that her arrest was unjustified and the judgment of the Vladivostok prize court was set aside. | e Russian Attacks Repulsed. TOKIO, Dec, 3, 6 p. m.—The Man- churian headquarters, in a report dated Friday night, December 2, says that on Thursday, December 1, at 10 o’clock at night, the Russian infantry attacked Manchuatzu Mountain and that the attack was immediately re- pulsed. On the morning of Friday, December 2, Russian infantry and cavalary, the report says, approached Hunangti and Pintaitzu, but were driven off. ‘ T b Fund for Helpless Wounded. PARIS, Dec. 3.—General Stoessel's heroic defense of Port Arthur brings | out enthusiastic popular subscriptions to the fund which his wife is raising in behalf of the helpless wounded of the fortress. The subscribers repre- | sent all classes, many of the nobility and hundreds of workmen, and the | amount already subscribed totals $6600. SRS LN | No Coal for Baltic Fleet, | COLOMBO, Island of Ceylon, Dec. | 3.—In pursuance of instructions from {the Home Government at London re- | garding coaling facilities for belliger- ents, either directly or indirectly, a no- | tice has been issued that no vessel shall be supplied with coal without the permission of the local Government. e First Armistice at Port Arthur. TOKIO, Dec. 8.—The first armistice | between the combatants at Port Ar- thur was declared on December 2 for the purpose of burying the dead. It | lested for a period of six hours. i il Russian Fleet Coaling at Jibutil. JIBUTIL, Somaliland, Dec. 3.—A Russian fieet consisting of thirteen warships and nine transports, in com- mand of Rear Admiral Voelkersam, is anchored outside this harbor, coaling. ST Grippenburg Nears the Front. HARBIN, Dec. 3.—Lieutenant Gen- eral Grippenburg, commander of the second Manchurian army, arrived here this evening. Portland | DIVORCE 5 SCORED BY JUGRS Woman's Career De- on Marriage. P el Fiith Decree Arouses the Ire of the Jurists of Windy City. Mrs. Layman, Who Was Wedded Three Times to One Man, Is D:nounced. ol RS Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Degradation of the marriage tie, as illustrated in| the life of Mrs. Grace Snell-Layman, who has just been granted her fifth divorce, was denounced by the Judges to-day, and a general law to safeguard the sanctity of the marital relations was urged. “This woman’s career has been a rank travesty on marriage and the sa- crednes of its obligations,” said Judge Brentano. “By five quick marriages and divorces she has shown her utter ina- bility to appreciate the sanctity of the | marriage tie. The tor- | “This dragging of the sacred things of life through the mire cannot but arouse the liveliest indignation in right- minded men.” “Mre. Snell or Layman or whatever her last name is at present has turned marriage life into opera bouffe,” said Judge Mack. “It is wrong, absurd, out- | rageous, of course, but there is no help for it as the law stands. Mrs. Layman can marry again as soon as she can find man with temerity enough to take the risk.” Judge Dunne said: “It is absurd and ridiculous as a general problem, but I hesitate to discuss it at this time for fear of being construed as assalling a woman.” Mrs. Layman was married first when she was 16 years of age to Frank Cof- fin, a dancing master. She got a di- vorce, and married him a second time at the solicitation of her son, now dead. The second venture ended in divorce also, but having acquired the habit of marrying him, she married him a third time. Again she tired of him, got her third divorce and married a man named Walker, who claimed her as his wife for one year. After divorcing Coffin for the third time the woman left her beau- tiful homes \at Antioch and Racine, ‘Wis., and betook herself to Riverside, where she has since resided. Layman was a clerk in the hotel at Los Angeles where the woman stopped. She is under 40 and still pretty. She is said to be contemplating a sixth mar- riage. BOLD PLOT OF BANDITS IS FOILED Driven From Bank Before They Can Rob Safe. Special Diepatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 3.—As Dr. Wil- liam Prichard of Gosport, Owen Coun- ty, was going to see a patient early this morning he was suddenly seized by five men and after a short struggle was bound and gagged and carried into the Farmers' Bank, the door of which had previously been forced open by the five men. They said the doctor was am of- ficer of the bank, but he denied it, and said that he knew nothing regarding the amount of money on hand. The doctor, however, is a stockholder, but this he kept to himself, for he was fa- miliar with the bank and with the safe. ‘While one man sat over him with a cocked revolver the other four drilled a hole in the safe and put in a charge of nitro-glycerin. The physiclan was then carried into the rear room and the fuse was ignited, the door being burst open by the explosion. The noise aroused persons living near the bank, and before the robbers could force open the inner compartments, all of which were locked, a crowd had be- gun to collect and the robbers made their escape by a rear door, leaving Dr. Prichard bound and gagged in the rear room. Mounted farmers have been searching the country for miles but no arrests have been made. It is thought the robbers escaped on & hand- car. . \ VAST PLAN OF MRS. CHADWICK ELEVEN MILLION DOLLAR TRUST FAILS FORTY-FIVE ARE TNJURED: N 4 WRECK Broken Rail Throws West Bound Train Oi@ge. Accident Was Remarkable in That Not a Single Life Was Lost. Many of the Passengess, However, | Receive Hurts That Are Con- sidered Serious, | HOLDEN, Mo., Dec. 3.—Missouri Pa- cific passenger train No. 1, westbound from St. Louis to Kansas City, due here at 4 o'clock this afternoon, was wrecked at the water works bridge, two miles east of here, resulting in the in- markable in that not a single person | was killed. The accident was caused by a broken rail which projected from the track, catching the first coach behind the mail car, throwing it from the track down a twenty-foot embankment and caus- ing two other coaches, a Pullman and | the diner, to follow it. The broken rail was on the bridge and the rear Pullman | rolled off fhe bridge intothe creek be- low and the passerigers inside were all seriously injured. Two old ladies im- prisoned in this car were taken out at the top after holes had been made with axes. The engine, two baggage cars and the mail car passed the bridge in | safety and remained on the track, but the remainder of the train was de- rafled. E The more seriously injured are: L. H. Hickman, Warrensburg, Mo., back hurt; Wallace Crossley, from Johnson County, Mo., badly hurt; P. L. Fergu- son, County Treasurer, Holden, Mo., head cut; G. E. McDonald, Warrens- burg, badly hurt; Mrs. C. Truaz, Krem- lin, Okla., contusion on head; Helen Truaz, Kremlin, contusion on head; John Fowler, Clarksburg, Mo., slightly; H. Claxton, St. Louis, colored, will die; | Mr. Eddy, Lincoln, Nebraska, hip | sprained; E. D. Smith, St. Louis, head and face hurt; Mrs. Maxwell, Kansas City, neck badly hurt; Mrs. John Eber- hard, Kansas City, shoulder and hand crushed; Mrs. M. C. Pierce and baby, hurt about head; W. H. Pierce, wife and daughter, Pueblo, Colo., bruised, and Mrs. Pierce’s hip seriously injured; Mrs. Thomas Oates, Warrensburg, slight; Miss Ora McCord, Denver, slightly injured, F. P. Priest, Warrens- burg, neck wrenched and body bruised; Thomas Barrett, Barrett, Kas., slight; G. A. Landes, Warrensburg, head cut and bruised; Mrs. J. P. Heibusky, Pu- eblo, Colo., and four small sons, all bruised about head and body; Mrs. Gil- lette, New York, aged 70, badly injured; Miss Minnie Gillette, New York, body bruises; H. A." Mosher, Warrensburg, scalp lacerated. There were thirty members of the ‘Warrensburg Lodge, K. of P., on the wrecked train and few of them escaped injury. e g RO R g MAINE RECORD OF DR. STAPLES Death of the Sutter Creek Fugitive’s Former Wife Is a Theme for Comment Spectal Dispatch l}'flu Call. FARMINGTON, Me., Dec. 3.—Rela- tives and former neighbors of Dr. F. N. Istmplel in this town are astonished at the news that he is wanted in Amador County, California, for the alleged mur- | der of his wife by poisoning. Dr. Staples’ former wife, whom he married when he was about 21 years old, was Miss Myrtle Russell of Temple, Me. , About five years later she died, leaving a two-months-old son, which she bequeathed on her deathbed to her sister, the wife of Dr. Staples’ brother. At the time of Mrs. Staples’ death here there was much talk among her friends, who thought she had not received proper care and attention. | Names Carnegie as Guardia S J‘Ewm& FROM PHOTO TAKEN IN ~ e ot b CLEVELAND, Dec. 3.—Success, it ap- pears, did not always crown Mrs. Chad: wick’s efforts to raise £-jney. The fol- lowing story was told to~day by a mem- ber of a large firm of lawyers: Mrs. Chadwick called on this attorney two years ago and explained that she was a niece of Frederick Mason, a lifelong as-; sociate of Andrew Carnegie. This uncle had made her heiress to his fortune, worth from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000, and it had been cared for by the ironmaster himself until its proportions were, at the time of the interview, $11,000,000. On account of press of his own affairs, however, he was desirous of relinquish- | ing custody of it and had named this attorney as a safe man. She said that Carnegie's suggestion was that the es- tate be used to form an immense trust| company, so that shie could never make inroads into the principal. Soon afterward the senior member of the firm was called to New York by Mrs. Chadwick, who exhibited to him a document which terminated the trust of Carnegie. But Mrs. Chad- wick decided to let the matter rest until Carnegie returned to this coun- try, saying that she did not like the idea of instigating his return of the estate. Soon she wanted to borrow $40,000 from this attorney, explaining that her quarterly dividend was not due for thirty days and an obligation was pressing her. The attorney explained that that night he was going to New York on business with Carnegie for another client and was quite willing to take up the subject of the trust company. Mrs. Chadwick, he says, asked him not to mention the matter to Car- negie, as she would be accused of be- ing foolish with her money. There- ! upon the attorney destroyed the papers organizing the huge trust company. MILLIONS IN SECURITIES. In the proceedings brought by the suit of Newton against Mrs. Chadwick to recover a large loan, frequent men- tion has been made of an attest for $5,000,000. To-day a copy of the al- leged attest was printed. It was writ- ten on a letter head of the Wade Park Banking Company. Following is a copy of it: “CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 23, 1902. “To whom it may concern: I here- by certify that I have in my posses- sion $5,000,000 in securities belonging to Cassie L. Chadwick, and that neither myself nor the Wade Park Bank nor any other person has any claim upon the same. “IRA REYNOLDS.” ‘When asked about the authenticity ot the note, Reynolds to-night refused to either afiirm or deny. He said that he would talk about his dealings with Mrs. Chadwick only on the witness stand. The Tribune to-morrow will say that all of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick’s effects are in the possession of the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company of Elyria, Ohio, under a chattel mortgage given in April and filed in Cleveland on November 22. The mortgage is ad- mitted in a statement signed by the en- tire directorate of the bank. This the Tribune learns is the sub- 'stance of a telegram which has been re- FROM PHOTO TAKEN IN 1896 < 1890 +* —f THREE _PORTRAITS OF _ MRS. CHADWICK, TAKEN AT VA- RIOUS STAGES OF HER CA- REER. | L5 - ceived by the adjusting firm of Frank, Leguin & Arnold from Louis J. Gross- man, their Cleveland correspondent. Grossman is the Cleveland lawyer who in behalf of Jacques Krakauer and oth- ers filed a petition in involuntary bank- ruptcy against Mrs. Chadwick in the Federal court at Cincinnati on Friday afternoon, a receiver being appointed later in the day. Grossman’s telegram is in part as follows: “The principal reason that prompt- ed the flling of the petition was the information received by me that cer- tain creditors who hold a large quan- tity of Mrs. Chadwick's diamonds as collateral were threatening to sell the same at a sacrifice sale. Besides this, the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company of Elyria, Ohio, are in pos- session of all of Mrs. Chadwick's ef- fects, worth a large amount of money, under a chattel mortgage given iIn April last and filed here on November 32. This mortgage, as is admitted over a statement signed by all of the directors of the bank, was given to secure an old indebtedness and sim- ply as additional security thereon. According to report, Mrs. Chad- wick’s son, Emil, is the possessor of a blanket bond for $7,500,000. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—“There is ab- solutely ~nothing to prevent Mrs. Chadwick leaving the Holland House with her baggage If she sees fit,” said Philip Carpenter, counsel for Mrs. Chadwick, when to-night asked con- cerning the report that a writ of at- tachment had been served on all her baggage and personal belongings at the Holland House to-day to satisfy a claim of $1357 which a Fifth-ave- nue modiste had against her. “The papers were served on the manager of the hotel and not on my client personally, and that fact ren- ders the service null and veid,” con- tinued Carpenter. “As a matter of fact, Mrs. Chadwick has no intention of leaving New York for a few days, but there would be no legal objection if she saw fit, according to my view of the law.” Carpenter is of the opinion that the appointment of a receiver in Cleve- land will not complicate matters un- necessarily. “It must be borne in mind,” he sald, “that there is a great difference be- tween voluntary and involuntary bankruptey.” Nathan Loeser, who was appointed receiver in Cleveland yesterday, said to-day that as it would be necessary to bring an action in court to gain possession of Mrs. Chadwick’s prop- erty, he undoubtedly would defer action for a time and that before tak- ing further steps he would confer with Mrs. Chadwick’s counsel. The attorneys representing her in New { n of Her Estate PROM PHOTO TAKEN IN 1902 |, o “— York have not yet had any communi- cation from Loeser. TO SETTLE ALL CLAIMS. A gentleman who versant with Mrs. Chadwick’s affairs is fully con- said to-night that by the time the bankruptcy matter came to the at- tention of the court the claims of Mrs. Chadwick would be settled, rendering further action by the courts unneces- sary. He said that the turn of affairs in Cleveland would not affect the set- tlement of the claims of Herbert D. Newton of Brookline, Mass., whose suit against Mrs. Chadwick was the figst filed. This claim had been ad- Justed to the satisfaction of both sides and the formal money transfer would be made in a few days. A story was published in an even- ing paper to the effect that several detectives alleged to be in the employ of a New York millionaire whose name has been mentioned in connec- tion with the Chadwick case are shadowing Mrs. Chadwick. An interesting feature of the case to-day was the optimistic view taken by the Chadwick counsel. Philip Car- penter said emphatically that his client was a very wealthy woman and amply able to meet every just claim against her. Judge Albaugh of Canton, who is guarding the Chadwick interests in Ohio, expressed confidence in tha opin- fon that she would “come out all right in the end.” CONCEALS HER BELONGINGS. In contradiction of the statement of Carpenter, Deputy Sheriff Frank C. Rinn said to-night that he served the attachment on Mrs. Chadwick person- ally to-day, after first serving it on a clerk and Manager Harriman of the Holland House. Rinn says that he was permitted to go to the Chadwick apartments, where he found Mrs. Chadwick reclining on a couch. Ow- ing to her deafness, Rinn says he was obliged to carry om conversation in a loud voice. When he made his er- rand known Mrs. Chadwick took the papers and placed them on a table beside her. He continued: “I, too, searched the room as well as I coul, but all I could find was a small handbag and the woman's hat and jacket. We have beeén informed that Mrs. Chadwick has changed her apartments in the Holland House three times. We believe that the hand- bag that I found in her room does not constitute all of her effects. We shall g0 to the hotel on Monday morning and inform the management that we want from it a statement of whatever ef- fects they have belonging to Mrs. Chadwick, either in the way of valu- ables deposited in the safe or a parcel such as might be contained in her trunks.” Mrs. Chadwick Jis said to be in a state bordering almost on collapse to- night. The nervous strain of the last few days has been so great that she is hysterical. Dr. Moor, her medical attendant, was called in to-night and, after prescribing for her, said: “Mrs. Chadwick is suffering from nothing except the mnervous , strain which she has been undergoing. It is no wonder that a woman of her age should give way, considering what she has been lately. There is, however, Y constitutional trouble.” _—