The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1904, Page 26

THE-S AN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1 904. ADVERTISEXENTS. The Wiley B. Allen Co:s Big Annual CLEARANCE SALE of PIANGOS s in cheap when ap ow yOOD g e to get that w as beeu guaranteed a large lot of pianos are number We do not like the word but if you are looking time and here ] 1 sale in prog- pianos and learn how easy it is to matter for any home ta p is 1 looked forward to perhaps for months gone except one, brand- 00l and cover not included at this of these pjanos at a great bar- gain. taking the entire lot from a mod. ctory, and while $150 our profits are small in selling these excellent pianes at this B price. they will be sold. but stool znd - cover cannot be in- lud We marked & number of very excellent pianos at this at have erts. 2 is one You w & Barne: used, but put c pianos ontinued and will not be in the new 1905 cata- in excellent condition by the best that we have ever presented on, Kings- >ther popular includes instruments taken back from our own as well as a superb perfect condition, hav- are offered in this lot. ange from people who from us. ermined to close out some standard that are brand-new, but the another lot, some better than the above, and among re some immense bargains re some Conovers., new es discontinued; a ¥ walnut, a Hardman or two, and some very fine Ludwigs. Here we some Everetts, styles discontinued. A number of fine Stecks, also. Some of the finest Packards that have ever been shown on any floor. The Packard is a most durable piano, and the lot offered for sale at this price are some that are greatly ad- mired by good musicians and professional people. Hardman—Patent noiseless pedal action; tuning pin block, which cannot split; long swinging carved panel tomatic srner ornaments; highly polis continuous hinges; 1 top plate; hardwo>d open-back r—Full _iron three unisons, the same as Grand duplex bridge; in beautiful mahogany Patent ti frame; patent indepen tone-sustaining Artist's and f board ckel plate r mahogar Hamlin—Partic & THE RATES ON GRAIN SHIPMENTS ADVANCE Transcontinental and Road Issue New Schedule for Points East of Chicago. LAND, Or., Dec. 3.—Within | the next sixty daye all of the grain— probably exceeding 15,000,000 bushels sold to Easterners X hree North Pacific States transcontinental and oads have advanced for points east of per hundred pounds ed from points in and Idaho. This ar entirely on the rate ago east and will be effect- ber 1 ADVERT! fiood ’s Sarsaparilla r beyond the effect popularity ex- approachable Merit, prescription which dered incurable, Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured people consi as to ha to itself eczema, f humor, as well h and rheumatism—prove d’s Sarsaparilla t biood purifier ever produced. es of dyspepsia, loss of appe- t tired feeling make it the tomach tonic and strength the world has ever known to take it TO-DAY a. psor Hoo the b Its tite and greatest Fericct Fittiny tyegiassas /1 MoZerate Gos! Aner, but silustrated book— 1] particulars and di waiunble (o ladies BIA! 41 Park Bow, Now ¥ 2 New Montgomery, San Francisco, Cal. (Ladies’ Dept.), 224 Sutter, 400 Sutter and 100 Stockton. Tth Broadway, finge e distinguishec INGS G \Wie B Alen @, 931-933 MARKET STREET Northwestern | t. self-suppor 1 ful ped ag angement Favorite. Continuous nickel hinge on metal-cased hammer-rail; improved r-guang and act suppo figured tlar most his coast d floor. array of e particular are selling at 50. Some brand-new. alf-price s from $35.00 up. We have some Mason » manuel. pedal bass. $1000.00. (We y for Mason & Hamlin organs.) fering squares at this price. Some of course, but a very litile money will take UNTIL JANUARY 1 BETTING ODDS FAVOR RE-ELECTION OF SNYDER !)lu('ll Money Is Wagered on the Re- sult of the Municipal Election in Los Angeles. ANGELES, Dec. { marks the close of a municipal cain- paign in Los Angeles which has 'aan contested by the opposing parties with considerable vigor. The election o curs Mond: Democrats are claim LOs 3.—To-day ing the election of Mayor M | dith P. Snyder, Democrat, over Owen McAleer, Republican, by a pluraticy estima’ at from 3000 to 4000. The Republican leaders are confident, however, of McAleer's election. | The betting odds favor Snyder. Even | money is offered on his election at all | poolrooms, with but few takers. On ‘m» other hand, plenty of Republican | money is offered that Snyder will not | have 500 plurality, and at odds of 2 {to 1 that he will not have a thousand. | Much money has been wagered on ! the result of the election of the sev- eral candidates for city offices, the amount being estimated at something | in excess of $140,000. —_—— { | Children to Be Barred. | BERKELEY, Dec. 3.—For the first | time since the Sunday afternoon con- certs in the Greek theater were in- augurated children under 12 vears of age are to be refused admission to- morrow. Their noise has hitherto dis- turbed the audience. The concert to- morrow will consist of piano playing | by Aifred Elkusha sophomore, who will | render the following programme of | compositions by Grieg: Prelude (from | Holberg Suite); “Cradle Song” (after Heine); “She Dances” (after Heine); { minuet (from sonata); Peer Gynt Suite—(a) “Morning Song,” (b) ! “Ase’s Death,” (c) “Anitra’s Dance,” (d) “In the Halls of the Mountain | King.” i _AD\'ERTISEI!E.\'TS. ; Cnres(};lgand COLDS \ Now that the season for Colds, | Coughs and Neuralgic Pains is with us, such preventive measures as will guard him against the “eager and nipping air” that may prepare the way for a ! winter's sickness. 1 It is not necessary to look far for a !Dreventlve and cure; at the nearest drug store you will find Dr. Hum- phreys’ “Seventy-seven.” Those who habitually carry and take “77" at the 'nm sneeze or shiver rarely have a seri- {ous Cold or fliness. | | At Druggists, 25 cents, or mailed | Humphreys' Medicine Co.. W I".- PP"”,‘..,- Cor, Willlam and . ecm 7’3“, ;the careful man is on the lookout for | { 'TRAGEDY IN 'Count’s Death Finally TURIN, Dec. 3.—In the little Assize Court at Turin the prosecution of the Countess Bonmartini, her brother, her lover and two other persons, chm'[gcdJ | with the murder of her husband, is| now proceeding under circumstances of particular grimness. The cramped, ill lighted Assize Court is historic in it- self. In the days when Turin used to be the capital of the kingdom of Pied- mont. this was the Senate chamber, in many a stirring scene was en- one, however, approached those| that are now of daily occurrence in the terrible drama, whose tangled web of love, passion, intrigue, conspiracy and | murder the law is engaged in unravel- | ing. i The evidence against the Countess| Bonmartini and the others took the police over two years to gather and the | letters bearing on the plot alone fill twenty-five folio volumes. Twemy-one'\ law s, among them some of the mns!] distincuished counsel of the Italian) bar, are fighting, on one side or the other, the legal battle of life or death. Nearly four hundred witnesses have been subpenaed and it is now thought that the trial will last three months. Conflicting versions have been sént | to America of the story of the Bon- martinis. That story is one that ap- peals strongly to the Italian tempera- ment. It begins with love that found its grave in marriage and was re- | vived with another for its object. But from these commonplace beginnings of tragedy has been evolved & tan- gled maze of mystery and crime such as only passion and fate, love and hate, can weave. It possesses all the elements of a great detective story. It abounds in situations that would have made the fortune of a novelist. THER DENOUNCES. | In this drama, which culminated in such a piece of human butchery as could hardly be dignified by the name of assassination, one figure stands out in heroic relief. It is that of Dr. An- tonio Murri, one of the foremost of Italian physicians and professor of the University of Bologna. A Senator at Rome and possessed of the old Roman spirit of the supreme duty of the citizen to the state, he did not hes- itate to denounce to the authorities his son—his only son—as the murderer of Count Bonmartini. His daughter, Linda, had married the Count in 1891. Before that she | had had a love affair with Dr. Carlo hi, one of her father's favorite pu- but she appeared to have got over that. For some years she and the Count seem to have lived happily together and two children were born to them—a boy and a girl. Then in- compatibility of temperament and tastes began to chill their affection. High strung and nervous, she "was intellectually mu her husband’s su- perior, and he a poor figure in the society in which she shone. Urged by her to take up some serious study and | make something of himself, he went in for medicine, but the result simply | demonstrated that his abilities were of a hopelessly mediocre character. The rift between them widened. It is al- leged that he consoled himself with other women and treated her cruelly. They separated for a time and then tried the experiment of living together again, but now there was not a ves- tige of love left on either side and mu- ! tual antipathy and contempt had taken its place. Things were ripening for the tragedy LOVER DISPLACES HUSBAND. About this time Dr. Secchi again came into the Countess' life. He had little difficulty in rekindling the old flame and soon he held the place that should have been her husband’'s. He was a friend of her brother, Tulllo Murri, who had become a barrister, and filled the position of a magistrate { and municipal councilor at Bologna. It throws a queer light on Italian society that this brother, instead of rounding on Secchi, warmly espoused his cause. Italian ways are not American ways, and the fact that Secchi already had a mistress and was a notoriously Iim- moral man made no difference to Tullio. According to the prosecution, the three plotted together to gét rid of the Count. Tullio, it is alleged, in- duced his mistress, Rosina Monetti, to take part in the evil game, and found another ally in his friend, Dr. Pio Naldi, who was hard up and willing to risk his neck for money. Tullio, it is alleged, conceived the idea of mur- dering the Count by pricking him with 2 hypodermic syringe containing a | poison with which certain tribes of In- | dians tip their arrows when they go on the warpath, but Secchi argued | that it could not be depended on to do its fatal work quickly enough and proved it by an experiment of which lamb was the victim. CULMINATION OF PLOT. When the Count was discovered ead in his palace there were no less than thirteen wounds in his body. | Some feminine finery was scattered on | the bed, there was the bloody imprint {of a woman's hand on the wall and a | letter in a woman'’s handwriting, mak- {ing an appointment with him, was found in the room. That letter, the | police declare, was written by Rosina | Bonetti, at Tullio’s dictation, and with ! the feminine apparel had been placed in the Count’s room to throw them off | the scent by creating the impression | that -his murder was the sequel of a | vulgar intrigue with an abandoned weman in league with thievés and cut- | throats. Tullio and Naldi are accused of ac- | tually killing the Count and the other three prisoners of being accessories, | Not the least striking of the many dramatic situations in which the grew- some story abounds is that which re- veals Tullio, in his capacity of magis- trate, leading the polige into the cham- ber of death and taking an inventory | of its content: | It is a strange blending of fate and | circumstances that brought these five | people together and landed thém in the |a { | b1 | interest and speculation. the puzzies of heredity that | anced, a vigorous man, both bodily and | mentally, should be the father of two such children. The Countess owes nothing powers of fascination to beauty. is a little woman with swarthy fea- tures and has lost the sight of one eye. When the police, accompanied by a lot of journalists, came to her fath- | er's house to arrest her, she took the | matter very calmly. In her dressing wn she opened the door of her room and invited them all to enter. | *“W= all wept,” wrote one of the Ital- llan reporters, describing the-scene in his paper, “but Linda calmly dressed, ! brushed her hair and, with incredibie cynicism, cleaned her teeth.” ' During the two vears that she has - Wife, Her Brother and Her Lover. iron cage. The Countess and her } ‘m?her are the chief objects of WRM IH' one of | . Antonio { Murri, a model of rectitude, well bal-| THRILLING MURDER CASE BEFORE ITALIAN” COURT GUILTY LOVE Laid to Plot Involving already spent in prison her thoughts apparently have all been for her lover. Secchi. She wrote letters to him when- ever she got a chance, but sent no mes- sages to her father, who adored her, or to her two innocent children. In court at times she has presented a pitiable figure of a woman u\'erwhelme(bi by sorrow and trouble seeking relief in tears. Her mother declares that she ! is Innocent of all complicity in her hus- band’'s murder, CHARACTER OF ACCUSED. Of all the prisoners Tullio Murri| shows the least concern in the proceed- ings. He is either absolutely shameless | or possessed of superb courage. Pro-| fessor Lombroso, the great Italian crim- inologist, says that the formation of his skull alone suffices to classify him among the “irresponsibles.” He de- clures‘lhal he is “neurotic” and tainted Wwith “that latent hysteria that is often met wlgh in persons of homicida! tend- encies.” He reasons that Tullio was the slave of an “ungovernable impulse,” generated by the conviction, ell- founded or otherwise, that his sister had long been the victim of the Count’s brutality. Though his mind may be of the ab- normal type, Tullio certainly pos- sesses much energy and ability. Passing through the various stages of socialism, he finally adopted the polit- ical creed of the anarchist. That it well suited him may be inferred from the fact that he once composed a trag- edy in verse in which all the characters kill one another in the last act. - Rosina Bonetti is also regarded by Lombroso as an irresponsible. He says she is hysterical, epileptic, neurotic and half-paralyzed. She is the most pitiful figure of the five. In court her eyes are ever fixed on Tullio, her lover, hoping that he will bestow on her some glance of affection, which he never does. Her attitude suggests that of a faithful dog toward an indifferent master. What she has done she has done simply be- cause he told her to do it. That was enough for her. For Secchi and Naldi no sympathy whatever is felt. The former was ar- rested long after the other four, when he must have thought all danger for him had passed. The greater therefore was the blow to him. He is hardly recognizable as the spruce, alert, well- groomed man he was before the prison gates opened for him. His attitude is one of complete dejection. It is not the bearing that one associates with con- sclous innocenci —_———— HEAITH INSPECTORS MAKE A RAID ON MILK WAGONS Keep Midnight Vigil in Outlying Dis- tricts and Secure Many Samples for Analysis. Acting under orders of Health Of- ficer gan, four milk inspectors of the Health Department kept midiight vigil in the outlying districts, lying in wait for milkmen. Every wagon that came along was stopped and samples of milk were taken for chemical analyses. When the inspectors came into the Health Department’s labora- tory they were loaded down with bot- tles of milk. Dr. A. C. Bothe, super- intendent of the Pure Food Depart- ment, and Dr. F. G. Canney, bacterio- legist of the Health Department, are now trying to discover whether the milk has been adulterated, whether it comes up to the proper standard for butter fats and whether the germs in the milk are not greater than the num- ber prescribed for the public. Dr. Ragan has had samples of milk taken from the cans sent in by ship- pers. A chemical analysis of the sixty or seventy samples taken shows that the quality of milk sent into the city | is better than ever before. The mid- | night inspection is for the purpose of ascertaining whether the milk is wa- tered after it is turned over to the drivers. If this is proved many ar- rests will follow. Dr. Ragan and Dr. Hassler visited a number of dairies in the outlying dis- tricts yesterday and found deplorable conditions. The dairies on Berlin street, according to Dr. Ragan, are filthy. He also found thirty cows graz- ing on marsh land and notifled the owner that if the cows were not kept off the land he would be arrested and prosecuted. He found cows feeding in a corral that was filled with sewage and notified the owner to have the sewage deflected into its proper chan- nel and to clean up his place gener- ally. ————— The girl who is “out of sight” isn't generally the one who is out of mind. TAKES A SLAP AT OUR WOME That Maternal Influence Is Absent in This Country IMPORTANCE IS GREAT Mothers, Says Physician, and Not Societies, Are the Real Regulators of Nation Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON, Dec. 3.—After one of his university lectures in London recent- ly, Dr. Emil Reich was reproached by an American woman for some of hls comments in his “Success Among Na- | tions.” “Madame,” thundered the doctor, tossing his leonine mane, “‘the United States is in reality an empire, and such defects as I have observed in the American woman are part of the price you have to pay for being an empire. If T were an American woman I should say, ‘The man Reich may b2 right, but without these qualities of American women the United atas never could have been what it is. They were the very qualities that were needed for the occasion.” One of the weekly papers here got up a symposium on the mothers of famous men and asked Dr. Reich to contribute to it, with a portrait of his mother and a word of comment. His comment is so bristling with interest that it is worth quoting entire, as fol- | low: “In lectures and in book: Reich, “I have repeatedly pression to my conviction that moth- | ers are more influential than any sys- | instruction. | tem of education or Whether Schopenhauer is right or wrong in saying that we inherit our intellect from our mothers, it is inde- pendently- true that the ethical equi- librium so decisive for our life can be secured by real maternal more rapidly and more abidingly than by any other influence. . “I do not hesitate to say that the maternal influence is most unequally distributed among the various nations. It is supreme in France, and in som of the Catholic portions of Germany. It is rather tame in Austria; spas- modic in Hungary; lacking tone in England; absent in America; mothers too frequently overdo it. “The young Englishman, left rly to his own resources, falls victim to brooding over ethical problems, which the constant tenderness of a mother can obviate, but no philosophy can solve. Hence his constant hungering for ethical teaching; the waste of much precious time on attempts to arrange or judge life according to strict principles, and all the vain strivings of so many young men to make up for the irretrievable loss of maternal influence. Hence the eccen- tric absurdities to which movements such as temperance, vegetarianism, etc., are carried. The great regulator of a nation’s ethical nerves is not ‘so- cieties for——, but the mother.” —_———— PRESS CLUB EXPECTS BIG CROWD AT TIVOLI THU! DAY “King Dodo” ‘Will Be Attraction, Especially Embellished for News- paper Men and Friends. The Press Club will have the Tiveli next Thursday night—all of it, from the roof to the box office. “King Dodo” will be the attraction. The lyrics of the opera have a charm not possessed by many of the later light operas and the lines teem with brisk epigrams. But the Press Club boys are not en- tirely satisfied with the work of the playwright. So “King Dodo” is to be embellished. Finishing touches, hav- ing a club flavor, are to be made. The lines are to be interspersed with local jokes and new topical verses will be sung. Even the ordinarily dull inter- missions will have their part in the merry-making—in fact, the best of the side play is promised in the interims. The newspaper men say there will not | be a dull moment from 8 to 11. The annual theatrical entertainment has become a feature of the Press Club. There will be new life to the pretty opera next Thursday night. The features will be additions, rather than substitutions. The price of seats is $1 and the advance sale is said to be very heavy. ADVERTISEMENTS. % ll FO0T-F0 COUNTESS REMAINS CALM. | influence | Jewisn During December we are Each value will be announced We do this to encourage suits, as pictured, at $3.00. They are made of all-wool double breasted, the pants are plain style; later holiday rush. Sweaters and oxford; also combination special at 85¢. illustrated story-books free. T {j] Quire for particulars. Suit for $3 When once in this big establishment see the many useful holiday presents for men and boys. We place on our sale counters to-morrow some Norfolk cy mixed and solid blue cheviots; to offer boys' and going youths’ clothing below the regular prices from time to time. in “The Call. mothers visiting our they are store. sure to winter weight material—fan- the coats come single and knickerbockers, as pictured, or ages 7 to 14 years. Buy your son a suit pew—save money and also avoid the Caps for Boys Golf caps, in a good assortment of patterns, 15¢. Yacht caps, in quite a variety, 25¢. Sailor caps in the new large shapes, 45¢. for Boys Wool sweaters, plain shades, such as garnet, navy, black stripes, worth $1.25 and $1.00; Story Books Free With all purchases in our juvenile department we give heéy are suited to little fellows. Join Our Library Boys from eight to fifteeen years should join our library, containing books by the best story writers. are patrons of this store you are entitled to membership. In- If your parents | 5 sAWooDs - 740 Market, Street. ADMINISTRATIORS SUED ON GROUND OF FRAUD | They Are Accused of Diverting to Their Own Accounts Proceeds of Sale of Stocks. TACOMA, Dec. 3.—Suit has been instituted by the Tacoma Company against J. D. McIntyre and Robert | Thompson, administrator of the estate of the late C. W. Thompson, and The- odore Shenkenberg to recover $14,- 000, alleged to have been diverted to their own accounts from the proceeds of sale of stock. The Tacoma Com- | pany was organized more than thre years ago with a capital stock of $25,- | 000,000 to promote a steel plant and other Industries. C. W. Thompson, one of the trustees, was lost on the ill fated steamer Clallam last January. —————— i Sailor Meets Accidental Death. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 3.+-Refused permission to go ashore from the French ship Jules Gomes, Yoes Marie | Moigne, a sailor, endeavored to escape from the vessel by leaping from the main deck to the wharf at which the ship was lying. Moigne struck his| head against the dock, rolled down! the chute and was drowned in the| river. His home was in Andierne, | lhunce. where he left a2 wife and four] ehfldren. Y ———— Leteher May Not Be Extradited. ‘l SACRAMENTO, Dec. 3.—Governor | Pardee to-ddy =mnounced that he | would refer to the Atterney General | for an opinion the matter of the ap- | plication for a requisition for the 'x-l tradition of George E. Letcher of San Jose, whom persons in Williams * County, Ohio, are seeking to have | brought there to answer to an old charge of arson. The Governor says he desires to have a legal opinion on several of the questions involved. —————— An expert Is a person who knows a lot about things In which we are not at all interested. ADVERTISEMENTS. You will always find the finest fabrics for suitings, trouserings or woolens for overcoats that the mar- ket contalns at A. B. Smith Co. We carry an exclusive and rellable stock of correct.styles in_ everything that counstitutes style and beauty in fab- rics, and we will fit, finish and make you a suit or overcoat at a _rea- Sonable price and you pay only $1.00 per week to keep yourself stylishly dressed. A. B. SMITH Co. 116 ELLIS STREET,