The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1905, Page 1

. will be able to % | ary 16: THE WEATHER B8 Forecast made at San Francisco for a thirty hours ending midnight, Janu- San Francisco and Monday; brisk southeast wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. vicinity—Rain — THE THEATERS, ALCAZAR—'“The Girl and the Judge.” CALIFORNIA—"The Kerry Gow." COLUMBIA—"'A CENTRAL — “A ‘Wrongs."" MAJESTIC—"All Home."" CHUTES—Vaudeville, FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. IGRAND—""The Silver Slipper.” LYCEUM—Vaudeville, ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, Country Mous Working the Comforts — SAN FRA CISCO IONDAY, JANU. RY 16, 1905, ¥ PRICE FIVE CENTS. FRENCH PREMIER COMBES RETIRES AFTER A FINAL TRIUMPH. Loubet Will Recerve Cabinet's Resignation on W ednesday closely to his programm & His successor ARIS, Jan. 15.—Combes has retired from the Premiership with his face to the foe and in all prob- | [ ability Rouvier will head the next French Ministry. The resignations of all members of the Cabinet have been drawn up and will be presented to President Loubet on Wednesday. By retiring just after he had won a final triumph over the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, Combes is left in a position where he will have a voice in the selection of the new Cabinet and will wieid a powerful influence in shaping the future policy of the Government. is expected to adhere Jan. 15.—The Combes, after emerging from its bitter midnight the Chamber of Deputies, to abandon the field while some portion of its prestige still remains, and has signified its intention of resigning. The PARIS, ministrv of struggle in has decided resignations will be presented on Wed- | nesday mornng. Friends of the Ministry maintain that its retirement is voluntary, as Combes has succeeded in resisting the effort to compel his fall. The opposi wever, hails the decision as a | victory, claiming that the small ma- v for the Ministry last night left ses shorn of effective strength ‘to Ty out his policies. mibes called at the Elysee Palace to-day to confer with President Loubet, | but the latter was overwhelmed by the | fatal illness of his mother, who died to-duy. The President’s afiliction pre- vented any discussion of the Cabinet situation. PREMIER LOOKS CAREWORN. Premier Combes received the various Ministers, during the day. careworn after ten hours of parliamen- tary battle, in which he occupied the floor for three hou nd was the center of a continuous attack during the re- maining hours. He spoke freely of the intention of his Cabinet to retire as a whole and outlined the details of its closing work. He regards the retire- ment as wholly voluntary, as the votes last night, although showing small ma- Joritics, gave enough margin to permit of the carrying on of the ministerial programme. However, he considers that his departure will facilitate the realization of the programme, instead of interrupting it, since his successor unite the discordant elements which have become personally hostile to him. 1t is considered that Combes’ volun- tary withdrawal will permit him to ex- | ercise a powerful and probably a de- | cisive influence in the choice of his | | | successor, similar to that which Wa deck-Rousseau exercised when volun- tarily relinquishing power. T'F— successfully | = TAKE GOL) To-night it was said that Rouvier ap. peared to have been practically de- cided upon as the future chief of the Ministry and that he had asked Del- rasse and Berleaux to retain the For- eign and War portfolios, respectively The logic of the stiuation appears to point to Rouvier. He is accept- able both to Combes and to those who are rebelling against his authority. However, if Combes exercise the au- thority to name his own successor heq may designate Brisson, who as Pres dent of the Chamber of Deputies as- sisted in the execution of the Combes progyamme. The names of Millerand, Poincere, Doumer and Clemenceau are prominently mentioned, their strength depending upon later combinations in the majority groups. However, the per- sonal influence the President usually exercised js obscured by death within his household, making the outcome of the reorganization of the Ministry in- creasingly doubtful. NO CHANGE IN POLICY. The effect of the change uvon the Government’s policies is not considered to be great. The new Ministry will have the same majority as that supporting Combes. This majority has repeatedly upheld Premier Combes’ project tend- Continued on Page 2, Column 3. A PREMIER S FOR THE HON- DING HIM FROM MOSS [N TRINITY Growth Along River Banks Catches thg_l\Letal. H COMMEES. RECENES L FORTONE VTS ‘Waiter Puts Awap $40,000 in Five Years. e Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, Jan. 15.—Francois Du- mon, a Frenchman and a waiter, who has cleared $40,000 in five years from “tips,” left Denver to-night for San Francisco. He has heard much of the | coast metropolis and its resemblance to Paris and he will visit it before go- ing home. During the World’s Fair Dumon was a waiter in one of the most fashion- able cafes in St. Louis. He says he cleared nearly $8000 gn ‘“tips” last | year. The young man speaks six lan-| guages. His father and. grandfather were waiters in Paris and he was trained especially for the work, as, he says, all the best waiters are. Du-! mon intends to spend a life of ease | in Paris after seeing the coast. He affects a silk ‘hat and a Prince Albert frock suit, but makes no effort in any other way to appear the other than what he is. —_————————— KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE OF PROLONGED STRIKE Fall River Weaver Cuts His Throat ‘When Peace Negotiations Fail. FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 15.—To- day added its quota to the tragedies associated with the cotton mill strike here. John Neville, a weaver, who, ! with his crippled wife, had suffered much, after reading of the failure of the strike conference at Boston yes- terday stood before a mirror and drew a razor across his throat. He died immediately. Three striking loom fixers, James Logan, Michael Waddington and Pe- ter Hudson, who since the mills closed, have lodged iogether in one small| room, were found unconscious from il- luminating gas to-day and removed to a hospital. They will recover. —— Killed While Cleaning Pistol. CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—While cleaning a revolver to-day, which he supposed was not loaded, Frank W. Welch, a.l well-known attorney, was accidentally shot and instantly killed. | threatens the safety of | ment, truth, 01 TRUST DENOUNCED BY PRIEST Pastor fiiis_flis Re- spects to “Mr. Oilieller.” Says Magnate’s.Gold Is Used to Bribe or Ruin All (ompetitors, Business Conduct thaped With the Single Object of Despoiling Those hat Are Weak. —— NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Referring to John D. Rockefeller as “Mr. Oilerteller,” | Rev. Thomas J. Ducey, pastor of St. Leo’s Catholic Church, to-day preach- ed against trusts and monopolies in general and the Standard Oil Com- pany in particular. “In this country,” said Father Du- cey, “‘exists a monopoly and trust that the Govern- justice, freedom of edu- cation and the purity of soul in re- ligious profession. “This paramount trust of the world is well preserved In oil and gold and is glossed over b¥ universities and up- held openly by one denomination and criminally approved by the silence which grants the consent of the minis- ters of religion from many othetr de- nominations. “Every man standing between the head of this monopoly and his gold was to be bribed or ruined: every com- bination opposed to him meant more attacks, more plotting, without fear or favor, to drive it from the field. “From the time that Mr. Oilerfeller | began crowding the weaker and more honorable remorselessly to the wall by means of improvement companies, which meant to destroy opponents and improve himself, but onme purpose marked his business conduct. * “It would be well for those who are in the habit of quoging the Bible in public to remember that the devil can quote scripture for his purpose and can steal the livery of heaven to do the work of sin, crime and injustice.” e WHOLESALE SMUGGLING * IS ALLEGED IN TEXAS Prominent Citizens Indicted—Accused of Using Mexicans for the Illegal Purpose. GALVESTON, Jan. 15.—The Fed- eral Grand Jury has returned indict- ments against several prominent citi- zens of Brownsville, charging them with smuggling. The persons involved are influential. It is alleged that smug- gling has been carried on upon an extensive scale, the operators using Mexicans to transport their goods and | securing enough profit upon the ar- ticles smuggled to be able to pay the Mexicans' fines when the latter were | arrested and placed in jail. The names of the persons indicted will not be made public until after their arrest. URGE VATICAN TO PRESS AMERICA FOR PAYMENT ous Orders Anxious That the Coin Be Given for the Friars Lands. ROME, Jan. 15.—The religious or- ders, strongly supported by Cardinal Vives y Tuleo, are urging the Vatican to press for the payment of the money awarded by the United States for the purchase of the friars’ lands in the Philippines. The Vatican has replied that nothing can be done in the prem- ises until Archbishop Agius, the apos- tolic delegate to the Philippines, ar- rives at Manila and makes his report on the situation. ——————— SKELETON OF MAN TELLS OF A DESERT TRAGEDY Bones From Waich Flesh Had Been TONOPAH, Jan, 15.—The bones of a man from which the flesh had been eaten by cdyotes were found near Red Mountain yesterday. In the pocket of ; ca&g tl;;;‘”dhld evldeml.ly b;en v:‘orn e was found a time cgock signed-by T. L. Oddie and - to H. Goods] eck ab haw. The bears date of December 31, 1903. ROSSEAL (OVFESSES 10°POLICE Admits Attempt fo: Blow Up Liner Explosion at Statue of Fred- erick the Great Also | His Work. —— Philadelphia Prisoner Is Classed as: “an Americin Fatriotic Fanctic” PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.—"Gess- ler Rosseau,” who was arrested in this city on Thursday with an unloaded in- | fernal machine in his possession, ad- mitted to the police to-day that he is the man who attempted to destroy the statue of Frederick the Great ‘In Washington last Tuesday, and also that it was he who sent the trunk con- | taining an infernal machine to the, British steamship Umbria in New York in May, 1903. The prisoner, whose right name is not known, made | these admissions in the office of Cap- tain Donaghy of the Philadelphia de- tective force, after he had been iden- tified by persons brought here from New York and Washington for that purpose. He gives no reasons for the attempted outrages, except that “there | are too many toreign affairs in this country.” After having Rosseau un- der fire all afternoon, the police classed him as “an American patriotic fanatic.” The prisoner gave mno information | voluntarily to the police, he admitting only those things which the police had fastened upon him. Both the Wash- ington and New York authorities want the man and it is probable that he will be turned over to the police of the latter city. HOW ROSSEAU WAS CAUGHT. The apprehension of Rosseau was due to the disappearance of Owén Kelly, a wealthy [rish-American, who is prominent in Irish-American socie- ties in this country. Kelly disappeared on October 25 and from time to time the newspapers, particularly of the East, have published articles on the mysterious disappearance. These, the police believe, undoubtedly attracted Rosseau’s attention. On Thursday he called on Patrick Kelly, the brother of the missing man, and offered to take him to his brother in New York for $500. He said he and Owen Kelly be- longed to secret societies that were | organized for the purpose of blowing up British ships in American ports. The valise he carried, he said, con- tained explosives. Patrick Kelly notified the police and Rosseau was taken into custody. The v an infernal machine angement variety, but About the machine was Washington newspaper. wrapped a This gave the police the clew that he might know something of the ex- plosion at the statue of Frederick the Great and his picture was taken and sent to both the Washington and the New York authorities. In the mean- time he also was suspected of know- ing something of the steamship Um- bria incident. To-day Captain Robert Boardman of the Washington detective force and Alfred Carter, colored, and George H. Hazel, cabmen, of Washington, who saw the man who attempted to blow up the statue, and Detective Sergeant Arthur Carey of New York and a Mrs. Curry, who keeps a boarding-house in the latter city, arrived here for the purpose of identifying the prisoner. PRISONER IS IDENTIFIED. ‘When Rosseau was brought into the office of Captain Donaghy, Hazel said: “1 guess you know me,” to which the prisoner replied, “How do you do?"” Rosseau bowed to Carter and then greeted Mrs. Curry. Having satisfied themselves beyond doubt that the identification was complete, the police officials of the three cities set at work to obtaining a confession from the prisoner. ® In reply to a question he admitted the attempted outrage on the statue. He said he had manufactured the in- fernal machine himself and that it consisted of a candle, fuse and “dyna- mite engine.” Where he made it he 1 would not say. The failure to destroy the statue, he said, must have been due to the melting tallow spoiling the fuse or interfering with the dynamite. Rosseau then gave the police the i terestlng information that he had in- ended making a second attempt to blow up the statue, this time with a time-clock machine. As it was diffi- cult to get past the sentries after nightfall, he intended going to the arsenal at about dusk to arrange the infernal machine so that it would ex- plode about midnight and then hang! it on the statue. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP LINER. Regarding the sending of the in- { fernal machine to the steamship Um- | bria, Rosseau said that he made part of the Umbria infernal machine in! Chicago and then took it to New York in a trunk. He admitted having writ- ten the note to Police Commissioner ! Greene, as follows: i “The Mafia greets you and wishes you well. The society has declared war against England and has ordered the destruction of every steamer fly- ing the British flag that sails out of New York. The society has under- taken to clear New York harbor of British ships, and it will succeed.” It was this note of warning that led to the finding of the trunk before it was placed on the steamship. The prisoner was closely questioned regarding the motive for blowing uj the Umbria, but was noneom:xftuf He said that he was born in America and that he was a farmer. He said he EDUCATION XD RACE STERILITY Stanley Hall Says| They Go ‘Hand | in Hand. | S S0 Culture Not Transmitted Through the Channel of Heredity. ¢ Only a fmall Percentage of College Graduates Marr; and Few : Rear Children. e e Special Dispatch to The Call. BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.—"Any educa- | tion that develops progressive sterility | or race suicide is a failure. At present| our higher education would soon depop- ulate the country if it became umver»i sal. If there is any truth in the old| saw of Huxley that an ounce of hered- | ity is worth a_ton of education, it fol- lows that if our academic culture | makes the supreme joy-of parenthood | less ardently craved it is already blo- logically bankrupt. “Thus,, as this evil is worse with women, and as man unaided by her) cam never hope to solve the problem of | her sex, the argument for the very higher education of the few best women is that thus, somehow or some- whene one may arise who will find out | a new and better way.” This statement was made dent Stanley Hall of Clark University in his address before the American As- sociation of Universities. “Co-Instruc- tion” was the topic of the session. In his paper President Hall said: “Perhaps the gravest danger is that twenty vears after graduation about one-half of the college girls of three women’s colleges and one-quarter of the graduates of nine Eastern colleges for men are unmarried. Few marry later than twenty years after gradua- tion and those who do marry have only two children per marriage, or less than 3 per cent. If civilization is man’s self- domestication and higher education is its acme, why should not the test of fertility also apply to it as well as to domestication; and if our acadamic youth and maidens -are God-chosen ones, why should not the Abrahamic promise apply to them if they keep covenant with their own nature? “Are we not losing our labor if the educational classes are plowed under, as at present, and culture is not trans- mitted into the most ancient form of wealth and worth—heredity?” SCIENTIST WILL WAR IPON FOf Vapor Banks to Be Shot Away With Elgagtyi_c}ty. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—An attempt will be made soon to dissipate fog in New York harbor by shooting a 250,- 000 volt electric bolt through barbed wire into the air. This is the method which Sir Oliver Lodge has adopted in his wonderfully successful fog dis- pelling experiments at Birmingham University, England. The experiments here probably will be conducted oft the Quarantine sta- tion on Staten Island, or at Governor's Island, at both of which high masts or poles will be available. The fogs in New York harbor have been unsually dense and prolonged this winter. Sir Oliver asserts that he can_dis- sipate smoke, fog and mist. Inci- dentally, he produces rain. This he accomplishes by the production of continuous high potential electrical discharges. He has effected a com- bination of high potential rectifiers. —_———————— \ POPE APPEARS FATIGUED AT CEREMONY IN ROME Takes Part in St. Peter’s in Beatifica- tion of Three Hungarian Martyrs. ’ ROME, Jan. 15.—Three Hungarian martyrs, Poucrez, Grodecz and Chris- tino, were beatified to-day at St. Pe- ter's in the presence of one thousand people. Pope Piux X, who participat- ed in the ceremony, appeared fatigued and _preoccupied. had read much and that he was a student of social economy. He took the name of “Gessler Rosseau,” be- cause two of his ideals had those names—Albrecht Gessler, the Swiss dic- tator, who, tradition says, was killed by Willlam Tell in 1307, and Jean Jacques Rosseau, the French philoso- pher and writer, who died in 1778. tain Donaghy sald Rosseau ‘wol not say anything of the Owen Kelly affair and the police believe he knows nothing about it. CRADWICK JEWELRY LOCATED Gems of Great Value Are Traced by the Government. —_—— Incomplete Search Reveals Stones Worth Quarter of a Million, —— Said to Have Been Smuggled Over and %hen Given as Presents to Friends, —_— CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—The Plain Dealer to-morrow will say: Investiga- tion into the charges that Mrs, Cassie L. Chadwick smuggled large quantities of diamonds, gems and other precious stones into .this country has developed the fact that the woman dealt in pre- clous stones to an almost fabulous ex- tent. In order to make a case on the charge of smuggling it was found necessary for the Government authori- ties to trace ail the deals for diamonds and jewelry made by MMs. Chadwick, both in this country and in Europe. The statement has been made by Col- lector of Customs Leach that jewel and preclous stones worth more than $250,000 and handled by Mrs. Chadwick have been traced and positively located. It is added that this gr amount of Jewelry has been uncovered with the investigation still incomplete. Of this amount the Government is directly in- terested in about one-third. ‘While the Government is attempting simply to collect any unpaid duties on diamonds brought from Europe, it is understood that all the evidence se- cured will be placed at the disposal of Receiver Nathan Loesser and that he will be able to realize thousands of dol- lars for the creditors of the woman. The investigation has led to the dis- covery that only a small portion of the jewelry was put up as collateral for loans made by Mrs, Chadwick ‘and that by far the greater portion went as gifts to friends and acquaintances. The regular customs rate of duty on diamonds and jewelry brought to this country is 10 per cent of the value of the goods. Figuring on this basis, the Government authorities expect to real- ize between $8000 and $10,000. The rest of the proceeds from the sale of any jewelry on which duty has not been paid will be turned over to Loesser to be distributed among the Chadwick creditors. “It is simply the truth to say that Mrs. Chadwick handled pearls, rubjes, sapphires, emeralds and garnets almost literally by the peck,” sald a Govern- ment official. “The testimony of experts shows that the woman did not handle anything but the finest articles, and there is scarcely a penny’s worth of cheap jewelry in the entire lot that has been traced.” According to Government officials by far the greater portion of the jewelry is in the hands of Innocent persons. The work of informing these people that their claim on the jewelry is to be protested is going on. It is believed that practically all the people who have the jewelry will agree to a settlement without taking the mats ter into the courts. At the same time the Government authorities, as well as Recelver Loesser, are taking steps to enforce their demands ing the matter it so compelled. SUFFERS RATHER THAN ASK HELP Scion of a Famous French Family Lives in Want With Plenty of Means at His Call Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15.—Comte Vaillant de la Croix, the last male survivor of one of the noblest families of France, is dying penniless in Los Angeles because he is too proud to let his wealthy relatives in Parls know aught of his sickness and poverty. Since the days of the crusades the house of De la Croix has been one of prominence among French aristocracy. The father of the present Count was killed in the Franco-Prussian war. Count Vaillant chose music as his pro- fession and practically renounced his title when he came to America about fifteen years ago_in pursuance of his musical career. He was educated un- der the best masters of Paris and Florence and under the stage name of Signor Bravura he gained renown as a leading barytone in Europe and Ametica. In the East the Count achieved some success as a manager of opera companies. He was at varlous times instructor in voice culture in the Bos- ton: Conservatory of Music, the Knick~ erbocker Conservatory of New York, the Illinois Conservatory of Music and other institutions. Several years ago he came to the Pacific Coast for the benefit of his health and opened a studio in San Francisco. Mrs. Perey Cartwright and Miss Jessle Baker of Oakland were _trained by him far grand opeva. About a year ago he came to Los Angeles, where he had a large class of puplls. His health broke down four months ago. His resources gave out and he would now be in the County Hospital but for the charity of strangers. De la Croix has a wealthy sister in Paris, but his pride will not permit him to apply to her for assist- ance.