The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at thirty hours ending rosry 11: unsettied weather THE WBATHER. | : San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, showers; colder; brisk northwest winds. | A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. | San Francisco for at midnight, Feb- Saturday, _ with | n COLUMETA- CENTRAL—"A R'S—Va Grand THE THEATERS. ALSAZAR “Ars You a Masom®™’ AMRRA—Matinee, Melba concert. CALJFORNIA—"The Mummy and the Jitmming Bird."” adevilte. Mother Goose.' TUM—Vaudeville. Matinees at all theaters to-day. he Dictator.” Fight for Millions." udeville. Opera. VOLUME XCVII— SAN FRANCISCO, SATFURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1905. PRICE SIRIKE MOBS IN RUSSIAN POLAND BATTLESTA IH THE SOLDIERS OF THE GZAR. Y COMBATS IN NGUINAR ERLIN, Feb. 11.—According to press dispuatches from Kattowitz, Russian Poland, a col- | rred between 15.000 strikers and the military at the Russian station of Skarzy- , In which 24 strikers were killed fired e PR as 1 and 40 wounded. = The upon strikers at Ostrowicz, but the casualties in that place are not known. The Lokal Anzeiger's Warsaw dispatch gives the number of strikers killed at Lodz on Thurs- p vounded, 112. These figures apply to only a part of the disturbances. ——— | military is reported { i + l ! | | ! Tiny MBEJ Is Per- fect in Form and Feature. Bl S Epectal to The Call. JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Feb. 10. — An incubatc » newly born infant is 1 away at the City Hos- here there was born early to- girl baby, which weighs fourteen « The t mortai's mother is Te Silves The little one is. as feature and Dr. Santurn, A charge of th- case, has tele- d far and wide for an incubator t hich to keep life and warmth this tiny morsel of humanity, ‘but .s not vet succeeded in getting ene. was said at the hospital that if an ncubator can be obtained in time the sby’s life will be saved. The child is small n in the State. rfect bs as was ever born. a child in form, Mail ¥und to Stay in Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Senator kins vieited the President to-day and received assurances from him that the item of $45,000, providing for carry- ing the mails from San Francisco to Tahiti, would remain in the postoffice measure end that he would see to it that bids would be called for at once. | NURDERESS MAY STARY PRISON Mrs. Edwards Hopes to Escape the | Gallows. R oy 4 Epecial Dispatch tc The Call READING, Pa., Feb. | 10.—Mrs, Kate | Edwar ho murdered her husband, | probably will not live to sce the gal- | lows, or, if she is reprieved by the| Governor, to hear the message read | She is becoming weaker and weaker, and has refused to eat. She is prac- starving to death. Cne of the said to-day that she was very ciated and could hardly stand .on er feet, and that she had not eaten anything except a little soup for sev- weeks. Dr. IL Schmel, the ysiclan, was called in hur- to-day to see her, but would not hor actual eondltion. Mrs. Edwards has sz2id all along that she wou'd “not -live until-the 16th of | February. Her one prayer, day and | night, has been that she would die be- | | fore the day of her execution. Last night/ was the first time that little Alma jwas not allowed to sleep with her ‘mother. She slept with Matron Newcome. ' The child cried her- self to sleep. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.—Attor- neys representing Samuel Greason, the | negro, who with Mrs. Kate Edwards | is condemned to be hanged at Reading next Thursday.for the murder of Mrs. Edwards’ husband, came from Read- ing to-day to lay before the Supreme Court a petition asking that Greason’s ] | case be reopened and sent back tp the Berks County court for retrial.” The petition is based on the confession made by Mrs. Edwards on Thursday. Greason has been respited-more-than { itors to th a dozen thmes’and the .death warrant has been read to him twelve times. l TRAIN STRIKES SLED ‘ AND THREE ARE KILLED |Two Others Dying and Three in- Injured in Accident. in . Pennsylvania. NEW BRIGHTON, Feb. 10.—A man and two boys were killed, two iboys are dying and three were slightly in- jured when a bobsled dashed into a train to-night. Eight other boys on the sled escaped. A The dead: Reed H. McDaniel, Charles C. Harrow, Mert Saviers. The dying: Marvey Duey, Robert Farrow. - niin i iy ] WS & » - - —————————-——-—————*‘ i COACHNAN WINS HAND OF HEIRESS ‘Elopement Startles the Residents.of e Special Dispatch to The ChIL KINGSTON, N. Y., Feb. 10.—Esopus, | famous’ as'the home of Judge Parkesy, is cxcited over the disappearance of Miss Mabel Hockridge, daughter of a wealthy New York business man, and Frank Tone, the family coachman. The couple left Hockridge farm, in Stremy, on February 3, and those who know thelr whereabouts refuse to talk. The voung ladies of the family were fond of driving, and were frequent vis- city. After the comins of Tone as coachman it was observed that Miss Mabel became more than ever devoted to driving, frequently £oing out with Tone unaccompanied by other-mmembers of the family. No seri- | cus importance was attached to this until -recently. Shortly before he disappeared Tone announced thet he wa# going to visit relatives. _He went away on Friday, taking a large vaiise with him. On Friday morning Miss Hockridge an- nounced that she was going to spend | | the day with a friend in Stremy vil- lage, and left by the Rifton stage. This caused some little comment in the fam- dy, as he had never before patronized the stage. When evening came and she did not return inquiry was made, and i1t was found that she had not stopped with her friend, but had come on to this city. Examination of her ward- robe disclosed the absence of a large guantity of clothing, which evidently had been smuggled away. On Saturday a letter from the miss- ing girl was received by her father, stating that she and Tone were mar- ried and_had gone to visit his rela- tives in Witenberg. Detectives so far lave failed to find the missing couple. —————— McCORMICK TO SUCCEED EMBASSADOR PORTER White - Will . Be Sent to Italy and Meyer Transferred to. - - : Russia, : WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The: Presi- dent has finally-arranged for the trans- fers in the high European diplomatic posts which he contemplates putting into force on March 4, or soon after. In addition to those already announced, Embassador McCormick, now at St. Petersburg, will be transferred to Paris to succeed Embassador Porter. Bm- bassador Meyer, to Italy, will replace McCormick at St. Petersburg. Henry ‘White, secretary of the embassy at London, will be made Embassador to Rome. Henry L. Wilson, at present Minister to Chili, will be made Minister to Igium, succeeding Lawrence Townsend of Pennsylvania, who will rétire from the diplomatic service, i MANY | A col ; took ‘ecording to one report the strikers fired CITIES | Backs of Fleeing Men Are Targets for Bullets. ——— DAY OF HORKORS! ——— \Volleys Fired at Nu- merous Crowds ; of Rioters. CRISIS AT HAND | SOSNOVICE, Feb. 10.—On Thurs- |day a mob invaded the vard of the! ! Kathrinen works, demanding that the |workmen in charge of the electrical i machinery there join the strike. A { company of soldiers intervened and a | | Polish - ofticer ropeatedly called upon | | the people to disperse. They refused | |to leave unless they- were accompa- | nied by the workmen.. | It is said that'a rioter menaced the | | officer with a Kknife, whereupon he | gave the order to fire, with the resuit | that twenty-eight persons, including a | high school pupil who was passing, | i Teli dead and thirty-six were severely | | weunded. The wounded were removed to a hospital, where five of them died. | |A number of others were slightly | | wounded. Many were wounded in the | beck, evidently while trying to es- | cape. A large quantity of dynamite | has been stolen from’ the explosive | stures of the Casimir mines by strik- | | LODZ, Ruesian Poland, Féb. 10.— jct between treops and strikers lace: here fthis afternoon. Ac- i f | i | | upon a detachment,of soldiers from | w:ndows and the latter then fired a volley 1§ e crowd in the street. Al _sa¥s one striker was kil and four wounded. Other per- | sistent ‘reports estimate the.uui!'kfif | killed 4t twenty and say that Ofty | were wounded. The conflict occurred | at Louis Geyer's factory, where troops | were lined wp to prevent the men en- | tering to démand thelr pay. | . The strikets generally are enraged |at the refusal of other manufacturers | to allow them.fu}l pay while on strike; and several encounters between mobs and troops-are reported from: different directions. A number of persons were said to have been wounded. It Is reported that five persons were | killed and sixty-eight wounded in a riot at Cheibler factory, and that seven were killed and forty wounded at the Marcuskohn factory. It is said that a general railroad | strike will commence on February 14 | throughout Poland. The manufacturers to-day agreed | or, an ultimatum to the strikers to the | effect that unless’ they return to work on February 13 all of the mills will be | shut down indefinitely. It is reported that he Socialist organizations have directed the strikers to resume work, th'e present agitation having suffi- ciently demonstrated the strength of | the labor movement, the leaders now being content to await a more favor- able opportunity for furthering their | couse. It is feared, however, that the |agitation has gone beyond the control | of the leaders. | WARSAW, Feb. 10.—The report of | the death of Governor General Tchert- | koff, published by the London papers | this morning, is unfounded. He con- tinues to receive reports and sign doc- uments as usual. TROOPS ARE KEPT BUSY. . | St. Petersburg ¥aces a Renewal of i the Labor Upheaval. | ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 10.-St. Petersburg is again face to face with a renewal of the labor upheaval, the | immediate incitement being the faflure of the workmen to obtain payment for | the time they were out on strike, added to the fact that there has been no edjustment of the demands which led to the strike last month. The Putiloff Iron Works, where the former strike originated, is playing the | principal part. There are 30,000 work- men already out within the metropolis | Gistrict and workmen at the torpedo factory in Kolpino, eighteen miles dis- tant, have joined the strikers. There is a strong prospect of the movement extending. Only energetic measures by the troops and police prevented the resumption to- day of the former tactics-of the strik- ers marching from factory to factory and inducing or compelling employes to lay down their tools. Thus far there has been no disorder in St. Petersburg and the authorities appear to have the situation well in hand in this respect.' It is generally believed that such pre- cautions have been taken as will pre- clude the repetition of the bloodshed of January 22. However, circumstantial reports that the reyolutionary element is about to join with the strikers and resort to bomb-throwing are causing grave. ap- Father Gopon's organization still exe ists, but secretly, and it is less effect- ive. On the other hand the employers realize the jmportance of a prompt set- tlement of the workmen’s grievances, but have allowed weeks to slip by with- on col actis ! deciding C ion. . The o 1o the ranks of the strikers to idleness the entire have red Narya gates, except the Russo-Ameri- can Rubber Works and one other fac- ‘“Fitle the. workmen in the Putlloft uarter _resorting to a strike to kg | song near the close. She had been re- TEHO0D 00MED BY THE HOUSE Republican Caucus| Determines Fate of Bill. ! New Mexico and Arizona! Must Be Joined or Re- main Territories. Mojority Representatives Insist Upon the Defeat of Lena.or Bard's Amendment. e WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Statehood for Oklahoma and New Mexico will | not be granted during this session of | Congress unless it be on lines provided | | in the House Statehood bill. admitting | New Mexico and Arizona as one State. | This ‘was decided to-day at a confer-| ence of Republican members of the | House. The following resolution setting | forth this position was adopted. by 112 to 33, after three hours of debate: | “Resolved, That it is the sense of | this caucus that the decision of the Re publican caucus held on April 19, touch- ing the statehood of New Mexico and | Arizona, as provided in the bill of the | House which has been amended in the | Senate and is now pending in the House | Committee on Territories, be insisted | { upon, and that we insist on such par- liamentary proceedings as can be had by a majority of the House or a special order as can be adopted by a majority of the House, under which the afore- said policy of the Republicans of the House will bg worked out.” > Speaker Cannon is the author of this resolution. Delegate Rodye of New Mexico made a strong appeal for concurrence in the Senate bill. Delegate McGuire of Okla- homa pleaded for Acmhm_r bymnt least Oklahoma and. E ‘erritory glegfi be admitted. Speaker Cannon upied the fioor at length on two it occasions. % e debate was keyed to a high pitch at all times. The ground was taken by those who favored the House provi- sions or nothing that the Republicans of (the body would be sacrificing their position to a few Pepublican Senators if the bill as amended were accepted. A definition of what is regarded as the binding feature of a caucus was made to those Republican members who have indicated an intention to vote with the Democrats should oppor- tunity arise for the acceptance of the Senate Dbill. - This definition was that unless a member gave notice in caucus that he would not be bound by the ac- tion taken he must hold himself bound thereby. 3 PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 10.—The Ari* zona Legislature will to-morrow for-| ward to Congress a memorial protest- ing against the taking from Arizona and annexing to Utah of that part of Arizona lying north of the Colorado | River.. AUDIENCE | CHEATED BY DEATH Singer “Found Dead in Dressing- Room. ———e Epecial Dispatch to The Call. REDLANDS, TFeb. 10.—While the fashionable audience that crowded the New Wyatt Theater to' the doors was impatiently waiting to hear another song by Mrs. J. P. McElroy of Los An- geles, formerly of Philadelphia, she was lying dead in her dressing-room. She was found there by her husband and the theater attendants a few min- utes after her time came to sing. The occasion was one of the most notable functions in Redlands society this season, being the annual vaude- ville performance by the Redlands Lodge of Elks. A number of singers of ability had been engaged and among them Mrs. McElroy. She sang the “Bridge of Sighs™ early on the pro-. gramme, and was .down for another ceived with much enthusiasm and had | responded to an encore. H ‘When the time arrived for her to ap- pear again her husband gave the sig-| nal which was her cue to appear upon the stage, but there was no response. An investigation showed that her dress- ing-room was locked. The door was forced open and she was found lying dead upon the floor. Several physicians were summoned from the audience. and they pronounced heart disease o was well known in the Rk her home as the e B . i : | PRESIDENT WANTS SANTA-FE. INQUIRY 10 BE THOROUGH NOTED DEMOCRAT WHO WILL IN- v CHARG AGAINST TE A E R FE RAILROAD. —— — Cabinet Offcer Not o Be Shielded, I Guity, Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The fact that Attorney Gemeral Moody, acting, doubtless, under. the direction of the Président, has inVited two distinguish, ed Deniocrats, Harmon and Judsen, to assist in bringing to justice any per- sons connected with Santa Fe rebate cases, has caused much comment in ‘Washingten. One of thé comments is that the President is repeating the policy and action he took in the Post- office Department fraud cases, when he appointed - Jerome Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad, Democrats, to review all the work done by the Republican | investigators. The suspicion here is that the investi- gation may reveal some matter which involves a member of the President’s Cabinet and he desires'to have the in- vestigation made by Democrats. There -appears to be little question that the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, in- its. certification of facts to the Attorney General, has made out a very strong caseé against the Santa Fe and it has ‘been stated that the Attorney General can, proceed under several laws, criminally and civilly, including orders to bring the officers of the com- pany to bar for contempt of court and put any recalcitrant in jail. It is also understood that as the case is one of | the strongest ever made out by the commission, there will be no doubt as to prosecutions. .The overwhelming vote for the rail- | road rate bill in the House apparently has bad.no .moral efiect upon the Sen- ate. The Esch-Townsend measure is expected there to quistly pass away after the Kean resolution has been passed providing for an investigation of the question by the Interstate Com- merce Commission. President Roose- velt does not now expect final action until the extra session in the fall. The Senate committee is really in favor of action, by a majority of at least one, 'but the advocates of the Esch-Townsend bill have been con- vinced by its opponents that the time | is too short to do anything at this ses- sion. This is the present attitude of the Senate commitee to which the measure was referred to-day: For action—Cullom. Dolliver and Platt, Republicans; McLaurin, Car- mack and Foster, Democrats. For inaction or delay—Elkins, Kean, Foraker and Millard, Republicans; Newlands, Democrat. Absent—Aldrich, Republican, and Tillman. Democrat. The Kean resolution will be consid- ered by the committee to-morrow. A hearing was held to-day. Newlands presented a new proposition, which provided for continuous hearings up to the end of this session and joint hear- ings. with the House during the recess. Some omne called attention to the fact that the House would go out of exist- ence on March 4. Pressure of all kinds is being brought upon - the ‘Senate to. prevent action. President /Roosevelt believes the tre- mendous majority for the Esch-Town- semd bill tn the House should have an important moral effect, make no more special efforts with the Senate. At the same time the railroad presidents are pouring in all kinds of communications and protests. il e S SENATE HEARS WITNESSES AGAINST JUDGE SWAYNE the Lower House Expects to gt » “WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Senate to-day began to hear witnesses in con- nection -with the impeachment pro- ceedings against Judge Swayne of Flor- The statement of the case on be- % concerning hotel bills paid by Judge Swayne while holding court in Texas. but he will! JEWELRY SMLESMAN - IS ROBBED Gems Worth $7000 - Are Stolen From . Traveler. | —_— I'I'meves Pick the Lock of Room in Hotel and Make a Rich Haul, — e ¢ iRoH of 402 Elks’ Teeth Valued ai j Between $10 and $15 Each 3‘ Taken, ; Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—Hotel thieves who from the manner in which they performed their work are belleved to be professionals, picked the lock of the room of E. R. Pelz, a jewelry sales- man from Chicago representing J. W. | Sward & Co. of Chicago and San Fran- | ciseo, at the Van Nuys Broadway Hotel to-day and secured boeoty worth be- tween $6000 and $7000. There Is not the | slightest clew to the identity of the | thieves nor is it known just when the rchbery was committed. Pelz arrived here yesterday and this morning he left his room about 9 | ’clock to visit the trade and make ar- | rangements for buyers of retall houses | to visit his room and see his samples. He was away from the hotel most of the day and at § o'clock to-night when | he returned to his room he found that | the place had been ransacked. He had left the door locked and found it locked upon his return, showing that the lock had been picked. His trunks had been emptied upon the floor and | the thieves had helped themselves to the rich pickings they contained. Among the articles lost was a roil containing 492 mounted elks’ teeth, valued at between $10 and $20 each Wholesale; a diamond brooch, two dia- |mond and pearl cluster pi worth | 31250, several gold watches of impopted pattern, “frames, & box of Mexican filigree work im goldu, more than $160 in cash and a box con- taining eards, passes and other trans- Portation. The exact value of the booty is not known, but Pelz sald to-night it would | be nearly $7000. He offered a reward of $500 for the return of the stuff and an- | other $500 for the capture of the thieves. He belleves he was followed | here by two men who seized the first opportunity to commit the robbery. MURDEROUS CASSAULT 0N YOUNG MAX Victim Saves Life by - Shooting at His - Assailanis, 153 | | Special Dispatch to The Call | LOS ANGELES. Feb. 10.—John C. Juccmh}'. a prominent young man, | and cashier of the Grimes-Stassforth | Stationery Company, was murderously | assaulted by two Mexicans with hunt- ing knives tb-night in the small park | which surrounds the county hospital He saved his life by shooting at his as- saliants. He wounded one of them, but both made their escape, leaving a plain trail of blood. . MecCarthy was entering the hospital grounds to attend a party given by a number of the nurses attached to the institution. He had considerable meney with him and had a revolver, but his | overcoat was buttoned around it. At | the gate two Cholas sprang upon him and one of them made a lunge at him with a knife, the blade striking his left hand, cutting through his glove and in- flicting a severe wound. The other Mexican knocked him down. As he fell he opened his coat and drew his revolver. At sight of the ‘weapon the Mexicans jumped back and | MeCarthy began shooting at close range, As they continued to retire he continued firing and one of the men | was heard to ery out. ! “Attaches of the hospital found Me- | Carthy lying in the shrubbery dazed ! from the blow and weak from loss of | blocd. He was taken into the institution, iwbere he told his story. A party of | men armed themselves and started af- { ter the highwaymen, following the trail of blood until they reached a Mexican settlement, but they were unable to find' the men. THE TURFMAN, INJURED IN HAVANA New York Millionaire Seriously Hurt as Result of Collision With His Auto. HAVANA, Feb. 10.—E, R. Thomas, the millionaire New York turfman, was slightly hurt and his chauffeur, this afternoon ‘as the | THOMAS, Edward W. Hawley, Jured i