The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at ary 21: Tuesday: fresh souf THE WEATHER. thirty hours ending midnight, Febru- San Francisco and vieinity—Cloudy A. G. McADIB, i District Forecaster. San Francisco for ith winds. —_— oo éAurmuru—"vm. Tom's Cabin.” | COLUMBIA—""The Earl tucket.” CENTRAL—"“A Ride for Lite." CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—“Mother Goose." | LYRIC HALL—Bispham Concert. t ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. | TIVOLI—Grand Opera. L R THE THRATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Merchant of Ven- \ 3 g s ipie D) ot paw-piad) £3. SAN FRANCiSCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1905. BOODLERS EXPULSION: 1S DESIRED Investigators Four Senators Guilty. Recommend That They Be Expelled From the Legislature. Beport Declares Emmons, Wright Bunkers and French Sold Their Honor for $350. Pt fate of bribers ch and Wright ort of the spec- .+ filed this lers were as read con- ace and denying in this life to trust. Em- n the Senate in his seat he t as the door had s he walked only y but that companions e forever. AS Bunkers en- room. A a inst him was looked it over and do you think of 1t?" he he answered. w't true and k - feelings by expel- 2 kers appreciates the g upon him he is But those that not appre- 1 ? e ling ch and .. Upon them as a stunning Examiner also tion of the ing to the part Examiner, ives, actively in preparing the affairs of said comn be subp expert to 2 Thus is the inked with one of the ty of b Ty in con- with bullding - Fran- ses tc r. McNab, Martin hich I wish print- the testimony wish to pre- e committee ap- ¢ charges of Emmons, ht.” He following report: dent: Your special com- cestigation appointed Jan- , 1905, pursuant to the follow- tion: ereas, There has been this day ed with the secretary of the Senate ting certain charges contained in avit which reflects upon the and integrity of certain mem- bers of the Senate, In that it does | ge said certain members with cor- corrupt conduct and a willful viclation of their obligations as mem- bers of this body; and *“ “Whereas, It is fit and proper that arges be fully investigated by a ttee to be appointed by the pres- ident of s Sepate; therefore be it ‘ ‘Resol , That a special commit- tee of five be appointed by the presi- of the Senate to investigate all rges and statements contained in d afidavit reflecting upon the honor, egrity and conduct of the certain members of this Senate with relation tv the subject matter contained in affidavit; and for that purpose the sald committee be and it is here- powered to issue all necessary ubpen to have full power to send persons, books and papers, and to mpel the attendance of any and all ry witnesses within this State require the production 6f any and necessary papers, books or docu- ments in order that the pokwers herein given may be fully carried out: and it shall report the result of its to this Senate at liest possible moment,’ submit the following report: Your committee met Iimmediately i diligently prosecuted an inquiry ntn the charges made in the affidavit of- William Corbin, filed in the Senate January 30, 1905, and mentioned in sajd resolution. Numerous sessions were held and many witnesses were examined, some of whom would not have been material in a court of law, but it was deemed wise by your com- Continued on Page 3, Column 1 e Find Wedding Set for - Coming Month Special Dispatch to The Call. | LONDON, Feb. 2 Marconi's | newspapers have engaged him to married. Excepting the German Crown Prince and the King of Spain the genius of wireless telegraphy has been betrothed by rumor oftener than man living. Since the report that he| was to wed Miss Alice Roosevelt, , | American girls have not appeared in: | the Marconi list. Last week it was the | | Prin | arising Ruspoli of Turin, oubtless from the the report “dc fact that Marconi was.then making a flying trip | Beatrice | the | Mi; to Turin. This week it O’Brien. The peculiarity about O’Brien rumor is that it is true. Marconi_did not intend to have thel | news published, and when it first came out.he smiled at it in his usual sphinx- {like fashion and in consequence it was | was | | { taken for granted that the story { without foundation. He admitted tg | day, however, that the news is correct. | The date of the wedding has been set for March 15. All of the women with whom rumor, from time to time, has coupled pretty girls. Miss Beatrice O'Brien is described as a beautiful woman. More- over she can boast a royal pedigree. She is one of the eight sisters, all good-looking, of the fifteenth Baron | Inchiquin and can claim descent fi the famous Irish monarch, Brian roihome, who was King of the Emerald Isle from 1002 to 1014, when he elain at the head of his army at the battle of Clontarf. logh, King of Munster, had four sons, the Middle of| —One of Guglielo | | | chief worries has been the| | constant variety of girls to whom the| : be | any | | the | name of the wireless wizard have been | rgm 0- | was | His grandson, Tur- | PRICE FIVE CENTS. MARCONI WILL MARRY A DAUGHTER OF ERIN| BY A NINE e Chooses Miss Beatrice O Brien | | | | | reof the third was the progenitor | | of the Barons*Inchiquin. One of Tur- | logh’s descendants, Connor O'Bryan, | was King of Thormond in 1529, and it | | was his brother Murrough, who, after | { usurping his kingship, surrendered to | the | begs leave | Henry the Eighth and was then made Earl of Thormond for life and also given the Inchiguin barony. | A century later the barony developed linto _an earidom;- the holder, of [* which saw it converted into a mar-r quisate, that of Thormond, whlch' passed away, however, with the third holder, while the other titles became dormant. It was Sir Lucius O’Brien, fifth baronet of an Irish creation of 1686, in whose favor the claim to the Inchiquin barony was made good a lit- tle over forty vears ago, and his son was the father of Marconi's bride- elect, is possessed in a marked degree |of the sprightliness, wit and vivacity | §— characteristic of the Irish tempera- YOUNG IRISH WOMAN OF FAMOUS: FAMILY, ment. There is a certain appropriate- ne in Marconi’s choice of an Irish lady for his wife, for his mother was of that nationality, although as every- body knows, his father was Italian and he was born in Italy. LAWSONS —— 1y - ONSLAUGHTS MAY CEASE ‘Rogers Said to Have Purchased Im- - Tnuniiy. — Special Dispatch to The Call. | BOSTON, Feb. 20.—Stories are cur- | rent here that Thomas W, Lawson has at last effected -a settlement with H. H. Rogers over the $1,000,000 or more that Lawson has always claimed Rog-~ ers owed him for services rendered, and it is rumored that nothing more need be feared in the stock market from Lawson's Amalgamated revela- tions. The March number of his “Frenzied Finance” does not disprove this rumor. Two months ago Lawson was offered $500,000 to call “quits,” but he demanded $1,100,000, claiming this was the amount due him on certain deals. It is said that he cleared from | $1,200,000 to $2,000,000 out of his re- cent stock market operations: NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Denis Dono-~ hue, financial editor of the New York | Cemmercial, who has been running in | a2 magazine a series of articles, “The | Truth About Frenzied Finance,” | which are in reply to the statements j of Thomas W. vson about financial | conditions, was arrested to-day on a warrant charging criminal libel, issued upon complaint of Herbert Gray of { Haverhill, Mass. ! ————— | ROBBERS OF SOUTHERN HOTEL MISS A FORTUNE | Five Minutes Before Crime Was Com- mitted Clerk Takes $6000 From the Safe. LOS ANGELES, Feb, 20.—Had the men who _on Saturday afternoon | robbed the safe in the office of the | Hotel Angelus committed the crime five | minutes sooner they would have se- | cured $6000 instead of $830. Five minutes before the theft one | of the clerks took $6000 from the safe, | and, accompanied by a porter for a | guard, went across the street and de- posited the money in the bank. It was in currency, most of it in $100 bills. WHOM MARCONI IS EN. GAGED, AND WHO WILL BECOME THE WIFE OF THE WIRELESS TELE- GRAPH INVENTOR ON THE FIFTEENTH OF NEXT MONTH. TO DEMANDS HOME RULE FIR ERIN LONDON, Feb. 20.—In moving as an amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne the decla- ration’ that ‘“the present system of government (of Ireland) is opposed to the will of the Irish people,” John E. Redmond led the Irish party in 'the House of Commons to-day in an attack that contained for the Conservative Ministry more of menace than lay in the fiscal debate precipitated by As- quith’s amendment last week. The Redmond amendment was carefully calculated, in fact, to undermine the Government’s majority. Interest in the debate was intensified by a well defined report in the lobbies, and which quick- ly spread elsewhere, that the Earl of Dudley had resigned the Lord Lieuten- ancy of Ireland. This report, which was given wide credence, gave heart to the Nationalists, who made the at- tack on the Earl of Dudley one of the features of their speeches. Late to- night the Earl’s secretary declared the rumor unfounded. Redmond’s speech was an uncom- promising demand for home rule. He directly and unsparingly charged in- dividual members of the Irish admin- istration with incompetency. Both { Redmond and Moore (Irish Unionist), who followed, made a special point of what they termed the ‘‘shameful treatment” of Sir Anthony MacDonnell in connection with the now famous difference in the Ministry over the re- form scheme. “Ireland,” he declared, “is governed by a bureaucracy more devoid of re- spongibility than the bureaucracy of Russia, which England is so fond of denouncing.” Armed revolt, he sald, would be jus- tified if a chance of success existed. Moore, who spoke in behalf of the Irish Unionists, was as bitter as the Nationalist leader himself in his con- demnation of the present Government, which, Moore declared, was held in contempt and disgust by a million and a quarter of loyalists who have been driven to revolt by the policy of glam- or and promise without performance. ‘Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ire- land, delivered a straightforward ex- | planation of how the unfortunate mis- | understandings involving MacDonnell arose. In doing so, he paid a splendid tribute to Sir Anthony MacDonnell, i post of Under Secretary, not in the capacity of an underling, but as a wise and able col . “Wyndham said he given MacDonnell a free Jand to with. the situation. They | dia. ho, he said, was asked to accept the | Iy WRESTLERS -~ DEFEATED Special Dispatch to The Call. WEST POINT, N. Y. Feb. 20.— The cadets saw tp-day a demonstra- tion of jlu jitsu through the courtesy of Japanese Consul General Uchida, who accompanted two wrestlers to the academy. The academic board s making an investigation of the art with a view of installing it as part of the athletic education of the cadets. Professor Tomito Loki and his as- sistant gave an exhibition. After he had displayed his prowess with his assistant, Cadet Woodbury volun- teered to wrestle the assistant and soon had a fall to his credit, although the Japanese outweighed him. Cadet Tipton, the football center, next took a turn with the professor himself. Tipton pinned the little Japanese to the mat. LR had' discussed. the situation together. He knew that MacDonnell n.m!nl?)el:i Dunraven had been considering a re- form scheme, but he did not know all th?d terms of their plan. Wyndham said: “1 had often discussed reforms with MacDonnell, who with his Indian ex- periences found analogies between my ideas and ideas he had formed in In- Here came the first source of se- rious misunderstanding. I, With a colossal ignorance of Indian affairs, did not know that a semi-elective coun- cil exists in India, and therefore it never ‘occurred to me in my conver- sations with MacDonnell that he had in mind any board partially elected as part of the reforms of which T approved. If I had thought he had any such idea I would have told him that it was, in my judgment, quite im- practicable.” ! ‘Wyndham said he was absent for a holiday when the revolutionary scheme was published, and that, when he re- turned, without consulting MacDon- nell, he wrote to the papers denouncing the clective council feature. Wynd- ham said the Cabinet never had doubt- ed MacDonnell’s loyalty, but simply had recorded itself as not approving the action of an Under Secretary, who had. approved of a scheme without first submitting it to his chief. Wynd- ham admitted that MacDonnell ‘per- haps was justified in taking his ap- proval for granted. The night session was taken up by T. W. R tion, R 5 | the most industrious and thrifty min- ol S gherlmielly ENTONBED EXPLOSION Scores of Workmen Believed to Have Perished. Many Hours Must Elapse Before Rescuers Reach Their Bodies, el Disaster Occars at the Birmingham Progerty of the Alabama Stecl and Wire Company. | BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, Feb. 20.—By an explosion in the Virginia mine, about eighteen miles southwest of Birmingham, at 4 o’'clock this after- noon, between 110 and 135 union min- ers were entombed, and it is believed that the entire number suffered an awful death. Scores of vigorous res- cuers are at work digging into the mine to relieve their friends and com- rades on the inside. The explosion is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of gas, although the mine hasheretofore been noted for being entirely free from dust. It is believed that. as the entire quota has probably been killed, the de- 1 tails of the cause of the disaster will | never be known. The camp is almost isolated from the rest of the world, as there is no tele- | phone station at Virginia and the only | wire running to the place is a dis- patcher”s wire of the Birmingham Min- | eral Railway, on which Virginia is lo- cated. The class of miners employed was the best in the district and all be- | longed to the United Mine -Workers of erica. Sirce the strike has been of in the Birmingham district many of Virginia mines, so that the mines were being worked to their full capacity by the most skilled miners in the com- munity. Relief trains with surgeons and workmen were dispatched from both Birmingham and Bessemer as soon as the news of the disaster was received. They began the work of succor before 6 o'clock, but at midnight had not dug half way through the mass of debris. It mbelleved that it will be 10 o’clock to-nforrow before the interior of the stope is reached. The stoves are well arranged, and there has never been the least trouble in the mines before. They are owned by the Alabama Steel and Wire Com- pany, but are leased and operated by Reid & Co. President. Edward Flynn of the Ala- bama United Mine Workers and Na- tional Committeeman W. R. Fairly, together with J. E. Allier, district or- ganizer, have Iéft for the scene. Pres- ident Flynn said <before leaving that there were 135 men employed in the mine regularly, but as yesterday was pay day he could not say whether the full quota was in the mine at the time of the disaster or not. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR. Disaster at Ohio Mine Also Injures Fourteen Workmen. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O. Feb. 20.— Four men are dead and fourteen in- jured, five of them seriously, as the result of an explosion to-day of a stationary boiler at No. 1 mine of the Provident Coal Company, near here. The dead: William Adams, president of the local branch of the United Mine Workers of America; Eli Minty, engineer, aged 26, married, of St. Clairsville; Michael Meili, aged 36, of Glencoe, Ohio; unknown Hungarian miner. 2 L ey HOTEL IN BOSTON FILES SUIT AGAINST HEARST Demands Pay for Refreshments Con- sumed by His Campaign 'Boomers. BOSTON, Feb. 20.—The Hearst per- petual candidacy for President is re- ceiving some debilitating jolts from Massachusetts. Following Congress- man John A. Sulllvan’s public drub- bing of Hearst comes a suit against Hearst by the Hotel Revere of Bos. ton to collect a campaign bill. The Revere management, at the be~ hest of Granville McFarland, George Fred Willlams, “Jerry” Watson and other similar statesmen during the last Presidential campaign, allowed the Hearst boomers to consume Re- vere House liquor and food to the value of $241. Hearst refused to pay the bill, hence the suit. —_—— DR. HARPER ONCE MORE SUBMITS TO EXAMINATION Surgeons Said to Have Concluded ! That He Has Cancer of | the Colon. SIXTY YEARS IN PRISON FOR AN ARMY MAJOR. MANILA, Feb. 2L.—Major Carring- ton, who. was convicted of falsifying vouchers’of the civil government to the amount of $1500, was to-day sentenced to a total of sixty years and five days’ imprisonment. He was sentenced on five separate counts ahd the sentence on each charge was twelve years and one day. Major Carrington practically made no defense, his attorneys raising tech- nical points only. The case will be appealed to the Su- preme Court of the islands and if the | decision there be adverse to the appel- lant the Major will appeal to the Su- preme Court of the United States. 1 Major Carrington was accused of | misappropriating funds in the Philip- pines that had been sent to him to pay the necessary expenses of getting his battalion of Philippine scouts in condition to be taken to the St. Louis fair. It was also charged that he had . falsified his accounts in this connee- HARD FATE OF CARRINGTON Convicted of Having Falsified Vouchers to the Philippine Government. tion. Carrington’s accounts when sub- mitted to the Government were incom- plete and he was called upon to render a full statement with the vouchers attached. He delayed, and after pre- paring his battalion of scouss brought them to San Francisco on their way to St. Louis. Major Carrington remained in San | Francisco for some time before going to the fair with his scouts. He was extensively entertained and made a large number of friends while here. He gave exhibition drills at the Pre- sidio which showed his skill as a drill master. It was while Major Carrington was in St. Louls that the Government had him placed under arrest. A close in- vestigation made in Manila had re- vealed wholesale falsifications in his accounts and the major was ordered to return to Manila to answer the charges against him. He left San Francisco for the Philip- pines early last summer, stating at the time that he had no fear of a trial as he had done no wrong. CLEVELAND CITY COUNCILM ACCUSED OF TAKING BRIBES Mayor “Tom" Johnson Names Two Fellow Dem- ocrats as Among the Alleged Culprits. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 20.—In the| City Council to-night Mayor Johuloni directly charged Councilmen Dewar and Wilke, Democrats, with having accepted bribes from the Cleveland | — EN land had been %rou.m about by un- due influence. At last Monday nigh meeting of the Council the Mavor re- peated his statements of alleged bri- bery and of undue influence, but gave no names. His accusations were de- | same time Mayor Johnson charged that | of the Republican Councilmen and spe- Electric Illuminating Company. At the nied with much emphasis by several the votes of all the Republican mem- | cific charges in writing were demand- bers of the City Council had been in-ied. These were made to-night. fluenced by comtributions from that| - The Courcil immediately adopted a company to the last campaign fund of | resolution to investigate itself and ¥ the Republican organization and to mef campaign expenses of the Republican candidates for the Ci‘tly. Council. 5 The rges are t! outcome o weeks ago that the recent defeat of the ordinance to annex the village of South Brooklyn to the city of Cleve- DEPEW HELD 10 BLANE FOR LOSSES Accused of Being a] Party to Fraud in Klondike. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Less than thirty stockholders of the Ladue Gold Mining Company of the Yukon, hold- ing proxies for 10,000 more stockhold- ers, met to-day in Jersey City, and after making threats to sue several| prominent men once identified with the company, appointed a committee to confer with the new officers of the company when elected and report to the stockholders on April 21. The company was organized in the boom days of the Klondike by the late Ladue, formerly of Plattsburg, N. Y., one of the founders of Dawson City and its first Mayor. It was capitalized at $5,000,000 and among the original di- rectors whom Ladue interested in his project were Senator Depew, Thomas C. James, Smith Weed, W. J. Arkell and John Carstensen, formerly con- troller of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. None of these men are now on the board and none of them attended to-dav's meeting as stockholders. 4 It is alleged by many of the stock- holders that the company, instead of owning valuable mining property, has only a vast tract of valueless Alaska land and a few cheap buildings. They state that they invested in the com- pany, relying upon the names of De- pew and others as a guarantee of the honesty of the enterp! . It is charged that the only dividend ever paid by the company was not ‘paid from the earnings, but from tRe capital. For ail these reasons these stockholders think that the original directors, including Senator Depew, can be legally and equitably called upon to make good CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Dr. William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, to-day submitted to an- other examination at the Presbyterian Hospital, where he was taken to await an operation on Wednesday. The sur- geons refused to make any statement of the result of their examination, but it is said they have reached the def- inite conclusion that Dr. Harper has cancer of the colon. * Composer Larue Passes Away. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—AlbertLarue, well known among musicians and musical publishers as an arranger and con , dl to-day at his home ‘here otfl})n_eumnnh. He arranged the scores of many of the musical comedy. successes produced here In recent their losses. —————————— SUPREME COURT ALLOWS SEA PAY FOR SHORE DUTY Passes on Test Case Which Concerns Chief Enginer of the Navy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Justice ‘White to-day delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs. Albert C. Engard, Chief Engineer of the United States navy, involving the question as to whether a naval officer can collect sea pay for shore duty. In this case the auditor for the Navy Department re- fused to allow traveling exbenses on an official trip to Ohio and return. This decision was overruled by the court. City Solicitor Newton D. Baker, the o The resolution em- powers the City Solicitor to subpena other documents which may be of value in proving or disproving the Mayor’s charges. - STEANSHIPS AND DOCKS IN FLANES Big Loss by Fire on _the Charlestown Piers. —_— BOSTON, Feb. 21.—A fire that causea immense losses broke out on pier 4 of the Hoosae Tunnel docks at Charles- town early this morning. It is be- lieved to have started from spontan- eous combustion. The flames commu- nicated with the Furness-Leyland steamship Philadelphian, which was tied alongside ‘the pier, and in a few moments the vessel was afire from stem to stern. From the Philadelphian the flames jumped over to the steamship Dalton Hall of the Antwerp line, which was soon ablaze. It is believed that the erew of the Dalton Hall escaped. The Philadelphian_ arrived here on Saturday from Liverpool. The Dalton Hall was laden with a valuable cargo and was to have sailed to-morrow. Plers Noe. 3 and 4 have been de- stroyed and the steamships Michigan of the Warren line and Martello are threatened. It is believed the loss will be nearly $1,000,000. The burned piers were stored with valuable imported goods. At 2:30 o’clock this morning the flames were under control. ——— e LEOPOLD WINS SUIT BROUGHT BY DAUGHTER Court Denies Her Claim to Portion of the Property of the King. BRUSSELS, Feb. 20.—The Court of Appeals to-day gave judgment in fa- vor of King Leopold in the protracted lawsuit instituted by his daughter, the Princess Stephanie (Countess Lonyay) and the creditors of Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The for- mer claimed that she was entitled un- der the Belgian law to half of the property of the late Queen Marie Hen- riette and to half the King's property on the death of the Queen. The lower court decided that King Leopold's marriage contract. which provided for separate estates, was a diplomatic in- strument superseding the Beghn law. This decision was confirmed by the Court of Apveals. © Admiral Wilde Retires. BOSTON, Feb. 20.—Rear Admiral G. G. Wilde, U. 8. N, was to-day retired from active duty after forty-three years’ Wilde a