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1S $ SUM AT STAKE 100,000,000 Richest Woman in the World Threat- ened With Lawsuit by Relatives. — T OF S WII OF $100,000,000 T > TO HER LEGAL BY HER FA- | FIGHT TO BE | TE ow. March 23.—A le-| £100,000,000 estate 1A, ADELPH u- made his iered the richest wo- | —e—————— | TWENTY THOUSAND CITIZENS FOLLOW DEAD TO GRAVES Bodies of Fifty-Five Victims of the Brockton Explosion and Fire Laid Away. s, March 23.— ces were held to- persons explosi e score the lives in shoe factories that vast number public manifesta- y factories closed the bodies of victim: ered from ru were placed in pubiic funeral one at the Cf at the Porter Congrega- the third at St. wurch., » forenoon ged, , another DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL CLAM TO BE OF LOST TRIBE *® e i Picturésque Party of Men, Women | and Children Arrive in New York From Australia. YORK, March —A pictur< | ty of men, women and chil- | ighty-three in number, mem- | a religious sect who proclaim | descendants of the lost arrived here to-day | ves of Israel, on the steamship Prinzess Irene. They | Death of Contractor’s Wife Leads to from Australia and are bound | Benton Harbor, Mich., where they | 400 members of sthe sect already | lished. They call themé dren of Israel and are veg- The men wear long hair They profess to believe | of the mortal body as| JURY ACQUITS ACCUSED | NATIONAL GUARDSMEN | Former Adjutant General of New Mexico Is Found Not Guilty of Robbing Territory. \'TA FE, N. M., March 23.—A of acquittal was brought in 1t by the jury in the case of the erritory vs. General W. H. White- | 11, for seven years adjutant general of the Territory, who was recently re- moved by Governor Otero and in- dicted eight times by a Grand Jury on the charge of having obtained money from the Territory under false pretenses Craft L L PEARY'S SHIP 1S LAUNCHED SEDERITE Destined to Carry Ofiicer to Polar Regions Is Christened Roosevelt AL S SRR BUCKSPORT, Me., March 23.—Lieu- tenant R. H. Peary's Arctic steamship was successfully launehed to-day. She christened “Roosevelt” by Mrs. vessel was designed by Naval Architect William E. Winant of New York, and it is claimed to be the result of all that experience in naval archi- tecture to this date can suggest. She is considered the strongest in construc- tion, most powerful and best equipped craft for combating the Arctic ice ever built. Her model is similar to modern- built steam whalers, but rather more sharp, the particular features being her long, high, raking bow, overhanging stern and general wedge-shape at the sides, in order that she may be lifted tree if nipped in the ice. The craft is built of white oak, the fram bbing trebled and close to- vith double planking, making e from twenty-four to thirty inches thick. WILL Crade Petrolcum Will Take the Place Of Champagne at Launching of Battieship. TOPEKA, Kans, March 23.—The Battleship Kansas will be christened by breaking a bottle of Kansas crude oil over its prow in the place of a bot- tle of champagne, as is the usual cus- tom. This is the idea of Governor Hoch, as expressed by him to-day. “The Kansas will not be christened with champagne,” said the Governor. | “It will be christened with a bottle of oil—not Standard oil or independent o!i.“but just Kansas oil—Kansas crude oil. —————————— WOMAN USES HER BUSTLE AS DEPOSITORY FOR WEALTH Discovery of Nearly $4000 in Bonds and Cash. CINCINNATI, WMarch 23.—While working over a washtub Mrs. Anne Ellisworth Werner, wife of a contract- or, dropped dead from heart trouble. Those who prepared the body for burial found $3800 in bonds and $151 in cash in a bustle she wore at the time of her death. COMBINE OF SMELTERS ANNOUNCED IN GOTHAM New Corporation Will Contrdl the Plants at Selby, Tacoma and Everett. NEW YORK, March 23.—A consoli- dation of Pacific Coast smelters, the Selby, Tacoma and the Everett, was announced here to-day. The name and capitalization of the combination have not been determined as yet. The new company plans to build a copper refinery and copper sheet and wire mills at Tacoma. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1905 OUEER THEORY ABOUT HAMLET German Professor Declares Characters in Play Typify Special Dispatch to The Call. | ousness and convicfions truly Teutonic, , Herr Heinrich, a German professor, | has just set forth what is about the | queerest theory yet propounded regard- | ing Shakespeare's “Hamlet.” The pro- | fessor believes that all the characters {in the play were intended by Shakes- | peare to be representations cf the vari- | ous sides of Hamlet's temperament and | this belief he elaborates in a brochure consisting of ovee ninety pages of close | type, which has just been publishe! in ‘the Fatherland under the title of ““Die Namen Hamlettragodie.” | It demonstrates again that there's | practically mo theory tvo absurd to be substantiated, in a way, if you only | devote enough patience and ingenuity to the business. Professor Heinrich en- | deavors to justify his assumption by | tracing the names of all the characters in “Hamlet” to their source. The hero’s | cwn appellation he traces back through almost countless generations and shows that It was criginally spelled both ;Humbie( and Hamlet, and further de- | clares that the name of Shakespeare's ; son, Hamnet. is only a variation. Herr Heinvich considers that Hamlet was derived originally trom the old English word melian,” to halt or be lame, |and maintains that the name, there- fore, is intended to be symbolical of the | halting or indecisive side of Hamlet's | character. The name of Gertrude, the professor follows indefatigably through Dr. Conan Do?e’s Principal | Temperament of the Hero! {RIDES A MOTOR CYCLE. Recreation Ts a Bicyele| Propelled by Electricity LONDON, March 23.—With a labori- | i the “‘Geruthe” of Belleforest to the { y" Venus of Chaucer's “Knight's | Tale,” and he makes this name mean | “the inconstant.” “Laertes” is de- | “clal'ed by the German savant to be de- rived from “leo” and ‘heart” and, therefore, to stand for Hamlet's brav- ery. Polonius, the professor thinks, stands for Hamlet's lack of ycuth; Ho- ratio represents the philosophical and skeptical sides of Hamlet's character; Rosencrantz and Guildenst:rm stand | for craftiness and lack of will power, and Osric, through the Latin “os"— mouth—and German ‘“reich—full of— for love of self-communing. H REMARKABLE DEDUCTION. Most remarkable of all, however, Herr Heinrich declares that the name Ophelia must have been derived by care from either “Mephiste- “offas,” and in support of the latter supposition he quotes the Dane’s comment, “a gcod Kissing carrion.” He s that Ophelia represents the womanish side of Hamlet's character and asserts that we have numerous in- | stances in Shakespeare of his poor opinion of women. Herr Heinrich brings his extraordinary thesis to a clcse by asserting that Shakespeare undoubtedly found the germ ot his tragedy in the history of Mary, Queen of scots, Darnley and Bothwell, with James 1 as the Prince. Dr. Conan Doyle is now at “Under- shaw,” his picturesque country house at Hindheaa, Surrey, and is engaged on a new literary work, of whese na- ture, however, he declines to give so much as a hint. The author's princi- pal recreation at present is motor-cy- ciing, a machine ot this sort having re- cently been added to his garage. Sir Arghur, of course, has been an enthusi- astic 1notccist for several years, and has two of ten and twenty horse- power respectively, but he says he pre- ters his new motor-cycle, which 1s a Roc, for short distances, and expects to make some lengthy tours on it as soon as the weatner gets warmer. Oscar Wilde's “De Profundis” is still the chief topic of talk in literary cir- cles here. Numerous excisions were made In the original by Robert Ross, who published it, and I was told r cently by one who had seen the man::- script that the parts cut out consist of savage denunciations of one man. a former triend of Oscar Wilde. these diatribes occurring again and again in his “literary will and testament.” as Wilde called the strange document composed in Reading Jall. FINISHES NEW TRAGEDY. Gabriele d’Annunzio is in the midst fof a mew novel, the first he has at- tempted in several years, and has just finished a new tragedy, which he has named “The Light Under a Bushel.” It consists of two thousand verses and the scene is laid in Peligno, in the ter- ritory of Aversa, a little town in the Abruzzi, just on the eve of Pentecost in the time of King Ferdinand I. One of the poet’'s intimate friends, to whom he has read his new play, declares that the action is quick and passionate—the whole tragedy taking place between | noon and mght of the same dayv—and | says the work is a miracle of accuracy in local customs and superstitions. It is expected that the tragedy will be produced in Milan about the middle of April. | On April 2 one hundred years will have passed since the birth of Hans | Christian Andersen, and most European countrics are getting ready to pay honor to the memory of that delightful writer of fairy tales. In Copenhagen, several of Andersen’s personal friends, at whose house he was an almost daily guest, have decided to publish different ,relics of him which they have pre- ' served up to this time and to devote the vroceeds of their sale to charity. Among these relics is an uncommonly interesting collection of pictures which will be published in a portfollo. They | comprise Andersen’s birthplace. several )orlginfll photographs with a fac-simile of his autograph, twelve reproductions of silhouettes which Andersen himself | cut out; selected leaves 'on which are | pasted pictures and which bear his | autograph, taken from picture books | which Andersen himself made and pre- | sented to daughters of his friends; and | a view of sghe Villa “Rolighed.” where | the author died. There will be publish- | ed, too. an etching which shows Ander- | sen when he was forty years of age, and which is the more valuable as only | fifty copies were made of it. and even | now only a limited number of repro- ductions can be made. Quite a num- ber of hitherto unpublished stereo- scopic views | circle of the Melchiors at the “Rolighed | Villa” will aleo be issued. and lastly a i series of plates illustrating Andersen’s {life and work, with illustrations from i his fairy tales. —_————— COOPER HELD TO ANSWER ON A CHARGE OF MURDER VALLEJO, March 23.—James A, . Cooper, colored, who shot and killed ' Daniel Dorsett on the Boston last Sunday morning, was examined be- , fore Justice Browne to-day and com- | mitted for trial in the Superior Court. Cooper did not offer any defense. f Andersen in the family, Woman Learns She Is an Heiress From Paper Wrap- ped -About a Tallow Dip LUCK OF POOR FAMILY Fragment of Newspaper May Be Means of Enriching Pov- erty-Stricken Australians Spectal Dispaich to The Call. LONDON, March 23.—If her expec- tations are fulfilled, a poor woman in Australia will owe a fortune of $50,000 to the purchase of a penny candle, and three other members of her family in England will be indebted to the same humble source for another $50,000 each. That will mak $200,000 obtained through a tallow dip. "I'his is how it happened. Mrs. Henry Motlee with her husband emigrated to Australia twenfy years ago and set- tled in Ballarat. They met only with bad luck. They couldn't afford gas. Mrs. Motlee, about two months ago. sent one of her children out to buy a single candle. 'The storekeeper who sold it wrapped it up in a stray piece of a newspaper. When Mrs. Motlee had lighted the candle with a piece of the| wrapper she chanced to glance over the printed fragment and read there something that startled her. It was an advertisement requesting Mrs. W. Chapman, her two sisters and bLrother to communicate with a certain London lawyer that they might obtain posses- sion of an estate valued at $200,000. Mrs. Motlee is one of the sisters re- ferred to. She immediately wrote to Mrs. Chapman, who lives at Yar- mouth, in England, telling her of the discovery she had made and how she had made it, and asking her to set things to work to get hold of the money. It is through Mrs. Chapmakh, who seems in a fair way to prove the claims of her faimily to the fortune, | that the story has come out. OLD ENGLISH ESTATE. | The estate in question was left in 1791 by Thomas Hawkins, a solicitor, to his son Richard, who was also a member of the legal profession and settled at King's Lynn. This Richard Hawkins had a son George and it was because of the difficulty the latter encountered in proving his father's will that the estate was thrown into chancery. George Hawkins was the | great-grandfather of the present claimants to it. Mrs. Chapman has still in her possession a portrait of Thomas Hawkins and his family. em- | broidered in silk, of a style fashion- able at the period in which he lived. It was exhibited at an art loan exhi- bition some years ago and a curio col- lector then offered $200 for it. But Mrs. Chapman, who has not been re- duced to buying penny candles. cher- | ished it too much as a family heir- loom to part with it. Another strange story has just come to light concerning how a German wo- | man is alleged 'to have discovered that she is entitled to a share in the estate valued at $2,500,000 left by Mrs. Helen Blake, vidow of General Blake, Two Deaths Are Expected to Result From a Class Fight at Colorado School —_—— Many Sophomores and Fresh- men Badly Hurt in Strug- gle on a College Campus S GOLDEN, Colo., March 23.—After one of the fiercest class fights in the his- tory of the School of Mines a score of freshmen and sophomores are nurs- ing bruises, while two students prob- ably are fatally injured. They are i Harry B. Clapp of Denver, suffering from concussion of the brain, and Ar- thur J. Weinig of Durango, who re- ceived internal injuries. Clapp was kicked on the back of the head. The preliminaries of the fight began at 2 a. m., when the sophomores raised their flag over the school. At 3 o'clock the freshmen appeared and took it down. The incident was then thought to be closed, until at noon the freshmen hoisted their flag on Castle Rock. The sophcmores made for it and the fresh- men ran with it. At 5 p. m. the fresh- ;men got together and marched up the main street. In the center of the town | they burned the sophomores’ flag. The i sophomores then formed in the street and marched to the school campus, where they met the freshmen in a rough and tumble fight, which lasted for an hour and a half. Dr. J. P. Kelley, president of the board of trustees, brought the fight to a close by threats of expulsion. g i who ,died in 1876. She read in a | newspaper that Mrs. Mead, an old wo- ! man now an inmate of the Hackney Workhouse, in London, had claimed a share in the Blake milllons as Mrs. | Blake’s cousin. From this story the German woman learned that her name is the same as the maiden name of the general’s widow, and this suggested to her that she might be a relation, and, therefore, entitled to a share in the property. CONSULTS CLAIRVOYANT. Thereupon she consulted a clairvoy- ant. The oracle told her that she was |a relation and was undoubtedly enti- | tled to a share of the Blake inheritance { now held by the crown. There is noth- ing startling in that. Clairvoyants gen- erally tell their clients things that will | make them think they are getting their | money's worth. But this one went fur- ther than that. As proof of her occuit | power she made a sketch of the ward | of the Hackney Workhouse in which Mrs. Mead is confined. And she told {the namesake of General Blake's | widow that if it didn’t turn out correct clairvoyance. The master of the work- house has pronounced a copy of the drawing which has been sent him an | accurate one of Mrs. Mead's ward. It was accepted by the German woman las conclusive proof that all the clair- | voyant had told -her was true. She has | engaged a lawyer to hunt up records and push her claim. she would return her fee and renounce | DLY BLOWS| | BUYS A CANDLE, |STUDENTS DEAL {CODY FAILS FINDS FORTUNE|. DEA 10 OBTAIN A DIVORCE Famous Case, Rebukes “Buffalo Bill” for Attempt- ing to Cast Aside His Wife DECLARES CHARGES TO HAVE BEEN FALSE Court Says Former Scout Repaid Devotion by Heap- ing Cruelties and Indigni- ties Upon His Helpmate SHERIDAN, Wyo., March 23. — The District Court here to-day refused the petition of Colonel Willlam F. Cody (*‘Buffalo Bill"") for a diverce. A decjsion in the case was not ex- pected before to-morrow at the earliest, but the courtroom was filled with resi- dents of Sheridan and the surround- ing country when it was given. After the reading of depositions was finished to-day the attorneys for both sides an- nounced that they would submit the case without argument. After a short recess Judge H. H. Scott asked the at- torneys for the defendant to amend their answer in the case by striking out those sections which dealt with charges against Bessie Isbell, Cody’'s conduct in Chicago and his early ex- cesses at Fort McPherson. When this was done the court found entirely in favor of the defendant, Mrs. Louisa Cody. . Judge Scott delivered an opinion of considerable length, reviewing the al- legations and evidence and giving his conclusions, . Said he: The law of the State does mot make in- compatibility a ground for divorce, but it does read that extreme crueity, rendsring the con- dition of elther party to the marriage contract intolerable, Is sufficient ground to allow the granting of a divorce. The first cause of action in this case is the chadge of poisoning on December 26, 1900, or somc time prior thereto. The evidence wholly fails to support this issue, but shows the de- fendant was trying to rescue the plaintiff from a state of intoxication and administered, not potson, but remsdies which she deemed bene- fictal to him. His inability to speak on this occasion did not come from these remedies, but came trom his excessive use of intoxicating liquors at the banquet board and was as humilfating to the defendant as to the plain- Aff. The unhappiness caused by the actions of the plaintift is shown by the letter of their daughter, Arta Thorpe, whose beautiful char- acter shone out from her unhappy home im the words of her letter written just before her eath: “Oh, papa, why did you do it? My heart is just broken over it. Oh, why did you do it?” Judge Scott also found that the charge of unbecoming actions on the part of the defendant toward the colonel’'s guests was not proven; that there was no evidence that.she had ever threatened her husband’s life, and that when attending the funeral of her daughter Arta at Rochester, N. Y., in February, 1904, she offered a perma- nent reconciliation and no answer ever BATTLE LASTS ALL DAY |Wyoming Judge, in Deciding | i Special for To-Day $600 Weber Piano $360 $600.00 is the price of this piano the world over. It is brand new, but the veneering on the case is ver(vl slightly checked. ¥ We have just been appointed agents for the Celebrated EVERETT, And are closing out our complete stock of Weber, Wheelock and Stuy- vesant, Pianos at cost to us. Have you been to see us yet? We have many other bargains. See what we can give you for $205. $267, $236, $244, $228, $195, $146. Delays are dangerous, as we will certainly close this entire stock out this week, and then vour opportu- nity to save $172 to $278 on a piano is gone perhaps forever CLARK WISE & CO. 126 Geary Street, (Opg, City of Paris Dry Goods Co.) Monthly Terms if Desired. came to this. He continued: She was an overindulgent mother and wife, who always took pride in his success and al- ways looked forward to his home-coming and made great preparations to receive him. She entertained his guests with cordiality. She , did not use profane language. The poisoning of his pst dogs was accidental. She never spoke disrespectfully of him to his friends or guests. She always accompanied him to the depot or his departures and was there to re- cerve him on his return. In her home she a large statue of him in the hall; in her béd- room she has his portrait, dome by a famous painter, on her stand, and the dishes she used were souvenir ones stamped or etched with his portrait. Such in brief !s the character and conduct of Mrs. Cody, extending over & Icng period of her married life. In return for this wifely devotion the pl tff has been cruel to her and heaped i nities upon her. Even if it were true that t defendant had at times been impatient with him and such impatience had been considered as indignities, it s also true that she has had much to contend with. There are some allegations in the answer that are not sustained by the evidence. From the evidence it does not appear that the plain- i -was addicted to gambling, so as to im- pair his business abilities or trustworthiness. He did not use intoxicating liquors in such quantities as to interfere with the transac of his business. An exception to the ruling of the court was noted by Judge H. R. Ridg- ley. attorney for Colonel Cody, and his request for sixty days for filing a peti- tion for a rehearing was granted. ———— NEW YORK, March 23.—A commission headed by John D. 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