The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1905, Page 1

he 42~ F Nog 24, 1908: clouly Mondsy with (L PRINTS THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Apfll. San Francigco and victnity—Partly | | Ing: fresh west winds. l G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. fog in the morn- AN e R ALCAZAR—'""When Knighthood Was in Flower." CALIFORNIA—* nine." “The Eternal Femi- COLUMBIA—"Red Feather.” CENTRAL--“Robert Emmet." CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—*Graustark.” ORPHEUM—Vaudevilla. TIVOLI—Comie Opera. e e PRICE FIVE CE HEAVY FIRING AT SEA OFF KAMRANH BAY SAIGON, French Cochin-China, April 23.-—The complete Russian fleet left Kamranh Bay on April 22 at midday. At nigh It is supposed the Russian fleet was engaged with a portion of the Japanese squadron. out at sea. JAPANESE SHIPS SEER OFF MANILA Three Vessels Near the Entrance to the Harbor. Beouting Cruisers Believed | to Have Been Attacked by Baltic Fleet. 8t Petersburg Conveys Hint That Rojestvensky Leit Kamranh Several Days Ago. ghor ~ x . ¢ - E A Beciel ight 1 the present stage of a game of naval hide and s eclared that the admiralty was Caumaam il the fleet in Kam- ed Nebo- dron had expe owing to —_— PRESS SOCORES GOVERNMENT. ¥rench Editors Say the Russian Fleet Was Treated Unjustly. April PARIS 28.—Some of the nting upon second a t exact jus- ust to Rus- which is sy prey being being 1 t put to sea half-filled kers, being thus ed at the moment of meeting the s is neutrality?” scornfully e Echo de Paris. e paper quotes the French s authorizing belligerents to gufficient coal to reach the x 2nd maintains that the next ostok. Therefore, the asserts, France has not ally's squadron the benefit nch neutrality laws. e Temps criticizes the Saigon re- that Russian merchant vessels e been forbidden to take on the scessary coal to enable them to reach he nearest Russian port. *The paper \2intains that the ships have the right ake on sufficient coal to last them Viadiveostok, which is the nearest The Temps adds: ‘ing many coaling stations et ip making meutrality rules in order to prevent their ad- ies trom procuring coa! through neutrals, they enjoy full supplies from their own ©obng stations. On the coptrary. Continentsl PO%rs. namely France, Russia and Germany, Catinued on Page 2. Column 4, DEATH SUMMONS JEFFERSON. 'End Comes to the Eminent Actor . @t His Home in Florida. — | i1 1 | SHRINEAGE ¥ VALUES OF STOCES Lawson's Raid Takes $171,000,000 From His Foes. e Effect of the Bear Onslanght Is Believed to Be but Temporary. Twenty-Six Leading Industrials Are lovolved in the Slump in Prices. g Epecial Dl!nth:o The Call. BOSTON, April 23. — Twenty-six leading stocks in the New York and Boston markets show for the past week a total shrinkage of more than $171,000,000 in value from the gen- | eral slump, coupled with the raid by Lawson and other well-known bear plungers. 1Included in this list are Amalgamated Copper, with more than $8,000,000; American Sugar, $4,500,- 000; Atchison, $10,000,000; Missouri Pacific, $5,000,000: Southern Pacific, $15,500,000; Union Facific, '$12,000,- 000; Steel preferred and common, nearly $23,000,000. Most of the other stocks in this' list were railroad.. The copper shares out- side of Amalgamated showed up in | strong shape. If the total shrinkage of the leading Industrials and some of the big min- ing properties were to be included it would run well to $300,000,000 for the three days of the business week. The coming week probably will see |2 renewed swift fight of bear opera- | tors, though the markets are likely to open weak and continue so tem- | porarily. The recov in values is | likely to prove as quick in its effects as the shrinkage. terri- | | | JEFFERSON, THE FAMOUS ACTOR WHO PASSED | IGHT IN FLORIDA. | - | | which, it is thought, brought on the at- " | tack of indigestion. { | _WWhen Jefferson became iil he return- | ed to the Réefs and was taken to his [ | room on the second floor of the cot- | “tago, which is only one hundred feet | [ from the ocean, where he could watch | |the sea. The weather was favorable | throughout his illness. Dr. Potter, the family physician at | the Florida home, lived three miles | | from the Reefs and went occasionally | to the bedside of his patient, feeling that Jefferson might survive. But when -3 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 28. | %t © 00 o period occurred he | Joseph Jefferson, the eminent actor |gpent most of his time there and died at home, “The Reefs,” at Palm | called Dr. Worley of St. Augustine, a | Beach at 6:15 o'clock this evening. The | gpecialist, for a consuitation. end came after a day of unconscious- | It was soon seen that Jefferson had ness and after a heroic struggle which |#ot the strength to shake off the at- had exhausted the patient’s vitality. At | $3ck and his death was only a question his deathbed .were his wife, his sons, s Charles B. and Frank Jefferson, his nurse, Miss Mabel Bingham, Dr. R. B. | Potter and his faithful old servant, Carl Kettler. The end was not a surprise to the | family. Ever since his last sinking | spell, which came after a rally on | Thursday morning and which was fol- |lowmgd By an epparent improvement yntit Friday, the family has been wait- | fng for the end. e R JEFFERSON A GREAT ACTOR. His Remarkable Career and Success in “Rip Van Winkle,” | “Joe” Jefferson was born in Philadel- | phia February 20, 1829. He was the |third of the name and an actor by | heredity. His grandfather, Joseph Jef- ferson the first, was the son of an eminent English actor and manager. e iy worne oad e | He was born ‘at Plymouth, England, in [ rembers of the family who had re. | 1774 and came to this country in 1796, making his first appearance in New York at the theater in John street. He | remained with the same company untii 1803, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he was permanently .engaged | during a period of twenty-seven. years. ended in his death, was contracted. it | He died in 1832 He parried in 1800 a is believed, while on a recent visit to | Miss Fortune, by whem he had a large his son, Charles, at Hobe's Sound. a | family of children.i/ few miles above Palm Beach, where he His som, Joseph tired, were summoned from- their beds and Dr. Potter was called. The va- tient's condition continued to grow worse all through to-day and the brief bulletins from the bedside contained no words of encouragement 2. The sickness of Jefferson. which fferson the second, went to meet his friend, former Presi- | dent Cleveland. It i# belleved that from a slight indis- | cretion in his eating there he suffered | an attack of indigestion. Simce his re. | | turn Home his condition grew. steadily | | worse. with slight raliies untfl the end. | The body of Jefferson will be taken ! | to Buzzards Bay on & special train to- | morrow, accompanied by all the mem- | bers of his family who are here. It will reach New York on Wednesday morning and the famiiy hopes to reach | Buzzards Bay the evening of that day. | It was on April 1 that Jefferson went | | to Hobe Sound to meet, Cleveland and [ gther friends at the home of O rles 5. t Jefferson. The party n ut. a week there and during gc time thefe were fishing expeditions. Jefferson ap- peared active, but as he had been rest- ing at his home at Palm Beach and had almpst recovered his strength from the illnéss which pulled him - down last spring, he was over-confident and over- | exerted himself. It was at a supper there one njght that he ate something | ton the house in which his father re- ; Irish lqu‘enegy taken. on the td}e’%h was born in Philadelphia in 1804 and died of yeliow fever in Mobile, Ala., in 1842. He was an excellent actor in *“‘old men’’ parts and also.a fine scene paint- er. He married -Mrs. T. Burke, who bore to him Joseph Jefferson the third. Young “Joe” was brought up in the precincts of the theater from the time he was an infant. When ltving in the city of Washing- | sided adjoined the theater of which he was manager, and the hoy had the run of the establishment. There he saw many of the great players of the day, among whom he well remembered Fan- As an infant comedian. child was required, and when years of age made first publie ap pearance as the child in “Rolla.”” ‘He so appeared in ap entertainment of “living statues.” o 1% CONSCIENCE DRIVES HIM T0 CONFESS Californian Would Free an [nno- cent Man, Caatld LA Special Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, April 23.—A troubled consclence has led to the receipt by Governor McDonald from a San Fran- cisco man of a written confession that he is gullty of a crime for which an- other has been convicted. In the Governor's mail yesterday was a let- ter sighed by J. W. Henderson and dated at San Francisco. It declared that J. B. Hutchison of Fort Collins was not guilty of horse stealing and asked the Governor to use his influ- ence to obtain a new trial for the man. Governor McDonald will send the let- ter to District Judge Garrigues of Larimer County for investigation. It is as follows: “SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. “Governor McDonald: I want to tell you that J. B. Hutchison of Fort Col- lins is not guilty of horse stealing. If he had got a new trial he would come clear. I stole the horse myself, but when I saw his wife and children I could not let him go over the road. Give new trial and he will prove him- self clear. You can see my writing here and that on the check and ‘the bill salg, is the same. His family needs him. leave here to-day. “J. W. HENDERSON."” ——— GREAT BRITAIN SHAKEN BY EARLY MORNING QUAKE Damage Is Done to Walls and Roofs =% in - and g 7 ‘orkshire. Tooki: - LONDON, April 23.—An earthquake ers or 1’ lasting several secondg and occasion- m'g ‘much alarm was felt about 2 o'clock this throughout Derbyshire and Yorkshire and in ad- ent districts. There was trifiing mage to walls and roofs in some places, but nothing serious has been reported. ‘ t heavy cannonading was heard AWARD OF A FELLOWSHIP TO A CALIFORNIA WOMAN . - GRADUATE OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA., WHO HAS BEEN EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP OF ASSOCTATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE. SHE HAS WON DISTINCTION TRANSLATING DANTE'S “'DE MONARCHIA." ! AWARDED Berkeley- Graduate Will Study in Europe. The parents of Miss Aurelia Henry, who graduated from the University of California in 1898, have just received word of their daughter’s good fortune in being awarded the European fel- lowship of the Association of Colleg- fate Alumnae. The home of the Henry family {s at 1809 Euclid avenue, Berke- ley. g Miss Aurelta Henry is regarded as one of the most brilliant students that have graduated from Californa. She took the degree of Doctor of Philoso- phy at Yale, taught later at Lewiston, Idaho, in the State Normal School, and now will go abroad to enjoy in Europe the advantages of the Euro- pean Fellowship. The Association of Collegiate Alum- nae is a national organization of ‘women college graduates, with branches in twenty-nine different cities and a membership of more than 3000. Tt supports the European. Fel-| lowship with the aim of promoting ad- vanced study by college women who | “give promise of distinction through original gifts, previous training, en- ergy, power of endurance and health. The bestowal of the Tfeilowship is ‘based upon evidence of the candidate’s ability and of her promise of success in her chosen line of study. It is not usually granted to those who intend to take up the profession of .law, the ministry or medicine. Women who are forwatd to positions as teach- professors or to .liferary or scientific vcations are given the pref- erence. 3 . Miss Henry's achievement, that is believed to have won for her the coveted fellowship, is a fine transla- tion, made, of Dante’s “De Monarchia,”” which Houghton, Mifflin & Co. soon will publish. ! i | i i i ! NEAR DEATH BY MENTAL SUGRESTION Woman I1I, Thinking| She Had Taken BRADDOCK, Pa., April 23.—Be- | Heving that she haqd taken a large dose of carbolic acid by mistake for whisky, | Mrs. Markuerite Totske, 61 years old, | wife of a rich German merchant of | this city, almost died from suggestion to-day. She was unconscious almost six hours and the most stringent ef- | forts were necessary to restore her. KEYSTONE STATE MAY BE DIVIDED Sécession of Western Pennsylvania Is Advocated. New Commonwealth Would Be Given the Name “Allegheny.” Political Leaders in Revolt Against Methods of Philadelphia Machine, Special Dispatch to The Call PITTSBURG, April 23.—The Waestern part of Pennsylvania is mow ripe for revolt and there is serious talk of asking that the great Keystone State be divided. the twenty-three counties west of the crest of the Allegheny mountains to be known as the State of Allegheny. For some years there have been murmurings against the way in which the Philadeiphia region has used the Legislature and Congress to further ouly fihe' ends of that part of the State and the feeling grew warmer at the meeting of the Legislature just ended. To-day the Pittsburg Leader, very close to Western Pennsylvania bosses, came out in a three column ar- ticle calling for a division of the State, the dividing line to be the water- shed of the Allegheny Mountains and the State to be named Allegheny. Attention is called to the prophetic words of Abraham Lincoin, who once referred to this section as “The State of Allegheny,” meaning at that time, perhaps, Allegheny County, In which Pittsburg and Allegheny are situated. as well as the greatest steel plants in the world. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, s sug- gested as the site for the new State's capital. The State of Allegheny, ac- cording to those who are figuring on the move, would have a population of 2,100,000, according to the census of 1800, and, with its rate of increase for the last twenty years maintained, would in the census of 1910 take sev~ enth place in the Union. TEARS WET THE GRAVE OF BULLDOG: Sdciety Woman Will Have Dead Pet Disinterred. Spectal Dispatch to The Caill. TRINIDAD, Colo., April 23.—Just a bulldog. That is the whole secret of a lonely grave at the top of the montain where the trail winds in a picturesque way from Hastings to Aguilar. It is | the explanation of the mysterious wo- man in black who paid several strange visits to the grave and bowed her head in sorrow over it. Mrs. Benton Lindeman of New York, a cousin of Harry Lehr, the 'amous so- cial arbitrator, is the woman. Hed blooded bulidog, Prince Coid Steel, win. ner of blue ribbons at dog shows throughout the country, is the occupant of the sepulcher. An cpitaph of senti- mental verse is engraved on the head- board which marks the grave. The dog was killed 2 year ago by a Physicians say it is a remarkable | careless militlaman, who was practie- case of autosuggestion and if It could | be carried out in cases of troubles, ‘wonderful cures could be made in insanity and other mental | it tell. troubles. i ANTI-BOYCOTT BILL NOwW lature. advocated by the Citizens’ Alliance "'"m“:vismng a friend on a ranch near ing with his rifle on top of the moun- tain. Mrs. Lindeman at that time was Aguilar and she buried the dog where A few weeks ago she was again at the home of her friend and visited the grave, giving rise to the story of a i ed where th2 breezes find A TAW 1IN commnoi'"" gt el DENVER, April 23.—Governor Me- | Donald has signed the ant{-boycott bi'l | passed at the late session of the Legis- | This measure was strongly | their way through the murky smoke banks that overhang Hastings to the crystal, snowy range and sing a re- quiem. 3 To-day Matthew Benedict, a coach- man in the emplcy of Mrs. Lindeman, arrived in the city and went to Haste and was vigirously opposed by labor |ings. He will disinter the dog's gar- crganizations. Violation of its pro- visions is punighable by fine or im- prisonment, or both. cass, which is buried in an box, and will take it ta where it will be reburied