The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1905, Page 17

Pages l—7to n e — - 7?;It NN | Pages 17t0 24 | | ST Tg U T T ot e 6 s SAN FRANCISCO. SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1905. SLAYING OF JEWS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED < (jl" AS “SPORT” BY RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. Unfortunate Hebrews Used to Satisty Riotous Peasants’ Lust for Blood. AWFUL SCENES AT JITOMER Hundreds of People Killed by Mobs Stirred by Paid Agents of Czar. Special Cable to The Call. ST. PETERSBURG, July 15.—During the last few weeks there has revival of Jew-balting in various parts of Russia, and particularly in the west- ern provinces bordering on Germany and Austria—that is, in those parts of the Russian empire which ought to be most ble to Western culture and civilizat These anti-Semitic out- breaks have not received adequate at- tention in the newspaper press of Rus- a or of other countries. Laconic offi- reports issued st unicated by rid have supplied merely of ghastly zed world if they were fully d understood. ¥ n Easter, that !s, the calendar, riots in a about e course of ) Jews were ties it has re than 1000 ged. Several Jews were d the to support of THE CZAR. orthodox nd made g the P reised ey de- ad proofs ming not only to ament, se confiscation of of the state church for ef of taxpayers. They reminded bishop that the procurator of W synod, Pobiedonostzeff, is a confirmed anti-Semite and has fre- given his support to anti- Sem They persuaded the Archbishop to look with favor on Jew- baiting, and in the course of a few days bad contrived to convince his eminece that it would be most advantageous if he Jews of Jitomir were severely chas- tised for their revolutionary and ir- religious opinions. These agitators from the capital also put themselves in communication with the general commanding the eleventh | Russian army corps, whose headquar- ters are at Jitomir. They worked on him by means of similar arguments and experienced little difficulty in ob- taining from him a promise that his troops should not interfere to protect the Jews if an outbreak should take ce. Popular feeling against the Jews vorked up ip & varlety of ways. 1 ds of pamphlets were circu- lated in which statements were printed to the effect that the Jews were blood- suckers and traitors and primarily re- sponsible for all the troubles of the Russian nation. artieles were launched into the local newspapers and the local priests were induced to preach a sermon advocating violence against the Jews. Local agi tators were hired at & price of one ruble & day to go about among the masses of the common people and to stir popular feeling against the Israel- ites up to the boiling point. PENNED IN SYNAGOGUE. The beginning of the Jewish Sab- bath, on Friday evening, was chosen | for the beginning of the outbreak. At sunrset all the Jews of Jitomir, who afe strictly orthodox, close their shops and withdraw from their ordinary occupa- tions te observe the Sabbath until sun- set on Saturday. On this particular Friday evening about 3000 Jews had assembled In the largest synagogue of the city and 2000 Jews hgd assembled in another large synagogue. Shortly before sunset u dangerous rabble col- lected by the enti-Semitic agitators be- gan to assemble at several points out- side the city and at several piaces been a Petersburg cable to other horrors shock the conscience of a were the hodox Greek | but | Strong anti-Semitio | within the city, in order to march by converging routes against the Ghetto, which 18 a separate quarter of the town. This rabble consisted of peas- ants from the surrounding villages and of the scum of the u n population, which is always ready for riot and plunder. It was divided into ten dif- ferent bands und numbered more than | 7000 men. The large ogue was the first object of their ck. First of all, the sacred buildi s surrounded, in or- der to prevent the escape of the wor- shipers. The jcaders of the mob then hammered on the doors, which are kept locked during divine services, and demanded admittance. Their heavy blows on the door alarmed the congre- gation, and m and women alike aban- doned their devotions to gaze, terror stricken, in- the direction’from which the nofse cn Thelr suspense did not 3 nding that the door be opened voluntarily, the ed it and. broke . into - the gozue without much dificulty. ery man in the mob was armed with a thick stock, while a number had come provided ‘with knouts and a few med with revolvers. As the as- poured in through tr the Jews in the to escape by four other exits, re t were y the remainder driven back of the mob and into the buildin The invoding force struck their victims with their heavy sticks, regardless Horrible scenes were witnessed during this attack. A group of Jew-baiters headed for the altar and belabored the —— ;\ 23 | i RESIDENCE— — TEwISH AWBER= ’gfimr 7 BAICH AHE <+ chief rabbi until he was beaten to a pulp of unrecognizable flesh and bones. The | junior rabbis who were assisting him to conduct divine service were likewise beaten to death. In the body of the synagogue men and women allke were knocked down and trampied under foot by the infuriated mob. A veaerable gray- haired Jew eighty years of age stood near a pillar calmly awaiting his fate. When a number of assaliants ap- proached him he appealed to them to stop the bloodshed before they were bur- dened with the guilt of too many inno- cent lives. A terrific blow on the head smashed his skull so that he fell dead on the spot. Many similar scenes were enacted. Women threw themselves upon their as- sallants and clung desperately to the arms upraised to chastise them, and be- sought inercy from the merciless mob. In corners little groups of Jews with their backs to the wall were fighting with improvised weapons in a vain ef- | fort to beat off their persecutors. The floor of the synagogue was strewn with dead and wounded. The shrieks of the injured and dying mingled with the tri- umphant shouts of the Jew-baiters cre- | ated a deafening din. Suddenly the lights | went out, which prevented the mob from | continuing its work of destruction for fear of belaboring one another instead | of their victime. The word was passed | round in the darkness to leave the syna- gogue and to remew the attack on the Jews in another part of the Ghetto. When the enemy had gone lights were brought | and the full extent of the disaster be- | came evident. Eighteen men and twenty- | two women had been killed in the fray. | The forty corpses, most of which were | battered and bruised to such an extent | &8 to render their identification difficult, ‘were reverently removed for burial. In all 360 men and 440 women had been more or less wounded. 1 .HORRIBLE <CENES. Meanwhile the mob was continuing its ! work of destruction elsewhere. The sec- ond large synagogue in Jitomir had been | attacked almost simultaneously with the | first one, and almost identical scenes of | horror were enacted therein. Other bands , of Jew-baiters had marched through the Ghetto, breaking into houses and cruelly maltreating the Jewish inhabitants. Dur- ing the uight twenty more persons were | killed and between two and three hun- dred were wounded. The same cruelty with slight variations { was practiced at other towns and vil- lages. At Kisslowodsk, a village in the vicinity of Wlodawa in the province of Siedlce, one of the most barbarous crimes was perpetrated. In this village there | was only one Jewish family, consisting of iffilhm\ mother, one girl aged 19 and one | boy aged 17. When anti-Semitic riots be- | gan in Wlodawa the inhabitants of Kiss- !lowodsk felt the necessity of arranging their own special display of Jew-baiting | and selected their only Jewish family as | their natural victims. Hearing rumors | of impending attack, this family, named { Hirshmann, barricaded itself in its own cottage by placing shutters held by fron | bars before the windows, and piling furni- | ture against the doors. Almost all the inhabitants of the vil- lage, headed by their elders and al companied by women and children, came ! in a body to bait the Hirschmanns. Find- ing that their Intention of attacking had been betrayed and that the cottage was aiready barred, the mob withdrew for a short consultation, in the course of which the village butcher exclaimed, “Let us burn the Jews out.” The idea was re- ceived with enthusiasm, and logs of wood and fagots dipped in petroleum were brought and piled agalnst the sides of | the wooden structure. The plle was set | alight and in a few minutes the whole Ytugl whs ablaze. The mob stood round the fire, sticks in hand, ready to beat the four Jews to death when they emerged and ran for their lives. The Jews, however, did not appear. Either they preferred to perish in t flames rather than to fall into the hands of their per- secutors, or the precautions which they had taken to barricade their doors and windows prevented them from escaping from the cottage In time. Thelir charred remains were subsequently found among the ashes. MAIMED, NOT KILLED. At Mariampol, in the province of Suwal- ki, word was passed around among the Jew-balters, not to kill but to maim the Jews. Accordingly the mob there stopped short of actual murder but made up for the omission by torturing the victims | who fell into their hands. Bands of antig! Semites marched through the stree selzing all the Jews within reach of their clutches. After catching each Jew they proceeded to twist his arm untlil it broke, or to smash his finger bones with blows of a huge club, or to wrench out one or two teeth with a common palir of pincers, or otherwise to subject him to torture. At Opatow, in the province of Radom, a Jew hunt was organized and all the Jews who_ were seized were driven in gangs. ¥ / AT SRy VIEWS OF SCENES OF AWFUL CARNAGE _IN. RUSSIA, AND WELL-KNOWN “JEW-BAITER.” | ot o to the nearest river and ducked in the presence of a jeering crowd. Some half | dozen Jews were drowned in the coufse | of this popular pastime, and the crowd | watched them go down without making | the least effort to save. them. At Bobruisk, in the province of Minsk, | over 200 Jewesses were seized and driven into/ the courtyard of a factory, where | they were compelled to bare their backs | and submit to be flogged. e SR G S Ay TAKES SKIN FROM MAN'S ARM TO REPLACE BURNED EYELIDS Physician Describex Remarkable Opera- tion Performed on a Victim of Fire in France. PARIS, July 16.—Dr. Lagrange of Bor- deaux has delivered a communication to the Academy of Medicine describing an 1 | | ; English Officer Deplores 2 > e @M% RN ,:Z‘,—,eflg T | POOR NAME FOR SOLDIER | ‘Word Costs Britain a Large Sum Yearly. Systems Used by ' Government. { Enlistment of Undesirables Responsible for Degen- eracy of Army. el 2 s Vi Snecial Cable to The Call. LONDON, July 15.—Major General Moody, speaking at a meeting of the | Army League held in London yesterday, said he strongly objected to the use of | {the word “Tommy” as applied to sol- | diers. | ““I believe the word is costing the | country a million a year,” he said. “It |is breaking down the self-respect of | many soldiers and it prevents men | joining who otherwise would be sol- | diers.” | The general also considered it scan- | dalous that there should be at present ,000 men confined in military prisons, 4 he thought that when once a sol- | dier was imprisoned the army should | let him go and try something else. The obsolete ballot act for the militia, | he argued, might with advantage be re- | vived, and boys should be trained for | | the army just as they were for the| [ navy. Major ilha( the degeneracy apparent in Roper Caldbeck maintained the ) p5% | 5520 ; | zZC { SEHT WS | Kne.ae unusual operation on .a patient whose left eyelids were completely burned through the explosion of an alcohol lamp. The doctor was successful in replacing ‘both the upper and lower eyelids. To ef- fect this he grafted skin from the pa- tient's left arm, which was stitched to the eye and maintained in that position by a plaster of paris mold. The opera- tion was accomplished in ten days. —— ‘WHIL Sell Her Jewels, PARIS, July 15.—Princess Stephanie, Countess Lonyay, has decided to part with a portion of her jewels, which at one time excited the admiration of the Austrian court. She has just deposited a certain number with a Parisian jeweler in view of the forthcoming public sale. SPANISH GALLANTS VICTIMS OF A VERY OLD YANKEE HOAX Answer “Ad” ia Which Young and Wenlthy American Woman Ex- presses Desire for Husband. BARCELONA, July 15.—An amusing hoax was perpetrated here yesterday by which 400 young men were made to look supremely foolish. An advertisement appeared in the local newspapers a few days ago to the effect that a young and wealthy American wom- an desired to meet an elegant young Spanish gentleman with a view to mat- rimony. Applicants were invitéd to send their photographs and addresses. More than 400 candidates applied, and each received a letter informing him that he was the accepted suitor, and asking him to meet the advertiser at a farm, situated outside the town, at a certain hour. The 400 candidates, all dressed in their very best clothes, put in an appearance, and when they found they had been clev- erly hoaxed a ludicrous scene ensued. Finally, they organized a hostile demon- stration, and marched to the advertis- ing office from which the “American lady's” announcement had'been dated. But for the timely arrival of ‘the police the office would have been wrecked by the crestfallen young gallants. — ee————— ESCAPED BABOON ENTERS INN AND DRAWS BEER FOR ITSELF Submits to Capture by Younz Womaa ‘Who Had Frequently Fed It at a Zoo. LONDON, July 15.—Escaping from her cage in Rosherville Gardens, a large Afri- can baboon has had a thoroughly merry adventure. The baboon, whose name is Nan, strolled into the Elephant's Head Hotel, and the alarmed customers. fled in panic. The landlord states that, being in a fix behind the counter, he threw all the | food and dainties he could lay hands on to the baboon. After the feast it sprang upon the counter and seized a pewter pot. | Several persons who peeped through the windows testify that Nan drew beer for herself as deftly as a potman. Eventually, a daughter of Major Win- grove, a Rosherville resident, captured the baboon and led it back to the gar- dens. Miss Wingrove, as a frequent visitor to the gardens, had often given Nan dainty morsels. The animal knew her, and tamely submitted to the cavoture. 227 _ABELTE. j ranks of the British army was caused by the necessity for enlisting undesir- ables in order to maintain the estab- lishment. Boys were often taken from the poorest and lowest classes, who were frequently deficlent in stamina and physique, in moral fiber and Intel- ligence, and they were not seldom lack- ing in courage. In dealing with what he called “per- nieious wastage,” Major Caldbeck said that last year $869 men were invalided, 7162 deserted, 4000 were discharged for misconduct, 1563 were discharged as not likely to become efficient and 21,948 were committed to military prisons. The estimate of £1,412,382 was rather under than over the actual cost of the annual wastage. The present pension system, he added, was obsolete and wasteful. If each sol- dier on foreign service were encour- aged to set aside £3 a year out of his pay and the state contributed £7 and invested the whole at 3 per cen., at the end of nineteen years they would be able- to purchase annuities of £30 per annum, commencing at the age of 43. —————————— FULLY CLOTHED GIRL SAVES BOY BY LONG OCEAN SWIM | Danghter of British Nuval Officer Plunges After Lad Cut Off by Tide. LONDON, July 15.—A deed of heroism by a young woman has just been per- formed in Galway under circumstances which make It conspicuous In the an- nals of gallantry. A small boy belonging to a party ot‘ excursionists from Athlone went out on { the rocks at the Strad. near Fairhill, |and was cut off by the tide. No one on the beach made an effort {to save him, and Miss Quinn. the | daughter of a naval officer residing close by, was attracted to the scene by the cries of alarm. Fully dressed as she was she unhesi- tatingly entered the water and swam to the child’s rescue. She pulled the | boy from the rocks by main force and | he immediately clasped her round the ineek. sinking his nafls into her flesh. { Despite the heavy incumbrance of the boy and her soaked clothes Miss Quinn regained the shore amid the cheers of i the tors. Even then it was with difficulty that the boy's hands could t be unclasped from her neck, which was ' badly lacerated by his nails. i { CHICKENS HOBBY OF COUNTESS LadyCravenRaises Better Poultry Than Queen. Latter Frowns When American Rival Cap- tures Prizes. . Mrs. Bradley Martin Still Un- able to Buy Way Intothe Royal Circle. Special Cable to The Call. LONDON, July 15.—Only brief fiying visits to Lohdon the young Countess of Craven is making this year, all her In- terests being centered in her husband's beautiful country seat and—her chick- ens! At great poultry shows the Coun- tess and Queen Alexandra are often ri- val exhibitors, and it is sald that her Majesty’s smiling countenance occa- sionally wears a frown when she is beaten by the American peeress, as hap- peus with annoying frequenmey. Lady Craven does not at all come up to the English idea of the typfcal American woman who weds a titled husband. She is quiet and domesticated; never makes any splurges of any sort and has no ambition whatever to be a social leader. She leaves that to her mother, Mrs. Bradley Martin, who, however, notwith- standing her great wealth, has not yet attained the position she covets. That gorgeously extravagant ball of hers, in- stead of giving her the lift up the so- cial ladder she had expected from It. really brought her down a few rungs. When English fashionable folk found that famous divines denounced it from the pulpits, and editors wrote sarcastic things about it. they concluded that they would not bend the knee at Mrs. Brad- ley Martin's shrine of wealth—particu- larly as there are several other rich American women here who are quite willing to accept their assistance In spending their money. The Bradley Martins have never got into the royal circle, although last year Princess Christlan and one of her daughters went to one of Mrs. Bradley Martin's parties, and people then began to think she had sueceeded. I heard that the Princess threw out a strong hint to Mrs. Bradley Martin that one of her favorite charities was in great need of $5000, and that Mrs. Bradley Martin intimated that she had other uses for her money. Princess Christian has not since attended any of the Bradley Mar- tin functions. People who covet royal favor should be prepared to pay for it in some fashion. Mrs. Bradley Martin makes another mistake In wearing a chain of diamonds over three yards long in the park when she drives there. It makes women/who canont afford such displays furiously jealous and them they say nasty things about what they call her ostentatious vulgarity. Following the example of her friend, Mrs. Adair, Mrs. Frank Mackey will soon have a residence in Ireland. A few weeks ago she made a hasty journey to Dublin and interviewed several of the leading estate agents there, but finding nothing on their books to her liking she went on to Belfast. Mrs. Thornton Smith of Baltimore is also traveling in Ireland with the view of finding a suitable place for herself and family of two sons and three daughters to setile down for at least a portion of each year. Her husband accumulated his wealth through mining investments in California and Celorado. Mrs. Smith is of Irish extraction, though born in Baltimore, and the Emerald Isle has a warm place in her affections. Since he married Miss Goelet the Duke of Roxburghe has ‘heen able to indulge in his fondness for salmon-fishing. He owns the fishing rights on some fine stretches of water on the Tweed, but before his marriage he found it expe- dlent to leave them to folk who were in less need of ready cash. Now they are again in his own hands, and this season he has had some magnificent sport. . — LUMPS OF VASELINE AND DOBS OF POMADE SERVED GUESTS Carelessness of a Borrowed Chef Causes Cousternation at a Swell LONDON, July 15.—Mrs. Georgs Cave endish-Bentinck had a most unhappy time at Ascot. Her gathering was quite spailed by the delinquencies of the chef she had borrowed for the week from Mrs. Ogden Mills. On the first night he turned out a beautiful dinner, but the second night saw strange changes in the menu, and the third fulfilled the threatened tragedy. That night she had asked some dozen friends to dine, and ‘when the soup was served, to the horror of all concerned, it was found to have floating lumps of vaseline In it, while the cream was served with dabs of po- made. The dinner was uneatable, and though Mrs. Bentinck was deeply mor- tified her guests laughed it off. ———— PARIS, July 15.—According to Andre Ibeis, brother of the author of tansier,” an astounding Just gold and silver into gold. M. Ibels says Jobert is willing to reveal his method to a sclentific committee. > He desires the Academy of Sciences to investigate discovery. —_——————— Astor Buys Home in Italy. ROME, July 15.—William Waldorf As- tor’s recent purchase on Sorremto near Naples, is a veritable paradise. Its new proprietor is credited with all kinds of plans for still beautifying the place, some grandiose and fantastic, others of doubtful taste. It is especially hoped that the fine old church and convent of San Glorglo may escape the hand of the