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—— S Sb ’ 4 LL PRINTS MORE NEWS THAN ANY 0T THE WEATHER. Francisco and vicinity—Foggy. day morning, becoming fair during h west winds G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. ] a = z £ 8 8 5 H g H 2 = -4 « E & B i + HER PAPER PUBLISHED | ~~ VS waKen from ALCAZAR—"The Heart of & Gelsha.”™ CHUTES—“Princess Fas Tan." Mati- nee. CENTRAL—"Blue Jeans."” GRAND—"Jewish Vice King." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"Rodb Roy." CHNA Y| RN LOSE QR TRADE TITS VOLYED N STANDAL American Dealers Wil Be—S‘IEpenaed in Position to = in Town Topics Boycott. Inquiry. Goods Bought From Her J Jerome Can Be Purchased Elsewhere. ! IsDetermined to Thoroughly Probe the Matter. Interesting Figures Given Out Colonel Mann Will Be Asked by Bureau of Commerce to Produce the Books of and Labor, { His Company. MBI e S to The Call. Bpecial Dispat: = T BUILDING, NEW YORK, July While Colonel Mann of Town Topics was not called on o appear before the District Attorney to- y and he w ks of the s not asked to produce the Publishing Com- his ! boycott | 5 one of subsidiary concerns, & »ds e mer- is little doubt that a demand for ¢ ke in production of these books may be a hole tigur fiscal Inited made Ther ipon_him sooner than he expects. will be known whether he is a ghter than the District Attorney, up by the powers of the Grand The reason f books is to ascertain uel of the Special Sessions Court, who 1s been shown to have been in the re- t of a salary from Town Topics, has by Colonel Mann. E Jerome has heard a full report of what has been ascertained by Assist- ant District Attorney Krotel more sub- penas will be sent out for many persons h may be in a position to know of some of the transactions with which the name of Town Topics is connected. Some of these are said to be men who. are in charge of the soclal news printed in some of the daily , for the charge has been made that some of the solici- tors for “Fads and Fancles” not only told the expected subscribers that shoula they buy the work they would be treated difficult that trade rmined to-re- ina dur- 831 the same n $66,000,000 silk and with e courtesy in the columns of Town Topics, but went further and said they were in a position to have some of the daily newspapers influenced to that end There are one or two artists, also, who official cir- ible to Hobbles,” which was planned by Town Topi which met with such a cold recepti thy soclety persons that it was another work on similar to sign any similar An cars to be that the | make about the investigation to-day sene from | Printed in the issue of Town Topics over 2 disgrace, | his own signature. He said he would the laws of | have some more to say next week. In for such ex- aragraph which recalls that the sub- rice for “Fads and Fancles” d Colonel Mann's decla: was not an excessive price. It tells of “The Birds of America,” the e Now, | Work of Audubo, each copy of which he Chinese of. | Cost $1000. Although the prospectus for this work was issued in 1827, the article says the first copy was not published un- til three vears later, and the last volume did not come out until 1839. The entire edition, it is told, cost $100,000. QUEER FREAK BORN reason for & new atti- here, ed to PROPOSE TO BOYCOTT BANK. Chinese About to Fight American 1 —_‘ I = lmancial Tastitotion | Seven Kittens Joined in One Pa&n!z‘:;au}:?fiar;«i ing a meeting to Outdo the Siamese discuss the proposal to boycott the In- 3 ternational Banking Corporation. Twins. Banking Corpora- d in June, 1901, under Special Dispatch to The Call re- having LOUISVILLE, July 27.—The glory of speclal act of | ype famous Siamese twins has been 3 then the only | ecjjpsed. Nature has seen fit to per- ing institution formed yetrgte a freak that outdistances them ess entirely in foreign | by jeagues. ith authority to establi: < was made w The corporation 2 £ n upon the maternal font, a litter of of the United States GOvV-| amalgamated kittens was born here the receipts of payments joq¢ Monday. The mother is an old Government on account of the gray cat owned by W. C. Nord. Twenty- Boxer indemnity. The stock- eight perfect legs, seven equally per- of the corporation were fect heads and seven tiny tails that d from among the leading | .o ceaselessly make a composite of ufacturers, exporters and | ge)ine life that it would be hard to of the United States. The| guplicate. was capitalized at $3,000,- | he kittens are all united and they lus of §3,000,000. AMONE present the appearance of a mottled, c presented In the CONCETD | fyrry ball possessed of some animating v ‘ Boston, Cincinnath.| prineiple ‘and manifesting the heads of 1 Cleveland, Colum- |3 monster and legs enough for a centi- Detroit, Louis. bs Coast cities Milwaukee, | pede. Five of the Kkittens are black The Southern | ang two are gray. were equally | |STEAMER IS LOST IALS ARE CONFIDENT. : pect x:-,‘wu Against Bank | e T 1 omeiass| Vessel Runs Ashore During phing Comat the Prevalence of a Heavy Fog. e at the news to a cable | ¢ the Lon tion, a cable | ¥ to the effect GUERNSEY, Channel Island, July cott has not in-| 27.—A large French steamer went J. S. Fearson, | ashore here to-day on the west coast nternational Banking | of this island. It is believed that the senior member of | vessel, the name of which is not of Fearson, Dan-| known, will be a total loss. There was this city, whose main | no ioss of life. It was at first reported anghai. Fearson, Dan- | that the steamer was a trans-Atlantic & received a Shanghal | liner. The fog continues. cable touching upon boycott troublesf, -~ o there and stated that the result is not expected to be serious. the boycott is not in consequence to General Thomas Hubbard, president|any objection to our corporation, but of the International Banking Corpora- |is due to the resentment of the Chinese tion, sald: 2 toward the United States Government, inspection of | if Judge th the other publications | are said to know much of the inner workings of Town Topics, the getting of ribers for “Fads and Fancles” and the atte: to get others for “Homes | “ LIVERPOOL, July | | | another part of the publication there is a | IN THE CAT FAMILY | Seven in a bunch, kicking, | rolling, crying, and drawing vigorously | ON CHANNEL ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1905 EXPECTS T0FLYTO WASHINGTON (Chicago Man Says . He Will Soon . Make Trip. Declares He Has Solved Problem of Aerial Navigation. | Wings Worked by Gasoline | Engine Will Furnish the Motive Power. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, July 27.—Frank L. Mahan of Chicago declared to-day that in the! near future he will start for Washing- ton in an airship of his own make and that he will reach that city within ten | hours. 3 | I dom’t simply predict this,” said he, | “I'll do it. I have studied the aerial awvigation problem for sixteen years {and I have its solution beyond the per- | | adventure of a doubt. “I can make from 125 to 150 miles an hour in the airship 1 propose to con- struct. Observers can come to see the | start and finish and I shall be at both | places in fulfillment of my agreement.” | | Mahan’s projected airship is to be a | fiyving machine, pure and simple. It | will have wings like unto those of a bird and these wings will furnish the sole progressive motive power, though they are to be worked by a gasoline en- B} The inventor declares that the | acroplane can never be made to fiy. | The genuine fiying machine, he sayi { must be supported by gas and wings | will do the vest:~-He laughs at pro-f | pellers fixed at the stern and declares | that the air is not resistant enough to | | give the propeller blades “a hold.” | | | | Mahan is an engineer, who Is known all over the United States. TWENTY-THREE DIE | { IN RAIL DISASTER| | Blectrie Express Bound for Liverpool Runs Into { Another Train. 27.—An electric | express train on the Lancashire and | Yorkshire road, bound from Liverpool | to Southport, collided this evening with | | an empty stationary train at the Hall | Road station, causing the death of| | twenty-three persons and the injury | of manv others. The car of the ex- | | press, which was crowded, was smashed | to pieces and only six of its occupants escaped. The road was recently given an electric equipment. Almost \immediate!y after the crash the wreckage burst into flames. The | | mangled bodies of the dead and the | cries of the injured vainly beseeching that they be extricated from the burn- ing wreckage formed a terrible scene, | and many women on the platform fainted. The victims included several women and children. Fortunately the number of fatally injured is compara- tively few. The cause of the collision is unknow ZIONIST CONGRESS IS WELL ATTENDED| Leading Forces of the Move- ment Are in Session in Switzerland. BASLE, Switzerland, July 27.—The | seventh annual congress of 7ionists open- ed here to-day in fhe Srand Hail of the | Casino de la Ville, in the presence of | more than a thousand delegatas repre- senting the leading forces of the Zion- |ist movement throughout the world. | | There is an unusually strong delegation | from the United States. After the de- livery of addresses of welcome !n behaif of the city, Max Nordau pronounced an | eloquent eulogy in memory of Dr. Theo- dore Herzl, a founder of the Zionist movement, this being the first aaniver- | sary_of his death. The session was | suspended at 11 o’clock as a mark of re- | spect to the deceased leader. ; The American delegation includes Dr. Henry Friendenwald of Baltimore, presi- | dent of the American Federation of Zion- | ists; Assistant States Afttorney Leon | Zolotokoft of Chicago, and the Rev. Judah L. Magnes /ot Brooklyn, secretary of the American/delegation. At the afternoon session Dr. Max | Nordau was elected president. Dr. Friedenwald was among the assessors named, and the Rev. Mr. Menges was | chosen as secretary of the " English- speaking section. ! Shonts Confers With Magoon. PANAMA, July 27.—President Shonts and a party of canal officers went to- day to inspect the route from Panama to Culebra. Among the subjects which President Shonts has discussed with Governor Magoon was the construction 1ot quarters and places for the recrea- | ! tion of employes, to which much im- portance is attached. will soon be adopted. A definite plan xR S Japanese Hangs Himself. SACRAMENTO, July 27.—J. Takawa, a Japanese patient at the County Hos- pital, committed suicide early this morning by hanging. Takawa came “Of course it is well known that A caused by the Chinese exclusion act.” | bere trom Fresno, | tendent of Insurance Hendricks and made = | five and six millions, | due or accrued for salaries, rents, office | says he, “§182,767 consisted of Judgments PRICE FIVE CENTS ISUMCE CONPAY UNOER FRE Expert Groes After, Mutual Reserve Management, Finds a Fixed Policy of Delay in Set- tling Claims. Says the Surplus Has Been Exaggerated and Debts Concealed. ALBANY, N. Y., July 2.—Concealment of judgments against the company amounting to $182,767, exaggeration of its surplus by more than $300,000 and a fixed policy of delay in settling claims, fare some of the charges made against the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company by Chief Examiner Isaac Vanderpool in his report submitted to State Superin- public to-day by him. The examination was begun last De- cember and covers a period back to 1599. The company has headquarters in New York City and ciaims assets of between Examiner Vanderpool says that the management of the company made no mention of these judgments in the item of liabilities reported for the year 1904. “Of the $134,413 reported by the com- pany in its last annual statement as being expenses, taxes, bills, accounts, ete.,"” entered against this compeay. ' .m con- strained to believe that tie iv s eh of thi item affor” the manner stated could no havé been tht result of an inadvertence and certainly constituted a concealment of facts sufficient to render the com- pany's sworn statement for 1904 mate- rially inaccurate. “Further variations in addition to those appearing in credit assets and policy re- serve, as between the figures published in the company’s last annual statement and similar items embodied in this report, are prouuced in the item of unpaid death claims since December 31, 1904. They are returned in the annual statement of the company at §7%,704. As the result of this examination the amount is shown to be $581,430. DELAY IN PAYING CLAIMS. “The company’s last annual state- ment,” says the report, “produces a so- called surplus of unassigned funds amounting to $339.212. The examination just completed fixes this item at $33,492.” The report shows in detail how insur- ance amounting to at one time $1,943,000 finally yielded its beneficiaries $906,636, there having been deducted $203,635 on account of an’indebledness ascertained by the company to exist against the as- sured, with a further deduction of $722,656 retained by the company for various al- leged violations of contract by the in- sured. “Making allowance for the time it may veeupy to thoroughly investigate all claims,” says the examuner, “l think that as the result of this exarunation it is quite clearly in cvidence thut the company has adopted a settled policy of delay in withholding the approval necessary to constitute an admissicn by it of the receipt of satis- factory evidencé of death in the case of all cluias unaer policies or certificates is- sued while the company was operating under wrticle 6 of the insurance law. From the cate of such approval ninety days is the specified time within which payment Is to be made. The average period elapsing between the filing of proofs of death, which were upon ‘in- vestigation’ ultimately found to be valld claims, is so lengthy as to properly sub- Jject the company to’ the severest critic- ism in its treatment of those beneficiaries, many of whom must be subjected to no little suffering and distress by this seem- ingly Inexcusable procrastination on the company’s vart in the payment of its just debts to policy holders. FUND 1S ABANDONED. “In 1895 the devartment recommendea that the company establish a sinking fund to offset the depreciation of leases. The suggestion was adopted, but, says the cxaminer, “‘the fund appears to have been abandoned some time, for in ten years it has reached but $56,949. The sum of $42,000 has, however, been borrowed | from this fund and s charged to mor- tuary account. The balance, thereton,' after the loan to the latter account, re-| duces the sinking fund to $14,949, instead , of $155 G0y, the amount which should now be represented under the recommenda- tion rade, in 1885 by the appraiser of the insurance 'department.” The veport alleges that commissions pajd by the Mutual Reserve Fund for securing the membership of the North- western Life Insurance Company of Chi- cago in 1900 “never seem to have been received by it. The receiver’s report since the reinsurance was effected show no revenue from this source. sion went to third parties Frederick A. Burnham is president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com- ) pany. —————————— Alloged Murderess Commits Suicide. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27.—Mrs. Harry Norton was arrested at Shawnee to-day for the murder of Mrs. Kate James near Weatherford, Okla., on July 8, and within an hour committed suicide by taking poison. She denied being guilty of the crime. - Jursiedi v - NEW YORK, July .37.—Information was received hLere to-day that E. H. Harriman has resigned from the direc- tory of the Denver and Rio Grande Ralilroad. - b ey | Becomes Third Husband of TRAIN CRUSHES OUT LIFE OF A FRIGHTENED WOMAN. Rk ot e I Mrs. Wanifred Yunker of I513 Noe street was instantly killed by an incoming train at Ocean View yesterday morning at 9:23 o’clock. The young woman was a happy wife and mother, and it is believed that she became frightened when she saw the train and fell helpless on the track. - SR e e N Ocean Diew Station Scene of Cruel Tragedy. TWO MEN WITNESS SHOCKING EUENT Happy Young Wife Is Instantly Killed. GRIEVING HUSBAND VISITS THE MORGUE Rendered helpless by fright caused by the sudden approach of a railroad train, Mrs. Winnifred Yunker, a young wife and mother, happy and with everything to live for, was struck and instantly killed by a San Jose local mnear the Ocean View station early yesterday morning Eye witnesses of the tragedy gained the impression that the woman deliberately placed her head upon the! rail, but the husband emphatically de- nies that his wife had a thought of sui- cide. The witnesses say that the wo- man was walking near the track and tried to recross before the oncoming engine. When the train was upon her she stopped and the horrified onlookers saw her sink to the ground and place her hands before her eyes. Last night the mangled body was identified by Louis Yunker, a painter of 1513 Noe street, as that of his wife, Winnifved, and his grief = was heart- rending. He told of their four years' of happy married ufe and Dbetween sobs spoke of ~the little three-year-old boy, ‘Walter, left motherless by the s and of a father, mother, sister and brother left to mourn the young woman's fate.. Yunker says that on a previous occasion when they both visited Mrs. Ida Timms, a sister of the dead woman, they were walking the track when a train drew near and it was only his presence of mind that saved his wife, as she was trembling violently and strug- gling toward the track. Michael Logue of 234 Sickles avenue, Ocean View, gives a graphic description of the accident. He says the woman was seen walking the track north of the Ocean View station as the San Jose local No. 41 left at 9:23 a. m. The engi- neer, Hallock Bromley, blew a long blast and the woman left the track. The train gained rapid headway and when it was within twenty feet of the woman the | horrified onlookers saw her return to the | track and.sink to the ground with her head upon the rail. " The lookout in the station tower says that the woman placed her hands to her face as she lay down on the rail. The engine was reversed, but too late to save the unfortunate victim. Fore- wheels and drivers passed over the little woman, crushing and maiming, car after | car following, and when the train came to a standstill an almost unrecognizable mass of flesh and clothing was drawn from beneath the last car. The woman’s light brown hair was found twisted in one of the axles of a car truck. When the body was taken out the upper portion of the head was gone and the features were unreccgnizable. There was a deep gash in the left shoulder, another over the right hip and the left foot was severed at the instep. Patrolman A. M. Jewell was soon on the scene and had the statements of Logue and the watch- man. He arrested Bromley, who was later released on §0 ball. The Coroner’s wagon arrived soon afterward and the unidentified woman was removed to the Morgue. Upon arrival there an immedi- ate search was made by the Coroner’s men, but no mark or card gave a clew to identity. In an {mitation sealskin handbag was a black purse containing money and the cards of two physicians. A haif punched shoe-polish ticket was also found. but inquiry at the store falled to throw any light on the identity. The physicians also denled any knowledge of the woman. After that, inquiry was made at all the various stores whose names were found on the clothing, but without avall. It was not until nearly 9 o'clock last night that Yunker reported to the police of the Seventeenth-street station that his wife was missing and had gone to Ocean View. He was told to call at the Morgue and there made a heartrending scene as he identified the mangled body of his wife. He made an identification, which was confirmed by the father and brother of the dead woman. Yunker said his wife had boarded a trolley car for Ocean View to visit her sister. As was fre- quently the case she must have left the car-and started to walk the track to her sister’s house. He explained the presence of the rhysicians’ cards by saying that his wife had an attack of Indigestion and was going to ask her sister to accompany her to a physiclan’s office. MAN OF TWENTY-SIX WEDS A GRANDMOTHER Three Hundred Pound ‘Weoman. - LARAMIE, Wyo,, July 27.—Walter. E. Dremmen, aged twenty-six years, and Mrs. Emma- Jondro, both of Colorado Springs, were married here this after- noon. ' The bride is a grandmother, has been twice married before and weighs 30 pounds. Dremmen weighs less than half that amount. The bride and bride- groom are deeply infatuated with each other and ade no effort to conceal their joy in public. e —— e - HERSELF ON YESTERDAY MORNING AND WAS MRS. - WINNIFRED YUNKER, A YOUNG MARRIED WOMA THE TRACK BEFORE AN WHO THREW JOSE TRAIN INCOMING INSTANTLY KILLE NEW CRUISER PEANSYLVANIA S A SUCCESS Exceeds Her Contract Speed -on the Final Accept- ance Trial. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 27.—The first and only ship of the United States navy | that has exceeeded her contract speed when in charge of a regular comple- ment of officers and men of the navy is the armored cruiser Pennsylvania, which arrived off Tompkinsville to-day, having just.finished her final accept- ance trial. In command of Captain Mc- Lean, the Pennsylvanla had on board a naval board of inspection and sur- vey. Heavler by 800 tons than on the day of her official trail trip in Novem- ber last off Cape Ann, the cruiser for four hours maintained a speed of 22.08 knots. In November, with a displace- | ment of 14,300 tons with picked coal | and a picked crew from the works of | the builders, William S. Cramp Sons, | the cruiser made a record of 22.43 knots. : Edwin S. Cramp, who was on. the | cruiser during the trial, said the per- | formance was highly creditable to the crew in the engine and fire rooms. The trials, conducted on the run :rm‘ Newport to Cape May, place the Penn- sylvania at the head of the armored vessels of the navy in regard to speed. The record is considered as exceptional ' because of the fact that the Pennsyl- | vania has not been in the drydock since November. 5 Sy reieSar—— Balfour Will Entertnin Lodge. FREED FROM HILLIONAIRE HINAC M / % Sam Bernard’s Wife Gets Decree in Fif- teen Minutes. Special Dispatch to The Call. COLORADO SPRINGS, July 7.—Less than fifteen minutes after her suit had been filed to-day Mrs. Lulu S. Bernard was divorced from Sam 8. Bernard in | the County Court. The plaintiff charged her husband with indifference, which had caused her mental suffering and impaired her health. He entered a general denial, but did not appear in court nor resist the granting of a decree. The details were arranged In advance. Bernard, who is rated at more than a million, gave Mrs. Bernard $100,000, and she was allowed the custody of the only child, a son, aged 15. Bernard is an enthusiastic horseman. He is president of the El Paso Gold Min- ing Company, owning a rich Cripple Creek mine, and, with his brother, George Bernard, is largely interested in the Elkton property. He is a member of several of the leading clubs of Colorado. A few years ago ‘the brothers were gro- cers in Missouri and had little. They were early arrivals at Cripple Creek and were fortunate. Bernard married in Mis~ souri fifteen years ago. — e — FOUR MEN ARE KILLED IN FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK HELENA, Mont., July 27.—Four men were killed to-day by the wrecking of an eastbound freight train on the Northern FPacific between Myers and Big Horn, about seventy miles east of Billings. The washing out of an firon bridge over a small stream caused the engine and four cars to plunge into the LONDON, July 27.—Mr. Balfour will | stream. give a luncheon in honor of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts in the House of Commons to-morrow. Ambassador Reld, the same evening, will give a dinner in heonor of Senator Lodge, Gen- The dead: JAMES WILSON, engineer, Forsyth. EDWARD LUCIFER, fireman, For-