The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1905, Page 1

¢ [HE CALL PRINT west wi G H 1o SLORES PERION AT SEA Ship “Founders 0ff French Coast. Loss of More Thanv One Hundred Lives. Only Six of the Passen- gers and Crew Rescued. -— Cross-Channel Vessel Hilda Meets Disaster During - 0 a otorm. eSS S LONDON, Nov. 19.—The Southwest- ern Hailway's cross-chanmel steamer Hilda was wrecked this morning off St. Malo, on the north coast of Frauce, and it is belleved that 100 or more of her passengers aud crew were drowned. mapton on Fri- 125 persons wae greatly ge € n the rocks three miles from ship Ada, out- slo, rescued five ne of the crew to South- med re- ved. ix and engers, being - and M way adjoin- the few e Hilda o on Saturday morn- cks at 4 o'clock roadstead having weather PASSENGERS ASLEEP AT TIME. 9 ¥ of w and passen- leep at time. Two »oats were lowered, one of which con- tained five m: arrived at St. Se- erar The second t was picked p empty at St. Cast, where thirteen dies w washed ashore. he top of the Hiida's funnel and her mast dre visible at low tid to the clegram from St. Sever The Hilda was built at Glasgow in 852 and registered 848 tons. She was & screw steamship of iron construction nd was 236 feet in length. The Southwestern Railway Company 25 yet unable to give a list of the da’'s passengers, but officlals say that score beoked passage at stations be- London and Southampton and the best of their knowledge ety-nine were drowned and only six be company is still without reliable details as to how the disaster occurred. s ageuts at St. Malo only briefly re- Ada has put back and reports t is a total wreck at Lesportes Reef, outside Jardin Lighthouse. The 2's boat saved five onion men and a named Grinter out of the rig- hey appear to be the only sur- VICTIMS OF PROMINENCE. ¥rance, Nov., 19.—The s lost on' the Hilda Among the latter were the Ho: But ister -in-law of Lord Lanesbor- ough, and Colonel Eiliet. Though It is not certain that these were actually on board, they were expeeted to travel by Hilda and it i kuown that all the passefizers were drowned. sengers were English officers » who were coming to rejoin lies or to spend the season at and Disard (opposite SL | the their Malo st. g five onion seli- 1 seaman named Grin- total on board, in'.‘lud-‘ umbered 100. { the arrival of the Hilda | little anxiety, as there | dreadful ther in the channel, and = every one had full confidence in her | pain, Gregory, an experienced man was likely to exercise caution in ap- | ching the dapgerous coast of Brit- - any, which he had known for thirty | years NO TIME TO LAUNCH BOATS. The disaster was first suspected through the washing ashore of a bods. by fair weather Monday missed | 1g sever~l English peo- | ertain that only six’ <3 THE WEATHER | - | Forecast for Nevember 20: Francisco and Show- WILLSON, cal Forecagter. \ N i S MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"Mrs. Dane’s Defense.” CALIFORNIA—"The Utoplans.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—*‘The .Sho Gun." GRAND—"Don Carlos.” FISCHER'S—Vaudeville, aay. TIVOLI—Comic PSSR Sk SR SAN FRANC MAJESTIC—"The Light Eternal. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. ISCU e Matines to- Opéra. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WO SCORE | | | -~ INGLASCOW Thirty-Nine Perish and Several Are Injured. - |Laborers Caught in a | Lodging-House Like Rats in Trap. SIS |Crowd the Corridors and Are Overcome by the Smoke. PO TR K GLASGOW, Nov. 19.—The most terrible fire that has occurred in Great Britain n many years broke out here to-day in a cheap lodging house for men in Watson street and resulted in the loss of thirty- nine lives. 1In addition thirty-two persons were injured. The flames were first noticed at 6 o’clock this morning on the fourth floor of the building which was occupied by 330 | men. An alarm was raised and the fire- | men responded quickly, but flames and smoke were then issuing from most of the windows on the fourtlr floor. An | extraordinary scene was created by a pro- cession of almost naked men rushing out of the entrance to the firemen had actually to fight for admis- sion. Reaching the upper floors, the firemen found that the narrow passages were be- coming congested with men who had dropped te the Soors overcome by smoke. The fire, however, was confiied to the fourth floor, and as soon as the firemen were able to get to work it was y. | extinguished. The flames were fed by | the wooden partitions which threw off volumes of smoke resulting in the suffoca- tion of the inmates. Several others had to be taken to hospitals. The dead were mostly workmen in the prime of life. sight. Many were sleeping in the attic bove the burning fourth fioor and had narrow escape. The fiames burst through the floor and It was impossible for the men to descend. The windows were se- curely fastened and the men had to break them so that they could climb through to neighboring roofs. By 10 o'clock a search of the building was made and a complete list of the vic- tims obtained which showed that thirty- nine were dead and thirty-two injured. It appears to be the custom of these lodgers to sleep in a nude condition and the march of the survivors to the police tion was 'a fantastic one. Some had matched the covers of the beds and others nothing. The local authorities had to be called upon to supply the men with cloth- ing and warm meals. Owing to their | migratory habits and the absence of permanent homes many of the dead will never be identified. The identification of others is rendered difficult by the absence | | of clothing. ONE HARIACE " N SEVEN NS I8 THE COURTS Spectal Dispatch to The Cxll CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—Chicago has gone divorce mad. More than fifty cases of family discord were docketed yesterday, occupying the attention of six Judges and probably 100 lawyers. Nineteen decrees of divorce and of separate main- tenance were granted and others are | under advisement by the Judges. On Friday there were issued in Chi- cago \only thirty-elght marriage 1i- censes. BSeventeen decrees of divorce were granted on that day. On the same day elghty burial permits were issued. According to the method of computa- tion employed by statisticians, thirty- | two of these would be. for husbands or wives. Forty-nine families therefore | were broken up by death and divor | while only thirty-eight new familles | were created. On ‘thursday the families disrupted | by death were fourteen in number, by divorce five and forty-nine marriage licenses were issued. During the week there were fifty- ! seven decrees of divorce and one of separate maintenance. There were is- sued 373 marriage licenses. This would | Indicate that an average of more than ! one out of seven local marriages comes to the divorce courts. fg s O —_— and the port authoritics immediately sent out a It was then learned that the Hilda was wrecked on a treacherous reef close to the island of Cezambre, called Lesportes. She had apparently struck, broken her back and immediately sunk, leaving no time to launch the boats. The Jardin light is quite close to the spot. It cannot yef be explained at what time or how the disaster occurred._ The en- trance to St. Malo is dangerous, the cur- rents and rocks requiring the exercise of considerable caution at all times, and more especially In bad weather. Many bodies have been washed ashore at different points, some wearing life beilts. - The six survivors, acco to a report in circulation here, were rescued bv the Ada from the rigging bullding and against thelr frantic efforts to escape the They presented a horrible | their trousers while many wore | TRODPS AWE LOVERNMENT ST NG | | i Dramatic. Protesting Emperor Ordersv the Cabinet Assassinated. | Soldiers of Mikado Make Con- tinuous Demonstration Before Palace. LONDON, Nov. 20.—The Tokio corre- spondent of the Standard says that un- der the agreement by which Japan is to exercise suzerainty over Korea she will take charge of all the foreign relations of the Hermit Kingdom until the latter is strong enough to maintain her inde- pendence, and that the internal adminis- tration of Korea has been confided to a Japanese Governor-General, who will act under the orders of the Emperor of Ko- res. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in giving similar information, adds that Marquis Ito assured the Ko- rean Emperor that the convention was | only a measure dependent on the prog- ress of Korea, and that it rested with | that country f{tself to advance to such | an extent as to insure it against any at- tack which would menace the safety of Japan. { SEOUL, Nov. 18.—(Delayed in trans- mission).—The conference of nearly a week between < the Japanese envoys, | headed by Marquis Ito, and the Karean 1 Cahinet ‘ended yesterday and was. Tol- | lowed early this morning by a nine hours® sitting at the palace with the Empéror. At the beginning of yesterday's ses- sion “Baron Hayashi declared his deter- mination not to withdraw until the four demands made by Marquis Ito were signcl. The suspense was ended at 1:30 o’clock this morning, when the Cabinet, with the exception of the Minister of | Agriculture and Minister of Foreign Af- | fairs Pakchisun, having yielded, sent for | the imperial seals, and signed the desired | agreement. WHAT JAPAN DEMANDED. The four Japanese demands were as follows: First—The appointment of a Japanese administrator to govern Korea under the Emperor. Second—The appointment of Japanese administrators at all treaty ports. | Third—The transfer of Korean diplo- matic affairs to Tokio. | Fourth—No arrangements to be made | with other powers without the consent of Japan. Three thousand Japanese soldiers main- tained a demonstration all yvesterday on the esplanade before the old palace. Jap- | anese troops patrolled the streets all | night. The Emperor's palace also was | surrounded by troops and Japanese sol- | diers and police were lodged in the grounds of the palace. Minister Pakchisun and the Minister 1 of Agriculture continued to hold out | with the Emperor against the action of the Japanese. Minister Pakchisun, in leading the opposition against the signing of the demands of Marquis Ito, abjured. The Emperor with the most powerful argument possible to a super- stitious, beknighted sovereign, name- | ly—that his consent would affront and outrage all the spirits of jis imperial ancestors. After the refusal of the Emperor to return the first visit of Marquis Ito the Marquis r ined in the background. The conference between Baron Hay- ashi and the Korean Cabinet, which led to an agreement, was begun yes- terday morning at the Japanese lega- tion and was s0 violent as to attract attention on adjacent streets. It re- sulted in Pakchisun and the Minister of Agriculture dramatically ' denouncing the proceedings and withdrawing to the palace, where they secluded themselves with the Emperor. ORDERS MINISTERS ASSASSINATED. The Emperor then. ordered that the Ministers who consented to the Jap- anese demands be assassinated. After the signatures and seals were attached the Japanese military paraded the city. Baron Hayashi, after securing the consent of the majority of the Cabinet, went from the legation to the palace, where he attempted to convince the Emperor and the two remaining Min- isters of the justice of his mission, but failed. He then secured the seals through the other Ministers. The Emperor took alarm at the con- tents and tone of Marquis Ito's creden- tials when they were presented to him on the 10th inst, the day after the ar- rival of the Marquis. His alarm was increased because the Japanese sought to have the Marquis occupy the Em- peror's audience chamber and there receive a return visit' from the Em- peror, who resisted, feigning sickness. It required five days to arrange an in- terview regarding the mission of Mar- quis ito, and then a confidential inter- view was had, at which the Emperor referred the entire matter to his Cabi- net. After the presentation of the sums of money were used for the pur- pose of satisfying the Ministers who consented to the Japanese demands. About 30,000 Japanese soldiers, bil- leted on the people, or in barracks, are at the service of the Japanese, but no disturbances are expected. Forelgn officials took no part in the foregoing eyents, though last mid- night, when an alarm was spread that the Japanese might use force, it was believed that the American legation, kado's gifts to the court substantiall THREATENS DIEIN FIRE | THE KOREAN: | TO END LIFE OF MAYOR — Japan's Seizure of Schmitz Receives Control Is ! Warning From a Crank. Man Signing Himself| “J.8.Schilling”’ Ready to Do Murder. ———— J. D. Chilberg and W. H. Avery Also Told That They Will Be Killed. A swarm of detectives, acting under in- Atructions from Captain = Burnett, has been hovering around the lobby of the Palace Hotel for the last three days in an endeavor to locate a man who has been writing threatening letters to Mayor Schmitz and other prominent men. The fellow signs himself J. 8. Schilling, and he has sent missives to the Mayor, J. D. Chilberg, the ploneer Nome mil- lionaire, and W. H. Avery, manager of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line. The letters have been ecoming so rap- | idly of late that the police are very much alarmed. They discovered that J. S. Schilling, whose name is signed to the missives, «is a master mechanic in the employ of the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company and is absolutely inno- cent. Why his name has been used is a puzzle the police are trying to solve. The first to receive the letters ‘w: Chilberg. Several days ago he found a neat looking note awaiting him in the office of QQAPM.H& Jia opened it ‘and discovered it was a scurrilous sive. It was well written and the gén- eral style of it convinced #the mining man it was penned by a person of edu- cation. WARNED SECOND TIME. The Nome millionalre did not pay much attention to this note until Satur- day, when he received another letter warning him he was about to be killed. He became alarmed and informed his attorneys of what had happened. They at once notified the police, and since that time the detectives, in charge of Ed Wren, have been making strenuous efforts to locate the anonymous writer. While investigating the case, the po- lice received word that Mayor Schmitz had, on the day he left this city for his southern trip, received a similar threaten- ing letter signed by tue same person. Shortly afterward Avery informed the police that he, too, . 1d been the recipient of a bloodthirsty note, and now Captain of Detectives Burne‘t is all in a flurry over the strange case. The notes are not sent through the mails, but are left at the hotel desk. Nobody has as yet noticed the man who left the notes behind him. The clerks at the hotel have been warned to be on the lookout for the writer of the messages, but he has always managed to evade them, after depositing his let- ters at the desk. NOTE ON MAYOR’S DESK. Mayor Schmitz's note was placed on his desk at the City Hall. In it the writer attacked the character of the chief ex- ecutlve and warned him to beware, as he had but a very short time to live. The Mayor was very busy when he got the note, as it was the day of his de- parture, yet he took the precaution to notify the police and request them to do all in their power to run down the culprit. So much did the note worry the Mayor that he warned the police not to let the general public know of what had hap- pened, but to work secretly in the mat- ter apd round up the dangerous indi- vidual. The Mayor himself thinks the writer s some crank, and he does not want to take any chances. The first thing the police did in the matter was to hunt up Schilling. He was astounded when he heard his name had been signed to the letters, and at once satisfied the detectives that his sig- nature is of an entirely different charac- ter. Bchilling volunteered to ald the po- lice in the matter and has been with the detectives constantly ' for several days, trying to get hold of the writer of the anonymous notes. OCHRE MINE YIELDS DIAMONDS AND RUBIES Oregonians Excited by Dis- covery Made on Elk Creek Road. — Special Dispatch to The Call. SEASIDE, Ore., Nov. 19.—During the last week there has been intense excitement on the Necanicum. The secret of it all lies in the fact that an ochre mine which is being developed just above the bridge across the Necanicum on the Elk Creek road has been yielding precious stones. Diamonds and rubles are sald to be in evidence and a number of people have located claims. > The ochre iz of the flnest quality ana plenty of the best fireclay ever discovered is there, but when the precious stones were discovered the tement reached fever heat. People are coming fro Portland to be guided to the diamond flelds. Everythingelooks good to the seeker after preclous stones and every pebble they see looks fo them Ike a diamond in the rough. adjoining the Palace, might become a temporary refuge for the. Emperor. The court and Csmnat,n;' still closely suarded and protected / 1 B P e T T e S imagbin ol O Sl MARRIED ON TUGBOAT OUTSIDE GOLDEN GATE FRDS 7 PAS Restaurateur’s: Faith in Human Honesty Rewarded. Gpecial Diepatch to The Call SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 19.—After conducting a restaurant in this city for three years, I. D. Barnard has retired, $11,960 “to the good.” Barnard re- versed the usual business rule by trust- ing everybody and to this course he at- tributes his success. His capital to start with was $40. Any hungry person could eat at Bar- nard's. He did not use billheads in his business. He never dunned delinquent patrons. He handed out meal tickets to shop girls and factory hands and in- structed his cashier to punch out only a small percentage of the actual amount of their dairy bills. . Barnard has worked hard, bought closely and clung/to the theory that the world is horiest, with the result that he has carried unemployed persons along for a year at a time, .to be reimbursed for hundreds of dollars when they reached the stage of solvency. Barnard .will not discuss the perfldious among his beneficiaries. OFFERS 0 PAY FOR COODS HE STOLE IN 1895 BANTA ROSA, Nov. 19.—Sheriff Grace has received a letter from John H. Page of Brooklyn, N. Y., in which he telis of a trip he made ugh this country in the fall of 1895, when he stole from many of the ranchers and business establish- ments. He wants the opportunity to make restitution. He says he was con- verted in meetings in San Francisco four years ago and is now devoting his time and efforts to give the gospel to others, and as he {s soon to go to the Orient as a missionary he desires to leave a clean record behind. “He tells of a horse, hogs, chickens, harness, dried fruit and numer- ous other things he stole, and now wants to settle for if the owners can be lo- cated. —————— FISHERMEN'S CONTROVERSY NOW NEAR A SETTLEMENT ! Root and Embassador Duran Clear Up the Trouble at wfoundland. Ne WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—All danger of a clash between the Gloucester and Newfoundland fishermen has- been averted, it is ~mll¢v;:.‘ for tms.“e season by the exchanges ween retary R{wt and Sir Mortimer Durand, the ‘British Embassador. The Secretary is now awaiting the reply of the London Government to his memorandum, in which he called attention to the three ‘some time within the week, and m the entire situation. i ¥ 7 shall ‘1t is believed, will clear up mmmui:‘;g:t.fi PRINCIPALS IN A ROMANTIC WEDDING B RDAY. THE GR YESTE! HARBOR - ~ MONTHS AGO AND THE COUPLE EXPECTED TO EVAD! [ : GroomDivorced Three Months Ago. ATTEMPT TO EVADE LAW H. E. Mills Is Wed to Mrs. Treadway. on the romantic . Mills, an — There was much interest water front yesterday over marriage at sea. Herbert 4o e ON THE HIGH SEAs OUTSIDE THE WAS DIVORCED LY THREE THE STATE LA OOM YOUTH BOUN 10 THE TIES 0N RALAOAD Succeeds in Escaping: and Foils Plot of 4Wrecker. e Special Dispateh to The Call ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,, Nov. 1.—By the discovery of a half dozen ties beside the track of the Camden and Atlantie Rallroad, with a notebook which bore the address of Roy Goodrich, 129 Pacific ave- nue, the police obtained the first sugges- tion of a plot to cause a wreck last night, Goodrich told of having made an effort to remove the tles last night, when he was assaulted and thrown into a ditch by a heavy-set man, who came out of the darkness.. Undaunted, though only 22 years old and undeér the care of a physi- cian, he locked in a struggle with the stranger and was knocked senseless. ‘When he recovered he was bound fast and three railroad ties pinned him down as he heard the rumble of an approaching train. Realizing his danger of being run over and the fact that the train would be wrecked, he worked a hand loose and got at his pocket knife, with which he cut his thongs. Dazed, he yet retained enough of his senses to remove the tles and walk to Atlantic City. He left an overcoat, a pair of cuff buttons and a penknife where they had fallen from his pockets. The note book was found in his overcoat, which led the police to his home. s (Goodrich is in the care of Dr. Willlam ‘Walling, who conducts a sanitarium. The ed and cut and his body bore marks of violence. He was In a nervous and phys- ical collapse. e —— e i— BRITON RECOGNIZES CHINA’S In Return the Peking Government Will . Pay an Indemnity to Jobmn LONDON, Nov. 20.—The Tokio corre- 1 spondent of the Daily Telegraph under- stands that an Anglo-Tibetan treaty has been signed and that it provides for which China will Eastern bookmaker, failing to get a license in Oakland because he had been divorced but three months from wife No. 1, induced Mrs. Julia Treadway, a Chicago widow, to brave the rain and rough seas to become his wife three marine leagues from the shores of California. The offieiating director of the matri- monial econtract was Captain Harry M. Speyer, a popular master mariner of this port. Under the direction of Thomas Crowley, owner of the gaso- line launch Meteor, and James Sinnett, his employe, the good .launch plowed her way through the rough waters of the bay, braved the “potato patch.™ ; and in good time landed the seasick bridegroom and the sailor-like bride nine miles from the sound of whistles and bells. Then it was that Captain Speyer pronounced the words that tha contracting parties believed made them husband and wife. When seen last night the bride- groom, for some reason, denied that he had been a party to so recent a.mar- riage and protested that the lady whose name had been coupled with his in so “ridiculous” a way had been helping to sew on his buttons for nearly a score of years. At his apartments in the Hotel Hamu- ton, where the bookmaker said the story of his marriage was “too funny for any- thing.” he showed the picture of a wom- an who, according to his story, was hi companion of the day, exhibiting also the picture of a boy of 18 years. “This is our son,” he sald, “and surely the rumor is silly.” “Were not you and the lady on the tug- boat yesterday morning?” he was asked, “and did you not remain until late in the evening?” “Yes,” replied Mills, “but my wife is fond of boating and we desired to see the ocean, so we went out beyond the CHff House."” At the hour Mrs. Mils selected for her remarkable outing the rain was coming down, the waves were rolling high on the bay, and there was every indication of rough weather at sea for so frail a craft. Mr. Mills was very seasick after reach- ing deep water, and there is some doubt whether he remembers just what hap- pened. If it seemed nineteen years since Mrs. Treadwell sald she would be his for-: ever and ever, the circumstance may be charged to the condition of the gentle- man’s stomach when the captain pro- nounced the solemn words that brought him the bride of a day, not of almost two decades. ‘The Supreme Court has decided that marriages at sea contracted for the purpose of evading that provision of the law which forbids marriages until one year after divorce are void. Whether that decision applies to per- sons coming to this jurisdiction from other States is a mooted question. At any rate there was a sea marriage yes- terday wherein the parties named in the it bore the signature of the tice of the Supreme Court, individual may yet have to pass em its validiy.