The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 1

e A S WEA A CZAR IS SHOT BY RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN | SAYS A BERLIN RUMOR, — b | e i Attempt Is Made to Take Life of Ruler. Panic Is Growing Throughout the Empire. \ Open Insurrection of the Troops Is Now Feared. Epe. BERLIN. Dec. 1.—The Vos- sische Zeitung publishes this morning the following dis patch from its St. Petersburg correspondent : - “General ex- citement has been caused here by an unconfirmed re- port that a Grand Duke shot at the Czar. wounding him in the right hand.” ST. PETERSBURG, VT‘-C 1.—Having de- ! « sallors the R has evacuated Sepastopol. I the fighting were six vessel y-three officers and more than 0 acy amoug the troops at Tearkoe-Selo was overed, it having heen the comspirators to capture imperial family. Kas been replaced by Guards &l Dispatch to The Call 100 ‘the r& and Moscow is expected. nelal panic is growing end the jecided to suspend outside 1 the savings banks the flight abroad co; mber of persons leaving be- ming greater from day to day. T Dukes and Cabinet ing daily deliberations nsiste that the acute stage ficulties is over. He has of the mrrested revolu- ste and has invited ¢ mstvo lead- ith him. Otherwise he Meantime the ranks are ~continually and talk of a on every hand. The are demand reasing the nt is heard organizatio republic. clouds of end- s projects and counter projects POREIGN DIPLOMATS ALARMED. in view of the grave appeal to their protect thefr Tserskoe-Selo of rumors assertion ainst the Emperor. A conference was held at Count Wit s e last night to consider the de- 2ndi e telegraphers t Witte has declined to receive a tion from the “teleg: h and postal s on the ey are violating their duty ut he sent a note to the ommending the strik- themselves to their immediate ere address chiete e danger of a immediate general ke is considered be practicaily averted, @s the result of three-cornered negotiations between Premier Witte, the Fmperor and the workmen, by which it was @ecided that both the Government and private establishments which are now closed shall be reopened. DIRECT SUFFRAGE DENIED. The law govercing elections to the na- tional Assembly i®# now practically com- pleted. The Premier hopes it will aid | the situation. The measure will be a com- promise. Direct suffrage is not granted, t the suffrage will virtually be univer- 1 in the second degree. The telegraph tie-up throughout Russia « practically ecomplete and the Govern- ment does mot know what is happening in the interior of the empire. Emissartes of the strikers have been sent to Fin- land to inGuce their comrades to join in the strike. This would cut off cable com- munication, which remains open for the press and Government messages. al- though the central office here is nomin- ally closed. Much as the Government would Jike to resist, it is powerless with the fhreat of & general political strike next Monday hanging over its head and the fact that Interior Minister Durnovo will probablv be sacrificed to secure the resumption of telegraph communication. At the seme time the Government is fully comscious that the demands for the reinstatement of the leaders of the Teleg- raphers’ Union and the dismissal of M. Durnovo are mere pretexts and that its surrender will only serve to encourage the revolutionists to new efforis. Thilke, fol- lowing the tactics in the case of the Cronstadt mutineers, are certain to take the form of a fight to save the lives of the Sebastopol mutineers, for the purpose of again proving the proletariat’s golidar- ity with the army and navy. . GOVERNMENT BEWILDERED. The Russ declares the situation is such hat the Government is unable to guar- ntee that to-morrow the guns of Kron- = adt will not bombard the capital. The De Witte Government seems utterly un- Ceontinued on Page 2. Colwmn . ection among the troops in St. | THER G. McADIE c uvet inee only. MAJESTIC TIVOLI—Comlic A G S THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“My Friend From India™ ALHAMBRA—'"The Milllonaire Detec- CALIFORNTA—*The Parisian Belles.” CHUTES— Vaudeviile. .COLUMBIA—"“The"Sho Gun.”" FISCHER'S—Vaudeville, GRAND—Mansfleld. LYRIC-HAEL—Outcault lecture. ““The Light Eternal.”” Matinees at all theaters.to-day. Mat- % INHAND " FEAR REVOLT ' OF THE GUARD ST.. PETERSBURG, DCC. | certain that no confidence - 1.—It now seems | can he placed even in the | guard regiments. St: Pe- tersburg is swarming with Cossacks, the only troops against whom there is no suspicion of ~disaffection. It is understood - that the whole Cossack -forces of | the empire, some 450,000, will be mobilized. 0L TRUST T0 UNDERCO N INQUIRY 'President - Favors . Investigation of Goneern. { Hears Serious Charges Made Against the - Company. |Standard Accused of Causing | Corruption of State and Federal Officers. Special Dispatch to The Cail. | NEW YORK, Dec. L—Reports | there is a strong movement on foot in Washington, backed by President Roose- velt, to institute an investigation of the | Standard Oil Company and its allled in- terests were repeated to-day by several prominent New York financiers. Al- | though there have been uncertain rumors | regarding the proposed inquiry current - | for several weeks, nothing authoritative | was learned until late yesterday. In- by interested New York business men have confirmed the { news. More than a month ago President Rocsevelt is said to have expressed a de- eire that a thorough inquiry be made re- garding the methods of the great corpo- | ration. The charges. of rebating and wholesale discrimination, made by the writers in the daily press and in the magazines against the Standard Oil man- agement, as well as the representations of private individuals, greatly impgessed the President. < It 1s known that citizens of the Middle West, aroused by what they term the criminal methods of the Standard Ofl Company, have been accorded long hear- |ings by President Roosevelt. Charges | were made by these men against the | Standard Oil Company to the effect that | quiries imade to-day | the corporation had caused the corruption’ |of many State and Federal officers | through the payment to them of large |sums of money and by other improper COUPLE TEWD 0P BY THUES D. M. Richards and his wife, who live at 913 Capp street, were held up and robbed last night at 10:30 o’clock by three” masked -thugs on Twenty-eighth street, | between Dolores and Guerrero. After striking Richards over the head the hold- | up men rifled his pockets and got a gold | walch, locket and chain and 30 cents in | cash. | The couple were on their way | after visiting friends. They were sud- | denly confronted by (he masked men, who ordered them to throw up thelr hands. As Richards dld not obey the | order promptly one of the robbers struck | him over the head with a revolver, felling bim to the ground. Mrs, Richards fainted when she saw her husband struck. Richards called for the police and the robbers left him. He reported the matter to the Mission police | station. 5 e ——————— { Demolishiug ¥Frentier Forts. ' FREDERICKHALDE, Norway, Dec. 1, home The demdlition of the frontier fortifi- cations in accordance with the treaty recently signed between Sweden and Norwav is actively proceeding 'i’Coilntrijes of 0 that | SA PRICE FIVE CENTS INCLE S STIRS FEAR N EUROE S et World Urged to - Federate. Meeting in England to . Promote Friendship - With Germany. - ‘Suggested That President and Kaiser Take Initiative in Reducing Armaments. —_— LONDON, Dec. A well - attended meeting took place at Caxton Hall this afternoon with the object df promoting | hetter relations betweein Great Britain | anid Germany. -A resolution, declaring that the main body of thé pedple of Great Britain entertain. cordial .respect and friendship for the German people, was adopted and it was decided to ap- point an Anglo-German friendship com- mittee., A-cdblegram, expressing sym- pathy .with the objects ¥ thé meeting, was received from a nun:vér of ‘promi- nent Americans of° German descent. The cablegram reads: “We, the undersigned Americans of German hirth ox descent, heartliy ‘wish you and your associates godspeed in sour-efforts:to promote friendstiip be- tweén- Great Britain and Germany. | ™Carl Schurz, Herman Ridder, ‘George F. | Vilard, Henry Hentz, Charles A. Schrien, James Speyer, Dr. A. Jacobi, Herman Seilecken, Hubert Gilles, E. M. Burghard, George Ehrt.” : Lord Avebury. president of the So- ciety of Antiquaries, presided. He was supported by a representative gather- ing, Inclus Count Bernstorff, seore- tary of the German embassy, who rep- resentéd the embassy. . Lord Ayebury in opening the mest- ‘ing urged that here was no ground for between *Germany and Great Britain. Of course, he painted out, Lord Lans- downe, the Foreigp Secretary, could | not attend such & meeting, bat Lord Avebury sald he knew ‘the Secretary was in accord with the object of the gathering and’ the British Goverriment | was awate that there was no question between the two countries to -give rise o -dificulties. B t “We would like to see Europe feder- ated like ‘the United States,”” said Lard Avebury. “If Europe continues its tre~ mendous expenditure for arniaments | hall he unmble to hold our owm . | asainst the Uni ed States.” | Other _ speakers expressed - similar | views. The resolution was supported by. numerous ofators, Leonard Courtenay, who asked whether, | it would not be British statesman to approach Presi- | dent Roosevelt and Emperor William, | between whom there was a close bond { of friendship, with the object of inducs | ing them to take steps teward the re- duction: of armaments. CLUB NENBERS IRE SURPRISED - BY CLEACYMAN Be Asked to Quit the ASsocia;tiop. : —_— NEW YORK., Dec. 1.—Club members in generzl and members of the Century As- soclation in particular discussed to-day the Thanksgiving day sermon of Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks at Calvary Protestant Ipiscopal Church. In the course of his remarks on the revelations of business immorality in high vlaces Dr. Parks took occaston to mention in partfcular the junior United States Senator from New York, who, he said; should be required by the governors of the Century Association to sever his connection with that club. This reference to Senator Pepew has ad- ditional weight, in view of the fact that Dr. Parks is himself a member of the as- { sociation from which he would have the Benator expelled. Bishop Potter, who is also a member, is president of the Cen- tury Assoclation. i In suggesting that such an action should be taken by the club of which he is a member the rector of Calvary is but car- rying to their logical conclusion rules which, he says, have long governed his acticns when he has been called upon to meet certain men socially. He would not entertain them in his own house and he would not be entertained at their homes. Consequently he would prefer to be obliged (o meet them at his clu Mining Camps Cut Off From Supplies. EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 1.—G. E. Ken- nedy, who has reached here from Clif- ton, Ariz., reports that three men have been drowned there by recent floods. The express office, depot, a two-story hotel and many small buildings were washed away. Meltihg snow has caused the Gila River to rise at Sjlver City, N. M, cutting off several mining camps from supplies. : . i 1d Victor, Gustav Schwab, Oswald G.|. the fll-feeling which unhappily -exists [ including ° Sir | practicable for some| mss Olsex-i. Sensation Is Sprung| in Assault Case at Berkeley. Domestic Turns $500| | in Gold Over to * the Court. _.Says S/ze_Rgcéfi;éd It " From Defendant’s - " Relatives. Explans Statements o Exoneration . - She Made.. BERKBLEY, 'Dec. 1.—Dorothy Olsen, ‘the servant girl, Who swears that Lester McNulty, a former Deputy County Clerk, felonfously attacked her a month ago, brought $00 in gold into court to-day during McNulty’s preliminary examina- tion and created a sensation by swearing on the witness stand that the money had been pald to her by McNulty's relatives to induce her t6 drop the prosecution of McNulty. - - Nothing of this featurs of tHe case had been given by any one conmected with the prosecution, and its Introduction by Deputy District Attorney Everstt Brown bad . all the ¢ t of a bombshell burst- ing in the Hftle crowded courtroom. over istice R. S. Bdgar was presid- _attorney, A. L. Frick, . hastily | mony, that the defensé welcomed all the light that coul¢ possibly be cast on this phase or_any other phase of-the case. Miss Olsen had been on the witness stand for nearly four hours, when the op- portunity came for her, under the guid- ing hand of -Deputy District Attorney | Brown, to startle the courtroom crowd with the story of the gold-coin which had been given her.by the McNulty people. All the details of McNulty’s alleged at-. tack upon her, and the events that fol- lowed the attack, so far.as they con- cerned McNulty's share : Dbeen brought out in direct'and cross ex- came. 3 FRODUCES BRIBE MONEY.. ' The big pile.-of golden dollars .came clinking forth from Miss Olsen's purse, and the girl's lips framed the story iof | their payment ‘as hush money to her by | the McNultys and the jaded crowd found sation. 3 It appears that- not even- the Deputy. District Attorney knew:of this hush money |- phase of the girl's relations' with thé. Mc- | Nultys until this morning. Miss Olsen swore that’ she had not informed °the Deputy” District Attorney of the receipt of the coin by her until to-day, although her speclal counsel, L. Seidenberg, had been informed of the fransatcion several days 2go. g s Miss Olsen, on’ the ‘witness stand, In re- ply to the Deputy District. Attorney’s queries, stated that Y.ester McNulty's father gave her §200 on X:Iovemher 11, and that she took the money and agreed: not to prosecute’ Lester McNulty and not’to make public the facts of his assault upon her. The ‘girl explained that she was moved by the McNulty family’s prayers for mercy and their plea that the shock of the exposure would Kkill - McNulty's mother, and perhaps the father, too. She insists that her employer, J. A. Marshall, urged her to take the money and drop the case, and, thus influenced, she - accepted tlie coin ‘and "did nothing further until November 15, when she: was asked to sign a formal statement exom- erating Lester McNulty from blame or guilt in the matter of the assault. At that time, when urged to sign the state- ment exonerating McNulty, she was of- fered $300 in addition to the $200 she ha ajready been pald. MONEY CAUSED UNREST. The second payment was made to her on the day following the signing of the statement. Bhe put the money in her: room, kept the facts regarding it to her- self, and consistently denied to all, even to her brother, and to Justice Edgar, be- fcre whom her complaint for McNulty's arrest was made, that she had receivell any money to keep quiet McNulty's name in the affair. . ° 3 “I did not want the- money,” cried the tormented girl, “and I wanted to return it, but I was persuaded to keep it. I could bear it no longer, and I then de- cided to tell all the truth and to have McNulty punished.” : Amid profound silence court and audi- enice heard the girl's story. Then the | Deputy District Attorney asked the girl if she had the money with her. “I have,” replied Miss Olsen, and open- ing her purse she produced the heap of twenty-dollar gold pieces. Justice Edgar was asked to take the money into his care, though-not as an exhibit, and he did so. . “My brother told me,” declared the girl, “that money could not pay for the © rong that had been done, and I knew that he was right. I could not rest, and 1 determined to do what I believed to be right and to prosecute McNulty.” IDENTIFIES McNULTY. During the farenoon, -early /in the ex- animation, Miss Olsen positively identified Lester McNulty as tbe man who had at- tacked her on the night of November 5. It was shown upon cross-examination by Lawyer Frick that Miss Olsen had admitted to various persons that -she could not positively “identify * McNulty; |1 e Continued on Page 2, Column 4 in them, had|.| amination before the bribery sensation | its nerves thrilled by an entirely new sen- |- [ I 3 MISS OLSEN PRODUCES HUSH MONEY McNULTYS PAID HER. : the dbmeatic who cfiuges Lester McNulty, a well-connected young man of Berkeley, with assault, produced $500 in shining gold in court yesterday during: the hearing before Justice Edgar and declared that the — money was paid her by the McNulty family to hush up the matter, as she had for a while tried to do. TS l MISS DOROTHY OLSEN TURNING OVER 2 TH E -WITNESS STAND YESTERDA NULTY FOR FELONIOUS ASSAULT. TO JUSTICE OF THE PEACE EDGAR Y HAD BEEN PAID TO HER TO INDU IN GOLD, WHI HER ™ NORE SOCIETY [IRRGATIONISTS |LAWSOR MAY WONEN UNDER | MAY BE CAUSE | BE PRESSED * 34N OF CHURCH OFADSPITE " FOR NONEY Mrs. Ella Nash Is Also| Mexican Commissioners| Mortgages Property of Excommunicated by Bishop. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 1.—In addition to |- Miss ‘Mae Hamlilton, Bishop Scanmell's edict of -excommunication against those Catholics who attended the Kennedy- Pritchett wedding applies to Mrs. Ella Cotton Nash, the daughter-in-law of the late president of the American Refining and Smeiting Company. Mrs. Nash, it was learned this evening, was one of those who attended the wedding” cere- mony. Mrs. Nash will return to the Fpiscopal church, to which she belonged prior to her marriage to Mr. Nash. Friends of Miss Mae Hamilton assert it is not within the laws of the church that a Catholic cannot attend the wed- ding of a divorcee and that Bishop Scan- nell went beyond his authority when he issued his pastoral. It is recognized that this pastoral was directly almed at Miss Hamilton, who was one of the brides- maids. According to her friends Miss Hamilton will at once take an appeal to the Archbishop from the order of Bishop Scannell. 2 Miss Hamilton on the one side and the Bishop on thé other positively declined to make any statement .regarding the mat- the incident closed. It has been learned that Miss Hamilton and her sis- Will Investigate Water Supply. - Special Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGBLES, Dec. 1.—A commission composed of three prominent MexXican of- ficlals arrived her to-night for the pur- pose of taking the initial steps in what is certain to become a question for. inter- national settlement. b Because of a complaint filéd Ry Antonlo Lozano y Castro, Mexican Consul Gen- eral in Los Angeles, to the effect that the California Development Company, which owns the great Imperial irrigating system, is taking all of the water from the Colorado River and leaving the ripa- rian lands below the boundary without a supply, the Mexican Government has be- gun an investigation. Upon the reports made by the commission will be based such representations as the southern re- public may deem proper to make to the authorities at Washington. ‘The commission is composed of General Angel Garcla Pena, director of the Mexi- can Geological ety and delegate to the International Geological Congress; Jacobo Blanco, Mexican Boundary Com- missioner, and Ygnacio Molina, director in the Ministry of Fomento. These of- ficials are accompanied by a corps of en- gineers and assistants. To-morrow they ‘will leave for Yuma and go thence along the river-to the boundary, where a thor- ough examination of existing conditions will be made. K The v will remain there until after the River recedes and wiil then Wife to Raise cash. ag- 5;! i1 it : 4 | ! ,;