The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 2

(3] ' THE SAN FR/ NCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1905. RUSSIAS FATE DEPENDS ON ATTITUDE OF THE ARMY GREAT MASS OF TROOPS WSS ARG PEASANTS READY T0 RISE AGAINST THE ANARGHISTS Needless Shedding of Blood in Moscow Injures the Cause of the ‘ Revolutionists : From Page 1, Columns 2 and 2. Coutinued ; WARSAW, Dec. 24.—The railroads are still running, but the | S m is ser s. Owing to the news from Moscow all of the | 4 3 i Sox es have issued proclamations summoning the people | ing destroyed a flat in which was The entire house was unroofed, )DESSA, Iflw 24— The general political ‘strike was begun bal and water works employes, however, are | ]7(!\'\‘“(‘ attitude, and | | i garrison maintains d that the citv. will fall completely into The inhabitants are panic- a ertan revolu tionaries. Mc siting ary oc cople were ise carrying | upations as if nothing| were going on, | ¥’s doings marked the most | festation of Russian an- rove, as the rehists So far as any one can will end in the complete de- | rchists, who will be si-| for several years. There | a popular reactionary | , but the wrath waxing strong. at Yelna, on the Kieff | vay line, entire families | nd strikers have been cow the i other - | blood, in old hope that to s . te flag was again ut pieces by Infuriated | t : and there is other cumulative | . a determination on the part| nts to oppose the strikers. | ghting ne s have not dislodged the | 2 t rnment, . imprisoned Premier _de | e or deposed the Emperor, but they g struck a deadly and wanton blow | s, v at empire. | HUNGRY BANDS ARE PILLAGING. | : “Already hungry bands are ' pillaging | . ugeoriis wherever they can. At the station of| . - -y Nicolaieff, on the Kazan railway, tr - o - .- looted fifteen cars laden with necessar bacn, 4 of life for the Christmastide. “A ukase will be published in a day or two embodying the new electoral law and fixing a date for the election to the Douma. IN STR BIVOUAC FIRES ks like a severest -criticism is . ‘directed | st the Government. for- the fallure | v adopt promptly repressiveé measures | agaist the revolutionists.” ROBBERS STOP \AQUARREL,~ PASHDENA CAR Two Members of the Garden One Holds Revolver Under| City Fire Department Cut. Nose of Motorman While! During Row Over a Woman the Other Gathers. Booty ! NFEIS (S N A QUARREL i i Special Dispatch to The Call, SAN 1 early hour | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24—At 7 o'clock v McGraft and two unmasked men held up a « < were stabbed by | car bound for Pasadena on the short line | Robe s eve dance | of the Pacific Electric Rallway half-way . McGrath, who is | between Los Angeles and that city, and . v chemical en- | under cover of drawn revolvers went E N was stabbe lung and | through the pockets of the twenty-seven ) arious co Plummer, | passengers. With the loot stuffed into} L s se driv e Torrent | their pockets and having previously com- Engine h a painful | pelled the motorman to slow down the c Murr who wielded | car, they dropped off beside the track just . custody by | outside the city limits of Pasadena and erg and will-be held | Made their escape. : of McGratl's in-| None of |dhe passengers were eruied asia . & | no one made any resistance. om | trouble arose over a woman | g nymper of watches and sm’::! ghil;mgnell x one of the firemen is =aid 10 | the haul of the robbers was not more| e x Murrah | than $100. took offe Th They boarded the car at the Southern Pacific crossing just outside of Los An-| geles, one on ,the front platform with| the motorman and the other with the| conductor in the rear of the car. Imme- diately after paying their fare the holdup ahead clapped a revolver under the nose s, will be|of the motorman and compelled him to by | slow down, while at the same time the | other, beginning with the conductor, went Murrah when abbed McGrath. Will Bring Body of Parsons. CITY OF MEXICO, Deec. 24.—The t American Consul Gen- — | ficient | ously threaten the immediate downfall of | | the woeful insufliciency of arms in pos- | their barricades in Moscow on Saturday here, but the Government's measures | seemingly render this impossible. No meetings, public or private, are allowed, YET TO CAST THE DIE Revolutionists Must Fail Unless They Succeed in Winning the Military. ‘Government Will Proceed to Crush Out Revolt With Merciless Vigor. — 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24, §:30 p. m.— With Moscow’s baptism of blood the rev- olutionaries made good their threat to transform the strike into armed rebellion, and the next forty-eight hours should determine whether they can marshal suf- strength to plunge the country into an actual state of civi] war and seri- the Government. : The. Government professes confidence that the whole attempt will fail owing to session of the proletariat and by reason of the loyalty of the army as a whole, but its calculations might again be rudely | upset. A few arsenals might be seized to | furnish arms, or the open support of .a few regiments might start a landslide in Certainly the shrewdest of the the army. revolutionary leaders fully appreciate that the issue must be decided by the at- titude of the army, which is yet to cast| the die. Instructions have gone forth that ris- ings must occur everywhere in order to test the troops, and if a foothold can be secured it is the intention of the revolu- | tionaries to set up a provisional govern- | ment and proclaim a republic. ALLEGED MUTINY OF GRENADIERS. Thus far reports from Moscow do not clear up the vital point as to whether any of the troops there actually refused to obey commands, although there are persistent rumors that they did. Revolu- tionary leaders here claim to have con- firmation of a report that a grenadier | brigade and some Cossacks mutinied and are now locked up in their barracks. While the military succeeded every- where in driving the insurgents from night, the defeat evidently was not a de- | cisive one, as barricades were again thrown up in dozens of piaces this morn- ing and fighting was renewed before 11| o'clock. Orders have been issued for an uprising which makes an assembly of more than five persons in a private lodging illegal. | The prisons and jails are filled with lead- | ers of the revolutionaries and agitators. | Two caches of arms have been seized and an entire organization, consisting of .300 | “Crujina,” as the student militia is called, | has been captured. CAPITAL UNUSUALLY CALM. Rumors were persistently circulated that a conflict would be precipitated at a demonstration of workmen in the Nevsky prospect this afternoon, but they proved to be unfounded. The city, in fact, was unusually calm on the surface, and a stranger dropping down the Nevsky pros- pect this afternoon would have seen no evidences.of ferment. It was a bright, | crisp winter day and smart sleighs and | equipages of the aristocracy, with their occupants cloaked in sables and other | rich furs, were out in force. Only the | sullen faces of the crowds of strikers on the sidewalks and heavy horse and foot patrols on every block looked ominous. If the plans of the revolutionaries to produce an uprising in St. Petersburg fail, as it is belleved they will, an at- tempt certainly will be made to terrorize the Government by guerrilla warfare, in which bombs will play the chief role. The Government having embarked in a war against the ‘“‘reds,” it is difficult to see how it can draw back one step. The acceptance by Governor General Doubassoff of Moscow of the offer of the notorious reactionary, Prince Tcherbatoff, to organize the loyalists as a militia hos created a shudder of horror. — gt T FUND FOR BELGIAN HEIR AROUSES ANTI-ROYALISTS BRUSSELS, Dec. 24—The Chamber of Deputies to-day, by a vote of 82 to 31, passed the bill making an an- nual grant of $40,000 to Prince Albert of Flanders, the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. During the debate there were violent anti-royalist speeches and cries of “Long live the re- public!” through the car taking up-a collection of valuables and money from the pas- sengers, including men, women and chil- dren. Two years ago iwo holdups stopped a car on the old Pasadera line, but were captured and are now serving life sen- tences in San Quentin. Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. 201 and 203 Kearny Street At Northwest Corner Sutter St. BEG TO ANNOUNCE A 5.DAY SALE Of OVERCOATS, ULSTERS and CRAVENETTE RAINCOATS For Men, Comprising the makes of premier manufacturers Commencing Tuesday Morning, Dec. 26, 2t8 0" C!ock : And Concluding Saturday Night, Dec. 30,at100’Clock 2500 Ovércoats, Cravenettes and Ulsters at LOW. = 'PRICES Alfred Lilienfeld 201 and 203 Kearny Street § America’s RIDICULOUSLY At Northwest Corner Sutter St. Twentieth Century Clothiers. ORIENTAL TRADE SHONS BI; CAIN Exports From United States to China and Japan Far Above All Former Years WASHINGTON, Dec. of the export trade of the United States for 1905 has shown a larger growth than the trade with China and Japan, says a b_ulletln issued by the Bureau of Statis- tics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. In the ten months ending with October, - exports to China aggregated more than $50,000,000 in value, against $20,- 000,000 in the same months of 1904. Ex- borts to Japan were $46,500,000 against a little less than $22,000,000 for the wame period in 1904 and $16,000,000. in the corre- sponding months of 1903. No other coun- try of the world to which our exports are sent show gains aproximating these of China and Japan. The growth in exports to China from the United States is especlally marked in copper, cotton cloth, flour, sewing ma- chines, locomotives, paper, canned beef, manufactures of tobacco and lumber, though cotton ¢loth and copper are by far the most Important of these items. To Japan the growth occurred in flour, carriages and other vehicles, raw cotton, agricultural machinery, sewing machines, locomotives, leather, paper, canned beef, tobacco and lumber. Cottori cloth exports to China in ‘the ten months ending with October aggre- gated in value $27,405,450, against $9,657,7 in the same months of 1904. Copper ex- ports to China are comparatively a mew feature of our trade with that country, the amount in the months ending with October having been $11;326,407, against $611,677 in the same months of last year. The copper is used in making new copper coins. Flour is about the only important article of export to China showing any. material reduction this year, while man- ufactured tobacco shows a material in- crease. Cotton exports«to Japan for the ten months ending with October aggregated in value $13,784,399, against $2,716,529 last year, Amerlcan cotton is popular with the Japanese spinners because it has a long staple, but the cotton grown in India and China, which has a shorter staple, is con- siderably lower in price and in the years of high prices of cotton in the United States Japan purchased little cotton in ihis country, but draws largely on Indla and China. JOURNALISTS LEAVE FOR EASTERN HOMES Railroad Men Provide Trav- eling Seribes With a Christmas Tree. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—After three days of strenuous sightseeing in Los An- geles and vicinity, the thirty-five Eastern newspaper men who were brought out from Chicago on the first “Los Angeles limited” as guests of the Union Pacific and Salt Lake railroads departed for their homes this afternoon on the new limited train over the Salt Lake route. Because they were unable to stop at Riv- erside on the way out to Los Angeles, a special train was made up that took them over to Riverside two hours ahead of the lmited. There they were driven through orange groves and permitted to pluck the fruit until the limited picked them up and whirled them homeward bound. @ DAGGETT, Dec. 24.—A Christmas tree on board a train was the unique Yuletide celebration indulged in to-night by the forty Eastern newspaper men who are guests of the Los Angeles limited and who to-day left Los Angeles for their re~ turn trip across the continent. The Christmas tree, laden with many gifts, was unveiled in a Pullman vestibule as a surprise to the newspaper men from their railroad hosts. PARISHIONERS START RIOT IN A CHURCH Objection to New Pastor Re- . . . sults in Disturbance in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24.—An exciting meet- ing of the parishloners held in St. Cast- mir's Polish Catholic Church to-day to protest against the pastor appointed by the Archbishop culminated in a riot which required the presence of a patrol wagon load of police to quell. Seven arrests were made and two policemen have been detailed to guard the church property. The trouble fs of several weeks' stand- ing. Immediately after the resignation of the regular pastor, the parishioners took exception to Archbishop Glennon's ap- pointee and, taking possession of the church, locked out the new pastor. Contrary to usual custom, and only | 24.—No feature! |Two Concerns of the Middle o CLUBMAN DIES IV AUTO WRECK James E. Martin of New York Loses His Life in Accident on Country Road STACEY CLARK INJURED Vehicle in Passing Another| Plows Into Loose Earth at; Side of Road and Overturns NEW YORK, Dec. 24—James E. Mar- tin, prominent in business and society, | a member of the New York Yacht Club, ' the Metropolitan Club and the Country | Club, was instantly killed to-day near Flushing, L. I, when his. automobile i plowed into a strip of loose dirt at the | | side of the road and turned completely | over. Stacey Clark, who was in the car, was seriously injured. Martin's skull was fractured. | The accident was witnessed hy Mar- tin’s wife, son and daughter-in-law, who were following in another auto mobile. In the machine in which Mar- ! tin was riding were Mr. Clark, Mr. and } Mrs. Allen Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. iDaniel Bacon and Alexander Faure, the chauffeur. In the second machine | were Mrs. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Martin Jr. and Mrs. William Manice. The party had spent Sunday at the L. I, members were on their way home in | the two automobiles when the accident Golf Club at Bayside, and its| occurred. The machine driven by the younger Martin started first from the Golf Club and made fast time, as the entire party wished to be in New York for dinner. The larger and heayvier machine, with Martin Sr. and party, followed not long afterward and midway between Bay- side and Flushing overtook the lighter machine. The leading machine gave way to allow the other to pass and an attempt was made to do so. The road appeared to be in good con- dition, but as it proved it was only a surface condition. Gas mains are Being lald between Flushing and Bayside and | the recent rain must have caused a | settling of some of the earth in the newly filled trenches without disturbing the- surface. When the automobile | wheels struck the soft earth they cut | down into it until the machinery hit | the hard edge of the trench, and that | { caused the machine to jump and turn | completely over. When it fell it landed | with the wheels uppermost. All of the occupants were thrown out. Martin re- celved a fracture of the skull at the base of the brain and was dead when picked up. The others were cut and | bruised. The chauffeur was arrested and charged * with criminal negligence. | Magistrate Connorton later accepted bail in the sum of $1000. = Mr. Martin was a brother of Bradley Martin and a brother-in-law of W. Gould Brokaw. He was a retired banker and possessed great wealth. Mrs. Manice, who was in the second car, is the. well-known golfer, who, as Miss Frazier, won a number of cham- pionships. Alexander Faure, the chauf- feur, recently came to this country from France. He was a chauffeur in the James Gordon Bennett cup race two years ago. Daniel Bacon is a well-known banker. BIG ORGANIZATIONS® OF FARMERS UNITE! { West Effect a Merger. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. STERLING, Ill, Dec, 24—F. E. An- drews, attorney for the National Farm- ers’ Exchange, announced to-day that the amalgamation of the National Farmers' Exchange and the American Farmers’ Unlon is about perfected. The new organ- ization will be the greatest soclety of farmers in the United States. The National Farmers’ Exchange oper- ates on the plan of the trusts. It does an| extensive husiness in Illinols, Towa, Ne-| braska, Kansas, Minnesota and the Da- kotas, owning and operating several hun- dred elevators. The American Farmers Union has an extensive membership in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Indian | Territory gnd Oklahoma. The National Exchange is capitalized at $100,000,000. A new name is to be chosen. B S — MEXICO WILL COMPETE FOR TOURIST TRAVEL Make New Passenger Rates Will the Country a Rival of California. CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 24.—For the first time in the history of Mexican railways, Mexico has been given a schedule of passenger rates from points in Canada and the United States that are on a par with the rates offered to California and other Pacific Coast points. It is believed that this change will bring much tourist travel to this country which now. goes to California. ————— NEW TURBINE STEAMSHIP MAKES SUCCESSFUL TRIP LIVERPOOL, gDec. 24—The new ; Cunard line ta’rblne steamship Car- .mania arrived in the Mersey from New York at 7 o'clock this morning after a most successful voyage. Notwith- standing the fact that heavy weather 1 was encountered, the passengers report that the vessel was steady and com- fortable throughout the trip. | the northern squadron AN Failing Strength A weak and exhausted con= dition usually follows over- work, too close confinement, or unusual mental strain. Every day a certain amount of vital- ity is consumed, and if not re- plenished by sleep, rest and nourishment, sopn wrecks the nervous system. The results are sleeplessness, headache, indigestion, imperfect circula- tion, etc., which affects the organs of the body. estore your nerve strength —your vitality, with Dr. Mile-" Nervine, and your whole sys- tem will recuperate. Your sleep will be sound and re- freshing, headaches will dis- appear, and digestion improve. 3 o taking Dr. Miles’ CHINESE HONOR BARON KOMURA High Officials and Detach- ment of Troops at Station When He Leaves Peking NEW POWER IN CHI"NA Yuan Shai Kai Said to Have Become the Mainstay of the Throne of the Empire PEKING, Dec. 24—The Japanese com- mission, headed by Baron Komura, which negotiated the Chino-Japanese treaty left to-day on a special train for Tien- tsin on its way to Japan. At Tientsin the Commissioners will be entertained | v I bega: yith great ceremony by the Vieeray, [ Restorative ferying, | was physical Yuan Shi Kai. The farewell at the statlon | 7% (030, 60" ong Aie b ly keep up. I could not eat sufficient to RN g S atly from sleepless ai “':'y little. rest. The Rests - was ‘a picturesque one. , Many man- darins, dressed in their ceremonial robes of sables and wearing peacock feathers, were: present,-and a detachment of Yuan S brough Shi Kal's crack troops acted as a guard | NeTvine . soon = brought refreshin of honor. Untl 1 was fully restored. I have since taken it whenever I have felt the need of a nerve tonic, and glways with very satisfactory resuits.’ . WM. A. CLARK, Rockford, Ills. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is seld by your ist, whe will guarantee that the :m will bon:gt. it It falis, he The negotiation of the Chino-Japanese treaty makes it clear that Yuan Shi Kai has inherited Li Hung Chang's place as the mainstay of the throne, as he attend- ed all the meetings of the Commissioners and led in all the discussions, notwith« standing the fact that the Foreign Office | \iif’ refund your money. nominally conducted them. o . The ceremontal observed by Baron Ko-| Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind mura and his retinue while In Peking greatly impressed the Chinese. Baron Komura was accompanied by General Fukushima and H. W. Denison, and the negotiators never moved without a large and imposing escort. FRANCE PREPARING - TO DISPATCH FLEET | Officers Ordered to Ships for? Cruise to Unknown : Destination. PARIS. Dec. 24—The Minister of Marine has ordered the commander of to have his cruiser division in readiness to start immediately on receipt of orders for an unknown destination. Officers and men on Christmas leava2 have been tele- graphed to returp to their ships. The diyision’ will go. to the Moreccan coast during the coming conference on Moroccan reforms. There is no bet- ter knife made than this. The name, ““Da- mascus.” on the biade is a guarantee that it is of the first grade of excellence. Just the sort of knife that any man lfkes. Wil stand any amount of wear. Every blade will hold edge because it is of the right degree of hardness. Not too small nor too large, worth $1.50. My price only. I do honing and grinding of all kinds of cutlery. Razors honed 35e. Mail orders promptly filled. I KEEP OPEN TO-DAY— CHRISTMAS. THAT MAN PITTS, F. W. PITTS, The Stationer, 1008 Market St., San Francisco If Traveling in Japan, Or any civilized country, you can procure Lax- ative Bromo Quinine from any druggist, All nations use it. E. W. Grove's signature on box.* SIX FIREMEN ARE HURT IN HOTEL FIRE Continued from Page 1, Col. 5. of the downtown section was at work. The fire was with difficulty confined to the hotel building. Another brick building occupied by commercial houses was adjoining on the north, and it was only with much effort that the fire was prevented from spreading in that direction. A vacant lot was on the south of the hotel. The Angelus Hotel, one of the largest hotels in Southern California, was immediately in the rear of the Van Nuys, on Spring street, with only an alley separating the two buildings, and had the fire spread it, too, would undoubtedly have been burned. The guests of the Ange- lus were aroused by the fire, but there was no excitement among them. The Van Nuys Broadway Hotel, which should not be confused with the Van Nuys Hotel, was a five-story brick building, built seven years ago | and valued at $150,000. There were 125 rooms in the hotel,’and nearly all were occupied. About fifty of- the guests In the hotel were women. The hotel safe, which was filled with val- uables and money, lies in the basement of the building, and it is not known whether Iits contents are intact or not. On the ground floor of the hotel were the - stores of the California Paper Company and the hardware store of Cass-Damerel Company, both of which were completely destroyed. A portion of the Van Nuys Broadway cafe fur- nishings and some of the hotel office furniture was taken out. The base- ment of the building, in which was THE OCULARIUM GOLD SPECTACLE ORDERS From $5.00 upward OPERA GLASSES stored valuable goods of the stores and other effects, Is filled with water to a From §1.85 upward depth of three feet. ; The fire was not under control until : KODAKS 10:30, and was not extingulshed until after noon. It burned with much From $1.00 upward flerceness and the firemen fought it with difficulty. Almost the entire i terlor of the building collapsed shortly before 10 o'clock, carrying down everything in the hotel rooms which was not already damaged by fire into the basement filled with water. Mrs. E. Bixel of Los Angeles suf- fered the loss of personal effects to the amount of $2000. She had just arrived from the East Saturday and gone to the hotel on accoufit of her house be- ing rented for the winter. Mra. E. A. McDonald of this city, who has just rented her residence, 202 West Twenty-fourth street, for the winter, lost valuables and clothing to the amount of $1500. Mrs. M. G. Underwood of Waverly, N. Y., made her escape from the third floor of the hotel with her aged moth- er, Mrs. Mary Griffith, with great diffi- culty. Hedged in by smoke and be- CATARRE, Mescs = through a desire to propitiate the congre-} gation, Archbishop Glennon withdrew his first appointee and sent another priest to the parish., To him, also, the parishion- ers. objected, and last Friday night the pastor ana assistant pastor were forced to flee from the parsonage by a mob of sev- eral héndred persons. BERNHARDT TO PLAY Exact Date of Her Appear-i It is always sold in bottles like this ance Is Soon to Be An- nounced. ) ~ Spectal Dispatch to The Call, l NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—W. F. Connor, nt; Liebler & Co., announced- to-night that Madam Bernhardt would be seen in San Francisco early in April. . y “We have not decided on the éxa date,” sald he, “but will try to arrange| | . ° o for early in April, as the Metropolitan } Opera Company opens in San Franciseo 5 2 S wildered by the confusion, they sev- eral times lost their way and were al- most suffocated before they got out. Miss Underwood lost clothing and jew- elry to the amount of $1000. They es- caped in their night clothes. J. W. Searles and wife of Cleveland. 0., escaped In pajamas and “nighties,’ leaving two trunks of clothing and val- | uables to the flames. i F. J. Bleeker of Fairbanks, Alaska, occupled a room on the fourth floor. ‘When he got out the halls were full of smoke and the elevator had stopped | and he had a close call from suffoca- | tion in making his escape by the stair- way. He had not time to dress. so carried down his clothes and grips in his arms. . J. Abbott of London, an English | mining engineer just returned from | Mexico, had a narrow escape in get- ting down the stairs. In two minutes more, he declares, all escape would have been cut off. He says that he ‘was not awakened by the employes of the hotel, and the first intimation he Post! b Sy i Ay N ONE WEEK FREE. Dr. Cottingham Far, Nose DEAFNESS, “== ® POWELL ST. Hours 10 to & PILES! PILES! 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