The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1906, Page 1

P - San Francijco Mondey; fresh mnorthw: Forecast for January 1, 1908 and Vielnity—Fair G H. Local Forecaster. est wind. WILLSON, OTHER A APER PUBL o cian.'” COLUMBIA—"‘The Ame CHUTES—Vaudeville. O€ T3xen from LEGTENMT IANTS O FRON BHSCH —— Brewer's Dauglhter. Must Have Dowry. | Compromises Girl and! akes Demand for $1,000,000, - Engagement Is Broken on’!,, GIRLS CONTINUE WORK BUILDING IN BURNING Telephone Operators Bravely Remain at Posts in Los Angeles. ANGBLES, Dec 7 21.—Fifty girls in the operating rooni of the Home Tele hone (fompany stood bravely at their pos day, Gespite the fact that in the besement below them a fire was raging wh for & time threatened to destro the building. At the first cry of fire there was a visible tremor of fear, but a word from the chief operator checked any tend.- | ency toward panic, and one of the girls goolly calied up th Department and reported the fire The compeny 4s slmost firectly across the | street and a chemical engine vas soon at | work on the fire, backed by four steam- | ers, but !t Was MOt necessary to use am | gine stream The e building was filied with dense ke t even then the brave girls did their p and through the | nswered their calls as if noth- & ha ppened. They were told that if | danger of a spread of the fire arose we otificd. but it was not « e such netice. The fire | : .. and the Joss -.xasf NEW YORK SOLONS 1 AFTER DEPEW’'S TOGA | Should Senator Refuse Resig- ! nation. Resolution Will Demand It. Dec. 31—Unless Senator | Bra of Saratoga changes his mind by Wednesday resolutions will be Dre—l scnted whe e Senate meets that day | demanding the resignation of Chauncey M. Desew as United States Senator | from New York { A few weeks ago Senator Brackett | lared his belief that Depew would ne to see the wisdom of voluntarily igning rather than run the risk of | receiving an official request backed by | the entire Legislature to surrender his | seat. | Depew, Lowever, has not yet indi- cated to Governor Higgins his desire to retive from the Senate. Brackett will introduce the resolution requesting ilm to resign ™ 3k GAIN O Moscow isover: It ended yEs:erQay when a handful of terrorists, after a Jast stand in a building in the factory dis- The losses in yesterday’s riots were not as It is believed that the CZAR IN MOSCOW. | 1 | | | Workmen’s Council has l ! ning the men to take part in a decisive battle on January 22. (L -a 2 CON WY DS MOTHER OF LATE WIFE He I§ Nearly Sixty and Hig Bride Seventy- Seven, s 2ty Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Dec. 3.—One of the most | unique wegdiugs ever solemnized in the Northwest took place at Centerville, Ore on Christiéas day, when Frank L. Ster- ling, a widower, married his mother-in- law. Mrs. Martha McLain. The bride- groom is 57 years of age, while the bride is 77 years. The granddaughter of the bride, aged X, acted as bridesmaid, while a bachelor of 80 years served as grooms- ma: The ministét who tied the knot was in everyday life & blacksmith, L. Clunton, a man o serded through the Clvil War with' Geacral ‘Lee as horseshoer to ihe staff. ¥ i prioud of Wis work as a min- ister, saying thHat in his timc he bas mar- ried 200 upiels, not one of which- has been divoreed, BIG BOMR HURLED AT MACARONI FACTORY Entire Front of Building and Half of Storeroom Wrecked. 15 at 22 Franklin avefine, at 1:15 o'clock this morning and the whole front of the build- ing end half the store room was wrecked. The Arlington Hotel adjoining was bad- ly damaged. Fi who is an aged and well-to-do Italian, Bas received three let- ters since October 6, which made demands on him for $1000 under penalty of the death of nimself and family. He paid no heed to the Jetters and did not even notify the police. The scene of ‘the ex- plosion is in the very Neart of the city. e DETROIT, Dec. 31.+.A ‘fire to-night in the four-story br u ng at the northwest nér of Fort and Fourth streets did $100,- 000 damage. Trm X is estimated at Covnt S <= W lle] Filled by Durnovo. Court Idol to Become the Premier of Russia. g Be ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3L 7:35 p. m.— The report that Count de Witte s booked for retirement in a few days is again be- ing persistently circulated. The Nasha Shisn, which declares it can guarantes the accuracy of its statement, says that | M. Durnove, Minisfer of the Interior, who {is worshiped as an idol by the court | camarilla, which believes that his stern policy alone can put an end to the exist- ing anarchy, bas accomplished the down- fali of the Count and will be elevated to the Premiership. Investigation, however, indicates that the report is baseless, certainly for the moment. Nevertheless, jt is true that M. Durnovo has a powerful cabal of reac- tionaries behind him and temporarily seems to dominate the situation. M. Manukhin, whose sudden retire- ment from the Ministry of Justice, In which he is succeeded by M. Akynoff, a membLer of the Senate, created a stir, re- signed, according to the Moiva (Russ), rather than submit to M. Durnovo's die- tation in matters which he regarded as being strictly within the sphere of his Ministry. He insisted that the reports of the Senators who were dispatched to in- vestigate the Jewish and other massacres following the imperial manifesto of Octo- ber 30 should be made to the Minister of { Justice in order that legal proceedings could be begun against the police and other local authorities found culpable. M. Durnovo resisted this, declaring that the interior administration belonged to him. When M. Durnovo was sustained M. Manukhin resigned and M. Akynoff, who is a brother-in-law of M. Durnovo, ‘was appointed his successor. “WITTE MUST GO.» On the other hand, Count de Witte is more flercely than ever on Liberals, who charge that o F b5 The reve fdtion in tricts, fastehed a white handkérchiet to'a bayonet and :fisp]aycd the signal of surrender. heavy as reported, not mere than 20Q¢,inhabitants of the Holy City having been slain. {-- been broken up, though theleadérs fi’iv\c issued a call summo 4 o3 . r 5 e T 9 R L T 5 | | | i | i | | | i T IS PONN //~\ E\Vitte’s Place Will| | | l i L3 | A Wil ki EX. DURNQVQ - RUSSIAN PREMIER SAID TO BE SLATED FOR RETIREMENT, LIB- ERAL LEADER AND MINISTER | OF THE HRIOR, [ LR S SN he i= showing the cloven hoof and say that he might happen to fall hetween two stools. 7 M. Brianchaninoff is out with a strong article in the Slove entitled “Witte must g0.” in which he asserts that the victory at Portsmouth has been followed by de- feat at St. Petersburg. His line of argu- ment is that anarchy has been able to make headway bécause true liberals doubt whether Russia is to have a con- stitution or whether the manifesto is only a tactical move to lull them to sleep, It was Witte's first duty, according to the writer, to rémove this doubt, but it Is charged that he still maintains an equive- cal role. . 3 A man like 2. Guchkoff, in whom the people have confidence, must go to the head of the Government,” says M. Brian- chaninoff. . “It is impossible for Count ‘Witte, who never was a constitutionalist at heart, to continue to play a double role any longer. The situation imperatively requires sincerity and we would have less of Witte's dexterity and more honesty.” The Government is now on the theory that'a victory over the “reds” is assured. It is displaying a strong front and announces that it will no longer tolerate in its service employes who are plotting against it. The Ministers have been authorized summarily to dismiss such employes. % The preparation of ——e LAST OF THE FIGHTING (Millionaire'sDeath - caw."” FREELY USED BY A CGIRL LEGION GIVE UP ARMS| Reveals Life of Dozen Shots From Cannon Force Terror- ists to Surrender to Troops. “Revolution Is Over iR} Is Message Sent to Workmen by Their Leaders. MOSCOW, Dec. 31.—White flags fly- ing from a dozen factories in the tene- ment houses of Presna district, where the revolutionaries made . their last stand, now bear mute witness to the end of the “December uprising in Mos- The entire district is now occu- pied by troops. During the night the vast majority of the members of the “Fighting legions” either surrendered or. after throwing away their arms, endeavored cape in the guise of peaceful citi- Only the members who acted as a guard to the revolutionary committee stuck to their colors and the surrender of this handful this morning furnished the last act of the sanguinary drama. The staging of this last act was ad- mirable—a snow covered landscape, the small black residence with a tiny red flag fluttering from its gable, the end of Gorbatoff bridge, black: with the guns of the artiller a thin en- | circling line of the ky Resi- ment of the Guard, broken only directly in the line of fire. Suddenly. there was a flash of red fire from the mouth of oune of the guns, and a solid shot .plowed through the walls of the house. A few spluttering shots replied from a window. The cannon spoke again and again, until a dozen shots haa n.en fived. LOOKS LIKE MURDER. It looked like murdeér to the specta- i | | ’1 | | | - B gx%amm: HANINQFF o | | > | | tars on a hill, and so evidently thought the officers in command of the battery which ceased firing. A reserve com- pany of the Seminovsky Regiment then | nced and figed volleys at the upper | Ows. ¢ At the third volley a white | handkerchief attached to a bayonet | was pushed through a shattered pane. It waved frantically-and all was over. The little garrison of thirty umrchedl out_and laid down their arms, a strange collection of rifles and repeat- | ing shotguns. All had revolvers. Strange to say, not one of the men had even been wounded, and when they found that they would not be imme- diately executed they appeared to be rather relleved that the end of the strggle had come. They gathered around the soldiers’ bivouac, stretched their hands eagoerly over the cheerful | | fires and begged cigareties from the ! guards, | The number of prisoners is being con- | stantly augmented. most of the new ar- | rivals belng arrested at the bridges or at | other points of egress in the Presna dis- trict. which is crowded with refugees. It has beon learned that after the fights at the Prokharoft cotton mill and other fac- tories a council was hastily held at which | it was decided that the revolution had failed and an order was given to every | man to save himself as best he could. | A hundred agreed to hold together so as to keep up a show of fight under cover of which the others could escupe. After the final surrender the inhabitants | swarmed into the streets of the district and in a remarkably short time cleared away the barricades and other obstruc- tions . with which for a week the revo- lutionaries had blockaded the distriet. | This morning a correspondent found one street where on Friday it was necessary to climb over thirty barricades, clear from end {o end. All these except three, T leased. 2, Column 4. | Insq ‘which were carried by troops 2y, were demolished b~ the inhabitants, who were as Industrious in tearing them down as they had been in crecting them. | - As the correspondent proceeded he was several times searched by soldiers, who | were endeavering te' discover revolution- aries. The soldjers were considerably per- plexed at the language in which the notes in the pockets of the correspondent were written, but in each case he was re- of five the soldiers penetrated - | throwing the 1644s into {ed dis every house, séarching for weapons. Consldering the intensity of yesterday's bombarément, when as many as five shots a minute were fired, beside the steady volleys of the infantry, the losses were surprisingly small, not more than forty of tke revolutionaries or the inhabitants be- ing killed and only about 200 being wounded in the district. The artillery yesterday was concen- trated mainly against the factories fring- ing the 4 ., but the revolutionaries usually decamped at the first shot, taking refuge in the cellars of hou: Beauty. Gotham’s “400” Be- fooled by Friend of Railroad Man. Contest for Riches Expected to Follow Opening of Will of Traction Magnate. NEW YORK, Dec. 3L.—The World has a half-page story telling how Emilla Grigsby, the beautiful woman whom Charles T. Yerkes established in his Fifth avenue mansion, won the friendship of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and otoer New neighboring | York society women, only to lose it when their suspicions were aroused that she The shrapnel and rifie bullets did noty wag being maintained by Yerkes. penetrate beyond the outer walls, and in only a few cases did the walls show com- vlete penetration by the solid shot. correspondent visited the Prok- haroff, Manontoff and other factories, where, according to last night's reports, sand of the fighters had per- e ruins. He found fragments where, but no trace of . He was informed by a care- ho had stuck to his post through- out the fighting, that there was only one | person killed and a dozen were wounded. Among the fighting revolutionaries were several girl students, who stood by their comrades until the last. The only serious attempt at defense was made at Schmidt's furniture factory. where the-jossés were heavy, but is it im- possible to give the number, as the build~ ing was burned and the bodies were incin- erated. The Manatoff factory, in which an Englishman named Bigsby is a part- ner, was also burned. FEW TROOPERS SLAIN. The losses to the troops were slight in this region. The Seminoffsky Regiment, which performed most of the work, had one man killed and a score wounded, the latter including Colonel Eller, who was shot through the neck. The Presna quarter is a scene of deso- lation. This afternoon fugitives were eeking new homes and the women were bending under the weight of huge packs of bedding, many of them dragging their children alonz. Sleds were piled with all the worldly goods of many families, the family ikon usually crowning the tap of each pile. The poor people made very slow progress with their bundles and were subjected to continual search by the soldiers, wha , gometimes delighted in the snow and making merry at the sorry spectacle. In addition to the fires in the bombard- cts, which are now under con- trol, a conflagration broke out last night in the buildings adjoining St. George's Church, which it is believed were set on fire by the revolutionaries as a means of diverting the troops. The buildings burned all night and the firemen had great diffi- culty in saving the church, the spire of which was filled witlr Shrapnel fire early in the week against the insurgent sharp- shooters, whe picked off the soldiers by rifle shooting frem it. The appearance of the center of the city to-day is quite normal. The people.' who have been ccoped up for a week, are rrowding the streets, through which pass gay sleighs and the magnificent turnouts of the Moscow merchant princes. To- night the city is quiet except for an oc- casional shot whore a revolutionist is trying to escape capture. NAME DATE FOR FIGHT. The Workmen's Council, or what is left of it outside of prison, has formally de- clared the strike off. The revolutionarles hayve managed to get out a proclamation declaring that the purposes of the revolt have been fully accomplished and calling upon the proletariat to prepare for a de- cisive battle on January 22. A great many of the workmen, however, are in an angry mood. They claim that they e been deceived by the revolutionaries and that their families are starving. These are threatening vengeance on the agita- tors. Some of the empioyers, like Mr. Barry of the American Boiler Works, will shorten the usual Christmas vacation from sixteen to four days in order to al- low the men to earn something, It is reported that a band of revolu- tionaries vesterday attacked the political prison, but were beaten off with severe loss. The casualties, however, were greatly overestimated, but it was difficult to ob- tain reli~ble figures. Up to Friday night only 187 were formally reported as dead and 227 as wounded. Governor General Doubassoff has issued a proclamation forbidding well-disposed citizens to shelter revolutionaries, but the former are powerless, as the revolution- aries appear at their houses with revel- vers in their hands. MEN IN AMBUSH FIRE ON AUSTRIAN COUNT Noblemarlx anlgsgis Chhauufleur Narrowly pe Inj From Revolver I"usilhlslz Cable to The Cail and New York Her- E t, 1905, N Hiais Fonthbing Conpany, ¥ . Yark VIENNA, Dec. 3L.—While traveling from Budapest to Kaschau in an automo- bile, Count Geza Andrassy was) fired on by five men, armed with rev ‘who were hiding on the road. Count Andrassy and his chauffeur escaped injury. | ©On a voyage to Europe she-hecame ac- quainted with Mrs. J. P. Kernochan of New York's 400. Miss Grigsby was a woman of striking beauty and a fine con~ versationist. She occupled the finest quarters in the ship. and by her lavish display of money and queenly deportment made an easy mark of Mrs. Kernochan, who introduced her to Mrs, Stuyvesant Fish !n Parls. This was the first trfumph for Miss Grigsby in her ambition to be- come identified with the 40 and to ultl- mately lay New York soclety at her feet. In Paris sas spent money lavishly. On ope occasion while eut with Mrs. Fish she purchased strawberries at j00 francs (¥0) a box, and the careless manner in which she tossed the notes to the frult merchant aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Fish. The berries were intended for a lunch- | eon to be given in her apartments. Mrs. | Fish. Mrs, Kernochan and others of the American colony accepted her invitation and upon the arrival of the strawberry party at Hotel Bristol more fuel was added to the flame of Mrs. Fish's curi~ | osity and suspicion. She found Emilie Grigsby domictled In the “Prince of Wales' " suite, the most elaborately fur- nished in all Europe. | No one better than Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish knew the history of this magnificent suite, and discovery of Emilie Grigsby's tenancy almost teok her breath away Within a week after this midnight luncheon Mrs. Fish was in full possession of the facts. The invitation to Newport was abruptly canceled. LEmilie Grigsby met the exposure of her friendship with Mr. Yerkes with this defe: “He is my illegitimate father. During my mother's girthood in Kentucky Mr. Yerkes wronged her cruelly. That wrong was my inheri= tance and Mr. Yerkes in caring for me is_only doing his duty.” Emile Grigsby strove desperately bug vainly to compel the acceptance of this explanation. Though abandoned by the American women, she remained im Europe, where she succeeded bet- ter in her fight for social ree= ognition. The climax of her suos cess was the conquest of Henry James, the noted author and confirmed woman hater, who offered to marry her, bus whose offer was rejected. Startling as have been the disclosures in the romance of Yerkes, yot when his | body is lowered into its grave in Wood~ | lawn Cemetery to-merrow at neon, that | will be the signal for fight over his vast fortune, which is expected to reveal evem more astounding features of the great family dissension. The will probably will be read shortly after the fumeral, and It is most signifie cant that Clarence Knight, long Yerkes® personal counsel in Chicago, is in this city and was to-night busily engaged over the affairs of the dead millionairs. Those most familiar with all facts bew lieve it certain that an examination of the will is going to show that before his death Yerkes disposed of a tre= _ mendous portion of his estats in suoli way that his rightful heirs will be ahut out of any great participation in the millions he piled up. This will at once precipitate a clash between the varfe ous Interests which are beginuing te line thefmselves up and within a fow days the facts which must necessarily Ibe brought out will lay bare 2 condition { mo ene has dreamed of. - | A veporter who gained access to the » “house of mystery,” the magnificont | establishment at 660 Park avenne. which Yerkes established Emilie Grigs- by, the beautiful woman whose ife was so strangely associated with Yerkes, describes it as a most remark- able mansion; equipped with sliding panels, secret stairs and elevators., for just what purpose no one knows N magnificent library is one of the feam tures of the house and the bhoks are said to have heen scideted by Misg i Grigshy herself. e INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE MEWBERS YE FOR HONES Insurance Seandal Inguisiters Take Rest Before Preparing Report to Legisiature. NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—All members of the legislative insurance investigate ing committee except *hose whe live in New York left this city to-day for their homes to have a day, er two of rest before meeting in Albany on Wed- nesday to begin preparing their report to the Legislature. Charles E. Hughes, wearied with his labors as inquisiter, left his home to= day to rest in the country until Thurse day. He will go to Albany, night. unless his programme to aid in the preparation mittee's report and in rn-la Tegislation resulting from gatlon. 5