The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; MONDAY, JANUARY 22 ' GOVERNOR OF HAWAT GETS'1S PERISH NGRY WIFF > SETBACK IN WASHINGTON. N W= SN = lonored in Selection of a Circuit Judge. —A cable from Advertiser says that TR MCE OF B0 W e SR Relatives of Young Violin-| ist Who Disappeared in Brussels Prosecute Search ngs. ing left here for ke hold of s »r Bard, who was b away. A New York detective e r es here have not 1 police force. unication with Brussels, but he eir knowledge. £k one he had taken the other e on a trip, but shortly was found at a repair November 7 & man -answering f young Bard was r hotel, but when traced it was gh an American and a e one sought for. ve been traced, to naught. came and his folks hing from him they at he hed simply 26 that some- ened to him. They suicide and feel sure en his life. They are le to trate him » BREAKS ARM TRYING vada Man’s Attempt to Show Spryness Ends Disastrously. h to The Call 21.—A playful prank may ot ant his right arm. A few PBryant in the presence' of his mpted to show her how high he ng 'so he feli, sustain- his righ% arm. »od poisoning set in and for treatment. Last mmation was somewhat is a chance that the the world pro- abiti the best of all as a smooth one, there s and mountains and un- ery, and the natives e Mariposa sails for Ta- Reduced rate for this woy- trip. Send for circular, 653 President Hiding. FUAYAQUIL, Kcuador, Jan, 21.—It is nored that Senor Lizardo Garcia, Ecuador, has taken refuge the Brazilian legation at Quite, the capital. It is impossible, however, to gscertain the truth of this rumor, as communication with Quito fes inter- supted. 1 President room, which t out by the report | t any time from the | ABILITY AS KICKER| ant was taken to the ! NN | | & — GOVERNOR OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, WHO MAY AGAIN TENDER HIS RESIGNATION. —3 RESIDENT CUTS PRINTING BIL IOrdors That All Unnecessary | Matter Be Excluded From the Government Reports | e % WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Te do away | With unnecessary printing originating in the department and to improve the form | of the annual reports and other depart- ment documents, the President has issued | the following instructions, applicable to | all the executive departments: ere shall be appointed by the head of each © executive departments an advisory com- e on the subject of printing and publica- The chairman shall be an assistant sec— other qualified official and at least er of the committee shall have had experience in editing and printing. be the duty of such committee, un- m of the head of the department, to nnecegsary matter shall be excluded etins; that copy is carefully t after going to the print- ; to do away with the publication of Ty tables and to require that statis- ter be pu shed In condensed and in- ; to supervise the preparation of nk forms: to prepare the frequent revision malling lists; to prevent duplication of print- ing b\. different bureaus; to exciude unneces- sary illustrations from department documents and to prevent the printing of the maximum | edition allowed by law when a smaller edition w fice; to recommend to the head of the for inclusion in the recommenda- ned In his annual reports needed the statutes governing departmental P | ® The President has directed that the fol- lowing general priciples shall hereafter govern the form of annual reports of the various bureaus and offices of the depart- ments: First—Annual reports ehall be confined to concise sccounts of work done and expendi- tures incurred during the period covered, with recommendations relating to the future, in- cluding plans for work to be undertaken. | , Second—Contributions to knowledge in the | form of mclentific treatises shall not be In- | cludea in_annual reports Third—Illustrations in annual reports shail | be excluded, except: (a) Reports and dia- grams indispensable to the understanding of ihe text; (b) views of monuments or important struotures begun or erected; (c) views showing conditione in outlying possessions of the United States and relating to work done or recom- | mendations made. Fourth—Inserted material, written or com- { plied by persone not connected with the re- | Borting otfice, and blographical and euloglstio matter relating to the past or present personnel { rt}:hchn[flt:e shall bs c—xclufled?r ifth—Reports of officers who o mot directiy to the head of an exscutive deteve | ment shall not be printed in the annual re- port of & devartment, but where necessary | shall be summarized in the reports of the of- ficiais to whom such officers do report. Sixth—Tables shall be inserted only when verbal summaries and statements of totals are inadequate, and complete texts of law and eourt decisions shall, except in cases of great importance, be excluded. Seventh—Detalled descriptions and lists of methods, processes, purchases, bids, rejections, | installations, repairs, specifications and per- sonnel employed ehall be omitted except when required by their unusual importance or by statute. The President also announces that he iw”l sppoint a general commission on | bookmaking, advisory to all the depart- ments. . THUGS WOULD THROW VICTIM INTO RIVER Captain of San Francisco Yacht Has Exciting Ex- g perience in Portland. Special Dispatch to The Call. | PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2L.—Captain W. F. Calvert of the yacht El Primero from San Francisco was in peril of his life | this evening when he was held up by :!tm(pld! on the steel bridge across the | Willamette in the northern end of: the jcity. Two burly fellows, unmasked, or- j dered the captain to throw up his hands. !When he refused he was seized and séarched, about $25 heing taken from him. Then the larger of the holdup men want- ed to hurl the mariner into the river. Captain Calvert pleaded for his life, and, as his captors hesitated, footsteps were heard and the men fled . Colored Congregation Rushes for Door at Cry of Fire ‘ in Philadelphia and Many | Are Trampled Under Foot |BLAZE EXTINGUISHED | IN VERY QUICK TIME . Most of the Victims Women Who Fell in the General | Stampede as They Reached Stairway of the Building bt PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2L—A wild panic lo‘llowlnz a loud shriek of “fire” brought death to eighteen colored per- wons and injuries to mearly two score more to-night in St. Paul’s Baptist | Chureh om Eighth street. The terrible rush to gain the street was of brief du- | ration, and that more were not killed | |in the stampede probably was due to | the fact that the church was mot | erowded. : | At the time the disaster occurred not | more than 3800 persons were on the second floor of the building, which, with the gallery, was capable of accom- modating six to seven hundred. The fire was a trifiing one and was extin- gulshed before the firemen arrived. » The smell of smoke added to the panic and despite the heroic work of the Rev. Mr. Johnson, pastor of the | church, who trled in vain to allay the | fears of the frightened worshipers, the | terror-stricken people made a desperate | rush to leave the church, only to be | choked up on the narrow stairway. | Those in the rear leaped over the pros- trate forms of those who fell, and when the rush was over eighteen lay dead on the first floor and stairs of the build- ing. Death in nearly every case was due to suffocation or trampling. Following is a list of the identified dead: Sarah Rufing, Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Pat- ton, Ruth Framer, John Berry; Anna | Alexander, aged 40 yearé; Mamie McKen- ney, Busie Holmes, M/s. Mary Weblock; | Charles Gardiner, ag/d 14 years; Mamle | McCall; Ambrose Sldughter, 3 years old; Catherine Sewell axd Ruth Zrainer. MEET DEATHl 07 STAIRWAY. The disaster occurred while a collection was being taken up. The pastor had just concluded his sermon, the text of which was, “Why Sit We Here Until We Die?” Following the collection there was to have been a baptism. Some of the colored people had left the church and oOthers were about to go. As the pastor was ar- rann% the pulpit preparatory to begin- ning the baptismal service a woman in one of the front rows gave a loud shriek of “Fire.”” Instantly all those about her were on their feet looking for the blaze. There were no flames in sight, but those near the pulpit smelled smoke and start- ed down the aisle toward the puipit. Then followed a half-dozen cries of “Fire,” and the whole congregation became panic- stricken. The pastor by this time realized the serlousness of the situation and in & loud voice, which only added to the con- fusion, called to the terror-stricken peo- ple to be seated. No one listened, and de- spite his frantic appeals a rush started that meant death to many that were in it. At the rear of the church on the second floor there is a wide doorway which leads to & stairway to each side of the build- ing. Fach stairway has a sharp bend, which proved to be the principal contribu- tary cause for the jam. The front door on the first floor is wide and easy of exit. When the rush started, those in the rear of the church did not fully realize what was wrong and were slow to move. The frantic shrieking of the women and chul- dren became louder and more general, and many were knocked down in the two alsles of the church. Then came the ter- | rible rush down the stairs. For somgun- known reason everybody tried to get down the left side of the building, com- paratively few attempting to leave by the right stairway. One eye witness says that perhaps a dozen persons got safely down the stairs when several people tripped and fell and caused the narrow way to become jammed. Beveral men on the first floor attempted to hold the people back, but were knocked down and then the human stream came tumbling down. The weak- er ones fell, only to be trampled upon and crushed by those coming from behind. BALUSTRADE GIVES WAY. The horrible shrieks sent up by the prostrate persons added to the confu- sion, and by this time even the cooler ones In the rear of the fighting mass, men, women and children became terror- stricken. Strong men, in fear that the building was falling, leaped over the heads of women and children and fought only for their own safety. The terrifie crush in the bends of the stairs became #o great that ballustrade, which was only a frall wooden affair, gave way. There was a terrific crash as half a hundred persons were precipitated to the floor, a distance of about ten or twelve feet. This heightened the intensity of the ic. ‘When those who came down the front stairs had left the bullding a ter- rible sight presented itself to the res- cuers. The first floor and the stalrway to the bend wefe covered three deep with the dead and dying. On the street hundreds wre shrieking ‘for help and looking for their missing loved ones. Police Captain Hamm and a police- man, who arrived at the scene just as the last of the panic-stricken people were rushing from the edifice, took charge and turned in a general alarm for ambulances, policemen and firemen. ‘With the help of scores of colored men and white people who were attracted to the scene the dead and injured were extricated from the terrible mass of humanity and laid on the sidewalks of Eighth street. The ringing of the fire bells, the clang of the ambulance gongs, the al- most total darkness and the thick fog added to the grewsomeness of the scene and caused utter confusion for a time. Order was soon brought about, however, and every one who could not stand was placed In an ambulance and rushed to a hospital. No time was taken up to see If any victim was dead, and within an hour after the disaster occurred the streets had been cleared of the mass of people and the church door closed. —————— Hotel Guests in a Panic. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—A panic among the guests of the Windemere Hotel, Fifty-sixth street and Cornell avenue, followed the explosion early to-day of a steam boiler in the hasement, which resulted in the death of John Rapkoch, an engineer, and the serious injury of Mrs. Zeta May, a guest. The explosion partially wreoked the hotel building apartment buildings, N A PANIC | HORSEWHIPS [N CHURCR) HUSBAND Mys. Emilie Bedot Thrashes Her Wayward Spouse Until He Pleads for Mercy and a Stranger ' Aids Him SAYS SHE WILL CHASTISE AGAIN Accuses Liege Lord of Hard Drinking, Threatens Suit for Divorce and to Use Force Again if Necessary —_— \ OARLAND, Jan. 21.—The swish of the horsewhip in the hands of irate woman is still heard in Oakland, and the latest instance of an Infuriated female taking vengeance into her own hands oocourred this afternoon, when Mrs. Emille Bedot thrashed her husband, Henrl, at Twenty- fourth street and Broadway untfl he pleaded loudly for merey. The woman plied the lash until her hus- band called upon the bystanders for help and Oliver Ekrow, a tourist from Toledo, Ohio, went to his rescue and held Mrs. Bedot until he boarded & car and es- caped. Twice within twenty-four hours a woman has horsewhipped & man on the public streets of Oakland. Last evening a woman known as Mrs. Mallory and also as Mrs. Allison horsewhipped a man n front of a large crowd of racegoers at Fortleth street and San Pablo avenue. Her incentive evidently was that he per- sisted in drinking and leaving her outside to hold their horse. He gave the name of Swartz and Hammond, and both he and the woman who chastised him safd they were married Mrs. Bedot had the same grievance, but she had fewer spectators, although several passengers who alighted from & Pledmont car were In attendance. The woman met her husband at the corner and asked him where he was going. He replfed with a curse that “It was not her business,” and she seized a whip from an express wagon on the street and went for him without regard for her vows at the altar. When Ekrow interfered she had broken the whip into splinters and was using the butt to emphasize her an- ger. “Mr. Bedot has a farm a short distance from Willows, in Glenn-County,” sald Mrs. Bedot to-night, “and we lived hap- pily until he began finding fault with my cooking. Then I saw that he had some one else in mind. We went to San Fran- ciseo two weeks ago and had rooms on Third street, but I was suspicious and followed him every day. To-day I caught him getting off a car at Twenty-fourth street and Broadway and when he re- DR. ELIOT MAKES A PROPHECY o 85 TO Nation Drifting To- ward Democracy in All Things. N Enormous Popula- tion One Hundred Years Hence. Special Dispatch to The Call CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 21.—"“The great movement of the world to-day is toward democracy. The great keynote of the present century, a century that we are entering upon, will be democ- racy in all things. One hundred years from now the population of our coun- try, which is now for the most part wilderness, will be beyond any present conception and this great nation will be the most demoeratic that the world has ever known. The progress of de- mocracy will be the great feature of the advance of olvilization in the pres- ent century. If this is to be sound, the cifaracter of our people must be as sound as their proficienoy in the arts, in commerce and in government.” This was the stirring prophecy of the future of our nation with which Presi- dent Charles Eliot of Harvard Univer- sity began his lecture on “A Just Rev- erence Consistent With a Genuine De- mocracy,” in the leoture room of Pros- pect Union, Cambridge, this afternoon. “Though the critics of democracy claim that democracy has destroyed some of the finer characteristics of older days, such as the reverence of children toward parents, of pupil to- ward teacher, of the people toward thelr ruler, there is-in all these a more genuine relation than formerly,” con- tinud President Eliot. “No nation in the world has such reverence for wo- men as have the men of this great re- public. Our reverence of symbols has diminished, but not for the ideals which these material signals of religion and love of country stand for.” ————————— Death May Be Due to Hasing. GREENSBURGH, La., Jan. 21.—James Sittman, a sub-freshman, who left Jef- ferson Military College, at Washington, Miss., January 11, died yesterday at his home here and it is alleged his death was due to injuries received at the hands of a crowd of hazers at the col- lege. ———ei————— Robbers Wreck a Bank Safe. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T, Jan. 21.— Robbers early to-day wrecked the safe of the Bank of Dale, at Dale, & small town forty miles east of this city, and escaped with about $4000. SRS O TR SRS S fused to tell me where he had been I proceeded to chastise him. Any honest wife would have done the same.” After her husband had escaped Mrs. Bedot went to the home of friends on Sycamore street. She says she will soon bring a suit for divorce and that, pending these proceedings, she will give her hus- band a lashing every time she thinks fie has done something to deserve it. _FUTURE OF COUNTRY A CENTURY HENCE AND SAYS THE AMERICAN ) N7 Tl Ly S WIULIAM ELIO PRRSTDENT ) = NATION DRIFTING TOWARD DEMOCRACY IN ALL THINGS. ] FAMOUS EDUCATOR WHO PREDICTS AN ENORMOUS POPULATION IN THIS e ROBBERS TUNNEL UNDER — 18 to wreck the safes some time Satur- VAULTS OF TOPEKA BANK | day night, but their efforts had failed. Fall to Get Coin After Digging Through Eleven Feet of Solld 1 Rock. TOPEKA, Jan. 21.—A bold attempt to rob the vaults and safe of the Mer- chants’ National Bank of Topeka was discovered to-day. The robbers had | commenced work in the basement and tunneled through eleven feet of solid rock to the floor of the vaults, effect- ing an entrance. They had attempted Flames Attack Chrome Works. 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