The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1906, Page 1

San Francisco and Fednesday; fresh G. H. THE WEATHER. Forecast for February 28, southwest wind. Local Temporarily 1n Charge. 1908: vicinity—Showers WILLSON, Forecaster, VOLUME XCIX—NO. 90 QRPHEUM—V ALHAMBRA—“The Fatal Wedding." ALCAZAR—"The Girl With the Green GRAND—“"The MAJESTIC—“TL ville. TIVOLI—“Isle of Sgice.” Belle of New Yark.™ Proud Prince.” e SAN EDNESDAY, FEB RUAKY 28, 1906 PRICE FIVE CENTS. POWERS RUSH WARSHIPS INTO CHINESE WATERS + SHANGHAL, ¥éb. 27.—The survivors of the massacre of missionaries at Nanchang have arrived at Kiukiang. The French cruiser Descartes aud the American gunboat Quiros salled today for Kiukiang. France, England and America Hasten to Sen Aid to Missionaries.in the Orient. - i | | ICAN IN CHARGE OF THE CONSULATE AT 10, WHICH HAS BBEN DISPATCHED TO that the British sloop Clio and gumboat Teal nre already there. MANILA, Feb. meand of Captain Logan. PEKING, Feb. ~The battleship Ohio, flagship of the American fleet on the ‘Asiatie Hongkong, where xhe will,dock and rush tepairs, so ax to be prepared for possible exigenciex. The Ohlo is in com- ~—American Consul General Rodgers has telegraphed from Shanghal that fourteen American misslonaries, who fled from Namchang, renched Kiukiang in safety. The gunbont El Cano is proceeding from Nanking (o the scene of the trouble. 27.~The Navy Department has received a cablegram from Shanghna! announcing the de- prrture from (here yesterday of the gunboats Fl Cano and Quiros for Kiuklang, whkich Is ncar the scene of the re- WASHINGTON, Feb. ported trouble. SUE CARNECIE TOSTOP SALE OF ACITY LOT Rich New Yorker and His Daughter Are Plaintiffs. Special Dis; 3 ‘eb. 27. — Willlam D. e daughter, Mrs. Florence have taken steps by an they have jointly brought me Court to prevent Andrew m completing the sale of a the north side of and Fifth avenue, ad- & which is owned by on e prominence of the parties and luable plece of land Involved is likely the litigation will prove to be interesting. Mrs. Burden declares t if the sale is perfected and Lloyd 8. Brice, the purcheser, is permitted *to erect the house he has in contemplation f * his residence, her home will be de- stroyed in many respects and the light ir she is entitied %o will be inter- with. she and bher father declare that Carnegle hes agreed to sell the property to Mr. Brice 1= violation of his stipula- tion that he would sell only the entire plot to a purchaser for the erection of a private dwelling. Bhe asks the court to restrain the carrying out of the sale of thie parcel and ‘also to prevent Carnegie from delivering a dced to Brica WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Reports from the 3 s parts of China and from vari- sources are so conflicting that epartment has been forced to- has been uninten- estimation of con- times during the It was sald emphat- would be eriminal on the part of the ed States if it were not ready at this time to defend the lives |of the Americ in that country. peated that a surplusage of troops a was O in, the Philippines was necessary, that preparations made by the navy were im- | per ? that nothing less than this | coula be done. | The gunboat Quiros will join the El | Cano at Kiukiang. * | ncident with the first statement was | another that the department had been | alarmed at the first news of the threat- | ened ‘outbreak, general in its character, throughout China agalnst forelgners and partcularly against Americans. However, when the fears of the department were put into print by the newspapers the de- partment feit that the matter had been overdone and hastened to alleviate any apprehension which might have been caused by the published accounts. Now the department is certain that there is great cause for anxlety United States should omit no precaution for the safety of its citizens doing busi- ness or mission work in China. A dispatch received at the Chinese lega- tion from the Chinese Viceroy of Canton says that the boycott movement there has entirely disappeared, and that there has not been a meeting of the Chinese mer- | chants to consider this subject for some | time. Everything i& quiet, it is sald, and | foreigners have nothing to fear, Mem- bers of the legation !augh at the idea of | any general uprising in their country. | They point out that the central govern- | ment is firmly seated and holds a tight | 1¢in upon the people and a second Boxer | retellion is an tmpossibility. TROUBLE NEAR AMOY. MANILA, Feb. 2.—A leading Amerjcan firm in this city bas recelved the follow- ing cable from Canton: ““The boycott has greatly encouraged the anti-forelgn feeling. Teachers, re- formers, agitators and the native' news- Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ] It and that the | —t d It is understood siation, has sailed for HADLEY KNOWS ROCKEFELLER'S HIDIG PLACE Head of Standard Oil Company Is at Pocantico, —_— Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW YORX, Feb. 27.—Information which has come to Henry Woolman, special representative of Attorney Gen- eral’ Hadley of MisSour!, settles the | question of the whereabouts of John D. Roclefeller, head of the Standard Ol Company, for whom subpena sery- ers have boen diligently searching for two months. - Rockefeller {8 snugly hid- t;zen ‘l'n his country home at Pocantico, Although the representative of the Missour! authorities ' knows that, the man whose testimony In the Standard Oil hearing Is most desired is within a few miles of this city and has been there ever since the subpena for his appearance was issued, he Is powerless to produce him before Commissioner Sanborn, Woolman said today that Rockefeller had on several occasions taken advantage of the law which pre- vents the service of subpenas on Sun- day and had attended church and taken outdoor .exercise. Lack of funds to pay detectives pos- sessing the cleverness to get within serving distance of Rockefeller is what has prevented the Missouri Sfate De- partment from placing the head of the | this city twa 'years ago. MO BURNS “THE HOMES * OF NEGROES Ohio Troops Sent to Suppress the Rioters, - Springfi—efi Whites War Upon Ail Colored Residents. Carnival of Vielence Follows the Shcoting of a Brakeman. L Special Dispatch to The Call, SPRINGFIZLD, Ohlo, Feb. 28 (1:30 a. m.)— ce 5 o'clock last uight this city bas been the sceme of mob dis- order, the outcome of feeling over the shooting yesterday morning of Rall- road Brakeman M. M. Davis by Preston Ladd and kdward Dean, negroes, both of whom been placed under arrest fiere. Because of thefr threatemed iynehing, the prisomers were hurried under cover of darkucss to-might by the authoritics to Dayton, where they are now safely lodged in jail. When the mob learned that the prison- ers hud been taken from tne city it went Lo that part of town known as ine *Jun- gles,” iuhabited by "colored people, and vegan to burn and loot dweling houses | and saloons. At least six dweHings were burned gnd the contents of one saloon looted. A foree ot scventy-five members of the military companies is guarding \1€ scene where the mob holds SWBK. 1 The avihorities believethe two negroes werc saved from being 1¥hched aniy by thelr removal from the ¢ity. At.an early fiour tus morning Sfierift Alroney wired Governor Pal mrg Bl traghs and to hoid s in ness for possi- ble call tomorrow. The authoritiss say that the scenes are similar to ‘these which ended in ‘the lynching of Richard Dixon, a negro, in The sheoting affray occurred in the rall- road yards early sterday morning. Brakeman: Davis was seriously if nbt fa- tally wounded by the two negroes. A mob of 1000 men and boys formed | and marched to the gles.”” The mob soon reached the “‘jungles” and battered one house to pieces with stones and | posts used as battering ram: At 10 o'clock the mob entered Kempler's saloon on East Columbia street and quick- ly looted it. Kempler and his wife fled, leaving thelr three little children asleep i a room over the saloon. The buflding | was riddled with 'buliets and stones, and it was ony by the hardest efforts on the | rart of the police and fitemen that a way was forced through the mob and the chil- dren rescued. After the pillaging of the salcon, drunkenness was an added fea- ture of the riot. At 11 o'clock members | of the mob broke through a cordon of GEORGE D. COLLINS IS CONVICTED OF PERJURY BY HIS JURY. After cre kcur's Celiberaticn ‘tke juiy in the trial cf Cecige D. Collins en a charge of perjury fourd the ceferdent guilty yesterdey efterrcen befere | will appear before Judge Burnett for sentence Saturday. — N > G E R E I\ [CorLins. & CLARICE AT CURIST COLILINS. WPy pclice and set. fire to other houses in the | “jungles,” which were quickly burned. Sergeant Creager, who had charge of the squad of police, was hit on the head with a brick and seriously wounded. | The city authorities succeeded at 12:15 o'clock this morning in assembling parts of Companies B and E of the Third Regi- ment, which are stationed here. The total force numbers about seventy-five men. They, are now on the scene of the fire and have pushed the mob back both ways in Columbla’ street, east from Water street and west from Foster. Just as the troops arrived one more building was fired and no effort was made | to save it. The efforts of the police and | the firemen and the guardsmen are now directed solely to foreing the rioters back and saving the property “outside of the doomed square. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, Feb. 2 ter midnight four compa Fourth Regiment in Columbus were or- dercd to assemble at their armory to| awalt further instructions, Two compa- ries of the Third Regiment at Dayton and angther at Urbana are also under walting orders. A joint request was made by Sheriff Almoney and Mayor- Todd of Springfield for all available troops to be dispatched to Epringfield. DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 25.—Companies' G and K of the Third Regiment of this city have been ordered to Springfield and will leave by the-first train BLOODSHED ATTENDS TAKING OF A CHURCH INVENTORY French Gendarmes Use Their volvers and Fifteen Persons Are Wounded. LEPUY, France, Feb. 27.—Serious | disturbances occurred to-day’ during | the taking of the inventory of a vil- | Re- lage church near Saugues. An enor- mous erowd, armed with sticks and stones, surrounded the = gendarmes, many of whom’ were beaten or pelted with heavy stones. The gendarmes, in order to extricate themselves, fired their revolvers, wounding fifteen of the mani- festants, two of them mortally. Two officers in charge of the gendarmes were badly hurt by the mob. 1 ' —————— ‘Will Honor James F. Smith. MANILA, Feb. 27.—At Jolo, the Moro capltal, a monster banauet will be ten- dered by the resident Americans anld Filipinos to future Governor James F. Smith on the eve of his departure on a six months’ vacation by way of BEurope, all, including the Radicals, uniting in honoring the future Governor, — | Europe. — : -‘se A. G. Burrett cf Sznta Resa. He S Crafty Attorney Is Declared to Have Falsely Sworn That He Was Not Married to Charlotta E. Newman Seventeen Years Ago. ——eeeeee] TO CALL HIM “HUSBAND. AN INDICTMENT CHARGING HIM WITH FERJ WOMEN, (RANGLING AND FIGHTING, WAS YESTERDAY CONVICTED ON OF WHOM CLAIMS THE SOLE RIGHT e WOMAN THICE WELL KNOWH T0 THE “400° New York Prisoner Is * Prominent in Society. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—When Mrs. Caro- line Flower arraigned today on the charge of thefts from the St. Regis Hotel, an astounding case of dual life was put on record. Mrs. Flower is booked by the police as Caroilne Maben Flower, alias @ Thelma Paulson. She appears to be a sort of fe- { male “Jekyl and Hyde.” As Mrs. Flower, this prisoner of 30 years is known in musical clrcles and New York soclety an accomplished mu- | siciah and composer, a woman of educa- tion and culture and as having consider- able wealth, for she is part owner of the apartment-house in which she lived. As Thelma Paulson she was a mald In various hotels in New York and is charged with having, while employed in a menal capacity in the St. Regis, stolen and disposed of silverware, fine table linen and other household accessories for gain. Tonight friends of Mrs. Flower, studios, at Carnegie Hall and in soclety houses, were astounded to learn of the double life she has led. The talented Mrs. Caroline Maben Flower was self-cultured. Originally she was Katrina Pew. As a girl she earned enough to pay for a musical education in Then she christened herself the She married more sonorous “‘Caroline.” and divorced a John Maben out W =t Standard Ofl Company in the witness chair. Woolman said that if he haq two good men at his command he could produce this ifmportant witness event- ually. It might take a week or two, he sald, but cnough men and money could accomplish the desired result. bim. —_———— Coming With Fourteen Prisoners. PORTLAND, Feb. 27.—WIith fourteen soldler prisoners, mostly charged with desertion, Major Dodds left Vancouver Barracks tonight for Alcatraz Island. - who have known her in art circles, In’ { on next Saturday, for sentence. EACH - TJURY’S VERDICT IN || CASE OF PERJURER | | We, the jury in the above en- titled cause, find the defend- ant, George D. Cellias, gullty as charged. FREDERICK A. ELLIOTT, foreman, 638 Castro street. JOHN T. BULLWINKEL, 802 Poeifle strect. WILLIAM M. CONNOLLY, 701 Clement street. J. H. SCHUTT, 210 Douglass street. HENRY GAETJEN, 114 Chat- tapnooga street. . H. YOUNG, street, CHARLES W. REBMA, 1700 Fell street, CLARENCE COLEMAN, Market street. HUGH DRANE, 403 Sacra- mento street. W. XK. HAYS, street. GEORGE WEDEKIND, Larkin street. A. SHAW, strect. 725 Market 1303 Polk 904 1045 Mission - - George D. Collins, the erratic; brilllant, much-married attorney of the San Fran- cisco bar, was found gullty yesterday aft- ernoon by a jury which brought back a | verdict reflecting on his character. The jury was out only an hour. ‘The perjury of which Collins is convict- ed consists in his denying under oath that he was married to Charlotta Newman in May, 1889. The denlal was made last June In an answer to Charlotta’s sult for maintenance. The defendant heard the verdict without showing emotion. “This |s an empty verdict. I shall ap- peal to the Supreme Court,” was all that he would say. He will appear before his trial Judge, A. G. burnett of Santa Rosa, Just before the verdict was brought in | Mrs. Charlotta Collins appeared in the courtroom. Collins was seated chatting with his friends and carelessly leaning back in his chair before the attorneys’ table. No look or sign passed between two, as both sat awalting the verdict that means much to each. Throughout a fight that must go on the Caiifornia records as one of the most ex- ceptional cases in legal history, the de- fendant has indefatigably fought his Continued on Page 2, Column 1. POISONS WIFE BEFORE EYES OF PHYSICIANS Fiendish Crime Charged to North Carolina - Doctor. ——— 1 Spectal Dispatch to The Call ———t GREENSBORO. N. C., Feb. 27.—The trial of Dr. J. B. Mathews, a well known phys- iclan of this city, charged with the mur~ der of his wife, will come up in court toe MOTrTow. On December 1 Mrs. Mathews was dis- covered in a state of narcosfs, and her case was diagnosed as morphine pofsone ing. Three physiclans attended her all day and late in the evening she showed signs of recovery. Then her husband asked to be left alone with his wife for prayer, and when his request was refused he knelt at the side of the bed, ran his hand under the cover. and, before the physicians could stop him, had admis- tered a hypodermic injection of strych= nine. His wife expired shortly atterward, in great agony. The wife poisoner then coolly told those present that what had occurred would have occurred a number of years sooner but for his son’s sake, and Indicated that he had killed his wife on account of her infldeltties. Mathews’ lawyers, however, will set up the plea of insanity, it is sald. During his stay in jaill, Mathews has repeatedly tried to commit suicide. e Lawyers for the defense sprang a sen- sation today by circulating a report that an analygls of the syringe used by Mathews showed no trace of strychnine, but only morphine. Three physi- clans who were present at the of Mrs. Mathews say Dpositively died of strychnine poisoning at the of her husband, Both husband were opium users. 1 [ » £ -