The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1906, Page 1

o and vicinity—Clearing . preceded by ght west wind A Distr y light showers; G. MCcADIE, ict Forecaster. ALHAMBRA—The Christian.” ALCAZAR—"Mrs. Deering’s Divorce.” CALIFORNIA—""An Eye-Open: CENTRAL—'My Tomboy Girl CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMBIA—Little Johnny Jomes.' GRAND—“The 'Sleeping Beauty and the e MAJESTIC—"The Bold: Sofer Matinee. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"“The Isle of Spic Boy."" Matines. COUNT BON 10 BE NADE A RICH MAN Countess Will Be Generous With Husband. Handsome Financial Settlement Finally Agreed Upon. Castellane Also to Be Con- ceded the Right to Visit His Children. Epecial Dispatch to The Call ly under- n herself she can love for s deep- BAK TN RAIDS ESTATE OF OIL BARON : Guardian of Peace at| Rockefeller’s Home Attacked, are .d least on escaped to cateh ¥ more than i several mem- are try- money under e this morning ario’s refusal of sum. The police nd Malano, who has identified him. he is a mem- WRECKS STORE A BLACKLISTED FIRM Explosion in Doorway of New York Concern Against Which Team- sters Are Striking. " YORK, March 14.—A charge of mite v in the door- off to apin & Bushnel, whole- gainst whom a teamsters’ has 1 in progress for some Thy explosion severely damaged front\of the store. Charges that A their sympathizers set off fie were made by members of Big fract for Raflroad. INDIANAPQLIS, March 14—Options were closed fhday on 2460 acres of ground adjoinhig Indianapolis at a cost of $650,000. Sixthundred and forty acres will be used b} the New York Central for repair shopk, to employ 5000 men. The rest of theland will be used for a model raflroad Yity. The New \ol’k Central system Igs appropriated $3,500,- 900 for the work) \ SEMATORS ANGERED BY - INNUENDOES i Object to Being | Dubbed “Rail- | road Men."” Speech by Rayner of Maryland Stirs His Colleagues. Plainly Intimates That Cor- porations Are Represented in Upper House. Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, - March 14.—Senator | Rayner of Maryland today aroused the | ire of certain members of the Senate who are classed as “raflroad men” and brought forth indignant protests from the latter. Rayner, in & speech in support of the railroad rate bill, plainly intimated his bellef that the railroads were repre- ted on the floor of the Senate; in fact, S rema were so worded as to convey intimation that he took this for of Senators who hav een regarded as over-zealous in espousing the cause of the corporations caused several of .the “'suspects” to make ‘reply. by ner were Foraker and Lodge. Both the Ohio and the Massachusetts Senators took exception to Rayner's contention that thé railroads have interfered with the framing of the bill and Foraker ex- pressed himself as Qissatisfled. with the intimation 'that the rallroads are repre- sented on the fioor of the Sendte... | Knox expressed his opinfon that the bill | would be. unconstitutional without & pro- { vision for review. Tilltan refterated his objéction to the bill and indulged in some | tion, concluding with the remark that he believed that the bill could be so amended as to make it acceptable. The argumeént of Rayner was directed | in favor of the general proposition that | | Congress has the right to fix rates, but | that the bill could be improved by amend- | ment. RAYNER FAVORS THE RATE BILL. Rayner announced his adherence ‘to | the rate il as it passed the House | After stating that the power to ate commerce among the States was greatest, power conferred upon Con- the constitution, Rayner en- immedfately upon the considera- of the various branches of his sub- He expressed the opinion that dis- crimination was the real issue 1" he said, “an accurate railroa | discrimination map of the United States were published today, there is hardly gress by tered | | E any one who could be made to believe | that it truly represents the actual situ- | ation; we know, for instance, that the | rate on certain lines of merchandise from { Chicage to Denver is nearly three times as much as the rate on precisely the same line of merchandise from New York to San Francisco. ship We know that it costs goods the entire distance than it does to ship e goods one-third the distance, vhen goods are destined from Boston to Salt Lake they California and back again to Salt Lake in order to obtain the cheap rate; and, knowing these things, we that such a condition of affairs at least uires supervision upon the 'part of less to some tribunal outside of and beyond the ailroads that are simply bullding up seir own territory to Increase their 1 revenue and profits.”’ SOLICITUDE FOR PLUTOCRATS. Reference was made to the claim that the enactment of the proposed ' legisla- on would demoralize the raflroad sys- g | tem and the business interests of the country and in that connection Rayner said he would admit that “it would ‘be a great pity to destroy the. equilibrium or destroy the proper balance of Messrs. | Vanderbilt, Morgan, Gould and Harri- man. He added: “Things are in such fine shape around this table that it would be a shame for any uninvited guest to break into the karmony of the scene and'turn it into & Belshazzat's feast.” On the question of a review of the find- ings of the commission by the courts, Rayner said: “1 am in favor of an amendment to the Hepburn bill vesting in the courts the right to ‘try the question of unjust com- pensation, with restraining orders abol- ished, and with the further right, if pos- sible, to let the court fix the rate if it re- verses the order of the commission. With these changes I am in favor of the bill as passed by the House, and if we cannot get these changes I prefer to take the bill as it is, rather than mutilate or destroy its efficiency.” | Announcing that his interests were jdentified with the raflroads, Rayner ad- vised the raflroad managers to accept the | pending legislation. SENATORS ARE OFFENDED. Both Lodge and Foraker took exception to some remarks of Rayner, the former to ‘his advice to the railroad officlals to amend the bill, and Foraker to a refer- ence to him and to Aldrich as being pleased over the good fortune of the rall- roads. Rayner declared that he had no purpose of intimating that either Lodge or For- aker could be influenced by the rallroads or any one else to swerve one iota from their sense of duty as Senators. But he did believe that if the railroad interests would agrec to do so they could haye the suspension pmrlalun taken out of the Dbill. “Do you believe they put it in?” de- manded Lodge, and the Maryland Sena- - Continued on Page 3, Column 3. ed, and his mentioning of the names | Among the Senators who were' aroused | I characteristic phrases in stating his posi- | regu- | are carried to| must realize | OVER SCORE LOST INA SHIPWRECK RE L P 5 Twenty-Seven Die in Disaster on Atlantic. Steamship British King Goes Down Off Sa- ble Island. Several Lives Are Saved by the Heroic Efforts of [ Seamen. — BOSTON, March 14.—Intense suffering and numerous acts of herolsm rarely equaled in the records of tragedies of the sea attended the loss of the Phoenix Lin- steamship British King, which on Sunday last, in a raging Atlantic storm, foundered about 150 miles south of Sable Island and carried to death twenty- seven members of the crew. Thirteen | members were rescued from the sinking vessel by the Leyland liner Bostonian, bound from Manchester to Boston, and eleven by the tank steamship Mann- heim from Rotterdam for New York. Five others, who had been drawn down in the vortex into which the British King was engulfed, were picked up by the Bostonian from a frail bit of wreck- age which they had grasped after a des- | perate struggle for life in the whirlpool. The Bostonian arrived here this after- noon and the detalls of the disaster be- came Known. Captain James O'Hagan of the British King died on board the Bostonian from the effects of terrible injuries sustained in trying to save the ship. ~The rescued who were brou‘ht here, today include James Flanagan, the sec- ond officer; J. D. Crawford, the chief engineer; adolplius Brew, the fourth en- gineer, and William® J. Cufry, the stew- {ard. "The otaers were coal passers and sailors, mostly Belgians, and one stow- away from New York. The lifeboats from the Bostonian were crushed to fragments and the volunteer crews which manned them were thrown into the high running seas while en- gaged in the work of rescue, but all were safely landed on board the steamship. When the first lifeboat was lowered from the Bostonian the small craft was swept against the stern of the big ship and ‘destroyed and several of the sea- men were bruised and maimed. Yet, de- spite the boisterous conditions of the sea, | the volunteers were rescued by lines thrown out from their own steamship. A second attempt to reach the sinking ship was successful and thirteen men, including Captain O'Hagan, were taken | from the British King to the Bostonian. | Then again a powerful billow carried the | lifeboat against the side of the ship and | destroyed it and the lifesavers were thrown into the sea, to be rescued only after an hour's work by their comrades. Volunteers from the Mannheim, after a herofc battle with the waves, had taken off cleven from the British King, but | after this neither of the steamships, in | consequence of the increasing gale and ! on-coming darkness, could make an at- tempt to reach the foundering freighter. Soon after the British King, which was then waterlogged and helpless, plunged to the bottom. The British King salled from New York last Wednesday bound for Ant- werp with a miscellaneous cargo and 150 head of cattle. Previous to the ap- pearance of the rescuing steamships every small boat of the King had been demolished and there was no way In Which the. crew could leave the ship. The British King was bullt at New- castle, England, in 1591 She was 404 feet in length; tonnage, 3042. She was owned | by the British Shipowners' Company of Liverpool. WIFE OF STEEL KING COREY IS AT RIVERSIDE Mother and the Sister: of Her Husband Are With Her. RIVERSIDE, March 14—Instead of seeking a residence in South Dakota, as has been reported, Mrs. W. E. Corey, wife of the Steel Trust magnate, accompanied by her husband’s mother and sister, is registered at the Glenwood. The party arrived here several days ago. Mrs. Corey and her companions have devoted their time to auto trips to the | surrounding country and have kept aloof from the other guests of the caravan- sary. When approached by a Call repre- sentative tonight,- Mrs. Corey declined to be interviewed. She refused to state whether she contemplated filing divorce proceedings or whether she would tafe up @ temporary home in Dakota. So carefully had Mrs. Corey concealed her identity that there were few here who knew she was the much talked of ‘wife of the president of the Steel TYust, | It is understood that the but their y. will leave here tomorrow, tion is not' known. JERONE. HAS LONG TALK WITH BLISS ‘Ready to Take Up the Insurance (Cases. MayHaveSoughtLight on Gifts During Campaign. District Attorney Asks for Appropriation to Carry on Work, Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 14.—One of thé callers on District Attorney Jerome to- day was Cornelius N. Bliss, 'formerly treasurer of the Republican national com- mittee, who as such received political contributions from the big insurance com- panies, in one of which, the Equitable, he was a director. He was in consultation with Jerome for an hour, and as soon as he left the *District Attorney forwarded a letter to the bpard of estimate and apportionment, asking for an appro- priation of $10,000, which he said would be needed in the criminal prosecution of persons connected with the insurance companies. From neither Jerome nor Bliss could it be learned if the visit of the latter was by request or If It was voluntary. Bliss was ushered into Jerome's private.office and the doors were closed. Bliss was a director of the Equitable when in the campalgn of 1904 a payment, ade io the m‘ Htfimesa ‘parid AL e Bliss'was tional committee: asked by a reporter if right for him to receive-Such a contribu- tion from an insurance company’ of which he was a director, he declined to reply, characterizing the question as improper and impertinent. To the request for adyice made by Judge O'Sulllvan of the General Sessions Court by the Grand Jury. last week. as to whether the making of political con- tributions by corporations when unau- thorized or even with authority could be held legally to be grand larceny, the Judge will not be in a position to reply until next week. Jerome was to have handed in a brief on the matter to Judge O'Sullivan, but he advised the Judge to- day that he was too busy ‘to do 'so until the end of this week. That this contribution as well as others he had received from other companies formed the topic of the conference with Jerome was not doubted by any of those who knew of Bliss' presence. It was said that Bliss might be a witness before the Grand Jury next week, but no one in au- thority would talk about this. Bliss would not say a word as he left Jerome's office and when the District Attorney was asked as to the nature of the confer- ence he said: “T am unwilling to make any statement on that subject.”” Then he called his secretary-and dic- tated a letter to the board of estimate and apportionment, sending it to Mayor McClellan, asking for $10,000: SELLS MERCHANDISE BOUGHT DURING WAR Fecentric Man I)ispbses, of Stock of Goods Guarded Since 1861. Epecial Dicpatch to The Call, NEW YORK, March 14—In the nine- house hamlet of Cross River, nestled ex- actly forty-five miles from Herald square, among the hills of Westchester County, there was an auction sale today for which the inhabitants of that section of the country have waited since the days of the Civil War. The goods included in- the auction constituted the entire stock of the general store of George R. Avery, known as the ‘“‘Russell Sage of River,” who, in 1861, because of il health, due to worry over his wife's death, closed that store and never ‘opened it again. When, years ago, the store collapsed in ruins, Avery moved all his wares to a barn. He never in all those years per- mitted any one to even get.a look at his stock until today, when, on his elghty- | was sixth birthday. the doors were thrown open and Willlam Mower, the auctioneer of the village, announced that bids would be heard. Exactly $200.39 was realized on the first day of the sale. The wares disposed of embraced the en- tire category of & typleal country “gen- eral store” :n:‘lod ll’ 'wise many other things not inclue n such classification. Tnmmuuotmmuotm early fifties, green and pink: paper neckties, lamp hom‘»— skirts, shawls and lace PLOT TO KILL IJNG OF ITALY msoomnn PRICE FIVE CENTS. ANGRY WOMAN THREATENS THE LIFE OF J. P. MORGAN IN NEW YORK. + gan robbed her of millions. A woman claiming to be an -English lady of royal blood was arrested in New York yesterday, accused of having threatened to kill J. P. Morgan. The woman says Mor- Taken Into Custody and Sent ro Hospital to Be Examined. Asserts That She Is an| Englisk Lady of Royal Blood. s gt 4 Claims That Financier Should Grve Her Money. Spectal Dispatch to The Jall. NEW YORK, -March 14—Accused of having threatened to kill J. Plerpont Morgan. a well-dressed woman, who says land and who gave her-name as Mrs. Ellen Barbara Williams, living at 43 West Twenty-fifth street, was arrested at the entrance to Morgan's office today. She was taken before Magistrate Wahle in the Tombs Court and sent to Bellevue Hos- pital for examination as to her sanity. While. it is said in Morgan’s office. that the woman has been known there for the last five years, it was not until last Fri- day that she became violent. Then, it is said, she appeared in the office, demanded to see Morgan, who is:in Europe, and, flourishing a revolver, said she would shoot the financier. - She was seen in the neighborhood this morning and Andrew J. Dunn, special officer for the firm, in- formed Lawyer Willlam Rand Jr. Rand's associate, Frank Lord, went to the Tombs Court and presenting an affidavit from Dunn obtained a warrant for the woman's arrest. S Detectives Berry and Flood of the Dis- &he is a cousin of Lord Suffolk of Eng-p T_S'HE SAYS SHE HAE- BEEN ROBBED JREAILS THE W.¥OCus oF MORGANS ;OFF! S NOTED FINANCIER WHOM TRUSTED MILLIONS TO A WOMAN IN’NEW JTHE BANKER AND. THAT HE HAD FAILED WOMAN WAS ummsb AND TAKEN TO. A HOSPITAL. _ ) YORK THREATENED TO K“Ll;h *- s - trict ‘Attorney’s office: went to Morgan's office and as the woman, who is about 45 years old, was about to enter they stopped her. They placed her.In a . cab and then she began to struggle and scream. - As the cab dashed up. Broadway it was followed by an excited throng. The woman was taken to the Tombs Court and there placed .in the magistrate's prlvnh room. She nked if Morgan's son was to be present. She said to the magistrate: “T think I will convince your Honor that ! have real grievances ‘and am very far from being insane.” . SAYS SHE HAS BEEN ROBBED. Auorney Rand read a statement saying that Mrs. Williams called on J.- Pierpont ) RULER OF AUSTAIR 1S STRICKEN BN- | THE | SHE HAD TO . HER. CLAIMING -~ THAT MAKE, RETURNS MANIAC WOULD 00 MURDER IN WHITE HOUSE Said - to Be Sufl'ermg Ramblmg Talk Betrays From Stroke of ‘__Pa.r'alysis. LONDON — “March 4—A report obtains persistently in the embassies of London, and 1s also said-to be circulated in’ the Continental ‘chanceliories, that the aged. Emperor of Austria_has been stricken with paralysis, ‘affecting one. side .of his body., mm‘n is sald to have followed nvmwmumulwm the Em- peror: and. m Hungary' that tmltno tened secession. - It‘hdr | clared " thét “the "exact - condltion of of his :Cabinet over v 4 :{h ;ctl- theory uzu mfim o et mm-n u - fullm Plan of Cincinnati Madman. ol 65 X TR Special Dispatch to The Call. { CINCINNATI, March 14.—The - police today nipped in its infancy a plot that “developed in.the mind“of ‘an unidentified madman to go tos Washington and take the life of the President. The man’s rambling talk betrayed him and he was locked up.in the First District Polles station. T want transportat to Washing- ton,” he satd to Alexander Landesco, the Mayot’'s secretary. He was asked why. He refused to an swer .at .first. e “I have fflflldl h;l declared Then his talk began to ramble. "l want to kill the President,” he cried dy: “I will kill him. The there,” —mm and I are the saviors of hu manity. The sins of the world must be cleaned with, his blood.” ——————————— Possible Rupture at Algeciras. LONDON, March 15.—According to thl ‘Daily Mail's correspondent at Alge-+ ciras immediate rupture of the con- nan ‘Moroccan nfor-l is within *