The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1903, Page 2

smn ELLS WRECK AL S.LECATI ~ San Domingo Closely Besieged and — American Minister’s Home, with Other Buildings, Destroyed by Revolutionists, OVERTURES FOR PEACE ARE FLATLY REJECTED. Leaders ot the Revolt Are De- i termined, They Say, to Force ~ the Surrender of the City in Spite of All Interference. SAN DOMINGO, Nov. 2%.—The rest: ence of the United States Minister has beer demotighed, together with numer- dus other bulldings in Gan Domingo, ‘he bombardment .of insurgents. oo aed Trave falled and the be-| al force thréatens to utterly de- stroy the entire city. , The inhabitants are in the wildest panic. Provisions are so high in price that only those with plenty of money lor with reserve stores to fall back upon ‘are able to eatisfy thelr hunger. The ‘poor are suffering’ severely. A little longer the sanitary condition of the elty become such that an epidemic will ensue. ‘The long-range guns which were ex- e| DAY Y OPERATOR ‘IS. JAILED IN TOWER MURDER. (Continued from First Page.) churchyard gate when Constable Myer stepped up and sald, “I want you to come with me, Billy." Michaeltree asked an explangtion, but the constable hurried him to the sheriff, who stood a Short distance away. They put him in NOW, AND DAUGHLER IN WHOSE FACE HER DOOR WAS CLOSE pected by President Wos y Gil have not!, buggy and drove ‘off to the Look arrived, and the Government forces | Haven Jall, In the jail Michaeltreo sald within the city are practically helpli to The World. correspondent that he Out of range of the Prosident’s artillery. | nad eaten his dinner at home at 6 the insurgents are enabled to bombard | otsieee Thursday evening and then went ‘without the slightest danger to them-|to the home of-Ed Colbe, a neighbor. » GARTAGENA CLOSES PoRTS selves. bi A desperate effort was made yester- day to bring about a peace arrange- ment: President ‘Worx y Gil delegated ‘United States Minister Powell, the Bel- gian, Minister, the Haytian Minister and *the Spanish Consul to visit the insur- gent camp with a compromise propos}- Mon. This brought about an armistice lasting until 6 o'clock in the eventing. The insurgents “would 1: bsolute ‘surrender of the city. dent Woa y Gil- refused to surrender; ‘and at nightfall the bombardment was} a gold watch, which was crushed and resumed. ‘The residence of the United States] was Minister is a total wreck. Tt was struck | derer. Tepeatedly by insurgent shelis, ‘COLOMBIA WANTS TO BE ANNEXE Suggestion That Its Capital Be \ Transferred to Panama Is 1 Not Likely to Be Accepted by . the Isthmians. / WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%3.—The Navy ‘Department has received a cablegram from Rear-Admiral Glass, commander- ‘In-chief of the Pacific Squadron, froin ‘anama, under date of Saviriay, stating that the conference of Gen. Reyes, the Special Colombian Commissioner, end sthe atithorities of Panama was without result and that Gen. Reyes had sriled for the United States. Tt #& believed that aside from a propo- sition for Panama to assume part of the Colombian foreign debt Gen. Reye's main purpose is to advance the sugges- tion that the capital of Colombla be transferred to the City of Panaina. This is equivalent to the annexatior of Col- ombia by Panama. © The opinion in oMcial circles here is that, though flattering: the proposition ‘will be rejected by the Panama Commis- sicner&\if for no other reason thay be- cause throdgh: sheer weight of numbers the Colomblans soon would control the administration 6f the reunited repur n@ the situation cs to Panama would de as it was before the revolution and separation. Mr. Beaupre's status remains u ed ao far ag to the oMcials here know end notwithstanding the menacisg tone ot the notes addressed to him by the Colomblan Minister for Vorviga Affairs as pet out in thepress dospate from Bogota. the State Departmen docs soi consider that there has ne the relations between the and Colombta. ———— EMPEROR: WILLIAM ORDERS RECOGNITION, chang- BPRLIN, Nov, 23.—Emperor william has diveled the German authorities to offisiuliy recommize the Republic of fama, An a:nouncemert of the re mition of tie new State Is expo ally. The Lriperor to-day received in andi- ence Buron yon Sternburg, the German! Gptd Lonsdale. “TO SHIPS FROM COLON. BA decree TRE. Castagena Noy, 16 bh that mo stecmers shall bo BWed to clear from Cartagena for Coion ie ent riagena coming ‘from ‘Colon, ‘the: Consils aud steamship Jat Cartagena have protested. we effect, mEaInet tha decree, r al- “Prussia, > Noy, ~ 26,7) ave, brother of Floia y died yesterday en fo MO }in the tower with Clendenin, and a Proposition but one comprehending the | rayjnond man who saw the visitor says Presi | ne looked like Michaeltree, On Michacl- Amiessador to the United states, ang!) Bun risen, 6.60/50n BROTHER OfAp, |™ E ip with.whom he remained until after 7 o'clock, when he went to the theatre at Lock Haven, It was at 6.65 P, M. that Clendennin's dying message waa recelved at Jersey Junction. Michaeltree said he was a lifelong frlend Of Clendenrin’s, but had not seen him since his return from New York, hore he had been working for sev- eral months. Some one spent. Thursday afternoon tree, when he was arrested, was found pot running, taker Clendenain's gold watch from him by bis mur- Helongs to Girl. Michaeltree said the watch he had belonged to Miss Mamle Overhill, the young woman whom he had driven to church. He sald'‘sho dropped tt they drove along ans ono of the buggy wheels passed over it. Marti, A. Gill, the day operatgg at Brown's Tower, sayn the a thot iBtes haye the. name of the murdei He says that a negro arrested in Bhamo- kin had Clendennin's watch in his possession and had confessed he was yith the man whg killed the operator in the tower. Thonegro, Gill asserts, qtood at the bottom of the tower with a spike maul, while the murderer crept up the stairs and shot Clendennin as he sat at his key, The first shot broke the operator's arm and desperate struggle followed. in which two more shots were fired. ‘This exhausted the murderer's ammunition and he ran to the bottom of the stairs for the spile maul. This gave Clendennin his op- portunity to wire his mossage of warn ing. He was finished sending the mur- derer’s name when a terrific blow from the heavy hammer crushed his skull and he fell to the floor, Clo the Key, As his arm dragged down it closed the key. The negro was then called up into. the towor, and was helping the murderer search the body and rifle the two sult cases in the place when the heaanght of the engine bringing relief} from North Jersey Junction flashed out and they darted away. ‘The authorities will not confirm Gill's story, and they deny they have any negro under arrest who has made a confession, but GIT ts positive tn his} statement, and his story js so clrcum- etantial that it hay a ring of credibility. Gill wag vory likely the man whom the murderer sought, as he is a constant speenlator, and is known to have mado| several thousand dollars lately and ul ways curries a large. bum of money. Chief Detective: Humphreys, of the Northern Central, denied to-day that he had any evidence to connect Michael- tree with the murder, and. said his su¥ordinates had not furnished the Sheriff with the Information which led to the arrest At Clendennin’s uneral the cler&¥- man opened the service by reading the circular announeing the %00 reward which the Northery Central has mado for the arrest of the murderer. Coal and tron pol to-day rested Joseph Moscow between Shamo- iin and Sunbury on suspicion of having oBbar and aesuplted telegraph oper- robbed nrel Tater At Allenwood, | Mos- Stor Mus locked up in the Northumbor- loci Gounty Jal} at Synbury. When ar- ren! Wwan riding on a sduthdound te ot Readhie freight train, ———_— WwW. J. MORAN'S MOTHER DEAQ, Mrs. Lucy J. Moran, mother of will- J. Moran, assistant se Mayor, is dead. in’ Wo will residence, in that elty, are services brose atreet, ictarligienterren: SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO War. 4. 7\Moon wate. 8.45 Low Water. AMP Bandy Hook i Governor's lijgnd Hel! Gate Ferry im MMs New Orient chy of + Bavannah LNCOMING | AMSILEPS, NG M , meuntains back of Talib, 300 KILLED IN FIGHT THAT LASTFD FIVE DAYS Gein, Wood Quells Uprising in the Philippines After Several Brisk Skirmishes with Insurgents Hidden in Swamps. MANILA, Nov. %.—Threo hundred Moros are Known to have been killed and many more carried off dead or wounded during five days of continuous fighting between the Amenican forces In com: mand of Gen. Leonard Wood and a largo body of insurgents. Major Hugh L. Scott, of the Four- teenth Cavalry, and five American pri- vates were wounded. Gen, Wood i# now cleaning out a force of two thousand Moros who are in the No news has been received from him since Nov, 1. The campaign against the Moros was inaugurated Nov, 12, when Gen, Wood landed near Stet Lake, In Jolo. His force consisted of two battalions of the Twenty-elghth Regiment, ene of the ‘Twenty-third, q platoon of Capt. George EK. Batley’s battery, two troops of the Fourteenth cavalry und a detachment of engineers, Hly qux!lary force, un- der Major Scott, was made up of three companies of tho Seventeenth Infantry, a platoon of Capt. Rumbold’s Battery and @ troop of the Fourteenth Cavalry, Fighting for Five Days. ‘The Moros were soon located and brisk fighting began and was kept up for flye days. The campaign was carried tito a country covered with swamps and rocks, of which the 2000 Moros knew every foot. ‘They were driven by flank movements back on the town, where they had their headquarters, and Has- ven and fifty followers surrendered HUNDREDS SCRED NL "ROAD CRASH Rear-End Collision on the Kings County Line Causes Excite- ment Among the Passengers —Some Were Slightly Injured. Hundreds of passengers on two trains of tho City Line Division of the Kings County Flevaiyd wad wers badly shaken and some wero tly InJured iy @ rear-end collision The 3 TO-DAY Povlo, Liverpovl. Rhiladeiphta, la Guayra. Germanm, Sogren. doo» Hull. oUuTGO! NG STEAMSHIP wt Chie front end and the rear end of the trains Were smashed and the voad dlocked for some Unie, The accident ovctirred on Ptticins ave nue near the Linwood etreet station. ‘The motorman was unable ta stan the Fifty dead Moros were counted by the Americans, who took possession 6f the down, The main body of the insur- gents escaped, but hung close to the in- vading army. While Major Scott and a detachment were taking Hagsen prisoner to'Jolo, he asked to be allowed to visit his fam- ily. His appeal was granted and he led the Americans into an ambuséade, ‘ Americaus Repel Attack, he Americans suddenly found them- 8 faolng a cross-fire, Major Scott wounded in both hands, but he ravely held his ground and rallied his foréo and repelled the attack, Hassen escaped in the melee, but 1s thought to have been killed in ¢he fighting next day. Major Scott flanked the force which had surprised him and drove them back on their former headquarters, noW occupied by the Americans. When he had them between him and the American force he attacked them in front, while Gen, Wood's force sallicd out from the town and attacked in the rear. ‘The Moros were routed and left seventy-six dead on the fleld. On Nov. 17 the Americans attacked again and dfove the remnant of Has- sen's force out of the swamp with 9 loss of fotly dead. Gen, Wood then sent re Scott yack to Jol6 and pursued the \toros into the mountains, He said that there were no indications of the uprising spreading, and that the offensive torco Of the movement was completoly crushed. rénr’ traln because the brakes did nat works ax % Great excitement prevailed among the passengers unlit they were assured’ that the dangér was ‘over, Two men are known to hayo been in- Jured in the collision—Theodore Hetza, seventy-five years old, of No, 007 Blake avenue, who ‘wes stepping off 4 car of the forward train to the platform of the Linwood street station, and a Mr. Black, who is suffering from shopk. The com- Pany took every precaution to hush the accident up, and Hs representatives saw hoth injured men before they left the station, re WOULD-BE SUICIDE FAILS. Well-Dressed Woman Trier v to WIM Herselt, A well-dressed woman about thirty- five Yoarw old entert @ saloon at Mott etreet and Chatham équare to-day and attempted suicide by swallowing a quantity of carbolic actd, An ambulance was summonta ‘and she was taken’ to the Hudson Street PNeleet 3 = wotine meee .| nah BMas to-day. HANNAH ELIAS AS SHE LCOKED 15: YEARS AGO AND AS SHE APPEARS TO-DAY HANNAH ELIAS SHUTS DOOR IN FACE OF CHILD. (Continued trom First Page.) ‘I'm sorry we couldn't get inside. I'd Jugt ke to have # look at it."* Girl Much Disgppointed. The girl was clearly disappointed. When she got to the house she was |gmiling and expectant, but there were | tékreTn her éyes when she was turned away from the door ‘of the home of her *|Owh mother. | Hudson and the girl were not the only Philadelphia visitors of interest to Han- Her sister Wlizabeth came over from the Quaker City, and was met by the, brother Dave, wha 1X ® bellman-at the Victoria Hotel. They consulted a lawyer, and if there is any money to be divided among the family they will not Be overlooked. Tt 1s not known whether Clara, the ohild of Hannah ¥llas. will make an- other attempt to see her mother. Natu- rally, with the emotional temperament of Her rage, sho js greatly excited over the revelations that have bees made to that even if she could see her mother gi§ would be disowned. “It {9 no more than right," said Hud- gon to-day, ‘for Hannah Elias to pay me something for what I have lald out on the care and education of her daughter. When she gave the child to mo seven- teen years ago ste wes poor and ‘triend- loss. Now that she {s rich she ought to remember who took her baby in.” After the ineffectual attempt of Clara Hudson to s¢e ther mother an Evenin: World reporter went to the home 0 Mes dollag and presented his card. ‘The ald took it into the-house, returning iAtla sAgoment with ‘this statement: “Mrs, Eijias js in no condition to see a ‘aimoat dead, and her that use, any one. She is vhysician has given’ strict ord ba one I to be allowed In th FELL FROM WINDOW INTO BROADWAY Cleaner Plunged Between Two Men Who Were Walking Arm in Arm on the Sidewalk and Was Instantly Killed. jp Sj While cleaning windows on the third floor of the Dun Building, No. 290 Broad- way, to-day, Frank Grogs, thirty-three oars old, slipped and fell head first to the sidewalk. Hundreds of persons were passing at the time apd Gross split apart two men who were walking arm in arm. He struck on his head and was Instantly kiled. Immediately an enormous crowd gath- ered and Broadway was congested and fot and street car traffic was blocked. An anybulance from the Hudson Btreet Hospital was called but the surgeon said that Gross had been killed so suddenly that he knew little of his fall, The body was taken to the Church, street police station, ; Gross, wio was married and had a family, had not been provided with a window cleaner's safety appliance, which would have prevented his fall- Ing. The polica were told that there was such an @ppliance in the building and ‘that Goss could have availed him. self of It had he destred. oo JENNIE YEAMANS BANKRUPT. but Meeting of Grediters © Only One Pre Dr, Pettingill aaa the only creditor present at the meeting of the creditors of Jenne Youmans, bankrupt, called } for this afternoon. at the office of J, J. ‘Townsend, veferee, at No, 45 Codar street. No demand was made for an examing- tion of the bankrupt, and as there are no assets no motion was made for the appolaunemt of @ trustee, A further hearing will $6 announced at the pleas- wre of the referee. Mise Yoamans wad . t when the meeting was open Bygone when, tantly 19 Dr Botti pile Nona Rae dt HANNA’S BOOM COLLAPSES. |: Refuses to Say Whether or Not will RB WASHINGTON, “Nov. '23.—According to cloge friends of Sénator Hanna, tho revived bodny for Hanna for Presidont, which started after the Ohio election, is about dead again, Manna ts reenonsilie, He has stead- fastly rofused to say he is a candidate. Me Has sald, within tWo woels, that. he has a perfect understanding vith Pri dgyt Roosevelt, and that ts conceded to bo Yee case, “He has told one or two of thoge closest to him, and dat enthu- slastio in his support, to keep quiet, Ones Kanmrame nee eae ia her, But she ts quite dark and fears|' THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 25, 1903, ‘RICH VICTIM OF PLOT TESTIFIES | Samuel Lewis, Skirt Manufac- turer, Whom Young De Veau Planned to Rob..Never Knew the Alleged Conspirator. i} HAD EMPLOYED ELLA EAGAN, Detectives Swear They Heard the Prisoner Comspire With Oliver Nelgon to Hold Up the Intended Victim—Found Knockout Drops. County detectives testified in the tri of Edgar E. De Veau hofore Recorder Goff, in General Sessions, to-day that they had heard De Veau conspire with Olive Nelson to hold up and rob Samuel skirt manutacturer, of De Veau, who |s a stenographer and barely nineteen years old, 1s on trial for fied that De Veau, with whom he had formeny worked, had. suggeste: the robbery of Mr. Lewis, certained, he asserts, from Ella Bgan, a girl who worked for Mr. Lewis, that the latter was in the habjt of carrying large sums of m and Jewelry with him, Nelson. divujged the robbery plot to Disirict-Attorney Jerome, who de- tailed County detectives to act in con- cert with Nelson for the purpose of en- trapping De Veau, + Detective Piatt testified to-day that he had taken two bottles alleged to have been found In De Veau's Ilving rooms to the Board of Health, and there had thelr contents analyzed. He was told one contajned ghloral hydrate, better known as ‘“‘knook-out drops,"" and the other chloroform. Mr, Lewis, when called to t! ag, Yaaid: that head never elson, before stand this ‘morni id that seen either De Veau, or the nigut of De ae 4 “Did You, ever. rl name! ent gan?” Assistant ih dridt-attorney Nott, asked Mr. Lew): “T did," was the teply. “She worked for me until I dischar, cher on Opt. @. Mr. Léwis, at the pequest of the pros: ury the latea dia mond ting, pin and gold watch and chain, which, aacanding to Nelson, was to'be'the booty of the robbery to be perpetrated. George Hammond, the head of the county detective bureau, testified that had Seen Nelson in isthict-At- office frequently pefore Nov. 4 y the robbery plot was to ve consummated. He told ‘how he had fol~ lowed and arrested him. i Lawyer Gamuel Feldman,-De-V¥eau's counsel, cross-exam'aed Hammond at great length regarding the actions and sayings of the defendant when arrested. “I advised him not to talk,” Hammond testified, ‘warning htm that anything he said might be used agit him ‘An attempt by the District-Attorney to get the two bottles and thelr con- tents into evidence was not successful. ‘his closed the gnae. for the prosecu- tion, end. Lawy, re eidmnan. Made the for the defense. vend ny ec! Se ean, ‘was thy first witness called by the defense. sald he met. Nelson for ae dat tune in Aeptenyer last, and OFS eait teoumed “his testimony at the ‘afternoon a¢ssior FALSE ALARMS DUE TO VICIOUS BOYS Caught After Having Kept the Fire Department on the Jump for the Past Three or Four Months. Duting the past three or four months the various engines and apparatus at- tached to the Bleventh and Sixteenth Battalions of tho Fire Department have been forced to respond to a false alarm nearly evory day. During that time o horse attached to trick 16 has been killed, the apparatus of engine 39 has been badly damaged end a horse tn- jured, and to-day at another false alarm at Seventy-fourth street and Fifth ave- nue the rubber tire on one of the wheels of engine 13 was lost. ‘The perpetrators off the false alarms had never beon captured, and when tho alanm came in from Seyenty-fourth street and Fifth ayenue orders wero given, if it proved to de false, to spare no effort to catch the culprits, ‘When the apparatus reached the cor- net thore was no ong In sight, Across the street 1s a vacant tot, in which a quantity of lumber was piled. In this ‘oting Battalion Chjet Dougherty found Samnee Ross, ten years old, of No, at East ' Seventy-sixth street; Thomas Gaciigah, eight years old, of No. 1336 Phird avenue, and Anton Higgins, elgnt years old, of 1823 Third avenue, All three bo¥s laid the blame on a fourth boy tamed George Miller, of No. 1445 Second avenue. Miller Js the eldest ‘of the quartet, being thirteen years old, He was arrested 'by Detective Devlin and taken to the station-house, Wien Miller axrived the boys accused each other, and poncticatly every petty crime that could ibe thought of was laid at elther the door sree four boys attend Gt. Ann’s Bol L Seventy-sixth street, but pin MRookey" as often aa ft ls Hossible tO wore sent to-the rooms of e Prevention ol tl to-morrow | will niidren’s Branch of ti Sessions. 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