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Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
Noted Tragedian Is Taken I'll While Playing
Tennyson's Beckett and Expires Soon
From all Attack Of Syncope

About Nothing" Romeo and Juliet"
Twelfth Night" Faust" Macbeth"
etc, playing in them the principal char
acter with Ellen Terry. His appear
ances in the provinces were equally
successful with those in London, and he
met with like favor in his repeated
visits to the United States.
OF his more recent roles may be cited
Beckett in Tennyson's play of that
name, 1893; King Arthur, in play of
that name, 1895; Napoleon, in Madame
Sans-Gene," 1897; the title role in his
sons play of Peter the Great" 1898,
and Robespierre, in play of that name
specially written for him by M. Vic
torien Sardou, 1899, and the title role
in Dante 1903.
He was knighted in 1895, and in 1898
Cambridge university conferred on him
the honorary degree of LII. D.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
CRIMINAL is IDENTIFIED
Berkeley Robber Believed to Be the
Man Who Murdered Bessie
Bouton
BY Associated Press.

BERKELEY, Oct. 13.-The man
known locally as William Brush, or
Curtis, who with woman companion
is wanted for robbery and attack up
on William Ellis, the Australian sport
ing man, in this city on Wednesday
last, has been identified by the police
as Milton Franklin Andrews, wanted
for the alleged murder Of Bessie Bou-
ton on Mount Cutler. Colo, on Octo-
Der 5, 1904. The detectives say that the
Identification is so positive as to admit
of no doubt.
The minute descriptions furnished by
Ellis of his assailant tally exactly with
those sent broadcast over the country
last year with one who is known to
have been with Bessie Bouton shortly
before her body was found.
Andrews travelled under the aliases
of George Bennett and Milton Frank
lin and it now appears that he has
added the names OF brush and Curtis
to his list.
Not only does Brush or Curtis fit the
descriptions of Andrews but the pre-
parations for the dismemoerment of
Ellis strongly recall the details of the
tragedy in Colorado. Bessie Bouton's
body was found hacked to pieces and
acid had been used to render the work
of Identification more difficult.
No clew to the whereabouts of Brush
and his female companion has yet been
found.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
Army Man Is Given Custody of His Two Chill
dren-Charges of Drunkenness Against
the Officer Are Not Sustained

home of the Taggarts, where she filed
a counter petition for divorce against
Capt. Taggart on the grounds of cruelty
and neglect. The case has been of ex-
ceptional interest because of state
ments during the trial by Capt. Tag
CART that the use of intoXicants in the
army was so common as to be almost
the custom. A number of prominent
army officers were named in Capt. Tag
gart's petition as having been more or
less the cause of the domestic troubles
between Capt. and Mrs. Taggart. Capt.
Taggart is a well known army officer
He is a graduate of West Point and has
served at various army posts of the
army. He was commissary officer of 3
division in the Cuban campaign, aided
in the relief of Cubans, served with dis
tinction in the Philippines and espe-
cially in SaInar, was chief of police of
Manila and commanded the hospital
ship Relief and the transport Sherman
Culver, the oldest child of Capt and
Mrs. Taggart, declared to his mother
tonight that no matter what the court
decided he would remain with her. This
afternoon before the decision of the
court was announced, the child went to
his mother and said:
Mamma, 1 don't have to leave you,
do 70"
The Taggart home is being watched
tonight because of a fear that the
children might be kidnapped.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WOOSTER, o.. Oct. 13.-Judge Eason,
who heard the divorce case of Capt.
Elmore F. Taggart against his wife,
rendered his decision this afternoon.
The court grants Capt. Taggart the
divorce and the custody of the two
children, Culver, aged II, and Charles,
aged Z. Although Mrs. Taggart is de-
MED possession of the children, she will
be permitted to see them. Capt. Tag
CART was in court during the reading of
the decision. Mrs Taggart is ill and
was not present The court room was
crowded with an eagerly eXpectant
throng of people. Judge Eason, before
giving his decision, reviewed the pc
titions, cross petitions, answers and affi-
davits. In the course of his statement
Judge Eason said that the testimony
was deeply touching. The charges of
drunkenness against Capt. Taggart, the
court said, were not sustained.
The trial lasted seven weeks. The
case went to the court a month ago.
The suit was first started in July, 1904,
by Capt. Taggart, who filed a petition
for divorce, charging his wife with con-
duct unbecoming a wife and alleging the
excessive use of intoXicants Mrs. Tag
CART heard of the proceedings in San
Francisco several weeks later and i'm
mediately started for Wooster. the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
ManyPasSengersHurt
by Heavy Seas
Steerage Occupants Are
Severely Injured
Meager Message Flashed by Wireless
Telegraph to the Nantucket
Station by Captain of
the campania
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-That ten
steerage passengers have been serious
ly injured by the in-rush of a terrific
sea and that eighteen others are suf-
fering more or less from injuries was
flashed to the wireless telegraph sta.
tion off Nantucket this afternoon bv
Capt. John Pritchard, commander Of
the Campania of the Cunard line,
which is due in the North river early
tomorrow.
Without details the meager message
from Capt. Pritchard stated that last
Wednesday, when the liner was breast
ing heavy westerly gale off the Grand
banks, a huge sea boarded her from
the port side and engulfed the steerage
deck forward, where several hundred
passengers were standing.
Presumably no passengers in the first
and second cabins were injured, and
of these the liner brings nearly 300 in
ALL
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
MISS ROOSEVELT AND
HARTMAN SAIL FOR HOME
PARTIES GIVEN GREAT sEND-oFF
BY THE JAPANESE
Railroad Magnate Declares He and His
Companions Have Been Treated
With the Greatest Courtesy by the
Mikado's People
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
YOKOHAMA, Oct. 13.-The Pacific
Mail steamship Siberia sailed for San
Francisco 1925 this afternoon, with Miss
Alice Roosevelt and her travelling COM
panions, and E. H. Hartman, president
of the Southern Pacific company, and
his party on board The distinguished
Americans were given a great sendoff
by the Japanese, the resident foreign
ers and the civil officials.
Before his departure Mr.. Hartman
said:
1--WE have been treated with the ut
most courtesy and consideration by all
classes of the Japanese people, I be-
lieve largely because we are Americans.
We had no disagreeable experiences. AT
Toxic DR.. Lyle was accidentally hit
with a stone when not with the party,
he being unknown TO his assailant.
From all, we met with the same direct,
straightforward treatment as at home.
and experienced no difficulty from the
orientals.
IT believe there is market here for
American goods, but they should be
handled by Americans directly repre-
senting the shippers who should closely
follow the styles and quality of goods
demanded in this market. The market
here, like others, must be carefully
watched and competed for. Then
lHeTe Will De gradually increasing
trade between the two countries, but it
cannot be developed suddenly
Some previous statements regarding
the Oriental trade elsewhere, and needs
care in competition.
IT am leaving with regret. Our stay
was too short, but believe 1t marks
the beginning of an association which
will result in lasting commercial al
lance between America and Japan.
Our interest, however, must be hus-
banded by direct, straightforward
methods"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
SUICIDE ADMITS MURDER
confesses He Was Guilty of Crime
for Which Blddle Brothers
Were Imprisoned
BY Associated Press.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 13. Alexander
Wallace, superintendent of police, re-
ceived a letter today from James B.
Smith, warden of the Southern Hi
rois penitentiary at Menard, ILL.,, in
closing a confession by a prisoner
named James M. Brown, few hours
before he committed suicide in the jail.
In the confession Brown states that
he and two companions murdered
Thomas D. Kahney, the Mount Wash
ington grocer, for which crime Jack and
Edward Biddle and Walter Dorman
were convicted, the Biddles escaping
the hangmans rope by breaking from
the Jail with the assistance of the
warden's wife and fleeing to Butler
county where they were located and
shot down by officers.
In addition to the murder of Kahney
Brown charges himself and companions
with having robbed and murdered a
man while on the way from the killing
of Kahney. The body of the second
man, he said, was thrown into the Mo-
nongahea river. Brown also says that
he and one companion murdered the
third member of their party and burned
the body.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
LIKED THE AMERICANS
Noted Actor Looked Forward With
Pleasure to Another Season Here
BY Associated Press.


Pleasure to Another Season Here
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-"Sir Henry
Irving was looking forward with much
enthusiasm to his coming to the United
States" said Charles Frohman, his
manager, in speaking of the distin-
guished English actor tonight. HE
liked the Americans" continued Mr.
F'rohman, land he had many friends
among them. 1t was Mr.. Irvings inten-
tion to come to the United States prob
ably two months in advance of the
time for the opening of his season in the
latter part of next October, and spend
the time in visiting among them. His
season was to cover a period of twenty
playing weeks, extending over a large
part of the United States and was to
terminate at the Knickerbocker theater
in New York city. 1t was to be Mr..
Irving's farewell appearance in America
and he wanted the opportunity to
make his adieus to the American peo-
pie.
Following his last appearance in
New York about the last of February
he was to be entertained at breakfast
at which well known people from New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and Balti-
more were to be invited. He then ex-
pected to sail for England"
Mr.. Frohman was witnessing William
H. Cranes production here of THE
American Lord when he was informed
of the death of Sir Henry "The news
is great shock to me-" said Mr.. F'roh-
man. II have known Sir Henry very
we'll for long time, and the last three
tours of the United States which he
made were under my direction. Previous
to these tours Sir Henry had made six
tours in the United States, the first
running back twenty-five years or
more, when he came here under the
management of Henry Abbey. In all
he has been to the United States nine
times. His last visit was during the
season of 10000, when he opened in
the production of Dante, at the Broad
way theater in New York city and
afterward played in repertoire in other
parts of the country.
1.-THE last time I saw him was at the
Garrick club in London on the 10th of
last July. 1t was at dinner at which
Sir Henry Irving, Henry Watterson,
three or four other persons and l were
present Sir Henry then was in ex-
cellent spirits. He had just finished a
six weeks London engagement at the
Drury Lane theater, where he had been
given the most enthusiastic receptions,
the demonstrations in his honor lasting
at times as long as twenty minutes At
that time he told me his plans for the
season, saying that he expected to play
until Christmas in England, then rest
during the holidays, after which he
would resume playing in the provinces
and end the season at the Drury Lane.
1t had been his intention to come to the
United States this season, but the at
tack of illness which he suffered last
spring broke up that plan"
Mr.. Frohman spoke with much feel
ing of Mr., Twins great regard and re-
spect for President Roosevelt and the
late Secretary Hay and of his earnest
desire again to visit the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
VANDERBILT AND SARTORI
HAVE A MARROW ESCAPE
AUTO BARELY MISSES STRIKING
TELEPHONE POLES
Machine Misses by Fraction OF an
Inch and Then Turns Over on Its
Side and Throws Its Occupants
Onto the Soft Earth
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 13-Alfred G.. Van
derbilt and w. G. Sartori, the Italian
automobile driver, had a narrow escape
from serious injury while racing in
Mr.. Vanderbilt's high power automo-
bile over the Vanderbilt cup course on
Long Island today. They had taken the
car out for a trial spin and were going
at speed of 80 miles an hour down
the narrow road from Albertsons sta
ton toward the double reverse curve
that is the dread of every driver entered
for tomorrow's race. To the watching
crowd at the turn it seemed that the
machine was beyond control, and would
shoot straight ahead into the field.
Within so yards of the. first sharp
curve in the IS" Mr. Vanderbilt slap
ped on the brakes. There was a sue
cession of loud reports and the wheels
skidded across the gutter and against
the soft earth at the side where three
big telephone poles were directly in its
path. By fraction of an inch the ma
chine missed the first of them and it's
rear wheels actually grazed the second.
Then the machine turned over on it's
side and threw it's occupants out int
the soft earth. Sartori was slightly
bruised, but Mr.. Vanderbilt was unin-
jured. They righted the machine and
finished the course.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
GOOD TEMPLARS' ELECTION
Grand Lodge Now in Session at San
Jose Chooses officers-Visiting
Points of Interest
Ry Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN JOSE. Oct. 13-The visiting
members of the grand lodge of Good
Templars today visited various points
of interest in the valley. This even
ing the newly elected grand officers
paid an official visit to the local lodge
and tomorrow all will take a trip to
Lick observatory.
At it's final session last evening the
grand lodge, J.. o. G. T., elected the
following officers: Theodore D. Ka-
mouse, P. G. C. T.; w. P. Netherton,
G. c. t.; A. c. Banta, G. c.; Miss
Clara Bisbee. G. v. T.; A. L. John
ston, G. s.; Mrs. Rose Burness, G. S.
J. W.; Volney Taylor, G.. T.; j. H.
Robbins, G. E. S.; Mrs. A. L. John
ston, G. A. s.; Rev. T. H. Lawson, G..
c.; Miss Nellie Post, G. M; G. P.
Graves, G. M; Mrs. Lizzie Fletcher,
G. D. NJ; Mrs. M. Graves, G. G.; Chris
Stillison. C. S.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
FRANCE
is FIRM
Willing to Fight in
Venezuela Row
United States Need Not
Resort to Force
UItimatum From Paris Will Be Held
Up Until Further Conferences
Have Been Held With
Washington
By Associated Press.

BY N%S0rlated Press.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-American
grievances against Venezuela may be
settled by diplomacy, while France, in
the absence of any dimpomatic rela-
tions at Caracas, may yet be compelled
to resort to a show of force. Despite
the assurances of foreign Office officials
at Paris it is said here that the French
ultimatum has been practically ready
to dispatch for a week or moro and
that France has the full assent of the
Washington government to adopt a
course against Venezuela to effect the
renewal of diplomatic relations and the
restoration of French property seized
by the Caracas government.
This briefly is the situation tonight.
The French ultimatum will be held up
until further conferences have occur
red between the French embassy here
and the state department. So far as
Judge Calhoun, the American special
commissioner, has reported to the de-
partment, there is nothing in the situa-
tion at Caracas that cannot be settled
by patient and firm diplomacy. Ameri-
can and French property, it is con-
tended, has been seized unjustly by
President Castro, but ample precedent
is found in history for the settlement
without resort to force, of problems far
more complicated than the present is
sue.
While not prepared to announce
definitely it's exact course of action
the Washington government has let
France know informally it's belief that
American grievances against Vene-
zuela, although complicated, can be
settled without the assistance of Amer
lean warships. This information was
not communicated with any intention
of forestalling a resort by France to
force but was in answer to the earnest
request of the Paris government. Pub
lie opinion in France is rapidly be-
coming exhausted over the delay of the
government in proceeding AGAINST Ven
ezuela and this fact necessarily acts
as a spur in the conference between
Paris and Washington. This govern
ment will give France every possible
assistance toward diplomatic adjust
ment.
A thorough understanding exists be-
tween Paris and Washington on this
subject and even if France shall find
it necessary to establish a pacific
blockade against Venezuela, the WASH
ington government will offer no objec-
tlon having already assured Itself that
the Monroe doctrine is not involved in
any way.
In diplomatic circles the opinion is
that the Venezuelan president will yield
before a pacific blockade is established.
The aversion on the part of France and
the United States to the use of war;
ships in this case arises from the fact
that the blockading of Venezuelan ports
at this time will affect not so much
Tof1n oil ns INn
to whom a portion of the customs re-
ceipts had been awarded by The Hague
tribunal until their claims shall have
been paid in full.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
GIRL coNFEssEs THEFT
Noung Women Earning $15 Week
Admits She EmbezzIed
$4,000
By Assoclated Press,


NEW YORK, Oct 1S,-Mary e. Gold
ing, cashier for the Larkin Soap COM
pany, confessed in police court today
that she has embezzled at least $4,000
from her employers within four years
and had made use of it to support and
care for her mother. father and invalid
sister at Buffalo.
The young woman was unsuspected
even by her employers up to yesterday,
when, to save another employe upon
whom suspicion of her peculations had
fallen, she voluntarily went to her en-
ployers with the same confession which
she made in court today. For weeks the
girl had worked with accountants en-
ployed for the specific purpose of trac-
ing these peculations, but so well had
she concealed her work that she re-
mained the adviser of both the ac-
countants and the detectives up to yes
terday. Miss Golding's salary was SIS
per week.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
PART |

PART
1-Sir Henry Irving dead.
2-Bankers' session comes to close.
3-GirI sold into slavery.
4-EditoriaI.
5-City news.
6.7-CIassified advertisements.
PART II
1-Mormon pioneers.
2-Sports.
3=4-5-6-PubIic advertising.
7-Markets.
a-southern California news.
EASTERN
Alfred G. Vanderbilt and his chauffeur
have narrow escape from serious injury.
Capt. Taggart is granted divorce and
custody of children.
Cabinet members discuss candidates for
various federal offices.
FOREIGN
France ready to fight if necessary in
Sir Henry Irving, the actor, dies sud
denly.
Hartman leave Japan for the United
COAST
Mission building at the Portland fair Is
burned to the ground,
G. d. Collins abandons appeal and win
return to San Francisco as soon as writ
of surrender arrives.
Man who robbed Australian sporting
man is believed to be murderer Of Bessie
Bouton.
LOCAL
Teamster armed with big knife holds en-
tire grading camp at bay.
Miss Sadie Rain wins damage S1lit
against chamber of commerce.
With impressive ceremonies local Chin
ese celebrate the festival of the dead
Little Mexican girl tells pitiful story of
being sold into slavery.
Meeting in Sixth ward to recall mayor
doesn't recall, but a compromise petition
will be presented to city council.
Auto crashes into street car driver Sc
verely hurt.
William Winter scores Ibsen and his
dramas.
Business man arrested on charge of
forging another's signature to deed.
Building superintendent has warrants
issued for wealthy violators of building
Only one man now behind the Healy
recall movement.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
SUICIDES BODY FOUND
By Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.-The body
of a man believed to be Charles Steine-
man of the Willow Glen basket fac
tory at San Jose, was found in Golden
Gate park this morning. Beside the
dead mans body was an empty vial
that had contained carbolic acid, and
burns about the lips made it evident
that he used this poison to end his
life.
Steineman had been ailing for some
time, but his friends in this city did
not believe he contemplated self-de-
struction.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY
Several Prominent Citizens of PhiIa-
deIphia Arraigned on Serious
Charge
By Associated Fress.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-Charged
with conspiracy to defraud the city Of
Philadelphia, Abraham L. English
former director of public safety; Philip
II. Johnson, architect and brother-in-
law of Israel w. Durham, Republican
organizer; James Finley, a cousin of
Durham; John w. Henderson and
Henry E. Baton, members of the con-
tracing firm of Henderson e. Co. of
this city, were arraigned for hear
ing today before Magistrate Eisen-
brown. Warrants were issued yester-
day at the instance of James Gay
Gordon, private counsel for Mayor
Weaver, charging the defendants with
conspiracy in connection with the
awarding of the contract for con-
structing a new municipal smallpox
hospital.
After some unimportant testimony
the hearing was adjourned until to-
morrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
MISSOURI BUILDING BURNS
Structure at Exposition at Portland
Is Destroyed by
Fire
Rv Associated Press.

PORTLAND, Oct. 1S.-The Missouri
state building at the Lewis and Clark
destroyed by fire tonight. Practically
nothing of the magnificent exhibit
gathered by the Missouri state COM
mission was saved and the beautiful
collection of art and statuary which
was one of the features of the Missouri
display will prove almost a total loss.
1t is estimated that the pecuniary loss
will exceed $50,000, with no insurance
save $4,000 on the art exhibit.
superintendent of the Building Ed c.
Crumbaugh of Columbia, Mo-, the only
person within the structure at the time
is of the opinion that the fire had it's
origin in the same faulty electrical con-
struction which has been the case of
several incipient blazes which have oc-
CURED in different buildings at the fair.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
MOTLEY H. FLINT HoNoRED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.-The
grand lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons at it's session today elected
the following as the officers for the
ensuing Masonic year:
Motley H. Flint of Los Angeles, grand
master; Edward H. Hart of Berkeley,
deputy grand master; George M. Per-
rine, senior grand warden; r. H Lloyd,
junior grand warden; George Johnson,
grand secretary, and Edward Coleman,
grand treasurer.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

Southern California: Cloudy,
unsettled weather Saturday; light
north wind, changing to southerIy.
Maximum temperature in Los An
geIes yesterday, n degrees; mimi
mum, 81 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
SIX MINERS ENTOMBED
Workings of Clyde Coal Company on
Fire-Most of the Men
Escape
Bv Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
FREDERICTON, Pa, Oct. 13,-Half
a mile back from the entry six miners
are imprisoned, almost certainly dead,
in the mine of the Clyde Coal COM
pany The mine is on fire and efforts
to reach the entombed men have been
abandoned. Nearly 200 men were in
the mine when the fire started today.
All but the six named escaped.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
TeaIe for Comptroller
Assncia.tel Press.

BV ASeOclateU TreSs.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-The Republi-
can committee to fill vacancies on the
city ticket announced today that
Charles E. Teale of Brooklyn had ac-
cepted the nomination for city comp
troller on the Republican ticket. Mr..
Teale was formerly a city magistrate.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-14
Falling Chimney Kills Boy
nv Assoclate Press

FRESNO, Oct. 13.-A chimney in the
ruins of burned building suddenly fell
today and struck a boy, killing him in
stantly. The body of the boy is fear
fully crushed and up to the present
time has not been identified.