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SCENES IN THE .DISTURBED AREA ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.
iWARSHIP FROM. WHICH, MARINES WERE LANDED AND AMERI
CAN DIPLOMATIC, AND, CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVES.
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missing millionaire;. ; •
is held ;by v kidnapers
Congressman Slemp Says That Young
Philadelphian Is a Prisoner in the \
Mountains of .Virginia. \
BRISTOL, '.Va., -Nov. 5.— Congressman
Slemp In Bristol to-night confirmed the
rumor that Edward L.'Wentze, the young
Philadelphia .millionaire ,who disappeared.
Is in the hands of abductors in the moun
tains of Southwestj Virginia, and: , that a
ransom of $100,000 is demanded for hi» re-
ST. LOUIS CONTRACTOR
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS
Elroy S. Platt. Who Attempted to
Kill Himself, Is Said to Be a
Defaulter.'
8T. LOUIS, Nov. 5.-Elroy S. Platt, t$e
St. Louis contractor who attempted sui
cide in Pittsburg, Pa., yesterday, is
charged with being a defaulter to the exr
tent of more than J20.000 by the stock
holders of the George Platt Contracting
Company In a petition which they filed In
the Circuit Court to-day asking that a re
ceiver be appointed for the company.
George' Platt, .founder of the company
and father of the man In Pittsburg, as
sumed the liability for his son's alleged
shortage.
tier is said to have reported that he Was
given the right of way through to Ifirst
and Market streets, which is nearly a
mile east of the point where the collis
ion occurred."
Division Superintendent W. 8. Palmer
said: "As the matter has been reported
to me the switch engine crew Is entirely
to blame. The Alameda local was pro
tected by a 'danger 1 signal set behind«the
train as It stopped at Peralta street. It
was set against all trains on" that "track
and the collision could not havo occurred
had the engineer of the switch engine
heeded that warning signal. The fact is
in all likelihood that the engineer .thought
the Alameda local had gone through and
was not observing the signals."
DEATH OF MRS. SCHENXEY
AT HER HOME IN LONDON
Deceased Leaves an Estate in Al
legheny County, Pa., Valued at
More Than $40,000,000.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 5.— The death of
Mrs. Mary E. Schenley at her home in
Hyde Park, London, was made known In
Pittsburg to-day.
Mrs. Schenley inherited. much property
from her grandfather. General O'Hara,
the noted soldier and .pioneer of Pitts
burg, and from her father, Colonel Crogan
of Kentucky. She was : the largest owner
of real estate in Allegheny County and
her holdings here are valued at between
$40,000,000 and $50,000,000. Mrs. Schenley
also owned valuable properties In some
of the Western States. She had given
much property and money .to Pittsburg
schools, churches and charity.
Terse Statement of Washington's
Policy Is Given to The Call '/
. \, . ' Special IDispatch to The Call. . .
C-ALL- BUREAU, '1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHING
TON, Nov.'s.— Around. the revolution ; on the Isthmus of
Panama and 'the proclamation of independence of the "Re-
. public- of. Pana.ma," : the United- States has framed a radical policy.
Precedent is cast to the winds. American naval commanders on
.the isthmus, -whbse 'force will' be" increased if necessary, will pre
• vent any conflict between Government arid revolutionist troops.
Colombia, must 'settle her quarrel with*' Her -subjects peaceably, if
at all. : As.the only way, however, ¦ to stop yearly, insurrectionary
movements, on the . and ¦ relieve the United States of the
burden of, policing territory* not its. own, the new policy contem
plates either ~ the recognition of .the sovereignty of the new State
or the , construction .of the Panama v canal by ¦ force of arms,
if necessary: •¦••:.:'••:'»:; • ; ¦ :¦ « \k?$'}?
This mailed hand ideaj however) will >not be turned to ac
tion without the approval' of the United States' Congress, to
which the~President proposes to set forth the situation in full at an
early date", ' and which will be asked anew, in' the light of later de
velopments, to indicate which canal' route it desires— Panama or
• Nicaragua*. * ¦ <, . . .*
; The Call correspondent was -to-day given" an authoritative
statement of the United States' policy on the isthmus. It was
thus set' forth: '...'..,
"The United States, is bound by treaty to preserve free tran
• sit across "the Isthmus, of Panama. Heretofore it has always ex
ercised -that right to the advantage* of Colombia. The question
' now arises whether we shall continue to favor Colombia, which
has behaved in bad 'faith 'in -the matter of the canal treaty, or
shall we shape our ; policy according to the conditions no.w prev
"Nearly every year, the United 1 States , is required fo send
troops to the isthmus to preserve transit. The administration is
tired of. policing the] railroads^ for Colombia. There is no indica
tion that, left to themselves, ;the revolutionists will not be flying
at eacji other's throats in the future.' . It is anoth'er^case of Cuba,
save that Cuba^ was an oversea colony of Spain, while Panama
•is a province of Colombia. . -
"President" .Roosevelt regards the i canal question, coupled
with the resolution, as: advancetl to the -alternative whether or
Special Dispatch to The Call.
THOMASTON, Ga., Nov. 6.— Thomas. E.
Watson, candidate for the Vice - Presi
dency in 1896, onco leader of the Populist
party and later renowned as an author
on account of the success of his histori
cal works, has for the last two <Jays been
at the head of an armed faction repre
senting the ultra ''prohibitionists ' of the
town, which for a time^threatencd to
meet in bloody combat the so^ealled:Ilquor
element, which also was under arms wait-
Ing for trouble.
McDufile County . is "dry" under, the
Georgia local option law, but there have
been a number of charges of the JJxist
ence of "blind tigers.": Watson has tak
en a prominent part and for some time
great bitterness has existed -the
former Congressman and the leaders of
the faction which was charged with.en
couraging violations of the. liquor' laws. ]
A crisis was precipitated • a few v days
ago, .when Watson was Informed that a
young man of- the' town had used some
opprobrious epithets , concerning him " be
fore a crowd, in. a local barber,, shop.
Meeting thj young man on the street a
few hours later, Watson ,told. htm what
he had heard." The .former, not only ad
mitted his remarks, but repeated them,
with curses. Bystanders prevented a^ per
sonal encounter, but Watson's antagonist
and his brothers proceeded to arm them
selves, whereupon Watson also armed
himself. . . '> • - . . . . . ¦ . :
Friends of both sides were quickly under
arms and for a time It seemed Impossible
to prevent bloodshed. -Every dealer; In
the city handling firearms and ammuni
tion was besieged and a battle was ex
pected. ;
The affair was finally adjusted through
the intervention- of older citizens, 'who
acted as intermediaries. and both factions
have now laid aside their aims', though
the bitterness has not* been \ allayed and
the trouble may break out again.
Former Populist
Leader on the
Warpath.
COLON, Colombia, Nov. 5, 7 p. in.—
The Royal. Mail steamer Orinoco
with twenty-eight officers, 435
.¦ men and thirty women has sailed.
The United States auxiliary
cruiser Dixie has just arrived.
After a conference this afternoon. Gen
eral Torres, commander of the Colombian
troops here, seeing that the situation
was hopeless, asreed to embark his troop*
on the Orinoco, sailing for Cartagena. A
special train from Panama brought Gen
eral Tovar, who also sailed *on the Ori
noco.'
The people of Colon are now Jubilant.
The flag of the new republic flies at the
railroad stations at Gataun and Bahla So
lado near Colon. Troops from Panama
will take charge of the city to-morrow.
The Municipal Council of Colon has Just
notified the Provisional Government at
Panama of its adherence to the new re
public. ,
It was arranged yesterday that th«
Government troops should withdraw to
the outskirts of the town and they did S3
during the night. This morning, how
ever. Colonel Torres marched the troops
to the center of the town, which caused
a landing of America"n bluejackets this
morning. •
Commander Hubbard of the Nashville
offered to re-embark the American force
If the Government troops would return to
their camp on Monkey Hill, where they
passed the night. Colonel Torres, how
ever, refused to return to Monkey Hill,
which is about a mile from Colon, sayinj
the place was too unhealthy for the sol
diers and that It was necessary for them
to come -to town. The American blue
jackets barricaded themselves behind
bales of cotton in front of the bank and
the railroad buildings and the commander
of the Nashville distributed about fifty
rifles to private citizens, who assisted the
bluejackets in guarding the barricades.
HTJTBBARD TAKES A HAND.
American Naval Officer Arranges for
Withdrawal of Troops.
* PANAMA, Nov. 5.— Genera* Tovar and
his staff have at last been convinced of
the uselessness of their resistance to the
provisional government and have accept
ed the terms offered by the junta. The
arrangement to this end was made
through the efforts of Commander Hub
bard of the United States gunboat Nash
ville and Superintendent Shaler and As
sistant Superintendent Prescott. of the
Panama Railroad, who guarantee that
both parties wiU fulfill the agreement.
There Is great rejoicing in the city, be
cause the stability of ; the republic now
seems assured. The fact that troops were
already moving toward th.e line probably
decided General Tovar and his staff to ac
cept the terms of the junta.
Telegraphic advices received from the
Interior provinces say there was great
rejoicing there when the news of the
declaration of ' Independence became
known. The Government troop%statlone<l.
at Penonome, sixty-five miles southwest
of Panama, have joined In the revolu-
TOM WATSON
AT HEAD OF
ARMED MOB
Half a dexea passengers were hurt,
raauay more were severely shaken, and one
cwltchxa&n was severely injured In a
train collision in West Oakland last night
The accident was at the foot of Peralta
ctreet, beinz the collision of a switching
train and the Alameda local passenger
train, broad gauge, connecting with the
30:25 o'clock boat frcm San Francisco.
That at least three passengers on the
local were not instantly killed is almost
a miracle. Those three are E. C. Leffing
well, vice president of the San Francisco
Press Club; Paul Kellcgff of the Alameda
Transfer Company and James Rue of tne
.lohnson-Lccke Mercantile Company of
Har. Franciscc. -They were seated In the
last seat of the rear car, a combination
smoker end bag'page car, when the colli
sion occurred. A loaded meat refrigera
tor car was 1-urled ag-alnst the local train
with a force that telescoped the freight
car half way into the passenger coach,
the impact throwing the passengers from
their seats, burying them in a confusion
of splintered wood, iron work and debris.
On top cf the meat car was Switchman
Joe Lazelle, who was caught in the mess
and pinned beneath the wreckage. He was
badly crushed about the chest. The ter
rific impact tore seats in the passenger
coaches from their plnnir.gs ar.d jammed
passengers ir.to corners, wrenching,
bruising and cuttirg many of them. So
heavy was the violent shock that the car
couplings snapped like thread, a hole was
punched in the locomotive and the rear
truck of the smoker over which the three
passengers sat vas torn from, the car
bofiy and hurled forty feet away.
MANY WERE HURT.
In the emoker were about twenty pas
sengers. Arnor.g others hurt was L. A.
Lauenstein, residing at 21C2 Santa Clara
avenue. Alameda. whose left knee was
badly Jammed. In the first of the three
coaches was Mrs. E. Smith, residing at
l'5O5 Central avenue, who was thrown
forward by the shock, sustaining in
juries to her back. Mrs. J. M. Reynold,
2 GO 8 Central avenue, Alameda, also in
the first coach, was bruised. Walter
Story, residing at 2328 Clement avenue,
•n-.is riding in the middle car. He was
slightly brulsrd, but got out to the as
sistance of the Injured. Story assisted
In clearing away the wreck and remov
ing Switchman Lazelle. As soon as the
collision occurred word was sf-nt to Oak
land pier, and a wrecking train went to
the scene, clearing away the debris,
while another train was made up to take
the Alameda people to their destina
tion. There is no conflict in the various
stories cf the wreck as to the happen
ings, although the switch engine crew
and the Alameda men report differently
as to the cause. The Alameda local left
Oakland pier on time, in charge of Con
ductor Harry Edwards and Engineer Al
Wright. They ran through the mole and
the yards as far as Peralta-street
switch-house. There the train, under or
ders, slowed down for the conductor to
deliver the way bills for the yard
freight department, a practice of nightly
occurrence. The train had stopped for a
minute and had Just started to continue
:ts east-bound Journey when the crash
came. Behind the Alameda local on the
same track was a switch engine, 1108,
Engineer Whistler in charge,, pushing
ahf-ad of it refrigerator cars loaded with
beeves to be run up to a spur track at
First end Market streets.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN.
According to the switch train people,
they did not see the Alameda local be
cause, they claim, the tail end signal
lights were not burning.'. This is denied
by the passenger crew, who reported the
accident to Division Superintendent Pal
mer's office. On their behalf it was as
f-erttd by Division Superintendent Palmer
that the switch engine crew was wholly
at fault; that they "ran o~cr" -a set auto
matic biock pignal switch at "danger."
¦Web should have protected the Alameda
iocal while it was Inside the block limits
us far as Eroadway, Oakland. At any
:ate. the switch engine pushed the front
sneat car with such a terrific Jolt into
in,? smoker that it smashed over the pas
ieti£er car and hung th^re lifce a huge
&el] after scattering its contents amid a
lerrlble crash of smashing wood and metal
work. . -
To v.ild to the confusion, the lights in
th<_- tmoker -wore Buddenly extinguished
;;nc! out of the .darkness came the screams
of scores of frightened if not injured peo
ple. Lefflngwell, Kellogg and Rue, who
rftceived the full force of the blow, had
Special Dlsratch to The. Call
NEW TORK, Nov. 5.— In an afternoon
newspaper to-day was published what
purported to be an account of the mar
riage of Multi-millionaire Robert Goelet,
son of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, to Miss Eleanor
Anderson, u telegrapher in the Grand Ho
tel, and daughter of William' Anderson, a
restaurant keeper at 745 Sixth avenue.
Robert Goelet is a brother of Miss May
Goelet. who is to marry the Duke of Rox
burghe on Tuesday next.
To all statements made in this article
Goelet made denial in the presence of
George G. Dewitt, representative of tfie
Goelet family. This denial, Goelet and
his companions wished It understood, ap
plies with equal force to Goelet's cousin,
Robert Ogden Goelet. Goelet was shown
a photograph of Miss Eleanor Anderson,
who had been represented to be his bride,
and without any equivocation said, that
he did not know the young woman, and,'
so far as he knew, never had seen her
features before.
If Miss Anderson has been married to
a man of the name of Robert Goelet, her
husband Is In no way related to the Goe
let family in this city, Goelet said.
Thar* Eleanor Anderson, who until Mon
day was telegraph operator in the Grand
Hotel, expected to be married to-day
there can be no doubt. She had told her
friends about it and some one in her be
half evidently called at the Catholic Ca
thedral on Wednesday to make arrange
ments for the ceremony. Many of Miss
Anderson's particular friends and some
of her neighbors in West Fifty-first
street, where she lives with her parents,
believed that the bridegroom was to be
Robert Goelet.
Father McCue, rector of the Church
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus., in West
Fifty-firsi street, was led by some one to.
believe that the bridegroom-to-be was
Robert Goelet The Andersons are parish
ioners of Father McCue.
The reverend father said:
'I became aware of the contemplated
I marriage between Robert Goelet and
! Miss Anderson this evejiing, although I
cannot give you the source of my infor
mation. However. I do not think the
ceremony has been performed, because
no outside priest would officiate without
first consulting those in this parish."
meir clothes torn from thejr backs and
were cut and bruised from head to feet.
In describing the scene Lefflngwell said:
"We three occupied the last seat In the
smoker. I was on the way to Mr. Kel
logg'e residence at 2115 Eagle avenue, Ala
meda, as his guest. Mr. Rue was bound
to his home at 2115 Clement avenue. Just
before the crash we heard a great toot-
Ing of whistles, and one of us saidj
'There's a train passing.' But It was not
passing. In a second afterward there was
a sudden darkening of the car, a roar
and we were thrown In a heap beneath
what seemed to be an inextricable mass
of wreckage. The Beats we occupied were
torn from their fastenings. A heavy fire
extinguisher hit me in the back. Our gar
ments were In r.ibbons. Out of It all we
managed to scramble and then to' survey
the scene. The big refrigerator car had
telescoped half of the passenger coach
and hunc there a mere shell.
CRASH WAS VIOLENT.
"People piled out of the train, which
was quickly stopped, as It was barely
moving when the collision occurred. In
every coach and even on the engine there
were evidences of the violent impact by
the wrenched seats and torn out coup
lings. For the life of me I can't under
stand how we three men 'escaped more
serious injury."
After two Pullman coaches were made
up the delayed Alamedans were taken
home.
George Stack, a switchman on the re
frigerator car, assisted in getting Switch
man Lazelle out of the wreck. He said
the first he knew of an accident was
when the crash came, and it threw him
off the rear end of the meat car. but did
not hurt him. Stack knew Lazelle was at
the forward end of the car and as soon
as Stack could recover himself he ran
to his fellow workman's relief. Stack
said he did not know what caused the
wreck. Lazelle said he had just caught
a glimpse of the end of the. train when
the smash came. He was removed to his
residence, 1774 Tonth street.
ENGINEER'S VERSION.
Concerning the collision Engineer Whis-
Special Cable to *The Call and New Tork
Ileraid. Copyright, 19K>, by the New York
Herald Publishing Company.
LONDON, Nov. 5.— A new treatment of
cancer, which is believed to mark an im
portant advance, was explained last night
before the meeting of the Abernethian
Society of St. Bartholomew's Hospital by
Dr. Jesse Johnson, a London physician,
who has been examining the methods em
ployed by Dr. Otto Schmidt of Cologne.
"Dr. Schmidt's opinion," said Dr. John
son, "is that cancer is conditional on the
presence in the patient of the cancer pa
rasite, which produces a structural change
in the cells of the part affected. There
has been no difficulty in finding the para
sites associated with cancer. Geyford in
America. Pllmmer in this country and
Schuler all have discovered and very fully
described a comparatively large number
of these parasttes.
"The difficulty has been to decide what
if any of them is the cause of cancer.
Dr. Schmidt believes he has isolated the
specific parasite. His explanation of the
number of parasites associated with can
cer is that they are one and the same,
varying in shape and appearance under
different conditions. By altering the con
ditions, Dr. Schmidt says, his parasite
assumes all of the different appearances
which have led to Its being described by
other searchers as several parasites.
"With this parasite Dr. Schmidt has
done two things— he seems to have Bter
llized it with liquid air and he has in
jected it into animals and developed a
serum which has the power of destroy
ing cancer cells."
Dr. Johnson described In detail the ef
fects of these injections upon various pa
tients. One was a woman who had un
dergone no fewer than six operations for
the removal of a cancer of the breast.
She had also a malignant growth on the
forehead, which it was 'considered quite'
hopeless to attempt to remove. As a re
sult of Dr. Schmidt's treatment by in
jections there was a great gain in the
patient's general health and the growth
on the forehead shrank to a mere scar.
Statements by Her Friends
and Millionaire's Rela
tives Disagree.
Switch Crew Ignores Danger
Signals Set on Ala
meda Track.
Remedy Is Produced Prom
Parasites That Cause
Malignant Growth.
Young Woman in Case
a Hotel Telegraph
Operator.
Physician of Cologne
Successful in Ex
. pertinents.
Truck Ttuwn Forty
Feet and Men
Are Hurt
Refrigerator Car
Crashes Into
Coaches,
Wars Upon Germ
That Installs
Disease.
Busy Denying Ru
mors of Secret
Marriage.
LOCAL TRAIN
TELESCOPED
BY FREIGHT
NEW SERUM
GIVES CURE
FOR CANCER
MAY GOELET'S
BROTHER IN
A ROMANCE
AMERICA WILL PROTECT PANAMA FROM ATTACK BY COLOMBIA
AND BUILD ISTHMIAN CANAL BY FORCE OF ARMS IF NECESSARY
Colombian Jirmy
Retires From
Colon.
Secessionists Jire
in Possession
. of Isthmus.
SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1903.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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THE THXSATEB3.
' Alcazar— "Too much Johnson. 1 *
Attambra— EUery's Eoyal Ital
ian Band.
California — Haverly's Min
strela. «
Central — "At Valley ror*e. w
Coltunbia — "The Storks."
Fischer's — "Kubes and Roses.™
Grand — "Ben Hut." *
Orphenm — Vaudeville.
The Chutes — Vaudeville.
Tivoli — Grand Opera.
S?. u Francisco itaA Vicinity—
TeJi rrlfiay. followed T*y
deadly -weather tad prtrtmfciy
rain, at nisrht; llsrlit aort&eact
vrlr 6 s. ciiarisx to fresh, south
easterly.
A. G. STASIS,
district Torecastcr.