The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIII. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MOR NING, AUGUST 4, 1895 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. FIVE CENTS. ANIE The Defender Can Beat| Any Crack Yacht Afloat. WENT WITH A NEW GAFF | Easily the Swift Craft Sailed Away From the Big Fleet AND LED TO VINEYARD HAVEN. The Once Great Vigilant Beaten In a Stiff Breeze by Nine Minutes. ie yachts- of the New n Newport harbor. suth- and a gentle ned another The to run sh w the new oat, ai il the week. le. had used were notic on hand. 2 At 10 o’clock there ard Sound niles east-northeast up to Vineyard Haven. ithwest a reach with the to port. reach. The preparatory S P IR the JuTRdior stoops and sstarted. The Queen Mab was first line. Then came the Hilde- arear, K 1 the st na ard tack and had 1 jib top: ller sail. over the line. the others were: Ariel, Amorita, Loy wer and Marguerite. was handicapped. atisfied with' small sta; b topsails. th rst-class sloops the Defender was off almost The Vigilant was two and was very near being ] Volunteer did not minute after the second r and Volunteer car- The V the wind was ing consider- \ed through the ir lee rail awash, and gained hooners from the start. ender began pick- ne by one and dropping e Vigilant followed suit, a pace as the Defender. utfooting the r could not i the old Vol th her competi Queen Mab held the lead of the 1l single-st the schooners. The wind w knot gait and at 12 o’clock both the nde ’ ant took in th and set baby jib topsails. Is The order of the fleet passing ght was: Defender, Lasca, Vigi- Jd, Constellation, Amorita, en Mab, Katrina, Volunteer, Ariel, Hildegard, Ramona, rite, Nearer, Loyal. he was a broad reach with booms The tide was ebb and against the The Volunteer and the smaller ugged to shore from Cuttyhunk antage of the slack water, of the fleet kept the sound. The Defender in- d over the Vigilant until e minutes abead. At 2 o’clock showed the way for the fleet into Vineyard Fleet. was owing is the table: breeze holding strong and e yachts rushed along for the The Defender showed the way, le increase in her splendid speed. 11 she crossed the fin line and from the Shearwater, which had 1 by the regular committee, via might not have to make to the fin modore Morgan’s black- yach beaten but still fast A quarter of an hour later the nished, and somewhere in be- the Jubilee rounded up into after a speedy run which would have shown well had it been a racing one. With sheets, the schooners had come very fast from the lightship, and the big Constellation went faster than all, RICAS CUP SAFE. 3 ast night 1t was ready for | nd she aloft in The left her | own to Brentons | ch was | The | i a half | The wind | making the first | wind | The rest of the un sounded at 10:30, | nd Netera. | The Queen Mab useda| ¢ and the others used At 10:45 the gun | ounded and the fleet-footed | The | Ramona, Emer- ; al, | | The a balloon mainstaysail. Ten minutes Ramona took in her vind was a little too fresh. ckers and the Lasca that of | blowing from the east ata | r No. 2 neyard | lightship the run up Vine- A little over | =s later the Vigilant bounded -six seconds astern of the De- e cmsied the finish line with a en minutes or more over her competitor, the Ramona. ht there is the usual brilliant cene afloat. with crowds of spectators on dozens of shore-boats filled with ~;_vim‘m-r~ among them. The fleet squad- ron will remain at anchor to-morrow and | will dress ship at 12 o’clock. Monday an early start for Newport will be made. | The winners are: Schooners—Class 1—Constellation 17:02. J= —Lasca beat Emerald, 5:50; | lin, 14:36; Alcea, 17:48; Mayflower, ) Ariel beat Marguerite, 4:05; 3. Amorita beat Elsemarie, 9:32. Class £ —Loyal beat Nearea, 7:23. Sloops, class 1—Defender beat Vigilant, beat Mixed class—Katrina best Wasp, 12:10. THCE COATED DEATH Desperate Attempts of Mrs. Sophie Dore to End Her Life. Objections of a Son to Attentions Pald Her by Colonel Poland Pre~ sumably the Cause. OMAHA, Nepr., Aug. 3.—Mrs. Sophie Dore, living at the northeast corner of Twenty-eighth and Yates street, has twice attempted to commit suicide at her re ce, presumably because her son ob- cted to the attentions paid her by Colonel Senator Thurston. According to the state- ments of neighbors Mrs. Dore undertoc to cross the river Styx with the aid of con- :04; Volunteer, 21:28. Class 3—Queen Mab beat Hildegard, 6:14. | Class 6—Norota beat Uviva, 4. Poland, the father-in-law of United States | entrated lye, and this being detected in | ALL DANGER PASSED, ' There Was No Reason | to Double the Po- lice Force. OMAHA’'S CIVIL STRIFE. Rival Commissioners Willing to Peaceably Await a Court Decision. SOME SCATHING ARGUMENTS, Opposers of the Law Sald to Have Resorted to Every Device and Trickery. OMAHA, NEsr., Aug. 3.—Thishas beena very quiet day. There has been no ex- citement. police force last | Chicago, in doubling | sides. Judge Berka, a Republican and not an A. P. A. member, said to-day that the action of the Mayor in appointing the ex- with the Mayor's proclamation to dispel a riot. The Judge expressed the opinion that the tdxpayers would protest against the payment of salaries to men The aftion of the Mayor and | | acting Chief of Police, Martin White of | night called forth great criticism on all | tra special police was about on a par | | it acted contrary to lawand not for the not actually engaged in suppressing a riot. | Until there is a demand for the services of extra policemen, Judge Berka said’ there | 'State, and it calls attention to the fact that | semi-official dispatch from St. Petersburg, temporary restraining order against the new board, to be in force until the case could be heard. The new board accepted this decision with quiet submission, hop- ing only that the case might socon pass from the District to the Supreme Court and finally be adjudicated. The supporters of the new board acted also with comnvla- cency. The members of the new board in- sist that they will be punctilious in obey- ing all the legal means brought against them. They have no disposition to resist the law, and are satisfied that in the end their status and legality will be fully sus- tained. The report of the judiciary committee of the City Council which was appointed to investigate the wholesale discharges of one-fourth of the force last month, as it bears directly upon the record of the old board, will be of interest. It wasadopted by the council by a vote of 11 to 4. It says in part: It appears from the evidence that dur- ing the month of July, 1895, twenty-one officers of the city—being about 25 per cent of the entire force—were summarily dis- missed and removed without any charges being preferred, without a hearing and without any notice to them that they were to be discharged. By their dismissal they were deprived of the benefit of the police relief fund, to which they had contributed. ““It is but just to say that the men dis- charged, taken as a whole, have ‘the ap- | pearance of being sober and intelligent men, who, physically, present an.appear- ance equal to any police force. Almost all of these men have familiesdependent upon them and have lived in this city for years, and by their dismissal their character is besmirched, and it would be almost impos- sible for them to obtain employment. Your committee believes that the commission did a great injustice to these men, and that best interests of the city of Omaha and the general public.” The report condemns the appointment of White as Chief of Police, because the State law says he must be a resident of the DILEMMA OF EUROPE: Cannot Take Its Mind off the Troubles of Bulgaria. THE BALEKAN OUTLOOK.| Ferdinand Cannot Expect to Receive Much Help From the Czar. THE TALK OF A NEW TREATY. In the Meantime There Grow all Sorts of Dark Clouds on the | Continent. [Copyright 1895 by the New York Times. ] LONDON, Ene., Aug. 3.—With all the | good will in the world, Europe is not per- mitted to take its mind off Bulgaria. By day and by night this wretched little com- | munity sets on the Old World’s chest. It will not be shaken off. The week’s devel- | opments seem on the surface to have | wrought a great change in the Balkan out- | Took. A few days ago everybody took for | granted that the Czar and Prince Lobanoff | had come to an explicit arrangement with the Metropolitan, Clement, and his Bul- | garian deputation, and that Russia was | | prepared to resume, upon her own condi- | tions, her old dominant position in the | | ‘prineipality. Now, on the strengthof a | parties have subsequently made to suit their own convenience there is material enough for all the internal jurists to rack their brains over. There is haraly any conceivable point on which Russia cannot spin out debate indefinitely while her adventurous advance wing of political soldiers fish with the profit in the troubled Bulgarian waters. There is naturally talk of another conference to araw up a fresh treaty. I even hear that England has begun sounding other powers on this pro- ject, but the continental courts are rather afraid of recourse to such an important step. It might go off smoothly, but the | chances seem to be the other way and then the rat will be in the fire. Yet with- out a conference it is plainly seen that Russia will go on slowly complicating affairs in the Balkans till somebody will have to object and be prepared to support the objection by a show of force. Thisis Europe’s dilemma, not at all new, but rendered somewhat more acute week by week. Meanwhile it is very interesting to note how all the different centers of political speculatton and rumor on the Continent agree in ascribing an active part to England. Russian newspapers are pub- lishing as authentic the story that Lord Salisbury has offered to join the Triple Alliance if they consent to give Austria the mandate at once to occupy all Macedonia. Berlin newspapers declare thatof their own knowledge England has just made a new compact with Italy by which their forces are to_co-operate in Africa to keep the French out of the Nile Valley. The Parisian press has not the shadow ofa doubt that England has committed herself body and soul to the Triple Alliance and teem with detailed plans for Russo-French naval action «in tne Mediterranean and Red seas, with the seizing of the Suez canal and preventing the British and Ttalian fleets at Aden from closing the water route to the East. There is in fact so much studying of | army lists and war maps for this side of the world just now that perhaps the more serious imminent problems on the Pacific | | | | | BEAUTIFUL BELVEDERE ILLUMINATED FOR THE FETE. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] | trated in her efforts. made about 6 o'clock Thursday evening. |‘After she was resuscitated, acting under the advice of the attending physician, she | was closely watched that night, it being | About 3 o’clock this morning, Mrs. Dore arose from her bed, and upon the pretext of getting a handkerchief from her drawer, secured possession of a pair of scissors. Before anybody realized what she was do- ing, Mrs. Dore succeeded in severing an artery in her right arm near. the wrist. When asked what she was doing, she re- plied : “Oh, nothing; only getting a handker- chief.” The presence of blood on the bedclothes attracted the attention of the nurse and Mrs. Dore was removed to the Childs tion and cannot recover. —_———— CAMPOS IN A BAD BOX. Cheering News Given Out by the Cuban Delegate. NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 4.—Estrada | Palma, the Cuban delegate, made/the fol- lowing official statement yesterday: “We believe that General- Martinez Campos is hemmed in and unable to move until reinforcements reach him, and we have received information that the reserves and held back. The latest news by mail from Bayamo came dated July “My correspondent, writing from Manza- nillo.” Senor Palma continued, “placed Campos’ force at 8000 men, including those illand wounded, and_estimates that not more than a third are fit for fighting.” —_— Won by Matt Quay. LOCKHAVEN, Pa., Aug. 3.—The Re- publican primaries in Clinton County, the native county. of Governor Hastinyhs, were largely attended and were won by Senator Quay. The contest was’one of the most feared that she would repeat theattempt. | | the doctor was called for the second time. | Hospital where she lies in a critical condi- | he called for from Santiago, Santa Clara | and other places have been intercepted | time a doctor was called and she was frus- | was no occasion to burden the city with | the additional expenses. The' first attempt to end her life was | The resolution passed by the City Coun- | cil relative to the payment of salaries to | policemen had the effect of dampening the | ardor of the police, who do not feel dis- posed to work for glory. The City Council resolved to pay no salaries by order of the | 0ld board. To-day was chiefly occupied in | hearing two cases before Judge Hopewell, | and the application for an injunction re- | straining the new board from exercising their duties, and the contempt case against the City Council. | The arguments were very bitter and scathing. For the new board, Hon. R. 8. Hall charged the old board and their | adherents with conspiring to prevent a law | which is on the statute-books of the State | from being put into effect. He contended that if the opposition had not used such | unseemly haste in their desire to perpetu- | ate themselves in office the whole matter | could have been settled in one civil action | could not. pass upon the constitutionality of the new law untilan occasion had arisen by reason of the appointment of the new board provided by the act. He charged the attorney for Mayor Bemis and his asso- ciates in the old police board with having brought a fictitious case before the ‘proper time had arrived for the bringing of a case, and in order to prevent the carrying out of alaw wnich had been enacted by more than a three-fifths vote of the repre- sentatives of the people of the State. “The opposers of this law,” he said, ‘did not have the patience to wait until a case could be properly brought, but re- sorted to every device and trickery. They brought an action to restrain the Coancil from proceeding with what the Jaw re. quires it to do, and delayed these proceed- ings for the purpose of increasing the ex- citement of the people and arousing their antipathy and disregard for the law.” Both cases were continued until Tues- day. The attorney for the old board asked u_)quéend their petition, but this was re- sisted. exciting of the county and almost the full Republican vote was polleds < Until Tuesday, Judge Hopewell issued a as laid down by the Supreme Court in its | opinion to Governor Holcomb, that it | his salary is $500 larger than that allowed by the charter. In conclusion, the report says: “The attention of your committee has been called to a proclamation issued by his Honor the Mayor, to the effect that all citizens should disperse and that there is danger of bloodshed and riot. What has calied forth this proclamation we are un- able to determine. Everything is_quiet, and as far as your committee can ascertain there is no reason to believe that any man or body of men has any intention of creat- ing a disturbance, participating in a riot or causing blood to flow upon the streets of the city. The issning of such a procla- mation without cause is to be condemned as an act unworthy of the chief executive of the city.” To-night the extra police were dis- charged, even the Mayor admitting. that all danger was past. MORE POLICE ON DUTY. “Hold-Over” Commissioners Determined to Hold the Fort. OMAHA, NeBr., Aug. 3.—Seventy-five more special policemen reported for duty under the direction of Mayor Bemis and the two ‘‘hold-over” commissioners this morning at roll-call. They were duly sworn in and armed with a starand an eighteen-inch club, after which they were instructed to guard the city jail. The newly appointed men were divided into two sections, one of which was posted about the front entrance and the other watched the entrance of the rear jail-door. The “hold-over’” Police Commission had abso- lute control of the police and fire depart- ments to-night and the headquarters is still under guard. Strike of the Weavers, _PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 3—A con- ference was held to-day between a com- mittee of ingrain carpet manufacturers and a committee of the striking weavers for the purpose of endeavoring to settle the éxisting strike, but'they failed to reach an agreement, and the status’of the strike is unchanged. ‘The weavers are out for an advance of 734 per cent. + 5 which of all places appeared first in the Cologne Gazette, everybody has rushed | over to the other side, and regards it as | settled that Russia implacably persists in her chronic refusal to have anything to do with Bulgaria at all. Nothing could bet- ter illustrate the mental confusion to which eighteen years of suspense, under an annual threat of war, have reduced the Continental press, but the English jour- nals have much less excuse for being so easily rattled. The Bulgarian delegation is timed to ar- rive at Sofia to-day, und in the course of | the public reception organized for them it | is presumed that the Metropolitan, Clement, or his companions will make a statement of what news they bring. This statement could have been foreshadowed weeks ago, for that matter, years ago. | The Czar has never ceased to love the Bul- | garians dearly, but friendly relations with | them is impossible so long as they persist in: suffering an illegally formed govern- ment, headed by a Prince not properly elected according to the treaty of Berlin. They may, therefore, take their choice; either get on without Russitin recognition as best they can or chase out their Prince and hisirregular government, throw them- selves at the Czar's feet and under his paternal guidance reconstruct themselves on the lines laid down by the Berlin treaty. ‘We know so little about the actual state feeling throughout Bulgaria that it is diffi- cult, to be sure, what its answer will be. No doubt Clement, who since Stambouloff’s destraction, is the man who seems most clearly to know his own mind and to be likely to enforce it on the country, aims at entire submission to Russia. If we assume that he can deliver his goods, then Prince Ferdinand will not return, his ministers and-administrative machinery will disap- pear and a provisional regency, probably with Clement at its head, will ask ‘Russia fora safe interpretation of its duties under the treaty of Berlin. § © Having broken most sections of this famous treaty Russia knows them inti- mately. Taking them as they originally! stood and adding to them all the modifica- tions in practice which the contracting | coast, will meet with next to no atten tion It is not supposed here that Lord Salisbury can accept the new Franco-Chinese treaty without a protest or at least without seiz- ing for England territorial- compensations, and it is confidently expected that friction will be developed in that far-away quarter, either on this point or between Japan and Russia before Europe disclosesany genuine canse for uneasiness. There is a notable and extremely wel- come lull in volitics here in England. The very immensity of the Unionist majority affects the public imagination like an opi- ate. The speakership question hardly con- cerned the general crowd at any time, and except for a passing impression that Mr. Chamberlain has proved too smart for Mr. Balfour in the matter, its settlementin favor of Mr. Gully has aroused no interest. It was perhaps in a sense Chamberlain’s triumph, but the Tory lawyers in the House were against unseating the eminent Queen’s counselor who had obtained the speakership. The English bar is the most powerful and clannish trades union in the world, and when it said Gully there was nothing left for anybody else to say. Cham- berlain had merely the acuteness to see this and to get on'the winning side before his slower-witted colleagues in the Cabinet had begun to imagine that Gully’s being a lawyer might be of importance. It is stated, I do not know on what authority, that Mr. Gladstone, in his Armenian speech next Tuesday, intends praising Lord Salisbury’s correct official attitude on the matter, and, by implica- tion, ignoring what Lord Rosebery has done. ' This would be a most curious de- velopmernt in the whole strange story of the Ggand Old Man’s vehement alienation from his successor in office. As the succes- sive chaptesg of this story have been de- tailed in these dispatches from the very outset, they have been in conflict with all other contemporary accounts, yef, none the less, they have been absolutely true. and, moreover, what were not invariable truths in a portion of them have been dramatically justified by the events. This Continued on Second Page. CRY AGAINST SILVER, Data Gathered by the Gotham Chamber of Commerce. WANE 0¥ THE MOVEMENT At Least That Is the Way the Committee Sums Up the Situation. CAMERON AND QUAY FEARED. “Sound Money” Men, by the Ald of Carlisle and Cleveland, Hope to Rule. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 3.—The Cham« ber of Commerce has received reports from prominent people in the several States as to the swatus of the silver auestion. Within the past fortnight letters were addressed to representative men all over the country asking for information as to whether or not the free-coinage movement was sub- siding. An honest and unprejudiced statement of the exact situation of affairs was especially insisted on, so that the Chamber of Commerce could act intelli- gently in the future conduct of its crusade. Gustav H. Schwab, chairman of the committee of the Chamber having in charge the crusade against free silver, thus summarizes the reports that have reached the Chamber from the several States: “The latest advices to the chairman from the various States indicate that while the silver movement is un- doubtedly on the wane it is far from being dead. The sound-money men have thus far been victorious in every place where a fair and square issue has been made. Itis absurd, however, to suppose that the sil- verites have given up the battle. This is shown very clearly by the situation in two or three Western States. The sound- money people have been generally suc- cessful in keeping the movement in check, but in Pennsylvania it seems to have broken out with redoubled energy. “One of the reasons for this is because Senator Cameron is the candidate for Pres- ident on the free-silver platform. The silver Senators, Teller, Carter and Dubois, have publicly admitted the fact. Cameron is the one Senator from the East who mis- represents the greatest of the industrial 'States. He has behind him Senator Quay, who in turn controls one of the most pow- erful political machines in the country, and hence occupies strong advantage ground. Moreover, the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, an organization which comprises many prominent busi- ness men, has placed itself on rec- ord as being in thorough sympathy with the silverites. It is generally understood that Senator Cameron has been hard at work for some time past in sending out free-silver literature all through his baili- wick. Not only did he go to Harrisburg to work the State Legislature while in ses- sion, but he also had a free silver advocate invited to speak at the Capitol. “The half-dollar heresy seems to have a stronger hold in the Keystone State than anywhere else in the Union. In Ohio the movement is being vigorously counter- acted. An educational campaign, under the leadership of Senator Brice, has been under way for some time. The indications are that the sound-money men will win in the coming Democratic convention at Springfield. The campaign for sound money in Georgia promises to result some= what similarly to that in Kentucky. Sec- retary Hoke Smith has started into it with as much energy and enthusiasm as did Secretary Carlisle in the Blue Grass State. «In Alabama the forces of sound money are on the alert and intend to make a strong fight to ‘down’ Senator Pugh in the interest of Governor Oates, who is the sound-money champion in that State in the Senatorial canvass. “The friends of sound money rely upon the powerful aid of Secretary Carlisle, Senator Lindsay and other prominent Kentucky statesmen to keep the Blue Grass State in line with the Eastern States. Tke outlook in the Middle West, i. e., Indiaca, Illinois, Michigan, Minne- sota and Wisconsin, can be summed up in a very few words. This section is par- ticularly affiliated with the free silver magnates, but the prospect. of an unpre- cedented harvest is a most powerful ally of sound money and the influence cannot be overrated. If the hopesof the farmer are realized the silver movement will un- doubtedly be a thing of the past in these States so far as the next year or two are concerned.” Boies Declines. DES MOINES, Iow, Aug. 3.—Ex-Gever- nor Horace Boies in a letter positively de- clines to accept the nomination for Gover nor should he be offered the honor by the Democratic convention. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3, 4 and 5. LEVT STRAUSS OVERALLS - AND SPRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEER! , FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.,