The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIIL—NO. S6. SA STHEMES OF RUSSIA. Would Like to Split Up the Territory of Turkey. T0 SETTLE GRIEVANCES. Count Lobanoff Willingto Even Mediate Between England and France. INDIFFERENCE OF THE CZAR. Too Much Worried by Nihilists to Think of Anything But His Own Safety. ¥ the New York Times.] [Copy! 4,—Usually this Europe wrapped guor, with palaces locked and shuttered statesmen all off on jounts. This year tendency on the part affairs to keep near the e and maintain a careful their neighbors’ doings. In ain of international politics there ot been such a nervous and pre- jed summer fora dozen years. As is the only great power which has a Parliament in session there is not ¥ le on the surface, but h the chancellories all are busy LONDON latter bal in-comp e do: During the week I had the advantage of two conversations with a Continental t and administrator, not now in ut whose name is well known. not permit his name to be men- for his own reasons, but he saw ¥ of his own knowledge and st based on exceptionally wide and e information, which there can be no 1in repeating. As was foreseen from beginning, the Czarship has lapsed nto commi: - The Czar himself is eager to placate the g domineering forces which surround and attempts to play no real partin t is regarded in Russia as the Govern- He signs papers when he has to but he is chiefly ious to avoid be- ing committed by one clique against the other, and is only too grateful if they fight it outamong themselves without reference to him. He is understood to be much frightened at the report revived of nihilism, d he has decided to confine his attention ely to problems of personal safety and to secure the enjoyments of an easy life: The re; s that his Ministers and other influential people are playing each his own hand in a confused go-as-you-please game. more or less true of the istration, but it is true now ore than ever before. The interest of outsiders naturally cen- ters in Count Lobanoff, who is nominally the head of the foreign affairs department. He wil ed, he ment. He strikes the closest observers as a man W may be big enough to impr himself on Europe if a favorable opportunity arrives, but who in the mean- time is forced"to adopt a hand-to-mouth policy between the various rival court forces at home, pleasing one day, deferring to another the next, and dexterously bal- ancing himself among them, all without any very fixed purpose in one direction. It is believed that he thinks a general European conference would ‘be a good thing for him and incidentally for Russia, d that he is working with that end in He is confident of his ability to e in such a gathesing as the recogniz- vie B able heir of Metternich and of Gortschakoff, and is creaited with the idea that he could secure England’s general support in this assemblage by the adroit use of his in- tiuence with nce. His scheme etor in the bi to be to act as medi- ue of Anglo-French mjsunderstan duce both to accept @& comprehensive compromise of all their outstanding issues and both to join Russia as_partners in assuming control over Tur- key and in winding up its disordered affairs, - which would practically mean dividing up the Ottoman Empire among them. My informant believes that there 4s not much chance oi this deal being gnade than is commonly imagined. His suggestion is at least worth remembering. fThe existence of such a plan would ex- /plain much which is now mysterious in the behavior of the French Foreign Office toward England. All this piling up of diverse and largely artificial French griev- ances against England in all parts of the d globe has mystified the English even more than it has angered. They can hardly imagine that the I'rench seriously want to pick a quarrel with them, yet find noother explanation for performances like those on the Meh-Kong and Upper Niger. 1f, however, they are merely parts of a gcheme to put pressure on England to join Russia and France in a general compact for concerted action in Europe, Asia and Africa, they become intelligible at once. Whether England will decide to go tiger- Lunting in such company is another mat- ter. ‘If a European conference does grow out of the existing tangle it will be ob- served that England, Russia and France appear before it as already figured in joint action on the Armenian question. This will afford a substantial basis for an ex- tension of the understanding to the Mace- donian question and other phases of the Turkish issue, if England cares to have it and is willing to pay the price and run the risks involved. Some inkling of the possibility of this extroradipary new shuffle of cards would seem now to have been given to the editors of the Berlin papers. That at least would account better than anything else for the angry attacks on England with which they have been busy for the past fortnight and which have puzzled English readers be- yond measure. The tradition that Lord Salisburyisa friend of Germany and a foe to Russia has survived here from Disraelian times and never been revived in the public mind. If be should turn sharply abgut now there would be a good deal of surprise, but people would follow him readily enough. Infact, the change, probably, would be extremely popular, for the English have only abstract catalo; ] conceptions of the Russians and Frer;ch, whereas they actively dislike the concrete German,who undersells them at home and abroad. Although it is not expected that Parlia- | ment will finish its session before Septem- ber 7 the life of it mainly went out this week. Many members, including a num- ber of the Irish, haye gone home to-day, and what' remains will be more or less perfunctory. = There has been a much louder expression of Tory wrath over fill- ing the two remaining law officer vacanci with Unionists than the earlier conces- sions to Chamberlain evoked. The Times admits doubts-as to the wisdom of the action, but nothing tangible in the way of | a protest, much less of mutiny. may be Jookeq for, so far as the House of Com- mons is concerned. It is not impossible, however, that there may be some defections of private Tory voters in the Dublin district, where Kenny, the new Solicitor-General, must seek re- election, and if the Irish Nationalist par- ties could agree on a popular honest Par- nellite, like Colonel Nolan, they very likely would win the seat. It is said, however, that Redmond insists on running Rochfort Maguire, and that does not promise so hopeful a fight. It may be taken for granted that Limerick will remain prac- tically disfranchised for her pains in elect- ing the dynamiter Daly, at least till next meeting of the new Irish Par- liamentary committee was held Thursday, but it was summoned under the title of the elections committee, and when Healy, Arthur O’Connor and Knox came th were met by McCarthy, Dillon and T. P. O’Connor with a statement that this was a meeting of the old committeein its capac- ity as manager ot the recent elections, and so they had no locus standi. Healy’s de- mand to see the election expenses and books thus failed, and in view of the dead- lock the thing adjourned. These election accounts and the whole management of the party funds within the past few years promise much interesting material when they shall be finally uncovered. Balfour has taken his bimetallist medi- cine with fortitude and good grace. His answer in the House of Commons on the subject has thrown the German silver men into depths of consternation. They had the idea, which it seems also obtained in America, that the election of Balfour's party by such a vast majority meant the triumph of ‘bimetallism, and that Eng- land, at least, would hasten to promote an international conference on the silver question. ‘His terse announcement- that his colleagues do not share his views, and that another fruitless conference would be a seribus blunder, has destroyed at a touch the whole fabric of the German cheap- money party, and it is apparent that the German Government is deeply chagrined | at having gone out of its way to hold a | parley with the silver people at all. The most educated Englishmen in or out of Parliament agree that civil service examinations have got into an absurd, harmiul and pedantic rut, and whenever the question of reforming them is raised in the Commons everybody seems to: be in full sympathy with the idea, but noth- ing is ever done. T.P. 0’Connor made an unusually vivid and effectiveattack on the abuses of the system. last evéning, and Hanbury, the new Becretary of the Treas- ury, displayed, for a Minister. an unpre. cedented willingness to promise to see if something could not really be done; but the most that even hecan do is to izrmg Oonlinned on Fourth Page. Great Barbarity at a Bull-Fight :in Colo~- rado. CRUELTY OF TOREADORS. After Killing' One Maddéned Animal They Began Upon a Second. | THEN THE SHERIFF INTERFERED Great Indignation and the Militia Ready to Check Further Encounters. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro.,Aug. 24.— The first genunine bull-fight, with all its | attendant brutality, in the history of the United States, occurred this afternoon, and Gillette, Colo., a mushroom town of 500 inhabitants, whose only distinction is being located on the edge of the great Cripple Creek gold region, now wears the questionable honor of introducing this semi-barbaric style of sportinto the United | States. The performance this afternoon | was lacking in none of those essential | features which go so far in making simi- | lar exhibitions in Spain and Mexico a suc- cess, and viewed from a Mexican stand- point, the degrading spectacle, as far as it | was permitted to proceed, was a decided success. The skill and agility which the imported Mexican toreadors exhibited in escaping the rushes of the frenzied and maddened beasts created intense enthusi- asm and applause. No attempt on the part of the State, county or municipal officers was made. to prevent the brutal sport, and not until one animal had been butchered and the second was being goaded and tantalized to mad- ness, did Sheriff Bowers exert himself by arresting the promoters and their bull- fichters. The ridicule 'which the officials had heaped upcn the alleged ‘‘fake” proved a boomerang, ‘and that which had | been termed a hippodrome and an adver- | tising scheme proved to be a genuine ar- ticle. | The tough element, which largely pre- dominated, was not in an amiable mood, and the intervention of the Sheriff, who is not popular with the Cripple Creek miners, during the second fight nearly caused a riot. Considerable friction between the deputy sheriffs and the local town con- | stables was caused by the arrest of the principals, and a hand-to-hand encounter [ took place and a few Winchesters in the hands of the tough element from Cripple | Creek were displayed. It is needless to say that the pedce offi- cers are receiving a most vigorous denunci- ation from the majority of the people. that there is no statute specifically pro- juggling of W. H. Wolfe, the promoter of hibiting bull-fighting, and the second is the | Teached for his révolver, whereupon both these bull-fights, and "his very plausible stories that no brutality would take place, and that the horses would ‘be padded and rubber balls attached - to the horns of the bulls, apparently so deceived them that no adequate steps to prevent the sport were | taken. - P To-night Captain Saxton. of Troop A, stationed “here, received orders to be in marching order. - The cavalrymen are now assembled at the armory, awaiting further orders from headquarters. The first animal was driven into the arena at 3:30 o’clock, and the usual scenes of a bull-fight were enacted. It required thirty minutesto kill the animal, which became extremely vicious, the first sword- | thrust failing to reach a vital spot, and this seemed to greatly enrage the in- furiated animal. A second thrust by the toreador at the spinal column at the base of the neck pro- duced death. At 5:30 o’clock the second and more dangerous animal was driven in, the in- tervening time being taken up with other | Western sports. This last animal was un- -usually vicious, and so terrific was the pace set by him and so brutal was the sport ~becoming that Bheriff Bowers ordered the performance stopped and had the fighters arrested. The animal was shot with a Winchester. The horses were badly used up, but not gofed. To-morrow’s programme gives promise of being both brutal and exciting and large crowds are preparing to attend. The | general opinion is that the State officers | are powerless to act in the matter. | WILL ORDER OUT MILITIA. Governor Mcintive Now Determined to Prevent Further I'ights. DENVER, Coro., Aug. 24.—After Gov- ernor Mcintire received a message from' Cripple Creek this evening announcing the death of a bull in the exhibition at Gillette he changed his opinion of the matter. G. W.Thompson, State agent for the Humane Society, called . to-day upon the Governor,and expressed his indigna- tion at the apathy of the civil authorities. He closed his conference with the Goy- ernor by declaring that he had done all in his power to stop the brutal exhibition and now intended to cease further efforts, throwing the responsibility upon the Gov- ernor. To add to the further discomfiture of Governor McIntire, a local paper con- tained a special from Cripple Creek stating that Adjutant-General Moses had been guyed by the crowd when he appeared in full uniform upon the scene. “This affair must stop right now,” said the Governor this evening, and he forth- with went into consultation with some ad- | | visers. Itis now strongly probable that | he will order out the militia company in Colorado Springs to assist Sheriff Bowers | to suppress the fight to-morrow. KILLED A TRAIN-ROBBER. Officers Shot a Man Who Refused to Sur- render, GRAND RAPIDS, MicH., Aug. 24.—Wil- liam Smalley, supposed to be one of the Chicago and West Michigan train-robbers and the man who killed Detective Pawers | in this eity, was shot and instantly killed | at McBain this everring by officers who at- tempted to arrest Smalley at the home of hards, but instead of complying Smalley officers fired, killing him instanfly. \DAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES GOADED TO THE DEATH RACED - ON THE RAIL California Commandery ' Had a Very Close Call. BEAT A RIVAL SPECIAL. But the Tracks Crossed’ and the Golden West Knights Had to Be Dumped. LANDED GENTLY IN THE MUD, It Was a Thrilling Ride While It Lasted and the Templars Were Unconscious of Danger. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 24— Golden Gate Commandery’s speedy special made. a very close call this morning on spreading a sensational story over the country. It had been raining in torrents since long west of Chicago. It cost some time to get in and out of the yards of that big city, as it generally does for special trains having no schedule time. Thetrain was two hours behind time, with both Chautauqua and Niagara Falls on the pro- gramme for the day’s entertainment. Mansfield Commandery had come to Kent with & brass band, and were, kept waiting at that station with breakfast ; prepared until the middle of the forenoon. It was a royal reception when the train did get in, however, and the band was kept playing during the hasty breakfast. With a Golden Gate cheer the train started-away; insuch a hurry that it had to be stopped again out of the station to allow a couple of Knights who had lingered over their meal to overtake it. The engi- neer was then instructed to ‘‘let her go' and make up what time he could before reaching Chautauqua. For a stretch of several miles west of Greenville, Pa., the tracks of the Erie. and the Pittsburg, Fort. Wayne and Chicago parallel each other, and at the end of that several miles they cross. Now it #0 happened that as the Golden Gate special struck into this stretch of straight and level track, traveling forty miles an hour, a passenger train on the other road swung into it, also immediately abreast and less than a stone’sthrow away. There was a little defiant scream from the Golden Gate engine, the challenge was promptly answered and the Knights and the passengers on the other train were in- stantly cheering excitedly at each other, for a race was on. The P.F.W. and C. was a good goer itself, and for a few min- utes the engines of the two trains did not change, the excitement, however, increas- ing. Then the Golden Gate began to show the stuff she was made of, creeping away from her rival in fine form, the Sir Knights There are probably two reasons for the |his brother-in-law, Charles Brown. The | swinging their capsfrom the windows with noun-interference of the officers; one being | officers called upon him to throw up his | their familiar cheer. They did not know that the tracks of the racers crossed just below. The high rate of speed was kept up too long. It was THIS CITY WANTS BOTH NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. ‘Miss San Francisco to Uncle Sam—“Won’t you come “to| the Pacific Coast in ’96 to President? We shall take pleasure in preparing,a Western welcome for you.” A Uncle Sam appears.to be about ready to yield to this generous invitation from the-w estern verge of the.continent. for. nominate your candidates PRICE FIVE CENTS. rdining like a cloudburst, and while that added to the 'spirit of the thing, it also formed a wet cushion on the rails, and when their brakes were finally thrown on, the wheels stopped their ‘revolutions, but the train, with its tremendous momentum, kept on its way. The other train had already swung off to the right to come round on the crossing, for it had the right of way. The danger ‘was imminent, but the man on guard at the switch saw it, and had not only the presence of mind but the nerve to throw it, in what under other circumstances would have been the wrong way, and the splendid Golden Gate speéial, with her yelling freight, unconscious of their dan- ger, slid off the rails into the mud. Hap- pily only the engine did that. This switch is arranged at this place for just such a contingency, but never before, it is said, jas this safety provision been called into requisition for a paseenger train. Hardly had the special come to a standstill when the Fort Wayne rushed across the tracks but a few feet in front of her engine. But for the turn of the switch throwing the special into the mud, the two trains would certainly have come to- gether, and the gallant Sir Knights of Golden Gate Commandery, their ladies, their shining swords and banners of purple and gold would not have gone to Boston, This incident cost another half hour of time. Asstated, only the engine left the track. Another came out from Kent, pulled the train back to the main line, took its place in iront and the pilgrime went merrily.on. But this loss of time cut off the possibility of the stop at Chautau- qua. This was not so much regretted, as it was raining and little pleasure would have been expected from the stop. The commanders lined up on ‘the plat- form of the station, gave the Chautauquan cheery salute and away they went again. It was a part of the plan to take dinner here and the diner had been dropped, but a telegram produced a pot of coffee at the next station and all hands feasted off the commissary stores while rocking over the rails at a forty-mile gait and the rain splashing against the windowpanes. Even with the sacrifice of Chautaugua the falls were not reached until after 6 o’clock, four hours behind time. The rain, however, which had increased in violence, suddenly ceased as the train drew into the station. Carriages were taken and the main drive over the bridge to Inspiration Point, on the Canadian side, was made. The party sat down to dinner at the Cataract House and the journey was resumed at 9 o’clock. It is the last night on the train and is to be signalized by a general high jinks. Com- missary Townsend will deliver a lecture at Niagara Falls. Appended are the names of the Knights who so narrowly escaped serious injury and perhaps death: George D. Clark, E. C. of G. G. No. 16, K. T.; Madison T. Owens, E.C.of Cceur de Lion No. 9, K. T.; Paul Rader, general- issimo of C.de L. No. 9; George Sinsau- baugh, captain-general of 0. de L. No. 9; Christian Hellwig, senior warden of G. G. C. No. 16; Charles P. Overton, junior war- den of 3. G. C. No. 18; Courtland 8. Bene- dict. standard-bearer of G. G. C. No. 16; Frank W. Sumner, P. G. C., adjutant; Leander W. Frary, E. C., surgeon of Coeur de Lion No. 9; Charles D. Bunker, quarter- master of G. G. C. No. 16; Eugene de Kay Townsend, commissary of G. G. C. No. 16; Charles L. Field, P. E. C., paymaster of G. G. C. No. 16; William Edwards, P. E. C., commandant of Goiden Gate Drill Corps; William Smith, assistant quartermaster of G. G. C. No. 16; Robert A. Mowbray, as- sistant quartermaster of G. G. C. No. 16. Sir Knights—James Bruce, Alonzo Hal- lett, Henry O. Sterns, Alexander McKay, Thomas M. McLachlan, Charles S. True, William D. Sanborn, Theodore Frolich, George L. Darling, William C. Ralston, Michael Ryan, Frank W. Street, E. C.; David E. Knight, Thomas H. Hender, Os- car Robinson, Alonzo Colby, William R. Knights, George W. Strohl, William B. Rockwell, Alvin L. Bryan, James McNeill, P. E. C.; Hervey Lindley, P. E. C.; James Cunzer, James W. Trueworthy, Daniel M. Sutherland, Samuel K. Lindley, James B. Lankershim, James C. Hassinger, P. E. C.; W. L. Clark, John W. Lucas, Joseph C. Campbell, Frank H. Ames, James G. Spaulding, Gaylor Rouse, Edward B. Stuart, Niles Pease, William F. Smith, James I. Maxwell, Frank J. French, P. E. C.; Robert Ash, James H. Hatch, P. E. C.; Thomas Kirkpatrick, George D. Cunning- ham, James Clark, Sherman Washburn, Aaron R. Klock, Charles J. Lohman, Harry J. Lask. CALIFORNIANS IN BOSTON. Commandery No.1 Given a Most Royal Welcome. BOSTON, Mass.,, Aug. 24.—California Commandery No. 1, which arrived in Bos- ton this afternoon, fully justified its repu- tation as lavish entertainers and generous hosts at the banquet tendered by it at the Parker House to-night to some 200 mem- bers and guests, among the latter being Governor: Greenhalge and Mayor Curtis. The menu was most elaborate. Eminent Sir Reuben P. Hurlbut presided, and in very brief remarks, owing to the fatigue of the long journey, called upon Sir George T. Bromley of the California Press Club, who made the introductory address. Governor Greenhalge came in late, but on his arrival received an ovation. At the conclusion of Mr. Bromley’s remarks he was introduced and made a most cordial speech of welcome to the visitors, and was followed by 8ir Edwin U. Curtis, Mayor of Boston. who extended a hearty welcome on behalf of the city. Colonel Charles G. Frye extended the greetings of the Grand Commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Then Colonel 8id Hedges of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, who is well known to the Californians, was called for and replied in a hsppi vein. Rev. A. A. Berleof Boston was the last speaker, and the festivities did not end until after midnight. Stern Harshly Treated. BERLIN, Aug. 24—United States Con- sul-General Dekay asserts that he is now in possession of evidence that Mr. Louis Stern, who was recently arrested and fined in Kissingen for an alleged insult to Baron von Thnanfn. the Deputy Commissioner of the Spa, been very harshly and un- justly treated. Mr. Dekay declares that e himself would have served the Baron a E::d deal worse than Stern did if he had n in Kissengen and treated as Stern was. Dekay says he has reported sub- stantially this opinion to the Government at Washington. TG e o . One Block Destroyed. CLEVELAND, Omro, Aug. 24—The Williamson block, on the southeast corner of the public square, was entirely de- stroyed by fire at 1 o’clock this morning. The' fire started in the basement. The new Cuyahoga block and other fine build- ings were threatened, but the firemen ved them. The loss will be over $100,000. COLLIDED IN THE BAY Near Toledo a Steamer Was Cut Down by a Schooner. FIERCE PANIC ENSUED. Six of the Eight Hundred Pas~ sengers Will Die From Wounds. MET IN A NARROW CHANNEL, A Jibboom Cut Through the Steam- boat’s Side Like a Huge Knife. TOLEDO, Omro, Aug. 24.—Six persons were injured, two probably fatally, in a collision in Maumee Bay, six miles from here, to-night between the schooner Made- line T. Downing and the steel passenger steamer City of Toledo. Following is a list of the injured: Mrs. J. L. Miller of Bucyrus, Ohio, hurt inter- nally; Mrs. John Sanderson of Ada, Ohio, arm and leg broken and hurt internally; Miss Jessie Jackson of Ada, hurtinternally; Miss Annie Zimmerman of Ada,arm broken and slight fracture of the skull; Miss Grace Garwood of Ada, head cut and teeth knocked out; Miss Nellie Garwood, head cut and arm fractured. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Sanderson it is thought will not Tecover. The City of Toledo was bound in from Put-in-Bay with 800 passengers on board, the majority of whom had come up from Ada this morning and taken the boat here. The Downing was proceeding out with coal for Buffalo in tow of a tug. The channel where the collision occurred is quite narrow and it is stated by Captain McNelly of the City of Toledo that he gave the Downing all the room he possibly could as the two boats were about to pass. The tug evidently had poor control of the schooner, for as the City of Toledo came alongside the Downing she veered over on the steamer’s port bow and her jibboom cut through the steamer’s upper works like a huge knife. The heavy woodwork collapsed and came tumbling down on those passengers who were forward on the port side, and among whom were the six ladies named. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Sanderson were caught by the Downing’s jibboom and crushed “against the steamer’s deck fit~ tings. Excitement bordering on a panic pre- vailed on the steamer and a rush was made for the life-preservers. Captain McNelly reversed his engines and when the steamer backed off, without the schooner hitting her hull, it was seen that the worst of the aanger was passed. The Downing contin- ued on out in tow of the tug and escaped uninjured. The City of Toledo signaled for assist- ance, and was brought up to the city at 11 o’clock to-night. The amount of damage done to her can- not be estimated, but it will probably cost $15,000 to repair her. The injured ladies were taken to the hospital, with the exception of the Misses Garwood, who recovered sufficiently to leave for their homes. A Mrs. Kammerer of Cleveland had a narrow escape, the schooner’s jibboom tearing her hat off. POISONIN THEIR FORTE. Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Hawkins Sus- pected of Murdering Their Husbands. DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 24.—Relatives of Mrs. Nora Perkins, under arrest in Min- neapolis charged with the murder of Lola Hawkins, claim that the husbands of the iwo women died here four years ago under circumstances most mysterious. Mrs. Per- kins’ husband, Lincoln Perkins, a printer, from Adel, died after fourteen days’ill- ness, and it is said that he told his friends before his death that he feared he had been poisoned. Mrs. Perkins seeured $1500 life insurance. Mrs. Hawkins’ husband, Wil- liam Scott, diad about the same time under circumstances which were considered sus- picious by Scott’s relatives, although they made no investigation at the time. Mrs. Hawkins secured $3000 life insurance. The two women cut a wide swath before they left here for Mioneapolis three years ago. Clleoems Says He Is Not to Blame, ANTONITO, Coro., Aug. 24—FElmer Loescher, who was arrested here last night, says the fatal boiler explosion in the wrecked Gumry Hotel at Denver was not caused by any carelessness on his part. He declares that he banked the fire in the furnace, and saw that the boiler was two- thirds full of water before leaving the ho- tel. He left Denver after the disaster for fear of mob violence. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3 and 4. LEVI STRAUSS &E0s COPPER RIVETED $PRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEED. #OR SALE EVERYWHERE.