The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1895, Page 1

g | i { : % TVOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORN _FIVE CENTS. N0 QUARTER GIVEN, Armenians and Turks Battle at Turkey’s Capital. UPRISING OF CHRISTIANS Scores Slain .in the Combat and the Wounded Are Put to Death. PLOTTED TO KILL THE VIZIER. Fighting on the Streets of Con- stantinople Continues— Hun- dreds Taken Prisoners. .~ Five hundred persons | ted on the charge of par- are a number of arrested, were beaten and then s struck with a shot and killed. gendarme oflicers n Armenian near the whe 1 afterw mmission: officers gendarmes that eight jans were n the Min- | . which was artacked by the b>wd of armed Softaassembled the dis- acre t e, however, the situation, which ner- whic honor of Prince has been canceled. atch boat Petrel, which for Toulon, has been or- 1 to_remain. The der ation of the Armerians had long been prearranged. Copies of the pe- tition against the Government, to present which to the Grand Vizier was the object.| of the visit of the the palace, were s s, With an intiz be rmenians to the gate of 1t to some of the embas- ation that the pi rwarded to the Grand Vizier. e hearing this, orders were given At the petition-from being pre- 000 persons assembled in -the apon Cathedral o attend the cele- | of the c After the service vomen presented to the ion begging him to sum- t to go to the Porte to pray t ‘promy enforce reforms in Ar- The Patriarch addressed the as- iexhorted them to make no ,inasmuch as it would be to law. He hegged them to rely 1f to do everything possible to lze desired reforms. Thereupon the shouted: “We have had enough. We want liberty or death.” The Patriarch then withdrew and the renians tried to form a procession, but in this they were prevented by the police, who - dispersed the crowd into various er, however, they gathered n arranzed point. There Major Serwet Bey, aid to the Ministry of Police, ed. th , di: ing them to leave 1. palace with him. Some reports say it he insulted the Armenians. At any te, the fatter became incensed and began iting: Then shots were fired, and Ser- -was killed and several gendarmes re wounided. A hand to hand fight fol- ss. iisturbances were renewed on Tues- it the details cannot be obtained. It »wn; however, that some people were streels are patrolled by treops, and the guards at the Government cffices have been re-enforced. It is stated that the Ar- menians broke into the law courts and ¢ judges. the- rioting Monday bullets ages of the Minister of the ior,the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Miaister of Police. The Constantinople correspondent of the. " that an eye-witness of s.trouble declares he saw a cart- rpses removed from ‘the: Koum- kapon district last night. A Greex messenger employed at the Dritish consulate reported that he was at he Grand.Zaptieh, the principal prison of the city, and saw four dead anhd eight | wounded " Armenians brought in. He heard an order given to kill the wounded, whieh was done. The matter was reported to Sir Phiilip Curry, the British Minister. The Daily News estimates the killed at more than twenty. Christian and Mcslem fanaticism, it says, isalike aroused and the trouble may be worse yet unless ener- getic measures are taken. The Standard has a Constantinople dis- patch = z that the number of killed is variously estimated at from thirty to 200. The exXact number will probably never be known. Many hundreds of persons have been grrested and the entire Ministry of Justice. has been turned intoa jail. The ordinary- jails are full. Any Armenian who appears on the streets runs the risk of being imprisoned. The dispatch adds that many versions ure given of the tenor of the Armenian petitivn. .One version is- that it was 3 7e and was intended only as a pre- text to €nable the conspirators to gain access to the Grand Vizier. The agitators well knew they would be resisted, hence theiraction can only be regarded as delib- e armvd provocation, any repetition of which might havé been of the most serious consequences for Christians throughout the empire. 7 4 familiar rumors of an impending acre are already revived and the public mind is greatly agitated. P WERE KILLED. Official Keport of the kiot From Minister Terrell. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2.—Secre- -tary Olney late tnis afternpon received the had been | ition | | €an Jose. | brewer. following dispatch from Minister Terrell at Constantinople: Olney, Washington: Monday several hun- dred Armenians marched on the Porte, pro- fessedly to ask redress for grievances. The Pa- triarch tried to prevent it. A conflict occurred between the Armenfansand the police. Prob- ably about sixty Turks and Armenians were killed, among others a Turkish major, and many were wounded. The Armeniaus carried pistols. Yesterday several more were killed. Last night there were efght killed. Several hundred have been imprisoned. The Porte had notice of the demonstration, which it is said was organized by the leaders of the Hunschagist revolution- ists, whom they have captured. Much terror exists, I think the Porte will be able to re- strain fanaticism, TERRELL. -— HER MONEY UNGUARDED, Search for Relatives of a Wealthy Woman . Who Is Insane. CHICACO, Inn., Oct. 2.—A letter re- ceived by the Police Department to-day from Mrs. Mary Welch of San Francisco inquires concerning the whereabouts of relatives of Miss Margaret Mack, who was | lately confined in an insane asylum, leay- | ing considerable property and money un- guarded by reason of her helpless condi- | tion. | The writer says Miss Mack, who is 40 | years old, has two sisters living in Chicago, | but she cannot give their names or ad- s, and is anxious as a friend of the nted woman to have her affairs taken care of. Miss Mack hasa deposit in the Hibernian Savings Bank, San Francisco, and owns real estate both in that city and WHPPED HER HUSBAND Margaret Mather Figures in a New and Sensational Roie. Colonel Pabst Belabored by the Ex- Actress on a Street of Milwaukee. NEW YORK, special from Milw The entire city is talking to-night about a street affray which occurred this after- noon between Colonel Gustav G. Pabst and his wife, who was formerly Margaret Mather, the z2tress. The residents in the neighborhood of State and Twenty-seventh streets noticed a man and woman driving by in a covered buggy shortly after noon to-day, and were startled the next minute to see the woman seize the whip and strike her companion across the face. Her companion made no resistance, but turned and jumped out of the buggy. Then it was seen that he was Colonel Pabst, son of the millionaire Pabst walked down State street. It was his wife who had struck the blow. Mrs. Pabst followed her huxband as he turned into Twenty-fourth street. When she reached him she struck him fourtimes on the face with the whip, which she still carried, and her hushand wrenched it from her and threw it into the street. Mrs. Pabst was not content with this, for she doubled up her fist and struck the colonel squarely in the face. He then spoke to her in a low tone, and the pair turned and went to their house together. The assault was witnessed by several persons, but no one could tell what was the cause of the trouble, as there has been no rumors that the pair had not been living happily together. Miss Mather has not been on the stage since her marriage, but stories were current to-night that she intended to go behind the footlights again. THIAL OF THE ST, PALL Slow Time Made in the New Liners Race for a Record. The Messrs. Cramp and the Naval Officers Chagrined Over the Result. MARBLEHEAD, Mass,, Oct. 2.—The new American liner 8t. Paul, the twin ship to the 8t. Louis, now in regular ocean traffic on the same line, was given her first trial trip to-day. The course selected was the regular Government course from Cape Porpeise to Cape Ann and return. The St. Paul is the latest and most costly addition to the merchant marine, and for ‘months past the result of her trial has been a theme of speculation among all naval men. It wasexpected that she would equal, if not surpass, the record made by the St. Louis over the same course—22.03 knots per hour. She does not receive any bonus for reducing this record, but was to receive as a subsidized cruiser so much for carrying the mail for every mile that she made over the St. Louis’ time. The weather was perfect for the trial, and it wasexpected that the St. Paul would make a very high record, but for some un- explainable cause she did very poorly and could not go faster that 21 knots. She will be given anotler trial Saturday. The Messrs. Cramp and the naval offi- cers who witnessed the trial were very much chagrined, but Jaid the fault to her machinery being new and her crew unac- customed to ber movements. Lans v MORA AWARD CLAIMANTS, The Money to Be Paid Without Heed to Zitigation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2.—It is be- lieved that the Mora award will soon be distributed, perhaps within a few days. Secretary Olney 'is credited with the opinion that he is not oblized to heed any of the litigation which bas been threatened. The former custom of the State Depart- ment was to pay the entire amount of an international award to the original claim- ant, leaving his assigns to settle with him. While the custom has changed in recent years the principle is still held that the State Department cannot be disturbed in the exercise of its original jurisdiction in the pavment of an award by court proceed- ings preliminary to suits for the determina- tion of the title to the funds. With the exception of 40 per cent set aside for at- torney’s fees and expenses Mora's assign- ments will not foot up over $100,000. R Mahone’s Condition Unchanged. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 3.—At12:05 o'clock a. M. General Mahone's condition remained unchanged. His, physician left shortly before midnight and stated that he would not call again until morning, as the sick man did not appear to be in im- mediate danger. Railroad Commissioner Clark—What are you going to do to show your love for me in recogni- tion of my services ? Mr. Huntington—Oh, you jump right into this pool of political oblivion and I’ll see what I can do for you. VIl take it up with you after the rates are fixed. A FEUD OF COWBOYS, Littlefield Was Hanged by Men of a Rival Ranch. WAR IN ROUND VALLEY. A Battle Between the Vinton and Palmer Factions Expected. NEW STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. Friends of the Mob’s Victim Claim That He Fired In .Self- Defense. UKIAH, Cav., Oct. 2.—The Littlefield- Vinton affair in Round Valley is not yet at an end. The body of Littlefield, the victim of the lynching, was cut down by George Cummings, the Covelo Constable, on Saturday. The following day Ves Palmer, in whose employ Littlefield was, went after the body to give it burial. Palmer had with him several of his range riders. Near the scene of the Iynching they encountered some of Vinton’s cow- boys, but at that time no hostile action ‘was manifested by either party. Later reports are to the effect that Vin- ton’s friends left in pursuit of Palmer and his party, and hostilities are expected to commence shortly. If they meet a pitched battle will be the result. Since the first zeports of the affair senti- menti has changed regarding the matter and it now appears that 1t was the result of abitter fend between the Vinton and Palmer ranches. It is claimed by those who are in a position to know that Little- field was alone in the Mad River country gathering stock when he ran across Vinton and hot words passed between them. It is very likely that Littlefield ffed in self- defense. Others go so' far as to assert that the Round Valiey Constables pretended to ar- rest Littlefield, but in reality aided in his | Iynching by the Vinton range riders. | Color is lent to this theory by the fact that the Constables were witnessin behalf of Vinton, the prosecuting witness, and against Palmer in the tria! of Palmer for grand larceny at the July term of court. The truth of the matter will likly never be learned, as all the witnesses of the tragedy were Vinton men. Littlefield’s | father is an inmate of the County Farm. Littlefield was a determined man and had little to say, but was a good shot and very jealous of the rights of his employer Palmer. DEEP WATER CONFERENCE. The Galveston Exposition Project Strongly Indorsed. TOPEKA, Kaxs., Oct. 2.—Congressman Burion of Missouri called the deep water conference to order this morning. The following officers wereelected: Permanent chairman, C. G. Vest of Missouri; perma- nent secretary, Thomas Richardson of Texas; reading clerk, Charles Martin of Kansas; vice-presidents, one from each State represented. Senator Vest, when escorted to the chair, merely said: ‘‘Gentlemen of this conven- tion, I return my thanks for this honor. It is expected that our action will be thus command the respect of the people. This convention is now open.” i Ex-Governor Hubbard of Texas spoke from 11 until 12:30 o’clock. His speech was full of statistics covering the deep water agitation and its resnlts and pros- pects. The following greeting was pre- sented by Delegate 8. 8. King of Kansas City, Kans., and addressed to. Governor Culberson of Texas: “These are great days for Texas. We have assembled to promote your commer- cial greatness, you to promote moral great- nes;; may both subjects abundantly suc- ceed.” A At the afternoon session resolutions were adopted favoring a great interna. tional celebration at'Galveston in honor of securing a_deep-water harbor there. Ex- Governor Fishback of Arkansas delivered an address and an adjournment was taken until to-morrow. S DMail Steamship Wrecked. ODESSA, Russia, Oct.2.—The Russian Mail steamship Tsarevna has been wrecked off Cape Tarkhap on the Crimean coast. None of her passengers or crew were lost. cautious, conservative and sincere, and | QUEEN OF CRUISERS The Brooklyn Launched From the Cramp Shipyard. CHEERED BY THOUSANDS. A Daughter of Mayor Schieren Christens the Noble Vessel. ONE OF THE BEST AFLOAT. Many Improvements Embodied In the Construction of the Warship. PHILADBLPHIA, Pa., Oct. 2.—The United States armored cruiser Brooklyn was launched from Cramps’ shipyard into the Delaware River at 1:08 o’clock this aft- ernoon with the usual accompaniment of noise furnished by shrieking steam whistles and ‘the cheers of at least 15,000 spectators. Shortly after 1 o'clock the signal was glven and the big vessel started down the ways. As she began to move Miss Schieren, daughter of the Mayor of Brookiyn, smashed the bottle of champagne against the red hull and christened the vessel the Brooklyn. The vessel slipped smoothly into the river, and a great cheer went up from the multitude. The big handsome cruiger floated a hundred yardsor so out, and then two anchors were let go from her bows, and she came to a stop and swung slowly around with the tide. The armored cruiser Brooklyn will be one of the fleating masterpieces of the ceean. Driven ahead by engines of 16,500 horsepower, she will plunge through the water twenty knots an hour .continuously i | T —_— THE ARMORED CRUISER BZOOKL:fi, LAUNOCHED YESTERDAY. |From an engraving.] for days, or as long as her coal supply of 1650 tons will hold out. Her bunkers will run berat ten knots per hour for 15,000 miles. The Brooklyn will be an improvement over any other vessel built in the matter of forced draught,.as her long smokestacks projecting 100 feet above her boilers will keep the steam-gauges at the highest point. The stacks are built of steel, heavier at the base than at the top, and stayed to the masts. What heat will be generated in the great furnaces below when the hot air goes roaring up through those towering tubes of metal! The Brooklyn’s steel unsheathed hull will have a double bottom and close water- tight subdivisions to twelve feet above the water line. There will be a heavy protect- ive deck extending from stem to stern, the edges amidship being five feet six inches below the twenty-four foot water line and rising tothe level of the water line at the middle of the vessel. Over the machinery and boilers, magazines, etc., this deck will be six inches thick on the slopes and three inches thick on the horizontal positions. Forward and aft of the machinery and boilers the deck will be at least two and a half inzhes thick. Protection at the water iine will be af- forded by an armor belt three inches thick, extending the length of the engine and boiler rooms, and from four feet above to four feet below the water line. Within this armor belt and the skin plating will be a belt of cellulose three feet six inches thick the whole lengtis of the vessel and reaching from the armored deck to the berth deck. Between these two decks will be thirty- six water-tight compartments amidships to serve as coal-bunkers. The conning tower will have 7}4 inches of armor, with a connecting tube to the protection deck fitted with 5 inches of armor. Her twin screws will be each driven by a pair of vertical inverted triple-expansion engines inclosed in separate apartments and with shafts so arranged that the for- ward engines can be uncoupled and the after engines used for low speed. She bas seven boilers arranged in three batteries, each in an independent water-tight bulk- head. The Brooklyn will be armored with eight 8-inch breech-loading rifles, twelve 5-inch breech-loading rapid-fire guns, four 1-pound rapid-fire guns, four machine and two field guns. The big eight-inchers will be mounted in four barbette turrets, two having a train-angle of 310 degreés and the other two an angle of 180 degrees, from right ahead to right astern. The barbette armor will be 8 inches thick for a portion equivalent to the train of the gunsand 4 inches thick for all re- maining portions. The turret armor will be 5} inches thick, and the five-inch guns will be protected by fixed segmental shields 4 inches thick and by 1}4-inch splinter bulkheads to protect the crew from explosive shelis. The smaller guns will be protected by shields and extra side plating. There will be five torpedo tubes, one at the bow and two at each side. Steel nets hung from outrigger booms will be a defense against torpedoes. There will be two military masts with fighting tops. The length of hull on loadline is 400 feet, beam 64 feet and draught 23 feet. Her dis- placement is 9150 tons and the indicated horsepower] is 16,500 tons. The vessel's complement is 566 men, officers and crew. This peerless war craft is fifty-two feet longer than the Oregon and sixty feet longer than the Olympia. She is 1130 tons less displacement than the Oregon, but 4480 tons more than the Olympia. The Oregon has five feet more beam and the Olympia eleven feet less than the Brook- Iyn. The Oregon draws one foot of water more and the Olympia two feet less. The Oregon is 6500 horsepower less and the Olympia is 1363 tons trial ‘horsepower more. The estimated cost of the Oregon is $1,615.000; Olympia, $2,388,000; Brooklyn, $3,500,000. The Oregon carries four 13-inch guns and as many 8-inch as the Brooklyn, but four 6-inch, against the Brook- lyn’s twelve five-inch. This makes the battery of the Pacific vessel the heavier. The Olympia’s battery is lighter, but- she bas ten 5-inch quick-fire rifles which lift her well up toward the other two vessels in efficiency of gun work. However, the Brooklyn is the cruiser of the future, as she can “steam almost around the world without coaling, an advantage that makes her independent and practically uncon- querable. SURVIVES A BROKEN NECK Peculiar Case That Is Puzzling the Physicians at Omabha. Stewart Has Lived for Six Days With a Fractured Vertebrze. Mrs. OMAHA, NEBR., Oct. 2.—Mrs. Dudley T. Stewart is lying at the point of death with a broken neck. On Thursday evening last, during Mr. Stewart’s absence from the city, a young man who enjoyed the ac- quaintance of the family called at the house with his carriage and horses and in- vited Mrs. Stewart to go driving with him. After some persuasion Mrs. Stewart con- sented. - Hardly had the couple driven a few blocks when the team shied, the carriage collided with the curb and the occupants were thrown to the pavement. A crowd of neighbors immediately gathered at the spot and the wreck was gathered up. The young :nan escaped without serious in- jury, but Mrs. Stewart was thrown upon her head and rendered urconscious. She was taken back to her residence and a physician summoned. An examination disclosed the fact that Mrs. Stewart's neck had been broken. Her entire body is paralyzed from the shoulders down. Mr. Stewart was notified at once and returned to the city Friday. The physicians have expected Mrs. Stew- art to die at any moment since the acci- dent. That she has lived six days is con- sidered remarkable and unaccountable. ————— IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Rev. William Henshaw Found Guilty of Wife-Murder, DANVILLE, Ixp., Oct. 2—The jury in the:case of Rev. William E. Henshaw, who was indicted for the murder of his wife at Bellville on January 10, which has been on trial for the past five weeks, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and that he be imprisoned for life. The accused did not flinch when the ver- dict was announced. FIRST TRAIN STARTS, Engines and Cars Move on the San Joaquin Railroad. ALL STOCKTON REJOICES. Sounding Bells and Screech-~ ing Whistles Vent the Enthusiasm. CROWDS BOARD THE CARS, Men, Women and Chlldren Cheer as the Locomotives Steam Away. STOCKTON, Car., Oct. 2.—The screech- ing of whistles and thie ringing oZ bells at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the vianity of Mormon Channel annonnced some un occurrence at that section of the ci soon people were hurrying along Center and Hunter streets in that direction in buggies, on bicycles an oot. At the in- tersection of Center and Taj people saw three monster locomoti the compound pattern moving slowly over the newly laid tracks of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. The big engine, Claus Spreckels, was the header, and aigathed to the engines were two flatears. There was some delay in getting- up steam in the Southern Pacific yards, but there seemed to be plenty on when they moved. The trip from the Southern Pa- cific yards to this point was made in com- paratively good time. Henry Vogelsang, an old Southern Pacific engineer, leaned out of the cab window of the Claus Spreck- els with his hand on the ‘throttle. He moved his mixed train cautiously over the track, and the people took advantage of the elow rate to climb on top of the en- gine, the cabs, the coal-tenders; the pilots and the freightcars. The ladies were “‘boosted” on by the men in the crowd, and the moving train was soon black with people. “First ride on the Valley road,” yelled one man on top of the cab. ‘“No conduc- tor to-day,” said another,as he jostled against Engineer Vogelsang in. the cab of the Claus Spreckels. Every once in awhile the engineer would open the whistle and the shrill report would be answered by some of the facto- ries or mills uptown. The big engines with the cars and their swarms of human freight were moved up and down over the main track and over on all the sidings and switches, and the track and roadbed stood the test well. Not a single flaw was found along tlie line. Dur- ing the day a gang was ready putting the finishing touches on the road in order <hat. the rolling stock might. be brought over from the Southern Pacitic yards to the com- pany’s own line. The material yards are alive with men getting ties and rails in shape to move by construction trains to the grade outside the city. Many looked upon the valley road en- gines to-day who had never seen a locomo- tive other than those of the Southern Pacific. The engines and flatcars are to-night on the tracks of the people’s road. A railroad magnate not many years ago said in a spirit of resentment over some fancied wrong done him by the City Coun- cil that he would make grass grow in the streets of Stockton. If vegetation of this character ever had a tendeney to flourish here it has been effectually estopped by the Valley road. Instead of grass there is dust—dust everywhere—on the south side of the city and on toward the Stanislaus, caused by the construction gangs on the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. The Corral Hollow people are also werk- ing away, and good progress is evident in every department of the-enterprise. Their workmen on the line by the slough cheered the passage of the engines:and then set- tled back with an evident defermination to give a little exhibition: of ‘their own at some future. date. LOUIS PASTEUR'S. FUNERAL. The Obsequies Will Be of a Natiowal Character. PARIS, Fraxce, Oct.:2.—The body of Professor Louis Pasteur- was placed in a cotfin at his late residence ‘at: Garches yesterday - afternoon. The -fuperal: party proceeded to Paris by wdy of St. Cloud. An immense crowd gathered ajong the rue du Tot and silently awaited the arrival of the cortege, and as the horses and car- riages passed along all heads were bared. President Faure signed a decree ordain- ing that M. Pasteur's obsequies should be of a national character. For the pur- pose of lessening the pomp and ostenta- tion of the ceremonies attendant on the interment of M. Pasteur, his family de- cided that the body shall remain in the temporary vault at Notre. Dame. o~ Of Great Political #mportance. LONDON, ExG., Oct. 2.—Tle Daily News will to-morrow print a dispatch from -its Berlin correspondent saying that the mis- sion to St.” Petersburg of. Count von Moltke, aid-de-camp to Emperor William, who conveyed to the Czaf an autograph letter from the German Emperor, seems to be a sequel to the negotiations: opened by Chancellor von Hohenlohe during his. re- cent visit to the Russian capital. Itisa complete surprise to ‘everybody. ‘The cor- respondent says it is undoubtedly of great political importance. 3 For additional Pacific Coast news see Pages 2, 3and §. SMOKE La Belle Creole CIGARS, 3 for 256--10¢-Straight--2 for 230 ASK DEALERS FOR "HEM. X RINALDO BROS. & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 5 . 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