The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIIL—NO. 148. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, OGCTOBER 26, 1895. =3 PRICE FIVE CENTS. VENEZUELA REFUSES TO SUBMIT TO ENGLAND FroM ALL ECTS HELP CENTRAL AM AL N1 FA EADERS IN CRESPO W GREAT PREPARATION FOR WAR. EERN I Have BEEN UNTERS BETWEEN | ND NATIVES. S | | CARACAS, VesezveLA, Oct. 25.—The | greatest excitement was caused here by | the news from England that that country | is determined to continue its course and | not to r from the stand originally | adopte 2 support of which England | is sending warships to this coast and sev- eral vessels have lately arrived at Guiana with war material. News reccived through private channels from the United States is not the least en- | couraging, though the Government still per: n positive assurances of help from the United States and that the American fleet is already coming. Added to this is the news of fighting in different portions of the cc , woere the Government was from Georgetown say that the uthorities there are not idle, send- quantities of ammunition toward where troops and settlers armed, and the latter, 1ot seeking a fight, are determined 10 their ground. Throughout the the fron have been n thoug ans, who are called inter- s from the Cuyuni announce sev- tions between natives and the British, in which some were killed, though as yet no open battle has occurred. Vene- zuelan troops on the Cuyuni are being re- enforced and taking a stand on the frontier, ready at a moment’s notice to take offensive measures, and are deter- mined to attack, burn and kill where they can. It is positiyely stated that Venezuela has promises in case war breaks out thata number of the Latin American countries will join her, principally Brazil and Ecuador, and that the former will then | test her case against Italy and England. The work favoring & general Latin-Ameri- can alliance against European enroach- ments which commenced four years ago is promising excellent results. Itis rumored that the leaders of the vresent opposition to President Crespo will be sent to serve the Government on the frontier. The Government has taken gainst an attack on English the country. ¢ Government is preparing to defend the coast with torpedoes, and unaer no cir- nstances accede to the demands of Ene- watch has been ordered for Eng- The British works of defense ruan have been finished, and the h are reconnoitering Ymataca Mount- Reports that the English are ad- cing through Brazil are again current. he Venezuela case is not identical with pies. ted States therefore cannot interfere. It is reported that Engiand will aid the United States in Cuba against Spain for leaving England free here. geinge ks FURTHER TROUBLE AHEAD. England May Try to Protect China From Russia. LONDON, ExG., Oct. 25.—The Pall Mall Gazette prints a long article commenting upon a dispatch published in the Times from its Hongkong correspondent stating that a treaty had recently been concluded between Russia and China, by the terms of which Russia obtains the right of anchorage for her fleet at Port Arthur, the right to construct and operate railways and other great advantages. The Gazette assumes that this practically means that Russia has annexed China. If this con- clusion of the treaty be a fact, Japan, the paper says, will certainly refuse to leave Port Arthur, and England will oppose it to the death. The treaty also means the presence of Russian warships off Van- couver and Sydney. England must act vigorously and immediately, both by means of diplomacy and by getting her fleets ready for sea. ‘The Globe, in an article on the same sub- ject, says: ‘Neither England, the United States, Japan nor Germany will sanction the partition of China which would virtu- ally render the Pacific a Franco-Russian lake and would seal the markets of China against their commerce.” The St. James Gazette says: “It1s obvi- ous that, if Russia has squeezed China into sach an agreement, we must intervene. War with Russia, with all its risks and possibilities, would be less disastrous than to allow her, without striking a blow, to get such a grip on China.”” e CHINA AND RUSSIA. | There Is Much Speculation Regarding the New Treaty. LONDON, Exc., Oct. 25.—Inquirers at the Foreign Office are informed that the officials there have no information thata treaty has been concluded between China and Russia, by which the latter is given great commercial and other advantages. The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from St. Petersburg saying that the )_Wwoe Vremya’s statement as to the gravity of the situation in Korea and the BETIWEEN | guarantee agua, and it is believed that the | augmenting of the Russian vacific sqnad- ron was arranged before the recent out- break in Seoul. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2 25.—While pothing official can be learn ed in Wash- ington with reference to any alleged secret treaty between Russia and China it is not doubted that some understanding exists between the two countries which will re- sult in their mutual advantage. European dispatches of recent date con- tained the intelligence that Russia would the Chizese indemnity of 30,000,000 taels, which will be paid to Japan for the latter's evacuation of the Liao Tung Peninsula. Those who are familiar | with Russian statecraft say that the Czar's Government, which is noted for i‘s clever intriguing qualities, would not so obligate itself without a proper quid pro quo. For this reason some importance 1s attached to dispatches which state that Russia has se- cured rights from China which will enable | her to buiid a line of railway through the Liao Tung Peninsula connecting with the Russian transcontinental railway at Vladi- vostok, thus giving Russia her long-de- line. PUNCTUATED WITH A PISTOL. Manager Nicol Compelled to Sign a Retrac- tion of Charges Against a Discharged Raiiroad Man. ; CHICAGO, Irv., Oct. 25.—About a week ago Mrs. Alexander Nicol, wife of the man- ager of the Anglo-American Packing and Provision Company, was returning from | Kansas City to her home in this city, when | she had an alleged sensational experience with James Deatheridge, traveling passen- ger agent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The story which Mrs. Nicol recounted to her husband reached the Rock Island officials ana Deatheridge was discharged. To-day Mr. Deatheridge | walked into Nicol's office in the Board of | Trade building and presented Nicol a | written retraction of the charges and | asked him to sign it. Nicol refused to | sign 1t and Deatheridge drew a revolver | with the remark, “If you don’t sign that | paper you will not get a chance to sign | any other kind of paper.” Nicol then | signed the paper, and there was a lively | scuffle before Deatheridge could escape | from the office. e g | THE FALL OF A FACTORY WALL. | At Least a Dozen Persons Were Buried in the Debris and Two Were Fatally Injured. CLYDE, Onro, Oct. 25.—About ninety | feet of the east wall of the Elmore Manu- | facturing Company’s bicycle factory fell | into the street to-day. A dozen persons were buried in the debris. Two were fatally injured and seven others seriously hurt. Joseph Becker, one of the proprietors, ‘was seriously injured about the head and hips. Archie Holloway and Frank Cook received internal injuries that will prove fatal. The other injured were: Charles Berhardt, seriously crushed; Clarence Whaley, head cut and seriously bruised; Ed King, head cut and bruised; William Snyder, leg broken; Roy Lemmon, head cut; William Hudson, leg broken in two places. MINSTER TERRIL' ACTS AN INDIGNANT DENIAL THAT HE HAS NEGLECTED MISSIONARY INTERESTS. AMERICANS HAVE BEEN PROPERLY PROTECTED AND RELEASED ‘WHEN ARRESTED. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—In a cablegram from Minister Terrill, dated at Constantinople to-day, and addressed to Senator Millsand Congressman Savers, Mr. Terrill makes the following statement: The New York World publishes the charges that I have neglected missionary interests. Every American missionary in this city will state it to be false. Notan American mission- ary in Asia Minor has been injured during this terrible strife, though more numerous than those of all Europe. To protect them against a twofold danger I have remained for months with leave of ab- sence granted. The attack on my personal re- lations with the Sultan deserves only con- tempt. They have not endangered the security of missionaries. Such attacks are inspired by secret societies of Armenians, whose methods of assassination the Rev. Dr. Hamlin exposed in the Independent of December, 1893. I have for months kept a Turkish guard to protect American professors in a missionary college against threatened assassination by emissaries oi the secret societies. They cannot understand and resent my observance of our established policy of non- intervention here. Ihave never failed to res- rested who bore an American passport. Among them are known revolutionists. To expose the assassins of reputation has become a duty. For the misguided Armenian 1 have only pity, but the American journal that publishes a slander to impair the influence of its country’s Minister at & distant court will be rebuked by American petriotism and the American press regardless of party. Such conduct is not American, but perhaps natural in one who has grown insclent with temporary prosperity obtained by the devious methods of his paper —_—— LIEUTENANT PAGUE’S ANTICS. Brother-Officers Strengthen the Plea of Insanity. CHICAGO, Iri., Oct. 25.—Four brother- before the court-martial at Fort Sheridan that in their opinion the accused was the vietim of chronic alcoholism and was not responsible for his actions at the time he attempted to kill Colonel Crofton. Their evidence was very valuable for the defense and will materially strengthen the plea of insanity. Colonel Humphréys and Cap- tain Conrad, who had been intimately asso- ciated with Pague for some years, told of many strange actions he had performed when on duty, particularly after he had taken the Keeley cure. The court ad- journed until to-morrow —_———— Sentence of an Embezzler, CHICAGO, IrL, Oct. 25.—Ross C. Van Boxkelen, the embezzling teller of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, to- day entered a plea of guilty in the crim- movements of the Russian fleet is much exaggerated, The address adds that the inal court and was given an indeterminate sentence. He was taken to the peniten- tiary at Joliet. 2 i cue from prison every Armenian when ar- | officers of Lieutenant Pague testified to-day | “I think that if the National Convention should come to California it would cost the people of the State at least a quarter of @ million dollars; and while the railroad company is willing to do almost anything that even its enemies would ask it to do, it would much rather see the money expended in bringing good, practical farmers from the East to California with the idea of their scttling here.”—C. P. HUNTINGTON'S INTERVIEW IN YESTERDAY'S “CALL” The Genial Magnate Offers the Glad l{igflt Hand to New Settlers, While the Shadow of His Sinister Digits May Be Seen Overspreading and Blighting the Lives of Those Already Here. A TRAN TO START, VALLEY ROAD MATERIAL TO LEAVE STOCKTON To-DAY. WORK IN THE COUNTRY. | THE FIRST TIE OUTSIDE OF THE | CrTy WILL BE PLACED ON THE GRADE. N ol A ON TOWARD THE STANISLAUS. TRACKLAYERS WiLL FoLLow CLOSE UProN THE HEELS OF GRANT'S MEN. - STOCKTON, CAL., Oct. 25.—To-morrow will be a red-letter day in the history of the San Joaquin Valley and Stockton. | The first construction-train on the San Joaquin Valley Railroad is now loaded with ties and rails, and at 10 o’clock in the | morning it will start for the eastern end of the city line and the first tis will be | placed on the county grade. On the train will be prominent citizens, newspaper men and the superintendents of the various departments of the work. All day the strip of land known as block 21 has been alive with workingmen, loading the cars with rails and ties from the big stacks along Mormon Channel, A week ago the company came into posses- sion of the block and in that short period of time has graded it, laid the switches, | and last night a big train of cars was | backed down by engine 2 for loading. The train will reach the grade at noon and it is probable that the ties will be first thrown down at that hour. ¥arther down in the yards are several | carloads of telegraph poles, which will also be moved to the front next week, in order that the construction of the telegraph lines may be begun. All pessimistic views of | the early completion of the people’s road are brushed aside. A local newspaper has charged that the Valley road had, in obtaining dirt for the grades, left the country along the banks of Mormon Channel in basins that would have to be tilléd in at the expense of tax- payers. The statement is false in every purticular. The company let its contracts to private parties, and was at no time re- sponsible for where they obtained the earth. In fact, so far as was possible, the company bas forced the contractors to better the levees where the forces were working. The Stanislaus River is now the ob- jective point, and people may not be sur- prised to see the track reach the river with the grades, as eighteen miles of the grade is already finishe MR. MORTON IS ENTHUSIASTIC. Praises the Cotton States Exposit'or at Atlanta .as a Great Educational Institution. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—Secre- tary Morton is enthusiastic over the Atlanta Exposition, which as aneduca- tional institution, he says, is compara- tively superior to the Chicago World’s Fair. He says President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins University, who sat next to him at dinner in Atlanta, told him he had visited all the great expositions and none of them equaled Atlanta education- ally. The President’s party was deeply impressed with the prosperity of the Southern country through which they passed and the rapid improvement shown on every hand. There were as many cot- ton-mills in process of erection along the line as existed a year ago. The President’s reception in Atlanta, when he shook hands with 8000 or 9000 people, was extremely cordial. “*And every granger in the crowd,” said the Secretary, ‘‘insisted on saying a few words, the general tune being, ‘We've got lots of 8-cent cotton and we want honest money for it.’ "’ Nuicide of an Auditor. CHATTANOOGA, TExNN., Oct. 25.—Colo- nel L. Dibrell, auditor of the money order department in the general office of the Southern Express Company, committed suicide to-day. He had been in ill health for some time. e e One Person Was Killed. BALT IMORE, Mb., Oct. 25.—A collision occurred this morning on the Baltimore and Potomac. Railroad at Bowie station, midway between Baltimore and Washing- ton, in which one person was killed and three injured. TACTICS OF CHICAGD, WHY THERE IS PREJUDICE AGAINST THE LAKE CrTy. g WANTS THE CONVENTION BuUT COMMITTEEMEN CANNOT FOR- GET THE EXPERIENCE OF 1888. WAS PACKED BY THE ROWDIES, WHEN THE LEADERS MET TO0 PRO- TEST THEY WERE RAIDED BY THE PoOLICE. NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 26.—The Sun says: The Republicans who came to New | York to fix the time and place for the | meeting of the National Republican Con- | vention were nearly all gone by yesterday. | They left behind, however, an interesting | storv—one that has never been told and | one which will explain why the Republi- | cans passed over Chicago in 1892 and went to Minneapolis. The story will also go a long way toward explaining why there is bitter opposition now to holding the con- vention in Chicago next year. The story of the opposition to Chicago dates back to the convention of 1888, when General Harrison was nominated there. The facts are best told by a member of the National Republican ‘Committee, who was [on the ground at the time, and said last i, ht: F‘We selected Chicago in 1888, after the fairest promises that the city was inter- ested in no candidate and that we would have fair treatment. Like most of Chi- cago’s promises the pledges made to us were empty. *From the day we arrived there we as- certained that the whole city government of Chicago had got up a great boom for Gresham. Moreover, we ascertained that there was an organized scheme to pack the 7 ) ’;’//9 ) e el DRIVING PILES FOR THE SAN —— JI firegn “/('” ( B s 4k JOAQUIN VALLEY K RAILROAD'S NEW DEAWBRIDGE ON EDISON STREET, STOCKTON, . [Sketched: for “The Call.?]. - - NEARLY $20,000 IS ALREADY SUBSCRIBED. galleries and every vacant spot in the auditorium for Gresham. We did not ob- ject to the candidacy of Judge Gresham, but we did draw the line at the work of Chicago’s municipal officers, backed up by their police force, to pack the galleries and to attempt to turn the convention into pandemonium. ““It was necessary for the National Com- mittee to select doorkeepers and instruct them not to admit anybody without a ticket. These doorkeepers wore badges announcing that they were the official doorkeepers appointed by the National Committee. “‘On the first day of the convention the police removed the badges from the coats of the doorkeepers and threatened them with all sorts of punishment 1f they per- sisted in admitting only persons with tickets. Thousands of people were pushed into the convention by these policemen at the command of the municipal officers of Chicago. “The galleries were packed and the Na- tional Committeemen and the delegates to the convention were violently opposed when they protested against the perform- ance. For several days Chicago’s police- men were the practical doorkeepers of the convention. “Finaily the National Committee de- cided to attempt to stop the outrage. We | held a meeting behind closed doors to see what we could do. The municipal officers | of Chicago got an inkling of the meeting | and the doors were burst open and every | member of the National Reptiblican Com- mittee was put under arrest. Such men | as F. D. Jones of Pittsburg, Sam Feesen- | den of Connecticut, J. S. Clarkson of Iowa, and in fact every member of the National Committee felt the hand of a burly police- man on his shoulder. “The police patrol wagons were driven up to the door ready to cart us away to the | ‘cooler.” The charge against us was a | purely technical one. It was that we had | hired Pinkerton detectives to stand beside our doorkeepers and to prevent the police- men from packing the galleries, It is true that we hired Pinkerton detectives to pro- tect our doorkeepers. Iv was our only re- course. “While all the National Republican Committeemen were put under arrest on that occasion we were not lugged off to the ‘cooler.” Certain Chicago citizens who | Convention in learned of the outrage stepped in and pro- tected us and told the authorities of the THE SPIRIT OF GENEROS® ITY PERVADES CALI- FORNIA. EDITOR OSBORNE'S 8100, A GooD EXAMPLE EMANATES FROM THE CITY OF THE ANGELS, “THE CALL'S” EDITOR AT WORK, FAvORABLE COMMENT AND ENCOURe AGING INTERVIEWS FrROM ALL OvVER THE UNITED STATES. To-day the entire State of California is engaged in the commendable occupation oft trying to bring off the Republican National San Francisco next June. Every element that is able to ezercise influence is employed in the work. The guaranteed subscriptions to date almost touch §$50,000, which sum is exclusive of the separats amount to be subscribed by the Union League Club of San Francisco. The interior press, representing one of the State’s greatest powers, has entered the lines and will stand by until the fight is won. The prospect of holding | the Democratic convention has been a double incentive to the Democracy, and the password to-day in this State is “We must have the National conventions.” Ses g SAN FRANCISCANS ENTHUSIASTIC. Pursestrings of the Masses United in the Battle to Secure the National Conventions. There are others besides Chicago and Pittsburg. San Francisco is one of them. The great convention boom started by ‘“THE EXAMINER"..... $SCHRONIGLE n: ov oo RIGBHSNEFISI. 0 oo ORPHEUM..... UNION IRON WORKS AL, HAYMAN & CO... GEORGE C. PERKINS. ALIFORNIA HOTEL... M A GUNSTE N 2 . . J. R. DONALDSON..... NEUSTADTER BROS.... ADOLPH SPRECKELS LOUIS SLOSS & CO..... F. H. BUSHNELL....... CAFE ZINKAND......... SEA BEACH HOTEL... LICK HOUSE.. WM. T. BOOTHBY....... HERMAN OELRICHS.. JOHNSON-LOCKE CO... W. W. FOOTE. HOTEL SAVOY. WILSON’S DINING PARLOR.. 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Naturally the Chicago newspapers have been silent about this matter, but the National Republican Committeemen have remembered it. “I observe that Mr. Platt believes that the convention should go to Chicago next year. He is fully scquainted with our treatment there in 1888. His only reason for advocating Chicago is that pos- sibly it is' the most central ; point. But evén Mr. Platt should remember our treat- ment in Chicago. After he had sent the World’s Fair there and put into the coffers of that city millions of dollars bed and board was refused to him on the first night that he got into Chicago to attend the fair, “He had telegraphed weeks ahead for his rooms and he had receiyed word that they had been saved for him. When he got Coptinued on Second Page. TrE CALL has swept across the continent, up and down the coast, and the chances of San Francisco are now quivering in the balance. That a sufficient amount of money will be subscribed there is no longer any doubt. Every interest that is represented in commerce and by profes- sions has come to the front with its assist- ance, and the whole coast is expectant with the prospect of success. The interior papers have caught the cry and it goes echoing through the State like the slogan of freedom. A population of both Republicans and Democrats has ex- pressed its intention of showing the East that we can bid, and the silver and gold that was once given to save the country from a money panic is again ready to buy the Republican National Convention for San Francisco. San Francisco has never had such an opportunity as now presents itself to heg