The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1895, Page 1

[ 2 : Post_gives “VOLUME LXXVIIL—NO. 149, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PLUNDERS IN THE VENE TUELAN CONTROVERSY Cleveland and Olney Tried| to Retrieve Former Mistakes. INCREASED THE MUDDLE. The Situation Means Virtually a Backdown From the Monroe Doctrine, ‘WEAK AND UNPOPULAR POLICY. dn the Course of Time an Array of American Warships Will Appear Near Venezuela. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26.—The double-leaded prominence to in Louisville, made an assignment this afternoon to the Columbia Finance and Trust Company for the benefit of all the creditors. “The liabilities are estimated by the firm at $1,200,000, and the assets nomi- nally valued at about the same figure. About $100,000 is due Louisville banks. The largest part of the liabi es con s of indebtedness to houses in New York, where Levi Bamburger, one of the leading members of the firm, resides. The assign- prise, as the house had long been regarded as one of the most solid financial institutions in the city. Six Yyears ago the firm suffered a heavy loss by tire. g WIRED FROM PIKES PEAK. General Eckert of the Western Union Estab- lished the Highest Telegraph Office in the World. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26.—For the first time in the history of the telegraph direct communication had to-day be- tween this city and Pikes Peak, on the occasion of a t to the peak by General Thomas T. Eckert, president, and Colonel R. C. Clowry. general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and a party of friends. The telegraph office regnlarly maintained on Pikes Peak by the Western Union is undoubtedly the the Venezuelan affair to-day and says that President Cleveland and Secretary Olney | in their desire to in some measure retrieve | themselves from the odinm cast upon them by resson of their hitherto unfortunate for- | eign policy have involved the country ina | situation which means virtually a back- | down from the Monroe doctrine or a fight | for Venezuela. The Post continue: “Until quite recently the administra- | tion was, to say the least, unfortunate in | the execution of its foreign policy. Its| attitnde toward Hawaii when its Ministers secretly conspired to restore the Queen to | her throne naturally failed to strike a re- in the hearts of the people ncestors had revoited against the of George IIL. On the pages of s diplomatic correspondence with foreign countries were appeals of American citi- s who had suffered wrong and indignity ithout redress. The affair at Corinto was another chapter which the American peo- ple read with a burning sense of indigna- tion. How far this weak and unpoopular policy was due to theadministration of the Department of State is & matter not now | to be discussed. Suffice it to say that it For the present purposes of the admin- | istration the situation in Venezuela is| most opportune,’’ says the Post, and then it argues that Mr. Olney, in his anxiety to establish the administration in popular favor, has proceeded so far that he cannot and must not back down, and that for this reason work upon ships is being hastened in the navy-yards. More than this, there will be, in due course of time, an array of | American war vessels under the shadow of | the Venezuelan coast. T!/e Star takes o more conservative view | of the situation and says that, although | matters are extremely threatening, there | is no probability that the Venezuelan | question will reach a culmination before the meeting of Congress. | The Star says that Cleveland and his | Secretary of State *‘do not assume that Lord S bury’s reply will be unsatisfac- tory.” This is equivalent to saying “‘they hope | for the'best.” It is the general impression | here, as voiced by the daily papers, that Cleveland and Olney have got themselves into a predicameat from which they are endeavoring tu escape as gracefully as pos- | sible. It is the one topic in hotel corridors, and wherever the public assembles it is ireely predicted that the administration will back down from its position of insist- ing upon arbitr; e FROM ENGLISH POINTS OF VIEW. Newspapers That Say the Monroe Doc- trine Is AUl Right. LONDON, ExG., Oct. 26.—The Spectator to-day says it believes that most thought- ful Englishmen respect and approve the essential principle of the Monroe doctrine, and do not desire to chailenge or prevent its operation. “We don’t,” it adds, “want to add to our possessions in America, and are, there- fore, willing not to dispute when the United States Government gives notice that she will consider herself injured if we try to increase them. In the meantime we wish that the existing occasion could be utilized for a public understanding be- tween us and the United States relative to the Monroe doctrine, and we ‘would like to see a treaty concluded that would guaran- tee the recognition of that doctrine.’” The Sheffield Telegraph, the organ of Bir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and the ultra- Tories, goes a step further, and makes the amazing statement that a report was cur- rent in Washington on Friday that, with assistance, the United States was to en- force the doctrine against other nations. The proposed alliance, according to the | report, would include a provision for the joint construction of the Nicaraguan canal by the aliies. It can be stated that no- body places any reliance on this report. In fact, nothing has been done in regard to | Venezuela since Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, | went to the Continent. He is now at Gib- raltar. Probably nothing will be done in the matter until he returns to London, which he is expected to do on the 2d of November. Prime Minister Salisbury is closely watching the actions of Russia, and takes | very little interest in the Venezuelan dis. | pute beyond giving his approval to Mr, Chamberlain’s conduct of the British side of the case. Mr. Chamberlain is uncommonly tena- cious of purpose and isaccustomed to hav- ing his own way. He does not love the United States overmucb, though his wife | is an American, but beyond his schemes | for the expansion of British commerce his | '(]:N hobby is the development of Africa. t i sel not likely that he wili entangle him- | tangle with the United States. If | the latter persists in urging arbitration be- tween Great Britain and Venezuela he will Probably consent to this course being taken. Otherwise the Cabinet might out- Vote him on the subject, as the impression iyrx--vrsx that everything has been a little too ee lately in sending ultimatums. ! —_— OWES OveR 4 MILLION. Failure of the Largest Dry-Goods House in Lowisville. highest telegraph oflice in the world, and to-day a direct circuit was made up so that General Eckert and Colonel Clowry could | talk with 2 number of directors of the tele- grapi company, who were in the Western Union building at the time. The circuit worked admirablv and con- versation was carried on with no more dif- ficulty than would have been the case if General Eckert had been in Philadeiphia instead of on top of Pikes Peak. The gen- eral is making a tour of the western coun- try and reported to-day that business at all points which he bad visited seemed to be reviving and a more prosperous condition of things generally was promised for the near future. All of the members of the party were reported as being in the best of health and spints. DEMANDED HIS RESIGNATION. The Demoralized Conditicn of the Affairs of the Chief of the Bureau of Accounts Calls for His Dismissal. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26.—A special from Washington sa; It is stated to- night that Secretary Olney this afternoon sent for Francis J. Kieckhoefer, chief of the Bureau of Accounts of the State De- partment, and summarily demanded his resignation. This action follows the in- vestigation which has shown his accounts | to be in a badly demoralized condition. It is understood that there is a shortage that already foots up $35,000 and the ex- amination is not yet completed. Kieckhoefer is under a heavy bond and the Government will not be a loser. His | salary was $2100 a vear. He was appointed from the District of Columbia. A FREE-THOUGRT FEDERATION. Joint Convention at New York With the Secwiar Union. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26.—The joint convention of the Free-Thought Federa tion of America and the American Secular Tnion was continued to-day. At the | morning session, at which President Put- nam presided, the American Secular Union so amended its constitution as to en- able it to amalgamate and become prac- tically one with the Free-thought Federa- tion. These officers were elected: S. P Putnam, Chicago, president; G.R.V Chicago, Thaddeus B. Wakeman, New York, G. B. Remburg of Atchison, Kans., and Frana Stiner of Des Moines, lowa, | vice-presidents; Otto Wettsein, Chicago, treasurer; E. C. Reichwald, Chicago, secre- tary. . At the afternoon session the federation indorsed the officers chosen in the morn- | ing. — BROKE.IATO THE. JAL BUT THE DEPUTIES FIRED UPON THE MOB AND KILLED TWO. OF THEM. THE RIOTERS ARE YET DETER- MINED 10 LYNCH MARSHAL SHULTZ'S MURDERER. ! TIFFIN, Onro, Oct. —The County | Jail in this city is being stormed by a mob of about 1000 men, bent on lynching the | murderer of Marshal Shultz. At 1:30 A. M. the mob made a determined effort to break down the doors of the jail with a 5 hastily constructea battering ram, and | succeed in gaining entrance to the corrie der surrounding the cells. | At this instant a volley of shots was | | | fired into the mob from inside the cells by the guards and two of the mob was in- stantly killed. The victims were named Munzeler and Moody, both young men of Tiffin. The | mob worked hard, but were beaten back, | and retreated leaving their dead in the iail entrance. At 3 o'clock the mob is holding a coun- cil of war, and seems to be determined to enter the jail again at any cost, having procured a lot of dynamite. Serious re- sults are looked for before daybreak, but | at present nothing is being done but talk. o iy TWO FAKERS ARRESTED. They Sold Handkerchiefs Which They Claimed Were Blessed. DENVER, Coro., Oct. 26.—Dan Hanley and Leonard E. Daggett have been ar- rested for. using the mails to defraud the public. Their method of obtaining money from gullible people has been to advertise by means of circular letters the sale of bandkerchiefs which the fakers claim were | i‘blessed’” by Schattler, the healer, and therefore have healing powers. The circu- lar boasts that these handkerchiefs will cure any disease, and the price is fixed at the small sum of §1. Schiatter has been subpenaed as a witness in the case. The hearing is set for Tuesday. The defendants were formerly saloon-keepers here. S For Killing Bannocks. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 26.—Processes are being served by United States officers upon the Jackson Hole settlers who killed and wounded Bannock Indians during the trouble of July last. The offenders num- LOUISVILLE, Kv.,0ct. 26.—Bamberger, Bloom & Co., proprietors of one of the old- est and largest wholesale dry-goods houses ber twenty-seven and include the Con- stable and Justice of the Peace of the dis- trict. They will be tried in the Federal court here if indictments are secured. TR = ol 3 D2 Hickery, dickery, dare, The elephant’'s in the air; So San Francisco town OF ROSES. Is bound to bring it down -— For she has the money to spare; Hickery, dickery, dare. PLACING THE TIES Valley Road Track-Laying Begun Outside of Stockton. FIRST TRAIN STARTS. Six Carloads of Material Trans- ported to the Country Grade. CRCWDS WITNESS THE START. Construction Work to the Stanislaus Will Now Be Pushed Vigorously. STOCKTON, CAL., Oct. 26.—The first construction-train on the San Joaquin Valley Halroad moved out of Stockton to-day, and late in the afternoon the first | ties on the grade outside the city limits were placed in position. The train was loaded at the material-yards on the south bank of Mormon Channel and brought over on the main track by way of block 21. The announcement in the local papers that the shipment of materials to the front would begin to-day attracted throngs of people to the vards, and as engine 2 moved out with eight cars heavily laden with rails and ties they manifested great enthusiasm. It was too late in the day to accomplish much actual work, but the work of throw- ing down the ties on East street was begun according to programme. The cars will be unloaded at once and on Monday morn- ing the construction forces will be in- creased in order that the building of the line toward the Stanislaus River may be rushed with all possible speed. Within ten days the forward end of the line will be far out into the country, and the sight of the train carrying out the gangs in the morning and returning at night will be a familiar one. There is an abundance of material on hand at Stock- ton to complete the line to the river and amnple facilities for carrying it forward. The grade is in excellent shape and ready for the ties without further work. The grading camps of the Valley line are located, one on the N. B. Sperry ranch, from which the force is working south- ward. The force of contractor Bush 1s putting in the grade for the yards and de- pot site at Escalon, one of the new towns on the line. * The bridge-builders at the Stanislaus north side of the stream, having finished the first work over the stream. Those who are putting the foundations for the draw- bri across Mormon Channel have finished driving the piling for the center pier, and have commenced on the founda- tions for the south abutment. HEARD SGME SECRET TESTIMONY. One Sensation During the Trial of Lieuten- ant Pague for the Shooting of Colone! Crofton at Fort Sheridan. CHICAGO, IrL, Oct. 26.—At the open- ing of to-day’s session of the Lieutenant Pague court-martial at Fort Sheridan At- torney Blair, representing the defeadant, said that the public must be excluded while he made a motion. The court agreed, and, after hearing the motion, an- | nounced that the proceedings would be heard behind closed doors till further notice. Colonel Crofton was then called in, and after a brief session the court ad- journed untit Monday. To-day’s proceedings created a great deal of surprise at the post, and there was much speculation as to the nature of the evi- dence regarding which so much secrecy is observed. Attorney Blair positively re- fused to make any statement, but inti- mated that the court would probably be open to the public again on Monday after- noon. Lieutenant Pague will undoubtedly lose his commission, but he may possibly be permitted to retire from the armv, and to this end the most strenuous efforts of the defense will be directed. Lol g INJURED BY A RUNAWAY. Miss Alice MoDonald Said to Be Fatally Hurt. STEUBEN VILLE, Onro, Oct. 26.—About 6 o’clock this evening Miss Alice McDon- ald, sister of W. H. McDonald of the Bos- tonians, and her aunt, Mrs. Mary Christie of Cleveland. Ohio, returned from a drive with Robert Patterson, 2 nephew of Miss MgDonald. Mr. Patterson attempted to assist Mrs. Christie to alight. bhile he was doing so the horses took fright, throw- ing her violently to the ground, and ran furiously down Third street. Miss Me- Donald was yet in the carriage when 1t | overturned. Bhe sustained a broken jaw, broken shoulder-blade and other injuries about her head and person. It is not thought possible that she can recover. Mrs. Christie was bruised and cut about her head. She is about 77 years of age. For additional Pacific Coast news see Pages 3, § and 5 River are putting in the approach on the { BOTHER THE BRITONS, Interesting Complications in Which England Is Involved. BIG THINGS ON HAND. So the Armenian Controversy ‘Will Be Dropped Without Further Delay. WATCHING THE ACTS OF KUSSIA. Queen Victoria Said to Be Passing Through a Phase of Semi- Insanity. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Ex6., Oct. 26.—There seems to be no doubt that Queen Victoria is pass- ing again through one of those phases of semi-insanity which recalls that she is George I1I’s granddaughter. These in the ’70's were rather frequent. Of Iate years they have occurred less often, but for six weeks now the worst of the series has been giving everybody about Balmoral much anxiety and ceaseless trouble. Rumors began to circulate in London a week ago that things were wrong, and a modified form of them has been printed in Dublin, but nowhere else, although private letters from Scotland show that it is common knowledge there. It seems to have had its origin in the death of a young nephew of John Brown, who had some obscure post about Balmoral, but for whom the Queen burst ous in a vehement mourning, which took all by surprise. Bince then she has been going to his grave and to Brown’s in all weathers, and doing other extraordinary things of a crazy character, which it is impossible any longer to ignore. The matter has hardly yet become generally known 1n England, and perhaps it will pass off again without public mention, as in former years. Excepting for long dispatches from America reflecting the disturbed state of feeling there, nothing has been heard here of the Venezuelan question. Public men THE FIRST CONSTRUOCTION TRAIN ON 1HE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD LEAVES STOCKTON WITH MATERIAL FOR TEE TRACK %0 TodE STANISLAUS RIVER. . [Sketched by'a * Call”_artist.] 'BRING THE DELEGATES IN SPECIL CARS here still say it borrows its only interest from the fact that it has been turned over to Chamberlain, and apvarently he started out with the notion that he could exploit it to his own advantage from an advertis- ing point of view. I do not know anybody who possesses Salisbury’s entire confi- dence, and also liberally to divulge all he knows, and until this week it was not sup- posed that such a position existed. The best informed men, I do know, say that Olney, like Phelps and all other New England men, displays a certain cockiness of tone toward England, reminiscent of the revolution and the war of 1812, which men from other sections, such as Fish, Frelinghuysen, Bayard and Gresham never assumed, and if there has been a hitch in the amiable parley on the boundary sub- ject it is entirely due to that, as for the notion that England intends for a mement allowing herself to drift into a real misun- | derstanding with the United States about Venezuela, it is scouted as ridiculous. The | truth is that England has vastly bigger things on hand. For weeks these dispatches have reflected assurance given to me by well-informed politicians that no matter how menacing the immediate situation at Constantinople might look, England’s real danger lay in the far East, and that when what was brewing there developed the Armenian business and the whole Turkish question would lapse intoa side issue. That predic- tion seems now amply justified, and, al- though the Foreign Office still says that it has heard nothing, nobody doubts the es- sential truth of the London Times' Hong- kong news that Russia had made a treaty with China, by which she secures not only the dominant position at Port Arthur, but the right to drive two great railways through the heart of Manchuria, which | means the predicted annexation of that province. It is true that Hongkong is an un- likely place for such great news to reach in advance of all other points; but I find, all | the same, a universal disposition to credit the report. In factitis impossible not to suspect that the substance of it has been known In the highest circles here for some weeks. One might even hazard the guess that it is this krowledge which has dic- tated England’s otherwise mysterious Franklin K. Lane’s Novel Method of Booming the State. OVERLAND AMID LUXURY Load the Trains With California Fruit and Wines for OQur Guests. |BOSTON FAVORS THIS CITY. | | San Francisco’s Prospects Grow Brighter ‘With Each Succeeding Political Move. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26.—The Sun | to-day says: Either San Francisco or | New York ought to be chosen by the Re- | publican National Committee as the place | for the meeting of the next National Re- | publican Convention for the nomination | of a candidate for the office of President of | the Unitea States. It isnot worth the com- | mittee’s ewhile to consider the claims of Detroit, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Paul, | Chicago or any of the hundred other pre- | tentious places which desire the conven- tion. | ALL HANDS AT WORK. | People From Every Section of the State Are Laboring for the Republican Convention. | Thus the great New York Sun acknowl- edges the prominence that San Francisco | has gained in the fight for the convention. | It sees plainiy enough that the claims haste to wash its hands of the Armenian | The Convention Subseriptions to Date. affair and allow the Sultan to make his own | —_— terms of settiement. The extreme gravity | ** TH‘"_: (:’“‘L 4 E: 5 of this news is at ouce manifest in the tone | * THE EXAMINER of the English press. Without exception | * THE CHRONICLE ... they say that its importance cannot be ex- | PAC. COAST JOCKEY CLUB aggerated, and they say it soberly, almost | PALACE HOTEL solemnly, although nobody utters the ex- | CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLU act words. Every paver suggests in spirit | COLUMBIA THEATER... the conviction that England will have to offer battle rather than permit such a treaty to go into effect. The first evidence of this general Brit- ish perception that a serious crisis has arisen appears in the Times anxiously groping about for possible allies. Tts }ead- ers yesterday made an almost tearful ap- | peal for Germany’s support, and even went to the length of suggesting to the French . that they had better consider whether Russia is not playing them false. ‘What Germany will do isindeed a ques- tion of transcendent importance. Eng- land would not hesitate to fight Russia in the Pacific single-handed. Yet with the hardly doubtful aid of Japan, if she could be sure not to have France also on her back, and if Germany would agree to com- pel French neutrality, I do not think that the English would hesitate to serve an ultimatum on Russia and back it up by a prompt display of force, but there is a much perturbed doubt whether Germany will do this. She has been since the Czar’s accession displaying the greatest eagerness to keep on friendly terms with Russia, even to the point of associating with Russia and France in anti%Japanese intervention ana consenting meekly to see these allies take large profits for themselves and give her nothing for her share. Will she carry this complaisance now to the length of ap- proving this fresh Russian aggression? This iz the question which the English are asking themselves with sinking hearts. To add pertinency to this troubled popu- lar apprehension the English diplomatic service for the moment is all at sixes and sevens. There is no British Embassador at St. Petersburg. 8ir Philip Currie is leaving Constanti- nople next Monday for good and Sir N. O’ Connor is on the point of quitting Peking for home before he takes up his St. Peters- burg appointment. Currie was an invala- able head official in the Foreign Office here, but he has been a failure in Turkey, and I get a hint that Drummond Wolffe, who left his post for London hurriedly several weeks ago, is to be sent to Con- stantinople to represent thoroughly the Disraelian pro-Turkish pelicy and try to regain the confidence of the Sultan, who persopally likes and trusts Wolffe. = About the Peking post there are no illuminating suggestions, and it is possible that O’Con- nor will remain there temporarily. To make matters worse a whispered report is going around that Salisbury has Bright's disease and is frightened about it, and de- sires to shift the tremendous burden of the Foreign Office to other shoulders. The circumstances of his taking the wardenship of the Cinque Ports away from Dufferin has lea to the conjecture that there has been a bargain, by which he gets the charming south coast residence of ‘Walmer Castle, where Wellington died, to nurse his illness if Dufferin takes his place in Downing street. The story seems in- genious rather than convincing, and I mention it only to show what excited spec- ulations are current. Under ordinary circumstances the inci- dent of the baptism of a Bulgarian heir into the Greek church, which, it is under- stood will be done to-morrow, would create a great deal of comment, but now it passes almost without notice. England has much bigger fish to fry, and even this tacit invitation to Russiato renew her supremacy at Sofia does not matter. Similarly the terribie stories com- ing in of violence, bloodshed and anarchy in different parts of the crumbling Otto- man empire are releguted to a secondary place in the papers and in the public mind. So completely is the British attention concentrated on foreign affairs tnat for the time being domestic politics can hardly be said to exist. Rosebery is making some speeches in the provinces, and some of his journalistic sycophants are bleating feebly that he is the only possible leader of the Liberal party. But nobody is paying the slightest atténtion to him or them. HaroLp FREDERIC, JAMES D. PHELAN | BALDWIN HOTEL. | RAPHAEL | ORPHEUM | UNION IRON WORKS | AL HAYMAN & co. | JOY’S SARSAPARILLA CO GEORGE C. PERKINS. CALIFORNIA HOTEL M. A. GUNST....... J. R. DONALDSON.. JOHN D. SIEBE. | C. F. CURRY... | NEUSTADTER BROS LEVI STRAUSS & CO. WM. WOLFF & CO. (agents Pommery Sec) 500 H. S. CROCKER & CO.. 500 F. H. BUSHNELL 500 CAFE ZINKAND. 500 GOOD FELLOWS’ GROTTO. 300 HOTEL PLEASANTON. 250 | SEA BEACH HOTEL 250 | LICK HOUSE.. 250 POPULAR RESTAURANT, 250 E. MARTIN & CO 200 CAFE COLUMBIA 150 SHAINWALD, BUCKBEE & CO. 150 BALDWIN BARBER-SHOP (R. L. 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