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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896. committees in both the House and Senate that have jurisdiction of the Nicaragua canal matter are understood to be pre- disposed against it. By & curious coin- cidence it happens that the chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, which has charge of the matter in the House, is the second mem- ber of the Pacific Railroads Committee and a strong advocate of the funding bill; while the chairman of the Committee on Commerce in the Senate, Mr. Frye,is a member of the Committee on Pacific Railroads in that body and is one of the men relied on by Huntington to make the fight for the funding bill. “Itis a striking circumstance that the funding bill supporters in both houses are thus related to other important matters of legislation in which the Southern Pacific combination is interested. Of course, an adverse report of the Committee on Inter- state and Foreign Commerce in the House orof the Committee on Commerce in the Senate in the Nicaragua Canal proposition would be practically conclusive. It would be impossible to overcome such a report. The same is true of a report from the Com- mittee on Rivers and Harbors of the House or of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate against an application for improve- ment of any harbor or waterway.” Maguire’s observations coincide with those of others here who have been watch- ing the maneuvers of Huntington and his lobbyists. Tue Cary correspondent, dur- ing the last Congress, secured a copy of a telegram which Huntington sent to Frye, ing an appropriation for a deep har- 1 Pedro and favorin Mon- ica, where the Southern Pa s built wharves. Senator Jones of Nevada, well known in Californi: interests at Santa Monica, was in com- munication with Huntington. Frye and Jones were both members of the Com- merce Committee, which has such pro- to report upon, and both Jones and Frye were active on the floor of the Sen- ate, pulling wires for Santa Monica. Jones proposed a resolution to send the Commi tee on Comfnerce on a junket to the Pacific Coast, and proposed to entertain them at his Santa Monica ranch. The resolution passed, but several members of the com- mittee refused to go, evidently feariug that a scandal might be atiached to their trip. Huntington is again working to secure an appropriation for Santa Monica. His agent here, John Bovd, has filed with the Commerce Committee a report of Southern Pacific Engineer Hood in which he en- deavors to show that Santa Monica is much better adapted for a deep harbor than San Pedro. This is an attempt to counteract the effect of reports made by two erent boards of United States en- gineers in favor of San Pedro as against Santa Monica. as is who, has large landed | Tre CALL correspondent has entrusted to Maguire evidence tending to show that Huntington, through his ngents here, has brought questionable influence to bear upon land officials of the Government to expedite railroad patents. His agents here have used money to influence subordinates employed in land offices. One of the par- ties, who was not paid what he was prom- ised, is willing to offer testimony when the time comes, which will place Mr. Hunting- ton’s men in very bad light. A resolution will probably be introduced in Congress calling foran investigation and directing the Attorney-General to bring a suit to set aside patents secured by such means. THE CALL correspondent has in his possession documents in writing show- ing that a Land Department clerk made a proposition to the railroad that he would resign his Government position and accept money from the railroad to make correc- tions in land selections, which had not been specified, tract for tract, according to departmental regulations. This Govern- ment clerk did the work and secured the assistance of another clerk in the Land Office by paying him money. They also paid money to the son of Commissioner Btone, the former Commissioner of the Land Office, hoping thereby to secure the aid of Commi: Stone himself. ADMIRAL BUNCE'S SQUADRON. Much Speewlation Concerning Its Future Movements. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 3.—The de- tention of Admiral Bunce’; uadron at Hampton Roads for the last two weeks, although it was ready to commence its cruise promptly on December 21, accord- ing to the programme laid dewn by Secre- tary Herbert, was at first generally sup- posed to be due to a reluctance on the part of the administration to permit even the implied menace of its presence in the West Indies during the excitement following the President’s Venezuelan message to Con- gress of December 16. The explanation was plausible enough to satisfy every one for several days. Now even the command- ing officers of the ships forming the fleet are beginning to be mystified by the pro- longed delay. Such absence of information about a squadron’s movements is said to be un- precedented in times of peace, and espe- cially when its daily itinerary for the en- suing five months had been published and as the wives and other relatives of many of the officers had made engagements to meet the vessels at several ports where they would rendezvous for several days’ stay. There is considerable concern lest the meetings will be rendered altogether impossible. Driven to speculation all sorts of rumors are in circulation about the ships accord- ing to letters received here, and the latest of these, which is not wholly without be- lievers even in the Navy Department, proceeds on the assumption that Admiral Bunce has sealed orders which may at any moment send him with his entire fleet to the Bosphorus. Even the more conservative officers are disposed to attach some credence to the idea, modifying it, however, to the opinion that Gibraltar or the Azores may be the first stopping place of the squadron after leaving the Chesapeake, instead of St. Thomas, West Indies. There are a num- ber of significant facts which, grouped to- gether, seem to give probability to the rumor. Admiral Selfridge and Minister Terrell have been sending a good many cable- grams to Washington in the last three weeks and the State and Navy depart- ments have spared no expense in cable bills since early in December. On December 21 it was annovnced that & dispatch of general instructions had been sent to Admiral Selfridge to furnish all vrotection and comfort to such mission- aries as might apply, and almost simul- taneously came the press dispatch from Turkey that Admiral Selfridge had cabled the Navy Department that he was unable to carry out his instructions, whatever they were, because of insufficient force. The following day Admiral Bunce came to ‘Washington and had a long interview with Secretary Herbert, after which the Secretary said that the time of the fleet’s departure was indefinite. Some of Ad- miral Bunce’s subordinates now think that Secretary Herbert gave the admiral sealed instructions at the last interview, which were only to be opened atsea underagreed conditions. These conditions, if this be =0, would, of_course, depend upon further adviges o Mipister Terrell, STATEHOOD FOR UTAH Admitted Into the Union| by Proclamation of the President. SIGNED WITH STUB PEN. All the Preliminary Proceedings | Found to Have Been Legally Taken. NEW STAR ADDED TO THE FLAG. A General Holiday Granted Officers Will Be Inaugurated at Once. and WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—Utah was admitted to the sisterhood of States at 10:30 o’clock this morning, when Presi- dent Cleveland signed a proclamation to that effect, There was no ceremony about the matter. Mr. Cleveland and Private Secre ary rapid growth of the State, which has been retarded by the Territorial environments.” PROJECTILES R WARSHIPS, The Contract Made With Two Pemnsyl- vania Firms. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—The contract for furnishing projectiles for the new warships mentioned in dispatches re- | cently as about to be arranged with the Sterling Company ot McKeesport, Pa., and the Carpenter Projectile Company, another Pennsylvania firm, was finally concluded. The amount allotted for the purchase is equally divided between the two concerns. The contracts call for 13- | inch and 8-inch armor-piercing shells for | the battle-ships Kearsarge and Kentucky, | 8-inch shells for the armored cruiser | Brooklyn and 12-inch shells for the coast- defense vessel Puritan. —— . —— The Battle-Ship Tewas. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—The battle-ship Texas has arrived at Norfolk, where ghe will be examined by a board of survey to ascertain her condition and report on the extent and cost of the neces- sary repairs to put her in_good condition | for service. The Texas will then be placed | out of commission, her officers and crew | assigned to other vessels and the repairs begun. TG ey Assistant Superintendent. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—Post- | master-General Wilson to-day appointed L. T. Myers of Richmond, Va., Assistant General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. This office has been vacant | for over a year and a half. i T ST i Reduced Appropriations. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4. — The sub-committee of the House Appropriation | Committee having in charge the prepara- HEBER M. WELLS, GOV ERNOR - EL [Reproduced from a photograph.] Thurber were alone in the President’s office at the time and the signing was done with a steel stub pen affixed to a wocden penholder. The pen and penholder were presented to Governor West of Utah, who came to the White House about the time the proclamation was signed. The proclamation is couched in the usual formal language of such documents divested of its verbiage, merely cert the legality of the constitutional conven- tion and its acts under authority of the act of Congress of July 16, 1894, and de- clares that the terms and conditions pre- scribed by Congress having been complied with, the creation of the State and its ad- mission into the Union on an equal foot- ing with the original States is now accom- plishedt ey ENTHUSIASM IN UTAH. The Good News Cawses Much General Re- Joicing. SALT LAKE, Uram, Jan. 4.—The news received this morning that President Cleveland had signed the State proclama- tion for Utah was the occasion of great demonstrations of joy. Public buildings and places of business are decorated and flags and bunting float in the breeze every- where. of numerous congratulatory telegrams from every quarter of the Nation. The day was observed as a partial holi- day, and the people smilea and congratu- lated each other as happy as children with | anew toy. Cannons were fired, bells rung and whistles blown for hours, and similar demonstrations were made in every town and village in the State. On Monday the new State officers will be insugurated, and the Governor has pro- claimed a general holiday. There will be military displays, children’s parade, patri- otic orations, an inaugural address by the Governor and other exercises, closing with a grand ball and fireworks in the evening, The State Legislature is called to meet in special session and will convene at 2 r. M. on Monday. The Senatorial fight is growing warmer daily. Arthur Brown’s prospects are im- proving, and C. 8. Varian’s stock has also advanced the past few days. A new can- didate, and one who will be quite a factor, 1s Philo Farnsworth. Ex-Congressman Frark Cannon is generally considered out of the race, it being conceded that he will give place to his father, George Q. Can- non, who, without doubt, wants the office, and anything that George Q. Cannon wants in Utah he generally gets. The other strongest man in the race is Colonel Isaac Trumbo, who, in addition to a good share of the Gentile support, has, it is understood, the support of the leading Mormon Church officials, including that of George Q. Cannon, who thinks Trumbo would be a fitting colleague for himself in the Senate. ciatly (IS g s REPUBLICANS WILL CONTROL. The People of Utan Are Believers in Pro- tection. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4.—The new Congressman from Utah, Clarence E. Al- len, who arrived in town a day or two ago, said to-day: “Utah’s representation in the United States Senate will be evenly divided be- tween gentiles and Mormons. One Sena- tor will be given to each faction, both of which have been struggling to control the politics of Salt Lake region. “The new State will be Republican for many years to come because the people be- lieve in protection. They are especially favorable to duties on lead and wool, the principal industries of the section. “Statehood is universally hailed as a boon because the people look forward to a Governor West was the recipient | | tion of the pension appropriation bill has tinished labors on the measure and will 1y the before the full committee on Wednesday next. The committee reduced the appropriation for the next fiscal year $2,000,000 H:clow the Commissioner’s esti- mate, which is $140,000,000, PERISHED I THE SMOKE | Two Persons Met Death and [ Four Were Injured Dur- ing a Fire. | Miraculous Escape of Twenty Men and Six Children From the Flames. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 4.—A fire which swept through a combined store, hall and tenement four-story brick struct- ure at the cornerof Third and Gaskill streets this afternoon resulted in the death of two men and the serious injury of four others, all Polish Jews. The escape of at least twenty men and six children, all of whom were penned in by the flames, was little short of miraculous. The money loss is about $5000. The dead: Harris Levi, aged 45 years, suffocated; Marks Feinberg, azed 30 years, | spine fractured and internally injured, died at the hospital. | The injured are: Jacob Venisky, aged 22 | years; Lewis Veirkman, sged 38 years; David Kolinsky, aged 38; Bernard Balbin- sky, aged 23, The fire is supposed to haye been started by a lighted match being thrown care- lessly into the cellar by an unknown per- son and which landed among some oil barrels. In an instant the cellar was a mass of flames and the fire quickly spread. A score of tailors had been holding a meeting on the third floor, and when the building became enveloped in flames the men made a wild rush to escape by the stairway. The smoke forced them back and then they ran to the windows. One of the number jumped from a window and crashed through a canvas awning. He landed on the sidewalk but little hurt. This actuated a dozen others to jump, the awning also breaking their fall. By this time the awning was torn so badly that it offered but little resistance to | the jumpers, and when Jacob Venisky plunged downward, head first, he went through the canvass and struck on the sidewalk with terrific force. Levi remained in the center window screaming for help i and apparently alraid to jump. Suddenl he fell back into ihe building ana was suf- focated. Feinberg went to a rear room and hung from a window-sill, begging the crowd to save him. The crowd tried to build a pyramid of barrels, but the heat caused the man to release his hold and he fell, striking the back of his neck on a bar- rel. The force of the fall wedged his body in a barrel, and he was breathing his last when released. _Jennie Sellers, aged 16 years, saved the life of herself and her five brothers and sisters by going to the roof and dropping them to the roofs of adjoining buildings, the children finally reaching the ground. DA S ey Eugene Field’s Estate. CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 4.—The estate of the late Eugene Field was brought into the Probate Court to-day on a petition of the widow for letters of administration. The estate is valued at $25,000, all in per- sonal property. Besides this there is the poet’s home, valued at from $10,000 to $20,000, which he had conveyed to his wife some time before his death. ETENT T Corset-Makers Assign. NEW YORK, N, Y., Jan. 4.—H. &=. Strauss, manufacturers of corsets, assigned to-day. Liabilities $200,000, and nominal assets $200,000, ENRAGED AT WILLIAM Englishmen Aroused Over the Defeat in the Transvaal. THE EMPEROR INSOLENT. Tha: Is How the Congratulation to Krueger Is Regarded in Great Britain, OTHER DISPUTES CAST ASIDE. Now There Are Converts to the Plan of Arbitrating the Venezue- lan Controversy. Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times. LONDON G., Jan, 4.-—Since England breathlessly followed the bloody progress of the British relief expedition up the Nile tow: Khartoum, eleven years ago, I have witnessed no such universal popu- lar excitement as has reigned in London in these opening days of the new year. No matter how deeply opinions may dif- fer on the rights and wrongs of the Trans- vaal business Jthere is no doubt that every- body high and low is profoundly stirred up about it. It would be an easy enough matter to satirize the English attitude toward this extraordinary and probably momentous catastrophe and to give an air of epigram to numerous commonplaces about English gread, perfidy and the rest in which the whole Continental press is reveling delighted: But that would be to beg entirely the true character of the episode. What is really to be seen in it is astrange survival of the original processes by which the British empire was created, suddenly revealed and expounded to peo- ple five generations removed from the knowledge of them by the magical opera- tion of modern electrical science. If Eng- could have followed Lord Clive with a telegraph wire British India would have never existed. Englishmen now, while they curse the inexplicable block in the communications which kept them for forty-eight hours without news from Johannesburg, dimly understand that they are witnessing some- thing to which they are ancestrally related, but which they thought had been dead and buried for a century or so. Their judgment commands that they should d approve it sternly, but all the inherited impulses of their blood impel them to cheer and wave their hats. It is a genuine conflict between their respectable modern civilization and the old Berserker island instinets in their veins. If they were left alone there would be no doubt as to ihe result of the struggle. The nineteenth century would win, and in their calmer mood they would see to it, as in 1880, that the Boers had scrupulous justice dealt to them. But unhappily the German Emperor, who is too much of an Englishman to mind his own business and too much ot a Prussian to understand what tact means, leaps into the middle of this perplexing situation with drawn sword and infuriates everybody. Yesterday seven-eighths of thinking England were against Cecil Rhodes and his South African dummy company, and were glad to hear that Dr. Jameson and his filibusters had been soundly whipped by the Boers, but last evening when the terms of the German Emperor’s insolent dispatch reached London this mood began to change as the newspapers could spread the news. To-day, while nobody has altered his mind specifically about Dr. Jameson’s part of the affair, nobody speaks or thinks of Germany's interference without an angry glisten in the eye. Every aspect of this imperial message, upon examination, reveals a fresh ground for wrath. If it were intended to enrage England on as many sides as possible, it is a triumph of ingenuity. Its rejoicing that English blood has been spilied, its refer- ence to friendly powers which would have intervened if President Kruger had asked them, its calm denial of Eungland’s suzerain treaty rights, the fact that it was sent aiter an imperial council at the Foreign Office, in which naval members ostentatiously predominated — all these give to it the character of a deliberate, in- tentional affront. No living Englishman remembers any such other premeditated slap in the face. What counsels second thought may bring it is impossible to say, but England to-night wants to fight Ger- many more passionately than she has de- sired anything else since the time of the Georges. To this violent climax has come then all the last years of anxious and gingerly in- triguing for alliances in the troubled Con- tinental diplomacy. A year ago the Prince of Wales thought that he had fastened such hooks into his nephew, the young and timid Czar, that nothing could shake England’s grip. He came back from St. Petersburg elated by this belief and took no pains to dissemble the presence in his elation of the thought that he had out- witted that other nephew of his in Berlin, that insufferable nephew who read him lectures on how princes should behave, but he smiled 100 soon. Germany on the in- stant made overtures to France and proposed a partnership with Russia as a third in Chinese waters, which should shut England out. Then she egged Russia and France on to make Lord Rosebery’s Armenian intervention an empty sham. Then when Lord Salisbury came into power and finding these two powers hostile worked to get the triple alliance also identified with intervention, Germany took him at his word, came into the European concert and made it immediately an anti-English concert. To-day the or- ganization of Europe against England is practically complete. Even Italy, despite all its natural lean- ings, has been forced into the significant step of intrusting the protection of the Italians in the Transvaal to the German Consul. These foreign considerations, however, though recognized as weighty, are subordinated in the public mind to wonder at what the next step will be in the battle royal between Joseph Chamber- lain and Cecil Rhodes. As I pointed out at the time, Chamber- lain took the Colonial Office largely with the view of trying a fall with this power- ful person, and in the first round of the wreetle he has' scored an extracrdinary victory, but it is a sort of triumph which seems more embarrassing than a' flat defeat. FPresident Krueger's part ig the busines: has been one of uncanny cunning. Ever since November the gathering of the Brit- ish South Africa Company’s forces on the frontier foraraid on the Transvaal has been perfectly known at Prevoria, and Krueger has helped it on by circulating reports that General Joubert was in Natal on a holiday and that there was not & sin- gle Boer under arms anywhere on the Veldt. P This false news impelled the Johannes- burg crowd to give Jameson the signal for a forward rush. They promised to have the Boers subjugated and the town in his hands by the time he arrived. Then mys- teriously 2000 Boers rose up in Jameson’s vath while a similar force appeared to ter- rorize the cowardly Johsnnesburg mob, with the results that Jameson, Willoughby, ‘White and all the officials of her Maiesty are in a Boer prison, and the flower of the Rhodes mounted police is dead or in chains. There is loud talk here of the necessity of proving that Rhodes knew what was going on. It may occur later to somebody to inquire whether Chamberlain also had not some premonition that when Jameson made his break the Boers would be there to meet it. No one will be surprised to tearn that this flood of fiery excitement has clean swept the Venezuelan affair out of public consciousness. Just as Washington roughly pushed Constantinople aside as the center of British interest, so it is in turn wholly obscured by Pretoria. I do not know that this is wholly a mis- fortune, because the sort of information that Englishmen have been getting from America did not serve as a basis for any specially luminous meditation. Butit is at least to be regretted that national pre- occupation in Transvaal matters prevents Henry Norman’s admirable dispatches from getting the attention tnat they de- serve. His complete, carefully fortified ex- position of the strictly abstract character of the Schomburg line has been received here quite as a revelation. But far more important, I conceive to be, is his success in convincing some section of the Knglish public that the American people as a whole feel deeply on this whole subject and stand firm in support of the principle involved. As I said a week ago, the most aggra- vating, mischievous feature of the entire business basbeen the practical unanimity with which the dispatches from New York sneered at our President, extolled the timidity of Wall street as an expression of the best elements of our civilization and reiterated tirelessly the suggestion that the wholeagitation was deliberately started by knavish politicians and kept alive only by the ignorant jingo rabule. Norman’s dispatches come like a burst of sunshine throughout a fog to dispel this dangerous, almost criminal delusion. The effect would, as I have said, have been vastly greater if everybedy were not think- ing of something; but even as it 1s, find the Times to- for the firs cautiously admitting that a reopening of the case, and an arbitration on some new basis as that proposed by C. are not wholly impossible. s marks a notable chanze in what may be calied England’s official attitude. Mention ought to be made too of a re- b kably wise and intelligent letterin the Times from Amyas Northcott of Chicago, a young man who is evidently not a sev- enth son for nothing. Itis by far the most sensible message that any Englishman among us has yet delivered to his coun- trymen at home, and I should think that it also had it effect on the Times. At all events English public opinion has been fairly started on a new and helpful task. And there are enough reasons for believing that official action will be found following along after it. The chances that this American compli- cation and others in various parts of the world will give rise to interesting party debates and divisions when Parliament meets next month have been somewhat jeopardized by Lord Rosebery’s surpris- ingly insincere attackson Lord Salisbury’s conduct of the Armenian business. His own party papers condemn them, and to the general public they seem quite outside the limits of recognized political contro- versy. This is a pity, because Salisbury and Chamberlain, by ecalling no Cabinet council since November, have undoubt- edly invited criticism as taking too much on themselves through a period of such difficulty and menace. Very likely this criticism will find sober, weighty spokes- men in the House of Commons, but Lord Rosebery’s spiteful ineptitude has already discounted its force with the community at large. In the crush and friction of larger events little attention has been given to the fact that Hungary is celebrating this year the thousandth anniversary of the Magyar conquest and settlement of Pannonia. The Hungarians themselves began the festival Wednesday and are to keep it up all the year, but the outside world’s inter- est is claimed fdr the great exhibition to be opened shortly at Budapest, which will be uniquein kind and more like a national monument than a commercial show. It would be impossible to exagger- ate the earnestness with which the whole Magyar race have thrown themselves into making of this exhibition a thing never to be forgotten, and literally scores of thou- sand of adult Hungarians are working this winter to learn foreign languages, particularly English, in order to be able to welcome and entertain the huge con- course of visitors that they fondly ex- pect. Their concentration on this one idea is curiously shown by the Buda- pest press, which usually makes a specialty of discussing foreign politics with utmost freedom and vigor, but now for months has been as dumb as an oyster as if in dread to contribute a single hasty word toward any misunderstanding which might make mid-Europe available for tourist traffic next summer. With New Year’s day the law went into effect here, giving to magistrates sum- mary jurisdiction to- grant sepaiation orders to married women who have fled from the home of a brutal husband, with the result that an inundation of complain- ing wives has quite swamped other busi- ness in the Police courts for the last two days. The magistrates are already dis- mayed at the task of winnowing wheat from chaff in this swarm of appeals, and are crying out against the imperfections in the law, which really serves few of the purposes that it aimed to do. The drunk- enness of wives among the London poor is even a greater evil, so far as home is con- cerned, than the violence of husbands, but this is left untcached, and it is evident that the whole subject will have to be dealt with in a new law. Inthe Royal Academy winter exhibition of the old masters, which were on private view to-day, much comment is aroused by the fact that an exceptional place of honor has been given to a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, lent by Lord Rosebery, which fairly dominates the roora. Trinity House officials are holding an in- quiry to-day at Portsmouth on the conduct cf the British pilot whoran the Spree on Warden Ledge, inside the Needles. The vessel itself bas completely recovered and sailed for Bremen this morning. Haxrorp FREDERIO. JOYOF THE GERMANS. Emperor William's Message to Krueger Arouses Enthusiasm. HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND. An Explanation Demanded of the Bold Invasion of the Transvaal. MUST CEASE INTERFERENCE. Otherwise Great Britain Will Become Involved in a Collision With the Fatherland. BERLIN, Germaxy, Jan. 4.—The Em- peror’s act in sending a message to Presi- dent Krueger of the South African Repub- lic, congratulating him upon the victory of the Boers over the armed forces led into the Transvaal by Dr. Jameson, adminis- trator of the British South A pany, is hailed with enthusias out Germany, and will add greatly to Majesty’s popularity, as being a true in- terpretation of the intensity of German public hostility toward Great Britain, The message of the Emperor could not have been a very great surprise to the Kng- lish Government, as some days prior to the publication of the message the Em- peror instructed Count von Hatzfeldt, the German Emuassador to Great Britain, to inform Lord Salisbury, with the utmost frankness, that it was the firm determina- tion of Germany not to allow the Govern- ment of the South African Republic to be overthrown. At the same time Count von Hatzfeldt was instructed to demand an explanation of the movements of the authorities of the British South Africa Company. These representations were immediately an- swered by the British Foreign Office. The first replies made by Lord Salisbury were deemed unsatisfactory; so much so, in- deed, that the relations of the two Govern- ments or Wednesday became so strained as to be on the point of absolute rupture. The consequence was that a diplomatic surrender on the part of Lord Salisbury was the only thing thataverted the gravest climax. Even now, although the situation is modified, 1t is not devoid of danger, and the summaries of the comments of the Enclish press upon the Emperor’s inter- ference 1n the Transvaal affair which are published here serve to heighten the popu- lar anger against England, while the anti- English feeling pervades all classes of the German press. Every political party and group, the Socialists included, sides with the Boers and denounces the aggresion of Engiand. [he North German Gazette quotes with expressions of approval the declaration of the Cologne Gazette that the Transvaal republic is an absolutely independent state, and the Deutsche Tages-Zeitung says that not only the road to Constanti- nople but also the road to Johannesburg lies through Berlin. Several newspapers with Government affiliations and inspira- tions concur in these expressijns, and add that the alliance between Russia and France has been enlarged by the accession of the Triple Alliance to a concert of Euro- pean powers with anti-English aims. A number of papers are exulting in the iso- lation of England and predict that her lonely situation will become an important factor in the settlement of the Venezuelan difficulty. The youth, the brawn and sinew of Ger- many are moved to offer active assistance to the Boers, while their elders are in- spired to tender moral and financial aid. Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, was charged by the Deutsche Colonial Gesellschaft yes- terday to send a cablegram to President Krueger of the Boer republic, expressing the sympathy of the society with him and his cause and promising active and mate- rial support. A private syndicate has placed at the dispousal of Dr. Peters the sum of 300,000 marks for the purpose of organizing a corps of voluateers to go to the Transvaal, and similar offers have been plentiful. Among other offers is that of a number of young Americans studying in Germany, who have expressed their readiness to accept a chance to fight the British if a conflict in South Africa is continued. The sum of the position is that Great Britain must yithdraw her pretensions to a right to interfere in the Transvaal and punish the leaders of the Pritish South Africa Company who are responsible for the invasion of the Boer territory, or she will inevitably become involved in a col- lision with Germany. A formal German protectorate over the South African Repub- licis not designed, but the Government of Germany will support the Transvaal Re- public in declaring the convention of 1884 void, thus enabling the Boers to obtain their full independence of Great Britain. Virtually England’s claim to suzerainty over the Transvaal must in all respects be abolished. If the South African Republic shall ask a reference of the matters in dis- pute between itself and England, the ques- tion will be referred to the European powers which are interested in Africa, and Germany will support such a conference, France can be relied upon to take part, and if a conference is had it will greatly disappoint German expectation if the dis- cussion of the questions involved does not result in recognition of the independence notonly of the Transvaal, butof the Orange Free State as well. It is not denied here that reform in the administration of the internal affairs of the South African Republicis advisable,but these must be obtained without the appli- cation of foreign pressure, British or any other, as strictly questions for internal set- tlement. Little or no sympathy is be- stowed uvon Dr. Jameson, and Mr. Cham- ——— e Wore Curative power is contained in Hood’s Sar- saparilla than in any other. It costs the manufacturers and’ dealers more. It is worth more to the consumer. It cures . more diseases, because Hood’s Sarsaparilla Isthe One True Blood Purifier. § Hood’s Pills ; six for §5. cure habitual constijae tion. Price 20 cents, berlain’s appeal to President Krueger to deal generously with the British South African prisoners is derided by the German press, which declare that a sum- mary trial by court-martial, followed by | the prompt execution of the leaders qf _me raid, commends itself to German opinion as the proper mode of procedure in their case. A strict application of the law in- volving the sacrifice of the lives of the rank and file of the prisoners would not meet approval here, but it is the general opinion that an example ought to be made of the leaders. It has transpired that the Emperor has had a serious quarrel with Prince Fred- erick Leopold of Prussia,the husband of Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig- Holstein, sister of the Empress, over the recent accident to the Princess while skating near Glenicke Castle, Potsdam, when the Princess and one of the ladies ot the court, Baroness Comar, broke through the ice and came very near drowning. It appears that the Emperor upbraided the Prince for the indifference of his treat- ment of his wife and the Prince usec some pretty rough words in replving to the Kaiser’s rebuke. The Emperor thereupon vlaced him under arrest for fourteen days, with confinement in a room in his castle for that length of time. The Kaiser im- mediately telegraphed for a detachment of the First Guards to be sent from Potsdam to Glenicke Castle to guard the Prince, and he has since been confined there, not being permitted to leave hischamber upon any pretext. The prospects of an amicable settlement of the question affecting American insur- ance companies are improving. Baron von der Horst, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, is conducting negotiations in a most friendly spirit, which leads to the expectations that an agreement will be reached for a modification of the laws now operating against the American insurance companies. The Berlin Handels-Zeitung devotescon- siderable space to the publication of com- vlaints of the increasing difliculties and vexatious treatment which beset importers of German goods in New York. The paper says that the American consular authori- ties admit that the treatment showo to these importers is in retaliation for measures adopted by Germany which are impeding imports from New York into Germany. DISP S AMONG LEADERS. Causing Separate Raids Upon the Italian Forces. ROME, Irtavy, Jan. 4.—Advices re- ceived by the Goverrment from Abyssinia state that the commander of the Italian troops at Makalle has informed General Baratieri, commanding the Italian forces operating in Abyssinia, that disputes among the leaders of the natives are caus- ing separate raids to be made upon the Italians. The rumor that King Meaelek, with - his forces, had begun an advance is denied. The Abyssinian army is still at Dolo. —_— A Nearo Knighted. LONDON, E Jan. 4.—Among the New Year honors conferred by the Queen was the bestowal of knighthood on Mayor Lewis of Freetown. the capital of Sierra Leone. Mayor Lewis is a Fure-hlood negro. This is the first time that the honor of knighthood has been bestowed on one of his race. NEW TO-DAY. DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU wouLp HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU. ‘We mark our prices in plain figures. ‘We retail at wholesale prices. ‘We sell nothing but pure wool clothing. We give samples freely prior to pur- chasing. ‘We do not allow a garment to leave the house unless a perfect fit. SUITS T0 ORDER, $10 to $20. PANTS T0 ORDER, $3 to $6. Be Sure and Reach the BIg Store With Thbree Front Entrances, Directly Opposite Sansome Street. COLUMBIAN WOOLEN MILLS, 541 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, Wholesale Tailors and Clothing Mfrs. DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY FIRMS USING A NAME SIMILAR TO OURS. ONLY BRANCH HOUSE—211 Montgomery St, $3. This price for shoes that sell at §5 in high-rent storés is not for joblots or odd sizes, but for a good assort- ment of shapes, sizes and all the late toe-styles. SULLI- VAN’S «“SHOES THAT WEAR" 18-22 Fourth st. 'Phone Black 1121. ————————— At the same price we sell our LABRA Seal Cork-sole Shoe, absolutely waterproof, and whose equal costs $5 to $6 on Mar- ket or Kearny. 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