The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. ANOUNCES AN ISSUE OF BONDS, Bids Called For by the Secretary of the i Treasury. ‘ Proposals to Be Received at| Washington on February Fifth. | TEXT OF THE NOTIFICATION. Provision Made for Any Issue That| May Be Authorized by ‘\ Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—At mid- night to-night Secretary Carlisle prepared the following notice, which will be issued to-morro tary of NG, JANUARY 6, PRICE FIVE CENTS. WY = e n\‘;\\\\\k =3 =S \ , until 12 5th day of | ase of one hun- | dated on the first day of | er on and before | will be de»i | 189¢ nired to p 1d certificates 1to them, after the first 10 the ti 0) upon bids, and twenty per t)at the end of each ten days all accepted bidders may pay | date of the first in- iai or different form ds for the maintenance of the gold re- be authorized by law before the 5th of February, 1896, sealed proposals for the rchase of such bonds will also be recetved at up to the same date, and conditions herein will be considered as is hercin ELECTRIC CAR. Fatal Collision Occurring on a Railroad Crossing. ELWOOD, Ixp., Jan. 5 cur spec A collision oc- ed between a Lake Erie and Western al and an electric car this evening, in was fatally injured and wurt. They were: Chris d, cannot live; John motorman, severely brused; head and face injured; two men were dragged under the car as they were trying to leap off and suffered mage {0 the street- HARRISON NOT A FACTOR, which one m four others ba Hines, Nuding, . B skull crust Would Decline a Nomination if It Were Tendered by His Party. Ex-Secretary Foster Declares That Protection Will Be the Repub- lican Watchword. CINCINNATI, Omnro, Jan. 5.—The une to-morrow will print the follow- interview with ex-Secretary of the sury Charles Fos ter: 0 tell you positively,” said the ex- Sec ¥, “‘that General Harrison does not want the Presidential nomination nor would he take it if it wastendered him. This is his present determination. Of course we cannot tell what the future may bring forth. I was in New York a few days ago and General B. F. Tracy told me Harrison had told him that under no cir- *es would he consent to his name ng placed before the 8t. Louiz con ntion. “He said he was tired of politics and was weary of having his name mentioned in the newspapers. Assoon asl had re- turned from New York I wrote General Harrison a letter, quoting the language used by General Tracy. He replied to my Y qui I will not tell all he said, but his closing paragraph contained these words: ‘If yon can show me any reason why I should want the nomination I might reconsider my determination.’ Mr. Foster said that McKinley was the most formidavle candidate, and, as he represented the protective policy of the Republican party, ““protection must be the line we must fight our battles on this year.” Governor McKinley, when told of the above interview to-night, refused to say anythingabout General Harrison’sdeclina- tion. When asked ii he previously knew that General Harrison would not be a can- didate, he declined to answer. Trea: '\\\\\\\ DOWN THE TOBOGGAN SLIDE AT THE [F'rom a sketch made by a ‘“Call’”’ i U" J 0 o Vs ~ h 2 <52 Ot o, a3 Y : “ > —~ ¥\, 0 e MY : - : wid W’fiflfi ‘Mh . 4 il "y w_ "“xf'"v”.“\]l.‘ ; ;'E/K"u'i"w 4% ,v;‘v;;’m/fn Wfla " o i A M Willum®e =g /J‘qexumi?i“”nhr b e L J Wiy 3] s y ICE CARNIVAL stafy artist.] IN TRUCKEE. GOMEL DEFEATS THE FORCE OF CAMPOS, Vigorous Onslaught Upon the Center of the Spanish Line. REGULARS ARE SWEPT ASIDE. The Victorious Army Now Sweeping Toward the Province of Pinar Del Rio. HAVA Cusa, Jan.' 5.—The insurg- ents are round about this city. " Infact the wholeisland,with the exception of Havana, is in the hands of Gomez and his men, and the situation is in their hands. Havana spent a day of nervousness and anxiety, and has been in hourly apprehen- sion of an attack by the insurgent army or a part of it. Yesterday the bands com- manded by Nunez and Bermuda were seen at Managua, a village nou more than twelve miles from Havana. Under General Gomez’s direction . the insurgents made a vigorous onslaught upon the center of General Campos’ line yesterday and after a fierce fight they swept the Spaniards aside, forced their way through the line and are now march- ing triumphantly westward toward the province of Pinar del Rio. In this province are the finest tobacco plantations in Cuba and these are now at the mercy of the rebels. The land telegraph line between this city and Batabano, connecting with the cable from the latter city, has been cut by the insurgents south of Bejucal. This cuts off communication between Ha- vana and Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus, Pu- erto Principe, Manzanillo and Santiago de Cuba. 'It also stops telegraphic traffic with Key West, the West Indies, Vene- zuela and Panama. L AWAIT THE JUNTA. Cubans May Delay the Taking of the Capital. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 5~The Re- corder will say to-morrow morning: An extraordinary meeting of the Cuban | Junta was held yesterday to discuss mat- ters of extreme importance. The meet- ing was held in strict secrecy, and no in- | | formation as to what took place could be | | obtained. | | It was, however, gathered at the Cuban | | revolutionary headquarters that the sub- | ject of discussion was the advisability of | transferring the junta to Cuba, now that | the insurgent army is almost at the gates of Havana. Both President Palma and Secretary | | Quesada have expressed their willingness | | to start for Cuba just as soon as General | | Gomez signifies his desire to have the gen- | tlemen of the junta at his side. It may be stated on the best authority | that Havana will not be attacked until the | chief members ot the junta are in the field | | ready to enter Havana and take possession of the capital in the name of the Republic of Cuba. This part of the programme has posi- | | tively been decided upon, and, pending | the opportunity for carrying it out, Gen- | errl Gomez will continue to circle about | | Havana, applying the torch and laying | waste the territory. | Thelatest news from the insurgent camp | | states that the officers of the Provisional | | Government are strongly intrenched in | Puerto Principe, awaiting word from Gen- | eral Gomez to advance. | When the time for giving this signal ar- | rives, the New York junta, according to | Gomez’s plans, will secretly leave for Cuba | | and join the provisional government in the march to Gomez’s camp. | A wealthy sympathizer has placed a swift steel vessel at the disposal of the junta to convey them to Cuba. This fact is known to the Spaniards, who have doubled their force of spies aud detectives in consequence. ALL WANT IRRIGATION. Thousands of Claims for Water Rights Filed in Nebraska. LINCOLN, NEBR., Jan. 5.—The records of the office of the secretary of the State Board of Irrigation show that the claims for water rights are coming in at a rate | which had not been anticipated by the most ardent enthusiasts among irriga- tionists. It is shown that there have | been claims filed covering 2,600,000 acres of | land, and it is expected that this will be increased by May 1, the end of the first | year of the board’s work under the new law, to fully 3,000,000, | 1he rapidity of the filing of applications | during the past month is the result of the | recent decision of the Supreme Court{ which affirmed the constitutionality of | the new irrigation law passed by the last | | Legislature, | TRUCKEE UNDER THE ICE KING'S RULE, | Merrymaking in a Crisp Ozone That Forces the Mercury Down. SWIFT TRIPS ON TOBOGGANS. The Carnival Season in Jack Frost's Land Has Opened in Earnest. PALACE OF THE ICE KING, 10 i S ABOVE ZERO, TRUCKEE, CaL., Jan. 5. } Outlined against a black and somewhat threatening sky, the transparent carnival | castle stands in the glory and glitter of its electrical illumination. Itisa castle not | ot ice and not of frost, but of icicles. The illumination brings out that fact, and every one of the ice formations—little or big—is an art work in itself, while no two in the myriads of them are alike. At a distance the castle looks like silver, but brightens with electric glow at the nearer approach. The walls gleam as though made of glass, and every icicle forms a distinct study in light and shade. See the shadows that flit past the ice-tapestried windows! See, there are the skaters who have been on the ponds all day, but are attracted to-night by the glory and the ghtter of the Ice King’s reception. Truckee shows its real enthusiasm at last, and it does not matter that the day is Sunday. Close inspection of the outer wall reveals beau- tiesin the ice work that cannot be seen from a distance, and as the visitor gazes he can hardly reassure himself for a moment that the scene is something more than the glory and the freshness of a dream. - Beyond there the arc lights mark the fall of the toboggan way, a shout starts in the upoer way and shoots down and on until the voice of the reveler becomes in- distinct in the distance. Another shout follows and another and another and the human chain of climbers and tobogganers is an endless one. From McGlashan’s torch-lit hill the coasters plunge on the sleds and ‘‘double ripvers’” and there is rivalry in the sports. There comes the first strain from the Truckee brass band. Go into the palace, for everybody is going that way now. The grand reception-room of the Ice King is the busy scene to-night. It extends all around the building, a circuit of 500 feet at the outersideand the floor is aout twenty feet wide. Hundreds of people are there, the fancy skater and the beginner, men, women and children, and there is room for hundreds more. The icicles hangfrom the ceiling in countless array; thefwalls have diamond-like ornaments in every conceivable form; it is ice everywhere, within the palace, above, below and all about. the Icicles—must be merry to-night. cling, eddying, swaying, tumbling around, some backward, some forward, some head- over-heels, the merry crowd goes on. So it will be for weeks and weeks to come, for this is only the beginning of the real winter season in Truckee, and the sport will continue until the frost king, whose minions are the shining icicles, goes away in the spring and takes, in his vanishing, the weirdness and the adornment of his winter abode. A great many of the Truckee people went skating on the pond this morning and af- ternoon. They had to eo, for the visitors all wanted to skate, and to be hospitable and stay with them. Besides, most of the visitors are just learning to skate, and they require assistance—particularly the ladies—and again, the people of Truckee like to skate anyhow. So there were only six women, seven children and two repre- sentatives of Tue Cartn at the village church, where the Rev. J. J. Pardee, a young Methodist clergyman of three weeks experience in the pulpit, began his sermon. The discourse was appropriate to the carnival times, the text being from Num- bers 10-29: “Come thou with us and we will do thee good.” Following out the line of thought in- dicated in this invitation to all the State, the young preacher said it was the duty of his hearers to urge all who would to come. He told of the straightand narrow way so pointedly that the listeners’ thoughts flashed out to the toboggan chute, and then he continued: “We need not be afraid to invite others to come with us and travel in this way.” He reminded his people of the duty to share with our fellows the good we had, telling them thal in helping those about us we were helped, and in giving the bless- ings we were blessed. Again he sai Continued on Second Page. The spirit of the monarch—the King of | Cir- | : | that he intends to make a flank movement RUPTURE IN THE - CANADIN' CABINET, | Reported Resignation of Seven Ministers of the Crown | Confirmed. NO HOPE FOR RECONCILIATION. The Division Will Probably Result in the Defeat of the Government. | OTTAWA, OxtARIO, Jan. 5.—The latest information that can be obtained to-day | confirms the report that seven Ministers of the Crown, Messrs. Foster, Haggart, | Tupper, Ives, Montague, Dickey and Wood, | have resigned. There is considerable ex- citement over the rupture, which will probably result in the defeat of the Gov- ernment. The two sections of the Ministry, which | | are divided over the Manitoba school | question, seem at this stage of the situa- | | tion to be irreconcilable. PREVENTS AN ELECZROCUTION: A Confession That Saves an Innocent Man’s Life. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 5.—John Mec- Gough, a pal of “Bat” Shea, who was to have been electrocuted at Dannemora Prison on Tuesday next for the murder of Robert Ross in the election riot on March 6, 1694, at Troy, has confessed that it was not Shea who shot Ross, but that he did it himself. Governor Morton has decided to respite Shea until February 4. Shea’s ::ol‘:lnul will move immediately for a new rial. ae THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. King Menelik Moving Forward With 30,000 Men. ROME, ITALY, Jan. 5.—A dispatch from Massowah, capital of the Italian colony of | | Erythrea, says thst King Menelik of | | Abyssinia, with 30,000 followers, has ar- rived at Lake Ashanghi. It is believed with the object of attempting to cut off | General Baratieri’s communication with | Massowah. 'VIEW OF THE CITY OF HAVANA, FROM THE SEA. i | SUZERAINTY OF ENGLAND DENIED, Germany Insists That the Convention of 1884 Is Void. BRITONS MUST RECEDE. Emperor William’s Government Firm in Supporting the Transvaal. SALISBURY SLOW TO ACT. He Has Not Replied to the Defiance Hurled by the Continental War Lord. BERLIN, GerMANY, Jan. 5.—Financial interest continues to be centered in the prospects of the issuance of an American loan. The bourses here and in Frankfort absorb the best of the American stocks which are stiil being off red for salein London, but the leading operators show a greater disposition to await the definite announcement of abond issue. The latest commuxications from New York leave the situation so uncertain that neither the financial houses nor the operators on the bourse can advise inquirers. The correspondent of the United Press in Frankfort states that American finan- ciers have sounded the bankers there as to whether a 3-per-cent loan could be placed at about par. Tothese inquiries the bank- ers replied that pure coin bonds could not be placed in Germany even at 4 per cent, but that 3 per cent gold bonds might be placed if they were issued at a price slightly under par. A Berlin financier connected with the Deutsche Bank group says the group which is making the offer to take a share of the American bond issue has an amount of gold already in the United States suffi- cient to prevent large shipments of golid from Germany. On every side the feeling is that things will go slowly until Presi- dent Cleveland acts in the bond matter. Advices received here from St. Peters- burg say that M. DeWitt, the Russian Minister of Finance, has definitely denied that Russia has offered to the United States the cash advances referred to in the story recently published in a St. Peters- burg dispatch to the Tageblatt, a story which nobody credited. Another story comes from St. Peters- burg, alleging that Prince Lobanoff Ros- tovsky, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has declared, with all possible feelings of good will toward the United States, that the Czar would never recog- nize the Monroe doctrine, and, in regard thereto, had taken a position similar to that assumed by Germany and England. This story has not yet been affirmed or de- nied. Sir F. C. Lascelles, British Embassador to Germany, has of late had daily inter- views with the Chancellor, Prince von Hohenlohe, and these conferences have led to a much calmer tone in official cir- clesand in the articles published in the semi-offictal newspapers. The violent tone displayed by the English press, es- pecially in their tirades against the Kaiser, does not agree with the character of the communications received at the Foreign Office from Lord Salisbury, the British Foreign Minister, who protests his inno- cence of all knowledge of the plans of the chartered South African Company, and de- clares the determination of Great Britain to act strictly in accordance with the terms of the Transvaal treaties, concluded in 1881 and 1884. If Lord Salisbury intends to remonstrate against the congratulatory message sent to President Kruger by the Kaiser, he is obviously taking his time to | ponder over the manner in which he will so far nothing has been heard at Froebel, the great promotor of the kig. dergarten system of teaching children said: ‘‘ Let parents not live for their children, but with them.” The mother who understands this sentiment lives with, even her unborn child. 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