The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1896, Page 1

— VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 38. , TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CLOSING W ON CUBKS CAPITAL, Insurgents Invading the Towns in the Vicinity of Havana. PLANTATIONS BURNED General Gomez Enters San Fe-| lipe With Four Thousand | Followers. VILLAGERS FLEE FOR SAFETY.| From Spain Comes a Report That | Captain-General Campos Will Resign. HAVANA, Cusa se Villa Neuva at Melana and ,a few miles t ard of | in this prov ve been de- | royed by. the r insurgents | San Kelipe abano and Villa 1 marched o was warned of d 200 men with defend the town. rebel leader, sent that if the insurgents he would purn the town ged the Mayor to they did not want property, and the Mayor heir wishes and notified no defense of the town would latter, at the head of 4000 | ed San Felipe. No dam- perty. 2 ivican, Duran and San rebels have destroyed the sugar alvador, Julis, San Augustin, nta Teresa, Mora and Mi ance, as ber of families fieeing from the | Melena have arrived at Jesus del suburb of Havana. The Govern- column under command of General z Valdez arrived last evening at Re- a, a small town eituated a short way fre Havana. A train on Villa Nueva Railroad, h arrived ere at 9 o’clock last even- brought & number of families from Felipe, Bejucal, Duran, Melena and who are seeking safety under the ) na. The train also brought | ment of troops from the Barrito estate at Duran. Passengers from Melena state that the ls entered that town and made an at- the church establishment. The tried to oppose them and was A body of rebels also marched can, where they captured a y of arms and ammunition. The station was set on fire and de- ant ilway ye Gabriel the retels burned the » station of the Western Rail- Inhabitants of the place the bushes. Only three ce were left standing. xploded in front of La The ex- 1 much excitement in the no harm was done. An iron also exploded near Alvarez. A was damaged and a large hole was made in the grc The troops that have been ordered to | roceed east n the province of Santa | order to join forces in the prov- na and Pinar del Rio, are ar- | bano, the southern terminus Havana Jatabano Railroad, nce they can be quickly transiered to Havana or points in del Rio. The rebels still avoid f ng a decisive battle with the Government troops, always retiring after exchanging a few shots with the soldiers. 4 e are the tactics y them it has been tho! surround them and then to the lines upon them, dr. stand in the centers. Orders to this effect. have and the troops are reported to be surrounding the insurgents. The trains on the railroad running west | from Havana do not go any further than | La Salud. e in A pet hous wh followed been i e T WILL CAMPOS RESIGN? Severe Criticism of the General in Mili- tary Circles. MADRID, SpalN, Jan. 6.—An official dispatch received here states that the westward march of the insurgents in Cuba | has been ‘arrested by Government troops. | The dispatch adds that General Navarro | has defeated the rebels, but gives no de- | tails. The Heraldo claims to have kno edge that it is the intention of Captain- General Campos to resign on February 5. The spread of the rebeilion causes great unessiness here. In military circles Mar- shal Campos is severeiy criticized, but the consensus of opinion is that the Govern- ment will not remove him from the com- mand in Cuba. A dispatch from Havana to a news agency says that a band of rebels exploded dynamite under a train on the Nuevitas Puerto line containing 300 passengers, several of whom were injured. Troops ar- rived and dispersed the rebels, who, the dispatch asserts, were about to massacre the passengers. AMBUSCADES ARE PLACED. But Gomez Continucs His Advance to the West. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 7.—A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Havana says: A train from Matanzas, which managed to get through Sunday night, brought two generals and several thousand troops to re-enforce the troops in Havans and strengthen Campos’ new strategic line between this city and Batabano, broken by Gomez and Collaza, on Saturday, as they marched toward Pinar del Rio. | secretary of ! evening the | boarded a West Side car upon which was By strengthening this line Campos now hopes to pen Gomez in the west, break his communication and, cutting him off from re-enforcements and supplies, eventually defeat him. Gomez, however, unconscious to all ap- pearances of the ambuscade prepared for him, continues to advance further west. Ambuscades are being placed in the out- skirts of Havana. ARRESTING THE WOMEN, Indignities Inflicted by the Spanish Au- thorities. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cusa, Dec. 26, via Key West, Jan. 6.—The Spanish au- thorities here are not satisfied with im- prisoning men, but are beginning to arrest women On the b inst. Mrs. Manuela S8ancino de Beola and Mrs. Juano Quintero were brought here from Manzanillo ana were the streets on foot to jail, E v soldiers, who would not allow them to take a coach, hoping by this to hnmiliate them the more. Beola was the principal of a public hool in Vicana jurisdiction of Man- zanillo. More than 400 men have gone to the field from this city, Guantanamo and Manzanillo during the last week. OFF FOR WASHINGTON. Members of the Junta to Give Information to Congress. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 6.—Senor Estrada Palma, Minister = Pleninoten- tiary of the provisional Cuban re- public, General Gonzales de Quesada, the Cuban legation, and Horatio S. Rubens, legal adviser of the Cuban Junta, went to Washington this evening for the purpose of laying im- portant information before the Congres- sional committee lately appointed to se- cure facts concerning the actual situation in Cuba. It was said at the Cuban headquarters to-day that the friends of the insurgent cause who were in Washington were about to make a vigorous effort to secure Gov- ernment recognition of the Cuban belliger- ency. One of the commissioners from Las Villas who arrived at the Junta headquar- ters last week and brought the documents which the members of the legation have taken to Washington said: “I will tell you a secret which has not been mentioned except to the few leaders in this country. If the United States will recognize our plans of belligerency it will save Caba a great loss of blood and prop- erty. “If the United States insists upon more vroof of our ability to do whatever we please with Cuba, then we will attack the only city on the island which the Spanish say we cannot enter, and that is Havana. 1f we must do it we will enter. “‘But if we do there will be a scene of terrible carnage. There are several thousand men in the population of Ha- vana who would flock to General Gomez the moment he enters. The slaughter would | be fearful, besides the city would be given over to dynamite and flames 10 KILL A" BENEFACTOR, Arrest of Two Brothers Who Plotted to Commit Murder. One Had Been Reared by the Intended Victim and Desired to Get His Position. CHICAGO, Irn., Jan. 6.—W. J. Weber and Gus Weber, brothers, were arrested this afternoon charged with plotting to kill E. V. Hamlin, secretary of the Kilmer Steel Tile Company. Hamlin has been absent for a month or so resting in Florida for his health, and during his absence the elder Weber has filled his position. The secretary has just returned to the city, and it is alleged that Weber planned to kill him so that he could retain his job. Weber was picked up from the street by Hamlin twenty years ago and was edu- cated by the latter and supported until he reached manhood. His brother Gus is a tough about town and has been in the Bridewell several times. According to the pelice report Gus this afternoon confessed that W.J. Weber of- fered to pay him to put Hamlin out of the way, and he accepted the job. Gus took with bim as a partner in the prospective murder another tough named Dick Malo- ney, and the two were fitted up with new { clothes and weapons by the man who wanted his benefactor killed. Sunday two would-be murderers riding Hamlin, the intended victim. Mr. Hamlin left the car at Laflin street to go home. Itisin adark neighborhood, and it was planned to kiil the old man before he reached his own house, but Maloney weakened, and Weber, not wishing to do the job alone, postponed it to get another partner. A few words overheard spoken between them led to an investigation. Both Web- ers are locked up and Maloney is held as a witness, Hamlin is reluctant to believe the man he raised from boyhood has plotted his destruction gt SR THE ANNA LEE DISASTER. Peopie of Victor Charge the Mine’s Own- ers With Carelessness. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., Jan. 6.— The situation at the Anna Lee mine at Victor, the scene of Saturday’s cave-in, re- mains practically unchanged. None of the entombed miners have yet been reached, and as the time passes the work of removing the great masses of rock and timber grows extremely dangerous. Up to a late hour to-night fhe cage had not been reached. The people of Victor are very bitter against the Portland Company, which they charge with criminal careless- negs in permitting the workings to become so unsafe. ——— WILL PROCEED 70 TURKEY. Warships to Back Up the Demands on the Sultan. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—There is no longer any denial that the big armored cruiser New York and probably two other vessels in Admiral Bunce’s squadron, ,if noi the entire fleet now lying in readiness at Hampton Roads, have been ordered to be in readiness for a voyage across the ocean to Gibraltar in case the Turkish Government does not promptly acquiesce in Minister Terrell’s peremptory demands from the Porte for immediate and full reparation for destruction to American SMly i/ //1,’4‘;'/,- i S R it O 7/ %, TS The Banker Touches the Button and Grover Does the Rest. property and injuriesto American citizens | by Turkish subjects. | In any event, it is understood that tte | cruiser New York may leave for the Medi- terranean at any moment. — GRABBED ALL EXTRA SALARIES. The Grand Jury Instructed to Indict the; Mayor and Aldermen of Dubugue. I DUBUQUE, Iowa, Jan. 6.— Judge | Husted to-day instructed the Grand Jury | to mdict the Mayor and Aldermen 1n case | they found they huve taken public funds | for salaries in excess of legal allowances. | The Courcil, after the Mayor’s re-election last spring, increased his salary from $1000 to §1500, the limit allowed by law. Then the Council raised the salaries of its own members from $200 to $500 each and ailowed the Mayor $500 extra for services as ex-officio chairmun of the Board of | Health and allowed some of the Aldermen | extra compensation for services as com- | mittee clerks. Mayor Olinger and Alder- men Shea, Halpin, Cullen, Vogler, | 8chuztz, Crawford and Bauer have taken | the extra compensation. Judge Husted | talked to the jury two hours and declared | the members would violate their oaths if | they failed to find the indictments, i ey AN ASSAILANT KILLED. Patrick Galvin Shot After Wounding Two | People. | INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Jan. 6.—Shortly | after 12 o'clock this afternoon Pat- | rick Galvin of 158 De Los street, shot Samuel Paugh through the stomach and Mrs. Mollie Murphy through the abdomen and was in turn shot dead with | his own revolver by the husband of the injured woman, W. B. Murphy, an em- ploye of the Consumers’ Gas Company. The houses of the two families adjoin on De Los street, and as a result of family trouble about to years ago they had not been on speaking terms. Mrs. Murphy and her daughter claimea about two years ago that Galvin had been guilty of an indignity to them, and grow- ing out of this Murphy had trouble with Galvin, which caused all friendship be- tween the two to cease. Samuel Paugh boarded with the Murphy family, and did not even know Galvin by sight. Itis thought Galvin was tempora- rily insane. . Thrown Down a Shaft. SHAMOKIN, P4., Jan. 6.—While Pat- rick Lynch, Peter Roberts, Stephen Mau- rute and John Maurute were being lowered | in a bucket down the 900-foot shaft at the Luke Fiddler colliery this morning the rope caught 300 feet from the bottom and the men were thrown headlong down a shaft and instantly killed. CAN GAIN G00D WILL, England Has a Chance to Settle the Boundary Dispute. TURNING OF THE TIDE. Public Opinion Changing in Ref- erence to the Venezuelan Centroversy. WAR WAS HARDLY EXPECTED. Correspondent Norman Presents a Golden Opportunity for Great Britain to Embrace. LONDON, Exg., Jan. 6.—The American correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, | Henry Norman, cables to the paper from Washington to-day as foliows: he tide of opinion here regarding England seems to me to be distinctly turning, owing L believe both to the Chronicle’s utterances and to England’s | foreign crisis. Yesterday I quoted sympa- | thetic words from the New York Sun and | to-day the Tribune says there is some- | thing magnificent in the way the British | themselves face their international situa- | tion. The Tribune speaks of the ever- | lasting birthright of the British people in | the memories of Agincourt, Plassy and ‘Tmfc\lgar and declares that the present opportunity is equally momentous and advantageous to both countries. It adds that worthy diplomacy should now make | easy the way for an equitable and amica- | ble settlement with Gieat Britain. Upon | the Governments of Washington and | Westminster it rests to determine whether this noblest opportunity of the age shall be neglected or shall be improved to the perpetual profit and glory of both the iprcan divisions of the English-speaking Tace. “Many similar utterances prove the | truth of my assertion that all the best | American opinion is earnestly desirous of ‘a friendly and dignihed settlement. To- | day I had a conversation on this subject | the people of this country. with Senator Gray of Delaware, an inti- mate and devoted friend of Mr. Cleveland, and a prominent member of the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Gray said: ‘I do not think the President made or in- tended to make a threat toward the Brit- isn Government in his message, but he did mean to express, in the strongest way pos- sible, his own feeling and what I believe to be the feeling of all the people of this country regarding supposed British refusal of arbitration in the Venezuelan matter, except with reference to an arbitrary line made by the British Government itself, I know there is sincere regret and dismay among all right-minded people here that a more conciliatory dispesition was not ac- cepted by Lord Salisbury in regard to the general principle of arbitration. | If the British Government should show a kind!ly disposition toward this principle I believe it would be greatly welcomed by So far as there being any loss of prestige to the British Government in its course, it would make me more hopeful that the great principle of arbitration will find expres- sion in a convention between the two countries covering all questions that might arise. *“The New York Times also describes my statement of the American case as supe- rior and entirely truthful. “The present moment is a golden one to secure American good will. Can England afford to lose it? If Lord Salisbury takes no step and sees no way then let him re- flect that his attitude is identical with that fatal one which lost Great Britain | her American colonies more than a cen- tury ago. The American people are eagerly listening for some word from bim. The cost of it would be slight and the gain colossal.” The Chronicle commenting editorially on the foregoing will to-morrow say: *“Was there ever a situation which called more imperatively for an advance to meet a contention which seems to us to offer no kind of menace to our interests or honor? ‘We call for expressions of opinion on this matter. Surely Lord Salisbury, surely Mr. Chamberlain will see the wisdom and necessity of finding adiplomatic equivalent for the American desire for arbitration. If diplomacy has no such expedient left to it then we are indeed governed by forces that fight against peace, mutual forbear- ance and all the good and promising relations of mankind.” et sege i WULTH FI1GHTL YOR, The Times Says England Cannot Sur- render Principles. LONDON, ENG., Jan, 6.—The Times will say to-morrow : “Not allowing that anything has oc- curred since President Clevelind sent his Venezuelan message to Congress to sub- stantially alter the position, we would wel THE PALACE BUILDING, JOHANNESBURG. [United States Consulate located on the second floor, over the main entrance.] come any reasonable method of settling thedispute without a resort to force. “There is no perticular sanctity in the Schomburg line, but it was regarded by Great Britain as marking off verbally settled districts from those still unoccu- pied. “It ought not to be difficult to determine which districts have been actually occu- vied by each nation and excluding these to arbitrate on the unsettled districts as a whole. “It would not then be necessary to deal with the Schomburg line at all, while the object of Lord Salisbury’s restriction would be attained. But the people of the United States must not suppose be- cuuse we share the desire of the best among themselves for a peaceful ending of the dispute, that we are willing to surren- der, whetter we have troubles in Europe and Africa or not, the principles for which we have contended.” The paper urges a strengthening of the nation’s defenses, and concludes: “Our position is purely a defensive one. We have attacked nobody, insulted no- body, but to defend the British empire is no light task. It will make large demands upon our resources, but what we have to guard is worth fighting for. Fighting probably will not be needed if we show that we are strong, prepared and thor- oughly united.” NOT RECEIFED WITH FAVOR. British Guianans Do Not Like the Arbi- tration Idea. GEORGETOWN, Britisu Guraxa, Dec. 21.—President Cleveland’s ial mes relative to the boundary dispute topic of conversation in every circle, and the situation is considered critical. General confidence is expressed in the statesmanship of Lord Salisbury, but on the other hand there are indications that the question of the right of possession of the contested territory, even to the Schom- burg line, is a matter of doubt. Of course the proposal to arbitrate within the Schomburg line is not received here with favor, but it is just possible that the recent utterances of the administra- tion of British Guiana have more to do with this than anything else. fovs ea sprobrs DOYLE’S LETTER. CONAN Pleads the 2merican View of the Vene- zuelan Dispute. LONDON, Ex6., Jan. 6.—Dr. Conan Doyle, the well-known writer, has sent to the Times a letter which that paper will publish to-morrow. Dr. Doyle lengthily discusses the feeling of bitterness between the English and Americans and pleads the American view of the Venezuelan dispute. He ex- poses the faults and arrogance of the English Yankee - haters and pro- poses that an Anglo- American Society be started in London, with branches throughout the empire, with a view to promoting good feeling and fur- nishing the English with the American side of questions that may arise and vice versa. ANSWERS T0 CRITCISH, Views of President Bartlett of the Nicaragua Canal Company. Commissioners Condemned the Work of Others Without a Proper Examination. [Correspondence of The United Press.] LONDON, Exc., Dec. 21.—In an inter- view with J. R. Bartlett, president of the Nicaraguan Canal Company, in London yesterday, a United Press reporter was in- formed by that gentleman that he had just returned from a visit from the Manchester ship canal. I was most gratified at what I saw and surprised at the magnitude of the worx,” said Bartlett. “The amount of excava- tion in constructing the canal was in ex- | cess of 46,000,000 cubic yards in rock and earth, nearly as much as will be required in the entire construction of the Nicara- guan canal. “The cost of the Manchester Canal, about £12,000,000, was largely enhanced by reason of the land damages and the build- ing of viaducts and bridges. Sewers, gas pipes, water pipes, rivers and canals all bad to be taken under the river canal, a work of great expense und magnitude. “None of this extra work will be required in the construction of the Nicaragua canal, as it runs through a country not popu- lated and where no railway bridges have to be constructed to secure right of way. “I am, therefore, satisfied upon exami- nation of the physical facts and the items of cost that the entire excavation in rock and earth and building of locks upon the Nicaraguan canal will not exceed that of the Manchester canal.” Bartlett further said it had also been commented on here that the commis- sioners evidently went to Nicaragua to criticize and condemn the work of others, and it was considered significant that they only spent fourteen days examining the line of the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific and then were loud in criticisms of the work of experienced men who spent years in surveying the route and making plans with care and at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, —_—— EXCITEMENT IS INTENSE. Premier Bowell Will Attempt a Cabinet Reconstruction. OTTAWA, Oxt., Jan. 6.—The excite- ment in political circles here is intense. So far the yeneral opinion is that Premier Mackenzie Bowell will endeavor to recon- struct his Cabinet, and it is thought by some prominent politicians that ne will succeed in doing this, but others say that he will not be ableto do so. The Con- servative caucus, wiich has been called for to-morrow, will decide the question. SR Wreck of a Passenger Train. LONDON, En6., Jan. 7.—A dispatch from Cape Town says that a railroad train which had been delayed and was running at a high rate of speed between Johannes- birg and Durban, on December 31, was thrown from the track and twenty-eight assengers were killed and twenty-three ipjured. Bl e Death of a Neted Sculplor. PARIS, Fraxce, Jan. 6.—Alfred Henri Marie Jacquemart, a well-known French sculptor, died last Saturday. He was born in Pars, February 22, 1824. He was a member of the Legion of Honor, His works are numerous. | RESCUED BY THE UITLANDERS, Dr. Jameson Reported to Have Escaped From Prison. STORY OF AN UPRISING, Sensational News From the Dise turbed Transvaal Not Yet Verified. ON THE WAY TO CAPE TOWN, England Said to Be Hastily Sending Troops to Help Out the Invaders. . NEW YORK, N, Y., Jan. 6.—A special cable to the Evening Sun from London says: The news from the Transvaal Republic, which the British Foreign Office has been suppressing, turns out to be of the most sensatioral description, The London Consul of the Transvaal Republic is authority for the statement that he has received a private dispatch from Johannesburg announcing that Dr, Jameson has been rescued by the Uitlanders. : The presumption is that a rising has oc- curred and that the Boers, who had the custody of Jameson and his men, have been overwhelmed. The same dispatch also states that the British Government is rushing troops to Cape Town. Twelve hundred soldiers left Bombay yesterday and more are to follow. -— DISCREDITED IN LONDON. Denial of the Story of the Rising Uitlanders. LONDON, ExG., Jan. 6.—Frequent and prolonged conferences have taken place throughout the day among Joseph Cham- berlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Ade miralty Department. General Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the British forces, and the entire headquarters staff busied themselves at the Horse Guaras until 8 late hour to-night. The Colonial Office has heard nothing of the alleged rising up of Uitlanders against President Kruger of the Transvaal repub- lic, nor have the authorities of that ofiice received any information that Dr. Jame- son has been rescued by the Uitlanders, Both reports are discredited by the colon= ial authorities. In regard to the report that the British Government is rushing troops into Cape Colony and the story that 1200 soldiers leit Bombay yesterday and more are to follow it is learned at the War Office that no troops have been specially ordered to the 3 The only transport ship conveying roops from Bombay is the steamer Vic- toria, which is bringing 1200 soldiers home from that place. The Victoria was ordered to call at Cape Town on her way home to learn if the men she has on board would be needed in Ashantee. The report that troops were being sent from Bombay to tne Cape undoubtedly originated in a misconception of the destination of the men on board the Victoria. The Central News says that it has been decided to land at Cape Town the 1200 troops who were recently ordered home from Bombay on the transport Victoria. The transport is due to arrive at Cape Town on January 16. Some of the soldiers are invalids while others are men whose time has expired. In an interview to-day Sydney Buxton, who was Parliamentary Secreta of the Colonial Office in Gladstone’s last admin- istration, said the Government wonld doubtless receive the ananimous support of the country in its policy in the Trans- vaal. He cited statements made by the late Government in the House of Commons, the purport of which was similar to those made by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, to the effect that the Government would adhere to its obligations under the con- vention of 1884, and would uphold that convention in all its provisions. The Times will publish to-morrow a dise pateh from Cape Town saying that Dr, Leyd, Secretary of State of the Transvaal, with a secret fund that was placed at his disposal, has floated a German coloniza- tion company, which will introduce 5000 German military settlers into the Transe vaal. The dispatch adds that President Krueger has stoppved food supplies from entering Johannesburg, The whole national reform committee has been ar- rested. Nobody is allowed to enter the Transvaal without a passport bearing the vise of President Krueger. On January 1, despite their own grieve ances, the Germans in Pretoria sent a cable dispatch to Emperor William through the German Consul impioring his Majesty to bring pressure to bear on England not to interfere in the Transvaal. A dispatch from Johannesburg, dated January 1, says that the German ana American residents of that city, after un- satisfactory interviews with the Govern- ment, joined the National Union cof Uitlanders, which is now a united body. e e RECOGNIZES INDEPENDENCE. Germany to Send a Resident Conasul to Pretoria. BERLIN, GerMANY, Jan. 6.—The Em- peror gave aundience to-day to Dr. Leyd, Secretary of State of the South African re- public. It is said that the Emperor promised Dr. Leyd that Germany would recognize tue independence of the Transvaal repub- lic by appointing a German resident Con- sul at Pretovia instead of a Consul, as heretofore, and also assured the Transvaal Secretary of State that the Trinle Alliance of {