The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1896, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 46. e PRIC E FIVE CENTS. WILL MANTAN SACRED RIGHTS, President Kruger's Policy in the Transvaal Republic. THE VOLKSRAAD MEETS. | Thanks Extended to Governor | Robinson and the Orange Free State, PRISONERS TO BE PROTECTED. Sécretary Chamberlain Gives Assur- ances as to the Treatment of Americans, PRETORIA, S The Volksraad me ized the addition A res nt was adopted nge Free State fo nd for which diffi- hts of the republic, me on a firmer and | n. the chambe: 1at the Orange F svaal at all tim st the con- ed existence of h South ca Company as being a danger to the of the co 1d that Rhodes under the British imy Government of Cape Color anded that g ntees be odesia would s0 d R —_—— ALL TO BE PROTECTED, | Americans to Receive the Same Attention as the Brit He | addition to | subjects to the in ac- of their John Hays | ted Press ians had | t Ham- | ted i mond, utters = glthough Hammond had t | C nians working for him, J.S. Curtisand T. H. King, the other Americans arrested. are from the Eastern part of the United States. Wiltz, who has just arrived here from the Transvaal, says that the lives and property of other Americans in Johannes- burg are in no danger. The Americans who were arrested, he said, did not belong to the reform union, and never took part in politics. The revolution in Johannesburg, he con- tinued, was an entirely peaceful one, and the only motive for it was the protection of the lives and property of the people of he Washington Government, , should make a strong protest st of the Americans. COMMISSION. English Warships Are Now Ready for Action. Jan. 14.—Tke cruisers arybdis of the new flying put into commission at this morning. The battle-ships d Royal Oak, the cruiser Gib- eral torpedo-destroyers were mmission at Portsmouth this Captain Curzon-Howe was as- d tothe command of the Revenge, uadron. Two thou- ibuted among the ExG. LONDOYN, Theseus were will be disf tish war vessels from Salon- ived at Malta. Their future ati is not known, but it is not ed that they will return to the iser Hermione and six torpedo- 3 were T into commission at Davenport dockyard this morning and 1 join the fiying squadron at Portland at once. —_— RAND MEN REMANDED. Two Reform Committeemen Charged With High Treason. LONDON, ExG., Jan. 14.—The Morning Post will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Cape Town, dated Monday, saying olomon Joel and Henry Bettelheim, prominent members of the Rand Reform > ittee, were arrested in Cape Town Saturday, and were charged before a Town magistrate on Monday with incitement to rebellion in the After presentation of the | formal evidence the prisoners were re- ded. —_— T0 RECEIFVE PRISONERS, Jameson's Party Will Be Turned Over to the British. LONDON, E , Jan. 14.—Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, tele- raphs that he has completed arrange- ts to receive from the Transvaal offi- Jameson and the members of who were captured by the Boers ners will be received at the Natal Germany Has Not Receded in the Trans- vaal Affairs. LIN, GerMaxy, Jan. 14.—The North Gazette publishes an official denial atements made in the press that xcuses in any form have been made by | Germany for her action in the Transvaal. The En.peror gave an audience to-day to BER Germal | the son of Baron von Schumann, the lately appointed German Consul at Cape Town. CHARLES BUTTERS’ CAREER., One of the Arrested Men a Graduate of the University. Car.,, Jan. 14.—Charles y he Americans imprisoned e Boers at Johannesburg, uth ca, is a former resident of Berkeley and a gradu Af fornia in the ss of '79. His wife wasa Miss Har harleston, 8. daughter of zilian Consul to Charleston. His mother is Mrs, 8. L. Butters of Tele- graph avenue, near Dwight way, and Mrs, R. Boone, w of President Boone of the Board of Education, 13 a sister. His brother, Harry Butters, returned to Berke- ley from South Africa a few months ago, and is at presentona v to his relatives here. Among his classmates at the university were Judge Slack, Judge Henshaw, Miss Anna Head of Berkeley and Judge Dain- gerfield. At the present time Mr. Butters 18 38 years of age. He came to Berkeley when a boy from Massachusetts, his native State. He graduated from the course in mining en- Continued on Second Page. CHARLES BUTTELRS, THE B ONE OF -THE CALIFORNIANS HELD IN CUSTODY BY OERS. | such false accusation, were to raise money = /e = e wCONGR AT W Y ) W CALIFORNIA TO CONGRESS — *SAVE ME FROM THESE WOLVES.” AID 1S T0 B SEAT, Turkey’s Tactics Cannot Shut Out Relief for | Armenians. GO0D WORK WILL GO ON., [ Funds Must Be Raised at Once to Save Thousands From Perishing, EXISTING AGENCIES TO BE USED. Objections That Will Not Prevent Assistance to the Persecuted Christians. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 14.—An offi- | cial statement has been issued from the arters of the National Armvenian Relief Committee, stating that the re- ported intention of the Turkish Govern- ment to refuse the American Red Cross permission to enter Turkey will not cause the National Armenian Relief Committee and its branches throughout the country | to relax their efforts for an instant in rais- ing funds to save the 350,000 Armenians who are perishing from starvation and ex- | posure. In case the Red Cross is excluded, the national committee has authority to util- | ize existing agencies on the ground or or- | ganize new ones, so that all contributors | may be assured that their gifts will, as | speedily as possible, reach the sufferers for | | | whom they are intended. —_— WHY A1D IS REFUSED., The Turkish Minister’s Attitude the Ked Cross Society. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—Mav- royeni Bey, the Turkish Minister to the | United States, has authorized the publica- tion of the foliowing siatement in regard | to the reported intentions of the Red Cross | Society: “You ask me,” said the Turkish Minis- ter, “what I have to say about the state- ment that the Ked Cross Society has de- cided not to pay any attention to the communication until it is officially trans- mitted to it by the Turkish Government | Toward | or the Turkish Minister. My answer is | very simple,and itis the following: The | Red Cross has never communicated with | ihis legation. It has only communicated | to my knowledge with the press and the public, its president, Miss Clara Barton, | assisting without protest at public meet- | ings where the most gross and unjust abuse was made of the Turkish Govern- ment, religion and race. As the Red Cross or any of its representatives never ! visited this legation it is clear and logical | that this legation has nothing to com- municate to said society. “This legation sent 1ts communication to the press because it is the vublic that the Red Cross took into its confidence, but naturally I will always be ready and pleased to give to the Red Cross Society any explanation it may think proper to ask for. “This whole question,” added the Minis- ter, “is a question of right. Suppose for one moment that - your own Indians were to revolt against your legitimate authority; suppose that you putdown their revpit, and suppose that in some foreign country some fforeigners; were to calumniate pub- lcly your civilization, your race and your religion. Not satisfied with that, suppose that these foreigners, on the strength of and bring it for distribution through their own channels, however respectable the the Armenmians and o | tacked Makale for the fifth time. latter may be, to the very people that re- volted against vour Government. “Would that money, raised on hatred and denunciation, would even a moral aid from foreigne:s be welcome to this great country of you however welcome might be for obv dians? As you see, this whole question is a very clear one, but I wish you at the same time to understand, even to-day, notwithstanding the contrary assurances of interested parties, the Turkish Govern- ment has no animosity whatever against , ishes to see them prosper under its legitimate and rightful authority.” s Rt i CLARA BARTON EXPLAINS. It Is Not the Red Cross Society That Turkey Opposes. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—Miss Clara BaFton, president of the Red Cross Society, after consideration of the emana- tions from the Turkish Government through its legation here, said to a re- porter this evening: ‘‘Yesterday a statement reached head- quarters that the Imperial Government of | Turkey would not permit any distribution among its subjects in its own territory by any foreign society or individuals, how- ever respectable the sam instance the Red Cros collected abroad. A careful perusal of the context of the statement will show that the Turkish Government is not antagon- istic to the Red Cross as such, which it recognizes as a part of its own treaty and for which in its statement it publicly ex- presses respect, but objects to ‘the distri- bution of foreign relief on entirely differ- ent grounds, neither in its power nor in ours to control.” —_— BOUT OF ABISSATANS, For the Fifth Time They Made an Unsuccessful Attack on Makale, | Deadly Fire of the Italian Garrison Into the Ranks of the Besiegers. ROME, Irary, Jan. i4.—Several papers here announce that Great Britain has agreed to cede to Italy the town of Zeila, on the Somali coast. The possession of this town would enable Italy to throw troops into the southern and central parts of Abyssinia without their having to make the long march from Massowah, the capi- tal of the Italian colony of Erythrea. A dispatch to the Capitale from Masso- wah says the Abyssinians yesterday at- The Italian garrison withheld their fire until the Abyssinians were in close quarters, | and then poured volley aiter volley into them with terrible effect. Just about the time the attack was made 4000 troops under Colonel Albertone arrived at Makale. They surprised the Abyssinians by attack- ing them on the flank and completely routed them. A column of 12,000 men under General Baratieri, tbe commander of the Italian forces in Erythrea, and another column 400 strong under Colonel Arimonde are nearing Makale, and it is expected that they will retire the siege at that place. LONDON, ExG., Jan. 14.—The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Rome stating that the Government has decided to thoroughly subdue the Abyssinians. Within the month of Jan- vary Italy will have 50,000 troops in Erythrea. S e s Mexican Officials Removed. CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico, Jan, 14.— Postmaster-General Francisco de P. Goch-. ico and many other officials were suddenly removed from office to-day. They are charged with malfeasance. S Hot Weather in Sydney. SYDNEY, . N. 8. W., Jan. 14.—The weather here to-day was the hottest on record and there were many deaths from sunstroke. it | us reasons to your In- | av be (as for | Society) of money | FOSTERS GOOD WILL, Interesting Meeting of the Arbitration League at London. l } FOR FUTURE DISPUTES. !iAn Important Resolution Relat- [ ing to the Venezuelan Controversy, PERMANENT COURT IS URGED. | Denial of the Story That England Offered Money to Sustain the Schomburg Line, LONDON, ExG., Jan.14.—A meeting of | the International Arbitration League was | held here to-day, Sir John Lubbock pre- { siding. A resolution was adopted declaring | that the dispute between the United States and Great Britain was a trumpet call to English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic, summoning them to devise means to secure the arbitration of future disputes and to procure co-operation in promoting . friendship and abating animosity. It was also suggested to the Government that the present was a fit occasion for | effecting the resolution of the House of Commons in favor of arbitration. A com- mittee was nominated, consisting of the Bishop of Durham, Canon Wilberforce, Cardinal Vaughan, Dean Farrar, Rey. Hugh Price Hughes, Lady Henry Somerset, Mr. Stead and others. The Daily News, commenting on the meeting, will to-morrow say: “The meeting is likely to mark a date in our history. Doubtless there would be difficulties in creating a permanent court of arbitration, one being the scope of refer- ence. It should be universal, but that isa very large order, yet if not so the first im- pulse of excited feeling on either side is to declare reference based on the particular subject of the excitement.” The News congratulates the meeting on its endeavor to promote mutual good will, which, it says, is of capital importance and a condition precedent to all effective legislation. In its issue to-morrow the Graphic will claim to have autkority to deny the report that Great Britain has offered money to Venezuela in return for the latter’s accept- ance of the Schomburg line as making the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, The story is denied else- where. et g EXCEEDED THEIR RIGHTS., Facts Relating to Aggressions of Eng- lishmen in Fenezuela. Seneca Hazelton, ex-Minister to Vene- zuela, has furnished the Free Press a state- ment regarding the boundary of Guiana, in which he gives certain facts not alto- gether familiar, bearing upon the point of legitimate jurisdiction over the territory at the mouth of the Orinoco River, now occupied by the British. He quotes from the works ot Robert Montgomery Martin, published in 1835-38, after about ten years’ travel and research, entitled ths “History of the British Colonies,” in the prepara- tion of which he had. the assistance of many public officials and numerous other gentlemen resident 1n England and the colonies, possessed of statistical, historical and geographical information bearing upon the subject of the work, 1n which the col- ony of British Guiana is carefully treated. Its western boundary is located some- ! where on the coast between the Pome- roon River and the Barima River. The o colony isfurther described as extending | babout 200 miles along the zoast westward #rom the Coventyn River, and so, by in- | ference, stopping considerably east of the | mputh of the Barima. The parish of Trinity, the most westerly of British | Ghiana, is described as extending to the | Pomeroon Riverand ‘“as far as the British | settlements extend.” | The author had apparently never heard | that any one -had claimed that British Guiana extended to the Amacoio. He de- | scribes the colony, it may be added, as | lying to the eastward of the sixiieth parallel of west longitude, a description | which very distinctly excludes Point | Barima. | In 1836-37 Mr. Martin was given access | to the “Blue Book” and to other official | sources of information, with a view to the | preparation of a work compassing the end | desired by the House of Commons. The | author's right to designate his work as | official was unquestioned and unquestion- | able. But in the “History of the Col- | onies of the British Empire,” published in | 1836, the boundaries of Western British . Guiana are again stated as in the earlier work. When Mr. Martin began his researches | not more than ten years had el. 1 since | the cession from Holland to and of the colonies which constitute British Guiana; and when the “History of the | Colonies of the British Empire’’ appeared but twenty-five years had passed since the | transfer of 1814. The actual extent of | Dutch occupation was to- Mr. Martin and to Sir Robert Kerr Porter a matter of com- paratively easy determination, and the dis- covery of new evidence of an unambi ous character is necessary to warrant a more extensive British claim at this day than was made in the years 1830 to 1840, The British right to the entire territory embraced within the Schomburgh line is, to put it mildly, open to serious question. The occupation in 1855 of Point Barima at the mouth of the Orinoco was on the face of it anact of aggression upon the tertitory of the American republic, and in view of the traditional ana well-known policy of this country, the 'refusal to submit the right of such occupation to the judgment of impartial arbitration cannot be re- garded but as an act of uniriendliness to the United States. Lord Salisbury did not in his reply to Secretary Olney refuse in precise terms to submit any territory within this Schomburgh line to arbitra- tion, and the way to an impartial deter- mination of existing British rights seems yet open. s - NO ANSWE AT ALL, Comment of the Chronicle on the ¥ Dis- covered ” Correspondence. LONDON, Exc., jan. 14.—In its issue to- morrow the Daily Chronicle referring to the statement circulated by the Chicago Associated Press anent the correspondence | in January, 1842, between Lord Aberdeen | and Senor Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister to Great Britain, will say: | “If this is intended as an answer to the } disclosures made by our commissioner to Washington, Henry Norman, ‘# is no answer at all. - Phe ‘reservation in regard | to the undefined British rights in Dutch | Guiana represents no kind of contention in favor of the Schomburg line. Lord Aberdeen abandoned that line and agreed to remove the posts. Hedeclared they did not represent any claim to dominion. He | made no reservation regarding it.” The Chronicle’s article refers to a letter | communicated to it by the Chicago Asso- ciated Press purporting to give the con- tents of a letter written by Lord Aberdeen | to Senor Fortique, a letter to which the Chronicle has already alluded in its articles on the Venezuelan disputes and which was mentioned several daysago in the dispatches to the United Press. The letter in question contains Lord Aber- deen’s assurance to Senor Fortique that, | in order to meet the wishes of Venezael the Governor of Guiana would be directed | to remove the posts marking the Schom- burg line near the Orinoco River. ONLY THREE ESCAPED, | Portuguese Troops Slaughtered on the Malabar Coast. LISBON, PorruGAr, Jan. 14, — The | Government has received advices from the Portuguese territory of Goa, on the Mala- bar coast of India, that a band of in- surgents surprised and slaughtered 100 Portuguese troops & few days ago, The | attack took place while the troops were | passing through a narrow defile, where tne | rebellious natives were lying in ambush. The Portuguese force numbered 103 men, and of these only three escaped. | been " des | fund, and other offic | will not be allowed to i | he probably LOMEL'S FORCES ARE REPULSED, An Attack Made on the Town of Bejucal, Near Havana, DEFEATED BY REGULARS During the Retreat the Cubans Set Fire to Houses and Destroy a Train, |RELIEF FOR THE PLANTERS. General Campos Subscribes a Big Sum and Other Officials Are Liberal, HAVANA, Cusa, Jan. 14.-~The rebel force, under command of Maximo Gomez, attacked the town of Bejucal, fifteen miles south of Havana, but were repulsed by the Government troops. Before they retired the insurgents set fire to several houseson the outskirts of the town. They also set fire to the r way station, but the flames were ex- tinguished. A passenger train was destroy the fighting the troops lost two ten wounded, known. Owing to the disturbed condition of the country through which the railways pass and the danger of attack by the in- s no trains are being dispatched in irection. The authorities here have started a popular subscription for the re- lief of plantation people whose crops have troyed by rebels. The s d. In lled and The insurgent loss is un- General Campos subscribed als also subscribed liberally. Thousands of people whose homes have been destroyed are flocking into the cities, In order to avoid creating alarm among the people of Havana, the newspapers have been notified by the zuthorities that they sue extras, I8 CAMPOS DEMENTED? Rathey Startling Story Received by @ Tobacconist. BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 14.—Startling in- formation has been received from a reliable source in Havana by a prominent Cuban tobacco dealer here, whose interests in the island forbid the use of his name. “There is a general opinion,” says his correspon- dent, ‘‘both among insurgents . and Spaniards that General Campos has become demented. His actions, not only in the | direction of the campaign, but his private and ordinary doings are such as to give good grounds for the belief that he has become an imbecile. “General Gomez has no idea of attack- ing Havana, but his plan is to cut off the city’s supplies, and by the aid of the sym- hizers capture the city from within, ere is no doubt that fully half of the ens and populace are Cuban patriots and sympathizers, and the prisons are crowded with prominent and high officials under suspicion, “‘America needs a warship or two in Havana bharbor. Americans are thor- oughly detested by the Spaniards. A great deal of American property has been destroyed, and .1f Campos is deposed, as will be, and some of his bioody lieutenants are appointed to com- mand, terrible atrocities will be committed upon Americans, The situation is seri- ous.” FORCES By P OF INSURGENTS. They Claim to Have a Well- Equipped Army. NFW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 14.—The Her- ald’s correspond in Camaguey, Cuba, says: Mario G. Menocal istant Secre- ' tary of War of the insurgents, in an inter. BURLINGTON, Vr., Jan. 14. — Hon. | A BRITISH DEFEAT — ENGLISH TROOPS FLEEING BEFORE THE VICTORIOUS BOERS AT MAJUBA HILL, FEBRUARY 27, 1881. [Reproduced from the London Illustrated News.]