The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 1

Call « VOLUME LXXIX SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1896_TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE ; FIVE CE WAR CLOUDS OF THE WORLD, England Making Overtures for Peace With France. SPLITTING UP OF SIAM. Concessions of Greater Importance Than Those Asked in Venezuela. AMAZEMENT AT THE KAISER. Britons Gasp Over What They Consider | the Cool Impudence of Ger- | many’s Ruler, oy the New York Times. Jan, el on ave passed away. ha: her insy £ of 1ce keeps banging whenever riated the ance would ument the report it he is coming mer, quite as ience of this proposition 1 attention upon a stor; appearance of veracit 1 1894, while Emperor W nug the Prince of Wales, | yacht ht, a telegram w brought i tion m and he jumped on a c napkin and sho are in trouble.’ It is understood that something like this did heppen, and: people here, turning it i over in their minds, feel that it will be im- possible for that young man to come here Some papers hint openly that at table and then says and | dible things, but the pub- elieve that he 1s a malignant re of popular antipathy nnoun between the French a 1 English in air, waved his | “Hurrah, at last you | sible evidence that Lord | ng to use the German | understanding with » week has not brought much e obscure and jpxalved Overtures to French il fill nglish v and obviously in- a smile on Parisian signs that the idea is ed nevertheless. e next few sensationally out the the poor ce the | d + which | could net well b n merce- nary groun ing up | er con- | , and served Ge marily sought to 1 of France to the interest of nal combination of fi a hint now that the se pers has put the evic > the hands of the French G that at the appropriate d moment there will be a disclosure which will not only startle France bu explosion of popular fury Already the anti-Semitic French king plainly about this, and though other papers still guardedly ob- serve their rule of saying nothing which | can offend the Jewish banking world, they be driven from their reserve if all one | about Rosenthal’s connections are a huge It is not a mere chance that all these | blackmailing journalists and politicians who are in prison or on the threshold of on, and who have been doing some- thing to down the French animosities toward Germany, haye been most violent and persistent traducers of England. It is plain enough that the Anglo- phobia of the Parisian press in recent years has been deliberately incited and paid for, and great hopes are being built here on the belief that the French people must realize this at last, and in their rage at swindlers and traitors who have been managing this anti-English crusade will turn again to English friendship. Per- haps it would be better if these hopes were more prudently moderated. Deloncle’s colonial group is still a powerful race to bully the Chamber of Deputies, and seri- ous papers like Le Temps and Le Journal des Debats still Jend themselves to its de- termined fight against allowing France and England to become reconciled. They ze now upon England’s remarkable cession of territory on the Mekong not as a gracious act, but as a proof that Eng- land is in a cowardly mood, which France ought to utilize to get also the Niger, Egypt and whatever else she fancies. Whether these people can intimidate Bourgeois and Berthelot next week or over- throw them 1 the Chamber of Deputies is a nervously important problem. Per- haps they may, unless thatYumored reve- lation of who'is really behind jthe colonial group and its journalistic pirates is forth- coming. ga grave complica- | is England’s sole concern, at least on the surface, in the continental policy. On all sides old alliances seem to be melting away, possibilities of new and strange combinations are rising out of a flood, and literally no one knows what the morrow may bring forth, but England has no Em- bassador at St. Petersburg, and does not | intend sending one tili March, which lenas color to the suspicion that the Czar and the Kaiser have established a partnership which it is useless to try to upset. Cecil Rhodes is actually at sea racing homeward to begin the ficht for the char- tered company before Parliament meets. English attention will be speedily concen- trated on the domestic aspect of this great upheaval. As matters stand to-day it is thought probable that a majority could be Hou found in th 2 of Commons for re- voking the ch. altogether. What the feeling will be a month hence it is difficult tosay. Tnus far these queer people have been sble to keep quite distinct their ven- eration for Jameson and their enthusiasm for Chamberlain. These two emotions, flatly contradicting each other, have ex- isted, 50 to spe; 1 the water-tight com- partments side by side, but when Rhodes appears on the scene it is obvious that he cannot a National hero unless Chamber- lain worshiplis to be abandoned. The latter evidently within boundstheother day when he warned a cheering Birmingham owd that his work was by no means 1ded yet. His tight with Rhodes and the whole tremendous social and financial South African combination behind him will strain him to the very utmost. If he emerges victorious he will be indeed a great man. The story that the real destination of the new special-service squadron is to be Bere muda seems to have originated in the gossip of the naval clubs, and though I can learn nothing definite I am told by official friends that it will be pretty safe to redit it. Public opinion here would regard the discovery that such a step had been ordered as nothing short of & na- tional calamity. The sveeches of Balfour 1d Ridley have been gladly accepted as official assurances from this side, as Olney’s action in placing the Americans in tne wa e | Transvaal under British protection seems to be from the other, that an amicable settlement is no longer doubtful. To be compelled to revise this opinion would make everybody angry. It Lord Salisbury can abandon the whole valuable Mekong Valley and actually withdraw British garrisons from it to please France he surely cannot ask Parlia- ment or country to support himina quarrel with America about an ininitely | smaller matter in which not even eifectual possession can be proved. flying But where the squadron is to go when the admiral | gets his sealed orders at Beechaven re- mains an entire mystery. It would serve | no purpose to retail :he various specuia- | tions, for they are all equally guesswork. The whole world war outlook is so ct us- ly Ived and unsettied that it is hard invol telling which one of a dozen points these ships are liable to be needed most at when spring opens. The opinions to whicn I am disposed toattach the most impartance look for them to turn up in Chinese waters, but these may be quite wrong. Six weeks ago, of course, such an ex- pectation would have been referred by everybody to the Levantine trouble; now the impression that England has drawn neck and crop out of that particular im- broglio is so general that nobody thinks of suggesting that this squadron may be for use there. This impression is greatly | strengthened by the withdrawal of the British Mediterranean fleet from Salonica. One division is coming back to Malia, the other it going down for police duty in the vicinity of the Aleppo. But it is well to remember that John Bull is not incapable on occasion of a certain amount of guile, and it may easily be that his ostensible abandonment of the Armenians to their fate is designed to throw others off their guard v vigorously than =ver. The celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the foundation of the German empire to-day was purely an affair of princes and generals. The public has been offered no part in it, no newspaper- | men have been admitted to witness any phase to the court festivities, and even the ordinary stand for spectators, always here- tofore vermitted in front of the opera- house, to witness the review of troops, was o-day forbidden. Nothing could better llustrate the despotism that the imperial govertment has made during the past year or the width of the gulf now sepa- rating it from vopular sympathy and in- terest. Itistrue that a large number of victims of the recent Oriental enforcement of tl perial clemency in an effort to get the peo- ple to think that they are associated with the anniversary, but the act has been coldly received. The fact that the Socialist organ, the Vorwaerts, when able yesterday to print the decree which the Kaiser was religiously saving up as to-day’s surprise is by far the most significant of & long series of proofs that the aaministration is filled with men who secretly sympath ize with the Social { Democrats and are willing to run terribie isks to provide them with the most confi- dential secrets of tne varnods ministers. It used to be suspected that the printers did this and thorough precautions were taken to render that impossible, but the menacing leak goes on just the same. It is not unlikely thatthe Authors’ Soci- ety will o to pieces in the course of the furious impending fight over the celebrated address to American brethren. One gathe ers in the papers that Hall Caine wrote it, and Besant and Conway approved; but it seems that the committee or council of the society was not consulted, and every un- known hack writer in the land who has been able to buy a Hall msrk of literary genius for his or her guinea subscription is aching to come up to London for a gen- eral meeting and make a fuss about it. Christina Rossetti’s hitberto unknown poems, published to-day, are much larger in bulk and more important than had been supposed. The volume of nearly 400 pages contains much which her devotees treasure as equal to her best, and some few things which will probably win her new admirers. Henry Arthur Jones’ ambitious “Michael and Lost Angel” challenges and receives voluminous credit in the discussion in type, but Marion Terry, as it turns out, has not had her great chance after all. The innate deviltry of the female part Mrs. Patrick Campbell might have made wonders of if she had gone on with it is quite beyond the grasp of the other, whose great talents are limited by her womanly sweetness and tenderness. Forbes Rob- ertson, too, gives Michael such an This effort to make friends with France icy, Calvinistic twist that, between them, he prepares to interfere more | ese majeste laws have received im- | THE ANGEL OF THE CLOUDS. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. —SHELLEY. the improbability of the story is forced on the spectator’s mind throughout. There appears to be much feeling in some cleri- | cal circles about the propriety of the church scene, but this hardly likely to damage the box receipts, which are said to be very promising. As a corollary of the recent debate about abuses of the judicial machinery here ana increasing costly processes, it is noted that only fifty-one students are to be called to the bar this term from all the four inns of court, whereas for many years past the annual number has been close on a hun- | dred. This discouragement of barristers |is matched by the despondency among solicitors, who find that courts are dis- posed to exert much more vigilance in watching their practices and take a hostile view of their little games, which formerly was undreamed of. Twice this week a judge, when asked to adjourn a case be- cause the solicitor in charge was engaged on another case elsewhere, ordered that the solicitor himself should bear the ex- pense of the delay, and the mere thought of this becoming a general precedent fills all attorneys with dismay. Emperor William, unwarned by experi- ence with Koch’s tuberculosis fantasy, had Professor Roentgen to rush from Wurzburg to Potsdam to. give an illus- rated lecture to the royal family un his alleged discovery of how to photograph the invisible, and bestowed on him the order of the crown, the samesecond-classdecora- tion that poor Koch got, but it is already found that this discovery was not only made by & Prague professor in 1885, who got an admirable photograph of Mount Blanc at midnight by the use of cathodic rays, but a full report of the achievement was made to the Austrian Academy of Sci- ences in 1885. An announcement was made to-day which threatens to knock the whole un- derpinning from the structure of bardic antiquity on which the Eisteddfod is built. Professor Morris Jones, who, next to Rhys, is the -most weighty authority on Cymrie literature, publishes the fact that he has become convinced that the whole institution of Gorsedd, which purports to maintain an unbroken tradition of cere- monial ritual even to vestments from Druidic times, is a gigantic and deliberate imposture perpetrated in the sixteenth century by Glamorganshire bards in order to justify their provincial revolt against the then National Eisteddfod. Henry Somerset, son of Lady Henry and her heir presumptive of the dukedom of Beaufort, who is well known in America, is to be married Thursday to the daughter of the Duke of St. Albans, and the event will be marked by a public welcome of the young couple in the market place of Reigate, where an address is to be pre- sented. Such ceremonies are common still in more feudal rural parts, butisa rare occurrence in a large, almost subur- ban town like Reigate. Harorp FrEDERIC. An Arvtist Decorated. PARIS, France, Jan. 18.—The American artist, Cecelia Wentworth, has received the decoration of Officier de la Academie. the dechine of litigation from dread of its | AMERICANS 70 Given to Secretary Olney. ‘The State Department Will See That the Accused Men Are Tried Fairly. COAST SENATORS INTERESTED. Consular Representatives Instructed to Watch the Cases of Hammond and Others. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.—-No tele- gram has been received from President Cleveland from Governor Budd of Cali- fornia, but Senator White to-day trans- mitted to Secretary Olney a telegram that he received from the Governor late last night, requesting that every effort be used to protect Californians now incarcerated at Pretoria. Senator Dubois of Idaho and Represen- tative Catchings of Mississipni also called on Secretary Olney to-day. Duabois went in behalf of V. H. Clement, formerly of Idaho, and Representative Catchings is in- terested in the weifare of John Hays Ham- mond and wife. Mrs. Hammond was a Miss Harris of Mississippi, and her rela- tives and friends there are alarmed for the safety of Hammond and his wife. They have written and wired Catchings to exert every influence at the State Department. Senator Dubois said to THE CaLL corre- spondent to-night: “mr. Catchings and [ saw Secretary Olney at noon to-day. He assured usthat everything had been done that could be to insure the protection of all Americans arrested. Of course he could not give us any assurance that they would not be pun- ished if found guilty of aiding, abetting or participating in a conspiracy or rebellion. The most he can do is to see that the prisoners are not maltreated during their incarceration and that they are givena fair trial. “1 do not believe that, if found guilty, l they will be severely punished. Tley may BE PROTECTED, \Governor Budd's Telegram | | the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines, two PRISONERS AT PRETORIA | | be fined, but the possibility of a worse punishment is a very remote possibility. 1 am satisfied the State Department has done and is doing everything in its power. They have cabled our consular representa- tives at Johannesburg and Cape Town, and both have acknowledged receipt of these cable’s instruction, but as yet have sent nothing definite in the shape of news. I am particularly interested in the case of V. H. Clement, who was one of our promi- nent Idaho citizens, being interested in of the biggest and best mining properties in our State.” Senator White said: “‘There is absolutely nothing now to be said. The department has cabled its con- sular agents, and_is waiting for more ex- tended reports from them. I transmitted Governor Budd’s telegram to Secretary Olney to-day, Perkins and I are taking an active interest in the welfare of the Californians arrested, and we are con- fident that Mr. Olney will do all that he can.” It has been reported here that Secretary Olney was much vexed because he did not hear from Consular Agent Manion at Johannesburg, and Consul Knight at Cape Town, and that bhe had reprimanded the former and was contemplating sending Knight to Pretoria. These reports are erroneous. Olney has heard from the Con- suls, who briefly acknowledged the receipt of the cablegrams. The cable tolls are so high that Secretary Olney does not expect or wish to hear full reports by wire, having every confidence that the American and British Consuls will jointly do everything possible for the imprisoned men of both countries. prlticihs ot oo CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY. The Boer Government May Make a Rich Haul. LONDON, Excraxn, Jan. 18.—Experts in the law of the South African republic | concur in the belief that if the penalties for treason are enforced in full the Boer Government will make a rich haul through the confiscation of property of those who are convicted of that crime. Among those arrested is Lionel Phillips, who is the registered holder of Rand shares to the amount of £1,250,000. Calculations based on the knowledge of the prop- erty of the other prisoners show that the total money value of the property liable to confiscation is £14,000,- 000. The clemency shown by the Boers to Dr. Jameson and the other raiders is sus- pected to cover their intention to keep their grip on the better spoil. The fortune of Cecil Rhodes, the ex- Prime Minister of Cape Colony, is esti- mated at £7,000,000. Besides coming to England to defend the interests of the British South Africa Company, in which he is the ruling spirit, and of Dr. Jame- sou, Rhodes is concerned in a project for the purchase from Portngal of Delagoa Bay, East Africa, by an English syndicate. Portugal will be tempted by an offer of £12,000,000. In the meantime the hand of the British Government, which cannot now be seen in the deal, will be disclosed | if Portugal consents to dispose of the ter- ritory in question. TRANSVAAL POPULATION. The Boers Are in Power, but in the Minority. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 18.—A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Berlin says: To supplement the information tele- graphed Thursday, on the authority of Winterfeld, Consul-General of the Trans- vaal in this city, Dr. Leyds gives the fol- lowing statistics of the relative proportions of the Boer and the Uitlander population in the Transvaal : The Transvaal Secretary of State says: “An official dispatch just received from Pretoria tells me that the figures at the last election—in 1891—record 14,971 valid votes out of a total voting register of 21,- 237. Burghers who have a full franchise number 22,628, ' “Of the total number of white inhabi- tants of the Transvaal 75,720 are Uitland- ers. Of these 41,445 are British subjects and 34,445 are other foreigners and 439 are Americans. The number of Boer com- batants is placed at 25,457, all mounted and well armed. “The Transvaal Government will bestow the franchise upon all Uitlanders who have remained loyal to the Government in the case of the last Kaffir war. Cecil Rhodes is well aware of the electoral statistics and deliberately lied in giving numbers at variance with the above.” Dr. Leyds underwent an operation by Dr. Fraencel on Thursday. SANTA ROSA. Career of J. 8. Curtis, the Arrested Min- ing Engineer. SANTA ROSA, CaL.,, Jan. 18.—J. Curtis, the mining engineer under arrest in Johannesburg, South Africa, is well known in this city. Mr. Curtis married Miss Rose Behmer of this city several years ago and left here to accept a posi- tion as a mining engineer with a wealthy German syndicate in South Africa. After serving the -syndicate for several years Mr. Curtis resigned to engage in mining upon his own account and soon accumulated a fortune. As he isa gradu- ate of a German university and has always favored German institutions, his relatives here are at a loss to account for his arrest and imprisonment by the Boers, but at- tribute it to his well-known friendship for John Hays Hammond. In a recent letter to a brother-in-law here Mr. Curtis said that he intended returning to this country soon, but said nothing of any political trouble in the Transvaal. S RS CAPTURE OF BANDITS. The Leader Killed and Four Placed Be- hind Bars. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 18.—It develops that the four bandits arrested at Cedar City yesterday were the train-rob- bers who held up the Missouri Pacific train and robbed the crew of $500 on Thurs . Yesterday six robbers appeared at Cedar City and attempted to run the town. The leader was shot and killed and four were arrested. They were brought here and. jailed, and this morning were removed to the jail at Fulton. e it HAVE A PRECEDENT. Treatment of Jameson Compared to the Fenian Cases. LONDON, ENs., Jan. 18. — The law papers here adduce the treatment accorded the prisoners taken during the Fenian s, | raid into Canada as a precedent for the treatment of Dr. Jameson and his com- panions in the Transvaal raid. They say that the prisoners ought to be tried by the ordinary courts of England. As no in- demnity was demanded from the United States because of the Fenian raid so no indemnity should be paid to the Trans- vaal. CONFESSED WHILE DYING A Bank Cashier Told the Presi- dent That He Was a Defaulter. In Restitution He Turned Over Heavy Insurance Policies on His Life. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 18.—George F. Murphy, late cashierof the Citizens’ Bank of St. Louis, died last Saturday night. A morning paper will make the state- ment to-morrow that Mr. Murphy, a few hours before his death, called to his bed- side J. B. C. Lucas, president of the bank, and announced himself a defaulter, and turned over insurance polices .on his life for $10,000 in restitution. An attorney for President Lucas, it is averred to-day, notified Murphy’s execu- tor that he had been assigned the policies as trustee. —-— LOU. IS8 SELECTED. Populists Will Hold Their Convention n Zhat City. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 18.—The executive committee of the Populist National Com- mittee met at 9 o’clock to-night in closed session, and, after deliberating an hour, announced the selection of St. Louis as their choice for the National convention, which meets July 22. Itis explained that this unexpected action was brought about by the pressure of all the cities seeking the convention to have the watter settled at once. ST. SURRLTSEY P Death of & Noted Miner. NEW YORK,N. Y., Jan. 18.—A Trib- une special from Youngstown, O., says: Charles D. Arws died yesterday afternoon at his home in this city, aged 70 years. He had been largely identified with the iron and coal industry of Eastern Ohio for over forty years, and was one of the wealthiest men in this part of the State. He had been largely interested for many yearsaiso in gold and silver mining in Colorado, Ari- zona, New Mexico, Idaho and Washing-. ton, his interests being especially large in the richest mines of the Aspen district. A widow and six children survive him. T Cowen to Succeed Mayer. BALTIMORE, Mp., Jan. 18.—It was rumored on the street late to-night that Congressman John K. Cowen, chief coun- sel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, had been selected as the successor of Charles F. Mayer, president of the com- pany. It is impossible to get anything official to-night. e Diamond Merchants Assign. CINCINNATI, Omuio, Jan. 18.—Gustave Fox & Ce., diamond merchants, assigned to-day. The liabilities are $35,000; assets $25,000. The firm expects to resume busi- ness, | | ENGLAND'S MOVE NOT UNEXPECTED, Indicated by the Placing of Coal and Stores at St. Lucia. CRUISE OF THE FLEET. Speculation as to the Destinas tion of the British Flying Squadron, THE SIGNIFICANT STEPS TAKEN Vessels of the United States Navy Being Made Ready for a Counter Demonstration. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.—No offi- cial information has been received by the Washington Government of the report that the British flying squadron is destined for Mediterranean waters. This much and no more 1s given out from official sources. The first intimation that the possible destination of the fleet might be the West Indies came more than a week ago in the shape of information that the British were placing large supplies and other stores in their fortified naval ion at St. Lucia, near the Venezuelan coast, as men- tioned in The United Press dispatches ag the time. While the Naval Department seemingly paid little attention to the story, it is sig- nificant that steps were taken about tie same time by the department to ascertain how quickly the coast defense monitors Miantonomah, Terror and Mo could be made ready for servic was followed by orders di these vessels be fitted for in commission without dela, pected that the last of them, the unfinished Terror, will be equipped in about two months. There is some talk around the Navy De- partment of the necessity for calling buck to America the commerce destrover Min- neapolis and the cruiser San Francisco, leaving the cruiser Marblehead to attend to the interests of American missionaries in the Sultan’s possessions. Nothing offi- cial in this matter can be obtained. Meéanwhile the North Atlantic squadron of evolution, under Rear-Admiral Bunce, is lying st Hampton Roads, Va., awaiting orders to practice evolutions. The squadron is growing to quitea formid- able size, and, in addition to the New York, Columbia, Raleigh and Maine, may be said to contain the battleship Indiana, which, while not formally attached to it, isIying in Hampton Roads. and the bate tle ship Texas, which will be repaired at Norfolk without delay if it be in the power of the repairers to set that unlucky ship on its sea legs. SCOUTED AS ABSURD. But AU the Same the Ships May Go to Venezuela. LONDON, Ex6., Jan. 18.—Tne destina- tion of the fiying squadron recently ase sembled has caused much discussion in this city. The rumor that the ships had been ordered to Bermuda is laughed at by naval officials, who say 1t there has never been any intention to make such a demonstration on the American side of the Atlantic. Tt is hinted that the flying squadron will be heard of in Delagoa Bay before it will in the Bermudas. It pointed oul that there are enou NEW TO-DAY. 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