The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1896, Page 3

| | | \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1896. ASONS SEND A PLEA TO OLNEY, Endeavoring to Establish Communication With Hammond. ASK FOR ASSISTANCE. Messages To and From Ameri- cans in Transvaal Believed to Be Intercepted. PRISONERS GRANTED COUNSEL, The Secretary of State' Replies to the Letter From California’s Delegation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 26.—Senator White of California, who has been active in behalf of John Hays Hammond, the American engineer under arrest in the Transvaal, called upon Secretary Olney vesterday, urging prompt action in the case by the United States. After the de- parture of Senator White the cable mes- sage from Consular Agent Manion at Johannesburg was received. Secretary Olney then dictated a letter to the Senator, acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the California dele- zation and also calling attention to the Manion dispatch. The letter was as fol- lo M. White, Ihave the honor to acknowledge receipt of a letter of the 24th inst. signed by yourself and the rest of the California dele- gation in Congress. Y u will obtain thfough ‘the papers by the ime this letter reaches you the latest informa- tton I have from the Transvaal relating to Americans recently arrested there. I under- stand the Americans are all amply represented by counsel of their own selection. Itappears the preliminary examination of the Americans is to take place toward the end of this month. The question of additional counsel may, 1 therefore be left until the results of the ary hearings are known and the themselves express some opinion . You will observe by another can prisoners paroled, Hammond, are ailowed Respectfully yours, RICHAED OLNEY. The Masons of California have taken a a general effort to establish com- munication between John Hays Ham- mond and his brother in San Francisco. cnse to a suggestion from members of the Masonic order all over the country, of which order the imprisoned ning engineer is a member. The steps ken are shown in the following telegram, exception of e telegraph. R ich was received in this city Saturday: NEVapa Cr v. CAL., Janusry 2 tary of State, Was nd and other Masons are 1soned in Africa. Believe all messages to 1 from there sre intercepted by the Boer Will you secure assurance that gram will be délivered to them? We o communicate with them &s American ens and Masons. Your answer by wire pre- d. E. M. PRESTON. Grand Master of Masons of California. A copy?of this message was also sent to Senator Perkins. ———— ASK FOR A CONSUL. Americans in Pretoria Send a Request to Secretary Olney. LONDON, Exg., Jan. 26.—The Times 1 to-morrow publish a dispatch from Pretoria, capital of the South African re- public, saying that a meeting of Amenri- cans was held Saturday, at which it was decided to cable to Secretary Olney re- questing, in view of the arrest of American izens and the fact that their property is in danger, that a diplomatic agent be sent to the Transvaal to protect their interests. The Americans are friendly toward the Transvaal Government, but they desire that their grievances be redressed. e APPROVE THE SPEECH. Chamberlain’s Utterances Sanctioned by the Press of London. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 26.—All the morn- ing papers here will to-morrow express their approval of the speech delivered Saturday night by the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Jolonies, at the dinner of the Birmingham welers and Silversmiths’ Association, The Standard will say it thinks that Mr. Chamberlain makes a somewhat optimis- tic estimate of the feeling in the United States toward Great Britain. The Chronicle will say that Mr. Cham- berlain’s admission that Great Britain does not wish an inch of territory in America beyond what she already rightfully pos- sesses, means that she formally accepts the Monroe doctrine. s FOR RUSSIA NAVY. Nearly Sixty Million Rubles to Be Ex- pended in Seven Years. ST. PETERSBURG, Russi, Jan. 26.— The Czar has given his sanction to the naval estimates, covering a period of seven years beginning 1n 1896, when 57,- 500,000 rubles will be appropriated for naval purposes. The nigures are fixed in proportion to the amounts expended on their naval forces by other powers. SRS Call Upon Fenezuela to Pay. LONDON 6., Jan. 26.—The Stan- dard’s Berlin correspondent telegraphs confirming the report that the German Minister at Caracas has delivered to the Venezuelan Government a note demand- ng, on behalf of the German capitalists { sharcholders in the Venezuelan Rail- Company, payment for the construc- 1 of the railw HEALUSBURG WHEELMEN. They Meet and PDecide to Build a New Picycle Track. HEALDSBURG, Car., Jan. 26.—At a g of the Healdsburg Wheelmen held 1ight it was decided to at once com- nce work on the building of a new ycle track. The club hasa membership f ~ixty and is in a most flourishing condi- tion. -— NO RACING AT SARATOGA. Summer DMeeting at the ¥Famous Old Course Declared Off. ~ NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 26.—The Re- corder says: Asa result of the failure of the Saratoga Racing Association to accept the dates alloted by the Jockey Club, there United States Senate—MY matter it was decided that the proposed meeting should be declared off. This resolve was stated in a resolution in which the association states that it was unfairly dealt with by the Jockey Club in the matter of dates, and failing to secure a reconsideration of the matter had no alter- native but to declare the meeting.off rather than risk a heavy loss. AL deaal o DOUGLAS WILL ATTEND, Queensberry’s Son Applies for a Bow at the El Paso Roped Arena. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 26.—Dan Stuart received a telegram from Sacramento, Cal., to-day asking if a box could be re- served for Lord Shoito Douglas, son of the, Marquis of Queensberry. Stuart replied to his lordship: ‘‘As the glove contests will all be under the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry, it will not be inappropriate for his son to be at the ring-side. Box asked for awaits your pleasure.” Lord Sholto Douglas is said to have in his possession the original parchml’nluflofl Which the Marquis of Queensberry had the fighting rules engrossed. T e CHESS MATCH BY CABLE. Americans and Englishmen to Contest for a Trophy. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 26.—Articles were signed yesterday for a cable chess match to be played between the United States of America and the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland on March 13 and 14 on eight boards for a trophy of the value of $500, presented by Sir George Newnes, baronet, president of the British Chess Association of London. The American team is to play under the auspices of the Brook!yn Chess Club and the Britishers under the auspices of the British Chess Club. . Lumber Dealers Attached. BRUNSWICK. Ga., Jan. 26.—William D. Cartright & Co., the largest lumber and cross-tie dealers of the Southeast, closed their establishment last evening under attachments aggregating over $15,000. The liabilities are estimated at $200,000. Their annual business here amounted to $500,000. The creditors are in New York and else- where. PHILI® APLEY 1S DEAD He Won Fame As a Correspon- dent During the War of the Rebellion. A Single Friend Left to Claim the Remains of the Veteran Writer. NEW YORK. N. Y., Jan. 26.—Philip Ripley, at one time possibly one of the most widely known newspaper men in the country, died shortiy before midnight last night ac the Bellevue Hospital. The deceased whas in his 69th year. He was born in Hartiord, Conn., and was educated at Trinity School in that place. Shortly after his graduation he started in the newspaper business and was first em- ployed by Washington journals. ‘When the war broke out he was detailed to New Orleans as war correspondent for a half-dozen most prominent newspapers in the country. He is said to have furnished the most authentic accounts of the battles of the rebellion. Several years after the war he came to New York, and since then had been em- spapers 1n this city. ted with all the ola- time newspaper men, notably Horace Greeley, and for a period of years wrote the famous editorials which were printed over the name *‘Hurlburt.” There is no one now to claim his re- mains, as faras is known, but a minister of Connecticus Before Ripley died he told his physician to send word to Rev. Mr. Starr, Newington Junction, Hartford County, Conn., which was done. The cause of his death was Bright's disease. TURNFEST AT SANTA CRUZ The Convention of Verein Dele- gates Decides Upon the Place of Meeting. Strong Funding Bill Resolution Adopted will be no racing at the famous old course this summer. The executive committee held a meeting last night at the office of the association and after a careful consideration of the and Presented to Mayor Sutro. SBANTA CRUZ, CaL., Jan. 26.—The next annual turnfest of the Turn Vereins of the Pacific turn district will be held in Santa Cruz. There was no opposition to the mo- tion made by R. Rieger, who presented the wishes of the local verein ana the citizens. 1t was conceded that Santa Cruz is enti- tled to the honor, and as the Car- nival Association had offered the free- dom of the pavilion and appurtenances the event will be held in August, the date to be set by the executive committee. The convention was called to order by the retiring first speaker, Charles Schmidt, at 11 o’clock this- morning and proceeded immediately to thé election of officers for the ensuing year, resulting as follows: I.. Markns of San Francisco, first speaker; H. Otter of San Jose, second speaker; R. Mueller of San Francisco, secretary; 0. H. Hartig of S8acramento, assistant secretary. The business of the Turn Verein con- vention after the selection of Santa Cruz as the place for holding the next Turn fest was devoted to the election of commit- tees, The next convention will be held at Marysville in January next. The first woman delegate ever allowed a vote in the Turn Verein convention in the State, Mrs. P. Schweirer, was greeted with loud cheers when her name was called. The enthusiasm over the selection of Santa Cruz as the place of holding the Turnfest has reached the banquet hall to-night and both deiegates and citizens are enjoying a delightful time despite the fuct that a hard rain is falling. San Jose %erein elected the executive body and San Francisco the technical body. The following resolution was adopted unanimously: Resolved, That the funding of the Pacific Raiiroad debt bill, at present befors Congress, be not made Jaw, but that the railrond comp nies be required 1o pay their debts, and if not, tnat such raiiroads shall be attached by the Government of the Uuited States and shall be deciared the property of the United States, and shall be under the supervision of the Govern- ment. The above resolution will be signed by President L. Markus and lIaid before Mayor Sutro of San Francisco. oacm e SANTA BARBARA’S NEW RAILWAY. Grading Progressing Rapidly and Fine Bridge to Be Constructed. SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Jan. 2.— The latest railroad advices from the north- ern end of the county state that the work of grading the approaches to the bridee at the mouth of the Santa Ynez River is being pushed rapidly forward and a tem- porary bridge will be at once constructed to be used while the piers and superstruc- ture of the permanent bridge are going forward. This bridge will be modeled after the fine one constructed at Guadalupe. Ne- gotiations between Lompoc and the South- ern Pacific Company with a view to secur- ing a branch to that place are progressing fayorably. BELIEVES THE KAISER ERRED, Bismarck Not in Accord With the Transvaal Policy. SHOULD NOT INTERFERE. German Interests Best Subserved by Maintaining a Neutral Policy. WILLIAM'S ERRATIC COURSE. The Prince Says Ill-Health Is Re- sponsible for Many of the Emperor’s Acts. BERLIN, GermaNy, Jan. 26.— Thre times within the past week rumors were in circulation in Berlin that Prince Bis- marck was dead. These reports had the effect to cause a rush of inquiries to Fried- richsruhe to learn the truth. Among the large number of visitors whom the Prince received personally, and with such cour- tesy and activity of movement as to dispel the last vestige of anxiety concerning his health, was an old and intimate friend and co-worker in the political arena, who has Riven to The United Press the substance of an interesting conversation he had with the ex-Chancellor which serves to correct certain impressions upon the public mina in regard to Prince Bismarck’s relations with the Kaiser. Not once since his resignation of the office of Chancellor, Prince Bismarck said to his friend, has the Emperor spoken to him upon the subject of politics, except upon the memorable occasion of the Kaiser’s visit to Friedrichsruhe on March 23 last, when his Majesty came to the ex- Chancellor’s residence with General Count von Waldersee. The Emperor was at the time very angry about the vote in the Reichstag refusing to pay the united re- spects of that body to the Prince upon the occasion of his birthday. Prince Bis- marck admitted to his friend that he was well able to go to Berlin on January 18, when the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the empire was celebrated, but he did not go because he emphatically declined to lend his name as a flag for the present course of politics, which is being directed upon lines which the ex-Chan- cellor regards as radically wrong and of which he profoundiy disapproves. It was a move of rare cieverness on the partof the Emperor, the Prince said, to make a spontaneous call st Friedrichsruhe recently, thereby creating at home and abroad the impression that the imperial volicy had the full approval of Prince Bis- mharck or at least his tacit assent. Nothing of the kind was true, however. The recent moves of the Kaiser, he said, were grave mistakes. Germany had no business whatever to meddle with foreign complications unless German interests were directly menaced or assailed. If the powers have grouped themselves definitely either for or against certain causes, what of it? Germany has still time to decide to what extent her interests are involved. The expressions which the Emperor has sometimes indulged in, the United Press informant said, must be credited to the fact that the Kaiser’s state of health was ot always normal. His irritability, caused by worrying and frequent violent headaches, had quite often accounted for a quick word or deed on his part. It may be added, too, that he slept very little—in fact not at all suf- ficiently to enable him to maintain his health. The present Government of Germany is aeprived of all initiative in the manage- ment or direction of politics. The Em- peror directs everything personally, and his Ministers and Secretaries of State are merely his executive officers. Among his many irresponsible counselors 1t is al- ways the last cne having the ear of the Kaiser who is charged to see that the ideas of the Emperor are carried out. Prince Bismarck’s personal organ, the Hamburger Nachrichten, prints articles almost daily giving pointed expression to some of the foregoing views. In anarticle published in the Nachrichten last Thurs- day commenting upon the Kaiser’s aim- ing to stamp Germany’s character as that of a “Weltmacht”'—a power so mighty as to require a large increase in the nayy— the paper says: The nation must receive better informa- tion than i# has now before accepting the new position of pursuiug an external pol- icy of might instead of a policy of inter- national development. The country is not ambitious for foreign enterprises in order to acquire prestige. The wisest policy is that of conserving German in- terests. These sentiments, however, find small sympathy in the press generally, official and unofficial. The tide of popular feel- ing continues to run strongly in the direc- tion of Anglophobia. Anything the Kaiser could do or say to satisfy this feel- ing would receive the hearty acclamstion of all classes. The Hamburger Nachrich- ten, although attacking the attitude of the Emperor in assuming control of the for- eign affairs of the empire, expresses the hope that England may ere long receive a thorough lesson in ‘regard to her isolation 4s a State and her limitations as a power, The Emperor entertained the foreign Embassadors at dinner at the castle on Thursday. Among the guests present were United States Embassador Runyon and Mrs. Runyon, M. Herbette, French Embassador, and Mme. Herbette; M. de Szogyeny, Austrian Embassador, and Mme. de Szogyeny, and Count Lanza di Busea, Ttalian Embassador, and his Count- ess. Sir Frank Lascelies, British Embas- sador, was absent owing to the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, and the se- ries of receptions at the British embassy has been abondoned. A case affecting Germans becoming Amierican citizens has just been decided by th_e Supreme Court of the empire in peipslc. F. W. Boehme, a druggist, liv- ing in Brooklyn, N. Y., and a native of Leipsic, was sentenced by a lower court to pay a fine of 200 marks for emigrating toa foreign country without having fulfilled his term of military service. He appealed through his father from the decision of the court. The Supreme Court, in rendering its de- cision upon the appeal, finds that Boehme, as u duly naturalized citizen of the United States, could not be punished for an act committed through his emigration to America, but that he could be _punished for any act committed prior to his emigra- ion. The cours therefore reversed the de- cision of the lower tribunal. If Boehme had left the country to escape military service, the judgment of the Supreme Court would have been different. The art event of the past week has been the production at the Berlin Theater of Ernest Adam von Wildenbruck’s new drama, “King Henry.” The play deals with the period of Pope Gregory and King Henry’s submission to the Pontiff in going to Canossa. It is by all odds the greatest success a dramatist has ever achieved, and the appreciation of the au- dience was manifested by his being called out a dozen times. When he came upon the stage he brought with him Manager Prasch,who had mounted the play with great splendor and at a great expense. A sequel to the play, entitled “Kaiser Heinrich’ wlil be pro- duced in February. > The American trotting horse-owner and sportsman, A. H. Welsh 6f Hartford, Conn,, has nominated Minnie D and Al- geric Queen for the spring two-in-hand trotting race on the Berlin course. Agents of the New York manufacturers of a lightning stamping machine have ex- hibited to the German postoffice authori- ties a machine capable of stamping 500,- 000 letters an hour. It does not appear that they have induced the postal officials to adopt the machine, however, as the latter still prefer to continue the practice of stamping each letter by hand. M. de Oliviera Lima, secretary of the Brazilian legation here, has been ap- pointed first secretary of the Brazilian le- gation in Washington. The King of Saxony, the King and Queen of Wurtemberg, Princess Pauline of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden and the Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha will attend the fetes upon the occasion of the Xmperor’s birth- day on January 27. Hans Premier, manager of Flinsch’s paper-mills in Berlin, has absconded to America with 50,000 marks of his employ- er’'s money. Besides his defalcation he was a leading witness against Baron von Hammerstein, the absconding ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, who was recently ar- rested in Athens by a commissary of the Geeman police. It is suggested that Ham- merstein will now take advantage of Premier’s absence to blame him for the forgeries of which Hammerstein is ac- cused. Herr Woelfflur, the socialist leader of Colmar, and until recently the editor of the newspaper Der Sammler, published in that town, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. The Misses Rose and Ottilie Sutro, the American musicians, have abandoned their concert, which was to take place in the Berlin Academy, owing to a death in their family, and have started for their home in California. OBJECT T0 BUSCH' &I Missouri College Students Want to Return the Brewer’s Money. Hoist the Beer Sign of Lemps in the Chapel to Show Their Dis. approval. CHICAGO, IvrL., Jan. 26.—A dispatch from Springfield, Mo., say: Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis brewer, was solicited by President Fuller of Drury Collegé to give $1000 to the Pearson endowment funa, which he did. Then there was a gentle protest against accepting it, and President Fuller in open chavel denounced the pub- lication of reports about the affair and paid a high tribute to Mr. Busch. The latter in the meantime irstructed his agent here to investigate and see if his gift was op- posed, and if so to withdraw it. Friday night a secret meeting of stu- dents was held and a committee ap- pointed to visit President Fuller, express their disapproval of the gift, and ask him to call a mass-meeting of the students. This request was refused, but the students met, anyway, and protested. When the stndents went to chapel high on the ceiling was seen the beer sign of W, J. Lemp, and under the flaming letters the words, “Put me down for $1000, too.” Mr. Busch will probably witudraw his gift. —_— IRISHMEN PLEDGE AID. Efforts Will Be Made to Secure the Re- lease of Political Prisoners. NEW YORK, N.Y.,Jan. 26.—A mest- ing of the municipal council of the Irish National Alliance was held to-night, to consult as to the best means of raisinga fund to support the families of the Irish political prisoners. W. J. Balfe presided. Resolutions were adopted pledging the support of the alliance, both moral and material, to the movement in favor of the release of the Irish prisoners, and promis- ing assistance to their suffering families. A preliminary amnesty meeting will be held to-morrow at which Thomas F. Egan, the delegate from the Amnesty Association of Great Britain and Ireland, will make an address. R Plunged to His Death. DANVILLE, Iin, Jan. 26. — Blaine Lynch, 18 years of age, committed suicide last night by jumping down a coal shaft 200 feet deep. He had been caught robbing his father’s store. At the top of the shaft a note was found which said: *“You will find my body at the bottom of the shaft and I will meet you skating in hades,” o 2 CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE LAUDED, Colombians Express Their Approval of This Government's Attitwude. COLON, Covoxera, Jan. 26.—Tranquillity has been restored in the province of Bar- ranquilla, and the state of siege proclaimed there a few days ago has been raised. At a banquet given in Bogota to the American and Venezuelan Ministers the former declared that President Cleveland’s message to the American Congress on the Monroe doctrine as applied to the Anglo- Venezuelan boundary dispute voiced the sentiment of 70,000,000 freemen. The banquet was made the occasion for a great public demonstration in honor of the United States. A A TR Castle Talnoje Destroyed. WARSAW, Russia, Jan. 26.— Castle Talnoje, near Kieff, the residence of Gen- eral Count von Schouvaloff, Governor of ‘Warsaw, has been destroyed by tire. The valuable paintings and curios in the cas- tle were all lost. S ST A Cure for Cholera. BERLIN, GermaNny, Jan. 26.—The Leip- ziger Nachrichten says that Dr. Behring has discovered an anti-cholera serum and announces that a public demonstration of fiu properties willp be made at an early ate. ———— Mra. Drews Honored. BERLIN, GerMANY, Jan. 26. — Mrs. Dickens Drews, who is now engaged in Leipzig, has been awarded the goid medal gr‘ 1:rt by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and otha, NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING Masterly Challenge! Our competitors won’t put up, but our Challenge Prices have made ‘em shut up. i For the third time in the history of the Big Store we have issued a challenge, but this is really the greatest of all challenges that we have ever issued to competing houses in San Francisco. This time we make it broad; we make it to the entire Pacific Coast. To show up a class of goods as big an assortment, as fashionable fabrics, as clev- erly tailored fabrics, as high-class gar- ments as we’re offering during this Chal- lenge Sale, at To give you a little clearer light on this Challenge Sale every year, to demonstrate our strength and our underselling abili- ties, we issue a challenge to our com- petitors. We take nearly a flcor of zoods, the very choicest goods—not cheap stuff, made up for cheap sales—and place’em in our window. We put a Challenge Price on 'em. We say to our competitors: Here are our goods under the light of day; equal 'em if you can. So far none of ’em have put up, but they have all shut up, and some of ’em will shut up with the aid of a municipal officer. Applauded by the buying pub- lic. The Big Store scores an- other big point over its imitating competitors. Despite the heavy rains of Saturday, when all the elements combined with our competitors to defeat the purpose of mak- ing the inaugural day of our great chal- lenge one of the biggest days in the history of the Big Store, the people came outin all the heavy rain, came out in throngs, crowded the aisles, crowded them to such an extent that at one time we were com- pelled to close our doors so as to insure safety to those within the Big Store. This is'not buncombe; this is notexaggeration. Hundreds will attest to the truth of it. The best ideas of our very cleverest tai- lors are embodied in the suits and over- coats offered during this sale. Garments for originality, for neatness, for dressiness in appearance, cannot be equaled by the best tailors, the highest-priced tailors in America. The fabrics are all the very newest in those staple dressy fabrics, the very- latest colorings, in Scotches, neat Plaids, Pin Checks, such suits that your tailor would charge $40 to make. Your pick from nearly a floor of Suits, Overcoats and Ulsters at the challenge price of $2.00. There'll not be many days of it; it will be just a }\nflsing show, beautiful and bril- liant while it lasts, but not for long. RAPHAEL’ INCORFORATHD). Frisco’s Biggest and Most Popular Store, 9, 11, 13, 15 Kearny St; Our LONG STORM COATS. Our LONG ULSTERS. Our Very Clever LONG OVERCOATS. Our Long Storm Coats and Ulsters are made from those good, sturdy Friezes and Kerseys, in rich shades of Blue and Ox- ford Mixtures, with Fancy Worsted Lin« ings. There are in this challenge offer gar- ments that you can’t find their equal in town under $15. Challenge price, $9.00. Not for long—just for a few days. Can't stand prices like that for long, but just to make the other fellows put up or shut up; thus far they've shut up. Our FINE KERSEY OVERCOATS, the Coats that have made such a great reputa- tion for us during the season, in blues, blacks, tans, Oxford mixtures, steel grays —such garments as have been sold up as high as $18, in long and medium lengths— high-class garments, garments that made our reputation for Overcoats known all over the Pacific Coast. These Fashionable Garments are in the challenge at $9.00. Just to make the other fellows put up, but they have shut up ; they know they cannot equal the values, There is a time in the affairs of business, when a house wishes to demonstrate its strength and power, that unusual things are done, unusual prices are named. This is one of those unusual occasions, and we are offering such suits as you see in the picture above, such a class of garments as ‘do not find their places on the bargain table. They are high-class fabrics. These suits represent the very newest and most fashionable cut of garments—Sacks, single and double breasted, Cutaways in the new English frock, and the regular staid Three- Button Cutaway—some awfully clever Suite; Suits that can’t find their like in this city under $18. Challenge price, $9.00. Our competitors won't put up, but we have made ‘em shut up. RAPHAEL’S (INCORPORATED). 9,11, 13 AND 15 KEARNY STREET. TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS. EIGHT FLOORS.