The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 67. PRICE FIVE CENT RELEASED FROM LONG BRANCH, The Big Steamship St. Paul Leaves the Cradle in the Sands. HAULED OFF BY TUGS. During a Blinding Snowstorm and a Stiff Nor'easter the Rescue Is Made. GRADUALLY MOVED FROM SHORE Expert Examiners Will Inspect the Vessel to Ascertain the Amount of Damage Done. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 4.—The St. Paul shook the sands of Long Branch from her keel at 10 o’clock this morning and steamed away for New York. Four‘ of the Merritt and Chapman tugs assisted the pride of the American line to free her- ‘ self from the unwelcome position in which | she found herself about 1:45 A. M. of Sat- | urday, January 25, 1896. Tugs have tried their strength to get the ship afioat and have failed day after day as signally as though they were ordinary } rowboats tied to.an iron pier and manned | by small boys. Even the high tides at the | full of the moon have lacked sufficiently potent influence on the mass of water to work the big vessel out on the bosom of the ocean. But yesterday came the prayed- for nor’easter. In the high water of a nor’easter, yanked and pulled and strained at by four of the most powerful wrecking tugs of which the metropolis can boast, slowly and with much effort the St. Paul | was gradually worked seaward. During | tne period between sunset and sunrise and after sunrise, by inches and then feet and yards, the St. Paul gradually came to her- self and to a position of usefulness. Early this morning the St. Paut found that she could use her steam. She as- sisted to the full of her bent the efforts of | her would-be rescuers. Her salvation was worked out in the midst of a driving snow- storm to the tune of the corking north- easter. The northeaster brought high watéfand a beavy sea. It duplicated the ctuditions that. prevailed when the St. Paul slid her nose into the yielding sands of Long Branch and made her grounding so0 near the shore a possibility. Like con: ditions gave her the opportunity to get away. When even hope was almost dead the change'came.. When the finest ocean greyhound ever buiit in the United States and flying the flaglof this Republic finally slid over the second bar and into thirty- nine feet of water the life-savers, boatmen and laymen on shore and the men on the St. Paul joined in one good, glad cry of victery. Telephone connections with the big liner were off, it was hoped, fofever. ' So far as the eye could distinguish she was not any the worse for the protracted visit-to .the shores of New Jersey. The St. Paul passed in &t Bandy Hook at 11:50 o’clock, bound for her dock in New York, carrying as bal- Iast about 800 tons of water. She sailed up to the American line pier at 1:30 ». m. and after” half an hour’s work three tugs suc- ceeded in pushing her into a berth at the new dock adjoining the regular pier of the American Line Company. As she ap- proached the dock she was saluted by the different craft in the river, which salute she acknowledged by blowing her bnig whistle. Expert examiners began this afternoon to make a thorqugh inspection of the ship. This will require at least two days. Then the United States steamship inspectors | will Jook over the ship and make sure she | 1s ail right and fit for service. Everybody connected with the St. Paul, hewever, ex- presses the conviction that the ship is in no way injured. It was announced that the American line officials will hold an investigation into the grounding of the St. Paul in a few days. Manager Griscom says, however, that from inguiries already made he feels positive that Captain Jamison will fully clear himself of all blame in the matter. Regarding the cost of floating the St. Paul, Manager Griscom said thatit wasa sslvage case and he thought it would in some way be compromised. Stories about ‘paying the wrecking companies $100,000 to float the ship were unfounded, as no stipulation had been made. The T thought the ship will be ready for her next regular trip February 19. e FOR SAVING THE ST. PAUL. Some Interesting Recommendations Made by Patriotic Citizens. ' . Great was the interest taken in the ques- tion of floating the St. Paul fromr her | cradle in the sand off Long Branch. It was .argued that if not moved soon there was great danger of the big steamship being broken up by the combined action of the wind and waves. The loss of the ves- sel would have been a severe blow to the National line, which was so largely actuated by patriotic motives in establish- ing a passenger and mail service, under the American fing, between the United States and Europe. Patriotic citizens of New York and vicinity therefor offered various sugges- tions as to the best means of saving the stranded ship. Some went so far as to advocate the utility of monster balloons, while others thought it would be easy to dredge a charinel from the vessel out into deep water. But the wrecking company that finally saved the St. Paul was not inspired by sentinient. It contracted, it was said, to float the ship for the‘sum of | $100,000 and agreed to get nothing in the event of fallure. While the powerful tugs were straining hawsers there was no abatement in the interest as to the St. Paul's fate. In one instance the unlucky ] geusl’l was made the subject of a cartoon, eing compared to the stranded state of affairs of the United States Senate in ques- tions of finance and diplomacy. AMERICANS WITH JAMESON. There /s a Promise of a Prompt Release of Those Returned With the Eng- lish Prisoners. LONDON, Exc., Feb. 4—The Central News says that a number of Americans are among those who took part in Dr. Jameson’s raid into the Transvaal and who were captured by the Boers. They are now en route to England in company with the British members of the expedition who were handed over to the British authorities for trial. If they ace able to prove that they are citizens of the United States, they will be immediately released. . Cecil J. Rhodes, ex-Premier of Cape Colony, arrived at Plymouth this morning. He was successful in evading the many who were on the lookout for him, and upon leaving the steamer immediately boarded a train for London. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 4—1It is understood that the President has prac- tically selected the new Consul at Cape Town, Cape Colony, a post that has be- come of considerable importance since the beginning of the Transvaal troubles. In order to make the position lucrative enough to allow the appointment of some men of standing, Secretary Olney has written a letter to the Senate Committe on Appropriations asking that the salary he increased from $2000 to $3000 a year. > SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED Republicans in Kentucky’s Legis- lature May Usdseat Two Democrats. G. Ladies Warned to Keep Away, for a Lively Row and Shooting Is Expected. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 4.—Serious trouble may occur at to-morrow’s joint session of the House Republicans to un- seat Tomkins and Kaufman. It is said that within five minutes after the unseat- ing the Senate Democrats have arranged to expel four Republican Senators, ap- point doorkeepers to keep them -out of the joint session and take a ballot for United States Senator. Ladies are warned. to keep away to-morrow. Kaufman is a clothing merchant of Lex- ington, of high standing in business and social circles. He is a Democrat of long standing, a strong advocate of free silver, and will stand by Blackburn to the end. His seat is tontested by Woods Dunlap of Lexington, who comes of good Republican stock. He is a lawyer by profession, but has been more or less absorbed 1n political contests for many years back, and has had the fruits of one or two places under the National Government. The attempt to unseat Kaufman is very-likely to cause serious frouble. Much depends upon Speaker Blandford, who is a man of good taste and fine judgment: e SAVED BY A NEWSPAPER., Benator Morgan of Tennessee Shot, but Escaped Serious Injury. NASHVILLE, Texsx., Feb. 4.—Benator L. B. Morgan of Tullhoma was- shot to- day by Henry Holder and was saved from being killed by a copy of the Atlanta Con- stitution which was folded in the Senator’s left breast-pocket. The ball passed through.the paper and grazed the skin. matter might be settled in _a'!ew months and might drag along for a year. Itis| The shooting arose over _the _feeling aroused in a murder case. Uncle Sam —“What a hog!” NO STRAIN VET - WITH TURKEY, Denial of the Story About the Result of Demands by Terrell. INDEMNITY YET UNPAID. The Claims of the Three Chief Powers of Europe Held in Abey_ance. SAILOR LADS ARE GENEROUS, Members of the Crew of the San Fran- cisco Send a Purse to Suffering Armenians. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Feb. 4.— The reported existence of a strain between the United States and Turkey in conse- quence of the rigorous and - persistent measures adopted by United States Minis- ter Terrell for the protection of American missionaries is wholly without founda- tion. As regards protection of American citizens and the payment of indem- nity by the Turkish Government for the destruction by fire of American buildings it will be recalled that none of the £28,000 demanded by the three chief powers of Europe for the killing and wounding of the foreign consuls at Jeddah last May has yet been obtained by the powers, nor has anybody as yet been pun- ished for the outrage. The United States cruiser San Francisco is at Messina, Asia Minor, on the Mediter- ranean. Letters describing the misery prevailing among the inhabitants at Mar- ash and Oorfa were read on board the ship and the sailors made up a purse of $450 for the relief of the sufferers, The situa- tion at Marash has become more critical. A number of European war yessels are gathering at Alexandria. The houses occupied by Armenians in Smyrna were marked for a week. J. H. Madden, the United States Consul at that place, made inquiries of the Government regarding ‘the reasons for so designating Armenian residences, and entered a vigor- o1s protest against such a praceeding. A large quantity of arms have been THE TUGS STRAINED THEIR HAWSERS IN VAIN. AN ATTEMPT MADE A WEEK AGO TO GET THE BIG STEAMSHIP ST. PAUL AFLOAT. [Reproduced from the New ¥ork World.] | England of the Britisk tank steamer ’| Nicholsou, one of the proprietors of the | found in a mosque at Smyrna, which, it is | supposed, had been placed there for use against the Armenians in the event of an outbreak at that place. The Christians, however, considerably outnumber the Moslems, and it is not regarded as likely that any massacre will be attempted in that city. ST S e IS STILL PENDING. The Admission of an American Dispatch Boat Into the Bosphorus. 3 CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Feb. 4.— The question of admitting an American dispatch boat into the Bosphorus is still pending. The Porte does not contest the right of the United States to have a vessel here, but regards the present moment as not fitting for its admission. It is re- marked that sinee Minister Terrill’s vigor- ous action in behalf of the American mis- sionaries the court circulars have men- tioned him as the sole guest at court dinners. —_—— COURSE OF THE LIBERALS. Will Challenge the Government on Its Armenian Policy. LONDON, Exa., Feb. 4.—The Chronicle (Liberal), apparently inspired from a high Laberal quarter, will to-morrow say that it is the intention of the Liberals at the earliest possible moment after the reas- sembling of Parliament to vigorously challenge the Government on its policy toward the Armenians. The paper adds that this course is likely to elicit very un- expected revelations regarding the action of previous Ministries. The Chronicle will further say it believes that instead of offering an amendment relative to the Venezuelan dispute to the address in reply tothe Queen’s speech the opposition will move, immediately after the debate on the address, the adjourn- ment of the House of Commons, in order to fully discuss the Venezuelan matter, and that probably a motion in favor of arbitrating the dispute will be submitted. The Chronicle’s article fully confirms the statements that were made last Satur- day by the United Press relative to the course that would be followed by the Lib- erals. WAS BLOWN UP AT SEA An Explosion That May Account for the Disappearance of the Wildflower, The Vessel Was Laden With Petro. leum and Carried a Large Crew. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 4—Captain Anderson of the tank steamer Phosphor, which got into port to-day after a twenty- day trip from Shields, told a story that probably accounts for the non-arrival in Wildflower, which left Philadelphia for Rouen, France, on December 11, and has never been heard of since. The vessel had 1,300,000 gallons of petroleum on board. Captain Anderson says that just before he sailed from Shields on January 18 he heard a story that convinced him that the Wildflower had made her last voyage, It was this: The steamship Loch Etive, from New York December 24 for Cork, re- ported on her arrival -there on January 8 that about 250 miles west-southwest from the coast of Ireland, on January 6, the crew saw a sudden glare in the sky. As far as the eye could see to the westward | the sky was a vivid red for a moment, and then it died out slowly until’in half an hour the sea was again in darkness. . A few seconds after the first glare a dull roar like the discharge of a heavy gun' made the Loch Etive vibrate and rock. ‘When Captain Anderson found that the Wildflower had- not yet ‘made port he be- came convinced thatthe flare-up was the explosion of oil in the Wildflower’s tanks. There were twenty-nine men on the miss- ing véssel. She wasin command of Cap- tain Stanwell. Death of a Newspaper Man, NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 4.—George Picayune, monia. yesterday. died this afternoon of pneu- r. Nicholson v_ru.n—his":nfic_e VALOR OF THE * CUBAN REBELS, Fierce Battle Between the Forees of Luqui and ° - Maceo. FOUGHT ‘AT PASO REAL. Spanish Troops Invaded the Town but Were Finally Compelled to Retire. MAINTAINED A GALLING FIRE. General Campos Returned to Madrid and Received Both Cheers and Hoots. HAVANA, Cusa, Feb. 4—The details of a fight yesterday between the troops under General Luqui and the rebels under Anto- nio Maceo have been received here. Gen- eral Luqui reports that the battle occurred in and near-the town of Paso Real, prov- ince of Pinar del Rio. Maceo was in chief command of thé insurgents, his subordin- ate commanders being Miro, Sayas, Chil- eno and Meyer. ‘When it was learned that the rebels were in Paso Real General Luqui gave orders for the troops to advance and at- tack the place. The soldiers entered the town by the main street and found the rebels occupying the side streets and the houses. A galling fire was directed against the troops from the street, houses and roofs, but the .rebels were finally driven to the eastern part of the town, where they attempted to make a stand, In this they were unsuccessiul,and they then retreated outside the town. The troops advanced upon them and found over a thousand rebels forming.a line of battle in an open space. As the Spaniards moved forward they delivered volley fires as they moved from position to position. . The rebel cavalry charged the troops with great valor, and despite the heavy. fire directed. against them, even reached the bayonets of the troops. The latter received the first charge while form- ing in line, but the second charge was re- ce?ved by the troops in circular groups, General Luqui says the troops sustained no machete wounds, while a number of rebels were wounded by bayonets. The troovs finally dispersed, the rebels pursu- ing them until darkness set in. The insurgents lost sixty-two killed, while 200 of them are believed to have been wounded. General Luqui was shot through the right leg. Major Jose Ruiz Perez, of the regular army, and Major Lonis Lopez Majorez, of the civil guards, were also wounded. Major Perezhas since died. In addition to those, one captain, one lien- tenant and thirty soldiers were wounded. One of the wounded privates died shortly after the battle. J. FRANK CLARK. . GENERAL CAMPOS’ RETURN. Some of the Spaniards Hooted and One Was Shot Dead. S{ADRID, Sparx, Feb. 4 —General Cam- pos arrived here at 10:40 o’clock this even- ing. Most of the Ministers and a number of men prominent in political life met him 8t the railway station and he was given a cordial welcome. Quite a crowd .assembled outside the station, and when Campos appeared he was clicered. There was some hooting and whistling as he drove to his residence, but the gendarmes were vigilant and drove off ‘those who attempted to .insult General Campos. . Some of the more per- sistent hooters were arrested. One es- caped from his captors and attempted to run away. The gendarmes fired twice at | him and killed him. | A crowd gathered at the Valladolid Rail- way station, and when the train arrived on which General Campos was traveling to Madrid some of the assemblage hooted at him. A few of the crowd cheered, but it' was evident that popular feeling was against him for his failure to suppress the insurrection in Cuba. A number of police were sent to the station and some of the hooters were arrested. A majority of the newspapers here are indignant with ‘General Compos for sug- gesting that autonomy should be granted to Cuba. They declare that the sugges- tion is an insult to the nation after the sac- rifices it has made. 2 et | NOT TO LE¥Y 4 WAR TAX. | But Spain Will Increase Some of the | Customs Duties. | MADRID, Sparx, Feb. 4.—The Cabinet | has rejected the proposal to levy a war tax | to meet the expenses of a campaign in | Cuba and has also decided not to increase | the customs duties in Cuba. It has re- ! solved to amend the tariff witha view to | augmenting the revenue. Spanish products | will lose some of their protection in Cuba and gain increased protection in the Phil- ippine Islands: . The Cabinet agreed to in- | crease the capital of the Cuban and Phil- | ippine banks. | PLEASES THE PRINCE OF WALES. Has No Fault to Find With the Investi- gation by the New - York Yacht Club’s Committee, | LONDON, Exg., Feb. 4.—The Chronicle will to-morrow say that the Prince of | Wales, who is commodore of the Royat Yacht Squadron, has earnestly counseled | Lord Dunraven to keep well in mind the desirability of promoting friendship between the representatives of sports and peoples. The Prinee considers that the | terms of the finding of the committee of | inquiry of the New York Yacht Club offer | great encouragement in this airection. | There is reason to believe that action lead- | ing to a very happy ending of the trouble | will shortly be taken. Lord Dunraven, it | is said, visited the Prince of Wales at Sandringham for the purpose of asking | his advice as 1o the course he should | pursue in view of the verditt of the com- mittee which investigated the charges he | made against the Defender syndicate. X SLAIN BY CATTULE THIEVES. | | Brutal Murder of Colonel Fountain and | His Son. EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 4.—Colonel Albert Fountain of La Cruces, N. Mex., one of the | most prominent lawvers in this section, | counsel for the New Mexico Cattle Asso- | ciation, and formerly colonel of the New Mexico cavalry and Speaker of the Terri- | torial House of Representatives, has been murdered with his 9-year-old boy by cattle rustlers on the desert between Tularous and Las Cruces, N. Mex. His activity in prosecuting cattle thieves is supposed to have been the cause. Posses are scouring | the country. Las Cruces is wild with in- | dignation. WANTS Y DANAGES Mrs. Spalding’s Suit Against the Pullman Palace-Car Company. Claims to Have Been Arrested by Employes for the Purpose of Robbery. CHICAGO, Irn., Feb. 4.—Mrs. Lydia Spalding, who is a hotel keeper in San | Francisce, brought suit to-day in the Su- perior Court against the Pullman Palace | Car Company and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, claiming $100,- 000 damages and alleging false arrest and | imprisonment. | The bill states that in June last Mrs. | Spalding was traveling from San Fran- cisco to Europe, and that when the Rio Grande train stopped at Leadville she was taken from the Pullman sleeper by a Dep- uty Sheriff and locked in jail. She de- | clares she was only told she was under ar- rest and that no charge was ever made against her nor was she taken into court. After being forty-eizht hours in a filthy | room with ten male prisoners, she was re- 1 leased. The plaintiff also claims to haye lost $8000 in money, jewelry-and steam- | ship and railroad tickets, béing obliged to buy new tickets in order to proceed to Europe. It is charged that the arrest was insti- gated by the Pullman Company employes for the purpose of robbery. When she re- turned to San Francisco Mrs. Spalding says her friends regarded her with sus- picion and her character lias been placed | For such work he REVEALED BY THE RECORDS: Huntington Has Not Paid the License Required by Kentucky. NO OFFICE IN THE STATE. Two Telling Facts That Should Hasten the Repeal of the Charter. THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC FIGHT, Senator Goebel’s Bill to Be Considered a'l Once and Reported for Passcge, FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 4.— Until within the past few days not many mem- bers of the Legislature and few people of this State generally had any idea that the great Southern Pacific Railroad Company, which they knew of only in a general way, owed its birth to the pliant and persuad- able Legislature of this State. They knew that the Legislature of 1883-84 and some before it and after it had fastened many an odious measure tupon the people of Ken- tucky and passed many a venal measure for the benefit of individuals and corpora- tions belonging at home, but they little dreamed that among their nefarious acts was one which gave birth to an instru- ment which, in the khands of conscieuce- less' conspirators, was being used as a li- cense to enthrall and plunder the citizens of sister States and a means of defying the laws which are made to protect their lives and their property. Though a portion of the State is suffer- ing under a similar curse—from the chag- ter of the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company, under which Hunting- ton’s roads in this State are operated— their troubles and oppressions are mild compared to what their brethren in Cali- fornia are suffering. The anti-Huntington literature that has been sent to Frankfort has been a source of surprise to the members of the Legisla- ture, and to many of them a great mortifi- cation, and they have made up their minds to wipe out the disgrace. A great many of them will certainly stand to their convictions to the end and support Goe- | bel’s Dbill, no matter what influences arp brought to bear against it. But there are others who are not so stable, who, une trammeled and uninfluenced, would sup- port the bill to the end, but are liable to trade their votes on this question for sup- vort for some measure on which they are specially interested. Huntington has a| strong force now on the scene of action and they are well advised as to the special interests which the several members have in the various bills that have bren and are yet to be introduced, and they are secur- ing and fixihg pledges for votes every day by the system of trading which has long been in vogue at Frankfort. Some of the membersdo not realize what the failure of the repeal bill means to the people of California, but many others of those opposing do fully realize what they are about to do, and are doingit for a “‘con- sideration’” of one kind or angther. The! lobby is rich in considerations, fertile in resources and entirely unscrupulous as to the methods they employ. This does not apply to some of the local men who are here in support of the.bill, and who, while they will use every influence that their social and political connections give them to compass the defeat of the bill, will not do Huntington’s work for him at any price, nor will he call upon them to-do it. has ‘men specially trained, who are not eloquent and talk little, but when they know their man and the occasion is opportune can say a word or two, accompanied by an “‘object lese son,” which settles the matter satisfac- torily. s The excerpts from the Colton letters, which have been largely read by the mem- bers, will make the shady fellows very careful, if not deter some of them alto- gether from any deal, but efforts will be made to overcome their fears. So far the committee having charge of the distribu~ under a cloud. tion of “Repeal’ literature has done quite Samuel H. Stone, .Auditor of Kentucky, Whose Racords Fail to Disclose That the Southern Pacific Has Ever Paid the License Required by [Drawn from a photograph.] the State.