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

"VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 96. PRICE FIVE CENTS. INE THOUSMD ITALIANS FELL. | Crushing Defeat of Bara-| tieri's Army in Sun- | day's Battle. MANY TAKEN rmsom:x.} Their Leader Summoned to Rome | to Be Court-Martialed and Degraded. HUMBERT'S SUBJECTS RIOTING. | Bitter Denunciation of the Govern-| ment Because of the Disastrous Campaign. ‘ LONDON, Exa., March 4—The Daily Telegraph to-morrow will publish a dis- ch from Rome stating that the Italian s in Sunday’s battle with the Abys- ans were 10,000 killed, wounded or Of these 5000 were slain. | taken prisoners. he Daily News to-morrow will publish a dispatch from its Rome correspondent aying that General Baratieri upon his re- n to Italy will be tried by court-martial under articles 72 and 88 of the military e which fix the punishment for officers | ) abandon their posts before the enemy with degradation to the ranks, followed by death. The charges against Baratieri are based upon his own admission that he left the e the troops under his command ng, without knowing the fate of umns under Generals Dabormida , b -3 8 Q g E e g g 4 g § g g x Y. 1etres in twenty-four hours. A dispatch to the Central News from me says that of the 247 officers under ral Baratieri who took part in the | tle against the Abyssinians of Sunday forty returned, Among the killed re General Albertone and Colonel Gal- liano, the latter of whom was in command of the Italian garrison which defendea Makalle when that place was besieged by | the Abyssinians. 1 General Arimondi was _seriously | ment. General Baldissera at Massowah before deciding upon the adoption of further military measures. Advices from Massowah received by the Government announce that General Baldissera, the newly appointed com- mande-in-chief of the Italian forces in Africa, assumed command to-day. The Government bas instructed the mil- itary Advocate-General to examine into the conduct of the Abyssinian campaign by General Baratieri and determine whether or not the latter shall be ar- raigned before a council of war. It is stated that Baldissera is due to ar- rive at Asmera, toward which place the Italian troops are said to be retreating on the 6th inst. and that there he will meet Genera! Baratieri. Long official dispatches from Massowah under the date of March 3 give technical | details of the positions and movements of the Ttalian troops engaged in Sunday’s battle with the Abyssinians. According to these advices the troopsn the morning occupied two ridges in the | vicimty of Adowa, but they were com- pelled to abandon these positions by im- mense phalanxes of the enemy. The fighting was evidently of a terrific chaaac- ter and the retreat of most of the battal- ions was a mere rout. The most contradictory reports are in circulation and it is impossible to obtain any reliable information as to the gravity | of the defeat of the Government forces. All last night the garrison in Rome was | kept under arms and mounted patrols | traversed lge it principal streets. The streets were filled with people until day- break, and after early morning every pub- lic place was crowded with excited men and women. Several disturbances which called for police interference occurred to-day and the indications are that the people are as- suming & most threatening attitude, not (only in Rome, but throughout Italy. Demonstrations against Crispi’s ministry, | and even against the crown, are reported from the provinces in spite of the fact that the authorities are straining every nerve to suppress all alarming news. Later in the day the news from the provinces became more alarming. It was stated that in a number of places the po- lice had been unable to cope with the populace, and troops had been called upon to restore order. The soldiers, however, appear to have been as helpless as the police, and in several places crowds were fired upon. One man was killed and sev- eral wounded. This increased the excite- The troops were stoned and had to clear the public square at the poiniof the | bayonet. Dispatches from Venice say that last night a crowd assembled at the Piazzi of St. Mark and speeches were made con- | demning the manner in which the Abys- sinian campaign had been conducted and calling upon the military authorities to try General Bdratieri by court-martial. There was another popular demonstra- tion against the Government this morning and the mob was only dispersed by the volice with the greatest difficulty, after a number of arrests had been made. wounded. (jeneral Dabormidey with the ™ At Padua to-day a mob warched nnant of ‘his brigade, succeeded in re-| General Baratieri after having heir way through the enemy’s he Italians are in full retreat toward | . | ——— | BARATIERI DEPOSED. ! Summoned to xome to Explain His Con- | duct of the Campaign. ROME, Itary, March 4.—A royal decree has been promulgated relieving General | Baratieri of his functions as Governor | of the African pravince of Erythrea. | General Baratieri is reportea to have | been temporarily vplaced on balf-pay and | ummoned to Rome to explain his con- | duct of the Abyssinian campaign, wmcui has resulted so disastrously. | Popolo Romani says that the Cabinet | will ' meet Parliament to-morrow, March 5, but will await the arrival of advices from | through the streets hooting thé Govern- ment offi¢ials, erying for the downfall of the Crispi Ministry. At Verona there was & similar demon- stration. It is believed that nothing short of the downfall of Senor Crispiand the dispatch of strong re-enforcements to Africa will satisfy public clamor. At Naples a party of students attempted a riotous manifestation there to-day against the policy pursued by the Govern- ment relative to the African campaign. The mob was dispersed by the police, but not until after a severe encounter. Many of the rioters were arrested. e — Scores of Men Entombed. BERLIN, GerMaxy, March 4.—An ex- plosion, followed by a fire, occurred in the Cleophas mine at Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia, to-day. The bodies of fifty | victims have been taken out, and about 100 others are still entombed. UMBERTO, KING OF ITALY, Grover Cleveland —Somebody has got to ride this mule! - 0LD LORY TRANPLED UPO Spanish Students Burn an American Flag at Madrid. RIOTS ARE FREQUENT. The Police Charge a Mob With Drawn Swords and Several 2 Are Injured. SENOR ELDUAYEN RESIGNS. The Duke of Tetuan Will Be His Suc- cessor—War Preparations Continue. MADRID, 8paix, March 4.—A party of students this morning invited the female employes in several cigar factories to unite with them in a demonstration of protest against the legislation of the United States Congress in regard to Cuba. Theirinvita- tion, however, was declined. A group of university students and citi- zens who were attempting to incite the public to make a riotous demonstration to-day were charged by the police with drawn swords and were driven into near- by cafes and houses. A number of them took refuge in the university, where they trampled upon and afterward burned an American flag. 8ixteen of the rioters were taken into custody and will be se- verely punished. Senor Elduaven, who was recently ap- pointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in succession to the Duke of Tetuan, has re- signed. A meeting of the Cabinet was held this evening, at which Senor Eldu- ayan announced that he had tendered his resignation because he believed it to be ae- sirable that the same Minister who begins negotiations with the United Btates and other countries in regard to the Cuban question should complete them. It is understood that the Duke of Tetuan will succeed the retiring Foreign Minister and that he will take the oath of office to-mor- TOW. At the meeting it was decided that the universities should be closed for the pres- ent. The Ministers also agreed to an un- limited credit for the purchase of artillery and io call for recrunits of naval infantry and sailors. A demonstration was attempted this afternoon by the students of the univer- sity, but the police were on the alert and the disorderly proceedings were speedily suppressed. Later 400 students of the School of Medicine and a number of citi- zens who bad joined them were dispersed by the police. They soon reassembled, however, whist- ling at and jeering the officers. One group of students, who were standing close by a lieutenant of police called the latter a coward and several of them. at- tempted to strike him, whereupon the lieutenant drew his revolver. The police and gendarmes immediately charged with drawn swords upon the rioters. In the melee which ensued a few persons were injured. +All places of business in the neighborhood were closed. ' A dispateh from Panama to the Impar- cial says a notice bas been posied secretly stating that' President Cleveland has ap- proved of the action of the United States Congress with reference to‘Cuba. « The dispatch says also that Gomez and Maceo are hard pressed by the Government troops. ZOST TO THE CUBANS. Revenue Officers Scize @ Schooner Carry- ing Arms to the Island. TAMPA, Fra., March 4—The revenue cutter Morrill arrested the schoomer Stephen R. Mallory at Long Boat Inlet, at 6 o'clock, on a charge of being a filibus- ter. The Morrill arrived at Port Tampa yesterday and sailed to-day at 3 o'clock under sealed orders. She proceeded straight to the gult. and had instructions 1o arrest both the Mallory and the Ardell. The Mallory was sighted off Long Boat and it is 8aid that the cutter had to send a shot acrass her bew before she would lay to. On being boarded it was found that she had a crew of five men besides the captain, all Americans, and was heavily loaded with arms and ammunition. The cutter has arrived at the port with the schooner and reported the capture to Collector of Customs Leslie, who has re- | ported the matter to the department at Washington and placed the schooner in charge of & Deputy United States Mar- shal. It had been rumored in this city for several days that the Mallory and Ardell would sail for Cuba with ammunition for the insurgents, and Vice-Consul Solis had been on the alert, and, 1t is rumored, had already' notified the authorities at Wash- ington of the intention of the two boats. The Mallory is only about six months old. She isof 40 tons. burden, fast and seaworthy, and is owned by Cottrell and Finlayson of Cedar Keys, the former of whom is Collector of Customs at that port. The arms are supposed to be the same that were seized near Cedar Keys several months ago by the authorities. The cargo of the Mallory is valued at $20,000. Her papers show that she was cleared from Ce- dar Keys for Fort Meyers, Comg: HAVANA HEMMED IN. Maceo’s . Forces Control 'All Land En- trances to the City. HAVANA, Cusa (via Key West, Fla.), March 4.—The Government is holding 8000 troops quartered in the fortifications of the city in readiness to’ suppress disorder and demonstrations against Americans here. Extra police guards are placed con- venient to the American consulate. The only manifestations of hostile feeling yet were a few shouts, “Death fo Uncle Sam!”’ while the new troops were landing Tues- day and' hisses round the cab in which two - Americans were driven in a side street. There are some apprehensions but no alarm among American residents. There is great confidence in the ability of General Weyler to preserve order. The better treatment of Americans here than at Barcelona or Madrid, is largely due to the fact that the populace there is Spanish and here they are Cubans. The students here, both Spanish and Cuban, are friendly to the States. Cuban property- holders and merchants, and also many Spanish, whose markets are in the States, are more pleased than otherwise, at the prospect of Congressional intervention, which, meaning an early restoration of quiet, would save many from bankruptey. Even local Spaniards admit this. Such hostility as is shown is confined here to the office-holding classes and to others re- ceiving Government bounty. The main body of insurgents, instead of continuing eastward as expected, has re- turned to Havana province in great num- bers, leaving a large force of troops mov- ing east to head them off. Gomezremains in the center of Matamzas province burn- ing cane on many estates where prepara- tions were being made to resume grinding. Maceo, with a largely augmented force, has re-entered Havana province and re- sumed burning cane wherever preparations to grind are under way. So faras can be learned, there is no wanton destruction, but they are simply carrying out the order issued by Gomez two months ago. ~ Maceo’s forces now hem the city of Ha- vans in. All telegraph and telephone Iines are cut within.ten miles. The poles are removed and the rails carmed away, Milk, fruit. and vegetables are scarcein GRET BAITANS USE OUTLNED Basis of the Claim to Territory on the Orinoco. CEDED BY THE DUTCH. Venezuela Declared Never to Have Had a Right to the Disputed Tract. FREDERICK POLLOCK'S REPORT. English Contention Said to Have Been Borne Out by the Spanish Archives. LONDON, Exc., March 4. — The St. James Gazette, under the caption *‘The British Case Against Venezuela,” pub- lishes' two columns of matter which it claims is a summary of the report made by Sir Frederick Pollock for submission to Parliament. The Gazette says that be- sides having at his disposal documents in the possession of the British Colonial and Foreign Offices, Sir Frederick Pollock has drawn freely from information made ac- cessible to the British Government by the Keepers of the Archives of Spain and Hol- land. The material supplied by Holland covers the period from the latter part of the six- teenth century to the second decade of the nineteenth century, and the Spanish docu- ments cover the period since the first ascent of the Amazon by Orellana in 1542, and from the first ascent of the Orinoco by Juan Martinez, until Venezuela, in 1830, assumed independent existence. The evidence includes the particulars and circumstances under which the Eng- lish ‘took possession of the Dutch West India‘ colonies in 1781, 1796 and 1803 and the treaties under which these transfer- encés were ratified. The evidence also in- cludes the story of correspondence and negotiation with the various governments by Venezuela from 1840 down to the pres- ent time. The information supplied by the Colonial Office comprises that collected by the suc- cessive Governors of the territory since the admimstration of Colonel Nicholson in 1803 as regards ths extent and charac- ter of the Dutch occupation and explora- tion of the interior, and also the details of the Venezuelan incursions into Brtish territory between the Orinoco and the Guyani; the attempt of American con- cessionaires to establish themselves in British Guiana; the steps taken to main- tain British ownership, and the work done by Great Britain to ascertain the hatural and geogrephical boundary, without preju- dice tq strict territorial rights beyond such boundary. These documents, with important maps bearing thereon, show a British case of overwhelming - strength against Vene- zuela’s pretensions of ownership to the west bank of the Essequibo, The report shows that the Dutch had from the earliest times possession of the coast of Guiana as far north as the mouth of the Orinoco, such possession implying the right of ownership of the Hinterland, a right-exercised by the Dutch. One of the early Dutch maps, printed in Amsterdam in 1774, shows the line of partition accord- ing to the bull issued by Pope Alexander VI, allotting the whole of South America west of the Amazon to Spain and the whole of the territory on the east of the Amazon to Portugal. To the west. of this is a large section, ex- tending from the Amazon to the mouth of the Orinoco, marked “Guyani.”” This is divided in twain, the Dutch part extend- ing from Barima to the river Mariwini and the French part from Mariwini to Cape Nord, on the delta of the Amazon. The Spanish settlement of St. Thome, on the Orinoco, appears on this map, but the Dutch line from Barima is identical with the line representing the extreme British claim. Sir Frederick Pollock claims that the Spaniards at no time established them- selves in Guiana proper until they overran part of the British territory to the Cuyani in and since 1858. They got no further than the Orinoco. The fact that St. Thome is marked on the French map as the ex- treme limit of their stations is borne out by a Dutch map, which, in 1788, was pre- pared for the Committee of the Colonies of the Batavian Repubiic by Major von Luchenroeder. This map was prepared to assist the statesmen who were negotiating the ces- sion of the Dutch colonies in South Amer- ica to the British, Sir Frederick gives de- tails showing that it was upon the basis of this and simiar maps that the cession was effected. Correspondence taken from the archives shows that when the Spanish showed themselves in the Cuyani Valley the Dutch Government vigorously protested to Spain against the encroachments of her subjects upon Dutch territory. The ar- chives show that Spain did not answer the protests of the Dutch Government. Cer- tainly Spain did not assert her ownership of the region in question. The States- General of Holland in 1759 and in 1769 set for the Dutch territorial rights and de- manded reparation for Spanish violation thereof. The correspondence showed that the Dutch asserted ownership of the entire watershed of the Essequibo, and laid great stress upon their rights to the Cuyani, upon the upper reaches of which stream they had established gold diggings, and had been on terms of intercourse with the Indian tribes there for 150 years in making researches. The evidence which Spain placed at the disposal of the Foreign Office shows that Spain did not rebut the claim made by the Dutch to the territory thronghout the basin of the Cuyani. The Dutch archives are so well kept that Sir Frederick Pollock has been able to make an irrefragable case for British own- ership of the Cuyani basin as having been inherited in the Dutch, though no absolute evidence is adducible to show how far the Dutch held the country between the natu- ral geographical delimitation known as the Schomburg line and the bank of the Orinoco. The report, after exhausting the evidence prior to English acquisition of the coun- try, deals with the more recent diplomatic aspects of the case, which are not sum- marized. S g i, CARRIES LITTLE WEIGHT. Poltock’s Report Has Not Helped Great Pritain’s Case. WASHINGTON, D. O., March 4—The United Press cablegram giving a summary of the brief in the boundary dispute pre- pared by Professor 8ir Frederick Pollock was read with deep interest by members of the Venezuelan Commission in town to-day. Entirely without prejudice to the merits of a case which, of course, cannot be weighed until all the evidence accom- panying Professor Pollock’s argument is disclosed, the Commissioners are evi- dently gratified that the British Govern- ment with all the resources it has enjoyed for securing evidence has apparently not obtained much if any more testimony than the commission has been able to collect here during its short but energetic existence. The Government of Venezuela had already furnished to the State Department, before the United States intervened in the affair last July, most of the correspond- ance which had been carried on with Great Britain, and complete copies of all the documents are promised by Venezuela be- fore the end of this week. At the Venezuelan legation the state- ment of the British case was declared to be pitiably weak and easily disposed of. Minister Andrade said it did not contain an item which had not already been fully met and disproved in documents furnished to Secretaries Bayard and Gresham by the Venezuelan Government. All the argu- ments now bvresented by Sir Frederick Pollock which had not been included in Lord Salisbury’s letters of November 26 last, leading to President Cleveland’s special message, had already been aban- doned by British statesmen. It was pre- posterous now for Great Britain to attempt to go behind the treaty of Munster to show that the Dutch had settlements in Guiana, for, up to that time, Holland was a Spanish dependency, just as Guiana was. With the recognition of the indepen- dence of the Dutch by the treaty of Mun- ster in 1648 the Essequibo became the eastern boundary of the Spanish posses- sions, and by the treaty of Utrecht in 1783 England obligated herself to entorce that boundary. The Dutch colonies did not pass to English until 1796, and from that time until 1836, forty years, every English map, cyclopedia, history or other work bearing on Guwana gave either the Esse- quibo or the Pomaron as the western Eng- lish limit. Barima, at the mouth of the Orinoco, may have been occupied by the Dutch when Spain was sovereign of Hol- land, as shown by early maps, but Minis- ter Andrade noted that Sir Frederick Pollock has found no map giving the Dutch that point after the treaty of Mun- ster. No fear is expressed by the members of the legation as to the result of the Ven- ezuelan Commission’s labors. Thay are confident that the decision will be entirely in conformity with the Venezuelan con- tention, BOZEMAN TUNNEL FIRE. No Prospects of Extinguishing the Disas- trous Blaze. HELENA, MoxT., March 4.—The fire at the Bozeman tunnel is still burning fiercely and there are no prospects of ex- tinguishing it. The damage is beyond all estimate. The tunmnel is now probably a total wreck. A large gang of men is building a track around the cave-in, and in the meantime passengers, baggage and express are transferred by wagons over the mountains, a distance of several miles, Freight trains arc all blockaded and the nger trains are eight hours late, The temporary track will probably be finished to-morrow. Freightyardsin the larger towns on both sides of the tunnel are rapidly filling up with freight which cannot be moved until the track is finished. PLES FOR THE UNON PG Officers of the Railroad Before the House Committee. EARNINGS OF THE LINE Fears That They Will Not Ex- ceed $14,000,000 Annually in the Future. SCHEME OF REORGANIZATION Outstanding Bonds and Liens to Dis: appear Before a New Mortgage. . WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.—J. A. Munroe, freight trafic manager of the Union Pacific Railroad, appeared before the House Committee on Pacific Railroads to-day. He gave statistics showing the earnings from freight traffic of his road for several years past. He had no argument or suggestions to make regarding the settlement of the differences of the Pacific roads by Congress. He assumed that the earning capacity of the roads, particularly in the future, would be an important figure in the settlement. The gross earn- ings of the Union Pacific, he thought, would not in the near future exceed $14,- 000,000 per annum. Of this amount not more than 25 per cent could be considered as net. : W. 8. Pierce, representing the reorgan- ization committee of the Union Pacific, told the House committee that it was the purpose of that committee to exchange for every class which is charged upon the properties embraced in reorganization new securities in proper proportions to those issued by the reorganized company, so that under the new mortgage of the re- organized company all these properties would be included—the lines of road, the lands, the equipment, the terminals and the appurtenant property of the Union Pacific proper between Council Bluffs and a point five miles west of Ogden and be- tween Kansas City and Decver and be- tween Denver and Cheyenne, including the Omaha bridge, subject to no existing liens, and subject only to the new mort- gage: 5 % In other words, all outstanding bonds and mortgages were to disappear, and the railroads, terminals, landsand equipments of the Union Pacific were to be subject to no other charge than that imposed by the new morigage to be issued by the reor- ganized company. All outstanding bonds were to be provided for in the reorganiza- tion by the issue of new bonds and pre- ferred stock. The new bonds were to bear 4 per cent interest, to run fiity years, and be secured by a first mortgage upon all the railroads and property now embraced in the mortgages which it was proposed to retire. The amount of the new bonds was placed at $51,244,720, imposing upon the * new company an interest charge of $2,049,- 788 against an interest charge on the same bonds as they now staud of about $3,698,- 234, the saving amounting to about $1,648,- 446 per annum. There would of course, he said, be no question as to the issue of new 4 per cent bonds to retire first mortgage bonds, which were a lien ahead of the Govern- ment on aided partsof theroad. Asto‘the issue of $18,401,720 of new 4 per cent bonds in retirement of all mortgages on non- aided parts of the road there would be no question if the value of the property cov- ered by these mortgages and contributed to the new security was equal to or in ex- cess of that sum. The net earningsof the Union Pacific for 1894, about $4,315,000, had been taken by the reorganization committee under the progressively declining conditions which had affected this property as the outside limit of net.earnings of the entire Union Pacific Railway, upon which it would be safe to rely in reorganization, and the plan of reorganization contem- plated that provision for all outstanding securities and moderate provision for fu- tuse corporate requirements should not result in a fixed charge ever exceeding $4,000,000. It was believed by the commit- tee that any reorganization upon a higher ultimate basis of fixed charges would be unwise and would afford no guaranty against future insolvency and the neces- sity of future reorganization. It was the purpose of the reorganization committee to meet the representatives of the Government upon any practical basis of adjustment, notwithstanding it might accord to the Government relatively better terms than those afforded to other security holaers. Under the conditions referred to, and whicn continued to prevail and in- crease, it was obviously unsafe to reorgan- ize the property at any greater present fixed charge than about $3,600,000 per annum and if it was to be reorganized upon this More Medical value in a bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla than in any other preparation. More skill, more care, more expense in manu- facture. It ccsts proprietor and dealer More hut it costs the consumer less, as he gets more doses for his money. 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