The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 112. ———= PRICE FIVE CENTS, WOULD CENSURE | THE GOVERNMENT, Morley Objects to the War of Great Britain in Egypt. CHEERED BY LIBERALS. Chamberlain Says the Defeat of Italians Created a New Situation. TRIBES IN THE SOUDAN UNITE. Holy War Proclaimed and AIl Der- vishes Asked to Fight Under the Green Flag. LONDON, ExG., March 20.—In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Curzon, Under Foreign Secretary, stated that the italian Government had commuaicated to the British Government that there was a prospect that the dervishes woula make an attack upon Kassala and pointed out the effect which such an attack would have upon Egvpt. Mr. Morley asked if a majority of the Egyptian Debt Comamissioners were com- petent to sanction the proposed expendi- ture for the Dongola expedition. Mr. Curzon said that the commission controlled two funds. The largest of these, which was derived from the conver- sion of the Egyptian debt, required the unanimous consent of the powers to authorize expenditure of the whole or any, part thereof the smaller one, a re- serve fund amounting to £2,500,000, he said might be disposed of by a majority of the commission. During the debate on the estimates John Morley, amid cheers from the Liberal benches, moved to reduce tkte vote for the Foreign Office in order to call attention to recent events in Egypt. Mr. Morley said in reply to a question that unquestionably his motion sought a vote of censure upon the Government, and recalled the circumstances that he himself bad moved a similar vote in 1885 upon the then Liberal Government in condemnation of its policy in Egypt. In the course of his argument Mr. Morley admitted that the occupation of | Egypt by Great Britain had been pro- ductive of mueh benefit and many bless- ings to the people of that country {Con- servative cheers], but he said the long con- tinuance of that occupation had been fraught with great disadvantages to Great Britain. It was an unfortunate step the Government was taking to delay the evacuation of Egypt and divert Egyptian funds from the purposes of Egyptian development and the application of the money to England’s own purpose. [Pro- testing cries of *‘Oh, Oh!” from the Con- servative benches.] The new policy, he declared, would im- pose upon Egypt the duty of governing one of the most difficult territories on the face of the earth. The Government, Mr. Morley said, had not explained their policy, and the Ministers had declined to treat the House with that confidence that the House had reason to expect on the eve of so great an undertaking. So hazardous & proposal, he held, could never be justi fied by a reason so meager, flimsy, ir- relevant and hollow as the one advanced. Mr. Morley’s remarks were received with prolonged Liberal cheers. Mr. Chamberlain, Becretary of State for the Colonies, said it would be impossible for the opposition to pass judgment upon the policy of the Government unless the Government first made up their minds definitely in regard to the immediate evacuation of Egyvpt. Nothing in recent history, he said, could be looked back to with more pride and satisfaction than the peaceful revolving of Egyptian affairs, which had been accomplished with a hand- ful ot men and 2 British civil administra- tion. If Egypt should be abandoned all this would be undone. Egypt must be defended if her prosper- jty was to continue. The consent of a majority of the powers had aiready been given to England’s plan of meeting the expenses, and the Government had no knowledge leading them to assume that the consent of the remaining powers would be finally refused. If the result of the British expedition should in a measure re- lieve Egypt from tbe constant menace ot attacks by the dervishes, the expenditures jncurred would be more than compensated for. It would be impossible to fulfill England’s duty to the people as long as the dervishes were permitted to threaten peaceful industry by their constant raids. ” The defeat of the Italians in Abyssinia bad created a new situation. If Kassala should fall the evil effect upon Egypt would be incalculable. The various tribes of the Soudan were putting aside their internecine disputes and combining in a great effort against Egypt. The wisest policy was to_ anticipate their attack and prevent the dervishes from concentrating against one object. Whatever the Egyptian advance might ultimately be, he said, it wouid only be limited by the nature and extent of the resistance encountered and the mainten- ance of the security of the communities. Henry Labouchere said the Government should wait before taking action until Egypt is attacked by the flervishgs. The reluctance on the part of the Ministers to disclose their plans, be deciared, concealed a jarge scheme. Mr. Labouchere predicted that the expedition, unless checkgd by dis- aster, would go to Dongola and Khartoum and Darfur. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, who represents the north division of Lambeth in the interest of the Liberal-Unionists, asserted that Egypt had a rignt to reclaim her former frontiers aad that the oppor- tunity for doing so had come. The total defeat of the Mahdists, Mr. Stanley de- clared, must precede the independence 9.' Ezypt. Mr. Curzon said that the expedition would take a strongly defensive position i at Akasheh, where it would remain until the hot season, when, ji it was thought | desirable, it would proceed to Dongola. The Government, he added, possessed | proofs that there was a general ferment among the dervishes and that they were threatening Kassala and the Nile Valley. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the oppo- sition leader in the House, said the Gov- ernment was entering upon a long, dan- gerous and uncertain enterprise. It would not - state the true object or define the real limits of the expeaition. He believed it | would be condemned by the people. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury and Government leader in the House, said there was noth- ing in the expedition to excite suspicion oralarm in France. The operations had | no reiation to the British occupation of | Egypt. The position of Egypt could not be satisfactory until that country regained control of a large part of the Soudan. Everything gained for Egrpt would be gained forever. It would not be an ac- vance followed by a retreat. He was con- vincea that in the interetts of Egyptand of Egypt alone the Government was well advised in initiating this policy. A vote was then taken on Morl tion and it was defeated—288 to 145. - WAR IS DECLARED, The Khalifa Calls the Dervishes to Enroll Under the Green Banner. LONDON, March 20.—A dispatch | from the Cairo Giobe says: The Khalifa has | proclaimed a holy war against Egypt, calling upon ell the Dervishes capable of | bearing arms to enroll themselves under | the green banner. It is asserted that Os- man Digna had quit Kasala to join the Dervish forces around Dongola. The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Cairo saying that Colonel | Hunter has occupied Akasheh, south of | Waay:Halfa, without ofposition. He will | probably push on to Suardeh, where the dervishes hive their northern outposts. Ser e REPULSED TH LOSSES. y’s mo- HOLY Dervishes Make Unsuccessful Attacks on the Italians. | MASSOWAH, Apvssizta, March 20— On tue 18th inst. a force of dervishes made | four attacks on the Italians in the Sabderat | defiles, near Kassala. They were repulsed | each time with losses. oA e TARONI RAISED A STORM. Demanded the Recalli of the Troops From Africa. ROME, ItaLy, March 20.—Durine the discussion to-day by the Chamber of | Deputies of the credits asked for by the | | Government, Signor Paolo Taroni, Radi- | cal member for Lugo, demanded the recall | of the Italian troops from Africa. He held that the military party, the court-and the | | King, were answerable for Italy's fatal | colonial policy. Signor Taroni was repeatedly called to order and his arraignment of the Govern- | ment was greeted with shouts of **Enough ! sitdown!” The hubbub finally became so great that the sitting was suspended for a time. Upon the resumption of the sitting | Signor Sonnino, formerly Minister of the Treasury, denied a statement that had | been made that the followers of ex-Prime | Minister Crispi desired to raise a question of confidence in the Government. He ap- | pealed to all the members of the House to | vote the credits. ! A dispatch to the Tribuna from Masso- wah states that General Baldissera, the Italian commander in Africa, has sent two | battalions of infantry and a battalion of | artillery to Keren to operate aguinst the Mahdists. MUST SHARE THE TRAFFIC. Managers of the Transcontinental Railways to Renew an Agreement With the Pacific Mai. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20. — The | traffic managers of the transcontine | railways have been meeting at the W | sor Hotel for three days and have nearl completed arrangements for the reorgani zation of the Transcontinental Traffic As sociation. Itis expected that the ass tion will go into operation by Avrl 1. Every line will be bound to continue a | member until January 1, 1897, but after that date any line may withdraw on ninety days’ notice. It is proposed to restore the old allowance of $72,500 a month by the railroads to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. For this sum the Pacitic Mail Company will give up to the railroads room on each | ship it sends out from San Francisco for | 600 tons of freight consigned to New York. | Under its contract the Pacific Mail Com- | pany the Panama Railroad will receive | for itself and its steamship line between Colon and New York 55 per cent of the al- lowance by the railroads to the Pacific Mail Company. The traffic managers will try to complete their work to-morrow, but it is doubtful if they can do so. Omnere- | sult of the new arrangements will be an advance in rates. Italian Heopen a Noted Case. BUTTE, MoxT., March 20.—Elizabeth S. Bowdoin of Springfield, Mass., sister of Andrew J. Davis, to-day instituted a new contest in the famous Davis will case by filing a petition to revoke the probate of the will which was admitted to probate abouta year ago. She sets up a charge that the will was a forgery, and if genuine had been expressly revoked by a subse- quent will, which was afterward destroyed by Davis. The petition will reopen the | e TG Collis Thimblerig — Just place your money in my hai and watch me do a little trick. Uncle Sam —I guess not. FULL INSTRUCTIONS SENT T0 PAUNCEFOTE Given Power to Reach an Agx;ee- ment in the Venezuelan Boundary Dispute. NORTHCOTE TO PARTICIPATE. Great Secrecy Maintained as to the Concessions Made by Inter- ested Parties. WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 20.— Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan Minister, continues uninformed as to the progress of negotiations so vital to his own coun- try in the boundary dispute, but since President Cleveland’s message to Congress resulting in the high commission Vene- zuela is no longer inquisitive as to the means pursued by the United States to settle the matter, relying with confidence upon the good intentions of the United States. Simultaneously with the admission in the House of Commons on Monday last by Mr. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, that uegotiations had been resumed, which probably had reference to the preliminary discus- sions by Embassador Bayard and Lord Salisbury, full instructions were sent the British Embassador bere, which are un- derstood to be of such scope as to give him plenipotentiary powers to reach an agree- ment with Secretary Olney. Little doubt is exyressed that Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, who reached here Sun- day, will also be an active participant in the negotiations, to which under ordinary circumstances the Venezuelan representa- tive would not be invited uatil considera- ble advance had been made. Beyond the fuct that negotiations are actually going entire case. on, which is now admitted by all the par- ties corcerned, the strictest secrecy is maintained as to any concession made by either of the interested parties. Tawxes Due in Nevada. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20. — Wheeler H. Peckham of New York ap- peared to-day in the Supreme Court of the United States as counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in the litiga- tion with the State of Nevada over the attempt to collect taxes from the railroad corporations for 1388, upon certain tracts of land within the United States grant made to the railroad. The District Court for Nevada held that the State was en- titled to recover taxes upon lands patented and unpatented that had been surveyed, }mtdnot entitled to taxes upon unsurveyed ands. Mr. Peckham contended that the judg- ments should be reversed, with instrnc- tions to the court below that only patented lands can be taxed, or at least that only patented lands and surveyed ‘lands on which the fees have been paid can be as- | sessed and taxed under the existing tax law of Nevad: TEKAS JAKE" LYNCHED, After an Assault Upon a Ranch- er’s Daughter He Was Taken by Cowboys. Strung Up to the Nearest Tree and His Body Riddled With Bullets. WICHITA, Kaxs., March 20.—Fred Harris, alias *‘Texas Jake,” leader of a band of outlaws having their rendezvous in No Mans Land, Okiahoma, stopped at the ranch of Peter Means, near Hugoton, Kans., yesterday, and finding Rosa, the rancher’s daughter, there alone, attempted to assault her. Her cries brought help, and Harris burriedly mounted a fleet horse and fled toward the Territory. The cowboys gave chase, overtaking him late last night near the State line. He made a desperate resistance, and not until shot through the thigh and left leg was he overpowered. He was strung up to the nearest tree, his body riddled with bullets, and left hanging there. ARMS FOR INSURGENTS TAKEN BY SPANIARDS, Fighting Follows the Landing of a Cuban Filibustering Expedition. WAR MATERIAL IS CAPTURED. Eight Trainloads of . Troops Sent to Re-enforce the Columns Seek- ing Maceo. HAVANA, Cusa, March 20.—A Govern- mentlaunch has arrived atCardenas having in tow three rowboats that had been used in landing a filibustering expedition at Varadero Beach. . A fight between troops and insurgents followed .the landingof the expedition. No accurate account of the result of the fight is obtainable. Additional troops have been sent in pur- suit of the rebels. There is no news of Maceo's operations in the province of Pinardel Rio. Eight trainloads of troops and one ambulance train have been sent to re-enforce the col- umns operating against him. J. FRANK CLARK. M O el CAPTURED BY THE BSPANISH. Rifles and Ammunition Taken From the Struggling Cubans. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.—Min- ister Dupuy de Lome received the follow- ing telegram from the Captain-General of Cuba tt’s morning: HAVANA, CuBa, March 20.—The detach- ment of Varadero, near Cardenas, captured 150 boxes of ammunition four Remington and Winchesterrifle s, nine boxes of cavalry rifles, fourteen tin boxes of medicines, twenty knap- sacks covered with oilcloth and two boxes of explosives and three boats. . WEYLER. Minister de Lome has no doubt that all this material was that landed by the Collazo expedition from Cedar Key in the schooner J. S. Mallory, captured by the United States revenue cutters, released by the customs authorities at Tampa and afterward trans-shipped near the southern coast of Florida to the steamer Three ‘Friends. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 20.— From information receivea here to-day the seizure of arms and ammunition Wednes- day by the Spanish in Cuba i not so im- portant as the official dispatches from Havana would indicate. The munitions seized were not those taken out in the Mallory, but were from the schooner Arkell. The Arkell was at anchor at a place called El Verarado. All the arms aboard her had been landed save 145 cases of ammunition when the gunboat Caradad hove in sight. The men on the Arkell abandoned the schooner and hastily escaped to the shore. The Caradad seized the Arkell and 145 cases of ammunition. — - STEEL STEAVER FOR CUBA. The Vessel Will Be Keady When Bellig- erency Is Accorded. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20.—A Re- corder special from Philadelphia says: Captain W. W. Ker, Assistant District Attorney and part owner of the Hart line of steamers, which have frequently been used for filibustering purposes by the Cuban junta, yesterday exhibited a large picture of a new steel steamship, armed with improved naval guns and otherwise equipped as a cruiser, capable of giving battle to any warshipin the Spanish navy. Mr. Ker would not give the name of the vessel, her tonnage. nor any particulars about her. Besides her steam power she has an auxiliary rigging for canvas, and shows seven or eight evil-looking guns. Mr. Ker said: “Just as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency you will hear from this ship. As you can see, she is built for the fruit trade, and will carry 250 fighting men. There might be such arms aboard as machetes, pistols and rifles that could be used in an emergency. You will also hear from the Bermuda in a few days, and I would not be surprised if she landed in Cuba during broad daylight.” e AR 18 NOT AN AMERICAN. Oliverio Agramonte’s Case Investigated by Williasms. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 20.—A dispatch to the State Department to-day from Consul-General Williams at Havana reported that he had investigated the arrest and imprisonment of Oliverio Agramonte, an alleged American citizen, charged with complicity in the insurrection, and had ascertained that Agramonte was a Spanish subject. Tuis disposes of the case so far as the in- terference of this Government is coa- cerned. A report received through thé mail at the department to-day from Jokn D. Hall, United States Consul at San Jaun Puerto Rico, shows that the ‘story told in New York yesterday by a passenger of the stedamer Scuth Cambria about an alleged attempt on Mr. Hall's life by a Spanish sdldier on March 4 is erronecus. Mr. Hall says he has no reason to believe that the bullet fired was intended for him.- On the contrary he believes the shooting was ac- cidental. e TRANSFERRED THE CARGO. Arms and Ammunition for Cuba Placed on the Hermuda. PHILADELPHIA, PA., March 20.—In- formation was received here to-day which makes it probable that .the steamer Com- wmodore has transferred her cargo of arms and ammunition to the Bermuda. Off Chincoteague, Va., yesterday the Bermuaa lay to while a steamer, which in all Jigeli- hoot! was the Commodore, came alongside and transferred a number of packages and heavy cases to the filibustefer. It isalso reported that General de Soto, one of the veterans of the ten-years' war, was put aboard the Bermuda. —_——— PREPARING A MESSAGE. Cleveland Will Show the Damage Done to Property of Americans. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.— President Cleveland will early next week send to Congress a message showing the damage done in Cuba to the property of Americans already aggregates $30,000,000, and that the Spaniards and Cubans are about equally guilty. As long, however, as the war is recognized as an insurrec- tion Spain is responsibie for all damage done by either side. oo bk 49 WEYLER HANGED IN EFFIGY. . New Jersey Students Show Their Dislike for the General. TRENTON, N. J., March 20.—General ‘Weyler, the head of the Spanish army in Cuba, was to-night burned in effigy by fifty stodents of the State Model School. They met on the banks of the Assapink, near the school, and held a mock trial of the general. He was charged with a long list of crimes apd no one spoke for him. and cheered themselves hoarse for Cuba. IR LT, WILL NOT RESIGN. Weyler Satisfied With His Military Oper- ations in Cuba. MADRID, SraIx, March 20.—Prime Min- ister Canovas del Castillo has received a teleeram from Captain-General Weyler, declaring that he is satisfied with the course of the military operations in Cuba, and that nothing has hitherto occurred to induce him to resign. SUAKIN, ON THE RED SEA, WHICH WILL BE THE BASE OF THE ENGLISH IN THE ADVANCE INTO THE SOUDAN. . The boys displayed several Cuban flags® IHUHLEB ASHORE BY HEAVY SEAS, The Ship Glenmorag Lost at the Mouth of the Columbia. TWO SEAMEN DROWNED, Disastrous Result of an Attempt to Reach the Beach in a Longboat. HEROIC WORK OF LIFESAVERS. Twenty-Six Men Rescued by the Fort Canby Crew—The Vessel Going to Pieces. PORTLAND, Or., March 20.—The thune dering surges of the north weather beach are beating to pieces another gale lant ship, and in the treacherous under= tow are drifting two of the vessel’s crew, drowned in the attempt to reach the shore, Shortly after noon yesterday a heavy fog settled down off the mouth of the Colum- bia River, completely obscuring the sea from the observer at Fort Canby. ‘There was little likelihood of any of the few ships due putting in an appearance in the offing with such heavy weather prevailing, and it was therefore a startling sound when at 3:15 P. M. the boom of a gun fired from a ship in distress came echoing against the cliff of Cape Disappointment. The signal was from the British ship Glenmorag, Captain Currie, from Callao, seeking a charter. Enveloped in the fog- bank far out to sea, Captain Currie haa lost his bearings, and, drifting along, un- knowing of the heavy easterly set of the current, the master of the Glenmorag had awvakened to his danger only on hearing the cry of the lookout, ‘‘Breakers ahead!” followed by the booming of the seas roll- ing on the yet distant beach. Hurriedly the starboard anchor was cock- billed and got over the side. As the ship paid off to the scove of the anchor-chain and swung head on a rolling, unbroken mountain of water lifted under her forefoot, and before more scope could be given the starboard anchor cleared the bottom, the Glenmorag drifiing into the second line of rollers. 1he port anciior had by this time been raised and was let go, but never for a mo- men’, was the ground tackle given a chance to tuke hold at the bottom. No sooner would one cable tauten and the work of getting the ship riding to both anchors be got under way than a great roller would throw the bow of the ship high into the air. Before the anchors could again take hold the vessel had taken a heavy drift inshore At 3:50 o'clock the Gienmorag met the first line of breakers, the sea coming over the topgallant forecastle, setting the waist awash. A moment later she struck lightly, but without apparent damage, a lull be- tween the breakers allowing the storm- ports and scuppers tb clear the decks of water. Caprain Currie took advantage of the slicht pause between seas to fire an- other gun, which was answered from shore by the people of Ocean Park who, follow- ing the first signal of distress, had flocked down to the beach. Two successive breakers after the first touch of land the Glenmorag rode. Then came a towering, green mass of water, which. breaking fair at the knighthead of the doomed vessel, buried her in a smother of foam, at the same time throwing her inshore. Wallowing in the trough of the sea the ship was lifted on the crest of the next breaker and cast broadside onto the sands, This was at 4 o'clock. The seas were making steady breaches over theship. Cap- tain Currie although not able to make out the shore through the dense fog knew it was close at hand, it being possible during Iulls to hear the shouts of the people on the beach. He decided to attempt the Cripple The iron grasp of scrofula has no mercy upon 1ts victims. 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