The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH v22,.1896. IN THE REALM OF THE KNISER, Disposal of the Surplis in the Revenue Almost Caused a Crisis. 'DR. MIQUEL VICTORIOUS, Adhered to the Statutes and Pre- vented an Imperial Sink- ing Fund. WILLIAM HEARD THE SQUABBLE The Prosecution of Dr. Peters for His Barbarities in Africa Will Not Be Dropped. BERLIN, Gerwmaxy, March strong divergence of opinion existing be- tween Dr. Miquel, Prussian Minister of | Legislature of Utah. Finance, and Count Posadowsky-Wehner, Imperial Minister of the Treasury, over the question of the year's surplus of the | E []N EAHHIEH! imperial revenue has come very near pro- | ducing a Cabinet crisis. The affair has been very widely discussed by the press and public, and bas divided public interest with the matter of the attitude of the Dreibund toward the Anglo-Egyptian ex- pedition. The newspapers have made the announcement that Count Posadowsky had resigned and have also hinted at Dr. Miauel's resignation, but neither the an- nouncement nor the suggestion was true. The facts of the case are that an actual crisis has been averted, leaving Dr. M in occupation of the stronghold of advan- tage, fortified by the statutes. Unaer the laws and constitution of the empire the surplus of imperial revenue goes to the Federated States by division. The trouble came about in this way: Count Posadowsky proposed to comply with the spirit of a recent vote of the Reich- stag and divert part of the surplus for the amortization of the debt of the empire, and Dr. Lieber, leader of the Centrist party, | supported Count Posadowsky by introduc- ing into the Reichstag a mot: proposing the creation of an imperial sinking fund, wh viding among the Federated States. came du the proceedings of a Cabinet council at which the peciedly made his appearan of the Ministers seems to have the intention of the Emperor to interfere, and it is probable result of a suddenly formed resolution. His Majesty first drove to the Chancel- | suming that tue council was being letie, p held there. He found that Prince Hohen- lohe was absent and that no council was in session there. drove to the Reichstag building and entered the Bundesrath chamber, where the Minis- ters were assembling. He took a seat next to Prince Hohenlohe and gave close aftention to the discussion. In the debate which ensned Dr. Miquel supported the Bavarian, Wurtemberg and Saxony plenipotentiaries in the Bundes- rath. He insisted upon the strict obser- vance of the provisions of the statutes, con- tending that the question had close rela- n to financial reforms which he had long planned. It was necessary, he said, | to demonstrate to the Reichstag that the disposal of the surplus of the imperial rev- enue must have a bearing upon these | plans. It was finally agreed to prepare a bill providing for such temporary appro- priation of funds for the purpose of amor- tization of the imperial debt from part of the surplus as will not interfere with the claims of the Federated States. This dis- cussion is a compromise indorsing the principle of Dr. Lieber's proposal without iniringing upon the statutes. The debate in the Reichstag on the colonial estimates has had another victim besides Dr. Peters in Dr. Kayser, the di- rector of the Colonial Department of the | Foreign Ofice, who resigned. It is prob- able that Prince Arenberg will become the head of the Colonial Office and Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein Minister of Foreign Affairs, with a view of making the post acceptable to Prince Arenberg, who is understood to be willing to raise the Colonial Office from a mere adjunct to the Foreign Office to an independent sec- tion with a Secretary of State at its head. This would imply that Prince Arenberg will be a colleague of the Foreign Min- ister, not a subordinate, as Dr. Kayser has been. This step will secure to the Govern- ment the support of the Colonial party and the Centerists in the Reichstag. Itis possible, however, that the Emperor will not find Prince Arenberg to his taste asa Secretary of State, as the latter is a strong opponent of the idea of increasing the strength of the navy. The inquiry into the accusations made against Dr. Peters has been confined to the direction of Councilor Schwartkoffen. The principal witness will be Herr Bau- mann, Austrian Consul to Zanzibar, who went to Kilimanjare after the executions which Dr. Peters ordered had occurred, and gleaned from the natives the details of the executions. fall through in consequence of the delays which will be inevitable. vate. play. Professor Fine of Princeton University He has been introduced by is in Berlin. J. B. Jackson, United States Charge d’Af- faires, to Dr. Bosse, Minister of Ecclesi- astical Affairs, Instruction and Medicinal Affairs. There is now reason to staté that 2 prominent Berlin savant will go to the Princeton celebrations commemorating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the orzanization of that institution as the guest of the university. Although the Berlin University, tirough its rector, Pro- fessor Wagner, will decline the Princeton University’s invitation and the Breslau University also declines, there are plenty of German professors ready to become the guests of Princeton as individuals, but if the university wants such guests as repre- sentatives of the German universities they will be difficult to obtain. > A court report, which is as ‘accurate, bas it and Czarina of Russis will go to accepted 21.—The | made. The delegation leaves for Salt Lake el panies. quel adhered to the statutes pro- | r the division of the surplus| Emperor unex- e. Not one pected | t his action was the From the Chancellerie he i The 1nquiry promises to last a long time, as the necessary wit- nesses are scattered the world over; but the investigation will not be suffered to The Centerists, Freisinniges and Socialists are as eager to see Dr. Peters punished as the other par- ties ars to see him vindicated, if possible. The Kaiser’s visit to the Court of Vienna in the middie of April will be strictly pri- There will be no fetes and no dis- that the Curlmine caught fire and a number of lives Copenhagen after the coronation cere- monies in Mgscow, and from Copenhagen come to Berlin. Their visit here is ex- pected to occur in July. GAVE PERJURED TESTIMONX. Soldiers to Be Tried for Shielding Their Companions. CHICAGO, IrL., March 21.—Major-Gen- eral Merritt, commanding the Depart- ment of the Missouri, has issued an order convening a general court-martial at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., March 26, to try a dozen enlisted men from Jefferson Bar- racks, St, Louis, on a charge of having given perjured testimony beforea recent trial board at their barracks in a case aris- ing from the intoxication of some of the men. The accused men are said to have shielded their comrades. General orders were issued by General Merritt. to-day regarding the summer movements of the department forces. All the 5»043 are required to make daily marches and tield maneuvers, and encamp- ments of combined garrisons and posts are ordered on a larger scale than usual be- tween April 1 and October 31. —_— BOOMING THE EXPOSITION. A Special Train Advertising the Coming Show at Omaha. CHEYENNE, Wro., March 21.—The special train, decorated with banners ad- vertising the Trans-Mississippi Exposi- tion in 1898, and containing business men from Omaha, was side-tracked here to-day and the members of the party received an enthusiastic welcome. Governor Richards promised to give his personal attention to the matter of seeing that Wyoming was | properly represented. A public meeting was held at the City Hall and addresses n the morning and will appear before the An Anpswer Filed in the Suit Against the Joint Traffic Association. Lake Shore Outlines the Defense of Thirty-Two Railroad Com- NEW YORK, N. Y., March 2L.—The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail- | road Company, one of the thirty-two rail- road companies defendant in the suit of the United States against the Joint Traffic { Association, has filed its answer with the clerk of the United States Circuit Court. In substance, the document recites that the Joint Traffic Association is not incor- | porated, is not acommon carrier and is not engaged in the transportation of freight and passengers nor in trade. It ad- mits that all the defendant companies are that any of them hive been otherwise en- | gaged in interstate commerce or that they | have been engaged in any trade or in rela- | tion to any article or commodity “within | the scope of said agreement.” | It is denied in the answer that the joint traffic agreement entered into on Novem- ber 9, 1895, is in any way unlawful, or that | it is intended to restrict honest competi- | tion or to establish rates of fare or freight. The joint traffic agreement, it is alleged, | does not surrender the control of tratfic to the board of managers, although the asso- | ciation is advised and believes that it has | the legal rights to do so. It is the purpose | of the association to prevent illegitimate | competition and the payment of rebates | and commussions, which are ruinous to legitimate railway tratfic. The fixing of rates by the board of managers is contem- | plated only so far as to give connecting | roads their pro rata share. | In concluding the answer declares that the railroad companies parties to the a Association, subject to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled ‘““An act to rotect trade and commerce against un- awful restraints and monopolies,” ap- proved July 2, 1890. The answer of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Company is said to be identical, in substance at least and prob- ably in text, to the answers to be received from the other defendant comvanies, and which it is expected will be filed with the Clerk of the Court on Monday next. —— FUR DEALERS COMBINE. Will Control the Entire Trade of the United States. CHICAGO, Inn, March 21.—A secret meeting was held in this city a few days ago, the result of which will be watched with the greatest interest by not only the retailers, but also the wearers of fur gar- ments throughout the country. The meeting was attended by represen- tatives of all the large firms engaged in the manufacturing and wholesaling of fur gar- ments in the Urited States, and was called, it is said, for the purpose of eifectinga con- solidation or trust. The following firms | were represented: H. 8. Liebes & Co. of San Frauncisco, Charles Glanz of Chicago, John T. Shayne of Chicago, The A.E. Burkhardt Company of Cincinnati and Robert Meyer & Co. of Leipsic, Germany. The conference resulted in the formation of a consolidation, Chicago being selected for the headquarters of the organization, which will be known as the North Ameri- can ¥ur Company. The principal whole- sale and retail warehouses will be located in this city. The capital stock was placed at $1,500,- | 000, and the executive management will be made up of representatives of the vari- ous firms which are members of the com- bine. The entire fur trade of the United States will be controlled by the company. KEFUSES 1THE FORTUNE. Charles Alvord Will Not Accept His Mother’s Estate. BRIDGEPORT, Cox~.,, March 21— Charles Alvord, once a prominent resident of this city, to-day refused absolutely to accept a fortune left him by his mother, and left here without leaving his address. Mrs. J. D. Alvord died on Wednesday. She left only ene son, Charles, and six grandchildren. Charles has been a rover for many years, and was improvident and shiftless, “His mother’s estate is valued at $100,000, and half of this she bequ-aths to him. He is a recluse. SRR e Yale's Literary Magazine NEW HAVEN, Coxx., March 21.—The Yale Literary Magazine, the oldest maga- zine of any kind in America, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of its establish- ment on next Monday evening. Guests are invited from all the leading Eastern colleges. Invitations were sent to William M. Evarts and Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel), two former editors, but owing to the present infirm health neither will ac- cept. Both have sent_letters to be read at the anniversary exercises. ———— A Mine Caves In. EL PASO, Tex., March 2L.—The Old .Abe gold mine at White Oaks, N. Mex., has caved in from the first to the sixth levels, or 700 feet. The miners were out to dinner at the time or there would have been heavy loss of life. The loss is esti- mated at $50,000. The accident is a severe blow to the town, as local business and in- dustries_are largely dependent on the mine. One year ago the timbering of the common carriers, either separately or in |- The dispute | cOnnection with one another, but denies | WRECKED ONAN ELEVATED ROAD, A Train Dispatcher’s Care- lessness Causes a Dread- ful Accident. COLLISION ON A CURVE. Both Engineers and a Fireman Are Badly Injured—One May Die. PANIC-STRICKEN PASSENGERS. Hundreds of People Have a Miracu- lous Escape From a Fright- $ ful Death. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 21.—The the- atrical matinee express train on the ele- vated road, which left One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street at 2 o’clock this after- noon, southbound, collided with a light engine northbound, on the lower end of the big curve at One Hundred and Tenth street and Columbus avenue at 2:10, and three men were injured. 7 Daniel McGrady, engineer of the express train, is internally injured and may die. Theo Schroeder, engineer of the light en- gine, had his right arm fractured. Michael Smith, fireman of the light engine, re- ceived 1nternal injuries, but will recover. The accident is due to the custom of Sherman Smith, the train-dispatcher at Fifty-ninth street, to start two trains from opposite ends of the road, going in opposite directions on the center track. The light engine reached the big curve at the lower end just as the express came in sight around the corner of One Hundred and Tenth street and Co- lumbus avenue. Both engineers reversed their engines, but could not stop them. Before either engineer could jump to save his life the crash came. The express train butted against the front end of the light engine, staving the boiler head in and de- railing the forward trucks. The mo- mentum of the train was so great that it bumped the light engine fully twenty feet before it could stop. In the cars of the express train there was intense excitement. Passengers were hurled from their seats, windows were oroken and for a few moments it looked as though death were at hand. The cars crashed together and some of the wheels were lifted several inches into the air, but fortunately not a car left the frack. The accident was seen from the One Hun- dred and Fourth street station, and word was telegraphed to One Hundred and Forty-seventh street for a wreckage tain. The employes of the One Hundred and Fourth street station removed the injured | men from the wrecked engines and Am- bulance Surgeon Robson took them to the Manhattan Hospital. After a delay of nearly half an hour traffic was resumed. CRAY HORSES MEDICIE reement are not, nor is the Joint Tratiic| A Bullet-Proof Mixture That Cost the Life of His Brother. Pawnees, Comanches and Kiowas Have a Serious Attack of the Dancing Fever. WICHITA, Kaxs., March 21.—Pawnee Bill, who has returned from the four bands of the Pawnee tribe in Western Oklahoma, brings word that the majority of the In- dians bave left their farmsand moved into tepees on Black Bear Creek, where they are engaged in the Messiah dance and medicine-making. Crazy Horse, one of the principal medi- cine men of the tribe, claimed to have made a medicine that rendered bullet- proof any one anointed therewith. It was agreeda that the test should be applied to his brother. The Indian was placed in front of the council of chiefs, stripped and smeared with the medicine. At a given signal he was shot at with a rifle. The bullet penetrated the heart, causing in- stant death. The Indians were greatly incensed at Crazy Horse, and he was brought before the council for trial. He wasrich in cattle and horses, and it was decided to confiscate all of his property. indict him on the charge of murder. The dancing fever is spreading to the Co- manches and Kiowas. —_— CHINESE BOYS COMING. They Will Be Educated in the Regular Western Way. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 21.—The Journal says this morning: Some time in May Rev. K. K. Hule, whose Chinese name is Hule Kin Kwang, will arrive in this city convoying thirty-five Chinese boys, each one about 10 vears of age. They are coming with the consent of the Em- peror of China and the favor of this Gov- ernment. The boys are all from the proy- ince of Kwang Tung. There is this material difference between the cases of these boys and the little fellows who were sent here twenty-five years ago to be educated by the Chinese Government: Those boys, some of whom are gradnates of Yale, Harvard and Am- herst, still live here, honored, respected and thoroughly Americanized, with American wives and_children, came bent on training their minds only. The com- ing thirty-five are to train their hands and eyes as well as their brains. It is pro- posed to develop them into civil engineers, mechanical en%incers. electricians, con- structors of railways and to thoroughly and practically instruct them in various trades, The boys are coming by way of San Francisco and the Southern Pacific, and all arrangements have been consummated in Canton and Hongkong to enable them to come through smoothly. The Presby- terian Board of Missions has had this practicai undertaking in view for a long time. The boys will receive their prepara- tory education at the Presbyterian day school. They are the sons of wealthy parents, who, realizing the necessity of adopting Western methods to enable China to cope with her neighbors, have adopted this means of laying a foundation for the new order of things. s zat Doy Called on the President. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 21.—The were lost. 1 President had the largest crowd of callers The Federal officers, it is expected, will | this afternoon since his_tri-weekly public receptions were resumed. ~About 700 per- sons paid their respects and among them were a large party of pupils from the Orange (Mass.) High School. LT AINEFFICIENCY aND NEGLEOT. Serious Charges Preferred Against New Orleans Mint Officials. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 21.—There are serious charges pending against United States Mint officials in New Or- leans of inefficiency and neglect of duty. These charges are contained in a report of Cabell Whitehead of the Mint Bureau at ‘Washington, who recently made an ex- amination of the mint at New Orleans. His report has been referred by Mint Di- rector Preston to Secretary Carlisle, who will no doubt takean early opportunity of laying the same before the President, as the superintendent, melter and refiner, coiner and assayer are all Presidential ap- pointments. A copy of the report was sent to Superintendent Cade some days since, who was authorized to show zge same to the other officers of the mint an1 his attention was particularly called to the law and regulations governing the at- tendance of officers and other employes. The New Orleans mint was closed last November, but opened again for silver coinage on February 1 last. —_— RELEASKD A MONTH AGO. That Paris Dispatch About Waller Was Rather Stale. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 21.—Secre- tary Olney said to-day that he could not understand the basis for the story from Paris, published to-day, that John L. Waller had been released yesterday from prison, as Waller had been released last month. Waller’s relatives here say he is in England. A dispatch staung that Waller wasstill in prison was published in American papers about a week ago. The statement that Waller was released yester- day probably arose from the formal ex- change of notes between Embassador Eus- tis and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs closing the Wallerincident. Waller was released just one month ago to-day and the State Department was promptly notified by cable of the fact by Mr. Eustis, — NEARING AN ADJUSTMENT Good Offices of the United: States to Settle the Uruan Incident. Venezuela Will Soon Pay Dearly for the Arrest of a Petty Constable. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 21.—The so-called Uruan incident has been divorced from the Venezuelan boundary dispute and practically terminated, it is under- stood, through the good offices of the United States, without the representatives of Great Britain and the South American republic coming into direct relations re- garding the affair. The Uruan incident, so called, had at one time a somewhat threatening aspect, but finally developed into comparative insignificance, capable of exceedingly tame adjustment. It is stren- uously contended by those most inti- mately concerned that the incident never had an ultimatum stage, and that there was never any foundation for the report that a British fleet would be called upon to imitate the Corinto demonstration. While originally the claim presented through the German legation in Novem- ber, 1894, was for a violation of the frontier of British Guiana, and therefore insepar- able from the boundary controversy at Secretary Olney’s insiste nce, Great Britain a few weeks ago modified it into a demand similar in effect to that pressed by Italy against the United States on account of the New Orleans riots in 1890, which claim was settled by the payment by President Harrison of a certain sum of money out of the State Departusent contingent fund. It is understood that the Uruan demand now simply becomes one for personal dam- ages inflicted upon British property and persons by Venezuelan officials, leaying out of the controversy the question whether the occurrence was upon Vene- zuelan territory as being irrelevant. * When Douglas Barnes, the British Guiana constable, was arrested in July, 1894, by Venezuelan soldiers, on the right bank of the Cuyuni River, which he had crossed to stop a Venezuelan, planter from cutting trees on land which he owned, the Venezuelan Government paid Barnes $300 or §400 on account of his imprisonment, which he_personally considered as satis- factory. But when the Colonial Govern- ment heard of it considerable indignation rose in Demarara and the damages were soon magnified to enormous amounts which at that period the Home Govern- ment felé constrained to present as a claim against Venezuela. After two years, how- ever, and in view of the changed aspect of the boundary dispute the claim has dwindled to $5000, and this amount is })robably about what Venezuela will short- pay, with the distinct understanding that it does not affect the title to the terri- tory upon which the arrest occurred. NEW TO-DAY. A well selected text is half of the ser- mon. Given a good text and a preacher who is in earnest, and the result is sure to be good. The text of this article isa plain simple statement that proves itself in the reader’s own mind without argu- ment. The text is “ Good health is bet- ter than great riches.” Without health nothing really matters very much. A hacking cough ‘takes all the beauty out of a landscape or a sunset. Erysipelas or eczeina will spoil the enjoy- ment of sprightly conversation, of a beau- tiful concert, of a wonderful painting. The biggest bank account in the world won’t pay a man for his health, but a very 1 amount of money will make him healthy and keep him healthy. Most all bodily troubles start 'in the digestive or respiratory organs. It is here that improper living first makes an opening for disease. The development differs as constitutions and temperaments differ. The causes are almost identical. To get at the root of the matter is simple enough if you start right. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is a medicine for the whole body. It works through the digestive organs on all the others. ¢ It cures the first thing it comes to and after that, the nmext. It puts health in place of disease in the stomach, and from the vantage d thus gained, it reaches every fiber of the body and drives disease before it — indigestion, liver troubles, kidney complaint, biliousness, skin and scalp diseases, salt-rheum, tetter, eczema, and all the troubles caused by impure blood. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. BLLOCKED FOR NEARLY ONE HOUR! Passers by in the vicinity of the big store yesterday were treated to a sight seldom wit- nessed in a retai/ house. Such things may occur on an opening night at a theater or some public demonstration, but hardly do they occur in a retail house. The beautiful electrical display in our winaow tells its tale more forcibly than all the word-painting at our command of the beautiful Spring Suits and Overcoats at Two big windows full of these goods, and it being the first Saturday of this offering no doubt had a tendency to bring out the crowd, which it did and nearly blocked the entrance to aur store and locked up every aisle for nearly an hour. Those that passed the big store between the hours of 3 and 4 will attest to it. It was an ovation tendered one of the greatest mercantile sales in the history of commerce, that for pluck and nerve cannot be excelled any- where in this wide universe. A REPETITION OF IT MONDAY. If you have time to-day, come downtown and take a look into those two windows, our big corner window and the window round the corner. You'll have no occasion to doubt why the big store had the crowd yesterday. RAPHAEL’ INCORPORATED). TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS—8 BIG FLOORS. It’s caused a sensation. ‘We have placed before the people some powerful attractions in the past, but none that will hold a candle to the one we place before you now. It isa daring move on our part, to take, right at the beginning of the season, our very choicest Suits and Overcoats, and fill two windows, our big Kearny-street win- dow and the window round the corner, with the very cleverest and newest ideas in Spring Suits and Overcoats, and say for " $0.50. It’s a sale that’s on every one’s lips; every one’s talking about it. A saleof this magnitude has never been attempted in this city before, and there’s no other house in this city that has the nerve and pluck to do likewise. Two big windows showing up the clev- erest ideas in Spring Suits, the cleverest ideas in Spring Overcoats, tell their tale more forcibly than all the word-painting at our command. Above we give you a little idesa of the clever garments. It's almost impossible in this limited space to talk on nearly 6000 garments; they're clever; they’re up-to- date. The coiorings are all new, bright and Springlike. The Double-Breasted Sacks areideal gar- ments; Suits that if you find their like in town in other stores they would tax you $18. Your pick, but for a very limited time, at $9.50. In our picture above we show a very clever Three-Button Single-Breasted Sack, in handsome colorings, in blues, blacks, pretty Scotch mixtures; very swell gar- ments, such as your swellest tailors make. In the other picture we show a very swell Spring Overcoat, made from those fine tan Covert cloths, with satin sleeve linings; very swell garments; garments that haven'’t their peer, and brand new Spring styles at that; no left-oversn or past sea- son’s rejected patterns; they’re all new and Spring-like. Two windows, just picture to yourself, our big corner window and the window round the corner. $9.50 For pick for a brief period only. RAPHAEL’S (INCORPORATED). THE FRISCO BOYS, 9, 11, 13, 15 KEARNY STREET