The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 118. PRICE FIVE CENTS WHITE SETTLERS ARE MASSACRED, An Uprising of Natives in Two South African Districts, ARMED FOR PROTECTION Endangered Residents of Towns in Matabeleland Are Erect- ing Defenses. STRIFE IN THE TRANSVAAL. President Kruger’s New Offensive and Defensive Treaty With the Orange Free State. CAPETOWN, SourH AFRICA, March 26.— The Matabeles of Inzza and Fillibuzzi districts have revolted and massacred the white settlers, including Commissary Bentley. Fugitive whites are flocking to Bulowayo and Gwelo for protection. A detachment of seventy-five volunteers with a Maxim gun has been dispatched against the natives. The people of the townsin Matabeleland mre erecting defenses.to protect themselves against the natives and volunteers are be- ing enrolled. Armed forces have been dispatched to the disturbed districts. LONDON, Exa., March 26.—The Times will to-morrow say that a dispatch dated March 25 from a well-informed source in Pretoria, capital of the South African republic, confirms the reports of a serious political situation. President Kruger has concluded a new offensive and defensive alliance with the Orange Free State. The Boers of the Free State and of Cape Colony are arming. There has been a large influx of Germans intc the police and artillery of the Trauns- vaal. Dr. Leyds, the Secretary of State of the republic, encouraged immediately by Germany, is using a large amount of secret- service money.’ For these reasons the Transvaal considers its position to be a very strong one The Chronicle in itsissue to-morrow will publish, under reserve, a report that Great Britefn has'parchased Delagoa Bay, East Africa, from the Portuguese. The price paid, according to the report, was £5,000,- 000. The purchase includes the whole covntry between the South African Re- public and the South Indian Ocean, from Amatongaland to the Limpopo River as far as the territory of the British South Africa Company. THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION. An Explanation of Its Objects Demanded « by the Sultan. LONDON, Exc., March 26.—The Times’ correspondent at Cairo telegraphs that the Sultan of Turkey lately demanded that the Egyptian Government explain the ob- ject of the Soudan expedition. In reply the Government stated that Egypt, in accord with Great Britain, intended to re- cover the territory lost by the revolt in the Soudan. The Sultan has thus forced Fgypt's hand by eliciting the admission that the ultimate object of the expedition is to rescue the Soudan from the Mahdists. In the House of Commons to-day Cur- zon, Under Secretary to the Foreign Office, announced that the Government has not received any protest against the expedi- tion up the valley of the Nile. The Sultan, he said, bad inquired the nature of the military operations proposed, and expla- nations had been given. Curzon explained that there - were numerous precedents for the expenditure of aportion of the Egyptian reserve fund with the consent of a majority of the powers comprising the Egyptian public debt commission. It was the ordinary method of procedure. Mr. Curzon'informed the House that the House that the military authorities of both England and Egypt had approved the Dongola expedition, and added that the Government had taken their decision in the matter after communicating with Lord Cromer, the British diplomatic agent in Egypt. PARIS, Fraxce, March 26.—The French syndicate of Egyptian bondholders have decided to institute action before the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the Egyptian Public Debt Oommission in op- position to the decision of that body to authorize the use of any part of the Egyptian reserve fund for- the purpose of defraying the cost of the Dongola ex- pedition. MANITOBA’S SCHOOL QUESTION. Dominion Conference Committee Expeets a Settlement. WINNIPEG, MaxToBA, March 26.—The Dominion Conference Committee — Sir Donald A. Smith, Hon. Mr. Dickey and Hon. Mr. Desjardins, of the Dominion— appointed to confer with the Manitoba Government with a view of reaching a settlementof the existing Manitoba school question, is here. The Greenway Govern- ment has prepared no line of action for the conference and will not decide the course to be-pursued till advances hiave been fully made by the Ottawa delegation. Sir Donald expresses the hope that they may end the strife. He declares they came in a conciliatory spirit and hope to be mét in a similar spirit. Premier Greenway has gone to a remote portion of the province to attend a political convention. It is probable that the conference will be post- poned until Monday. The ——— Elected to the Academy. LONDON, Ex6., March 26.—The artist George Henry Boughton, formerly of New York, has been elected a member of the Royal Academy. In its issue to-morrow election of Messrs. Abbey and Sargent, may be regarded as further proof of what Sir’ John F. Millais, president of the academy, recently called the art brother- bood that the acacemy feels toward the United States. NOT IN CANADIAN TERRITORY. An Erroneous’ Report Said to Have Been Made by the Boundary. Com- missioners. OTTAWA, Oxr., March 26.—The joint report of the International Boundary Com- missioners appointed- to ascertain facts and data necessary to the permanent de- limitation of the boundary line between Alaska and Canada has been presented to Parliament. The report shows that the surveyors of the two countries agree ap- proximately in their observations. The summit of Mount St. Elias is found to be 2.41 statute miles east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian, that is to say, in Canadian territory. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.— Mount St. Elias is not in Canadian terri- tory, to-day’s repoft from Ottawa to the contrary notwithstanding. General Duf- field, superintendent of the Coast Geodetic Survey, and the representative of the TUnited States on the.joint beundary com- mission, whose report has been presented to the Camadian Parliament, says’ that while it is true thatthe mountsin is 2.41 statute miles east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian, it is furthiermore cer- tain that its highest elevation is exacily ten marine leagues from the coast, and therefore it is happily- one of the chief boundary monuments between American and British possessions. The records of the official surveyors establish this beyond question. Ve SN FOR AN INCOME TAX. The Principle Accepted by the Chamber of Deputies. PARIS, FrAxcE, MaTch 26.—After a close struggte the Chamber of Deputies to-day accepted the principle of the income tax. Prime Minister Bourgeois raised a question of confidence againstan amendment of- fered by M. Guillemot and the amendment was rejected by a vote of 288 to 272. M. Deumer, Minister of Finance, then demanded a vote on M. Dron’s resolution of confidence and on the principle of the income tax. Tbe conference garagraph was adopted by a vote of 297 to 249. Finally an amend- ment offered by M. Pouranery de Bosserin, which was similar to that of M. Dron, but leaving the settlement of the most strongly opposed ‘details of the income tax bill to the Budget Committee, was carried, the vote standing 286 to 270, the Government accepting the amendment. Simehy SgEe e Siberian Railway . Scheme, LONDON, ExG., March 26.—The Stand- ard will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Berlin stating that the Czar has sanctioned the long-meditated modifications of the Siberian Railway scheme, by which the line will be taken from Tehita ito Port Arthur. China, the dispatch adds, willin exchange for important Russian conces- sions, cede Port Arthur to Russia, ingtead of making that place a free port. RIVAL CLIIII’T‘_? %%fl&” Trouble May Grow Out of the Change in the Channel of the Missouri River. LINCOLN, Nepr.,, March 26.—County Attorney Burnham and Sheriff Glasgow of Nemeha County to-day called upon Gover- nor Holcomb, seeking his advice and as- sistance in the event of a clash between rival claimants for land in Nemeha County, this State, and Atchison County, Miss. The threatened trouble, which has assumed a serious aspect, is the resuit of the Missouri River changing its channel, leaving a part of what was Nebraska an island. The settlers on this land utilized the old river bed, or the Nebraska half of it as accretions to their farms. Under a law passed by the Missouri the Daily News will congratulate the Royal Academy upon the election of Mr. Boughton, which, it says, following the Legislature the whole of these accretions were claimed by the State, and recently filings have been made by Missouri claim- ants on the disputed territory, which com- prises between 3600 and 4000 acres. So stubbornly have the original settlers re- sisted that there is fear of bloodshed. Governor Holcomb advised caution, prom- ising to consult with Missouri officials looking toan amicable settlement. R Gy Death of W. J. Edbrooke. g CHICAGO, Iry., March 26.—Willoughby J. Edbrooke, who was Supervising Archi- tect of the Treasury during the admini: tration of Benjamin Harrison, died at h home- here yesterday after an illness of two months, his disease being cancer of the stomach. He was a thirty-second de- gree Mason and 53 years of age. CONTESTS 10 THE WILL, No End to the Litigation Over the Estate of the Late Andrew Davis. Butte Heirs Declare That the Claims “of the California Widow Are Groundless. BUTTE, Moxt., March 26.—The biggest of all contests recently entered in the Davis will case was begun to-day by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Smith of California, a niece of the dead millionaire, Andrew J. Davis. Shefalso asks that the probate of the alleged forged will be revoked, but sets upas a ground that the District Court had lost jurisdiction and bad improperly admitted the will to probate before its genuineness hdd been established, nio evidence having been offered on that point when the wiil was admitted, its admission having been consented to by the original contestants. Two other contests were entered to-day, one by Calvin Davis of Bebastopol, Cal., and one by Harriet Wood of Springfield, Mass,, brother and sister of the deceased. The Butte heirs declare that the claims of the California woman who pretends to be a widow of the dead millionaire is a blnckmsilinf scheme, and that the only foundation for her story is that her first of three husbands was named Abe Davis. e 2 MUST DISPLAY OLD GLOKY. Governor Altgeld and University Trus- tees Indicted for Neglect. CHAMPAIGN, I, March 26.—The Champaign County Grand Jury to-day in- dicted Governor John P. Altgeld and the entire board of trustees of the University of Illinois for mnot complying with the State law requiring that the American flag be displayed over the State University buildings Boss Rainey—Now, when ye fellers vote, ye want to vote right. See! DENDUNCED BY A DYING MOTHER Mrs. Whittaker Accused of Having Murdered Her Parents. POISONED BY ARSENIC. Jacob Snyder and His Wife Frances the Victims of a Bold Plot. LINGERED IN GREAT AGONY. In the Chamber of Death the Sfis- pected Daughter Attempted to Take Her Own Life. PORT JERVIS, N. Y., March 290.—On Sunday evening Jacob Snyder and his wife, Frances, who live in' East Main street, this city, were taken suddenly ill with arsenical poisoning. Jacob died last Tuesday, but Mrs. Snyder lingered along until-early this morning, when she died. The Snyders’ only daughter, Mrs. Martha Whittaker, who is suspected of having administered the poison, hds been under the surveillance of the police since yvesterday morning. She was debarred from the presence of her parents by order of the pbysician last Sunday, at which time it was first ascertained that'they had been poisoned. . Mrs. Whittaker was prac- tically a prisoner in the sitting-room, be- low the room where her mother lay suffer- ing all day yesterday, a policeman stand- ing guard.on the outside of the building. ‘When Mrs. Snyder was found to be in a dying condition at6 o’clock last evening the daughter was admitted to her presence, As soon as she emtered the room the mother called out, *‘Get her out of my sight.”” The daughter did not leave the room, but remained where her mother could not see her. When her mother died Mrs. Whittaker swooned and fell to the floor. ; 1 ST Shortly after she was seized with nausea, and Dr. Swartout was hastily summoned. He found her evidently mfle}ing from the* effects of poison, and adwministered anti- dotes. The physician was again cslled at 7 o'clock and later at 11 o’clogk. Coroner Harden took an ante-mortem statement from Mrs. Snyder on Tuesday. the substance of which he will not make known until the inquest, a jury for which was impaneled this morning. Autopsies have been periormed on the bodies of both the victims and the stom- ach, intéstines and other organs showed violent irritant poisoning by arsenic. These will be sent to a New York chemist to be analyzed. J A box of rat poison from which about two spoonfuls had been taken is in the posses- sion of Coroner Harding. . v Mrs. Whittaker by the death of her par- ents would have come into the possession of $3000 insurance, $2000 of which was on the life of the father, payable to the wife, and $1000 on the life of Mrs. Snyder, vay- able to her husband. Mrs. Snyder made a will on Tuesday eyening in which 'she de- vised her property so as to deprive Martha of the $2000, but the $1000 insurance on her own life she could naot change, Mrs. Whittaker asserts’ her innocence of the crime. . e ] / George Kennaw's Father Dead. MONTCLAIR, N.J., March 26.—John Kennan, father of Georze Kennan, the Siberian traveler, died yesterday at the 1 womd t:ot be ‘given that jui e | home of his daughter, Mrs. E. D. Moore. He was 93 years of age. Mr. Kennan was a son of Rev. Thomas Kennan and was born in Waterbury,.Vt., in 1803. A widow and five grown children suryive him. IMPRISON A FRENEH SUBJECT. Colored Friends of Ex-Consul. Waller Hold a Prisoner in-a Cove as a Hostage. % WICHITA, Kans., March 26.—A report reached this city to-day from the colored settlement near Columbpia in the Black Jack country of Oklahoma that the pe of that settlement ond y W T [ ae- cording to his understandingthe French Government owes and filled with a desire for vengeance, seized upon the person of Pierre Roulet, a French settler, and im- prisoned him in a secret cagve. They pro- pose to keep him there until France yields to the demandsof Waller. Roulet has not yet taken. out his naturalization papers, and is consequently a citizen of France. The keen interest shown by these colored people in the Waller affair is partly due to the fact that one or two of the inhabitants are related to his wife. They believe the French Government should be made pay an indemnity. ¥ e MANTELL WEDS MRS. HUAN. The Actor Disvegards the Threats of an Ex-Husband. CHICAGO, Irn, March 26.—Robert Mantell, the actor, and Mrs. Charlotte Huhn were married at noon to-day by Bishop Fallows. Mrs. Hubhn, who is known on the stage as Charlotte Behrens, was yesterday granted a divorce from Edward F. Huhn, & theatrical maneger. Sne has been Mr. Mantell’s leading lady for several years. Huhn has a suit for $125,000 pending against Mantell for alien- ating the affections of Mrs. Huhn, and. it is ‘noi long since Mrs. Manteil secured a divorce from her: husband, Mrs. Huhn being named as: the co-respondent. Theatrical people intimate that to-day’s wedding will be the cause of further trouble, as it is said that Huhn has threat- ened to kill Mantell should the latter marry the ex-Mrs. Huhn. CHINED FOR THO YEAR Escape of a Boy Who Had Been Treated Like a Wild Beast. Severe Pynishment Inflictefi Upoa ‘the Lad Because He Once Ran Away. CINCINNATI, Onro, March 26.— A special to the Post from . Louisvilie says: A case of the most inhuman treatment of a father to a son came to light this after- noon when Elbert Hendon, 11 years of age, was brought here by a minister and several other gentlemen. For two years the boy had been chained to the floor of a stable, and only on a few occasions was he allowed the freedom. of the lot, and then it was under the gnard of some member of the family. The boy lives with his father, William Heéndon, about two miles from Jeffersontown. Two years ago he ran away, and. when his father found him he said the boy should not repeat it, and, it is claimed, securing a chain he welded it to the boy’s leg and fastened the other end to the stable floor. The chain was not more than two feet in length, and for two years the boy. re- mained a prisoner. This morning he se- cured a horseshoe, pried the staple off and ran to Jeffersontown with the.chain still dangling to his foot. Action will be taken to prosecute the father for his inbuman treatment. et ek 3 Australasia’s Gold Product. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—From inforrhation received by the directér of the mint, he estimated the production of gold in Australasia during the calendar ear 189510 have been. $44,286,000, againsc ¥41,761,w0 for the calendar yesr 1894, an increase of §225,000 % FRED UPON KD UMK AT SEA Rumor That the Bermuda Became a Target for a Warship. ok i FATE OF A FILIBUSTER. However, Other Dispatches State That the Steamer Landed the Men and Arms. . THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Cuban Patriots Continue to Encounter the Spanish in Their Strong- holds. p MADRID, Sparx, March 26.—A dispatch to the Imparcial from Havana says a rumor is current in that city that the British steamer Bermuda, Captain O’'Brien, which sailed from New York March 15 ostensibly for Vera Cruz, but which had on board war material for the use of the Cuban insurgents, has been fired upon and sunk by a British warship. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 26.—Dis- patches received in this ‘city ‘yesterday from Havana, stated that the Bermuda had landed the arms and ammunition she carried, and that Géneral Garcia and the men with him had safely joined the in- surgents. s WORK OF THE CONFEREES. They Agree Upom the Senate’s Original Resolutions. WASHINGTON, D. C., Match 26.—The conferees on the Cuban resolutions, after a short session this afternoon, agreed to resolutions 4s they originally passed the Senate. This shuts off all further debate in the Senate. The House, it is’ believed, will agree to the report without delay. In the form as thus agreed to the resolutions are as follows: Resolved, By the Senate (the House of Repre- sentatives _concurring therein), that in the opinion of Congress & condition of public war exists between the Government of Spain and the government proclaimed and for some time maintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba, and that the United States-of America should maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and ter- ritory of the United States. Resolved, further, that the friendly 6ffices of the United States should be offered by the President to_the Spafish Government for'the reeoznition 6f the.independence of Cuba. The action of the.five conferrees was unanimous. Senator Lodge of Massachu- setts, the sixth member of the committee, was absent. Hitt, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will, at the first oppor- tunity, call up the conferénce report and ask its consideration. It will probably be foliowed by some debate, but it is not doubted that it will be adopted. L L STORIES OF ENCOUNTERS. - As Usual the Spanish Lecaders Report Victories. ; HAVANA, Cusa, March 26.—General Rriz reports that he has had an encounter with 300 rebels at a place half a league from San Felipe, province of Havana. The rebel loss is stated to have been twenty-one killed and several wounded. The troops sustained no loss. A train has arrived here bringing sixty- ‘} three troops who were wounded in the re- .| machetes and ammunition. cent encounter in the province of Pinar del Rio. 4 It is officially reported that Colonel San- chez Echavaria has captured insurgent camps near Pasco Real and that the rebels lost fifty killed. The troops destroyed goods valued at $200,000. Captain-General Weyler has ordared that all the political prisoners detained by General Pando in Santa Clara, except three, be liberated on account of the lack of evidence against them. . Elbert Rappleye, the correspondent of the New York Mail and - Express, sailed for New York to-day on the steamer Yuca- tan in obedience to an order issued .by General Weyler. It is officially reported that a combina- tion of rebel bands, taking advantage of the fact that only a small force of Spanish troops was stationed in the city of Santa Ciara, marched upon that place on the night of March 22 and penetrated to the center of the town, where they made an attempt to capture the arsenal. General Bazan, in command of the troops in the city, accompanied only by his staff, per- sonally inspected the points of danger and so disposed the garrison as to save the city, The rebel leader, Leoncio Vidal, was killed in front of the arsenal, opposite the plaza, and his body remained’ on the ground exposed to public view in the morning for several hours. The total losses as the result of the fizht are .not known. —_— CRUISE OF THE COMMODORE. Fireman Owens Tells His Story to the Spanish Consul, CHARLESTON, 8. C., March 26.—Ed- ward 8. Owens, late fireman on the alleged filibustering steamer Commodore, went before the Spanish Consul here to-day and made a statement regarding the much talked-of trip of the Commodore. He was indignant because the officers of the boat would not pay him more money, and it seems had also been drigking. He ad- mitted that he always knew where the boat really 'was.going, but claimed to have been ~'shanghaied,” that is, shipped to go to . one vort, and then made to go to another, and avers that he will prosecute the officers of the Commodore. He told the Consul to-day that the Com- modore went straight to. Cuba when she left here on the ‘13th. She tried to land at hight, and failing at that she came boldly up to the Cuban coast and put her | men and arms ashore. There were thirty- two men, he said, among whom was General de Soto, and sixboatloadsof rifles, He said the landing was made just around a cape which.he thought was in the province of ‘Santa Aona. The men on board were mostly Americuns of Cuban extraction, General de Soto being the only man of note among them. They did not drill while on board the Commodore, but when they landed they all put on caps with Cuban flags on them. The Spanish Consul said that he could take no part in the matter until official recognition of Owens’ statement had been madg. If Owens wished to prosecute the officers or libel the bout_the Spanish Gov- ernment would heip il it coi.d after the, case had been made, and i the United States District Attorney wonld start pro- ceedings Spain would help to push them. Owens consulted a lawyer to-day, snd a likel suit against the vessel will be brought to-morrow. WHIPPED BY ANGRY WOMEN. Terrible Punishment Inflicted = Upon a Former Justice of the Peace of Nebraska. BERTRAN D, Nesr., March 26.—Excite- ment is running high here to-day on ac- count of the whipping of H, H. Willey, a former Justice of the Peace and a man with a large family, who, yesterday, it is charged, made indecent proposals to the 7-year old daughter of A."M. Hill of Bert- rand. Willey was ordered to leave town and while preparing to do so to-day was arrested by Constable Clark Clayton on a warrant sworn out by the girl’s mother. At 2 p. M. a number of women led by’ the mother covered the prisoner with a re- volver and after tying his hands and plac- ing a strap about his neck marched him out in front of the City Hall and three women ata time thrasbed him with black- snake whips until his hands and face were dripping with blood. The sight having become sickening to many Constable Sandstrom ordered them to stop. The whipping took place in full view of the prisoner’s home, and while ne received little pity public. sympathy was touched by the cries of his children and wife. He left to-night for Iowa. SWED BY VEST BUCKLE An Attempt to Assassinate a Merchant Made by an " Insane Youth. Bullets Penetrate the Clothing of the Living Target, but He Escapes Injury. ROCHESTER, N. Y,, March 26.—Louis Black, of the clothing manufacturing firm of Black & Meyer, in North 8t. Paul street, was the victim of an attempted assassin- ation at noon as he was on his way to lunch. The would-be assassin is Leon Rosenbaum, 21 years of age, a son of Mr. Rosenbaum -of the firm of Seel, Rosen- baum & Steefel. clothing manufacturers, whose factory. is’ near that of Black & Meyer. . ‘When Mr. Black crossed Andrews street he passed Rosenbaum and greeted the boy with **Good morning.” He had taken but a few steps when a pistol snot rang out and he felt something strike him in the back. Turning he exclaimed, ‘‘My God, what are you shooting me for?”’ Rosen- baum continued to fire and .Mr. Black ‘beld his umbrella in front of him in an | effort to protect' himself from the flying bullets. Three shots were fired, the young man being within ten feet of his victim. A large number of people gathered and Rosenbaum escaped np an alleyway.” Mr. Black walked to his house near by and an examination of his back showed abullet hole through bis coat and, vest and his vest buckle had been sbattered. This evi- dently saved his life. The boy is thought t0 be insane, as the families of Black and Rosenbaum are on intimate terms. Ladies’ Southern ties, $1 45, all shades, every toe. RByan & Ryan, 10 Mongomery avenue, * FRESND PEOPLE ARE ENRAGED Evangelist Johnson Forced to Retract Slanderous Statements. MUST LEAVE THE CITY. Violence of Angry Citizens Pre- vented by the Action of a Committee, PURSUED INTO A BUILDING. Now the Reverend Gentleman Is in Hiding or Has Quietly Sneaked Away. FRESNO, Car., March 26.—An attempt was made this evening t6 mob Evangelist L. T. Jolinson, who stated from his pulpit that two-thirds of the girls of Fresno above the age of 14 are not virtuous. Pub- lic indignation is great, and just before 6 o’clock, when Jolinson emerged from the rear door of the First National Bank, where he bad been waited upon by a com- mittee, he was set upon by a crowd of hun- dreds. He ran into the bank and the whole police force of the city and several Deputy Sheriffs had all they could do to keep the people from pursuing him into the build- ing. - Arthur R. Briggs made a speech to the people and held their attention while Johnson, under the protection of Sheriff Scott and deputies, made a secret retreat by another door and ran for his life. The crowd did not discover that he had escaped antil he was out of reach. Johnson, under the extreme pressure of the citizens’ committee, denounced his own statements from the pulpit as false, and said. he believed at the time he made them that they were false, and he apologized to the people of this city for the slander he had cast upon them. In view of the great excitement it was thought best to assist him to get out of town with all speed. The committee waited on him at his boarding-house in the suburbs of the city, and Professor T. L. Heaton, Su- perintendent of City Schools, as spokes- man of the committee, told him that far his own safety he ought to get out of town. He dec'sred that he would not go, and he, was‘warned that he must take big chiances, and the commiitee left Bim. —_— RETRACTED THE SLANDER. Rev. Johnson Forced to Admit That He Was Wrong. FRESNO, Car., March 26.—Evangelist I. T. Johnson, whose sweeping declaration reflecting on the chastity of a large proportion of .= Fresno’s daughters, has brought upon himself the execration of most of this city’s respected citizens. His declaration that these things were told him by a friend does not help his cause, from the fact that he stoutly re- fuses to divulge the name of his in- formant. The Republican here contained the whole story this morning, including an interview between City Editor Max- well, a CALL correspondent and the Rev. Mr. Johnson. .The subject of the inter- view has been discussed on the streets here all day, and the remarks of incensed fathers and brothers were ‘anything but complimentary to Evangelist Johnson’s judgment and disposition. The unwitting evangelist has been busy all day trying to patch up a denial to the reporters. He made a frantic effort to obtain a refatation of the Republican’s story through an afternoon paper, but was ordered out of the office by Circulator Osborn, who threat- ened to uise his boot in case the evangelist did not leave at once. The preacher beat a precipitate retreat. s At an indignation meeting this after- noon a large body of men congregated on the streets near the place where the meet- ing was held, and violence to the préacher was feared for a time. A committee was appointed at the meeting to guarantee protection to the offending clergyman until he could get out of town. The meet- ing prepared and Johnson signed the fol« lowing statement : Do you believe that the statement made by you concerning the chastity of the girls of this city, which you claimed was told you bya {riend, was untrue, and that you made a mis. take when you repeated that statement? An- swer—I do; and furthermore I will apologize to the community for having made the same. 1. T. JOHNSON. Johnson promises a .long statement, which he says will exonerate him of an evil intent and threatens dire calamity upon the local newspapers. A second meeting was held at the City Hall to-night which was attended by hundreds of peo- ple, but the addresses are temperate and considerate. 2 The following preamble and resplution was adopted. WHEREAS, Certain slanderous and unwar. ranted statements, reflecting upon our commu. nity and our public schools and churches, have been given circulation through the local press and admitted to have been made by one Rev. Johnson, an evangelist conducting meet. ings in one of our churches, now therefore, «Resalved, That we, the citizens of Fresno_in mass-meeting assembled, do most in- dignantly resent the wholesale slander that has been thus cast upon our community, our churches and our public schools and denounce in unmeasured terms the Rey. Johnson in giving publicity to such slanderous reports as have been admitted by him, and pronounce them absolutely false and without any founda- tion whatever, and we do advise the said Rev. Johnson immediately to depart from our city; and further suggest that he never return, Johnson. is either in hiding'to-night or has surreptitiously left the city. : Death of a Railroad Man. KANSASCITY, Mo., March 26.—George H. Nettleton, general manager of - the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway, died at his home in this city to- night of paralysis. He was one of the best known railway men in the West. For Pacific Coast Telegrams see Pages 3 and 4.