The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 1

— pas P = VOLUME . LXXIX.—NO. 119. PRICE FIVE CENTS, PURSUING THE 1 REBEL LEADERS, Several Columas of Spanish | Troops Are Moving | Westward. [ Tuesday morning. After weighing anchor ihe 12-pound rapid-fire Hotchkiss gun was brought from the hold and mounted on decik as a protection against molestation from any of the small armed Spanish launches which infest the Cuban coast. “The Bermuda's course would carry her far to thesoutheast, Watlings Island light being the first land which Captain O'Brien expected to make. As General Garcia in- tended .to take command of the Depart- ment of the Orient there1s every reason to believe that the Bermuda’s captain would try to land him near Santiago de Cuba, or perhaps as far west as Camaguey. Itis hard for us to believe that Captain | O'Brien either changed his original plan INSURGENTS NOT IDLE. They Attack the Fort at Pinar del Rio and Destroy Much Property. WAS THE BERMUDA LOST?| There Is Yet Considerable Doubt Con- | cerning the Reported Sinking of Vessel. HAVANA, Cusa, March 27.—The news received from the western province (Pinar del Rio) is meager. Several columuns of Government troops are pursuihg Maceo and other rebel leaders, who are said to be moving westward. The insurgents have attacked the fort at Pinar del Rio city and are destroying a great deal of property. ‘The troops have been ordered to prevent the return of Maceo to the Havana vrovince. Captain-General Weyler has issued an order declaring that inasmuch as the | and ran down between the Bahamas and Florida, or that after reaching Inagua Island he would sail west through the en- tire length of the old Bahama Channel, thus running the risk of being intercented by least a dozen Spanish men-of-war. “We have the greatest confidence in Captain O'Brien’s judgment and have little doubt that he has ere this safely landed his party in Cuba, but hardly on the north coast of Pinar del Rio.” R 2 MINISTERS ARE WORRIED. They Decide Not to Interfere in the Com- ing Elections. HAVANA, Cusa, March 27, via Tampa, Fla., Marct Madrid cablegrams of to- day refer to a meeting between Prime Min- ister Canovas del Castillo and Senor Romero v Robledo, ex-Minister of Grace and Mercy. Itisreported that following the conference Senor Romero y Robledo telegraphed to Havana that he would ab- stain from any intervention in the ap- proaching elections. Yesterday’s cable- grams from Madrid report that the autonomists of Puerto Rico have agreed to take no part in the approaching elections. Senor Castellanos, Minister of the Colo- nies, fears that the autonomists will like- wise refuse to act. Senor Castellanos re- grets the stand taken by the reform party, particularly because of the importance that may be attached to such action by other nations. Much comment has been caused in The Filibuster Steamer Bermuda, Reported to Have Beenm Sunk by a Spanish Warship While Carrying Men and Arms to Cuba. 1s are eluding engagements with the | overnment troops and are committing | arson and other crimes such bands will | hereafter be regarded as_bandits and | treated in accordance with the captain- | general’s last decree relating to sach per- | sons. The Government troops report the | capture of an insurgent camp in the vicinity of Los Pales. e NO WORD FROM THE VESSEL. Much Speculation Over the Alleged Sink- wng. of the Bermuda. NEW YORK, N. Y. March, 27.—The Herald this morning says locally: -No word has been received by the Cuban Junta in this city relative to a report re- | cently circulated to the effect ‘that'the!| Bermuda had been fired upon and sunk by | a Spanish warship and the Cubans gener- ally discredit the rumor. Several promi- nent leaders who were discussing the Garcia expedition expressed their fears that the report of the arrival of the Ber- muda was a mistake. They thought the expedition which landed was another and | smaller one than that which sailed in the Bermuda. One of the men who organized the ex- pedition said: “We have received as yet no confirma- tion of the Bermuda’s landing in Cuba, nor can we reasonably expect it until her captain reaches some port away from the island, Kingston, Jamaica, for instance, or Vera Cruz, Mexico, from which she can cable us direct. It may be some days yet before positive information reaches us, but in the meantime it is hard for us to believe that she has landed on the north coast of the island. “When the Bermuda left the Jersey coast a week ago last Tuesday she did not follow the Atlantic coast line, but in ac- cordance with Captain O’Brien’s plan steamed straight to sea, laying a course that would carry her several hundred miles to the eastward of possible interfer- | ence from either Spanish or United States cruisers which were known to be on the | lookout for her. “General Garcia and his party boarded | her off the Jersey coast from a tug on | Madnd by the very weak denial given by the official press to the report that General Weyler will return to the Continent. El Imparcial has published a notice of his early return. PO READY FOR ERGENCIES. The spanish Indignation Over the Action of Congress. MADRID, Spars, March 27.—The most | moderate papers in their issues to-day ex- pressed great indignation at the action of the American Congress anent the belliger- ency of the Cuban insurgents, and asked the Government to spare no effort to pre- pare for any development. The action of Captain-General Weyler in deciding to treat the insurgents as bandits is almost unanimously approved. Public indignation is ranning so high that the Government will find it difficuit to control the national exasperation. The Republicans advocate the granting of autonomy to Cuba, and declare they will, with a view to avoiding responsibility, ab- stain from taking part in the elections for members of the Cortes. BATTLE-SHIP INDIANA. | Successfully Docked at Port Royal After Many Delays. PORT ROYAL, 8. C., March 27.—The big battle-ship Indiana was successfully docked here this morning. She came through the caisson of the dock with fully | fifteen inches to spare. The official report on the docking will be made in a day or two. The maintenance of the Indiana in | commission, omitting all other expenses of officers and men and coal burned, is put | at something over $1000 a day. On this ac- count alone, from her arrival at the dock entrance at 8:30 A. M. March 14 until this | morning, the expense incurred was $15,- 000, which was practically thrown away. s R e Ewxecution in Texas. GEORGETOWN, Tex., March 27.— Matt Mootey, colored, was hanged here to-day in the presence of 4000 people, for the murder of Andrew Pickrel, a Bohe- mian farmer, last May, General Calixto Garcia, the Noted Cuban Patriot, Whose First Ineffectual Attempt to Reach the Disturbed Island Was Made on the Ill-Fated Steamer Hawkins. With His Party He Was Placed Aboard the Bermuda From a Tug Off the Jersey Coast. ao® T, ’!~§ 020 SN RO LE o 0 I oo Where are you going, my pretty maid ? I’m after the Junta, sir, she said! GREAT MYSTERY OF A MURDER, An Autopsy Made on the Body Found in a Trunk. THE SKULL FRACTURED. At Salt Lake It Is Believed That the Remains Can Be Identified. TWO RICH MEN DISAPPEARED. One a Rancher and the Other a Frel_u:hmln Who Left a Bank Account. CHICAGO, IrL., March 27.—The police believe they now have a clew to the identi- fication of the body found in the trunk in Wakem & McLaughlin’s bgnded warehouse last night. To-night two men, who gave their names as Henry Devere and Bas Marcel, viewed the remains at the morgue and told Captain Fitzpatrick they believed the body to be that of Jane Prosper Chazzell, who disappeared from Salt Lake, Utah, in February, 1893. They based their assertion on the fillings in the teeth of the dead man, and say they identical with those in Chazzell’s teeth. The two men, of whom nothing is known, excepting that they are Frenchmen, said they recollected -distinctly one of the fill- ings, which was steei. Chazzell, they said, formerly lived with a Mrs, Rolande in Salt Lake. This afternoon post mortem examination was made of the corpse found yesterday in the trunk bought among some unclaimed freight. It resulted in the finding of two ‘| whom he lived, claiming to be his wife, . ' | three years ago says that he is convinced fractures in the skull, which appear ¢ have been made with a hammer. The inquest will be held to-morrow morning. SALT LAKE, Uranm, March 27.—Very little can be gleaned here throwing light on the identity of the man whose remains were found in a trunk sold at auction as unclaimed property in Chicago. A theory has been advanced that the box was shipped- to Salt Lake from Laramie and that the remains are those of a wealthy rancher named:Crawford, who disappeared mysteriously about three years ago and has never been heard of since. Crawford was in partnership witha man named Booth, who was murdered in his own barn abouta year ago,and for the crime a man named Crocker was recently convicted in the Wyoming courts, but was granted a new trial, which 1s now pending. Late in the year 1892 or early in 1893 a Frenchman named Proshir Chazzell came to Salt Lake from his native country. He appeared to be a man of considerable means and nad thousands of dotlars’ wortn of diamonds and jewelry. He lived with a French woman of the demi monde, and for safekeeping placed his valuablesin a lackbox of a salety deposit company. He also had $2500 to his credit in the Deseret National Bank of this city. Early in the month of February, 1893, about the time the mysterions. box was shipped, Chazzell disappeared and so far has not been: seen since. The woman with notified the police, who instituted search, but in vain. The lockbox, whick was known to contain his jewelry, was opened by order of the court and was found émpty. Certain compatriots of Chazzell were sus- pected of murdering him, but nothing tangible could be got hold of. A few weeks after Chagzell’s disappear- ance they went to Chicago. About a year ago the Chief of Police of this city received a letter from a lady in Paris, France, claiming to be a sister of Chazzell and asking for information of her brother, of whom she had not heard since early in 1893, when he was in Salt Lake.® There is at present $2400 standing to his credit in the Deseret Bank of this city. The detec- tive who worked principally on the case the body found in the trunk at Chicago is that of Proshir Chazzell. WHEN HARRISON WILL WED. Mrs. Dimmick Is to Become His Bride on April 6. INDIANAPOLIR, Ixp., March 27.—Ex- President Harrison will leave here on Tuesday next for New York, and will be married to Mrs. Mary Dimmick April 6. He will be accompanied by D. M. Rans- dell, ex-Marshal of the District of Colum- bia, who appears to be the only one from this city who has received an invitation. It is not known what arrangements have been made for the wedding, but it is be- lieved that it will be a very quiet, unosten- tatious affair and will take place at the residence of the bride. Mrs. McKee has been here for several days, and visits her father almost daily, but ehe is stopping with her husband’s relatives. _— FIRE IN A FURNITURE ROUSE. Considerable Damage Domne to Siock in a ZTall Building. DES MOINES, Iowa, March 27,--Fire in the six-story furnitare house'of L. Har- bach this afternoon damaged the building and stock to the extent of $65,000. The fire started on the fifth floor and. for a time the firemen were unable to reach 1t. For two hours the total destruction of the building seemed probable, and adjoining buildings near were threatened. The loss on stock is about half covered by insur- ance; that on the building is fully covered. The total loss after insurance is paid will be about $30,000. e Labor and Free Silver. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., March 27.—The executive council of the Federation of Labor at its recent meeting approved the action of President Gompers 1n sending out requests that local unions memorialize Congress in favor of free silver, and a cir- cular letter is now in circulation and mon- ster petitions to Congress are expected to result. L Yomis Mme. Modjeska Coming. CHICAGO,ILL.,March 27.—Mme. Helena Modjeska departed from Chicago on a Santa Fe train last evening, bound to ner. beautiful ranch in Southern leilomil. Count Bozenta, her husband, was with her, and a little band of devoted friends wished her bon voyage as the train left the Polk-street depot. UPRISING OF THE MATABELES Caused by the Killing of Cattle to Stamp Out Disease. SEVEN WHITES SLAIN. One Battle Fought Between a Force of Mounted Police and Kaffirs. STRANGE nfinons CIRCULATED. It Is Hinted That the Boers Stirred Up the Natives Against the British. CAPE TOWN, Sourr AFrIcA.,, March 27.—It is not at all probable that the out- break in Matabeleland will be very serious or long continued, as vigorous methods are alrendy being taken to stamp it out. Ac- cording to the latest reports received from the district where the trouble occurred, there have been seven white men killed and a large number wounded. It is feared that this statement is not exaggerated, and that later reports will show a large number of murders. As soon as the news of the outbreak be- came generally known, 2 force of colonists was organized. and under F. C. Selous, started for Matabeleland with the nten- tion of quelling the revolt. It is reported that a fipht has taken MAP SHOWING PORTIONS OF EGYPT, ABYSSINIA AND THE SOUDAN. A BYSSINIA -. *GONDA! \ QY wageaid > 408 . SHOA place two miles from Buluwayo between a force of the Matabeles and a. party of mounted patrols. Advices received here are to the effect that several whites in outlying places are reported to have been killed by Matabeles. It is assumed that the outbreak is partly due to the stringent measures recently adopted to stamp out rinderpest in Rho- desia. The fondness of the Kaffirs for their cattle is well known and the killing of them in efforts to stamp out rinderpest has excited much discontent. A dispatch from Johannesburg says that the wildest rumors are in circulation there regarding the rising. It is hinted that the Boers stirred up the Matabeles against the British, but this ramor is declared here to be baseless. Cecil ). Rnodes, late Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, has started for Buluwayo. PRETORIA, Soutr AFricA, March 27.— President Kru er has issued an official de- nisl of the reports that the relations be- tween Mr. Chamberlain, the British Colo- nial Secretary, and himself are strained. EL AT CONFIDENCE IN ROSEBERY. Pointed Words of the Ex-Premier on the Soudan Expedition. LONDON, ExG., March 27.—At to-day’'s session of the conference of the National Liberal Federation at Hudderstield Robert J. Price, M. P., moved a resolution Te- cording its confidence in Rosebery, and it was 2dopted unanimously. Only forty | Liberal members of the House of Com- mons were present. the only member of Cabinet in attendance. A public meeting was very largely at- tended that was held in the Rowley Music Hall this evening. The principal speakers were: Lord Rosebery, Right Hon. Herbert J. Gladstone, M. P.; Dr. R. Spence Wat- son, president of the National Liberal Federation, and Sir James Wodehouse, member of Parliament for Huddersfield. In the course of his speech ex-Prime Minister Rosebery denied that the Lib- eral officials had exerted undue 1influence upon the federation. He would be glad if the federation were more guided by offi- cialdom. Lord Rosebery then touched upon foreign relations. He complained that the Government had not divulged its reasons fer undertaking the Soudan expedition and declared that it seemed that the coun- try was being footed. Even omens abroad, he added, warned Great Britain to con- centrate her energies, yet the Government was locking her resources in a desert. In the House of Commons to-day George N. Curzon, Under Becretary to the For- eign Office, stated that the Government aid not intend to send a British expedi- tion to Dongola next autumn. This state- ment was made in answer to a question by a member of the opposition. He further said that the sanction of the advance of the Egyptian reserve fund toward the cost of the Nile expedition now under way did not rest with the powers, but with the commission of the Egyptian public debt, which had the right to decide whether the advance should be made. By a vote of a majority of the commission, he said, they had so decided. v ————— In Search of Nanaen. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 27.— A dispateh from Irkutsk, Siberia, says that messengers were dispatched on February 27 and March 10 from Yakutsk, to inquire into the truth oi. the report that Dr. Nan- sen was retnrning after having discovered the north polé. These messengers were specially instructed to ascertain where, when and by whom Dr. Nansen was seen. S s e Kneebs’ Sentence Quashed. LEIPSIC, GERMANY, March 27.—The Su- preme Court has quashed the sentence of ten months’ imprisonment and a fine of 1000 marks imposed by the lower court on Robert T. Kneebs, an American horseman, who was convicted of having started in German trotting races a mare alleged to have been Bethel, under the name of Nellie Kneebs. Lord Rosebery was the late Liberal e Dr. Peters Will Resign. BERLIN, GerMANY, March 27.—Dr. Peters, the African explorer, against whom grave charges have been made regarding his conduct as an official of the German colonial Government, intends to resign from the service, no matter how the judicial inquiry into his conduct ends. DUMPED IN THE SUBURBS An Jowa Hospital Sends a Dozen Lunatics to Chicago. One Way of Getting Rid of Patients When the Institution Becomes Too Crowded. CHICAGO, ILL, March 27.—According to a story told this morning in the County building by James T. Turner to several County Commissioners, a dozen lunatics were brought from the Iowa Hospital tor morning by subordinate officials of the asylum there. Turner says the presen instance is not the first one of the kin which he has known of since he was con fined in the asylum at Clarinda a littl over a year aco. He alleges that it ha been a practice to deport patients when- ever the institution became crowded and that he and the other eleven insane men who were taken on the present dumping trip were threatened with death if they exposed the asylum people responsible. Assistant Superintendent Applegate and two asylum attenaants named Peterson and Johnson are charged by Turner with | bringing a party of lunatics from Clarinda last night over the Burlington route clad only in the asylum ‘‘strait clothes,’” which were bhidden by overcoats. Turner says the other victims of the alleged scheme were too far gone mentally to ex- posa it, if they chose to do so. The police are investigating the story and trying'to find ‘Applegate, who left Turner at the Union depot, saying he was going to Indianapolis. . ' A Musical Defaulter. -OPELIKA, 'Ara., March 27.—Thomas Butler, the bead of the firm of Thomas Butler & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in musical instrumeuts, is a defaulter. Heé embezzled all of the firm’s funds and had gone heavily in:debt throughout the city, every line of business here having lost by trusting him. - DEATH INSTEAD OF A PARDON. Bandit Brown’s Application for Clemency Proves Disastrous. IS UNLAWFULLY ALIVE., A Former Commutation of His Sentence Found to Have Been Illegal. THE CONVICT SHOULD HANG. Governor Budd Discovers an Error Committed by a Predecessor in Office. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 27.—In ex+ amining into the merits of the application of H. E. Brown, the Mendocino outlaw, for a pardon Governor Budd has discovered that instead of being entitled to a pardon the former death sentence, as imposed by a jury, is in full force and effect, and Brown should be hanged. Brown was convicted of robbery in 1875 and sentenced to the penitentiary, but he had influential friendsand they succeeded in persuading Governor Irwin to pardon him. TUpon obtaining his liberty, Brown re-entered his career of crime, which eventually culminated in his ambushing a posse of officers who were pursuing him and killing two of them—T. Dollard and William Wright. After a chase which lasted sixty days Brown was captured, tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and the judgment of the lower court reversed on an error made by the Judge of that court in instructing the jury. The case was then transferred to Sonoma Courty, where a new trial was held, and again Brown was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. While awaiting sentence in the county jail Brown was instrumental in preventing a break of prisoners and saved the life of the Sheriff. For this action Governor Perkins commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment in San Quentin. In looking up the matter of the pardon Governor Budd finds that the murder for which Brown was twice convicted was committed after the new constitution into effect. It was comvmitted in of 1879, and the constitution went into effect on July 1, 1899. Article V1I, section 1, of the constitution says: Neither the Governor nor the Legislature shall have power to grant pardons or commus tations of sentence in any case where the con- vict has twice been convicted of a felony, un- less upon the written recommendation of & majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court. The language here, the Governor be- lieves, is very strong. A pardon for a first offen se would often remove all disabili- ties, but in this ‘section of the constitu- tion, which was in effect at the time Gov- ernor Perkins exercised the pardoning power, the words “‘in any case’’ are used. Governor Budd’s opinion of the matter from his review of law is, that Governor Perkins did not have the power to conimute the sentence of H. E. Brown, and, as the Su- preme Court did not take part in the com- mutation, as required by the constitution, the death sentence as imposed by the So- noma County jury upon H.- E. Brown ig still in full force and effect. T et s WILL LEES GET IT? Ezaminers in Doupt as to the Kovalew Reward. SACRAMENTO, CaALn., March 27.—At the meeting of the State Board of Ex- aminers this afternoon several opinions from the Attorney-General in regard to matters which had been referred to him at previous meetings were read. One was.to the effect that summons in foreclosure proceedings against delinguent purchasers of school lands were legal if published five times in weekly papers, this being all that was required by law. In the Kovalev reward case the Attorney- General's opinion was that, owing to Cap« tain Lees’ official position, he had grave doubts as to whether Lees was entitled to handle any portion of the reward, and he believed the matter should be referred to the Supreme Court. In discussing this case Governor Budd stated that he was in favor of allowing Hamilton $100 and Cap- tain Lees §900. Secretary of State Brown believed Lees should have the full amount, in order to encourage officers in such | cases. the Insane at Clarinda and dumped in | Chicago and its suburbs one at a time thi- | Governor Budd said, in speaking of slanders, that the evangelist who siandered the community of ¥resno several days ago ought to be held guilty of a felany. He had made a suggestion to the code com- missioners, and a law would be drawn up and submitted to tne Legislature, making it a felony where any one slandered a com- munity, as well as an individual. The matter of expense in conducting San Quentin prison came up and was se= verely commented upon, there being nine- ty-three guards employed at that institu- tion and butsixty-twoat Folsom, although the former is protected by walls. The cut- ting down of the expenses of this institu- tion was referred to Secretary of State Brown, who will collect data on the sub- ject, and a meeting of tbe Board of Prison Directors was called for Wednesday. Erens -8 Burglar Curtin Held. SACRAMENTO; CaL., March 27.—An- drew, alias “Babe’’ Curtin, the “man with ‘the mesmeric smile,” who was implicated in the robbery of a jewelry-store in San Francisco some time ago, in which Curtin locked the employes into the store while his confederates escaped with several thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds, was ~ to-day held to answer before the Superior Court on a charge of burglary. Curtin entered the house of State Janitor W. H, Govan and stole several articles of value. For - Interesting Pacific Coast Tele« grams See Pages 3 and 4.