The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXIX.—N PRICE FIVE CENTS e CUBANS FIRED WITH NEW ZEAL, Greatly Encouraged by the Friendly Action of Congress. RICH MEN IN THE FIELD Impcrtant Battles Constantly Oc- curring, But the News Is Suppressed. YELLOW FEVER IS APPEARING. The Crowded Hospitals and Prisons Are Festering With Filth and Disease. HAVANA, Cusa, April 8 (via Key West, Fla., April 8).—The Cubans are greatly encouraged the action of Congress. y it is certain to have a good moral and hope for practical benefit also. ers of good families are leaving es and towns to join the insurgents muers. The severe enforce- s decrees ving many nment has so far failed to aceo in the western province. He the strong line between Marcel ana, but several parties have ntered Havana Province. 00 men, has entered from e east. All the wires west and south are and no accurate mews of the move- 1 irgents is obtainable. s been silent for four is known here several t engagements have been fought. Is are crowded with wounded diers. Now that the yellow ning there is no room risons are also filled The Government i to transfer seventy-six from Cabanas fortress to the city prisons. oraez was last reported in Santa Clara , moving in the direction of anea Valley. His forces entered the important town of San Juan de Las Veras, taking supplies and ammunition. The troops shut themselves in the forts and allowed the town hall and several other buildings to be burned. Refugees is west of M from the town have arrived at Ranchuelo. | The BSpanish gunboat Alvarado was badly damsged by the rebel fire in at- tempting to enter the port of Marabi, near Baracoa. The balls shattered the rudder, penetrated the deckhouse plating -and traversed the sides, The gunboatreturned to the attack three times, but finally went to Baracoa for repairs. The official report was wounded. ing a night attack upon the town of Hoyo Colorado, about fitteen miles west of Havana, the Spanish troops shot and killed four women and two children and wounded others. ' The' troops occupied fo: fo! The insurgents entered the town, crawling on bands and knees, fired upon the forts, burned a number of houses and retired. The troops later, seeing a of people on the principal street, fired a volley from the fort, mistaking the women and children for insurgents, owing to the darkness. The accident is greatly lored. prisoners of war, condemned to Cabanas fortress Monday morn- , have been respited pending a vote of House. The general belief is that e the action of Congress no more in- zents will be publicly shot under the bandit decree. There is nothing new in the cases of Walter Dygart and other American citizens imprisoned. J. FrANK CLAREK. — PLEA ¥OE A4 PARDON. g the Havana Ladies Ask Weyler to Spare a Condemned Cripple. HAVANA, Cusa, April 8.—A committee ¢ ladies of this city and the Bishop of ana have presented petitions to Cap- ral Weyler asking for the pardon political prisoner Jose Cabrera Roque, whose execution has been fixed for to-morrow. Rogue has only one leg, baving lost the other at the time he was captured, and this fact is urged upon Gen- ler as a reason for granting his The town of La Salud, in the Havana Province, was entered by the insurgents, who sacked several stores and set fire to a number of houses. Three insurgents also made their way into Mariano, in the same province, at 8 oclock last evening, and before their esence was known to the troops sta- tioned at the forts robbed the store of Manuel Valdez of a number of pairs of shoes and a quantity of provisions and succeeded in making their escape. General Barges reports tae captare of a rebel camp at Jareug. In the fight that rred before the rebels were compellea sandon their camp five of them were d. capture of a camp at Ti Arriba, in province of Santiago de Cuba, is also In this en- reported by General Barges. gagement the insurgents lost fifteen killed and two of the Spanish forces were wounded. » arrests have been made by the of Guanabacoa, near Havana, in ion with the recent swindle of the % York banking-house of August Bel- mont & Co. One of the prisoners is named Pelegrin and the other is an ex-employe of the Hidalgo Company. In the posses- sion of the latter was found several bianks and papers which prove his connection with the swindle. General Pando reports that the column under command of Major Moncaca dis- covered a party of insurgents on the banks of the Magauraya River, near Cienfueg and attacked them. After a fizht, in which the rebels lost fourteen killed and many wounded, they were dislodged from their position and forced to retire. The Spaniards suffered no loss. Colonel Tort reports haying had an en- gagement with parties of rebels under Lacret and other leaders south of Guines, in the Havana province. The Spanish force succeeded in destroying a bridge which had been constructed by the rebels across the River Mayabeque. S N SCHOUONER MARTHA SEIZED. She Had a Cargo of Arms and Ammu- nition for the Cubans. KEY WEST, Fra., April 8. — The schooner Martha that left this city on the night of March 31 with armsand ammu- nition, was seizea to-day by the Collector of Customs for violation of section 4337 of | the Revised Statutes of the United States, having departed from this district without first obtaining a certificate of register. An article published in the Equator Democrat yesterday described a trip to Cuba on the schooner Martha, by G. M. Mathes, the editor of the paper, on the strength of which the Collector seized the schooner., Subsequently Frank M. Thompson, one of the crew, swore out an affidavit to the effect that he had shipped on the schooner | Martha to go to Cuba, for which he was to | be paid on his ret n to this port. He states that the schooner arrived on the coast of Cuba on the 1st inst.,, and on the 24 they neared the coast about 9 o'clock at night, and the captain went on shore, but returned almost immediately. On Friday, the 3d, in the morning they landed at Cardenas. The same night they started for the bay, but were compelled to | put back, and came to anchor opposite the lighthouse near Cardenas. Saturday morning they got under way and went off shore and about dusk that evening were chased by a Spanish cruiser. They eluded the Spaniard by rounding her stern and then shaped their course for Key West, arriving here Sunday night, the 5th inst. —_——-——— TURPIE’S BITTER SPEECH. Senators” Sherman and Lodge Are Mer- cilessly Flayed. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8.—Sena- tor Turpie of Indiana, who has achieved quite a reputation in the Senate for his skill in clothing the most stinging sarcasm in picturesque language, gave an illustra- tion of his powers in that line to-day, affording an hour and a half of entertain- ment to his brother Senators and to a large audience in the galleries. The speech was made in support of the joint resolution introduced on the 1st of April by Call of Florida proposing inter- vention in the war now being prosecuted in Cuba. The object of Turpie’s invectives were not so much General Weylerand the Span- ish Government as the chairman of the | Committee on Foreign Relations (Sher- man) and the junior Senator from Massa- chusetts (Lodge). He ascribes to Sher- man helpless inertia, delay and irrational obstructior, and spoke of his taking refuge in the crypt of the conference committes very glad to be rid of his former action. Lodge was portrayed by him as belong- ing to the jingo class of extremists, and as being singularly gifted with the power to clothe an interesting and exciting subject with all the dullpess of time-worn com- mon-places. [Laughter.] Tarpie drew an amusing sketch of the controversy between Lodge and the Spanish Minister, and said that he had expected it to end in a'duel, in which the champion of Senatorial privileges would go into the lists fully armed, his visor down, his lance at rest. But instead of that, the junior Senator from Massa- chusetts had retired to the room of the Committee on Foreign Relations and re- galed himself on puffs—mere puifs. It was impossibie, Turpie said, to con- ceive of a more wholly unlegislative legis- lative proceeding, a more wholly abnormal proceeding than the action taken by the chairman of the Committée on Foreign Relations with reference to the Cuban question.. There coutd not be a more un- fortunate disposition of that matter than that which it suffered from the action, the inaction and the reaction of the honorable chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Turpie contrasted the joint resolution introduced by Call with the concurrent resolutions reported from the conference committee. 4 There was in the former no double en- tendre, as there was in the other. It con- tained a plain statement of the necessity of interposition. In the third resolution of the conference report “intervention” was mentioned twice, but it did not say on which side the United States should in- tervene. For his own part, he was in favor of intervening on the side of Cuban freedom and independence, and for the sake of freedom and independence and for other reason or cause. He then proceeded to draw a sketoh of the Cuban Government and of the opera- tion of the forces of either side. He had kept the track, he said, of the raids made by the Spanish troops upon conntry stores in the eastern portion of the island, the portion held by the insurgents, ard he argued that the very existence of country stores in the region meant there were no thieves there, or that the thieves had been overawed or punished. It meant that there were no burglars, no robbers in that region, or that they had been punished. S Hurrying From Madrid. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 8.—A special dispateh to the Herald from Madrid shys: Affairs look so serious again that Ameri- can tourists are hurrying away. Every place on the Sud express, which leaves for Paris to-morrow afternoon, has already been taken. The passage of the belliger- ency resolutions has caused excited talk. A guard is still maintained at the Ameri- can legation, but it has not been increased. The feeling is prevalent that a crisis is near and that trouble might break out at any mement. —_——— Proposed Demonstration Forbidden. LONDON, Exc., April 8.—The Standard to-morrow will publish a dispatch from Madrid saying that the civil Governor of Madrid has forbidden the holding of the proposed demonstration of protest against the action of the American Congress on the Cuban resolutions. — ZLuigi Inspects the Canal. COLON, Covrowsia, April 8.—Work upon the Panama Canal is being pushed. A contract has been given for 100,000 metres of submarine mining on the Pacific end of the canal. The Colon end of the work was inspected yesterday by Prince Luigi, a nephew of King Humbert of Italy, who is making a tour of the world. A Americus Receives Backing. LONDON, Exe., April 8.—A wager of £1000 has been laid at odds of 10 to 1 against Croker’s bay colt Americus, which is entered for the race for the Kempton Park Great Jubilee stake, to be run at the Kempton Park spring (jubilee) meeting, May 9, Grover: “Now, what ought a man to do in a case like this?” KNAPP'S EXPULSION - FROM" ARMENIA Confirmation of the Report That *He Was Forced to Leave Bitlis. HE 1§ NOW AT DIARBEKIR, Tewfik Pasha Claims the Missionary Is a Guest and Well Treated. LONDON, Exa., April 8.—The Post will to-morrow publish a confirmation of the report that Rev. George P. Knapp, one of the American missionaries stationed at Bitlis, had been expelled from that place. A dispatch from Constantinople to a news agency here states that Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Foreign Minister has assured J. W. Riddle, United Statgs Charge d’Af- faires, that Mr. Knapp is now a guest of the Vali of Diarbekir and that he is well tr eated. Mr. Riddle isawaiting a report from Diarbekir as to the treatment of Mr. Knapp. | The Daily News to-morrow will say that resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Armenian Relief Committee this even- ing protesting against the decision of the Sultan to issue an irade for the expulsion of all Christian missionaries from Ar- menia, and urging the British Govern- ment to make every attempt to prevent such a step being taken. The resolutions also requested the Government to make immediate efforts to obtain the release of Rev. George P. Knapp, the American missionary who was ordered to proceed from his station at Bitlis to Constanti- nople to answer charges of sedition and murder made by Turkish officials, and who is now said to be a prisoner at Diar- bekir. Itis also urged that an increase be made in the number of British Vice-Con- suls in Asia Minor. e SCOURGE IN ARMENIA. Smallpox and Typhoid Fever Epidemic at Marash and Zeitoun. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 8.—Pro- fessor William H. Pancoast, president of the Red Cross Society of Pennsylvania, to-day received a cablegram from Miss Clara Barton, which indicates that the situation in Armenia is growing more des- perate every day.. Miss Barton’s cable- gram reads: Relief work firmly settled. No opposition from authorities. A fearful scourge here— Marash and Zeitoun. Have called eight physi- cians to Beyrout. Dysentery, smalipox and typhoid fever epidemic. Do you wish to send medical supplies? Please do. CLARA BaRToN, LT P BLOCKED BY THE SULTAN. Why the American Vice- Consul to Harpoot Turned Back. WASRINGTON, D. C., April 8.—Sena- tor Snerman, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, to-day gave notice of an amendment to the sundry civil bill pro- viding for the appointment of a Consul at either Harpoot or Alexandretta, Turkey. A statement from Secretary Olney was laid before the Senate, in which it was said that while the Turkish authorities acquiesced in the establishment of a con- sulate at Erzeroum. they declined to grant an exequatur to the vice-consul sent to Harpoot in accordance with the action of Congress at the last session ou the ground that the United States has no commer- cial interests at the latter place. He ex- pressed the fear that a like denial will be encountered this year, and requests that provision be made for a temporary ap- pointment at Alexandretta. MARINES IN A BOAT RACE. Tars of the Flagship New York Beat the Raleigh’s Creww. FORT MONROE, W. Va., April 8.—The twelve-oared cutters of the flagship New | three years. | | to a stakeboat and return. York and the cruiser Raleigh bad a spir- ited race in Hampton Roads this after- The course was a mile and a half In coming down the home stretch the siren whistles of the squadron gave them a terrific blast. | New York won by about two lengths. | Over $5000 changed hanas on the result. e EUROS R STRIKING STREETCAR EMPLOYES. The Agitation Likely to Be Transferred to Philadelphia From New York. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Apgjl 8—The streetcar troubles of Philadelphia and New York are ciosely linked. From what could be gathered here to-day it is likely that there will be no strike in New York, but that the agitation will be transferred to Philadelphia. Edwin Byrne, president of the local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes, went to New | York and saw President Mahon to-day. | The immediate object of Mr. Byrne’s visit to Mahon was to have him modify the terms of the ultimatum which the Amal- gamated Association is to submit to the Union Traction Company. One clause of this ultimatum requires of the traction | company to recoznize the association. The | local leaders of the association know full well that the traction company will fight this demand to the death. Therefore Mr. Byrne went to New York to see President Mahon and have him erase this demand in the ultimatum. This President Mahon consented to do. Despite the admission of the local lead- ers of the Amalgamated Association that the A. R. U. had become affiliated with the street railway men, Mr. Mahon au- thorized Byrne to deny that such a deal haa been accomplished or would be con- sidered. The local leaders of the great railway of brotherhoods also denied that they had any intention of affiliating with the A. R. U. THE OLYMPIAN - EVENTS, Servia’s King Among the Crowds That Witness the Games. | noon. A Frenchman Wins the Long-Distance Bicycle Race—Americans Did Not Compete. ATHENS, GrEECE, April 8.—The Kal- lithea shooting-stand near the city ‘was opened at noon to-day, and the shooting contests at different distances began at 1 o'clock. [ » King Alexander of Servia arrived in Athens' to-day to witness the Olympic events. The bicycle race atja distance of 100 kilo- metres was won by Flamant, the French rider. The Greek contestant, Coletti, fin- ished second. The winner’s time was 3 hours and 8 minutes. 5 The Americans did not compete, having been denied a license by the Governors. Efforts will be made to have thewm ride later in the week, but it is thougnt that it will not be successful. McDonald, the most promising of the Americans, is looked upon as a likely man in the short races if he is permitted to ride. Despite the fact that the weather was cold and there was a brisk wind blowing, the events were witnessed by a great crowd. Ll S ANTI-LYNCHING ACT. The Ohio Benate Concurs in the Smith Bill From the House. COLUMBUS, Oxio, April 8.—The Senate to-day concurred in the anti-lynching bill, and it is alaw. The bill was wnitten by Judge Albion' W. Tourgee. It makes any county whose officials permit a lynching to occur liable to the family of the victim for damages. The bill takes its name from H. C. Smith, a colored Representative from Cleveland, who championed the measure, and is the result of several Iynch- ings of colored men in Ohio it the last i THREE HUNDRED [TALIANS SLAIN Heavy Losses Suffered by the Invaders of Abyssinia at Mount Mocran, KASSALA STILL HOLDS OUT. Defended by a Diminished Garrison Under Hidalgo—Stevani’s Forces Retire. MASSOWAH, Ecver, April 8.—The first report of a battle at Mount Mocran on April 2 said that the Italians lost 100 killed and wounded. Now it is admitted that ten officers and 300 men were killed. ROME, 11ALY, April 8.—A dispatch from Adowa has been received here by way of Parem 1sland, reporting that after Colonel Stevani’s victory over the dervishes near Kassala on Saturday, in a battle in whicn he lost 100 men and inflicted a loss esti- mated at 600 upon the dervishes, he re- turned to Kassala and the dervishes retired to the fort and intrenchments at Tueruf. On the following day Colonel Stevani made a reconnoissanca of Tucruf and vig- orously attacked the forts. He captured some of them, but was unable to entirely dislodge the dervishes. He, therefore, re- turned to Kassala and informed General Baldissera, commander of the Italian forces in Africa, that he was convinced his forces were strong enough, and that he proposed to renew the attack in the morning. - In view of the general situa- tion General Baldissera refused to sanction this plan. Late advices received by the Govern- ment from Massowah imply that, al- though Colonel Stevani’s forces have re- tired from Agradat, Kassala will possibly still be held by a diminished garrison, un- der Major Hidalgo. NATAL PARLIAMENT OPENS, Governor Hely-Hutchinson Pacific Speech. PIETERMARITZBUR®G, NATAL, April 8. The Natal Parlisment was opened to- day. In his speech opening the session Hon. Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of the colony, said he hoped a policy of conciliation on all sides would lead to an abatement of racial differences and political discontent. The Government of Natal, he said, would view with gravest concern the possibility of a conflict be- tween the Dutch and English in South Africa. It would be impossible to control the vast native population of the prestige and authority of the Europeans if the country were to be destroyed by armed contenticn. The English and Dutch, the Governor declared, were too deeply rooted and had too many interests in common to be ranged in hostile camps. There was room enough and to spare for both. It was the duty of all who are answerable for the guidance of the destinies of South Africa to remove all grounds that might be conducive of discord. The tone of the Governor's speech throughout was markedly pacific. Delivers a AL, Cecil Tihodes Is 1L . CAPE TOWN, SourH AFrRICA, April 8.— The Cape Town Argus says that Cecil Rhodes, ex-Premier of the Cape Colony, who recently started from Cape Town for Buluwayo, is suffering from an attack of fever. SETr FLOCKING TO THE KHALIFA, ¥ifty Thowsand Dervishes to Be Assem- "~ bled by September. CAIRO, Eeypr, April 8.—Advices from the Soudan say that the news of the de- parture of the Anglo-Egyptian army up the Nile Valley spread rapidly beyond Khartoum and along the from Suakim to Berber. The departure of pil- grims for Mecca has been suspeaded and the payment of a war tax has been de- manded by the Khalifa. The dervishes at Fashoda and Darfur have been recailed to Omdurman, where the Khalifa expects to assemble 50,000 men by September. N Held for High Treason. PRETORIA, Souts ArrIcA, April 8.—All the members of the Reform Committee who were implicated in the recent dis- {urbance here were arraigned to-day in the Landrosts Court and committed on charges of high treason for the next criminal session of the High Court. The Landrost reserved decision as to the ad- mission of the prisoners to bail. COUNTESS ZEBOROWSKI LOSES. Must Pay for the House She Bought While Awaiting a Divorce at Sioux Falls. SIOUX FALLS, S.D., April 8—P. H Edmisen has finally won his suit for $14,000 from Countess Zeborowski of Lon- don. Four years ago the most celebrated member of the local divorce colony was Madame de Steurs, wife of the Belgian Minister at Paris, and one of the Astor family. She lived here in state for six months, occupying nearly one entire floor of the Cataract House and being sur- rounded with servants. Bhe was constantly attended by Count Zeborowski, her cousin, and the day on which she obtained her degree they were married. During her stay she took a fancy to the handsome home of Mr. Edmisen and bought it for $12,500. Later, on the repre- sentation of her attorney that the title was somewhat clouded, she refused to pay and Edmisen brought suit. He recovered damages in full in the Circuit Court, and the Supreme Court has now finally re- affirmed the decision. The Countess has a large amount of property in this coun- try, and action has already been taken to put the judgment into execution. - ZELLA NICOLAUS AGAIN. Creates a Sensation by Denouncing George Gould to His Office Employes. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 8 —Mrs. A. H. Ruhmann (Zella Nicolaus) was in consul- tation this morning with ex-Governor Johnson 1 an endeavor to have him bring suit against George J. Gould to secure a balance of $25,000 which she claims is due her on the famous check which she is said to have surrendered to Mr. Gould several months ago. Her intentions were to have the suit filed at once, and while Gould was in the city secure personal service on him. Governor Johnson declined to bring the suit. Zella then visited the ssouri Pacific headquarters in search of Mr. Gouid, and created a sensation among the clerks by ber denunciation of the railroad magnate. She was induced to leave the building, and hurried to the Union station only to find that Mr. Gould's private car -had left the depot a few minutes before. i W iPas FIRE IN A BUTTE MINE. = Workmen Are Cut Off From Escape by the Flames—Seven Believed to Have Perished. BUTTE, Moxt.,, April 8.—A dispatch from Basin at 11:30 to-night says thata fire is raging in the Hope hoist and main shaft, and that four or five lives have been lost Shift Boss John Buckley and his brother, Pat Buckley, Martin Sullivan, Hugh McKeown, Barney Wall, Will Bel- den and Ed McArthur are probably suffo- cated, as there is no othet escape from the mine except by the main shaft, which is burning. The Buckleys are brothers of Foreman Martin Buckley. The buildings are a total loss. A SR Corbett Released. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 8.—The charges against Pugilist Corbett were nolle prossed in Judge Murphy’s court this afternoon. Corbett was arrested yesterday, charged with violating a eity ordinance whieh pre- vents boxing in publi = IGERSOLL O RELIION, Says the Christian Endeavorers Are All Right, but Simply Misguided. He Pities Them Just ds He Pities the Man Who Thinks He Has Found Perpetual Motion. CLEVELAND, Osio., April 8.—Robert G. Ingersoll, who lectured here last night, was interviewed on the effort of the Cleve- lana Christian Endeavorers to convert him to Christianity. by concerted prayer. “The Christian Endeavor people,” said he, “are all right. I pity them, asI pity all the other misguided. Inthe same way I pity the man who thinks he has solved the perpetual motion problem; just as I pity the young girl who has done wrong; just as I pity any and all who have faith in the tissue of nonsense that is .bound together and’given the name of ‘Bible.’ “It was good-natured on their part to pray for me, and that act alone leads me to believe that there is still hope for them. The trouble with the Christian Endeavor- ers is that they don’t give my arguments consideration. If they did they would agree with me. Heretofore they have sim- ply said, ‘Oh, Ingersoll! He talks for money. There is nothing in what he says.’ They did not listen to me with any inten- tion of giving a fair and 1mpartial verdict. Their decision was given before-hand. “Things are changing now. I was alone in my belief twenty years ago; now I bave a great deal of company. So far asthe prayers offered up for me are concerned, so far as I am able to learn they have done me no barm, and if they have done me any good Idon’t know of it. It1s a strik- ing commentary, however, on the changes of time, this method of battling me. There was a time not long ago when a man who expressed the opinions that I do would bave been tortured to death. Nowaday they Pny for one. . “After all, to what do the Christians ob- ject in my doctrine? I simply point out what is obvious to all honest thinkers— the inconsistence, untruth and impossibili- ties of the Bible, It is all rignt if they gain consolation from their belief, but so {gr. as éflh‘" o!:zeirvadb t:“ (i;nmsl:ii:n re- igion brings nothing bu e m; bsliaf brlng= hupmne:s." s % HELD IN CHAINS AT VANCOUVER, Frank Afleck, a Harvard Graduate, Deserts at Fort Boise. CAUGHT BY DETECTIVES Will Be Court-Martialed for His Escapade and for Stealing Small Arms. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN PRISON, The Youthful Adventurer a Membsr of an Influential Family in New York. PORTLAND, Os., April 8.—Frank J Afleck, a Harvard graduate and the brother of a wealthy member of the New York Stock Exchange, who, after dissipat« ing a fortune of $10,000, six months ago enlisted in a cavalry troop at Fort Boise, deserted recently and a week ago was arrested in this city by Detectives Holsap- ple and Griffin. When taken into custody there were found in his baggage a number of souvenir small arms stolen from officers at his post a short time before his deser- tion. Afleck is a handsome young man, but has given the military authorities at Vane couver no little trouble since his incarcer- ation. A few days after he was sent thera from Portland he made an effort to gain his liberty by cutting a hole through a bathroom. He was surprised before his efforts were crowned with success and locked in a cell. The following day Afleck tore his blankets into shreds, converting them into a rope, with which to commit suicide. He adjusted a noose about his neck and mounting a chair, fastened the other end of the impromptu rope to the iron grating above the door of bis cell. Tuen he kicked the chair from under his feet and dangled in the air. The noise made by the stran- gling prisoner attracted the attention of the sergeant on duty outside, and he cut Afleck down just in the nick of time. The fellow expressed regret that he was not permitted to execute himself, and to prevent him from repeating the act hewas placed in a straitjacket. He wore that two days, when, upon a promise to behave himself, he wasreleased from the torturous jacket. Since then he has been heavily chained. Afleck’s family is a very influential one in New York City, and will doubtless bring much force to bear upon the Secretary of War to temper the severe sentence to be imposed upon the deserter by the courte martial convening next week. HONORS 10 YAMAGATA, Japan's Field Marshal Given a Military Reception at Omabha. General Coppinger’s Congratulatory Address—Modest Response of the Oriental Warrior. OMAHA, NeBr., April 8.—The intro- duction of Marquis Yamagata, Field Marshal of Japan, to Omaha this after- noon was marred by a steady downpour of rain. Brigadier-General Coppinger, commander of the Department of the Platte and staff and a guard of honor of 100 men from Fort Omaha, greeted the Marshal when he stepped from the train. The Marshal alighted from the car with Private Secretary Terusaki and the Second Regiment band stationed down at the lower end of the platform played the na- tional air of Japan and with this brief fore mality, General Coppinger and staff es- corted the Marshal and staff to the mili- tary carriages in waiting and the party was conveyed to the Millard Hotel. ‘When the party arrived in the hotel ro- tunda General Coppinger said that he was glad to welcome Marquis Yamagata to Omaha and as a soldier, to extend to him the congratulations of the Army of the Department of the Platte. The reception that he had received in Omaha, said the general, was one that he must expect to receive from all army men throughout the civilized world who appreciated what he had done in the late war against great odds. The world had watched the struggle with keen interest, and he and his officers wished to add their congratulations with others. Field Marshal Yamagata bowed his ac- knowledgments and in reply said that he was’ greatly pleased with the reception accorded him, but that he did not think that he deserved it. He had not expected to be received in such a manner, and he appreciated the honor thus conferred upon him. He had but done his duty, something that ail men should do. The programme for the Marshal’s enter- tainment has net been made out, General Coppinger stating that the Marshal’s own wishes would be followed entirely. There will be no parade at the fort, but in all probability he will be escorted to Fort Crook, the new post, in the morning. s g Black Plague Is Not Raging. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8.—Reports have been received at the State Depart- ment from consular officers in China and Japan concerning the existence of the black plague in Hongkong. According to the information contained the disease has been kept within bounds at Hongkong, al- though the arrivalof a ship at Yokohama with a case on board is reported. For Interesting Pacific Coast Telee grams See Pages 3 and 4.