The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 1

-y " VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 141. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRITISH ARMIES ARE VERY BUSY, Times Lively Enough for| the Most Warlike Jingo. TERROR OF SUBJECTS. There Will Be More Soldiers Under Arms Than Since the Sepoy Mutiny. DANGERS OF THE NILE ADVANCE Work of Putting Down the Matabele Uprising May Be Complicated by the Boers. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] April 18.—The mos! b jingo can no longer com- ain that things are dull. Each London paper has from four to six columns daily vew from the headquarters of the British armies in the field or the points where British subjects are in Lourly terror of ir lives, and it is practically admitted by the Government at last that before autumn there will be more of the Queen’s soldiers under arms in active service than since the Sepoy mutiny was put down, nearly forty years ago. Even without any FEuropean entangle- ment or rupture of peace England has enough fighting on her hands for 1896 to make the year conspicuous in her records. Now that it is known that 10,000 British troops with three battallions of the house- hold brigade and Redyers Buller in com- mand, are to go up the Nile as soon as the floods render an ascent practicable, people are naturally angry at the wanton lies told and persisted in for weeks by the Ministers on this whole subject. The most charita- ble.explanation 1s that there were sharp divisions in the Cabinet and that Salisbury, Balfour and Curzon were hoping against hope, when they gave pacific assurances that they could hold their own against Chamberlain’s aggressive jingoism. At all events no one is making headway against it to-day, and now that blood has begun to flow the chance of England's listening to any peace party is hardly worth discussing.— Only some overwhelm- ing catastrophe in the campaign can work that miracle now, and what caution, large preparations and unlimited force can do to avert this danger is ail ‘being done. It is generally understood that a big draft of native Indian troops will be employed later on, but the details are unknown. The news that the Egyptian soldiers ac- quitted themselves so well in the opening skirmishes with Osman Digna’s men is made much of, but there are still grave doubts what they will be like when the Dervishes get really at them, hand to hand. Their very appear- ance in the field is regarded as an unpar- donable insult by the Dervishes, whose contempt for the Fellaheen is boundless, and they know that if they fall into Der- vish hands their fate will be a thing to shudder at.- Hence they fight with ter- rible despair, if there ve no way out, but there must be a powerful pushing force of British bebind them all the while. The Matabeie rising furnishes for the moment a much more exciting theme, for there appears to be a genuine danger that Bulawayo will be sacked and put to fire and sword before help can reach it. The beleaguered garrison could hold the place against indefinite odds-so long as provi- sions and. ammunition lasted, but these both are pretty short, and, worse still, hundreds of natives are inside the Laager whose loyalty is more than suspected. Every brings bulletins of new massa- cresin the outlying mining territory of prospecting parties and among the vic- tims an exceptional proportion of young men of well-known families. Exciting as all this 1§, it is not an unfamiliar experi- ence to the English, and under ordinary conditions they would not dream of bor- rowing trouble about it, but it happens that something much more important than smashing a mutiny of savages is involved, and the uncertainty of just what this is makes the people nervous. The whole Transvaal problem is darkly mixed up with the Matabele difficulty, and all England’s steps tonard restoring order in Rhodesia have to be picked carefully in order not to tread on Kruger's toes. This makes the Tories impatient here, and they are beginning to cry out to Chamberlain to go ahead regardless of the Boers and whip them, too, if they insist on being disagreeable. This is all reported at Pretoria, where pre-existing prejudice haes been intensified to sober rage by wholesale lies cabled to and from South Africa by agents, parasites of Johannes- burg and gold-field syndicates. Asa re- sult England is permanently increasing the garrison of regulars at Cape Town, and will probably find herself sending out still other forces as the summer advances. The Times this morning 8ays this doubling of strength at Cape Town is done because in case of a European war the Suez canal would be blozked and all traffic would have to go round the Cape and the security of this splendid British harbor and base of supplies would bean impera- tive necessity. If this be an authorized statement it may well set Englishmen thinking. They can only reconcile them- selves to the spectacle of their country wad- ing waist-deep into the African morass by taking it for granted that the peace ot Eu- rope has been provided for. Meanwhile if this has not been done, and it England finds herself confronted suddenly by hostile Continental combina- tions to her detriment while she has her bands tied in Ethiopia, 1 should not envy Lord Salisbury his experience with the British public. Until the French Senate meets "nasday all sorts of contradictory rumors - #::ting be stability of everything in ¥Fr ne: sl tstroggle together to promote ;. blic ap- prebension. It is harder than § was's 7S & SANTA BARBARA GIVES WAY TO LOS ANGELES. crisis or not. The materialsjfor it exist, | indeed are piled high on every side, but at | the last moment, as happened so often be- | fore, they may be ignored. If it were not folly to preaict at 411 I should hazard a zuess that Bourgeois will be found ready with a plan for thrusting domestic ques- tions into the background and creating the impression that the foreign situation has suddenly grown very grave. President Faure’s hurried visit of in- spection on the eastern frontier seems | very likely the prelude to such a game. The Triple Alliance may or may not ter- minate next year. Italy for the present is in too impoverished ana distracted a state to pledge herself now to any future course, ana so the whole matter of renewal has been left open. This, of course, will not affect existing bonds, and these appear to hold the three central powers together somewhat more intimately and confidently than al the beginning of the year. The decision of the clerical party in the Reichstag to take the lead in the agitation against military dueling in Prussia is by far the cleverest thing that the Catholic leaders in Germany have done since Wind- horst’s death. As was said last week, the circumstances surrounding this latest Kotze-Schrader tragedy have created a profound impression throughout the em- pire, which is spreading so that it may become the universal subject of talk. People with memories liken' the popular excitement about- it to that which stirred all France at the beginning of 1870, when Prince Pierre Bonaparte shot Victor Noir. Itis recalled that historians are fond of. dating the fall of the second empire from that event, which laid hold of the’ public imagination with a grip that nothing could shake off. Although it is true that no question of dynasty kinship or politics is now involved it is also true that Emper- or William’s personal responsibility for the tragedy is much more direct than was Napoleon III’s. It can well be believed that the Ministers at Berlin are growing excessively nervous at the indications of the way the people have taken this thing | to heart and wish that the Bismarckian | junker fire-eaters and editors who have |chosen this moment to bawl ecstatic praises of dueling and laud the Kaiser to the skies for his manly sympathy with it were at the bottom of the seas. The Em- peror himself is at Carlsruhe, where he may get notving but good advice from his uncle, the Grand Duke of Baden. Whether he will follow it is another matter. What- ever he does my statement last week that this will probably turn out to be the most important thing thbat bas happened in William’s reign seems truer.than ever. Although the elections in Spain osten- sibly veto concessions to Cuba by a tre- mendous majority, T am told by people who keep in touch' with Spanish pol ticians that Canovas fally intends to use his majority to pass a tolerably compre- hensive scheme of -reforms’ for the island, ‘lust, wishes peace in the Balkans, tl‘ha»A now making. While the hearing was in vinced that this is necessary and to believe that he is now strong enaugh to do it. Itisevident from all theaccounts.of the elections that this popular excitement about Cuba has reacted with: most -dissa- trous disorganizing effects on the Spanish domestic politics. -Mob violence, whole- sale intimidation and absentation of vot- ers, gross corruption and open falsification of ballot returns are alleged all over the peninsuia as never: before, so that practi- cally the'whole reputable press of Madrid, quite irrespective of party, join in gloomy warnings that unless improvement begins at once the monarchy, and, for that mat- ter, the country itself, will be doomed. Prince Ferdinand’s arrival in St. Peters- burg to-day divides the Russian politicians more than any other event since the new reign began. Almost all the papers which a few months ago were reviling him with the ugliest epithets in thelangnage, which is particularly rich in expletives, now wel- come him effusively and applaud the de- cision of the St. Petersburg municipal officers to meet him on' his arrival with bread and sdlt and offer to him a-formal address of greeting. But the men who were dearest to the late Czar are furious at this parade.over such ashilty renegade. Prince Mestschersky, whose Grashdanin was the one paper that Alexander III per- sonally read and would never allow the censor_to touch, denounces the reception as a degradation to St. Petersburg and an insult to all enlightened patriotic Rus- sians. It is recallea also that the St. Petersburg municipality last - used this ancient ceremony when Alexander II re- turned to the capitol after the Turko-Rus- sian war and thus enforced the contrast does seem to be sufficiently striking. The discovery that while representatives of eyery other religion in the whole Rus- sian Empire, including the tiniest non- Christian sects in the Asiatic portions, have been invited to the coronation fes- tivities in Moscow next month, not a single Jewish rapbi is included in the list, must open the eyes of those who clung all along to the notion that lsrael had some- thing to hope for from the new reign. To make the affront more pointed a deiega- tion of rabbis has been invited from the Crimean community of Karaim Jews, or rather Judaized Tartars, who number about 4000 and who are disowned by all orthodox Hebrews. These schismatics, who reject the Talmud, have always been petted by the Russian anti-Semites just to enrage the Jews in general, and ior this reason they will be thrust forward at Mos- cow as representing the entire Hebraic race. The date for which the Macedonia insur- rection.was being planned all the winter has passed, and no sign of an uprising is | ¢iscernible., This is explained by the fact | that Russia, who controls both the Bul- | garian and Macedonian committees, has changed her miud, and, for the present at k ago to feel sure if thereis to bea, He is understood to have become con- machinery for a revoltis allin existence, however, and at Vienna 1t is believed that the wheels will be set 1n motion as soon as the Czar’s coronation festival is out of the way, but in Vienna they have a habit of alway believing gloomy things. * For a long time it has been becoming less and' less necessary to include mention | of Irish affairs in a survey of Europe’s do- ings. Matters bave reached a stage now which may well rejoice those who dislike Ireland most. It would be hard to exag- gerate the amazement and disgust with which everybody in Parliament, outside a little group of two score tenth-rate bosses and their salaried heelers, regards the epi- sode of billon's publicly forcing himself upon the Belfast and Derby bills commit- tee in the place of Healy, whose appoint- ment had been unanimously asked for by tbose concerned. * No politics whatever is invoived in this request, but the Catholics of the two cities, who are opposing the bills, wanted Heely on the committee simply because he is a clever lawyer who knows the de- tails of the case, and his presence would save them several thousands of dollars in lawyers’ bilis. This view was presented to Dillon by in- fluential people of both towns, but he was deaf to all arguments, and insisted that he must be on the committee himseif instead of Healy, although he is not alawyer and knows nothing about the matters in- volved, and his appointment will necessi~ tate retaining expensive counsel. As he insisted, the Liberals could do nothing but assent, though they had waived their right to a man on the committee at the request of the Derry Nationals solely to make room for Healy. 4 I mention these details of a typical Dil- lon performance so that Irishmen in America may comprehend why it is that the home-rule movement, on which they spent millions of dollars, has become a pitiable laughing stock at home and abroad. The Irish land bill is of such scope and contains such an intricable jumble of good, bad and indifferent schemes that no- body is able yet to form a judgment whether, as a whole, it will not be more a ! harm than a benefit to Ireland. Its very magnitude, however, suggests the shrewd suspicion that there is no real intention of passing it at all, and no one will be sur- prised if this happens. HaroLp FrepERIC, DROWNED MANX INFANTS. Horrible Record of « Woman Noted for LONDON, Exc., April 18.—Mrs. Annie Dyer and her son-in-law, Arthur Palmer, baby farmers arrested on the charge of in- fanticide, were arraigned in the Reading Police Court this morning and remanded, pending the result for further search for bodies in the river, which the police are [ _run over by a wagon at the, fire and re- progress an angry crowd gathered -outside the court and indulged . in menacing lan- guage toward the prisoners. ! The developments in-the case of Mrs. Dyer are “horrifying the cpuntry. It has been proved that since. Christmas twenty children were intrusted to her keepiug, and that only four are living.” The others have vanished. Prior to Christmas many other children who had been placed in her charge’ disappeared. -The woman has for a long time practiced a wholesalesystem of infant murder. It is suspected that she has caused the death of over forty, children. ! She lived in Reading, woere she had the | reputation of piety. . PERILS OF THE FIREMEN, Two Killed and Many Injured by Heat and Falling Walls at Philadelphia. The Old Pennsylvania Railroad Depot Totally Destroyed—Loss Esti- mated at $350,000. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 18.—The old Pennsylvania Railroad depot at Thir- ty-second and Market streets, and the trainshed, together with eight Pullman cars and about thirty passenger coaches, were totally destroyed by fire to-night. Two firemen were killed by falling wails, and over a dozen others were injured. The loss is estimated at $350,000. - The Penn- sylvania Railroad Company carried its own insurance. The dead are William Slaiger, aged 57 years, assistant chief engineer of the Phil- adeiphia Fire Department, and Hugh Me- Grannigan, 48 years old, assistant foreman of truck L The injured are: George R. Preston, as- sistant foreman of truck A, will die; Sam- uel Sneyd, ladderman, condition critical; Philip Salberg, ladderman, condition seri- ous; William Bennett, assistant foreman; Patrick Curtin, engineer; George N. Rey- nolds, ladderman; Charles W. Rauw, lad- derman; Henry Douglass, fireman; Theo- dore 0. Felton, fireman; John B. Lee, foreman truck A, Edward Rosenfelto, fire- man; John Hart, railroad employe; W. H. Sturgis, firemau. A Six of these were overcome by heat. David Weller, 16 years old, colored, was ceived a fractured arm and ribs. The fire started at 4:30 o’clock, presum- ably from an explosion of gasoline ina coal-bin under the trainshed. 'A number of cars were saved by pushing them by main strength to places of safety. Eight Pullman cars and about thirty passenger. | coaches, .however, were consumed. The fire raged for six hours and 1t was not ex- tinguished until midnight. Shortly after 5 o’clock an iron portico in front of the building fell and four firemen were caught in the debris and badly in- jured., The most serious disaster occurred two hours later, when a two-story wing of the bui'ding fell without warning, burying half a dozen firemen under the mass of hot bricks. The men were rescued in a short time, but Slaiger and McGrannigan had sus- tained fatal injuries. McGrannigan re- gained consciousness shortly before he breathed his last and asked that a priest be summoned. ‘The clergyman arrived a few minutes too late. He leaves a widow and three children, Slaiger had been a fire- man for thirty years. Two children sur- vive him. The building was ‘occupied by several officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad and valuable records were destroyed. Sectereid HIBBEN KEPT IN CUSTODY. Through the Blunder of the Chicago Po- lice He Was Fined and Sent to } Bridewell. CHICAGO, IrL., April 18.—S. B. Hib- ben, manager of the Arizona Sandstone Company of Santa Ana, Cal,, is a prisoner at the Bridewell on a $10 fine for alleged disorderly conduct, and his wife, who ac- companied him to Chicago from the coast with a daughter, refused to-day to pay the fine so that her husband could be liber- ated. Mrs. Hibben’s mother arrived here last night from Lebanon, Indi, and the couple left for Lebanon this afternoon, after notifying the police. The Hibben party arrived in town Thursday and Mr. Hibben, who has been mentally unbal- anced since an operation was performed, leit the hotel, saying he was going to get shaved. Nothing more was seen of him, and the polite were asked to locate him. It was learned that he pawned jeweiry, and it was supposed he had gone home on a ticket he bought for Pasadena, Cal. He was found wandering ou the street, how- ever, by a policeman, to whom he said he intended committing suicide. Although he gave his right name and his disappear- ance had been circulated among all police- men, he was allowed to be fined and sent to the Bridewell, where the superinten- dent discovered the blunder. L Wi, Trial of the Massachusetts. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 18.—The battle-ship Massachusetts sailed from Cramp’s ship-yard at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon for her official trip over the marked’ conrse between Cape Ann, Mass., and Cape Porpoise, Me. The Massachu- setts is nearer completion than any vessel that has ever left Cramp’s shipyard on a trial trip, and if the occasion arose she could meet an enemy on the high seas to- INOTTOW., SX WEN FILLED SEIEN INLRE Frightful Explosion in the Broadwater Mine, Montana. GIANT POWDER THAWED Thirty Sticks and a Box of Dyna« mite Scatter Death and Mutilation. FOUR SURVIVORS WILL DIE, Of the Killed All but One Were Single. Third Disaster Within Two Weeks. BUTTE, Moxt., April 18.—The Broad« water mine at Neihart was the scene of a terrible explosion early this morning, re- sulting in the death of seven miners and the serious injury of six others, some of whom cannot recover. The dead are: Frank Dorn, Jim Morrison, Hugh McKen« zie, Dan O'Leary, Dan Ross, John Kearns and Joe Dearborn; injured,'Mike Ward, James Comity, Mike Coburn, James Gale lagher and Joe Dorn. Of the men killed all were single except Frank Dorn. At last accounts James Gallagher was dving. It is also feared that three others will die. A special train carried the wounded to Great ¥alls. There are several stories as to the canse of the disaster, the 'most reasonable one being that the magazine, a room used for thawing powder at the middie tunnel of the mine, exploded just as the men were returning from lunch at 1 o’clock this morning. One of the men was thawing the powder with the too frequent resulr. All the powder in the room, some thirty sticks, was exploded. The explosion set off a box of dynamite and scattered death to the men who happened to be passing at the time. It is the worst accident that has ever happened in Neihart, and the town is wrapped in gloom and mourning. It is the third disaster that has occurred in the State within two weeks, thus again fulfiling the superstition that one big mining accident is almost immediately fol« lowed by two others. BILL RAIDLER SENTENCED. But the Desperado Is at Liberty on an Appral Bond, WICHITA, Kaxs., April 18.—Bill Raid- ler, the outlaw recently convicted of at- tempting to rob the United States mails at Dover, 0. T., April 38,1895, was sentenced in the Federal court at Kingfisher, O. T., to-day to ten years’ imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was overruled, as was a motion to suspend judgment. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court. Pending the hear- ing Raidler was let out on $5000 bail. 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