The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXIX._NO. 172. SAN FRANCISCO, WED? 20, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS MHILISM REARS (TS UGLYHEAD AT MOSCOW Renewed and Persstent Actity Among the Piless Platirs Who Would Show No Mercy to the Ruler of Al the Russias, : Meanwhile Preparations Proceed for the Trumphal Entry Into the Ciy, and tHe Subsequent Coonation of the Czar and Crarina With Unusual Splendor, MILAN, Itavy, May 18.—According to adviees received by the Daily Secolo from | Moscow, the coronation - festivals have caused renewed activity among the Nihil- ists, who for a long time past appeared to have abandoned their attacks upon the ruler of Russia. The advices published by the paper are to the effect that the police of Moscow have discovered a place in the city that bLombs. It is located beneath the street through | which the coronation procession will pass. It is added that placards have been | posted about the streets calling upon the ‘ was used for the manufacture of | Over people to revolt against the Czar. Several | a hundred thousand persons awaited the workmen who were employed in the | Czar’s arrival for two hours in the ele- preparations making in the Kremlin for | 8antly decorated Perron. Tne station was : : |a brilliant spectacle with the glitterin Pt = rrested, it be- | & D 188 g the coronation have been arrested I Aaar nearly every regiment, ing suspected that they are implicated in |~ The Gzarina looked charming in & white the conspiracy against the Czar. | dress and bonnet. The Czar was plainly LONDON, Exc., May 10.—The story pub- | clad in the uniform of a captain of infan- lished by the Secolo of Milan thata Nihi- | 'Y &nd with no decorations, making a list conspiracy against the life of the Czar has been discovered in Moscow lacks con- firmation and is not believed here. There were 300 special correspondents on the platform. The Duke of Connaught and Duchess of | Connaught arrived here from St. Peters- | burg to-day. The Duke will represent his Persons | mother, Queen Victoria, at the coronation Greeted Czar and Crarina. ceremonies. MOSCOW, Russia, May 19.—More than ‘ Admiral Selfridge, U. 8. N., whose flag- AWAITED THE Hundred a Thousand striking contrast with the brilliant surte. | the roads at Cronstadt, also arrived to- day. ’ly‘,ba military tattoo, which was scheduled for to-night to take place in the presence of the Czar, has been postponed owing to the inclement weather. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, Prince and Princess Louise of Bat- tenburg, the hereditary Grand Duke of Baden, the Crown Prince of Dénniark and Prince Sudanam of Japan arrived during the day and were received at the railroad station by members of the imperial family and guards of nhonor, accompanied by bands. An especially grand reception has been accorded to the Emir of Bokhara, who has been received in private audience by the Czar at the Petrovsky Palace, where he was presented to the Czar. The otner members of the Bokharan mission were then received officially in the Audience Hall. The Khan of Khiva was accorded a similar reception. There was no official reception accorded | Admiral Selfndge and partv, but they | were met at the station by H. H. D. Pierce, secretary of the United States Legation, |and by Lieutenant-Commander R. P. | Rogers, the naval attache to the legation. The Bishop ot Peterboro is here as the specially accredited legate from the See of Canterbury at the coronation. His pres- ence does not excite comment, as no intel- ligent Russian accepts seriously the re- cently mooted proiect for effecting a union between the Anglican and the orthodox Greek churches. | Crowds of people wait patiently in the | streets for hours for a glimpse of the | foreign Toyal personages in the city. When they appear the crowds greet them respectfully, but almost silently. The Russians are not accustomed to indulge in & noisy demonstration. - The brilliancy of | the scene is sadly marred by the persistent | rain. | Two new and resplendent baldachins | bave been prepared for the coronation, | one for the Czar and Czarina and the other | for the Dowager Czarina. The first is | lavishly overlaid with gold on each of its four faces, the interior ceiling being | adorned with the imperial arms, including | the chain of the Order of St. Andrew. | . Around the imperial shield-are grouped HERALDS SCATTERING THE IMPERIAL PROCLAMATION. The accompanying engraving, which is reproduced from the London Graphic-of June 9, 1883, represents an incident In connection with the coronation of Alexander lll, the father of the present Czar. which took place on May 27 of that year. When the Czar and Czarina entered the Kremlin on the 19th of September, 1882, which incident was depicted in “The Call” of yesterday, it was expected that the coronation would take place a few days later, but, on account of the threats of the nihilists, the ceremony was postponed and did not take place until eight months afterward. The preparations for the great event, which formailly marks the ascent of Nicholas to the throne, are more magnificent than those which attended the coronation of his father, and they are not likely to be interfered with by the members of the society which madethe existence oOf Alexander 11l almost a living death. ship, the cruniser Minneapolis, is lying in the nine aifferent escutcheons of the king- dom and principalities of Russia. In each corner is the imperial monogram worked in the chain of St. Anarew in glittering folds. On the exterior cornice are em- broidered sixteen large and jour small eagles with the imperial monogram. Al- ternately placed at the corner is a gold crown in relief and a number of gold eagles with smaller crowns, upon which are six- teen plumes of black and yellow ostrich feathers bound with ribbons of the same national colors. The imperial baldachin will be borne by sixteen generals. The second baldachin is half the size of the first and similarly but less elaborately adornea. The three ancient thrones of Ivan 111, Michael Teodorovitch and Alexis Mich- aelovitch will be used for the coronation. The monogram of the Czar is embroidered upon that of Michael Teodorovitch’s throne, that of the Czarina' upon the throne of Ivan III, and that of the Dowager Czarina upon the throne of Alexis Michaelovitch. The new imperial standards are mounted upon a black and yellow shaft surmounted by a gold enam- eled eagle. It is claimed that the Czar's manifesto will give amnesties, partial or complete, to Russian prisoners in Siberia. Those sen- tenced to life penal servitude will receive mitigation of the sentence, and offenders domiciled in Siberia will be permitted to return to any part of European Russia ex- cept St. Petersburg and Moscow. The sentences of those in jail in European Russia for serious offences will be reduced by one-third. % A large number of minor offenders will be pardoned. Numbers of those who left the country for political belief will be par- doned on condition of their taking the oath of allegiance. The peasantry in certain poor districts will be excused from arrears of crown dues. Even the Jews will not be forgot- ten, and the ill-starred Hebrew agricul- tural colonies at Ekaterinaslav will also be excused from arrears. The Czar will probably pardon all Cath- olic priests who have been imprisoned or sent to Siberia for breach of the public worship laws, and he also promises to grant gradually a large measure of re- ligious liberty to all the subjects, inciud- ing the Catholics. Cardinal Agiiardi, the Vatican representative at the coronation, will hand to the Czar an autograph letter from the Pope urging an extension of re- ligious liberty. In the first draft of the coronation mani- festo a paragraph provides for the cancel- lation of warnings of the censors standing against Russian newspapers,which amount 03,000,000 of roubles and the suppression of the papers. Most of the Russian papers have had a couple of warnings hanging over their heads for years past. This paragraph in the manifesto was omitted at the institution of certain court ministers. Russian pressmen are naturally displeased, but it remains to be seen if the paragraphs will be recovered. Criminals and debtors will doubtless be favored and political prisoners will not be forgotten. The impecunious nobles whose estates are heavily incumbered will prob- ably be relieved by reductions on the inter- est of their loans. There is also talk of the sons of merchants and manufacturers receiving the same rights regarding their movements as the nobility enjoys. 1S EQUIVALENT TO DEATR, Members of the Johannesburg Reform Committee to Serve Fifteen Years. Little Hope of John Hays Hammond and Associates Surviving the Sentence. LONDON, Exe., May 19.—The Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Pretoria saying that the executive council of the Transvaal has decided that Colonel Frank W. Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, Lionel Phillips, George Farrar and John Hays Hammond, the leaders of the Jo- hannesbarg Reform Committee, who were sentenced to death for high treason, but whose sentences were subsequently com- muted, shall undergo fifteen years’ im- prisonment. 1t is generally hoped now that this sen- tence will be modified. No decision has yet been reported in regard to the other prisoners. The dispatch does not contain the word “imprisonment,” but the Times assumes that the sentence does not mean banish- ment because of the expression of the hope that it would be mitigated. It says that the sentence is of such excessive rigor as to produce almost as painful an impres- sion of surprise as did the sentence of death. It adds that fifteen years in the Pretoria jail is almost equivalent to death, If the prisoners were banished there would be no reason to object, but the de- cision of the council will tend to aggravate the difficulty. The Times adds that it cannot believe that it is the intention of President Kru- ger and the council to persist in enforcing the decision. | - . RETIRING OLD FVESSELS. England Will Put a Modern Fleet in the North Atlantic. HALIFAX, N. S., May 19.—One of the officers of the British warshio Intrepid, now here, stated yesterday that it was the intention of the Imperial Government to replace all such vessels as the Tourmaline and Buzzard on this station with modern vessels, and that it is intended also to increase the strength of the squadron in numbers as well as in armament. It was currently reported in Portsmouth, he said, that the Dreadnaught would be stationed at Halifax. The Dreadnaught carries over 800 men. An evening paper says that all boats and craft of every kind approaching the Spanish warship Nautilus, now in this port after dark or cruising in her vicinity are challenged and armed guards are posted at the gangway and on the lnokout at various points about the deck. These recautions, the paper says, are necessary n a port where thereare many Cubans passing through in different vessels and oing and commf from the West Indies. 'he Nautilus will probably leave Halifax to-day. Chartered Company Inguiry. LONDON, Exc., May 19.—In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Robertsou, Liberal member of Parliament, asked what prece- dent existed for referring the inquiry into the affairs of the British South African Company to a joint committee. Colonial I Secretary Chamberlain in reply stated that ’ the form which the inquiry would take | had not been determined. LYNCHED IN LOUISIANA. An Accused Negro Assailant Taken From Jail and Put to Death in Short Order. NEW ORLEANS, La., May 19.—This morning early pedestrians who hap- pened to pass the courthouse and | jail in St. Bernard Parish were | borrified to see swaying in the breeze | the body of & man. The news quickly | spread and many hundreds viewed the; grewsome spectacle. Sheriff Nunez was told and hastened to the scene immed- iately, ordered that the body be cut down and took it in charge. This was done and | then it was seen that the distorted fea- tures, made hideous by Judge Lynch's swift justice, were those of Jim Daggle, | alias Jim Glemy, a negro. The news reached the city last evening from St. | Bernard Parish that a negro had at- | tempted to assault a white woman, Mrs, | Meleso, Sunday morning in front of the | Poydras plantation. The news of the at- tempted assault spread through the par- ish and in a short while every one was on the trail of the assailant. He was cap- tured and placed in the parish prison of | St. Bernard, which is located at Terre Aux Beeufs. | —_————— | ARCHDUKE CHARLES LOUIS DEAD. | Was a Brother of Emperor Francis Joseph | of Austria and Very Popular in | Hungary. i VIEN Avstria, May 19.—Archduke | Charles Louis, brother of Emperor Francis | Joseph, died this morning. Dispatches | from Budapest say that the announce- ment created sorrow throughout Hungary, where the Archduke was very popular, and casts a shadow over the celebration of | Hungary’s millennium. The principal celebrations, which were to have taken place June 8, have been postponed and mourning officially ordered. Archduke Charles Louis was born July | 30, 1833. His second son, Archduke Otto | Francis Joseph, is now regarded as heir to | the throneof Austria-Hungary. The elder | son, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who | came heir to the throne after the suicide of Archduke Rudolph, the Prince Imperial, and the abdication of his father, is incur- ably ill and consequently incapacitated from succeeding to the throne. C > doem VICUNA SUCCUMBS TO FEVER. | Death of Ome of the Spanish Generals | Sent to Fight Cubans. | HAVANA, Cusa, May 19.—General Vi- | cuna is dead. He was attacked by vellow fever a few days awo and despite every ef- | fort sank rapidiy, his death occurring to- day. General Arolas reports that rebels at- tacked the camp at Artermisa, but were repulsed. The gunboat Cuba Espanola fired upon a number of rebels at Ojo del | Toro, who were evidently awaiting the ar- rival of a tilibustering expedition. Rebels made an attack upon the forts at | BLANTHER KILLED MRS, LANGFELDT, Absolute Proof of Austrian’s Premedi- tated Crime. the DODGE HIS INNOCENT CONFEDERATE. The Architect Tricked Into Pawne ing the Murdered Woman's Diamonds. SAID THE GEMS BELONGED TO MRS, MARKS, The Hue-and-Cry After Blanther Growing Hotter Around San Jose—Lees Confident. George Dodge has opened his lips and added a new horror to the story of the murder of Philippina Langfeldt. Captain Lees has said that he knew the murder was fully premeditated. His con- fidence grew out of the knowledge of George Dodge’s secret, which was not kept a secret from him. For days before the commission of the slaughter Blanther had been playing upon his friend’s confidence in him—preparing to secure through him speedily what money he could upon the value of Mrs. Langfeldt’s diamonds. With all the preparations made Blan- ther engaged to meet Dodge and turn over | to him a number of diamonds for a conside eration agreed upon. True to this prearranged plan he was at the tryst, smiling and debonair, rolling his little cigarettes. He had the diamonds. He turned them over to Dodge and Dodge, all nnconscious of the part he was playing, completely deceived as to where the diamonds had come from, secured the | money and went with the jesting mur- derer as far as Oakland as has been so often repeated. This is the story as Dodge tells it: “For several days prior to the murder Blanther kept saying that a friend of his, Miss Genevieve Marks, a divorced woman whom he claimed to bs George A. Dodge, the Architect Who Inmocently Pawned the Murdered Woman’s Diamonds and Handed the Proceeds to Blanther on the Morning of His De. parture. Gibacoa, near Havana, to-day. The fight- | ‘ing lasted for five hours, when the_ in. surgents were tepulsed. The troops lost twenty killed and wounded. The losses of the insurgents are said to have been heavy. On their retreat the insurgents burned thirty houses. A column under Colonel Garrido, while | marching from Guantanamo in the direc- tion of Sagua de Tanamo, to prevent the rebels from protecting the landing of a filibustering expedition, which was ex- pected to arrive shortly, met near Canoa a strong insurgent force occupying a for- midable position. The troops attacked the rebels and dislodged them from their osition. The rebel loss is unknown, | Cighteen of the troops were seriously and | fifteen slightly wounded Shte e Awaiting Developments. JOHANNESBURG, SoutH Arrica, May 19.—The mining and industrial outlook here is very bad, owing to the decision of [ the Government in fixing the penalties of | the Reform Commitiee prisoners. . Bar- | ney Barnato has postponed the threat-| ened sale of mining and other property | pending political developments. | e — | Bayard Is Delighted. | LONDON, Exa., May 19.—United States | Embassador Bayard had an important in- | terview at the Foreign Office with Lord‘ Salisbury. The conference lasted an hour, and ‘at its close Mr. Bayard left the For | eign Office, apparently greatly delighted. =i T s Increasing the African Force. BERLIN, GERMANY, May 19.—The Reich- stag this aftcrnoon passed a resolution | granting the Government credit of 2,000,000 marks for the purpose of adding 420 men 'f fgu: military force in German southwest ca. upon terms with, had a number of dia- monds which she desired to pledge. He said she frequented the races and had tips upon which she could make a pot of money if she had money to bet; that she was expecting money from the East that failed to come, and as a last resort she proposed to put up her diamonds. “Blanther asked me if I conld get the money for her. He said he had spoken to ber often of me, of how kind I had been to him and how appreciative he was; all of which was intended, I now see, to flatter and enlist me in his emergency. *1told bim I could get the money, but that I would not do so without a written warrant from her. ““He came to me the next day with a _ note, as follows: I hereby authorize you to borrow money on the collateral security given you by me, cone sisting of diamonds. GENEVIEVE MARKS, ““Upon this I agreed to secure the money on the collateral he might bring. He kept saying day after day that he would bring the aiamonds next morning. “On Saturday morning, when I arrived at the office, he was sitting there rolling a cigarette, and apparently in the best of humor. He took me aside and said: ‘That’s all right about the diamonds— I've got them.” “He showed me two large stones, one of | them worth, I should judge, about $250, | I know something about diamonds. “I said: ‘Very well; I'll get you the money.” We went round into Kearny street to a broker, whose name I do not care to give just now, and received acheck