The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1896, Page 1

jou Jadeq siyj +++ 4 "A1RIQIT BY3 weJdy uade} aq 03 VOLUME LXXIX.—NO 176. WILD SCRAMBLES IN THE KREMLIN Proclamations Scattered by Picturesque Russian Heralds. BEAUTIFUL COPIES CAST INTO THE CROWD. Scenes Witnessed at the Funeral of the Late Czar Are Repeated. FESTIVITIES PRECEDING THE COMING CORONATION. Regimental Bands and Glistening Coats of Mail Lend a Charm to the Ceremonies. MOSCOW, Russia, May 23.—At 9 o’clock this morning one of the most interesting events connected with the festivities took place in the Senate square in front of the arsenal inside the Kremlin. It was the proclamation of the coronation by the pic- turesque Russian heralds. With the exception of the emblems of mourning and the wording of the procla- mation the ceremony was in all re- spects the same as the one witnessed in Bt Petersburg at the funeral of the late Czar. Many people had gathered to listen to the proclamation, though the crowds in the ancient citadel of the Kromlin were not excessively large. Drawn up on two sides of the square, flanked by the arsenal and the ancient Senate-house, were four squadronsof cuir- assiers, two of life-guards and two of che r-guards. I'hese were commanded by a general, sipported by his officers. On either flank of the lines of cuirassiers. whose coats of nail glistened in the morning light, were regimental bands. At the side near the general were two secretaries of the Senate, two aides-de- camp and four masters of ceremonies in rich costames and mounted on magnifi- cent horses. In the very center of the tquare, facing theartillery barracks, were six mounted heralds, escorted by an equal number of esquires. These were arraged in costumes strik- ingly like those in which Charles I 1s represented, with large caval- ier hats of crimson, surmounted with plumes of yellow, black and white; satin mantles, trimmed with a profusion of gold, slashed hose and doeskin racing pants. As 9 o’clock rang out from the Ivan Tower the heralds sounded a flourish upon their golden trumpets and the crowd reverently uncovered to hear the proclama- tion while the cuirassiers and guards sat like rigid statues in serried lines. One of the secretaries of the Senate rode a few paces forward and read in a loud voice the following proclamation: “Our most august, most high and most mighty Sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alex- androvitch, having ascended the heredi- tary throne of the empire of all the Russias and of the kxingdom of Poland and of the Grand Dnchy of Fin- land, which are inseparable from it, has been pleased to ordain in imi- tation of his predecessors and glorious ancestors, that the sacred solemnity of the coronation and consecration of his Imperial Majesty, which his Majesty wills that his august consort, the Kmpress Alexandra Feodorovna shall share, do with the aid of the Almighty, take piace on the 14th (26th) of May. By the present proclamation, therefore, this solemn act is announced to all the faithful subjects of his Majesty to the end that on this anspicious day they may send up to King of Kings their most fervent prayers and implore the Almighty One to ex- tend the favor of his blessings to the reign of his Majesty, to the maintenance of peace and tranquil- lity, to the very great glory of his holy name and to the unchanging weal of the empire.’’ Having read the proclamation, which was received with cheers by the people, the secretary retired to hisformer place and thé esquires threw into the midst ‘f the crowd beautifully illuminated copies of the proclamation on which were en- graved the arms and insignia of Nicho- las II. A desperate strugele then took place in the crowd in order to secure copies of the precious document, and, as the struggle ensued, the bands struck up the strains of a Russian military march, the officers ranked up, the cuiras- siers fell in line behind the heralds and the whole party rode away past the [yan Tower, through the great beil square and out the Spasky gate, to repeat in different quarters of the town the ceremony just witnessed. The same solemnity will be enacted in a similar manner to-morrow and the day after; thus on the three days preceding the coronation is the great event an- nounced publicly to the people, who showed great eagerness to hear the procla- mation. In addition to this formality, ten mas- ters of ceremonies in gala chariots for- mally announced to the foreign diplomats, SAN FRANCISCO, SU UG LiUtary. ~ ~ 7 v PRICE FIVE CE THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF RUSSIA AS THEY PRESEAT DAY APPEARED AT DIFFERENT TIMES. plenipotentiaries and special envoys the day fixed for the coronation. P ¥ PALLID AND NERVOUS. The Czar Overwheimed by lliness or Depression. [CopyTight, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exg., May 23.—What strikes one most about the great cumulative pagzeant at Moscow isthe novel effectit is producing on the imagination on out- side nations. No one seems before to have realized what a colossal thing Russia really is, or what prodigious results must follow when it begins to move about. Visitors there report, with curious unan- imity, the discovery that the Russians be- lieve they are on the point of becoming a match for all Western Eurove, quite by themselves, independent of allies. They say that the French entente may be use- ful for the moment, but they ‘shall not need it muach longer and certainly will pay no price for it. Everybody noted thatthe excessive os- tentation of the foppery of the French republic’s representation at Moscow is be- ing sneered at and derided by the Rus- sians. Poor Paris fancied that it was go- ing to make such a hit with its imperial | carriages and its gorgeous Louis Quinze paraphernalia, but even the moujiks grin and nudge each other at the spectacle and it is the principal joke of the upper-class Russians. The contrast forced itself on every one yesterday when Mr. Breckin- ridge and his American snite went in sim- ple citizens' attire to the diplomatic re- ception given by the Czar, while the French Embassador filled the street with a bedizened cortege of more than imperial pretensions. Correspondents of the Lon- don papers describe the Russians as not- ing this distinction in republics with sardonic comments, all to the disad- vantage of their allies. The Czar reveals himself as a pailid and nervous figure, overwhelmed by either ill- ness or settled depression. On all sides are heard reports that he is in failing health. The young Czarina’s gayety is suspected to be forced. She has the true grit and courage of her maternal race, in which the women at least still deserve to be called “the fighting Guelphs,” and she will make a stout struggle to maintain her position, but I fancy that clouds are gath- ering round the new reign. Botn Nicho- las and his wife are cager to show in small things their affection for England, but the Russian Foreign Office is moving implacably in the opposite direction and they are powerless to stop it. It is understood in Berlin that very soon the elderly Grand Duke Michael, who is the only important liberalizing force in the dynastic circle, is to retire from his post of President of the Council of State andisto be succeeded by his nephew, Viadimir, the Czar's eldest uncle. No change could be more eloquent of reaction than this. There are the usual stories of great reforms, amnesties and so forth to be announced after the coronation, and it is particularly specified that the burden of press censorship is to be measurably lightened. It is true that the Russian pa- pers during the last six months nave en- joyed astonishing freedom and it is possi- ble that some ukase is intended to confirm this liberty, but I doubtif thisor any other amelioration will be permanent. The drift in Russia is the other way. It becomes more and more apparent that there is a drift in France toward some- thing which is not republican. All the polite quarters of Paris are to be decorated Tuesday in honor of the crowning of the autocrat of all the Russians, but the po- litical purpose of this is so clear that all the poorer parts of the city, where the in- habitants are democrats, will refuse to hang out a flag or to light a candle. There is a widespread suspicion that some plot against the republic is brewing, and that the apothesis of the monarchial idea at Moscow is being exploited to further plang 'n France. It is understood that Presi- dent Faure is to be publicly hooted and insulted at Ambroise, where he goes to unveil the statue of a deceased Senator, who was originally mixed up with the peccadillos of Faure's wife’s father. This personal element ot scandal is the pretext {for the hostile demonstrations, but, in reality, if it comes off, it will be every- i where understood as aimed, not at Faure { so much as at his office. Overshadowed as it 1s by the Russian festival, the death of the immediate heir | to the Austrian crown has hardly been noticed, but it is an event of grave mo- | ment none the less. Charles Louis him- self was of no special importance, but his disappearance brings up to and upon the | steps of the throme two sons who are loathed and despised all over the empire. | Neither of them could keep his place as Emperor for a year without a civil war. | Indeed, it begins to be taken for granted that no possible heir can keep the Aus- trian empire from smashing up when Francis Joseph dies, Most of the men of affairs whom I know have for years back been saying that a general European war | might not come before his death, but that it wiil be inevitable then, and naturally | the demise of his youngest brother gives | fresh color to this gloomy prediction. The | Emperor himself is said to quite accept | this view, and to know very well that after | him comes the deluge. ‘HUNTINGH]N'S SCHEMES, Has an Old Southern Pacific Claim Put in the General Deficiency Bill. More Than This, H: Expects the Funding Measure to Be Considered This Session. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 23, —Hunt- ington has worked the Senate again and has had incorporated in the deficiency bill an appropriation of $1,542,979, this be- ing the clainr of the Southern Pacific Com- pany for services rendered the Govern- ment in hauling mail, troops, supplies, ete. This chestnut has been proposed and defeated in every Congress for years past, Representative Maguire says he will make the same ficht against this amend- ment that he did in the last Congress and in addition will show that the Central Pa- cific Company azreed in their offer to the Committee on Pacific Railroads to allow | that item as an offset on the Government claim. The funding bill reported by that committee and now pending provides that it shall be o treated. “It seems to me,”’ Maguire said, “that the Southern Pacific Company is much weaker in this respect than it was when the claim was presented in the last Con- gress. C. P. Huntington said to Senator White to-day that he expected his funding bill to be considered at this session. The re- mark was made casually and the railroad magnate did not say whether he expected it to come up in the House or in the Sen- ate. Representative Maguire says that the railroaders seem to have relaxed their efforts in the House wing of the Canpitol, therefore the inference is that Huntington expects to secure consideration for it in the Senate. Representative Johnson today introduced abill to pension Lulu A. Nichols, and a bill for tbe relief oi W. D. Catlet of Cali- fornia. Arthor I Gray was, to-day appointed Postmaster at Elk Grove, Sacramento County, Cal, vice Joseph Hasman, re- moved., l GREAT BRITA CANT NTERVENE, That Is the Impression "as to the Atrocities in Armenia. SALISBURY MAY YET ACT Harcourtian Tactics in Forcing the Agricultural Bill to a Conclusion. GROSS CLASS LEGISLATION. No Reason for John Dillon Having Selected the Occasion for Martyrdom. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, ExG., May 22.—The latest reports from Constantinople indicate the preliminary stages there of a fresh panic about what is going to happen during the Bairam festival. New stories of Armenian atrocities come in daily, but the public here is so satiated with these things that they create little impression so long as England is powerless to inter- vene.. If, however, there should be re- newed disorder in Constantinople itself, Lord Salisbury would find his fellow- countrymen practically a unit in demand- ing intervention at any cost. Yesterday’s all-night sitting of the House of Commons, though not the longest one recoraed, differs from all others in the fact that the filibustering, or what passes for it here, was led through- out by the leader of the opposition. Itis quite fair to ascribed to Harcourt a desire to show that though he is 70 next year, he still has the pluck and endurance of youth, This display is all the more opportune since Rosebery, though a young man, is continually breaking engagements and taking sea voyages on account of his deli- cate health. 2 Aside from personal reasons, however, it was wise Harcourtian tactics to choose the Government’s agricultural rating bill as the ground for a spectacular battle, This bill is class legislation of the grossest character, such as England has not seen since the corn laws. Under the pretense of relieving the farmers’ distress, it puts $10,000,000 a year into the landed aristo- crats’ pockets, all of which will have to be provided by the industrial towns and cities in the shape of added taxes. This will raise more bad blood throughout the 'country than even the educational biil, and it is good poiitics for the Liberals to go into the last ditch against it. Why John Dillon, however, should have selected this as an occasion for martyraom, it would puzzle anybody to say. The biil does not affect Ireland in the first place; in the second it is, at least nomiually, in favor of the agriculturist, and four-fifths of the Irish nationalists are on the soil. But then Dillon, as I have suid for the past twelve years, is an incapable ass, He reacied the point of almost incred- | ible foolishness this week in causing what | had is left of his party formally to pass a pub- lic appeal to the Parnellite= 1o join him aud then giving the appeal to the press, but actually not sending a copy of it to Redmond, to. whom it was nominally ad- dressed. Redmond accordingly scores a point on this stupid omission, as well as insultingly dismisses the proposal as too ndiculous for serious consideration. I am amazed to see, too, Alfred Webb's letter in the Times of the 1lth inst., asserting | that Healy’s followers receive as large a portion of the parliamentary fund as do the Dillonites. The facts are that six Healy mer are on the list as receiving ses- sional salaries and at least twenty-six Dil- lonites, while several others of the latter get irregular grants when there happens to be any money on hand, which is very rarely now. It istrue that Mr. Webb was one of the treasurers of the fund for a long while, but he seems not to know at all what is beinz done with the money, of which he nominally had partial charge. He is an elderly Quaker gentleman of high character, whose presence in the party lent it respectability, but he was never allowed to venetrate any secrets of the machine as manipulated by Dillon and Xavier O'Brien. Agricultural returns issued last night for 1895 reveal some remarkable facts. The wheat acreage has diminished by 510,000 acres in a single year. The total diminu- tion since 1885 has been just under 2,000, 000 acres, of which two-thirds were in the last five years, leaving now less than 1500 acres under wheat, all told. To some ex- tent barley and fruit have taken the place of wheat, but the great bulk of the land has gone to grass. Notwithstanding this, dead meat imports continue to mount up, | over 600,000 tons, of which three-fourths are from the United States, coming in last year. The total annual imports of wheat and flour have now reached the tremen- dous figure of $150,000,000. When, how- ever, it isrealized that the British farmers are so unenlerprising as to allow $20,000,- 000 worth of foreign eggs to be brought into the country yearly simply because they will not bother with poultry, it is difficult to get up any deep sympathy for them. The great wheel imported from Chicago and now at the Colonial Exhibition here has been misbehaving. It stuck with sixty imprisoned passengers all through a cold foggy night. The episode has a phase which will not be commented on hLere. The morning paper having the news was the Telezraph, which said that an hour past midnight the wheel was still stuck. It will hardly be accredited in America, but at 1 o’clock the next afternoon the St. James Gazette and the Westminster Ga- zette appeared, quoting the Telegraph’s account without a single added word. The wheel is within four miles of their offices and connected by telephone, yet it had oc- curred to no one in either office during the whole forenoon to inquire whether it had been set in motion or not. The Morning Post in a review of Mark Twain’s ‘‘Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc’’ expresses a cautious doubt whether Clemens is not really having a joke at the public’s expense. Such a conclusion, it says, would be premature, but it feels that there will be a justifiable uncertainty on the part of many readers until the author has actually produced his original unpub- lished manuscript in the national archives of France for public inspection. It has been many years since London has had such a gory surfeit of sensational capital trials. Three men areto be hanged at Newgate on June 9 for two burglarious murders of peculiar atrocity. And yester day the woman Dyer was sentenced to death for the systematic aestruction of homeless children placed with her by their parents, These children she strangled and threw into the Thames at Reading. She is supposed to have thus killed fifty or more of them. An effort was made to save ‘ber on the plea of insanity, but there ‘would have been a universal outery if it succeeded. BSeveral other murder trials almost equally exciting will begin next week. Again the Mannlicherrifle has been used in earnest in Austria. Thistimein alabor riol_near Reichenberg. Three soldiers fired one shot each and brought down | seven people, one bullet actually killing two persons and badly hurting another. These recurring evidences of the deadly character of the new smallbores lend a sickening terror to the forecasts of the next European war. On the other hand experience in the Soudan and Matabeleland shows that this modern tiny projectile, despite its hideous velocity and penetrating power, is not so good for stobping a dervish or Kaffir rush as the oid big bullet. The ‘“native’” comes at such a pace and with such tremendous force of will-power that nothing but the solid impact of a good-sized hunk of lead will hold him up. He will not stop merely because he has been perforated by a metal pea. Ishould think this would probably be true, too, of Russian soldiers. John Hare's inevitable interviews on his American experiences make much pleas- anter reading than these things generally do. Heliked everybody and everything except, perhaps, Pittsburg, of which he narrates the anecdote about a man, who if he owned heil and Pittsburg, would rent the latter. In my boyhood this used to be told of Texas, but Mr. Hare seems to have under- stood America, as well as liked it, which is not invariably the case. He especially puts our railway traveling, hotels and our theaters ahead of anything in England. The marvelously successful Japanese opera, “The Geisha,”” has been purchased for America by Augustin Daly, and it is reported here that others are claiming | rights in it on the otber side, but I have seen all the documents and know that Mr. Daly's title is absolute. He is to be con- gratulated on this fact, for it is many years since such a spontaneous triumph has been scored by anything in its line. Harorp FREDERIC. CUBANS IN NEED OF FUNDS. Insurgents Ask Baltimore Banks to Ad- vance Money on Their Bonds. BALTIMORE, Mp., May 23.—Circulars are being received by Baltimore banks from the fiscal agent of the Cuban insur- gents asking subscriptions to a bond issue to be put out by authority of the independ- ent Government of the island. The circu- lars contain a plea to Americans to pur- chase these bonds to aid the insurgents in securing their indevendence. The bonds are to be issued in denomina- tions from $50 to $1000, are to be payable in gold and to bear interest at 6 per cent, payable semi-annually. A stipulation in the bonds is that the Government issuing them may default in the interest until six months after the island is evacuated by the Spaniards. The side-wheel steamer City of Rich- mond, which came here from New Lon- don, Cnn., several weeks agoand was thor- oughly overhauled and refitted, slipped away from her dock at 2 o’¢ciock this morn- ing without any previously announced in- tention of sailing. Her sudden departure has strengthened the bélief that she is un- der charter to the Cuban insurgents. 1t was given out to-day that the steamer bas sailed for Jacksonviile and that she will be used by the Florida coas: line. The City of Richmond is a swift steamer, capable of making seventeen miles an hour, and is very seaworthy. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 23.—The President to-day sent a message to the Senate in relation to the Spanish protocols and the Competitor affair. It contains nothing but the text of the treaties and Ero!ocols in the original Spanish and in n %}ish. The President declined on public grounds to transmit to the Senate any of the correspondence between this Govern- ment and Spain growing out of the Com- patitor affair, BURNED BODIES OF TWO VICTIMS Murders Committed by a Minister in a Salt Lake Church. IT IS LIEE DURRANTS CRIME. Young Women Lured Into the Place of Worship and Then Put to Death. BODIES CREMATED IN THE FURNACE. Binding Evidence Against the Rev, Francis Hermann, Who Re. cently Disappeared. SALT LAKE, Utan, May 22.—A horri- ble tragedy, in many respects similar to the murders committed by Durrant at San Francisco, has been unearthed in thiscity. In this case, as in the other, the sanctuary of God was the scene of the crimes, and the victims two women. The pastor of the church, Rev. Francis Hermann, is ac- cased of the murders. The scene of the crimes was the First Scandinavian Metho- dist Church, at 158 Second East street. Last year the pastor’s wife died, and he engaged Miss Clawson, an attractive young woman of to stop at the church build- ing, which is large and accommodates sev- eral families in the wings, to look after his apartments. In September last Miss Clawson suddenly disappeared, and has not been seen alive since. Immediately after her disappear- ance the pastor, although the weather was hot at that season, ordered a big fire built in lhe furnace in the basement of the church. He sent everybody away and lighting the fire himself kept it going for hours. Persons residing in the neighborhood de« tected exceedingly bad odors at the time the furnace was going and remonstrated with Mr. Hermann, but he said he wanted to give the flues a thorough test before cold weather came. It was in this furnace a few days ago that the bonesof Miss Clawson, together with two blackened razors, a butchers knife, part of a woman’s garter, kuckles d a brooch, were found. The other victim was a Miss Annie Samuelson. She was engaged to be mar- ried to the preacher, but mysteriously dis- appeared in February last, and it is sup- posed her remains are concealed some- where about the church. The police, who, have been secretly working on the case for several days, found a barrel the head of which is covered with human blood and the theory is that the murderer, after kill- ing his victims, carried them up on the barrel head. Blood stans werealso found on the furnace door and on the tloor. Rev. Mr. Hermann, for whosearrest a war rant has been issued on the charge of mur- der, left Salt Lake on May 7 for Kansas City, thence for Decorah, Iowa, on a mis- sionary tour. 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