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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1896. OPLOMTS AT THE CRETA W Sensational Swiftness of the Action of the World’s Powers. SIGNAL OF CONVULSION An Outbreak That Seemed to Undermine the Government of the Turks. WHAT WILL GREECE NOW DO? It Is a Question Whether the Usual Concerted Pressure Will Keep Her Hands Off. [Copsright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Ese., May 30.—Although there has been something like civil war in Crete for months back and the garrison of some thousand Turkish regular troops has actually been besieged inside the fort- ress of Vamos by 5000 or 6000 armed Cre- tans since March, Europe has allowed it- self to be thrown quite off its balance by a mere street riot in Canea, the capital of the island. It is true, of course, that dis- order in Canea menaces the lives of foreign Consuls and merchants, who were not af- fected by the previous inland troubles, but that scarcely accounts for the sensational swiftness with which the powers raced their available ironclads into Cretan waters at Thursday’s news. It is apparent that every Foreign Office jumped to the conclusion that the blood- shed in Canea had peculiar zignificance of its own, quite apart from the chronic ture bulence of the island. The suspicion that the ground has been mined everywhere under the fabric of the Turkish empire and that an explosion which will bring it crashing into ruins is close at hand has grown so universal that this Cretan outbreak seemed to every one to be the signal for the long-expected con- vulsion. Calmer views prevail at this moment, but it is very likely that within a week or two Crete will again be the object of gen- eral disquiet. The Turkish Government is acting with a promptness so unusual as to excite queer suspicions. It has heavy re-enforcements already under way, and apparently intends to crush out resistance at any price. This can only have the ef- fect of heating Greek fury to the fever point. Even as it is, the King of Greece is hur- rying back to Athens from his vacation at Corfu, and though backed by the unani- mous representations of foreign ministers there, he finds himself bareiy able to re- sist the popular clamor for action. This sk will be perhaps too great for his strength when the Turks begin the work of “restoring order’” in their characteristic way. Heretofore in these constantly recurring Cretan emergencies Europe has been able to use concerted pressure to make the Greeks keep their hands off. The excite- ment of the present situation consists in the universal doubt whether that Euro- pean concert still exists. It was to every- body’s interest seven years ago to prevent the Cretans and the Greeks from tearing the bandages off ‘‘the sick man.” This may not be true to-day. Oddly enough there are widely different notions or perhaps pretenses as to who enjoys the upper hand just now in Greek counsels. The German, French and Russian papers all say that it was Eneland who incited the Cretans to mischief and who is ar- ranging with Greece for an interested in- tervention. On the other hand, as the English un- derstood the situation, it ig Russia and France who bave Greece in tow -and who can count implicitly on her followinz their lead. The truth appears to be that Greece has been in grievous financial straits so long and has been forced to fawn on all sides for merciful treatment at the hands of her creditors, that every power is more or less entitled to feel that it has claims on Greek gratitude and loyalty. If ultimately it becomes a question of the longest purse, England will easily outbid France, but it may turn out te be rather a question of force majeure, and there the issue is not 50 clear. The assertion in the Nineteenth Century by a former secretary of Lord Loch’s that Jamason’s raid had for its immediate pur- pose the seizure at Pretoria of documents known to exist proving underhand deal- ings between Germany and the Transvaal brings to the front a new phaseof the many-sided South African tangle. It has been whispered about for four weeks that Chamberlain has a lot of these proofs up his sleeve, reaay to be produced at the proper moment. Hitkerto these stories seem to have been born of the despairing hope that presently | Chamberlain would begin secoring some successes in his duel with Krueger, but I am told now that there really is evidence of an anti-British arrangement between Berlin and Pretoria which when it comes out will place the Boer Government in a very awkward position. If this be so one can understand England’s meeting Krue- ger’s demand for Rhodes’ punishment by the point that first Krueger must make an example of Ur. Leyds, who was in Germany negotiating the Transvaal’s treason to her suzerainty before Rhodes ever thought of making a move. Although there issa temporary luil in the South African business the enianglement is get- ting worse rather than better. The decision of the Meline Cabinet to adopt as its own almost the identical in- come-tax measure on which M. Bourgeois was driven out of office illustrates the paralyzing confusion which has overtaken the French politicians, It can hardly be compared with the familiar British device of stealing the Liberals’ clothes while they are in bathing, since in the French Cham- ber these hard and fast party lines do not exist, and Meline’s bid js for the parlia- mentary support of the forty or fifty former followers of Bourgeois rather than for popular suffrages. The proposed tax on rentes is clearly unconstitutional, since investors have been over and over again aseured by law that they must always be exempt from taxation, but the republic bas no power for forcing the Chamber to respect the constitution or the laws. Kver since the Belgians remodeled their constitution in the direction of enlarged suffrage it has been obvious that Holland could not continue very long on the old restrictive basis. Although the two coun- tries dislike each other and have as littie intercourse as possible, they inevitably in- fluence one another in political matters. Recognizing this the Datch Ministry h as devised a rather cunning measure, which it calls an “Electoral Reform Bill,” and for which it has obtained a solid majority in Parliament. Most of the genuine Lib- erals are against it, because, under the guise of a large reform, it really concedes suffrage to only about 100,000 more citizens and gives the Consarvatives a chance to treat the sufirage asa thing now settled for a generation. On the other hand the extreme Tories resent even this concession to popular aemands. In the House while the Junker party and the Clericals fight the trouble from one point of view, the Radicals and Socialists resist it from another, and the majority for it is made up of moderate men of both parties. Although Prince Henry ot Prussia has waived his resentment against his impe- rial brother to the extent of representing the German empire at the Moscow festivi- ties, he is said to be resolute in his deter- mination not to return to official and court life at Berlin. He has bought a fine rursl chatean in Lorraine, aimost on the French border, and intends to reside there all the year round as a country gentlemen. There is a report in fashionable circles here that he has taken, or intends to take, a London house also, and that he will make the Eng- lish metropolis his town resort during the season, but this would be a rather more overt act of hostility to the Kaiser than the gentle Prince Henry seems capable of. It is known, however, that one of the principal grounds of quarrel between the brothers was Henry’s disgust at the stupid anti-English demonstrations which the crowd of favorites who now have Wil, liam’s ear continually urge upon him. It is treated as an established fact that the ex-Empress Eugenie has gone over into the Orleanist camp. Of course she | always regarded the late “Plon Plon” with | open and bitter animosity, and it was hardly to be expected that she would cher- ish a warm personal affection for his son; but arter all she did recognize Prince Vic- tor as her own son’s heir, and made him | an allowance of $15,000 per year, which | she still continues to pav. Under these circumstances her abandonment of the Bonapartist cause naturally creates feel- ing. Her owx explanation is that she de- sires to spend her old age peacefully in France, and that the republic will not allow her to do this if she is closely identi- | fied with the ambitions of the Napoleonic | pretender. This does not explain why she has suddenly become an open patroness of the Orleanist pretender instead. Old Im- perialists, like Emile Ollivier and Paul Cassagnac, permit themselves publicly to remark that lLer genius for intrigue and egotistic treachery was the ruin of the Second Empire, and that the Napoleonic | idea has never had a more persistent and | mischievous enemy than this Spanish ad- | venturess, whom it picked out of shady | obscurity and hoisted on to the first throne | of Earope. London’scensus, taken last March, turns | out to involve a certain amount of disap- | pointment. It seems that the ratio of in- | erease during the decade of 1831-91 has not | been quite maintained in the subsequent | five years. The discrepancy between estimate and | reality for the latter period is 14,500. The | trath is, however, that London is now overflowing at a greater rate than ever into | the outer ring of suburbs, which are not yet counted as part of the metropolis for county council purposes. If the whole ur- ban district under the control of the Metropolitan administration were consid- | ered the population would be now about | 6,300,000. 2 A quaint peculiarity of fnglish journa- lism was exhibited the other day when Professor Max Muller delivered a really | important lecture on “The; Coincidences Between the Scriptural and Secular Lore of:Asia’’ before the Royal Society here, and no London paper printed more than the baldest summary of it. An incident of general interest came at the close, when the present Lord Chan- | cellor, Lord Halsbury, a little pork-faced creature who is said o be an able lawyer, but who looks like Du Maurrier’s Sir Gorgius Midas, and whose use of his judi- cial and ecclesiastical patronage would give Platt points in political jobbery, rose to move a vote of thanks to the lecturer, | and incidentally to defend Christianity | from atfacks which he supposed Dr. Muller | had made on it. - He revealed sucha comic | ignorance ot the whole subject that Dr. Muller easily made hash of him in reply, and scored point after point, amid yells of delight from the audience. The London dailies contained only a blind allusion to | the fact that something of this sort oc- curred, but all the good provincial papers | like the Manchester Guardian, the Brad- i ford Observer and twenty others had long, almost verbatim, telegraph reports of the whole thing. Swinburne’s new Arthurian poem, “Balen,”"is not treated here as heighten- ing his reputation. There is much praise for the craftsmanship with which he sur- mounted the obstacle of rhymes in fours, but this is felt after all to be mental gym- nastics rather than poetry. Private letters from Paris reveal great interest in Zola's fortune at the adjourned election in the academy. The date of the next balloting is not specified, but the in- terim will be filled with zealous work by both parties. At Thursday’s inconclusive meeting, where eight ballots were taken, Zola once reached fourteen votes, which was within three of the needful number. In a full” gathering he will need twenty, and the question how he is to get them occupies the Parisian mind to the exclu- sion of the income tax, the Russian alli- | ance and everything else. The clerical and aristocratic elements in the academy will fight against Zola’s admission tooth and nail, but his “Rome,” following on his *‘Lourdes,” while accounting for their opposition, make him the champion of religious liberalism in a way which may incite all other elements finally to unite on him. A lot of important Shakespearean,relics | will besold at auction here next week. They were in the possession of the Hart family, who were lineal descendants of Shakespeare's sister, Jyln. till the close of the last century, when’ the last Hart died. As the relics were inventoried previously in successive wills and have heen kept together ever since their authenticity s practically beyond doubt. Up to1820 they were exhibited in the birthplace house at Stratford. Then the owner of the house raised the rent, and their purchaser, a Mrs. Hornby, moved across the street, where for years she kept a rival show to that which tourists are now familiar with. There Longfeliow, in his youth, and many of his distineuished contemporaries wrote in her visitors’ books, three of which will be sold along with numerous articles which the poet himself owned. HaroLp FrEDERIC, Women Adopt New By-Laws. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 30.— The Grand Conncil of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs this morning adopted the new code of by-laws as a whole. The board of directors deferred the selection of the next meeting-place until a called meeting in the fall. Boston, Denver and Omaha are after the honor. STILL TWISTING THE LION'S TAIL German Overtures to Russia and Their Palpable Object. BRITISH HUMILIATION. The Czar’s Growing Influence Is Contrasted With John Bull’s Waning Power. BERLIN'S GARRISON PARADES. Hundreds of Thousands of People Witness the Event—Great Disor- der and Many Arrests. BERLIN, GerMANY, May 30.—The desire | of the Government to cement friendly re- | lations between Germany and Russia is shown by the tone of the officially in- spired press in theijr articles descriptive .of and commenting upon the ceremonies of the coronation of thbe Czar at Moscow. Since the succession of Nicholas IT to the Russian throne every step the Kaiser has taken toward the establishment of concord between Germany and Russia has met a responsive movement on the part of the Russian court and Government; still the Emperor will not be satisfied that com- plete harmony exists until a visit upon the part of the Czar and Czarina to Berlin shall confirm publicly that thoroughly good relations between the two Emperors have been restored. Up to the present time the Berlin court has received no positive notification of the intention of the Czar and Czarina to pay a visit to Berlin, but the Kaiser holds the Czar’s promise that such a wvisit shall occur in the course of the year. It is un- derstood that the first journey that the imperial couple will take outside of Russia after the coronation fetes will be to Copen- hagen, and the next trip will be to Darm- stadt,the former home of the Czarina. After leaving Darmstadt the understanding is tiat the Czar and Czarina will come to Berlin and remain four days. The feature of the semi-offigial com- ments in the German articles referred to is their tendency to dilate upon the growth of the influence of Russia in Europe and the East, as compared with the decrease of England’s influence in the same regions. The Cologne Gazette devotes a long leader to the declaration that Russia within a few years has ousted England from her virtual protectorate over Turkey, and, in the domination of foreign policy, has taken the lead in China over England and is menacing from an unassailable point of vantage the Anglo-Indian empire. The Kreuz Zeitung says that the time is drawing near when the Franco-Russian coalition will bring the long-prepared pol- icy against England to a climax, and that Germany must stand aloof, watching her own interests. Germans, the paper says, may not desire to see England driven from the positions she has long heid in As and Africa, yet England crippled implies that the chief opponent of German colo- nial expansion is weakened. A similar currentof Anglophobia is seen in the newspaper protests which are being made against the official reception of 170 English naval architects who are coming to Berlin on June 10, and will be feted at Kroll’s Theater by order of the Kaiser. A large majority of the press attack the reception of these visitors as being some- thing like an outrage upon National honor and the German taxpayer. The Neunste Nachrichten deplores tne probability that the Emperor may even invite the English architects to the New Palace, and advises Germans to hold them- selves aloof from the fete at Kroll's Theater. Continuing in this strain, the paperassails the Home Department for the misuse of public funds in entertaining such guests, and expresses hope that the Reichstag will have something to say on | the sabject. The Internaticnal Miners’ Congress, which has been in session at Aachen dur- ing the weck, was chiefly notable for the domination of socialistic ideas over mere trades-unionist views. The English dele- gates, headed by Ben Pickard, the labor leader and member of the British House of Commous for Yorkshire, Thomas Burt, memver of Parliament for Morpeth, and other exponents of trades unionism, were borne down by the French and Belgian decialist votes on questions of approving the nationalization of mines, State guar- antees, miners’ sick and superannusated funds, a fixed minimum of wages, etc. The German delegates refrained from vot- ing on the guestion of nationalization of mines, on_the ground that a bureaucratic empire could not be intrusted with the control of mines, The congress voted to hold their next session in London in 1898, and decided to invite Russian and Ameri- can delegates to aitend. The spring parade of the Berlin garrison took place on the Tempelbof field this forenoon. The weather was showery, but the streets were lined with hundreds of thousands of people, extending from the castle to the Tempelhof field. The Em- peror returned to the castle at noon at the head of tne color company and was cheered throughout the route from the tield, Unusual precautions were taken to keep the populace at a distance, police- men being stationed a few yards apart, and nundreds of mounted police and guards at various points were assigned to the duty of driving the crowds back. This procedure had the effect to keep the crowds in a constant uproar, and led to innumerable fights and arrests. Mrs. Uil, wife of the United States Em- &nsndor to Germany, was received by the mpress at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The Vorwaerts, leading organ of the So- cialists, avserts that the Emperor proposes to give 2 lecture in the auditorium of the Chemical Exhibition Building in the course of the coming visit of the English naval architects. A congress of spiritualists was held this week ir the Alsterhof in this city. Dele- gates were present from Munich, Vienna, Prague, Copenhagen, Dresden and other places. The congress founded a general union of German occulists. Herr Leopotd Engel, editor of Das Wort, was elacted corresponding secretary. Herr Engel,who is the author of Der Wahrheitsucher, and a very prominent spiritualist, will visit the United States in the autumn. Rev. J. J. Kilburn, late of the American chapel in St. Petersburg, will sail shortly for the United States for the purpose of delivering a series of lectures upon his system of mnemonics. Lahan Frank of Steinway Hall, New York, has conducted with great success the concerts of a brass orchestra which have been given at the Industrial Exhibi- tion. THE WARFARE IN CUBA. Engagements Between the Spanish and Insurgents. HAVANA, Cusa, May 30.—Several en- gagements have been reported to-day be- tween Government troops and rebels, but they were unimportant. The official reports bave made no men- tion of Maceo since the last night at Con- colacion, when it was claimed that he was defeated. It isreported that Gomez, who was lately encamped on the Palo Prioto ranch, near Sancti Spiritus, was ordered to stop his westward march until the arrival of re-enforcements from the east. It is said that he has already made a junction with an important leader, and will soon resume his march. The rumors that Captain-General Weyler has resigned are only gossip. —_—— MINISTER TAYLOR'S VISIT. In London He Will Be Presented to the Prince of Wales. LONDON, Exa., May 30.—Hon. Hannis Taylor, United States Minister to Spain, who is in London for the purpose of see- ing his family, who sail for New York next week, will be presented in the diplomatic levee to the Prince of Wales next Mon- day. The presentation of Mr. Taylor will be made by United States Embassador Bayard. Mr. Taylor wasquestioned to-day regard- ing the relations between Spain and the United States, but he absolutely declined to discuss the subject. He will stay till June 6, when he will go to Southampton to see his family sail ior New York. He wiil then go to Oxford where he will make manuscript researches in connection with his work on the English constitution. He will return to Spain in t¥o weeks, Sniticiety 1 il Sentences Suspended. LONDON, Ex6., May 30.—The Colonial office has received a telegram from the British diplomatic agent at Pretoria say- ing that all the Johannesburg Reform Committee prisoners except the four who were originally condemned to death, Hammond, Farrar, Phillips and Rhodes, have been released. The sentences of banishment imposed upon the men re- leased has been suspended, upon their undertaking never again to interfere in the aftairs of the South African Republic. AT THE TOMB OF GRANT. Immense Throngs Pay Tribute to the Memory of the Deceased Hero, Many Prominent Persons Present. Pro{usion of Flowers—Senator Manderson’s Oration. NEW YORK, N.Y., May 30.—There was an immense throng at the tomb of General Grant to-day to participate in the memo- rial day services held under the auspices of U. 8. Grant Post No. 327, G. A. R. The event of the day was an oration by ex-Senator Charles F. Manderson of Ne- braska, The United States steamship Newark was in the river below and fired a salute of twenty-one guns in honor of the occasion, The Grant tomb was handsomely decorated by various posts of the Grand Army, and a considerable number of people assembled to pay their resvects to the memory of the deceased hero. Many prominent persons were present. THE DAY AT WASHINGTON. Impressive Ceremonics at the Arlington and Soldiers’ Rome Cemeteries. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.—Memo- rial day was observed here with the usunal ceremonies attending the decoration of the graves of those who fell in the civil war. Arlington National Cemetery was the main attraction. The graves of General Sheridan, Ad- miral Porter, General Walter Q. Gresham and General Gibbon were profusely cov- ered with floral tributes. A salute by a battery of the Fourth Artillery, U. 8.°A., music by the Marine Band and singing by the Mozart Club preceded the delivery of the oration of the day by Congressman Marriott Brosius of Pennsylvania. At the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery special services were held at the grave of General Jobn A. Logan. Memorial exercises and decoration of graves also took place at Chicago, Phila- délphia, Cincinnati and many other cities of the Union. —— THE DAY AT SAN JOSE. Ten Thousand Pcople March to Oakhill Cemetery. SAF JOSE, CAL., May 30.—The observ- ance of memorial day here was generally varticipated in by the public, the exercises consisting of a parade of the G. A. R. post, Relief Corps, National Guard and school | ehildren, an impressive ceremony at Oak- hill Cemetery and the formal decoration of the graves. About 10,000 people participated in the parade, the special feature of the proces- xion being a large number of school-chil- dren, nearly all of whom carried flowers, which they strewed upon the graves. Formal exercises were held at the Audi torium to-night, the entertainment consist- mg of patriotic muic and an address by Rev. N. A. Haskell. . Solemn Servi t Napa. NAPA, Car, May 30.—Decoration day closed the business houses here, and the people honored the soldief dead. Kit Carson Post, under the command of 8. E. Holden, and the local militia company under Captain Easterby, with a large com- pany of school children and citizens, went to Tulocay Cemetery at 2 o’clock. Tiere the Grand Army ritualistic service was held, and T. B. Hutchinson delivered an oration. Thirty-four veterans are buried thete, and on their graves the hands of comrades laid flowers. Sl Fatal Fight Ocer Cattle. WICHITA, Kaxs, May 30.—Sterling Elder was shot and killed at Chickasha, Indian Territory, to-day by John Ellis in a fight over cattle. While the men were quarreling Mrs. Isaacs, a sister of Ellis, whipped out a revolver and commenced firing at Elder. Elder ran home, and just as he reached the doorway his wife wrenched the revolver from Mrs. Isaacs, who had followed. A general fight en- sued, and Ellis shot Elder thr®e times in the back, killing him instantly. Ellis has been arrested. 5 e e A Reformed Presbyterians. CINCINNATI, Onio, May 30.—The morning session of the Reformed Pres- byterian synod was devoted to the re- ports of presbyteries, committees on tem- perance and psalmody. An encouraging report was read from the board of incor- porators of Geneva College. - Resolutions were adopted voting aid to_carry out the plans of the faculty. The ‘term for which Rev. Dr. Trumbull was eiected a member of the board has expired, and his successor will be chosen, VICTORIANS HAD INVITED DEATH City Officials Knew the Point Ellice Bridge's Condition. WERE OFTEN WARNED. The Blood of Scores of Victims Upon the Heads of Men in Authority. WEAKNESS OF THE STRUCTURE Swayed Dangerously When Horses Trotted Across—Testimony at the Inquest. VICTORIA, B. C., May 30.—The inquest | into the Point Eilice bridge disaster was continued to-day. So far no expert testi- mony has been called. A. G. Smith, Devuty Attorney-General, suggesied that as the Government was anxious to have a most searching inquiry, it would be better to at first get the evidence of witnesses of the accident so that the posi- tion of the car at the time of the disaster might be ascertained as well as what part of the span gave way first. Some very im- portant evidence on this point was brought out during the course of the inquiry. Lorne Cates, the motorman, was the first witness called. His car had just passed off the bridge when he first knew of the accident. He did not notice any unusual vibration as he crossed the bridge. His car was a car-length off the bridge when the overhead wires broke. There was a notice in the cars warning people not to stand on the platforms. He never tried to keep people off the plat- form when there was a crowd, and had never been given instructions to keep ‘people off the platform. Captain William Grant lives near the bridge. He had taken special notice of the condition of the structure. His wharf was right alongside, and he was on and under the bridge very often. About two years ago he noticed that an abutment of the bridge, where it crossed his place, was giving way from heavy rains, and the mud- sills and trestle work were going. He re- | ported this at the City Hall and asked James Baker, then an alderman. to invest- igate. The city got jackscrews and se- | cured the bridge again. There had been s0 much vibration when horses were trotted across the bridge that Grant could not walk, but had to stand till they passed. The city sent poiice there for about a week after he first made the com- | plaint and several people were fined for | driving fast across the bridge. The affair quieted down again and the bridge was later replanked. Grant bad told the officials that unless something was done to prevent tams from going fasy over the bridge it would go down. He was standing on his wharf at the | time of the accident. He heard a crash | and saw that a span had given way from | the pier on the Esquimalt end. The movement stopped for a few seconds and then began again. The whole of that end gave way, and the end near the city followed. The car was apparently near the center of the span when the crash came. It did not go through the botiom of the bridge. 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