The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1896, Page 3

/ \ 4 \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1896. GREAT BRITAIN IS NOT JEALOUS Statesmen Appear to Be Pleased With the Russo- Chinese Treaty. It Merely Gives the Czar the Right to Run a Railroad Through Manchuria. Force of the Radical Party Directed Against Chamb:riain and His Transvaal Policy. LONDON, Exa., Dec. 12.—The London bureau of the United Associated Presses has the highest authority for the state- ment that the Russo-Chinese convention is by no means a surprise to Lord Salis- bury, nor are the main clauses of the agreement opposed to England’s interests. The substance of the convention was dis- cussed-upon the occasion of the visit of Li Hung Chang to London, and was known olas O’Connor, the then retir- h Minister, before he 1-t Peking the duties of British Embassador t St. Petersburg. convention does not contair any ncession of territory, but only secures o Ru the right to construct a railroad tbrough Manchuria to Viadivostock. The branch railway to Port Arthur is purely a Chinese enterprise. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, speaking at Bristol on February 3 last, while the Russo- Chinese treaty was pending, said that so far from regarding with jealousy the ac- quisition by Russia of a commercial port on the Pacific which would not be frozen over to the exclusion of vessels six months in every year, England would welcome it as a distinet advance of civilization. The whole force of the radical party is to be directed at the earliest possible mo- ment against Chamberlain and the Gov- arnment’s policy toward the Transvaal. hind the attack on the Government’s on generally there is a bitter hatred ward the Colonial Secretary. Time has soitened the feelings which elicited at ry mention of his name in the meetings the National Liberal Club the cry of Judas.” So every possible advantage is taken to bow him up a prevaricating and un- pulous politician. The Labouchere ue think they now have him on the hip in connection with the Jameson reve- lations, although nothing that is new can be garnered from the most recent develop- ments of the controversy. Put in brief, the newest form of the charges against Chamberlain is that Sir ohn Willoughby and other officers lead- ng the raid on the Transvaal had Cham- erlain’s assurance that he aporoved of the movement and would support it. There are hints from the Radical side at an eminent politician who saw hodes while he was in England pledged self to support the expedition. Here William Vernon Harcourt is aimed at. There certainly exists correspondence which Sir'Julisn Willoughby’s solicitors \0id stiowing tadt Jemeson, Wilionghby 1d other leaders of the raid had been :d to believe that Chamberlain (for the Government) and Bir William Vernon Harcourt (for the opposition) had given their sanction to the attack on the Trans- vaal. Butitcan be stated with absolute certainty that there exists no documen- tary proof implicating either Chamberiain or Sir William Vernon Harcourt. The evidence which will be brought before the Parliamentsry committee will consist chiefly of letters passing between Sir John Willoughby, Dr. Jameson and brother of- ficers anent interviews with Chamberlain, Sir Wilhiam Harcourt and others. Neither Chamberlain nor Sir William will be found to have given themselves away by docu- mentary evidence. The destruction of the English colonial sugar industry is supposed by the free trade English press to be counterbalanced by the growth of the English confection and preserved fruit industry, which it is claimed more than covers any loss arising from the cessation of colonial trade. This is true in an immediate practical sense, and points the morals of theinterviews on the subject contained in dispatches to the United Associated Presses, where the an- nexation of the British Antilles to the United States was shown to be the natural issue of the sitnation. But the gravitation of the West Indian colonies toward the United States is no part of the programme of the Imnperial Federationists. Chamberlain’s commis- sion of inquiry into the West Indian sugar inausiry 1s such an obvious put-off and so useless that the Imperial Federa- tion leaders will have nothing to do with it. So, when Parliament meets there will appear on the notice motions of the house several proposals that the decaving condi- tion of the West Indian sugar industry shall at once be met by a system of coun- tervailing duties. The interest aroused by the revival in an acute form of this trouble recalls the opinion expressed by Mr. Gladstone some ten years a0, after the London conference on the bounties system. *I think,” he said, *‘that both the trader and the work- man engaged in the businessof refining sugar have great reason to complain, My desire is that the British consumer should have bought sugar and every commodity at the lowest prices at which it can be pro- duced without arbitrary favor to any of those engaged in the competition, but 1 cannot regard Wwith favor any cheapness which is produced by meansof the con- cealed subsidies of a foreign state to a particular industry, and with the effect of crippling and distressing capitalists and workmen engaged in a lawful branch of British trade.” i The quotation here isexpressely made, because on absolute official information it will ultimately form the basis of the ac- tion of the English Government in settling the question. Chamberlain knows the absurdity of the commission, and the ulti- mate issue of the whole matier is that either the continental bounty - giving powers will abolish bounties or the colonies obtain codntervailing duties, CALBERY 1S HOPEFUL. Says the Dook Laborers Are Bound to Win the Strike. LONDON, Exe., Dec. 12.—A representa- tive of the United Associated Présses has hed another interview with Thomas Cal- bery, secretary of the National Bailors’ and Firemen’s Union. He found him full of hope over the prospects of an interna- tional strike. Ballot papers from every quarter, be said, approved the strike. Asked whether he thought it shonld be tentatively delayed to permit cf further organization, Calbery said that the gen- eral feeling seemed about evenly balanced, but an international strike would surely come if the employers refuse to do justice to the men. If awholesale strike were forced upon them they would get the New York men action. delphia, Baitimore, New Orleans and all the other ports were ready to act in con- cert. Besides New York, Boston, Phila- el Sl SPOLIATION OF IRELAND. Financial Reforms to Come Before the British Parliament. LONDON, Exe., Dec. 12.—Dillon will raise a debate on the address in reply to the Queen’s speech opening the session of Parliament, calling attention to the report of the commission or the financial rela- tions between Great Britain and Ireland. The Irish party contemplates no division on the debate. But when the budget comes before the House the combined Irish sections will in- sist upon an immediate adjustment of Irish finance as reported upon by the commission. The systematic spoliation of Ireland of about £3,000,000 annually is too much even for the Irish Unionists. Mr Balfour may probably claim that the ad- justment forms part of the coming Irish local government reform bill. REV. CHARLES AND MATTIE. Or. Brown Talks About Their Meeting in Chicago and of Her Attempts to Blackm il Him. CHICAGO, IrL., Dec. 12.—The Rev. C. 0. Brown, late of California, whose sensa- tional meeting with Miss Mattie Overman at a recent Salvation Army meeting at Wiliard Hall was referred to in an even- ing paper, said to-day: “The article with reference to the Wil- lard Hall incident is incorrect in several places. When Miss Overman arese, as others were doing, to ‘testify,” she was not on the platform, but back of me on the main floor of the hall. “We had been informed by the Ban Francisco papers that she was on the way East, and I was not surprised when I recognized her voice, neither did I ‘start as though to rise,” neither did I ‘bow my head as though confused.” I turned and looked at the young woman who has pub- licly and under oath testified that she de- liberately entered into a sheme to black- mail me. When she saw me she was manifestly surprised, very soon ceased speaking, dropped into her seat, bowed her head a moment and very soon after spoke to her companions and went out. I remained to the close of the meeting. “The facts with regard to her writing to me for money from Southern Cali- fornia are these: She wrote offering to procure an affidavit from Mrs. Tun- rel, if I would pay for it, but afirming that my enemies were ready to pay for a story against me and that they should tell one if I did not meet her terms. 1 refused her proposition indignantly. Her ‘con- fession’ appeared soon after and was her fourth conflicting story, and to this last ‘confession’ she refuses to make oath. “Miss Overman confessed with tears that she came to our home for the delib- erate purpose of doing what she coud to injure us. In a previous mood she be- sought us to forgive her for so abusing our hospitality. It must be for the public to judge what credence to give her word.” £ 1 e AGAIN SHE IS TERESA DEAN. As a Sequel to the Elopement of Dr. Tallman, His . Wife Secures a Divorce in Chicago. CHICAGO, IrL., Dec. 12.—There was a sequel in the divorce court to-day of the recent disappearance of Dr. W. Lewis Tall- man, ex-house pbysician of the Great Northern Hotel, with Jane McKinley Cannon of Danville, I1l., a married woman. Dr. Tallman’s wife, who as Teresa Dean, gained & reputation by newspaper writing in this city, filed a bill in tHe Circuit Court at 12:30 o’clock to-day, asking for a decree of divorce on the ground of intidelity, Mrs. Cannon being named as the co-respondent. At 12:34 o’clock Mrs Tallman was seated in the witness chair in Judge Horton's courtroom, and at 12:50 o’clock she walked ous as Teresa Dean again, taking with her a decree of divorce which provides for an allowance of $3000 a year as alimony. The doctor’s average annual income was stated to be $10,000. No defense was set up, and the defendant, who was seen in the city yesterday for the first time since he eloped October 28, authorized his attorney to enter an appearance for him so that there would be no delay. Her family coach- man had heard the doctor say he loved Mrs. Cannon and intended to marry her. Teresa Dean and Dr.Tallman were married at Racine, Wis., exactly five years ago to-day. . NEW SYSTEM OF CHECKING. Designed to Prevent Fraud in England’s Postoffice Department. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 12.—A Lon- don dispatch says: A thorough revision of the system of bookkeeping in vogue in the savings bank department of the Government postoffice has been oraered, as the result of the discovery of one of the most gigantic frauds ever perpetrated on this financial institution, and for complicity in which the manager of one of the sub-departments has just been sentenced to five years’ penal servi- tude. The scheme adopted by the conspirators was to open accounts with the deposit ot a few shillings in nearly 100 branch savings banks, The convicted man, through his position in the chief department, had access 1o the general ledgers, and changed the entries so that they appeared as pounds. In one case where $5 had been deposited in a certain branch bank, the zeneral ledgers were so manipulated as to s0 make it appear that the deposit was one of $500. Each deposit was made in a different name. Had not the scheme been discovered by an accident, the Govern- ment might have been defrauded out of over $50,000, when the entire deposits of the conspirators were less than $500. The Government financial experts are now engaged in perfecting a neWw system of checking accounts between the general and branch banks by which cuch a frand will hereafter be impossibie. g FOREIGN MISSIONARY WORK. 4An Interesting Summary Prepared by Dr. Strong. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 12.—A sum- mary of Protestant foreign missionary work throughout the world has been pre- pared by the Rev. E. E. Strong, D.D., adi- torial secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. The totals compared with last year show an increase in the contributions of about $1,100,000, while in the Unitea States there has been a de- crease of about $70,000. The British societies show a marked falling off in the number of native labor- ers, largely owing to the fact that the war in Madagascar has so interrupted mis- sionary work that no reports are given from that island. In the United States, -Canada, Great Britain, Continenta! Europe, Australia, India, Africa, etc., there are 267 societies, 4525 stations, 14.036 out stations, 6336 male missionaries, 5675 female missionaries, 60,164 native laborers, 1,221,175 communi- cants. The income in dollars is $15,549,244. o T Only One Cabinet Officer. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 12.—An afeu- ment in favor of selecting a Cabinet officer to join, for their condition was wretch- edly bad, even worss than London dock laborers, Mr, McHugh had reported that the American men were well organized, that the American labor leaders knew the " men and were gquite ready for organized from the Pacific Coast, now being brought forward, is the fact that since the stars and stripes were first raised in California that region has had onl{vone Cabinet offi- cer—Attorney-General illiams of Ore- gon, who served under Grant. MAJOR TAUSCH'S BLACK RECORD Dark Scheme Cooked Up by the Secret Service Chief. Constantly Frightened the Kaiser by His Faked Reports of Impending Danger. But as Prince B smarck Expressed It: “These Scoundrels Have to Lie in Order to Live.” BERLIN, GerMANY, Dec., 12.—Since the Emperor gave Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, an audience at Potsdam on Thursday it has transpired it 1s the intention of the Government to hasten the trial of Major von Tausch, the chief of the political police, who is now in jail under charges of perjury and forgery, taking the view that the longer the affair is kept:before the pub- lic the worse. The scandals attached thereto will become public and the excite- ment over the revelations already made will increase. Major von Tausch has employed the eminent advocate, Dr. Schwindt, to de- fend him and also made an application for his release on bail pending his trial, but this request has been refused and he will have to remain in jail until he 1s arraigned in court. Failing to obtain his clent’s liberty on bail, Dr. Schwindt then asked the pnblic prosecutor not to call the case for a month as the defense would re- quire that length of time at least to pre- pare for trial and the postponement of the case until the end of January is probable, despite the desire of the prosecution to expedite matters. Besides frequently alluding to instances of Tausch’s alleged crimes of forgery and perjury or bis indictment thereto the newspapers are filled with incidents of his life. His father, now dead, was for a long time Minister to the Prussian court for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. His mother, who is still living, resides 1n Schwerin with a married daughter, and another of her daughters, who is a lady in waiting to the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was married to the late Russian General von Peters. Baron von Tausch has numer- ous aristocratic connections and still has powerful friends. It1is recalled that itis only six weeks since he received the dec- oration of the Red Eagle with the order of the crown, which is always bestowed as a special mark of imperial favor. In the search for the men who are be- hind Tausch, the inspirer of his attacks upon ex-Chancellor Caprivi, General Bron- sart von Schellendori, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein and others, the question arises, Who recommended to the Emperor the conferring of such distinction upon the chief of the secret police? Count Philip von Eulenburg, the Ger- man Embassador to Austria, frankly admits having procured him the Austrian decoration which was conferred upon him by Emperor Francis Joseph for the sole reason of the valuable services on the occasion of the Kaiser's visit to Abazzia, but surmises based upon good grounds trace the recommendation to the Kaiser that Tausch be decorated with the Red Eagle and the crown to somebody com- prised in the immediate entourage of the Emperor. Naturally the anti-Bismarckian press sugzests the probability that Prince Bis- marck and machinations informed’ Tausch’s attacks upon Count Caprivi, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein an General Bronsart von BSchellendorf, but the best-informed opinion wholly absolves both the old Chancelior and his son, Count Herbert Bismarck, from any connection with the matter. Major von Tausch had numsrous agents throughout Germany, who were employed in reporting to their chief what they could learn and often what they did not learn about the private life of prominent personages, and the newspapers now re- call Prince Bismarck’s saying, “These scoundrels have to lie in order to live.”’ Although Tausch is supposed to have destroyed a large number of his docu- ments before he was arrested a great number of others are still in existence, and these have been seized. From the character of these papers it is safe to assume that several high officials may be required to clear themselves of serious accusations. Among the obnoxious stories of the political police has been the concoction of plots of an alarmist character. An in- stance of thisis recalled in the Kaiser's going to Thorin some time ago, where his Majesty used menacing language to the Poles. Major von Tausch bad preceded the Kaiser to Thorin by several days, and upon its arrival there guarded the Em- peror’s train with his suite of escort police. When the train was on its way back to Berlin Tausch caused it to take nnex- vected dctours from the main line, de- claring that he had discovered a conspir- acy against the Emperor’s life, thouch nobody now believes that any such plot ever existed or that Tausch thoughtit did. Regarding Baron von Bieberstein, it now seems as though he had secured a lasting vindication, yet the Berlin Post in its issue of to-day criticizes the trial of Baron von Luetzow and his fellow-de- fendants, and asserts that the question will be raised in* the Landtag why the Minister of Justice allowed the Marschall to glay the triple role of witness, counsel and virtual conductor of the prosecution. At a meeting of the Berlin Municipal Council yesterday Herr Stadthagen, So- cialist, protested against a portion of the taxes imposed upon the taxpayers of Ber- lin going to support such persons like Tausch and Luetzow. The Emperor and the imperial family will leave Potsdam on December 28 and reside in the Schloss in Berlin for two months. After the close of the Berlin season the Emperor and Empress will go on a six weeks’ yachting cruise in the Mediterranean and other waters, visiting Athens and Constantinople in March. The Krupp syndicate is arranging to purchase the Brazilian system of railways and will pay therefor 300,000,000 marks, The American Ladies’ Club of Berlin will ho!d a fair on December 17 in the Palace Hotel. To Iie Field Marshal. LONDON, Exc., Dec. 12.—General Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, colonej of the First Life' Guards, is about to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. The promotion is a court job and causes some irritation in the army. . ———— Bubonic Flague in London. LONDON, Exe., Dec. 12.—There lLave been two fatal cases ot the bubonic plague in London. The disease was reported from Bombay, where it has caused many deaths and a general panic among the native residents. e o oo ey FINE stationery in beautiful paper and cel- NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. Ladies’ Fedora Hats. The finest grades only, in pearl with black bands, in otter with contrast bands. The kind the millinery stores det §2 for. Monday in owr big Hat De- partment at 95 Cents. We have close on- to 5000 Smolking Jackets to select from ; the largest assortment of Smuok- ing Jackets in the city. Monday we will have on sale again those very clever Tricot Cloth Smolking Jackets with sille frog fastenings, in navy blue and seal ‘brown; what other| stores are getting 85 for. Monday in our big Smoking Jacket Departmeént at --$3.25-~ Gentlemen’s Silk Initial 5 He andkerchiefs; Sk raised ‘satin i R e 300 dozen Mon- day, in the 50c Srade; colored initials; also plain white. Monday in our big Fur- nishing Goods Department at 25 Cents. APHAEL’S (Incorporated), . King-Pins for Overcoats. l'y.lal,d‘ boxes, good and cheap, at Buborn.& 9’ 1 1' 1 3’ 1 5 _K‘mmy St. Our picture on the side shows yowavery clever Cloth Hat for little folks, trimmed, with quill feathers and steel buckle —a very swell hat,in red, blue and many other desirable shades. Monday in owr big Hat De- partment at 40 Cents. On the side we show yow a very clever Tam O’Shanter, made from rus- set leather in a pretty shade of tan; $1.50isthe price for’em in other stores. Monday in our big Hat Depart- ment at 75 Cents. clever Some more of those Tweed Ulsters, cwt extra long, with deep storm collar, in All- Wool Tweeds, cleverly tailored ; $5.50 and $6 are the right prices for swch Ulsters about town. Monday in owr big Ju- venile Department at --$3.50-= , Some 600 £ dozen high- £ elass Holiday E Suspenders, in satin, in glass boxes; hand- somely gotten P up; @ very ex- cellent Christ- mas gift; $1 is the price of ‘em in other stores. Monday in our big Furnishing Goods Department at 50 Cents. Our New Book, “Hints From a Big Store,” will aid yow in making your selections for the Holidays. Send, for it. /(/_. N f i(rfi b_ - B i /3 IN Santa Claus will on Monday and till Christ- mas be the little ones’ true Santa Claus. Toys will be distributed by him to every purchaser on our second floor ; so don’t buy any toys. No other house in the land Zives as great values in Men's Hats as we ; nor such an assort- ment, carrying, as we do, no end of new and stylish blocks. Above we show the Winter block of the Alpine. It's a very clever affair in pearl, otter, sil- ver gray, brown and black, with contrast trimmings. These Hats are held at $2 in other stores. In owr Men’s Hat Department Monday at 95 Cents. Our big Spe- cial for Mon- nearly swits, as shown in illustration on side, for short trouser wearing lads between the ages of & and 15 years; all clever colorings; all new Winter colorings; styl- ishly tailored Sarments; swits that yow can’t duplicate in any other house in town under $3. Monday at --$1.85-~ Some very pretty' Holiday creations in Reefer Suits in blues and pretty Scotches; the collars are beautifully braided; the cujffs are braid- ed ; little buckle at the knee of the trousers; ZSarments that we pride our- selves wpomn; L’ Suwits that other = stores are Jet- ting $5 for. Monday in our big Juvenile Department at --$2.50~-~ . day consists of | | ! Our Young Men’s Suits for the Holidays are truly artistic creations. Theillustration above shows yow a very swell Single- Breasted Sack Swit, made with fly-front vest, for young men be- tween the ages of 12 and 19. The colorings are bewilderingly handsome, and the assortment, the largest we have ever shown. We have included some suits that we intended to sell at $15. Monday at --$10.00-~ THE ENSIGN. _In our picture on the side we show the clev- erest and cutest little Suit that we have shown this season. It comes in blue, beauti- Jully trimmed, with ;m:rl buttons ; a little vest goes with it ; for lads between the 'u"g‘u of 3 and 10. The suig was to sell at $7.50. Monday it wild be on sale in our big Juvenile Department at Some 800 more of those cute little Cape Overcoats' of ours, 1n blues, grays, and in neat checks ; handsomely JSor little " feliows be- tween the agesof 8 and 10 ; Cape Coats that can’t be duplicated in any other siore in towu under $5. Monday in our big Juvenile De- partment at --$2.50-~ Little Red Riding Hood sends forth her greetings to her little friends and wants to see them on the second floor Monday. Bring the little folks Monday to see Santa Claus. He's on the second floor and wants to see his little friends. RAPHAEL'S (Incorporated), THE FRISCO BOY'S, 9, 11, 18, 15 Kearny St.