The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1897, Page 1

B —— ( VOLUME LXX MORNING. , JANUARY 25, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RAEDBY | THE TORCH All the Dwellings at Las| Palmeras Fired ty | Spaniards. INMATES SHOT DOWN AS| THEY FLEE. N:ither Women Nor Chxldren} Spared by Weyler’s Fiendish | Guerrillas. | BUT THE BRUTAL BUTCHERS | ARE PUNISHED. : Now the Captain-General Is Burning All the Villages in His | Pathway. | | | —A special | NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. ¢ from Key West, Fla., says: Spanish guer- rillas surrounded Las Paim s, twenty miles south of Artemisa, at midnight and d all the dwellings. As the inmates ed out they were shot down, women i children as weil as men. Many per- in the flames ratber than face the al ished ore than fifty | bodies w ruins. The guerrillas fled after looting the two stores e flames had spared. tracted by the firing, erand started atter | ng up to them a| d and out of seventy guerrillas | five only escaped. urned four villages | out, warn the people to reer places, which are gar- | > seen among , via Key West, Fia., says: The ten officers of the garrison at Guanabacoa, who were captured by the rebel, Aran- gueren, will be court-martialed, nine for traveling rmed in war time and one for not resisting capture, though armed. General Weyler's order that all owners and managers of plantations who cannot | show a receipt for the payment of taxes | up to date must leave their plantations is | causing great hardships. The deserted plantations are immediately sacked aud | ruined by marauders and irregulars of | both parties. Ciemencia Araguos, a girl of 29, a sister | of the rebel chier, Araguos, was captured y will be placed in the women. b, UBA, Ja The authori- ties here ignore the Cometa affair, and it is impossible to learn from them what, if | y, irath there is in.the report tat the | le gunboat had been destroyed by m-‘ The mili | ry authorities pro- gents. y g of the matter and in fess to know 1 this case t} ions are believed to | be true, f the antagonism be- tween the military and navy authorities | itisth that if the former were in | detrimental to the not hesitate to make to the general pubiic. From | 0 learned, how- | >fficial it that have already | ates regarding the | the guntoat are correct. | The off reports issued to-day give | the det & number of engagements | betwe ent forces and rebels in the provinces of Santa ( Matanzas and Pinar del to th | | , Havana, | Rio. According | € reports the troops were uniformly | victorious. i The rebel losses in the various engage- d at thirty 1 killed, a anc captured. ilies who had taken refuge in the woods were found by the troops and taken into the towns. The Spaniards say their losses were four killed and a lieutenant-colonel, three cap- tains, three lieutenants and sixty-one pri- {nap Major Fondeviella, | vates more or less severely wounded. Notwithstanding the recent announce- ment of the *‘pacification” of the province of Pinar ael Rio, official reports show that a greater number of engagements referred to took place in that province, which is pretty good evidence that the rebels are still conducting their operations. The most important of the several fights took place near Guines, province of Ha- vana, where the troops met the rebel party led by Castillo and Delgado. SR s ATTIEMPIS 27 KIDNAPING. Weyler’s Assistant Butcher Twics Nar- rowly Escapes Capture. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 24.—A Key | Another effort to kid- “Weyler's as- sistant butcher,”’ in command at Guana- bacos, is reported from Havana. An effort was made to capture him on a West special say. | train between Regla and Guanabacoa, but | it failed because he was not on board. This time & small band of rebels com- one of the famous Texans, went to Guana- bacoa, Wednesday and bid in s public house near the town line where Major Fondeviella’s train passed. ‘When his party reached the house it stopped for liquid refreshment. Colonel Fondeviella had twenty men with him. The insurgents rushed out, killing ten of the escort and knocking several down. The rest surrounded Fondeviella, while one cavalryman galloped off for aid. It was impossible for the Cubins to get near enough to Fondeviella to knock him down, but just as they were going to tie him to his horse before galloping away re-enforcements came. Welch seeing that the attempt to kidnap was- s failure snapped his revolver in Fondeviella’s face, but it failed to go off. ondeviella pursued the daring men sey- The Streets of Chinatown Have < *F] TS0 RN BN PV A Seldom Shown s> Mu:h Excitc- ment, and Eager Crowds Gather at Every Bullet'n-Bcad and Elock the Sidewalks Until the Police Drive the Chirese Away. ‘| Duchess.” | eral miles, buc could not catch them. The | Cubans who fell were thrown into road- | sides and ditches, peoplé being warned not | to bury them. Fondeviella burned theinn. st e TRANSFERKED TO BALTIMORE. | Where Roloff and Lwis Will Ba Tried Jor Violating Neutrality Laws. BALTIMORE, Mp., Jan. 24.—General Carlos Roloff, Secretary of War of the | Cuban Provisional Government, and Dr. Joseph J. Luis, who were eiven aprelim inary bearing in New York yesterday on the charge of violating the neutrality laws in connection with the shipment of men, arms and smmunition to Cubg by the steamer Woodall, will be brought to | this city for tmal. District Attorney Mar- | bury said to-night that instructions had | been sent out to that effect from Wash- ington. | The reason assigned for the transfer of the case from New York to Baltimore was | that the steamer Woodall was purchased | bere and cleared from this vort. Mr. Mar- | manded by an American named Welch, | bury will ask the United States Grand | | Jury for an indictment against General | Roloff and Dr. Luis, and it is thought that | when they appear before Commissioner | Shields in New York next Saturday, they | will be tarned over to United States Mar- | shals and brought here. it ON A PEACEFUL MISSION, { | Beturn of the Filibuster Laureada With Oranges and Lomons. BALTIMORE, Mp., Jan. 24—The American steamship Laureads, Captain Hughes, which bas been leased by the Cuban agents and representatives in this country and which is said to have safely landed a number of filibustering expedi- tious within the Cuban lines, is at Hamp- ton Roads with a cargo of oranges and lemons from Palermo and Messina con- signed to this city. The firm bhas not definitely decided, owing to the dull condition of the market, whether the Laureada will be ordered to this port or to New York, Philadelphia or Boston. The preseni commander, Cap- tain Hughes, is not the one who had charge of the steamer when she is alleged to have violated the neutrality laws. The old captaip left the Laureada at Palermo, when she was ordered to sail for Valencia, Spain, in the early part of December. o S s WEXLER'S FALSE REPORTS. They Cause Madrid Officials to Talk About Keforms. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 24.--The Stand- ard’s Madrid correspondent telegraphs that the belief is held in official circles that the scheme of colonial reforms ap- plicable to Cuba will be published at the | b2ginning of Kebruary, owing to the favorable reports of the situation in the itlands, sent by Captain-General Weyler. | Manitoba School dettlement. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 24.—The Chronicle will to-morrow print the text ot the Mani- toba school settlement, whict® is now on the way to Rome for submission to the Pope. The paver says it believes that powerful influences wil! secure the Vati- can’s approval of the settlement, the terms of which are more favorable to the Catnolics of Manitoba than those nego- tiated by Sir Donald Smith, tue Canadian High Commissioner. —_— Ship Burned and Captain Lost. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 24 —The British bark John o’ Gaunt, Captain Worledge, which sailed from Valparaiso, November 10, for Tortoratillo, Caleta, Buena and San Francisco, has been burned «t Tocopilla. Tae captain is reported as lost. = o Death of * The Duchess,”’ LONDON, Ex., Jan. 24.—The death is announced of Mrs. Hungerford, the novel- ist. She died to-day at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. Most of her books have appeared under the pseudonym ** The INTENSELY COLD AFTER THE STORM | Appalling Suffering Among the Poor in Large Cities. Chicago’s Prisons Crowded With Un ortunates Seeking Warmth and Shelter. Mercury From 25 to 40 Bzlow in the Northwest—Thou ands of Cattle and Sheep Perish. CHICAGO, Iin, Jan. 24—The cold | wave which reached Chicago last night tightened its grip to-day, and at midnight Chicagoans were shivering in a 16-below- | zero acmosphere. At 8 o’clock this morning the thermom- | eter registered 14 below. The tempera- | ture then moderated somewhat, but at no vime during the day did the mercury rise above 3 below. Shortly after sunset the temperature began dropping rapidly, and to-night promises to be a record-breaker. The weather bureau promises no relief for four or five days. The suffering among the pooris intense, and to-morrow morning Mayor Swift will issue & proclamation, calling for bread for the starving. According to the report made to the Mayor by the Bureau of Charities and other associations which have applied to bim, the number of destitute families is increasing every day, until the condition in some parts of the cily is appalling. Im- mediate relief is necessary or, it is said, some will die from starvation and cold. The police s:ations all over the city are filled with lodgers, hundreds of homes are without fuel and food, and skilled work- men are begging on the streets. Committees of charitable institutions and many individual philanthropists have celled on Mayor Swift and urged him to make an appeal to the public for immedi- diate belp for the sufferers. He will issue a prociamation to-morrow setting forth the exact condition of the poor in Chicago and will make an appeal for public help. No actual casesof starvation have as yet been reported, but many are suffering with hunger. Distributions of food and fuel have been carried on by the Bureau of Charities, but they say they are unable to take care of one-fiith of the people who beg for assistance. County Commissioner Beatty reported to Mayor Swift yesterday that the lists of needy are growing at the rate of from 300 to 500 families per day. These are not the families of paupers, but the families of skilled workmen, who are unable to get work. Last night’s blizzard continued wuntil early this morning, but there was no se- rious delay to streetcar traffic, as the thoroughfares were kept open by the hun- dreds o« men who were at work all night. Many of those suffering from want were given an opportunity to earn a few pen- nies by clearing away the snow. - All trains are late, but the delay is not serious. Through the suggestion of Mayor Swift, J Chief of Police Badeuoch issued an order to-night which will facilitaté the furnish- ing of relief to such as are in danger from want of food or fuel. The patrolmen throughout the city were ordered to make reports on all cases of extreme destitution and explain the character of relief re- quired. On all such reports immediate | to cease in the evening before traflic was assistance will be renaered. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 24.—This city has & long casualty list to-night by people injured by falls on slippery pavements, occasioned by a snowstorm which began at 11 o’clock and lasting until early in the evening. The fall of snow came from the west and played around all day. It wasa lively snowstorm; heavy enough to make its presence felt, but considerate enough interfered with. The greatest incon- Continued on Fourth Page. 5 DENTH RAMPANT? More Murders Expected in ‘Chinatown at Any Moment. STORM AND STRIFE ARE BREWING. Blood Fever Being Worked Up Among the Friends of Little Pete, THE PITIFUL PLIGHT OF HIS WIDCW. King Owyang, the Vice-Consul, Has Bzen Threatened, and It Is Feared He Will B: the Next. The ephemeral sensation of an_ordinary Chinese murder has no place on the list with the feverish anxietysbitter vindig- tiveness and cuss-dog deviltry that have been engendered through the cold-blooded assassination of Little Pete Saturday night in Chinatown. That brainy little heathen, connected as he was with the most powerful elements among his own people, being 'a man of wealth, having almost intimate acquaint- anceship with the social, financial and political classes among the whites, could haraly be shot down without a word of warning without his killing assuming greater importance than any of the hun- dreds recorded on the mortuary tablets of former years. Little Pete was better known among his | own people and the Americans of this | State than any Chinaman in the local col- ony, but where he was most cherished, and where the weight of his counsel was best felt and most needed was right in the chambers of the Sam Yup Company, of which he was a leader. What will the Sam Yup people do now fo avenge his death? Those who, Jike Captain Lees and his officers, bave studied the ways of the heathens during three de- cades of blood-spilling, and who know these almond-eyed queue-bearers to blend in their comstitution the vendetta of the Corsican and the love of lucre which causes Italian brigands to take the life of non-combatants upon whose head a price is set, look forward to troublous times in Chinatown. Already the regular squad of six men has been increased to two scors and even with that force of guardians the peace is Lit tle_Pete’s Factory and the Barber-Shop Where He Was Shot.