The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1897, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS, "PACIFICATION" OF THREE PROVINCES| Insurgents Disprove Wey- ler's Misstatements by Bold Operations. Extensive Loss of Life Caused by Biowing Up a Train With Dynamite. Spanish Censors Fail to Eatirely Sup- press All Details of Victories by the Cubanms. Fra, Jan. 3L—Advices a say thatin flat contradiction ! rumors lately circulated that the s are demorglized and weakened and | redy to surrer ally in Pinar del 00 remained in strag- reached Havana Fri- | e insurgents had dynamited a causing great damage and loss of igh the censor for stated rea- ntains the official pacification sed the information in the | vapers, the news has spread and all are | now familiar with the de s ffair on and was widely ing bands, word supg commeénted upon. | Investization disclosed the fact tbat on | the morning of the 28th, as a military | train wes cro a culvert at a place named Oce ween Cand, and | Mangos, tremendous dynamite explosions occurred, ditch o train and tender. yred car was completely wrecked > also more or less r, fireman and illed. The sargeon, twenty soldi and a brake- man were W Assist was conductor ded. edly sent und the dead bodies were bt to Havana. e wounded were broughi to Calendelr.a. gis not the only evidence province. The nounce numerous | i different sections of the In order to diminish the e ported as skir- with cousiderable rebel losses and s on the Sparish side. When the ssumes undu rtions, as Mel- z0's recent deieat, whole details are suppressed. Other advices from Pinar aunounce a | nge of leadership in the rebel force. ayia Rodriguez after sucosssfully esass-| g the trocha with a strong body guard, has assumed command, and Ruis Rivera, who was deignated to take charge of the | Cuban forces in Havana province, man- aged to pass the celebrated lne Friday i Mar; wat the head of the Another striking illustration of the nish misrepresentation is the assertion three western provinces are practi- pacified, which was given Friday 1 late stragglers witnessed all the eastern heavens illuminsted as if a was on fire. That town is nt yet, but reports the next day ‘Aranguan had struck an- in the vicinity of Havana, d burning the hamlets of Cruz, Bacuranao, near Guanabacoa. | ast the rebels curnt mo: va Paz, in Havana ct that the town is b a garrison of en by surprise rebels in the place. were luoted and then br brov the burned. - BUATS iy SUNK THE KIVER An Expedition Sent Out Souted by Cubans. NEW YORK, N. Y., Freb. by Weyler A Key t | piece. | boat was sunk. | that the Government is w Aunother marine dis- aster to the Spaniards is reported. This fime the Navy Department will be charged with it, as one of General Wey- ler’s river expeditions was badly used up. Fifteen men are reported to have been killed or ssing and the number of wounded is put at seventy-five. Hearing that the insurgents had forti- fied some heights near Paez on the river Cauno, Santa Clara province, General Weyler sent Colonel Serves with 300 men in small boats to capture the place and destroy the forts. After proceeding up the river twenty miles on roundinga sharp tend a heavy fire wasopened on the expedition with rifles and a 6-pound field- Theriver was shallow and narrow, the channel being near the bank where the insurgents were. The fourih shot from the cannon sank one boat,and a moment later another The Spaniards leaped out of their boats, waded to land and charged the insurgents, who were protected by the high banksand the thick bush. The Span= 1ards drove the insurgeats off, but could not capture the cannon. Resuming the journey the expedition was hurassed at every bend in the river. A few miles from Paez the Cubans opened fire with two cannon. Six boais were quickly sunk and then the rebel rifles played bavoc with the i I diers as they struggled in “our of the wonnded were caught by a gators near shore and dragged under. Colonel Serves was fo d to order a retreat which speedily became a rout. Hastily the boats puiled back, but the Jubans pursued. keeping up a constant e and sinking more boats. Had not a reinforcement met the Span- iards ten miles from Cienfuegos not ten men of the three hnndred would have es- ped. General Weyler made no official report of this matter. —_—— SCHEME FOK KEFOEM. West special says: spain Beady to Put It in Operation When Frovinces Are Pucified. LONDON, Exa, Ja1. 3L—The Stand- ard’s Madrid correspondent telegraphs that Queen Regent Christina wiil on Thursday next sign, at a meeting of the Cabinet, the Prime Minister's scheme of reforms in the Spanish West Indies. The scheme was devised after several conferences with the leading Conservative Senators and the Marquis de Apez Teguia, the leader of tha Cuban Conservatives, who is now in Madrid. ‘The reforms will go into operation Cuba as 0on as the pacifi land wiil permit. in The scheme will state lling to enter- tain suggestions as to West Indien tariff reforms and the subsequent improvement of commercial relations with the United States. The whole matter will be han- dled cautiously. The correspondent adds that it would be premature to suppose that the si will effect in Cuba autonomy similar to tha oyed by the Australian colonies and the Dominion of Canada. =l 2 20 PROSPECT OF RELEASE, heme Blue Owtlook for the American Prisoners in Cuba. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. .—A special dispatch to the Herald from Havana says: Neither in official nor in mil.tary centers is there any information to the effect that | the American prisoners will soon be re- leased. Consul-General Lee is also igno- rant of such contemplated action on the part of the Spanish authorities. A vrominent lumber merchant, Senor Diaz, has been appointed Mayor of Ha- vana. His election has given occasion for criticism rather unfavorable to him. THREF MOK DECREES. Weyler Insists on the Enforcsment of His Inhwman Methods. prints three decrees issued yesterday b; Captain-General Weyler from his head- quarters at Las Cruces. These decrees order the enforcement in the province of Santa Clara of the provisions of his last three previous decrees relative to the con- centration of the inhabitants, the sale of goods and the establishment of zones of cultivation as provided for in the provinces o Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas. Fordino Benedetto, the Firebug Who Has Kept Petaluma in a State of Alarm for Many Days. ation of the is- | | likely that only HAVANA, Cusa, Jan. 31.—The Gacatia Ruins of the Big Whitn:y Warehouses at Petaluma, Fired by a Vagrant Early Saturday Morning. CABINET WORK ~ FAR FROM DONE E Judge Goff Will Probablyl Have to Decline a Portfolio. | ? The Last Member May Not Be Announced Before the In- auguration. | after the close of the season. Diplomatic ani Consular Appoint- ments Will Not Be Considered Before Apr.l | yesteraay and it o';tained no w Onio, Jan. 81.—With Majo? McKinley’s inauguration but a little more | than four weeks distant there still re- mains a good deal of work to doin the way of completing the Cabinet. No word has been received from Judge but the comviction grows that ne find it impossible to accept a port- folio. In case ha does not go iuto the Cabinet the whole question of Southern representation in that body will be re- opened, and there will be another rush for Canton on the part of delegations in the | interest of rival candidates. There is no lizht to be had on the New York situation to-day, and there is reason to believe that the President-elect may | not choose the last member of his Cabinet till he gets to Washington. It is also | one more of the Cabinet | 1 be formally announced ore the list is sent to the Senate on the h day of March. The President-elect | taken the public into his confidence to a very considerable extent, and may deem it wise to keep his own council dur- ing the next two weeks. Most of the can- didates for the positions of assistant sec- retaries will next follow in order. It may be stated on excellent authority, and no doubt the statement will be of in- ferest, that upplications for appointment appointments b | to the diplomatic and consular service will not be considered till after April L. This will not of course apply to the important embassies, which will no doubt be filled shortly after the 4th of Marc! It 15 probable that the extra session of Congress will consider and pass a bill pro- viding for the establishment of a Depart- ment of Commerce and Industry. 1f this | is done there will be another Cabinet offi- | cer to appoint and a number of subordi- nate positions to fill. Members of Congress who have visited Canton have talked a good des! about the wisdom and necessity of creating another department of the Government, and the prevailing opinion is that it ought to be | done. It Is likely that soma of the semi- | detached bureaus now nominally under the jurisdiction of the Treasury and Inte- rior departments would be transferred to | the new department. Major McKinley bas had unbroken quiet to-day, and the rest was a welcome one, for the last week was one of the most labori- ous he has spent since his election. Con- | gressman James Wadsworth of New York had a longinterview with Major McKinley to-day. CANNOT ELECT PLOWMAN, Soutl Dakota Legislators Will Fiolate the Law if They Vote for Him. PIERRE, 8. D., Jan. 3L.—The only thing in the Senatorial situation is a coup which is planned by the element from the Black Hills whicn is here fighting Plow- man. Paragraph 35, article IV, provides *‘that no Judge ot the Supreme Court or Circuit Courts shall be elected to any other than any judicial office or be eligible thereto during the term for which he was elected such Judgze. All votes for either of them during such term for any elective oftice except that of Judge of the Supreme Court, Cirenit or County Court given by the Legislature or people shall be void.” Judge Plowman’s opponents have pre- pared an open letter to the members of the Legislature charging thatin receiving and recording votes for Plowman they are violating their oaths of office. -~ DEPEW 48 EMBASSADOR. Suggesied for Bayurd’s Place at the Court of 8t. James. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 3L.—The Argus has a strong editorial favoring the ap- pointment of Chauncey M. Depew as Em- | the {and the mother of Miss Blancie Bates, | | Iyn church, and Mr | this city. | be the directors of the Pennsylvania Rail- | Traffic A bassador to England. The concluding paragraph reads: *‘Mr. Depew is the very | beau ideal of an American diplomat, and | President McKinley will not merely make no mistake but will be fortunate if he se- cures the services of Chauncey M. Depew as Embassador to Great Britain. 1In him the whole country will feel that 1t bas an able and faithful representative, who will be the yvigilant exponent and guardian of American honor and American interests,'” BLANCHE BATES TO WED. Announcement From Butte, Montana, That Is Discredited by the Young Lady's Mother. MoxT., Jan. 31. — It is an- nounced here to-day that Frank Worthing, young English actor, and Miss Blanche Bates, whoduring the past season have been playing lovers' parts in the Frawley company, which closed an en- gagement here last night, are engaged, and that the marriage will take place soon BUTTE, Mre. Bates of the Alcazar stock company when questioned last night as to the truth of the reported engagement, said: “Ireceived a letier from my daughter sueh engagement. She certainiy spoke of Mr. Worthing, who has belped her con- siderably in her studies and is a charming gentleman. They are close friends, bt nothing more. CRUISER BROOKLYN BATTERED BY ICE On the Way to the Cramps Shipyard,When a Ledge Was Struck. Serious Damage to the Vessel I. Reported, but t e Affair Is Kept Quiet. Two Pilots Unable to Prevent the Warship From Swinging Out of the Channel. PHILADELPHTA, Px. Jan. 3L—No details of the damage done to the new United States cruiser Brooklyn, which struck on a rocky ledge yesterday after- noon while proceeding down the river to | “I cannot imagine how the report originated. My daughter was perfectly | free when she left this City, and if she | were engaged 1 feel sure 1 would be among the first to hear of it. She has | assured me that it will ba time for her to | think of marriage when she has madea position for herself, and not till then. “She expects to go abroad as soon as the present tour of the company is concluded, | and will visit friends and relatives in Lon- don.” Mrs. Bates nlso denied another re- port to the effect that her daughter and | Mr. Frawley were engaged. ‘ | b il GEOKGE B. KUBERTIS FUNERAL. Eight Colored Kailroad Porters Will Be ihe ~ective Pall-Bearers. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 3L—Ar- rangements for the funeral of the late George B. Roberts, president of the Penn- | sylvania Railroad, were completed to-day. | The funeral will take place at 2:30 o’cloc! | on Tuesday afternoon next, and will be | aty limits, where de died. ! a safe anchorage from the fce behind the Government piers at Marcus Hook, six- teen miles below this city, could be learned to-day. oince the Brooklyn was put into commission a few weeks ago she has been lying at the League Island Navy-yard. The ice has beén running very heavy in | the river since tho recent cola spell and | the Brooklyn was in danger of damage to her propeller bledes 1n the place where she was anchored. It was therefore de- cided to move her to Cramp’s shipyard, | where she would be out of danger and where, at the same time, the opportunity would be takea to fita new safety valve on her engines. The Brooklyn made an attempt to reach Cramp's yesterday morning, but the ice | was too beavy to risk the ship in and she was turned and headea down stream for Marcus Hook. The Brooklyn prozeeded under her own steam and bad nearly reached her desti- nation when from some cause unknown | beld from Mr. Roverts’ late country resi- | t0 the officers of the ship and tne two | dence at Bala station, just outside of the | Pilots in charge she swung out of the | channel and struck bow-on on a rocky special from W ashington says: A dispatch received by Secretary Herbert from Cap- tain F. A. Cook, commanding the Brook- lyn, confirms the report of the accident sustained by the craiser in the Delaware River. Capiain Cook telezraphed to the department from Linwood, Pa. His mes- sage reads: Leit League Island on account of ice jam. Struck on Schooner Ledge. Double-bottom compartments under eugine and fire rooms full of water. Leaksin bilge, but kept clear by pumping. Safely moored to ice pier. It is thought that Secretary Herbert will order a court of inquiry to investi- gate and obtain facts concerning the aam- age the vessel has suffered. No action will be taken, however, until a fuli report is received from Captain Cook. Secretary H rbert considers Captain Cook one of the most careful men in the department, and desires to obtaia full particulars from him. He regrets the ac- cident very much on account of his desire to have the Brooklyn participate in the blockade in the City of Charieston by the Atlantic squadrm. It is not thought she will now be able to engage in it. She has been ordered to return to League Isl- nd Navy-yard as soon as the ice clears away, and repairs will be made. A Herald special from Philadelphia says: Commodore Howell, commandant of the League Island Navy-vard, had not received at a late hour to-night any news of the damage to the cruiser Brooklyn. Admittance to the crippled cruiser was refused to all newspaper men. She is moored to one of the ice piers at Marcus Ice House and does not appear to be in a bad way. Commodore Howell says the vessel is under the control of her com- wander and out of his jurisdiction. She was made ready for sea about two weeks ago, but was detained in order that a defective steam valve could be sent to the Cramps yard for repairs. It is thought that the floating ice cov- ered the buoys, so that the pilots who are perfectiy familiar with the location of the ledge could not keep in the channel. Ordi- narily the rise of the tide is five feet, but, } as aresult of the gale that has been blow- ing for several days, the rise was only about four feet, and when the Brooklyn reached there there was about twenty-seven feet of water over the ledge. The cruiser was drawing about twenty-six feet and would have passed down in safety had she not struck one of the blocks of granite to which the buoys are anchored. John J. Williams of Chester, a sub- marine diver. said he saw the Brooklyn approach the ledge at a good rate of speed, followed wotugs. He did not suspect that she had struck, as she proceeded down the riveras though nothing unusual TWO DISASTROUS FIRES. | Seven Persons Burned 1o Death and Thirty Families Made Hcmeless at Foboken, N. J. HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. This city was visited by two disastrous fires be- tween 1i:30 Saturday nightand 3 o’clock | this moraing. Seven persons were burned | to death and thirty families were made | homeless. ‘The Saturday night fire startel in the three-story frame building at 41 Newark | street. Here six persons lost their lives. | They were: Mrs. Neliie Schroeder, 40 | years; Henry Scbroeder, 11; Maggie | Schroeder, 7; Kate Schroeder, 9; Joun Schroeder, 3; Will Schroeder, '3 months. The father of the iamily, Charles Schroe- der, was in a near by saloon playing cards | while hus wife and children were dying. The second fire started at 3 o’clock this morning in the five-story double-ceck | tenement at 157 Fourteenth street. In | this fire three tenements—155, 157 and | 1599—were entirely wrecked and 153 was damaged badiy by water. Mable Mangles, 8 years oid, was burned to death on the 1ourth floor of 157, The fire at 410 Newark street started in a defective flue in Schaffer’s wheelwright | shop, on the ground floor of a three-story | frame building. Schaffer occupied the | second floor as livinz aparument. The | front rooms on the third floor were ocen- pied by Charles Schroeder snd_his family, | while James Blanchfield and family ccei’ | pied the rear rooms. The Bianchfields | tirst discovered the fire, which had gained ! y that they barely made their | i such headw escane by way of the roofs of adjoining vuldings. , After the fire had been subdued little save the shell remained. The police finally reached the top floor, where, Rev. Charles Oimstead, rector of the | formation on the ledge. Tae cruiser im- | stretched across the bed, blackened and Protestant Episcopai Church of St. Asaph, Bala, will read prayers at the Louse. i The body will be borne to 8 where the iuneral services w ducted by Bishop Whittaker of the eastern | diocese of Pennsylvania, Rev. Dr. William | McConnell, formerly of St. Stephen’s Church here, but_now rector of a Brook- Olmstead. The in- terment will be in the vault of the Roberts family ai East Laurel Hill Cemetery in The honorary pall-bearers will road Company and the presidents of the various railroads forming the General ociation, Tue active pali-bearers will bs eight colored porters who have been longest in the service of the company at the Broad- street station in this city - Seized w Live Wire nnd Died. MILLVILLE, N. J., Jan. 3L — While waiching the employes at the Millville Electric Light Station testa new battery to-day Benjamin Madkiff seized hola of a live wir-, and, receiving a shock of 1200 voits, tell to the floor dead. |and the usual court of ing | ordered by the Sccretary of the Navy. | mediately swung back into the channel which Mr. Roberts built and endowed at | and got to the sought-for anchorage be- | hind the ice piers at Marcus Hook. It is reported that the damage to the ship is 50 serious that the water entered the compartments under the engine and fire rooms. No confirmation of this was obtainable from any of tue officers of the vessel, but the cruiser appears to be down | at the head, as if she had taken in water. One of the officers of the ship admitted that the vessel had struck on the ledge, but beyond this would say nothing. No one at Leacue Island Navy-yard here knew anything further of the damage done to the Brookliyn than stated. If the vessel has been seriously injured she will probably be detained at League Island v will be - CAPTAIN COOK REPORTS. Says the Compartments Under the Engine Ara Filled With Water, NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 31.—A Herald cbarred, lay Mrs. Schroder, and clasped tightly in ber arms was the little baby, | Wiilie. In the same bed lay the charred | bodies of the girls, Maggie and Kate. It | is likely that they were suffocated in their | sleep. On the floor near the window lay the tody of tae boy, John. Henry, the oldest boy, was found under a mass of | debris in’ the hall, burned almostto a | ecisp. It is believed that the boy was aroused during the fire, and in his efforts to escape ran into the hall, wuere he was overcome by the smoke. The loss to the buildaing and its contents will probably not exceed $15,000. The fire at 157 Fourteenth street, at 3 o'clock this morning, started from some unknown cause. Ail the families were forced outin their night clothing. The family of Ferdinand Mangles occupied the | fourth floor. Mrs. Mangles and her four | children started for the street, which they | reached in saiety with the exception of | Mable, who was suffocatea. The loss on tue buildings 155, 157 and 159, which were completely wrecked, is between $75,000 and $80,000. Not over a haif-dozen Tamilies in the three buiidings carried any insurance, | ani their beiongings were worth about | 10,000, The Powerful New Cruiser Brooklyn, Which Is Reported to Have Been Badly Damaged by Ledges of Ice While Steaming Down the Delaware. Captain Francis A. Cook Commands the Vessel | possibi NO LONGER FEAR THE FIRE FIEND Petalumans Breathe More Freely With Benedetto Imprisoned. Pathetic Episode in the Life of the Demeuted Dealer in Incendiarism B:came a Vagrant When His Wife and Children Rsfussd to Cross the Se.s to Join Him STALUMA, Car., Jan. 31.—The alarm and anxiety that has given a nervous tremor to this city during the past few days has been displaced to-day by that composure which is native here. When it became known this morning through TrE CALL that Ferdino Benedetto, the Italian now in the tanks, had confessed to having started all the fires that bave threatened the destruction of the city re- cently and that his statement of detail, coinciding exactly with the facts, could not have been learned by him from any other person, a creat sigh of relief went up all over the city. a result many men who, rejoicing in rec quired jobs as special watchmen, wi doubt, find their several occupa gone. It will be some days, however, be- fort the effect of the widespreaa and well- founded alarm will wholly die away, Every striking of the hour by the alarm bell causes a slight palpitation of the heart of ali who hear it and the quick return of that dread that has robbed people of sleep lately, Last night while peovle, still weary from fighting the flames, w congratu- lating each other that the cause of the trouble had beep captured and placed where he could do no more harm, the fire alarm rang out again. People hesitated and looked zt their wat oth to be- lieve tbat it was not striking the hour, and then ran in the direction indicated. The fire apparatus was out in a few min- utes, and_the streets were alive with peo- ple convinced on the instant that Beue- detto’s confession amounted to nothing. A defective flue caused this spasm. most mischief itdid was in causing the alarm to be struck, and when the little biaze had been suppressed the faith in Marshal Collins’ capture was renewed. In their present temper peoble do not readily accept the plea of Insanity on b half of the little Italian. True, his act is thatof an insane man, inasmuch as the burning of a big warehouse, a bridge, a lumber-yard and a woolen-mili could not benefit him. The tearing up of his blankets and throwing them together with his shoes and bose, ieaving him barefooted on a stone floor in a dark cell at the beginning of a winter's night was not a sane thing to do. But people say that that might have beeh good ac ng, and the fact that he did not profit b the big blazes he started may have been & 1f the woolen-mill and the bridge had burned there mizht have been a panic, in the midst of which he could have looted private dwellings with impunity. Mar- shal Coulins recalls the fact, too, that when arrested Benedetto denied ail knowl- edge of tae crime, and adhered to his d nial until old man Mezo asked him why he did not speak when, running away {rom the burning warehouses, Benedetto met him on the bridge. Benedetto thought he had been recogmized ana so confessed to the whole series of fires. The fact was that Mezo, in the darkness, had not recog- nized Benedetto, but merely put the ques- tion as a test. ronger suspicion was in the Marshal’s mind against an‘entirely different inaividual. Having con‘essed, Benedetto became a braggart. He is a little fellow, rather pre- Dpossessing in both manner and appear- ance—not counting his clothes, which are those of a laboring man. He has a round aw NEW 10-DAY. When love knocks at @ wo- man’s heart he usually cories in disguise. Doesn’t want it known what he’s up to, If she knew all about the little rascal, would she let him in? That'sa question, Women are apt to look npon love aud marriage as purely a matter of sentiment and af- fection. That is pretty nearly right ; yet there i3 a practical side to it too ; and the best way to preserve the ideal aspect of marriage and maternity is not to forget the practical part of it. A woman cannot be a thor- oughly happy wife and mother unfess the distinctive physical organism of her sex is in & healthy and vigorous condi- tion. The best friend that wo- man ever had is the ‘ Favorite Prescription,” of Dr. R. V. Pierce, Chief Consuiting Phy- {2 L sician of the Invalids’ Hotel B2® and Surgical Institute, Bufialo, =““N.Y. The ‘Prescription,” is a perfect and infallible remedy for every form of “female weakness.”” It cures by restoring health and strength to the mtsr- nal organism, which cannot be reached by ““local applications ;' thus the cure is radi- cal, complete and constitutional. Dr. Pierce’s eminent reputation as a phy- sician of wide learning; and his special knowledge of the delicate and intricate or- ganism of women, accounts for the unpar- alleled confidence, which women place in his ‘ Favorite Prescription,” over every other remedy. Its use obviates the neces. sity of dreaded ‘' examinations” and the V] ‘‘local treatments. .‘ge,oku\?el(*‘er«,cla)‘fcr “Sir :—I suffered fourteen years with female weakness, nervousness, andl general debi trying everything I could find 10 ..2lp m to no avail. I then heard of Dr. Pierce's med es and although I was thon oughly discouraged, I thought I would try once more to find relief. T took your Golden Medical Discovery " and * Favorite Prescription,”” and to reat praise cannot be given for the rapid reliel l‘hey ave me. I am now free from the formes troubles. Very sincerely yours, Box 46, Saratoge, ‘Santa Clara Co., Cal