The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1897, Page 1

{ VOLUME S | FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 189 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ~ NICHOLAS | S FAILING Epileptic Seizures Becoming Frequent and Alarm Relatives. GUARDED AS A FAMILY SECRET. Now the Czar Is Urged to Turn Over the Duties ‘0 the New Council of State. COMPZLLED TO CEASE SMOKING AND LIMIT DRIRKING. Consump'ive Tendency in th Russian Imperial House Has a Parallel in Austria. BERLIN, Gerumany, Feb. 7.—The pecu- | sider | about six months sgo. emaciated and sub- life. His royal relatives are dis- to his : tressed, however, by the possibility of body and mind being weakened if these attacks | donot lessen in frequency, are under- | stood to concur in urcing the Czar to give | up most of his imperial duties to the pro- | jected new Counc State. His medical | attendants have prescribed a strict regime | designed to strengthen especially the | nervous system. He has abandoned | smoking and only tukes a very l:mimd! quantity of wine. “Apart from his epilep- | tic condition his healith is good. There is belter news about the condi- | tion of the Czirowiteh, the Czar's younger brother, the Grand Duke Michael, who | i | thor always in deiicate health, is vecoming stronger. The consumptive tendency 1n the Rus- sian imperial house has Austrian. The tical consequences | arising from the suicide of Crown Prin Rudoloh and the illness of the present | heir presumptive, the Archduke Franz | Ferdinand, have been long under consi - eration by Emperor Franz Jos-f. It is whispered in court and hizh | political quarters that the Emperor has | counseled his Ministers and political | leaders, botn Hungarian and Austrian, to | ascertain what support they would give | his gzranddanghter, the Archduchess s parailel i the | po that he has found ready ry, b.t little or none | mperor, who has | vear, has by nc 1 to set aside Meanwhile the | means | 1he to newspaper reports, greatly improved, but the story which the Arch- | duke’s supporters in Vienna have caused to be circnlatet that his diseased lungs are healing and that he was able to go mountaineering recently in Persia is co ed doubtiul. He looked doom \ | Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Whose Weak2n:d Condition Is Causing His Royal Relatives Great Alarm. That He Turn Over Most of the Duties of His Oifice to the Projected New Council of State. i It Has Been Suggested | | liar ailment of the Czar has been no secret | ject to severe coughing, and only his re- | at the German court for s Since he was a lad emerging e om years, boy- hood it hss been known that he was sub- ject to occasional fits. Tuey were rare, however, and were suppused, a the closest medical diagnosis, to be likely to disappeer as his physique at hened, The seizures, which in his ear| place about every four months, be- came more frequent and more d ty eileptic, but they were never 1 y er e and trying to his cor became burdened oubles nseparable z the las tion u th tne from he has had pro- res about once a are not mere matters of or diplomatic correspond work D nounced epileptic se month. Thes press report ence. The private correspondence whic continually proceeds between the Dan- 1sh, Germar, Enclish and Russian royai- ties—their family correspondence, h is quite distinct from the diplomatic—con- tains much that never leaks out. But each high roval person, male or female, has a confidant, and through this source the alarm as to the Czar’s condition has "\ b:come known. Not that any serious fears are enter- tained as to his being o! regency nor any as to immediate danger fe took | dors at their conferences the throne. | ers to enforce them. ed tocreatea | — i turn to active duty in the army and his reappearancs in Vienna society wiil con- vince the court and public of h.s restored hezith. There is the very best authority for the statement that the draft of the reiorm protocol as completed by the Embassa- in Constantino- | vie is drawn up on the sssumrption that tue Sultan will accept the proposals, but | there is no reference therein either di- | rectly or indirectly to ary possibility of a | reso; o coercion on the part of the pow- Copies of the doci ment reacned the Foreign Ofnices in Vi- enna and Berlin on Saturday, and 1t is un- derstood ihat the text of the proposals drs 1 the desires expressed by be Emperor and Count ycluchowsky, the | Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, at recent conference at Kiel. The op- | position of the Kaiser to any further con- | sideration of the question of coercion to euforce the Turkish economics may have the effect to neutralize the effects of the Embassadorial conferences. though it is said that in deference to the wisies of the | other powers Baron de Calice, the Aus- trian Embassador and presjdent of the i | Continued on Second Page. | from Key West s | depends upon CAPTURED BY CUBANS Daring Raid on a Stone| Fort Just Qutside of Guanabacoa. |SPANIARDS TAKEN BY SURPRISE. Slaughtered by Insurgents as They Run Dowa Ints the Streets, FULLY HALF OF THE GARRISON ARE KILLED. By Their Daring Tsctes the Patriots Cause the Minions f Weyler Great Const'ronatiogy NEW YORK, F 8.—A World special All Huvana is gasp- ing over the audacity of the insurgents, who destroyed a stone fort right under Major Fondeviela’s nose, just outside of Guanabacoa, Saturday ni The building, a big three-story mansion, strong and well made, was the advanced picket post and had a garrison of 100 men. | There also were kept supplies for the out- lying detachments, ammuu At midnight a force of up secretiy aad captured ion, ete. 0 Cubans came and bound the outside sentinels before any alarm could be given. Admission wes obtained by iving the name of the officer of the guard, but a sentinel, as the Cubans pourea in, fired his riffe, kiliing Lieuten- ant de Rosna. As the garrison filed into the street the | fire of the Cubans was terribly effective, while ir the confusion shots did little execurion. the garrison were killed, capin 1 the windows. The Cubans looted the building. The wooden portion was set on fire and a dynamite caririage tore down the stone walls. the Spaniards’ Fully half of the others es- A cavalry detachment came from Guan- abacoa and ‘or ha:f an hour the two forces engagei at short range, the Cubans baing protected from the charges of the trapo-n T bed wive siretohed across the street. The Cubana then medea sortie, driving| back the Spaniaras, and then retreated, | firing as they left. It is supposed that Hernandez was in command. Thirty wounded soidiers were brought to Havana, and it is reportea that twenty- four were buried at Guanabacos. The Cuban loss is not known, as they took their dead and wounded with them. e DE LOME DISCUNSES EEFORMS. Hother Spain Would Welcome Her Rebel Children With Open A WASHINGTON, D. C. Spenish Legation has r full abstract of the new reforms for the islands of Cuba ana Porto Rico, the pre- amble of Senor Canovas announcing tho tetins of the new decree. This preamble expre-ses the kindliest feolings toward the Cuban people and deciares that their mother Spain is disposed, as she always has been, to open her arms to them and to extena amnesty for past offenses and that the application of the reforms only the insurgents. Minister Dupuy de Lome discussed the scope of the reforms ic-day with a representative of the United Associated Presses, and sai among otuer things: s “Tre electoral reforms were not referred to at length in the decree of the Ministry or the reasons stated in the preamble of Senor Canovas—that they will require the action of the Curtes. Tam informed, how- ever, that (he Government contemplates extending greatly the basisof the suffrage, vut they desire to do it in such a way as to prevent undue influence being acquired by the illiterate portion of the population. Any educational qualification which may be suggested by the Cubans and which seem reasonable and proper will undoubt- ediy be adopted by the Cortes. “Ttis the purpose of the Government,” said Senor Dupuy de Lome, “to show the greatest generosity toward the insurgents who lay down their arms. The reforms cannot well be put into full effect until the sovereignty of Spain is acknowledged in | | all paris of the island. The Government will not remove its military activity in | any degree if the insurgents show any dis- | position to continue the contest and fail | | to appreciate the great concessions made | by the home Government. “The tariff features of the new decree,’” | Senorde Lome said, “mean a great deal | for the United States as well as for Cuba. | The first column of the new tariff sched- | ules providing for revenue will contain | the greatest number of items, leaying the | list on which discriminations are made in favor of Spain not exceeding 20 per | cent of the valueof the imports, a com- | paratively short one. The duties levied | will be against all countries except Spain; | and American manufactures and export- | ers, in view of their familiarity with the | | Cuban trade and their nearness to the | island, are likely to appreciate the im- por.ance of these conce:sions, The situa- tion wili be much more favorable to | Ame-ican trade tban under the reciproc- | ity treaty of 1890.” A4 SOLID FEI1:ND OF CUBs. Senator- Elect Mason of Hlinoi« Emphat- icatty Declares Bimself. CHICAGO, Tii, Feb. 7.—Senator-elect William E. Mason was given a reception last night by the Menoken Club, of which he is a member. In the course of a speech he said: | “I have disagreed with people some- times, but what I am going to say now is | | a question of patriotism, not politics. 1} was in the Supreme Court on Monday | when the Attorney-General sougbt to aa- | vance the interesis of the Cubans who | wanted to get out of their own country. if I get 1nto any trouble it will be on | on this score. | ‘‘Have you read how the Spaniards are |ki1:mg women and children? Do yo, | know how boys are shot every day? Toek | | is no precedent for it in international law. | The strougest nation makes it. I tell you | | Tam sick and tired of men and women | and ckildren being murdered at our door- | step and turning back and saying, ‘We | are not our brothers’ keepers.’ I say we | are our brothers’ keepers. And whether Iam blamed or praised I shall never be ent antil the belligerency of Cuba is | recoznized.” < INGES LIKELY. | caBINET CcH Great Dissatisfaction at Madrid Over the New Keform Sohems. MADRID, Srarx, Feb. 7.—There is much dissatisfaction expressed here over what are alleged (o be the excessive concessions to the Cubans in the scheme of reforms | and it is thought that Cabinet changes | are likely to result, It is reported to-day that Marquis Pidal or General Martinez | Campos will shortly replace Senor del Castillo, the Prime Minister. The latter, | should he resign, would place himsel at | the disposal of the crown, which would | probably advise him to support Marquis Pidal. In an interview to-day Prime Minister | | Canovas del Casulio declared that the | Govertment would legally execute the re- | forms in Cuba and would not wait for the | complete pacification ol the siund. It! oyt b SUTIMORTTT TR D e Wede | (coniined vo th eastern provinces. ——— ! Pudliched ot Harana. HAVANA, CusA, Feb. 7.—The authori- ties here have at last given their consent to the publication of the scheme of Cuban reforms issued last week by the Oabinet at Madrid. The Lucha and the Diario de la Marina to-day is-ued extrascontaining the reforms. but neither of these papers made any editorial comments. It can be stated, | however, that loyal Spaniards are pleased with the scheme. CARNAGE CONTINUES IN CRETE. Moslems Sti/ll Massacring Christians and Looting Their Homes—Sailors Landed to Subdue Fres. ATHENS, Grexce, Feb. 7.—A dispatch from Canea s.ates tnat incessant rifle and cannon firing was heard outside Canea yesterday and to-day and that the Tark- | ish troops took part in the firing, using artillery. Many Christians were killed. It is reported that the Christians have captured the arsensl at Suda. The corre- spondent adds that he saw Moslems pillaging the Christian quariers and kil ing and wounding Epirot bakers. LONDON, Exg., Feb. 7.—The Standard’s Atbens correspondent telegraphs that satlors were landed from the foreign ves- sels in the harbor of Canea to prevent the entire destruction of machinery by the in- cendiary fires that were started on Friday. The flames were not subdued until they bad burned for thirty-six hours. The dispatch says that & number of ded by the troops, have marched which place is defended by s. With the exception of Cane Rethmo and Hecklion, nearly the whole | island is reported to be 1n the possession of armed Christians, who are only await- ing a signal from Greece to proclaim the union of Crete with Greece. ————— Mrs. Beecher’s Condition, STAMFORD, Coxx., Feb. 7.—There is no material change in the condition of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher to-night. MAY COST A CAPITOL Infamous Sling of Certain Journals at Honest Legislators. LESSON OF THE PAST FORGOTTEN. An Editorial Says the Entire Bedy of Lawmakers Should Be Indicted. SCURRILOUS COMMENT RESULT SERIOUSLY. THAT Already a Bl Is Being Drafted for the Removal of the Capital to Oak'an?, SACRAMENTO, Cat., Feb. 7.—Mem- bers of the Senate and Assembly are in- dignant over the following editorial, which appeared this morning in the Sunday Leader of this city: The Sacramento Grand Jury very wisely re- fused to have anything to do with the Legis- lative scandal. If they should investigate that body they would have to indict the entire outfit. Our County Prison is not big enough, and then 120 members and 200 attaches would eat us out of house and home. Let the Legislature wash its own dirty linen. They say that it is bad enough for legis- lators to be obliged todrink thé muddy | waters of the Sacramento River impreg- nated with the bacilli of burglary and bigamy from the State prison at Folsom, without being called felons by one ot the two rosettes (one daily, the other weekly) which ornament the coat lapel of Sacra- | mento journalism. If the Leader had a representative on the floor of the Senate and Ass embly he would be ignominiousiy expelled. Senator Morehouse said to-day that he | was not aware that he and his fellow Sen- ators had dons anything to merit the abtea mhizh ¢heSotanowin Hepos b Yps on them for heving braved tne dangers of malaria and typboid to come here and live during the two most disagreeable months in the year. Indignation was eo high that certain | legisiators are now at work drafting a bill | 1o remove the State capital to Oakland. They consider that they have been scurri- lously treated here by the existance of a public sentiment which tolerates such un- founded editorials. Several Senators delare that it is time to make a law punishing such malicious and unfounded libels and felonies. ‘They say that the publication was inspired by the fact that the manager of the paper, Major | John N. Larkin, held an eightdollar a day job during the Iast session; that he applied for a similar job at the beginning of the present session and failed to get it. The major is now persona non grata and will not be allowed upon the floor of the Senate hereafter. SECRETARY SEARLES AT CANTON. Mystery of the Visit of the Missing Sugar Witness to the Home of McKinley, CHICAGO, InL., Feb. 8.—A special to the Tribune from Canton, Ohio, says: John E. Searles, secretary of the sugar trust, not only paid a visit to President- elect McKinley last Friday, and tried to keep his visit a secret, but he met Chairman Hanna at the Valley Railway station here and took him sway to some unknown place for an hour's conference. Mr. Searles’ visit is causing more com- ment here the mo-e its mystery becomes known. The fact that he was under contempt at Albany, N. Y., for not appearing at the Lexow Committee Investigation of the sugar trust on that day has caused all sorts of speculation here over the subject of his visit. Beurles reached bere from the Easton a Pennsylvania t and was driven di- rectly to the McKinley home. When he was asked by a newspaper correspondent what his n-me was he replied, ““Jones.” The President-elect unwittingly gave it all away, however. He was standing in the hall when Mr. Searles came up the steps, and the front door was open. Nearly all arrivals are shown into the litrary tirst, where they register and give their cards to Secretary Cooper. Major McKinley, however, recognized his visitor by sight and did not wait for an introduc- tion. Whether he knew he was coming cannot be ascertained. ‘Whnat Mr. Searles came to Canton for is much of a mystery. The President-elect has said that he does not know Mr. Searles’ | initials, and Mr. Searies’ only explanation | of his visit, in reply to the usual question put to callers at the McKinley house, was that he came on a social call. It is generally believed that the Presi- | dent-elect knew he was entertaining the secretary of the sugar trust, but that he did not know he was in contempt of court | at the time. The most plausible explana- | tion of the visit is that he was looking up | the question of tariff legislation, and | that Friday was cousidered most conven- | ient for him, although it was embarrass- ingtto Mr. Lexow. It is regarded here as doubtful whether the matter is brought up to Albany on ac- count of the unjust criticism to which it | might subject the President-elect. -~ PLEADS FOR HAWAIIANS. | Colonel Palmer Says the Natives Will Never Consent to the Scheme of Annexation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—Colo- | et Julius Palmer, private secretary of ex-Queen Liliuokalani, has sent a com- ) munication to the Washington Times in FOR MINER - AND FARMER ; Legislation That Will Cause | Them Both to Work | in Harmony. | LEFT FOR REPUBLICANS | TO ACT. Senator Voorheis the Active Champion of All Classes of Miners. EXPLAINS IMPORTANT BILLS PENDING. Provision to Be Made for Restraining Dams and the Dredging of Navigable Streams. NTO, Cat., Feb. 7.—One of | \ [ | RIR PRk - State Senator Voorheis of Amador County, Who Is an Active Champion of Both Mine and Farmer. which he extols in the highest manner the deposed ruler, and refers in the course of his article to the question of the anpexation of Hawaii to this country. Colonel Palmer says annexation is now dead forever. “For there is no escape,” he writes, “from one of two positions. First, the 10,000 native voters now disiranchised by a minority, that by official statistics in 1893 numbered 637, will be allowed to re- sume suffrage. In this case they might vote for one of their own chiefs of their nation, but they will certainly vote against annexing their country to any other land. “‘Second, the 10,000 native voters would be still denied the right of expression of their rights at the ballot-box. Thev will be held down by manacle and musket as they are to-day. 1 have seen noble speci- mens of Hawaiian manhood laboring on the roads carrying a ball and chain for no other reason than their owan loyalty to Lilivokalani. If this course is pursued the American people, under whatever party, will never admit them to this great ana glorious Union, simply on the vote of their oppressors, because these latter wish to be reiieved of the consequences of their own rebellion and folly.”” —— Death of a Gas Magnate. CHICAGO, ILL, Feb. 7.—Albert Bel- lings, founder of the People’s Gaslight and Coke Company in this citv, died to- sireet, leaving an estate of about $10,000,- 000. Mr. Billings was more tha: of age and died of heart failure. A YARD OF KITTIES- A COMPANION PIECE TO THE “YARD OF PUPS.” Suecestion for an “Examiner” Chromo to Be Given Away With a 15c Ad. % A night at his old homestead on West Lake | | the most pleasing features of the present session of the Legislature, and one of its unprecedented features as well, is the fact that in matters of legislation the farmers and the miners are working together in harmony. For years the Democratic party has been promising with one face that it would create such legislation as would en- | able bydraulic miners to proceed with their work, and with the other face it has been promising the farmers that hydraulic mining should not be resumed unless the miners would go to the enormous expense of building solid dams to keep the detritus from being washed down into the rivers. 1t remained tor the brain and the genius of the Republican vparty to evolve from amidst the confusion of those two jarring interests a pian which has now united the interests of the miner and the farmer. That plan has been perfected and has sumed tangible shape in bills now before the Legisiature. Senator Voorheis of Sutter Creek, Ama- dor county, has taken mucb interest in NEW TO-DAY. The Indian medi- cine man cures by charms and incan- tations. He fright- ens away the “evil irit” who causes the sickness. He does all sorts of Lhin%s that civilized poopie would call 1diotic and barbaric, but the civilized folks are not so very much ahead after all. They do just as foolish things as does the medicine man. They goalong carelessly, and al- fow the little sickness to grow into the big sickness. They allow constipation to grow into indigestion, heartburn, dizzi- ness, headache, insomnia, and » nundred other distressing conditions. They do this frequently hecause they do not know the cause of their trouble. It isa pretty safe rule to look for the source of g-1oths of human sickness in this one simple and appallingly prevalent trouble, Another foolish thing that smr:dpeopu do is to take some alleged remedy for constipa- tion and keep on taking it, day after day, month after month and year after year. Perhaps it is better to take the medicine than not to take it at all, but of course if they stop taking it, their trouble will come back. This last statement is true of weery other medicine prepared for this | purpose except Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel- ets. One ‘* Pellet ” is a gentle laxative, and two a mild catharic. They are gentle | and efficient in their action, permanent |in their results. You don't become a slave to their use, as with other pills. *+ Mol Bastr, I Pain Eac glish, or Medicine Simplified R.V. Pierce. M. D..Chief Consul- ing Physician tothe Invalids' Ho- teland Surgical Iustitute, Buffalo, N. Y. looS . pages, illustrated. 630.000 copies sold at $r.50. Now sent. paper-bound, ARSOLUTELY PREE on receipt of 21 one<cent stamps to pay for mailing only, Address the Author, 88