The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1897, Page 1

A VOLUME LXXXI.—NO, 110. SAN FRANCISCO, PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIA'S STHEMING EIPIS Why the Czar Is Considered the Worst Enemy of Greece. WANTS A SLICE OF THE SULTAN’S REALM. Rumors That a Treaty Exists for the Ceding of Two Important Ports. TURKEY OPENLY VIOLATES THE BERLIN TREALY. Pow:rs Siand By Supinely While Fortifications Are Constructed on the Frontier. ATHENS, Gresce. March 19.—Germany and.Russia are popularly considered to be the worst enemies Greece has in the con- cert'of Europe, and if the reports that are in circulation are true there can be no doubt that Rus is but a veil to cover her always present desire to obtain part of the Turkish territory, de- spité her declaration support 2of the inte; toman em- pire. Whi real object iy has not but 1t 15 sup- posed that she s inspired by a desire to tand well with Russia in the hope of aking the Franco-Russian alliance. It isstated that there is a secret Russo- in exist>nce providing that the support Russia is now g Turkey the ports o kanderun will be ceded to her. mpossible to tell w rumors that are being circulated, and they are only given to show in what light sia is regaraed by the Greek people: orf at there is in the It is rumored that Russia is urging key 1o att: Greece, cffering official sistance to the Porte if this be done. sia believes that the fir-t battle would result in a defeat of the Greek troops, and she conld then call off the Turks and pro- pose terms that Greece would be bound to accept. A new feature in the situation bas de- veloped which threatens to result in seri- ous complications, and much interest is manifested here as to how the powers will view the matter. The Turks are en- gaged in constructing fortifications. This work isin airect violation of = the treaty of Berlin. The Government has made pro- tests to the powers against this action on the part of Turkey. Great indignation is felt here that the powers should stand supinely by and see Turkey violate the Berlin treaty, but the impression grows that to gain their own ends the Christian countries of Europe will submit to any- thing in support of the Turks. The first regiment of infantry started to-day for Larissa. Prayers were offered or to their departure, which was wit- ed by large crowds of cheering spec- TANTINOPLE, Turxey, March 19.—The serious attention of the Porte has been called by the Servian Minister here to the serious state of things existing in the province of Kossovo, where, the Min- ister asserted, in consequence of the mobilization of the Turkish reserves, the Christians have become panic-stricken. The Minister also celled attention to the recent attack of a Moslem upon the Aus- trian and Servian Consuis in a cafe at Usnkub, in the province of that name. Servis, he said, had maintained a per- fectly correct aititude during the present crisis and hoped that the Porte would put a stop to the existing sitnation; otherwise the consequences mizht be serious. GALATZ, RouMANIA, March 19.—It is reported in Greek circles here that the Greeks 1n Constantinople, of wkom 30,000 are well armed, are plotting a revolt against the Suitan’s Government. The report says that advantage is being taken of the fact that apart gom the Sultan’s bodyguard there are few Turkish troops at Constantinople, all available force Being sent to the Greek frontier, and tnat in the eventof an uprising at Constanti- nople it would be imvossible to recall troops from the frontier in time to make them effective againsta revolt. Recently a large body of Greeks left here, ostensi- bly for Greece, but it is now said that their real destin was Constantinople. CANEA, Crete. March 19.—An ltalian officer has started for the camp of the | Greek troops with instructions to notify Colonel Vassos that the blockade of the island will begin at 8 o'clock Sunday morping, in saccordance with the procla- mation issued bv the foreign admirals. Preparations are being made for the ar- rival of the foreign troops, Barracks are in readiness, and in some cases schoolbouses will be used for the ladging of the troops. ‘The admirals have bad anotber interview with the insurgent leaders at Alltroti. They handed to the Cretans copies of the proclamation claim- ing the autonomous governmen: would be constituted for the island; but this in- telligence was not received in the manner it was hoped it woud be. The revel leadersdid not hesitate to express their hostility to the plan of the powers to leave them under the suzerainty of the Sultan. They finally declared that they were done with Turey, and added that they would resistto their last drop of blood any such regime as the powers pro- posed. Their desite was to have the islad annexed to Greece, and they would hold out until this became an established fact. Among the few supporters of the powers the attitude of the insurgent lead- ers is ascribed to counsels given to them some time ago by the Greek Vice- Consul. The Vienna correspondent of the Times N HER WAR BELEAGUERED ISLAND CuBA STANDS AND FIGHTS ALONE, AND HER AWFUL CRY FOR FREEDOM SHAKES TIIE GLORY OF A THRONE. TANDS BESIDE HER RUINED ALTARS FLAME AND SWORD. ENGIRDED ROUND, SEES HER MAIDENS TORN FROM SHELTER, SACRILEGE ON HOLY GROUND. LAME AND SWORD AND DESECRATION WRONGS THAT SATANS SELF ABHORS, -ALL THE BARBAROUS, SHAMELESS, NAMELESS SAVAGERY OF CIVIL WARS. )" YE SYNOD OF THE NATIONS © SHALL YOU TO THIS STRUGGLING. LAND GIVE NO SIGN OF RECOGNITION, RAISE NO VOICE, UPLIFT NO HAND 2 AIN' YOUR TEACHING, FALSE YOUR PREACHING, WHILE YON ROYAL FLAG OF SPAIN . WiTH THE cRoSS OF CHRIST UPON IT REEKS ABOVE SUCH FIELDS OF SLAIN. telegraphs that. it is semi-officially re- ported in that city that Austria and Ger- many will not take part in any operations that may be decided upon as necessary in the interior of Crete. A dispateh to the same paver from | Athens says that the eniire population assembled to-night to witness the depar- ture of the first regiment of infantry for Larissa. The crowd cheered incessantly as the troops passed along. Several bands of music escorted the soldiers and many persons in the crowds fired revolvers as noisy farewells to the departing troops. Crown Prince Constantine has not yet gone to the front. He will remain in Athens for the present. The Times thinks it highly probable that if the Greek ports are blockaded there will immediately be war with Turkey, but if they are not blockaded war may be averted. The Times to-morrow will print a dis- patch from Constantinople saying that three torpedo-boats, two torpedo-boat de- stroyers and one cruiser steamed from the inner Golden Horn into the sea of Mar- mora last night and then proceeded io Gallipolis, there to await the rest of the Turkish squadron, which will sail to-mor- row. This squaaron will consist of three armored frigates of 6000 tons and ten guns each, one iron-clad ‘corvette of 2000 tons d fifty guns and one river boat. The squadron will await orders at Gallipolis. According to a dispatch from Larissa the Turkish Consuls in Thessaly have | been authorized by the Porte to v their posts and return to Constantinople, should they deem such action advisable. This, the report says, is in consequence of the Porte to the threateniug sttitude of the Greeks oa the frontier. In the House of Lords to-day Lord | Salisbury made a bitter criticism upon the speech aelivered by Lord Kimberley, Min ister of Foreign Affairs in the Rosebery Cabinet, at the meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Norwich Wednes- day evening, in which he asserted that “according to Lord Salisbury the policy of France is also that of Great Britain and is | based upon the maintenance of the integ- rity of the Ottomon Em pire.” This assertion, Lord Salisbury said, was | wholly untruc. 1f, he continued, the | policy of the Liberal party was to aban- don the Ottoman Empire it had been lately® adopted. Lord Kimberley would probably again become Foreign Minister of Great Britain and, in that event, he asked, would his Lordship then disregard | the past policy of maintaining the integ- rity of the Ottomon Empire, Lord Kimberley replied that he had in- tended woat he had said to mean that the Liberal party woull depart entirely from its past policy regarding Turkey and maintained that the Ottomon Empire was astanding menace to the peace of Europe. Killed by a “Fitzeimmon Blow. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 19.—Ed- ward Gibbons and Jack Perry, amateurs, | sparred to-night at_tne Banner Club, landed over. Gibbons’ heart. The latter collapsed and died in half an hour. the Consnis having called the atigntion of | Perry tried the Fitzgimmons biow and, CONSTERNATION [N CHICAGO. ‘ieky Cloud of ~Smiko st Fog Envetops the City and Greatly Alarms the Populace. | CHICAGO, Irn, March 19,—Chicago became almost panic-stricken about 4:15 o'clock this aiternoon, when a derse cloud of smoke and fog passed over the city and enveloped it in almost complete darkness, From tbe upper windows in many of the large buildings in the down- town district pedestrians and vehicles on the street could not be seen and cable-cars were bronght to a stanastill to avoid col- lisions. T he euntire sky was blackened in an instant as the cloud swept over the town. In the residence districts the sudden semblance of night caused much fear. Many believed that a severe storm was upon the city and pedestrians ran for shelter. Passengers on elevated trains vacated the cars and sought places of greater safety in case of a storm. The darkness lasted, however, only a few minutes and the cloud passed on over the lake. : It isexplained that the blackness re- sulted from the sudden changs of the wind. All day the atmosphere was damp and the smoke hovered in the sky over- head. The wind shifted and the smoke and fog were forced down, forming a dense cloud, which almost entirely shut | out.the sunlight. | About 9 o'clock to-night there was a severe hailstorm, which lasted bnt a few minutes. A heavy rain prevailed much of the time since early this morning. 4 ¥y DEPEW’'S LIGHTNING - RIDE. Covers a Long UDistance in Remarkably Fast T.me in Order to Attend a Mesting. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19.—There was a meeting of the Board of Regents in Albany yesterday afternoon and Chaun- cey M. Depew was present. He had been looked for on the Empire State express, but had been detained in this city. Never- theless he arrived on time by taking a special train, which made one of the fastest runs on record over the 143 miles to the State capital. The special was composed of Depew's private car, No. 100, an ordinary car, car- ried for ballast, and locomotive 897, one of the big new engines. Ed Gerrity was at the engine’s throttle and Ed Mindler was in charge of the train. The start was made from the Grand Central station at 26 minutes after 12 o’clock, and the run was made in two hours thirty-six minutes ana nine seconds, which is four minutes faster than the running time of the Em- pire State express. This trip does not break the record, bowever, for on September 11, 1895, a special train to Albany over the same road made the run in 134 minutes and 25 seconas, being pulled by the famous loco- motive No. 999, in order to show the Eag- 1 brought here by the steamer Carthaci- lish, who were then wilaly excited over a series of railway races between London and Aberdeen, that they should Jook to this side of the wafer if they wanted to see whatdast traveling really was. Taking into consideration the neces- sarily limited speed attainable in the New York City tunnel and until the tramn passed Spuyten Duyvil the average speed a fraction in excess of a mile a | ke tS S AT CANNES. Prince of Wales’ Britannia Twice Beaten by the Ailsa. CANNES, France, March 19.—The race | for the cup presented by James Gordon Bennett and Ogden Goelet, which was in- terrupted on Monday by an accident to the Ailsa, whose mainsail was split by the Britannia’s boom, was resailed to-day. The weather was beautiful and there was | agood breeze from the southeast. The | race was sailed four vimes around an eight-mile course. The' starters were the Ailsa, Britannia and Serena, the latter baving been put in by her owner, Ogden Goelet, only to comply with the condi- tions of the race for the cup requiring three starters. The race was won by the Ail<a, which finished eight minutes ahead of the Britannia. The race for the Hirsch 1000 irancs, three times around an eight- mile course, was also won by the Ailsa, which beat the Britannia by four minutes. ——————— Steamer Burned at Sea. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19.—The steamer Rialto, from Newcastle for New York with a general cargo, took fire and was abundoned at sea. The crew was nian, which arrived this morning from Glasgow. PATRIOTS FIGHT FOR REEDOM Considerable Damage Done by a Bold Attack on Jiguani. FINALLY REPULSED BY WEYLER’S MEN. But the Cubans Have Won Their Cause and Spain Is Beaten. AGAIN THE TEREE FRIENDS RUNS THE BLOCKADE. Men and Arms, Dynamite anl Am- munition Sent to Aid the Insurgents. HAVANA, Cusa, March 19.—Advices have been received here that on March 14 the rebels made an attack upon the town of Jiguani, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, inflicting considerable damage. The insurgents were finally repuised by the garrison aad retired, leaving eleven dead on the fieid, and carrying a number of dead and many wounded off with them. The losses of the enemy included six of their leaders among the killed. The loss of the garrison was an oflicer of volunteers wounded and four soldiers killed and eighieen wounded. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19.—The Cuban cause met with a loss by the sink- ing of the French steamer St. Naza.re. Nicholas A. Savenall, one of the passen- gers, was a colonel in the Cuban army. He was an agent sent by General Calixto Garcia'from Cuba with a letter to General Palma of the Cuban’ junta in New York, asking for artillery and dynamite. The colonel had escaped from Cuba by crossing to- Jamaica in a small Indian canoe, making the trip in two days. He tuen made his way to New York, and was to have returned witH the Roloff expedition, but for some reason failed to connect with the Laurada, and took passage in the St Naza re, traveling as a dry-goods merchant bound for Hayti. ‘ A World special from Tampa, Fla, says: “Thirty-five Cubaps left here to- night for Punta Gorda, where :hey found the steamer Three Friends waiiing for them, and they sailed for Cuba about mid- night. The revenue cutter Forward, sta- tioned here to look out for filibusters, was ordered Wednesday to Key West to intercept the Three Friends. Thursday afternoon the Three Friends sailed into Tamoun Bay and rode at anchor { unnoticed antil night, when it put into Hillsboro Bay and slowly steamed up to Tampa. Captain Lewis, its masier, bad svent the day her-, but left Thursday night for Punta Gorda. Word was carried from him to the boat and it sailed away for to- night's rendezvous. The Three Friends take: a large load of ammupition, dynamite and ritles and a few heavy guns. ON THE VEKGE OF A CRISIS. Spain to Lose Cuba in Confronting a Home Kerolution. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19.--A dis- patch to the Sun from Havana says: All the news confirms the belief that a fatal crisis for Spain is approaching. Thecable dispatches received here from Madrid say that the agitation by Carlists and Repub- A RINGING APPEAL TO AMERICANS ON BEHALF OF CUBA. “Is It True,” Asks an Heir of the Great Revolution, “ That We Are at Last About to Consider the Cause of this Downtrodden People ?” TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALL: So it is really true, is it, that the representa- tive citizens of this portion of the American community are going to assemble in Metropolitan Temple this evening and d:vote themselves seriously to a discussion of Cuba’s condition ? I, for one, do not wish to build my hopes too high, but I think you have actually stated that we are at last to ascertain definitely what the people of one large American unit think of the Cuban insurgents’ cause. Is it not so? You will pardon an heir of the American Revolution if he lets a tinge of irony or a suggestion of incredulity creep into these lines after so maddening a period of disappointment as he has undergone while waiting for something to be done for Cuba by his countrymen. When he has reflected that his countrymen owe every free breath that they draw to a rebellion of their forefathers against the tyranny of a European power, a rebellion that is paralleled to-day by the Cuban uprising against Spain, and that, notwithstanding this glaring fact, his countrymen have steadily refused to approve the policy in Cuba to-day which made free men of themselves in 1776—when he has reflected upon the unconscionable human indecency that, par- alyzed the refined sensibilities of the whole world, he has been rendered fairly dumb with rage, despair and strangled confidence in humanity. It is, therefore, not at all strange, Mr. Editor, that, after such a bitter trial to his patience, such a blank and prolonged period of disappointment, he should 'have finally ended his chafing and cursing in a sigh of resignation, and ceased to believe that men of to-day could have any noble sentiments left in their grasping and sor- did souls. To be assured that he was mistaken, were it ever so slightly, is to have a cup of rectar raised to his lips. To be able to drink it in large grateful draughts without having it dashed to the flooor is to be comforted unspeakably. And, having drained it to the last delicious drop, Mr. Editor, refreshed and exultant in our exauisite intoxication, we American commoners—we of the homely, fire- side community who comprise the muttering masses—we take off our hats, lift up our voices and reverently say, “Thank God that it is so!” Once aroused to the point of action, the citizens of San Francisco—who may be taken as a criterion of the whole American populace—will, without the smallest doubt, do their incidental thinking and speaking in complete accord with the motive of the said action. They are acting for the purpose of affirming that they think Cuba ought to be freed from Spain’s tyranny. Indubitably their.think- ing so is the thing that has inspired them thus to meet. ' i It is perfectly clear beforehand that thejr meeting can mean nothing else than an | with the .case, which his silence hitherto may have implied. We have every- | Who shall stop us? Who stops us from sending money to Ireland to help on the cause of ‘‘home rule”? Wedo that remarkable thing every year, or oftener, and | no Britisher thinks of interfering ; yet when we float one of our little merchant | vessels down past Cuba, mayhap to some other port, it is seized and confiscated by | some Spanish pirate, and we are offered in mitigation of the high-handed joutrage the insulting explanation that we must not send “stores to the rebels.” Bah! Why doesn’t some American on one ‘of our ships down that way seize the thieving dogs and hang every mother’s son of them up for the gulls to peck at. Isn’t there one man among - the United States crews in those waters? This appalling apathy in America while Cuba writhes under a thousand atrocities every day is enough to wring blooa from one’s eyes and raise the hair ciear out of one’s scalp. Only a few hundr:d miles from a Government which was born in war and which has been reared in over one hundred years of independence lies a land which is trying to give birth to a government on the same lines and from the same conception. Here stands the Republic of a century’s growth, rich, powerful, a match for the world in a conflict, comfortably independent, immured from threats or encroachments—a Republic in a position to laugh at enemies and to patronize friends; here stands this very ideal of republican conception, with its powerful arms folded, while just a little space away goes on, unaided by it, the struggle of a new life into the family of independent nations. At the; throat of Cuba the hand of one of the most terrible tyrants and butchers of war that was ever known is clutching and straining to squelch the life that threatens to unfold from his convulsive victim. Her retainers are murdered in cold blood, private citizens—some of them American citizens— are hacked to pieces, babes are taken’ by the heels and brained. against trees and telegraph poles, women are; worse than killed, humanity in general, white and black and all defenseless, is being maimed beyond the most devilish modes of tor- ture that human butchery ever before invented. Talk about such trivial incidents as the murder of Blanche Lamont or any other individual whose death we have read of with bulging eyes in recent print; talk about anything like that being *‘the crime of the century,” some newspaper has put it! Why, Durrant and Holmes ! thing to do with the case, or at least as much to do with it as we care to have. tives in Cuba with authority that will command respect. indorsement of the Cubans’ rebellion, and there will be no human being present with | are angels compared with the monstrous scoundrels of the Spanish invading army sufficient courage to confirm audibly the stupid idea of our having nothing to do |in Cuba, led by that crowning masterpiece of mortal sin, General Weyler. May the devil help the governors and soldiers of Spain if God sees them in their present villainy*! It is the invocation of every sane American that the administration at Washington do something to end this conflit. Enough has been babbled in Congress and sat upon in the Presidegtial chair. American citizens have been mur- dered by Spanish marauders even while the American President was out catching a cold while trying to catch fish. Our countrymen have languished in Spanish dungeons while our Congress and our Cabinet have lolled about in drawing- rooms. With ships enough to blow Spain out of the water and over into France we stand smilingly by, fatuously coddling the thing we call our national honor, and all the while the cruel indignities go on accumulating, the butcheries go on multiplying, the principle of independence (whereof we profess to be so jealous) goes on being insulted, trodden under the heel and degraded before the scornful gaze of the old monarchial world. Should we not interfere? Did France not interfere when Britain was oppressing us? And think of the difference in the two cases in the former’s favor. Britain was far less malignant and cruel to us than Spain isto the Cubans. Thatis one difference. And France was an empire, like Britain, instead of a republic like we hoped to be; wherefore her natural sympathy should have been with the oppressor. That is another difference. And France was not by any tie of proximity or of principle other than graciousness expected to interest herseif in our infantile struggle. That is still another difference. All of those things are reversed in Cuba’s favor in the present case. Itis our positive duty, to say nothing better of it, to acknowledge the insurgents as belligerents ; to open our money markets to their bonds; to sell them munitions of war and to protect them’ from any excesses lof conventional warfare. Let them fight man tofman, gun to gun, and let us maintain order, forbid murder and clothe our representa- Let no more humilia- tion cover the stars and stripes in that or any other land. We commoners of the masses tell you, g-ntiemen, that we have had enough of it. We are sickened and disgusted and ashamed. Our heads hang low ; our spirit is bent ; our patriotism is discouraged. Do-something to-night, my fellow-men, or thereafter subside into the disgrace and dishonor of civilized nonenity and stay there. i CARROLL CARRINGTON.