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

N UME OL o= TLXXXL —Ne. 7 S AN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORN NG, MAY 1, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAY ATTEMPT TO YET GAIN THE VICTORY Greece’s New Ministry Ready to Take Desperate Chances. ONE MORE GREAT BATTLE MUST NOW BE Belief in Diplomatic FOUGHT. Citcles That Efforts Wil Be Made to Induce the Powers to Intervene Without Greece's Solicitation. Copyright 1897 by LONDON, ENG., April 30.—It it the war is virtually fin pes until tt The new Ministry Europe th indulg fully assured. in such 't resu surrender, even if it believes the struggle against the Turk hope than that displayed by the Mi The latest dispatches from At Ralli and his followers will continue of cowardice able to retrieve the country’s fortunes if properly led. the New York Sun is rashly assumed in many parts of ished. It is altogether premature to 1t of the political crisis in Athens is | cannot openl advocate a policy of army is . The opposition has been from the first more warlike in nisters. hens indicate that Prime Minister to accuse the Greek commanders and stupidity, and to affirm that the Greek troops will be The only thing that can be expected therefore is a further attempt to snatch victory from defeat. It is a desperate ct hance. Even those who are most friendly to the Greeks do not expect them to succeed. In view of this situation there is a belief in certain diplomatic circles that strong efforts will be ma withcut the open solicitation of Gre of the Greek troops -day’s advance of the Turkis de to induce the powers to interfere ece, but under a secret understand- | ing with the Greek Government that all reasonable conditions uch as from Crete, will be complied with. h forces seems to make at least one more severe engagement inevitable. Telegrams from Athens to-day show that the new Prime Minister moment. is the idol of the populace for the It is possible that a Greek defeat at Pharsala and the conse- quent peril of the capital would enable the Ministry to gain the coun- try’s consent to submission to the p Meantime it is fondly believed rent of the Czar and the Au burg is a practical guarantee of the This agreeme the triple alliance and significant of ted that no obstacle remains to Ru: hen the Czar chooses. OWErs. in most European capitals that the strian Emperor made at St. Peters- peace of Europe against all dangers. nt is interpreted in Vienna as the beginning of the end of It ian occupation of a new grouping of the powers. opposition will be futile, considering the strength of the combination against Salisbury. position of France and Italy is by n three The frier return from the Riviera Emperors. improve during his stay abroad. It shouid be borne in mind, however, that the o means assured on the side of the alisbury, who welcomed him on his e disturbed by the fact that his health did not GREEKS LOSE VOLO. Turkish Cavairy Taks Possession | of the Place Without a Shot { Being Fired. TKKALA, Tugssay, April 30.—The rkish army under Edhem Pasha con of two divisions, one of Which has ad- ed upon Volo and the other to the plain of Pharsala, wherea great battle is minent. ONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEY, April 30.— 1t is announced officially that the Turkish troops have occupied Trikkala without firing a shot, and have expeiled the Greeks from Pentepigadia 1n Epirus. Turkish cavalry have occupied Volo. LONDON, Ex6., Aprii30.—The Morning Post's Larissa correspoudent says the Turks entered Volo Wednesday without organized resistance. A Larissa dispatch to the Times says Volo surrendered April 26. All the war materi.l wascaptured. Cavalry was posted in the environs awaiting the infaniry before making an effective occupation. In an interview with the correspondent of the Standard the new Minister of Foreign Affairs says he is examinin ; the tion with the utmost care. If con- vinced the struggle could be continued with a reasonable prospect of retrieving netional honer the Government would prosecute the war with unabated energy. Otherwise the Government would cer- tainly refuse to bring fresh disasters upon the country by persisiing in a foolhardy war. He assured the correspondent that nocommunication had been received from the powers relative 1o the abandonment of Crete on condition tnat autonomy for the islana wou!d ve guarauteed and the frontier of Greece reclified. SALONICA, TURKEY, April 20.—Osman Pasha is preparing tne defenses of the town and inspecting the fortifications at Karaburun. . April 30.—The city rvists summoned for Their enrollment and They are without food. Yesterday thep became very demonstrative and for a time it looked as though serious disorders might ceur. o Evidence was given to-day of the feel- ing against the royal famiiy. During tue services in one of the churcnes the usual prayer for the royal family was offered. active service. equipment are proceeding slowly. pressed disproval loudly. The priests had much difficulty in allaying the disturb- ance. While the Crown Princess was driving home to-day after visiting the ambulance hospital she was hissed and jeered by a crowd, which was so menacing the Princess was compelled to return to the hosvit«l for safety. The coat-of-prms has been removed from all the royal car- riazes. Many royal tradesmen have re- moved from their shops the royal escutch- eons, | | B i ‘IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. | England Controls Those Waters by | the Most Powerful Aggrega~ | tion of War Vessels. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 30.—The | Journal’s copyrighted London special siys: England at this moment is su- preme in the Mediterranean. No less than thirty-four of her battle-ships and cruisers are in those waters ready for ac- tion. One quarter of these are the heav- iest warships afloat. ‘The nominal naval force England main- taine in that sea is from ten to fourteen vess: That number has been supposed tu equal any emergencv. What the real object of the enormous British concentra- tion is remains to be seen. Great Britain is now in a position to practically dictate in the Mediterranean. There is no force there, even including the combined forces of the powers, able to withstand the over- whelming British ageregation. SR Miles Goling to the War. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30,—Gex- | ecal Miles ssid to Tur CALL corresponent 10-night that ke would ieave for the scene of the Turko-®recian war on Wednesday next. 21 Wool Kecoras Eroken. BOSTON, Mass., April 30.—Receipts of foreign wool atv this port for the past week exce: ded all previous records, amounting 10 600,610 bales. at least 250,000,000 pounds, worth $3,750,000. This is nalf the total yeariy domestic prcduction and a fifth us much as has been imported in any one year in & decade. Colonel Hay and ralisbury Confer. LONDON, Exc., April 30.—Colonel Hay, Embassador of the United States, had a long conference with Lard S.ilisbury at the Foreign Office this afternoon on the This excited the congregation, who ex- | Bering Sea question, It is assumed that British | HURRYING RE-ENFORCEMENTS TO THE FRONT. The picture represents General Smolenski's troops taking the train at Pharsala station to re-enforce the Greeks in battie with the Turks at Tepe-Pilav Pass, near Velestino. The point of view is from the hills to the right of Pharsala. In the left foreground are the troops of General Smolenski’'s division, burrying to take the trains for Velestino. Just beyond the railroad is the Enipeus or Tchianarli River, flowing to the we:t, and in the distance are the Cynocephal: or *Dog’s Head'" hills. The station lies two miles to the northeast of the town of Pharsala, near the site of the famous battle betweeu Czsar and Pompey. With their center at Pharsala and in possession of the railroad running from east to west, just north of the town, connecting Volo on the extreme right with Kaiditza and Trikkals on the left, the Greeks have an advantage over the Turks which somewhat offsets the disparity of numbers in favor of the latter. Within a couple of hours troops can be thrown in either direction from the center to strengthen any point attacked, while th. Turks must depend on the country roads. STILL EVADING THE PENALTIES Southern Pacific Files a Demurrer to Ken- tucky’s Claim. The Road Takes Advantage of Every Technicality of the Law. Should It Win a Bill Will Be Intro- duced for the Repeal of Its Charter. FRANKFORT, Ky., April 30.—Judge Alex Humphrey, attorney for the South- | ern Pacific Railroad, to-day filed the fol- lowing demurrer to the petition of At- tcrnev-General Taylor against the road for $136,000, penalties and fines for failure to report, before Juage P. N. Major, sit- ting as special Judge in place of James E. Cantrill, who was too ill to hold court. There are four demurrers, identical in verbiage, each demurring o the four peti- tions for the four years the road has so failed to report: Franklin Circuit Court, Commonwealth of Kentucky, plaintiff, vs. Southern Pacitic Com- pany, de.endant. Demurrer—The defendant, the Southern Pacific Compuny, demurs to the petition he ; 1. Because the same fails 10 state a cause of action against it. 2. Because in no event can the piaintiff recover a penaity for more than a reasonable time, to wit, six days. Wherefore defendant prays that the pe- tition be hence dismissed with its costs. HUMPHEEY & DAVIS, for defendants. Judge Major did not passon the demur- rer, but ordered the clerk to send the case to Judge Cantrill at Georgetown. He said it was proper that Judge Cantrill should consider the case. Judge Humphrey made a statement that bis demurrer was on the petition, and requested the court to sustain his demur- rer. This is a preliminary step in the case, and should Cantrill sustain the demurrers General Taylor will move for an amend- ment to his petition. General Taylor said he had no doubt about his petition being vroverly drawn; that the court would overrule the demurrer, and the case would thea come up on its merits; that the road had taken advantage of every technicality of the Jaw, and had forced the State to | bring the suit, and that it would receive no quarter; that they had by their actions admitted the facts, and would be forced to answer, and that te had no doubt about the final outcome of the litigation. The papers were sent to Judge Cantrill this evening. An agreed judgment was to-day entered | against the Lousville Water Company for $1200 on a similar suit, and this is re- gurded as first blood against the list of companies that have been resisting com- pliance with the corporation law. It is known that a bill to repeal the charter of the road will be introduced in the Legislature in the event that the road is successful in its suit. LEARY IS NOW COLOR-BLIND. The Brave Little Commander Who Threat- ened to Biow the Germans Out of Water at Samoa W.// Retire. WASHINGION, D. C., April 30.—Com- mander Leary, who sailed under the guns of the German ship at Samoa and threat- ened to biow her out of water if she landed men, has been found color-blind and will probably be retired. Leary is the second man in his grade. He will 1 | i ! Long to-day ordered a re-examination. | appeared as the complainant. T have a captain’s vacancy walting for him | in June if he can pass the examination. | e is one of the pluckiest little fellows in | the service and is considered an officer of | excellent judgment. During the Samoan troubles just preceding the great Apis wreck Leary sailed into the harbor, find- ing a big German cruiser ready to take possession of the town. The little captain was on un oid wo ien vewsel, but in- stantly be cleared oé-ks for astion, ‘got between the German ciaser acd shore, and sent word to the German commander that the latter would have to sink him be- fore he could land. The German skipper asked Leary to come aboard to taik the affair over. The resuit was the sailors were kept on ship board. The officials are sorry the little com- mander has been disqualified. Secretary Officers once reported color-blind, how- ever, have a slim chance of promotion and are invariably passed to the retired list. e ROBBED A TRUST COMPANY. When Arraigned in New York. Young Bar- ton Accuses a Sheriff of Shielding a Cr-minal. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 30.—Clarence Barton, aged 23, was arraigned to-day for robbing the Utah Loan and Trust Com- pany of Ogden, Utah, of $52,000 in Decem- ber. Chief of Police Davenport of Ogden “This prisoner,” Davenport said, “‘called at the bank the day of the robbery to see his brother, who was employed there. Immediately after he left the loss of the money was discovered.” Barton said: “Davenport knows a man named Leo Graves. If I am guiltv Graves is equally so. Chief, didn’t Graves con- fess 10 you he had received half the money from me?” Davenport nodded affirmatively. “Then,” continued Barton, hotly, “why is he not arrested, too? I think you are trying to shield him.’ Davenport made no reply to this accu- sation, and the magistrate saia he would commit Barton until to-morrow, to await news from Ogden. As Barton is suffer- ing from appendicitis he was allowed to g0 to the hospital instead of to jail. Bar- ton went from Ogden to Jacksonville, Fla., where he spent money profusely. He carried a beltful of gold eagles, and paid a mortgage on a house owned by a woman with whom he lodged—Belle Olive. —_— BOME FOE ACTOKY ORPHANS. Big Meeting of the Profesaion im London Approvea the Pr-ject. LONDON, Ene., April 30.—The Crite- rion Theater was crowded this afternoon with representative members of the theat- rical profession and also the rank and file, in response to an inviiation from Sir Charles Wyndham, who recently received from Passmore Edwards, proprietor of the Daily Echo and Weekly Times, and the “British Georze W. Childs,” a proposition to erect a home for actors’ orphans. Charles Wyndham was elected presi- dent and expressed his hearty indorse- ment of the project. For some such charity, he said, a great need existed, but between actors’ funds and similar bene- ficial movements there was such a drain upon the finances of the profession that it had not hitherto been found practica- ble to go nto the founding of institu- tions. © Mr. Edwards outlined his plans and suggested tbe appoiniment of a com- wittee on locality, site and other details. The meeting adopted a resolution heartily approving the proposed benefac- tion, expressing its deep and heartfelt thanks to Mr. Edwards and appointing a committee as suggested in his address. e Terrific Collision With an lceberg. HALIFAX, N. 8., April 30.—The steamer Kaight, from Caraiff, arrived to- day with her bow’ stove in by collision with an iceberg on Monday while south of the mail route. The berg was sighted ouly a minute before the coilision and the shock was terrific. The damaged bow is a mass of twistea plates and iron. The stem of the steamer was broken like acar- rot into several pieces. COLORED GANG OF SEVEN LYNCHED They Had Murdered and Cremated a Family of Three. Run Down by Bloodhounds, the Monsters Confess the Crime. Taken From Jail at Midnight by a Mob, Hanged., Shot and Burned. HOUSTON, Texas, April 30.—Seven negroes were lynched by a negro mob at Sunnyside last night for criminally as- saulting a young woman and a 7-year- old child, then murdering both of them and an aged man Who attempted to pro- tect them. Last fall a gentieman from Brenham was robbed of $65. Four of the Thomas boys confessed the theft, saying they had given $30 of the money to an oia megro named Henry Daniels. Daniels spent the money and last Sunday evening the Thomas boys decided to either collect the $30 or kill Daniels. They carried out the latter part of the programme. Duniels lived in a little hut with his stepdaughter, Marie, and a 7-year-old child at Sunnyside. Wednesday night the Louse was broken open and Marie Daniels and her 7-year-old companion assaulted. Old Danieis was clubbed to death while trying to protect them. The bodies of Daniels and his step-daughter were thrown into the houseand the child’s body into a well. The house was then fired and the corpses in it cremated. When the neighbors noticed that Daniels and his family were missing the charred rains of the house were searched and blood stains and the bodies found. Bloodhounds went straight to the place where the Thomas gang resided and these members were secured: Favette Rhone, 91 years; Will Gates, 35; Louis Thomas, 30; Aaron Thomas, 13; Jim Thomas, 14; Ben Thomas, 15; Will Williams, 19. All were smeared with blood and a bloody shirt was found. They confessed the crime. All seven were under guard at midnight Jast night when the guards were overpow- ered by a mob and the prisoners were taken toward Brazos Bottom, north of here. Later aubout filty shots were fired and ali was quiet. This morning, dangling from the limbs of a'large oak tree, were found ‘the bodies of six negroes. The bodies of Will Gates and Louis Thomas were burned from the waist. Williams’ body has not been found, but the shots probably explain his absence. Late to-night the bodies were still hanging. The mob was composed of whites and blacks, with ~the negroes large'y predominating. ALTGELD IN FINANCIAL STRAITS. Hliinois Anarchistic Ex-Governor a Heavy Loser Lately in Chicago Building Enterprises. CHICAGO, IrL., Aprii 30.—Altgeld, ex- Judge of the SBuperior Court, ex-Governor of the State and an open sympathizer with anarchists, is in deep water finan- cially. Alfgeld has been a firm believer in Chicago real estate. For many years he bas owned a valuable eight-story build- ing in the best part of the wholesale dis- trict, bas been chief owner of the Unity building, & sixteen-story office structure, t | and within the past five years hasengaged heavily in other building operations. To finance all these schemes Altgeld needed a lot of money and was a large borrower from the collapsed Globe Bank. Refer- ring to his money transactions Altgeld says: “During the last ten years I have built six of the largest buildings in Chicago, and in that time have borrowed heavily of m0f ihe lirge banks. My indebted- ness to the Giobe Bank arose chiefly from taking up paper placed in the East which came back. 1 will say that no bank that ever loaned me a dollar has lost a penny; they have always got principal and inter- est. I had absolute confidence in the Globe Bank. A number of my close friends kept accounts at the bank, and are losing heavily by the failure. Lanehart, the closest personal friend I had, was on Spalding’s bond, and from present ap- | pearances his estate is wiped out, and his widow will get nothing from it. Spalding’s failure has brought more ruin and dis- tress around my family and among my friends than anywhere else.”” It was reported on good authority to- day that altgeld bas disposed of his inter- estin the Ozden Gas Company to Jacob Franks for $200,000. ¥ranks bopes to make the property worth millions. It is be- lieved that pressure from the receiver of the National Bank of Illinois, acting in the interests of depositors, was the main reason for Altgeld’s sale of the stock. The bank holds about $80,000 claims against Altgeld, nearly all of whichis on notes given by his jormer partner, Lanehart, which Altgeld indorsed. The bank re- cently filed claims for $48,000 in the Pro- bate Court against the Lanehart estate, and the records show that $40,000 of Unity Builaing bonds were deposited with the bank as collateral. In addition to these are claims of $23,500 in the United States court against Lanehart and Altgeld, and these are also gecured by Unity Building bonds to the extent of $14,000. The bauk also holds a claim of about $7000 against Altgeld on a personal unsecured uote. —_— MISS ERVIN A STAR WITNESS. The Woman tor Whom Spalding Wrecked a Bank Amuses the Senatorial In- vestigating Commi CHICAGO, IrL., April 30.—Miss Sarah Ervin, the woman in the Spalding Globe Savings Bank csse, was the star witness tefore the Senate Investigating Commit- tee at the Great Northern Hotel this morning. She surprised the committee by saying at the close of an hour's exam- ination: “] expect Mr. Spalding would have ob- tained a aivorce and that we would have been married.” Miss Ervin amused the Senators about her safety-deposit box, to which Spalding had the key. She never put in anything of value, but whanever she needed money she or Spalding would go to the box and find it. Armed with a power of attdrney from Miss Ervin Spalding also kept the box filled with mortgages, notes, bonds and deeds. She was ignorant of the dif- ference between any of these papers or of how much money she had received from her benefactor and had no idea of where she got the money for the $18,000 house which the Ervin family was living 1n be- fore she surrendered it to the receiver. She discovered that she owned the prop- erty last fall. It never occurred to her that Spalding could be losing on invest- ments he made for her, and she refused to admit that sne knew all of this property wasa gift from 8palding because of his relations with her and their prospective marriage. To such embarrassing ques- tions she smilingly replied, **Don’t know.”’ it a Ciril Servics and Publio Printing. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.-~The strong opponents to the wholesale appli- cation of civil service ruies to Kederal in- stitutions now assert that the Government printing office with its 3000 places will probably be placed outside the restriciion of the civil service law by the opinion of the Attorney-General. MACED'S DEATR 1§ AVENGED Of the Thousand Who Killed Him Few Remain. CIRUJEDA’S MEN ARE DOOMED. They Are $laughtered at Every Turn by the Cuban In- surgents. WEYLER'S LYING REPORTS AS TO PACIFICATION. All the Provinces Are Yet Swarm- ing With Rebels and They Even Threaten Havana. HAVANA, Cuga, April 30.—I¢ is hard to understand how General Weyler dares to announce the pacification of the prov- inces of Santa Clars, Matanzas, Havana and Pinar del Rio, when at least 25,000 in- surgents are in them. It is a notorious fact that in this province the insurgents are more than 8000 strong, well vrovided Wwith arms and ammunition around Ma- druga alone, not more than filty miles from the capital. Colonel Raoul Arango has 1500 troops. About 3000 Cubans are scattered in bands of 500 and swarm be- tween Guines and Batabadjo, Larassing the Spanish columns. General Alejanaro Rodriguez, who is the insurgent commander-in-chief of the province, is farther eastwara with 2000, and the rest of the patriots in this region are under Colonel Nestor Aranguren, near the boundaries of Pinar del Rio province, and commanding many small towns around Punta Brava and a great part of the coast. The names of Rodrigusz, Arango and Aranguren are so well known ana their military operations commented on so generally that Weyler’s deelarations have been admitted to be a lie even by the un- compromising Spaniard press, which is gagged. The papers do not contradict the captain-general, but even the scanty news of the war which the censor allows to be published is enough to prove that fighting is constant at the very gates of Havana. The battalion of San Quintin, which Cirujeda commanded when gallant Gen- eral Maceo was killed, has been nearly ex- terminated in several engagements with the insurgents a few miles from Havana. Weyler hopes to defeat the insurgents by guerrilla warfare and orderea the San Quintin Battalion scattered into tands of 100 each and to fight without rest. The re- sult has been that one after another of ths Spanish bands have fallen into ambusn, according to the plans prepared by Rodri- guez and Aranguren, and few have es- caped the machetes of the Cubans. ‘Without a thorough knowledge of tle country and embarrassed by rural non- combatants, who hate the Spaniardson account of the persecution orderea by Weyler, the Spanish soldiers have wan- dered blindly about, while the Cubans are constantly apprised of the enemy’s where- abouts. Of the 1000 under the command of Cirujeda in February only 150 remain. The battalion has been reorganized with troops from other detachments and the guerrilla system abandoned. In Pinar del Rio province the insurgents are about 5000 strong. They are not con- fined to the Sierra de Organos Mountains, as official reports say, but scattered from San Antonio Cape to Mariel. Vidal Du- casse, their best leader, is fighting the Spanish column every day. General Weyler has received orders by cable from Spain to go slowly with the in- troduction of reforms, but to aancunce them and promise that they will be exe- cuted more liberally than the decres indie cates. The general opinion is the promul- gation of reforms is intended oaly as a prelude to trying again in France or Eng- land to negotiate a new loan. DEFALCATION GF A CASHIER. Atter Working Eighteen Years in the §°, Lours Post.ffice David H. Hayes Is Arrested for Stealing. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 30.—Davis H. Hayes, a brother of the general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway of Montreal, was arrested to-day on a warrant charging him with the embezzlement of $15,003 while cashier at the St. Louis postoffice. He was held for a Federal Grana Jury in $3000. Bail was furmshed and the accused went to his handsome suburban home, accompenied by a physician, who savs Hayes is afflicted with heart trouble and may never ve able to stand trial. The shortage was made good last night by the National Secarity Company and pres.ure Was brought upon the authorities at Wash- ington to refrain from prosecuting, but Postoflice Inspector Johnson was ordered 1o proceed with the prosecution asif no restitution bad been made. Hayesis a Republican and has been cashier of the postoffice for eighteen years. He was re- garded as such an exemplary and efficient official that neither the Democratic nor Republican administration felt it could dispense with his services.