The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1897, Page 1

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Call XXXI.—NO. 158. SAN FRANCISCO, FR MORNING, , MAY 7, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME T, MORE VICTIMS OF THE PARIS HOLOCAUST General Meunier and Several Others Succumb to the Fearful Burns. THRILLING STORY OF DUCHESS D’ALENCON’S DEATH. The Brave Woman Refused to Leave the Blazing Building Until All the Visitors Had Escaped--Sympathy for the Unfortunates. 2, May 6.—Of the | from the roof was falling upon us. the ruins 116 |1 the Duchess about the waist and dragged her a few paces, but she | grasp with a| B, ‘No; 1| seized saying, ‘You must come!’ from my brisk movement, s er, who was Mile Vicomtesse | ¢, se- e will remain. “1 was choking, and compelled bandon The stood motionless, with Duchess | raised heavenward.”’ 1 to-d ned, d illy and her. Duchess ) succumbed. her eyes of the as placed in a coffin| Excepting the socialistic papers, ce | the whole press expresses profound ‘ for the upper classes of | French They reproach | the Pr of Police for taking proper precautions. The Government has ordered all | | the subsidized theaters to be closed | | until Sa of re-| whose remains > identified are Mme. de Vel- Mme. Cordoet, Mme. y, Mme. de Cousson, Mme. , Sister St. Claire and Dr. Mazure. the presence of Pri and Prince Ferdinand of Ba-| 1, Baron Lambert and Colonel SOrrow socie efecture not Percival their Duc Vendome, ason of the deceased, also present. victims who signed on the sealed coffin. urday, as a mark The American Chamber of Com- merce here to-day adopted a reso- Intion expressing heartfelt | pathy for the bereaved families. A similar resolution, cabled by the San Francisco French colony, was received to-day. sym- iirector of the municipal reports that the ndoubtedly due to the explo- a lamp. blishes an intervi designated as ‘““Mlle. ho d ss d’Alencon. ry fire NEW CAMADIAN LINE. | Will Be Built at Unce From Winnipeg to Dututh. WINNIPEG . May 6.—Premier bed the death of | Greenway o nitoba is en route to New s _ | York, where he will negotiate for the con- To the Duc | jiuction of an air line to Daluth of the late|from Winnipeg. For a guarantee by 4 Manitoba of railway bonds, the total lady said : vas standing with the Duchess dome, son amount of interest on which will not exceed $100.000 annually, capi- | talists have agreed to construct and stalls when | goerate a line to Duluth, and guar- heard. |]|antee a maximum rate of 10 cents per | hundred pounds on wheat from Brandon | and even points to Duluth, reduction of ) | $1 30 per 10n in coal and a reduction of 25 per cent on all incoming freights. The Premier intends this road to form a | link in a transcontinental line projected | through Canadian ternitory to the Pacific rush | Coast. This line will also tap Rainy Lake goldfields, giving Duluth and Winnipeg direct connection with that rich dis- 1 to her and said, ‘Let us go, come immediately. d, ‘N > visitors time to escape.’ 41 saw the crowd exits. The flame ing rapidly and b “The Duchess repli ther then i were IDAY ——— CONSTANTINE, Crown Prince of Greece, the Man Who Executed if He Did Not Organize the Greek Campaign of Failure. The Picture Is Reproduced From a Sketch Made From Life at Larissa by a Correspondent of the Illustrated London News. BANDEROS' BOLD WESTWARD MARCH Cuban Insurgents Cross| the Island at Their Pleasure. Movements That Show the Re- | ported Pacifications to Be False. Forces Destroy All the Towns In Their Way and Then Openly Challenge Weyler. HAVANA, Cusa, May 6. -Insurgents are very active around Guanabacoa, six | miles from Havana across the bay. About 1500 are now encamped within sizht of Guanabacoa. Colonel Fondeviella at- tempted yesterday to dislodge them, bu: was repulsed and had to re-enter the town., He retired so hurriedly that the troops left sixteen dead soldiers on the road whom the Cubans buried. General Quintin Banderos, after attack- ing Artemisa and other towns, led an as- sault Sunday on Candelaria, sacking many stores and securing a large supply of arms, ammunition and money. Later he met the bands of Baldomers, Acosta and Gen- eral Adolfo Castillo. Thus re-enforced he proceeded west. Banderos’ march from | the eastern part of Santiago de Cuba to the wastern province of P.nar dei Rio has been a great military achievement only comparable to Gomez and Maceo’s marches last year. Banderos passed Jucaro-Moron trocha laie in March near the southern line, routing General Arola’s columns, which | guard that military line. Though the | fact was denied it had to be officially rec- | ognized & few days later by the writer, | when in an engagement on the Santa | Clara side of the trocha Banderos thor- oughly defeated the Spanish columns of Gasco and Ruiz. The Cuban general joined Gomez at the estate La Reforma in Santa Clara province and after receiving nstructions continued his successful march west. Since his arrival he has fought the Span- iards almost every day. He passed near the town of Sancti Spiritus, challenging Weyler to battle. The latter sent the col- umn of General Afier two uays’ fighting the Spaniards re- ured to Sancti Spiritus. At Siguanca Mountains Banderos added 1o bhis forces 800 men of General Aleman’s army, who vizhed to go with nim to Pinar del Rio. In 2 number of fights he cleared the m i district of Spanish, and making 4 rapid advance entered Matanzas pro- vince a few days later almost without re- istance, One of the wonderful facts of this march s the short time it took. Banderos is the only negro of high rank in the Cuban army. Two weeks ago he was reported to be in Matanzas province with 5000 in- fantry and 200 cavairy. Fifteen thou- COLONEL VARIGAULT, Chief of the Fire Department of Paris, tDrawn from a phoograph made whén he was in this country nearly two years ago.] sand Spanish soldiers tried to check .is progress, but he entered Havana province and forced another military line to form against him from Guines to Bata- bano. He is now in Pinar del Rio. His Segura against pim. gy advence has been ma: tion of all the towns found in the way. Near Bzjucal, which was attacked a week g0, he declared he was going to join the Ducasse brotuers in Pinar del Rio, and after staying a month thereintended to retarn east. His main object is to com- pel taxpayers to contribute to collections for the Cuban republi Spain and Her Reforms. MADRID, €paty, May 6.—The Privy Council has acreea that Weyler shall co- operate with Marquis de Ahumada, sec- ond in coramand in Cuba, in introducing political and administrative reforms in the island. The council also agreed to commemorate King's Saint day by par- doning 2000 political suspects in jail at Mauila. DE SOTO PROCLAINED PRESIDENT. Nicaragua Decides to Help Honduras cnd Sends a Gunboat o Puerto Cortez. NEW ORLEANS, La.,, May from Honduras is that Dr. Soto has finally been proclaimed presi- dent by the revolutionists. The com- mander-in-chief of the rebels is General Lopez, ex-commander ana ex-Governor of the Department of Intubaca. The sceond in command is General John Drummond, well known in New Orleans. Ouber offi- cers of the revolution are General Herbert Jeffers, an ex-New York cavalryman; General Alfonso Gilliardo, who figured in | the revolution that established General Gutierrez in Salvador and General Ra- mon Morales. Drummond has been placing in con- venient position arms and ammunition for the past year. It is believed large quantities of arms and ammunition were stored in convenient points in Honduras and Balize. President Selaya of Nica- ragua, to whose assistance Bonilla of Honduras largely owes the Presidency, has finally decided to help Bonilia in the fight against the revolutionists, and the Nicaraguan gunboat Lucy B, commanded by General Pablo Raynes, has left Blue- fields for Puerto Cortez 1o try to capture the latter place. The troops on the Lucy B were pressed into service from neigh- boring banana planiations. Raynes has also two cannon and fiften cases of guns, with which to arm the natives who are expected to rise for Bonilla. The revolu- tionists know of the expected attack, ana have mcunted a number of guns at the fort. They say they will blow tue Lucy B to atoms if she comes near Puerio Cortez. dem sl BOERS ARE PREPARING FOR WAR. Army Reserves Noufied and an fppeal Issued to Cape Colony and Orange Free State. LONDON, ExGraxD, May 6.—A dispatch from Capelown says the army reserves in Natal have been notified to hoid them- selves in readiness for service, and it is be- lieved the Transvaal authorities have given instructions that the Natal border be patrolled and suspicious movements reported immediately. The Transvana! Government has sent circulars into the Cape Colony and to Orange Free State Afrikanders to assist the Transvaal. The circular says: “The Transvaal Govern- ment does not want morey. It merely wants moral support. Come and help.” A million rounds of eartridges and an immense quantity of shells will leave London for South Africa to-day, and it is rumored in military circles that there will be 35,000 British trocps in South Africa within a few months. ei by the destrue- | THIS AIRSHIP FLEW FOR MILES Sailed Away Before a Wondering Crowd at Nashville. Inflated With Hydrogen Gas, It Was Easily Propelled by Pedals. Something Broke and the Machine Salied Back After Making Twelve Swift Miles. NASHVILLE, Texx., May 6.—The air- ship on which Protessor Arthur W. Bar- nard, director of physical training for the Young Men’s Christian Association of this city, has been laboring a long time made its initia journey to-day. The ship has been in process of completion for sev- eral weeks in a seciuded place near the exposition grounds. It was brought out this morning to the great astonishment of even mostof the officials, as the secret had been carefully guarded. At11:15 o’clock O. C. Barnard, doffing his hat to the exposition officials and several hundred visitors, said: “Well, 'm offI"” He mounted a bicycle-like contrivance attached to a tremendous balloon, with sail propellers at the front ad sides. In mute wonder the assemblaye gazed at the ship as she roseslowly from the earth. Then, as Barpnard had promised, she made a bee line over the Northwestern railway at a rate of speed of about fifteen miles an hour. Barnard returnea to-night. He had gone about twelve miles when one of the propellers broke, compelling him to de- scend, which he did easily. He will make another trip in a few days, The ship is of watermelon shape, 46 fcet long and 20 feet in diameter. Instead of the basket attachment of a balloon, the ship has a bicycle frame, and, by means of pedals and handles, the propeller and side sails are controlled. The yropelier extends ten feet in front of the machine and consists of reversible salls about one-twentieth the size of the balioon part overhead. At ertner side of the machine is & kite-shaped sail three feet long by Lwo feet wide. These are re- versible and are controlled Ly revo.ving levers. The balloon is filled with hydro- gen ana is made of silk and cotton. In color it is light yellow. The proiection afforded the operator is from an iron frame arcu:d the middle of the body. In every other respect he hasa position just the same as a bicyclist, except under pedals, where the only supportis space. —_— Itepeated the Law. PRETORIA, fourH AFrIcA, May 6.—The Volksraaa held a protracted secret session yesterday to discuss the answer to the dispatches of Chamberlain, British Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, demanding the repea! of the Transvaal immigration law. To-day the Volksraad repeaied the law, not because it was a breach of the London convention, but because it is dis- tasteful to neighboring states. !Coster, the Transvaal State Attorney, tendered his resignation because the Volksraad re- jected his bellicose draft of a proposed re- Ply to Chamberlain. WAR IS OVER BUT PEACE IS NOT IN SIGHT. Such Is Now the Somewhat Paradoxical Situation in Greece. WHY KING GEORGE'S TROOPS LEFT PHARSALA. Evacuated to Take Up What Is Declared an Impregnable Position at Dohmoko—New Complications Arise, but the Powers Wil Intervene. [Copyrighted 1897, by the New York Sun.] LONDON, Exa, May 6.—The war is virtually over, but peace is by no means in sight. Suchis the paradoxical situa-| tion at the present moment. Latestin- formation from all sources shows the bat- | tle of Pharsala was not a Greek victory, | as it was represenied to have been. bis | is made clear by the general retreat of the Greek army last night to Domoko. Detailed reports given in other dis- patches make it evident that this is not | another evidence of cowardice and ineffi- | ciency on the part of the Greek command- | ers. Ou thecontrary, it was an inexorable | military necessity forced by the immense- ly superior strength of the enemy, which | made success teyond hope in the great | battle expected to-day. | Pharsala was merely occupied after it | had been evacuated. Its capture during | battle would have involved the capture of | the major portion of the Greek army, | whereas the new vosition at Domoko ls described as impregnable as against a vastly superior force. The chances of Greek resistance have rapidly diminished during the past few days, despite the improvement of the morale of the Greek troops. The Turks have rushed forward re-enforcements to Edbem Pasha's army. It is amazing to note that 42,000 troops passed through Salonica and Elassona within a week. | Forty thousand were engaged at Pharsala | yesterday. Moreover everybody in Athens | now admits that Greek success is impossi- | ble, and the desire to retrieve Greek honor | will not be gratified by a desperate battle | acainst heavy odds, which is almcst cer- | tain to result in the capture of the surviy- | | ing particivants. The question hangs for the moment on | the intervention of the powers, which Greece hopes for but still refuses to ask. There is a conflict of evidence on this point. The correspondent of the Sun at Con- stantinople telegrapbs to-night that Rus- sia is sounding the Porte and also the Government at Athens in favor of media- tion. It isadmitted elsewhere outside of Athens that Greece is secking an armis- tico and believes the powers are on the point of intervening, but the Londoa Foreign Office flatly deniesthat any agree- ment has been reached. There seems to be good reason to believe that Russia at least actively favors interference, possibly in sympathy with her two new allies. Everything indicates on the whole that the cessation of hostilities is close at hand, if it has not been already arranged. | miles northward, secured b; In the meantime fresh complications have arisen in Constantinople. Three of the Embassadors yesterday discussed the Porte's note to France in reference to the protection of Greek subjects. Russia unexpectedly objected to the in« troduction of a new principle—that of the protection of the subjects of one bellige- rent power against tbe will of the other. The resuit of Russia’s attitude was a con- certea request to the Porte to extend the time for the exodus of the Greeks. The Porte has made a reply to Russia’s re- markable attitnde and suggests that she wishes for her own purposes to secure the expulsion of the large Greek population of Constantinople. Englishmen take facetions interest in the capture of Sir s Ashmead Bartlett by the Greeks. HKe is the clown of the House of Commons. The House roared ten minutes to-day when a member with mock solemnity questioned the Govern- ment on the fate of the member whosear- dor in the Sultan’s cause recently won for him a dazzling decoration from Constan« tinople. — FORCED TO RETREAT. Greeks Could Not Cope With the Overwhelming Numbers of the Turks. LONDON, Ex~G., May 6.—The corres spondent of the Daily Mail at Pharsala says: Yesterday’s battle was a most sube lime spectacle and had the most decisive result of any battle of the war. It was not the intention to have a pitched ene gagement, but when, at 9 o’clock in the morning, Elhem Pasha arrived at the outposts to reconnoiter the enemy’s posi= tion north of Pharsalaa furious fire began. The enemy had a good position about six earthworke, Along the low green hiils were two Greek brigades in advance of the line. Two half vrigades formed the reserve, the whole force numbering 20.000 m The Turks numbered about 50,000. Notall, however, were engaged. Tne battle was ovened by the artillery, The Greeks shot better than usual, but in two hours began 1o retire across the river. This was a great mistake, they being thereby shut between the river and the mountains without room to deploy. The Greeks in places fought with the courage of despair. Great black masses, forming the rear guard to hold the bridge, covered the plain. The endurance and h of the Turks was magnificent. The Greeks were repuised and vigorously pursued across the plain, where the Turks had drawn a semi-circle of thundering batteres. The division on the extreme right triéd to cut off the retreat of the Greeks to Domoko.« The remainder were flung against Phar GENERAL SAUSSIER, Military Governor of Paris, Wh> Had Command of the Military and Police Orde‘ed to tne Scene of the Disaster in the Rue de Jean Goujon.

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