The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXL—NO. 167. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1897—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Occup TERRITORY N TURK Greece Clings to the Foothold Gained in Epirus. POWERS YET AWAIT THE SULTAN’S PLEASURE. and Germany Prefer Further Humiliation for the Hellenes. ENGLAND CAN DO NOTHING BUT PROTEST. it Is Estimated That Since Hostlil- ties Commenced 5000 Soldlers Have Been Killed. [Copyrighted, 1897, by the New Yorx Sun.] LONDON, Eve., May 15.—The powers rre waiting with what patience they may the Sultan to say to do about the overtures In the latter has established a please half of Greece. s, which will enable her ireek troops are occupying ritory, even if all of Thessaly over to the invaders, ation, however, is far from sat- and least of all to peen euchered and dis- to the power gland, who h ed atevery turnin the great game in which the war has been moves. Itis well known | v is anxious for peace at the | eariiest possible moment and in favor of | It i) ] us control of the Sultan. 1 ay that the British Premier nted. s no indication that Russia and Germany are in any great hurry, and it is r b t4a wili snap his fingers a1 | T attempt to interfere with him. | obable the Czar, and perhaps | iliam also, will prefer that | iuced 10 a much humbler attis she now occupies. Athens threatened and at the mercy of the Turks a to play the same role na at the close of the and at the same price. It e possible—in fact if not in ssia to gain the same ascend- airs as England has done e only power which would this would be Great Brit- cowardice is now universally of the permanent factors tuation. Her protests v, but there would be no them. and Balfour are fond of dc- slves real friends of Greece. clear to-day that this friend- © more value to Greece than y’s favorite setter. Eng- well be without a voice in | to reece be ie than tas desling with Turkey at the present mo- | ment, as she 1s s0 impotent. In impend- ing negotiations she will be outwitted at every point, and the only resoarce she thinks she has gained is beiter relations with France, about which she is already boasting. But any attempt at present to | mn this advantage to practical use w.ll | tain to bring her nothing but hu- | on. The French may be fickle, but | y attempt to transfer their affactions over night from St. Petersburg to London | woula furnish the most grotesque specta- cle of modern politics. King George’s real help must come from St. Petersburg and will come assoon as he is ready to pay the price. This price will include Russian control ol Greek finances in some form and through this dominant Russian influence over tne Greek Government. If Englana does not like it she can pro- test. Nobody is afraid she will do any- thing more. It is premature and useless to discuss terms of peace before the Porte has even consented to an armistice. The various claims Turkey has cabled during the week are little more than feelers to test opinion. A peculiar feature of the newsof the so-called war which has now gone on nearly a month is that it is almost impos- sible to gain even an approximate idea of the loss of life in the various baitles and skirmisbes. An examination of the great mass of material by mail and telegraph which has come to London from all sources enables me to make a rough esti- mate, for which no pretensions of accuracy are claimed. The number of Greeks killed in the Thessaly campaign previous to the battles near Pharsala will probably not exceed 1000. The last ten days brings he loss up to about 1800. The first in- vasion of Epirus didn’t cost many lives. Yesterday’s battle was more serious, but the total loss in the Epirus campaign is hardly more than 900. The total of Greek losses is probably between 2500 and 3000. There are almost no figures on the Turk- ish side. The Turks themselves don’t know their own losses. They are pro- verbially ingifferent about such statistics. Taking all the available evidence, I am i ) g s LS T T e | {11 Y Vit I . O A T TR R A R AR SHAMEFLL BRUTALITY AT PARIS Men Saved Themselves at the Expense of the Women. FEARFUL COWARDICE AT THE FIRE. In the Mad Rush to Escape the Weaker Were Thrust Aside. UNFORTUNATES WERE THROWN DOWN AND KICKED. In Strange Contrast With Society Snobs’ Acts Were the Brave Rescues by Workingmen. [Copyrighted 1897 by the New York Sun.] LONDON, Exa., May 15.—It is impos- sible any longer to ignore the shameful facts regarding the cowardly brutality of men who saved themseives at the expense of women at the Paris bazaar fire. Every woman who escaped has the same story to tell, and the Paris press, which kept silent a week while the miser- able truth was in private circulation, is now compelled to deal with the subject openly. Certulus, the magistrate who in- vestigated the tragedy, says he examined scores of women survivors, the soie object being to ascertain the cause of the catas- \ R o T . == STATUE OF WASHINGTON, UNVEILED IN PHILADELPHIA YES’I:ERDAY. inclined to believe the total actually killed in battle on both sides is less than 5000 men. R CONE OFFER TO CAPITULATE. Turks at Prevesa Reported to Be Willing to Make Terms With the Greeks. ATHENS, Greece, May 15—t is re- ported that the Turks at Prevesa have of- fered to capituiate. The Greek western quadron has landed upon Santa Maura, one of the Tonian Islands, 2000 women and coildren who were picked up along the coasts of Epirus while flesing from the Turkish soldiers. The fate of thousands of other women and children 1s unknown. A dispatch from Dhomoko says Crown ‘Prince Constantine is sulking in the house in which he has established his headquar- ters, and refuses to show himself to his troops. The foreign admirals commanding the international fleet in Cretan waters have informed the Cretans that Greece has abandoned her policy of a union of the island with Greece. They have renewed the promise of the powers to establish an autonomous government for Crete. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, May 15. The belief is entertained here that the Turkish Government will demand a recti- fication of the Greek frontier and a revi- sion of the treaties with Greece, together with the payment of a war indemnity of £16,000,000, urkish. Placards have been posted throughout the city protest- ing against the further shedding of blood, upon the ground that the sacrifices im- posed upon Turkey are vastly in excess of any advantages she may gain from the war with Greece. QUADRUPLE MEXICAN TRAGEDY. Youth of Seventeen Slays Four Men Who Oppose His Courtship and Finally Elopes With the Girl. BAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 15.—Harry E. Bridgeman, an American stockman Living near Monclova, Mexico, arrivea here to-day with news of a quadruple tragedy on the Hacienda del Cedral, near his ranch. Macedonio Frausto, a 17-year- old boy, was enamored of Anita Mojas, the pretty daughter of a ranchman. The family of the girl opposed the marriage, and Frausto determined to get possession of her by force. He armed himself with a rifle and started for her home. On the road he met Manuel Solis, manager of the hacienda, and the girl’s brother. The boy and the two men quarreled, and Frausio deliberately shot and killed them both. Another brother of the girl arrived on the | scene, and he also was promptly shot and killed. Before the boy got away from the scene Manuel Horrera came up and at- tempted his capture. Horrera was also killed. The murderer then proceeded to ihe girl’s home. They eloped and have not yet been captured. P GIGANTIC FINANCIAL SCHEME. Capital of $100,000,000 and a Business Capacity ot $2,000,000,000—Boon 10 the Farmers. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15.—The Press says: There has been projected in tnis city the greatest financial institution of the world. 1t is the establishment of a credit company under. Federal supervision on the plan of the Credit Foncier of France, | but with greatez powers. Lawser John Dos Passos has the charter in his posses- sion, and says it will be submitted to Congress within the next two weeks. He claims he has received the approval of the administration and leaders in Congress. News of the undertaking came from ‘Washington to-day, but most of the Re- publican leaders denied that they had been consulted in reference to it. The company as planned is to have a capital of $100,000,000, with the privilege of doing a business of $2,000,000,000, Among the financiers mentioned in con- nection with the project are C. N. Jordan, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry O. Have- meyer. The company’s prime purpose 18 to lend money to farmers, especially of the West and South, at a rate almost half of that which they are now paying. The system upon which the institution is to be manaed is similar to that upon whichb the Credit Foncier is managed, but improvements are plauned based upon the principles of the best-known and most successful National building and loan as- sociation: In addition, the charter will authorize the company to do a general trust and banking business within well-defined limits, the object of this branch being to give farmers short loans on their crops. The saving in interest charges to the bor- rowing portion of the country is put at $100.000,000 & year. The most important immediate effect of the chartering and operation of the new institution is expected to be the wane of the power of Wall street. . Crowded Steam Launch Capsises. PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 15.—The steam launch of David W. S:llers, loaded with a crowd who could obtain no better view of the Washington monument cere- monies, was capsized on the Schuylkill River at Fairmount Park dam this after- noon, and three persons are supposed to have been drowned. Tuborgos L SPALUING HAS COMPANY. Four More Financiers Indicted as a Re- sult of Grand Jury Investigation at Chicago. CHICAGO, Ir., May 15.—The Grand Jury, which has been investigating the affairs of the grain inspector’s office, the Globe Savings Bank and the private bank- ing firm of E. 8. Dreyer & Co., which went down in the crash with the National Bank of Illinois, voted indictments to-day ugainst E. B. Dryer, Robert Bergen (Dryer’s partner), Carl Moll, ex-cashier of the National Bank of {llinois, and Adolph Nissen. The indictments against Dreyer charze the embezzlement of $340,000 of West Park Board funds, receiving deposits after knowing that the bank was in- solvent and obtaining money under false pretenses in mortgage deals. Berger is charged with receiving depos- its knowing the bank to be insolvent. Nissen is charged with obtaining money oy faise pretenses, and Moli with illegal disposition of public funas. S AN I[LLEGA) CORPORATION. Decision Prohibiting the Tobaceo Trust From Doing Business in Illinois. CHICAGO, Iin, May 15.—Judge Gib- bons of the Circuit Court gave a decision to-day declaring the American Tobacco Company an illegal corporation and pro- hibiting its agents from carrying on busi- ness within the State. The decision sus- tains the information fiied last Decem- ber by Attorney-General Moloney asking that the company be enjoined irom selling paper cigarettes on the ground that it was an illegal trust. The defendants filed demurrers, general and special, but all were overruled. Representatives of the tobacco trust in court when the decision was read said they would give notice of an appeal to the Supreme Court. —— Spain to Increase Her Fleet. MADRID, 8paiy, May 15.—It is an- nounced the ordinary budget expenses of the Government for the ensuing year, will be increased $40,000,C00. chiefly in the war and marine departments. The Correspon- dencia says the increase of thie Spanish fleet has been decided upon in view of possible international conflicta, trophe. Every moment, however, wit- nesses wouid break out in abuse of the men who left them in the lurch or bru- tally impeded their flizht. The names of prominent and aristo- cratic cowards are freely used in private converse and there is more than one man who stood in the highest circles of Paris who will never be admitted to drawing- rooms again. There are plenty of au- thentic examples. A well-known lady shows her arms to friends. *Look at these marks,” she exclaims; “they weremade by the stick of a man who pushed me aside in order that he might pass.” The wife of an artist got away, thanks to a man who proceeded at such a ra forcing his way through crowds of women, whom he trampled on, that he reached the street. The lady kept behind him and effected an exit. One young woman was beyond the reach of the flames at the door. A man passed and although 1n no danger struck her so violently on the chest that she is now in bed seriously ill. Another lady was thrown down. Bhe raised her head and held out her hands. A man, fearing she might clutch him, kicked her. One young lady, who is now dying, was standing near a ladder that had been let down by the staff of the Oroix newspaper, by which 100 persons were saved. A man to make her let go of the ladder struck her a blow on the hand with a walking-stick, breaking all her fingers. “I mustadd,” says the wit- ness, ‘‘that she was clinging to the ladder paralyzed with terror, unable to advance, and preventing those behind her from saving themselves.” Banker Fould, whose wife was injured, says two men whose names he knows passed his wife, and one dealt her a blow in the face. Only about thirty men pres- ent at the fire perished. Six were injured. All the latter were burned while saving lives. The cause of the fire is explained by the man in charge of the kinematrograph. Finding the lamp not sufficiently charged he was about to pour in ether. He lit a match to see what he was doing and the vapor caught fire and the entire receiver burst into flames, which spread to the hangings forming the bazaar decorations. Most of the rescues, including many of the most heroic, were performed by men of the humbler classes, who happened to be passing. Many times it has beeu said in Paris this week that it a fire under like conditions had ocenrred in the work- men’s districts there would have been far fewer deaths. RUSSIA’S RAILWAY HORROR. Cause of the Wreck in Which One Hun- dred Soldiers Were Killed and S.x y Injured. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 15— Further particulars of the wrecking of a military train on the Volk-Dorjew railway yesterday, by which 100 men were killed and sixty injured, show that the disaster was due to the sinking of the track in con- sequence of a sudden flood. When the train reached a weak part of the track it was derailed, and the cars were piled on top of one another. As the train left the track many soldiers jumped into the water and were drowned. Al the cars ‘were broken to pieces. e PURSUING THE TRAIN-ROBBERS. Texas Rongers Join the Officers— Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Loss Kncwn to Be at Least $10,000, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 15—The three men who held up the Southern Pa- cific train and robbed the safe of Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express Company near Lozier are being pursued by Texas rangers and a posse of Deputy Sheriffs. The trail of the robbers heads toward th» Rio Grande, and the fugitives are believed to be in the Mexican mountains. One of the robbers’ pals gave the local official full information of the plot a few weeks ago, but he suddenly disappeared and may have been killed for his treach- ery to his fellow-plotters. The express company is not yet through checking up its waybills, and refuses to make a Jefinite siatement regarding thé amount of money the robbers secured. It is known that the through safe contained not less than $10,000, and may have been many times that, as heavy shipments of money are made daily between New Orleans and San Francisco. Lozier is a lonely station in a desolate part of Texas. Miss Addie Upton, the telegraph operator there, says the three robbers entered the station just before the train was due and ordered her to stop the train for them. She replied that such an order was useless, as the train stopped anyway.’ She then wired the train dis- patcher that she bslieved the train was going to be robbed. Her warning was too late, however, as the train had aiready passed the last station to Lozier. i g e CIVIL SERVICE LAW INQUIRY. Pubiic Printer Pamer Tells of lis Em- barrassing Operations in the Gov- ernment Office. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—Ata meeting to-day of the Senate committee investigating the workings of the civil service law in the last administration Postoffice Auditor George A. Howard de- fended himself against charges of favor- itism and violation of the civil service law. Public Printer Palmer told the commit- tee he had found, during the interval of bis absence from the Government Print- ing office, that many of the most excel- lent workmen had been relieved. Paimer complained that ne could not appoint his own cashier, who handled between $3,000,- 000 and $4,000,000 annually and gave no bond to the Government, while he him- self was practically under $200.000 bond. Senator Lodge favored maintalning the printing office under civil service rules, but he thought it absurd to call a stable- man a boy who carries forms, a char- woman a watchman or a doorkeeper a akilled laborer. Commissioner Proctor and several other witnesses testified, after which the com- mittee adjourned for one week. SESS WA oy BROOKLYN DRYDOCK LEAKS. Not So Serious as to Prevent the Gleaning of the Maine—Hilborn Consults Commodore Matthews. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—Admi- ral Bunce, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy-yard, reported to the Navy Depa ment to-day that drydock No. 2, waich developed a leak last Thursday, was not in a serious condition and could be nsed for docking purposes. Orders were sent immediately to dock the Maine, in order that she could be cleaned. In the abence of Chairman Boutelle, Hilborn of Cali ornia, ranking member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, has been consulting Commodore Matth- ews, chief of the bureau of yardsand docks, about the leaks in two drydocks of the Brooklyn yard. The commodore was anxious that the appropriation be made for the repair of the docks, but Hilborn advised that nothing be done until the board now examining the leaks has com- pleted its investigations. WILL MOVE TO THE COUNTRY. President McKinley and Secretary Porter Will Get Some Relief From Office-Seekers. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—The President will probably move his house- hold from the Executive Mansion to a home in the country, to remain during the early suinmer months or until Con- gress ndjourns. Then he will occupy Em- bassador John Hays’ New England ses- side residence. The place in view is a tvpical Virginia country house, sitnated two miles from Arlington on the Virginia hills. It belongs to ex-Ssnator Hender- son of Missouri, who tendered the house to the President. Secretary Porter and family will ac- y the President, but wiil occupy a r house close by, and he as well as Mr. McKinley will escaps the annoyance of office-seekers and others except during stated hours each day. They will come into town each morning on the electric cars and return in the afternoon. S et iy NO AMERICANS ENDAMNGERED. Confirmation of the Report That the Honduras Kerolution Is Uver. WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15—A telegram was received at the Navy De- partment to-day from Commander Elmer of the cruiser Marblehead, recently sent to Puerto Cortez, Honduras, to protect American interests, saying the revolution was over and that no Americans or in- terests were endangered. This confirms the information received at the State De- partment from Consul Little. WASHINGTON MONUMENT UNVEILED Statue Dedicated to the Father of a Great Nation. PRESIDENT MKINLEY’S ADDRESS. Ringing Tribute Paid to the Memory of the illustrious €oldier and Statesman. CROWNING ACT OF THE WORK OF A C_NTURY. Loyal Patriots Turn Out by the Thousand to Participate In the Ceremonles. PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, May 15.—With one hand in the air, as if askinga mo- ment’s quiet from the multitude, and the other on a cord which held the draperies about the top of the Washington monu- ment , President McKinley this afternoon unveiled the statue dedicated to the memory of the Nation’s father. Tens ot thousands of spectators watched the President. The first event of the day was the firing of a salute at sunrise by batteries of United States regulars camping in Fairmount Park. At 9 o’clock the committee of the Mi.itary Order of Foreign Wars called on the President at the Hotel Walton, pre- senting him with the insignia of the society. The President tnanked the com- mittee in a few words and immediately afterward left the hotel for a two hours’ drive about the city. In the meantime the troops were form- ing for the parade with the marines from the French frigale Fulton, the United States battle-ship Texas and monitor Terror. The procesion marched up Broad street to the entrance of the park, where the monument is situated. Here the President reviewed the pro- cession. About him were members of the Cabinet, city and State officers, members of the Society of the Cincinnati and distinguished guests. The President was escorted to the scene of the ceremonies by the City Troop. 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