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

VOLUME PRICE F1VE CENT TWO Before the Is Declared. TWENTY-FOUR HOURS' FIGHTING. Osman Pasha Crushes a Force Landed to THOUSAND GREEK SOLDIERS FALL AT AVLONA isastrous Battle in Albania, Armistice | Attack the Trks in the Rear Edhem’s | Atmy Advances After Peace Nego- tiations Have Begun. iblishes a dispatch giving anding of 4000 Greek ania, with a view of k upon the rear of the in Epirus. Learning of ha sent an sh force from Janina | d and lasted he Greeks were 1 here that the s for- pariers for resisted, d, in one The Greek: xirmishes ons ign legion was involved. er of the legion, Captain Va- mortally wounded. The Turks series of and the Greeks re- latter place. respondent of the Morning Post, 10 was with the Greek army at Dho- d Athens, om which that the retreat of the in good order. The minated the rough hich the (roops passed to readily see their wa e Crown Prince displayed great cool- ness and courage. A Constantinople resume of the official f the 1 demands are faily justified, at the Porte would not create a ty regarding the payment of an in- | or the cession of Thessaly, but s impossible to modify its de- r the abolition of capitulations ek subjects in the Turkish < Europe attempt to forcibly com- ne Porte to yield this point, a situa- d be created which, it isdeclared, nger the general peace. The 1 not be answerable for the 1sequences that would follow the able excitement of the Turkish pop- we ——— THIS FROM THE CZAR. Text of the Felicitous Message Sent by Nicholas to Abdul Hamid. INDON, ExG, May 19.—A dispatch m Constantinople gives the following be text of the Czar's message to the | asking for a cessation of hostili- Your Imverial Majesty will ished by the fac the evidence of the sincere friendshiy neighborly feelinz which exist be- 1 take tpon myself the task of ing to your august sen ¥ my the wish that you will not feel that, encouraged and twee addre: ex ion of crown the heroic success of your soldiers | by a suspension of hostilities. Thisisa course which will be in entire accord with the firmness and peaceiul mode ration you evin at the commeicement of the cam- paign. Your Imperial Majesty will thus accomplish an act which wili be entirely in conform with wisdom and moder- ation, and which will serve to still further argument the respect and admiration you personally inspire and of which I will forever retain a memory. I pray your Iniperial Majesty be good enough to be- lieve in m alterable friendsnip.” According to the dispatch the Sultan re- plied expressing lively and sincere thanks and informing the Czar that he had or- dered the Turkish commanders to stop fighting. In conclusion the Sultan sai I pray your Imperial Majesty also to take into consideration that I wish for the 1dly intervention of the powers to as- e-establishment of peace, having result the safeguarding of the nd prestize of my Government and aintenance of general peacs by sub- situation, while ciaiming that | ay'ng of an indemnity would be merely ting her creditors’ money into the tan’s pockets. SIGNED AT ARTA. | Commanders Attach Thelr Signa- | tures to the Agreement for | an Armistice. | ATHENS, Greece, May 19.—The agree- | | ment concluding an armistice was signed at Arta at noon to-day by the commund- | ersof the Greek and Turkish forces. It was arranged that the Turks should re- occupy their position on the right bank of Arachtos (Arta) River, and that the Greeks should retire to the left bank. The Government telegraphed the text of the agreement to Crown Prince Con- stantne at Lamita, asd instructed him to send officers 1o Edhem Pasha to notify { him of the armistice that had been con- cluded for Epirus. Constantine arrived at | Imerbz, five miles from Lamia this even- ing and held telegraphic conversation | | with Prime Minister Ralli. Sm kr's army has arrived at Lamia, and he oined Constantine at Imerbe, A Greek torpedo boat has captured the | steamship Minerya, bound for Volo with | | seventy Turkish sailorsand the new Turk- | ish Governor of Volo aboard. i bt UL-ISLAM’S REVELATION. Declares That Allah Would Have Thessaly Reunited to | Turkey. | LONDON, Exa., May 19.—According to a dispatcn to the Daily Mail from Vienna the Tageblatt says: The Sulian has con- | sulted Sheik-Ul-lstam, who de be the will of Allah that Thessaly | be reunited to Tarkey. Should the Sultan | act upon this religious prompting, it may | | be extremely difficult for the powers to | | prevent his purpose from being carried out. | The Telegraph’s Constantinople corre- spondent says the Sultan has stated to Baron de Calico, the Austro-Hungarian | Embassador, that he is willing to modify | the terms of peace, which were formulated | under pressure of the irritation at the fresh Greek attacks in Epirns, i THE NAVY EMBARRASSED. Injuries to the Brooklyn Drydock Will| | Keep Out Battle-Ships for Six Mon bs. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19.—The accident to the new drydock in the Brook- | Navy Yord is more serious than was | realized. It is mow certain that the navy will be unable to use it again for large vessels for six months and perhaps onger. Rear Admiral Bunce telegraphed Commodore Matthews, chief of the | bureau, that $75,000 would be required to repair the dock. Should an accident | occur to either the Massachusetts or In- | diana that required docking the Govern- | ment would find itself without a means of | | taking them from the water at any port | late. ‘Landing of General Smolenski’s Troops From Halmyros and Re-enforcements From Athens at Stylida. Stylida is a small town of 1800 inhabitants, beautifully situated on the northern side of the Gulf of Lamia. It is the seaport of Lamia, some ten miles to the west, as well as all the Sphercheios Valley and the southern part of Thessaly. Mountains, and is practically the base of supplies. It is the only port now within reach of Prince Constantine’s army on the Orthrys |on the Eastern coast, as the Port Royal dock can take none of the battle-ships ex- cept at extraordinary stages of high tde, which oceur, as a rule, semi-aunuolly. Fortunately few of the battle-ships re- | quire the attention of a dock, but there is the possibility of some accident befalling them which might render it imperative for the ship to be {aken from the water without delay and that renders the sita- ation embarrassing, The battle-ship Iowa goes into commis- sion June 15 and sbou!d be docked during the next few months. - A GIRL'S AWFUL DEATH. Her Father a Powerless Spectator While an Elevator Sicw'y Crushes Out Her Life. BOSTON, Mass, May 19, — Adelaide Cogswell, a beautiful young woman 18 years of age, metamost horrible death this atternoon, while attempting to run her father’s freicht elevator in the factory of William E. Martin & Co. at 96 Soutn street. D sobedience cost her her life, as | her father had strictly enjoined her noi to touch the elevator, and women were never permitted to ride on it. One of the witnesses of the scene was her father. The cruel mechinery pinned down the unfortunate girl and slowly crushed her life ous, while her heart-rend- ing screams filled the entire bluck. Men wept and turned away their faces power- less to reach her. The elevator literaily tore her head from her body and rolled it at the feetof the spectators. Just then the engine was stopped, but it was too The factory employes were so shocked by the tragedy that they were | unfitted for work to-day. ESCAPES WITH THE CASH. Young Bank Messenger Collects $45,000 at Boston's Clearing-House and Then Discppears. BOSTON, M a nineteen-year-old messenger for the Boylston National Bank, was sent to the Clearing-house this morning to collect the balances due his bank. He had an orderon Freeman’s National for $20,000 nd an order for $25000 on the Union Loan and Trust Company. These he col- lected and failed to return to bis bank with the cash. The police were notified, and telegraphed to those of New York and elsewhere to be on the lookout for him. There is not the slightest trace of him since noon, when he got the lastof the cash. The young man has been im- plicitly trusted heretofore. His father tendered his services to the bank in hunt. ing his son. FOR MINISTER TO PERT. Official Annonwuncement of Irving 8, Dud- ey’ Mrleotion. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19.—It was officially announced to-night that Irving 8. Dualey, a prominent Republican of San Diego, Cal., will be nominated next week for Minister to Peru. This is the piace for which ex-Representative Huater of Ken- tucky was an applicant. Mr. Dudley is a brother of W. W. Dudley, the well-known Republican politician of Indiana. . May 19.—Arthur King, | LYNCHERS DILED B STRHTEG! Murderer Saved From Mob Violence at Randsburg. ANGRY MINERS NEATLY TRICKED. Their Prey Escapes While They Hasten to a Meeting of Vigilantes. LEADERS HELD A7 BAY WITH SHOTGUNS. Exclting Scene Following the Brutal Kliling of a Woman by Her Ex-Husband. RANDSBURG, Can, May 19.—Mrs. Emily Davidson, one of the first women to come to this rough mining camp to seek her fortune, was murdered by her former husband on the main street at I1 o’clock this morning. Twenty min- utes later the murderer was hurried out of town by a posse of citizens’ committee members, just in time to escape a mob which bad gathered to lynch him. His guards had little time to spare at that, for the Jeaders of the mob, learning that they had been tricked, were hurrying to pre- vent the escape of their intended prey, and the men in charge of Davidson were compelled to make a show of arms to drive them back. It is probable that Davidson would have been lynched within ten minutes after his crime was committed, but several cool- headed citizens sent the mob on a wild- goose chase to the Office saloon by telling them that a meeting of th= citizens’ com- mittee was to be held there at once to de- cide the fate of the murderer. While the miners were gathering at the Office, prep- arations were being made to hurry David- son to Mojave by team, and befers the rough border men knew that they had been the victims of a strategy the assas- sin and his guardg bad started on their way. For several monthsthe woman had con- ducted a cheap restaurant on Butte avenue, Shortly after she opened it Davidson came and took charge of the kitchen. Soon he began to find fauit with her management, and abont three weeks ago he left for Los Angeles. From that city Davidson sent many letters and tele- grams asking his wife to come to him, but no attention was paid to them. Finally be sent word that he would come and compel her to return with him. The woman expected trouble, but not of a serious character, and she was not sur- prised when he appeared this morning. Davidson arrived on the Kramer siage at 10 o'clock and at once went to the res- taurant. “I see you’re notglad at my coming,” said the ex-husband when his salutation to her on entering the restaurant was not answered. “I don’t want anything to do with you,” was her reply. Without giving the intruder further notice, Mrs. Davidson went out through the kitchen door to a neighboring store for a bottle of vinegar. Davidson awaited her returr, and went out to meet her. She tried to avoid him by crossing the street, but he crossed over after her. On meeting ber he said something, and sev- eral bystanders heard her exclaim, “No, no, no, no!” Davidson grasjed one of her hands and drew a pisiol. The woman struck the weapon aside, and the bullet crasbed through the bottle she carry- ing. She then tried to shield her face from a second bullet, which entered and passcd through her right shoulder. As the woman was falling Davidson shot her in the left side. The fourth shot was fired at ber prostrate body, but missed its mark. Men who had witnessed the shooting— it was all done so quickly that they had Dot time to interfere—came running up, and while some seized the assassin and hustled him off to the camp’s jail others raised the dying woman and carrted her into the restaurant. She lived but a few minutes. On the way to the lock-up Davidson raved like a madman, declaring that he was crazy and repeatedly calling for a re- volver with which to end his life. When searched in his cell another loaded pistol was found on his person. Soon the news of the brutal murder spread and men came running from all directions. Low mutterings soon devel- oped into shouis from the more hot- headed ones to hang Davidson at once. The friends ot law and order®hastily de- cided to entice the mob away, and passed out word that the Citizens’ Committee would meet at once. In the meantime the citizens’ commit- tee was not idle. A light wagon with the best span of mules in the district was fitted out and heid in readiness, while Citizen Fugard went among the people telling them to hurry to the mesting place. Fugard worked his way along Butte avenue toward the calaboose. On his arrival there the team hove in sight, (and a prominent mine-owner, growing suspicious, asked Fugard: “Are you going to take that fellow away "' Fugard looked at his questioner a mo- ment and exclaimed, “What, me? Not much,” and with a look of disgust wended his way to the lockup and ordered the committeemen to hurry. As soon as the prisoner was brought outand hurried into the wagon a cry went up, but Constable Bohannan’s shot- gun and the pistols of the other four com- mitteemen held the most anxious of the would-be lynchers at bay. The mules were whipped up and dashed out of town, followed by vells of rage from the baffled miners. Davidson was taken to Bakersfield to- night. S e CAREER OF THE DAVIDSONS, Gained Notoriety in a Semsational Suit Againat a Millionaire LOS ANGELES, CAL, May 19.—David 1. Davidson and the woman known as Mrs. Emily Davidson, passing as his wife, had a checkered career in Los Aongeles. At 117 East First street they kept a res- taurant, which was sometimes controlled by both together and from time to time was the individual property of one or tie other. The apparent domestic trouble be- tween the two did not have any lasting effcct upon their financial affairs here, for the ownership of their establishment seemed to pass back and forth between them. The Davidsons first came into promi- nerice last October, when they figured in a sensational denouement, that has since been denounced as blackmail. Davidson, accompanied by two detectives, found Mrs. Davidson in company with Henry Worthington, a Denver millionaire, then sojourning here, and from evidence then obtained in & dramatic way a divorce suit was instigated by Davidson on statutory grounds. He was given a decree about four months ago. After the divorce was granted Davidson went to Randsburg and opened a restau- rant, leaving the Los Angeles place in charge of Emily. Two weeks later she followed him and Davidson came back. ‘Tne fact that they were divorced did not seem to interfere in the least with their mode of life. Duivid<on came to Los An- geles to prosecute a svit against Worth- ington for $20,000 for alienating the affec- tions ot his wife. The case was tried in the Superior Court on the 12th inst. and resulted in & verdict for the defendant. In his answer to the complaint against him Worthington de- nounced the Davidsons as a pair of black- mailers and immoral persons, and de- clared that the woman was not David- son’s wife and the two had engaged in a conspiracy to extort money from him. Davidson left this city Tuesday nicht, accompanied as far as the station by E. A. Bartlett, bis steward, who claims that Davidson gave him the restaurant here. Bartlett says that ! e believes the murder of Mrs. Davidson to have been long pre- imeditated, for before leaving this city Davidson said to him: “In case I don’t come back you take the restaurant and run it for what you can make out of it.” Bartlett says that when Davidson left the city he had $1000 in money on his per- son and wore a $500.diamond pin. Davidson’s father is said to be a million- aire, living in Santa Cruz County, and he has relatives in San Francisco. sequent continual security of my fron- tier.” TOREE DEaE S WILL PAY NO GOLD. Says Greecs Indem- Prime Minister Ralll Will Resist ths nity Demand. BERLIN, GEmMANY, May Atbens correspondent of the Frankfort s that in an interview to-day ister Ralli declared that La- 'rikkala, the richest provinces haa been devastated and the harvest spoiled by the war and that the Government would bave to provide for 130,000 refugees. Thus it would be im- ble for the Government to pay an in- | to Tuarkey. ded that the Government medi- 2 compromise with G-eece’s foreign | The | s when peace was conciuded. tem of European control of Greece’s finances which had been mentioned in connection with a settlement of the war was bumiliating. Moreover it Was worth- 19.—The | less, for Greece was in bankrupicy. Thel T 3 AWpen e Lo JUSTICE MANDED FOR CUBA Eloquent Pleas of Sena- tors in the Name of Humanity. CANNON OF UTAH FIRES HOT SHOT. Would Seize That Mad Dog Weyler and End His Rabid Career. HOAR AND FORAKER ENGAGE IN A TILT. Eikins Indulges In Bitter Invactive Agalnst the Attitude of This Country. WASHINGTON, D. C, May 19.—The Cuban debate in the Senate to-day was one to be long remembered. There was an unusually large attendance of Sena- tors, and every seat in the galleries was occupied. The regular debate was pre- ceded by running explanation and com- mentary on the subject of the famous in- terview which two members of the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, Da: and Foraker, had with the President and Sec- retary of State, when important informa- tion was imparted with the injunction that the names of the American Consuls in Cuba from whom it was derived should not be made nublic lest they might be subjected to injury or assassination. While Foraker was explaining the cir- cumstances of his visit, he was asked point blank whether he or the Secretary of State had stated that the divulgence of the names of the Consuls would invoive iheir assassination. The reply was that the statement was not made In just such language, but was to that effect. Cannon of Utah made a strong plea in behaif of Cuba, and many of his most elo- quent periods were responded to by accla- mations from the galleri “When I came to this Senate,” Cannon said, “there were but three friends of the then Demo- cratic administration, consequently there were but three anti-jingoes. Jingoism in parties may come and go, but among the people it will go on forever. “If to seize that mad dog Weyler—that ravisher of women, assassin of men and crucifier of children—be jingoism, 70,000,000 of our citizens are jingoes. The other 263,000 of the population are some of them in trade; few, thank God, are in the news- paper business, and fewer still, but more powerful, are members of this Senate. [Laughter.] ‘‘Internatfonal law,”” he declared, *is a gyve upon the wrists of the republic ana asword in the hands of tyranny. Inter- pational law invoked this struggle. It is not a barnacle, but a hissing serpent, and it is our duty to crush its head with our heel if we are bruisad in so doing.”’ Referring to Hawley’s assertion that the United States was not prepared for war, Canpon said it was better prepared for war than for the inevitable National dis- integration that would follow on cow- ardice. Foraker took a very advanced position in favor of the recognition of belligerency. He was replied to by Hoar, who in most sarcasiic and bitter tones characterized the resolution as ‘‘a mouse followed by a brass band of proclamation.” Foraker discussed the effect under par- liamentary law of the recognition of bel- ligerency and admitted, as Hoar had claimed yesterday, thai it would give Spanish gunboats the right to search American vessels. ‘Right of search,” Elkins broke in, “means war.” Resuming he said: “Isn’t it time the United States should cease to police its waters in the interest of Spain and take a position of absolute neutrality ? The United States should not stand asa quasi co-operator with Spain in this brutal war. It is time to putan end to such a covenant with sin and league with hell, and by no vote of mine shali that un~ boly alliance continae.” The Senate at 6 P. M. adjourned till to- morrow. e MORGANS RESOLUTION. Fote to Be Taken in a Few Days and It Wilt Surely Pass. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19.—Mor- gan’s resolution providing for the recog- nition of Cuban belligerency will reach a vote in the Senate in a very few days and pass by a large majority. All indications point to the approaching end of a long session of debate and the rapid breaking down of the opposition forces. The vote will be reached, moreover, by amicable agreement and without resort to dog-in- the-manger methods by members of con- flicting factions. The truth of the matter is that the opposition to the resolution has broken down under the overwhelming sentiment in its favor, o that its final passage can now be prevented only by the adoption of downright filibustering tactics. No Republican Senator, not even Hale or Hoar, appears willing to resort to this method, and so after a few more speeches have been made and the cor- respondence cailed for by the Senate has been submitted a vote will be taken by common consent. Several of the mansgers among the Re- publicans are opposed 10 the Morgan reso- lution, but they are now alive to the wis- dom and necessity of permitting a vote to | be taken, and while the two subjects of Cuba and the tariff may for a few days run along side by side in the proceedings of the Senate, the sentiment of the ma- jority will prevail and the Morzan resolu- tion be adopted. It isquite possible that on Monday an arrangement will be made in open Senate for taking a vote, Many Re- publican Senators are still inclined to