The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1897, Page 1

STREETS WITH OF VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 3. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 3 % PRICE FIVE - CENTS. RED BLOOD CITIZENS While Attacking a Jail at Urbana, Ohio, a Mob Is Fired On. A MILITIAMEN SHOOT DOWN FELLOW-TOWNSMEN. I'woFall Dead and Six Badly Wounded by the Volley of Musketry. THEN THE ENRAGED POPULACE RALLIES IN FORCE. Fearing the Avengers, Soldiers and Officers Slink Away, and a Fiendish Negro, the Cause of All the Trouble, Is Lynched. ne 4.—Battle, mur- came upon this wn last night like light- Streets ensed 1 the 1l of them of th y of 2000 or t the militia, prisoner from 1 ged gh beiore re- by the Goy- ould reach the ts, soon death go, when was lynched in the leaving ber dying, sucha anger sur men spected, went a to kill him on ght. The feel- tensified when d taken the negro was by the Sheriff's offi ntification. “Yes, that him and hang him as cers be Risi 1s the brute; her bed, she cried: tak high as Haman. The Sheriff’s men burried the negro to jail before the townspeople could get to- ether to act. or hatf an ho They were none too soon, ater, day ed in front of th afternoon, a crowd of 500 men gath- 1 jail and demanded the ve him cLain. to us, “It will useless trial, and we called out He known as also the local the Urbana Gu swung into the jail y shoulder to shot e crowd sallenly withdrew. They k very one of the citizen soldiers well enough to call him by name; but the uniform changed it all. The autl was necessary, paneled at on could not Mitchell in jail, feared the consequences of taking him through the c So they made one of the militia- men doff his uniform, put his clothes on the negro, and they then marched him. to the courthouse. It took but a few minutes to convict him. The Judge sentenced bim to twent years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary— the extreme limit—remarking as he did e wished he could impose the death Then the negro was quickiy ed back to jail. Sheriff McLain thought this quick con- viction and sentence would appease the mob. He appeared on the jeil steps and snouted: *‘Boys, go home. He has been crities saw that prompt action They and they with the squad 1 offense, lynching rd of here. But wien tie ick Mitchell by name, as- »man whom everybody knew | t 10'clock yester- | d an extra jury was im- | try | tried, convicted aud sentenced to twenty years.” Cries of rage arose from the crowd when they learned they had been tricked. Skeriff retreated into the jail and douole- burred all the windows and doors. He placed the negro in the most secare cell on the second floor and ordered militia to remain on guard all mnight. The Sheriff had planned to spirit Mitchell in a carriage from the rear of the and drive him to Hagenbaugh’s sta- , & few milesoff, and there board an eastbound Panha tio le train for Columbus. He was afraid to do this, however, as the mob surrounded the jail on all sides. Haa he done so it is likely his effort to save the mnegro would have failed, for when the train reached the station it was boarded by a number of men from Ur- bana, who forced the conductor to keep it waiting while they searched every car | to make sure Mitchell was not there. As the evening wore on the crowds about the jail thinned out anG the Sherift began to feel more secure. At midnight all was quiet and the militiamen slept on their ‘ms. Half an bour later aark forms came ng through the streets from every rection toward the jail. When about 500 men had gathered one of them went to the jail door and pounding loudly shouted: “Give up your prison: r.”” Captain G. W. Leonard quickly had his little force of militiamen in order. The outside could hear the ratile of muskets. It was planned by members of the mob to keep the soldiers antl depu- ties engaged in front of the jail while an attack was made quietly in the rear, Soa score or more stole silently to the back of | the jail armed with siedge nammers. They thought they would be able to batter in | the rear door, get the prisoner and escape | while the guards were watching the front. Meanwhile the crowd in front was to make as much noise as possible and keep the soldiers’ attention. The men in front car- ried out the plan too eagerly. They were so threatening that Captain Leonard and the Sheriff thought an attack from that quarter was imiuent. Captain Leonard ihrew open the jail door and standing on the steps shouted: minutes to will fire,”” The crowd, daunted, fell back invelun- | tarily. Just at sc crowd *I wiil give you three disperse. If you do not we that moment of silence the clash of sledge-hammers against the iron of the rear door rang out. There was | a scurrying inside the jail and the crowds | saw that their plans had miscarried. Hop- | ing, verhaps, that tbe attention of the militia would be diverted to the rear, and not believing in their hearts that the | militia would fire upon their own friends, they made a wild rush forward. They were met by a volley from the rifles and eight fellin their tracks. Tke citizen soldiers stood firm, with gun to shoulder, but there was 0o need. Dismayed and panic stricken, though infuriated, the | crowds ran helter-skelter. They were in no mood- just then to run against another wall of bullets. The men in the rear dropped their sledge-hammers and fled. ‘The crash of the rifle volley rang over the sleeping town. Almost instantly [ men, women and children came rushing from their homes. The first who regained courage enough to approach the jailyard found it like & bautle-field, Men were The | the | | Bloody Strife in Cuba. | strewn about with blood pouring from | | their wounds. Two were found stone | dead, Harry Beil, a business man of the town, and Upton Baker, a young farmer. | Asthe dead and were carried from the | jailyard it seemed as though the entire | population of the surrounding country Yells of rage and shrieks of womeén rang through the moonlit| streets till dawn. The Sheriff, virtually | besieged in the jail, grew frightened. He | smuggled a messenger out with the fol- lowing dispatch to Governor Bushnell at Wooster: | had turned out. | “Mob attacked jail. killed. My force sistance at once.” | All night long the crowds stayed about the jail, cursing the militia and doubly | cursing the wretched negro, who cowered | in the security of his cell in abject fright. dawn came men and women began to | come in from the surrounding country, for the mews had spread like wildfire. From time to time it seemed to be ap- parent that another attack was about to | be made on the jail. Mayor Ganzer and some more prominent citizens took turns | in addressing the mob, counseting mod- | eration and urging that the law be upheld. | The temper of the crowd was sullen, and | Opened fire. Three inadequate. Send as- | SPECIAL COMMISSIONER W. J. CALHOUN, Who Is Now on His Way From Havana to Ncwi York, It Is Expected That in His- Report to President McKinley He Will Recommend Vigorous Action on the Part of Our Government Toward Putting an End to the their words fell on deaf ears, although no | further attempt at violence was made just then, AL 7z ing breathles a small boy came rush yinto the thick of the crowd. oldiers are coming from the traln,” he cried. The crowd gaveamighty shont, and surged toward the depot. Coming down the street on the double quick, with rifles trailing and the sunlight gleaming on the was Company A of bayonets, Springfield, sent response to the Sher- iffs requ The soldiers marched straight. The situation yas grave. The mob did not give w closed about the soldiers threateningly. Captain Brad- | bury, in nd, was in a quanda He saw that the zitest force on the part of the mulitia wo dreadful way t& sugh the crowds to the soldiers and pelted them with mud | and stones. Missiles ca ying from the housetops. The crowd jeered and taunted, and the soldiers began to | Id bring about a Women forced their men close up conflict, ok ugly. b Mayor Gan rran up to Captain Brad- | bury, shouting r God’s sake go ba or I won't be responsible for the conse- | quence.” | Caplain Bradbury wavered, then gave | the command to retire, The soldiers wheeled and marched back to the depot. Even befére they had reachea there the mob, exuiting, was storming the jail. The The local militiamen were sick at heart from the blood that had been shea during the night. It was an easy vietory for tie crowds. They broke into the jail, swarmed up the stairs, smashed the cell door, where MitcHiell was confined, and dragged the trembling wretch out into the light of duy by a rope about his neck. Cursed, beaten, kicked, with his clothes half torn from his body by tne frantic mob, the negro fought with the desperation of a With the rope still tight about his neck, he struggled so fiercely that no less than seven went down before his blows. The negro, insensible brute though he was, must have longed for instant death many tunes in that passage from jaii to tne courtyard tree. It was worse than an old gauntlet-running, for there was sure death at the end, without even the shadow of a chance the red men gave their vietims. He was dragged between solid rows of madman. Indian Continued on Second Page. = saw that resistance was useless. | | HAVANA, Cusa, June 4—A: Niguas, Santa Clars Province, a Cuban named Rivero was captured by Spanish gaerril- las. The Spaniards tied him by the neck |to & borse’s tail and whipped up the | horse, made him run until he feli, when he was dragged to death, Afterward Rivero’s body was hacked to pieces. In the streets of Santa Clara City | country people gathered in by order of Weyler are dying of hunger. ish authorities do not make the least at- tempt to relieve them. | Spanish columns under Weyler are plundering and killing all along the lioe | of march. Weyler has deciared in an in- | terview at Sancti Spiritus: “The romantic | propaganda made against me in United States will not compel me to | abandon the warfare, which has been so | effective againstthe Cubans.” | In Havana the indignation of the Span- iards against Americans is increasing and ‘mreau of a demonstration against the | American Consulate in case the Spanish | Government should give satisfaction to | the United States for firing upon the 5Ru~|anuw} PASHA GENERAL OF ARTILLERY Ottomau army. Brock DORF -PRSHA GENERAL oF CAVALRY KAMPHOEVENER PASHA GENERALOFINFANT wy 11z, who was soon raised to the rank of Pasha by the Sultan. == Yy VON DER GOLTZ PASHA LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF THE TURKISH ARMY GERMAN OFFICERS IN THE TURKISH SERVICE. : They Are the Men to Whom the Success of the Ottoman Arms Is Largely Due. Von der Goltz Pasha {(in German General Baron von der Goltz-Domnau) was a member of the first military mission which was sent from Berlin to Constantinople at the request of the Sultan, charged with the duty of reorganizing the Ottoman army, instructing the officers and drilling the troops. Colonel Koebler of the Sixth Hussars, the head of the mission, dying at the end of a few months, he was succeeded by Major von der G Goltz Pasha, who Is to-day a lieutenant-general in the German army, is no other than the military writerso well kuown from his studieson the war of 1870-71. Borh in 1843, he made the campaign on the general staff of the Second Army, of which, after peace was declared, he became the historiographer. His works, “The Operations of the Second Army Up to the Capitulation of Metz” and “Sur La Loire,” “The Seven Days of Mans,” and “Leon Gambetta and His Army,” published successively, made a great noise in European military circles. In Turkey as chief of the German mission he reorganized the military schools and was appointed sub-chief of the general staff of the Von der Recalled (to Germany he was placed at the bead of the Fifth Division of the Second Prussian Corps at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and it was while there that he re- ceived, in the month of March last, the offer from the Sultan of commander-in-chief of the army in operation on the frontier of Thessaly. Having made his condi- tions, he repaired directly to the theater of operations without passing through Constantinople. Goltz acts with him as counselor and adviser, recciving orders from neither the palace nor the Minister of War, and they say that it is an incontestibl victorious Turkish army—officers and soldiers—is mainly the work of his hand, Of his associates, Kamncvener Pasha, general of infantry, went to Turkey with Colonel Koehler in 1882 and succeeded von der Goltz as the head of the mission on his recall to Germany. Grumbkoff Pasha and Brockdorf Pasha, with the express authoriza- tion of Emperor William, retainin their places in the German army, have also taken very effective part in the campaign in Thessaly. The former commanded the Turkish arti lary up to the capture of Larissa, and was the first to enter that city. Being recalled to Constantinople he was publicly congratulatedby the Sultan on May 14, in the course of the ceremony of “'kissing the hand,” on the occasion of the Kouram Bairam. While Edhem Pasha is the generalissimo of the Ottoman forces von der fact that the The Span- | the | SLAUGHTER, " STARVATION AND TORTURE eyler's Rule of Ruin on the Gem of the Antilles. CIVILIZATION SHUDDERS IN HORROR. Much Plundering and Kill- ing Along the March of the Butcher. INO ATTEMPT TO ALLAY THE PANGS OF HUNGER. Ill Feeling Against Americans Is Increasing | and There Are Threats of an Attack on the United States Consulate at Havana. steamer Vallencia by the Spanish war steamer Reina Marcedes are made freely. ‘The insurgent leader, Carlos Mendieta, | attacked the garrison on the sugar plan- tation at San Antonia, a league from Santa Clara City. Thirty-two Spaniards were killed and many wounded. Tne | Spaniards fled. Mendieta secured a large | stock of ammunition and provisions. Near Union De Reyes, Matanzas Prove ince, General Molina was defeated by the insurgents after an enghgement of two hours. The paper money question has prodnced ariot in Matanzas Province. As the police were unable to quiet the people a regiment of Spanish cavalry was summoned. The cavalry charged the rioters, wounding several. | Indignation prevails in Havana among | the commercial classes because Weyler, | notwithstanding his support of paper | money, refused to accept paper money in pavment of his own salary. Before Wey~- | ler started for Santa Clara a month’s sal- ary was presented to him, 70 per centin | paper. Weyler angrily summoned Fago- }um, director of finances. Weyler told ihim he wanted gold. Gold was brought [ to Weyler, and his wratn appeased. Sab- ordinate officials had to take all their salaries in paper. e MAY RECALL WEYLER. In That Event General Campos Would Again Become Captain= General of Cuba. MADRID, SPArN, June 4. —Thnere is great anxiety among ail classes to learn the re- sulvof the Queen Regent’s long interview with General Campos to-day. It is hoped his known opposition of coercion will prevail and that Weyler will be recalled. | This step would be among the first Sagasta would take if appointed Prime Minister. Conservatives could remain in office if he recalled Weyler, in which case Cam- pos would pobably consent to replace him as Captain-General. After the conference | with the Queen the Presitents of the Sen- ate ana Chamber of Deputies advised her to retain Premier Canovas. — - THAT OCEAN OUTRAGE. The Captaln of the Vallencla Tells How & Solid Shot Was Fired. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4 —A tele- gram was received by the State Depart- ment to-day from the United States Consul at Santiago de Cuba in which he says the commander of the Vallencia has fi ed with him a complete report of the recent attack, showing that two shots were fired on the steamer by the Spanish warship Mercedes, the firsta blankone to | warn her to come to, and the second a solid projectile, which struck dangerously close to the steamer’s stern. The captain contends that there was no necessity for { placing his vessel and the lives of those aboard in danger by the last shot. The Consul hay been directed to forward full details with the captain’s statement. No action will bs taken until the Consul’'s report and statement now on the way to the Spanish'Minister has been received. From the message received from the Consul the Assistant Secretary of State be- lieves the Vallencia was clearly within the jurisdiction of Spanish waters, but he does not admit this excuses the gunboat for using soiid shot in causing the ship to show her flag. He says there is a differ- ence-from an international law standpoint in the cases of the Allianca, fired on two years ago while rounding the exireme | |