The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXII—NO. 34. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1897T—THIRTY PAGES. E/FIVE CENTS. TURKISH GUTTERS MAY AGAIN RUN RED WITH BLOOD Christians at Constantinople in Fear of Another Massacre. CUTTHROATS STRIKE AT ABDUL HAMID’ Zeki S NOD. Pasha, a German Military Officer, Murdered by Order of the Sultan--—- Toying Wi th Europe’s Diplomats. LONDON, F y 3.—Despite the| most sanguine reports from Con- stantin a speedy settlement of peace ns, the tion is far from The retirement of Nel- t n Embassador, is f much importance, but its full tyet been made known, ;ndent telegraphs to-day was made st Nelidoff's e has nc n corres ate: equest of Tewfik Pasha fora | went of peace negotiations ex- es the Ambassadors and is can- as gratuitous trifling. Some of e are convinced that the Suitan will 3 to the end in his determination to rth of Salamvria. The | cers refuse to discuss with attaches the question of frontier | arcation in the senge proposed by the ors. The latt e waiting for give the necessary instruc- ions to its representatives on the com- mbassadors to-morrow will confer ituation. They are determined to | tell Pewfik Pasha that if he has no defin- | ite scheme to tis useless to con- tinoe the meetings. An American in Cc inople writes by the last mail: | to under- | n here. Perhaps you derstand its seriousness You peuple i the s begin (o u io not appear at will when the guiters of Coastantinople are once ag running with blood. We Americans and Euroveans here are as nervous as cats. We know there is dan- ger, and all the time tomioole: y peace ne- gotiations are proceeding. “When the Brit:sh ships in the Golden Horn fired salutes on the Queen's jubilee ay thousands of ruffians, armea with geons and knives, rushed into the | ts, asking whether they shou!d bevin | on Greeks or Armenians. This was not | surprise to us. We can go any evening | ) certain cafes in the Tophane quar- ter and find the leaders of these hordes avowedly ready for a signal to cut roats. You probabiy think our fears away with our common-sense, but s incredible to you are kuown as | They are known, 00, 10 the dors and, through them, to every in Europe. Tewfk Pasha atedly warned that if Chris- is shed Turkisa blood shall xt time. He invariably ed the Embassadors that no danger of dis- ¢ 5 tous. No man’s life is safe here. A nod from | | t will destroy Have you he murder of Zeki Pasha, a Ger- itary offi the Ottoman ser- ¢ was no mere A ian, but an exalted dignitary of conspicuous abil ty, | who bad red great service to the | h authorities, bul who was sus- | pected of an affair of gallaniry with a lady | remoiely connected with the imperial family. ‘The Sultan winked, and poor Zeki PasHa was snuffed out. He was| missing about the middle of June, and | ten days later his budy was found covered | with dagger wounds in the couriyard of | an empty house. It was a clear case of suicide blandly explained Tewfik Pasha. | But- the number and character of the | wounds showed that suicide was out of | the question.’” One of the most important politica cidents connected with the jubilee con cerns the relations of Great Britain and Japan. The latter country, since the war h China, has assumed all of the dig- and prerogatives of a great power. in proud humility she confesses that she nceds & European aily, preferably Great Britain. This Government has | been repeatedly approached during the | past year with a view to the conclusion of An anglo-Japanese alliance. The matter was discussed at an interview of the Mi- kado’s juvilee envoy with Salisbury on Monday. The British Premier does not fuvor alliances prior to war, but is very fond of *‘undersiandings,” and there is good reason to believe he has urrived atan understanding with Japan which can be converted into an actual defensive and of- fensive alliance, should trouble occur be- tween England and Russia, which might happen any moment. it was, therefore, in accordance with the fitness of things that Jupan made a brave showing at the jubilee naval review. She was represented by one of the finest bat- | tle-ships at Spithead, and the officers and men of no foreign war-hip walked about Portsmouth with a finer swagger and in more gorgeous plumes. rex CHRIST’S SAYINGS PRESERVED. Inestimabie Vaiue of the Papyri Recenty Discovered Near the Lvbian Desert. [Copyrizhted 1897 by the New York sSun.] LONDON, Exe., July 3.—Beveral weeks 8go there was cabled news of wonderiul | the faithful Commoners complain. discoveries made in January by Grendell and Hunt on the borders of the Lybian adesert of the oldest papyri known bear- in-the words of Christ. The value of this find, interest in which will arouse the nole Christian world, proves inestima- It comprises a dozen leaves, each 31 inches in dimensions, remark- preserved and clearly written in Unical charac of the ancient Greek. The dates are about sixty years after the crucifixion. It has easily been translated and found to consist of detached sayings | of Cpbrist, without context, each begin- ning with the words, ‘Jesus saith.” The translation will soon be published by the Egypt exploration fund. An immense edition at a few cents per copy will be pro- vided, as to reach everybody. Professor Petrie’s winter explorations in Egypt have also been wonderfully fruit- ful. The bulk of his collection isin two groups, separated by a gap of more than thirty centuries, the later documents be- ing an enormous mass of papyri from the Roman city of Behnesa, west of the Nile and aboui 100 miles south of Cairo. The earlier document contains agreat variety of objects which throw a flood of light upon the babits of people evidently in a high state of civilization, who occu. pied lower Kgvpt centuries before Ab: bam, and aimost as far back as the date a-signed by Archbishop Ussher to the cre- ation of the world. The papyri comprise 4000 documents. They were not found in a secret chamber or a cave. They were mixed up with a lot of soil, and evidently represented the clearing out ot a library, whether by the hands of some reformer or a barbarian who nated knowledge. The rolis represent a wide range of litera- ture—history, law and ethics. Bs- sides there are a number of earlier Chris- tian documents, among them some which were current in the churches at a very early date, and in some cases may have been consulted by the authors of the four gospels. The contents of this library probably range from the first to the sixth century. It has furnished to the literary archmolo- gist as many papyri as hitherto existed in the whole of Europe. The discoverer ex- pects that from ten to twenty years will be occupied before the papyri are fully de- ciphered. e * COMMOKERS AT WINKDSOR. “Consolation Stckes™ for Members and Their Wives Af.er Many Jubilee Discourtesies. LONDON, Exc., July 3.—The members of the House vi Commons left Londen on six special trains this afternoon to attend what Rosebery described at lunch with the colenial premiers as ‘‘consolation stakes at Windsor.” The Queen received the members and their wives in order to soothe their ruffled feelings at their high- banded treatment at Buckingham Palace last week, when the court officials drove them from room to room like a great flock of sheep aud only a few of them got a :'impse of the Queen, and the discourtesy n London was fully canceled by the graciousness of to-day’s reception. This is by no means the only occasion in connection with the jubilee of whict They have, in fact, no place in the official cere- monials of this country. At the nayal review off Spithead they were tumbled into a steamer already balf-filled with ordinary sightseers, run through the fleet and then bundled out in a boat in the rain, in order that the more privileged oc- ants of the steamer might be able to et back in good time to see the i:lumina- i The Treasury considered lunchcon al 33 cents a head would meet the require- ments of the case, but fortunately the owners of the Campania are not in the babit of providing cheap luncheons or sandwiche, so they treated the Common- ers toa deceni luncheon and saved the trea<ury the exvense of the frugal fare | provided. PR 4LGER AT A GUN TEST. Successful Working of a Cannon and Disa ariny Carriage. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 3.—Secretary Alger to-day witnessed a successiul test of the firing oi the 12-inch gun from a dis- appearing carriage at Sandy Hook. This enormous gun, weighing about fifty-two tons, was fired successfully, the carriage ruzising the great piece of ordnance nine feet in the ais, so that it projected over ‘he parapet, and immediately aiter the discharge lowering it again easily and gracefully. Ten-inch guns have been mounted and fired successfully on disappearing car- riages, but until now it has been a matter of doubt whether a 12-inch gun could be so0 operated, A 12-inch gun has more than one and a half times as much energy as a 10-inch gun. Heretofore 12-inch guns bave been mounted on liits ma very 7 0% Wi AN ARTIST’S FOURTH OF JULY IMPRESSION. costly and cumbrous way. Captain Cro- zier, the inventor of the new method, says he can mount a 16-inch gun on a car- riage, but of tms ordnance officers are generally still in doubt. SHESE RACE WAR IN ALABAMA, Officers Called to Orush a Fight Between Whites and Blaeks. BIRMINGHAM, Ara., July 3. —Deputy Sheriffs Warner, Waldridge, Ball and Jones, all well armed, went to Blossburg mining camp, fifteen miles west of here, to-night in response to acall. Trouble between whites and blacks is expected. Three nights ago Mrs. Brown, the wife of a respectable white miner, discovered a negro crawling across her bed. She screamed. He fled. A negro named Jim Thomas said he knew who the negro was. This morning Thomas’ body was found filied with Jead just above Blossbure. held Monday. Further trouble is likely, as both negroes and whites are going about armed. Aeracte A BURIED CITY DIsCOVERED. German Ewxplorer Finds Ancient Ruins in Mexican Forests. OAXACA, Mexico, July 3.—J. L. Heb- rahn, » German arch®ologist, has arrived from an extensive exploration trip through the Siate of Chiapas. - He reports finding another ancient buried city in the depths of the tropical forests sixty miles west of the Guatamalan border. He brought out a number ofrelics of the place, und savs he will go to the United States from here and to Germany, where be will organize an expedition forturther researches in Chiapas. R e No Indictments Returned, NEW YORK, N. Y. July 3—The Queen’s County Grand Jury made a pre- sentment to the Supreme Oourt to-day, Trere were no indictments in connection with the Valleam disaster on Memorial day, when the 1aily-ho driver who drove the pariy across the track, causing five deaths, was censured for carelessness. The Long Island Rsilroad Company was deemed not culpably negligent, although the evidence showed that the bell at the crossing was out of order, An inquest will be THE GREAT STRIKE | OF MINERS 15 ON One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men in T the Battle. General Closing Down of Pits " in Middle and Eastern States. Struggle for Living Wages That Has Been Forced Upon the Workers. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 3.—The conven- tion of coal miners of Pittsburg district adjourned tc-night after spproving their National executive committee’s order for a general strike. ‘Seventy-five delegates, representing 150 coal-pits, took part. The meeting was most en husiastic, even the non-union delega esc.amoring for a strike. The strike will begi: Monday, and about 17,000 miners of this disirict will lay down tueir tools. The National association of all mine-owners may withhold from em- ploy=s 10 per cent of their wages, retained under the *‘iron-clad contract.” The miners of the New York and Cleve- land Gas Coal Company, one of the biggest firms in the district, were not represented at the convention. W. F. de Armitt, president of the company, is the man who gave the miners such a big fight three years ago. : In the Clearfield district 25,000 miners are employed when the mines are run- ning, and District President Dolan says the whole district will also go out. . The number of men in- other States who are concerned in the present sirike, | 80 fgr as can be estimated, are as follows: Ohio, 24,000; 1lllinots, 4000; Indiana, 90,- 000, and in West Virginia about 22,000 men. The miners employed in the vicinity of Gr-ensburg will not join the strike, bur, on the contrary, are preparing for a rush of work. The Greensburg, Madison, Hempfield and Carbon coai companies employ aboui 1500 men, who have never been identitied with the Miners’ Union and have always been paid the highest scale of wages. The inauguration of the general strike means steady work for them. During the general strike of two years ago the miners and operators of Greensburg literally coined money. GUNERAL SHUIDOWN IN OHIO, Nationat President Latchford Ezplains the si'wation. COLUMBUS, Onto, July 3.—Reports re- ceived by the National officers of the United Mine-Workersof America inaicate that the cessation of work to-night by the coal miners of the United States, in ac- cordance with orders, was geuneral. This order has been expected for sonie time by the miners in Ohio, and little surprise has been caused by the official circular calling the men out. In anin- terview National President Ratchford said: “Qur present suspension is not of our choice. It has been forced upon us by a continuous reduction in wages, until a voint was reached where living by our industry was uo longer possible. “Qur minerseverywhere throughout the country were ready for it as a last resort, and there is no doubt that it will be the greatest movement of the kind that this country has ever seen. Iam not fearful that the miners will in any case violate law or order. This will be a peaceful con- test, and violence must not enter into it in any degree.” BELLAIRE, Oxumo, July 3—The coal mines in Belmont County and the fifth sub-Ohio district are all closed down. The miners quit work on receipt of orders from National headquarters and no miner among the 1800 in the county or 4600 in the district will work unless permission is Continued on Fyth Page. BANNERS WAV FOR THOUSANDS ON THE WAY San Francisco’s Sfreets Are Ablaze With Waving | Welcomes. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND VISIT- ORS PASS DENVER. Salt Lake, Denver and Los Angeles Ate Overflowing With Endeavorers, and All the Trains Are Moving Slowly for Safety. 8an Francisco is rapidly assuming the eala colors of a grand holidsy. All over the City both public and private houses are being elaborately decorated ior the Fourth of July as well as for the coming of the thousands of guests who come in the cause of Christian Endeavor or as stran- gers on an outing. The grand arch on Market street is, of course, the most conspicuous of all the decorations of the City. When it is com- pleted, with all the electric lights and | variegated colors, from each feature of | which a grand welcome fairly blazes, it | will be one of the bandsomest works of that character ever seen in San Francisco | or the State. From bhundreds of private houses, as| well as from many stores and public buildings, thousands of streamers wave in | the breeze, the streets teing crossed in | many places with waving ropes of bunt- ing, scme in commemoration of the Fourth, but nearly all containing many | banners of purple and gold. There has seldom been any public event | or general meeting of citizens in this part } of the world which has elicited as much general interest and expression of good will as the convention now about to be called in this City. This spirit is shown strikingly by the merchants. Nearly all the great stores and dry goods houses have gone to unusual pains to make their deco- rations elaborate. Nearly all have blend- ed their patriotism and their love of the spirit of Christianity, for from the same stores and houses one will see the conven- tional bunting of this season in profusion, mingled with beautiful streamers of blue and goid, or surrounded wilh many mot- toes appropriate to the convention. Among the noticeabls decorations show- ing the extent of the hospitality of San Francisco business men some stand out | conspicuously by reasou of the wealth of | color and originality of the designsn the | welcome. Raphael’s great clothing-house is orna- mentaily decorated in colors, showing the patriotic spirit appropriate to the Fourth of July, yet there are beautiful welcomes | in purple and gold. One of the striking | features in the word **Welcome,” which is | in large letters over the door, is that it is in the two colors of the convention, the | letters alternating so as to make a striking effect. There is a tent over the first-story window, so rich in colors and design as to beautifully illustrate the idea that the store is the camp of good iellowship. Over Roos Brothers’ there are many ban- ners in ornamental colors, and set beauti- | fully amid these streamers isa burstof | sunset on the Golden Gate, something so | | | novel for the Ilusterners ihatit will be sure to attract attention. At Hale Brothers’ the decorations are equally magniticent. There is a minia- ture archin one of the windows, made in exact imitation of the great Market-street arch built by the commitiee. This arch is made of rich handkerciiefs of silk ana lace, amid which there are many electric lights. Over the "ain entrance there are fine banners and a perfect wilderness of colors. J. J. O'Brien’s is very elaborately decor- ated also, the style being to combine the patriotic and the Endeavor idea in the decorations There are mary C. E. mon- ograms woven into the bunting, while a typical bear flag completes the welcome. 8. N. Wood & Co. have some very elaborate decorations, showing a thorough spirit of hospitality. The beautiful ana artistic display of bunting and colars here attracts attention, also, by reason of the fact that the building itself is one where a display can readily be made. Kohlberg, Strauss & Frohman have made a fine display also, the entire frout of their building being decorated in such a manner as to arrest the attention and give an idea of great painsand richness in the work. The City of Paris is anotber one of the great business houses that has gone to some pains to let the visitors know tbat they are thoroughly welcome in the City | by the Golden Gate. Fourth of July and Christian Endeavor are about equaliy blended in this display. 5 Many of tbhe princ.pal business houses | have not yet begun their decorations, but | there is evidence that by the time the City is filled with the strangers there will be few of the conepicuous houses without the typical emblems of welcome. “The following hous+s are already quite | elaborate.y decorated and improvemeats | are contemp.ated in the work of many: | Kast’s shoe store, the Baldwin clothiers, C. Curtin, Summerfield & Roman, the Philadelphia Suoe Co., the Palace Hotel, Livingsior Bros. & Co., Clatk & Co., Frederick & Co.. Sanborn & Vail, Sloane & Co., and the Empor.um. 1 The display at the Bterling Furniture Company is one of the bestin the City for the reason that the buntingand Endeavor colors cover the entire five stories of ihe buildins. i The Palace Hotel is one of the striking buildings thus far decorated, ior the rea- son that the two entrances stand in good | Pleasanton. contrast—the one for the Fourth and the other for the Endeavorers. The reception committees were busy ail day yesterday, but they missed the Ore- | gon delegation because word was not sent them in time that tue steamer had been sighted. About two hundred from Ore- gon and Washington were the first to ar- rive in the City, and they seemed pleased that the City was in holiday attire on their account. There was an air of activity at the hotels, and the clerks did ali in their power to make the visitors feel that they were at home. Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold of St. Louis, ne of the prominent delegates 1o the Shristian Endeavor convention, arrived in the City yesterday and registered ac the Pleasanton. This hotel has been se- lected as the headquarters of the Pennsyl- vania delegation. There will be 400 of the Peansyivania contingent, but only seventy-five have been assigned to the They are due to arrive in this City at daylight next Tuesday morn- John Willis Baer, general secrelary of the Endeavorers’ Sociely, will make an M | address this morning at the Calvary Pres- byterian Church; 1n the afternoon he speaks at the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium and at night at the Central M. E. Church, Aol eipia HEAVY TRAVEL. A Crush of Business Con- tinues From Omaha West. OMAHA, NEBr., July 3.—Notwithstand- ing the belief of the railroad men that yesterday would wind up the rush of the Cbristian Endeavorers to San Francisco to-day has been a busy one. The Union Pacific limited this morning bad fourteen cars and No. 3 this afternoon went out in two sections. It is reported | from Chicago that big crowds will leave that city to-night, so that to-morrow promises to be as busy a Sunday as the passenger and ticket men have had for several years. Mostof these are scatter- ing parties of Endeavorers and many who | are not deiegates but will stay a while in San Francisco. Many of the tourists have iler until to-day before starting on their Western trips, as they preferred to foliow the cru-h o: the Endeavorers. For the first time since the irain has been in operation the Union Pacific’s “Qverland Limited” train this morning ran out with fourteen cars. This iseight cars in excess of the average number, the “Overland Limited” being a six-car train. The monster engine No. 1800 pulled out with the long train and looked powerful enough to put the heavy train throughon. schedule time. % This afternoon’s “‘Fast Mail” train, run KXEW TO-DAY. 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