The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1897. ALL MALES TOBE SHOT Weyler’'s New Scheme for Exterminating Pacificos. | | | | | { | | | PARENTS AND CHILDREN | DIE IN HUNGER. Spanish Battalion Neatly Trapped in Santa Clara | Province. } AMBUSHED BY CUBANS AND THEN WERE SHOT. Country People Still Relentlessly Concentrated In Towns and Starved to Death. | HAVANA, Cosa, July .—The work of | concentrating pacificos in country towns | goes on relentiessly at Jaruco, Havana | Jose Bravo, a farmer, and wife, died in the streets of hunger, Tuesday last, | after begging for eight days through the town for shelter and bread for themselves and seven children. Two of the children fell aead near their father. At Ranchuelo, Santa Clara province, 200 pacificos, after being several days without food and receiving repeated refusals to their appeals to be allowed to get help, gan to riot, declaring to the military commander that they would rather be killed fighting than starve to death. The rs, in fear, gave them food which had epared for the soldiers, but when | the soldiers learned what had happened, they started out from the barracks and began a general massacre of the pacificos. | correspondent has learned | rustworthy sources that General | has issued orders to gather in all people and report them as pris- province, o f war The males are then to be sh In this way the extermination of the nat:ve population is expected to be ac- isbed more quickly than by stary- o8 in town province issavage as ever. The Spanish battalion of Soria, com- | manded by Colonel Ros, had an engage- | nient near Maria Roadriguez with Cabans under General Aleman, and after several bours’ firing the Cubans made a false re- | repared a mile from the scene of battle. | he Spaniards, believing the Cubans were ei followed tnem and fell into the trap. They were surrounded, and in a hand-to-hand fight 24 Spanish soldiers and two captains were killed. Colonel Soria narrowly escaped. His forces have en- tered Remedios, panic stricken and ex- bausted. T B HURRORS UF SPANISH PRISONS, Innuman Cruelties to Which an Ameri- can Woman Was Subjectcd. PORTLAND, Oz., July 9.—Mrs. Isabella Y. Castelio, a S8an Francisco-born lady, but recently from Cuba, is 1n Irvington suburb, being slowly restored to the health | of which Spanish barbarians robbed her. Early last January, without having bsen guilty of any act tendlng to succor the enemy, the commandant of the district one night caused Mrs. Castello and her husband to be taken from their home and confined in adistant prison, pending their | removal to Havana. This prison, Mrs. | Castello says, was in keeping with all sim- | ilar places.in Cuba designed for the incar- | ceration of patriots and their suspected | ailies. It was reeking with all manner of | odious vermin and death-dealing odors, and within an area of 40x80 feet about 400 of the best people of the district were forced to die by inches. Referring only to her own trials, which | will y illustrate those of others there, Mrs. Castello says that her daily diet for | several months consisted of a pint MJ t 10 lure the Spanish into an ambush | 9 | her eyes for alleged insubordination. GENERAL RAMON BLANC = \\\ O, Who Will Succeed General Weyler as Captain- General of the Spanish Forces in Cuba. boiled beans and a half-gallon of fresh water every three days. Before the ex- piration of that time the water had be- comie so impregnated with foul gases that | it was absolutely poisonous. Using water | for ablutions was scarcely thought of. She was required to perform menial work of | uch a nature as an American scavenger | would shrink from. She had seen the| lash used upon the barely covered backs of refined women whose natures rebelled | against performing this class of work. [t | was not rebelliousness on the part of these | women, but they absolutely could not o0 it. | From 180 pounds avoirdupois Mrs, Cas- | tello shrank to 75 pounds when she was | released from her living tomb, during | the latter part of May, after her husband | had been shot down like a dog bels(lre be | had seen him but thrice up to that occa- | sion since their bappy home had been broken up. { On the day of his murder he, with a| gang of others, was, for some purpose, | being driven past the woman’s stockade. | Mrs. Castello, observing his almost death- like appearance, saluted him with the ad- | monition to bear up like a martyr. I can’t, my love,” replied he, in a faint tone, “I fear I will die before night.” No sooner had he uttered these words than a euard piaced a revolver muzzie to his temple and sent a ball crashing through it. This was the insubordination poor Cas- tello was guilty of. Mrs. Castello was removed to the home of a friend in Bayamo twenty-four hours afier her husband’s cruel murder and re- mained there until she was able to travel to Havana. There she was sent to New York and from the Junta she receivea sufficient money to reach a haven of rest, if not of comfort. Dr. Minton Wires Accrptance. FRANKFORT, Ky., July 9.—Dr. J. Mc- Cluskey Bianey, chairman of the board of trustees of Center College, this evening received a telegram from Henry C. Min- ton of San Francisco, Cal., accepting the | presidency of Center College. WU TING FANG 1S IN DISFAVOR Early Removal of the Chinese Minister at Washington. Reached San Francisco and | Went to the Capital Only Two Months Ago. To Be Replaced by Lee King Yee, Now Chief Clerk of Chinese Forelgn Affairs. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—Wn Ting Fang, the new Chinese Minister, is to be recalled some time in August. This iniormation comes in the nature of a sur- prise, as he reached this country only about two months ago to assume diplo- matic re'ations between this country and China. No official document has as yet | been received ordering the recail of the Minister, but the private advices were ac- companied by copies of Chinese news- papers, all containing the same intelli- gence, which leaves but little douht that the information is correct. Inquiry was made at the]legation, and while it was impossible to see the Minister the secre- tary acknowledged that such information / oBejucal_, 3 N - i s o (O Bgtalgno o e erraiTalse IR M AT i T AP B ~———<"Rzilromd Lines [ A iV S . g ; e Directi or of Ldrge Towns Het. 5 so ® ° w w w w Clenaga or Swamp Lana s Moverment of Cutan Troons d ty Shancards 2 > Grand Highway 75" 100 e | Scale of Miles Map of Cuba, Between the Trochas, Showing the Position of Weyler’s Army and th e Movement of the Cuban Forces Toward Matanzas. Gomez has apparently outgeneraled Weyler and assumed an active offensive at a time most unfavorable for his opponents, fought at La Reforma, and Weyler’s troo far as they have been compelled to waich A . A' J.ime over two montks ago General Weyler marched against him in the hills south of Santa Cla: intention of driving him east to the Jucaro-Moron trocha and there crushing him. with the )y One battle of three days’duration was ps have remained inactive in the vicinity of Santo Espiritu ever since, except in so the railroa is and the Grand Highway, on which their supplies depend, and com- pleting the devastation of the country around them. Leaving his enemy bshind him, Gomez has advanced across the Han- nabana Ri customed to the country, the Cubans, unhindered by the rain and find subsistence as they go, while the Cubans are wel! prepared for the movement, several large consignments of arms, recesses ot the Cienaga Zapata, tanneries, etc,, and where the § Spaniaris are compelled to keep to iver into Matarzas province, and from their various stations his several subordinates are moving to join him. Ac- y season which has set in, can move along the country,roads the railroacs and paved highways. They have within the last few weeks landed from filibusters and safely secured ammunition and other military stores, and in case of disaster bave a secure retreat in the where they have stored large amounts of provisions, etc.; established hospitals and arsenais, paniards have never yet been able to penétrate. The had been received, but in the absence of official information he declined to con- firm the report. It was, however, learned that Wu Ting Fang will be transferred to Tokio to suc- ceed Yu Keng, who wasformerly Minister at that place. Charges have been pre- ferred against Yu Keng, and his conauct of affairs in Japan hasbeen under investi- gation by Li Hung Chang for some time. 1 It was finally decided to relieve him and | be will be replaced by Wu Ting Fang. The latter will be succeeded by Lee King Yee, now Chief Ulerk of Foreign Affairs and directly under Li Hung Chang. Lee | King is a man of large experience in dip- | lomatic affairs and has grown up under | the tutorship of the great Premier. He is { about 50 vears ola and has spent many years on the bench as “'Tao Tai,” or chiet | magistrate of Ching Lang. About the time that Minister Fang was sent to this country Lee King was sum- | moned by the Emperor to Peking to take | the position of Chief Clerk of Foreign Affairs. As such he took an active part in the investigation of charges against | Yu Keng, and has probably had some- thing to do with the transfer of Mr. Fang to Tokio. The recall of Fang and his transfer to Tokio are looked upon here as both a pro- motion and a degradation. It isargued | that the representative of China in Wash- ington is a Minister proper, while that in Tokio is a Minister resident. The first is a ministership of the second class, while the Minister resident is the third class_of envoys abroad. At the same time, owing 1o the recent complications between China and Japan, the legation at Tokio has as- sumed importance far exceeding that of the United States. SLUMP IN BICYCLE STOCKS. Almost a Panic in England, Where Comp:- tition of American Machines Is | Becoming a Reality. LONDON, Exa., July 9.—There was al- | most a panic at the Birmingham Stock Exchange to-day over the general fall in | the price of bicycle shares, caused by the | Rudge-Whitworth Cycle Company mak- ing a material reduction in the prices of their wheels, Startling rumors were in circulation regarding the stability of the company, which was floated a few months ago with a capital of $5,000,000. The de- pression was intensified by reports that tbe bicycle factories at Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton were di; charging hands and worklng short time. Nevertheless the largest firms declare they are not affected and deny the exist- ence of a slump. They profess not to fear American competition. The Daily Mail contends that Ameri- can compelition is becoming a very real thing. It attacks the Birmingham and Coventry manufacturers for adhering con- servatively to laborious, hand methods, thus allowing Americans to capture the bulk of the export trade with their smart, | machine-made goods, It recalls the fact | that Coventry lost its watch and ribbon industries through a similar derisive con- wemptof go-ahead methods, ana warns the manufacturers that they should learn a lesson thereirom. — . ANOTHER AMERICAN DUCHESS. Daughter of 0;den Goelet of New York Betrothed 1o the Duke of Manchester. LONDON, Exc., July 9.—The Daily Telegraph announces that Miss Goelet, | daughter of Ogden Goelet of New York, is betrothed to the Duke of Manchester. William Angus Drogo Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, was born Murch 3, 1877, ana succeeded his father in 1892 His mother was formerly Consuelo Yznaga of New York, for whom the Dauchess of Marlborough was named. The Duke ie a lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifls Corps. He has seats at Kimbolton Castle, St. Noots, Huntingdonshire; Bampton House in the same county; Tanderagoe Castle, County Armagh, Ire- land, and a town house in Great Cumber- land place, Hyde Park. — A BIG CHINEME CEMETERY. Syndicate Said to Have Bought the Ground Near Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 9.—E. 8. Phillips, a local real estate agent, says he has closed a transaction with a National syndicate. of Chinamen for the purchase of 109 acres, with the objeot of converting itinto a Chinese cemetery similar to the one on the outskirts of San Francisco. The price named by Agent Phillips is $350,000, and the deed for the property is said to have been placed in the name of an American citizen as trustee for the syndicate. Phillips says the syndicate represents Chinese of New York, Brook- Iyu, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburg. Baltimore and this city and has $60,000,000 at its back, He also said that plansfora josshouse anda picnic pavilion on the grounds are in the hands of an architect. INCLE SHM CONCERNED Shares to Some Extent the Apprehension of Hawaii. 'A SUBJECT OF CABINET DISCUSSION. President Dole in Fear of Some Coup d’Etat by Japan. DISLIKES THE PRESENCE OF HER WARSHIP. Fosslbility of the Custom-House at Honolulu Belng Seizad Is Suggested. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—Appre- hension of the Hawaiian Government over Japan’s determined attitude concern- ing the annexation treaty and her claim for damages over the refusal of the Hono- lulu authorities to permit Japanese labor- ers to land is shared to some extent by the United States. At a Cabinet meeting to- day the matter was brought upin connec- tion with the appeal made yesteraay to Assistant Secretary Day by Hatch, Hawaiian Minister, for prompt ratifica- tion of the treaty. Nothing came of the discussion, so far as can be learned, and the subject went over. Official information from Honolulu shows that President Dole and his ad- visers fear some coup d‘etat which would place both Hawaii and the United States at a disadvantage and which might seri- ously interfere with annexation. Admiral Beardslee has written Secre- tary Long from Homnolulu that the Japan- ese residents there are showing a vacific spirit; that the Japanese Minister to | Hawaii has been dined on the flagship | Philadelphia and has returned the cour- | tesy, and altogether everything appears to be lovely. | But the Hawaiians do not like the vres- | ence of a Japanese man-of-war. They are | suspicious that prevailing conditions rep- | resent the calm before the storm and are afraid that Japan may seize the Custom- bhouse at Honoluiu under the pretense that the damages claimed against Hawaii can be collected only in that way. Japan has shown no disposition to re- cede from her position. She maintains that Hawaii nas violated her ireaties with the Tokio Government and wants to know to whom she can look for satisfaction if the treaty is ratitied. That 1s the situa- tion at present. The United Siates and Hawaii are quiescent and the next move must come from Japan. With respect to the editorial statement of the Japan Herald that Japan has de- signs on the Hawailan Islands and was making preparations to supplant the Hawalian with the Japanese flag, the Minister authorizes the most direct and positive denial of them as without even a basis of fact. The Japanese Herald, he said, is an English newspaper published at Yoko- hama in the English interest and was entirely discredited by the Government of Japan, to which it had been hostile for twenty-five years. It was entirely with- out information irom the Government and | its utterances bad no sanction from Japan | or the Jupanese people. The Government any kind, ana its statements asto Japan | having designs on Hawaii the Minister | characterized as unwarranted and untrue. B A JAPAN GLOWS DEFIANT. Will Renew Iier Protests to the State Depariment, NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.—A dispatch | to the Herald from Washington, says: The Japanese Government, through Min- ister Hcshi, will make to the State De- pariment to-morrow an undaunted re- assertion of its attitude toward the United | States in the matter of the annexation of | Hawaii. This rejoinder to the reply of Sherman to the Japanese protest will reiterats with added vigor all claims and grievances cited in the original protest. It is not anderstood that any new grounds for com- plaint will be adduced, but the indigna- tion of Japan at the lack of consideration with which she feels she has been treated, both before and since the filing of the pro- test, will be unreservedly expressed. ‘While the officials of the legation still deny that Japan entertains any desire for the acquisition of Hawaii and renew their protestations that a breach of the friendly relations between Japan and the United States is furthest irom her wishes or ex- pectations it is believed at the State De- partment that she is not to be placatea without a long and bitter diplomatic wrangle. | The recsll of Minister Hoshi is regarded as one of tue probabilities in the situation. The Serate Commiitee on Foreign Reli- tions is expec'ed to renort the annexation treaty foraction on Monday or Tuesday next. The Hawaiians are using all the influence in their power to secure favor- able action this session, but the matter will in all probabiiity be postponed until the December session - WAR SPIKAr IN JAFPAN, Nothing but a Chnstisement of Unels Sam Will Satisfy the Pres. SEATTLE, WasH., July 9.—The Great Northern’s Nippon Yuzn Kaisha steam- ship Matsuvama arrived in port to-day, bringing Oriental advicss to June 25, on which date it sailed from Yokohama. The whole tenor of the Japanese press is of defiance and a bellicose spirit toward the United States in consequance of the Ha- waiian annexation affair. The Japan Dai.y Mail of June 24 editorially says: It is certainly true that the little band of Americans wnho have arrogated the right to dispose of the Hawaiian Islands are usurpers: that they attained their commanding position by a trick, and that they have not the slightest moral title te the property which they are now uietly undertaking to haud over to the %’u!ud States, For all purposes connected with annexation the situatiou remains exactly the same as President Cleveland left it nearly four years ago. The evidence collected by his commis- sioner stands unrebutted by any fresh testi- mony, and the “substantixl wrong” tha: he denounced remains as substantial as ever. That is the stumbling block in the path to an- nexation. President McKinley has not found it a stumbling block. He has unhesitatingly taken up the position described by President Cleveland as that of having actually setup a temporary government on foreign soil for the purpose of acquiring through that agency ter- riiory which we had wnnslully put in its vossession; and he has resdily made himself a party to & bargain coneerming which Presi- dent Cleveland sdid that it *‘would be called b; a familiar and unpleasant ham: when tound in private transactions.” The Kokumin Shimbun coniends that never gave it any information or news of | | interests of the 25,000 Japanese i Hawaii* together with the prestige and honor of Japan. Iidoes not advise, however, that such stern measures should be adopted until every other method of pacification bas failed. The Tokio Shimbun says: The warship Naniwa is_auite capable of affording the Japanese in Hawail ample pro- tection, If additional men-of-war are to be sent anywhere they should be sent in the form of a:quadron to the other side of the Pacific. Uuless we are determined to take that step /f necessary how can we effectually wipe away the indignity to which we have been subjected ? A dispatch to the Kobe Chronicle from Tokio, under date of June 20, says: A telegram has been received from a trust- WOTtLy source to the effect that the British Government on the 18th inst. addressed a protest to the United States Government against the incorporation of Hawaii. —_——— BATTLE-SHIF OREGON SAILS. Aimost a Certain'y That Its Destination s Honolulu. SEATTLE, Wask., July 9.—The Oregon put to sea between 8:30 and 9 o'clock this morning pursuani to insiruccions received yesterday afternoon from the Secretary of the Navy. Its executive officers had a busy night of it making ready for what may prove not only an eventiul, buta history-making journey. Deep concern was written on their countenances and one could not help remarking the appar- ent great interest shown in the affair by every attache of the veasel from the low- est to the commander, who, while profess- ing to see nothing extraordinary in the Government’s sudden activity and change of plaans, betrayed an uneasiness born only of anxiety. Throughout the night nothing tran- spired warranting a modification as to the belligerent aspect.of things portrayed in the dispatches of last evening. That the Oregon is Honolulu bound is even more apparent to-day, and the only thing about which there seems longer any doubt is whether it will proceed direct to the Hawailan Islands from Angeles or go by way of San Francisco, there to receive ad- ditional instructions, as well as fuel and supplies. A'remark let drop lats last night to a prominent citizen of this city by one of the Oregon’s officers indicated that the battleship’s course to the isiands would be by way of San Francisco, but that the delay would be of short duration, As the American man-of-war steamed by Port Townsend this morning it passed coming this way merchant vessel whose mails papers supposed to contain, or be a reflex of, the feelings of the Mikado’s Govern- ment and subjects toward the United States, and it is significant that their editorial utterances breathed a deep-seated spirit of defiance. Some went so far as to advise sending a Japanese naval fleet to the Pacific Coast and ‘‘open up the port holes.” -— Denied at the Navy Department. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—The battle-ship Oregon has sailed from Seattle for Port Angeles for coal. It is stated at the Navy Department that thera is not the slightes: intention of sending the ship to Hawaii. It is bouna for San Francisco, and has stayed at Seattle, whither it went solely to heip out in the Fourth of July celebration, longer than was intended by the department. The Boston has arrived at Kobe, Japan, The Maine has arrived at Lewes. Will Lire in Barnaio’s Palace. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.—The World’s London correspondent says the Bradley-Martins of New York have taken Barney Barnato’s beautiful unfinished palace on Park lan Sl Dramatist Gillet'e Seyiously IUl. LONDON, Exg, July 9.—The distin- guished American dramatist and actor, William Gillette. is seriously ill with ma- larial fever. He will be compelied to give up all theatrical work temporarily. a great Japanese | carried | WARNING T0 THE SULTAN Emperor Franz Joseph Gives Abdul Hamid Advice. SHOULD YIELD TO0 THE POWERS. Answer of Austria’s Ruler to the Turk’s Appeal for Support. BRITISH CABINET MEETING SUMMONED. Sltuation to Be Discussed In London To-Day—Turkish Ships Or- dered to Crete. LONDON, Exe., July 9.—A special meeting of the Cabinet has been sum- moned for to-morrow to discuss the Tark- ish situation. VIENNA, AvstrIA, July 9.—The Turk- ish Embassador, Mahmoud Nedim Bey, having made representations to Em peror Franz Joseph in favor of the annexation of Northern Thessaly to Turkey, the Sul- tan appealed to the Emperor by telegraph for his support. The Emperor sent the following repiy: “*As a friend I must advise you in your own interest and that of Turkey to con- clude a peace forthwith upon the basis which has been unanimously proposed by the Embassadors of the European powers. The frontier line proposed by the military attaches corresponds with the principle of stategic rectification adopted originally by your Majesty, and constitutes,with the other conditions of peace, the maximurm of concessions recognized as equitable by the concert of the powers, which are firm and united in their determination and which desire above all to create a condi- tion of affairs which will offer Europe solid guaranties of peace and tranquillity. I therefore beg your Majesty tv take my | advice into serious consideration.” The Emperor’s letter is published in the | Official Gazette, which is an exceptional | course of procedure in a matter of this ind. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkky, July 9.— The Embassadors of the powers having been reinstructed by their respective Governments about the dispatch of an- other noie to the Turkish Government, | reiterating the demand for an explicit reply on the Greeco-Tarkish frontier ques- tion, it is thought probable that they mav | recommend their Governments to recail | them and organize a naval demonstration, | . The Turkish Dardanelles squadron has | been ordered to make ready to proceed to Crete and to take on board provisions for three months. 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