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

¢ VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 127. DAY MORNING OCTOBER 5 PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAGASTA ~ NAMES A CABINET Disappointment of the Public and the Liberal Party. HE CHOOSES MEN OF MODERATE ABILITY. /The More Prominent of the Liberals Kept Out of Office. BLANCO SLATED TO TAKE WEYLER’S PLACE. New Premler Informed That the Cubans WIIl Accept Autonomy and the Butcher’s Rzcall. PEE FRER PERY FRPRRY SPANISH CABINET IS COMPLETED MADRID, Sparn, Oct. 4—The new Minisiry is constituted follows: Senor Sagasta, President of the Council of Ministers Senor Gullon, Minister for For- eign Affairs. % AARAAEASALASAAAAASEAASRERAAEAE AN SRR A SRR AN » as Senor Groizard, Minister for Justice. General Correa, Minister of War. Admiral Bermejo, Minister of Marine. Senor Puigcerver, Minister of Finance. tenor Capedepon, Minister of- - APPPRRRPR RSB R PRV PR PRI IR R R IR R R R R PR }é‘ the Interior, Count Xiguena, Minister of Pubtic Works Senor Moret y Prendergast, Minister for the Colonies. The Ministers, after an informal meeting to-day, proceeded to the palace and took the oath of oftie. NEAAAR SEAS S 66k SSASSA [ NEW YORK. N. Oct. 4.—The ‘World’s cable from Madrid say Sagasta bas been disappointed in his efforts to induce all the prominent statesmen of the Liberal party to join the Cabinet in the present critical circumstances, and has had to content himself witha Ministry composed of respectable and less influen- tial men. Personal feuds between the right wing and the democrats in the Liberal party prevented Gamazo accepting a profferea seat, and his brother-in-law, Maura, the author of the first Cuban home rule biil, is also excluded chiefly through the influ- ence of the Senators and Deputies of the | Union Constitutional of Cuba, who be- long to the Liberal party in Spain, The oniy strong men in the Cabinet are Puigcerver, Minister of Finance,Capdebon, Minister of the Interior, and Moret, Min- ister of the Colonies. The latter accepied the colonial office with a view to playinz the chief partin reversing the policy of gment in Cuba and the Philippines, and Fith his knowledge of Enghish Moret will Siaturally be in a position 1o assist the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gullon, who Continued on Second Page. the late Govern- | LANGTRY'S REASON 13 SHATTERED i The First Husband of “Airy Fairy” Lillian i Insane. \ | | [SENT TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM. Found Wandering in a De- | mented Condition on a Railway Track fSTORY OF MATRIMONIAL DIFFICULTIES. Spurned by His Wife After She H d Won Fame on the London Stage. LONDON, Exa., Oct. 4 —Bdward Lang- try, former husband of Lily Langtry, the actress, who recently obtained a divorce from him in California and who 1s said to have privately married Prince Paul Ester- bezy, has been found wandering in a de- mented condition on the railway line near Chester and has been sent to a lunatic asylum. The history of Edward Langtry’s life <ince he became the husband of the beauly whose fame on the stage and in the divorce court is not confined to the American and European continents is one o! pathetic romance. Langtry was not a rich man when he married Lillian Le Breton, the woman who was destined to attract the eye of the Prince ot Wales and b:come the talk of London. Thev were wedded on t:e island of Jer- sey. Ste was then a simple country wirl, the daughter of a minister, and the belle 0! the community. For <everal years they lived happily and contentedly. Then they rem .ved to Lon- don. FKortune dia not smile uvon the busband, and the time came when cred- itors pressed tueir claims and the wolf | was at the door. Then it was that Mrs. Langtry resolved to attempt 10 make a living on the stage. Shr obiained a position in a London piay- uou-e and her beauty soon won for her success. Buccess caused the wife to cast aside the love of husband. He wastoo com- monplace for the woman who was now one of the most noted of London aciresses. bhe sought adivorce, but Langtry opposed | it, and declared once ana for all tuat he would never consent to a legal separation. Afterward, it is understood, he decided to { bring action himself in the English courts. The wavwurd wife had before | this obtained a decree of divorce in Cali- | foruia. | Only recently it was announced that she was betrothed 1o Prince Esterhazy. When this announcement was made the beauty’s former husband declared in a published interview that i} she married the Prince and they ever came to Ergland h2 would cause her to be prosecuted for bizamy, as her Califor- | nia divorce would be without effect in | England. | Powelt Will Mot Go. | WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 4.—Aftera | consultation between Secretary Alger and | Major Powall, Corps of KEngineers, who arrived nere from Pittsburg to-day, it was announced that the officer wou:d not go to | Nicaragua as the engzineer officer of the | canal commission. The Secretary is now i looking for another engineer officer to take the place. = Avaentine’s Tax on Vessels BUENOS AYRES, ARGENTINE, Oct. 4.— The Argentine Congress has just passed a Jaw imposing a tax of 1 centavo gold per 1on register on vessels entering the port of | Buenos Ayres. Tn Jease or Nell the Liwe. MANAGUA, NicaraGua (via Galveston, Tex.), Oct. 4 —Tbe Congrass of Nicaragua has authorized the Goyernment to lease or :ell the National Railroad. EDWARD The Man Whose Beautiful Wife Has Finally Driven Him Insane, LANGTRY. RIGHTS OF AMERICANS INFRINGED Nicaragua’s Concession to an English Steam- ship Company. MAY CHECK WORK ON THE CANAL. More Than This, It Looks as Though Great Britain Is After Its Control. SOME SHREWD DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERING. But the Unlted S‘'ates May Take Steps to Protect Its Interests In the Waterway. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—The Oc- TIGALDA ISLAND. THROUGH TO DAWSON UP THE YUKON RIVER IN A SMALL BOAT. [Sketched from na ure by Mre. NeNaught.) o tober bulletin of the Bureau of American | of the American company whose rights Republics prints t e announcement from Colonel O'Hara, at San Juan del Norte, that an important comtract has been signed beiween the’Niearaguan Govern- ment and an English steamship company whien, if permitted to stand, will provea serious iniringement of the righ:s of the Maritime Canal Company. By thiscon- tract the Atlas Sieamship Company given the excliusive right for thirly years to navigate the Silico Lagoon, ana also for the same period the exclusive right to construct and operate tramways and rail- wavs along the banks of the San Juan River. At the same time, in granting this concession, the Nicaraguan Government binds itself not o grant subsidies 10 any other steamship line navigating Lake Nicaragua. This concession assumes international importanc: by reason of the fact that the San Juan River isa partof the channel surveved for the Nicaragua canal, and that Like Nicaragua is al-o an important portion of route of this proj:cted trans- isthmian waterway. The concession, therefore, is considered as a direct attsck upon the project at the hands of the Nicaraguan authorities and a violation of an earlier concession, which, although Nicaragua claims it to have been forfeited tor non-compliance with the terms of the contract, is 3till hela as in full force by the friends of the Nicarazuan canal in the Senate and the House and by the owners of the conce <ion in New York. It is con:idered cxtremely significant that an English company, while the question of Governmert aid to the Mari- time Canal Comrany is pending in Con- gress, is said to have been able to secure a grantof this character, which carries with itexclusive rights for such a long period to construct and operate tramways and rail- ways along the bank of the San Juan River, together with a pledge not to af- ford subsidy assistance to otk.er steamship lines navigating the great lake, which, if the Nicaragua canal is built, will be an integral part of the route. . The Panama railroad, which rans along the major por- tion of the survey of the Panama canal, was purchased by the Panama Canal Company as a necessary adjunct to that great undertakinz. It will be extremely aitficult on account of the great additional expense for any company to construct the N carsgua canal withcut a railway aiong a portion of the. course by which mate- riais ecan be transported. An army officer thoroughly familiar with the Nicaraguan isthmus, aue to some years of re-idence in that section of Central America, said to THE CALL cor- respondent to-day that the concession to the Atlas Steamship Company was, in his opinion, the resuit of surewd diplo- matic maneuvering on the part of Great Britain. “The insistence of that country,” said he, *‘upon the binding force of the Clay- ton-Bulwer treaty, has heretofore pre- vented the United States from itself en. gaging in. the construction of the canal, and has forced the organization of a pri- vate corporation whose success will de- pend upon assistance rendered it by the Government. The object of Engiand has been naturally to prevent t.is country from controling the vrojected inland walerway. If the concession granted 1o this English corporation is to stand, the prospect for the building of the canal in my judgment s more remote than it has been for years vast. 1f such a col cession has been actually granted, as there is little reason to doubt seems to be the case, our State Department should at once enter into communication with the Nicaraguan Government in the interests | | | | are inveded. It looks like a.step toward subsequent control of rights to build a canal oy English cepital and under Brit- ish control.” ; *‘It recalis that President Hayes asserted the doctrine with respect to the Nicaragua canal towhich this Government has since adbered. President Haves sa ‘The policy of this Government is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any KEaropean power. An inter-oceanic canal acros< the American isthmus wiil essentially change the geo- grapbical relations between the Atlantie and Pacific coasts of the United Statesand- between the United States and the rest of the world. It will be the great ocean thor- oughfare b>tween the Atlantic and Pacific shores and a part of the coast line of the United States. Our mers commercial ia- terest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and our pros:erity as a nation, too, our means of defense, our urity, our peace and safety are matters of paramount con- cern to the people of the United States. No other great power would under similar circumstances fail to assert a rightful con- trol over a work 8o close y and vitally af- fecting its interests and welfare.” “Just at the present time when a com- miession appointed by the President is about to visit Nicaragua for the purpose of securing information as to the ‘eisi- bility of routes propose | and the cost to be incur-ed, in order that Congress may act int lligently in affording aid or de- clining Governmental assistance to this most important undertaking, it is ex- tremely significant that English interests have been able to obtain rights, so called, which can oniy be based upon most ma- teriil damage to the valuable concessions owned by American interests, and whose posse-sion forms the chief ets of the company. The United States Govern- ment has neveradmitted that these rights have b.en invalidated, and it is not licely that the present administration will per- mit the so-called contract between the English steamship company and the Nicaraguan Government 10 go unchal- lenged.” POFE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH. ! His Koliness Kept in the House by Bad Weather, but Many Visitors Are Recsived. ROME, Itavy. Oct. 4 —The, Pope, all re- poris in is and London papers to the contrarv, is in excellent health. The O:servatore Romano this evening says: The bad weather of the past few days has prevented the Pope from continu- in.: his walks in the garden of the Vatican. Op Friday afternoon the Pope received the | members of several disunguished families ana on Saturday afternoon he received over 100 Italian and foreign visitors. On Sunday he admitted fifty visitors to his celebration of mass. Dr. Laffoni, the physician of his Holi- ness, in an interview with a representative of the Associated Press, confirmed the statements of the Osservatore Romano as to the satisfactory state of heuith o: the Supreme Pontiff aua em hatically denied the recent alarming revorts circulated concerning the Pope’s health. AR KT Renews the Receptions. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 4.—The President to-day renewed the receptions given on Monday to the general public and shook hands with about 300 visitors in the east room. He also saw for the first time all persous who sought an audi- ence. He was not able to give much time to each, but saw every one for a few minutes, 3 SHISHALDIN VOLCANGO, on Oonimak Island, in Eruption. BALILOF G0L) FOR MELCHER | Recovers a Judgment Against the Fickle Mrs. Hadley. Just $1789 Damages Awarded by the Jury for a Broken Heart. But the Proud Dingley Famlly Will Appeal the Case to a Higher Court. LEWISTON, Mk, Oct. 4 —Mrs. Hadley | lost her case. Twelve good men and true, ; after eight hours’ wrangling in the jury- room, at 11 v'clock to-night announced that the fair young cousin of the famous author of the Dinglev bill, who surprised ber native State as well as California afew months since by quietly wedding the wealthy hotel provrietor, Hadley of San Diego, when all the world supposed she Was soon to become Mrs. Melcher, the wife of a down East merchant, had committed & breach of promise. Iu spite of the late- ness of the hour the courtroom was crowded, and :05n the whole city knew of the result of the celebrated case. The result was a surprise, and although the verdict awarded is a small one, far be- neath the claims of the broken-hearted man who got the mitten, the outcome of the case is & severe blow to the pride of the Dingley family, who have never be- fore known such bumiliating defeat. They will probably retuse to abide by the decision, and will undoubted:y fight it out tothe bitter end, asking for a new trial, not for the sake of the paltry thou- sand or two, but because of the principle. “Since last Thursday the case has dragged along 1n court, a great quantity of spicy testimony of the sickening love passage being dragged out before a morbid crowd of women spectators. This morn- ing’s session opened with the closing argu- ment of the counsel, John A. Morrill for the defense and Charles F. Libbey for the platetiff. They took 90 minutes each and concluded at 2 o'clock. Judge Emery delivered his charge, an impartial review of Lhe case covering all the points. The jury retired at 3 o’clock, but it was 11 o’clock to-night when they | reported-a verdict of $1789 for the plaintiff. | The jury stood 11 to 1 lor the plaintiff on the first ballot, and that one juror stuck out tor Mrs. Hadley for eizht long hours before he wou d give in. SHEEHAN AND CHOKcH AT OUTS. Tammany Men Quarrel and the Leadership of the Organization Will Be Changed. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 4—Sheehan and Croker are at ouis. That was the story discussed in the corridors of the Hoffmen House to-night by the leaders of the Wigwam. The report is that Sheehan is thoroughly disgusted with the course pursued by Croker, and so told him to his teeth. As a result it is allesed by men on the inside - that there was a lively war of words, and when the men parted it was with the under- standing that John C. Sheehan, at the meeting of the executive committee at the Tammany Hall to-morrow afternoon, will formaily resign the leadership of the or- ganization and that Richard Croker will take the helm. In the action that Mr. Sheehan 1s said to have decided upon he is alleged to have the concurrence of United States Senator Edward Murphy. . SEA LIFE LURES THEN 70 ROIN Officers of the Adams Say Boys Should Not Be Apprenticed. Fifiy of the Tratning-Ship’s Crew Will Desert at San Francisco. The Navy Not the Place for Lads Who Are Not Yet Out of Thelr 'Teens. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Oct. 4.—Two officers of the Uniied States training-ship Adams, who came ashore hurriedly this afternoon just betore the ship left for the south, were seen by Tue CaLL correspondent. One « flicer said: *‘Unuer no circumstances use my name, But, having given your word 1n that re- gard, let me tell you that the whole scheme of taking boys of from 14 “to 17 years into the navy is to be grealy deprecated. It is a failure, and an awful, miserable and complet- failure. Of the eighty boys who are now aboard of the Adams fifty will desert immediately upon our arrival at San Francisco, and out of the thirly remaining the Government will get just two good xailors, “The depth of vice to which these boys have already gone cannot be told in woras. It is simply awful It simoly means degradation to a boy to apprentice him aboard tbe Adams. That's all.” “What does the captain think of the situation?” was asked. ““Well,”” repiied the officer, “Captain Gibson does not say a great deal openly, but at heart he is completely discouraged, and thoroughly condemans the method of en- listing boys into a life that is aimost sure to ruin them. We officers, too, are having a pretty hard time ot it. It will be at least four months before we have more than one night ashore.”” DOBS NOT D.TRE ANY NEW HONORS Ex President Cleveland Denies That He Is Seeking a Senatorship. TRENTON, N. J, Oct. 4.—Former President Cleveiand authorized a contra- diction to-day of the report that he is de- sirous for appointment on the bench or going to the United States Senate. He has resumed writing his memoirs. Mrs, Cleveland will neither extend nor accept social courtesies during a few months. NEW YORK, N. Y., O:t 4—A special to the Herald from Trenton says: The rumor tha- Grover Cleveland is nreparing to enter the New Jersey bar has founda- tion in a movement undertaken by some of the Damocratic alumni of Princeton to obtain for him a position on the bench of t e Court of Errors and Appeals. The matter has been thoroughly canvassed by members of the faculty ana of the alumni associatious of New Yord and New Jersey. There is a vacancy on the bench, caused by the death oi Lewis Dayton. “One report is that Mr. Cleveland likes the plan and that his friends are prepar- ing to get up a monster pet tion in his be- half. Another report makes it appear that he 1s doubtful of the wisdom o1 such acourse. Itisa maiter of general gossip that Mr. Cleveland is willing to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate as soon as an opportunity affords. i | river is dropping hour by hour. “THE CALL WILL GET THE NEWS Sam Wall Is Not Turned Back by Low Water. TO WARN THE MI- NERS OF DANGER. Klondikers Can Get No More Supplies by Steamer From St. Michael. CORRESPONDENTS STOP AT MANNOOK CREEK. An Effort Will Be Made to Carry Supplies to tha Miners Tn's Winter. FORT YUKON (Yukon River, on the Arctic Circle), Sept. 1, 1897.—The steam- er Hamilton, that left St. Michael fifteen days ago with 150 passengers for tha Klondike, including a delegation of news» paper correspondents, has been here two days trying to get over the shoals. It has failed and will early to-morrow morn- ing turn back to Mannook Creek and probably go into winter quarters there. This brief statement compasses almost a fulfil'ment of all the evil prophecizs that have been made since th's wild rush to the Arctic gold diggings began. Itmeans that about 2000 tons of provisions which the peopie at Dawson and in the Kion- dike diggings and . along the upper stretches of the Yukon are depending upon for the winter will not get there. This is a catastrophe whoily outside the calculations of the transportation com- panies, as well as of the heedless throng, and means great deprivation, suffering and perhaps death. The conditions are unprecedented. The river has not been so low for many years. The days are hot and the nights are cold, and the low All the boats of both companies are below, all expecting to make at least one more trip, | and not one of them will be able to get up. There is a barge stuck on the bar a few miles above here and the little steamer Marguerite is transporting its cargo by slow 2nd uncertain stages to Dawson. The people and the company’s agents on the upper river are now unconscious of the dilemma they are in, and will re- main so until I arrive and advise them. I have spent this day building a boat, and at 6 o’clock this evening, an hour from this writing, with three rivermen, I shall begin the journey of 380 miles to Daw- son. The course is upstream, through | shailow water and must be made by pol- ing and towing the entire distance, as the current is. everywhere too swift for the use of oars. My purpose is not only to advise the people of Dawson of their danger in time, perhaps, for them to get out, but to warn the people along the way to preserve what grass may be pos- sible for the use of horses that may be employed this winter in transporting pro- visions from Mannook Creek (Rampart City), and wherever the boats may find themselves icebound. This last is a com- mission from and by earnest request of Capuain Hill of this steamer, the Hamil- ton. There are about twenty horses at Dawson, and he thinks they will be brought into requisition for this pur- pose if feed may be provided— the food question being, with beast as with man, the one consideration now. It is expected that the steamers will all winter in this vicinity as far up. the river as they can get, probably at Rampart City, tne newest town on the river and which has sprung or is springing into ex- istence as the result of the growing inter- est—scarely yet an excitement—in the diggings of Little Mannook and Hunter creeks, tributaries of Mannook Creek. About fiity passengers of the Hamilton stopped off there as we touched at the place last Friday. The next morning at Fort Hamilton a portion of the newspaper contingent got off and went Sack to the place ani at the next stopping place the cook and two of the waiters left the boat for the same purpose, carrying with them a quantity of provisions, the loss of which was not discovered until later. We have also passed a small procession of cances going downstream with miners from the vastly richer, but now entirely absorbed, diggings on the Klondike. The Mannook is proven to be good pay from only one test of the bed rock—122 ounces be- ing taken ou.. About 100 claims Qave been staked on e two creeks. On Mannook the claims