The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1897, Page 1

/ ) PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWO CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS ARE IN THE THROES OF REVOLUTION In Guatemala the Forces of Dictator Barrios Capture the City of Quezal- tenango Without Firing a Shot— In Costa Rica President Iglesias Is More Than Likely to Hold His Own. BARRIOS * HAY BEATEN THE REBELS His Arms Are Reported | Victorious in Every Direction. QUEZALTENANGO IS SURRENDERED. Without Firing a Shot His Troops Have Taken the Chief Insurgent City. TATONICAPAN TAKEN ON SUNDAY. General Socorro de Leon Is a Prisoner 1o-the Victors, Awaliting Death. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 5.—A cpecial to the Herald from Guatemala City, via Galveston, says: Official reports from W peofnls to-day give accounts of many victories of Dictator Barrios’ arms, and now it begins to look as if the tide of war had turned strongiv against the rebels. According to official reports just re- ceived, the city of Quezaltenango, which has been held by the rebels for several days, was occupied this morning by the Federal forces without firing a shot. The rebels in the city fled toward San Marcos, leaving a large quantity of arms, ammu- nitions and several d pieces in the plazas and streets of the city. General Socorro de Leon and several other rebel officers were captured. General de Leon at the beginning of the | rebellion was sent with a battalion against the rebels, but instead of attack- ing them, he turned his command over to the rebels. He will be immediately court- martialed and probably shot. The Government’s advices from the city of Totonicapan report severe fighting there on Sunday, with complete triumph for the Government arms. The fighting began at half past 11 o’clock in the morn- ingand continued until late in the evening. Commander-in Chief Mendizibal, in his dispatches to Guatemala, says the defeat of the rebels was complete. They were repulsed and twenty-two were taken pris- oners. A quantity of arms and ammuni- tion was also captured. The number of dead and wounded is not reported. On the Government side Colonel Lino Pala- cios was killed. It is stated that the banks of Guate- mala are arranging fora loan of £400,000 to the Government. CALLED BARRIOS A LIAR. ‘ Lopez, a Weaithy Guatemalan Refugee; Comes Here From Paris. Marjano Lopez, the latest addition to the litile local colony of Guatemalan revolutionists and himself a very wealthy merchant of the big firm of Mariano Lopez, Pacheco & Co. of the City of Guate- mala, is a grest at the Occidental Hotel, having just returned from Paris, whither he went several weeks a o, supposedly in the interest of General Morales, the leader | of the revolutionary forces. Lopez is the man that publicly de. nounced President Barrios as a thief and then proceeded to advance proofs oi his charge. That was several months ago, when Lopez was a member of the Guate- malan Con:ress. Referring to the occasion Lopez said yesterday: ‘‘As soon as Barrios heard of my speech in Congress he sent some of his men to watch me. He sentone man to my servant with an offer of a large re- ward if be would murder me. “I took shelter in the house of Senor ) Toledo nuntil the first steamer left the 4 country.’” Before Lopez left the country he took the precaution to sign all his property over to his American partner, and it has not been confiscated. Lopez discredits the statemenis and the sincerity of Consul-General Carrillo, who be asserts was not so very long ago a pro- nounced supporter of General Morales, while now he is defending President Bar- rios and belittling the revolution. 3 Rty Quezaltenango, Plaza Cuartel, Where the Recent Fight Took Place. TR ey = i A cablegram apprising him that Mora'es is | | in possession of the towns of Tierra Blanca | | and Cochan, | He deciares that the reports given ont | | by the Consulate here should not te be- | | lieved. A rumor which has been circulated that a decisive battle is now raginz in Guate- mala and that Morales’ forces are strongly | intrenched near Cochan is forcibly denied | by Consul Carrillo. | ‘A more nonsensical statement was | never uttered,” said Consul Carrillo last | evening. ‘‘The whole trouble in Guate- ‘l | | mala is so insigniticant that it s a waste | of brenih 10 even mention it. | “1 received information yesterdny of the | state of affairs in my coantry, and I can | siate officially that there is no decisive | battle raging, nor will there be, for the | country has all rebels under complete submission in the towns where tue Littie quarrel is iaking place. I consider the statement concerning an American citi- | zen being imprisoned a falsehood, and where these reports spring from is more |than 1 can understand. There is no American held prisoner at the present | time, nor has there ever been one impris- | oned in Guatemala or other of our cities or countries. Tne whole story of this up- rising is too insignificant even 10 notice.” SPAIN'S NEW CABINET - SEVERELY CRITICIZED | Much More 1s Going On Be- | hind the Scenes Than Ap- pears on the Surface. | It Is a Question Whether the Lib- erals Are Sincere in the Home- Ruie Policy. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 5—A World caule from Madrid says: Ine new Cabinat is certain not to come up to the cxjecta- tions of public opinion in Madrid or the provinces, for aiready have the press and politicians criticized it sharply. Every- body supposed Sagasta would have been ready for the present critical times. Peo- ple question whether the solution of the crisis does not show Sagasta could not control the old standing rivalries among {the Liberal front rank of politicians in this crisis, Like all Spanish ministerial cries much more is going on behind the scenes than appears on the surface. One thing, however, must be said, and it is that both Sagasia and the Queen Regent show much sncerity and determination in the approaching Cuban question. It remains to be seen whether the Liberal party will promptly assist Saga sta, Moret, Mauret and Gamezo in ihe sincere execu- tion of the home-rule policy. But Sagasta seems quite confident that he will ‘hurry the party along with him. Several Madrid papers state the new Min- | ister of Foreizn Affairs, Gueleon, on tak- | ing cffice, iound in the State Department two copies of the note General Woonaford handed the Duke of Tetuan at San Sebas- tian on Sentember 23, placing on record | officially the verbal communication Woodford had made on Septemler 18, in virtue of the written instruction of Pre 1- | dent Mc Kinley. According to this Spanish version Woodiord intimated there was no objection 10 the Spanish Government pub- lishing the 1ext of said note, as the Amer- ican Government would do so when it deemed 1t convenient. The same papers say all rumors attributing the Govern- ment’s intention to send 10 the powers a | memorandum are premature, as it inte:ds first to stuy all the aspects of the Cuban question. Senor Sagasta, the Premier, was the first visitor at the United States legation this morning. His interview with General Woodford was cordial, but_sbsolu:e re- terve is maintained as to what passed in the conversatio: sl L Death of a Stockton Attormey. STOCKTON, Car., Oct. 5.—Robert Baid- win, Assistant District Attorney, died at his home here at 8 o’clock this morning of Bright's disease of the kidneys, from which he had suffered for several months, Lopes says that he has just received a | He was 26 years old, AVICTORY ASSTRED ™1 REPUBLICAN That Is the Outlook in the Sacramento Fight. THE LEADERS FEAR NO COMPARISON. This Will Hold Good for Every Place on the City Ticket. RUSS STEPHENS TO BE IN THE FIELD. | | His Petition Has Upon It the Names of Many Prominent Men of Both Partles. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Oct. 5.—*“Democ- racy bas never vet been known todo the right thing at the right time,” observed a prominert Democrat to-night 1o THE CALL correspondent. event of a national character or one in- volving the election of township justice the Democratic party, either through blind prejudice or blundering stupidity, never takes advantage of a situation when pre- sented to it. ’ “Take our recent municipal convention, for instance, what did they do? What did they do, I'm asking you? Simply let an opportunity go by that may not come again for forty years. Everybody knows that Leonard stands no more show of being elected Mavor of this town than B and I'm not a candidate. 1 tell you, my friend, when the people in general think that a man’s been nominated just to help another man along they’ll not vote for him, and you can just bet your life on it. “'I've been a Democrat for forty years, and I've voted the ticket straight in this town for thirty-nine, and I honestly be- lieve I have done more to elect Repub- | licans thar half the men who affiliate with that organization. I am dead tired of it, and don’t propose to cast my vote any longer for a dummy crndidate. [ will vote for a Republican out and out, first.”” “D» you think Leonard strong?’ asked Tue CaLL correspondent. *Strong? No. Leonard isa good fellow and all tbat, but he is not the man the pzople wanted to run against Land, and you know it."”’ With this the good old Democrat brought his observaticns to a close, but his declarations, nevertheless, placed the present political situation in Sacramento in a nutshell. While Leonard may have received the | nomination from the bands of a duly or- ganized and accredited couvention ,of Democrats, the delegate« were appointed by the city central committee, and many hints are heard to the effect that the nom- ination of a Democrat of strength was never intended. There is great disgust, and upon this tidal wave of indignation the weather-beaten bark of Russ Stephens isabout to be launched, through the will. ing hands of those who are now being asked to sign his petition. For years and years and years Russ Stephens towered above his fellow Demo. “Whether it be an | I(‘rnls in caucus, primary and couvention, | | and for years and years and years hi- | word was law and his personality domi- | | nuted in everything Democratic, but last year Russ proclaimed himself as opposed | | to free silver and Bryan, and on election | day placed a little red cross after each and every oneof the McKinley electors. | The question now arises among the Democrats, if Russ is elected will bis ad- ministration flavor of his first love or take the complexion of his more recent affilia- tions? Whatever may be the tone of his call for the buys to come in out of the wet | Mr. Stephens is going to run, and hispe- | tition bas already upan 16 1) » nances of | #ood prominent citizens of toils parties. | His candidaey is being urge ! by those | who at first thought wouid naturally stand back of Hubbard, and their deser- | | tion of Hubbard is attributed 1o the fact | | that the Citizens’ Association is now headed by Dr. Dixon. At any rate the | forces of Leonard are weak, the Hubbard contingent is fast dissolvins, the Stephens wave has not gathered, and away off to one side standsa gray-haired, venerable |old gentleman who views the conten- | tions and strife going on with compla- | cence, and his nameis William Land. Every day that passes strengtbens him in his intrenchment of honor and intez- | | rity. Every day that passes brings many | Republicans to the realization that the party that has just brought a great nation out of despondency and decline can safely be trusted in the healthful pro- motion of municipal affairs. In the various districts wherein trustees are to beelected thessme rule holds good. Everything else being cqual, the Repub- licans are going lo zet the best of it, and as in eac case the Repubiican nominees | will profit from any kind of a comparison, | there will not be une of them defeated. Masonic Seliv m Ihreatened MONTREAL, QuEsgc, Oct. 5.—A great | schism is (breaten-d among the Masons | | of Canada. A new lodge bas started, com- | | posed of French and Italians, under a cnarter of the Grand Orient of France, which does not believe in the Bible. Oiher lodges disown them and bave written to the Prince of Wales for in- structions. | HE BLONDY RIOTING N LOSTA RIGA Why Iglesias Declared Himself Dictator of the Republic. FIVE KILLED, THIRTY WOUNDED. Fight Between the Partisans of the President and His Political Foes. IS A CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION. Accused of Squandering the Public Funds When He Only Fostered Pubiic Improvement. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 5.—The first details of the internal disorders which have resulted in President Iglesies of ©oata Rica Goolarinyg himself dictator were received to-day from Harrison R. Williams, who until recently was United States Consul at San Jose, Costa Rica, and who arrived here to-day on the steamer | Alene, from Purt Limon. The agitation against President Iglesias cuiminated at Santo Domingo on Sunday, September 12, in a bloody riot, in which five men, three of them rici and the others more or less well known, were killed and more than thirty others wounded. The riot was between influen- tial partisans of President Iglesias and his opponents. President Iglesias some time ago was annouuced as a candidate to suc- ceed himself. The election is to be held next month, and he in at the head or what 18 known as the Civilist party. There arose very bitter opposition to him. Its strength has been chiefly in the cities, where the business mien are deeply op- posed to him and denounce him, because he changed Costa Rica’s standard to that of gold exclusively. They say the change is foolish and impracticable, and will work great harm to the country. They also speak bitterly of his Pacific Railroad scheme, which will cost $3.- 800.000. President Iglesias is building a railroad across Costa Rica from shore to shore. The men of the cities say that the cost of the road is excessive. On the other hand Mr. Williams says President Iglesias is popular with the Continued on Second Page. SHATTERED HEARTY AND PROMISES Lessons Drawn From the Noted Melcher- Hadley Case. SEVERE COMMENT OF THE TRANSCRIPT. Getting Engaged Anew While Morally Bound to Another Not a Joke. STIGMA OF SOCIETY ON FICKLE VOWS. It Is Not a Trifling Matter to Kill the Life of Love In Man and Woman. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 5. —The staid old Transeript astonished the natives to-night | by the following leading editorial, entitled “Broken Hearts:" “No doubt the man plaintiff in the ex- traordinary case of breach of promise against the daughter of a distingunished family of Maine just finished with a ver- dict and damages for plaintiff will be- come, notwithstanding the vindication of his case by the jury as the representative of public opinion and the common con- science of soc.ety, the buttof no end of funny paragraphs in tbe press; and yet the case is one to make the student cf so- ciety and morals hang his head in erief at the shallowness of our most sacred covenants. If the cetting engaged anew while- already morally bound be a joke then the marital st-pis a joke also. For although love or passion 1iself may be a sickness and madness which passes in a few years or afew months according to bard-headed common-sense people, a fever of inflated and false sentiment to be sup- planted by calm kindness, toleration or indifference, if not something worse, the. institution of marriage is a very sacred and imporiant institution, and, as the Judge in tbis cass rules, the preliminary state belore marriage is 8 recoguized part of it, “The verdict of the jury for damages, if it had been only for one cent, would have been intentionally to set the stigma of society’s disapproval upon the conduct of a woman who, after engaging a man’s af- fections, suddenly turns from him to seize the opportunity offered her of a more ad- vantageous match. “In this case the California winner of the prize has had opvortunity enough to feel the full force of the legal maxim, ‘Caveat emptor,” and no public sympathy need be extended to his future domestic affairs. The case is interesting only as helping to settle the degree of social and moral turvitude in what is too often treat- ed as a trivial matter. Of course, peaple who have no more imagination than to find it a laughing matter thata man’s heart is broken by such treatment cannot see any baseness or crueliy or danger to society in the mere jilting of a man. This insensibility to even so glaring a breach of honor must be very widespread in the community, or the numerous engagements | of the ‘society girl’ and the ‘summer girl’ would not be the staple for the same sort of newspaper pictures and jokes as those trifling with the marital infidelity with which the vocation of typewriting women is associated. “‘Most of the funny men have discarded at 1ast the tyvewriter girl and false hus- band as a source of gayety, and in the course of time we may also remove from the humorous column and place only 1n the broad category of dishonor the woman who turns a short corner on the lover who still loves her. The counsel for the plain- tiff in his argument used the word *brutal’ with reference to that conduct, remarking that it is a brutal nature that will kick a dog, and how much worse must be the conduct of a woman who would so abusa a man of admitted good character and affectionate and confiding and trustful na- ture; a man who had to suggest to her the delicacy of postponing his engage- ment and marriage, and a woman, who after beginning with a trumped-up quar- rel to turn her lover away, even accepted his invitation to ride and take him to the cemetery and decorated the grave of his wife, 'a fitting act for lovers, but almost a crilege if they were not,’ as the counsel says. Whatever lessens the sanctity of engagement tends to loosen the ties of marriage itself, and the woman who can play false to the former proves herself to be merely deterred by legal penalties, not by principle or character, from breaking the latter. That is the law’s ground for interference. In the higher court oi philosophy and morais nobody has stated the wickedness of betrayal of a loving heart with the strength of Ibsen in his latest play of ‘Borkman,’ where he makes one of his characiers say, ‘You are the murderer. You have committed the one mortai sin. You have kiiled the love life in me. The Bible speaks of a mysterious sin for which there is no forgiveness. I have never understood what it could be; but now I uncerstand. The great unp donable sin is to murder the love life in a human soul. With that you deserted me and turned to Gunhild instead. I took that to be common lickieness on vour part. I almost think I despised you a little, in_spite of everything. But now I see it. What you held dearest in the world you e ready to barter away for galn. That is double murder you have committed—tne murder of your own soul and of min farthquake Jars 1ocxton. STOCKTON, (AL, Oct. 5 —This city haa a slizht shock of earthquake this evening at 7:44. Many people felt the shock and in some places chandeliers shook per- ceptibly. PR ERES X NO LM FLXED AS {0 PRICE Open Bidding the Plan at the Sale of the Union Pacific. ALL INTERESTS WILL COMPETE. There Is No Agreement What- ever With the Reorgan- ization Committee. THE ATTORNEY- GENERAL SO DECLARES. At Least $6,000,000 More Than Provided in the Cleveland Con=- tract Will Be Recelved. FEPR FPRY 9Py 095???% Attorney - General McKenna said to-day thar, while the Gov- ernment had received no bid for the Union Pacific from an Eng- lish syndicate, he did not be- lieve British and American capi- talists would see the property go for much below its real value. Tbe Government, he said, had entered into no agreement or un- derstanding with the reorgzaniza- tioh committeemen or anybody else by which they were to have the road at $45,000,000 or any other sum. BASARAEREEREREEEE A FRRRRREP Nh AR AR SEES S Gk SRAEEE WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5.—Attor- ney-General McKenna had another ex- tended conference to-day with ex Gov- ernor Hoadley in regard to the pending Union Pacific foreclosure sale. With ref- erence to the staiement cabled from Lon- don last night, to the effect that an Eng- lish syndicate had forwarded a bid for the Union Pacific property, in competi- rion with that of the recrganization com- mistee, the Attorney-General said that althouch no foreign bid had vet been res ceived it was a fact that the Government had received inquiries from foreign sources, and he had no doubt the capitalists of this country and England would see to it that the property is not sold at e price much below its'value. The Government, he said, had entered into no agreement or understanding with the reorganizition committee, or any one else, by which they were to have the road at $45,070.000, or any other sum. The property, he said, would be sold under foreclosure proceedings to the highest bidder, and the only connection the Government had with the reorganiza- tion committee was that the latter guar- anteed that if the Government would join in the foreclosure proceedings the com- mittee would guarantee thata bid of at least $45,000,000 would be received for the Government’s equitiés. Under this pledge, the good faith of which was secured by a deposit of $5,000,000, the Government joined in the suit, which resuited in an order by the court for the public sale of the property on November L CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 5.—A special to the Post from Wasbhington says: Itcan now be stated by authority that the Gov- ernment wiil realize abon! $51,000,000 from the sale of the Union Pacific, which is $6,- 000,000 more than the figure named in the terms of the contract entered into on be- half of the Treasury by Mr. Cleveland. 1t appears thau the principa: leverage ex- erted by the Attorney-General wi te Omaha bridge. He claims .hat the Gov- ernment mortzage coverea this prop- erty, which had been heid by th reorzani- zation committee to be an outside asset. Atto-ney-General McKenna positively re- fused to give way to vermit a clear title to the property sought to be bought under toreclosure, except atthe price of sur- render on this pointand ve was equally unyielding in other directions. Inasmuch as the success of the reorganization scheme de pended absolutely uvon a clear tiile no o'her course was open tothe would-be purchasers, except to raise their bid. Attorney-General McKenna believes that other bids will be received hi her than the offer by the reorgan:zation com- mittee, but he does not say from what source the offers will come, and there is a suspicion that the expectations of the Government’s represantatives are not well grounded. L Ex-Senator Brice and some associates had an ambiiion at one iime to obtain possession of the Union Pucific, and it is barely possible that they may be again moving in the matter. If they are -hey have kept the matter very quiet, as Wall street is in ignorance of any such purpose. Represeutatives of the reorganization commitiee sav that matters are too far advanced for new parties to mix in, and that they have no fears of anything of the sort occurring. Just the same they will be very glad when the deal 1s closed up 2nd they can take their property with an unclouded title to the money Kings for such backing as may be needed.” It is estimated that $20,000,000 will be needed to put tae Union Pacific upon a paying basis and to develop it as it should be. A Good Tonic An Effective Ramedy for That Tired Feeling and Drowsiness, “I was troubled with itching and fever atnight. I thought I would try a bottle of Hood’s Narsaparilla and it gave me re- lief. I found 1t an excellent remedy for that tired feeling and drowsiness. [rec- ommend it as a good tonic and blood purifier.” L. Jounsox, 106 Eleventh street, San Francisco, Caiitornia. Hood’s Sarsapariila 1s the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents,