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VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 131. The SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORN ING, OCTOBER 9. 1S97. 3 PRICE 'FIVE CENTS. FORSOOK THE SHIP FOR A DRILL ASHORE Three Hundred Men in Blue From the Oregon in Mimic Warfare on Lombard-Street Wharf. Fist Battalion Drill of the Crew of the Big White Battle-Ship—It| Caused Much Comment and Speculation Among the Frequenters Along the 0 Our navy may not be as Jarge as those | Lombard street, where they entered the | had also killed his parents, mutilating of some other countries, and some of our vessels may be short of their full comple- ment of bluejackets and marines, but if the men from t e Oregon who partici- rated in the store drill at Lombard-street wharf yesterday morniug bea representa- tive crew, the standard of our naval service is not beiow that of any nation. The Ore- ®on 18 a great battleship, one of the largest and most speedy of her class, and ber crew seems well able to maintain the good name of the = A finer body of men Water Front. long wharf, where the drill was held. They made a very pretty picture with the early morning sunlight glistening on their rifles and metal accouterments, and al- though the uour was early and the dnll had not been announced on shore a large crowd soon gathered to watch their maneuvers. There were four Jackets, coniposed of fifty men each, and one company of marines, besides the hos- | pital and pioneer corps and the band— companies of blue- | | | their remains in the | then he made the astonishing statement | | that he had similarly disposed of fourteen | wives, whom he had married in various | | parts of the world. | | —_—— 1 | Evacuation of Egypt. LONDON, Ex6., Oct.8.—The Paris cor- e fashion, and | INO WAY SLAVERY UNDER THE That Is What the An- nexation of Hawaii Means. TO MEET THIS ARGUMENT. Patriotism the Last Refuge of Scoundrels in a Specific Instance. UPON THE POINT. The Treaty Makes Conditions That Will Surely Flood This Country With Cheap Labor, BY A FURUSETH. | respondent of the Times referring this morning to the statement of theFigaro that | | the powers have agreed to collectively | ask_England 1o evacuate Egyot,.says: | ! No power has been approached on the | *“Resolved, By the Council 19, 18! San Francisco Lebor Thet such aznexation is contrary to Continued on Fifth Page. e s, _ EMBARKING AFTER THE DI Things Werz Lively on the Wharf When Over a Hundred Saiilors Charged Over Sacks of Grain and Miscellancous Freight and Captured Wha'ever Fappened to Be Within Eyesight. LD FLAG | SUPREME COURT PASSED | in regular session assembled on June | | the fact announced BLANCO Y ARENOS TO SUCCEED WEYLER The End of the Bloody Reign of the Butcher in Cuba Has Come After Long Waiting. GENERAL BLANCO Y ARENAS. N0 LONGER A STATE SECRET THS JUDGEA ~ BOY'S FRIEND Withdrawal of All the!Will"Not Prosecute for Objections to Merry as Minister. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 8.—The Btate Depariment now makes no secret of in THE CALL some time ago that the Diet of the so-called Greater Republic of Ceniral America has | withdrawn its objection to the reception of Captain Wilham L. Merry as United States Minister. This is of no significance now, however, for when the alleged republic entered 1ts protest the State Department compieted its arrangementis to send Captain Merry to Costa Rica, because that Guvernment, not being a member of the Greater Re- publie, signified 1ts willingness to receive | him. Besides, the United States has ai- ways shown a reluctance about recogniz- ing the Greater Republic, for a suspicion bas been entertained that it was organized partly for the purpose of endeavoring to absoilve Nicaragua from individual re- sponsibility in her treaty with the United States granting certain rights for the con- struction of the canal. Therefore the dipiomatic and consular appropriation bill stediously avoided all reference to the alleged Greater Republic and did not pro- vide for a Minister to the republic. Rodriguez, its Minister, sought to inter- fere with legislation affecting the canal pending in Congress, and this is another reason why this Government will persist in ignoring the Greater Republic. The report that Nicaragna has granted concessions to the Atlas Steamsh:p Com- pany, an Eaglish concern, which calcu- lated to seriously interfere with our canal rights, aggravates the situation. Besides, 1t is believed the Greater Republic is on it iast legs. For all of these reasons, or any one of them, it is believed that Captain Merry will be accredited as Minister to Costs Rica only, with the legation at San Jose. is another circumstance wkich | Delivering a Paper on Sunday. BOSTON, Mass,, Oct. 8.—Judge Petten: gill 1n the Maiden District Court to-day severely reprimanded two policemen for | arresting Fred Ordway, a newsboy, for delivering & paper to a subseriber on Sun- | day in violation of a city ordinance. Ord- | way had no counsel. Juige Pettengill try, yet he was not there to prosecute | every poor newspaper boy whom Everett policemen have a mind to arrest for sell- ing newspapers. The Judge said that the ordinance might be a proper one under some circumstances, yet it was not specially framed to shutout all newsboys and that he considered the act of the officers in zrresting Ordway an | injudicious exercise oi power, and one that he deprecated as a man, as a magistrate | and as a citizen. He also threatened to appeal to the city government for the re- moval of any officer who should in the | future arrest any newsboy. He stated | that were any boy of his arrested and made a convict for selling papers he would become as violent an anarchist as Johann Most. He discharged the pris- | oner. SECRETAKY G G SPEAKS. Addresses @ Large Assemblage at the Bradiey Institute Dedication. PEORIA, ILL., Oct. 8.—A great throng | assembled here (o-day to wiiness the cere- | monies attending the dedication of the | Bradley Polytechnical Institute and to listen to the various addresses. Of these, the most notewortny and that which the ssembled thousands naturally listened to | with especial interest, was the speech of Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Secrotary of the Treasury. It was parucularly well re- ceived, every pause anda period being punctuated with applause. | said thatalthough he was there to defend | | and uphold the laws of God and the coun- | X (é"!”) PRI R rRRRY X & WEYLER 3 E w i WILLKIL § £ b : NO MORE 3 » = -« % MADRID, Spaw, Oct. 58— x : The Cabinet has decided upon : & the immediate recall of General ‘: Weyler from Cuba. A decree z : will be issued appointing Cap- 3 & tain-General Blanco y Arenas, W ,: Marquis of Pena-Plata, Governor- : : General of the island. The : # Queen Regent will sign the de- W : cree to-morrow. z ; General Blanco will be accom- : : panied by General Arderine as : & Vice-Governor of Cuba, by Gen- @ : eral Gonzales Painale as chief of : : staff, and Generals Spando, Ber- : & nal and Cannalou. ¥ : According to El Heraldo 20,000 =: : re-enforcements will accompany :: : General Blanco to Cuba. :‘ NEREAS AREE R S ESEELT, MADRID, SPary, Oct. 8.—Thus an end comes to the long and bloody career of the man who has been for 50 long supreme in Cuba. 1In the course of the cable message sert by the captain-general to Premier Sagasta, placing his post in Cuba at the disposal of the Government, he said : “If.the functions with which they had intrusted me had been merely those of Governor-General of Cuba I should have hastened > resign. Bui the twofold char- | actor of my mission and my duty as com= | mander-in-chief in the face of the enemy |-prevent my tendering in resignation. *‘Nevertheless, although I can rely upon the absolute unconditional support of the autonomist and coxustitutional parties as well as upon public opinion, this would be insufficient without the confidence of the Government. This confidence would be necessary to enable me to put an end to the war, which has already been virtually | concluded from our lines at Juraco to Cape Antonio.”” Senor Sagasta replied: “Ithank you for your explanation and vaiue your frank- | ness. I wish to assure you that the Gov- | ernment recognizes your services and i values them as they deserve, but 1t thinks | a change of policy, in crder to succeed, requires that the suthcrities should be at | one with the ministry. This has nothing todo with the confidence feltin you by | the Government, for the Liberals have | always said that the responsibility for a | ziven policy does not fall upon those who carry it out, but upon the Government | inspiring it. I shall communicate your communication to the Governmen$ shortly.”" | HAVANA, Cusa, Oct. 8.—General Wey- | ler gave to-day an emphatic and absolute | denial to the reports that he would resist removal from his command in Cuba and in certain contingencies might espouse the cause of the Carlists. He said, ac- cording to the official account: *“My prin- ciples and my military record are firm guarantees that I will never oppose the constituted Government, whatever it may | be.” I never have put obstacles in 1he way | of the Government and 1 nevershall, I | bave always obayed orders and I always shall. 8o far as popular demonstrations go, I accept them only as expressions of approval of my military policy and as tokens of personal sympathy.” The merchants of the island, according to the official account, continue to sena cable messages to Senor Sagasta express- iing their approval of General Weyler's \ would be hard to find ing qualities are to be pearance they ought t good account ot themselves, Shore drills have no. beea frequent oc- ¢urrences for the crew of the battleship. W.hen in a home port the department ex. rects a battalion crill on shore will be ar- ranged for the men every week; itis good 1 the men and infinitely better for 1he ice, but weeks and even montbs have rassed and the Oregon and the white isers and the monitors have lain off ¥, &nd beyond an exhibition drill at the park by the crew of the Philadelphia, and an occasional appearance at a parade, the requirement of the department hae been honored more in the breach than in the observance, until the ships were or- dered up to Mare Island—and there the crews are generally disbanded. This sudden activity just at this time, therefore, caused considerable <omment among those who saw the drill or heard of it. Itis intended, too, to make these drills as frequent if not more frequent, than regulations call for, and this pros- pretaiso added materially to the interest { the occasion. Itis this sudden desire ©oi the officers of the ship to make the men proficient in shore exercises, just at a time when rumors of a npeed far such a proficiency are filling the air, which .mndt the water-fronters fleave their work snd stand watching how the Oregon’s crew would act if under the fire of a hos- tile gun. A9 o'clock the boats were lowered and the men embarked. Landing at Folsom- street wharf they marcued along the waier iront, precedediiby the ship's band, to and if their fight- ge! by their ap- able to give a b e nearly 300 men all told. Lieutenant- | Commander Cogswell was in command. | His staff consisted of Adjutant Ensign | Johnson, Gunner Williams and Oarpenter Roberts. Thecompanies were commanded | by the following officers: | “First Company (marines), Captain Dick- | ens and Licusenant Davis; Second Com- | pany, Naval Cudets Miller and Magill; Third Company® Lieutenant Ackerman and Naval Cadets Overstreet and Gile<; | Fourth Company, Lieutenant Eberle and | Naval’ Cadet Kempff; Fiith Company, | Easign Hussey and Naval Cadet Yarnell. | and at 11 o’clock marched back along the iront to Foisom street, where their boats | were waiting, and they were soon put | aboard the battleship. Although the Orezon’s band has only been organized two months it rendered some very creditable music, and if the ship | be sent 10 a foreign port the men aboard ber will make a showing of jwhich no American need ‘eel ashamed. HAD 4 WAUIA FO3 WURDER. Gustave Musller Confesses to Having Killed His Parents, a Child and Fourteen Wives. ROTTERDAM, Horraxp, Oct. 8.—A man named Gusiave Mueller has surren- dered to tne city police, confessing the murder of his wife and child. As proof of the truth of his confession he produced from bis pocket four human ears. The police on searching his house found the two bocies. Mueller subsequently confeased that he | The men were driiled for about an hour | subject of Egypt for a long time. France tried to get Russia to support her, but only received Russia’s earnest advice to | do nothing with regard to Egypt beyond | diplomatic negotiations, —_———— | | FATHER TORTOLERO MURDERED, | | | Some Sensational Disclosures Are | i Expected at the Trial of In- | | spector Vallavicencio. | CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico, Cet. 8.—It 18 believed that Police Inspector Vallavi- } cencio will on his trial make sensational | disclosures regarding the mysterious manner in which Rev. Father Tortolero came t0 his death. He was a Spanish priest in a neighboring town and a man of learning and greatly respected. Several months ago be was found dead n the street and it was announced he had died from cerebral congestion producea by having taken alcobolic liquors, a state- ment which his friends never believed to te true. ! It is now rumored that he was invited to a house and spirits poured down his throat by means of a funnel, when he was sent out into the street, where he died. It is generallv beiieved he was murdered by a volice officer implicated in the Arroyo murder, and that reasons for the crime will be shown when the testimony 1n the latter case 1s given. LS TRly i Ceoil Rhodes Seriously IN. CAPE TOWN, Fourn Arrica, Ock 8.— Cecil Rhodes, the former Premier of Cape Colony, is seriously ill at Intanga. Blu:jackéts From the Oregon 2ni the Fleet of Boats Returning on Board the Battle-Ship After the Drill on Lombard-Street Whark