The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1897, Page 1

b "OLUME LXXXIL—NO FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, N VEMBER 26, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE CHURCH 'FIRE SURELY INCENDIARY Father Serda’s First Belief Echoed by Oakland Public Opinion. PROTECTS - THE CANAL - NTERESTS |The Administration to | Give Fresh Offense ‘ to the Diet. | |NICARAGUA HELD TO | RESPONSIBILITIES. i Concessions to Americans That the Central Republic | Must Not Jeopardiza. MERRY AND HIS DELICATE | MISSION. | Rear-Admiral Walker Makes Final Arrang ments for the Work of the Commisslon. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. NEW YORK, Nov. 25 —The adminis- tration has taken steps in the matier of diplomatic representation in Central | America, says the Herald's Washington | correspondent, that 1s expected to give | fresh offense to the Diet of the Greater Re- | public. Besides directing Captaia Merry to take oath of office as Minister to Nicar- | agua, Costa Rica and Salvador, the State Department has inseried in the diple- | matic and consular bill &nestimate for a | Minister not for tue Diet, as the Jatter de- | sired, but for the three siates referrea to. 1 was told by a department official to- day that tbe dipiomatic relations would be continued with a representative of tke Diet in Washington, but the admin- L o S it g e e SACRED HEART CHURCH AT OAKLAND AND ITS RUINS. e R d F ed the fire at Fortiet s of incend- ion the ic ather Serda- said | voiced by | outs has no suspi- | cion o pal eing con- nected with the act. Father Serda feels the loss the ch very keenly he has worked al night and day to bring it to com- P and t as it was about tot ed from debt it w Twenty destroyed. cated an insu of wk s ago it s ded remains the ing to $10,200, by the church. Serda said it was too early to say ly what would be done in the future I the church, but he be that sufficient money would be raised by to rebuild the edifice. ng was held at the church of 1cis de Sales last night, at which ere present members of all the Oakland, and preliminary toward raising a fund unate parish. This meeting 1e first of several that will be held. is expected sufficient money will b wa is amour ng wa and i guaranteed to enable Fathers Serda and Scanlan to begin rebuilding at once. Father McSweeney was elected chair- n in the ence of Father Serda. ed the object of the meeting, said that States gold coin was the best and opened a subscription list. her, Father McSweenzy and J. T. headed the list with $100 sub- =d and twenty-fives followed, until | of the neighboshooa ! It 1s said that when Gen- | that He | the hed $1320. There will be a meeting n next Sunday, at the| same [ , at 2:30 o’clock, when more subscriptions will be solicited. ~The meeting was enthusiastic, and it was | decided tc 1 the church and residence setter and larger than bsfore. The chool-chiliren will go to St. Francis de jales or Sisters of Mercy on Fortieth street pd Telegraph avenue, | The opinion regarding incendiarism Father Serda finds echo in many parts of the city, and the belief pre- vails that the fire was caused by some one who wished to work an injury to the church. GLAYS WIFE WANTS 10 S8 THE WORLD Had a Gay Time While He Was Away and Is Weary of Whitehall. It Is Evident That Dora Is in No Hurry to Return to Her Aged Husband. So Special Dispatch 1o THE CALL. NEW YORK, Nov. 25 —A Valley Vie: i istration has no intention of jeopardizing the interests of this Government in the Nicaragua Canal by recognizing the Diet and thus giving Nicaragua a chance, as the officials believe, to evade her responsi- bility in connection with this enterprise. Captain Merry having taken the oath | and qualified for his new office, has re- turned to San Francisco, to make arrange- ments for leaving for his post. It is ex- pecte! that he will sail for Costa Rica about December 15. Fresh representations | ars being made to the D-et od the subject, with the hope that it wiil agree to Captain | Merry’s reception by the other states of Lis mission. Rear-Admiral Walker, president of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, called at | the State Department yesterday to make final arranzements in regard to the work of the commission upon its arnival in Nicarag FURTHER ARRESTS MADE. Four Deputies Jailed in Connection Copvright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. special to the Herald says: Events| With the Attempt to Kill Presi- followed each other very fast at| Whitah Gradually the good people | dent Moraes, ve begun to talk above whispers. eral Clay went to Cinciunati about a month ago 1o have his eyes treated he left his child-wife at the home of Mr. Bicker- ff, a neighbor, who had a girl about the age of Dora. While the general wasaway his wife wen: to parties with Mr. Bicker- staff’s daughter and met many young men of the neighborhood. When the general came home he found the little cirl he had watched over had weman and that Whitenall no longer bad charmsfor her. His guards tola him of ber party-going and amusements. He chiaed her and said it must stop. Itis said that he summond ayoung man to White- ball, but the youth concluded it was best to widen the space between himself and the former Miunister to Russia. The report of voune Bryant taking poison has developed the fact that he 1sa brother of Mrs. McClelland Richardson. He is staying at the home of Mrs, Clay’s brother. He is about 20 years old, of manly rhysique, and jus¢ such ayoung man as would svumpsthize with a young girl of aromantic turn of mind, Mrs. Ciay is seemingly as happy as can be at her brother’s cabin. She evades questions asto her future, but says she means to s have a good time and see the worid. She | will not say that she will return or that she will not, so fondly | suddenly become a | BUENOS AYRES, —Tue Her- ald’s correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Bra- zil, telegraphs that four more deputies have been arrested in connection with the attempt on the life of President Moraes. The Journal de Commercio announces that the Rothschilds of London have given a credit of $10,000,000. On the strength of this announcement Brazilian stocks rose 7 petice, but afterward fell to 731-32, where they remained firm. The correspondent of the Herald in Rio Janeiro says that the Itahian Legation there has received information from Espirito Santo to theeftect that many Lial- ians have quit the country, fearing fur- ther trouble from th~ people. Dr. Rarowitza of the Belgica Antarctic exploring party has arrivea at Punta Arenas, where he is arranging for the ar- rival of the expedition. He states that the object of the expedition is not 10 reach the pole, but to reacu the open sea discovered three years ago by the whaler Jason, off the coast of Victorialand. —_— Negro Thief Shot by a Mob. WAYCROSS, Ga., Nov. 25.—J. Johnson, | a negro who had been arrest-d for steal- ing a mule, was taken from the officers who had him in custody, near Screven, to-night and shot to death by a mob. . Two Serere Earthquakes. BUCHAREST, Nov. 25.—There were two severe earthquakes here at 1:45 this | morning. No damage wasg done. BELIEVES BLANTHER'S CONEESSION Widow of the Suicide Talks of His Many Crimes. EMMANUEL CHURCH MURDERS. Thinks Mrs. Langfeldt’s Slayer Killed Blanche Lamontand Minnie Williams. OFTEN TALKED ABOUT THE CELEBRATED CASE. Watched for the San Francisco Papers and Often Mentioned Theodore Durrant. Speclal Dispaich to THE CALL. FORT WORTH, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Forbes, or islanther, the widow of the suiciue wao is alleged to have iefta confession say- ing that he committed the Emmanuel Church murders in San Francisco, said to-day: 7 “Iv is all clear to me. Arthur Forbes mnrdered the three women—Mrs, Lang- felt, Blanche Lamont and Minnie Wil- liams. I am convinced that the man who was once my husband, and who proved to be such a monster, did it all. The evi- dence I possess regarding Forbes’ con- nection with the California case would be enough to convict him of the crime in any court in the land and to free Durrant, I remember now that he used to read every newspayper that he could find, and was especially anxious regarding San Francisco Dewspapers, whenever he could find one. Then I did not undersiand it, but 1t has all been cleared up to me since. “We discussed the notorjous San Fran- c'sco murders, and my husband and my- | self several times talked of Theodore Durrant. He said he had been introduced to Minnie Williams and Blanchs Jamont | by Durrant. [ noticed the ubusual inter- est he displayed in tue maiter at the time, and since the appearance of his confession it is clear to me that he was constantly on the watch. “I was but a girl when I met him in Kentucky, where I was at school. He was many vears my senior, but his courtly manners, military bearing and excellent conduct captured me. He was highly edu- cated and was a pleasing writer. Aftec I left the Kentucky school I returned to my Texarkana home. My relations were such that I found it more congenial to go to Little Rock and accepted a place ina dry-goods store. There I again met Arthur Forbes and we were married. He won my affections, made me an unhappy woman and causel me many regrets. “In 1893 he took me to the World’s We afterward went to Iurope and London. Liverpool, Vienna and other for- cign places. | met his relatives and found they were prominent and distinguished people. After our return we went to Kopperl, near Meridian, where we taught school. There be made life miserable for me. 1 finally lost respect for him and 1t was mere accident that I escaned with my life. A scar on my forehead and a bullet which yet remains in my head te!l the tale of how the man tried to kill me. Heshotat me three times, the first bullet making a flesh wound in the front part of my head and the last plowing its way into my scaip. He toid me the shooting was accidental, but I couldn’t believe him. He went to Kopperl in Augusy of last year and I left him in December. “I now have two trunksin San Fran- cisco which were securea by officers in their investigations of the Durrant case. My husband frequently talked to me of Durrant with whom, he said, he had been intimate He said he was a civil engi- neer and wrote a great deal. He came to America in 1880. He was in the Austrian armyv and was made a lieutenant. “Waen my husband came back from San Francisco he carried always on his person a pistol and his anxiety 1o see the San Francisco papers, as I say, was con- sp cuous.” Mrs. Forbes telegraphed to Durrant as follows: “Keep couraze. 1 believe you are an innocent man and I will furnish the San Krancisco officials with my evi- dence.” A te.egram was received here to-day for her asking if A. L. Tubbs, one of Dur- rant’s attorneys, had been in this city, and adding that Tubbs was missing from San Francisco. Ward, Dillard & Ward, the Meridian lawyers, to whom the suicide’s alleged confession was nanded, have com- pared the handwr.ting with the letters written by Forbes or Blanther before his arrest, and to-day they gave out a state- ment that they are fully convinced that the confession is not connterfeit. SHOT DOWN A CHINAMAN., Fatal Consequenc- of @ Celestial’s At- temnt 0 Escape Arvrest. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 25.—A colored man named Green shot and killed a Chi- naman at the house of Robert Coons, near Elk Grove, to-day. On Tuesday last Frank Coons was poisoned by drinking liquor he had purchased from a China- man, and Green had been depated by Constable Springstead to watch the Coons residence for the return of tne Chinaman. Green this morning left his pcst for about an hour and when he returned found a Chiraman in the house. The Celestial started to run and Green, after ordering bim to stop, opened fire and in- tlicted a wound from which death resuited an hour later. The dead Chinaman is not the one who MOB LAW IN THE VIENNA REICHSRATH To Protect the Presid- ing Officer He Is Fenced In. DR. WOLFF CALLS HIM A SWINDLER. An Attempt Made to Tear Herr Abrahamovics From the Plattorm. PREMIER BADENI TAKES TO HIS HEELS. Five Dally Vienna Newspapers Confiscated by Order of the Government. £pecial Dispatch to THE CALL T AV A, Now. ~When the lower House of the Reichsrath reassembled io- day, after adjourning yesterday from the scene of unprecedented disorder, all the Ministers were present and the approaches to the presidential tribune were blocked, doors having been erected since the dis- graceful fighting of yesterday in and about the tribune and throughout the Hou-e. The entrance of the President of the Cbamber, Dr. Abrahamovics, was the sig- nal for loud and ironical salutations, which were followel by vehement Leftist shouts of “Sham Dr. Abrahamovics made an attempt to speak, but Dr. Wolff, the German Na- tionalist leader, interrupted him by shout- ing, “Some one else must take the chair, not this swindler!” Herr Schoenerer, the leader of the sec- tion of the German Opposition, then yelled at the top of his voice, *I demand the right to sneak, which I am entitled tol” Thereupon Dr. Wolff retorted, “‘There is no such thing as right in this House. It 1s trodden under foot by his Mamalukes.” As the uproar which followed showed every sign of increasing, Dr. Abrahamo- i vies adjourned the House at 3 o'clock, amid a storm of “hurrabs’ and ‘‘bravos.”’ The sitting was resumed at 3:30. Imme- diately the Lifiists commenced a tre- menaous din, in the midst of which the German Centrist, Count Falkenhyn, con- ceived as a happy idea a proposal to cow obstructionists by threatening their pock- ets. He moved that for the juture disor- derly members might be suspended for three days by the President or ior thirty days by the House, during which their al- lowance shoula be stopped, while mem- bers refusing to leave the chamber when requested might be iorcibiy expelled. The speech was interrupted with con- tinuous uproar, Herr Wolff sbouting: “Let's pitch the blackguards out!” The President immediately called for order. Finally Herr Wolif stationed him- self directly in iront of the President's tribune and began a shrill whistle. While the tumult was at its height Herr Abrahamovics declared that he re- garded the motion of Count Fa kenhyn as a necessary measure of self-defense and called for the voting. The whole right at once arose, and the President declared the motion carried. A number of Duputies then began clamoring on the President’s platform, whereupon he seized his bell and left the House. After a short interval he returned and besan to address ihe Chamber, but his voice was drowned in a torrent of Lefuist vells and shouts of *“Get out!” and “shame!" Finally the sitting was suspendea for an hour, at the ciose of which President Abrahamovics returned and announced that in accordance with the wisbh ex- pressed in many quarters he hLad decided to close the sitting, 10 open again to- MOrrow. The scenes, which are regarded as a par- liamentary coup d’etat, were witnessed by the British Embassador, Sir Horace Rumbold, and by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), with other noted for- eigners. The motion of Count Falkenbyn, former Minister of Agriculture, was car- ried by means of an evidently precon- certed signal between President Abraham- ovics and the Rightists, for no word of the President’s speech audible, This novel proceeding was greeted with howls and jeers by the Obstructionists. For a long time Count Badeni, the Pre- mier, stood calm and unmoved, but when the disorder reacned a climax both he and the President sought safety from per- sonal violence in flight. Five Vienna newspavers, including the Neue Freie Presse and th : socialist organ, Arbiter Zeitung, in a dition to several provincial journals, have been confiscated for ariicles on Wednesday’s procecdings. Count Badeni had interviews with Em- peror Francis Josef last night and this morning. To-day’s sitting was delayed while the carpenters built fences around the president’s chair. While this was go- ing on the assembled men indulged in an- imated discussions and jested about the **Presidential cag Tue leaders of the Opposition met this evening to decide what steps should be taken in view of the vioiation of the constitution, but no daci- sion was arrived at. ——————— AUSTRIA’S FLAG SALUTED, Turkey Begins Its Redress for the Insults and lil Treatment at Mersina. VIENNA, Nov. 25.—Dispatches re- ceived here from Mersina, Asia Minor, announce that, as a result of the decision of the Turkish Government to grant the demands of Austria for r-lress in con- sequence cf the ill trea.ment of Herr Brazzafoli, the agent of the Austrian Lioya Steamship Company at that point, sold the poisonea liquor 1o I'rank Coons, but is believed to nave been in collusion with him, and either conlemplated poison- ing the rest of the family or committing | robbery. Green is now in jailin this city. and the subsequent insults complained of by the Austrian Consul there, the flug of Austria was dulv saluated at Mersina yesterday by the Turkish guns, with all the ceremonial demanded by the Govern- ment of Ausiria. TUTTLE IS ANXIOUS TO SAIL NORTH He Will Start With the Bear To-Day If He Can by Any Possibility. The Sooner the Ship Is on the Way to the Arctic the Sooner Will Relief Be Carried to the Whalers Shut in by Ice. *itkttttk***ttifltttttfl*: SEATTLE, Nov. Francis Tuttle, commanding the revenue cutter Bear, is making every possible effort to sail north to-morrow evenine. He has been delayed by the non-arrival until yesterday of a coal steamer. But the coaling of the cutter was com- pleted to-night, and if the addi- tional work preparatory to sailing is finished to-morrow the relief ship will at once start for Port Townsend, where several hours will be consumed in procuring ship chandlery and attending to cus- toms business. * PRPRTER TR PRTAE R ST TR SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—It is confidentiy believed by Captain Tuttle that an im- portant letter mailed him last Saturday from the depariment at Washington will 25.—Captain Fr kAR AARIAR AR IR IR AR KRR AR AR NN NN KN N YNNI NN NN N certainly arrive to-morrow, o that there | will be no gelay on that account. The commander of this most important and hazardous expedition, which hopes to take encouragement and food to the ice- imprisoned whalers in the Arctic Ocean, is apxious to muakea start. that every day’s time is of vital import- ance in pushing througn the ice floes of Be BSea. It issafe to pradict that the Bear will sail not later than Saturday morning. Lieutenant Jarvis, who is to command the iand expedition, was kept busy to-day | completing preparations for the long trip he is soon to make. He isan excep- tionally modest man and is reluctant about expressing his views and hoves. He will say, bowever, that he believes his party will reach their destination and that he proposes 10 exert every human effort possible to make the expedition suc- cessiul. While he will iollow the orders of the department so far as they are im- perative, he believes that after the arrival of the Bear in northern waters, and when blocks of ice impede her further progress, circumsiances will very largely guide his action. Captain Tuttle has abiding confidence in the courage ana judgment of Mr. Jar- vis, who has been his DIst Ncutenant They will act in perfect barmony, and considerable latitude will be allowed the lieutenant. The latter believes that the land party should contain but four or five neer H. C. Whitworth, who has been ore dered to report at Washington. On a spe- cial cruise a first assistant is permitted to assume che duties of a chief. A letter was received this afternoon trom Washington directing Captain Tut- tle to keep a lookout for the steamer Peli- can’ The department has been advised by the Northern Pacific Steamship Com- pany that this vessel left Seattle on Oc- tober 12 loaded with lumber for Japan, and that a recent cable from that country indicated that the Pelican had’not been reported. Considerabie anxiety is ex- pressed by the company lest thecrew and vessel might have met with some mishap. In accordance with the request made by the company the Secretary of the Treasury has issued an order directing the revenue cutters on the Pacific Coast to keep asharp lookout for the steamer that went to sea abont forty-four days age. [t is thought possible that the Peiican may have been disabled and put into Dutch Harbor and 1n that event the Bear, which expects to reach there in about ten days, will ren- der whatever aid is possible. He realizes | TORTONA VISITED Severe Loss Attributed Either an Incendiary or a Tramp. to { officers, with the addition of the required | number of natives. The department has ordered Lieutenant E. P. Bertholff and Explorer F. Kiot- schoif to be of the party. A surgeon will also accompany them, but as to who else may be selected is as yet problematic. To-day First Assistant Engineer Speer reported for duty to relieve Chief Engi- ermnnnrmrmnq NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Fair Friday, with fresh westeriy winds. FIRST PAGE. Oakland Church Incendiary. Captain Merry’s Mission. Trying to Save Durrant. Austrian Statesmen Rampant, The Bear May Sail To-day. SECOND PAGE. Jimmy Ryan Knocked Out. The Baltimores Beaten. Good Americans uive Thanks. San Jose Scandal. THIRD PAGE. Fight for the Boulevard. Eastern Fooiball Games. FOURTH AND FIFTH PAGES. The Great Football Game. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. The Edgar Contempt Case. Postal Savines Banks. An Arizona Aspiration. The Baby in the Streetcar. Person SEVENTH PAGE. Filcher Says to Advertise, EIGHTH PAGE. Oppose Cuban Autonomy. Bound to Annex Hawail. Boy Bandit Sick in Jail. NINTH PAGE. Alameda County News. TENTH PAGE. Races on Eastern Tracks. Racing Across the Bay. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages, Deaths, TWELFTH PAGE. Thanksgiving Incident. News of the Water Front. Anxious Railroad Men. : : 3 : : : : 3 : : : : | lames were extinguished. | Many of the Leading Business Structures of the Town Ara Reduced to Ruins. Special Dispatch to Tik Ca EUREKA, Car., .—A big fire vis- ited the town of Fortuna this morning at 2 o’clock, destroying Samuel Dickson’s jewelery store, Chauncey Langdon’s real estate office, Jones & Loring’s drugz store, William Hust’s opera-house and confec- tionery store and Dr. L. C. Bush’s office. The flames were discovered in a woodshed in the rear of Dickson’s store, and rapidly consumed the establishments mentioned. The fire was either started by an incen- diary or a tramp sleeping in a shed. Fortunately they were all one-story build- ings, or the fire would have surely done more damage. The losses are: Dickscn buildine $800, stock $:200, insurance $500; Jones & Loring totar loss, stock $1500, building $300, no insurance; Langdon loss $150, buriding $500; Hunt buuding $1200, contents $500, 1nsurance $590. Fortunately tnere was no wind or the large merchandise store of Swartzel & | Wiltiams aajoining woula have burned. As it was, it cauzbi in eight places and was only saved by hard work. The build- ings were owned by Dan Newell, Mrs. Henry Hansen and William Hunt. The | livery stable of Thomas Greig, across the street, caught fire several times, but the This is the <econd large fire Fortuna has had since Muy, when Swarizel & Williams’ molding mill and electric light works were burned. -——— HOW ESTERHAZY WAS TRACKED. An American Lady Gets the Clew to the Persecutors of Captain Dreyfus. BERLIN, Nov. The Frankfort Zei- tung says that the family of former Cap- tain Alfred Dreyfus, now in exile and im- prisonment on the Isle of Diable, off the coast of French Guiana, on the charge of having sold ¥rench secret military 1n- formation to a foreign Government, en- gaped Sir George Lewis, the well-known London lawyer, to discover if possible the author of the maemorandum on the evi- dence of which Dreyfus was convicted. Sir George Lewis is said to have got on the track of Comte de Esterhazy through the agency cf an American lady, who, thro a porter at the German embassy at Paris, learned that the German officials talked of tne infamy of the conviction of Dreyfus and of the necessity of informing Kmperor Wiiliam. IS CANADA MAKING A BLUFF? Report That She Has Declined to Stop Pelagic Sealing for a Year. OTTAWA, Oxt, Nov A reply has been prepared by the Dominion Govern- ment and forwarded to Washington in respect to the negotiations which are go- ing on between the countries. The Government will not say what the reply is until it reaches Mr. Foster at Washington, but it is understood that itis a refusal to stop pelagic sealing for a year as the United States requested. The whole question depended upon this and therefore it will appear that the ne- gotiations are to fail in their object. However, there is a repori that Canada has proposed an alternative proposition for the United States whick could be laid before Congress at its next sitting and passed in time to deal with velagic seal- ing and the questions of dispute next sea: son. o