The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1898, Page 2

VOLUME LXXXIII.—N 0. 69. Call SAN- FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 189S8. - HO0LDS THE KEY T0 THE SITUATION Uncle Sam a Most Important Factor in Far East. Now Has a Commanding Position in the Big Fight. By Shrewd Diplomacy This Country Can Gain Many Concessions. PLANS FOR SUPREMACY. Russia, Germany and France Ac- tively Negotiating for the Support of the United States. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | LONDON, Feb.7.—Accordingto a special dispatch from Shang- hai, Admiral Sir Alexander Bul- lock, commander-in-chief of the British fleet on the Chinastation, has arrived there, and an impor- tant exchange of views by cable has occurred between him, the British Minister at Peking, Sir Claude MacDonald, and the Ad- miralty. The correspondent of the Times at Kobe, Japan, says: The Ko- rean Government has adopted a resolution that no railway con- cession shall be granted to for- eigners. The Japanese Minister at Seoul, M. Kato Masua, will demand that the contract for the construction of the Seoul-Fusan Railw by Japanese under an agreement made in August, 1894, shall be signed without delay. 0608 108 108 308 106 00 08 308 00 08 300 T I O 0 O O R R 0T VUGV ADOAAD OO IO EEOOOY QC‘UOO‘OGC‘UC(GC&QGUQQ‘ NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—The Herald's ‘Washington correspondent sends - the following: The United States is more | of a factor in the game of international politics which is now in progress over affairs in the east than is generally | understood. All the great European powers are seeking to ascertain the at- titude of this country on the great eastern problem, and until that is| known there will be no move on the in- rnational chessboard. | “Your country has a commanding position in the big fight that is going on and by shrewd diplomacy ought to | be able te obtain almost any conces- | sions in the east that are desired.” These declarations were made to me to-day by one of the ablest members of the diplomatic corps in Washington, a man whose country occupies a neu- tral position in regard to the easter; wquestion, during the course of an ex tended interview on the general situa- | fion as he views it through unbiased spectacles. “There can be no doubt,” this diplo- matist continued, “that the great Eu- ropean powers are planning for further acquisitions of territory in the east. How much further they will go de- pends in a large measure upon the po- sition of this country. “It is a contest on one hand between Russia, Germany and France to secure | a distinct declaration that the United States will not concern itself about the | opening up of any more new ports by foreign countries and of England and Japan on the other hand to induce the United States to join them in a protest against the policy which will give a nation or group of nations superior rights in any Chinese ports. The head and center of the fight is just at pres- | ent right here in Washington, and i will become even more exciting upon the arrival of the new Russian Embas- sador. Until his arrival you need not look for any new move by Russia in the | east. “The action of Russia in raising the | ‘:agation in this city to an embassy and transferring to this post Cassini, direct from China, is, in my mind, very sig- nificant. He will come here prepared to explain in detail the exact state of affairs in China and with instructions not only to sound the United States on its position in the matter, but to make advances looking to an under- standing which will give this country almost anything that may be desired in a commercial way in return for its moral support in favor of the schemes of those countries which have arrayed themselves against England and Japan | in the Orient.” There is no doubt that the adminis- tration is giving very careful consid- eration to the eastern question. While the prevailing opinion in the cabinet is that we ought to avoid all entangling | alliances, there is a strong sentiment in favor of following a course which will extend American trade in the Ori- ent, provided it can be done without tying up too closely with any European country. @@@@@0@@@@@@@@60@@00@5@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ —_— Death of Senator Hagle. SPRINGFIELD, IIl., Feb. 6.—Senator D. C. Hagle, first assistant general attorney, | dled this morning at his home in Flora, | Clay County, aged 59 years. Senator Ha. | gle was taken ill here five weeks ago with pleurisy. He returned a week later and | uties, but | up and return home. | result of a complica- endeavored to attend to his g o forced to give death was the tion of diseases. 54 } « Call for a Labor Convention. ' ¢ ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 6.—A call for the | ‘first regular annual United Labor and | Labor Reform convention,” to be held in St. Louis on Monday, May 2, 1895, has been isued by a committee, by virtue of authority conferred on it by the United Labor convention held in Chi Baptember. icago last | spondent of the Times says: The Turks, | repulsed. A panic prevails among the | be dropped until | the Mail says: The candidacy of Prince — e @ @ ® @ ® @ & > ® ® @ © This is a strategic point commanding the mouth of the Yang-Tse-Kiang and the approaches to Shanghai, which-the:British admiral is about to occupy, under orders from his Government, as an offset to Russia’s occupation of Port Arthur. VIEW OF TING-HAI, CHUSAN ISLAND. PEASANTS FIGHT TURKISH TROOPS. Eight Thousand Ottoman Regulars Engage in Con- flicts, and Have Occupied and Burned Four Villages, Causing Consternation. ATHENS, Feb. 6.—Sangulnary con-| flicts continue between the Turkish troops and the peasants in Thessaly. | It is reported that the Turks have oc- | cupied several villages, and that a hun- dred persons have been killed. LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Athens corre- after severe fighting, have occupied and | burned four villages in the Agrapha district, in the morth . of Acarnania, | about midway between Arta and Do- | moko. Eight thousand Turkish troops were engaged in the conflicts. It is reported that in the neighbor- hood of Palaekastron the Turks ‘were inhabitants of the neutral zone. The Greek outposts have been strengthened, and the situation is ominous. It is probable that the Cretan question will the evacuation of Thessaly has been secured. The Constantinople correspondent of George of Greece for the governorship of Crete and the Cretan question gen- erally have been shelved for the pres- ent. The Sultan’s progress through Stam- boul was a magnificent spectacle. There was no disorde; PANIC CAUSED BY A FALLING BALCONY Disaster Among Two Hundred Dan- cers Narrowly Averted at a Hall in Chicago. CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—A panic among 200 dancers was narrowly averted last night at the North Shore Hall. Thirty specta- tors were crowded into the little balcony watching the dance. The supports became loosened and slipped back to the wall. The balcony sank gradually, allowing the spectators to slide topsy-turvy on the pol- ished floor. When the creaking and pulling com- Pe0000000 9000000600060 ® NEWS OF THE DAY. ® ® Weather forecast for San Fran- @ cisco: Cloudy 'Modiday; probably & showers; fresh southerly wind. @ Maximum temperature for the past 4 twenty-four hours: ® San Francisco. & Portland . kS Los Angeles. San Diego, FIRST PAGE. Uncle Sam and the Far East. Fighting in Thessaly. Canada to Head Off Rellet Supplles. Belew's Public Confesslon, SECOND PAGE. After San Jose Boodlers. Arbitrary Act of a Judge, Rain on the Coast. Coursing at Los Angeles. THIRD PAGE. Annexation Treaty Doomed. Central American Rebels. Nevada and the Murderers. Los Angeles Water Fight. Warfare in Cuba. Church Trustees Resign, FOURTH PAGE. Editortal. Swindling In War Supplies. Our Pocket Full of Gold. Grand Jury Work. American Shipping Interests. Rectprocity Treaties, “Individual Thought,” by & Modest Critfe. Stories From Hotel Corridors. FIFTH PAGE. Marshal Moore Off for Alaska. Burglars Are Still Busy. Death of Captain Hall. McEntee May Have Blundered. SIXTH PAGE. Japanese Going to the Klondike. Father Gleason Scores Barnes, Tired of State Control. SEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. J. C. Johnson Funeral Arrange- ments. EIGHTH PAGE. Buggestions for Beautifying the City. Coursing at Ingleside. National Guard News. NINTH PAGE. Births, Marriages, Deaths. TENTH PAGE. City Prisoners Want Food. School Scandal Developments. Arrival of Todd Sloane. ko L4 @ OP0990909090000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 6O 05069060 90000 20000069 menced, indicating that the balcony was falling, the large number of persons gathered underneath quickly stampeded toward the central portion of the hall, | leaving John Krusie behind. Krusie was eaught by the falling timbers and had his side crushed in. As the north end of the balcony com- menced to fall the musicians became panic-stricken, and, seizing their instru- ments, made a rush for the door. The dancers followed. Several police officers stationed at the door threw it shut and held it against the panic-stricken dancers, thus averting a certain catastrophe on the narrow stairway. Of the thirty persons in the gallery Krusie alone sustained scrious injuries. All of the others, however, were pain- fully bruised. LIVERPOOL LINE STEAMER 'RUNS AGROUND The Pennland Goes on the Shoals ‘While Leaving the Port of Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.—The Ameri- can line steamship Pennland,which sailed from this city for Liverpool with a gen- eral cargo valued at’$150,000, ran aground late yesterday in the shoals. She is still hard and fast. Two of the city ice boats attempted to move her this afternoon without success. Her position is not dan- gerous, and should she fail to float at midnight it is thought it may be neces- sary to lighten her cargo. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—The North Ger- man Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm 1T, for Naples, and the French line steamer La Bretagne, for Havre, which were re- ported to have been grounded yesterday off Sandy Hook near Gedney Channel during thick weather, proceeded to sea this morning, clearing the Sandy Hook bar'at 7 and 7:13 respectively. The Ger- man steamer got off under her own steam and the French liner was pulled off by the Merritt-Chapman W’reck!ng Com- pany. e Whitlock Miners Killed. MARIPOSA, Feb. 6.—At the Alabama mine at Whitlock, five miles north of Mariposa, Thomas Beckerleg and W. J. Delbridge were killed by the premature explosion of a blast yesterday at 2 o'clock. Both men were married. —_—— Two Carloads of Antimony. SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 6.—Max Sohr, representing the Chicago company which contracted to supply Brice with anti- mony, from which he derives his_gold, announced to-day that one car and per- haps two of antimony will leave Mills City, Nevada, to-morrow for Chicago. -IMAY TRY TO STOP THE RELIEF TRAIN. Canada Sending Mounted Police to the Yukon to Prevent the American Expedition From Reaching Dawson Without Paying Customs Duties. SALT LAKE, Feb. 6.—A special to the Tribune from Butte, Mont., says: | Information received from Lethbridge, | on the Canadian boundary, is to the | effect that great excitement has been | caused there by orders’ received from the Dominion Government that every man of the mounted police hold himself in readiness to proceed to the Yukon at a moment’s notice for temporary duty. Superintendent Dean has re- ceived notice to go to McLeod to re- lieve Major Steele, who was ordered-to the Yukon and had left for tidt place before -the arrival of the second mes- sage. ‘'Five men also were ordered to the Yukon and left yesterday. The orders, which were received by wire by the officers in command from the division, are said to be due to the existence of serious trouble between the Canadlan and United States au- thorities in Alaska relative to the at- tempt by the Americans to get provis- jons into the Yukon free of duty, osten- sibly for the relief of distress, but in reality for sale to the highest bidders. VICTORIA, Feb. 6.—The steamer Queen left this morning with over 500 miners for the Yukon. She will be fol- lowed to-morrow by the Danube with over 200 more. Over 100 miners’ licenses for the Yukon district were issued yes- terday and almost as many to-day by the Collector of Customs. He has is- sued over fifty daily since the licenses have arrived. A party has been organized here to carry on dredging operations on the Hootalinqua River. It will take in a large steel cylinder, similar to those used in sinking artesian wells, and will work the bars of the river. The cylinder will be taken over on the snow in a specially built sleigh. Application will be made at the next session of the local legislature for a charter for a railway from Observatory Inlet to Glenora, to connect with the Teslin Lake Railway. This will give a route from the coast to Damsey all in Canadian territory. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 6.—The steamer Elder, on,which is the Government’s Klondike relief expedition, after ad- vancing a hundred miles down the Co- lumbia River, is tied up here. Captain Yesterday Morning. | sel to the fury of the storm now raging “When they found that all- fifty-one of Hinkle is not willing to commit his ves- 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 on the Pacific. Reports from Ft. Can- by station are that the wind off the coast is blowing seventy-flve miles an hour and increasing. The pressure of the public to secure accommodations on the Alaskan bound | steamers almost brought disaster to the | expedition. at the start. The soldlers | had not seen their quarters until the steamship was ready to leave port. them had been assigned to a low room | 20x25 feet between the decks they re- monstrated. - The quarters assigned | were on a level with the water line. Fifty-one men were expected to spend five days there. Separated from them only by piles:of freight were fiftyhorses and many ‘dogs. A compromise was finally suggested, | by which the soldiers were allowed to | roll up in their blankets on the floor of first-class parlors and saloons. The | cabin passengers gave unanimous con- sent. “ At Astoria the quarters deserted by the soldiers were quickly filled up by new passengers, CRUELTIES HAVE FAILED TO REFORM. DENVER, Feb. 6.—A sweeping change ‘was made to-day in the management of the State Industrial School for Girls, Cap- tain Robert G. Smithers being placed in charge as superintendent, with his wife as matron, by Governor Adams, on recom- mendation of the Staze Board of Charities and Corrections, which is investigating the condition of affairs at the institution. The investigation has already made it | plain that the old management utterly | failed to control the incorrigible inmates, although it had emploved such drastic measures as locking them in dark dun- geons, dousing them with cold water, put- ting them on bread and water diet and | stringing them to the wall with their hands behind them. These methods of discipline will now be dropped. sl i Schooner Fannie Kinney Founders. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 6.— The schooner Fannie Kinney, Captain Fisher, which safled from Philadelphia January 28 with a cargo of coal, bound for this ort, foundered about five miles north rom the mouth of the St. Johns Riyer early this morning. The vessel ' went ashore in the dense fog that prevailed. No lives were lost, but the vessel is probably a total wreck. e atn St on et en et et B 85 3% Scene as Frank Belew Was Making His Confession- to ' District- Attorney Devlin| PRICE FIVE -CENTS. BELEW NOW ANXIOUS TO PLEAD GUILTY Does Not Want a Trial and Wishes It Was All Over With. Makes Formal Confession of the Murder of Brother and Sister to the District Attorney and Other Officials. 0000000000000 00000000000000000000000 SUISUN, Feb. 6.—Frank Belew made a formal confession of the murder of his brother and sister to the District Attorney and other officers this morning. Attorney Reese Clark and Arthur Belew came into the court- Frank saw them and remarked : “There they are, but it’s too late now.” Constable B. F. Newby and John W. Bird called to see the prisoner to-day. He greeted them in a friendly way and He corrected some of the points of their testi- mony as reported exclusively in The Call of Friday, but agreed in the main that all their chief statements were correct, yard. shook hands. To Newby and Bird he said : I do not want a trial. all over as soon as possible.”’ better course. 1 want to plead guilty and have it He made a somewhat modified statement to a Call re- porter in the evening, saying he was not sure which was the Arthur Belew now believes his brother is guilty. He called on him early in the afternoon and had a long talk. “Frank could not look at me while he was talking,” said Arthur, ““and 1 felt sorry for him.”’ \ Reese Clark and Arthur Belew were with the prisoner just aftet he had made his confession to the officers. - When he told them what he had done Clark simply said: have made a mistake and I cannot do any more for you.” Just as he had finished “You 00000000000000000000000000000000000000 . 0000000000000 C0C000000000000000000Q0000 PUBLIC CONFESSION OF FRANK BELEW Pale, Trembling and Haunted, the Prisoner Relates to Details of His Crime. SUISUN, Feb. 6.—“This is the whole story of mv crimes,” said Belew, pale, trembling and haunted with the shadow of his murders, as he arose to sign a formal confession in the office | of District Attorney Devlin at 9 o’clock | crushed him. this morning. Then the strange man of stern and melting moods arose and said: BRIV EIRIIWLN DID FRANK BELEW ATTEMPT SUICIDE? 83 SUISUN, Feb. 6.—Under Sheriff Robinson says Watchman Wells thought Frank Belew tried to commit suicide last night by put- ting a handkerchief down his throat. Wells says'he thinks the attempt was made, but Belew vigorously denies it. $82828088808283838 8 RN (BRI VRRERIVIIER if a great load had been lifted from my mind.” He stretched his sinewy form full length, gazed hoplessly out of the win- dow, and said: “There is Reese Clark, my lawyer, with poor Arthur. It's too late now, for it is all over, and I must stand the consequences. It was a strange spectacle of lost op- portunity cronfronting crimes aged defender. A few moments before Clark had said to The Call correspon- dent on the train: *“This is an easy case. Why didn’t you get up some- thing hard for me like the case where I once cleared a man after seven men had sworn they saw him load the gun, and five swore they saw him shoot the man.” From the office where Frank Belew made the confession that eased his conscience still more than the one he gave to Henry James of The Call yes- terday, he was at once taken to the damp and lonesome jail. Attorney Clark and his brother Arthur went in at once, and he repeated his confession briefly to them, whereupon Clark said: “I cannot do any more for you, for you have made a great mistake.” It is imposeible to obtain the verhose legal text of the confession made this morning. of questions and answers, all of swhich were given without much hesitation. “It corroborates quite fully the pub- lished reports as they appeared in the San Francisco papers,” said Attorney Devlin. Belew's official confession was made in the presence of District Attor- ney Devlin, Under Sheriff Robinson, Deputy Sheriff Downing, James Wells and Horace Perry, the stenographer, who took the statement. It was a strange and solemn scene. Those who listened could hardly believe what they heard, though the speaker told the story with great particularity, avoid- ing few of the details. He shuddered at times at the thought of his own wickedness, especially when he spoke of the sister he murdered. = “Hadn’t she been a good sister to you?” asked t_h;o District Attorney. “I feel better now—feel as | | “Yes; she was always good and kind,” came the trembling reply. “I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I did it,” he said, so sadly, so_hopelessly that all who heard the Words felt that the man had two sides to his nature. He certainly did mnot similate grief. and it seems hard to be- lieve that the man who committed so shocking a crime could feel such poig- nant grief. At times he was overcome with a flocd of memories that almost Then he would recite any little thing in mitigation, as if it relieved his troubled spirit, as when he sobbingly said: “I tried to save Susie after I did it; I went and got a doc- tor.” For a moment it seemed as if the man told the truth when he said he was sad and full of remorse while he sat holding his dying sister’s hand. After Belew was told, at the very out- set of the proceedings, that he was un- der no obligation to speak, that ne threats would be made and no rewards offered, he said: “I understand the sit- uation, and I know I am free, so I will make a voluntary confession that I am | guilty and that I.want to confess. I It consisted almost entirely | | slept better last night after talking to the reporters.” “Did you ever think of making & con- ——e ADVERTISEMENTS. that of a healthy, ‘happy mother ll ghy with her ro- mmb:'iv; e g . 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