The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1898. FORTY THOUSAND PERSONS ~ ARE FED BY THE RED CROSS STARVATION AT SANTIAGO IS NOW BEING CHECKED But There Are Yet From Ten to Fif- teen Deaths Daily and the Supplies Are Kept Strongly Guarded. the New York | from the channel, but the cable torpedoes still remain. From ten to fifteen deaths a day from starvation are reported. : aYa | Forty thousand persons are be- 19.—General Shaf- | ing fed to-night by the Red Cross ter expect the Spanish Corps. Refugees in the armies troops will ¢ Spain be- | are flocking into the city, and it fore next Sund e Spanish has been necessary to place a ships now in the harbor available strong guard about the stores are the Mex- | which are being landed from the \ 1000 men; | State of Texas. de Los Angeles, Mor-| Fourteen hundred tons of pro- 1 Juan, each capable | visions have been brought off men. Admiral |from the Red Cross steamship. board the Vixen, An additional thousand tons are »or to-day for a expected in a few days. 1 General Shafter| Santiago has been like a city to the work of transport- enjoying a holiday. Famished panish troops. All of Spaniards have welcomed the s have been removed | Americans and have gone so far 600 the torped 1in their friendly manifestations as | to incur the displeasure of Cap- | tain of the Port Muller, who de- | clares General Toral will be pun- ished for surrendering the city. Miss Barton announces that Robert Douglass, a wealthy resi- dent of Kingston, has given his house in this city to be used as headquarters in the Red Cross | work. Sylvester Scovel, the newspa- per correspondent, who was ar- |rested for striking General | Shafter yesterday, was taken to Siboney to-day on the tug Co- |lon under a small guard. He may be tried here, or General Shafter | may decide to send him as a pris- |oner to the United States for | trial. | Heath and Fred W. Heath have ap- BUSY SCENES ALONG plied for authority to organize the CHARLESTON'Q DOCKS First National Bank of Honolulu. They presented their application flrist s s " early as Feb y 3, 1893, when it was Most Active Preparations Beilg gapposed the ey posed the islands were on the verge Made for a Move to the of annexation, and they renewed it on Front. May 28 of this year. . 2 i : o The application for authority to or- TARLESTON, 8. C., July 19.—That | g1 pi50 the First National Bank of San re beine made for | Juan is -signed by William E. Curtis, t is evident to | formerly _ director _of Bureau of an hour on the water | American Republics; John T. Suter of e not having a | Washington, Henry W. Cannon, John s- | G. Moore and Grant B. Schley of New y and ove! York. This application was made on nplished by | July 16. Neither application can yet be he monster &ranted, for although Hawail has been ng into her annexed, the annexation resolution ex- and other | Dressly continues the laws of Hawalil in the ship is or- force until repealed or modified by Con- {eenth Pennsyl- | gress, and there is doubt as to whether ind | it will not require Congressional action to extend. to the islands the general laws of the United States. When the time comes, however, that national banks can be established in these pos- sessions of the United States, the first out to the | application will be given priority and he south ! will have the right to the title of First t 1000 | National Bank. UNANIMOUSLY AGREES TO SUE FOR PEACE The Madrid Cabinet Said to Have Reached a Decision That May End the War. C soldiers = Beside tr the S , its wagons, mules and which 1. the Panama, t Monday, ing EVIDENCE THAT TRADE FOLLOWS THEFLAG Enterprising Americans Are Taking Great Interest in Our New Possessions. NEW YORK, July 19.—A cat.egram 7 YORK, July 19.—A Washington | to the Sun from Madrid, dated July 20, €] 1 to the Herald says: 2 a. m., says: The council has unani- that trade f the flag mously agreed to seek peace. The re- e by , but es as to sponsibility for capitulation is left to 1so by the in- | Captain General Blanco and General are Laking in | Toral solely. It is significant that the s to Porto Rico, censorship raised no obpection to the i Applica- | dispatch announcing that the Cabinet lish national | had decided to seek peace. an, Porto MADRID, July 19.—The evening pa- received and | perg announce that the Cabinet council in regard to | t5_day was occupied with the capitula- a national bank | tjon of Santiago de Cuba. Ministers ex- ant Postmaster | pressed surprise that General Toral had letcher 8. | jncluded the whole military division of the province in the surrender. When details have been received the question ADVERTISEMENTS. be submitted. El Imparcial learns from several members of the Cabinet that, in their | opinion, for Spain to sue now for peace would be an avowal that she is van- quished. Moreover, they buiieve that | the United States, flattered by the tri- | umph at Santiago, would consent to peace only on unequal terms and there- | fore it is preferable to | war in the hope of re-conquering a por- | tion of the lost territory. “As the Government makes no sign { it can only be supposed,” says El Im- The wise | parcial, “that the Ministers disagree on 7 doctor when | the question.” ./I he is called in| Some papers believe that the recon- to attend a| struction of the Cabinet is imminent. K?E,avf"{::i‘i MADE MAD‘BY’?H‘E FEAR OF DYNAMITE that she could avoid the ag-| ony that she taking proper care of hi vo- 3 2z D! in her | Plight of the Chief Engineer of an : ; 2 Austrian Steamer That Took s that constitute her womanhood. s ; locally for a time. Explostves to Cadiz. nerves aie ruined by the | Speclal cable to The Call and the New York No woman can long retain her th who neglects the health of 1d tear of pain. Theycease| Herald. Copyrighted, 1598, by James Gor- the necessary nervous activity tg | 900 Bennett. ns of the body. A genera | ROUEN, July 19.—The Austrian r ) | steamer Zrinyi arriv. E v A wonderful n ne for weak, nervous | 0o Pie ariyen etk eventug women, who. through local troubles are | With & CATE0 composed partly of wine, thre a general break-down is | Which Wwas loaded at Cadiz, the re- ! ’s Favorite Prescription. It acts | mainder being principally oak wood, he delicate organs that are dis- ine. It restores them to vigor It allays inflammation and pain. It gives the tortured nerves s them to resume their | of directing 2 healthy ac- ans. It prepares a wo- | and motherhood. nt e a | with a few general goods from Trieste. There were no cases, such as those d scribed in The Call-Herald June 22 and 24, on board. They must have been landed at Cadiz, where the steamer made a very long stay on account of the difficulties experienced in landing without doubt contained explosives and war material. The chief engineer was landed and taken to an insane asylum | this morning hopelessly mad, through fear of the dynamite which had been on board. CAIMANERA LOWERS THE SPANISH FLAG ‘Preliminaries for Formal Surrender of the Garrison, Among Which Yellow Fever Prevails. Copyrighted, 188, by the Assoclated Press. CAMP McCALLA, July 18 (via Playa lessand insures Itisth best an’s hin medicine and more than “have said so over their signa- Druggists sell it. 90,000 women } tures. iption,” writes Miss Clara Baird, of Montgomery Co., Pa. 1 feel it my to all women who may be suffering 0 4 n discase of the distinctly feminiae organism that it s the best medicine on earth for them to use. 1 cannot praise it too highly for the good it did me. 1f any one doubts this give them my name and address." Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are a sure, safe, speedy and permanent cure for co: pation. ~They never gripe. One is gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. of a court-martial of General Toral wiil | continue the | the mysterious cases in question, which | | del Este, Guantanamo Bay).—A launch from the Marblehead went up the bay this afternoon to Vertcaya del Toro, opposite Caimanera, and gave formal notice to the Spanish commander of the | surrender of General Toral's troops, to- gether with the conditions of the capit- | ulation of Santiago. A limited time was | fixed for hauling down the Spanish flag over Caimanera. The American officer also gave notice that if the Spanish gunboat Sandoval was disabled in any way, or if any | arms, ammunition, public buildings or barracks at Caimanera or Guantanamo were destroyed the Spaniards would not be treated as prisoners of war. The | flag was hauled down this afternoon. From Spanish sources it is learned that the total force in Guantanamo and Caimanera is about 5000, of which num- | ber, however, only about 3000 are fit for,service, the others being disabled by sickness and wounds To-morrow steps will be taken for a formal surrender. What disposition will be made of the prisoners has not | yet been determined because of the presence of yellow fever among them. A rigid quarantine will be maintained, and it is probable that transports for the removal of the prisoners will be | sent up the bay and loaded there, in- stead of having the prisoners marched | down here. [NO MADRID TELEGRAMS IN LONDON PAPERS Severity of Censorship at the Spanish ‘ Capital Is Felt in All Directions. ‘ LONDON, July 20.—Owing to the se- | verity of the censorship at Madrid the London morning newspapers to-day are quite without Madrid dispatches, ex- | cept brief messages sent by way of | France. The Madrid papers themselves |are without dispatches from Paris, London or Havana. Even the Spanish provincial papers get nothing from the capital. The Madrilines, it is reported, suspect that the protracted negotiations at Santiago de Cuba conceal some sort of jugglery and it is also said that the Government wields only a nominal con- trol over Captain-General Blanco, his attitude and that of his army being the chief obstacles to peace. The Washington correspondence of the Daily Telegraph asserts that Presi- dent McKinley yesterday (Tuesday) declared that he expected no peace pro- posals from Spain until Havana had been taken. The morning papers comment upon the peculiar and interesting situation developed by the antagonism between the Americans and Cubans at Santiago. The Daily Chronicle expresses the hope that Commodore Schley has been | falsely represented as talking about a change in European frontiers. It adds: “If the United States really intends to permit the incalculable error of send- ing a fleet to Spain, the less it says about changes of frontier the better for | us all.” BATTLE-SHIP PELAYO HAS BEEN DAMAGED MARSEILLES, July 19.—A steamer which has Jjust arrived here reports having si~hted on Julv 16, off the coast of Tunis, the Spanish fleet commanded by Admiral Camara. As the steamer | passed the battleship Pelayo a column | of smoke suddenly issued from her, and from the fact that a cruiser had | to take the Pelayo in tow it is evident that the most nowerful warship of Spain_has been damaged. LONDON, July 20.—The Vienna cor- respondent of the Times, discussing the advent and probable operations of Commodore Watson, Says: “It is taken for granted that America will | punctiliously observe the obligation of International law. There will, there- fore, be no legal ground for European protests, and intervention without legal Justification is practically excluded by | the certainty that Great Britain wiil support the United States, while the | powers are not likely to risk hastening | the conclusion of an Anglo-American | alliance by any attempt to hinder or | coerce the United States. “Disappointment with the policy of | the Spanish Government is growing | here, and it is beginnin~ to be believed | that Spain can be con-inced of the ab- | solute necessity of suing for peace | only by fresh disasters. A great sur- prise was occasioned here by the news that the odds at Santiago were largely on the side of the Spaniards.” Jhy = SCENE OF THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR EL CANEY. From a Photograph Taken Especially for the Call. CUBAN SOLDIERS NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER SANTIAGO Keen Disappointment Among Gar- cia’s Men Who Evidently Ex- pected to Loot the City. Copyrighted, 1898, by the Assoclated Press. SANTIAGO, July 18, via Kingston, July 19.—A fact which is impressed more and more every day upon the American officers and men is the in- creasing evidence of strained relations between the Americans and General Garcia’s Cuban soldiers. Indeed, the situation has now reached a point where there is practically no commun- ication between the armies, and their relations border on those of hostiles rather than such as one would sup- pose should exist between allies. After General Shafter announced his decision not to let the Cuban Junta en- ter the city of Santiago deep mutter- ings were heard among General Gar- cla’'s men. It was evident the Cubans were greatly disappointed at the step taken by the American commander, for they had confidently counted upon hav- ing Santiago turned over to loot and plunder, as they had In succession sacked Baliquiri, Siboney and El Caney. Consequently their disappointment was keen when they ascertained that they were not to be permitted to take pos- session of the city upon General To- ral’'s surrender. On Friday last, Cas- tillo, a brother of Demares Castillo, went to General Shafter's headquar- ters in order to ascertain the cause of this, to the Cubans, inexplicable or- der. “Why is Santiago to remain in the hands of our enemies?” he asked. “The Spaniards are not our enemies,"” replied General Shafter. “We are fighting the soldiers of Spain, but we have no desire to despoil her citizens. No Cuban will be allowed to enter the city, nor will any American. The gov- ernment of the city is for the people to decide. When the army leaves it I presume it will be turned over to you, but not until then.” Castillo, who came direct from Gen- eral Garcia’s camp, did not attempt to conceal his chagrin. The Cuban sol- diers now fully realize that there is a rising sentiment against them in the army. They hear nothing but words of scorn from our men, as they pass onward, lugging tieir bacon and hard- tack into the woods. Even our officers no longer conceal their disgust for their allies, and it is understood that the warm friendship displayed toward them at first has turned into contempt, for the Cubans have neither fought nor | worked. The correspondent of the Associated Press who sends this dispatch saw a group of Cubans refuse point-blank to aid in building roads, and during the two days of heavy fighting, while they were loitering in the rear, our surgeons sought in vain from them even to cut poles for im- provised litters for our wounded. Hundreds of such instances are being told around the camp fires, until the name of Cuban is usually wreathed with camp profanitv and very rarely is a kind word spoken of them. In fact in some quarters there is a dis- position to prophesy an early collision between our men and the Cubans. General Shafter yesterday morning sent an invitation to General Garcia to attend the ceremony of raising the American flag over Santiago, but the Cuban general showed his resentment by sending a reply which amply con- firmed the course which he and his ragged and Jgnorant soldiers have fol- lowed during the weeks of hard fight- ing and campaigning which have re- sulted in the fall of Santiago. He de- clined the Invitation saying he hated the Spaniards and added that he did not want to be where they were. Since that time the Cubans have re- to secure assistance | rations and our troops have had no communication with them. BATTLING AGAINST THE YELLOW SCOURGE | Every Precaution for the Protection of American Troops Around Santiago. SANTIAGO, July 18, via Kingston, July 19.—Strenuous efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases among the American troops in front of San- tiago de Cuba were made as soon as the city surrendered, and for the past | thirty-six hours our soldiers have been sent as rapidly as possible to the hills to the north of the city, where new camps have been established. Everything possible is being done to improve the sanitary conditions of the camps, especially in the case of the troops which are expected to take part in the expedition to Porto Rico. Of the regiments here only those which are not in the slightest degree infected will be allowed to go to Porto Rico. The others will remain here for the present, en- camped on the high ground north of | Santiago. Two immune regiments from New Orleans and Mobile are expected here daily, and upon their arrival they will be sent to the city, forming the only American garrison which will re- main there. The physical condition of our troops is not considered serious, now that the number of cases of fever is growing less all the time, and it is believed that the disease will disappear with the re- moval of the soldiers to hcalthier local- ities and the extra precautions which are being taken. General Wheeler's cavalry division Is practically free from sickness and probably will be allowed to go to Porto Rico to take part in the campaign. st TOPEKA FIRED UPON BY A SPANISH GUNBOAT | Nipe Harbor Incident in Which Our Cruiser Puts the Enemy to Flight. Spev;al A?Ilspntch to The Call and the New York Herald. don Bennett. KEY WEST, July 19.—The San Fran- cisco arrived at 8 o'clock this morning from Nipe to coal. The blockade has been extended to that point. At Nipe a Spanish gunboat came to the entrance of the harbor and fired upon the To- peka. The cruiser returned the fire and made for the gunboat, but the latter fled into the harbor. At Banes, near Nipe, the Maple was sent into the harbor. went ashore and found twenty-five in- surgents, who said that 1000 Spaniards garrisoned the fort at Nipe. BATTLE-SHIP INDIANA " UNDERGOING REPAIRS Only Two of Our Vessels Damaged in the Naval Operations Against Santiago. NEW YORK, July 19.—A dispatch from Washington to the Herald says: During the naval operations against Santiago the only ships which sus- tained damage were the Brooklyn and the battle-ship Indiana. Rear Admiral Sampson has made an official report to the Navy Department regarding the injury domne to the latter vessel by a shell fired from a Spanish mortar. The shell fell on the spar deck of the bat- tle-ship and exploded, destroying the mained in their camp, eating American | ceiling and walls of several of the Copyrighted, 1898, by. James Gor- | One of her boats | 000000000000 00V0000000000000000000 CO000009 Herald telegraphs: nation was expre One of these offic as to become historic. Santiago was now 0000000000 C0C0000000C0C000C THE PUNISHMENT OF SHAFTER’'S ASSAILANT. NEW YORK, July 19.—The Washington correspondent of Among officials at the War Department indig- sed this morning Shafter by Sylvester Scovel, correspondent of the New York World. Is, high in authcrity, said that it was not simply an attack upon a citizen, but upon the head of an army, and as such was an affront to every American citizen. that an example should have been made of Scovel in such a way At the same time, I ascertained that no or- ders touching the case had gone from whole management of it would be left to General Shafter. told by one accurately informed that the probable disposition of the matter would be that General Shafter would have Scovel put aboard ship and sent back to the United States with an order prohibiting him from again accompanying the eral Lieber said there was no formulated such a case as this, where the assaliant was not a soldier, but as under martial law, Scovel could have undobt- edly been tried by court martial for the assault. States army officer, an official at the War Department, said that if Scovel had been a soldier the law would be plain and the penalty would be death, but under the circumstances Scovel would be tried as if he had attacked a civilian. This official said he knew Shafter well, and had be been armed would have shot Scovel on the spot. 000000000000000C000C0C00000000CC0000 the at the attack upon General This official said the and the I was department, Judge Advocate Gen- military law covering army. Another United 00000000000 CO000000000000000000000 ward rooms occupied by officers, no one was injured. Repairs to the vessel are being effected at Guantan- amo by the engineer repair ship Vulcan and the ship’s force. —_—-——— NURSES, DOCTORS AND MEDICINE FOR CUBA A Rabbi and Two Protestant Clergy- men Also Sail on the Relief Ship. 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