The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1898. 3 PROSPECTS FOR PEACE SAID TO HAVE IMPROVED By Way of London Comes a Hint of Direct Negotiations Between ‘Washington and Madrid. LONDON, July 25..—The Madrid cor- | admiring fellow citizens has been In- respondent of the Times says: Peace | definitely postponed. that the chief obstacle is President Mc- | Kinley's “impressionable character,” Wwhich is more influenced, they affect to | believe, by his personal friends and the jingoes in Congre than by diplomatic counsels. The President some times ap- pears inclined, they say, to negoiiate for peace on reasonable terms, but at oth he seems determined upon a war | of conquest with a ‘‘view of convincing , there be- | Burope that the United States is a k the medlation | 8reat military power which must be ral power. The moment has | reckoned with.” N 3 - —— ri hen America, having reached | e et snceas LUSSUORATHERCUBAN the parting of the ways, 1 | _The Madrid correspondent of the| . \prove during | prospects have greatly improve d;‘-r,;,‘,)’ | Daily News, telegraphing Sunday, | the last forty-eight hours. The dIplo-|says: The efforts of the Government | matic exploration of the Duke Almo- [ toward peace are meeting with insup- | dovar de Rio, the Forcign Minister, | erable difficultios. ' Ministerialists say { has been more practical than was sup- tolerably certain posed, and it is now that the Government's efforts are en- g a new phase which may gradu- v lead to ta {ble results. 'x:he precise nature of the change is there Is little doubt that between LONDON, July 25—The Gibraltar | correspondent of the Daily New: graphing Sunday, ss According to | Ministerial admissions peace is further off than it was last week. The great difficulty Is the loss of the Cuban cable. Senor Gamazo, the Minister of Public Instruction, threatens to resign. The administrative haste and bustle s between war with a specific object and | CABLE A DIFFICULTY 1definable war of conquest. [ e | The present pause in hostilities 1s | | held to prove that the United Stat 8 reluctant to plunge into a wider sphere of action, and it may confidently predicted that if direct negotiations are opened without delay both countries will find their views on the main point —that of the future of Cuba—far from irreoncilable. The growing dissensions between the tele- be Cuban insurgents and the \’v:rilff:“ In Spaln about port defenses are pro- aisisoted vl it ETe T SMr e | digious, but who can think that all o oM oea Guba it 1s better that the | this means business after all that has P mds should be annexed by America, | happened. The heavy French guns because the traitors would be thereby | supplied from the Saint Chamond enormous Spanish in- | island would be pro- | shed and th in the works have been lying for the last six weeks in the drill ground at Car: banch. They are being tested and will be sent to replace the b and other | old-fashioned pleces at Cadiz, but the -gotiations, and the semi-official | means of loading them are defective, sment that America intends to re- | and so, too, is the smokeless powder. ain Porto Rico is regarded here as & | However, the military engineers ex- hint to Spain to hurry up. pect that all thse defects will be set There is still much talk about Carlist | right, intrigues and preparations, but the| Ordinary railway trafic is almost Government, though vigllant and ready | syspended, as the trains are wanted to getically if necessary, seems | ¢;ya goldiers and marines, with muni- k that at present there is 10 | ¢iong of war, hither and thither. danger of untoward develop-| mho field artillery, which was sup- The danger of Republican| ;.9 by France before war was de- nts 1s still less. Senor Bmillo| clared, was originally centralized at lar has just rendered a service to | 1,33 but 1t {s now being shipped to the cause of order by publishing a long | {adMe, Put 1t I8 Eaigflon sl Jetter in which he impresses upon all ‘l e northern Sierra, where arlist up- sy at Washington o s the mecessity of sink- | TiSINES appear. The fire brigades at e “p“n’?,"{?“,,'l:}e,:“fips and remain. | the varfous seaports are constantly InE firmly united at the present critical | Arilling to prepare themselves to deal with burning houses during the bom- bardments. ated what appear to be strong defenses moment. “Patriotism, like the church,” | says Senor Castellar, “imposes unity | on us and if unity does not exist let us | be silent upon the subject.” The proj- [ at Cadiz, but the strength must de- ect of presenting him with an address | pend altogether upon the range of the of confidence signed by 100,000 of his | guns. SOUP KITCHENS IN SANTIAGO Ravenous Crowds Fed by the Red Cross. lulu; that the fever by which he was* de- tained there was mild and that he will shortly resume his trip to the Philippines and perform the dutles of his misslon to those isiands. | SAN LUIS AND PALMA ’ SOREANO SURRENDER | Number of Spaniards Greater Than | Was Stated by General | Toral. WASHINGTON, July 25.—The War Department at midnight posted the fol- | lowing: SANTIAGO, via Hayti, July tant General of the Army, Washington: Lieutenant Miley has returned from San Luls and Palma Sorfano, where he went | four days ago to recelve the surrender | SHAYTER CONTRIBUTES FRESH | of the Spanish troops. The number sur- | MEAT TO THE MASSES. | rendered was larger than General Toral | reported. Three thousand and five Span- | ish troops and 360 volunteer guerillas | gave up their arms and gave parole and | have gone to work. Three thousand | stands of arms were turned in loaded on | ox carts and started to the railroad; Bpanish troops accompanying him to San | Luls and all apparently greatly delighted | at the prospects of returning home. They were on the verge of starvation and I have to send them rations to-morrow. If the numbers keep up as they have ther will be about 24,000 to ship away—nearly 12,000 here, 3000 from San Lufs, 6000 from Guantanamo and over 2000 at Sagua and Baracoa. SHAFTER, Major General Commanding. 24.—Adju- GRAND LABOR OF MERCY Leading Merchants of the City Co- operating With the Americans in the Charitabls Work. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 23, by | the Call-Herald digpatch-boat Golden Although the city of Santiago has| been under the protection of the Unit- | TEN THOUSANH MORE still is a pressing one. The adoption of the old Spanish customs duties has 4 o hérs h i Tainaica end T | Starving and Sick They Are Delight- plies sen e alca, and for = the time being the Red Cross is the | ©O With the Prospect of Return SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 24.—Colonel | Santlago and starvation. Ancateroaill 2 . B Four houses for the rellef of the | ANE®l Roslil arrived here yesterday from Guantanamo, to ascertain from General George Kennan, and Red Cross nurses | Toral if the report of the capitulation were placed in charge. S8ix thousand swer, the (000 Spanish troops at Guanta- number of applicants since that time | 12mo Will to-morrow (Monday) surrender « oubled. ias o This afternoon Lieutenant General Ehafter's staft Miley returned Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. 23 Rod to Kingston, Jamaica, July 24.— eu Btates for a week the food problem driven away several cargoes of sup- | e only agency that stands between | ing to Spain. General Pareja, Military Governor of starving were opened on Thursday by were true. As the result of Toral's an- persons were fed that day, and the and lay down their arms. Leading merchants of Santiago are of from co-operating with the Americans In | Pulama, Sorania and San Luls, where he this charitable work and they are | rv('el\'f'l; mhc surflrr-mlor and arms of 3465 doing what they can to relieve the |men, of which 3005 are Spanish soldiers | dmr[;s Y to be deported. At first they refused to | iou;} 'wus at first delivered three credit the statement that Santiago had | surrendered, but the presence of a Spanish officer who accompanied Lieutenant Miley finally convinced them and then they dis- played great delight at the prospect of returning to Spain. All the surrendered troops are suffering from disease and starvation and General Shafter has Instructed the immediate forwarding of rations. He has informed the Spanish officers that their families will be given transportation to Spain with food at the expense of the Government times a day, but the demand was so great that the soup kitchens are now kept open continuously, always being surrounded by crowds of ravenous men, women and children, chattering in strange tongues, clamoring for food and scrambling indiscriminately for it when it is forthcoming. or the first time since the slege was raised fresh meat was cooked in San- | | | | . ! [ he maintenance of the men i tiago. The steamships Mississippi and | @nd that the m . e men Is Panama, of the quartermaster's de- |Provided for by contract. partment, arrived with cattle for the troops. The beeves were slaughtered in a building set apart for the purpose. General Shafter contributed part of this meat to the food supply of the city. Fires were built In the market place, and as fast as the meat could be cooked it was given to those most in need of it. In several instances the troops were compelled to stand guard over white women while they ate the portion of meat given to them. The troops themselves have been hard pressed for food, and this consignment of fresh meat was gratefully received. The civil government of the city has been restored almost to normal condi- tions. Many Spanish officlals have re- fused to take the oath acknowledging the supremacy of the United Statesand have sent in their resignations. They are being replaced by Cubans. 'TUNAS DE ZAZA INVESTED BY AMERICAN TROOPS ‘Warships Shell Galamalacoa and a Landing Force Attacks the Town. MADRID, July 24.—A telegram from Havana reports that the insurgents at- tacked Gibara, on the north coast of the province of Santiago, and the gar- rison, after a severe fight, evacuated the place. Many of the Insurgents were killed. The dispatch also reports that a force of Americans landed at Galamalacoa (Tayabacoa) and Invested Tunas de Zaza, and the warships shelled Gala- malacoa. ———— Dies of Starvation. SEATTLE, July 2{—James Wilson, oged 65 years, was found dead to-dav in front of hi# bome. He had been llving irom hand to mouih for some *ime, and the coroner's jury decided that death was car<ed by starvation and exhaus- tion. Murat Halstead Convalescing. CINCINNATTI, July 24.—The Commercial Tribune will print to-morrow a telegram from Robert Halstead in New York. con- veying the intelligence that his father, Murat Halstead, is convalescing at Hono- | ton correspondent of the Herald sends | generally been character and that the two are working The engineers have cre- | :Prisoners Captured on Prize Steam- | for Italian ports. | appearance showed that they had been | the Americans they would not fight WHAT DISPOSITION SHALL BE THE P Natives More Capable of Self- Government Than Cubans, Says Dewey. NEW YORK, July 24.—The Washing- the following: Rear Admiral Dewey has officially expressed to the Navy De- partment his opinion that the insurg- ents of the Philippines are more ca- pable of self-government than are the insurgents of Cuba. So far as I have been able to learn he has not informed the department of any change in the attitude of General Auginaldo toward the American forces, although General Anderson said in his dispatch to the | ‘War Department that the insurgent leader had declared himself dictator and proclaimed martial law. Rear Admiral Dewey's dispatches concerning Auginaldo’s behavior have of a complimentary in harmony is best shown, the officials contend, by obedience of the insurgent leader to Rear Admiral Dewey's re- quests to suspend operations agalnst Tanila until the arrival of the Ameri- can troops. What shall be the final disposition of MADE OF HILIPPINES? be the administration will determine to maintain a force in the islands of the | far East until a stable government is in operation in the Philippines and then withdraw—just as it Is proposed to do in Cuba. This is on* f the many suggestions which has been presented to the Presi- | dent's consideration, but it is purely ! mere speculation to say whether or | not he will adopt it: It is appreciated by the authorities that the abandon- ment of the Philippines will mean the seizure of different islands by Euro- pean powers, and it is questionable whether the authorities wou.l be will- | ing to abandon them. When peace ne- | gotiations are entered into, the author- ities say, that matter will then be finally considered and disposed of, but in view of the possibilities of the future, which may cause a policy dif- ferent from that which might now be formed, it is the intention of the Presi- dent not to announce any definite plan until the war is at an end. I understand that the monitor Mont- erey has instructlons to proceed to Yap Island, near the Pelew group, and there holst the American flag. the Philipipnes is a question which has not even been settled by the adminis- tration. From commercial bodies the President has learned their anxiety for retention of the Philippines, but from other sources objection is raised to their acquisition. All the President and a majority of his Cabinet would like to hold would be a coaling station in the Philippines and Guam Island in the Ladrones. With the natives quite as capable of self-government as the Cubans, it may authorities believe that within next week the monitor will touch at | the point named and then proceed to | Manila, where she will arrive about | August 5. : | Yap Island, also called Oouap and | Gouap. is about nine miles long and has about 2000 inhabitants. It is one of the Caroline group and owned by Spain. It is in latitude 9 degrees 25 | | minutes north and .ongitude 138 de- | grees 1 minute west. It lies just north of the Pelew I .ands. | | | | CIEER THEIR ~ CAPTORS' FLAG Unusual Demonstration by Spaniards. GRATEFUL FOR KINDNESSES |THEIR METHOD OF THANKING UNCLE SAM. | ers Salute Old Glory as They Are About to Start for Spain. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 24—Prisoners of war cheering the flag of their captors was the unusual sight witnessed at the Union dock in Brooklyn to-day. The sight was all the more significant as the cheers came from Spanish throats. The 254 prisoners captured on the four prize steamers now in port were about to sail for home under the Brit- ish flag. They were on board the Hes- peria, of the Anchor line, and just as she backed out of the dock one of the patrol gunboats came by. With one accord the prisoners raised three mighty cheers which startled the peo- ple on the Brooklyn shore and could be heard on Governor's Island. It was the best they could do In thanking Uncle Sam for the kindness lavished on hem while they were prisoners. The Hesperia left at 3 p. m., bound Bhe will put the prisoners on shore at Gibraltar. The prisoners were a happy lot and their well treated while in enforced idleness. Among the 254 prisoners were six of- ficers. They have saloon accommoda- tions, while the others are in the steer- age. One of the Spanish officers sald: “If our men in the fleld realized the hopelessness of our cause, or the treat- ment they would get at the hands of long. The quickest and easiest way to reach home is to surrender. I believe in fighting where there is a chance, but our soldiers don’t know we have not a chance. They can get home quicker by surrendering, and in the meantime be well fed and taken care of. But they think the Americans will murder them.” The Austrian Consul paid $17 a head for the passage of each of the pris- oners. SHAFTER REPLIES TO GARCIA'S COMPLAINT Dissensions in the Red Cross Society Leading to Dr. Guiteras’ Aesignation. Spectal Dispatch to The Call, ANTIAGO, Cuba, July 23 (by Call- Herald dispatch boat Golden Rod to Kingston, Jamalica, July 24).—General Shafter has told General Garcia that the reason why the Cubans were not invited to participate in the ceremonies of surrender was that he thought it would not be good policy. His action, he stated, was not due to any lack of regard of his Cuban allfes. The Cubans intend to attack Holguin and then Manzanillo. Dissensions have arisen among the representatives of the Red Cross So- clety here. Dr. Guiteras, the yellow fever expert, has resigned and re- turned to the United States because of unfavorable comments on his work. More humble members of the Red Cross say that others who are more prominent are using the society for thelr own advancement. It is denied that there are thirty cases of yellow fever in the cavalry division. The health of the city is generally good, although there are many cases of ma- sentery. lng: agglgl};nero ?né'bected the trans- ports Leona, Concho and Orizaba and found three cases of yellow fever on the | are now shut up in Cuban ports. The United States officlals refused the offer | because they considered it a ruse to get | the vessels away. The prisoners are | elated over the near prospect of return- | ing to their homes. - WEEKLY WAR REVIEW OF THE LONDON TIMES Commends the President’s Instruc- tions for the Government of Santiago. LONDON, July 2.—The Times, in its| weekly war review, expresses the opinfon that the measures taken by General fter for the protection of life and property at Sant‘ago de Cuba will exer-| clse a definite irfluence upon other parts | of the island, “where it will be under- | stcod that Spanish loyalists are not 1o | be abandoned, whatever happens. Presi- | dent McKinley’s instructions for the gov ernment of Santiago,” the article contin- | ues, “which conform completely with the | pledges given before the war, establfsh | a precedent that proves a happy augury in relation to American expansion.” With reference to European criticlsm of Commodore Watson's projected cruise to the Spanish coast, the article repeats the already avowed conviction of the Times | that the policy of the United Statés will | not be modified thereby. The writer com- pliments Admiral Dewey in regard to the attitude of Germany at Manila with hav- ing “played a difficult game” with con- spicuous abflity, HOUSES DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE Buccession of Severe Shocks Causes Much Damage in a Chilean Province, | VALPARAISO, Chile, July 24.—A vio- | lent shock of earthquake, lasting one minute, was felt last night at Concep- | clon, capital of the Chilean province of that name, and at Talcahuany,in the Bay | of Concepcion and elght miles distant from Concepclon City. Many houses were | destroyed and the telegraph and electric light wires severed. The inhabitants were terrified and fled from their homes, spend- ing the night in the open air. Many se- vere shocks were experienced. i SWALLOWED CARBOLIO ACID, | Frank -Schmidt Committed Suicide Early This Morning. ' Frank Schmidt, aged 2 years, commit- | ted suicide early this morning by swal- lowing carbolic acld. He lived at a lodg- ing house, 621 Commercial street. For een despondent, some time Schmidt has b being out of work and having no means of support. Nothing but a l-cent plece was found on his person. He died shortly after being removed to the Recelving Hospital. i P S | Found Dead in Bed. | Orlando Loucks, an old man aged 69 years, was found dead in his bed by his daughter yesterday morning at the family residence, 204 San Jose avenue. The smell of escaping gas led the young lady to her father’s bedroom, where she found him dead. Deputy Coroner Jack Tyrrell made an examination of the room and from the statements of the members of the family became convinced that it was a case of accident, as the old gentleman was in the habit of leaving the gas burnin, during the night, and it is suppos: the flame was blown out in some manner. Mr. Loucks was a salesman for H. C. Bunner & Co., undertakers, on Mission street, near Twenty-second. He was a native of New Yor ADVERTISEMENTS. 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