The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1898. SPAIN ACCEPTS | ALL OUR TERMS WAR OVER AND PEACE TO BE PROCLAIMED ‘McKinley Completely Sat- isfied That Be No There Can Hitch. "Spain Yields So Unequivocally That Hostilities Will at Once Be Suspended. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The war is over. Spain has formally accepted the terms proposed by the United States as a basis for negotiations of a treaty of peace. as follows: First—Spain to relinquish or title to the Island of Cuba island. These terms are all claim of sovereignty over and immediately evacuate the Second—Spain to cede to the United States the Island of Porto Rico and all islands under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and immediately evacuate the same. Third—Spain to cede the United States an island (Guam) in the Ladrones. Fourth—The United States to occupy and hold the city,‘ bay and harbor of Manila pending conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall control and determine the government of the Philippine Islands. Fifth—Spain having accepted these conditians in their entirety commissioners will be named by the United States to meet commissioners on the part of Spain for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace on the basis above indicated. The President is satisfied with Spain’s note of acceptance, and Secretary Day, on behalf of the United States, and Embas- sador Cambon, representing Spain, will meet to-morrow to pre- p Janguage the terms imposed by by Spain. and complete a protocol embodying in formal diplomatic the United States and accepted I was assured by a member of the Cabinet to-night that Spain had accepted unequivocally all conditions, and that there coul which will operate to by the same authori Spain has made as a have the Cuban debt condition 1 be no possible hitch in the negotiation of suspend hostilities. that there is no truth in the report that a protocol I was further assured of her acceptance a demand to and the question of time and method of evacuating Cuba and Porto Rico referred to commissioners for settlement. In connection with her note of acceptance certain arguments are made, appealing for the right to withdraw her roops from Cuba and Porto Rico with all the honors of war, the Spanish troops to be allowed to retain their arms, etc. Re- quests are also made for the retention of certain military prop- erty. All these requests will receive proper consideration in framing the details of the protocol, but I was assured to-night that they in no way affect the general conditions laid down by the President, and that the authorities regard Spain’s note as such a full and complete acceptance of all our terms that there will be no necessity for further exchange of nbtes between the two countries. e ADVERTISEMENTS. sctter, search and point out plainly the fact of disease or heaith. g If a man is not feeling well and vigorous —if he is losing flesh and vitality, if he is Jistless, nervous, sleepless, he certainly is not well. The down hill road from health to sickness is smooth and declines rapidly. At the first intimation of disease, the wise man takes a pure, simple vegetable - :tonic. "It puts his lYigeslion into good ac- tive order and that puts the rest of his : body in order. The medicine that will do _this'is a medicine that is good to take in any trouble of the blood, the digestion, or *he respiration, no matter how serious it say have ‘become. e medicine to take is Dr. Pierce’s Goldeti Medical Discovers, TEas'a shise -@ble remedy. It cures diseases in a per- fectly natural way, without the use of strong drugs. It cures by helping Nature. It has a peculiar tonic effect on the lining membranes of the stomach and bowels. By gu_fling these membranes into healthy condition, stimulating the secretion of the “various digestive juices and furnishing to - the blood the proper purifying properties, it reaches out over the whole body and drives disease-germs . before it into the .usual excretory channels. It builds u firm muscular flesh, makes the skin an the eyes bright. - Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery ‘ has been found wonderfully efficacious in _the treatment of skin diseases—eczema, tetter, erysipelas, salt-rheum—from com- mon pimples or blotches to the worst case af scrofula | MANY CONJECTURES AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—More than tweniy-four hours-after it had begun to reach Washington the Spanish note in answer to the President’s peace con- ditions was presented at the White | House by the French Embassador. What the nature of the answer was can only be conjectured at this stage, the Secretary of State at the conclu- sion of the ccnference making the for- mal statement that nothing whatever could be said on the subject. The con- ference lasted an hour and twenty-five minutes. This prolonged discussion was believed to indicate that the Spanish answer was not satisfactory in all re- spects, though in just what points it fell short of meeting the expectations of the President it is impossible to say. It was felt by observers that had tke answer been complete acceptance of our terms the result would have been made public. On the owher hand it would be a strained inference to con- clude that the answer was unsatis factory entirely, for in that case, ac- cording to the Presidents statement heretofore made, his offer would have been definitely withdrawn and the war resumed with greater energy than be- fore. The reply of the Spanish Government is understood to be a document embrac- ing about 1200 words. The copy deliv- ered to the President was in English, the translation from Spanish to French having been made at Paris and that from French to English having been made here prior to the presentation of the answer at the White House. In the absence of an official state- ment, it is impossible to give the Span- ish position on the several American conditions, but from the best informa- tion obtainable, in treating each sub- ject—Cuba, Porto Rico, Ladrones, Ma- nila and peaceccmmission—an accept- ance in some cases is understood to re- late to conditions somewhat different to those laid down by the American Government. As 'to Cuba, the Ameri- can terms demanded the evacuation of the island, without specifying the fu- ture form of government. The Spanish reply is said to accept the principle that Spanish sovereignty over Cuba will terminate, but it is understood to take up the future government of the island, and, because of the extent of the | side, with Paris as the probable meet- | ing place. Spanish interests there, is said to take the view, either expressed or implied, that the United States should admin- ister the affairs of the island. As to the time of evacuating Cuba, this is a de- tail which the Spanish reply is said to regard as among many which can be left to the commission for final deter- mination. The American conditions as to Porto Rico, the Ladrones, Manila, etc., are believed to be accepted, but the topics are treated at some length and it will require the full text to show how far the language used may be construed as an acceptance. The provision as to the commission is assented to. The commission is to consist of five commissioners on each The outcome of the conference is un- known, but the best opinion obtainable is that the matter is still open, that Embassador Cambon will report to Spain the results of his efforts and the desires of this Government and that another reply from Spain as to some detalls will be necessary to a final con- clusion. There were just four parties to the conference, President McKinley and Secretary Day on this side and M. Cambon, the French Embassador, and his first secretary of legation, M. Thie- bault, presenting the case of Spain. SPAIN WILL INSIST UPON AN ARMISTICE BAYONNE, France, Aug. 9.—Dis- patches received here from Madrid, dated yesterday, announce that the form of the Spanish Government's ac- ceptance of the American peace condi- tions involves the publication of an armistice. This, it is added, must be agreed to by the United States, and if the United States insists upon the im- mediate evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico the rtes will be convoked with in fifteen days. Continuing, the Madrid dispatches say: “The most rigorous military cen- sorship is exercised to-day, The news- papers are not allowed to refer to the plot against Senor Sagasta’s life, nor | to the appearance of revolutionary bands in the Castilian province. Con- cerning the plot, it is said the conspira- tors have drawn lots to decide which of them shall carry out its purpose, and that the task has fallen upon an Amer- ican named Disball, who has suffered imprisonment in the fortress of Mont- juich for participation in one of the Barcelona anarchist outrages, and whose sentence was recently commuted by the Supreme Court to expulsion from Castile. The band consists of twenty men. According to some ac- counts they are Republicans, and oth- ers say they are Carlists. Their first meve was to attack a customs post and capture all the arms. Next they cut all the telegraph and telephone wires. — e HOW MUCH VALUABLE TIME MAY BE SAVED LONDON, Aug. 10.—The Madrid cor- respondent of the Times says: There is no longer any doubt that the Amer- ican proposals have only been accepted at referendum. There was some differ- ence of opinion, but a majority of the Cabinet decided that the Government would be exceeding its powers if it con- sented unreservedly to a cession of ter- ritory, and that therefore it would be better to state this fact clearly and thus avoid any possible misunderstand- ing with the United States. The decision now rests with President McKinley. If he is willing to negotiate on this conditional basis much valuable time will be saved, but if he insists upon the consent of the Cortes consid- erable delay will be inevitable. The ul- timate sanction of the Cortes is certaiu, but the debates might be protracted, since the procedure of the Spanish Parliament does not provide for clos- uring of fractious obstruction. The note of the United States, it is said, suggests that, in any case, the ncn-consent of the Cortes need not pre- vent a suspension of hostflities. It is to be hoped that Washington will take this view and thus avold bloodshed, as there is no doubt that the garrison at San Juan de Porto Rico will resist as cbstinately as did the garrison at San- tiago de Cuba. FRENCH PAPER OFFERS A KNOTTY CONUNDRUM Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1595, by James Gor- don Bennett. PARIS, Aug. 9.—Eclair this morning asks to whom will the remainder of the Philippines belong if America only keeps Manila and the neighboring ter- ritory. In any case, it says, the neigh- boring territory will have to be won from Aguinaldo, and if it is then re- stored to Spain further difficutty may be created should the peninsular gov- ernment try to sell it in order to make a little money with which 1o cover the cost of the war. SUTRO’S REMAINS WILL BE CREMATED WILL LIE IN STATE AT THE HEIGHTS TO-DAY. Date of the Funeral Has Not Been Set, But It Will Be Simple and Strictly Private. The body of the late ..dolph Sutro will lie in state in the beautiful residence on the CIiff this morning until 10 o'clock. when services will be held by the Rev. Jacob Nieto, after which it will be taken to the Odd Fellows' Cemetery and incinerated. The arrangements, for the funeral were completed yes¥erday morning and the family has decided that it will be strict- ly private. No public announcement will be made and none but the immediate rel- atives will be present. ‘Lhe place of final interment has not yet been decided upon, but the ashes will probably be placed in the family plat in the Jewish cemetery, and the services throughout will be as simple as possible. Nothing definite is known as to the dts- osition made of the immense estate, but t is believed that he left a will in which he divided the vroperty equally among his children, and that the instrument passed into the custody of his daughter when she was appointed guardian. ————— Universities to Be Consolidated. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 9.—Arrange- ments were made to-day for the consol- jdation of the Portland University and the Puget Sound University at Taco- ma, Wash., both schools being under the control of the Methodist Episcopal church. StV eale (st North Dakota’s Governor Dead. BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 9.—Governor Briggs of North Dakota died this morn- ing of consumption. J. A. Devine Is Lieutenant Governor. STRUNG UP BY A MOB OF CITIZENS Denouement of the Orr Assassination. FIVE NEGROES ARE HANGED THREE OF THE VICTIMS ARE WOMEN. Mrs. Orr, Charged With Complicity in Her Husband’s Murder, Dies From a Dose of Poison. Special Dispatch to The Call. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 9.—Five negroes are hanging from the limbs of trees near the railroad track, and the widow of John T. Orr is dead in her cell. This is the tragic denouement of the assassination of John T. Orr, a wealthy merchant, at Clarendon a few nights ago. The wife died from a dose ot poison, self-administered, whele the negroes, her associates in crime, were strung up by a mob of citizens. The report of the lynching was re- ceived here at an early hour this morn- ing after telegraphic communication had been suspended for the night, and the only authentic details of the affair came from the railroad operator at Clarendon, who saw the lynching. Four bodies, two women and two men, are hanging from the limb of a tree not far from his office, and a few paces away dangles the body of another negro wo- man, the former cook in the Orr house- hold. Miss Morr the Jewess impli- cated in the as: sination, was not hanged, she having disappeared last night. The lynched are: Manse Castle, Den- nis Ricord, Rilla Weaver, Susie Jacobs and Will Saunders. Late Saturday night John T. Orr was assassinated while making a glass of lemonade. He had just returned from choir practice, where his wife was organist. The crime was shrouded in mystery until Miss Morris told some- body that she knew who fired the shot. The Coroner’s inquest resuited in the arrest of the five negroes and Mrs. Orr, and a warrant for Miss Morris. It was charged that the wife had hired the ne- groes to do the murder. Orr's life was insured for $5000, and it developed at the inquest that Orr and his wife lived unhappily. Mr. Orr was formerly a theatrical man. In 1890 the couple eloped to a summer resort in Wiscon- sin, and were married. Later they set- tled in Clarendon, wkere Orr prospered in business and was considered wealthy at the time of his death. AMERICAN SHIPS PRAISED ABROAD Irving M. Scott on His Russian Mission. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN, Aug. 1—Irving M. Scott, who' is here with his son, Laurence Irving Scott, a Cornell student, and ac- companied by his physician, Dr. George Chismore, was seen at the Kaiserhoft by a correspondent of the Associated Press and expressed himself fully as to his trip to Russia, undertaken in be- half of the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. Mr. Scott, who is the builder of the battleship Oregon, of Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, and of the Charleston, and who showed the cor- respondent letters of congratulation re- ceived from Admiral Dewey, Captain Chadwick of the New York and others on the splendid fighting and speed qualities of his vessels, went to Rus- sia, where he stayed a month, for sev- eral purposes. The main one was to ascertain on the spot the chances America, and more particularly San Francisco, will have in supplying the region around the mouth of the Amoor River, including Viadivostok and also Port Arthur, with all sorts of river craft, deep sea going vessels, ship- building material, railroad material, ete. Mr. Scott spent part of his time in St. Petersburg and the rest at Moscow, the manufacturing center of Russia, and made a thorough investi- gation of the situation. He said: “I found that vast and progressive region which is beginning to be known as East Russia, along the Pacific, and for which San Francisco is the nearest point of supply, rapidly developing, and I also found that the Russlan manu- facturers are alive to this fact and that Russian local industry is remarkably progressive. I was everywhere re- ceived splendidly in Russia and found no prejudice against America or Amer- ican manufacturers. But I did find a strong tendency on the part of the Russians to manufacture their own supplies, and a vigorous encourage- ment on the part of the Rgssian Gov- ernment to aid in this respect. How- ever, Americans will have as good a chance as anybody in supplying Rus- sia with those manufactures and sup- plies which they cannot supply them- selves as well or as cheaply. Russia will build her own ships, as far as she can, and will purchase, besides, vessels ready made from other nations. She has flve large warships now building in St. Petersburg. There will be, though, a chance for American manufacturers to supply certain articles.” About the contracts concluded and prepared by Mr. Scott, as the represen- tative of the Union Iron Works, he re- fused to speak. “As for American ships,” he added, “I can say that in their performance they now stand at the very front, and the capacity of the United States for building ships ranks second. The war- ship of the future, so far as evolutions go, will be a battleship of cruiser speed, fully protected, with heavy guns and large coal capacity, and also heavy armor. All these features combined are possible in a warship, and they will be combined better than heretofore.” Mr. Scott will spend only a few days more in Germany, and will then go on a brief business engagement to Eng- do us eredit in selling. reasons for holding it. for gold. will tell. braided. All sizes. CO0OC) @ [CO00CCO0I0CO00CCOOCOCC0C KLONDIKE NUGGETS. Yes, it’s just like picking them up in the street, easier than going to the Klondike Our Big Corner Window show Not that they're not worth more, but just to l show our awthority we name prices—‘he quality There’s just 300 Swits of these in the pretty Reefer and two-piece style, elegantly Wednesday at $1.25. @XD@@("J@@@@@@@@C 9-11-15-15 KEARNY ST, ADVERTISEMENTS. PUIS SN SO S S GRS USSR S PO T TR S D ANOTHER BOMB Into the Enmemy’s Camp! $15. The new fall fashion Breasted Sack Swits; Dowble-breasted also; in blues and fancy colorings. Never mind what they're they're a surpriser. 1It’s @ defiance sale—hence the price, a Defiance price. Not content with the Sreat triumphs of the last month—not wishing to rest upon the laurels already earned—we inaugurate Wednesday A Defiance Sale! We are in this commercial battle to lead, and lead we will at all hazards. Wednesday morning we inausurate a sale of Men’s and Boys' Clothing; brand new fall styles, most of “em not in the house twenty-four hours, from the fashion centers of the world, from the master minds of artist tailors—clothes that This sale may be called off at short notice. It's a Defiance Sale. We have S 000000 C000C0000I0000000CK0000C000 OPENED FIRE! Wednesday Morning the Fusillade Commences! in Single- worth— Hot Shot and Shelll Yow'll see some of the swellest Suits, some of the swellest Overcoats, that hav> ever been shown in Frisco, dems of fine tailoring, all brand new fall and winter Fashions, the loveliest of blues and blacks and fancy Worsteds. the world to prodwce their like under It’s a beautiful assortment. We defy It's These at $7.50. COOOCC, - »s wp owr $18 and $20 Swits and Overcoats ; a richer lot of handsomor garments never assembled wnder one roof, and the feature of it, they’re brand new fall garments—garments for business, darments to grace the drawing- room, for any occasion, garments that will do yow credit. Their valwes stand in bold relief in our Big Corner Window. Yow'd guwess §18 to $20 every time. Our Defiance Sale proclaims the price at $10.00. [5000000IC.00000000000000CE ® BOriBsS FOR OUR BOYS,. 15 years. A Defiance price, ShuEid e PR Not past season’s weidhts, up-to-date swits, in all-wool Scotches, doub’e seats and dowble Inees. savers for yow, mothers, worth 85. Sizes 4 to Our Defiance price is $2.50. [GC'C 0000 Clo0 0,00 COCIC.00.00 CO0ICO000C.O0000C0000 00000 00CIO000000CO00000000, ® Abowt 600 pairs Boys' Knee Pants, all colorings, new fall winter weights. styles, but this fall’s Iere’s money- @ 0000000000 COCOrO000000C00CO00C) -NOW’S YOUR . OPPORTUNITY. WILL YOU GRASP IT? srssssessesssssassnncsanenany DOLE WILL STILL BE AT THE HELM No ,Immediate Changes in Hawaii. PRESENT OFFICIALS SECURE McKINLEY MAY NOT APPOINT A GOVERNOR. Will Wait Until Congress Provides for a Permanent Form of Government for the Islands. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—President Sanford B. Dole of Hawaii is to con- tinue to exercise the functions of chief executive of Hawaii until such time as Congress shall receive the report of the commission appointed to devise a form of government for the island and shall have enacted a statute for its govern- ment. There is to be no Governor of Hawali appointed by the President for an indefinite time, if at all. The attention of the State Depart- ment having been called to the reports land, whence he will sail for New York. | that President Dole was to be appoint- ed Governor, as well as to another re- port that United States Minister Har- old M. Sewall was to be named for the place, reference was made to the an- nexation act passed by the last Con- gress, which in one clause provides that ‘“until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicii and military powers ex- ercised by #he officers of the existing Government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in_such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, and the President shall have power to remove said officers and to fill the vacancles so occasioned.” It is said at the State Department that, acting within “the spirit of this section, the President will continue in office the present officials of the Ha- waiian Government, regarding it as a needless disturbance of governmental functions there to make any changes in offices until Congress has provided for a permanent form of government for the island: EMBARKATION OF THE SICK SPANIARDS SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 9.—The auxiliary cruiser St. Louis arrived here this morning, but owing to her great length she was unable to enter the har- bor. The Ninth and Tenth Infantry will be lightered out to her to-morrow morning and she will leave in the af- ternoon with both regiments. The shipment of troops, American and Spanish, is being pushed with the greatest activity. The embarkatjon of the gick Spaniards on the Alicante was a most pitiful sight. They were brought from the hospitals on stretchers, in wagons and upon the backs of their comrades, often scarcely stronger than the sick men they bore. The docks were lined with officers and soldiers, who supported or carried their wives and daughters. The American wagons and ambulances brought cartloads of miserable, colorless skeletons. a heartrending sight. The steam lighters Bessie and Laura were literally covered with the stretch- ers and litters, and the sick and dying presented a ghastly scene. The em- barkation was partly effected in the midst of a drenching rain, but abso- lute order was maintained and digni- fied, soldierly silence. No murmurs or complaints were heard, although the tale of suffering was told in the pale, wan faces of all. NORWEGIAN STEAMSHIPS BROUGHT INTO PORT American Warships Capture the Aladdin and the Bergen in Cuban Waters. KEY WEST, Aug. 9.—Two Norwegian steamers have been added to the United States’ large collection of war prizes. They are the Aladdin, captured by the nuxfllarx} gunboat Hawk off Cadiz light, Isle of Pines, on Saturday last, and the Bergen, taken by the auxiliary gunboat Viking off Francis Key, on Sunday. The Aladdin had cleared from Tampico, Mexico, for Sagua Grande, with a carfo of sugar. The Bergen was ostensibly bound from Santiago for the same port for the purpose, it is said, of taking off refugees. oth steamers were sefzed without difficulty and were brought in here to-day by prize crews respectively under the command of Ensign Schofield and Lieutenant C. B. Belles. il m Queen Regent Signs a Debt Decree. MADRID, Aug. 9.—The Queen Regent has signed a decree arranging for the payment of the extsrnal debt and au- thorizing the conversion of the debt and providing for an increase in the note issue of the Bank of Spain. s Senators Sign Killen. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The Washing- ton Baseball Club to-night signed Frank Killen, the left-handed pitcher, recently released by the Pittsburg team. Pitcher gu_ln ‘was given his ten days’ notice of release, It was