The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1898, Page 1

fanio apcH oL to be taken from the Library.++++ The all VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO 116. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEW TRAGEDY ENACTED IN THE DREYFUS CASE Enraged Wife Deputy Shoots an Editor’s Secretary. The Military Authorities of Paris Accomplish Their Plan of Stifling Colonel Picq Bpecial Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, Sept. 23.—A tragedy which shows the extent to which the people’s feelings are worked up in connection with the Dreyfus case oc- curred in Paris last evening. At a quarter past 6 o’clock a sty- lishly dressed woman called at the offices of La Lanterne and asked to see M. Millerand, the editor. was ont, but she positively refused to depart, and as she appeared very excited M. Ollivier, the secretfary, was summoned.* He said: “I, Mme. Paulmier, I have the right to answer for M. Millerand.” M. Paulmier, a deputy, had sent a lecter to Generai Zurlinder, while the latter was Minister of War, implor- ing him to put a stop to the attacks | on the army. La Lanterne replied with an article in whick M. Paul- mier’s private affairs ware freely, if | not libelously, discussed, and the name of his wife was dragged in. Hence the lady’s indignation. She would see M. Millerand, she declared, and when M. Ollivier repeated that he was not on the premises she de- clared she would take the matter into her own hands, and drawing a re- volver fired six shots point blavk. Two took effect. examined by a doctor, who stated that his condition was serious. The first bullet lodged in his chest and the second in his groin. The latter is likely to cause serious tpeuble, as the latest reports are rather .alarm- ing. Mme. Paulmier expresses sorrow that under the pressure of nervous excitement she shot an innocent man, and declares that she will still find M. MIiléxand. Of course she was de- tained in custody. The military authorities have accom- plished their plan of stifiing Colonel Picquart by placine him au secret. Colonel Picquart's friends have been de- nied adm on to the prisoner. His counsel, M. Maitre Labori, has twice appeared at the effice of the clerk of the court-martial and inquired for per- mission to his client. On beth occa- glons he was informed that Picquart had been placed au secret and could be seen only on an order from the authori- ties, which order M. Labori has been unable to secure. is He | M. Ollivier was | of a Maligned uart. Copyrighted, 1898, La Liberte predicts important action | | by the councll on Tuesday which may | result in the convoking of the Cham- | bers. Everything tends to confirm the opinion that General Zurlinden, in or- dering the military trial of Colonel Pic- | quart, acted entirely upon his own in- | | itlative. The Temps declares that the Cabinet has previously refused to sanction Gen- eral Zurlinden’s proposal to prosecute Colonel Picquart, and that General Zur- linden, therefore, waited until he had resumed the military Governorship of Paris, when he acted upon his own au- thorit Upon leaving the prison Colonel Pic- quart had a portmanteau and a port- folio. He looked pale and careworn. The blinds of the fiacre were drawn di- rectly he entered fit. A mob, which had been howling out- de the prison, rushed toward Picquart | as he emerged, shaking their fists and | shouting, some for and some against | nim. A" similar mob waited at the Cherche Midi Prison. A detachment of military in both cases protected Pic- quart. A majority of the papers denounce this militarv coup with various degrees of severity. M. Clemenceau, in the Au- rore, charges M. Brisson with coward- { ice or imbecility, and couples President Faure’s_name with that of General | Zurlinden in the alleged plot to sup- | press the truth and defeat justice. M. Clemenceau dwells strongly on the “mauvaises chances” of the Cherche Midi Prison, and credits the ex-War Minister with the remark: “If General Mercier had not been so soft-hearted he would have had Drey~ fus murdered.” Another paper, Droits de I'Homme, abuses M. Faure with the greatest vir- ulence and accuses him of “employing M. Brisson to make a coup d'etat. It points out-that President Faure’'s mili- tary friends hold all the strong posts. The final meeting of the commission to consider the subject of revision, which was fixed for Tuesday, has been postponed until 9 o’clock to-morrow morning, when a report will be drafted. It is stated in ministerial circles that the report will advise that Sarrien, Minister of Justice, is in favor of revi- sion. M. Brisson, the Premier, opposed the convocation of the chambers on the ground that the revision question is | purely a governmental matter. CHINA'S EMPEROR FEARS FOUL PLAY Guards at His Palace Strengthened. CONSPIRACY TO DETHRONE| DOWAGER EMPRESS SAID TO BE IN THE PLOT. It Is Sought to Place m Power Prince Kung’s Grandson and to Rid the Empire of Its Pres- ent Ruler. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Sept. 23.—According to epecial dispatches received from Pe- king members of the European com- munity there believe the life of the Em- peror of China is in danger. It is add- ed that the Dowager Empress desires to place Prince Kung’s grandson on the throne. The Emperor realizes the strength of the conspiracy against him and has ordered the guards at the pal- ace to be strengthened. EMPRESS’ RETURN NOT DICTATED B8Y RUSSIA WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The Chi- nese Minister, M1. Tu Wing, to-day re- celved a cable d‘spatch from the Chi- nese Foreign Office at Peking giving the text of the edict issued by the Em- peror yesterday, in which, owing to the critical condition of Chinese affairs, he calls back to power the Empress Dowager and commits to her hands the direction of the vast affairs of the em- pire. The edict, freely translated from the cipher cable, is as follow Cow that China is disturbed, there els n&'-g‘;haz 2l business shall be done well, and we, the Emperor, agitated from morning to night for the welfare of af- fairs and fearful lest errors may occur, observing from the beginning of the reign of Tung Chi that the Empress Dow- ager had twice given instructions to the Emperor and with signal ability and suc- cess, so we now, considering the import- ant interests of the empire, have begged the Empress Dowager to give the em- pire the benefit of her ripe experience and her instruction. The Dowager Em- press has been pleased to accede to this request, and, therefore, it is to the good fortune of the whole empire that this auspicious event is brought about. From | to-day the Empress Dowager conducts the business in the imperial apartments and on the eighth day of the present month (Chinese calendar) we will take all the Princes and Ministers to perform | the ceremony in the Chin Chung palace. Let the Yamen (Foreign Office) prepare that the ceremony may be performed with fitting honors. The Chinese Minister was seen at the legation to-day and talked freely con- cerning the edict. He said there was no secrecy about it, nothing to indicate that it was a triumph of one foreign element over another, and that its es- sentlal purpose was to strengthen | China herself at a time when serious foreign problems were presented. Concerning the report that the Em- press’ return to power was a coup d’etat favorable to Russia, the Min- ister say he does not consider the move favorable to any power as against any other. Its effect, he says, would be { toward strict impartiality in China’s treatment of Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Japan and the world at large. As to its effect upon LI Hung Chang, the Minister says, the Dowager Em- press has long admired the rugged ability of the old statesman. But he did not think this would result in the return of Li to the Foreign Office, from which post he was recently re- lieved, owing, it was understood, to foreign iInfluences. It is probable, the Minister says, that Prince Lf will con- tinue in his nominal post as Imperial Secretary. When asked if China had the strength to resist dismemberment by lm“(ellgn powers, Mr. Wu Tong Fang sald: “I am confident China will remain in- tact and I am glad to note that your Minister in China, Mr. Denby, has the same opinion.” The Minister speaks with especial satisfaction of the concession which he signed a short time ago, by which an American syndicate will build the rail- road from Hankow to Canton, a dis- | tance of 800 miles. It is understood that among the names of those inter- ested in the concession are the Rocke- fellers, Vanderbilts, Morgans, Brice and ex-Mayor Hugh Grant of New York. — CRIMINAL AGGRESSION, SA_Y_S SCHURMAN ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 23.—President Schurman, in his annual address to the students of Cornell University yesterday, touched upon the issue brought up by the recent war with Spain, relative to the disposal of acquired territory, including the Philippines. He sald: “We hear it advocated that the Philip- pines belong to us by right of conquest. But the idea that we have conquered them is a mistaken one. We have taken Manila, but there yet remain 15,000 in- surgents under the control of a flerce and desperate leader. We are, therefore, un- der no obligation to its people. “Monarchy may expand by uisition of territory, but democracy, ich is eople and for the government by the people, cannot afford to accept as citi- zens people who are not capable of self- abfififififififififlbbfifibfiffifififinfififififlfififififi gfififififififififlfifififififi IMMEDIATE EVACUATION. Spaniards Must With- draw From Cuba Without Delay. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—A very peremptory message of in- struction has been sent to the Cuban military commission, and by them made the basis of a note to the Spanish commission- ers. The authorities in Wash- ington will notr make public the terms of the note, but its gen- eral tenor is that the United States will not be satisfied with any further delay in the evacua- tion of Cuba. It is to the effect that the terms of the protocol called for an immediate evacua- tion of Cuba, and that Spanish sovereignty must be relinquish- ed. The American commission- ers have been informed that the evacunation of Cuba cannot be delayed. 6 308 206 308 308 308 0F 30 306 306 308 306 308 306 308 30 + government. The natfon, like a person, must be honest and keep its promises. When Cuba is pacified then Wwe must OPPOSED 10 INTERVENTION -~ BY AMERICA Revolutionary Tactics of Cubans. |YET DEMAND A REPUBLIC P b L L R NATIONALISTS WHO WANT RULE THE FREED ISLAND. To Secret Circulation of a Document Out- lining the Form of Govern- ment THat Is De- manded. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 18%, by James Gor- don Bennett. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept. 23.—A printed document is being secretly eir- culated among revo}utlonary socieuesl 206300 306 20 106 306 306 308 30 306 308 306 06 06 e 000k @ APPEAL OF FILIPINOS Request Independence With an American Protectorate. MANILA, Sept. 23.—The Fili- pino National Assembly has de- cided to request the Americans, first, to recognize the indepen- dence of the islands; second, to establish a protectorate over their external affairs, and to in- duce the powers to recognize their independence; third, to ap- point a joint commission of Americans and Filipinos for the arrangement of details to “re- ciprocate the Americans’ ser- vices.” 0 30F 30¢ 306 30¢ 306 XCE X0 30 306 30 30 306 X0 X0 X% 0 106 0 X0F 0 100 X0 X0F 08 08 308 308 308 30 06 6 0% 308 308 306 30308 0F 308 308 30K X 3% ent action of that government and “ap- peal'to whatever course may be expe- dient to repel any domination by stran- gers, internally or externally. We do not admit the right of any other gov- ernment, whatever its interests or claims, to curtail In any way our com- plete liberty.” The principles of the free Cuban re- THRILLING SCENES AND INCIDENTS BEFORE MANILA. @t — £ i el IR . . 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If we annex the island I hold that we will be comntitting criminal aggression.” D000 00000000606900000¢ L4 ® « BRYAN WILL ® @ b4 SOON RESIGN ¢ L4 @ : Expected to Do So When : & He Reaches Jackson- ¢ @ 4 ° ville, e ® NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The & @ Herald’'s Washington corre- ¢ @ spondent says: It is certain that z 4 Colonel Bryan made no mention © while here of his intention to re- ¢ % sign his commission, but I am & @ informed that on reaching Jack- & © sonville he will do so through his & ® commanding officer. * Ed * * 0000000060900 000000 of the eastern part of the island in ref- erence to the present relations of the United States and Cuba. It is un- signed, but the fact that it is circulated and that the circulation is authorized by Cuban officials and that its senti- ments are those expressed by the most violent of the Cuban party adds ‘nuch importance to the document. It is couched in the strongest language, and its tone throughout is hostile to the United States. The velled sentiment running through it is that there shall be no further intervention by America save what 1s. necessary to establish Cuba as a republic. No further intar- ference is to be brooked and it will be resisted to any extremity. The document begins by stating the broad principle that no will should be recognized in Cuba save the will of her own people, which must be supreme and absolute. No form of government will be acceptable save that of a re- public, with the most perfect independ- ence in its organization and absolute freedom from outside control. Its gov- ernment and its people will oppose with all their stréngth, even to the bitterest extremity, any ' outside influence at- tempting to control free and independ- public are declared to be universal suf- frage, liberty of the press and religion, disendowment of the state church, free education, no capital punishment, no standing army, trial by jury, enact~ant of the habeas corpus act, liberty to carry arms on personal responsibility, the island to be divided into six dis- tricts, each to have the same guantity of territory, the capital of each to be situated in the center; each state to give a portion of its territory for the establishment in the center of the is- land of a federal territory of an extent of thirty square kilometers. In order to carry out the views re- commended a strong organization will be formed, to be called the National party. Funeral of Miss Davis. RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 23.—The funeral train bearing the remains of Miss Winnie Davis arrived here this morning and was met at the depot by Lee Camp, Confeder- ate Veterans. There was a large crowd in attendance. The remains were escort- ed to St. Paul's Church_ by the camp, where the funeral took place this after- oon. The weather is fair and there was ne a great outpouring of v?eaple. There were dlatfiulnhed sitors in the cf mnd the funeral. o ‘| sylvania in the order named, t! CALIFORNIA BOYS UPHELD THE GLORY OF THEIR STATE How Colonel Smith’s Regiment Fought in the Battle Be- fore Manila. The Call Correspondents With the Victorious Troops Describe the Deeds of Va BY SOL N. lor. \ SHERIDAN., MANILA, Aug. 13.—The battle is won and Manila has been delivered into American hands. Writing by electric light in the Governor General's country palace at Malakanau, with the swift Pasig flowing silently by, it is difficult | to realize that what has been dofie was done so quickly. For weeks the Ameri- cans have lain in the trenches before Malate, soaked with the torrential rain of the tropics, shivering from fever when the hot sun shone, watching the electric lights of the fleet before Cavite play up and down the beach by night, fearful of nothing as an army, each man realizing that one chance exposure of his head above the line of intrench- ments would lead to death at the hands of a Spanish sharpshooter, a hoping against hope, day by day, for the signal to be given for the advance. It has been a weary waiting crowned with glorious success. And while the men waited the wise heads to whose subtle brains had been entrusted the conduct of operations planned a coup which would deliver Manila into our hands with the smallest possible loss of life. It is difficult to say, in the light of events, that the city was given up as the result of an agreed plan, per- mitting Governor Jaudenes to make Jjust enough resistance to save his own head under Spain’s peculiar military law. If the plan was made the Ameri- can soldiers knew nothing about it, nor did the Spanish. They fought as men fight who believe their quarrel just, fiercely and to the death. Let it never be said after the fall of Manila that the Spanish soldier is not brave, al- though it can be said with truth that he is badly led. Last night the order came to Camp Dewey that the attack would be de- lvered this morning. The wild cheers that broke from ‘the throats of ten thousand men as the news traveled down the line was a sufficient demon- stration of the joy coming when the long suspense was over. The boys in camp polished their rifles, jested and sang and sank to sleep after taps calmly and peacefully as though the morrow would not dawn a day of bat- tle. . If there was the slightest sign of nervousness in the camp of the Cali- fornians, the gallant First, with whom 1 made my home, I did not see it. Cer- tainly there was not an additional man at sick call on the eventful morning— and many who were sick, as well as even the cooks from the camp kitchens, seized their guns despite camp duty and the doctors and marched to the front with the rest. The Californians only grumbled and as they thought with justice when the word came that they were to lead the reserve instead of being on the firing line—but present- 1y Colonel Smith, coming from the headquarters of General Anderson, said she had been assured the First would b~ first into Manila and so made light the hearts inclined theretofore to rebellion. « The troops for the land attack were disposed as follows: General Greene had, on the left wing, extending from the beach to the Pardy road, the First Colorado, the Fourteenth rerulars and the Twenty-third regulars on his firing line. The reserve was half a mile back and consisted of the First Califor- nia, First Nebraska and Tenth Penn- Penn- sylvanians having held the enches last night and consequently not being expected to come into action except as a last resort. Battery A of the Utah Artillery, with four guns, held the en- trenchments. The right wing, under General Mc- Arthur, had its line extending from the Calle Real, otherwise known as the Pa- say road, to the entrenchments oppo- site the Spanish blockhouse at Paco and the Santa Ana trenches. Battery B of the Utah Artillery held the old trenches above the Pasay road with four guns. The Thirteenth Minnesota, the Eighteenth regulars and the Third Regular Artillery, acting as infantry, were on the firing line, and the Astor Battery, on high ground, commanded the Paco blockhouse, where was housed a rapid-fire gun which was expected to do great havoc. The Dakota and Wy- oming troops formed the reserve of the right wing. The troops had been ordered to zet under way at 6 a. m., to be in position at 9 o'clock, when the battle would be- gin. The fleet would begin moving long before that hour. The day broke cloudy, with spits of rain now and again sweeping over the bay and almost hiding the ships from the ‘shore. At a little before 9 a. m. the Charleston, which had been keep- ing coast guard over Camp Dewey, was seen from the shore to be moving over to join the fleet. Then I saw the Mon- terey slowly detach herself from the slowly circling vessels and steam to- ward a position where her great guns could batter the famous walled town down about the ears of its garrison and of the thousands who had sought shelter within its gates. Slowly, as the mist rose and fell, I could see the admiral’s line forming. The Monterey still led. The Concord, far on the left, had the Boston next in line, and then there was the Charleston, the Baltimore lying a little back, the noble Olympia, the Raleigh, the Petrel and close in to the shore the captured gun- boat Callao, bristling with rapid-fire guns. As the ships came on, the Mon- terey like some grim black monster of the deep, crept closer and closer to- ward the walled towr her guns silent, and no sound coming from the doomed city, whose roofs, I could see, were black with people watching the ap- proaching fleet. In the meantime, In camp the Special Correspondence of The Call. | troops had begun to move out short= | ly after daylight, the First Colorado | leading, with the band playing national | airs. _The band of the First California | 80es to the front, also, but it goes as a | fighting band, fully armed, which is an- | other kind of tale of war. The Cali- | fornians cheered the Coloradoans as {\t_hey passed through our cai.p, though the hearts of the boys were heavy within them. Then the call to arms | sounded. Father McKinnon, brave man and geod, blessed the colors in touching words and granted general absolution to those who had thought less of their own souls than of the slaughter of their fellows. Thus, fol- lowed by prayer, strong in the con- sclousness of a righteous cause, the First California marched away to bat- tle. They would be in the reserve; but their good colonel, beloved of all his men, had promised they would be first into Manila, and they trusted him. The troops, even those of General Mc- Arthur on the extreme right, were all in place by 9 o’clock. It was 9:35 a. m. | when a 4-inch shell, screaming from the | side of the Olympia and falling short of Fort San Antonio Abad, at Malate, gave the signal for the opening of the battle. The California boys, behind the line of mango trees and bamboo fringing the beach, could hear the shots. They could not see the results and their blood tingled with the ex- citement of it and .the uncertainty. | The Olympia fired again and again and the battie was open all along the line. The Utah gunners, noble fellows, sent shot after shot screaming into the fort and the Malate pulverin (or powder magazine), and how fatally well they shot we saw when we had gained the fort. The Colorado men on the firing | line worked like beavers, too, and far on the right the Eighteenth and the, Third Artillery were sustaining a heavy fire from the Spaniards strongly en- trenched, while the Astor Battery boys, although two of them were killed while serving a piece, they would not desert, finding their guns working badly and that the Spanish hornet in the Paco blockhouse had a thousand stings, stormed and carried the place with their revolvers, setting it on fire. The days when that rapido could sweep the Calle Real to the American camp were no more. The fleet, while the boys on shore Petrel and the Raleigh took up the chorus from the Olympla, but their shells fell, for the most part, short of the Malate fort. It seemed to me, watching from the beach, as to the men on The Call-Herald launch out in the fleet, that the bombardment was to - be all a bluff—that the tale of the loss oflé\danila to Spain was a story aiready told. Then the little Callao, steaming ahead and close in, changed the scene. ‘With her rapid fire guns she poured into the Spanish fort such streams of murderous shot as made the place ab- solutely untenable. The little - launch Barcelo, tender to the Olympia, mannea by four sailors and carrying one ma- chine gun, dashed ahead of the Callao, and, like an impudent wasp, went with- in pistol shot of the shore to deliver her fire. All this time, though the Spanish riflemen fought fiercely and even sent a few shots in the direction of the Cal- lao and the Barcelo, doing no harm, there was no heavy gun within the Spanish lines that fired a shot. The great battery on the Luneta, about which we have heard so much, the heavy guns of the walled citadel, even the guns mounted at San Antonio Abad, were grimly silent. All this time, out in the bay, the showers were going and coming on the southwest monsoon, now making the ships invisible, now 1:tting us see from the beach the whole superb panorama. In one short half-hour after the bom- bardment had begun, if that can be called a bombardment which was only a shelling of the Malate trenches and in which not a great shell had been fired into the populous city, Goneral Greene saw that the time had come to advance. He gave the nod, and the Colorado boys and the regulars leaped over the trenches, meeting a scattering fire from Spanish sharpshooters hidden in rifle pits 300 yards in frcnt. They swept over these and on into Fort San Antonio Abad without loss of life, and Lieutenant Colonel McCoy pulled down the Spanish flag and hoisted the stars and stripes. The works which had ane noyed our lines so long had been won, and now it was the day of the Califor- nians. The Colorado,_troops had advanced into Malate, headed by their band play- ing “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town to-night.” The Signal Corps, un- der Major Thompson, had followed the . Colorado men, but the Californians, led by Colonel Smith, swept over him down the beach, across a slough, where the water came up to our waists and where my boots were filled with sand, into the fort, where the Colorado men and a detachment of the regulars rested for a moment. That moment was enough to give the Californians the lead. They passed San Antonio Abad and entered the cable station, a house beside the Calle Real with an arch running clear through it. In the fort behind them a Colorado man had been killed as our boys passed. Major Sime of the Second Battalion, stepping out in the road, became a target at once for Spaniards who had barricaded the Calle Real. He stepped back for a moment. Cool and collected, Colonel Smith, going over a fence in the rear of the house, gained the street. “Come on, boys,” he said. Major Sime had won the road also. and they sent Com- panies L and B across the street, where the men would be out of the line of fire, in detachments. It was the only way in which the stret could have been won. I was with the boys and I saw it done. From the houses all about us came the sharp sput! sput! of the Mauser. General Merritt, conducting the bat- tle from the Zafiro with the color com- pany of the Oregon Volunteers with worked so heroically, was not idle. The -