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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1898. FILIPINOS DEFEATED BY AMERICANS Report of a Serious Naval En- gagement With Native Insurgents. Said to Have Been Caused by a Refusal to Lower the Rebel Flag—Losses Were Sustained on Both Sides. { “m= Times say Captain Aunon, the Minister of Marine, has received a dispatch from Manila announcing a naval engagement between the Americans and the rebels in consequence of Admiral Dewey forbidding the latter to fly the rebel flag from their ships. The dispatch adds that there were losses on both sides but that the Americans captured the rebel ships. The scene of the engagement is not stated, but it is sup- posed to have been Mdnila Bay. A Confirmatory Suggestion ONDON, Oct. 20—The Madrid correspondent of the A CONFIRMATORY SUGGESTION. INGTON, Oct. 19.—As far as could be ascer- information regarding the reported naval engage- Philippines has been received at the Navy Depart- as General Otis, commanding the United States troops at Manila, made any reference to it in any communica- tions he may have made to the War Department. The dispatch created considerable interest here. Recently the newspapers contained a statement that Ad- miral Dewey had dispatched one or two of his ships to another portion of the Philippine group on a mission of some import- ance, and the suggestion is made unofficially that it may have been these vessels which have been engaged in combat with the insurgents. ment, nor MEASUREMENTS FOR THE NICARAGUA CANAL. <o - s | The Commission Working on Its Re- | Deputies and Bishops of the Episco- port for Submission to | pal Convention Adopt Impor- Congress. | tant Amendments. ot j‘“‘g\‘i WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—When consld- slon the | eration of the constitution was resumed |WORKING TO SECURE proposed | by the House of Deputies of the Episco- e tions pal convention, article VI, relating to the onstruction: | establishment of misstonary dis sert article XI, relating to a bisho of his offices outside of his dfocese, were agreed to with amendments adopted by the Bishops. The morning session of the House of Bishops was spent in bringing about the adoption of what is known as the “Hunt- ington amendment looking toward church unity.” The amendment authorizes bish- ops to take under their spiritual guidance congregations which accept the essential tenets of the church, although they do not strictly observe the church ritual. The amendment was adopted with minor changes as part of the canons instead of the constitution. The canons also were amended in requiring one year’s time be- fore ordination instead of six months. The revision of the constitution pro- gressed by the adoption of the title and { articles X and XI, also articles VII and 2 is working hard to get | Sl o) Gongsess whentit ! S tvas amendedibyfthe il eputise, Expness comFAmEs |SHIPPING DISASTERS ‘ ON E MADE MOST UNEASY | e 10ne Vessel Overwhelmed by a Ter- Their Tactics in Cinching Shippers rific Sea and the Crew Swept 1t the canal will | rom Divide Cut intry the canal will bottom with verti- _agoon nd this e west | In the bed of cut will be 300 | slopes, differing, of course changes may be neces. | cut will be funnel | water entrance it , tapering to 3 the sides siopes the first six feet of The com its report May Cause a Heavy Loss in Overboard. Their Business. LONDON, Oct. 19—The Norwegian _Officers of the va- | bark Frivold stranded last evening off Oct Spurnhead. The Kilnza rocket brigade bers of her crew two of them. The Norweglan brigantine Augvald has been wrecked off Gouden harbor. Two of her crew were saved and seven were drowned. The Russian schooner Wilhelm has been | wrecked on the St. Andrews. Five of her crew were saved and one drowned. overboard, drowning for the exten- | and conta in the United | sion of t States The work is desigr st ed to bring about a 1 over the country regulate | ways | object to a to come in, and the coast is strewn with wrecks. In most cases the crews have & been saved, but upward of thirty persons and ex- | have been’ drowne atior rcel post | A would deprive the ex- | of nearly half of their | could not compete with | , and they will make a de- | to prevent the loss of e part of their busines: -— CHINESE EMPEROR IS at Peking Minutely Examines His Majesty. PEKING, Oct. 19.—At the sug N 9 gestion of Sir Claude Macdonald the physiclan of the French Embassy called on the Emperor to-day and made a minute ex- amination of his Majesty in the presence of the Dowager Empress, Prince Ching and a number of mandarins. Detalls as to the specific disease from which the Emperor is suffering were not obtainable. but he is weak and requires constant erence to the Dowager doctor. promised to prescription. - BATTLE TO THE DEATH ON A HIGH BUILDING Two Roofers Engage in a Struggle and Both Fall Fifty Feet to the Empress. The Ground. BOSTON, Oct. 18.—Patrick Rosch, 45 years old, and John C. Rice, aged 30, roofers, while employed in repairing a four-story house on Hudson street, be- Yes, HUDYAN is the true nerve-builder. | came engaged in a quarrel. The people .o | bel them sti 1. Many men and women are ready fo testify | They drew e e L SRR A to that, HUDYAN did it. HUDYAN dows | ime roited over and_fell ity fect 5 the do. BUDYAN cures. Just as cerfain as two rolled over a4 fell fifty | rnund.c an ¢! y feet to the you are a foot high, so certain will HUDYAN care you. | — - Must Pay the Theater Tax. _ CHURCH UNITY| | died a few hours later. The cause of the quarrel is unknown | but it is supposed it resulted from a dispute about the work. HUDYAN curss Rervous Weakness, Men- tal Depression, Hysteria, Numbness, Tremb- ling, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Pains in the Bhoulder, Pains Up and Down the Backbons. HUDYAN cures Nervousness, Melancholia, | Nervous Debility, Exhausted Nerve Vitality. HUDYAN cures Sleeplessness, Palpitation of the Heart, Sick Headache, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite. HUDYAN cures. Call or write for free circulars. FUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, . Eilis, Stockton and Market Sta, ‘ EAN FRANCISCO, CAl. 54 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—An important ruling was made by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to-day which will re- | sult in the criminal prosecution of par- ties who fall to comply therewith. Every | spectal taxpayer making & sworn return | on form within the calendar month when his llnbll(l{ began, tnerebK escaping 50 per cent penalty, must pay the tax not | later than the last day of that month, | I he postpones gayment to a later period he becomes llable to criminal prosecu- tion and should be reported to_the ‘United States District Attorney accordingly. Un- der this ruling warning was sent through the Collector of Internal Revenue at Phil- adelphia to the lessee of the Arch Streét Theater of that city who, on the 10th inst. had made a sworn statement but had deferred the payment of the tax to a later date., The Commissioner will begin crim- inal prosecution at once in all cases where neglect 18 shown. % | | | | not make war on Spain to acquire Cuba | the points and features which | possible to foresee in subsequent con- s doing business worried over a | established communication with her, but m issued by | before the crew were able to secure the | affic Com. | Ship the vessel was overwhelmed by a| terrific sea which swept the seven mem- | Reports of shipping disasters continue | ALIVE, BUT AN INVALID| | Physician of the French Embassy | care, though in no immediate danger. He was cheerful and showed the ulmfisz'dcrl; end his Majesty a | com: Both were terribly injured and. |in next Sunday’s Call. | session to-day, and the next session of SPANIARDS YET SEEKING DELAY S Americans Grant Them Further Time. CLEVER GAME OF DIPLOMACY DONS BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT UNCLE SAM IS FIRM. Going Behind the Protocol Not Per- mitted in the Negotiations for the Treaty of Peace. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. PA.RIS. Oct. 19.—The Spanish Com- mission was unable to attend the joint the two commissions has been fixed for Friday next. Judge Day, president of the American Commission, received a communication this morning from Senor Rios, presi- dent of the Spanish Commission, say- ing that advices expected, but not re- ceived, from Madrid made it necessary for himself and his colleagues to re- quest a postponement of any further conferences until Friday next. A cour- teous reply was returned by Secretary Moore in behalf of the American Com- missioner, granting an extension of the time for the next meeting was re- quested. While the deferring of any one con- ference for two days is in itself not an important request, the delay by the Spaniards at this juncture is something more than significant. The game of diplomacy now progressing here has reached a stage which makes it neces- sary that the next move be made by the Spanish Commissioners. They are confronted by the plain fact of their protocol agreement to relinquish and evacuate Cuba without “ifs,” ‘“‘ands’ or “buts.” It has become clear here that the Spaniards cherished the hope that they could be made to follow a given path and ultimately wander elsewhere and do less or more than named in the ‘protocol compact. The American Com- missioners, however, have firmly ad- hered to the boundary lines already mutually established and within which they insist the Spanlards, as well as themselves, shall duly proceed. It is not too much to say that Spain now has more light than ever before on the Integrity and steadfastness in word and in purpose of the United States. Nor is it wide of fact to say that the Spaniards are now initfally appreciating that the United States did as a conquest prize. Of this the Spaniards may not vet be wholly convinced, but the firm refusal of Judge Day and his colleagues to as- sume the Cuban debt, because the United States would not take over the sovereignty, has widened Spanish per- ceptions and has unquestionably heas- tened their convictions, wherefore it y, in a sense, be true that, having time a feeling that Ameri- can pledges and American performance are coequal terms, the Spaniards are now practically on the threshold of properly lighted negotiations. The Americans yesterday held a brief session, having no reference to the ne- gotiations, and the brevity of these meetings and other indications warrant | the deduction that the American atti- tude is well formed, and that the com- mission is thoroughly advised on all 1t s ferences. | The amount of information acquired | by the Americans since their arrival | here is large. They have examined old | residents of the Philippine Islands and | the information from this and other | sources is valuable | |INTERESTS THE PEOPLE | OF THE_PACIFIC COAST | Important Work Being Done by | United States Coast Survey Parties in Alaska. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Three coast survey parties were sent to Alaska this | season, one to Southeastern Alaska, one to Prince Willlam Sound, near Copper | River, and the third and largest party | to the mouth of the Yukon. The party | in Boutheastern Alaska was engaged in a | survey about the head of Lynn Canal, in the country-through which the Interna- | tional boundary passes, and secured full topographic information for the study of that question. This party has returned. The party on Prince William Sound has been engaged In making a survey of the region around the mouth of the Copper River, and up to Valdez. It is well known ¢ Copper River is not navigable, hav- a shallow mouth with numerous chan- nels and a large bar. The survey of Prince William Sound, however, is urgent- | 1y needed, as settlements are golng on | constantly in the neighborhood of Valdez and much shipping is sent there. From the report of the director of the Geological Survey upon the production of | erude petroleum for the year 1897, which is now in the hands of the printer, it is shown that California yielded 1,903,411 bar- | Tels, which is an increase of 51.93 per cent over that of 1896. Captain James G. Blaine of the adju- tant general’s department, was to-day honorably discharged from the military | service of the United States. Blaine's eccadilloes in San Francisco, Honolulu, Manila, and again in San Francisco not made the subject of formal laint, the department did not take | official cognizance of the reports. As a master of fact, Blaine's discharge oc- curred immediately on his arrival at Ma- nila, Secretary Alg]er having cabled him | more than a month ago to return home for that purpose. Private John T. Macewen, Troop B, Fourth United States Cavalry, now at the Presidio, San Francisco, has been honorably dl.lc)mrged. Edward 8. Gridley has been appointed gauger in the Internal Revenue Service at Sacramento, Commander G. A. Bickwell has been de- tached as commander of the Saturn and is | put on walting orders to command the Monocacy. Pensions have been granted as follows: California—Original: Henry H. Holmes, | tha in, | having been HAROLD FREDERIC PROMISE dN ATTACK UPON MANILA CITY CALLED TO REST Death Claims the Famous London Correspondent and American Novelist. HAROLD FREDERIC, WHO DIED YESTERDAY. ONDON, Oct. 19.—Harold Frederic, the London correspondent of the New York Times, died at Henley of heart disease. He had been il for some time, but recently had much improved in health. Harold Frederic was not only a distinguished novelist but also one of the cleverest correspondents ever sent by an American newspaper to London. It was in Central New York that Frederic was born, and it is there he passed his childhood days and his young man- hood. He enjoyed greatly to tell how he gained his first opinions of the alphabet from a strenuous and enduring study of the letters on an empty soap box. At an early age he was induced by his parents to arise at 5:30 a. m., and distribute supplies of milk among the worthy populace. His book, “In the Sixties,” which contains “The Copperhead, Mar- sena,” “The War Widow,” “The Eve of the Fourth” and “My Aunt Susan,” breathes the spirit of the Civil War as felt and endured at the homes. Stephen Crane recently wrote this of Frederic: But there is something dismally unfortunate in the passing of “Seth’s Brother's Wife,” “In the Valley,” the historical novel, and “The Lawton Girl.” -Of courss, they all had their success in measure, but here was a chance and a reason for every American to congratulate himself. An- other thing had been done. For instance, “‘In the Valley” Is easily the best historical novel that our country has borne. Perhaps it is the only good one. ‘“‘Setn’s Brother's Wife” and “The Lawton Girl” are rimmed with fine portrayals. There are writing men who, in some storfes, dash over three miles at a headlong pace, and in an adjacent story move like a boat being salled over plowed fields; but in “Frederick” one feels at once the perfect evenness of craft, the undeviating worth of the workman- ship. The excellence is always sustalned, and these books form, with “In the Sixties’' a row of big American novels. But if we knew It we made no emphatic sign, and it was not until the appearance o Damnation of Theron Ware"” that the book audlences really said: is a writer” loYotororelcleloolololooXcoXoXoTogoXoXOROROROROROJORORCROJOROROROROS [0[001010101010l0I0ICI0I0I0I0IO0XCYOYOYOYOIOCIOIOIOICTOIOToIoXOYOXOXC) (0]Clololololololoelo]c 10100101000 OIOIOIOJOJOJOJOJOXOIOICIOROXOJOLO) ANTI-TELLER FACTION WINS. | Silver Republican party in this State | The decision is in favor of the anti-Tellr Decision as to th’eflklght of the Name | faction of the party. < The decision is understood to deny the and Emblem of Silver Re- rieht of National Chairman Towne to publicans. remove State chairmen. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 19.—The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado t v dered a dectsion in the cas v Tight to the name and emblem ems—get Prominent actors tell their best | tories, in next Sunday’s Call. How Rival Filipipo Leaders Try to Pacify Soldiers Who Grow . Restless. Insurgents Retire Which Completes From Cavite and Paco, the Conquest of the American Troops. BY SOL N, SHERIDAN. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Hennett. MANILA, Oct. 19.—Insurgent General Pio Pllar has agreed to evacuate Pico, the last suburb of Manila held by the Filipinos, on October 25. This com- pletes the American conquest of the city. The last rebel was driven from Cavite to-day. The Americans now | hold Cavite and Manila and the rest of | the island of Luzon is in the hands of | insurrectionist factions. How little | power Aguinaldo possesses is shown by his refusal to grant passes to visit the | interior on the ground that the northern | provinces are held by General Maka- boulas, who is in revolt against the| Malolos government. General Aguinaldo has shown good | faith in securing Pio Pilar's consent to | evacuate Pico, although the rumor Ixi‘i persistently circulated that the rebel | leaders have promised thelr soldiers, who are growing restless, that an at- tack will be made on Manila before the | end of the present month. As a mat-| ter of fact Pio Pilar, who is chief of the antl-American party, has been reduced and is practically under arrest by Aguinaldo. | There are two new cases of smallpox this week, although the health of the troops shows improvement, there being few new cases of typhoid and dysentery. There is still need for women nurses. Red Cross workers, after some slight hitches, are starting an ably managed | auxiliary for serious cases, likewise an auxiliary hospital for California troops. | They contemplate opening still another home for convalescents. Drugs, food and supplies in the Red Cross Society’s hands have been given to ailing sol- diers without stint, as the necessities of | the situation demand. There is great | need now for money to aid in the ex-| tension of the work, and the fact can- | not be too strongly impressed upon the people. The British warships Powerful and Rattler have been ordered to Hong- kong, it is said, on account of the num- ber of -cases of malarial fever aboard. There have been three deaths on the Powerful. The government of the provinces re- flects credit on the Philippine republic, It is established on the Spanish system, but with fewer abuses. The people are contented and order is maintained. For- efgners traveling with passports are well received. The principal evil in this country, gambling at cockpits, which was for- merly licensed, is now prohibited. The rice crop this year is bad, a serious mat- ter. Aguinaldo has ordered the release of Spanish civilian prisoners taken at Tloilo. When the place was surrounded by the rebels the Spanish troops re- tired inside Cotta. Local Spanish papers accuse General Rios of sending false cables to Spain about the state of the southern island. Steamers under the American flag are forbidden to load by native authorities unless they pay a tax of 5 per cent ad valorem on the cargo and 20 per cent on their freight to the local Governor. A large stock of tobacco was seized at Cogayan from the Compania Generale and from the Insurance factories. Aguinaldo refused to return the prize, as he requires funds. He is preparing for the possible return of the islands to the Spanish rule and will entertain no proposals from Spain. Every native is sworn to join his ranks in such an event. Of the southern islands Min- danao would combine against Spain. AGUINALDO’S INFLUENCE NOW ON THE WANE. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The Washing- | toh correspondent of the Herald tele- graphs: Major General Otis cabled the War Department to-day a review of the situation in the Philippines, showing that Aguinaldo’s influence is on the wane. General Otis stated that Aguinaldo’s forces are being rapidly depleted. Many of the deserters are joining the Spanish party, apparently because of their belief in the possibility that the islands may be returned to Spain. The situation Is peaceful, and there is little danger of trouble between the natives and Americans, and General Otis expressed confidence in his ability to fully cope with any developments. Secretary Alger late this afternoon sent a copy of the dispatch to the State Devartment, and it is expected that it will be cabled to the American Com- missioners in Paris. Adjutant General Simpkins, who has just returned to ‘Washington, brought with him from Manila all of the correspondence which has passed between Rear Admiral Dewey and Major General Merritt and Aguinaldo. This correspondence shows conclusively that the American officers entered into no alliance implied or di- rect with Aguinaldo, and that the hands of this Government are tied in no way as the result of the co-opera- tion of the insurzents. Some of the | more important passages of the corre- spondence have been cabled to Paris, and complete coples were forwarded to the commissioners by mail to-day. ADMIRAL DEWEY NOT COMING ON LEAVE. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—A Washington special to the Herald says: Secretary Long denied to-day the report that Rear Admiral Dewey will come to the United States on leave of absence. It is expected that Rear Admiral Schley will return from Porto Rico on a mer- chant steamer, as the Newark is want- ed at St. Thomas to make an investiza- tion of the coaling question existing there. Admiral Schley’s name has been connected with the succession to Rear Admiral Bunce as commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, but it is not at all certain that he wili have this as- signment. Rear Admiral Howell is his senior, and as the department generally considers senlority in making selec- tions for important positions it is re- garded as likely that Rear Admiral Schley will be ordered to duty as presi- dent of the examining and retiring F | boards while Rear Admiral Howell will go to New York or some other impor- tant navy-yard. e We Have Established 2 Reputation for our Tailoring Department, FR R A K I We are recopnized as the leaders for making to orderthe best $20 sutts in America, lothing- factory. Corona, $8. Increase—James M. Newhard, Oakland, $30 to $50. 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