The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1898, Page 1

1?—\/\ r~u HI’V/ to " the Library.+++* 210 8 - be taken from OLUME SAN FRANCISCO, ATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Reporter Bard Followed by M. M Monard and Manua, Who Ask for Justice. Generai Genge Replies to the Charge of Dis-| honorable Action Made Against Him by Colonel Picquart. | STaR AR | \ Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON, Oct ndent the T to report of M. Bard, and by rateur ger al), ent of the Times pall on the country Dre th of ure of ation.” ce C00000000000 sation in the F rd, the reporter, con- eport of the Dreyfus case " of which was presented g that mornir k was a del- motive to icate oid it great one, no Do what your for an investi rts who eau in 1894 and in ) ascertain whether or bers of the followed he M. ussing Manau, the case, take the Dreyfus - out of your hands, nor can you without dereliction of decisions must constitute | sion of truth the trial then, | t prepare the road iy can now the court could 1 the sentence imposed upon Dreyfus without a retrial of the pris- oner. He added: ‘ - the responsibility. If ou must fix fus is innocent, the culprit must not go unpu d.” The - pub! prosecutor, continuing, proceeded argue on the same lines as M. Bard, the rep r of the case, urging vision of the trial and dwelli upon the fallibility of the writing He also suggested ould testify on the subject of th ereau, saying: “He can admit its authorship with ourt-martial has ac- being the author of it rvice he has rendered to confessing that he is its ice he will ren- author an der the unhappy Dr M. M conclud 1 denounc- illainou upon the of revision,” and made a ng ¥ that the court be not influ- d by outside pressure, but that it ide in favor of a r the case and the immediate p sional lib- Dreyfus. At this stage of the proceedings, M. Bard r 1 a letter from General Gonze ident of the Court of Cassa- in which the general said: i § st heard of a memorandum in- 1 in court yesterday, in which art accused me of a dishonorable I have never previously heara memorandum, and I wish to st formally Plcquart’s allega- 1 think my word is of greater . than that of a man imprisoned icion of forgery.” last on tt The reading of the statement called forth loud protests in court. The reporter added that as Colonel Pic- quart’s memorandum was publicly read it was only justice to read General Gonze's denial. The president of ths court ordered that the general’s letter be added to the documents in the case, and the court adjourned. The court was less crowded than vesterday, but the same stringent pre- autions were taken. There was no excitement outside the Palace of Jus- tice. Only a few people assembled about the building and the streets in the neighborhood presented their every. ay appearance. The n spapers here are sharply di- vided into two camps, one of them y praising M. Bard’s report to the of Cassation as clearly setting 1 the truth and proving the inno- ice of Dreyfus, and the other insist- ing that the report was merely a plead- fng in favor of the prisoner. ONE SIGNIFICANT _ REVELATION MADE PARIS, Oct. 28.—To-day's proceed- ings at the Court of Cassation were de- vold of sensation. The only emotion caused ensued durng the reading of the pathetic letters from Dreyfus. A sig- nificant point was the revelation of the fact that General de Boisdeffre gave orders, after the Dreyfus case was sup- posedly closed, for the dossier, contain- ing tHe bordereaux, to be burned, and expressed surprise to find that his or- ders had not been executed. Thus far the War Office has not been represented and there is little hope Madame | REVISION FOR DREYFUS URGED BY PROSECUTOR 28—In moderate where a - the truth of the Dreyfu the bequisiore is protound, pal seems to b 00000000000 00005000000000000200000C “You have | | | | | AMERICANS YET HOLD ments were communi- | court- | |INFANTA MARIA TERESA | ‘ = PARTY to the Paris is belng made on left by the y of M. Manau, discouraging. The thought which weighs a reluctance believe in the > such a belief would involve ible, knowingly or unknowing- circles, and 00000000000 f securing the dossier. M. Dupuy Premier during the Dreyfus trial, his appointment delights the anti- Dreyfusites. It is asserted that the -in-law of Dreyfus has received ter from the prisoner in his own ndwriting. Formerly only copies of letters were transmitted, and the new departure is regarded as a favor- able sign. a ha his —_—— DUPUY WILL FORM THE NEW CABINET PARIS, Oct. 28.—M. Dupuy has cured the support of MM. Ribot, e and Lu ues, and has formally informed ident Faure that he is prepared to form a Cabinet. se- Del UNDISPUTED POSSESSION R REPUBLICAN, 3 N \ .Y REPUDIATED BY HIS OWN PARTY, THE “HEFTING” MAYOR IMPLORES AID FROM THE G. O. P. WASHINGTON, Oft. 28.—The Madrid printed in to-day’s papers ating that after the departure of the ‘harleston from the Ladrones the | Spaniards lowered the American flag and hoisted the ~Spanish, the islands| thereby reverting to Spain, is nonsense | and is so regarded in official circles here. A number of Government transports | have touched at Guam since then and | soldiers were left to garrison these | islands. The last vessel via Guam was the Pennsylvania, which arrived in San Francisco October At that time the Amerlcans held undisputed posses sion. ALL BRITISH EYES ARE NOW ON MARCHAND WILL SAIL ON SUNDAY iop e [Major’s Movements E ]»mu;la‘ ‘;‘:‘.\I\!l“l(? Thl; Call t-{m] the New Y‘nrk‘ HMerald Copyrighted, 185, by James Gor- | Are Watched. CAIMANERA, Cuba, Oct. 28.—The| | Infanta Maria Teresa will sail Sunday | morning. The Cincinnati, Leonidas and Potomac will convoy her to Cape May. All the holes have been patched and the turret cables tightened. The star- | board engine is in a satisfactory con- | dition. Just three months ago to-day | the gunboat Sandoval was sunk by the | Spanish. She made a satisfactory trial trip to-day and wili be ready for ser- | vice Menday. | PEACE COMMISSION NEARING CONCLUSION | PARIS, Oct. 28.—The American Peace Commissioners, at their sessions to-day, drew up a memorandum on the subject of the Philippines, which, it is IS ON THE WAY TO CAIRO ENGLAND HAS NOT DECLARED A PROTECTORATE OVER EGYPT. [ | But the Policy Is Maintained That the Valley of the Nile Must Be Egyptian Ter- ritory. Dxpr(l‘:hd, they will place before the Special Dispatch to The Call. anish Commissioners at the joint baalE et on, which is to take place on Mon-| LONDON, Oct. 28.—The morning newspaper editorials regard Major ADRID, Oct. 28.—TItis rumored that the Paris Peace Commission will ter- minate in four days. Sagasta said to- | day on leaving the Palace that he thought the commission would be finished next week. | Marchand’s movements from Fashoda to Khartoum as indicative of a yield- ing on the specific question In contro- versy, although the position is official- ly unaltered. It is assumed that he will push on to Cairo, in order to be in direct ¢com- munication with the French Govern- ment, and that on reaching there he will represent to Paris the impossibil- ity of remaining at Fashoda under ex- isting conditions, and will ask author- ity to withdraw his entire force. The Times says: “The desire as- cribed to France to raise a general dis- cussion ought to be in- itself sufficient answer to the ridiculous rumor circu- lated in ill-informed quarters yester- day (Friday) that we intended to play into her hands by declaring a protec- torate over Egypt. Nothing could be more unlikely at the present moment.” The Dailly News takes it for granted | that Major Marchand will go to Paris. The first Cabinet Minister to speak publicly since the Cabinet Council on Thursday is Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Secretary for Scotland, who, when ad- dressing a meeting last evening at Cal- ashiels, Scotland, declared that it was the settled policy of the Government that the valley of the Nile must be Egyptian territory. Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Ad- miralty in Lord Rosebery’s govern- ment, in a strong speech last night at Greenock indorsed Lord Salisbury’s at- titude toward the Egyptian question and referred with the greatest satis- faction to a “prospect of an Anglo- Saxon entente.” Baron de Courcel, French Embassa- dor, had another long interview with the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon with Sir Thomas Sanderson, Perma- nent Under Secretary of State for For- eign Affairs, and there is no doubt that important matters were under discus. sion, The rumor was circulated on the Paris boulevards yesterday that Major Marchand would be recalled from Ta- shoda; but on neither side of th2 chan- nei—certainly not on this side—is any R T PP DEATH AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS 3 OF SLUMBER ¢ Close of a Life That Furnished & a Great Scientific Problem + to Phfli_oians. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28 — Miss Elmire Marle Charpentier, the last sixteen years of whose life have furnished a scientific problem, is dead. When 9 years old she began to sleep longer than was normal, and at the death of her little brother, to whom she was passionately de- voted, her sleeping spells began to be more prolonged. She was 18 years old at that time. Then she had an attack of fever and went into a trance which lasted up to her death, with intermissions of two hours daily, when she was fed. During these intermissions she was in full possession of her faculties and appreciated her condition. Miss Charpentier was the daughter of Abnoir S. Char- pentier of Lobit & Charpentier, one of the wealthiest commission houses in'New Orleans in ante- bellum days. The war swept away their fortune and her father died. For three days be- fore her death Miss Charpentier evinced no sign of her usual waking. In sixteen years of her trance she was awake 11,680 hours and unconscious 140,160 hours. She was conscious one year and ten months out of six- teen years. o + 3 + e D R R R R TR R T i St St S A g A A o A . . .t SR serious attention paid _to the rumer that England will declare a protector- ate over Egypt. The Paris correspondent of the Standard says: “I have excellent au- thority for the assertion that Major Marchand left Fashoda on his own inl- tiative, but that he will demand per- mission to withdraw the mission, since his men are dying of hunger and dis- ease.” The special correspondent of the Daily News at Omdurman telegraphs: “I have reason to believe that Major Marchand is waiting for instructions to withdraw the French mission from Fa- shoda.” —_—— ENGLISH SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION LONDON, Oct. 28.— The Pali Mall Gazette this afternoon summarizes the result of the British Cabinet meeting yesterday as follows: “1. Marchand must be withdrawn un- conditionally and no undertaking or promise can be given to discuss the questions raised by Frajce in regard to access to the Nile and such like. 2. When Marchand is withdrawn it will be determined whether or not the questions raised admit of discussion, and under what conditions discussion can be proceeded with. “3. Every possible facllity will be af- forded to assist in Marchand's with- drawal by which ever route is selected. ‘4. If Marchand is not withdrawn there will be no interference with his remaining at Fashoda or with the date fixed for his withdrawal. Necessarily reinforcements will not be permitted to reach him. He will be treated eourt- eously as a foreign visitor, and will be regarded in no other light. ‘5. Therefore it is left to France to adopt anv active measures to precipi- tate a conflict.” The Pall Mall Gazette adds that it | has good reason to believe that, while Russia has counselled France to tide over the difficulty and avoid war, she has promised to throw her weight in the scale at no distant date for the pur- pose of bringing the whole Egyptian question and the British occunation of Egypt to the front for settlement. S g g GREAT BRITAIN HAS NOT DECLARED A PROTECTORATE LONDON, Oct. 28.—There does not seem to be the slightest ground for the report of yesterday that the British Cabinet had decided to declare a pro- tectorate of Great Britain over Egypt. It was based solely on a London dis- patch to the Paris Soir. The papers do not comment upon the statement made, and the St. James Gazette alone alludes to the subject, urging the Gov- ernment to adopt such a course. g o MAJOR MARCHAND RETURNING TO PARIS CATRO, Egynt, Oct. 28.—A boat re- cently dispatched to Fashoda has reached Khartoum on its retuyrn jour- ney, and it is asserted that Major Marchand is on board of her. PARIS, Oct. 28.—The rfrench Foreign Office has received a dispatch from its diplomatic agency at Cairo confirming the reported arrival of Major Marchand at Khartoum. It is added that the major deemed it necessary-to personally bring.to Cairo the unfinished portion of his report of the explorations. Captain Gorman was left in command of the French Mission at Fashod: Killed by a Boiler Explosion. LAKE LINDEN, Mich., Oct. 28—A boller in the Calumet and Hecla boiler house exploded at noon _to-day, killing three men instantly and burning one seriously. F | Cabinet session the fact that NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE ARE PROGRESSING Encouraging Reports From Paris. ADMINISTRATION HOPEFUL THINKS THE TREATY WILLSOON BE CONCLUDED. The Philippine Question Not Rgached, but Will Probably Be Taken Up Early Next Week. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The Presi- dent was enabled to lay before the Cab- inet to-day very encouraging reports from Paris regarding the progress. of the peace negotiations. The adminis- tration now fully believes that the ne- gotiations will be concluded much sooner than was expected from the out- look a few days ago. It can be stated authoritatively that the commissioners have not actually begun the discussion of the Philippine question, and, further, that it will not be taken.up until next week. Since the Spaniards have found that the American Commissioners mean exactly what they say and that their presentation of the side of the United States is really an ultimatum, the use- lessness of prolonged debate, it is said, has become apparent to the Spaniards, and it is now believed the Philippine discussion will be less protracted than was reported some days ago. The re- cent action of the United States Gov- ernment intimating that the negotia- tions were proceeding much too slowly has had its effect upon the Spanish Commissioners, and they are not likely to debate remaining propositions to the length they did the settlement of the Cuban debt. The United States has not assumed nor guaranteed the so-called municipal debt of Cuba or Cuban municipalities, but it is expected that such debts will be paid by the municipalities incurring them, for by no reasoning could they be charged upon Spain. Our Government, it is said in official circles, would look upon any attempt at evading the pay- ment of such debts as repudiation and dishonesty, and whatever government is established in Cuba will be expected to see that these obligations are carried out in good faith. Moreover, some of the bonds of the Cuban municipalities are held by citizens of the United States, and the United States might in- st that the investments of her citi- zens in such securities are made good. The State Department has no informa- tion- as to the amount of these munici- pal liabilities. . ‘Although the members of the Cabi- net are extremely reticent on the sub- ject of the acquisition of the Philip- pines there is now little or no doubt that nothing less than the cession of the entire group of islands will be ac- cepted by the American commissioners. ecretary Wilson brought up at thl: still_charging $10 a hundred for beef eattle going into Cubay. ports controlled by the Spaniards, while the United States is admitting beef cattle free of duty to ports controlled by American officials. The Cabinet concluded that it has no power at present to change this state of affairs, and that Blanco must bear the responsibility. As soon as the United States takes possession of the various ports, however, this will be changed. Some of the ports near Havana will be opened to the free entry of beef cattle and other things and that will result in benefit to Havana. PARIS PAPERS ON THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION » PARIS, Oct. 28.—La Volente, discuss- ing the Philippine question to-day, says: “The Americans could well make concessions to compensate for their rigor on the Cuban question.” Quoting the Philippine article of the protocol the paper says: “The word- ing is vague and forecasts the Spanish contention relative to the meaning of the words ‘control’ and ‘disposition.’ “Spain,” La Volente concludes, “is minus meney and a fleet to re-establish order and it would be more prudent to allow the Americans to do so, Spain claiming & money indemnity in ex- change for her sovereignty over the archipelago, which it would be diffi- cult for the Americans to refuse.” The Gaulois takes the view that the Cuban question was not settled by it- self and that by counter concessions on the Philippine question an arrangement mutually satisfactory will be reached. But in the meanwhile, the Gaulois adds, no decision is possible before the elec- tions, which is according to the desire of the American commission. R D s CONDITION OF THE EMPEROR IS CRITICAL But Examining Physicians Re- port That He May Live for Some Time. Specal Cable to The Call and New York Herald. _Copyright, 189, by James Gordon Bennett. PEKING, Oct. 28.—The Em- peror has submitted to a medical consultation of which the follow- ing is the result: His Majesty’s weakaess has latterly made con- siderable progress. He is ex- tremely pale. The lumbar region is the seat of almost continual pains. The Emperor is extreme- ly sensitive to cold. He feels the sensation of the hand of death in his hands. Shortness of breath and oppression are constant and grow worse when he moves. The patient complains of buzz- ing in the ears and very marked difficulty in hearing. He has con- tinual headaches, and his eye- sight is dimmed and not so good as formerly. When he sits up he feels great giddiness. His di- gestion is slow and painful. The lower limbs are very emaciated. His pulse very weak and greatly accelerated. His present symp- toms may be diagnosed as chronic nephritis. Although the Emperor’s condi- tion and anaemic conditions are extremely serious there does not seem to be any immediate dan- ger. I am toild that the physi- clans’ report has been communi- cated to the foreign legations. P Y O S S P P L D e R R R BLACK DEATH REACHES THE LOLDEN CATE Duchesse Anne an Infected Ship. HER CREW REDUCED BY TWO THE BUBONIC PLAGUE SMOTR THEM ON THE HIGH SEAS. Ship Placed in Quarantine—History of the Dread Disease Now Ter- rorizing All of Southern Europa. Last evening, when the French bark Duchesse Anne, hailing from Hong- kong, passed in through the Golden Gate she halted in the stream but a few minutes, then turned her prow toward Angel Island and went into quarantine at the Government sta- tion. It will be weeks before her crew or cargo will be allowed to land, for the ship is unclean; from her decks not long over a month ago two bodies were cast into the sea—two bodies blackened and distorted by the ravages of the bubonic plague, “the black death.” A note handed by the ship’s captain to the health officer told in simple lan- guage how “the black death” had vis- ited his vessel and reduced her crew by two when far from aid out on the high seas. It read: “August 20 CAPTAIN JOS CER- VANY, aged 31 years, a native of France, died of bubonic plague and was buried at sea. “September 19 ANGIE MENIER, aged 50 years, a native of France, died of the same disease and was buried at This was the simple story, but it car- ried with it terror to the heart of the | health officer. If the dread disease stretched out and with its grasp of death laid hand on the people of this Jand who knew what might be the end? ‘So “‘auenv¥ “WAs weighed and the in- fected ship sailed into quarantine, fwhere she will remain until the living germs of death wither in the fumes that will penetrate every nook and crevice of hold and cabin. | Europe is now terror stricken at the alarming -advances of this dread dis- ease. In the temperate climes of Italy and Austria it has been stalking through the land, leaving in its path scores of blackened victims. But few live to tell of the pain and dread that seizes its victims after it has once laid hold. The disease in itself is a ma- lignant and fatal contagious fever. In early ages it raged throughout Egypt and the Levant and spread its devas- tating epidemics throughout almost the whole of Europe. So fearful are its ravages that it has feen an obstacle to the growth of countries and has time and again turned back the tide of civil- ization. It first appeared in Constan- tinople in A. D. 544, and when the peo- ple of that land looked upon its results and upon the bodies of its victims they named it “the pest,” “the black death” and “the great mortality.” From that date the germs of the disease seemed to have taken a firm hold upon the country and many «pidemics have taken place since then, forty-five hav- ing occurred in the seventeenth cen- tury. Twenty-five millions of people, it is estimated, have fallen under thé blow of “the black death,” the majority of whom were counted among the dead during the existence of less than a dozen epidemics—those which occurred at London in 1665, Copenhagen in 1712, Marseilles in 1720, Moscow in 1771, Malta in 1813, Selecia in 1819, Bulgaria in 1828-29, Egypt in 1844, among the Arabs of North Africa in 1857, Mesopo- tamia in 1857, and in Persian Kurdistan in 1871 The plague is now looked wupon as a zymotic disease, dependent upon poi- sonous atmospheric conditions. The germs of the plague gain access to the blood, rapidly multiply and destroy its nutritive elements. In malignity and nature it is not unlike tynhus fever. Its propagation is said to occur by direct or indirect contagion, and is greatly assisted by overcrowding, uncleanliness and residence in damp, marshy coun- tries. After exposure to the disease there is a latency of from two to seven days, then four stages of the disease follow in rapid succession. As termed by the scientists who have made laborious in- vestigations, the first stage is called invasion, the second fever, the third local phlegmons, and last collapse or convalescence. Lassitude and en- feeblement of mind and body are precedent symptoms; shivering, head- ache, vertigo, vomiting, hirh fever, great prostration and sometimes un- consciousness, tell of its definite onset. Enlargement of lymphatic glands and carbuncles mark the advance of the disease, and then, in the fatal cases, and they are in the large majority, purple spots and black discolorations mottle the skin. Hemorrhage into the lungs and from the lungs is another complication and was a frequent symptom of “the black death” in the Middle Ages. William Perner states that “its duration is from two to ten days and convalescence is slow. It is prevented by hygienic measures and public quarantine, but its treatment, beyond general measures of stimulation , and nutritive support, avalls little.” Such is the history of ‘‘the black death.” A ship infected with its germ of death has reached our shores, but the prompt measures of the health au- thorities will stamp it out and turn away the danger of its dread results.