The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1899, Page 1

The Call VOLUME LXXXV-— AN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY '9, 1899, MILLER BELIEVED T0 HAVE ATTACKED NATIVES AT ILOILO General (s Has Sent the First Tennessee Regiment fo Help Him, AGUINALDO NOW SUES FOR PEACE It Will Be Granted Him Only on Condition That| the Rehels Lay Down Their Arms, and Make Complet ¢ Submission. MANILA, Feb. 9.—The First Tennessce Infantry has been sen Paul to reinforce General Miller at lloilo. is judged from this th t on the transport St. It cre has been a deter- mined effort on the part of the Americans to land and take the city. MANILA, Feb. 9.—The Fili- pinos at Caloocan opened fire last evening just before midnight upon the Kansas outposts on the extreme left of the American line. They maintained a fusillade of musketry, supplemented by an occasional shot from two big| guns, for about twenty minutes. | I'he' Americans did not reply, MANILA, Feb. 8.—Last evening, as the Filipinos at Ca- loogan were evidently massing | for night attack upon the American left wing, the Twenti- | eth Kansas Infantry was ordered | to attack and drive the sharp- shooters from a bamboo jungle in front of the firing line, where | they had caused considerable an- noyance all the afternoon. The| battalion charged brilliantly, driving the enemy like chaff and | penetrating to the very heart of Caloocan. First Lieutenant A. C. Alford, | as cabled last night, was killed | while leading his company. He was shot in the forehead. | ergeant Jay Sheldon, Com-| r I, was seriously wounded. | ivates Daniel Healitt, Ern-| ritz, John Gillilan and two | members of Company B also slightly wounded. | ty dead Filipinos were| counted in the brush, and there | were many more injured. The| gunboats Concord and Callao kept up an incessant fire from the bay, the Concord dropping many shells into the town with telling effect. In order to avoid acci- dents from this source, General Otis was compelled to recall the Kansas battalion, after burning the outskirts of the town. Either the shells of the American war- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOO = other were ships or the natives themselves buildings | fired a number of HO+0+0404040 4040404 040+0+04040404040+ 04040404040+ KANSAS TROOPS ROUT T followjng dispatch: countering no decided opposition. turning to villages displaying white tout of enemy with heavy loss. killed, six men wounded. On the 4th Aguinaldo issued flyi with initiative and declared war. to resist foreign invasion. declined to answer. troops, will defeat every attempt. respectful and cheerful reyelation to all inhabitants. HO+O0+ 0+ 04 0404040404040+ 04040404040 WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The War Department to-day received the MANILA, Feb. 8.—The situation is rapidly improving. ance yesterday to south several miles to Lagunaz eight miles, driving straggling insurgent troops in various directions, en- Army disintegrated, and natives re- north, the enemy made a stand behind entrenchments; Kansas troops, led by Colonel Funston. Loss Sunday he issue another calling all His influence throughout this section de- stroyed, now applies for a cessation of hostilities and conference. Have Insurgents’ expectation of rising in city on night of 4th unrealized. Provost Marshal General, with admirable disposition of City quiet, business resumed, natives Fighting qualities of American troops are a +OH0+0+0404040 + 0 +0+040+00 0+0+0+0404+0 40 +0+0+0+0+0+) 000C00000000000000 FILIPINOS PREPARING T0 RESIST VICTORIA, B. C., Feb, 8.— According to mall advices brought by the steamship Empress of China the Filipinos were making every preparation when she left the Orient to fight the Americans at Iloilo. Armed natives were pouring into the town in a steady stream and schooners crowded With men were daily entering the river. They were not being interrupted when the liner left. A sensation was caused among the fleet on January 12 by a report that the Spanish gunboat El Cano had landed 3000 stand of arms for the rebels. Day and night the Filipinos continued to prepare for lively resistance and every hour of the day was made to count in throwing up works and barri- cading the streets. Kerosene has been placed in the Govern- ment buildings, churches and principal houses, and it was threatened that if the Fili- pinos met defeat they would be burned. Although there were only about 2500 Filipino soldiers in Iloflo there were at least 30,000 natives in the suburbs awaiting the call to arms. Ten thousand of these were Montanos, armed ‘With spears and knives, and the others were mixed tribes from Negros Island. The natives were enthusiastic at the idea of taking the city. A large number of houses were display- ing flags bearing the inscrip- tion “Independence or Death.” o o (] o (] [} [ © (] © o 0000000000000000CCO Q000000000000 000000000020N0000000000000000000000 | Southern and Western Railway, sixty- TERRIBLE CRIMES ARE COMMITTED AT GATTON, AUSTRALIA Murder of a Young Man and His Two Sisters and the Most Fiendish Mutilation of Theirflf’Bodies. BRISBANE, Queensland (Australia), | Jan. 16.—One of the most mysterious and horrible crimes of the century, in | any part of the world, when all its| ghastly features of outrage, mutilated | bodies, unspeakable acts and the mur- der of the victims are considered, was | committed on the night of Christmas in | one of the most highly civilized colonies | of Australasia. The criminals have not | as yet been apprehended. It was a tri- ple murder, and the victims were a brother and two sisters. The scene of the crime was within a short distance of the quiet little town- ship of Gatton, a farming center on the | one miles from Brisbane, the capital of the colony of Queensland. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy are of a horrible nature. It ap- pears that the victims—Michael Mur- phy, aged twenty-nine years, and his two sisters, Nora and Ellen, aged twen- ty-seven and eighteen years respective- ly, left their home, situated on Black- fellows Creek, about seven miles from Gatton, early in the evening of Christ- mas Monday to attend a dance that had been arranged for in the township. Upon reaching Gatton it was found that on account of the promoters being unable to procure musicians, the func- tion had lapsed. THE THREE VICTIMS ’ o < ‘o' i\ o) ! (AN I o FANNNNEL Yo it o A [ ° N2 < o < ° o : ; ° o ° 0 ° K 5 2 o o NORE MURPHY. After remaining in Gatton for some little time, chatting with friends, the three started for home again in their dogcart. About a mile and a half from | the township they passed the local ser- geant of police. At that time they were on a standstil’ -eaking to their broth- er, who was on his way home to the agricultural college. The young people, however, did not reach their home, and on the following morning, the parents becoming alarmed, one of the brothers- in-law was sent to town to make in- quiries. ‘When about three mles from Gatton | the brother-in-law noticed the traeks of a vehicle leading in through slip- | rails to an eighty-acre paddock or field. | the English colonies permit. | dock, which is heavily timbered, is an BY J. MARTIN MILLER. Special Correspondence of The Call. thing for a vehicle to enter the paddock, he carefully examined the tracks, with the result that he came to the conclu-| sion that they had been made by.the trap in which the young people had been riding. Following the tracks for about half a mile, he made a ghastly and sickening discovery. On the side of a spur, thinly timbered and dry-look- ing, he found the dead bodies “of the three young people who had left their home the previous evening, all’in good health and spirits. The spectacle that the -corpses pre- sented was a horrible one.' All'three had their skulls broken in. Nora, who was found lying on a rug just at the | foot of ‘a large gum tree, had a hames’ strap tled tightly around her -throat, and as .a result of blows across the head portions of her brains were pro- truding. Subsequent' .examination showed that the lower portion of the OF THE AUSTRALIAN MICHAEL MURPHY. body was badly scratched and bruised, suggesting that a severe struggle had ensued between the girl and her mur- derer or murderers. - Further evidence pointing to the same fact was found in the condition of her clothes. which were badly torn and pulled about. The bodies of Michael and the younger sister were lying together some six or seven yards away from that of Nora. Michael and Ellen were found lying back to back, but Nora was lying face downward. Both girls had their hands tied behind their backs with handkerchiefs. The horse, with a bullet wound in its head, was lying dead between the shafts of the dogeart. The matter was reported to the police, and the bodies were subsequently taken to Gatton. The new of the tragedy spread like wildfire through the sur- rounding country, and during the day large numbers visited the paddock in which the bodles were discovered. Had the police taken proper steps, however, this would not have been allowed, and the officers are as harshly criticized by the colonial press as the law of libel in The pad- excellent one for tracking purposes, the | soil being fairly soft, and the ground | well covered with small sticks and dry leaves. The traffic which has been al- lowed through the paddock, however, has, to' a large extent, obliterated the R (two -days always being observed in these colonies for Christmas), it was some time before the news reached Brisbane. The first news that had reached Brisbane, however, was a tele- gram received about 1 ‘o’'clock in the afternoon by Constable Murphy, a brother of the victims. At first, Con- stable Murphy could®not credit the’ JACK THE RIPPER. ELLEN MURPHY. readful news, but having the report substantiated by anotheér telegram, he at once obtained leave and left-for Gat- ton. b . # e e The Government Criminal Investiga- tion Branch at.once took up the case. "On Tuesday the ' government medical officer went to the scene and made a post-mortem examination of the bodies. He found that the brother had his skull broken, ‘and that Nora and Ellen had been treated in a similar manner. Nora, in addition, was found to have an in- cised wound on the outside of the right eye and several scratches on her face. The medical exanfination showed fur- ther that both of the girls had been most cruelly outraged prior to death and all of the bodies mutilated in a manner that is unprintable, indicating a fiendishness unheard of before in any part of the civilized or uncivilized world. On Wednesday morning Paddy Per- kins, '‘a famous black-tracker (native black), with another blackfellow, ar- rived here, and left almost immediately for the scene of the tragedy. At day- light the same morning the police in- spector and several other officers pro- ceeded to the scene of the murders and made a thorough search. Nothing was found save a small handkerchief, which it is supposed belonged to one of the murdered girls. The leaves and sticks in the vicinity of where the bodies were discovered were found to be very little disturbed. As the result of inquiries made by the police, it was ascertained that a farmer living a mile from the field in which the bodies were discovered heard a sharp decisive report about 9:30 o’clock in the evening of Christ- mas Monday, and another person liv- ing near heard several screams about the same time. A farmer residing about three miles out of Gatton also tracks left by’the murderers. Knowing that it was a most unusual Owing to Tuesday being a holiday Continued on Fourth Page. PRICE FIVE CENTS. - |SIGNS OF A BREAK IN THE DEADLOCK EARLY NEXT WEEK Burns and Grant Are Expected to Give Up the Fight as Useless. GEN. BARNES’ FRIENDS ARE JUBILANT Timothy Guy Phelps and Van R. Paterson Are Ready to Receive the Honor if the Stam- pede Should Be Headed Their Way. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, Feb. 8.—U. S. Grant can- not win this Senatorial battle, neither can D. M. Burns. It is not possible for either candidate to advance more than one or two steps if, indeed, any ad- vance whatever can be made. A Re- publican Senator can be elected when both agree to retire. The expression of this sentiment comes from every section of California. Irving M. Scott, who has been here several times and made a thorough study of the situation, has about concluded that he cannot break the deadlock, and he {s not sure that if the lock were broken that the scattered forces would come to him in any considerable numbers. Taking this view of the outlook, he may de- cide to give no further consideration to the Senatoyship. Influences 'have been brought to bear to bring Van R. Paterson into the fleld again. Word is given out that he would be able to enlist the support of several | Democratic ‘members of the Legisla- ture, provided the Republicahs would bring him somewhat near the winning mark. There is.a story in circulation to-night to the effect that Senator Tay- lor of Alameda and Assemblyman La Baree sympathize with the aspirations of Mr. Paterson and. would be among the first to accord him their support provided he should consent to re-enter the race. Indications to-night point to a break in the deadlock early next week. Grant comprehends that he cannot win the Senatorship this trip, and would con- | sent to the support of some Republican other than D. M. Burns. The Grant forces, however, will remain firm as long as Burns is in the field. The “‘colonel” is said to be willing to con- cede anything for the election of a United States Senator except the elec- tion of Grant. The failure of the Grant-Perking scheme, to bring Senators Stratton and Taylor and Assemblyman Knowland into line, has proved a great disap- pointment to the friends of the San Diego candidate. Moreover, the Ala- meda legislators are incensed at the re- peated suggestion that they could be managed and shifted by the plots and tricks of politicians. Senator Stratton resents the assertion of the Grant boomers that he is ready to desert the standard of General Barnes. Colonel John P. Jackson, Collector of the Port of San Francisco, arrived to- night and immediately sought the apartments of Grant In the Golden Eagle Hotel. He was promptly ushered to the sick room of Milton Green. Jackson and Green did politics for Sen- ator Perkins two years ago. The for- mer received the fat position of Col- lector of the Port, and to the latter de- scended the doubtful honor and heavy burden of managing the campaign of U. S. Grant for the Senatorship. Syme pathy for Grant, or sympathy for both Green and Grant, calls the Collector to Sacramento. Before he is here twenty- four hours he will find that Green has & much better chance of going to jail lt:an Grant has of going to the Sen- ate. There is talk to-night that Green will go to jail, as he has made up his mind that he will not answer the questions propounded to him. The intimation is broadly thrown out that such an ac- counting of the disbursement of money as Green could give to the Assembly under oath would not conform to the accounting made to his principal who supplied the money. The sum of $30, was mentioned in the testimony having been disbursed for Grant in the various legislative districts of Califor- nia, but aside from the amount paid to Jilson and Wright, very little is known as to the disbursement. If the San Diego bank managers were called and.compeliéd to*produce the accounts kept with Grant the expenditure of the remaining $28,000 might be traced. The theory is gaining strength that Green is recaleitrant for his own protection rather than for the protection of Grant. In anticipation of a break from Grant and Burns there is talk to-night that Timothy Guy Phelps of San Mateo and Judge Van R. Paterson of San Fran- cisco will have rods in position to catch the lightning. Charles M. Leavy, for- merly of the Custom House of the me- tropolis, is said to be the advance agent of Mr. Phelps. He is here taking observations of the situation. Paterson was voted for early in the contest and was therefore once recognized as a Senatorial possi- bility. It is the judgment of many onlookers to-night that General Barnes’ prospects were never brighter than they are now. To-day and yesterday he received many assvrances of support to be given when the lines of the contest are re- adjusted. Many members of the Legislature are making arrangements to leave Sacra- mento immediately after the joint bal- lot next Friday and remain away until Monday next. Several comittees have planned 'to visit State institutions south of Tehachapi. A pressure is exerted this evening to induce Ilegislators, to postpone. long-distance journeys until the deadlock is broken. There is a gen- eral feeling that important events are impending and that the break from Grant and Burns may come suddenly. It is the desire of all the candidates that their friends should be on the scene of action when the events occur. This evening the signs point to a con- tinuation of the deadlock throughout the present week, yet the members who are planning to leave here next Friday will want positive assurance before leaving that nothing will be done to disturb the existing situation while they are absent. The statement accredited to Burns that he would not stand in the way of within the towns. Probably this was the result of the shelling. No | further attack was made during | the night. The Spanish papers generally | comment in favorable terms upon | the admirable order maintained in Manila. The Union Iberia says: “We are satisfied that the Americans, Continued on Third Page. HE ENEMY Reconnois- Bay, to southeast flags. 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