The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1899, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1899. MINISTER CONGER MAY MAKE PROTEST Instructed to P Rights in En rotect @merican croachments at Shanghai. NEW YORK, Herald telegraphs: dwin H. Conger, March 26. Instructio nghat, advantage While that may be ac ave not bee t u nt has rece ha pon d infc ty h stration bel: end the A watch the the British and German 'Mi a like demand by the Ar i It is untrue that the U C+O404+T404 040+ 0 +0404040+0+H Fr {mmediately the rear of th croached upon. 3 ¢ ¢ BAOOH0+ G40+ O+ O+0+OHT+0+0 +0+0+5+ 040+ 0040404040+ The Washington have just been sent by Secretary Hay ited States Minister at Peking, directing him st against any encroachments upon the American concession at nd to demand for the United States the same privileres or rded to any other able to ascertain that the adm*® the American e taken steps Jooking to tt 1ts at Shanghai, and as the American conces- yroposed to permit them to obtain possesston should in case of the extension of the erican boundaries. tion, and a epresents ited States Minister is acting jointly with the tish and German rep ives in seeking an extension of the for- ottlements at Shanghal. reported some days ago from Peking. he United States “Iinister will not zct with these diplomats in this question. Tt thorties understand that the French Minister has withdrawn ti otest made b~ the French Consul at Shanghai against the British man demands. the understanding Leing that the land nch concession correspondent of the .ation. *-tration fears settiement, 1 unde.stand the ormation showing that the English extension of grown equally with the British s that it is only due to the United ncessions of Minister Conger will, greement to demands of will be followed by the submission of ives. shall not be en- BO+O4O40+ D +04 O+040404 O+ 04+ 04040404040+ M but it ficers and men in the Philippines, s late in the afternoon befo was received. DMuch regret pressed at the death ¢ the only r Killed. He 3 tinguished thems ing wounded at ted for icuous st of casualties has ar Department: Adjutant Gen- March 24, KILLED. Kansas—Company P Curran C. Cra Twentieth Privates F. S Cempany G, A. S al. Third Arti tery H, vates William Patton, James O Sergeant Fogarty; Ba L, Priv Herbert R Batte Thom; Clarence Wat Second Oregon—Company R, Pri- vates F. B. Adams; Company D, Will fam W. C. c v L, Charles Her- bert, Guy ard First Montana—C, vatesJoseph Pri- Bick vage ; Tenth Pennsyl Newall st Nebrasga—Con geant Walter P« First Colorado—Company E, Cap- tain John S. Stewart Twenty-second Infantry — Colo: P. C. E Aliz A, WOUN. Tenth Pennsylvania—Company C, | 4 >. Walke back, se- Morgan, { D, Pri- vates Thomas Ric : , severe; Company James McCreary, chest, slight; James Enright, ct slight; John C nec dward McWras ght; Corporal ight; Compa ny chest, s any C, rm, slight; h, severe; wn, is P g, I, Edward J. I groin, Third Infantry—Cor E, Pri- vpte M. O'Mally, fore ight; | Privates Ch: clavicle, slight; Robert rmforth, side, slight; Charles Te ; William G. Sche th vere; George R. Owe sé Seventeenth Infantry—Company M, Captain C. D. Cl light. Hospital Corps—P: es Gordon A. Peel, chest and hesz severe; Peter, West, jaw, seve : J. Owen. chest and should Fourth Infantry—Com vates James O'Nei man Bleeker, thig nfantry—Company L. Jackson, Miller, chest, seve se « H, Al L, Merton Henrick Edward P. Lan.c Lewis T. face, , leg, severe; moderate; First .South Dakota—C, “Private W. E. Brown, forearm. Twentieth Kansas—Company A, “Privates Frank Stewart, scalp, C, Thaddeus Wilgant, thigh, D, George Nicholas, thorax, s George H. Cr thigh, severe; Jc seph H. Heflin, leg, se Andrew Evans, neck, moderate; Corporal J. ¥ Bryant, elbow, slight; G, Private Or- ville Parker, shoulder and arm, H, Captain Adna G. CI severe; Privates Edward® R. ghoulder ,and neck, slight; I, William “Tull, tibia, severe. First Nebraska—Company A, Pri vate Harry Sherman, jaws, severe Roscoe C. Ozman, forearm, moderat Pears’ What a luxury Pears’ soap is! The cheapest soap in all the world be- . | Font, elbow, s | Sanders., neck and arm, severe; [ G, Ward S. Roberts, head, slight; C. E. Young, hand, severe; Captain Lee For- by, abdomen, severe; K, Private Otis ight; L, William J. Keop- elbow, moderate; David O. Bar- thigh, moderate; ward A. Peg- an, forearm, moderate; Clarence A. forearm and thigh, severe; Ward Crawford, hip, severe; Robert B. “her, hand, slight; Captain Wallace Taylor, forearm, moderate; M, Pri- ight. D, Ser- | C. | vate John E. Robinson, hand, sl \ Second Oregon—Company | geant Lee A. Morelock, foot, sever D, Corporal A. Roberts, sprain ankle; B, Private William J. Armitage, arm, severe; C, Elmer Roberts. chest. severe; B, C. Chandier, jaw. severe; George E. Snodgrass, thigh. moderate; Erwin Crawford, scalp, moderate: Earl Mount, shoulder, slight; D, First Ser- | geant J. West, knee and hand. severe; Corporal William E. Searcy. | groin, severe; E, Private John Davis. shoulder, severe; George Snyder, chest, e ; Jacob Smith, forehead, slight: tenant A. Brazee, forearm, Privates Charles Ruder. evere; (. George Spicer, Albert Wordan, leg. Eichamar, chest, amson, arm, moderate; arcy, back, severe: H, Frank H. Thompson. face, Corporal Rudolph Canten- , leg, moderate; K, Private Roy Lantrim, thigh, slight; John Janzen. severe; Emmet L. Jones, back, William F. Schwartz. knee, L, John Bailey, hand and rm. ; William Allen, thigh, severe; nders, thigh slight: Guy N. B. F. Bunseph, foot, slight; M, Corporal B. F\, Burnett, shoulder, severe: Leon G. Holland, chest, severe; Private C. D. Cooper, foot, severe; John Bloszer. | head and side, severe; Albert J. Califf, forearm, severe; A, Williara Ungerman, thigh and scrotum, severe; D, J. C. Headlees, arm, Third United States Artillery— Company G, Second Lieutenant W. S. Overton, thigh, moderate; Privates W. | L. Duplisser, shoulder, slight; A. W. Linter, chest, severe;' Thomas Lynch, | arm, severe; H, Corporal Timothy Fitz- patric] thigh, slight; Privates Chauncy Tush, thigh, severe; Julius Bubhlert, leg, slight; William Patton, abdomen, severe; K, David G. Sulli- van, thumb, severe; Maurice Reynolds, thigh, moderate; Patrick Conney, | stomach, slight; Alfred Harlow. arm, | moderate; Jules Kuezter, leg, slight; Sergeant Earl Fisher, thigh, severe: | Fred Clark, head, severe; Private Jo- seph J. Molz, armpit, moderate; L. E. A. Stockton, shoulder, slight; Herman | J. Werner. thigh and thumb, severe: Otlie Miller, stomach, slight: Herbert ‘W. Ogilbie, foot, slight; Oscar Gustaf- | son, foot. moderate; James Barrett, | tibia severe; Sergeants Frank A. | rnsberger, thigh, severe; Hubert A. i.\l('!(cnz , fineer, severe; Corporal Thomas A. Galvin. F Fourth United States Cavalry— ergeant Alex B. David- Te; Sergeant Charles Hy- Privates Leroy Drum- s | Troop E, Fi son, side, s | att, jaw, sever | hand, thigh, seve ere; Willlam Ty h Rowe, chest, ad, severe; | Charles Rice, face, serious; Samuel H. | Evans, leg, slight; Troop L, Ferrier | Rankin Nebinger, leg, severe; Troop K, | Private John Gotter, neck, slight. First Washington Infantry—Com- pany B, Captain George B. Forsten, mortal; Quartermaster Sergeant Wil- liam B. Covington, thigh, severe; Pri- vates Reginald S. Patterson, thigh, slight: William B. Courtney, probably mortal; Frank Penny, arm and chest, severe; Oliver D. Ward, thumb, slight; Company K, Willlam H. Hinchcliffe, hand, slight. Utah Light Artillery—Company B, Corporal Harry L. Souther, thigh, mod- Tuf erate; Private Parker Hall, thigh, ‘se- vere. First Colorado—Company A, Pri- vates Edwin Eppitts, breast, severe; M, Malcomb H. McCoe, abdomen, se- |'vere; Charles J. Brill, thigh, severe; | Company E, Merton W. Essholm, thigh, slight. ; Thirteenth Minnesota — Company | A, Privates Andrew Mortenson, foot and ankle, severe; Company I, Fred Eckman, thigh, severe; Leonard Porter, groin, severe; Sergeant Edward Mein- ness, hand, slight; Company K, Pri- vates John 'T. Wheeler, abdomen, se- vere; James C. McGee, thumb, slight; Corporals John Connelly, A thigh, se- vere; Company L, Harry ‘M. Glosser, abdomen, severe; Privates Avery Grimes, jaw, severe; Company M, Paul- iness Huhn, chest, severe. OTIS. e i b UNDER FIRE WITH ' GENERAL WHEATON MANILA, March 26, 7:30 p. m.—Presi- dent Schurman of the Philippines Com- miesion, and Mr. McArthur, United States Secretary, were under fire to- L'day with General Wheaton. ROUTED FILIPINOS HAVE FIRED MALABON. the Twentieth Kansas Regiment, joined General Wheaton's bri- gade shortly after Malinta was taken, approaching along the Novalrehs road. westerly. The soldiers were much® ex- hausted and there were several prostrations from the heat, which was intense. ~The dead and wounded were collected. in .the shade of the trees and “carried on stretchers by Chinese"across the river to tlie train. After luncheon General Mac- Arthur’s division advanced to- ward Polo. The Second Oregon Regiment encountered 1000 Filipinos west of Malinta, who were retreating from Malabon. The enemy had taken up a position behind four rows of intrenchments, but was | driven out after an hour’s heavy | firing. One Oregonian was kill- | ed and five were wounded. The Third Artillery, acting as infantry, with two guns of the Utah ‘Artillery, and the Kansans had a sharp fight east of Malinta. The Americans had but slight losses. Five Filipinos were found dead and several were taken pris- oners. General MacArthur'’s di- vision is advancing upon Polo along the railroad. As the bridge is destroyed and the river cannot be forded, the advance is tem- porarily checked to-night. In the fighting west of Malinta the Oregonians captured a Span- jard, but he denied that he was taking part in the battle. \ The surgeons from the fleet and the British cruiser Powerful volunteered their assistance and were indefatigable in their serv- ices at the front. TR POLO FOUND BURNING AND DESERTED MANTLA, March 27, 11:35 a. m.—The Americans this morning found the im- portant town of Polo and a number of small villages west of the railroad de- serted and burning. They are advanc- ing along the railroad. To-day the Washington Volunteers, who held Pasig vesterday, had an en- gagement with a band of insurgents who drove in their outposts. In the fight the Filipinos lost several men. GUNBOATS SHELL MALABON AND VICINITY MANILA, March 27, 7:40 a. m.—The Helena and the army gunboats shelled Malabon and the country beyond, while the Monadnock focussed all its bat- teries upon Paranaque for two hours for the purpose of destroying the mili- tary stores there. A great smoke was caused, but as the insurgents are in possession of the town the results of the shelling are not obtainable. The evacuation of Malabon was a picturesque rout. Thousands of men, women and children, loaded down with household goods, some with their dear- est treasures—fighting cocks—under their arms, poured across the swamps in the early morning. An exploded caisson at the railroad bridge proved a bar to the Americans. Ten soldiers of the Oregon regiment, while searching for two of those killed earlier in the fighting, sneaked into the city in the morning and found the place in a condition of chaos. The inhabi- tants, seeeing them, fled in a panic, thinking the American forces were in possession. The Oregonians shot several armed natives and then returned to camp. The American forces did not occupy Malabon, but are concentrating their strength to strike Malolos. Malabon is a city of desolation. The American sol- diers have been forbidden to enter the place for fear that natives may be lurking there. STEADY ADVANCE OF OUR SOLDIERS MANILA, March 27, 7:40 a. m.—The Americans have advanced along the line of the Dagupan Railroad, driving the Filipinos from Malinta and New Canayan, where there were 3000 inhab- itants. Last night the brigade of Gen- eral Harrison G. Otis and General Hale encamped in the enemy's trenches at New Canayan, and that of General Wheaton at Malinta. General Wheaton’s brigade formed a junction with the remainder of General MacArthur’'s division at Malinta, and the latter, leaving General Wheaton there, marched along the railroad to New Canayan. This place was forti- fied, and for 300 yards from it there were trenches on each side of the track. These were taken possession of by the American troops. The movement of the Americans will be pushd in this di- rection. The Filipinos, realizing that the rail- road is the crucial line, have construct- ed row after row of trenches running diagonally on both sides of the track a few hundred yards apart. This work was designed most intelligently, and has evidently been done under the direction of experts. It represnts an enormous amount of labor. Most of the rebel positions are protected by thick earthworks, a majority of them topped with stones and provided with loopholes. Some have sheet-iron roofs. The day’'s work of the United States troops consisted of storming the suc- cessive trenches. The Filipinos occu- pying them were completely hidden. The enemy poured a strong fire from every trench until they were disturbed by a flanking volley, when they would Continued From First Page. small, seven being reported killed and seventeen wounded. It is known the Filipinos were so protected that they suffered little. No, dead insurgents were found in the trenches. Forty prisoners were taken by the Americans and ft,is estimated that the rebel casu- alties numbered twenty. = {The Insurgents broke their guns when ‘they .were compelled to abandon them. e, HARDEST FIGHTING . IS YET TO COME " NEW YORK, March 26.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs: The crushing of Aguin- aldo’s northern army is a more difficult task than the authorities here had an- ticipated. Advices from General Otis to-day make it clear to *~ em that con- siderable more fighting must be done before the supremacy of the United States is firmly established in the archipelaga. “As far as the operations of the last twenty-four hours are concerned the situation is as satisfactory as could be expected in view of the great difficul- ties epncountered,” Adjutant General Corbin remarked to-night. The latest dispatch brought the most favorable news of the day. It showed that General McArthur has succeeded in getting north of Polo, though not by the route that had been desired. Thus it appears that while General Mac- Arthur has not been able to cut Aguin- aldo’s army in two, there has been a distinct advance by the American troops and the enemy is being driven northward. Other advices, however, indicate that the hardest fighting is yet to come. The intrenchments which the insurgents have been building for months are re- ported to be much stronger between Polo and Malolos than anticipated. General Otls indicates by his dis- patches that the line of the railway will be followed in further movements to- ward Malolos. With the aid of small gunboats which will be able to navi- gate some of the small rivers and inlets the military experts here do not doubt the ability of the American forces to steadily advance along the route of the railway to Aguinaldo’s headquarters. The news that the railway is to be re- paired to the advance point held by General MacArthur by to-morrow is regarded of the utmost importance, as it will enable General Otis to forward supplies promptly and send forward re- enforcements if necessary. An important phase of the offictal dispatches received to-day is the state- ment that the best of Aguinaldo’s forces are composed of released prison- ers of war of former native Spanish troops. General Corbin told me to- night that he understood that all the Spanish prisoners of war had been re- leased by Aguinaldo, including Catholic P! ts. If this is true it relieves the United States from a rather embarrass- ing problem. . ‘While late advices from Otis give an encouraging aspect to the situation, the authorities jappreciate that the war may be protonged, and it is the pur- pose of the War. Department to hurry more troops to the assistance of Otis as rapidly as possible. About . 19,000 troops have been under orders for some days to prepare for service in the Phil- ippines. There are at present 29,500 men in the Philippines and about5000 en route, some of which will reach Manila on the Sheridan to-morrow or next day. WASHINGTON, March 26.—General Otis' dispatches received at 10 o'clock to-night .recording MacArthur's ad- vance to New Canayan marked a di- rect and important step by the Ameri- can troops in the opinion of Acting Secretary Meiklejohn and Adjutant General Corbin. Both expressed thelr satisfaction at what had been accom- plished. The former dispatch regarding this branch of the operations had not been so promising, inasmuch as they Had stated that General MacArthur, though he had riven the enemy, could not gain a point north of Polo on ac- count of the roughness of the country. With easy railroad communication to the advanced point, the difficulty in forwarding commissary supplies will be considerably lessened. Every step for- ward is regarded as so much ground gained, and an approach nearer the in- surgents’ headquarters at Malolos, now stated to be but fifteen miles from the vanguard of the American army. The tenacity of the Filipinos in the past few days’ fighting has somewhat surprised the war officials here, who did not think them capable of putting up and maintaining the contest they have. The Associated Press bulletin dated at 9:15 the morning of the 27th was the first news of Monday's fighting received by the War Department offi- cials, General Otis’ dispatch up to that time having been confined to the pre- vious day’s operations. The fact that the insurgents had been forced to re- tire from Malabon so early in the day was regarded as very encouraging, and Acting Secretary Meiklejohn remarked, “That is good; very favorable, indeed.” Secretary Long :said to-night that nothing had come from Admiral Dewey during the day respecting the American operations at Manila. Word is hourly expected at the War Department of the arrival of the trans- port Sheridan at Manila, with 1900 re- inforcements for General Otis. This will be a formidable addition to his fighting strength. They include one full regiment and headquarters and one battalion of another, and if the experi- ence of those taken aboard the Grant and Sheridan is repedted they will be in fighting trim as soon as they land and ready to be pushed immediately to the front. Six regiments of infantry and artillery, comprising . approxi- mately 8000 men, one regiment of which sailed from San Francisco vesterday, are under - orders or Manila. Their movement wiil be pushed as rapidly as possible with a view to the reinforcement of General Otis at the earliest day practicable. ENGLISH ADMIRATION OF BRAVE AMERICANS LONDON, March 26.—The Philippine campaign of late had rather lost inter- est for British readers, but to-day there is an entire change. All the dispatch- es are printed . prominently and at length. Most of the papers contain edi- torials expressing admiration for the bravery .of the American troops and sympathy for them in the - difficulties disappear into the woods and jungle, only to make a stand at the next line. The American loss was remarkably they have encountered. The general opinion is that the American victories are not conclusive, since the Filipinos - have not yet learned the lesson of the | hopelessness of resisting the United States. The Standard says: “The Americans are fighting the rebels with a dash and vigor that are in marked contrast to the faltering blows aimed at them by the Spanish generals. Englishmen will read with sympathy of the successive charges of the American infantry across the open iu the face of a heavy fire. Work such as this has had to be done times without number in the course of our own empire-making.” The Daily Telegraph says: “All the accounts show that the Americans will have to bear their full share of the ‘White Man’s Burden.” The experience that the United States is gathering to- day is that of every power which has sought to found an empire beyond its own shores.” The Daily News says: ‘“The ultimate result can hardly be doubted, but stra- tegically Manila is still threatened.” DRAFTING CONSTITUTION FOR NEGROS ISLAND Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- don Bennett. ILOILO, March 26.—The transport Indian hag arrived here with rein- forcements for Negros Island, where the situation is still satisfactory. The rising of the hill tribes was of no polit- ical significance. A committee of natives, with Colonel Smith, the American Governor, presid- ing, proceeded with the work of draft- ing a constitution, taking the Ameri- can constitution as a basis for the document. It has been formally pro- posed to raise the island’s revenue en- tirely from exports instead of the pres- ent method of levying upon land values and personal property, thus releving the laboring classes as far as possible. The natives desire the immediate in- ‘troduction of the English system of education. Deputies for the island of Negros will meet on April 3 to discuss the draft of the constitution. - The climate here is more favorable than at Manila. The percentage of illness among the troops is small. General Miller will relinquish com- mand at Iloilo to —orrow. Coclonel David D. Van Valzah will be in com- mand until the arrival of General Hughes. - CAREER OF -CAPTAIN M. G. KRAYENBUHL WASHINGTON, March 26.—Captain M. G. Krayenbuhl, mortally wounded at Manila, was born in and appointed to the military academy from Minne- sota. He was the honor graduate of the artillery school of 1896 and his last assignment in the regular establish- ment was as first lleutenant in the Third Artillery. On the 7th of last De- cember he accepted the position of a captain in the subsistence department in the volunteer army. Captain Kray- enbuhl was married. AGUINALDO PRETENDS TO WIN GREAT VICTORIES MANILA, March 23 (via Hongkong March 26).—Insurgent papers received here from Malolos show that Aguinaldo is endeavoring to deceive his followers into the belief that they are winning great victories. All the recent en- gagements are proclaimed as American defeats. The papers’describe the in- surgents meeting with the American forces at various points, and end their accounts . with the assertion that the Americans retired to their original lines after suffering great slaughter. e POLO TAKEN AFTER A HARD FIGHT Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1599, by James Gor- don Bennett. MANILA, March 27.—Polo was taken to-day after a hard fight. The advance continues and our troops are every- where successful. - MacArthur's " men are in the neighborhood of Meicauayvan ready to move in the morning. Our losses at the latest remort were 31 killed, 230 wounded since Saturday morning. e TO COMMAND THE CRUISER BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA, March 26.—Cap- tain James McQueen Forsythe, who has been recovering in the Naval Hos- pital here from a severe illness, re- ceived word to-day from Washington of his appointment to command the cruiser Baltimore, now in the Philip- pines. Captain Dyer was ordered home on account of Il health. TWELFTH NEW. YORK RETURNS FROM CUBA Given an Enthusiastic Welcome on Its Arrival at the American Metropolis. NEW YORK, March 26.—The home-com- ing of the Twelfth New York regiment, which arrived to-day from Matanzas, Cuba, on the transport Meade, was marked by great enthusiasm. There was so little sickness among the men that when the vessel reached quarantine, Col- onel R. W. Leonard, who was in com- mand, was able to report “All Well.” The Meade left Matanzas on March 22. She was in charge of Captain Wilson and had on board 43 officers and 94 men of the Twelfth Regiment and a number of cabin passengers, among them Paymaster General Carey, who went to Cuba with the for the Cuban army; Miss e $3,000 Carey, his daughter; Miss Rochester, Ma- jor R. L. Rogers of the Paymaster's De- Eartment. and wife; Captain Millis and leutenant Howell of the Engineer Corps, and the detail of twenty-two men who went to Cuba on the Meade to guard the money to pay the Cuban soldiers; and General Aveleno Rosas, a division com- mander in the Cuban army. Lieutenant Clausen of Company F of the Twelfth Rsslment, brought his wife with him. The bride is a Cuban and speaks only the Spanish' language. It is said that the Ls‘utenant cannot speak Spanish. They wete married about a week ago. The regiment landed at the White Star pler and_was met by a great. crowd of eople. It was followed by the veterans. he band struck up “‘Should - Auld Ac- quaintance Be Forgot.” The soldiers assed through Washington Park and up ifth avenue to the armory on Sixty-sec- ond street. The streets were crowded all along the route, and Mayor Van Wyck reviewed the regiment from a stand at Madison square. When the troops ap- reared the streets were hlgr.‘l(ed ani hrongs were on every side. dense el Embassador Harris at Vienna. VIENNA, March 2.—Addison C. Harrls, the new United Swates Embassador to Austria-Hungary, arrived here to-day. l t Botototod o 404040404040+ 3 5 % 15 2 + + By oL WHILE SOUND ASLEEP HE KILLS HIS WIFE Laboring Under a Nightmare, a Tacoma Physician Shoots at an Imaginary Assassin. was intent on killii * her. Y¥led by one. TACOMA, March 26.—Dr. Charles Corey shot and killed his wife this morning while the tw were lying asleep. Corey was ill, and his story of the affair is that he was the victim of a nightmare, believing his wife was being pursued by a stranger who In his dream Corey says he followed the two from Tacoma to Washington, and just as he fancied the ma to stab his wife he fired twice with his revolver. start to find himself sitting in bed with a smoking revolver in his hand. His wife lay beside him, shot twice through the head. Corey had drawn his revolver from its place under his pillow and killed his wife. The relations between Corey and his wife have been very affectionate and the authorities believe his story. and friends are watching him to prevent his suicide. Mrs. Corey was a leader in the social circles. revolver and frequently suggested a fear that she would some day be Corey was not arrested. +04HO+OFOOF O HOHOPOPOHOS OHOHO4I4O4I4 S $o 4 was about He awoke with a He is nearly craeed with grief. She was afrai of a Bo4040404 0404640404040 4m { ENDURANCE OF HIS HOLINESS Cheerful Under the Sur- geon’s Knife: RELIEVED OF THE TUMOR INCIDENTS OF THE IMPORTANT OPERATION. The Pope Refused Anesthetics, and ‘While the Doctors Worked He . Calmly Responded to a Bishop’s Prayer. Special Dispatch to The Call. D R O b e e + NEW YORK, March 26—A special cable to the Journal from Rome says: In an igterview Dr. Mazzoni said to-day the condi- tipn of the Pope was very sat- isfying. The Pontiff resumed his habitual daily work this morning and celebrated mass. + - P R R R R ROME, March 26.—“Doctor,” said Leo XIII to Lapponi when the latter informed him that it had been decided that an operation was necegsary, “‘you do wrong to separate two friends who have lived so closely together for thirty years.” The tumor was situated on the right | hip. A somewhat too extended walk in the garden under a hot sun had served to inflame it and arouse the fears of the doctor, who on the evening of Feb- ruary 27 simply said to his patient that he would operate on him the next day, receiving only the pleasing response from his Holiness that he knew it. Lapponi went down to the French Sisters of Saint Martha and ordered that they carry up to the apartments of the Pape for 8 o’clock the next morn- ing the operating board and the fold- | ing bed that haad been used recently for | the operation on Cardinal Svampa. Sis- ter Therese, who had just returned the same day from Naples, did not even at- tempt to make any inquiries, as it would have been useless In the face of the mysterious bearing of the doctor, but she immediately concluded that a serious affair would take place on the morrow in the Pope’s rooms. She was convinced of it when, as she accompa- nied the needed articles to the ante- chamber, she heard one of the Pope's secretaries say to her: “Offer your holy communion this morning for the wel- fare of the Holy Father, for he will have much need of your prayers.” When 8 o'clock sounded Dr. Lapponi brought the Surgeon Mazzoni to the apartments of the Pope. Leo still slept quietly, and they decided to wait until he waked, in the meantime preparing the operating instruments and the bed. Three-quarters of an hour later the Holy Father awoke and permitted the visitors to enter. “Holy Father,” said Lapponi to him, “we are ready.” “So am 1,° replied Leo XIII. The Pope only asked him if he still be- lieved the operation to be necessary, and on Lapponi’s replying that it was, he turned to Mazzoni and said to him quietly: “Professor, g0 on! But per- mit me to request of you two things, the first, not to make me suffer too much, and the second, to work quick- ly, for 1 have much to do.” When the patient was installed on the board, at the will of the surgeon. he refused any kind of anesthetic which would make him sleep during the operation. After talking some moments with Bishop Pifferi, his confessor in ordi- nary, he asked that he would call his private secretary, Bishop Angeli. “Angeli! Are you there? You will say the mass ‘Pro infirmis’ in my pres- ence. Make an altar on the table and commune.” “But I have already said my mass this morning, Holy Father.” “Well, begin again.” “But I have broken my fast with a cup of milk.” “ relieve you of that. Say the mass for the sick, and now, gentlemen, pro- ceed.” Whiter than the vestment which he had put on the priest commenced the “in nomine Patris,” and the surgeon at the same time entered upon his work. To extract the tumor, as large as an orange, down to the roots of the fibers the scalpel had to ro with a deep cut and concentrically. A long sigh, imme- diately suppressed, by the sufferer an- nounced the commeéncemert of the work. And until the “elevation” one heard nothing but the pravers of the priest, to which the patient tried to re- sfiond. ‘When the little bell announced the consecration of the cup and of the wafer the suffering of the godly old man was greater than his fortitude and Leo began to complain. Long sighs, in- terrupted by sharp exclamations, camg from the operating board. where one saw but little between the cloths spong- ing the wound except blood. How did Mgr. Angeli finish this sor- rowful Jnass standing between the blood of the Christ which he conse- crated and the blood of his Vicar, which filled the chamber with a sharp odor, and thick stains? “T was ignorant of it,” said he after- ward, “and here is A mass unconsclous- 1y repeated, for which the congreation of rites can give me absolution.” b4 | Stantslaus Coun | or by matle The operation lasted three long quar- ters of an hour, when Dr. Magzonl, having bound up the gaping wound, an- nounced that all was happily finished. They lifted from the board the Pope, who had not lost his spirits for an in- stant, and carried him to his usual bed, Where, dozing off this time immediate- 1y, he slept a long sleep. He was ‘quite lively on awakening, and asked to see once more his pain- ful traveling companion, and promised to make on this tumor of which they had so harshly deprived him some Latin verses. He rested well during the five successive days, after which the doctors, enchanted with the condi- tion of the convalescent, issued no more bulletins of health, thenceforth useless for an old man who was per- fectly on his feet again. Too soon even, for Leo XIII, impatient to resume his | Qaily occupations, had not waited for the written permission of the faculty, who found him the very morning after the operation standing up and at work by the default of the sick nurses, whose vigilance the acuteness of the conval- escent had evaded. And after passing through the experience of the operat- ing board. this nonogenarian, . once more at his worktable, thinks more of his Cardinals who are sick than of his own sufferings, for the same morning he sent his Eminence Ledowski a small box of dolel, the bonbons which he pre- fers, to cure him of a cold more obsti- nate than his own ills. “Oh! my own, I know how to take care of them. 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