The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1899, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 183. BLUEJACKETS AMBUSCADED BY MATAAFA'S WARRIORS Lieutenant Lansdale and Ensign Monaghan of the Philadelphia and Lieuten= ant Freeman of the British Gunboat Tauraga Killed and Their Bodies Decapitated by the Savages. SPECIAL COPYRIGHTED CABLEGRAM TO THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. AUCKLAND, N. Z., April 12.—On April | 800 of Mataafa’s men ambuscaded 100 bluejackets near Apia. The fighting was terrific, the American and British tars repeatedly beatmg back their assailants, who sought to overwhelm them by force of numbers. Lieutenant Lansdale and Ensign Monaghan of the United States cruiser Philadelphia and Lieutenant Freeman of the British gunboat Tauraga were killed. : After the rebels had been driven off the bodies of these three officers were recovered. They had been decapitated by the savage Samoan warriors. Four marines were Kkilled. Mataafa’s loss was forty Killed and a number wounded, these being carried off the field by the rebels when they retired. The bodies of Lansdale, Monaghan and Freeman, as well as those of the unfortunate marines, were buried with military honors at TMulinuu. There is constant fighting with the natives around Apia, and the life of no European in the islands is safe. Lieutenant Philip Van Horne Lansdale was born in the District of Columbia February 15, 1858, and entered the Naval Academy June 6, 1873. He graduated in June, 1878, and was promoted ensign in 188l, and after duty at the Washington Navy-yard was ordered to the Philadelphia in June, 1890, and was made lleutenant, junior grade, in June, 1893. He was in charge of the caravels at the World’s Fair in Chicago, and after receiving his full lieuten- ancy was a short time on the battle-ship Massachusetts. In June, 1896, he was ordered to the Philadelphia. Ensign John R. Monaghan was appointed to the Naval Academy as a cadet from the State of Washington, entering Annapolis on September 7,1891. He graduated and was made an ensign in July, 1897, being assigned to the Philadelphia, to which \essel he was attached up to the time of his death. MEKASER [SAMOA TO THE POPES |FIRE MARS FIGHTING S TORNING HEALTI IS AT MANILA IS TERY tcLlwwjiEfigARD =D RESTORED VAT{%EN%%[&/ITOON ONLI BECUN Germany Wants the Ameri- ¢ Makes a Speech to the Car-| @+esssovsrosorosersocrorossrorceorcsn | There Is an Urgent Need can Government to Dis- ! for More Troops at | dinals Assembled to )¢ avow Kautz's Action. { Greet Him. Once. r'-»&:)‘@'b? @900+ 9 4640900000000 00t ie ) A o o o g ial Dispatch to The Call April 1L.—The Lokal An- to-day prints an interview with fel, in which he is quoted as Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ROME, April 11. ceived the members of the Sacred Col- lege, who congratulated the Pontiff on his restoration to health. In his address to the Cardinals the Pope, after expressing great gratitude to the Deity for his restoration to health and his thankfulness for the proofs of affection from all parts of the world, warmly eulogized the Czar’s initiative in calling the peace' conference and hoped that it would lead to the settle- ment of all disputes between all na- | Special Dispatch to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1399, by James Gor= don Bennett. ANI IT;, April 12— i General Lawton’s expe=~ | dition captured the vil- | lages of Pagsajan and Lumban yesterday. The American troops | met no resistance in the former place and only slight opposition in the latter. There was one cas- Justice a Tanu ct that e has been a sudden ve upon the part of both the ) LA na oD %ons by Woral o8 poateril Wcann. | ualty among the Americans and Dmperor. The Pontiff also dwelt at length upon PR he ins Tice officlal said to-night the church’s mission of pacification, several among the insurgents. tc correspondent of the Associated “not only in the domain of conscience, ‘ Fift)‘ of the latter were C;lpturcd. but in the public and social representa- tive here, a mission which the church fulfills in proportion with the freedom left to her action.” getic langauge, that Ger- anl B Elum would investiga s work, and insist The mouth of the river, com- manded by the guns at Lumban, Idle Hour, the Summer Home of the Van- ‘@ D R AR R SRS SCER SCaS SCR S L e e e e C SRCSS SC8 n and British Gov- % g foe : - ai i 2 Continuing, the Pope said: “Every derbilts. was effectually blocked agmust time the church has intervened directly 5 the entrance of gunboats. Shells B e o e SO | from the Laguna de Bai drove EW YORK, April IL—Idle Hour, the handsome country seat of @|most of the insurgents in flight William K. Vanderbilt, near Oakdale, Long Island, in which Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. were spending their honeymoon, was °‘ up the mountain side, but a burned to the ground early this morning. The young couple escaped and { small force remained in an old are now at the Waldorf Astoria in this city. No lives were lost and all i of the servants who were in the villa escaped uninjured. The house, ‘fh““h' offering resistance until with practically all of the furniture, its paintings and bric-a-brac, | it was rushed by the troops. completely destroyed. Seven chimneys now mark the spot where it Six launches and two cascoes were captured in the river. The | In the serious affairs of the world it has | assured public welfare, and the Popes | have often stopped oppression and se- cured truces and peace treaties. Civil- | ization would have perished without | papal authority to vindicate the su- premacy of right over might. Oppres- sion may sometimes embarrass and | curtail he powers of religion, but amid situdes the church pursues its t mission, which will embrace and earth. Pure humanitarian- us quo and not on a by the iliegal acts of official an- | mburg Corre- that if Eng- heed the dip- REAR ADMIRAL KAUTZ, U. S. N. T S e e R S The loss is estimated at from $250,000 to $300,000, part of which was cov- ered by insurance. [ D e e e o o o e S S SeCRY S DR MDA MDA Y 0v | ada * # 2 ism could not insure lasting prosperity. | Young Mr. Vanderbilt and his bride said several times to-day that | river’ 1 o Sl EW YORK, April 11.—A Washington special to the Herald says: | . ottempt is even now perceptible to | & they beligveq the fire was of incendiary origin. The theory of Mr. Van- ‘ river’s mouth . will be hc‘[lCd sl Though the three powers signatory to the Berlin treaty have prac- | \itnaraw civilization from the influence derbilt is that the premises were fired by burglars. A burglar alarm in g | and the obstructions removed “:r action | tically agreed upon the mstruct?uns under whx{h t'he Samoan | of Christlanity.” the house rang at midnight, three hours and forty-five minutes before the | Santa Cruz and Pdgn’l]dfl are of breaches committed | Commission will act, the administration will maintain a strong The Pope concluded with bestowing fire whas discovered. A search of the premises was made and a window by th f il gl bt Tk F R e e his benediction upon those present in a | @ in the apartment usually occupied by William K. Vanderbilt Sr. was @ | now guarded by the men of the » Ge . | i i i i i , strong voice. Besides the ‘Cardi- found to be open. | F th Cavalry. A part of the serman press during | The collier Brutus is going to Apia, wherée she will remain until | firm. 4 S R Z P 3 our p T been most bitter. | the collier Scindia arrives, when, if the situation permits, she will pro- | nals a number of Bishops and other To James N. Frazer, chief of the Islip Fire Department, Mr. Vander- Fourteenth Infantry, with Gen- bilt said at 6 o’clock this morning: “The night watchman and I chased a man out of the cellar, and he must have started a fire in‘the kindling and then got out of the window.” Mrs. Vanderbilt told several friends she had seen a man hurriedly leaving the premises a few moments before the fire was discovered. He called to her that the house was on fire. She asked what house. “The Vanderbilt. house,” the man replied. Then he laughed and hastily walked away across the lawn. Detectives from a private agency are now endeavoring to ascertain the origin of the fire. The theory hinted at by Mr. Vanderbilt is that the burglar whose plans were blocked by the ringing of the burglar alarm returned to set the house on fire in order to wreak revenge. An expert who recently inspected the house says that the fire might have been caused by a defect in the heating apparatus. Every year the chimneys of the house have been burned out before Idle Hour was occu- dignitaries of the church were present. The health of the Pontiff was appar- ently excellent. the correspondent | ceed to Guam. The collier Abarenda will soon start for Pago Pago, where ‘ s at the For- 1 she will take station as a guardship pending the construction of a coaling that nothing 18 knc ,“l;;‘],‘;h:h:m:;l’r?‘; | station at that point. Tl_)ese colliers have fairly large crews and several British annexation of the Tonga ‘;L mpid-fl:-ing guns, and will be useful in case of another scrimmage with MOORE IN FEMALE GARB. a nd it Is not believed such s the natives. i been taken, as it is i‘;‘;:;m;z‘ 1t is expected the Samoan Commission will leave for Apia on the |Latest Report Concerning the Ubi- d be a gross violation of the| steamer sailing from San Francisco on April 19. Mr. Tripp is now on his quitous Outlaw. Anglo-Germa greement of 188 | i i . MARYSVILLE, April 1.—The report A erm m—ni.rxrltril_v 1886. l way to Washington and Freiherr von Steinberg and Mr. Elliott, the was recefved to-day that Murderer Mwe‘! German and British Commissioners, are in Washington. To reach San |who is wanted at Nevada City for the WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT Francisco in time, it will be necessary for the commission to leave this | killing of Officer Kilroy, passed through Browns Valley, a mining camp twelve ILL SUS el by Welday: it : W U TAIN KAUTZ' During the three or four months of the stay of the commission in ;:‘é.u,,?:i-::n‘1},“::.:’51%:2};::“51‘::!0:::; Apia, it will attend to the government of the islands, superseding Ma- |give the story 1‘.9 credence. eral Lawton, is in Lumban. More troops arc needed out here. The |fighting has only just begun. FILIPINO “FRIENDS” NOT TO BE TRUSTED MANILA, April 11, 5:45 p. m.—At VASHINGTON, April 11.—As it haq} E4O40+04 0+ O+ 0404040+04 404040 4040404+ 0O+ 0O+0 404040 .oooom¢o¢o¢owmmm¢om¢ooooooo¢Ofp¢o~o i cil, th e pied for the summer. This year the chimneys were not burned out in about midnight the rebels cut the tele- h’\r-n ~u¢mg]} intimated in the Berlin L‘:;c:h"::::;;l;:ix“;lx:colgiac&l:fi o d:taf;?i::ld’ I:ndfl::“ C’td:: ";‘;‘fl"?' Roumania’s Cabinet Crisis. accordance with custom. graph line at several places between s i e e y Tepo: e BUCHAREST, April 11.—The Rouma- here and Malolos and signal fires were <antinued on Third Page. commission. nian Cabinet has resigned. 40404 0404 0404+ O+0+ 040404040404 0404+ O+ 0 +0 4 O+ 040404 - lighted and rockets sent up all along »