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v 14 VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 14 FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS, LAWTON'S GREAT FIGHT AT TOWN LAS PINAS. Hottest Battle of—the War Stirs Wash- on to Give Otis More Men. in gt @ o ez >0 4506 —0-5-4-04-04+O+O+0+0 >o e o+ >+0+Q - *: : ¢ P - ¢ 3 > » B ® 3 . ® 1 . 3 y . o 4 3 . é & 6 k3 - * ) @ ) 3 ¢ b ¢ 1 * - S ¢ . . X P B * * . 2 . . PS . : : Y FORTRESS AT CGAVITE SHELLED BY -REBELS. D90 0i 00 eieieiebeieseiosieisevesesosioie@ 5 . o T b = \ . : i i 1 | & S/ \SH B - i A 1 | | e & il B * , - S @ e e BY AGUINALDO - : will not be di- @ 21 is asserted that e 4 2 t will be obtained from the! Put Out of the Dictator’s . gular army i and there will be Way Because He Is i e Too Ambitious. 1 33.000 men it is believed 2o he will have a force ample to pro- Special Dispatch to The Call a, and at the same time ANILA, June 13.—General offensive operations oa inst the insurgents. REBELS BEATEN ON THEIR OLD GROUND Americans Under Lawton Make the First Move Against the South- ern Tagals. Call ghted MANILA, June 14.—The Ameri- can loss yesterday was nine killed and thirty wounded. The Filipino loss was heavy, forty being found dead in the first trench. The insur- gents, who numbered between 1000 and 1500, were driven back to their Zapote River stronghold, where they are supposed to have 5000 men un- der arms, with four field pieces. Bacoor was taken this morning with- out a fight. The native Governor Cebur, Swas friendly to the United States, been nated. MANILA, June 13.—General Lawton unexpectedl tirred up one of the live liest engagements of the war south of Las Pinas this morning, upon which oc- casion American field guns were en- gaged in the first artillery duel against a Filipino battery concealed in the jungle. Companies F and I of Twenty-first Infantry were nearly sur- rounded by a large body of Insurgents, cut their way out vh has assa The United States turret ship Monad- nock and the gunboats Helena and afiro trained r batteries on PBa- koor and the rebel trenches near Las Pinas all mc n Bakoor was once on fire, but atives stopped the spread of the f During the 1 insurgent can- non was fired th °s at the Amer- fez of Las Pinas. Gene ning took a battalion of the h Regiment and two compan « i wenty-first Regiment to 1 > rebel battery th Artil- d then two guns of lery d fcur mou planted against it tance. The rebels had from which were made canister and bombs nails, and two SsIr shooting was most a The first Jot of canister burst direc in front of Scott’s guns and another shattered the leg of a private in the Fourteenth Infantry. Several shots struck the edge of the town. The country traversed was as bad as it is possible to imagine, being main- lagoons, mud and water fringed with mboos. As soon as the fighting pened the Americans were attacked by hidden riflemen on all sides, even the amigos—or “friendly” natives—in the houses of the town shooting into their rear. The companies of the Twen- ty-first Regiment, skirmishing along the | | minutes after being stabbed. Antonio Luna, one of the bit- terest foes of the Americans in the Philippines, has been assassinated by order of Aguinaldo. Luna has recently found himself in opposition to the chief’s views, and has not only disobeyed orders, but at one time stopped Aguinaldo’s Peace Commissioners while on the way to treat with the Americans. Aguinaldo ordered his death, and these orders were carried out by the Dictator’s fanatical followers. fhe report of the assassination caused great excitement among the Filipinos in Manila, which was added to later when the report was con- firmed. The assassination of Luna occurred on June 8, at Kabanatuan, to which place he had gone to confer with Aguinaldo. He had just been promoted to the rank of major gen- eral by the Filipino leader. By a pre- concerted plan, he was kept waiting at the door of Aguinaldo’s headquar- ters until his patience became ex- hausted. After demanding admission several times he attempted to force his way in. He drew a revolver, but before he could use it was seized by | Aguinaldo’s guards, and one of them, named Ney, stabbed him several | tmes. General Luna’s aid, Colonel Ramon, who was near him, rushed to the gen- eral’s rescue, but was seized and dis- armed and cut to pivces with bolos. Luna and Ramon both died a few It is said Luna had become so im- | portunate in his demands on Aguin- | aldo for power and increased author- | ity that the Filipino leader decided | Luna’s death was necessary for his | personal saf:ty and the Filipino | cause. The major general’s commis- | sion was merely -a bait to throw Luna | off his guard and render the assassi- | nation comparatively easy. There is open rejoicing among the | Filipinos here that Luna is no longer capable of making trouble. They | | renlize that he was a menace to peace | and the complete pacification of the | ! islands could hardly have been ac- complished while he was alive and at | liberty. He was noted throughout his | career for producing discord and mis- | chief wherever he was. On May 4/ | Luna was severely wounded in an en- | gagement between his troops and | those of General Funston, before San | Fernando was captured. | Qoo oedebeiesdbesde® the beach with amigo guides, found ap- parently a handful of rebels, who re- treated. The men of the Twenty-first followed, and suddenly. the rebels opened a terrific fire on the troops from the sides and rear. The soldiers with- drew to the water's edge, finding what shelter they could, and were picked off rapldly. After their ammunition was it GENERAL LUNA. R e =) LONDON, June 13.—The Filipino Junta here confirms the story of the assassination of General Antonio Luna, and says it was the result of a long contest on the part of Luna against Aguinaldo. It is also said at the Junta that Agon- cillo has returned to Paris from Rome, where he had an audience at the Vatican, and was told that a Filipino bishop might be appointed if the Fil- ipinos would release the im- prisoned Spanish friars. = * R S R R e B R R R R R R RS R SR RY . P I S Ay Pret444444444444444444440 nearly exhausted the companies of the Twenty-first retreated, but General Lawton dashed down and rallied the men. A little group made a desperate stand. General Lawton, Major Starr and Lieutenants Donovan and Con- nelly, taking rifles from the wounded men, fired at the enemy, bringing down some of the rebel sharpshooters from trees. Finally their cartridges were all gone, and they were forced to break through the enemy’s flank, carrying the wounded to the main body of the troops. Lieutenant Donovan, whose leg was broken, floundered for a mile through | | a bog after leading his men in the face of a greatly superior force. General Lawton ceased fighting until reinforcements could be brought. Two | battalions of the Fourteenth Regiment and one battalion of the Ninth Regi- ment were hurried to the front, and in the afternoon the battle was resumed. The Monadnock anchored close to the shore, and her heavy guns pounded the rebels continuously, while the smaller warships, steaming along the shore, poured bullets from their rapid- fire guns at the enemy. The Filipino forec engaged appears to have been the largest and best organized body of men which has met our troops. The Americans were compelled to ad- vance along narrow roads and over | small bridges commanded by earth- works ten feet thick. The only means of crossing theZapote was by a small bridge, which the Fili- pinos commanded with trenches spreading V shaped, whence they could concentrate their fire on the bridge. They also had the advantage of the trees and jungles, so the "Americans could hardly see ahead. When the battle was renewed with | the reinforcements our battery had si- lenced the enemy’s guns, and the Amer- icans, wading waist deep in the mud of the salt flats, poured a steady volley of musketry at the rebels, driving their opponents beyond the river. The armies lay facing each other Continued on Second Page. | neeq | force of the wind W. S. Richards, Postmaster. | Anderson Hopkins, father and i | mother. | OF HERVAY DESTROVED One Hundred Persons Dead in Track of a Nebraska Tornado. RUIN 1N 1S PATHE THE FUTURE OF FRANCE "IN DOUBT:! M. Poincare Has Not Yet Agreed to Form a Minis try. Not One House Left Standing in| gesceceo-ecioteiosooecesstessieseseseseg! Which to Care for the Wounded. Special Dispatch to The Call The tornado season in the Eost 1s fairly open. On Monday night a black funnel-shaped cloud de- scended upon the lttle town of New Richmond, i Wisconsin, fairly blotting the place out of existence and leaving death and destitution in its path. Last night the little town of Herman, i Nebraska, was de- stroyed, and over 100 [ives are sard to have been fost. MAHA, Nebr., June A tor- nado struck the town of Herman, in Washi r County, this even- ing and wiped the place out of existence. Herman is 2 place of about 300 inhabitants in the extreme northern part of Washington County. It is on the line of the Chica; St Paul, Minneapc i Omaha A conductor on the ening train from Sioux City passed through the place rot long after the storm, and he says that not a building is left standing. He himself counted twelve dead bodies 1y- ing in the streets. The fatalities wiil undoubtedly run a hundred, if not high train has left Blair, the county seat, for the scene of the disaster, carrying surgeons and ail supplie Advices received by the Bee up to 11 o'clock to-night state that every build- ing in the town is destroyed, except the of which are on the outskirts. The was ~ terrific ard | scarce one piece of any of the many | structures destroyed was left intact. The scene in the streets of the once| thriving and beautiful little town is one of destruction. Wrecked buiidings and broken furniture, scarc recognizable in its dilapidated condition, are strewn around, while dead bodies lie in many places, the corpses badly disfig- ured and some of them hardly recogniz- both all able. The moans of the injured mingle with the calls of the rescuer the pursue their humanitarian work in the dark by the flickering gleams of lan- terns. The relief train from Blair ar- rived about an hour after the storm and the work of picking up the wounded was begun. Willing hands did what they could to help the injured, and in the course of an hour the train pulled out for Blair with ninety-five injured on board. They | were taken to Blair, as there is abso- lutely no place ieft at Herman at which treatment could be administered. All the citizens of Blair have thrown open their houses to the wounded, and the unfortunates are being cared for by competent surgeons. Many of the in- jured will die, but some of them re- | ceived but slight injuries. ble at this hour, owing to the confusion, to ascertain the num- ber of the dead, but twelve are known to have been killed, and the list will run very much higher Among the badly hurt is George B. Clyde, the lo- | cal station agent for the Omaha road | at Herman. Superintendent Jaynes of the Omaha road was at Tekamah when he heard of the disaster, and left at once for Herman on a handcar, taking two physicians along with him to assist in succoring the wounded. | The dead at Herman so far as ob-| tainable at this hour are: | KILLED. Miss Hopkins. | Child of S. M. Davis. i SERIOUSLY INJURED. L. J. Hives, dangerous internal in- | juries. Mrs. W. A. Anderson, head bruised, arm broken; will die. | Louis Clausen, Missouri Valley, Towa, | unconscious, head mashed; will die. Child of Samuel Deaver; serious. | Mrs. Kline of Blair: badly injured. | George Coyle, depot agent; gashed. A new standpipe weighing twenty tons was carried a block and g half and | a large safe was carried two blncks.i The main street of the town is a mass | of debris. A freight train left Blair at | head | kS - . > . £ . ¢ - & . ¢ - * * ARIS, June 13.-——M. Poincare has the Elysee palace to-morrow morning, when it is expected a definite proposal will be made to him to M. POINCARE. ind one small dwellinZ, Qo s etss 930 0iebeieioedeiessbsdeidetsded 6 OGOt DD O EDODOD DD Gt DDt D D >ed s Rl D 4| been asked by M. Loubet to return to | construct a Cabinet. Late this evening it developed that M. Poincaire, while he refuses | the Premiership, intimated to the President that he might enter a Cabinet presided over by M. Paul Deschanet, President of the Chamber of Deputies, who had previously been in conference with M. Loubet. MM. Poincaire and Deschanet are conferring with their friends this evening and will return to the Elysee at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning to report the result. Eleven participants in the cafe riots last Sunday have been variously | gentenced, the maximum sentence being sixteen d: imprisonment. THE COBANS CET READY FOR REVOLT Leaders Conceal Arms in Preperation for Rebellion Against United States. S Special Cable to The Call and the New York | Herald. Copyrighted, 1889, by James Gor- don Bennett. HAVANA, June 13. — Officers in charge of the Cuban forces at Guana- bacoa have collected all the arms from the soldiers and gone into the country | with them. Mayor Hyatt has reported | this condition of things to General Lud- | low. There were about 300 soldiers in | that city, and they were the best armed | forces in the neighborhood of Havana, | having many Mausers, good carbines | and Springfield rifles. These soldiers | were awaliting the return of Lieutenant Colonel Randall from the country to receive thelr money at Havana on Thursday. The fact that the officers had collect- | ed these arms was not known to Mayor | Hyatt until Sunday. He was given au- | thority to receive the arms, but only nine weapons had been given up. On| investigation he learned that the offi- | cers had represented themselves as| agents for the Government, and on se- | curing the arms immediately left the| | city. It is now suspected that a similar condition of affairs exists in many | | places on the island, and that rifles are being put in hiding, awaiting an up-| rising, or have been already distributed | among bandits, who, according to all reports, are well armed. The apparent indifference of the Gov- ernment to the capture of bandits and protection of Spaniards in the ! ilies. The bodies were prepared for | hurial by local and visiting undertak- ers and as soon as identified were marked and disposed of as friends re- quested. The Catholic priest, who had spent a sleepless night and day in looking after the bodies and souls of his parishioners, was one of the coolest and hest workers among the many who volunteered their aid. Nurses and physicians from St. Paul, who had come down by special train on the Omaha road as soon as the news of the disaster reached the Minnesota capital, were of great help, all night and day, and when the day closed all the seriously injured were be- lieved to have been cared for. Those | whose injuries were serious, but whose chances for recovery were believed to be good, were quickly sent to the ho: pitals of St. Paul and Mineapolis, where better care can be given them. The slightly injured and those whose cases seem hopeless were kept here and were given the best attention possible. | The list of dead gradually increased during the day and to-night it seemed that one hundred might be the mini- | mum estimate of the dead, while the list of the injured will reach and prob- ably exceed two hundred. During the afternoon the body of Patrick Kaling, the 14-year-old son of Nat Kaling, was brought to the Cath- olic church. The body was horribly mangled. A little daughter of a Mr. ‘Williams was brought to the same place from the ruins of her father’s home near the railroad tracks. Walter Far- | rell, a boy, was also laid among the dead in that church. Pat McNally, who was in the list of injured, died dur- ing the day. At a late hour this after- | noon the rescuers gathered together most of the pieces of the mangled bod: of Michael Heffron, and his name was added to the list of the dead. ~ During the day scattered groups of rescuers searched the debris where bodies might be found. A fire company from St. Paul kept two streams of | water playing on the smoldering ruins, | for fire had been added to the horrors of the tornado and a dozen fires were blazing till a heavy rain at the close of | enemy of their sovereign is | days. | midnight with medical aid and other | to the | the day about extinguished the flames. country has brought forth Strong Pro-| gome of the merchants organized pri- tests from Spaniards in Havana, they | i 10 salvage corps and managed to | ascribing the seeming apathy of Gen-| . . some property, but the amount | eral Brooke to the fact that he depends | L = 0\ wholly on reprts of the Cuban secre- | Th % 5 N B | e business portion of the city v Inormation, and sa¥ing 8 o ave | and was solidly built of brick and stone. misrepresented. Ban thek ias, | This entire space was swept clear, | i gp“:;:;g: that an attemps | foundation walls and in some places and Spaniards 5 rotected prov- | Mmasses of debris alone marking where | is being made in the unp PTO¥- | the business places formerly stood. | inces to exterminate the race. | 2 | < t lined the street | S S PETAER .ITree< tha ned the streets of the | neighboring residence district were | brought to the schoolhouse or to the | broken clear off or twisted and up-| Catholic or to tbe Congregational |rooted. church. Thence they are to be taken to | HT:l‘e tomshdo cx:}r]ne ;p the river from the cemetery, except in a few cases | Hudsen, where the damage was com- ' where homes. stil stpand, in which the | Paratively Sleht e o reach 100_and very probably will con- | remains can be kept for a few hours, | €72l course o Sanca | siderably exceed that figure. As they | during which the final tribute of love were recovered to-day the bodies were i can be tendered by the bereaved fam- relief for the sufferers. S THE PATH OF DEATH THROUGH NEW RICHMOND Little Wisconsin Town Completely Destroyed and One Hundred Persons Killed. NEW RICHMOND, Wis,, June 13.— The tornado that swept: out of ex- istence the prosperous little city of New Richmond is the most disastrous in point of fatality ever occurring in this section. ' The exact number of dead is still unknown, but it will certainly Continued on Second Page, THE TIRKS NAY LEATE THE HAGUE Sultan's Delegates Threaten to Withdraw From Peace Conference. CHOST OF ARMENIA Achmet Riza Raises a Specter That May Break Up the Meeting. g 1 Cable to The Call and Herald. Copyrighted, 159, don Bennett HE HAGUE, June 13— Some signs of trouble are appearing in consequence of the arrival at The Hague of Achmet Riza, the agitator of the Young Turkish party, who has the New York by James Gor- | come for the purpose of agitating among the delegates to the con- ference in favor of Armenia against the Sultan. He means to give lectures and publish pam- phlets. The Turkish delegates request that he be expelled from the Netherlands, as he was formerly expelled from Belgium, but the Dutch Liberal party oppose this proposal as contrary to liberal traditions. The Turkish delegates threat- en to withdraw from the confer- ence and return to Turkey if the al- at con- lowed to agitate against him the seat of the European ference. I have been able to peruse a copy of the American arbitration proposal, which probaby has been merged into the Russian proposal, telegraphed ves- terady. It exacts that to constitute a permanent arbitration court, it must ba |ngreed to by at least nine powers, of which eight American. It suggests that the court be com- posed of persons of high respectability and with a knowledge of international law; that they should be nominated by the highest court of justice existing in each state, and that each of the nine states would be represented in the ar- bitration court by one of the judges of must be European or | such court of justicee. The court would first assemble to or- ganize not later than six months after the arbitration plan has been agreed to, and would itself choose its place of meeting, which might vary from time to time in the interest of justice or ac- cording to the convenience of the two countries appealing to settle a quarrel. It would be entitled to take cogni- zance of quarrels breaking out even among countries not represented at the conference. All arguments will have to be brought before the court in writing or in print. All parties applying to the court for arbitration will have to pledge them- selves to be bound by its decision very drastic clause this, which will meet with some opposition. The full number of judges may sit together or appoint three of themselves only to judge, provided that none of the three belongs to one of the disputing | nations. The general expenses of the court are to be borne by the signatory powers, but the expenses for arbirating will be adjudicated by the court itself at the time it pronounces judgment. the signatc themselve: be entitle: a second Any disputant country w . after the court's award, hearing before the same | judges within three months after the first sentence has been notified, if it be able to bring forward any fresh testi- mony or fresh judicial arguments, which appears to amount to initiating a kind of arbitration court of appeal within the original court. Professor Martens, the celebrated | Russian jurist and a delegate to the Conference, left The Hague to-day for Paris to assist in arbitrating the Ven- ezuelan frontier question between Eng- land and the United States. He hopes to settle the matter in two or three On his return to Holland the ar- bitration matter will be actively re- sumed. = THE GENEVA CONVENTION IN NAVAL WARFARE This Is Regarded as the First Real Triumph of the Peace Conference. THE HAGUE, June 13.—In view of the statement published in the United States that Frederick Holls of the American delegation to the Peace Con- ference had cabled to the State Depart- ment at Washington that Germany was opposed to arbitration in principle, the correspondent of the Associated Press called to-day upon Mr. Holls, who de- clared that there was absolutely no foundation for such a statement. He said that as a matter of fact he had not sent the State Department a message of any kind since his arrival here and the cable messages forwarded by the delegation had not contained the least justification for the statement pub- lished. “There is no doubt,” said Mr. Holls, “that the Germans, in this respect re- | sembling the French and some other European nations, are not as enthusias-