The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVI-N O =218 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, BRITISH READY TO MOVE ON THE TRANSVAAL. BOER TROOPS ARE BUSILY DRILLING @+ e eien > - +b e e e A O R APE TOWN, Cecil cha, stay in night served English knov ry and he con- , supr PITGRED BATTLE WITH GHRISTIANS Necessary to Call Out Police to Disperse the Young Fanatics. . Dispatch to The Call The spirit of anti-Semitism has | manifested 1tself mn the youth of Chicago, and yesterday more than fifty laus—dJews and Christjans— linea up in one of the-streeis of ihat city and fought a bloody bat- tle which it was necessary to call the police to stop. None of the boys were seriously hurt, and only two were caught by the officers. The feeling between the different reljgronists 1s said, however, to be growing n bitter- ness. HICAGO tle between b and A pitched bat- | s of the Christian | ewish faiths ought at Henry and Fourteenth streets to- day. The gght was and many boys were struck b clubs and other missil e atat of the police prevented serious inju: but two boys were arrested. At the Police ation they > name Bass, 15 vears old, and Wz 13 years old. There were over fifty boys in the | fight and bloody noses and discolored were numerous when the police appeared. The fight was the result of the bitter feeling existing between the Jewish | and Christian boys of the neighbor- | hood. Several small fights had oc- | curred during the last few days, and ovoR TSHRS N - B THE NATAL VOLUNTEERS HELD READY LONDON, vn corresy The Cape f the Daily al volunteers v erdered D (i o o s 2 i T b G T o ol o VPTG S ST S ah g a6 g S o 2 e i b g 2 2h o 2h b 2 2 o S o o o and strategy that might stagger a mill- ry expert. “In the first place, the Boers of the Transvaal are magr t guerilla sol liers. Their history proved it and fully up to their standard to- ey are expert marksmen, born , such as your own cow- nd tenacity i t T 1 eni they are good military stuff as orld pos- They also are thoroughly con- e of their cause and at the word of Oom Paul. But. aside from their morals- and i r the Transvaal country ably adapted for the pur- nse. It is inland. with bited sp: An army in- must have a distant base supplies must be brought rough tropical country under ntageous conditions. thousand miles from and if an attack we rom Natal there would be | | evening the leaders of both sides 1 that the battle must be held— that satisfaction could or be had in that way—and immediately prepara- tions for the fight were made. The Christians a nd the numerous och chools in the vicinity, and they allege that the insults by the Jews have been unbearable. On the other Jewish boys say the Christ- nd again have attacked and ten them while they were on their v to school Both sides lined up their forces and a count showed them about evenly bal- | anced. Henry and Fourteenth streets | was chosen as the scene of battle, and | early this morning residents in that neighborhood hecame aware of the fact that something was about to. happen. The boys began to assemble in the al- leys, streets, yards and other places by the ore. All grades of youth were represented in the gathering, and judg- | ing from their actions, the neighbors | concluded something important was mi oceur. The boys made no disturbance for | several hours, but stood about in| groups and in low discussed their troubles and the proposed battle. | Sentiment went from one point to an-i volces other, and late risers were hurried from their hames and marshaled to the field. | Others came with their arms full of | stones, clubs, mud and missiles of vari- ous kinds to be used in the religious war. As the morning advanced, the streets | became crowded with juveniles, and at | a signal both factions lined up on op- | posite sides of the way and the bat- | tle was begun. The Christians led the | attack, and with stones and clubs | drove the Jewish boys half a block | down the street. The retreating ones, | however, were reinforced and by some | clever movements surrounded the | Christians and the battle was on in | earnest. For a few minutes the air was full of flying bricks, stones and clubs, and then the fighters came to- gether with a clash. A hand to hand struggle followed, and the fighters clubbed and beat one another right and left. Blood flowed freely and many of the youngsters recelved painful in- juries, but remained on the spot, and witnesses say none left the field. “Hurrah for the Christians,” shouted the leader of that crowd his follow- ers broke through the Jew lines and | belabored their enemies right and left. | “Hurrah for the Jews,” shouted’ the | others, as they blocked the progress of B S A I . o s o ; MWM. (e B 4049000540606 4060406 0540600000 s0ededededeie T O e = S mountains to work through and much tropical growth. The question of trans- | portation would be serious. We would | need thousands of mules, which must | be brought from South America. The | ocean distance and the adverse climate | would kill the animals off by the hun- | dreds, and the actual work would en- | tail even ereater losses. “There is a question of strategy as well. The Boers would be difficult. to hit in a m . Indeed, they might not be mobilized in a European sense at all. In an a 5 v country filled with splendid shots, with no real objective point to capture, with a disaffected or | actively hostile population on your| flank or rear, the conquest of the Transvaal would be one of the most arduous undertakings we ever entered | upon. In my opinion, no less than 60,000 men would be required. Your own Phil- ippine war is not so different. Indeed, | it is folly to underestimate the mili- | tary strength of the Transvaal, which proceeds not alone from the material character of the population but also from the nature of the country itself. “And the Boers are armed to the teeth. TRe money raised by taxation of Uitlanders has been spent in arms | and artillery, so that the republic re- peats. on a small scale the military campaign which the continental pow- ers exhibit on a great scale.” LONDON, June 21.—The Daily Tele- graph this morning says it under- stands that in the event of war with the Transvaal Lieutenant General Sir Redvers Henry Buller will be the com- mander of the British forces in South Africa. LANDNG PLACE P DREYFUS IS KEPT SECRET Precautions Taken by the| French Government to } Prevent Trouble. | | —_— Special Dispatch to The Call, The utmost precautions are be- ing taken to guard against an up- rising i France upon the occason | of the landing of Dreyfus. The Government of the republic knows | its people. Whether the attempt| to prevent a tumult will succeed | remamns to be seen. There s small occasion apparently to fear | for the republic, ARIS, June 20.—The approachin, arrival of Dreyfus at Rennes is causing an influx of foreigners there. The hotels are besieged with applicants for rooms, which | ommand immense prices. | The arrangements for the conveyance | of the prisoner from Brest have been made with the greatest care, and it is | believed there is no danger of demon- strations. Dreyfus is expected to reach | Brest early in the morning, and pre- cantions have been taken to prevent | anybody seelng him either at Brest or | at Rennes. The Figaro to-day says it under- stands Dreyfus will arrive at Rennes | on June 30, and that he will be landed | elsewhere than at Brest. Comte de Dion and Comte d’Aubigny, who were sentenced June 16 to two weeks’ imprisonment and to pay lODf francs’ fine, after having been con- | victed of complicity in the disturbances | at Auteuil June 4, when Baron Chris Continued on Second Page. Continued on Second Page. THE LATIY CATHOLICS AMERICANS Religious Sympathies Go With the United States Rather Than Spain. T0 GET A CARDINAL Leo Likely to Take That Method of Allaying Discontent in South America. e Spectal Cabla to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 159, by James Gor- don Bennett. The counci/ of Latin-American | Bishops, called to Rome by the Pope, seems likely to eventuate in the gevelopment of a tendency on the part of the Catholics ot Mexico and Central and South America to share the spirit of the church as | demonstrated by its leaders m North America rather than to \revert in 1ts sympathies to the Spanish hierarchy. The Bishop of Bogota, one or | the leaders of the council, vorced this sentiment when he said that South American churchmen wanted 1t understood that they were Amer- \1cans, and not Spanish. ROME, June 20.—I met this morning Monsignor O’Connell, the friend of Monsignor Ireland, and he confirmed the announcement that the Archbishop of St. Paul will shortly visit London. The date of Monsignor Ireland’'s re- turn to America is not vet settled, but it is now certain that he will not go back to Rome before leaving Europe. I took advantage of the opportunity to ask the former rector of the North American College his opinion on the work of the Latin-American Council, now sitting at Rome. Monsignor O’Connall seemed to think that there exists a sort of antaronism or latent dualism between the Catho- lics of North and South America. When the South American Council was convoked by the Pope, there was an impression in the United States that it was intended to consolidate Latinism in the New World in order to oppose it to Americanisn? which prevai the North, this impression re- If such were the object of the Council, it will have no influence upon the Catholics of the United States, from whom those of Latin America, from Mexico to Cape Horn, are more remote than those of Europe. But since the arrival in Rome summoned to the Council, Monsignor O’Connell’s personal impressions have been modified. He has observed with pleasure that the South American Episcopate is not so much animated by Spanish ideas as in the past, and that it is not, like the Spanish Eniscopate, more Catholic than the Pope and blindly obedient to the will of the Ro- s among the members of the South American Episcopate, who openly com- plain that they have been neglected by the Vatican. The Pope and those in immediate contact with him perceive this and are seeking how the discon- tent may be dissipated. Monsignor O'Connell believes that a South Ameri- can Cardinal will be created shortly. Doubtless the possibility of this crea- tion induced the majority of the coun- cil not to elect its president, but to re- quest the Pope to appoint him, with the idea that the president chosen by the Pontiff would be the Bishop destined to be raised to the purple. In any case, whatever may be the resolutions of the council, they will in no way modify the conditions of exist- ence or the tendency of Catholicism in Anglg-Saxon America. Such, in brief, are the views of Mon- signor O’Connell, expressed to me in the course of a short conversation. Before leaving I informed him that Archbishop Restrepo of Bogota wished it to be known that the members of the council are not Spaniards, but Ameri- cans, and that their sympathies, es- pecially in matters of religion, are not with Spain, but with the Americans, as religion is understood and practiced in the United States, and that this truth will sooner or later be recognized at the Vatican. “It may be so,” said Monsignor O’Connell, shrugging his shoulders. “Archbishop Restrepo is very intel- | ligent, serious and broad-minded. but the rest, or at any rate most of them, think otherwise. JURY MAY DISAGREE IN MOORE’S CASE Majority Favors Death Penalty, ‘While the Others Want Lighter Punishment. NEVADA CITY, June 20.—At 10 o’clock to-night the Moore jury is still out, with slight chances of agreeing. A majority is said to stand stubbornly for the death penalty, while the rest declare they will not concede. The defendant went to hed in his cell before 8 o'clock and has been sleeping peacefully ever since. His aged father and Attorney Tyrrell are at the courthouse, mightily pleased over the situation, and a crowd of citizens is around the building, awaiting the ver- dict. 0ld Man’s Fatal Fall. LODI, June 20.—Robert Cope fell from the hay loft of a barn this afternoon while filling the mow with hay. His skull was fractured and death followed almost instantly. He was 64 years of age and a gatlve of England. He leaves four chil- ren. of the Bishops | | without delay. RGEO BO ARIS, June 20.—President Loubet has asked M. Bourgeols, who Is head of the French delegation at The Hague.peace conference, to form a Cabinet. The prolongation of the Cabinet crisis is becoming most serious. MM. Dupuy and Lockroy both called on President Loubet day and expressed their anxiety to he relieved of the responsi- bilities of office as soon as possible. It is reported orders have been sent to St. Michaels, Azores, directing the com- mander of the French cruiser France, to remain there a short s0 as not to arrive in home waters un. | til the new Ministry is installed. Should M. Bourgeois accept the task | of forming a ministry it is thought his chances of success would be fairly good. His prestige has been much in- creased by the part he played in the The Hague. The latest gossip favors a combina- | tion Cabinet, including MM. Bourgeofs, | Brisson, Poincaire and Waldeck-Rous- seau, but nothing will be known until M. Bourgeois arrives. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, discussing his | failure, is reported to have said: I | met with the utmost friendliness and strafghtforwardness from my former adversaries, but found only treason and cowardice among my old allies.” Tt will be remembered that in the crisis of 1895, M. Bourgeois formed a | Cabinet for President Faure, the body being composed exclusively of mem- | bers of the Radical party. With the exception of the Dreyfus developments the condition then was similar to that existing at present. Stax, | which is bringing Captain Dreyfus to | time | deliberations of the peace conference at | S = - *-@ @+ * R RCRS SSCRTARCRY S S G T o 2 O g L an-an OB SEORS BRI SRCES SRCRY SN SRS o M. LEON BOURGEOIS. B eo 0000000000 beiededeideded THE SULTAN IS IN FEAR OF WAR WITH SERVIA. SENDS AN ENVOY TO THE FRONTIER ERLIN, June 20.-The Turkish Embassador here has received instructions from tne Sultan in compliance with which he at once started for the scene of the Turco-Servian frontier troubles. is instructed to go as near as possible by rail to the scene of conflict and then to post on as fast as horses can carry him. The Sultan takes the matter in a serious light, and wants to know the truth He IS MAY BE THE PREMIER OF FRANCE. sr e eieieieieteie@Q ® R O e e R R o B e e S SRCER SR e~ V0 INDEMNITY 10 BE PAID T0 GERMANS This Government Believes Kautz Is Right, and Will Support Him. =5 CALL HEADQUARTERS, WEL- LINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, June 20.—Considerable astonishment is expressed in official circles at the an- nouncement of Herr von Bulow yes- terday at the attitude of Germany on the kingshin and indemnity questions growing out of the Samoan contro- versy. Herr von Bulow's statement was that a demand will be made by the German Government ‘“for full indemnification of Germans whose property was destroyed by illegal British or American ac- tion.” It is regarded as highly im- portant and presents a serious phase of the controver This Government, I was told by an administration official, feels that Admiral Kautz, in endeavor- ing to re-establish peace and order in Samoa, acted in accordance with the recognized provisions of international law and the Berlin treaty, and the au- thorities here will most certainly re- ject any claims filed against us by the German Foreign Office. The authorities declare that the real responsibility for the Samoan trouble rests upon the official representatives of Germany at Apia, who started and the Mataafans in the in- surrection as a result of the decision of the Chief Justice on the kingship question, made in accordance with the terms of the Berlin act, and that if | Germany desires to indemnify her sub- jects for their losses she will have to settle their claims herself. It appears from Herr von Bulow's statement that he has advices later than those in possession of the State Department. The authorities have been informed of the reception and examina- tion of Malietoa Tanu and Mataafa, but they have not been officially ad- vised of the release of Huffnaglé and Marquardt, the two Germans arrested on charges of alleged complicity in the i 4 operations of Mataafa's men. | carpets by ropes. interfering to some ex ENGLAND NOT T0 BUY KILLARNEY Balfour Says the Place Is of Small Value to Tourists. — | | Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, June 20.—Replying to a question on the subject in the House of Commons to-day Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, admitted that the County Council of Kerry had peti- tioned the Government to purchase the | Herbert estate in Killarney. But, he added, there was no evidence of a gen- eral demand on the part of the public to purchase the estate, as the place, he explained was removed from the popu- lous centers and was of no value to tourists during many months of the year. CROWD AT A FIRE BECOMES DEMORALIZED Throws Out Mirrors and Crockery and Lowers Mattresses With Ropes. TACOMA, June 20.—The Montello Hotel a fashionable apartment house, was pa tially destroyed by fire to-night. Lieu- tenant Otto Schlegel and Captain Russell of the Fire Department were carried out of the building, overcome by smoke, and V. R. Egermeyer, a fireman, was struck by the nozzle of a falling hose and knocked off a ladder. None of the firemen were serfously injured. The damage to the building will amount to $20,000. The | chief loss to occupants of the house was through breakage in removing furniture, An overzealous crowd threw mirrors and crockery from the third-story windows and carefully lowered mattresses and tent_with the Fire Department's work. D. B. Donnelly, a_grocer, occupying storeroom, loses $2000 and druggist, is a slight loser. the fire is unknown. LG Brothers to Be Hanged. BISBEE, Ariz., June 20.—A special to the Orb from Tombstone says the Halder- | man_brothers, under indictment for the | murder of Constable Ainsworth and Ted | Moore, were found guilty of murder in éhe grst degree and the penalty fixed at eath. a TV Tyler, & The origin of 1 | | MEN ENTER DIS MARINS As the Town Is an Unimpor- tant Place the Troops Will Return to Imus. BRE Special Dispatch to The Call MANILA, June 20.—The troops com- manded by General Wheaton entered Perez das Marinas to-day without op- position, except upon the part of smail bodies of rebels, who inflicted no losses upon the Americans. The town is an unimportant . place, surrounded by swamps. and General Wheaton will probably return to Imus. Rear Admiral John C. Watson ar- rived here to-day on board the United States transport Zafiro from Hongkong and raised his flag on the United States cruiser Baltimore. The commanders of all the warships called upon the ad- miral during the day. RECRUITS STARVING WH'LE COMING WES1 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 20.—Thirty-eight recruits from Water- bury, Conn., en route to Manila, passed through this city to-day on their way to San Francisco. They were almost on the point of starvation, having ex- hausted their five days’ rations because of a delay on the trip and having no money to buy more provisions. The women of the Red Cross Society here immediately went to the depot. Tha recruits were gziven breakfast at the hotel and were started westward with a supply of eatables and 50 cents each in money. The local Red Cross So- ciety may investigate the matter, as they felt indignant at the way the re- cruits were tr ARMY TO BE INCREASED BY ENLISTMENT ONLY WASHINGTON, June 20.—“When the President returns he will consider the propriety of increasing the army in or-