The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1899, Page 1

The OLUME LXXXVI-NO SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREATER GROWS THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS Several Thousand Killed by the Hurricane in Porto Rico-—0ne Hundred Th[}gand Homeless. Special Dispatch to The Call. = . | | CALTL, HEADQUARTERS, WEL- |13—The hurricane spread ruin and LINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, | death through the nds. In Grand i} Further details received to- | Terre fi deaths and 280 injured have | of | The AT, Louis and St. Francois towns been reported th Governc eral Da ects of the hurricane in | Le Monl re- that the situation i devs ed. | T alling th rst re-| P Pitre is greatly damaged, | rted the estimates Gen- | the estimated loss being $3,000,000. Six | 1 of the damage re and twenty-two hooners | wrought: or damaged beyond repair. | One thousand persons killed by A 1t number of fishing craft “cro‘ falling walls. This number, he adds, '°% Sty may be multiplied several times by _l‘il““i:f;:}m : '”“m“\,:.:rr ;!"\l“l"l:\\"l;“’r\'l“; e sl fonme et frightful damage. The coffee and cocoa | One hundred thousand persons .., cane is are ruined and sugar 1 d. g spectator of the storm was homeless and destitute. destroy One-fifth of all dwellings on island icall A dari destroyed. nces Drake, American news- All crops and most of the trees in- | baper woman, who was seen for hours | Jacsal r on a pler 300 feet out in the | 5 ff{*i!:‘) ‘“! e ;'”", ol whole of Desirade Island was e R devastated. People are starving and | n that, a o | without shelter. | atione tn | WHERE MANY WERE e KILLED DURING STORM tr This appeal will be [ _ 3 SRS % = Speclal Cable to The t ¢ dent: | don Bennett. nment cannot do much, but | SAN JUAN PORTO RICO, Aug. 13.— | all in its nower to relieve the | Reports of terrible loss by the hurri- g caused by this dis- | cane continue to reach h At McPherson will start Utruado it is now said that there were 1 11 shall send other supp ) or 300 killed during the storm. ssible. In this emerg- » is completely « , only four on left st an people At- Guayama three brick houses s able | all that are left standing. The churc is without a roof. There were fiftee | casualties the At Cayenne thirty one persons were drowned d comparatively little to be | Conditions at Ponce are n people | There is a report muti The commarding officer i best he can for the relief of were patches res are from > without yed a there The Mayor fed stitute “" L time with prov found under the ruins, but none is left Barranquitas is a of ruins 1led there. wditions are mo , but there Thirteen 1 At Mayagu bett V. was no ssels wen 1 Davis has sent out to aid m lief of the s soldiers thousand in a mander PEOPLE OF PONCE BURYING THEIR DEAD PONCE, Porto Ri Aug. 13.—Al- though the disasters which followed the e have not been overesti- the peor re hopeful and en- > deavoring to make the best of the situ- m n Dead bodies are buried where er they are found. od supplies are being distributed and repairs to bridges and roads are | being pushed forward under milita supervision, with payments work- men daily. | It is gathered merchants and plante owe European house be numerous failures. The steamer Australia, was wrecked during the hurricane off Arroyo on the southeast coast. and the Vasco off Arecibo, on the north coast. | - E SEEMS TO BE DECREASING WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The West Indian hurricane appears to be gradu- | ally decreasing in strength, and the chances are that it will spend itself be fore making much further progre This is the welcome news given out by the officials of the weathe bureau to- | to from interviews with <, some of whom , that there will ernment with cargo. ground eded, especially wi wve ot iohess IHURRICAN been needed, for Pl b e b et e et e MAITRE LABORI OF DREYFUS COUNSEL SHOT FROM AMBUSH ENNES, Aug. 14—Two men ambushed Maitre La- bori, counsel for Dreyfus, and one shot was fired, hitting La- bori in the back. M. Labori fell in| the roadway. He is still alive. Maitre Labori left his house alone for the court at about 6 o’clock this morning. His residence 1is sit- uated in the suburbs of the totwon, about a quarter of an howr’s walk | AT A TS AT AT AT AT AT AT AT A S A S AT A SR SR SH O A AR R SR DSR DG He ne. was on the He was at- and wore t he | tion of Mercier by Casimir-Perier, when the former will virtually be in the pris oner’s dock. itable. direction of Renne: towing path of the V tired in a dark lounge suit bowler It was ble for him to miss. A sharp report was heard and M. Labori threw up his arms and fell flat upon his face. 1 and one or two others A dramatic scene is inev- as reached the a m | saw the deed, ran up, but the mur- < understood that an even more falling into the Vilaine that two men, | derers had vanished down the lane. lent than that which about medium height and wearing dark | Help was immediately sent for and the 1y's session was expected suits and round, soft felt hats, emerged | gendarmes quickly arrived, and soon 1 of Dreyfus and would n-un; ar ”y‘m‘hh flmvnm:ithv }mriin afterward Mme. Labor ve occurred but for eneral Mer- Toat One of them carried a heavy :r's prudence. v i E stick. They appreached M. Labori from | RENNES, Aug. 13.—To-morrow’s ses- '1‘,’ 'IT !{""1‘1'"(1".1 Lg-ans mtendediand behind. Suddenly one drew a revolver | sion of the Dreyfus court-martial is o o "\d e o mhinds enniaation v fivea polntiblatiiat Tabori. Iel awalted with{ths) greatestiansicty anall0i- appicraicratace before ithe whole court if he brought up the story of tha B*O+G+Oe° 0600 e e es e e e oo es e eeeg Telations of Dreyfus with Mme. B., | of the tr 0 ( from the Lycee, the route hring_; along a solitary road beside the| % river Villaine. [0 He had reached a point half way | % on his journey when two men, who | % o had evidently been lying in wait | [4] for him, rushed out of a narrow|% X lane, LV”H] one of them /U'xi’ a single| § g | shot from a revolver. The assas-|( 0 sins were only a couple of yards| x ’5 behind their victim, and the bullet | § 3 struck Maitre Labori in the back. | () Q The wounded man uttered an agon- ‘,‘) * | izing cry and fell flat on his face. | & A The assassins tmmediately fled | through the lane from which they | % had emerged and /jn!h escaped. BY ’* At 7:30 o’clock it was announced | ) that the bullet had entered the stom-| % * ach; that there was no ou :i'm'rf‘i * bleeding and that the physicians be- | () 0 licve that M. Labori will die from | % * the wound. fi‘( ¢ * Only two or three laborers going to | () ) work witnessed the shooting of Maltre | ¥ * Labori. The spot was well chosen, as | ( 0 the murderers could not be seen by M. | ¥ * Labori until they rushed out upon their | ) victim, the entrance to the lane being | ¥ * hidden by bushes. Morecover, they we 0 afforded an easy means of escape by | ¥ * passing back through the lane which| 0 MAITRE LABORI, COUNSEL FOR DREYFUS, SHOT AT /) led to the country. One of the laborers. | X EaA M named Patoux, who witnessed the | () RENNES. g shooting, said S D As T was passing along the road I s R s oS assaasessaasasseesansaosn ol saw a tall man walking quickly in the | was so mear thad itV as guite ‘impos- | expectation, in view of the confronta- | whom some newspapers have asserted | SAN MATEQ IS TAKEN BY AMER ICAN TROOPS Lively Fighting Within Ten Miles of Manila, in Which Twenty- Five F ill_mnns Are Killed. ' ANILA, Aug. 13 recon- noisance yesterday by troops of General B. M. Young’s bri- gade, with the object of dis- covering the whereabouts of the enemy near San Mateo, northwest of the San Juan re oir, about ten miles from Manila, resulted in the occupation of San Mateo. The American loss was three killed and thirteen wounded, including a lieatenant of the Twenty-first Infan- try. Twenty-five of the enemy are known to have been killed. The Americans approached San Ma- teo in three columns. Major Cronin, with fifteen men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, advanced from Novatiches, five miles west of San Mateo. Cap- tain Rive ith 100 men of the Fourth Cavalry, and Captain Parker, formerly lieutenant colonel of the Twelfth New York Volunteer Regi- ment, with 280 men of the Twenty- first and Twenty-fourth Infantry and the Fourth Cavalry, .approach: two columns from the south. Major Cronin experienced many dif- ficulties arising from the condition of the country and failed to effect a junétion with Captain Rivers, west of San Mateo, as had been planned Captain Rivers, advancing, took an of the enemy, two miles outpost BATES YET NEGOTIATES WITH THE SULU SULTAN Cable to The Call and the g 1899, by ILOTLO, Philippine Islands, Aug. 1 I have just returned to Tloilo after trip to Jolo, Mindanao and Cebu. Gen- eral Bates is still negotiating for a the Sultan of the Sulu treaty with s Islands. The Sultan is as yet unwill fered by ing the to accept the terms Americans. He says that the Spaniards misrepresented to the world the nature aty which he made with them, and he wishes to limit the Americans to the occupation of the town of Jolo He claims the island of Siassi alone. and the town as his own. ave the support of hi: chiefs, many of whom express friendl sentiments toward the Americans. Yo- anine, the most powerful chief in the Sulu Islands, said in an interview that he was willing to force the Sultan to terms merican prop- ositions ymplain of the seems not to h if he refused the All the chiefs bad treatment the Sultan has given them. . " £ 5 The Chinese population of Siassi which was formerly held by the Span- jards, but was given over by them to the Sultan’s men, are being squeezed financially by a duty of 5 per cent ox exports and imports. In an interview the Chiese said it would be a most e cellent change if the Americans were substituted for their pr ult 2nt rulers. The flag is now floating over The Sultan recently addec rifles and a large store of am s previous stock of three | an’s hundred rifles. A war between the control among the Mor 5 a war with the Americans, provided we | ing chiefs | do not interfere with their religion and i acted as a go-between for Dreyfus and i ¢ | the attache to whom he is alleged to )¢ % | have made treasonable revelations. | General Mercier abstained from ref- P . 2 COLONEL. 2 lerence to the story, but despite this the INOURE] people -in the court thought for a mo- o ¢ | ment that L fus was about to strike i ® | Mercier, until a captain of gendarmes | D¢ + | took him gently by the arm and pushed i 4 | him back into his seat. o | The Petit Journal and some other 3¢ [} S g & . . . & . 1t is based on the fact that there has not been any decided fall in the | barometer in the localities that should | o feel its effect, and by the p ence of | 4 n area of high pressure in the north- | ern part of the United States which | g i1l | tends to keep the storm from continu- | J fear | ing on its onward march. The move- be nec- | ment of the hurricane is apparently | [ Saaben S E "j"' very slow, and even at Jacksonville the ’ St i Sk d it v of the wind this morning was | 7 1 the States will contribate | Put twenty-one miles an hour. The|? ) dicines and money. | opinion of the offici is that by the ¢ ef surgeon of the de- | time Charleston is reached there will be | ¢ 5 airman of the relief board, | no more than an ordinary blow. Wil-| ¢ B¢ _boards are organizing in all | mington, N. C., and Norfolk have taken | ¢ b Five military posts not vet|down their hurricane signals. The|? b DAVIS. | ¢iorm now appears to be on the east | T Davis' second dispatch coast of Florida, and the latest reports | ¢ © DE PORTO RICO, Aug. 1 from Jupiter, dated at 4 o’clock thi * Dut ""“{:4::“11!;'” TEvu morning, indicate a pretty severe blow (¢ T < B B o apoi et Siomis: |atithatiplace. Ttisrow southiofiJack: [:$ SR e o L) in New York to receive relief funds and | Sonville, indicating’a slow northward | ¢ 4 | papers, including those published here, cupplies, cabling tities and kinds | movement since last night. The bureau | ¢ sused the foreign press men present shipped on Colonel Hofer, | has had no wire reports south of Titus- | © in the court of being the authors of the medical !,’53.?;”'1“ r:\v!,]:«y)e’,'\)—’w'») relief work | ijle, Fla., some distance below Jack- | ¢ | demonstration against Mercier when he % tons of food. Bes( fo be | sonville, since last night, and nothing | & 1658 the couxe. Thesecialion &t rich and cheap grade cod-|from N 1, Bahama Islands, since . ulous and was prnlpplfld !’)y ‘lh(- obvious goods_in 2ce, needles and read « | ‘lude fore Eeeded. Money will be applied in o = I3 COLONEL © | what they maintain is purely a French ing to r*“*l["f’rr"";;";r;;',f;“’m';"j‘- o ey DRENENEY, B e W ® PANIZZARDI. + 1 matter. It was even stated That meas Ul kinds of rough lum- | Five Lives Lost by the Sinking of a |+ < | wres would be iaken sesinst the for- x hooks, French Vessel, ledes 4 | eign correspondents. About sixty of the ng and | | NDON. Aug The French schoo- | 4 1;‘1'?,&:'?3 rh'i’fgp”'fu"é'r’fi, ltnh DRotes | LOM N4 E - | agains 4 3 g the cours poses b ner Pauoboto w':i:/ ::x“xf”.x:,“;_»,;|l|',q«>,n to-day | & : : of the proceedings, Mme. sm»mne,"{;s building barracks ayes Ove persons were drowned. T ¢ Three Important Characters Involved in the Dreyfus {|famous woman journalist, came on be- Aibomao, wholly destroyed. | rescued the remainder of the crew. | & i 4 | half of the committee of the French ju- DAVIS. et J Case. & | diciary pr ‘.hwhnh‘hald jr;lst held a ————— ) meeting on the subject and com i- RUIN AND DEATH IN % th“ M‘:rdfirer ]?gnham. j Colonel Schwarzkoppen was in 1804 the German military attache at : cated the fact that no measures a::i‘:lt SAN JOSE, Aug 1 ~Sheriff Langford to- | ¢ Parts, from whose waste basket the famous bordereau was claimed to have 7| the foreign press would be taken or GUADELOUPE ISLANDS‘A’ fneieived aldinn B coni m&r of De-| & been taken. Count Panizzardi was the Italian military attache, to whom ¢ | were contemplated and that, should the Foar ‘Ilv';zul‘h;l he 1dentity ofiC. P -N(';‘n”m& ¢ this “loyal” letter wa$ said to have been addressed by Schwarzkoppen. & |press be excluded from the courtroom, s [ e Abiiohed “and that he wad | & Colonel Maurel was president of the court-martial which convicted Dreyfus ¢ | French newspaper men would be treated Spectal Cable to The Call and the New York | wel] known in Warren, Ohio. TLis settles in 1884 and to whom General Mercier handed secret documents to be shown , | exactly the same as foreigners. The Herald. Copyrighted, 156, by James Gor- [ 0" cicd that he is not murderer Dun. || to the members of the court in private. 4 | meeting thereupon decided to treat the don Pennett ham, as the latter was born and raised | & ; G POINTE-A-PITRE, Guade}_o!ipe_.}us. 1 m)v.‘h_m county. AOWWMMM&&O-QWH—Q— Continued on Second Page. Moros friendly | naldo in Luzon was settled. customs. = For. the first time in it people can travel about £ among the Moros safely. island without a guard, through a wild country to interview the Sultan Maibun. He received me with court and gave me this signed statemen “This certifies that his Highness Sul- | tan Hadgi Mohamad Womolol Kiram, | is like a brother to the nation of Amer- icans and wants to know if they are the same to him.’ General Bates has shown great s n conciliating the native chiefs. Moro chiefs of the island of Mindanao do not | acknowledge allegiance to the Sultan of Sulu. Dato, the chief mandi of Min- danao, came to visit General Bates in | Jolo to assure him of his friendliness | toward the Americans. On my trip to Mindanao T found the but the towns of Zam- goango and Mercedes are held by insur- gents. They number 500 men and -are armed with rifles under their lcader, Alvarez, who stated to the commands of the Castine that he desired to b neutral until the difficulty with Agui- If the lat- ter were beaten he would surrender. In Cebu the insurgents still hold their strong positions in the mountains. The majority of the population do not want to fight, but are hostile in spirit A native servant of an American officer was caught by the insurgents and branded on the forehead with the word “traitor.” In the case of Tloilo the insurgents are intrenched about the nearby towns Jaro and Molo. The rainy season pre- vents an active campaign, but consider- able fighting may be expected in the fall. The rich natives have not returned to their homes. The island of Negros is still unsettled General Hughes has sent extra troops to suppress the uprising. The richer class of natives are gradually return- | ing to their homes. ST TRIEKY FILIPINOS WITH FLAG OF TRUCE MANILA, Aug. 14—While the Seven- teenth Infantry, during last Tuesday battle, was approaching Calulnt along the road, the troops saw a group of fifty Filipinos outside the town under a flag of truce. Some, who were in white clothing, held up their hands to signify that they were unarmed. Captain Hart, with a detachment, ad- vanced cautiously to a point within 200 yards of them, when the Filipinos picked up their guns and fired a volle The Americans dropped into the bushe unhurt on the first movement and re- turned the fire. At this the Filipinos ran off. Word" has been received from Lieu- tenant J. C. Gilmore of the United States gunboat Yorktown. who, with _4fourteen members of the crew of the) , gunboat, was captured by the The Sultan | I's kill | Special Dispetch to The Call. southwest of San Mateo. He then en- countered strong resistance among the hil the enemy firing from excel- lent positions. Having failed to con- nect with Major Cronin and seeing that the town was already occupied by the Americans, Captain Rivers withdrew, coverng his withdrawal by a heavy volley. He lost a sergeant killed. Captain Parker, on advancing, found the enem rongly intrenched on the far side of some rice fields, about a mile wide, and covered with deep mud. Pushing forward rapidly he routed the Filipinos, after forty minutes , and then continued the march upon San Mateo, which he entered without s ous resistance about half-past 1 in the afternoon. Major Cronin entered the town about half past 4. T Americans still occupy the place. The American troops were exhausted by the heavy marching. This is the first action in which Colonel Burt's colored troops have participated. They behaved well, their leades having difficulty in hold- ing them back. General Young accompanied Cap- tain Parker’s column and was under fire throughout the engagement. It is estimated that the enemy number- ed between 500 and 400 men. insur- gents last April near Baler on the east coa of Luzon. The message, which | comes through Spanish prisoners, is to the effect that the officer and his men are at Vigan, in the province of South | Tlocos, on the west coast of Luzon. All but two are well. Lieutenant Gilmore allowed a house and a servant and is fairly treated. e [INSURGENTS HAVE TAKEN THE AGGRESSIVE MANILA, Aug. 13.—The insurgents have taken the aggressive in the neigh- borhood of the railroad. On Saturday night they unsuccessfully attacked San Luis, on the Rio Grande, near Calum- | pit, Which is garrisoned by two compa nies of the Twent; econd Infantry. The Americans had one man, a ser- nt, kill and two privates wound- ed. Yesterday morning a similar affair took place at Gringua, four miles west of Malolos, where another small garr stationed as a safeguard against sible attack upon the railway. A special train took reinforcements to Malolos and Guiganto, just north of Bulacan. - ENSIGN M’FARLAND’S WORK APPRECIATZD WASHINGTON, | 1z, 13.—Following is the text of Commander Sperry's report, reciting the exploits of Ensign H. C. Farland in the vicinity of Manila. xn H. G which sailed re . returned on the | 9tn, > h_she appears to e about six sunply for active cruis- | ing. with freque: he_Samar the west coast of lioilo from the north, having te circuit of Panay close along A herewith is a copy of the command- s report from the capture of thirteen all_but one of which was destroyed e the trade ay have been on the t Panay formerly, I am of ents are mainly occu- n throwing troops into Negros and Levte uthwest Luzon and Panay, and General hes is of the same opinion reaking up this traffic sent out with the cruising to you in my cipher tele- arland ex- h Ensign MacF: command is extremely satisfactory. and makes ho requests ter. It is very desirable craphed for _should _be amar’s Nordenfeldts, n MacFarland has factory tempor- ears to have a Springfiel shipped at o but_in the mean made what he re ry arrangements, and he ap genius for making things work OTIS’ LATEST LIST OF CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—General Otis reports the following additional casual- ties: Killed—August 9, Thirty-sixth Infantry, near San Fernando. Corporals Louis J. Wagner and 2 w Wilson. Wounded nteenth Infantry., Com- pany D, } s Nilan, chest, very se- vere; John J. Woods, forearm, moderate; ere; Company arm, severe; Company thigh, severe: John slight. Twelfth In- 1, | Corporal Albert estine Boline, elbow, Hamel, . Edward Woods, Wraymond, thigh, v, Company Company C, ver ,_chest, Thirty-sixth Infant jor John ‘Hugh Braden, knee, slight; Company D, Captain_ Robert B._ Obernly, forearm, slight; Company C, Matthew E. Hann, arm, severe; Company D, James F. Hig- gins, thigh, slight; Company M; Michael McCarthy, knee, slight; John Ray. knee, slight. Twenty-fourth Tnfantry at_ De- posito, Company Corporal L. B. Price, foot, moderate, Fleventh, Fourth In- fant v, near Novalleta, Company B, Clem Wonghtel, leg. ght AGRARIAN RIOTERS ON TRIAL IN GUADELOUPE They Are Charged With Wrecking a Plantation and Attacking Three Englishmea. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 13.—A dis- patch from the island of Guadeloupe re- ports a trial there of the ringleaders of an agrarian riot involving e wrecking of a plantation and a murderous attack on three Englishmen by 600 men, in which the correctional tribunal attributed the outrage to ‘“the prevalling unwholesome excitement fomented by socialistic propa- ganua.” Dutch Steamer Wrecked. CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 13.—It i8 re- ported here that the Dutch steamer Princa Wilhelm V has been wrecked off the coast of Demerara. the -