The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1899, Page 1

80 bet ey o0t } the [ in A Oy iR ~— Y. ++44 R —— SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST BRITISH WARSHIP TRAINS HER GUNS UPON RUSSIANS Cossacks Forcibly Eject English Workingmen From Disputed Land at Hankow, in China. GUNBOAT DISPERSES ATTACKING PARTY HANGHAI, Aug. 27.—As the outcome of a disp lands at Hankow, on the Y Kiang, abou in 1863 by the concern sequently inclu in the new concessi under the ad / ion of Mr. Hurs sent workmen to fence in the tract. iork was begun a dozen Cossacks from the , but were . Russia, t, the British Co to b4 f scene and forcibly ejected the workm > British second-class gunboat ce on the river, after consulii and moved the For a ti n consulate T RESTRICT TRADE WITH MANILA ion of the United States Relative to Status of the Philippines and Foreign Countries. LL NO Wi S BOER A 1 into the hands ceeding the o HERBERT SPENCER IS OPPOSED TO WAR Shooting Down of Beers Placed in the Light of Unnecessary Murder. NEW YORK, Aug. le from London says Herbert Spenc n to have public an subject from E have been unava pencer can easil »wn of his health a controversy, but his friend and dis- the morning papers comment the seriousness of the situation as led on Saturday at marks the ed. The Standard say critical stage yet reac The Daily News observes: “We can- not but suppose that such grave words were well weighed beforehand.” “Such a delicate sit- uation canrot We be- that within the last few days the s of the general direc- which will be The Times says be protracted. final arrangem of the expedition, ecessary in t event of a rupture, been completed at the war office. s scarcely necessary to point out me danger of allowing en- to South Africa of arms which W T SRS SR . R SHSEIR ) N Bt . WA & DR JTarmeson TOTERMS ... S WL BURSERZ b PROMINENT BOE KRUGER’'S RESIGNATION @+ v e d o e e ebeied . PA.CRONJE R L) R LEADERS OF THE YOUNGER SET Y ‘WO+@+W'M CONTINUING THE POLICY OF ismgid el CONCILIATION prevers' Fo otis still Too Lemient i [{{§ NOT FLE -Dealing With Natives | of Luzon. o FROM RENNES S\HTH \IORE SEVERE;RumorThamovernment Has Decided to Take Him Into Custody. I CLYY 1Y DANGER — Colonel of the Twelfth Orders That All Men Who Attempt to Pass the Lines Be Shot. g Special Disp to The Call PUEBbeahe G ins Believed to Have Given to a News- . Aug 27The Polls 4 paper a document of the + pondenz says that a 4 Q + 5 SRk | Secret Dossier. + + —_— + ngton to promote a scheme + ecial Diapats The Cal + for ceding the Philippines to + P b e q ENNES, Aug. 28.—Gen- DR SR S SRR R S S eral Mercier was present 1 in the front row of the fourth | tial trial of | gun this when pe ¥ municipal through Captain mornin pany war with a k : new ed draug the Mayor of S day n Pedro Ma- 5 e gUl , who S was, elected by the people | Satur n of Professor Dean | the aid of a b ted State o e YiE e was using hi ation for secute the ire for disguised of the *( e de ing him. The on docu- ag was also arrested : ot the same prison. Tt lof 1894, and which m passing between s with inc: which the authori object of the Gov- who communi- The assumpti made by | | m, or possibly | The publication oc- tion at T nd Pro- engineered, was | curred >, but under the | > A inquired | foy prosecution may be maintained at | the wher of the any time during the following five | choice and were In-|yearg i | — The Government has fssued orders | | for the prosecution of a contributor to the Eclaire and M. Hassard, director of | the Patrie. The former will be charged | | with having printed a perversion of the | “Canaille ¢ D—" document as “that | | beast of a Dreyfus is really becoming too exacting.” FOR A semi-official note issued this even- | Aubron Herbert, who is rse ¥ Au Herbert, who is qurl ing s the following announce- g the ghestion | =oor ding the question | ".pl oiatistical section of the general He write an anti- staff bureau at the war office no longer concerns itself with espionage ques- tions, which are now properly confined point that 3 1 the | to the detective service. The statistical thing in a c , in- tion is especially concerned with the minds and consciences, | relations of the war office to French al p and military attaches abroad.” evening it was rumored that the with us, rnment has decided to arrest Gen- > Government succeeds in | eral Mercier, but the rumor is not con- us to this war. Then when | fir oting down a race | Last evening a report was in circula- | 1 virtues, and whose signation we al- d and unquestioned, 28, PRICE FIVE CENTS, ARREST OF GENERAL MERCIER EXPECTED Q++0056040+0 0+ 0+040 9045400000000 0e@ B i o A 2 GUARDING THE (‘)00¢¢§¢4¢¢¢06‘#"¢0¢ + ¢ FOOD FOR GUERIN. S oo RN 4L /57s i PARIS, Aug. 27.—The anti- Semites assert they are convey- ing food supplies by an under- ground passage to Jules Guerin and his beleaguered companions in the Rue Chambrol. To-day a man was arrested for .ttacking the Republican Guards stationed in that t The troops on the e been in- creased, but otherwise there has been no change in the situation since yesterday. AFRLYInG Rm L T R A R 444ttt bbbttt bt P R R R R E B DREYFUS. " HOM G S R R B I e o 4 . & V s s of secret serv agents are ( elling to prevent violence being done to . @+ o - T e S e i S e = B e S = 1 tion that General Mercier hac fled to | any ics f Albert Clemenceau, the Isl of Jersey, but this story | i2inty r and brother of proved to be without foundation. Early said to-day: this morning the gendarmes were still er! b used as a posted outside of the residence of Gen- | Sfientific tmbecil b Boicgonid s eral St. Germain, militafy commander | has long been acquainted wi before nard’s brill; effort of this district, with whom General Mercier has been staying during the | trial. Their presence indicated that he was still there, and in reply to ques-{ tions they declare that they had not | seen him leave the grounds. | This afternoon he was undoubtedly | at home, although he declined to re-| ceive caller: No one who has studied his character and methods believes that | General Mercier would flee at the pros- pect of arr He has altogether too | much doggedness in his composition. General St. Germain’s house is of the suburbs of Rennes. e 2 SHOWS THE FALLACIES [ OF BERTILLON’S SYSTEM NEW YORK, Aug. 2T.—A World cabl from Rennes says: The World corres pondent was Invited this afternoon to at- tend a private refutation of M. Bertillon’ system, by which he claims to identify | the old-time faults |- have lost sight of the main afternoon asto p to the present the obvious Scotch simple means h PE h applies to the case. a oug! f s to show the rors of M. Bert ecution and perhaps Moreo , M. B S more violen! in their that all of M. Bertillon’s meas es. plied to the bordereau have be g composed of laymen, all his calculations m in a different mentai aymen admit senti- vers invariably ward 1 to the question cip:.. were applied Eive an b ‘adduced at Rennes a nard ‘sma . Un i be needed to find what eral Merc should_come 1i thunderbolt to him, M. Bertillon w y tried by the exist- with the fury of a ma " the trial should legally innocent u s. Thus far thers Bertillon b ould he be recon- to-morrow, and to-day the chan will be ga DREYFUS PRNZIECUTION’S WEAKNESS EXPOSED NEW YORK, Aug. and de: al informal: Sewer Contract Let. P WATSONVII tract for Aug. 2.—The con- n of the Watson- 1 last evening to ville Besler & A Journal eable and that be- has existed formed that he was in prison at Bili- n from the | Db A the authoriti had placed sted their ion of being a revolution- up to our own day; He was released and installed as adually dawn upon | Mayor. o d"‘:_i,‘ ;‘f "A"ff‘ MEN | such events and conditions tend to Tained Dlimaar i the | give color to the assertions of foreign ich our restless and unscrup- | residents acquainted with the native character, whe insist that a great ma- ulous politicians play?” I A S S W S SN jority of the nativ ympathize witl YR X PEemo | surgents and elect officials whom the © | they know to be revolutionists. 4| For two weeks Manila has been po- % | liced at night with unusual vigilance. 4 | Apparently the authorities are expect- € | iny trouble. 4| The trend of affairs tends to make the | @ | policy of leniency unpopular among the + | Americans. When the Filipinos aban- | & | doned Morong they burned the wh\l-" + | town. Colanel Smith of the Twelfth In- fantry, who is in command at Angeles, | © | ja skeptical regarding Filipino friend- | | ship. Instead of allowing the natives to return to the town as heretofore, he | # | has ordered his troops to shoot all men @ | trying to pass the lines and to turn back the women and children. He re- cently gave the amigos in the town an | opportunity to prove their professed | | friendship, putting them at work dig- | ging trenches and cleaning streets, but | this only displeased them. | The foremost citizen- of Angeles, a | lawver who had welcomed the Ameri- | cans with a great show of cordiality, | was found communicating with the in- surgents. The Amnericans promptly | marched him off to San Fernando to | stand trial. THORITE TO BE USED AGAINST FILIPINOS WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—So satlsfac- tory have been the results of experl- ments made with thorite, the new high explosive, that it will be recommended by the Board of Ordnance and Fortifica- tions for use in the Philippine campaign. General Miles told me this afternoon it probably would be so employed. Being president of the board, the gen- eral has paid close attention to high ex- plosives and has given especial considera- tion to thorite. Up to this time it has successfully undergone the various trials to which it has been subjected. It will explode, according to official reports, only by means of a detonator, and then only when confined. A quantity of thorite can | be distributed on a hard surface and | struck with a hammer and will not ex- plode. It is not inflammable. If placed | Bbon a hot surface it will merely burn into_a crisp. A red-hot poker placed in the explosive will only burn the grains with which it comes into contact and | the fire will not spread to the rest of the substance. Two 10-inch _shells loaded with the explosive were fired through a 5-inch plate and falled to explode. When discharged by means of a de- @ *o . R R LSS S S S | amounts. of walls the first of the | tonator the explosive s order, breaking the steel nto small particles of advantages have caused regard _thorite with con- >st. When Secretary Root Hook proving grounds visits the Sandy on Thursday he may witness another trial of the explosive. he great value of a high explosive which may be safely fired from high- power guns has long been apgrec!mm | by military men. The twelve dynamite q-ms which will be shipped this week to Manila are excellent in their way, but it i{s believed that, working in conjunc- tion with high-power guns throwing thorite, the moral effect, not to mention the death and destruction they will deal, will have a salutary effect upon the Fili- pinos. “ OTIS IS MERCIFUL ‘ TO CONDEMNED MEN, WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—A report just received by the War Department from General Otis gives details of the court- martial proceedings in a number of cases. ! In one case three officers of the Span- | ish army in charge of the Presidio of Ma- nila were accused of embezzling large The commandant of the Presi- | dio, Carlos Aymerich, was acquitted, but | Captain Zorita was found guilty of em- bezzling $10,548 and Adjutant Ruiz was found guilty of embezzilng a like amount. They were sentenced to con- finement at hard labor for three years, | but General Otis reduced the sentence to | six months, owing to the confinement they had already served. One of the Spanish prisoners of war, Rafael Albert, was convicted of having brutally mur- dered another soldier and was sentenced to be hanged. The sentence was disap- proved on technical grounds and the Spanish soldier continues to be held a prisoner of war. One of the court-martial cases gives the acquittal of an American volunteer officer and several soldiers on the charge of having looted a house at Iloilo and taking furniture and crockery, silver- ware, jewelry, etc., at the time of the occupation of the city. In another cas a Filipino native was found guiity of kill- ing a Chinese and sentenced to be hanged, but General Otis disapproved the ng. o1 findi General Otis in general order No. 9 di- rects that the troops give particular at- tentfon to furnishing full protection to the lives and property of all Germay in- habitants of the islands. Az the Cchsul of Germany is looking_ to the security of the Swiss, Austrian, Italian and Portu- uese residents, Injunction was given to urnish similar’ protection to these peo- ple. General Otis’ desire to prevent disorder within Manila is shown by frequent orders. In one order the troops are warned against the seizing of horses, car- riages or other property. The burning of houses is strictly prohibited, unless the same are used to shelter the enemy or as places of concealment for contraband of war. General Otis states “the lives of the inhabitants, natives and foreigners, will be protected and they will be permitted to pursue their ordinary vocations with- out molestation or harm.” CHILDREN PERISH IN ~ L BURNING CONVENT Many Lives Known fo Have Been Lost During a Conflagration That Razed St. Amne’s at Sparkill, N. Y. PARKILL, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Fire this morning destroyed St. Anne’s Convent here, and it is reported that many children have been burned to dea‘h. There were upward of 500 occupants in the building when the fire broke out. NEW YORK, Aug. A special to the World from Nyack says: Fire was discovered in the large boys’ and girls’ orphan asylum connected with St. Ann’s Convent at Sparkill, Orange County, at 1 a. m. to-day (Mon- day), but not before the entire structure, a frame building, was wrapped in flames. Many of the inmates (children) were burned or suffocated, it was reported early this mor:'ag. The exact number of the dead could not be told at 3:15 a. m., when the first dispatches reached this city. George A. Martine of Sparkill, one of those who first discovered the fire, telephoned to Nyack for assistance. Mazeppa engine company respond- ed from that place. Eight doctors went to the asylum from Nyack. A request for aid was telephoned to Piedmont. Empire Engine Com- pany was dispatched from Piedmont to the scene of the fire. Piedmont is this side of Nyack and both engines with their complements of fire-fighters ar- rived at about the same time. The asylum, which is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, held about 1000 children. It was a long frame building, three stories high. The flames were not discovered until the whole building was one mass of fire. The children had a scant chance for escape. The secens at the conflagration were heartrending. The children, clad in their night robes, could be seen falling backward into the furnace of flame and smoke, while the shrieks of the dying could be heard above the crackle of the devouring flames. Some of the children were crippled for life by jumping from the windows. Many of the Sisters were injured, while others lost their lives heroically while trying to rescue their charges. Although the service of the fire apparatus from neighboring places had been promptly rendered, the engines arrived too late to be effective in sav- ing life or property. The fire started on the upper floor of the three-story building. Nearly 300 of the occupants of the convent occupied rooms on this floor and all the dormitories were lighted with kerosene lamps. There is little doubt that the fire was caused by the explosion of one of these lamps. The fire spread rapidly upward and burned through the shingle roof of the building in two places. At the time of discovery the fire had made such progress that the Sis- ters could not-awaken the hundreds of children under their care, mar- shal them in order and march them from tke building, as was their practice in the fire drills. Many of the little victims were suffocated in their sleep. 28