The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1899, Page 1

The Tall SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1899. BOERS MASSING ARTILLERY MONTEREY KILLED | IN COMMANDING POSITIONS BYA PR'SONERiwmm the Transvaal Is P;e—pgrl—mj for a Clash With Great Britain, the Orange Free State Is Anxious to Secure American Intervention. PRICE FIVE CENTS, FRENCH SENATORS CONVENE AS A HIGH Scemes at the Beginming of the Trial of Deroulede, Guerin and Other Politicians Charged With Con- spiring to Overthrow the Republic. SHERIFF FARLEY OF Militiamen Turn Qut and Citizens Threaten to Lynch the | Assassin. 3 Special Dispatch to The Call. i ! { | } %,, L e e e R e o S s Special Dispatch to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. + | : o | ARIS, Sept. 18.—The Senate met| M. Fallieres then declared the Senate ALINAS, Sept. 18.—Sheriff Farley was shot and almost instantly | ¢ | as a High Court of Justice to-| constituted as a high court, and the 4 killed to-night while attempting to arrest Charles Ceaser. The ® day at 2 p. m. for the purpose of | clerk of the court called the roll of Sen- le county was aroussd and thousands of people thronged the streets. k4 trying twenty-two politicians, in- who answered with the word Ceaser captured at a late hour, and the office were obliged to 4 > cluding MM. de Monicourt. De- ent.” take > the hills to avoid the infuriated mob, who threatened to ¢ | roulede, Mar: Habert, Thebaud. Baron was momentary excitement lynch | ® de Vaux and Jules Guerin, on the| when President Fallieres concluded |+ | charge of conspiring against the Gov- reading the President’'s decree. A ernment. The public and pre gal- | Rightist Senator, M. Lamarzelle. began t his hon ‘onstable | © leries were crowded by 1:45 p. m., and | to speak, and lieres said sharply, e S e B e e e e e e o S SR Y who m he would | ¢ 3 him in charge. Ceasar| & the Senators’ places were filled a few “T not hear " and the Leftists o officer could take him| ¢ minutes before 2 o’clock. Then the roll insisted, and M. Fallieres again said: d drew his pistol. The officer | & of a drum was heard in the distance. I cannot hear you,” and the Lefists his, too, and both men fired.| ¢ § announcing that President Fallieres. shouted “Order! Order!” r shot took effect. C r fled | o accompanied by the Senate officers. was A Rightist Senator, Provost de Lau- fired at him + approaching. A few moments later a nay, thereupon cried, pointing to the ed from | & door on the t of the chamber was | Leftists, “There are our judges!” started | ¢ thrown open and the chief usher an-| At this there was a general shout of . jon. A& nounced the president. M. Fallieres “Oh!" and “Silence!” from the Leftists 5 T rd shots in| ¢ entered, and bowing to the two officers and the galle; the public and mem- ome and hur- | & who, with naked sword in hand. had bers of the pr the latter being g e . 1 et Ceasar, | § escorted him through the corridors of throughout the proceedings more audi- dle t 1d stopped | ¢ the palace to the chamber, proceeded an the Senators the Ives. M. 2 'n came up| { 8 to the platform and took his seat be- res, howeve with a rapping of : i Farley In- | ¢ hind the table on the center of the his mallet, restored order ! [o! whom he had always| { ¢ | platform. The lead . when the roll b friendly with, that he would have | [ © | None of the accused were present nor ws called, MM. Con 3 o co th him. Ceasar made no an- | § + | in the palace to-day, but nine cells have urer-Kestner and Merci — swer, but delibe ¥ shot the officer | { ® been fitted up for them in the library. Then the door through which M. Fal- Zrodp the head and then escaped toward | [ 1 | The cells are comfortably furnished. | lieres entered was again opened wide v 1 ey : me‘ & b L@ 0006000000000 0000000000t d ottt e officers | ¥ o1 1 Bl was a| $ L .o © + . 5 Pl 3 k F heriff Keef at about | & © e ' € t n the | & @ > found | ¢ k3 . gt . | * %l @ | h | ¢ 4 iy + ¥ > ® rised of Ceasar's o o e e 3 | ¢ 3 g search of him. | Continued on Sscond Page | & * 1 * 7 [ 2 This famous organization of fighters will soon be sent to join the force that Great Britain is massing in South g ol > N T - P . | © Africa in anticipation of hostilities with the Boers. SECOND WARS F ! 2l N L N YV O\ o ) (@000 0000000000060 eI eI s eiesiedtededeisds +iesisietdesisisbeieg the it | instead of quie t che hands of an cverwhelming Brit- said: It these colors — £ - E T - == - 1 ONDON, Sept. 19.—The special| The Prince of Wales prep ions to crush \\ [ [ L D I— O Eg \ BL V F = dispatches from South Africa o new colors to the Ge Africar Y 41, | Q@ B .([i DL, X | D)3 ) t ort telegraphed v t Brackiey, Scotland ¢t President Kruger's dispatch pre- s : ) : tng f:to the:ctnture of Dargal Helght 1. %lii tAks'advantags C i \ P ] '\/;’ '»\T’ N1 I northern part of Afghanistan by of the unp: R b" SN { _/l N E l L C I A troops as a memorable and and Bechuanaland f <2 = P < Sichee =l e ement en, amid g blow at British g the Princ your part to carry of the Afrikander Bund the | w sm, intend to conv i1 be ish for So Serious Has the Revo!ution Become That the Appre- TS S S S O 0 S S S SO D S O S D R S O S S S S S o S SR S to consider the situa- | to victory 3 " = i 3 e 8 War is now deemed unavoidable, al- Sl i The ln; e of \-»lv'k and the :Duke of | ipeh oyt o % anen secrut that Tard . . LONDON, Sept. 19 e Cape Town | Connaught were also present. isbury has been all along a restrain- hension Is Shared by All Diplomats at Caracas, | corepondent o the Daily Mai save: | BERLIN. Sept. 13- 7The Astociated |ine. nfience on Joseph Chamberiatn i The United States Consul in Cape Town | Press learns authoritatively that the | and is anxious to avoid hostilities if it ¢ Md the America“ Miflister Wi” gone to Blomfoentein at the re- | German Government has emphatically | 15 possible; but the British Cabinet 4 quest of the Gove ent of the Orange | informed President Kruger to expect no "‘H}"tn;t !l;*}]‘“*':*'{fdf\fi";»"’ ‘::;'“:;';”l‘“"”‘l" I State y conf . rdi o 1iansis Bait e avel oL WAL whicl amberla 01 ec e fl r t fl- P t | State to confer regarding the | assistance in the event of war With | Ninide Wiy Tatest dispateh, and he urry to Bis rost. [ The Orange Free State execu- | Great Britain, and that the German |ii'giciared fo have made the refusal | + | tive is anxious to secure American In- | Consuls in the Transvaal have been in-| of all outside arbitration an essential | & | tervention. Boer sples invest all the | structed to inform Germans who volun- | condition of his continuance ¢ ; 3 | border towns. Two troops will be dis- | teer their help that they will be aiding | In fact the idea of arbitratio D Special Dispatch to The Call. | patchea to Kimberly within-ia week, | President Kruger at thelr. own ris | entirely ignored by the Britis y ;3 — Five hundred started to-night and | PRETORIA, Sept. 18.—The Transvaal Wr‘;?ffufl?“fi:r"d ""]r';;?“_“-;}:‘,f"r"fn': How )8 “AQ < - L s - hers will go forward to-morrow. The | State etary,: F.. W. Reitz. in the |2V OUSY Pf peshid et e A S Sept. a8 — eS C er e ot S i ¢ temper of F dent Kruger's response | ¢ ARACAS, Sept. 18 —The T nn'etl Stal(..~ cruiser I)ur‘mt Daily Chronicle points out this morning | course of an interview to-day, declared | (" the Jatest Bri note. (& He is conducting the prosecution of twenty-two politicians who are now J arrived to-dav. Government forces have rCOCL‘llple(] that the Orange Free State would prob- | that the Government, the V aad | — - | on trial on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the Government. )¢ v OLIVE SCHREINER'S ably better serve the Transvaal by re- |and the people were unanimous reg Puerto Cabello. Troops are being mobilized at Vic- | maining neutral than by active assist- ing the attitude which the Transvaal L e o o D O s SICS S DD A toria under General Luciano Meridoza. Puerto Cabello is a sea- use the easiest route for | has assumed, and that there was no | PLEA FOR THE BOERS The floor is covered with linoleum and | and three tall figures, in long scarlet Castro, on Saturday. On Sunday he was reported as having |and Vaal s iassented that fthe ”‘:rf’:‘“l\ir':\(n‘(‘),:“,\,ggi,l::rl:,ly\,umj:;p:;:i sxf\va\‘], an e rh;\;r. an:(;u;rlrm;uw’r-:vug ;nwl, a( 'Imz,,,(_»!u.‘..}! [1;,,““]11;‘(_ | toilet table, a cuspidor a ug. s | form, took up their places on the right reached Maracai, which lies between Puerto Cabello and Vic- toria. WASHINGTON, Sept. :8.—While a condition of affairs exists in Venezuela the authorities say that American interests are not in danger to such an extent as to justify a naval demonstration being made in Venezuelan waters. Only a re- quest for another warship made by Commander Hemphill, com- manding the Detroit. will cause the issuance of an order to the gunboat Nashville to proceed to Puerto Cabello. Commander 10 reached La Guayra to-night, will make an inves- he situation and wire the result to Washington. Advices from Mr. Russell, American Charge d’Affaires, are not conclusive, but they show that his apprehension ared by other diplomats in Caracas, and he has confirmed The Call's lh;pnt(h that the Ministers of Great Britain and Germany 1eir Governments for warships. The information Department is to the effect that the insurgents have occupied Valencia and Puerto Cabello and are now moving along the railroad connectin Valencia with Caracas. No sur- prise would be experienced if another battle should occur at Victoria. Francis B. L.oomis, American Minister to Venezuela, was at the State Department to-day in consultation with officials. Mr. Loomis considers the situation sufficiently grave to require his departure at once for his post, and he left Washington this af- ternoon for New York, where he will take the first steamer for La Guay Official information shows that the revolution owes its suc- cess to a combination of the forces of Gener als Castro and Her- nandez. Castro’s army was badly beaten some weeks ago, and it was believed that it could not reorganize. About the same time the Government arrested Hernandez and some of his friends in Caracas. It is presumed that the followers of Her- nandez immediately joined Castro and that the insurrectionary movement thus attained sufficient force to succeed, as it has done. serious Hemphill, w tigation of t is have wired t of the State The Cape Town correspondent of the | Daily Chronicle says: “It is reported | | here that Conynghym Greene, British | diplomatic agent at Pretoria, fears that | ated last year, empowering the Govern- | | an attempt will be made to dynamite | Ment to confiscate the claims and mines | 8 : | belonging to people convicted of trea- | | a o £ the British agency. against the State.| junction with the Orange Free State. | The Volksraad to-day readopted the | mining article on the gold law elimin- | | : = gon or conspiracy | Mr. Chamberiain came to London|and empowering the Government to from Birmingham this afternoon and | order that the mines be worked. and if their instruction is disregarded to work them through their own agents. The re- adopted article comes into force im- mediately. 00M PAUL MAY BE THE FIRST TO STRIKE W YORK, Sept. 18.—A World ca- spent the evening at the Colontal Office. | While there he received a dispatch from | Lord Salisbury, who is at Hatfleld | House, and sent a special messenger. There has been a lively interchange of | dispatches between the Foreign, War and Colonial offices, but no summons has yet been issued for a Cabinet coun- cil. Long dispatches were sent this even- | N. : ; L i ; Yen- | p1o from London says: Transvaals S ‘1,f1h:htTffifi‘sfi"uli"g‘% L‘"?Af ur- | Grm refusal of Great Britain's latest e sh High Commission- | gornangs has undoubtedly provoked er in South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner. | | General Sir Garnet Wolseley. mar- | shal and commander-in-chief, returned to London yesterday and immediately | repaired to the War Office, where he re- | mained busily employed the greater part of the day. both anxiety and surprise among the | jingoes here. Their absolute conviction had been that President Kruger would, | however unwillingly, accept Secretary | Chamberlain’s veiled ultimatum, or| would at any rate send some temporiz- ing reply, e¢nabling England to com- quent cable letter on the situation to the Manchester Guardian. She says: “Let England clearly understand what war in South Africa means. The largest empire the world has ever seen will hurl its full force against a small state and about 30,000 men, including | lads of sixteen and old men of sixty, without a standing army or organized commissariat. The entire little people will have to resoive itself into an army of their wives and daughters, who will prepare the bread and meat the farmers will put in their saddle-bags when they g0 to meet the enemy. To-day the wo- men of the Transvaal are demanding guns that they may take their part in the last stand. We may crush the little people with the aid of Australians and | Canadians, since the British Isles seem unable to crush them alone. We may take their land and lower the little flag of his independence, so dear to the Boer, but we shall have placed a stain upon our own that centuries will not wash out. Only the international spec- ulator who, through persistent misrep- resentations and by means of the press, has wrought this evil, will gain and fill his already overloaded pockets with South African gold.” ONE MEXICAN COWBOY, fought the whole body of the Yaquis, killing many of them, but he his corpse was shockingly mutilated. DESERTED BY COMPANIONS, FIGHTS A BAND OF YAQUIS FINALLY SLAIN AND HIS BODY MUTILATED AZATLAN, Mexico, Sept. 18.—Twenty-five Mexican cowboys were attacked in Sonora by mounted Yaquis, who opened fire upon them and drove the horses and cattle guarded by the Mexicans away. Seeing themselves outnumbered, the Mexicans put spurs to their horses and ran away, but one vaquero, a young man of indomitable courage, remained and was finally shot, and it is said the prisoners will have little to com- plain of, and may congratulate them- selves that times have changed since the Girondists were confined in the pal- ace of the Senate by Robespierre dur- ing the reign of terror and languished in its dungeons, and since Marshal Ney was immured in an unventilated cell | until led forth to be shot in the gardens. | | There were people who, while loung- | ators were supposed to have entered | behind closed doors, though in reality | they were taking the air outside for a | few minutes, remarked that consplra- | cies to overthrow the existing regime were apparently regarded as a much | less serious matter nowadays than in | times past. The most rigorous precautions were taken for the safety of the Senate building this afternoon. It was cor- doned by police, who were stationed | every few yards, while every gate lead- ing to the Luxembourg Palace guarded by a detachment of municipal guards. Nobody was allowed to enter | the courtyard or even remain in the precincts of the palace without a card of entry. Consequently a small crowd wit- nessed the arrival of the Senators. who alighted from the carriages and entered the palace without demonstration of any sort except the raising of hats by a few of the spectators. The ticket- holders, after crossing the main court- yard, had to traverse the dark entrance | hall, passing between a double row of | stacked rifles, behind which, barely dis- tinguishable in the gloom, were silent figures—a strong detachment of the municipal guards in their blue uniforms | decorated with red cord. The ushers | on the staircases repeatedly examined their tickets. President Fallieres opened the pro- ceedings amid general silence by read- ing the decree of the President of the republic constituting the Senate, on the report of the Minister of Justice. into a high court to try the charge against the accused of making an attempt on the security of the state. | | | ing in the corridors just after the Sen- | was | hand of the president. i The first M. Bernard. the | Procurateur-General, who was a hand- |some figure in his scarlet robe | trimmed with a broad strip er- | mine. The two substitutes with him wore scarlet gowns trimmed with black and having no ermine. M. Bernard immediately began to read the indictment in a monotonous voice. The indictment commenced by recit- ing the facts of the arrest of MM. De- { roulede and Marcel-Habert, and said | the inquiry had shown the existence of | a conspiracy to change the form of | government, to which the disorders of | was of last February, it was added. were due, and in which MM. Deroulede. Habert Marcel- | members of the ‘League of Patriots, M. Guerin and { some members of the Anti-Semite | League, M. Duboc and some members of the Society of Anti-Semitic Youth. MM. Buffet, Godefrey and Chevilly and members of the Roy inculpated. All the soc | since 1898, it was pointed out. had aban- | doned electoral action for revolutionary and some action, and the League of Patriots openly pursued the object of over- throwing the constitutional govern- ment, MM. Deroulede and Marcel-Ha- bert seeking to attain their ends by the union of rioters and troops in the streets. The Anti-Semitic League. it was also claimed, has joined the insur- rectional organization, wherewith are | associated the Nationalists. Royvalists | and Imperialists League and the Anti- Semitic Youth. M. Duboc, it was further charged. is the link between the anti-Semite and patriotic leagues. The indictment then gave a few par- ticulars of the provisional organization. Referring to the Royalist League it said it was worthy of attention because, | though the idea of a monarchic restora- tion appeared inconceivable, it had played a preponderant role in the re- cent events, its leader being the Duke of Orleans himself and its managers his accredited representatives. All tha