The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1900, Page 1

Call VOLUME L FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS WARSHIPS ARE SENT BY FRANCE in Attempt Is Made to Forcibly Compel e Santo Domingo to Pay a Claim Several Powers May Inter- Epec to The Call. ARTERS, WEL- EL, WASHING- If the Fr Gov- mpts to foreibly nto Domingo. been in the some little has also ate Depart- te between is meager, e Department to- Fri ch. Government val g0 Banto Domingo rench Consul in cavelll claim of owing statement of ven from a source £ information is unde- he treaty conclud- tdent Heureaux ister to Haytl 3 Domingo agreed ¥ emnity t of the dis- < France show- order to pl urbances which o Domingo has d serious in- nce and the ed the French commander of adron to proceed APPEAL FOR AID TO EQUIP A HOSPITAL LONDON, J 5—The Duchess of Mar gh Countess of Essex, 1 Ge sa Curzon, Madame Van se members of the Impe- " ry hospital fund appeal 1 Associated Pr to the ¥ United States and Canada eir efforts to and a hospital with & base at C. The Duchess of Marlborough pe sald Duke of Marlborough s cert h Africa at the earlies: cugh his appointme unced. We are all natu ted in the war and especially t the Imperial Yeomanry eme has the sanction of nd Lord Wantage. We sred £10,000 and need beds for the dura- has occurred to the ee that we may = assistance of the an people in our ef- hospital at Cape matter has not been we believe they only r wants to grant us gen- casun Essex (formerly Miss Adele Beech of New York) sald to-night: £5 to equip and maintain hospital. Each individual, a bed city or corporation sending such amount In ti will have a bed named in his honor, This 1 inite, tangible object for con- we can assure the people of at every dollar contrbuted will be object the donor desires. Cer- , scores of American and Ca- y citizens will be glad to have a ital bed named for them by contrib- ting such a sum. We trust this appeal with the hearty approval of the n people.” of Marlborough is in town ar- '€ for his departure for South Afri- e takes with him four horses, four les and a Noval cart. - RETURNS WITH FUGITIVES. BELMONT, Cape Colony, Jan. 5.—Colo- nel Plicher's column, with the Douglass refugees, returned to camp this morning. mu REPORTED RENEWAIL OF | General Buller Believed to Have Again As- Offensive — Colonel Powell’'s Force Sallied Forith Against a Boer Fort and Was Driven Back After a Fierce Battle. | Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1900, by James Gordon Bennett. sumed L Boer intrenchments. o 7 - Tt The reports are not confirmed. tack, but it seems doubtful if a gencral movement by British forces has begun. ing may be an attack on commandos which are on the south bank of the river is by no means unlikely. These must be dislodged before the real attempt to force the passage of the river can be commenced. e ae s e o oo e e e e ol e At o o e o | FIGHTING: :ON 7billE. TEHGEL A the D R T i S P PP S P S S S SO S S S S London Graphic. Booeterssesoeioieidoed ONDON, Jan. 6.—The ap- parent breaking of the calm on the Tugela River, where Buller faces Joubert, the immobility at Modder River, where Cronje blocks Methuen’s advance, the activity at other centers of war is the general as- pect this morning of the situation in South"Africa. Those who con- trol -the transmission from the Cape have allowed al- most minute knowledge of Colo- nel Pilcher’s raid up to Douglas, General French's engagement around Colesberg and General Gatacre’s repulsion of the attack | on Molteno, to reach London. These engagements all resulted more or less favorably to the British arms, which explains their prompt transmission. From the Tugela River, how- ever, come dispatches which give evidence of having been rigidly censored. Of course, it is a measare of prudence that no ink- g of the movements which General Buller intends to make inst the foe should reach the irs of General Joubert, but as the Boers have hitherto been ex ceptionally well served by their intelligence department, it seems | doubtful whether the dispatches could tell them anything which they do not know already. Within a few days 7000 addi- tional troops will be landed in | Natal, but whether it is possible |to wait for them or whether Gen- | eral Buller’s hands may be forced by increasing the difficulties un- | der which Ladysmith labors, it is | impossible to say. Meanwhile | extended reconnoissances are the | order of the day on the Tugcla.‘ | to discover the presence and posi- | tion of Boer batteries. Wherever | there are indications of the ene- | my’s strength the naval guns are | brought into play. General Buller is now strong enough to advance should it be |king describing the sortie on De- of news ONDON.. Jan. 6, 5 a. m.—Rumors are current here this morning that General Buller has assumed the offensive and has already started fighting on the Tugela and that he has been heavily shelling the| it is known that this shelling is a necessary preliminary to an at- THE BATTLE OF BELMONT. Scene of Lord Methuen's first battle, November 23, on his flying march to the relief of Kim ci e e oo PR ! deemed necessary or advisable to make an attack. That a general | battle, raging over some twenty mile§ of country, should take | place is not likely. A series of engagements should follow, one| after another, the British doing their best to seize upon Thnlawe and Springfield, so as to cover further maneuvering against se- lected spots in the Boer line of intrenchments. It is difficult to follow the fighting around Colesberg. As General French’s forces are al- most surrounding Colesberg, his | right and left are different, ac- cording as they are looked at from north or south. It may be| |assumed the Boers would be like- {1y to make a movement to clear |this communication with the | Free State to the north and east, and would send a force north- | ward. Without a definite . de- | scription of the positions of the | units of French’s forces it is im- | possible to ascertain exactly the various moves in this contest be- | tween forces of equal mobility. | The arrival of the household J;ca\‘a]r;', field artillery and a bat- (talion of the Essex regiment, which have been sent to General French, should be sufficient to| |force the Boers to evacuate| | Colesberg. The fighting at Molteno is .in- structive in several respects. The Boers can obviously cling to their positions with obstinate tenacity | and are not to be driven out ex- cept by patient and scientific gen- eralship, but when they attempt- ed a counter attack they failed. This has been the case through the war. Had the British force possessed cavalry the Boers might have suffered. As it is, cavalry or more mounted infan- try are needed at every point by Methuen, Gatacre and Buller. The belated news from Mafe- Forestier-Walker at Cape Town the Baden-Powell, dated Mafeking, December 26: “We attacked one of the enemy’s works this morning, endeavor- ing to push back the cordon northward. Our force consisted of three guns, two squadrons of the Protectorate Regiment, one of the Bechua- naland Rifle§, armored train, ete. works during the night and doubled the garrison since yesterday’s re- connaissance. & ‘“Nevertheless, our attack was the greatest possible gallantry and steadiness under a very heavy fire. But all efferts to gain the interior by escalade failed, the fort being practically impregnable. “Our attack only withdrew after six of our officers and a large number of men had been hit. Nothing could have exceeded the courage and dash displayed. “The general situation remains unchanged and the health and spirits of the garrison are very satisfactory. “I regret to report the following casualties: KILLED. “Captain J. R. Vernon, Captain H. C. Sanfreid, Lieutenant H. C. Paton, eighteen non-commissioned officers and troopers. WOUNDED. “Captain Charles Fitzclarence, twenty-three non-commissioned officers and troopers. PRISONERS. “Three troopers.” General Forestier-Walker points all the names, it fails to show that six officers were hit. berley. This sketch is reproduced from the S e 'BRITONS WERE DRIVEN BACK Baden-Powell’s Force Sustained Heavy Loss in the Attack on a Boer Fort. LONDON, Jan. 5.—The War Office has received through General Baden- ©4040404040404 0 That this reported fight- ® . L 4 . L 4 b © * P DO D eI OEEODPDOI eI EIEIOIOIPEVPEISEIEPIPSIDOEDPOEOEDTS s e et @ following dispatch from Colonel The enemy had strengthened their carried out and pressed home with out that while the dispatch gives cember 26 shows that Colonel | Daden-Powell suffered consider- able loss. The British assault seems to have been pushed right | up to the earthworks, and then | to have been of necessity aban- doned. The Boers had strength- ened their position so as to make it practically impregnable. Of the small storming force of some eighty men, twenty-one were killed. Baden-Powell reports that the general situation remains un- changed, and that the health of the garrison is satisfactory. But there is no doubt that the invest- ment is becoming closer, and that the besieged force feel it neces- sary to be making every effort to prevent the Boers advancing! their trenches nearer to town, and to be trying to open com- munication with the outside world. With General Methuen checked and Plummer at a stand- | still, the chances for the relief of Mafeking are exceedingly slender. ——— GREAT BRAVERY SHOWN IN UNSUCCESSFUL SORTIE LONDON, January 6, 4:45 a. m.—The Times publishes the following dispatch from Mafeking. dated December 26: “At dawn to-day Colonel Baden-Powell organized an unsuccessful attack upon a strong position of the enemy at Gametree, two miles from Mafeking, from which the Boers have been maintaining a desultory but annoying shell and rifie fire for sev- eral weeks. The railway has recently been reconstructed between the town and Gametree, where the Boers had de- Continued on Second Page. . | Brizolez, | TWENTY-FIVE FILIPINOS GILLMORE AND OTHERS RESCUED FROM FILIPINOS Among the Brave Tars Who E.ost > ‘Fheir Lives While Members of Landing Parties Were Several Californians. Q@4+0404040404 04040404040404040404040404040 404040409 MANILA, Jan. of the Thirty-third In ing Lieutenant Gillmore, ASHINGTON, Jan. silence of several day 5.—After a General | Ouls Is able to notify the War | the Department of success of the m tions in Northwest Luzon, the m complete | ary opera- in object of which was the rescue of the American | prisoners, which the insurgents took \thl them In their flight ot o Although General | does not spec..y Lieutenant Gilmore, | N.. by name, the wording of his age is taken to mean that that offi- s among the list of rescued prisoners. | eral Otis’ message is as follows MANILA, Jan. 5. lonels Hare and Howse justs arrived at Vigan, Northwest Luzon, with | all American p rs. Their successful pur- suit a remarkable achievement. Schwan and Wheaton now with separa umns in Cavite province. Affairs in S from the admiral as to the personality of the prisoners tne officials of the Navy Department have prepared the following | statement. which although believed to be correct, Is subject to amendment: Naval prisoners in the hands of Filipinos rescued by Colonel Hare: Captured from the Mariveles: Willlam Juraschka, boatswain's mate, first-class, born in Germany, does not claim any next of kin. Captured from the Urdanetta and be- the lieved to have been just releas Ben- jamin J. Grecne, coxswain, born in San sco. next of kin, B. J. Greene, father, Los Angeles, California; Edward aman, born in Boston, New York, next of kin Dorchester, Mas: apprentice, fir: California, next Burke, ordinary Mass., residence Hannah Moore, aunt, George Daniel Powers class, born Smartsville, of kin, Mrs. M. Betancue, mother, Oak- land, Cal; James Farley, fireman, first- class, born Newark, N. J., next of kin, P. Farley, mother, Newark. Captured from the Yorktown's boat and believed to have been released: Licuten- ant J. E. Gillmore; William Walton, chief quartermaster, born Manheim. Germany, no next of kin; John Ellsworth, cox- swain, born Portsmoutk, N. H., no next of kin; Lyman Paul Edwards, landsman, | born in Peru, Ind., next of kin, L. D. Ed- wards, father, M ~ico, Ind.; Paul Van- doit, sailmawer's mate, born in France, next of kin, P. Vandoit, father, San Luis Obispo, €al.; Silvio Brizolez, landsman, B e e e B g T R s = S =Y born in San Francisce, next of kin, Licolo Albert father, San Franeisco; Peterson, apprentice, first-cla Oakland, Cal. next of kin, Lo son, Oakland; Fred Anderson, landsman, born in Buffalo, N. Y., next of kin, Chris- tiana Anderson, mother, Buffalo, N. Y By this statement It appears that the following Yorktown men, who were wounded, were also released: William Rinders, coxswain, born in Holland, next of kin Mrs. M. H. Nyhous, cousin, San Francisco; Orrison W. Woodbury, sea- man, born in Lynn, Mass., next of Kin John G. Woodbury, father, Lynn: Denzel! G. A. Venville, apprentice, second class, born in Dudley, England, next of kin Ji. Mash, Seliwood, Or. The statement thus makes it appear that the following sailors, included in the Urdanetta and Yorktown partles, were killed: Of the Urdanetta—Cadet W. C. Wood: William Mitchell, seaman, born in Bucks- ville, 8. C., residence New York City. next of kin George Mitchell, father, Bucks- ville, 8. C.;: Samuel Jones Tilden Herber: ordinary seaman, born in Charles County, | Maryland, residence Baitimore, Md., next of kin Richard O. Herbert, brother, Bal- | timore, Md.: Arthur William Drummond, | machinist, first class, born in Canada, next of kin Mrs. Davis, Bathell, Canada; | Thomas Gray, fireman, second class, born | in Buffalo, N. Y., next of kin not given; Samuel Stone, seaman, born in Vilna, Russia, residence Fall River, Mass., next | of kin A. J. Schon, Fall River, Of the Yorktown—John Dillon, lands- man. born in Galway, Ireland, next of kin George Cavener, Honolulu, H. L; Charlcs Albert Morrissey, landsman, born at Co- lumbus, Neb.. next of kin Mrs. J. C. Mor- | rissey, Lincoln, Neb.; Ora B. McDonald, ordinary seaman, born in Carmel Valley, Cal., next of kin P. McDonald, father, Monterey; Edward J. Nygard, gunner's mate, third class, born at Warsaw, Rus- sia, next of kin Sophia Nygard, wife, Brooklyn, N. Y. % INSURGENTS MURDER AMERICAN PRISONERS Special Dispatch to The Call. MANILA, Jan. 6, 10 a. m.—Captain Leon- hauser and Lieutenant Enoch Bates, with two companies of the Twenty-fifth, while reconnoitering at Trials, attacked a rebel camp yesterday. During the fight the in- surgents took three Ninth and two Twelfth infantrymen from prison and forced them to kneel in front of a firing party. At the first volley they killed two outright. Not having time to re-form the firing party the three men not killed by bullets were attacked with bolos and horribly hacked. When the Americans marched in two of the men were still alive, but can hardly survive. — - SLAIN IN A FIGHT Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrighted, 190, by James Gordon | Bennett. MANILA, Jan. 5.—A brilliant reconneis- | sance was made to-day by Captain Long and fourteen men of the Thirty-ninth In- tantry from Brang to Carmota to drive 200 Insurgents from their heavy entrench- ments. Twenty-five of the enemy were Kkilled. Our force was surrounded for hours, but there were no casualties among the Americans. More than a hundred artillery shells sent by a gunboat on Laguna de_ Bal were tampered with en route from Manila. The fuses had been cut, so that the projectil s would explode on contact. This was evi- dently an attempt to destroy a launch or unboat when the shells were being hani- :.d. Suspiclon points to spies in our ser- ce. A Filipino paper published in Cavite 8.—Colonel Luther R. Colonel Robert L. Howse of the Thirty-fourth Infantry, with the American prisoners, includ- province of South llocos. 040404040404 04040404040404040404040404+040404040+ vince {ssued an extra flysheet last month appealing to the mplfio :a:st Hare fantry and Lieutenant have arrived at Vigan, LIEUTENANT JAMES E. GILL- MORE, U. S. N. [Reproduced from Harper's Weekly.] This daring officer, who has been taken from his Filipino cap~ tors, {s one of the most popuiar men on the navy. He is 4 years old, and is the son of the late James Gilimore of the firm of Yard, Gillmore & Co., wholesale silk merchants of P elphia. The 1 fanila at t request. So eager to the Philippines friends in Wash- was he to get that he used hi ington to secu for him the as- signment. er of the 2 record. He ® . L 4 * torpedo-boa > He h n on duty bes + fore in the Asiatic station, and was once with the Bering Sea pa- @ trol. In fact it was at Sit « the lieutenant married 1 en* wife. In 1881 Li more Dewey the b PIP I I PP IPIDIBPIPIT PP IPIPPIPPIT PG II PP OI PP Pt I DI I eI eEeIedededeiedei@O40r040404040¢ B e . the Americans, and giving assurance that “the Democrats under Dr, Bryan wouid give them indemnity AMERICAN GUNBOAT SEIZES AN ISLAND WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—The United States navy has taken possession of an- other island ‘in+the Far East. The news of the > was contained in the foi- lowing CAVIT 5.—On December 21 Wents- baugh, commanding the Albany (a_little gu boat), hoisted the flag Sibulu Island, an the chief Dato provided and raised the pole. Natives and North Borneo authorities pleased. WATSON. The island lies at the southwestern angle of the boundary line of the quad- rangle enclosing the Philippine group. It but not positively, outside of i he coast of Borneo, commanding the principal chan- nel, but is not one of the islands of the Philippines. The Sultan of Jolo, whose group is close to this island, is believed to claim jurisdiction over it, and as his authority is recognized by the native tribes on the north coast of Borneo and vicinity it is believed that his claim is well founded. It as probably at his instance that the al officer command- ing the gumboat moved. OTIS’ DAILY QUOTA TO CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—General Otis® latest list of casualties is as follows: MANILA. Jan. 5.—Killed in action at Ban- ique, December 3 “ompany L, John Q. Car ar_Santa Rosa, _October nfantry Infantry. Company K, Harry H. S ‘Wounded in action: At Montalbe 21—Forty-sixth Infantry, Cc Hatton, chest, mortal; Company D, Sergeant Jo: foot, slight; Company L, Harry Ross, thi slight; Company M. Sergeant Fred Stanley, leg, slight. Action near San Mateo, December 13— Twenty-ninth Infantry, Company H, Peter Thompson, corporal ht BIG RECONNOISSANCE. FRERE CAMP, Natal, Jan. 5.—There was a reconnoissance in force from Chieyeley this forenoon with 2000 horse and two guns, the object being to locate the enemy on a hill south of Hlangwano Hill. Several shells were fired, supple- ‘mented by the naval gun. The enemy re- plied at long range, but did not touch the British. Lord Dundonald, perceiving a strong mounted force issuing beyond the range of the British guns, with the evi- dent iIntention of working around his flank, directed the force to retire to Chieveley. The Boers' heliograph can be seen work- ing from a ridge north of Colenso to the Boer camp at Umbulwane. During the cannon fire natives in the valley can be seen plowing complacently. Hordem: