The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1900, Page 1

The @all, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS ROBERTS CONTINUES TO| DRIVE BACK BOERS FROM KOPJES. After Fiercely Contesting Progress? of the British Troops the Re- | publican Forces Retire. ; Household Cavalry, Lanc->rs and Ki:chener’s Horse Put Burghers to F.ight in the Open. Mafeking’'s Fate Yet in Doubt | R | held . a Briti strongly s. The n a Maxim, rward to a Boers to or e British force the Boer ening e received about the | Hamilton's of twer nd Ly the bay kop. Early this morning it the whole Boer (urre} river bed coupiec v fixed g th them- | Bo Auring the night got two | ow up the line near Swald- | r t & | ad conc aled small | The Boers b over spruits d Brand: but every e to make a detour. appear to be fighting with it. It Is reported that they ral Lucas Meyer. Vet River is com- osives s possit Boers [ R e B e e R S S 2 the captured a Maxim and soners. | w terday Gen- 0 to 3000 Boers at Rooldan, where They retreated after a number of dead | sh casualties were is still pursuing Klipdam have been | positl ed them fighting, leavin The ¥ and rigade is attacking the Warrenton The en- evere, and last- until 4 in the the British in- obliged to engage the Boers | ers only re- was nearly cut s were five killed and wounded, mostly Welsh F h took a batch of pris- Swedish ambulance, return. The Boers, -ft thirteen dead. Paget made a strong dem- st the Boer position east nting Boer re- | st in checking | « Barton's DAVIS ACCUSES BRITONS OF BARBQRBUS WARFARE | ster Davis, of the Inte- the Academy - t, h New York commit African republics. id in part: masses of our people do sympa- sy stand for liberty, i | [ | | i w0t as American freemen »d their lives for freedom withhold pted to dominate and | ate in their in ffairs, just as George | red in the affairs of the Colonles. | gland has trodden truth under foot honor and good faith in the dust conguer the Boers there is no our sympathies from the world that they would be com- | he people of Ireland h:l\-‘ | k w rkmen. 1 to BRITONS FIGHT THEIR British cruelty is pro- battle of the 2000 WAY OVER VET RIVER s SOMTeRE. st At Chllets B | ot tives of the civilized | r savages, vet I'have now | hree unexploded dum-dums | top of Splon Kop in the | JIVER May at had been occupied by the British | troop 1 1 have also two exploded dum-dum t were given me by a surgeon as he the bodles of two dead fr have been the Instances of British e battlefields of South Africa, such { the white flag and the firine And the conduct of the the Lancers, has no ight to peddle us around the tail to her kite. 1" shouted a man in the m e action ar terri- a d even later t ere *s all right,” answered Mr. Davis. triot, one of the common Dpeodie, and the effort on the part of the thizers to connect him with the O+ THO+THCH0 + O4TH0 4 OHTH+04T 4 O + O4040+0+0+ CH0+040 4+ 040 : ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT OF EGUADOR Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by the Herald Publishing Company. arted eariy to find the . When this was discov- O4040 40404 404 s correspondent In Guayaquil, Ecuador, re- at an unsuccessful i cowardly attempt to assassinate Presi- v Alfaro of the republic has been made. The would-be as- sassin has been captured. This has been the third attempt to assas- sinate General Alfaro. The first occurred in 1883, when he was a revolu- tionary leader. He escaped unhurt. The second was in 1897, after he had be- come President of Ecuador. The conspirdcy was discovered in Quito. It was eaid that several priests were implicated. The ringleaders were arrested and ANAMA, May 6.—The Heral Alfaro was born in Monte Crist!, Ecuador, -in 1843. His parents were wealthy, When he became of age he was concerned in revolutionary schemes which fafled. Then he went to Panama. He was a leading figure in ! other revolutions, and in 1878 he was banished from Beuador. He re- in 1879 and participated in another revolution. He was captured and sent to prison. Upon being set free General Alfaro went to Pahama. After having led several other revolutionary movements he finally triumphed and entered Quito in September, 18%. He was elected President, and in 1898 he assumed 2 dictatorship over the country. O+04 0404040404040 4040+ g 04D 40404 O4040 40404 T4 04040404040 | | | | | R RS ! iiton was in action yesterday and s | junction of two Boer forces by a well executed movement by the Twelfth Lancers and Kitchener's Horse. who charged a body of the enemy and in- R e O e o e B S S e o g >e6 b eDe and to rob and murder their handful of brave martyrs is a crime and must be resented by every. American datriot. Me- Kinley is all right, but there are men about him who ht to be got rid of as quickly as to God 100,000 Americans would arm s and with an American fleet go to the help of the Boers. If that is not pe the 11 the world that we do not path Great Britain, put we do thize with the Boers There Is not a grander man living to-day than Paul Kruger, and Cecil Rhodes is the damndest scoundrel unhung. Should the British by overwhelming numbers succeed in conquering the Boers in the present struggle it will avail nothing. Future genera- tions will take up the burden where their stricken fathers laid it down and the outcome is certain Montagu White also spoke. He sald that he felt sure that Mr. Davis’ efforts in behalf of the Boers will be far-reaching in the future and that the press of the country Is being controlled in the inter- ests of the British. He said that even eligion being used to malign the cause of the people of South Africa. Resolutions were adopted tendering thanks to those Senators and Representa- tives who have introduced resolutions ir. Congress expressnig sympathy with the South African republics, and calling upon the President; in the interests of human- ity and civilization, to invite the great powers of Europe to join in a concerted demand upon Great Britaln to stop the war. TO ROUSE THE BURGHERS. LONDON, May 7 The Lourenzo Mar- ques correspondent of the Times, tele- graphing Sunday, say “General Botha has been to the Free Statg to rouse the burghers, but has returned disheartened and disgusted. From an unimpeachable source 1 learn that he is openly stating to friends that the Free Staters are so completely demoralized that it is hopeless to expect anything from them.” YEOMANRY IN PURSUIT. THABA NCHU, May 5.—General Rundle, who has been pursuing the Boers with the Seventeenth Brigade, two batteries A e o 4 HOW THE NEWS COMES FROM MAFEKING. sHsbeb et etbebeb et el | Britisn effort to crush lberty, to kill the two | and | young repu e e e T e A Native Runner Eluding a Boer Sentinel (From the Spear.) R R I SRCE contingents of the Yeomanry and mounted infangry, succeeded in reaching them with his artillery and forcing them to leave their positio The Yeomanry are making a long detour in pursuit. The result is not known here. FUNERALS OF VICTIMS OF SCOFIELD DISASTER Memorial Services Held by Mormons and Special Collections Taken in Churches. SALT LAKE, Utah, M 6.—The day at Scofield has been comparatively quiet. Memorial services were held in the Mor- mon meeting house, and also at the Odd Fellows' Hall, both of which were presid- ed over by apostles of the Mormon church. In this city seven victims of the mine disaster were buried to-day. In all the churches collections were taken up for the sufferers, and further arrangements perfected for ng additional funds. Several donations from outside points have been added to the general relief fund during the day. BUY A TORPEDO BOAT. Colombian Rebels Said to Have the Nucleus of a Navy. KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 6.—News re- celved from Colombia to-day by the Brit- ish steamer Atrato, Captain Powles, says the Colombian Government is consider- ably exergised’ over a report that the rebels have purchased ‘a torpedo boat from Germany and expect soon to attack Cabanilla, Department of Bolivar, near the mouth of the Magdalena River. s Captured by a Detective. MINN_APOLIS. Minn., May 6.—Geb- hardt Bongaard, the defaulting Treasurer of Carver County, who disappeared on February 14, was to-day captured at Olds, N. W. T., by a Minneapolis detective. Alabama Negro Lynched. GENEVA, Ala., May 6.—An unknown negro was lynched three miles from here yesterday for assaulting a twelve-year-old My Admiral Dewey on May 15. o L B S T S R S S S e S R TS R S SR SR ] B I S 00040000000 00e0e000| white girl near Hartford. Armed men took him from the arresting officers and carried him to the woods, where he later | was found hanging to a limb. | £ gt MORRIS CAPTURED. “COLEY” Believed to Have Been an Accessory | to a Double Murder. PHOENIX, Ariz., May 6.—Sheriff Ed | Beeler of Apache County passed through | here to-day en route to his home in St | Johns, Ariz., having in custody Bill Mor- ris, alias Coley Morris, arrested near | Globe May 2 on a chafge of being an ac- cessory to the murder of Gus Gibbons and | Frank L. Lesseur, in Apache County on March 27. The gang that did the work is supposed | to consist of seven men Intent on robbing | the Santa Fe Pacific train. but the plot | was nipped in the bud by the Sheriff pur- suing them for killing cattle, and the mur- der was committed in the flight. It is be- lieved that members of the same gang | killed George Scarborough recently in Co- | chise County. Morris admits being an ac- | quaintance of members of the gang, but | says he was not interested and can prove an alibl, though his description answers perfectly to one of the men wanted. Not Inciting Revolution. HAVANA, May 6.—General Riveria, for- mer Secretary of Agriculture, says that statements recently published represent- ing him as heading a revolutionary movement in the province of Santiago, are absolutely false, and, in his opinion, made with the intention of hurting the cause of Cuba. He declares he could not stir up a revolution in Santiago province, even if he desired to do so, as the people there are much more anxious to tend their crops and look after their cattle than to fight. Monument to Farragut. KNOXVILLE Tenn., May 6.—The"local chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution has had a large howlder of Tennesse marble placed on the spot where Admiral David G. Farragut was | born, near this city. It will be dedicated ROBERTS R ONDON, May 6.—The War Office has published the fol- lowing dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Vet River, Sat- May 5, 7:156 p. m.: wp Headquarters and Wavell's brigade of the Seventh DI- vision are two miles In the rear, of Vet River. some of the Household Cavalry, flicted serious loss. “The enemv fled. leaving their dead on the fleld and their marched here to-day with Pole-Carew’s division. Maxwell's brigade of the same division is the same distance to our right. The enemy are in considerable strength on the opposite bank of the river. | Our guns engaged thelrs for some three hours without our being able to force a passage of the river, but shortly before dusk he mounted infantry under General Hutton turned the ene- | my's right and in a very dashing manner pushed across the river under heavy shell and musketry fire. “We are now bivouacking for the night within three miles Our casualties, I hope, are not numerous. cceeded Ham- in preventing a EPORTS DRIVING BACK THE BOERS. ~runded to be attended by our doctors, “MacDonald’= Highland Brigade dislodged the enemy on the right flank under cover of tne naval guns, in which operation the Black Watch distinguished themselves and were very suc- cessfully led. Hamilton was advancing this morning to a dif- ficult drift over the Kleinoet “Hunter reports that Barton's brigade was heavily engaged this morning two miles north of Rooidam. The enemy's po- sition was quite four miles long and stropgly held. He states that our men marched magnificentyy and carried ridge after ridge in grand style. and Hunter’s will be reported as soon as possible. “Captain Miller, who was taken prisoner near Thaba Nchu, has been sent to Rundle’s Camp by the enemy with a severe wound in his abdomen. three men were captured on May 2 while on patrol and that one of them, who had been brutally ill treated and le®™* for dead by the Boers, was found the following day. ‘“Lieutenant Liley, Vietoria Mounted kines, reported miss- ing, was found at Brandfort dangerously wounded and has beem most carefully attended by the Netheriand ambulance.” iver. Casualties in this force, in Hamilton's Brabant reports that one sergeant and . 1040 40+0+ O+0+0 $0+0+ C+O+ O+0+0+0+0 4040 40+ A MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE AT THE PIER OF THE MALLORY LINE. Wharfand Offi—c—es of the Company Destroyed and Much Damage ' Done to Shipping. Occupants of Blazing Barges Jump Into East River, and One Captain Is Compelled to Let His Child Drown to Save His Wife. - EW YORK, May 6.—A were then landed by life lines. The halfe started at the rive d captain a Were ree Mallory Line to the Hu L 1 e o Fospital. Fast River H. Hand, which destroyed completely valuable c ther burning barges, Joseph Plumb, his wife Al 1ed by were moored near tlfe pi Jeremiah Cronin stroyed and many rescues of thet » taking one o and of the members of Naie o Baded on board were made. Onme life was ! g s The nine-month-old daughter of Cap B Bl it wog . came: Charles Locns of the barge Sherwood was he river, which » jump iato t drowned. The Mallory line pler was 200 feet long feet wide. The pier was filled wit aluable freight mostly cotton. On ti orth side of the pier were moored a number of coal and cotton barg while on the south side was the steamer San Marcos and a number of barges, No sooner had the work of fighting the were t bark St James lames begun than the firemen turned their attention to saving the lives of | 1D¢ 5 e those on the barges which were lying | C'UP& one. ' was _flled with within the line of danger. Nearest to the | SAMeT craft engaged in towing the va- rious vesseis and ba to places of pler was the barge Stephen B. Elkins Her captain, Frank Ford, and his wife, his three-month-old daughter and a baby were on board and sleeping. A skid was others laden with coal . ome of nt the fur- with cornmes caught fire an | quickly run from the pier to the coal | ‘€M Were also sunk to pre | barge, the occupants of the boat were ther spread “:,w'g awakened and were hurried from their | - number of bullding uth street bunks to a place of - safety before the | Were scorched and ere emptied flames had them. of their te who feared that the On board the barge Sherwood were | PUlldings would be burned Charles Lochs, the captain, 3 vears old; | Henry Mal :.A.;I“r‘vm.rd.fl: the fire: his wife, Lenna, 30 years old, and daughter, Rosie, 9 months old. .The Lochs family was awakened by the s started ces and other bui flames. Their barge was already on fire ~ at the time that they were aroused from khead. - My brgthde, Chaties, sleep. The father took the nine-month- Surope ter s ago and he old baby in his arms, and with his wife abroad two months, notwith jumped into the water. Timothy Boyle, Mis_catastrophe. . L enmpol formerly In command of the barge New | What our immec lans will be or when Brunswick, whose home is at Rondout, | %e shall begin to bulld. Our books and N i inged n to save the woman, | other documents were destroyed and I | who had become exhausted. Her g about the band, who still held the baby in his arm: o saw that his wife was on the point of at pre 4'(\[\“ that going down. It became a question to him | fortunat ® of the fire there as to which he 'should save, his wife or|Was not the usual amount of freight on baby. He therefore let the baby go in the | the pier, as , S S . . hope that she would be piclk; Saturday and cloa | A, 2R one else and went to the origin of the fire the amount of wife. He managed to hold her head above te the amount of water until Boyle reached ..em. All three | damage or approxim the insurance.” FORMER CONGRESSMAN CULBERSON DEAD Served Several Terms in the Lowexz House and Was a Prominent Constitutional Lawyer. 0 OBTAIN IDENCE OF FRAUD Postoffice Department’s Report on | Alleged Cheating in the Weigh- ing of Mail. FAILED WASHINGTON, May 6.—In reply to an| JEFFERSON, Tex., May 7.—Ex-Con- inquiry from Chairman Loud of the |gressman David Iberson er of House Postoffice Committee the Second | United & Culberson of Assistant Postmaster General has sent x g shortly after 13 n suffering from la the last two of three days at intervals. Culberson served sewv- him a letter relative to a fraud alleged to have been practiced in connection with the weighing of the mails in 183 and to the general subject of the pessibility of ‘ongressman | such attempted frauds becoming effective. | eral terms as a Democrat in the lower The compensation received by railroad | House of the national Legislature, and companies for carrying the mails is de- s at one time a prominent candidate termined by the character of the service | for the Speakership He was for a long time chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House and was regarded as one of the best constitue tional lawyers in p: performed, the facilities furnished and the average daily weight of mail carried. Special reference is made to Mr. Freech- | tig, who, in 1898, claimed to have knowl- edge of frauds in connection with mail weighing. He was requested to furnish information that would enable the depart- | ment to locate the route and persons in- | volved. The information desired was not Rail Collision in France. PARIS, May 7.—In a railway collision last evening on the Western Railway, bee then disclosed by Freechtig. Later, on | tWeen Sevres and Chaville, thirty-elght November 2. 18%9, Freechtig submitted an | Persons were injured, three seriously. affidavit and a letter, in which the only | The Brest express, filled mostly with sol- | diers and sailors, was deralled. Another | train overtook the express and before the driver had time to draw up the collision | occurred, smashing. the guards’ van and several carriages into matchwood. - Foundry Strike Ended. al Dispatch to The Call specific allegation that could be used by the department was that he participated in an attempt to illegitimately increase the weight of the mails passing over a Colorado route. The 250 pounds of mail, if sent as claimed, when reduced to a daily average, says the letter, could have no effect on the compensations. His claim | that the Government was defrauded. in 0 . May 6.—J. F. Valentine the sum of ten million dollars a year by | of San Fi co, first vice president of the effect of frauds in weighing is char- | the Molders’ International Union of acterized as extravagant and entirely | America, succeeded in effecting a tempo= groundless. In conclusion it is stated that | pary gettlement of the trouble In the Freechtig did not give any information | foundries of this city and the men who to sustain his claim, although he wi sured that the department was anxious to obtain evidence of any such fact. 1 Sl | Brought Home for Burial. Taylor Summoned to Washington. | NEW \.“E\l\,_ M ety LR have been on a strike several days will return to work in the morning. SIS LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 6.—Governor | gt e e % Fattar Jokt 101 sheaing for Wikiutan. | P0°s, Petford _ arshs s in response to a telegraphic request from pe RS e the national capital. One of Taylor's at- | > torneys said the visit probably would ex- tend over the greater part of this week. Murder Ends a Feud. night from Havana, h w H n body of Mrs. J. aceompanied by s Wilson. Th nington, Del., - lain b; exican Bandits. ENGEVIELE, Yot May Rkt CHE | ‘conm By e e & Ot howle Park this afternoon. in the nr»s-‘“,mk & “wealthy Dlentvs Wl Ghrnetied ence of a large gathering of people, Rufus | - 0" r o 0" O Nee Ciean - bandits, o oo F. Beard fired three shots inte the heart | whom has been captured, tried - of George Turner. The tragedy ended an | to prison. Cook was formerly a promi- old feud. nent resident of Eagle Pass, Texas. © + GHO4THO4O + O+040 4+ CHTICHO+ D+ D40+ T+TH0+ 0404040+ RABBI HERTZ DEGLARES THE TRANSVAAL 1S AN OLIGARCHY EW: YORK, May 6.—Dr. Joseph H. Hertz. who was rabbi of the Wit- watersrand Hebrew Congregational Church of Johannesburg uatil last Decembér, when he was expelled from the Transvaal by President Kruger, arrived here on the steamer Etruria “I went to the Transvaal a strong pro-Boer. . “and T spoke on many a public occasion in faver of the Transvaal Government. but an in- sight into the Transvaal methods and an acouaintance with the leading offi- clals within the Transvaal and the Free State, as well as ‘my personal ex- perience while trying to remove the obnoxious religious disabilities under which the Catholics and the Jews suffer, gradually compelled me to see that the Transvaal is not a republic, but rather an oligarchy, , misgoverifed on strictly mediaeval® principles. “At the Ultlander meeting at Johannesberg on Jyl , 1808, T uttered these words: ‘Let President Kruger demand of the lic inhabitant, of the Jewish inhabitant, of the State, everything he has a right to demand of his own burghers. We would give up everything. Willingly, ully. would reral Wilson and the body will be shipped for burial. one and sent k; we sacrifice everything with the exception of our fa ples, our ttruth and our honor, and we will not sacrifice our f * honor, be- cause the heroes of Holland and the sturdy men who ded at the birth of this republic have not taught us that by sacri things we would become worthy members of the Transvaal republic.’ “For this sentiment I was called upon to apologize. I was ordered to with- draw it. I refused, and although an American citizen, I was expelled.” 042+ 0+CHO40 404040040+ O+ THOHTHO + OO0+ CHO4O+040 4 G40+ 0+0+ O+0+ O+0+0 40°0 10404+ O+0+0 +0+0+ O+O