The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1900, Page 1

y R The TS .‘—' By Sty 35 GOl pmIE Call, VOLUME LXXXIX~-NO. 26. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, This Paper not to be taken the Library- from Lt 1900, PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHINESE REFORMERS LOSE FIFTEEN HUNDRED MEN IN A TREACHEROUS AMBUSH| Governor of the Chichili District Beheads Twenty-Seven Leaders in the Move- ment and Causes the Massacre of a Force Under the Leadership of Tong Mu. Special Dispatch to The Call of a| perial authorities are preparing to con- int note for the of the demands of the of the instigators China ment trouble in to a news agency's dispateh ed December 24, the for- there are unanimonsly of at na wiil accept the | province 2 I ns imposed by the joint note of t f the ¥ ne powers within a month. The note | was started on. its way to the Dowager immediately the Emp but wire commun:- will not reach them JOINT NOTE PRESENTED. Prince Ching 'Promises an Early Reply From the Emperor. NG, Dec. 25.—The ‘preliminary de- PEK ers was presented . one of the repre- f the t Li Hung Chang, was sick and not abie to resent when the note was handed to the Ministers of the v Senor B. J.- de Ci Minister, Dean of the the note to by great the powers. anish St presented 14 » you the atives thelr respe ames of »f frie: ations mit it and 1ce from Ching now receiv the wers the propo- te T Wi pperor. at once send it On the 1 wiil then ree in has the is the una Ministers that China t t will acc ions within a month. k ght | The been forwarded to | npress Dowager, and | ¥ 1 ch them at ganfu at 1 reporting troubie v ghifu “ military authori- UNDER ARREST dered Back to Singan-Fu Be Executed. TWO PRINCES - BOXERS FIRE UPON FRENCH. u Hse | Xill Lieutenant Contal and Wound Another Officer. Standar NTSIN, Dec. %.—A French dethc] of 100 men left here on Decembe. 20 X £ twenty mile2 westward, to ’ . Si search for arms. Approaching a village She - crose a frozen creek, a force of Boxers itenant Contal and officer. The French rthwith, | « ned fire, killing ing another 1 the village. | bur YAQUI INDIANS AMBUSH i SMALL BODY OF MEXICANS| Wound Colonel Francisco Peinado and Slay Many of His Soldiers. | Special Dispatch to The Call | Dee troops ther , Sonora that it is practically for any news of the war to get out, except | by partles leaving there. The scene of the fight last Tuesday was about fifty miles from General Torres’ headquarters, where no Indians have been seen for more n a year. Peinado, who was wounded on is one of the most popular offi- cers in the Mexican army. He has been in the field against the Yaquis since the | impossible while ( small b | near wcked by lonel Tuesday, ans were in the vicinity, and | war began two years ago, and has often a surprise that they distinguished himself for bravery. He is e for it. The In- second command to General Torres in ! intains after firing Sonora, and is next in line for promotion | e tew volleye to the rank of general. The latest report | This mews was brought here to-day by | 1§ that he may not recover, as he was | C. V. Light of Guaymas, who he Shot through the bowels. General Torres has sent a brigade of cavalry to follow the Indians, and news of a fight is expected daily, as the Indlans the are further away from their fastnesses that than they have been for a year. MASSACRE OF CATHOLICS. ,SMELTING TRUST’S BIG Twelve Slain and Bight Burned in PURCHASE IN MEXICO Temples Near Peking. | Negotiating for Control of the Re- LONDON, Dec. 26.—A dispatch from Pe- public’s Best Paying Silver ¥ing to a mews agency here, dated De- | and Gold Mines. cember %, says missionaries report thal | MONTEREY, Mexico, Dec. %.—Negotia- Eoxers thirty-five miles east of Peking | tions are in progress for the purchase of killed twelve Catholics and burned eight | gix large smelters in Mexico and & num- in the temples. ber of the most paying silver and gold Vice Admiral Allexoff saye the St. Pe- | mines in this country by the American tersburg correspondent of the Times has | Smelting and Refining Company. More sssued orders to the men under his com- | than $40,000,000 is involved in the deal and mand in China to make detailed lists of ! its consummation means virtually the the Chipese property—money, cattle, Pro- | control of the smelting of gold and the visions, etc.—taken by them, and where | silver and copper mining business in Mex- fuch property now is. Thg correspondent | jco by a great smelting trust. also says that detachments of Russians in e Southern and Southeastern Manchuria PRISONERS EAT TURKEY. ST. LOUIS, Dec. %.—Inmates of the tinue the work of exterminating dis- pinese troops and brigands. | > g various elcemosynary and corrective in- stitutions of the city enjoyed Christmas £ON DEFENDING HIS along with the rest of the world to-day There were special celebrations, in all of MOTHER, SHOT BY FATHER Py which religious services were a feature Bullet Lodges in the Young Man’s The Post-Dispatch provided 1000 dinners Neck, and He Cannot Re- for the poor in dmprem parts of the city. cover. ! Plans for Shi AT FALLS, Mont., Dec, %.—Jacob p Canal. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 2.—General ten to-day shot and fatally wounded | plans for the Lake Washington ship canal the report given to General Torres, wounded are still at Lamisa, where dead were buried. Mr. Light says the press censorship & so severe in saw The = son Jobn. Werten ilitreated his wife, | have been completed by Major Millis of and the son interfered to protect thetg‘: Dine s';}"s‘““" In charge of har- e 4 ¢ | bor work in this State. It is certain that Smotfim SHEe father S """’;” _;:‘ a contract for a preliminary channel wiil fired a bullet into the boy's neck. ® | be let shortly after January 1. The work son s paralyzed and will dle. Jacob | will be within the appropriation of $170,- Werten surrendered to the authorities. 000 made by Congress some time ago. SEES CROWE ON PONY RIDDEN BY KIDNAPER Informant Adds New Link to the Chain of Evidence . Against the Cudahy Suspect---Gives to Omaha Detectives a Description That Fits the Missing Man and Is Very Positive in His Identification. SOE— ] | i | | MAHA, Dec. 25.—It was reported @ at police headquarters to-day that there is a man in Omaha who claims to have een Pat Crowe on the prior to the kidnaping o v riding the bay pony was nd near the house where Cudahy was confined. | Greevey, and ke li 3 the park. He kas m: it a point to get a good description of both Crowe and the pony, 2nd he said he had a slight acquain- | tance with Crowe a few years ago. Mr. Gresvey affirms that he w Crowe rid- ing the pony; that when Crowe attempted to mount the pony it shied across the | street, attracting the attention of sev- eral men; that be rode off in the direction | of the Schneiderwind cottage. Several days ago Mr. Greevey reported this mat- | ter to one of the detectives. E. A. Cudahy, in an interview to-day, said that the report that ke had issued an ultimatum to Pat Crowe to come forth from his hiding p 1 prove an alibi, or, in def: S tion, suffer arrest and prosecution, was utterly without foundation. He had not been in commu- nication with Crowe nor had he any @ acfele LIPER HORD"™S IN PHILIPPINES Serious Pr-oblem the Tait Commission Has to Face. Rep i e Special Dispatck to The Call WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—There are 30,000 lepers in the Philippines, and the Government is trying to find a way of isolating them to check the spread of the disease. ganized with Surgeon Guy L. dent, Edie presi- and Surgeon Edie reports to the | War Department that a commission has been appointed to select a suitable island or islands for the purpose of segregating or isolating these people. In his report Edie says leprosy was in- troduced into the Philippines in 1633, the Emperor of Japan sending a ship with 150 lepers as a present to be cared for by Catholic priests. They were allowed to land, and no practical methods ever were adopted to eradicate the disease or pre- vent its spread. There are not less than 30,000 lepers in the islands,.as estimated by the Franciscan Fathers. The larger number of them are in the Visayas group. The Taft Commission has this as one of its problems to wrestle with. “ONE-EYED” CONNOLLY NOW , AN INSANE PRISONER Well-Enown Sporting Man Taken to Kings County Hospital in a Straitjacket. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—James Connol- ly, known best as “One Eyed” Connolly, was found wandering about Flatbush, L. I, to-day, trying to persuade himself he was working. He was taken to Kings County Hospital in a straitjacket, insane and raving. He has been everywhere and has seen every sporting event in the United States since the Ryan-Sullivan fight, and so far as he or anyone else ever knew, never paid one penny for railroad transportation nor ever contributed to the capital of fight promoters, Immediately before the Fitzsimmons- Corbett contest he was knocked off a Colorado passenger train into a snow- bank ten feet deep. Everybody testifies that he sank out of sight, and it was thought he had suffocated. Yet he man- aged to reach Carfon about the same time a number of other mén did, and oc- cupled a box on the strength of challeng ing the winner. ———— PLAGUE'S AWFUL RECORD. Twenty-Five Thousand Persons Have Perished in India. CALCUTTA, Dec. 25.—Lord Curzon of Keddleston, Viceroy of India, in th2 course of a speech to-day said that since the appearance of the bubonic plague in 1898, 25,000 deaths from the disease have occurred in the Mysore state. Special Dispatch to The Call. A Board of Health has been or- | proposition to make to him. He was asked what significance there was in the fact that Steve Crowe of Chicago a brother of Pat, had reached Omaha to- day, and he answered that, so far as he was aware, there was none. . Chief of Po- lice Donahue was unable to say why Steve Crowe came to Omaha to-day, but denied that he had sent for him. If the latter had a proposition to make on behalf of his suspected brother, the Chief did not know anything about it. A complication arose to-day concerning the pony, which was taken up by Joseph Goodrich at Pacific Junction, " and for which no claimant has put in an appear- ance. Goodrich declines to let the ani- mal leave his barn. He says that he will advertise it according to law, and If its owner does not claim it within the speci-" fied time he will keep it. Both He and his neighbors have an cxagwerated idea of the importance of the find. A number of witnesses who saw the pony around the Schneiderwind cottage will go down' to look at it. The Chief of Police said to- night that the description of the man who took the pony across the ferry was not satisfactory, and it may develop that the T I e e e e e e e e a0 2 A 0 0 2 3K S MUST ISOLATE SAYS AMERICA ! IS WORST OF i . ALL NATIONS | Dr. Norton Deplores the‘ Abandonment of Old Traditions. | Sty Speclal Dispatch to The Call ! | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 25.—Pro-| | fessor Charles Eliot Norton of.Harvard has made another of his characteristic | |*ertticisms upon this country. At the reg- | ular Christmas eve reception which Pro- | fessor Norton gives each year before | } more than 200 Harvard and Radcliffe stu- | dents, he safd: | “This is the season of the yvear when ‘peace on earth, good will toward man’ | reigns; but for the last two .Christmases there has been a_sad doom hanging over this country. We have not been at peace with the world; we have not shown good will toward men. To us older men who have lived in a past when there was at ieast the pretense of keeping up old Amer- icgn ‘doctrines, this is indeed sad. To- day the United States is standing forth as one of the worst ‘of all nations, for she is expressing ill-will toward men—she is at war. “In listening to this old story of peace and good will we should all make a resolu- tion to try to change this state of affairs. ‘We, who are old, should do what little we can vet do; you who are young should now resolve you will help set our country back where she belongs.” DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO BLOW .UP HOTEL Dynamite Exploded Under the Struc- but the Veranda Only Is WICHITA, Kans., Dec. 25.—A desperate attempt was made last night to blow up the Farmers' Hotel at Alva, O. T. The thimble of a wagon wheel was filled with giant powder and put under the corner of the bullding. Before the fired fuse caught the powder the thimble fell to one side, with the result that the veranda was blown 150 feet skyward. Except the breaking of windows, no other damage was done. A young man named ‘Joseph Elliott calmly walked into the house after the attempted wreck and took lodging. He ‘was arrested this morning in his room for the offense. The hotel was not crowded, owing to Christmas, only fifteen guests being In it. Great excitement prevalls and only the fact of the indefiniteness of the evidence against Elliott saves trouble. kg g Coast Ports. SEATTLE, Dec. 25.—Captain M. Moller, an official of the North German Llovd Steamship Company, is now in Seattle on a tour of inspection of Western ports*He Las visited Portland, Tacoma u\d:h Francisco and s to report the mm Lis investigations to the company.. - vy &bmw MILLIONAIRE CUDAHY, DE- POSITING THE RANSOM FOR HIS SON. e o+ animal at Pacific Junction s nol the| much-wanted broncho. A thorough inves- | tigation is being made. | ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 25.—At police | headquarters here to-night it was stated that Pat Crowe, whose name has been | mentioned In connection with the Cudahy kldnaping case, was believed to be in St. Joseph. The police are said to he search- ing for Crowe. @ | FINDS BOX OF CARTRIDGES IN YOUTSEY’S SAFE Ammunition Similar That Used by Goe- bel’s Assassin. siite W to Special Dispatch to The Call. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 25.—One of the clerks in the State Auditor's office, in searching the vault for old records to- day, found a cartridge box containing eight metal-patched, smokeless powder cartridges, 38,55, corresponding exactly to the bullet found in the hackberry tree, | .and which was believed to have passed ‘through Sénator Gocbel's body. The significance of this discovery, lics in the fact that Heury Youtsey, convicted of participation in the assassination in October, was a clerk in the Auditor's of- fice at the time of the assassination, and had aceess to the vault where the car- tridges were found, and that George Barnes, another clerk in the office, testi- fied that he saw Youtsey with a box of cartridges. REPAY DESPOILED BANK Testimony That Will Be Introduced Relative to Embezzler Alvord’s Wife. NEW YORK, Dee. %.—The trial of Cor- nelius Alvord Jr., defaulting cashier of the First National Bank of this city, is| set for to-morrow In the United States District Court. The amount of his defal- cation was $690,000. p One of the interesting features of the trial, and which in all probability will be brought out by the United States Dis- trict Attorney, is the amount of restitu- tion of the stolen funds made up to this time. The officers of the First National Bank have been reticent on this point ever since Alvord’s arrest. The sale of his ef- fects in his home in Mount Vernon real- ized very little. Where the bank really made good ‘part cf its loss was, it is said, in the turning over of Mrs. Alvord's jewels. Their value has been estimated at not less than $150,000, and the story goes that the jewels were taken to the bank and placed in the custody of one of the officers, who locked them up in a strong box until they could be appraised and sold. How long these gems were In the possession of Mrs. Alvord is not known. It is said she has had them four vears, and that they were presents from | her husband. The whole story is expected | to come out before the prosecution closes its case, Eas Accused of Conspiracy. VIENNA, Dec. 2%5.—A dispatch from Warsaw says that fifty-two Poles have been arrested there, accused of partici- I pation in a political conspiracy. | ments, he regards everything from an ex- he introduces an acrimonious tone into | tional | directed the Secretary | tote | ernment. | hinting that they are political rather than :Terrorszes ! deviating from that standard must at all AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT OF LONDON TIMES OFFERS INSULT TO THE PRESIDENT Speaks of This Nation’s Chief Exzcutive as Messenger Boy to the Senate Because of His Transmission of the Hay-Paunce- fote Treaty as Amended by That Body. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright. 1900, by the Y Herald Publishing Compuny 2. ONDON, Dec. %.—Americans here | are somewhat indignant over a! special sent by the Times’ New | York correspondent about the | amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty. | The attitude of this correspondent is only | equaled by that of the Dally Chronicle's Washington representative. Instead of | trying to give an unbiased state of Amer-| | ican views on questions, leaving it to his | journal to advance the English argu- | clusively English standpoint. Moreover, | his comment that is deplorable in view | of its possible bad effect upon interna- relations. This is particula odious as coming from one who Is birth an American. For example, nothing could be more prejudiced or indecent than the attack made by the Times' correspondent vester- | day upon President McKinley for having | of State to com- | municate the new treaty to Lord Paunce- | for transmission to the British Gov- He sneers at the State Depart- ment’s technical for this by reasons step, techn: either technically nor otherwise,” he says, “was President McKinlgy obliged to nsmit this Senate document It was not intende by the framers of the legis- lation that the President should be a messenger boy to the Senate. But he now accepts this modest function, and when the Senate rIngs the bell the l’r'«idpn‘.; | It s difficuit to believe that the writer| of this gratuitous slur can realize the | gravity of the responsibility incurred by | thus striving to embroil two nations and envenom their relations. If such reckless NEGRO MOB IN e | that the Senators and | his argument being that ant can make an impression, but be hurtful. One mischievous Intent of the corre- spondent is disclosed in the insinuation the American peo- ple hold totally opposite views on the question of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the President's showed that the people ap- ratified - that instrument. These are the kind of dispatches that in- still in the British mind the idea that the United States is animated by an in- imical feeling toward England. Corre- spondents like those of the Times and the Daily Chronicle, instead of trying to bring the two peoples together, appear to seek to estrange them. it ecanmot re-election proved and ks CORDIALITY OF RUSSIAN PRESS. Praises American Action on the Hay- Pauncefote Treaty. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. %.—The Novos Vremya, discussing the English news paper indictment of the United States nate for “its unparalleled attempt to cverturn the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,” says: “The case is not unusual. Conditions have changed and the treaty must change, too. Russia afforded an example in 1870 in declaring that she was no longer bound by her promise not to maintain war vessels in the Black Sea.” The Bourse Gazette s “Russia Is gratified by America's diplomatic vietory over England. Western Europe dislikes the Monroe doctrine beca: it desires to grab territory everywhere. Russia, which bas sympathized with America since her independence, which sold her American 3 to America, has nothing Monroe doctrine and the oll ympathies have grown more cordial in China CONTROL OF A TOWN IN INDIANA the White Residents of Cement- ville and-a Race War Is Threatened. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec A race war is on at Cementville, a smal station on the Panbardle road, five miles north of this city, and serious trouble Is expected at mor.ent. The negroes are all armed and the whites are keeping within doors to avoid them The outbreak began yesterday after- noon, wken Lee Ranger and John Red- mond, regroes, both very drunk, started in to intimidate whites. When their in- | B | sults werc resented other negroes jumped in with the liquor-crazed men and cap- tured Samuel Kerdall's saloon. Nearly | twenty shots were fired, but no one was | wounded. An appeal by telephone was made to Sherifi Rave for help, and he | drove out to Cementville in a buggy, and to some extent quieted the negroes while | he was present. After his departure another outbreak | took place, and message after message | came to the local police to send men to the town. Sheriff Ruve was again asked to go to the scene, but Geclined to do so. Kendall, i | goods store, in addition to his saloon, owns a dry- which is being conducted by his wife, and into this the negroes flocked after the shooting at the saloon. Mrs. Kendall was ladly frightened, and her husband ran into the place and began shooting into the mob. Ranger was shot but how badlr is not known, as he was carrie? away and secreted by his com- panions. Kendall's life was threatened, and about midnight he managed cape from his store and came this city. It was daylight when the town became oufet, the negroes having everything their own way. 8o far to-day no outbreak has taken place because the whites are intim- idated to such an extent that they are using every possible precaution to pre- vent a collision with the blacks. It is be- lHeved the slightest quarrel will bring about a riot. There is no direct telephone connection with the place, but a private line, owned by the railroad, is being used to keep the officers posted. If trouble were to begin this would be cut by the rioters. to es- direct to L S o ) APPOINTS A SUBJECT OF THE QUEEN AS GOVERNOR Taft Commission Places H. Phelps Whit- marsh in Office in the Philippines. Epecial Dispatch to The Call CALL HEADQUARTERS, STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—H. Phelps Whitmarsh, who has been appointed by the Taft Commission as Governor of Benguet, on the Island of Luzon, is said to bte a subject of Great Britain. His appointment Is, therefcre, in violation of the President’s instructions to the commission, which limited the hoid- ers of office in the Philippines to Ameri- cans £nd natives. Regarding persons who should be ap- pointed to Philippine offices, the President said; “It will be necessary to fill some offices for the present with Americans, which after a time may well be fllled with natives of the islands. As soon as prac- ticable a system for ascertaining the merit and fitness of candidates for civii office should be put into force. An indis- pensatle qualification for all offices and positions of trust and authority in the islands ‘'must be absolute and uncondi- tional loyalty to the United States, and absolute and unhampered authority and power to remove and punish any officer times be retained in the hands of the cen- tral authority of the islands.” All the Information obtainable here is that Whitmarsh hss been for several years In the Philippines and has an ex- tensive acquaintance with the natives, which will, of course, be advantageous in carrying on work entafled upon him by his appointment. An army officer who recently returned from Manila and who was on friendly terms with Whitmarsh says he understands he has declared his intention to acquire American citizen- ship. This declaration does not make him an American citizen or eligible to appoint- ment to office in the Philippines under ue G the President’s instructions. It is belleved the commission will follow up Mr. Whitmarsh'’s appointment by nam- ing ‘other civillans as Governors of the provicces. The administration Is anxious that the military shall be superseded as rapldly as possible, The Taft Commis- sion understands the wishes of the Presi- dent. Any appointment unsatisfactory to the administration can be promptly re- voked, as the instructions given by the President to the Secretary of War rela- tive to the duties of the commission pre- scribe that all appointments to office by the ccmmission are subject to the Secre- tary’s approval and action upon the arri- val of the commission's report. Secretary Root is therefore at liberty to revoke ‘Whitmarsh’s appointment if he wishes. DIRECT STEAMER LINE TO THE PHILIPPINES Oregon and Oriental Company’s Ves- sels to Ply Between Portland and Manila. PORTLAND, Dec. 2%.—A direct line of steamships between Portland and Manila will be in operation by February 2. The Oregon and Orfental Company, in order to accommodate the growing trade be- tween the two ports, has decided to put into commission the steamships Mon- mouthshire and Carmarthenshire. The steamships will be placed exclusively in the service and make regular trips. For the past year the wholesale jobbers of Portland have been trying to secure the establshment of a line of sieam- ships to Manila. They sent a representa- tive there to inquire into the trade cen- ditions and the new steamship line is the result.