The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1901, Page 1

TOLUME 67. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, ]901. Tall, { This Pape ‘ to be itz 1 i the Library.+++* PRICE F1VE CENTS. CERMANY S DEMAND FOR Insists on Death of Tuan, Siang and Ditke lke Lan. Famine May C wise Ameri- 0 Feed Chinese ) Killed Foreigners. + 4 L - = g Interest in ng to Hankow 1 effect o present practically e - Bow mpt to get a E an appointed adviser nce Ching, how- Britain and TO ESCORT THE EMPEROR, Von Waldersee’s Troops May Con- duct China’s Ruler to Peking. ONDON, ¥ 4—The P pondent cables as impression 1} hwest the for he Emperor to the il shordy jo VICTIM OF ROBBERS PROBABLY A PRIEST aptain Revere and i Avenue Police to be a priest, 1 Kinzi s early an, who is said to sco, is thought to be the Auditorium Annex. whe ates of stre ~ FPWORTH LEAGUE MAY CAUSE A RATE WAR/| YOF Feb. 4.—Passe ntinent war ove lines are church ex- in K for busi S rates offered allowed by at- | ger repre- | LAST HONORS PAID TO QUEEN VICTORIA h Pathetic Services the Remains Are BF[APITA“UN iv Placed in Frogmore Mausoleum. | o | WHO MAY NSHIRE {IER S RY FOR BRITAIN. IN THE BE CAI T OF THE RETIRE- D UPON TO ORGANIZE v the Queen drawn up in the of black ! Life guardsmen kept riage was the ed the eyes of he grave be- hind walked th and the Duke of of Portugal Th blue ere be: Prince redeemed from sombernes walked Queen Princesses, deey veiled. , but the carried an umbr; 1 their hands folded. Royal Children Mourn. | | As the last trio of these .veiled women | :inst the crape of her mourning. re children of - Prince Battenberg and the other. was ward o® York. His ¥ keep r-’wl' even with the £ the r of tiny ngs and Princes, their varicolored overcoats forming a | striking patch of color. Down the long | the band still playing Chopin's s quiet throng slowly made its ¢ to the mausoleum. The horses at- hed to the gun carriage were Inclin to be restive, but as-an extra precaution a drag of ropes was attached to the wheels and held by sturdy drtillerymen. At the lodge gates the strain of the and died asay and the pipers commenced their lament. There, between the broad avenue of ely trees, the crowds were the thick- forming dense black banks. route of the last funeral procession was through the Norman gateway, across | the quedrangle, through the George IV | archway, down Long Walk, through the Jodge gates and then from Long Walk to | the mausoleum. The route from the George IV archway e gates of the mausoleum was lined with troops under the command of Col- onel Miles of the First Life Guards. Into the Mausoleum. The Queen’s pipers played from the gates of the mausoleum Itself.. On ar- riving there the Queen's company of | Grenadiers opened outward and formed in | rank on the steps, where the | met the funeral cortege. The | double choir Highlanders, pipers and servants on their | rrival went into the mausoleum and took | up the positions allotted to them. { Then the coffin was carried into lhn{ goleum, preceded by the choir and | ciergy. The members of the royal family | took places on each side of the sarcopha- gus, the royal household standing in the transept on each side. The rest of the ceremony was private, | as the space was limited. have; the The choir sang Sir Arthur Sullivan’s an- them, “Yes, Though I Walk”; the hymn, persed. | tendance upon his Mafesty and sprays his “Sleep Thy Last Sleep,” and Tennyson's “The Face of Death Is Turned Toward | the Sun of Light,” set to music by Sir Walter Parrott, By 3:20 p. m. the crowned bier. hal to ther lodge which leads inclosure, where none nd servants were admit- them and the royal elatives entered the bu- to the late Queen, rang- ing th each side of the coffin. | The Bishop ¢f Winchestor vead the last part of the burial service. After further singing by the choir the benediction was and amid the privacy of this fam- tomb the last farewells were said, the | ral came to an end., the mourners to the castle and the crowds dls-‘ riai pl mselves o given, fi drove KING EDWARD GRATEFUL. | Makes Special Pledge to Serve His | Faithful Subjects. LONDON, Feb. 5.—King Edward has ga- | zetted the follo g to his subjects throughout the empire: “To my people: Now that the last scene has closed in the noble and ever glorious life of my beloved mother, the Queen, I m anxious to endeavor to convey to the le empire the extent of deep grati- I feel for the heart-stirring and af- fectionate tributes which have everywhere been borne to her memory.” | After alluding to the “common sorrow,” the King concludes by again pledging Mi tude | “walk in the footsteps of the late Queen the fi in bil The King- message to ilfillment of my great responsi- “mperor has sent a special the peovnle of India and a| greeting to the ruling chiefs of the native states. He refers to the late Queen's spe- | ut from the castle there came | Clal interest in India, to his own visit to s dressed in bright tartan kilts | tPat country, to the deep impression he ¢ kets. Between them was a | F°ceived and to his purpose to follow the | 1. ber fair leoke balr albiin Queen-Empress in working for the well- | being of all ranks in India. | EDWARD'S DAYS I;UM‘BER.ED. The King a Victim of Cancer of Throat and Cannot Recover. LONDON, Feb. 4.—King Edward is a victim of cancer of the throat. There is absolutely no doubt of this and the best specialists in the kingdom agree his davs are numbered. His case {s exactly simi- lar to that of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany and also of the Duke of Edin- burgh. Sir Felix Semon, who is in regular at- throat at frequent intervals, is authority for the statement that the dread dlsease runs in the family of the King and there # absolutely no hope of his recovery. The story is told throughout London 1o night, and Sir Felix, who is acknowledged to be the greatest throat specialist of the empire, keeps constant’ watch upon his royal patie MILES WILL PROBABLY GET THE APPOINTMENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Secretary Root d this afternoon that the nominations of general officers authorized by the new army law would be sent to the Senate to- morrow. The nominations, he sald, in- cluded a lieutenant general, tbtee major generals and ten brigadier generals. In military circles it is believed that Gen- eral Miles will be made lieutenant gen- eral, but there is considerable uncertainty with regard to the other general officers. Generals Wade, Merrfam and Young are the three ranking brigadiers in the pres- ent regular establishment, In the order | ramed, with General MacArthur number four and General Ludlow number five, | General Chaffze stands number seven in | the list of colonels of cavalry, and Gen- eral Wood is number sixty in the list of captaine, relative rank. All these officers have been mentioned ‘as possible major generals, and the three successful ones undoubtedly are among the number, If General Miles is promoted it will leave a vacancy in the list of major gen- erals yet to be filled. The- order of se- niority of the new major generals un- doubtedly will determine which of them will have command of the military forces in the Philippines, which command it is generally understood will become vacant by the relief of General MacArthur dur- ing the coming summer | with loss. | south of Dewetsdc from Pre | east, BOERS RUSH THE POST ON DARK NICHT Kltchener Reports on Moddersfontem Disaster. BI‘ltlShTI‘OODS Sustaln Heavy| (Casualties in the Recent Engagements. LONDON, ¥eb. 4.—Lord Kitchener, commander-in-chief in South Africa, re- ports to the War Offic# as follows: “PRETORIA, Feb. 3.—Our casualties at Moddersfontein were two ‘officers killed and two wounded. It appears that the post was rushed on a pitch dark night, during a heavy rain, the enemy number- ing 1400 with two guns. “Campbell, south of Middleburg, en- gaged 500 Boers, who were driven back Our casualties were twenty killed or wounded. French is near Bethel, moving east and driving the enemy with slight opposition. Four of our ambulances, while seeking wounded, wer¢ captured. The doctors were released. Dewet's force is reported General Kitchener In a special dispatch ria sa “French’'s ¢olumn, in driving thé Boers captured a fifteen-pounder and picked up par by our fire. The Midland com- hased by rsville. Sixteen of them been killed by our men."” rrespondent Sunday say action between Gen- is direction of Stey recently pe have Town The C Daily Tel that in the Kaffir hundred casualties are s an rifles sustained about a More mounted troops ree Boer Invading col- umns, of w the advance, moving toward Orange River. It.is believed. that Plet Botha’s force of 000 men with seven guns from Smithfield has crossed into the col- ony. British eonczntration is proceeding. Outlytng garrions are’ beitig withdrawn for the purpose of securing the main lines. General Dewect is expected to enter Cape Colony. A spectal dispatch from Lourenzo Mar- are now ques says: In view of the probability of a Boer raid all the ammunition surren- dered by burghers at Komalipoort has been loaded on lighters and moored in the bay. A special from Sebastopol says: Dis- patches received here say that four Boers who escaped from a British ship = at Colombo, Ceylon, sought refuge on board the Russian vessel Kher: whose pas- sengers received them enthusiastically. The return movement of Ru from China, continues steadily. n, Sixty-five | officers and 2800 men arrived on the Theo- dosia yesterday. GATHERING AT THE HAGUE TO ATTEND ROYAL WEDDING Queen Wilhelm{m\ Enthusiastically Cheered as She Appears With Her Fiance. THE HAGUE, Feb. 4.—Numerous royal personages are arriving at The Hague to attend the wedding of Queen. Wilhelmina and the Duke of Mecklenhurg-Schwerin. | Her Majesty, attended motker and Duke Henry, Viadimir of Russia, his daughter, Grand Duchess Helene, and his son, Grand Duke Boris, at the railway station this after- noon. the Queen’s Queen Wilhelmina was enthusiastically | cheered as she drove through the streets. The choral societies, carrying torches, sang in front of the palace this evening, after which the Queen and Duke Henry received the conductors. Subsequently her Majesty, the Queen's mother and Duke Henry, escoried by twelve nobles, drove around the city. Everywhere they were greeted with ('hf‘m'! TWO KINGS THREATENED BY ANARCHISTS Active Steps Taken to Protect the Lives of Victor Emmanuel and Leopold. PARIS, Feb. 4.—Le Rappel publishes a dispatch from Rome saying: Agents of the Italian detective department in the United States report that Calgano, the anarchist, has left for Europe to make an attempt on the life of King Victor Em- manuel, and that he is acting under or- ders of the Paterson anarchists. The Ttalian police are watching the ports and frontier stations. LONDON, Feb. 4—The King of the Bel- glans left for Belgjum this evening. At the railway station the pplice removed a man who had been acting strangely and who was suspected of having some design against the King. e MAYA INDIANS ATTACK GOVERNMENT FORCES In a Fierce Battle Fought Near Rebel Headquarters Federal Troops Are Victorious. CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 4 —Merida ad- vices show that on Thursday last a battle was fought between Mava rebel Indians and Government troops twenty-five miles from rebel headquarters. Eight hun- dred Indians, -armed with muskets, attacked the Sixth Battalian, which held its ground . though outnum- bered, and ‘Inflicted a heavy loss on the enemy, who had fifty killed and about 100. wounded. The Federal troops lost four men. The Tenth Bltuglon has gone for- ward to reinforce outposts. cond gun disabled | | Halg in the | of the | It | 1 Dewet near Sene- *h Herzog's was for a time | an soldiers | met Grand Duke | [ | i e —— | ! ITARY AND NAVAL REFORMS. SIGNOR SARACCO, PREMIER OF ITALY, WHOSE PECTED TO FALL ON AN INTERPELLATION RELATING TO MIL- FALL OF ITALIAN MINISTRY EXPECTED Government Attacked and an Interpel-| lation Brought Forward. 4 CABINET IS EX- OME, Feb. 4.—The slong-expected attack on the Saracco Ministry Deputies this afternoon. The Minfstry is in’ bad odor Witk sev- eral parties on account of Its efforts to | tion and improvements in the military] fresh financial presented its resources. final bills, necessitated The Ministry accept. The Governmient then requested the committee to draft another scheme, but the latter declined. @ bbbttt was opened in the Chamber of | giccruntied with both This is the situation with which the Chamber was confronted to-day, and it is the Government and the committee. Chamber of Commerce at Genoa,-which- bring about reforms in the administra- | 16d to the recent troublesome strike, fur- | nishes a peg on which the Government | and naval services, which, however, have | was attacked in an interpellation brought | forward to-day. There was a large gath- | ering of Deputied and spectators, as the which the Budget Committee refused to | fall of the Ministry was anticipated. After several speeches for and against the Government the Chamber adjourned until to-morrow. oo Sl e @ NORTHERN ISLANDS ARE | CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—It developed to-day that by the freaty r'ecently ratifled by the Senate the Unifed States, in addition to perfecting its claims to the islands of Cagayan and = Sibutu, has definitely established its right to sover- elgnty over the Bachi or Bashee and other islands to the morth of the Philippine archipelago proper. A report is current to-day that the steps taken by this' Government to complete its title to Bashee and other islands to the north of Luzon were due to represen- tations made by Japan. After the acqui- sition of Formosa from China, Japan found . the . question of jurisdiction a troublesome one because of the Spanish claim to islands near Formosa, and after | negotiation the boundary line between the Japanese and Spanish possessions was fixed at 21 degrees 30 minutes, just south of the island of Formosa and to the north of Bashee Island. The treaty of Paris negotiated by the American and Spanish commissions, which ended the war with Spain, provided for the cession by Spain of all the Islands within certain defined boundaries, the northern baundary being “a line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel ‘of north latitude and through the middle of the navigable channel of Bachi.” - Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the Naval Bureau of Equipment, who was :l—H—H-H—H-PH—H-X‘H-‘%H*H PARIS, Feb. 4—TIn Its issue to-morrow the Slecle will revive the story of the al- leged impending marriage of Emperor Francls Joseph and Frau Schratt, former- ly of the Burg Theater, which was lately denounced as a canard in Vienna. The Siecle will say everybody In Austria is aware of the affectionate relations bind- ing Frau Schratt with the imperial fam- ily. A short time ago Vienna learned with surprise that she was about to retire and make the journey from Bavaria to Rome. Soon afterward it avas announced she had come back from Rome, and the Pope had given her his lasting benediction. It now appears, though the affair is not yet ACQUIRED BY AMERICA By Recent Treaty Title Is Made Clear to Lands North of the Philippines. | N. | the naval attache of the Peace Commis- '&sion. upon examination of more detailed charts of the Philippines, discovered that Bachi and several other islands lay out- side of the northern boundary, and it is apparent that Japan made the same dis- covery. To correct this error, Secretary Hay in the treaty for the purchase of the islands of Cagayan and Sibutu for $100,000 induced the Spanish Government to agree to this | as a text of the article: *“Spain relin- quishes to the United States all clalm and title which she may have had at conclusion of the treaty of peace of Paris to any and all islands belonging to the Philippine archipelago lying outside the | lines described in Article IIT of treaty, and particularly to the islands of Cagayan, Sulu and Sibutu and their de- | pendencies, and agrees that such islands shall be comprehended in the cession of the archipelago as fully as If they had been expressly included within these lines." The bellef prevails hen that Japan de- sired the United State}fto acquire defini- tive title to the islands rorth of the twen- tieth degree of latitude, rather than per- mit Spain to claim them for the purpose of selling them to Germany or some other | power. Rear Admiral Bradford says the islands are strategically important, and it was advisable for this Government to -ccuire them. MARRIAGE OF EMPEROR AND ACTRESS IMPENDING Francis Jbse'ph and Frau Schratt Are Prepar- ing for Their Union. Wwholly unvelled, the Pope not only vouch- safed Frau Schratt, who was accompanied by the Countess de Trani, sister of the late Empress, a paternal reception, but he even yielded to pressing Insistence, sup- ported by diplomatic action, and granted npllity to her marriage to Baron Kisch, by whom she has a son. The retirement of Frau Schratt from the stage and her divorce are, by all ac- counts, preliminaries to her marriage with the Emperor. His Majesty, it ap- pears, has signed 'a brevet raising the lady to the rank of nobllity under the title of Countess Hochstenberg, and the publication of this brevet and the mar- rlage will take place immediately. The closing of the | the | that | MRS, NATION 15 ASSAILED - BY RUFFIANS ;Kept From Smaghing - Saloons by Hired i Negroes. ‘Crusader Cau:es a Riot ir | Topeka and Bloodshed ‘ Is Imminent. i TOPEKA, Feb. 4—Mrs. Nation gathere ! a half dozen of her helpers late this 1d attempte aurant joint éwned by F. W. of wrecking it so long that she has Sixth strec the purpo s been he familiar® ' » the watchers at the jo and she @' not succeed in getting nea the joint § | question before she was recosnized, ar | immediately a dozen s t | the door of the join v | entrance. The little band of women struggied valiantly against the erior strength of the ruffians who wi them out of the trying to keep e melee two aloon of the women were throw down and their hatchets taken from them. Mrs. Nation's face w sl ut by her hatchet. By this time t ce managed to arrive and took the wo 1 charge. As the women were being taken to the police station t followed by a thousand or more €, hooting men, most of whom wers the negro watchers employed to k e women out of the and to 4 it they . Nation's e crowd and they gave hat the police seemed t man, who was . insisted that Mrs. Nation be killed and punctuated his re- marks with a great deal of picturesque language. M tion turned to rebuke him, he tried to hit her. A man near by gave the would-be assaulter a low in the face. Fe immediately turned again to the attack and then the fight be- jeame rather general. Several of the fist fights were in progress all the way to the | station and it seemed as though some- body would be seriously hurt before ths game proceeded much farther. At the police station Mrs. Nation was | formally charged “with disturbing the } peace, and her name was entered on the docket. The Police Judge was at the sta- | tion and Mrs. Nation refused to go to his i room to see him regarding her offense. but | insistea that he come to her, which he | @1a. Mrs. Nation was informed that she would report for trial at the Police Court | to-morrow morning and was then released | on her own recognizance. She said she would be glad to do so and then proceeded | to hold dh impromptu prayer meeting in the police station. She prayed that the | work that she had begun in Topeka might be abundantly prosperous. Addressed the Police. While she was praying a drunken man | was brought in by an officer. Mrs. Nation | immediately went to him and informed | him that she was his friend at all times, | even though the policemen were not. She then delivered an addres members of the police force pr of the most scathing ab: capable of giv She said that they | would permit the joints to run in open | violation of law all the while, and would | then arrest the men who were made dr | by all the liquor sold there. M | taunted the police, calling them cowards | afraid to arrest an dy but women and drunken men. They angrily flushed under | her accusations. On leaving the police station, Mrs. Na- { tion encountered George Klour, one of the | fhost notorfous jointists of the city. She asked him If he was a jointist. He replied that he was not. “Well, then, you ought to be helping us close the joints,” sald Mrs. Nation. “Oh, I am going to leave town to-night,” said Klour, and the crowd shouted with delight. Many of them were not sympa- thizers with Mrs. Nation, but they enjoyed the famous jointist's confusion. Followed by the crowd, Mrs. Nation then went to the Federal building. where she inquired for her mall. She then mounted the steps of the bullding and made an address to the crowd. She sald she would smash all the joints of the city, and she would stay here long enough accomplish this purpose if it took months. She was not afratd, she sald, as she had no reason in the world to be. There were | many women in the city who would help | her, she sald, and they would do so at the proper time. Mrs. Nation did not intend to begin the joint raids until to-morrow. ‘While she and the other women were in a store buying the hatchets which were | to be used In the raid there came In a woman who said her son had spent all his money in Murphy's place thg night befor “Well, let’s go and smash it right now.” sald Mrs. Nation, and the other women agreed. Hot Times Expected. Some interesting developments are looked for to-morrew. Mrs. Nation de- clares she will enter the joints and smash them, while the jointists are equally cer- tain she will not. The jointists have ne- groes hired to watch their places of busi- ness, and they have orders to shoot down any person, man or woman, who attempts to enter the joint bent on mischief. The better element of the people of the city are much worried at the turn affairs have taken. They think that now is the time, if ever, that “Topeka’'s joints™ will be closed, but they stand aghast at the Continued on Third Page.