The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1901, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS 0 NI COVERANENT OF ISLANDS e —— Plans of President ; " B | W ADRID, Feb. 15.—Civil guards iy WU | \ hostile demonstrations at Valen- 1 i i cla to-day The military was but there was no s contented them- he army. Last night trouble, as the crow selves with ¢ * Phil ppines. WEYLER MAINTAINS STRICT CENSORSHIP OF SPANISH PRESS midates People at Tladrid While Hostile Qutbreaks Occur in the Interior. + | Natives Realize That Uncle Sam Means Business and ¢ to Surrender. SHTY HEN INPRSONED N BURNING MINE Reseuers Driven Back By Smoke and P "Dlszister in Union Mine Owned by Wellington Collieries. ————— SEATTLE, Feb. 15.—A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Victorla says. News of what is feared will be one of the most horrible mine accidents in the history of mot only the province but of the Dominlon took place this forenoon at the Union mines, owned by the Welling- ton Colliery Company, of which James Dunsmuir, the Premier of the province, is the principal sharehoider. The tele~ BRI | | X ¥ 11 ¥ B P I 5 | P " - | | | civil g | I i ‘ Saragossa znd Barcelona were | ‘ s before they assumed threaten- | [ |1 . a, in which | 1 gendarmes a | > € stone wall. The gen- | ¥ reral Weyler summoned the LFONSO XL r instructed | s ' 2 Y3 s THE YOUNG KING OF SPAIN | AND A POSSIBLE “MAN ON | =ing ¥ mHor ACK.” | | & — & - e pape! not the fetes will give an opportunity for re- | even official news supplied by the Minis- newed disorder. ter of the Interfor. The Epoca, the min- The dissensions in the Ministry, caused | isterlal organ, appears with several mut!- by the attitude of the Government in dealing so severely with the populace, ap- pear to have been at least temporarily = healed. The dissenters have agreed not to provoke a crisis in the present situa- tion. The Government is adopting a walt- . ing policy. It hopes that, with the royal | ] wedding over, and the departure of the | > Casertas, the excitemert will subside. SCOUTS AVE A BATTLE. i hikte)| a CONTROVERSY no Insurgents in t Position. One Plan to Settle the Di to the Rank o CALL BUREAU, 14066 G STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—In view of the prospective failure of the nominations Admirals Sampson and Schley ement, efforts are being made of Rear of these officers to agree upon a plan which will permit legislation for Comas of Maryland was en- in organizing opposition to mation of the nominations. Sup- Admiral Sampson under- ity of trying to sustain the plans have been suggested to Sen- r McComas for the settlement of the M contr y. One provides for the revival er: of the grade of vice admiral, to which W ® < d twelve | b officers could be appointed. The e 5 s nitlon were | other confers the thanks of Congress v both. R approve ar Admiral Schley’s friends former suggestion pro- vided an agreement be made in advance that he shall be promoted so as to retain his senfority. Rear Admiral Sampson’s Senatoriai sup- | porters are unwilling to make such an oottt CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR IS t is import- fon favor- the regioa = of the worst ccomplished ex- inued, in- of officers fantry. ests in « MACARTHUR" ‘ DISBANDED BY PASTOR SICE WELL CARED FOR. |pagical Action Taken by a Minister ppines Have Good | Causes Much Agitation Through- Attention. out Massachusetts. ~““Ample hos BOSTON, Feb. 15.—There is consider- RENEWED | OVER SAMPSON AND SCHLEY| 2 plenty of med!- | sple agitation in Congregational and other This ’r,;lh‘ church circles throughout Massachusetts Surgeon C over the recent dishanding of the Pittsfield nberg tement was Young People’s Christian Endeavor Soci- ety by Rev. Isaac Chipman Smart of the South Copgregational Church of that city. He is the first minister in this part of the State to take such'a step and in every church where the Christian Endeavor 1s sterous,” sald Gen- | a part of the church life the result of the The number of sick has | step taken is being anxiously awalted. 3 * Clark, himself the founder of Endeavorers, has been heard from by letters. Writing to a prominent Pitts- field citizen, Mr. Clark said: “I do not wish to say anything which number of sick was | would seem like taking part in the con- , 19, when the total | troversy, but will simply say that no the number of sick | Christian Endeavor Soclety owes alle- s have been organized ‘ glance to Father Clark or to any one else towns—well-equipped | except its own pastor and its own church those which were head- | and they are the proper ones to decide regiments, post hospitals in|any question that may arise in regard to ler zarrisons and dis- | the workings of a local church or Chris- occupled by subposts | tion Endeavor Soclety. You will also per- " | haps allow me to correct ong statement, Greenleaf shows in his report | which I find In the article which you send here are hospital accommodations | me from your paper. The Congreational men, and officials of the War Ds- | churches of the country have mot lost ent say additions have been made | 10,500 members in the past year, but hava that there Is ample room for the sick. | gained several thousands.” Pettigrew has 10,000 can be than o onel Charles R surgeon of the division shows that in Decem- total strength of the spute Is to Promote Bothi f Vice Admiral. { | agreement, though naval officers close to Rear Admiral Sampson believe he is tired of the controve and would not object | to Rear Admiral Schley being. promoted 0 that he would be No. 1 on the lst for vice admiral. Rear Admiral Schley will retire in October, and Rear Admiral | Sampson would thus become the senior and only vice admiral remalning on the | active list until next year. | If the thanks of Congress are conferred | upon both officers, unless special provi- | sion is made, they will receive no advant- | ages. Under the law if they ranked as | captains or below they could, after re- | | celving the thanks of Congress, be pro- | moted, but as there is no grade above that which they hold it would be impos- | sible for the President to advance them. Earnest efforts are being made by the | friends of all officers to secure confirma- tion of the nominations, with the excep- | tion of those of Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley. The chances are considered good, though an effort may be made to hold up the entire list, as was done when the rominations were considered some time ago. -l-l-l+l-l-l-i—l—l—H—l—l—l-l—l—l—H+l-’-l-l-, ® WILL TRY TO BREAK THE VAUDEVILLE TRUST Meyerfield and Ackerman of the Or- pheum Buy Three Chicago Theaters. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Morris Meyerfield and Charles Ackerman of San Franclsco, president and vice president of the Or- pheum Company, are sald to have com- pleted arrangements for the purchase of the Chicago Opera-house, the Olympic and the Haymarket theaters of Chi, and will endeavor to break the so-talled trust of the Eastern vaudeville managers and prevent their, managers from secur- ing all the best attractions, as is the case now. —_— STREETS OF BUDAPEST Smash Windows of Stores and Res- taurants and Police Make Many Arrests. BUDAPEST, Feb. 15.—Several thousand persons out of work marched through the principal streets here to-day, carrying mottoes and singing the ‘‘Marseillai: They began smashing the windows of taurants and stores, when the police dis- persed them, making many arrests, e s Twenty Passengers Injured. PITTSBURG, Feb. 15—A car on the Hamlilton line jumped the track to-night at the corner of Sixth and Hamilton ave- nues and toppled over against the curb, completely wrecking the car and inj twenty or more passengers, four of them severely. | many yards through graphic advices received so far give mo complete story of the accidént, but news- taper correspondents are now hurrying by . steamers and tugboats to the scene and the full facts will shortly be obtain- able. As near as can be gathered the explosicn took place at about 11 o'clock this forenoon in No. 6 shaft, one of the workings of the big coal mine there. This particular shaft {s situated right in the village of Cumberland. . There were sixty men in the mine when the explosion took piace and not one of them escaped. A partial list is: W. B. WALKER, overseer, married, leaves a wife and two daughters, his two sons, George and fam, being also in the mine. o JOHN WHYTE, miner, married, leaves. | wife and four children. THOMAS LORD, miner, single. JAMES HALLIDAY, miner, single. E. DUNCAN MUNRO, married, leaves a wife and large fami W. SNEDDEN, miner, large family. PETER BARDEAMOND, miner, mar- ried, leaves a wife and two children. — BONO, single. R. FLECK, married. L. SIMONDI, married. ANDREW SMITH, single. D. M. DAVIS, single. A. MAFFO. D. McGINNIS. JIM CROSETTE, single. JOSEPH ALLISON, driver, first shift, single. GEORGE and WILLIAM WALKER, drivers, sons of overseer. GEORGE TURNBULL, leaves a wife. The explosion ighited the mine, wreck- ing the shaft from midway down to the bottom and filiing it with a solld mass of rocks, earth and timber. The first ex- plosion ‘was followed by several: more, while the dense volumes of smoke issu- ing from the vent holes indicated only too truly that fire as well as gas was dolng its destructive work below. As leaves a wife and timberman, | soon as practicable after the accident the men of the morning shift in No. 5 shaft crganized a rescue party. No. b is situ- ated about a mile from No. ‘6, but the two workings are connected by a tunnel, and through this channel an attempt was made to reach the unfortunate men In the wrecked shaft. The rescuers had not cut thelr way the debris when they encountered fire, which rendered the place untenable and oblizged the party to desist. The hopeless message came back by telephone to the surface, con- veying the heart-breaking news to anxi- ous relatives of the imprisoned men, whose urging was not necessary to in- Guce the relief party to return to their apparently hopeless task. Overcome at last by gas and smoke they reluctantly withdrew from No. 5 and commenced work on a long cut from No. 4, the only other means of reaching the men. Work on this was prosecuted with the greatest vigor until an abatement of the fire in No. 5 enabled them to once more return there. The latest news is somewhat en- couraging, it being stated that the fans are again working, that the cage has got 17 feet and is still going down in No. 4 shaft. Immediately upon receipt of the news to-day at the head office of the Dunsmuir Company here a specizl traln was made up and proceeded at 1:15 o'clock to Na- naimo. Premier Dunsmulr is not yet home from Ottawa, but his confidential repre- sentative, A. M. Lindsay; his son, Robin Dunsmuir; Mr. Little, the superintendent of the mine, and Inspector of Mines Mor- gan left on this special. At Nanaimo, which was reached this evening, the Duns. muir steamer Joan awaited them and on her they will proceed sixty miles by wa- ter to Unfon Bay, the remaining six miles by land to Cumberland to be made on the Dunsmuir Colliery Rallway, and the scene of the accident wijl be reached by mid- night. Even should the rescuing party reach the interfor of the wrecked works to- night, there is littla hope for any of the men locked up in the shaft. John Bry- non, ex-member of Parliament, brother- in-law of the Premier and ex-manager of the mining portion of the Dunsmuir min- ing business, sajd to a correspondent to- night that scarcely any hope could be held out:for the men. The only way in which any of them could escape would be by reaching some remote portion of the workings to which the fatal gases and smoke could not penetrate. The gas of a coal mine, he said, did its work in & few minutes. Hence, the hopeless- ness of the task of saving men who haq been in it for hours.. The last report of the inspector of mines pronounced the shaft as complying with the regulations governing coal mines. (" Dr. Walkem, the company surgeon, will FORCE OF BOERS REPORTED TAKEN .BY THE BRITISH Ermelo General French Said to Have Made“' an Important Capture in ‘ District. | | | | | | ) | g | o MAJOR GENERAL J. D. P. FRENCH, THE NOTED BRITISH CAVALRY LEADER, WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE CAPTURED A LARGE BOER FORCE IN THE ERMELO DISTRICT. - ONDON, Feb. 16.—A speclal re- ceived yesferday morning from Lourenzo Marques satd: “It Is re- ported that General French has captured a large Boer force in the Ermelo district.” Up to 2 o'clock thi¥ morning, however, the War Office kad no Information regard- ing French's alleged victory. A special from Cape Town says: Albert C: ¢twright, editor® of the Soutn African | News, who was arrested February T | charged with seditious and defamatory | libel in having published in his paper a | statement. to the effect that the British commander in chief nad secretly instruc ed his troops to taks no prisoners, wa yesterday heM for trial, bail being fixed join the party at Nanaimo and will ac- company them to the mine. VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 15.—A second ex- plosion occurred in No. 5 shaft at Union Colliery to-night, but it had been expect- ed and all the men had left the workings. i There were no casualties. This explosion | prevents any further efforts being made | to rescue the entombed miners througn No. 5 shaft. GIGANTIC COMPANY TO' | PURCHASE BAILROAD STOCK Organization Formed Some Time Ago by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and E. H. Harriman: NEW YORK, Feb. 15—It was reported in Wall street to-day that a financing company with $20,000,000 capital was or- ganized some time ago by Kuhn, Loeb Co., E. H. Harriman and associates, to ac- quire securities of raliroad properties as they deem advisable, and, to issue in their place participating certificates. It is as- sumed that securities of the Chicago and . Alton, Kansas City, Southern Union Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande and perhaps connecting or competing lines of these will be included in the purchases of the company. - Terrible Turk Defeated. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 15.—Hall Ali, the “Ter- rible Turk,” met with defeat In a wrest- ling bout to-night. He agreed to throw six local . men within an hour. He dlfs- posed of his first man in two and a half minutes. His next and last opponent was George Baptiste, a well known local ath- lete and wrestler. Baptiste had no trouble in delaying the balance of the hour and made the Turk look like a movice, being the aggressor throughout. povedile:, tnbdl Claims He Was Robbed. TACOMA, Feb, 15.—C: A. Smith, a baker residing on Eleventh street, claims to have been assaulted by burglars in his of bed, and after pounding him, piled the bed clothes over him until he was nearly smothered and them departed. The police | discredit the story, although Smith bears | a good reputation for veracity. S Convicted of Manslaughter. MARTINEZ, Feb. 15.—The trial of Dan- jel C. Shine for the murder of George W. Nason in the Ariington Hotel at An- tioth last October terminated this after- noon. The jury found Shine guilty of manslaughter. ‘Homeseekers Reach Stockton. STOCKTON, Feb. 15.—The first train of colonists eame over the Santa Fe line to-day and 100 homeseekers were in the crowd. Fifteen got off at Btockton. —_— For Preservation of Redwoods. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 15.—D. M. Delmas has been granted permission to address Assembly- men and Senators in the Assembly Cham- ber Monday ‘afternoon immediately after adjournment in behalf of the bill for the preservation. of the redwoods of the Big Basin. Bauer offered the resolution grant- Ing the permmission and It was adopted by unanimous vote. L Pacific, | |at £2000. For a month Lord Methuen has been scouring the country and the Transvaal, bringing in women and children, cattle and food from all the farms General Smith-Dorrien occupied Amsterdam and Tungs yesterday. A special from Colesburg. Cape Colony, says: Plumer's column engaged Dewet | between Colesburg an< Phillipstown Feb- ruary 14 and gradual: [back. Ten of the Briuish were wounded during many hours’ [fighting. An oc- casjonal dead Beer was found. The en- gagement Is being coniinued to-day. All the males at Grafsfontein have arrived. There !s plenty of ev ce that they were assisting the Boers. oot fonfefent APPOINTMENT OF ROSS IS NOT CONFIRMED | Regents of University of Nebraska | Not Favorable to Former | Stanford Man. | LINCOLN, Nebr., Feb. 15 | bers of the board of regents of the Uni- | versity of Nebraska, two being absent, de- | clined this’ evening by a tle vote to con- firm the selection by Chancellor Andrews of Professor E. A. Ross, recently of Le- |land Stanfora University, as lecturer on | soclology. Regents Morrill and Good sald | they were not prepared, in the absence of | full investigation, to admit the wisdom of his selection. Supporters of Professor Ross say his confirmation is merely de- ayed and that the full board will act fa- vorably. S e PLAN FOR JUNKET TO SANTA BARBARA Committee on State Prisons Wishes to Inspect Site for New Institution. CALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, Feb. 15.—Part of the A | Committee on State Prisons and A | anxious to emulate | I | | | | | | | | SACRA- sembly viums, the Committee on less junket to San Pedro to investigate regarding a bill introduced at its own instance, tried to force through to-day a | resolution to authorize.it to make a trip to Santa Barbara. The excuse was in- spection of a site for a new State pris- on, as contemplated in Milice's bill. The blll in question provides for the appoint- ment of a commission to choose the pris- on site. Further, every one knows the bill has not the slightest chance to become a jaw. The bill was to be used by ithe committee simply as a pretext to get a Junketing trip with fat mileage. Franklin introduced the resolution and Schlesinger defended it. Brown of San Mateo, a member of the committee, op- posed it. On roll call it failed of the home on Thursday night and robbed of | o oceary two-thirds vote, although it had | $125. Smith says two men pulled him out | | & majority. between Kuruman | pushed the Boers | Four mem-, Commerce and Navigation in the shame- | Adjournment was taken until Monday ! LECISLATION TOBE BLOCKED BY AISHAEN Present Parliament " o Be Liveliest 00 Record. ‘§0pposit1'on to Home Rule Will Now Face a United Party. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 15.—The first Parliament of King Edward VII promises to go down In history as the “Gag Parllament | programme of the Irish member: | ried out, since the various factio | united and a plan of parliamentary eam- palgn has been adopted which is 1 make the present session one of est on record ; I ! it the Every plece « | ment legislation is to be oppose: | point where closure Is necessary, and all private bills are to be talked to death. | With eighty dete: ned Irishmen com- | bined into relays and committees for con- | tinuous opposition, the campaign of ob- | struction is certain to be unprecedented. | “We will ntertere in every piece of Eng- | lish legislation,” sald John Redmond, the | | new leader of the Irish party, to The Cail correspondent. “No matter whether It refers to an extra grant to the crown or ; | to a tramway line in the north of Scot- | land. the Irish members will lhave some- | thing to say about it. | “We have eighty determined men, whose | object is to get justice to Ireland by every possible means. England has interfered |in Irish matters long enough. Now, we propose to turn the tables, The other day we wanted to extend the boundaries of Dublin. It was purely a local matter, but we were deféated by the votes of the Eng- lish and Scotch members. Now we'll show them what we can do ifi the way of inter- ference with their business.” “Does not the King's speech foreshadow legislation favorable to Ireland in tha way of the purchase of tenant farms™" | Redmond was asked. | *“Nothing of the kind. he replied. |1s merely the shilly-shally of evaston. | I interd to move an amendment to the | address, calling for the compnlsory sale | of tenant farms instead of the optional | sale. which the Government offers and | which means nothing. “They have to face a united Irish par‘y now, including many of their former fol- | lowers like Russell, and won't be able to | put them off with a subterfuge as here- | tofore.” “Are you going to do anything relative to the objectionable anti-Catholle oath?" “We have a bill ready for introduction for the repeal. Religious orders in Irc- land, who are responsible for the educa tion of the vounz. have no legal existence |and cannot own a shilling’s worth of pro; erty because of the ridiculous anti-Catho- lic laws on the English statute books. *“You can be sure of one thing.” conclud- | ed Richmond, “the Irish members are go- ing to make themselves heard and felt “It this session. We have organized In com- | mittees, covering every snbject of possible legislation, and will talk on everything or | anything. If the English and Scotch | members don’t like that it will be their affalrs not ours. | “If they will insist on Trish members | coming to London to discuss Irish afatrs, instead of doing,so in Dublin, they must take the c lequences.’” T. P. O'Connor was seen later and his | opinton asked on the royal oath question. | He sald “*Of course nothing could be more mon- ous or absurd than the sovereign of | an empire which numbers Catholies by the milfons bheing compelled publicly to | speak of their dearest relizious convie- | tions in terms of almost coarse insul REED MAY HAVE MET WITH FOUL PLAY Lifeless Body Found in Cabin and Room Bears Evidsnces of a Struggle. MARYSVILLE, Feb. 15.—The dead body | of Andrew J. Reed, an old resident, was found in his cabin at Dobbins, thirty miles from here, to-night. There is a | bullet hole in the head. The room bears | evidence of a struggle and a revolver | with one chamber empty was found on | the foor. Reed was recently arrested on a charge of having assaulted the 13-year-old daughter of E. W. Quennell. As he had | always borne a good reputation the | charge was scouted in’ many quarters at 10 o'clock on account of several com- | 4pq Reed released on tail. mittees being away on junketing trips. | The Coroner, District Attorney and au- Fish and Game Committee wiil leave to- morrow for Monterey to investigate aba- lone fishing. The Senate Judiclary Committee, or a good part of it, will take a junket to San Francisco to-morrow to inspect the China Basin properts to be leased as a raflroad terminal. Those Included In the junket are: Davls, Selvage, Lukens, Smith of Kern, Devlin, Simpson, Wolfe and Ashe. Want Meyers Bill Amended. ‘WOODLAND,: Feb. 15.—The people of Woodland have concluded that it 1s teo late In the session of the Legislature to cttempt to pass a bill providing for the establishment of an experimental farm in Sacramento Valley antl they have re- quested Senator Cutter and Assembly- man Chiles to withdraw the bill. They will now make an effort to amend the Myers bill, g0 that Kings County will not have the preference and will not get the dairy school unless she offers better in- ducements than any other county In the State. the tragedy. & EATS FLESH OF CATS TO CURE CONSUMPTION Strange Remedy for the Dread Dis- ease Employed by J. M. Dan- necker of New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—J. M. Dannecker, the Newark man who began to eat cats a few weeks ago because he thought they were good for consumption, was ar- raigned in the First Precinct Police Court to-day and fined $0 for violating the health ordinance prohibiting the slaught- ering of animais® within the eity limits without a license. Dannecker told the Judge he thought he bad tuberculosis. He sald he knew that the flesh of cats would benefit him. He also wanted to bring his children up to eat it. He did not see why he should not be vermitted to do so. He was also too poor, he zaid, to buy meat from a butcher. Judge Lamb called Dannecker a brute and fined him to the limit. Dannecker prom- 1ised to forswear cat diets {