The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1901, Page 1

‘()LI \IF LXXXIX—NO. 97 SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS MANCHESTER IS SUED Y PRETTY CIRL Ditke Is Served With Papers in Breach of Promlse \ 7 P .'1,11 Kn -*ht Pla‘nmi in Suit That Promises a Great Scandal. ndal Promised. promises t Alt ight Juke of Their ing in e emj tance ripened elel freque six mont when the Duke no ge € nd Miss Knight tovk elne e now Uving in position and he Duchess, Miss Knigat with olive com- | e S PORTIA IS VERY PRETTY. # in the Case a Bright Oregon Girl. reh 6.—Miss Por- er of Colonel N. a prominent pio- She w; Siste rked ability imber of on mpani emarkably COOPER NOW WILLING TO COME FOR TRIAL Attorneys Will Not Serve Him With- out Pay and He Reluctantly Decldes to Submit. OGDEN March w Cooper has 3 d win | E am for o'clock to-morrow attorneys, after a of the case, de- - to give the officials nc trouble. Detective Byram arrived here this morn- ing and after going to Salt Lake, where | he secured the signature of Governor = ells to the requisition papers, returned Y Ogden. Coc will be ironed with an Oregon boot before he is put on the train. se papers will preciude any attempt of Cooper to leave the train in Nevada, s edu- and | to take hold r-f the matter unless remunerated in advance. This Coop- 114 mot ¢ s therefore decided | ROBERT McCORMICK OF ILLINOIS GIVEN IMPORTANT MISSION Nominated by the President as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary to Austria and Hungary ~ i . IR 7 i ROBERT S McCORMICK OF ILLINOIS, WHO HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY THE PRESIDENT TO BE MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES TO AUSTRIA-HU 3ARY. { & - - U. 1406 G. STREET,; Frank W. Jackson of Pennsylvania, 4 WASHINGTON, March 6. | Consul at Patras, Greece. \ —1"- siden: Navy—Captain A. 8. Crowninshield, to Sen nomination of rmick of Tilinots | and Mixister | Robert be Chief of the Bureau of with rank of rear admiral. Commanders to be captains—Chapman Todd and Robert M. Berry. Navigation, | c Lieutenant commanders to be command- ers—Daniel D. V. Adams. McCormick was secretary of the United Stuart and Charles M. States Legation at London under Robert T. Lincolr McCormick, who is a noted s to be lieutenant command- bitliophile, is er of leading lliam M. Rush, Harry S. Knapp clubs of this city McCormick and William L. Rodgers. Shder ok Soteti - 38 Lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieu- tenants—William N. V. Powelson and Wil- liam S. Montgomery. Richworth Nicholson of California, | be assistant paymaster in the navy, —q***l-—i'l! el ol ] PRESJ.DENT IS CONFRONTED BY RACE PROBLEM IN SOUTH founder of the to Urgedto Appoint White Postmasterin Georgia and Colored Officers in the Army. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, WASHINGTOX 1406 STREET, March 6.—President G Colonel Buck, United States Minister to 43 | Japan, who is now in Washington to look McKinley is again confronted by the race | After the Interests of his friends. Judson problem in the South. Representative | YONS. the colored Register of the Treas- Howard of Georgia handed to the Presi- | llx;ru\ is also co-operating with Colonel dent to-day a petition signed by all of the | 14 hae been whispered In administration | white citizens of Athens urging him to | circles for some time that the President is give that city a white Postmaster. The|not averse to buflding up the white Re- | present Postmaster is M, B. Morton, who is declared one of the most offensive col- # in the State. He is a con- figure In what constitutes the | Republican organization in the Cracker | State. He was appointed about four years ago In white citizens of Athens Washington seekin contest over the Athens pos likely to as national publican party in the South. A member of the Cabinet ~emarked recently: “We do ored o pol in the South, but we are sick and tired of having it all black." President McKinley was also visited to- day by a large delegation of colored Re- publicans who asked him to recognize their race in the reorganization of the army. Bishop Walters, who headed the delegation, sald the President promised to Postmaster Morton appoint some colored officers, oo e s s ) WHITEIDE THREATENS TO SAW UP BIG TREES ST. PAUL. Minn., March 6.—Robert B. | Whiteside is back from Washington and | still owns the great Sequoia grove in Ca fornia. Whiteside says: I paid $100,000 for one section of timber | land in the Calaveras tract and additional | | sums for four sections of the Tuolumne | no plans to cut the big trees at present, grove, about forty-acre tracts, and all | but I pald good money for the land and tkey offer is $125,600. | timber and if these good people want ft, “Two prominent California women came | why I will sell when T get a fair price. I to Washington and got into the game.|have been terribly abused in the Califor- They were Mrs. Lovell White and Mrs. |nia pavers. I am held up as a vandal, | Bharon, president and vice president of | Who sees nothing in nature's great works | the Women's Clubs of California. They |but = chance to make two-by-fours and were fine women, but they looked umnr(uu boards. If T can’t sell the trees they | me as something awful to eontemplate. 1| will be converted into lumber.; .WW%%%HW. [EMPEROR WILLIAM STRUCK | WITH CHUNK OF IRON ! BERL March 6.—While BEmperor| The Emperor is #aid to have been slight- { ‘Willilam was driving from the Rathskeller | i 1y injured in the cheek, but he continued to the railroad station here yesterday a | | his journey ey withou rrupfl workingman named Dieterich Weiland p . g cu Weiland, who is an epileptic, gave con- threw a piece of iron into his Majesty's carriage. Welland was immediately ar- | fusing answers to the police regarding his zrotives. rested, spite of vigorous opposition by the and is now in g reappointment. The mastership 1s i importance. behind him has had several interviews with them, and finally made them an offer to sell out the whole business for $500,000 and gave them €lx months in which to recover their breath and think it over. “Now I am not disposed to do anything but make a good bargaln. I have made not expect an all-white Republican party | KITCHENER NECOTIATES WITH BOTHA Boer Commander IS Preparing For Surrender. ‘Dewet and Delarey, How- | ever, Remain in Field | With Their Forces. | LONDON, March 7.—Private informa- tion received in London this morning con- firms the rumors of negotiations between Lord Kitchener, Sir Alfred Milner and Commandant General Louis Botha. Noth- ing is known as to the actual presence of the Boer commander In chief at Pretoria, | and no London paper publishes a state- ment that he is there, but it is reasonably ; | certain that General Botha is In elther | personal or very close touch ‘with Lord Kitchéner. To-day Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | will endeavor to extract some Information | from the Government on the subject In | | the House of Commons. i | It is stated here that Sir Alfred Milner | | has gone to Pretoria with the object of assisting Lord Kitchener in these nego- | tiations, the length of which appears to | | be due to General Botha's desire to con- | sult with Acting President Schalkberger | at Pietersburg and to make terms apply- | ilng to the whole Boer forces; but militat- | | ing against this is Lord Kitchener's doubt as to General Botha's abllity to control | | General Dewet and other leaders and as | well as the internal oppesition Gr-ncral} Botha is encountering. One of the best | | informed authorities on South Afrlca said | | 1ast evening: Cannot Surrender All Forces. | “We have little doubt that General Bo- | tha will surrender. The question now | as to what forces he can bring with him. We have private information tending to | show that Lord Kitcoener and Sir Alfred | Milner have decided to accept his surren- | der on the basis that he is merely an in- | dividual commander ather than a com | mander-in-chief of the enemy’s forces. “General Dewet and (ieneral Delarey, us \wfll as the other lead-rs -~ will. probahly | have to be dealt with wdividually on sim- i yllar terms. If the negotiations with Gel\-] eral Botha reach a successful termina- | tion it will be, to use an expressive | Americanism, just one of the bunch.” | It is also understood that Dr. Levds | was recently negotiating to secure peacs | terms, but when it was discovered that | he was merely acting a farce, not heing1 | in communication wita General Botha or | { not able to live up to the tentative sus- | gestions made, the British Government | having learned his views, quickly endel | the negotiations, espectally when it was found that Lord Kitchener was treating | | with General Botha, while Dr. Leyds was | unable to speak authoritatively for the | forces in the fleld. Other Boers Remain in Field. | Curlously enough the War Office seems genuinely without definite information re- garding the exact status of affairs. The | great financial firms whose interests in | South Africa are almost equal to those of | the Government believe from their pri-| vate advices that the present situation | i= likely to Yesult in the surrender of General Botha and the forces under his | immediatc command, while the other Boer units will remain in the field. The Daily Mail publishes the following from Colesburg, dated March 5: A big movement is being prepared to clear the whole of Orange River Colony from north to south of Boers. A Cape Town special says: The Boers who captured Pearstown on the Great | Riet River Sunday morning numbered 700 and had two guns. They are still in pos- session of the town. The garrison con- | sisted of twenty-five colonials and fifty | town guards RUMORS OF UPRISING IN CUBA ARE DENIED Former Commissioner Quesada Says That Lovers of Independence ‘Will Not Cause Trouble. HAVANA, March 6.—An Investigation into the report circulated in the United States by a news agency that the United | States Secret SerVice cfficials here had | been informed that plans are on foot for a Cuban uprising and that disorder is only avoided now by the efforts of lead- ers to hold the revolutionary element in | check elicited the following statement from Senor Gonzales Quesada, who was the speclal Commissioner of Cuba at Washington and who was in the dispatch referred to as having frmcd the state. | ments made: i “I have not made any statements re- garding an uprising. 1f any persons are | interested in fomenting an uprising they are not Cubans who are in favor of in- dependence, but parti=s desirous of seeing Cuba crushed forever. What we have to contend against now is American pubhc opinfon. There is no prospect of fightiag here.” NEW CABINET FORMED, WEYLEB RAISES SIEGE MADRID, March 6.—Captain General Weyler has issued a decree raising the state of slege. The new Ministry has taken the oath of office. The new Cabinet, Is constituted as follows: Premier, Senor Sagasta; Min, ter of Foreign Affairs, Senor Almodovar; Minister of Finance, Senor Urzaiz; Minis- ter of War, Gereral Weyler; Minister of the Interior, Senor Morot; Minister of Marine, Duke of Veragua; Minister of Public Works, Senor Villameva; Minister of Public Instruction, Senor Romanones. The portfolio of the Minister of Jultlce I has not yet been allotted. | possible disturbances REDMOND DECLARES UNDUE VIOLENCE IS USED IN THE COMMONS Police Mobilized to Prevent ‘Rep_eti— tion of Turbulent Scenes Attend-! ing the Expulsion of Irish Members | | | % 3 RIVAL LEADERS OF THE NATIONALISTS AND GOVERNMENT FORCES | | IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WHO CLASH ON THE FORCIBLE EX- | | PULSION OF TRISH MEMBERS. | { 2 | | ONDON, March 6.—The excitement was universally understood that the occasioned by last night's scenes in the House oi Commons is still whole night would be devoted to this Eng- lish question and then the debate on the very evident, and when the House | remaining items would stand adjourned. met at noon to-day, in view of | On this understanding a large number of the whole police | Irish members, including some of the | force on duty at St. Stephens had been | most experienced members of the party, mobllized and reinforced by reserves. left the House. Suddenly at the close of | John Redmond, the Nationalist leader, | the sitting, at midnight, Balfour proposed speedily rose and raised a question of | to closure the discussion on the entire | privilege arising from “the painful scenes | Vote of £17,000,000. This naturally pro- of last night.” He claimed that members | voked an outburst on the part of the Irish | had been suspended without proper steps | members who were in the House. The being taken to identify them and that |Scene was one most disgraceful to the their removal had been accompanied by | English Parllament. We intend to raise undue violence. He was satisfled, he said, | the matter as a question of privilege. As that members were suspended who had | @ matter of fact, some of the members actually gone to the lobby to participate | Were turned out of the House who took | in the division. no part in the scene and most brutal vio- The Speaker, In reporting, pointed out |1énce Was exhibited in the removing of that Redmond was not raising a question | 30™€ of our members. The action of the of privilege but a polnt of order. If he | Government is likely to defeat its object was properly informed of any wrongful | and Will make the Irish members more | cuspensions he (the Speaker) would be glad | determined than ever to resist the Gov- to take steps to rectify them. ernment’s plan to choke the discussion of‘ Redmond tried to move an adjournment | Irish affairs.” and appealed to Balfour, the Government The Rights of Ireland. leader, to give the members an opportuni- DUBLIN, March 6.—Commenting upon ty for discussion. last night's scene in the Hotise of Com- mons, the Freeman's Journal refoices that ‘Would Change the Rules. a Balfaut, sefarding that he nrosumen it |- *'22d at:last poasesses.a: pazty: that wil wan Gadived 3o, natitite - teans; for. pre- | 00D Westminater: thist: It -the: sights. of vehting o vedtitcants of the scenes. ofdast | T RA-ArS (o be,sacrified, the eharactyr night, promised 'to constder what opportu- | 81 privileges of Parliament will accom- nity for discussion could be given. P‘:‘_“;'e "]‘:‘::C;“f;:! i g Balfour subsequently gave notice of a 3 ng o motlon to be made to-morrow to suspend | $¢tting sufficient support and maintenance in London from thelr own countrymen, = : * such offenders hereafter for the remainder | 4}, ;.. Lretending to represent Ireland are of the session. It is understpod that Balfour proposes fid"a""‘ & mendicant pligrimage to the % nd of the Dollar' and fondly Imagine to alter the House of Commons rule relat- AN B vl e s B vt ing to suspensions,. making the punish-| = % ment so severe as to make a repetition of last night’s revolt agalnst the authority of the chair unlikely. Angry Debate Expected. Balfour's proposal to make suspension for the remainder of the session the pen- alty of disobedience .to the chair s ex- pected to lead to an angry debate. The action of the Irish members is universally condemned, but at the same time Bal- four’s attempt to drive rather than lead the House meets with much disapproba- tion. It is argued that the Government kpew they had a very heavy financial session ‘ahead, and yesterday, instead of calling Parllament early, called it later than usual. It is understood that Sir Henry Camp- bell-Bannerman will protest against wholesale closuring. His view is that the difficulties Parliament has to face would have been, to a great-extent, prevented if it had met a fortnight earlier. Redmond Says It Is a Trick. John Redmond sald to a correspondent: “The scene last night in the House of Commons was the direct result of a trick on the part of the Government. A vote on account for £17,000,000 had been brought up for discussion. It covered a multitude of items and included over £2,000,000 for Irish purposes. The discus- sfon was initialed by English members on the English education question, and it DRUNKEN TRAINMEN KILL @TY LABORERS Engine and Cars Crash Upon a Snow- Clearing Gang on a Russian Railroad. LONDON, March 7.—The Moscow corre- | #pondent of the Daily Mail says: During the recent heavy snowstorms fifty men were sent to clear the snow out of a rafl- way cut near Wolovo, on the Riazan- Ural line. They were just leaving the cut when the traln came down at full speed and crushed about thirty men into helpless masses, their clothing clogging the axles and stopping the train. In- quiry shows that the engine driver and all the guards were crunk. e BRITISH BURN TOWNS AND FREE THE SLAVES LONDON, March 6.—Intelligence just received here from North Nigeria brings events there up to January 31, describing the operations of a British expedition of 300 against the marauding Imers of Bida and Koncagora. Both capital towns were burned by the British. Two hundred slave women belonging to the King of Bida were released by thirty-six men under the command of two officers, who successtully engaged 1000 armed natives. | Gage's decision that he | against further {an | had, demanded to kn: | ley's pollcy of protection was to be | the agric | that the committee ma | sent CACE REFUSES 10 RESCIND SUCAR ORDER ‘President Sustains COI]IIIBI’V&HIIIQ Duty. Flatly Denies Petition of Illinois Manuiacturers t0 Reverse Ruling. Special CALL BU REAU, W, W4 etary Gage, backed by t has decided no longer to r fensive in the the Russian Governm on all sugar expo ley told a d n to-day to ask for a should be any ta the United St could only suggest that tt take an appeal to the Ge The turning point in policy of trea: the terday, when a committe Manufacturers’ Association of the illinois business associates and perso: and po- litical friends of the Sec called at the Treasury Department to protest mposition of the cou vailing duty. e comr by Martin B. Madden and liam C. Mundt, Charles H. Deere, J. M. Glenn and Willlam D. Ha Strong Protest Entered. Madden declared to Secretary Gage that the members of the a employed not less than 300,000 mer o’ output valued at no $2.000,- #0000 annually, and we y engag 1s to other They fe were to injured l( retallato me were to enforced through the osition of a countervailing duty. Th found 1 with Gage for deci versed, asserted that 1t would affect tu and manufacturing ests of the United States and 3 the decision be reversed Secretary Gage is usually a very spoken man, but in his reply to the mittee he talked with great vigor and jus- tified his action. He alluded to the fact ims to repre- Tilinota. He tives of three mild- com- 300,000 workingmer sald he knew the and one-half represe; ons of citizens of Il were Senators and Repre- s. If there was to be sought in Con- gress. He had acted en under the law, and if h otherwise than he had he would have been false to the obligations he had en. Told to Make an Appeal. Secretary Gage told the Iilinols commit- teemen they ought to have the question taken before the Bcard of General Ap- praisers. He said a car sugar was about to arrive in Baltimore on which the countervailing duty would amount to $1000 or $5000. If the importer of this sugar felt that the countervailing duty st or illegal and not based prope assurhption that a bounty was paid by Russian Government, then the importer ought to take the case before the General Appraisers. Secretary Gage is having prepared a statement by the Bureau of Statistics on the loss on all articles affected by the Russian order in trade between Russia and the United States. He expects this to show that less than $4,000,000 of our trade with Russia is affecte: nots, a sentativ be any relief it must ly was unju upon t! the NEGRO RUFFIAN SHOT TO DEATH BY A MOB Louisiana Men Pursue a White Wo- man’s Assailant and End His Life With Bullets. SHREVEPORT, L&, March 6—WiN Davis, allas Willlams, a negro, who fs sald to have attacked Mrs. Atlaway at Blanchard, La., on Mo=day, was shot ta death by a mob after being fully identi- fled by his victim to- After commit- ting the crime the aegro escaped from Blanchard, came to Shreveport and ob- tained employment on the track gang the Kensas City Southern Railway, where he was recognized and captured at § o'clock this morning. It is said he admit. ted his gutlt. FE BULGARIA’S FRONTIER WATCHED BY TURKS Overwhelming Forces Have Gathered and There Is Now Little Likeli- hood of an Insurrection. LONDON, March 7.—“In view of the overwhelming Turkish forces concen trated at various points near the Bulga. rian frontier. numbering altogether 150, 000, says the Sofia corespondent of the Times, “it is evident that any attempt te provoke an insurrection must prove a fail ure.” WARSHIP WILL- HOLD RIOTERS IN CHECE Cruiser Is Sent to Oporto to Prevern: Anti-Clerical Manifestations in That City. LONDON, March T.—Agcording t6 the London correspondent of the Daily Mail the Portuguese Government has sent the cruiser St. Gabriel to Oporto and orderec other warships to be in readiness to =« there on account of the anti-clerical mani festations.