The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 108 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1901. ——— PRICE F1VE CENTS. CUBANS PLIN 10 WACE WAR ON AMERICA - (uantities of Buying PROPHESIES EARLY DOON OF AUSTRIA Member of the Vienna Arms and Ammu- | nition Secretly. Radical Element Is Deter- mined to Bring on a Rebellion. 0 THE COURTS. Platt Amendment FOR SEVERANCE F CHURCH AND STATE of Newcastle Predicts a Break | he Time-Honored Alliance England. he disestab- | d from e state is hal come ists of Eng-| s held a con- | erested in a ritualists in the nd the High Church etestant Episcopal nited States. He said is int Bishops of the English church e taken fright at ritualism. We are | Bot aggressive, b want to be left to Sursstves T think 1t will n signifies doctrine. eventually to disestab- There will be a severance of ch from state. The ex- treme low section of the church will prob- leave us. It may come at any time within twenty years. We have a strong | fighting body. A radical Government would probably disestablish us, whether 'we wished it or not. But what we really want is disestablishment under a con- servative Gover I don’t know what the King would have to profess after dis- establishment. 1 suppose he would have himself a Protestant.” RELIEF FOR BOER FAMILIES. to call Rochefort Diligently Promoting His | Lottery Project. PARIS, March i7.—Henr! Rochefort, editor of the Instransigeant; who has an- nounced that he will organize a lottery for the relief of Bocr women and chil- dren, aims to ral 250,000,000 francs, of which amount 7000000 francs will be given as prizes, 8,000,000 francs as rebates to subscribers and the remainder to the Boers. He will seek authorization to pro- mote a lottery from the parliaments of France, Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Spain, Sweden, Italy and tie United States. Rochefort is now at The Hague, confer- ring with the Boer representatives there. He publishes dally articles in his paper urging recruiting in behalf of the Boers. LIPTON’S CHALLENGER | reshoff family, who is now in Glasgow, | Columbia in 159 | which was caught overhauling a small Court Makes Dire Prgd_iction. Believes Disintegration of the Empire Is Not Far | Distant. - he Call and New York Her- 1501, by the Herald Pub- | 17.—1 met to-day an | leman who knows very inti- ings and sayings of the Aus- I asked him what he thought in the Matin entl- ed “A Monarck His re- | | seen the article. but one | th ry sure of, that is, that of the present Emperor the Aust han 1 empire to- neces will with- Gern doubt 1s they have | expressed thelr desire, in going over to Germany. The Czechs will be for | nce, but under Russian protec- will seek independ- seacoast in addi- of Fiume. The Italian over to Italy. the heirs to were more worthy, but they ately, q fitted to rule. Il be lorm is 1 right, a ng will happen, b ter he goes | 1 quite agree with what you tell me was £ the Mati n’s article.” | | | PACIFIC MAIL'S NEW MONSTER NOW READY The Korea, Largest American Built Vessel, Will Be Launched Be- fore Many Days. NEWPORT NEWS, March 17.—The new ship Korea tiwe larzest vessel ever s hemispkere. will be launched xt Sunday morning at the yard of the Neéwport News Shipbofidtne and Dredock Company, and it 1s expected that 30,00 people will be gathered around the ways , see the er 1 take its initial the wat of the James Korea and her sister ship, ¢ building for the Pacific any and will ply be- co and Hongkong, with | Yokohama and Nagasaki as | mo: into The lunge ¥ ver. 1s are exactly alike, and the price for the two Is $4,000,000, them the costliest as well as the merchant vessels ever built on phere Same is butiding ships, but not even the large the Govern- 1l approach the dimensions of the fic Mail liners. The {Korea and the Eiberl. each have A displacement tons greater than the batleships of the Virginia class. With a speed of some- ing like twenty knots, the Korea will be the fastest ship on the Pacific Ocean. - attiing ncle defenders contracted for by will OF BRONZE AND STEEL Cne of the Herreshoffs Describes | What He Saw in the Make-Up of the Boat. Special Cable to The Call and "ald. Copyright, 1901, lishing Company. LONDON, Marcn 18.—One of the Her- | New York Her- | by the Herald Pub- on Saturday allowed himself to be inter- ewed for the Dafly Mafl. After giving fculars of the new America’s der, he expressed an ~opinion arding Shamrock II, which he had Denny’s- yard, at Dum- seen at barton He said the present challenger, like the . will have a bronze bot- tom and steel top sides, and will be very much like that boat in appearance. The fact that she was designed by Mr. Wat- son goes to prove that she will be a good representative of the type of boat which Great Britain can preduce. “The taking of the British boat across the ocean has been thought by some to favor America, but at the present time,” says Mr. Herreshoff's Interviewer, “the best authorities consider this not to be the case. When a boat under a jury rig is eased In @ sea she has not one-half the strain on her that she would be sub- ject to when under racing salls and forced through all kinds of sea.” CAPTURES A PIRATE JUNK. Italian Cruiser Inflicts Punishment Upon Chinese Buccaneers. TACOMA, March 17.—Mail Oriental ad- vices give details of a sharp fight last month between an Italian crulser and a lzrx«)unk loaded with forty pirates Messrs. trading junk, a portion of whose crew and passengers had been killed and wounded before the cruiser reached the scene. The fight occurred on the coast of Taichou, near Chekiang. The cruiser opened fire with machine guns as soon as she got within range of the pirates’ junk, and bore down so swiftly that only eleven out of the forty were left alive when the crulser towed the junk into Ningpo, where the live pirates were delivered:to the Governor for punishment. The Governor of Ningpo gave the of- ficers and crew of the cruiser a handsome present of cattle and fresh vegetables, Bix of the pirates were executed the next day, and the others weré to be bsheaded later. RUSSIAN AND BRITISH LEADERS STRIVING TO PREVENT A CLASH OF THEIR FORCES AT TIENTSIN As a Measure of Precaution the Raflway Guards Are Re- duced to Twenty-Seven on Each Side and the Opposing Parties Exhibit the Utmost Friendliness for One Another T ) | | | 1 | | ! ‘ [izfor % 3 IENTSIN, March 17.—There is no « change in the situation developed by the tangled raillway dispute here. The Russlan and British forces are still represented by small detachments, with officers en- camped on opposite sides of the railway siding. The utmost friendliness is ex- hibited toward each other by the oppos- ing partfes, but as a measure of precau- tion the guards have been reduced to twenty-seven on each side, in order to prevent any. possible collision diring the regotiations. A Russian general arrived trom Peking last evening. Owing to the persistent rowdyism of French soldlers in the British concessiors, the British authorities have been reluc- tantly compelled to forbid the French to enter the concession unless on duty. Major Hockler of the Britlsh forces was assault- ed this afternon in the French concession. The Russians continue to purchase land in their new concession. A German re- connoitering party returned to Tientsin to-day with thirty captured robbers. Count von Walderzee is expected to ar- rive here on Tuesday from Kiaochou. HINTS AT IMPENDING WAR. London Standard Calls Russia’s At- tention to Britain’s Navy. LONDON, March i5.—The Tientsin cor- respondent of the Standard says: “The raflway dispute here is another of the at- tempts of the Russian admiral, Alexioff, to create trouble, and unless he is re- lieved there will be constant friction, which will eventually lead to hostilities. He loses no opportunity to thwart the English.” Commenting editorially upon its Tien- tsin advices, the Standard reminds Rus- sia that “the Britisa fleet is as potent as ever, and Japan is burning to second the efforts of any one ready to oppose the an- nexation of Manchurta,” acding: “It 18 a painful task to be compelled even to hint at contingencies so vast and disturbing, but the perils of the moment are more likely to be overcome if it is thoroughly realized that we do not shrink from such action as would be best calcu- lated to maintain our rignts.” The other morning papers recognize the gravity of the situation at Tientsin and counsel the Government to be firm, but they express themsclves less aggressively. “A grievous blow has been inflicted upon our reputation in the far East,” say thd Daily Mail. “Our weakness and unpre- paredness for war are well known to our enemies, and there is reason to expect further surprises in diplomatic life. Be- fore, however, we car put our foot down the empire must be placed in fighting or- der.” “There is no fear cf Lord Salisbury go- ing to war with Russia for a good or a bad cause,” says tho Dally News. “Rus- sla is a fit object for graceful concessions, and not a small republic to be bullied and’ provoked.” e 5 MANCHURIA A DANGER POINT. Great Britain, Japan and Germany Give Warning to Russia. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Manchuria, and not Tientsin, according to anti-Rus- sian diplomats here, Is the danger point in the Chinese situation. These gentle- men are authority for the statement that Great Britain, Japan and Germany have given Russia to understand that they will regard with disfavor the signing of the Manchurian copventicn. It is further stat- ed that if the convention be signed vigor- our protest will be made by the powers 2 @enerak . (Campbell named, and if this is not effectual more aggressive faeasures will De taken. ‘Warlike talk is deplored in official cir- cles, where it is- fully understood that war would precipitate the dismember- ment of China, which the President and Secretary Hay are endeavoring to pre- vent. Europe' thoroughly understands that, aside from the exercise of its moral influence, the ‘American Government will not interfere, provided its commercial and other rights in China are not jeopardized by any action that may be taken. In the opinion of officials, neither Russia nor Japan is financially in a posi- tion to go to war; England is still en- gaged in South Africa, and Germany is the only nation that is ready to assume the aggressive. It is appreciated here that Russia has cerlain rights growing out of the necessity of protecting her frontier and her railroad, and the admin- istration desires that they shall be ac- corded recognition. Great Britain, Ger- many and Japan are suspicious of the St. Petersburg Government, notwithstanding its protestations, and that Government, rather than engage in war, will, it is be- leved, not press the convention upon the Chinese Government. It is a singular fact that, though re- ports are published showing the serious condition of affairs at Tientsin, no offictal information on the subject has reached Washington. It was sald’to-day that the only danger in the situation at that point les in tHe antipathy of the British and Russian troops for each other. The Lon- don and St. Petersburg governments will not, 1t is believed, permit an incident to occur at Tientsin which may involve the two countries in war. when larger ques- tions require their earnest attention. RUSSIA THROWS OFF MASK. Dr. Morrison Comments on the Pur- poses of the Czar. LONDON, March 17.—Dr. Morrison, wir- ing to the Times from Peking, says: “Russia, by her refusal to support the powers {n their demands for the punish- ment of the gullty officials, has finally thrown off the mask. A plea for leniency is hardly serlous coming from a power whose troops last summer were guilty of reprisals upon the Chinese scarcely less feroclous than the acts of the Boxers themselves. “Russia’s action is only explicable as the fulfillment of a private compact with Li Hung Chang to throw the concert over- board in return for concessions securing her separate interests.” Dr. Morrison proceeds to protest ener- getically against any further sacrifices of their interests cn the part of the powers to obtain an outward union of action. He believes that even France can hardly fol- low her ally In this instance. Comment- ing upon the Manchurlan convention as glving Russia a privileged position at Kashgor and Yarkand, he says: “Russian raflway enterprises in China means military occupation, and Russia once installed ‘n Chinese Turkestan will turn the whole position which Great Brit- ain has tofled to render impregnable on the northwest frontler of India.” In the course of a later telegram Dr. Morrison says: # " ““Chinese officials say they have been in- formed from St. Petersburg that Russia abandons her claims to exclusive rights in Mongolia and Turkestan and consents to modify the stringency of her control of the civil administration of Manchuria, agreeing that the convention shall be pub- lished as soon as it Is signed in St. Peters- burg a fornight hence. “This is the nrst check inflicted upon Russian diplomacy in China since Lord Salisbury was cajoled into the withdrawal of the British troops from Port Arthur in 1598, and it cannot fail profoundly to mod- ify the situation by convincing the Chi- nese that there still exist international combinations capable of maintaining the equilibrium of the Far East.” Conger Starts Homeward. SHANGHAT, March 17.—Mr. Conger, the American Minister, sailed to-day for Hongkong,- whence he will sail for San Francisco. He called to-day on Sheng, Director of Posts and Railways, and dis- cussed with him Sheng’s protest against the sale by an American syndicate of the E2 £ BRITISH COMMANDER IN CHINA AND THE POWER BE- HIND EDWARD'S THRONE. + - ke Hankow-Canton Rallway. Sheng consid- | ers the contract "vill bs vold if the con- troiling interest in the company has been sold to Belgians. VENEZUELANS IMPRISON UNITED STATES CONSUL Ignacio H. Baiz Is Thrown Into Jail at Barcelona for the Second Time. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 17, via Haytlen cable.—News has reached here that the United States Consular Agent at Barcelona, Venezuela, Ignacio H. Balz, has been arrested by Venezuelan officers and imprisoned without adequate cause. This is the second time he has been treated in this fashion within the last five months, and he will resign unless protected by the Washington Govern- ment. It appears that several sums of money have been forced from him by Venezuelan officials under threat of im- prisonment. The protests of Mr. Baiz to Washing- ton seem to have met no response thus far. Three months ago Mr. Loomis, the United States Minister at Caracas, made a demand upon the Venezuelan Govern- ment for an apology for the first outrage, but his communication was quite ignored. SALE OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC LAND TRACTS Forty Million Dollars’ Proceeds Will Be Us:d to Retire Preferred Stock. NEW YORK, March 17.—The World has the following from St. Paul: President Charles 8. Mellen of the Northern Pacific Rallway left St. Paul last night for New York on a mission to which s sald to Involve the sale of all the land now owned by the Northern Pa- cific west of the Missouri River. The purchase price is sald to have been $40,- 000,000, and it is understood that this sum will be used to retire preferred stock. The purchasers of this land are said to | would be very unfortunate. be Eastern capitalists who have per- fected a syndicate and will undertake to encourage its settlement and cultivation by Eastern farmers such as are mow heading westward In the home seékers’ movement each week DEATH DRAWS NEAR UNTO LI HUNG: CHANC Aged Chinese Diplo- mat in a State of C_olla_pse. His Passing Will Compli- cate the Situation in the Orient. ARSI PEKING, _.arch 17.—The health of Li Hung Chang is again a matter of grave consideration to the Ministers of the powers. Mr. Rockhill, the American spe- clal commissioner, who visited Earl Li vesterday, says he is a physical wreck and apparently in a state of utter collapse although mentally as bright as ever. Mr. Rockhill would not be surprised to hear of his death any moment. The removal of Li Hung Chang by death or any other cause at the present moment M. de Giers, the Russian Minister, said to-day: “Li Hung Chang is a great diplomat, and his influence with the Chinese court is absolutely unique. No other man In Chin» approaches him in this respect. This influence is not temporary, but it is particularly effective at important mo- ments like the present In the history of Cuina.” Senor’ de Colonogan, Spanish Minister and Royan of the diplomatic corps, said “The Chinese court could not appoint a plenipotentiary of the same caliber and ,havlng equal influence with the Chinese and the foreigners. Although many of the Ministers of the powers object to his | political methods and regard him as es sentially -a trimmer, nevertheless they realize that he is the best possible man to represent China in the present emer- geney."” Orders have been reccived by the Amer- fcan troops to depart next month, leaving behind only 150 infantry. The headquar- ters staff assert that the instructions are a “great mistake,” alleging that it s nec- essary to retain a large body of foreign troops in the coumtry for at least two years. Most of the officers take a different view of the matter, belleving that the best course is to retain a few of the troops of each nation and §o withdraw the rest. GERMAN MANUFACTURERS ARE IN SORE STRAITS Must Discharge Many Laborers Ow- ing to the Increased Cost of Production. BERLIN, March 17.—The Lokal An- zeiger asserts that it has special informa- tion that several lasge companies in West Germany will soon discharge many labor- ers, being compelled to take this course by the increased cost of production due to the high price of coal. According to the same authority, the Stumm works have added from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 marks worth of fron to thelr stock in order to avoid discharging operatives. The Stahl Unter Eisen, the leading iron organ, says: “The United States steel corporation can undoubtedly contribute to intensify in a dangerous manner the alarm of the continent over the American iron market.” The North German Lloyd line has re- | duced the freight charge on wire nails to China, Japan and the Straits Settlement 214 marks per ton, but the Cologne Volks Zeitung regards the reduction as signifi- cant, considering the enormous difference in price between the German and Amer- ican product. The various cement syndicates have made an agreement discontinuing compe- tition, and negotiaticns will continue for establshing a common selling agency for all the syndcates. ——— AMERICANS TO START BUSINESS IN GERMANY Methods Employed in This Country to Be Introduced in the Land of the Kaiser. NEW YORK, March 17.—American busi- ness methods are to be introduced in fit- teen large cities of Germany and Aus- tria by Julius Barthman, a Newark busi- ness man who has accumulated a large fortune. His two sons are assoclated with him in his European venture. A capital of $600,000 is to be invclved in the scheme. The sum of $20,000 will be spent in fixing up each of the fifteen retali establish- ments, and a like sum will be spent in stocking each store. Ameri¢an-made shdes only will be sold. The Barthmans propose to place Amer- fcans in charge of the stores. In each will be installed a man and a woman se- lected from the most experienced sales- people of New York and Newark. Amer- ican ideas will prevall in the conduct of all the stores. WA GIRL’S NEGRO ASSATLANT HANGED BY ANGRY MOE NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 17.--At Tip- tonville, in Lake County, last night a mob harged Ike Fitzgerald, a negro, to a tree near the Courthouse. He was charged with an assault on a white girl, Miss Mina Davenport, 19 years of age. and a trial jury had just reported that they could not agree and had been discharged. PhAear S o pe s TARIFF AND ALERTNESS. London Journalists Find in These the Cause of America’s Success. LONDON, March 13—The, Dafly Mal, which makes a bid “or tariff protection, declares editorially this morning that “the real causes of America's wonderful com- mercial success may he summed up in the ‘words ‘tariff and great alertness.’ " VAST THRONC SEES FINAL CEREMONIES Dead Ex-President Is - Borne o Last . Long Rest. Burial of Benjamin Harrison With Honor Befitting His Memory. —_— INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 17.—Tn the center of a hollow square composed of fully 15,000 of his fellow citizens the mains of Benjamin Harrison were afternoon interred in the family lot in Crown Hill Cemetery. Close by the grave were the members of his family, Prest- | dent McKinley and other visitors of~ydis- | tinction and the more intimate frie;;jnt General Harrison. Back a distance of fifty yards, behind ropes guarded zealous- Iy by a large force of police, stood with | uncovered heads the great multitude who knew him not so well as did they who stood beside the freshly-upturned earth. but who honored him and admired him | fully as much. Tt is doubttul if any pub- | ic man, at least in this generation, was | borne to his last resting place among so | many manifestations of respect. Thee was no exception anywhere to the ex- pression that the nation had lost one of 10{ its ablest men and the greatest man | of his generation in his own State. | | re this By the grave stood the chief magistrats of the nation, and behind the ropes were all the street arabs of General Harri- son’s city—every grade of human life in America, between the two, was repro- | sented in the crowd, and in them all there was but the one feeling—that a man had dled who was honest at all times with himself and with others, and whose ability and character were such as the natfon could {1 afford to lose. The weather, llke that of yesterday. was unsurpassable, with bright sunlight, the warm breath of spring In every breeze, and yet in the air a touch of win- ter that brought the blood to the cheek and a sparkle to the eye. The services at the church and grave were simple in the extreme, all in most excellent t , and, like the proceedinzs | vesterday, there was an utter absence of triction In everything that was done. All was well ordered and well performeéd. Arrival of President. At the Harrison home before the ra- mains were taken to the First Presby- terian Church, where the full funeral ser- vice was held, there were brief exercises for the members of the family and more | Intimaté friends of General Harrison. Pos- stbly 150 people were present. Mrs. Harr!- son did not appear, but remained in her room until it was time to leave for the church. President McKinley, accompanied B Governor Durbin, called at the houso about 1 o'clock. At about the same timo came the members of President Harri- son’s Cabinet, and others continually ar- rived until the short services were Dr. Haines read a short passage from tha Scriptures and made a few remarxs touching the life and character of Gen- eral Harrison, as did Dr. Nichols of 3t Louis, and after a brief prayer by Dr. Haines the services were pver. The Funeral Procession. The funeral procession was to have left the house at 1:30 o'clock, but it was fully thirty minutes later than that when ev- erything was in readiness. The doors were thrown wide openm, and the honor- ary pallbearers, who were General Ben- jamin F. Tracey of New York, John Wan- amaker of Philadelphia, W. H. H. Miller of Indianapolis, John W. Noble of St. Louis and Charles Foster of Fostoria, Ohio; General Lew Wallace of Indlanap- olis, Judson Harmon of Cincinnat! an?l William A. Woods of Indianapolis, came slowly down the walk leading to the street. After them came the active pall- bearers. bearing the casket. They were: A. L. Mason, James Whitcombd Rile: Evans Wooten, Harry J. Milligan, CIl ford Arrick, Willlam C. Bobbs, H. New, Howard Cale, Newton Booth Tarkington, Brown and Samuel Reid. While the casket was being placed in the hearse the honorary pallbearers stood to one side with bared heads. As soon as the hearse had moved from the front of the house the carriages came up rapidly. and the family and visitors entered them. Behind the casket came Mrs. Harrison, with her brother, Lieutenant Commander Parker of the navy, and little Elizabetn Harrison. Then came Secretary Tibbet: and Mrs. Tibbett, then Mr. and Mrs. Mec- Kee, Russell Harrison and Mrs. Russell Harrison, then the other relatives of the dead ex-President. Directly after the members of the family came President McKinley and Governor Durbin, and, fol- lowing them, the friends of the family. Twelve mounted policemen led the way and cleared the streets. Thousands Are Gathered. There were several thousand people around the Harrison residence as the funeral procession moved away, but the crowd there was insignificant to that which was gachered around the church. Two hours before the time set for the commencement of the services the people had begun to gather at this point, and by the time the funeral procession arrived there was a solld mass of humanity stretching a block away on every side of the walk. While the carrlages were discharging their inmates at the door of the church Continued on Page Three over. 8 John T. Griffitbe, Hilton U. l