The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 112. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. KITCHENER'S REFUSAL TO GRANT AMNESTY TO CAPE COLONY REBELS CAUSE OF REFUSAL TO SURRENDER Boer Commander-in-Chief Demands Greater Concessions Than the British Are Ready to Grant---Commandant T . Gl o Philip Botha Killed in Recent Battle at Lyndenburg . COMMANDANT PHILIP BOTHA, A BROTHER OF THE COMMANDER-IN- CHIEF OF THE BOER FORCES, WHO WAS KILLED IN A RECENT BAT- TLE WITH THE BRITISH TROOPS AT LYNDENBURG. 3 e able to T ONDON, March 22—The Dally i P e Govern- | to com- | y destroyed | gIX LITTLE CH e eenfecfoso DREN ARE SLAIN on commando, provided the signatures of the officers who commandeered the goods were forthcoming. He also offered to grant loans on easy terms for rebuilding and restocking farmsteads. Botha Objects to Blacks. “Moreover, he agreed that children should be instructed in English or tch at the discretion of their parents. Government undertook to make no claim on church property or funds, or upon hospitals or hospital funds or upon ate Investments. No burgher her state was to be allowed to possess a rifle except by special license. General Botha was generally in favor of these but he dissented strongly from a proposal to give the full privilege of citi- zenship to properly domiclled and regis- tered blacks. He was also greatly con- cerned about the positon Jewish capital- ists would occupy in the country and was tcld that Jews and Christians would en- | joy equal rights, no distinction being made in the matter of concessions.” Philip Botha Is Killed. A special from Cape Town dated March of | — 1 | |and articles commandeered by the Boers | 20 says that Commandant Philip Botha was killed in the recent fighting at Lyn- denburg. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener dated at Pretoria, March 20, says: “Phillp Botha, a brother of the Boer | commander, was killed on the Dorneburg. | sequently recapturing - General His two sons were wounded. The Boers of the Orange River Colony have disband- ed and scattered. Dewet is in the neigh- borhood of Hetlbron.” “It is reported here,” says the Amster- dam correspondent of the Dally Mail, “that a company of American volunteers, mostly - Bostonians, recently landed at Kobi Bay, Tongaland, crossed Swaziland and joined General Louls Botha.” Reported Execution of French. An Antwerp special says: A rumor isin circulation here, which is not generally credited, to the effeet that the Boers, after capturing, then liberating and sub- French, finally executed him for not keeping a promise not to fight against them again. The Antwerp rumor of the execution of General French by the Boers s absolutely discredited here. e aadeiiis BY MOTHER AT MASSACHUSETTS FARMHOUSE Crazed Parent Wields Ax and Club Upon Her Offspring and Then Cuts Her Own Throat With a Razor. COLDBROOK, Mass.,, Mearch 21.—Mrs Yizzie Naramore, while in a fit of insan- six children at her a half-mile from this tried to take her own | n ranged from 10 years to and their lives were other with an ax and a the blood-drenched bodies on one bed and the other | room, and then e her own life by cutting When discovered ch the bodies 8. Although her throat and oss of much blood it is be- 1 recover. more, the husband and his home at the usual hour € to g0 to work at a sawmill, ime his wife did not act the ths she ou suffered the f lert this morn and at t strangels Discovery of the Crime. Tt is supposed the crime was committed An employe of a gro- cery visited the Naramore house about 2:45 o'clock for the purpose of delivering groceries that had been pre- vi ly ordered by Mrs. Naramore was unable to get into the house by the door, &nd be looked in a window and noticed blood on the floor, while Mrs. Naramore was lying on a bed. He was surprised 2150 at the absence of the children, whom he was accustomed to see playing in or @bout the housc. He returned to the vil- Jage and told of what he had seen. A party was made up and visited the shortly after noon. store who very weak from loss of blood. Mrs. Nara- more was removed to the village: hotel, and at a late hour to-night it was stated that she would dle. During the evening a number of neigh- bors of the family saw and talked with Mrs. Naramore, and to them she told how she killed her rix children. She said she took their lives in four different rooms, and as fast as she killed one child the body was placed on a bed. The children were three boys and three girls. Ethel, 19 years of age, was the oldest. The ages of Waiter, Charlie, Chester Bessie and Lena ranged from 8 years to 10 months, Lena being the baby. Kills the Eldest First. Mrs. Naramore told her most intimate friends to-night that she first killed Ethel and then followed with the five others, each time taking the eldest. Five were killed by being struck on the head with the back of an ax, and little Lena was killed with a club. She says she fully ex- pected the gash in her throat would cause her death and that when her husband re- turned at night he would find all of the bodies in the two beds. She appeared ra- tional this evening and displayed signs of sorrow for the deed she had commit- ted, although she was unable to give any reason for killing the children. s s Sy KILLS HIS THREE CHILDREN. Brutal Deeds Committed by a Maine Farmer. CLINTON, Maine, March 2L-—Jacob Dearborn Marr, a farmer living eight Naramore house, and the mutilated bodles of the six children in two beds were found. Mrs. Naramore was alive, but was miles from this village, killed his three chiidren, Alice M., aged 13; Elwin, aged 9, and Helen, aged 7, with an ax shortly after the family had risen from the din- ner table to-day. Marr had been de- spondent for some time, but his actions were not such as to make his wife belleve that he had any serious trouble to brood over. The eldest daughter was washing dishes at the sink when her father went by her to the shed and got an ax. He came back Into the kitchen and struck the girl a single blow on the head, killing her. Mrs. Marr saw this and ran screaming to the house of her husband’'s father, Samuel Marr. The husband apparently walked upstairs to where the younger children were playing and dealt each a single blow with the ax, killing them both. When Marr Sr. came in the younger Marr was washing his hands at the sink. He was asked why he had done the deed and he sald, “I don't know.” Latef in the day he was placed under arrest and taken to Waterville, REBELS BURN VILLAGE IN ILOCOS PROVINCE Detachment of Twentieth Infantry " Overtakes and Chastises the™ Marauders. MANILA, March 21.—Insurgents have attacked and burned the ungarrisoned vil- lage of Uigus, in the province of South llocos. A detachment of the Twentieth Infantry overtook and chastised the marauders. Colonel Schuyler of the Forty-sixth In- fantry has captured eight insurgent of- ficers and 218 men at the village of Ter- nate, in Cavite provinee. Generals MacArthur, Wheaton and Bates reviewed the Twenty-ninth and TLirty-second regiments to-day. | | most serious of the rumors -circulated, PRECAUTONS 10 PADTECT (TS LIFE Members of [mperial Household Not Russia’s Ruler Does His Studying Behind Walls Lined With Steel. —_— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. COLOGNE, March 21.—The Kolnische Volks Zeitung prints advices from St. Petersburg declaring that the police who are entrusted with the safety of the Czar do not quite trust all the members of the imperial household. Mechanism attached to the doors of his Majesty's bedroom study has lately been altered so that only two or three persons know how to open the doors from the outside. The study is provided with five writing tables, which the Czar uses indiscriminately, so nobody will know exactly in what part of the room he is sitting. The walls of the study have been lined with' steel plates and also provided with several secret| drawers. The correspondent asserts there is great Soctalist activity in Warsaw. Many ar- rests have been made and the prisons are overflowing. A large number of revolu- tionary pamphlets and proclamations have been seized. False Reports Made. ST. PETERSBURG, March 21.—It is sig- | nificant that the police report on | the recent riots, published, as expressly | stated, tn order to correct false rumors | concerning the riots, does not deny the | which are to the effect that men and | women were killed here and elsewhere. The | report does not mention the subject of the students. It gives, however, the names of | four who dled here, including one woman. The report is not generally credited with | |being an impartial statement. It is claimed that the passage relating to the disturbance in the church is particularly distorted, manifestly, it.is said, to preju. dice the devout masses against the stp- | dents, the intellectual movement and the ! factory workmen. The statement that students entered the church smoking cigarettes, that a student struck a priest and another student caught the chief priest rudely by the arm, | are discredited by eye-witnesses, | Driven by Brutal Cossacks. | The fact is that the trouble occurred en- | tirely outside the church until the Cos- sacks pressed 300 persons Into the church{ and fought them to the back wall. It is| also doubted that holy water was used to | dress wounds. The students sent a church | servant expressly for other water. It is| learned now that the police not only pre- pared for the event themselves, but made previous arrangements at one of the hos- pitals for the anticipated wounded. They | also had carriages ready in neighboring | courtyaras. Lectures will hardly be possible for the remainder of the year at any of the higher institutions. The participation of the factory hands in the riots is considered extremely grave, so far as the future is concerned. It is understood that measures will be taken Monday to forestall the possible marching of laboring men from the su- burbs to the center of the city. The Soclety of Russian Authors has | sent to all the Ministers a protest against the conduct of the police and Cossacks. Strike troubles have broken out in the largest of the local fron works. BAND OF ROBBERS DISPERSED. German Troops Take Active Measures Against Chinese Bandits. BERLIN, March 2L—The officer com- manding the German troops In Peking cables-to the War Office here that owing to the complaints of the inhablitants a band of robbers has been dispersed by Captain Preiss with a squadron of cavalry at a village forty-eight kilometers west of Paotingfu. Seven of the robbers were killed and wounded and the others were imprisoned and handed over to the Chi- nese court for trial. Major von Mulmann has started from Paotingfu with three companies of infan- try, a squadron of cavalry and & train of mounted artillery for a place to the east- ward of Taomakuan. He is proceeding against a large band of robbers. CUDAHY SUSPECT MAKES CONFESSION TO SHERIFF H. C. Henderson, Detained in Jail Since February, Says He Is Guilty of Crime. DALLAS, Tex., March 2L.—Sheri® Johnson to-night made this statement: *H. C. Henderson this evening confessed to me and County Attorney Summers that he is one of the Cudahy kidnapers. His confession was mad: voluntarily. He stated that he had sauandered and uged in.fleeing from Omaha most of the money he got as his share in the kidnaping jon before I arrested him in this city as a cuspect early in February.” PUBLISH ALARMING NEWS. Berlin Newspapers Say England Is Backing Japan. BERLIN, March 21.—A number of news- papers to-night publisn alarming news in regard to the situation in China. Eng- land is sald to be backing up Japan, which is mobilizing her army, and the Russian fleet is assembling at the Yalu River. il 4 RUSSIAN AND BRITISH TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE DISPUTED GROUND AT TIENTSIN London and St. Petersburg Governments Patch Up Tem- porary Peace and Details Are Diplomatically Adjusted by Their Representatives in China---French Making Trouble * EKING, March 22, 2 a. m.—Count von Waldersee, General Barrow and General"Wogack have been In consultation, and General Wo- gack bas agreed to withdraw the |#iussian troops from the disputed ground at Tientsin provided the British also with- draw. He insisted also upon a guarantee that work on the rallway siding should not proceed until the matter had been diplomatically adjusted. This proposal and stipulation was satisfactory to Gen- eral Barrow and was accepted by him. Consequently the British and Russian troops will be withdrawn at 5 o’clock this (Friday) morning, thereby avoiding all trouble'at present. Orders have been issued that no British officer shall leave or even ‘‘sleep out” at night or go to dinner without furnishing his address to the adjutant. The marines will return to the ships. Admiral Sey- mour objects to any of the Australian naval brigade, who volunteered for ser- vice on the railway, remaining. The mili- tary authorities say he does not under- stand the situation, that his interference is uncalled for and that the Australian marines are just the men needed. The Russians have ordered a regiment to proceed from Port Arthur to Tientsin. The arrangements made by General Gal- loud, the French commander, are regard- ed as perfectly satisfactory, and all dan- ger of trouble between the British and Russians 1s avotded. FRENCH TROOPS MAKE TROUBLE Likely to Get Beyond Control of Their Officers at Tientsin. and New York Her- S wiht, 150, b the' Heraid Pub- lishing Company. _ By Stephen Bonsal. TIENTSIN, March 21.—Altercations con- tinue here between the French and the ‘British. An Indian officer of high rank horsewhipped a French sergeant to-day. The discipline of the French forces leaves much to be desired. While the French officers are evidently doing thelr best to maintain discipline, it would not surprise me to sée the French troops get beyond control at any moment. Already I have heard of French soldlers hissing their own officers, and it is reported that some French officers have been stoned in a mys- terfous manner, the missiles coming from untraceable quarters. Contingents of Cos- sacks are continually dribbling in and the Russians have now 500 men more than they had here yesterday. Nothing has yet been heard of the ar- rival at the mouth of the river of expected reinforcements from Port Arthur and Newchwang. On the other hand, it is reported and believed here that the Brit- ish fleet is collecting at Weihaiwel for the purpode of making a naval demonstra- tion against Port Arthur. Contrary to expectations, the day passed without serious conflict. The Russians, with the help of between 300 and 400 cool- ies, are building a road along the river in front of their concessions. This morning the Russian working par- ties stopped work on the riverside road when they had reached a point within twenty feet of the British position. They subsequently resumed construction of the road at a point 400 yards farther on. The | danger of conflict has thus been obviated for the present. It is understood here that General Campbell will make no reply to the Rus- sian demand for withdrawal and apology. The New South Wales brigade came from Peking to-day for the purpose of rein- forcing the Victorian contingent in guard- ing the British settlement. The presence of these troops and the ar- rival of marines from Taku has had a re« assuring effect upon the community. The ! plan to barricade the British settlement) was much discussed yesterday, but has not been carried out. . R CONFERENCE OF DIPLOMATS. Representatives of Powers Differ on the Subject of Indemnity. | | WASHINGTON, March 21.—A number | of foreign representatives called at the State Department to-day, all interested in | | China and all keenly aroused over the Progress of the negotiations concerning | indemnities. Among them was the Brit- ish Embassador, Lord Pauncefote; the | | Russian Embassador, Count Cassini; the | German Embassador, Dr. von Holleben; | the French Embassador, M. Jules Cam- bon: the Japanese Minister, Mr. Taka- hira; the Belgian Minister, Count Lich- tervelge. Each had separate and rather long conferences with Secretary Hay. The Russian view as to indemnitles ap- | pears to coincide with that of the United | States, being favorable to keeping the amount down to a sum which there is some prospect that China can pay, instead | of placifig it so high that China’s inability to pay will result in a territorial scram- ble. All of the foreign representatives | minimized the trouble at Tientsin, and | it was not brought up in the conferences | with Mr. Hay, except by one of the con- | tinental representatives, who pointed out that the clash between the soldiers did not refer to the trafned soldiers of the several powers, but to the native contin- gents from India and Cochin-China. The idea of a gross indemnity of $200,- 000,000 to be divided into eight parts does rot seem to meet with approval in diplo- matic ‘quarters, as it is pointed out that | some countries have been put to far more | expense than others, especially in the | matter of moving troops. It is felt by the forelgn representatives that there are spe- | clal conditions which will Interfere with | an equal sharing between all the powers, poo b Ay TO WITHDRAW THEIR TROOPS. Lansdowne Announces Agreement Between England and Russia. LONDON, March 21.—In the Hpuse of Lords to-day the Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, announced that Russia ard Great Britain had agreed to withdraw their troops from the disputed territory at Tientsin and reserve the question of title and proprietary recelpts for subsequent | examination. Lord Lansdowne supplemented the an- nouncement by explaining that the dis- pute concerned an extensive area in the left bank of the Petho River, which the Russians occupled in the autumn and claimed by right of conquest. Subsequent- Iy this Government was Informed that China and Russia had reached an agree- ment placing the area under Russian oc- cupation. The, area, however, comprised plats belonging to the Northern Chinese Railroad, and was therefore part of the security of the British bondholders. Allies Need the Siding. The line was part of the railroad re- cently transferred by the Russians to Fleld Marshal von Waldersee, who re- transferred it tp the British. The necessi- ties of the allies required the construction of a siding on one of the plats referred to, and the presence of British workers on the plat was treated as a trespass on Russian territory. It was subsequently alleged that the Russian boundary marks had been removed by the British. In those circumstances the Government, on March 16, telegraphed to its representative in China that it thought the rights of the British or Russian tyoops to occupy the ¥ | | | | ! | | | f | A | W | //r/f | | | | ! | | | 4 + SIR ERNEST SATOW, WHO | AIDED IN ENDING STRIFE [ AT TIENTSIN. | + - disputed points could be best settled by Field Marshal von Waldersee as the com- mander in chief, and General Gaselee, the British commander, was instructed to re- quest the field marshal to settle the im- mediate differences, reserving for future examination the question of the validity of the allezed private rights. General Gaselee was also Instructed to refrain from using force except to repel aggres- sfon. Questions of Title Reserved. On March 20 the alleged removal of the Russian boundary pillar occurred, and the Government instructed the British Minis- ter at Peking, Sir Ernest Satow, that Great Britaln was ready to refer the facts to Field Marshal von Waldersee, on the understanding that If either side was found to have committed an Irregularity it should apologize to the other. The Government added that the construction of the siding should continue under what- ever conditions the fleld marshal thought fit to impose. He (Lord Lansdowne) was glad to say that he had heard this morn- ing from the British Embassador at St Petersburg that the Russian Foreign Min- ister, Count Lamsdorff, had proposed that they should agree to reserve all questions of title and proprietary rights for the ex- amination of the two Governments, and that in the meanwhile orders be forthwith sent for the withdrawal of the troops of both sides from the disputed plats. Great Britain had entirely concurred, and thought the withdrawal should be carried out to Field Marshal von Waldersee's sat- Isfaction. Relations Not Disturbed. Lord Lansdowne added that Count Lamsdorft had expressed a very moderate and very manly desire to avoid any cause for friction between the two Gov- ernments, and Since the receipt of Count Lamsdorff's proposal the Government had ordered the military authorities to carry out the simultaneous withdrawal of tha troops to the satisfaction of Fleld Mar- shal von Waldersee, so that there might be no room for a renewed misunderstand- ing as to the matters of detail. His Lordship expressed the hope that the result of the negotiations over what was really a very small matter of strictly local importance would not be allowed to disturb the relations between the two countries. The statement was received with cheers. Lord Cranborne, the Foreign Under Sec- retary, in the House of Commons to-day assured Sir Eilis Ashmead-Bartlett that the Government considered the statements ot the Russian Foreign Minister, Count Lamsdorft, of February 5 and February 17 as applicable to any agreement in regard to Marchuria petween Russia and China,