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

VOLUME XC-NO. 7. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1901 PRICE FIVE CENTS. SENATOR MARCUS AURELIUS HANNA IS HONORED BY FORMER COMRADES WITH APPOINTMENT AS COLONEL ON GENERAL RASSIEUR'S STAFF For Nearly Thirty-Six Years the Ohio Statesman Remains Silent Con- cerning His War Record, but Is Finally Induced by the Commander- in-Chief to Become Member of Memorial Post, Grand Army of Republic < -THE ISo™ OHIOQO — WAJSHINGTON b.C — I86>5 - 64 (Y (5 = ~S Al LEVELAND, Ohio, June 6—Sen- 1 ator M. A. Hanna has been ap- \ pointed a colonel on the official staff of General Rassieur, com- mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Senator Hanna recently mustered into the Grand of the Republic as a member of Memorizl Post in this city It was not generally known until recent- Marcus A. Hanna was a veteran of War. The record, however, shows ted at the age of 2 and was a s enlistment remained a se- years. his s a high tribute to the Sen- Hanna's explanation iink his services in the enough to entitle him to Army badge or to make rty-six veteran ar commander-in-chief of e Republic, belongs the honor of bei st to discover Comwrade Hanna ing one [ Army en- lané next Se er, when the Senator In dence told Rassleur that for a short while and a burst of was a soldier -+ - s - + T . “ SENATOR | HAS BE | A. R. COMRADES. . 3 that it was always a source of regret to him that he could not have served long enough in the war to entitle him to wear the bronze badge of the G. A. R., which he considered the highest medal of honor. Rassieur questioned the Senator and learned that Hanna had enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered in for 100 C¢aye in 1864 to guard Washington. This perlod of service was sufficlent to make | him eligible for membership and Rassieur easily persuaded Hanna to join the order. The record which Hanna's regiment made is given in the official history as folicws: The One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment was organized at Cleveland May 5, 1864, to serve 100 days. After being sworn into service it was immediately placed on cars for Washington City. On its arrival the regiment was ordsred to garrison Torts Lincoln, Saratoga, Thayer, Bunker Hill, Slocum, Totten and Stevens, forming part of the chain of fortifications sur- rounding the national capital. The regiment remained in these forts during tl.e whole term of service and participated in the fight before Washington, with a part of Early's rebel corps, July 10 and 11, 1884 Companies G and K were engaged, but being behind breastworke did not suffer much. One man was killed and three or four wounded. The regiment was sent home and mustered out at Cleveland August 23, 1564, having served 111 day R N N E and ) L] 9 LADY-IN-WAITING BEGINS MOST SENSATIONAL SUIT FOR MONEY LOANED TO THE DYING PRINCESS AMELIA Having Disposed of All Her Fortune to Her Royal Charge, Anna Millewski Alleges That She Was Arrested in Egypt and Inhumanly Transported Back to Prussia. BERLIN, June 6.—A sensational case began to-day in the First District Court of Berlin. The plaintiff, Anna Millewski, was formerly lady-in-waiting upon the de- ceased Princess Amelia of Schleswig- Holstein and the defendant is the brother of Empress Augusta Victoria, Duke Ernest Guenther. The plaintiff claims that Princces Amelia received only 12,000 marks annually from the defendant, who is the head of the house. She also asserts that as she had a fortune of her own, amount- ing to 80,000 marks, she made loans to the Princess, who, being in the last stages of consumption, was at the time proceeding slowly to Egypt. While the Princess was in Malta, according to the plaintiff’s state- ment, she engaged as her chamberlain an American named Walker, who, perhaps unaware of the financial resources of the Princess, induced her to incur large ex- penses. Finally the plaintiff, who feared the loss of her entire fortune, made the Princess, with whom she had now arrived in Cairo, restore to her the sum of 20,000 francs. The plaintiff now declares that at the instigation of Duke Ernest Guenther, the acjutant of Prince Jocachim of Prussia caused the Egyptian police to arrest her in the street, after which she was forcibly and inhumanly transported back to Prus- sia, where she became very Il Meanwhile, according to the plaintift’s declaration, Walker forcibly took plain- tiff’'s 20,000 francs from her trunk and with it settled the unpald bills of the Princess, then departed and defrayed the cost of transporting the body home. The Dplaintiff asks the 20,000 francs be refunded with interest. The defendant’s counsel, Count Bradow, challenged the accuracy of a number ot’ the plaintiff's statements, and the court decided that before the Proceedings were carried further Prince Joachim’s adjutant, who Is still in Cairo, must depo: ' SERIOUS COLLISION IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Two Trains Meet on 2 Sharp Curve and Nine Persons Are Injured. VICKSBURG, 1Jiss., June 6.—Nine per- sons were injured, three seriously, in a head-end collision between two Mississippl Valley passenger trains at 8 o'clock this morning north of Vicksburg. The injured: Carey Jones, engineer of train No. 24, shoulder dislocated and in- ternal injuries, may die; E. S. Larreta, flagman, head crushed, may die; W. J. Harvey, mail clerk, ribs crushed; Ed Hollingsworth (colcred) fireman, hip dis- located and internal injuries; James Will- iam (colored), fireman, bruised; W. H. White, conductor, injuries to shoulder and breast; E4 Montgomery, flagman, and Epgineer Skillman, slight bruises about head and shoulders. Of the passengers, Miss Mary Doughty of Nagodoches, Tex., was the most serl- ously injured, her arm and hand being badly crushed. The trains met on'a sharp curve near Florence, sixteen miles north of this city, and but for the prompt action of Engineer Jones, of the north bound train, in revers- ing his engine, the wreck would have been more complete, The. south bound train was late and was running at a high rate of speed to make up time. Death of Captain H. S. Townsend. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., June 6.—Captain H. S. Townsend died last night at East Mary- ville, Mo., aged 88 years. He was an in- timzte friend of Lincoln and Grant, SWISS WATCH-MAKERS FEARFUL E COMPETITION Greatly Disturbed by Report of the Contemplated Consolidation of American Factories. % LONDON, June 7.—“There is consider- able alarm in Switzerland,” says the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Ex- press, “over a report that J. P. Morgan contemplates the formation of g watch combination to kill off the importation of Swiss watches and materials. 1t js said that the combination will include the Philadelphia Watch-Case Company of Riverside, N. J., and the Standard Watch Company of Lafayette, N. J., as well as other concerns. The Swiss manufactur- ers intend to fight the contemplated trust.”” | ernment would reduce its UNGLE 3AM INGISTS ON FULL GLAIM China Must Pay the Entire Amount Demanded. s ol Commissioner Rockhill Told That the $25,000,000 Has Not Been Cut. —_—— Trouble Batween British and French Soldiers Continues to Worry the Officers at Tien- tsin. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 6.—In view of the unwillingness of the powers to reduce thefr claims 50 per cent, as recently urged by the United .States, this Government will insist that its entire claim of $25,000,- 000 be paid. Special Commissioner Rock- hill cabled Secreary Hay to-day that a re- port was current in Peking that this Gov- claim. The Secretary cabled in reply that this was an error—that the United States would insist now upon a full settlement. All the foreign Embassadors in Washington called upon Secretary Hay to-day, and discussed ‘the indemnity question with him. They hope that the United States will see its way clear to accept the Euro- pean suggestion of a loan Instead of bonds, but this Government still prefers the later. Place Blame on Germany. PEKING, June 6.—The Ministers have ceased to hold meetings while making in- quiries as to the desires of their respective Governments. The majority of the Minis- ters hold that Germany should have told the Chinese that all the powers would agree to an indemnity of 450,000,000 taels at 4 per cent interest. They also think that the withdrawal of Count von Wald- ersee and the German troops shows a de- sire to force the powers to an acquies- cence to Germany'i demgnds, Which. they are not inclined to do. = Trouble at Tientsin Continues. Trouble between British and French sol- diers at Tientsin continues. Brigadler General Lorne-Campbell, in command of the British troops, and the French com- mander will use their utmost endeavors to prevent further friction. BERLIN, June 6.—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Count von Waldersee, dated Tientsin, Tuesday, June 4: “Y have now resigned the functions of commander in chief, and am to-day leav- ing China by way of Tokio. Strict meas- ures have been taken here to avold colli- sions between the different contingents. In company with large German detach- ments I attended the funeral of the French soldiers killed in the recent af- fray.” For a Cable 'in China. LONDON, June 6.—In the House of Commons to-day, on a motion to approve the agreement of the Government with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Com- pany fer laying a cable from Chefu to Wel-Hai-Wei, Sir Charles Dilke asked whether the agreement would not pledge | the government to resist any attempt by the United States to establish direct com- munication with China. He contended that it was to Great Britain's interest that the United States and China should by connected by cable. Austin Chamberlain explained that it was imperative that the cable should be Jaid and finding China had already pledg- ed herself to give no landing right to any companies except Russo-Danish and the Eastern Extension, the Government had been compelled to make the best terms it could. FAST MAIL STEAMERS FROM HERE TO SHANGHAI Director-General of the Hamburg- American Line Tells Kaiser of a Scheme, BERLIN, June 6.—Herr Ballin, direc- tor-general of the Hamburg-American Line, who lunched with the Kaiser, sald, in an interview published by the Lokal Anzeiger, that his company would short- 1y open the first regular line of fast mail steamers between San Francisco and Shanghai. He had assured the success of the scheme by purchasing large quanti- ties of ground at Shanghai for the con- struction of wharves, etc.,, and by con- tracts with trans-American railways. Herr Ballin fully reported all this to the Katser. He also spoke of J. Plerpont Morgan's new undertaking. The direc- tor-general of the Hamburg-American Line hopes to work ~on friendly terms with Morgan. He denied the English re- port that Morgan was in the treaty for the purchase of the Hamburg-American Line. - TORNADO STIRS THINGS IN SALT LAKE CITY Roofs Are Blown Off Houses and Trees Are Uprooted by the Gale. SALT LAKE, June 6.—A minlature for. nado struck Salt Lake this evening, un- roofing a number of buildings at the race- track, uprooting shade trees and doing considerable other damage. The storm came from the northwest, and for a few minutes the wind blew at the rate of sev- enty miles an hour, the highest ever re. corded here. A strip about a mile wide was affected, the wind hardly being felt on either side of the district affected, CHAFFEE IN FAVOR OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL CONTROL IN THE . PHILIPPINES AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICABLE MOMENT Officer Who Is to Succeed General MacArthur Will Collaborate With Presi- dent Taft of the Commission in Devising Proper Means for a Com- plete Division of Civil and Military Affairs in the Oriental Archipelago ANILA, June 6.—General Chaffee and his staff, who arrived yester- l !! day from China, were conveyed direct to the Malacanan Palace, where a private conference be- tween Generals Chaffee and MacArthur took place. General Chaffee informed a correspondent that while he was not sure of the Oriental’s general capacity for self- government he favored the establishment of civil control in the Philippines at the earllest practicable moment. He was in full sympathy with the commission’s plan for native education and business ad- vancement, because the United States in- terests and native interests lie in the same line. It seems certain that under a plain divigion of the civil and military authority Judge Taft and General Chaffee will col- laborate admirably. Captain Algalogo and his aid have been kllled by Wray's command at Dousel, Al- bay province. Reilly’s battery has sailed for the United States on board the trans- port Pakling. . Commissioncrs at Cavite. Commissioners Taft, Wright and Ide are at Cavite to-day and establishing a pro- vincial government. ~They were formally welcomed by Colonel J. W. Goodrell and the local dignitaries in the town hall Judge Taft spoke, outlining the commis- sion’s provincial plans. The fragmentary news received here of the Porto Rico decisions has caused ap- prehension that there will be such a de- ficit in the Philippine revenues that Con- gress will need to make an appropriation to meet it. Fears are also expressed as to the result of the application of jury triuls and other features of the constitu- tion not suited to the conditions of the Philippines. Importers are preparing claims for a refunding of the duties paid. Townley a Victim of Frauds. WASHINGTON, June 6.—Lieutcnant Richard H. Townley, a retired naval offi- LB o o o e R e e o+ S —Y PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES COMMISSION CAN MILITARY COMMANDERS WITH WHOM HE WILL SOON CON- FER CONCERNING FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLANDS. AND THE AMERI- — cer, is the latest victim of the commissary frauds in Manila. Rear Admiral Rodgers lLas cabled the Navy Department that the court martial convened to try this officer has found him guilty, and sentenced him to dismissal. A newspaper report cabled to this country is responsible for Lieuten- ant Townley's downfall. That report stated that the leutenant had testified as to his connection with the commissary frauds. A court of inquiry asserted that Lievtenant Townley, as intermediary, had attempted to extort money on two occa- slons from the firm of Castle Brothers, Wolf & Sons; in Manila. The officer did not seek money for his own pocket but to be used in part to clear up accounts of the army commissary. Lieutenant Townley was placed on the retired list in 1857, and was assigned to active duty last year upon his own re- quest. He was sent to Manila, where he was placed In charge of the national school. By a special act of Congress the President was authorized to appoint him, after examination. to the grade of lieu- tenant, junior grade. New Civil Government. The new civil government to be estab- — the Philippines s re- . consideration of the President and the Secretary of War. It will differ very little from what was first outlined, as there will be a Governor for the archipelago, and a Legislative Council and other officers. This government will have control of all civil affairs, but it will be under the War De- parument to the extent of being directed by the Secretary of War. There will be a nice, distinction as to the authority of the general commanding the troops in the Philippines and the Governor to be ap~ pointed under the civil government. No official declaration has been made as to which will be the supreme authority, but it is known that the Secretary of War will be supreme. While it is not the in- tention to conduct the governpment of the Philippines .under the Foraker law, that law will be taken as sanctioning what is to be done. The new government will be similar to that which existed for a short time in the early days of New Mexico. There was a civil Governor appointed by the President and a commanding general of the army. Both had their functions in preserving the peace and controlling the affairs of the Territory. lished . in ceiving the SCHLEY RECEIVES OVATION AT MARITIME EXCHANGE AND DECLARES SAMPSON A GALLANT OFFICER AND GOOD MAN Statement Made by the Hero of the Battle of Santiagb in Praise of the Admiral Who Commanded the Victorious Fleet Is Greeted ‘With Cheers. NEW YORK, June 6.—Admiral Schiey to-day went to the Maritime Exchange to visit Ideutenant Commander James A. Sears. who was his flag Heutenant at the battle of Santiago and who recently was sent to the hydrographic bureau of the exchange. The rear admiral was recognized and was asked to meet the members. He con- sented and as soon as he appeared the brokers surrounded him, cheered them- selves hoarse and .asked for a speech. Admiral Schley declined to speak, but said he would be pleased to shake hands with everybody if he would be allowed to go. This caused more cheering and when it subsided some ome shouted: ‘““What's the matter with Sampson?” 4 The admiral replied: “Nothing; he is a gallant officer and a good man.” This was greeted with more cheers, and the uproar became so great that some one Jokingly telephoned to the police station that a riot was {n progress in the Mari- time Exchange. The police escorted the admiral, who was laughing by this time, to safety, only after he had shaken hands all around. HE———— . Rabies Ends a Prospector’s Life. SEATTLE, June 6.—Aaron Ewing, a P tor from Leeton, Mo., died on Hu Creek in the Klondike in May from what was supposed to be rabies. The patient had all the symptoms of rabies before death and the camp was greatly alarmed. The patient was bitten six weeks before the disease developed. He died in great agonye g i