The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-NO. 132, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1902. = PRICE FIVE CENTS. EPORT OF PEACE IN SOUTH AFRICA; CIVIL. REVOLT AT BELGIAN CAPITAL - i 1 WO important pieces of news come from Europe, the first being that peace terms have been agreed upon in South Africa, and the second that the riots at Brussels have assumed alarming proportions. More than a score of persons | were wnjured last night during conflicts between the police and mobs of Socialists at the Belgian capital. In one street rzm‘crs are behind barricades and the police are unable to dislodge them. -In this district the demonstration has the | appearance of a revolt. . i From Pretoria this morning comes the welcome report that the Boer leaders have ucceptca' thé British terms of peace. The rumors are not credited in some quarters, particularly at Amsterdam, where they are contradicted | by Oom Paul Kruger and Dr. Leyds. P~ RIOTS BECOME VERY SERIOUS Many Persons Are Injured in Conflicts and a Street Is Barricaded. RUSSELS, ve en the rioters and persons April 11, were wounded, I a. m.—Serious conflicts be- the police, in which over thirty including women and chil- dren, occurred here late last night in the vicinity of the du Peuple. The first encounter took place in the Rue imes, where the mob pelted the police with cobbles. The then charged with fixed bayonets, and as a result three e severely and several others slightly wounded. The mob proceeded to the Rue Stevens, in front of the Maison du a still more serious conflict occurred. Over-a were fired from both sides. Women and children here, and they, together with the men injured, ided into the Maison du Peuple. rd midnight the district of Brussels had the appear- ance of a city in revolt. The rioters had torn up the street-car and erected a sort of barricade to fortify théir position at the Maison. By strenuous efforts the police managed to clear the Rue Stevens, but the Maison du Peuple was left in posses-" sion of the rioters. B: ol - singing RUSSELS, April 10.—Midnight.—At a Socialist meeting held in front of the Maison du Peuple this evening, the Socialist Deputies Definet and Del- bastee advised the workmeén present to be prepared for a .general strike pext Tvesday.. After the mecting the Soclalists paruded the streetsiot “siaishimg lhe windows of churches and cafes, firing revélvers and revolutionary songs. There were several collisions with the police and he civic guards, who were forced to ase their bayonets and the butts of their rifies on the rioters. Several of the latter were injured and others were ar- on the whole the riots to-day were milder than those of yesterday. in the residence of Senator Count Demorode has been smashed. has occurred at Ghent and Liege, where meetings in favor of a have been held. ges of police and mounted gendarmes with drawn sabers re- persal of the rioting mobs here early this morning. During the ceman was shot through the body and face. His comrades, ed their ammunition, fled, and the wounded man was over- kicked and stoned. Another policeman sought refuge in the attic of reupon the Socialists sacked the establishment, exploded a lamp t fire to the bullding and completed its ruin. The flames forced the rioters to retire. DYNAMITE IS USED BY THE RIOTERS. mob proceeded to the Northern Railroad station, where it collided Revolver shots were exchanged and the rioters seized a police- until he was unconscious and left him bleeding on the ground. ers had been wounded the mob dispersed. rds of Schaerbeek and St. Josse Ten Noode, near here, have to be on duty and the burgomasters of those two communes i assemblages in the streets of more than five persons. Lancers have been dispatched to Charlerof, where trouble is anticipated Guards of La Louviere, where many buildings were dynamited last ave been reinforced by mounted chasseurs. A dynamite outrage has been g Aimeras, in the province of Hainault. Cartridges were e the Catbolic Club, which was partially wrecked. rgomaster of Liege has made a requisition for artillery and has called “ivic Guards there. All the troops at Liege are confined to their bar- e Council General of the Labor party, in session here, has decided to issue recommending a general strike for April 14. A warrant is about to the arrest of M. Volkaert, president of the Bociety of the Young whose membership were prominent during the riots of yester- vening, who is charged with being largely responsible for the disturbances. ‘TROOPS IN SYMPATHY WITH SOCIALISTS. LONDON, April 1L.—The Brussels corregpondent of the Daily Mail says the reservists who were called out in conseqlience of the riots arrived there yes- terday singing revolutionary sonmgs. At the station they were met by Soclalists, who distributed red leaflets to them, in which it is said the Soclalist women were confident the militia would not fire on the Socialists if the command to do so was given. A non-commissioned officer, who ordered the arrest of one of the distributors of these leafiets, was loudly hooted. Ore Antwerp firm alone, continues the cor- respondent, recently sold 17,000 revolvers to the Socialists. rds, A dispatch to the Exchange Telegram Company from Brussels says that troops called out in connection with the riots are in a state bordering on mutiny. Many of the militia responded to the call to the colors, but are marching through the streets singing the “‘Carmagnole” and the ‘““Marselllaise.” ks, eat excitement prevails in the industrial districts. arrested for insubordination and the regulars are confined to their bar- Ball cartridges have been issued to the troops. Several militiamen have L e o o e 22 2 2 e ol McKINLEY PENSION BILL Is I‘AVORABLY REPORTED Widow of the Iartyred President to | Be Allowed Five Thousand Dollars a Year. WASHINGTON, April 10.—The House Committee on Pensions to-day made a favorable report on the bill granting a pension of $5000_per annum to the widow of the late President McKinley. The report was made by Representative Bulloway of New Hampshire. It recites the military career of President McKin- ley, his services in Congress and as Presi- @ent, and adds: He Jeft the nation for which he worked and Mved in & prosperous condition and, like Lin- coln and Garfield, he was assassinated because be was President of the United States, and lost his life in the service of his country, Import Duty on Grain and Flour. LONDON, April 10.—Persistent rumors | are current here that the forthecoming budget proposals will include an im- | port duty of three pence per hundred weight on grain and five pence per hun- @red weight on flour. |REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE IN A VERY LOW CONDITION Fever Compliuhom Developed and the Physicians Believe Recov- ery Is Improbable. WASHINGTON, April 10.—A change for | the worse has again occurred in the con- Gition of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, and the physiclans are very apprehensive of the outcome. To-night's bulletin stat- ed that evidences of cerebral inflamma- | tion have appeared. | WASHINGTON, April 11.—At 1 o'clock | this morning the condition of Dr. Tal- mage was very precarious. Fever com- plications have developed, which lead the physicians to believe that recovery is en- | tirely tmprobable. Two Transports Are Ordered Sold. WASHINGTON, April 10.—The Secre- tary of War has directed the sale of the transports Egbert and Rosecrans, now at | San Francisco, to the highest bidder, In ‘ order to reduce transportation expenses. | Diplomatic Relations Are Resumed. | CARACAS, Venezuela, April 10.—The | Veneziclan Pariiament has ratifed the protocol re-establishing diplomatic rela- tions between France and Venezuela, | | | | CIVIL GOVERNORS REPORT EXTERMINATION OF NATI VES + IN PHILIPPINE PROVINCES aTor., CoRNELIOS GAERDNER - | < ARMY OFFICERS WHO FIGURE CONSPICUOUSLY IN CONDUCT OF PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 10.—One hundred thousand in- habitants of the province of Batangas, Luzon, have been exterminated since the Amer- ican conquest of the Philip- pines. This terrible charge is made by the acting Governor of the province in a report to the Philippine Commission, which was made public by the Philip- pine Committee of the Senate to-day. Be- fore the American occupation of Batangas there were 300,000 persons residing 4in the province. War, disease and starvation have ca.u'ed the death of one-third of this number, ' This i& the province in which Trias, Malvar and Zurbano conducted an aggressive campaign against the Amer- icans. The troops were commanded by Brigadier General J. C. Bates and Brig- adler General J. F. Wade. The report of the acting Governor of Batangas was made public simultaneously with that of Major Cornelius Gardener, United States army, acting Governor of the province of Tayabas. The fact that Major Gardener is an army officer makes the charge more serious. Secretary Root cabled yesterday to Gen- eral Chaffee asking for a report on the progress of the investigation and to-day Secretary Root was advised that Major Gardener has been called upon for speci- fications, when the inquiry will proceed. JUSTIFIES MILES’ CHARGE. Major. Gardener charges the troops with arson, torture of natives and harsh treat- ment generally and declares that the seeds of perpetual revolution were being sown. Members of the Senate committee Special Dispatch to The Call. o+ One Hundred Thousand Inhabitants of Batangas Perish Since War Began. declare that the report: tenant General Miles in ment that the war had been conducted with “marked severity."” Governor Taft in the telegram laid be- fore the compmittee stated that Major Gardener was a good Governor and popu- lar with the people, but he feared that the friction between him and those officers succeeding him in military command had so influenced his judgment that charges by him ought not to be acted upon with- out giving the accused an opportunity to be heard. He asserted he had not dis- obeyed the rules of the committee in fail- ing to submit the report of Major Gar- dener. 8 Senator Culberson said he was willing to “submit to the record whether Gov- ernpr Taft was entirely candid and did submit to the committee all the reports in his possession.” Gardener’s report is dated December 16, 1901, and is largely a review of conditions in the province. In the course of the re- port the Governor says: HARSH TREATMENT OF NATIVES “A vigorous campalgn was at once or- ganized against insurgents in arms, with the troops acting under positive orders to shoot no unarmed natives and to burn no houses except barracks. Looting was pro- hibited under the strictest penaltles. Company and other commanders were or- dered to pay for everything taken for ne- cessity or bought from natives.”” The Governor in lengthy detail tells about what has been done, and then rec- ommends that the operations against the insurgents shauld be by a force of na- Jjustified Lieu- ing his state- ‘tives. Ha has traveled all over the orov. - Cruelty Is Alleged in Tayabas. ince with no other escort than natives. In another recommendation he says: “As Civil Governor, I feel it my duty to say that it s my firm conviction that the United States troops should at the earliest opportunity be concentrated in one or two garrisons, if it is thought desir- able that the good sentiment and loyalty that formerly existed toward the United States among the people of -this province should be conserved anfi encouraged. “Being in close touch with the people, having visited all the pueblas one or more times; having lived with them in their homes, 1 know that such a sentiment once existed. Of late, by reason of the con- duct of the troops, such as the extensive burning of the barrios in trying to lay waste the country so that the insur- gents cannot occupy it, the torturing of natives by the so-called water cure and other methods, in order to obtain informa- tion; the harsh treatment of natives gen- erally, and the fajlure of inexperienced, lately appointed lleutenants commanding posts, to distinguish between those who are friendly and those unfriendly, and to treat every native as if he were, whether or not, an insurgent at heart, this favor- able sentiment above referred to is be- ing fast destoved and a deep hatred toward us engendered. If these things need be done, they had best be done by native troeps, so that the people of the United States will not be credited there- with. REGARDED AS “NIGGERS.” “Almost without exception, soldiers and also many officers refer to natives in their presence as ‘niggers,’ and the natives are beginning to ‘understand what the word ‘nigzer’ means. “The course now being pursued in this province and in the provinces of Batan- gas, Laguna and Samar is, in my opinion, sowing seeds for a perpetual revolution against us hereafter whenever a good op- portunity offers. Under present conditions the political situation in this province is slowly retrograding and the American sentiment is decreasing and we afe daily making permanent enemies. “In the course above referred to the troops make no distinction often between the property of those natives who are : Oonfinued*on Page Two. BRITISH TERMS ARE ACCEPTED Such Is the Rumor Current at London, but It Is Not Verified. ONDON;, April 11.—The Central News is informed that a telegram was received in London this morning from Pretoria saying that Steyn and Generals Dewet and Botha had agreed upon terms of peace. The tele- gram indicates that the British terms have been accepted and that peace has been arranged. The Financier and- Bullionist publishes a dispatch this morning that the Boer leaders have accepted the British terms, that -peace has been arranged and that the terms of peace have been cabled to the Boer agents in Europe. Other unconfirmed statements of a similar character are in circulation in London to-night. It is said Rutherford B. Harris, former secretary ot the British South Africa Company, has received informaticn to the same effect, but no reliable information concerning the matter is obtainable. AMSTERDAM, April 10.—Peace rumors of all kinds are contradicted by Paul Kruger and Dr. Leyds. When Schalk- burger concludes his negotiations with the leaders in the field he will ask for the free use of the cable in order to con- sult with Kruger. L burger and other members of the Boer Government arrived there by train April 6 and that messages were sent Inviting President Steyn and General Delarey to come in and meet them. While awaiting a reply General Schalkburger and his party were occupying a hotel which had been reserved for their use. The War Secretary, Brodrick, in the House of Commons to-day, referring to the advices from South Africa, sa!d Schalkburger, Reitz, Lucas, Myer and Jacobs had been joined at Klerksdorp by General Botha and added that Steyn, Dewet, Delarey and'three other members of the late Orange Free State Gov- ernment arrived at the same place yesterday. No communication had been re- ceived from the Boer leaders except regarding safe conducts for the partici- pators of the conference. The Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, added the information that no limit had beer fixed for the expiration of the safe conducts. These would be extended so long as the negotiations were in progress, after which the delegates would be allowed to return to their respective districts without hindrance. : ., ALL BOER LEADERS AT THE CONFERENCE. PRETORIA, Wednesday, April 9.—President Steyn of the Orange Free State, Secretary of State Reltz of the Transvaal, Acting President Schalkburger of the Transvaal and General Lucas Meyer, commander-in-chief of the Orange Free State forces, passed through Kronstad, Orange Free State, Saturday, April 6, on their way to Klerksdorp, Southwestern Transvaal, where General Botha, the Transvaal commander-in-chief, arrived Monday, April 7. It was expected that Generals Dewet and Delarey will attend the conference to take place there. It is understood that the Boer leaders are fully possessed of the British peace terms ) and that the conference then assembling was to enable, the leaders to thoroughly discuss these terms. It is expected that the final decision of known. KLERKSDORP, Transvaal, April 9.—Steyn and Generals Dewet and Delarey, with their staffs, arrived here at noon to-day and are quartered in the town. CONGRESS ACTS ON "ALLEGED BRITISH CAMP. WASHINGTON, April 10.—In the House to-day Representative Hitt of Illi- nols, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, reported back the Sulzer reso- luticn, calling upon the Secretary of State for the report of the Governor of Louisiana and all other correspondence relating to the establishment of a British base of ‘supplies near New Orleans and the shipment of horses and mules for the use of the British army in South Africa. Secretary Hay has been notified by Peter Van Vlissingen, through Gov- ernor Yates of Illinois, chairman of the Boer relief fund committee, that the request on the State Department for permission for Dr. Thomas and wife to pass the military lines in Squth Africa in connection with the extension of aid to the Boer familles has been withdrawn, Secretary Hay, by direction of the President, having to-day cabled to United States Consul General Bingham at Cape Town an instruction to draw on him for $5000, the amount of the fund, and to exercise his own discretion in the distribution of the money among the Boer suffeters. ONDON, 10.—The Times, In fts second edition, publishes a dispateh from Kle: rp, dated April 9, announcing that Acting President Schalk- Apri] the burghers will shortly be made @ il eiriintmilimmiriiree i O DESPERATE BATTLE WITH FUGITIVE QUTLAWS Five Members of Sheriff’s Posse Are Killed and Two Others Are Wounded. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 10.—In a battle between a Sheriff’s posse and out- laws in Scott County, Va., this afternoon five men, all members of the Sheriff’s posse, were killed, two other posse men were wounded and Jim Wright, an es- coped Hancock County (Tenn.) murderer shot and captured. ‘Wright was, under a life sentence for murder and escaped from the State prison at Brusby Mountain two years ago. He returned to his haunts in Hancock County. Not long after his return home Sheriff Lager of Hancock County was shot from ambush and killed. The crime was charged to Jim Wright, John Tem- pleten and the latter’s brothers. The al- leged motive was that Lager had killed the father of Templeton. Recently offi- cers have been planning to trap Wright in his home, and he, together with John Templeton and other members of his gang, crossed the State line into Virginia. They have been in Scott County abeut a morth. To-day the Sheriff organized a ‘strong poss¢ and attempted to arrvest them. The outlaws had been notified and a pltched battle resulted. In addition to the five deputy Sheriffs killed, Deputies Joe Most and Sam Wax were wounded. Although Wright was wounded and cap- tured, all the other members of his gang | escaped. ENGLISH EMBASSY DOES NOT CREDIT THE STORY Has Not Heard of the Reported Invi~ tation to the Prince of Wales. LONDON, April 10.—A member of the United States Embassy was asked to-day regarding the statement cabled from London and published in the United States that the Prince of Wales, through Loreslrassey, president of the London Chamber of Commerce, had received an invitation from the New York Chamber of Commerce to visit America. The reply was that this invitation could only be accepted through the Embassy, which, up to -to-day. had heard nothing of the matter. The Embassy discredited the story. ARMY TRANSPORT HANCOCK IS AGROUND NEAR MANILA Tugs Go to Her Assistance but She Is Not Believed to Be in Danger. MANTLA, Avril ¥.—The United States army transport Hancock has run aground in the mud near Iba, Zambales provinee, about one hundred miles north ¢f here. She is not believed to be in danger. Tugs have been sent to her assistance. General Hampton Very Il COLUMBUS, S. C.. April 10.—Ceneral ‘Wade Hampton is reported to be eritically il by his physician, who says he is suf- fering from a general breakdown. He s 84 years of age.