The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1902, Page 3

WILL ENTRUST - (UEEN MOTHER WITH REGENCY Dutch Cabinet to Meet To-Day to Discuss the Situation. h a Physicigns of Wilhelmina Profess to Be a Shade More Hopeful. Royal Patient Retains Consciousness but Is Still Very Weak, as She Has Taken but Little Nourishment. . HAGUE, April 20.—The condition Wilhelmina is practically un- She does mot lose consclous- i has taken a Jjttle more nour- nsort and the Queen's Castle Loo for a short is is regarded as a fa- April 21.—The Dutch Cabinet, Brussels correspondent of meet next Monday to which will be en- en’s mother. »o the correspondent of wires that Queen Wil- re remains at 103 de- complications _are y. Her Maj- her Majesty’s conscious- it is related that, remem- the Prince Con- rdered the baking of stribution among the household and the peldoorn. The Queen, J is incapable of except beef tea e only in small octors are puz- he court physicians fever earlier. For to her breakdown last her rosy color and . Once, recently, Loo Park she fainted. on to say that tuation has by , Prince Henry’s popu- Dutch press, ab- fairs, devotes amazingly the subject which en- attention. No news- ed an editorial to the strate dent, “that her Majesty is eshing sleep. palace amid the beau- it is difficult to be- hich are afloat. At hotel sit General Queen’s secretary, and officials, chatting mer- adiction of the disquiet- Ca i e UHEMA‘L‘AN_.CIT‘lES LIE N RUINS Continued . m Page One. was one of the most unattrac- he republic. Both towns ere nestled in the main Cordil- ra and were about fifty miles he Pacific seaboard. 1ango was handsome- 1 well paved. The a richly decorated and a magnificent City I'he residents devoted most tention to the manufac-~ - town was II3 miles of Guatemala City. g unattractiveness he mud huts which 10,000 inhabitants. The nsisted principally of in- lattoesand Zamboes. ad pretty surround- town was built by e of the same name, one of bodies of water in ala has not been as much a sufferer from earthquakes from voleanic eruptions. The latter comprise severai sad chap n the history of the republic the country. There are about active volcanoes in Guatemala, - most noted being the Volcan de Agua, or Water Volcann which destroyed the city of old y & deluge of water in 1541 temala City, often called - second ( 1774, is now a comy no in nt “learned,” adds the Daily | committees created a possible successor n the event of her Majes- tton and woolen fab- | d twice destroyed leading cities | was destroyed by the same vol- and the town built on the | atively unimportan: ity of Guatemala, twenty- | from Antigua, was THE N FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1902 60 T0 CONSULT WITH THE BOERS General Meyer and Party to Lay Peace Terms Before Them. Delegates at Pretoria Have Full Power to Complete Negotiations. BALMORAL, Saturday, April 19.—Gen- eral Lucas Meyer, commander in chief of the Orange Free State forces, State Secre- tary Reitz of the Transvaal and the other | members of their party arrived here last | night and this morning proceeded to the | north. They were accompanied by a Brit- | ish escort, and it is their intention to con- sult with the Boers in the field. | PRETORIA, April 20.—General Dewet | has gone to Heilbron, Orange River Coi- ony; Genera] Botha, the Transvaal com- mander in chief, has gone to Vryheid, Transvaal; and General Delarey, together with Steyn, ex-President of the Orange Free State, has gone to Klerksdorp, Transvaal. They have arranged to meet the Burghers at different rendezvous and submit the British terms. It is be-| lieved the Transvaalers will everywhere accept the terms,. as they are in no way anxious for a winter campaign. The only | | difficulty likely to occur will be, it is | thought, with the Orange Free Staters, | whom are expected to prove re- ant. In the meantime there will be no cessa- tion of hostilities. The delegates are ex- | pected back to Pretoria the. middle of | May, and in_anticipation of their return th for clot! ) have given orders here provisions, etc. LONDON, April 21.—The Pretoria corre- spondent of the Standard cables ~that there is good reason to belleve a tentative agreement has been arrived at which wiil prove mutually cordial and lead to an early cessation of hostilitles. | The Utrecht correspondent of the Daily | Mail says it is recognized there that the | Boer delegates at Pretoria have full | powers to negotiate without reference to the Boer leaders in Europe, who have no real influence on the peace negotiations. et o | GENERAL WARREN RBPLIES. Objects to Buller’s Criticiém of His | Conduct at Spion Kop. LONDON, April 20.—General Sir Charles | Warren gave out a communication to-day | in response to General Buller's stinging | criticisms of his conduct at Spion Kop. | | This evening, however, he requested the newspapers not to publish the communi- cation. General Warren’s statement simaply ex- presses his hope that the - Government will publish the complete documents re- lating to Spion Kop. He asserts that the | dispatches as published in the white book, | considered by themselves, cause unjust | reflections upon himself "and his com- | mand. | LONDON, April 20.—The Parliamentary | y the Trades Union Congress have been urged to call a gen- eral meeting to protest against the impo- new e being offered in all | sition of the tax on corn. y for Prince von Wied, the | The trades union bodies are passing res- | King of Holland's sister. | olutions to the effect that this tax is a | departure from free trade principles, which departure has not been before the | electors of the country; that it will in- | volve burdens double the amount of reve- nue it will produce, and that it will bear heaviest on the Door. The bakers of Liverpool will announce a rise of a penny in the price of four- pound loaves to-morrow. At Liverpool last week the imports of meat from the United States, as com- pared with the preceding week, showed | 3000 fewer cattle, 6000 fewer sheep, 11, fewer’ sheep carcasses and 14,000 fewer quarters of beef. e e e e e e ] SCORES DIE IN FIRE ON STEAMER Continued From Page One. 1 | | | { crowd, which interfered \\'ith'“ those who threw water on the! flames, as well as with those work-| ing with the lifeboats. Few could| adjust life preservers or do any- | thing else for themselves. Boatsf from the shore took off numerous | | passengers. The burning steamer was quick- ly headed for the bank. A num- Dber of passengers who jumped off | | the stern and tried to swim ashore | through the swift current were/| drowned. Many perished in thez flames. Help, except from per-| | sons lving near by, did not arrive | ‘ until 2.30 o’clock this afternoon | ‘ sengers, garbed only| | and the pas! ‘; in their night clothes and without | | food, suffered terribly. The steamer Maud Kliigore brought the | survivors to this place at § p. m., and the | several societies of the city rendered all | i)rosiibl«, assistance in the way of cloth-l ing, etc. | | “Among those rescued are two women | | passengers, who were severely burned, | | but will récover. They are: Mrs. 8. R. | Leach of Bridegeport, Ohio, burned about | the ! Mrs. Ellen Fenmore, Arbuckle, | | W. Va., severely burned about the face.| The bo of a child, dressed in night clothes, was taken from the river at| Mound City. SOME OF THE RESCUED. A partial list of those saved follows: Passengers—Emma_Smith, Paducah; A. M. Allen and wife, Pittsburg; L. M. Mc- Graw, Louisville; Mrs. Judge Mulkey, | Metropolis, Ill.; Miss Tunnmeyer, Point | Pleasant, W. Va.; Margaret Bridges, | Lou : Jennie Bessick, Lexington | Ky K. Stations and wife, Careyville, | | Ky ach (badly burned). i ptain John M. Phillips, mas Captain Dana Scott, purser; O. D. | lips, second clerk; Ben Bridges, third Harry Doss, pllot; Al Pritchard, pilst te Crawford, chief engineer; Herry Caluson, second engineer; Arch THE WORLD'S MEDICINE. W, CH E%I LL FOR ALL BILIOUS and NERYOUS DISORDERS, Sick Headache, Constipation, Wind, eak Stomach, Impaired Digestion Disordered Liver & Female Ailments. L e e e ey whers i boses, o s o S everywhere in boxes, 10c. | saw that the front cabin was on fire. BREACH BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN FACTIONS IN CONGRESS WIDENING Split Over the Cuban Bill Only a Forerunner of More Serious Dissensions That, Unless Leaders Can Harmonize Warring — Interests, May Place the National Ticket in Jeopardy in 1904 * + g - PROBABLE MINISTER TO HAV- ANA, AND TWO OPPONENTS OF THE CUBAN BILL. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April . “Not in ten years has there been a time when the situation in na- tional politics was so threatening for the Republican party,” said a very prominent Republican to-day. ‘“We are | with the Democrats, and that is an end [ 3 i g R e e e e e e d, ] Schreiver, first mate; James Chriss, sec- MG second baker; James Neville, Arthur Shelfy, carpenter; Buckner, Ky.; Mrs. Pritchard. Mrs. Mulkey, wife of Judge Mulkey of Metropolls, Iil., boarded the City of Pitts- hu‘l:ig shortly before the disaster. he sald: “I got on the boat at Metropolis to take passage to Cairo. All of the passengers were asleep when 1 went aboard and I at once went to my statgroom and lay down with my clothes on. It must have been an hour or more before I noticed a bright light shinging into my stateroom. I im- mediately got up and opamed the door and At that moment the electric light went out. I put on a life preserver and managed to grepe my way by the flickering light of | 'f the flames to a door opposite. It was the barber shop. Then I went further down to another door, which opened out into the guards. Few passengers were aroused at this time and I, with others, climbed out over the guards and down the rail- ing hand over hand over the lifeboats, which were right below me, MANY STRUGGLING IN RIVER. “I hung suspended by my arms for a while and was caught by a man who was seated in the boat. By this time others crowded into the boat and filled it to overflowing, but providentially the flames reached the ropes that held the lifeboat and we dropped into the river before the others could push their way into the boat. The lifeboat commenced to drift back toward the burning steamer. We had no oars with which to steer the beat and the men used their hands for oars. There were struggling men and women in the river all about us on every side. “After we had managed to get to the shore fires were lighted and the poor men and women and children, many of them in their night dresses, suffering with the cold and from thelr wet clothing, huddled about the fires. Some were burned, but niore were badly bruised and cut by com- ing in contact with the wreckage. People clung to shutters and anything they could find to float on to shore, and only a few succeeded.” At Caledonia, three miles below the scene of the disaster, the flames could be plairly seen, and the shouts of the pas- sengers heard, and people put out in skiffs to the wreck. They assisted in saving some of the passengers. Many passengers clung by finger tips to the burning boat, with bodies submerged, until, overcome by fire or water, they sank to death. SEES HER CHILDREN PERISH. The case of Mrs. Fannie McCallum of Leavenworth, Ind., is most pitiful. With her three children she was going to Caruthersville, Mo., to join her husband. She jumped overboard and landed in the boat, but_her three children struck tne water and she saw them sink from sight. She is frantic with grief. The body of the voungest of the little ones was re- covered opposite Mound City. Another sad incident was the loss of one of the children of Pilot Pritchard. The little one was tossed from the burn- ing steamer into the arms waliting to catch it in the vawl, but its head struck against the side of the boat and it feil into the river and was lost. . Captain Doss, who was drowned, was an old river pilot. He was making the trip for pleasure with his son, Pilot Harry Doss, and when his body was found a mile or so below the wreck he had on all his clothing and a life preserver. It is be- lieved that he died from the shock. LISTS ARE INCOMPLETE. True Extent of the Disaster Can Only Be Estimated. CINCINNATI, April 20.—When the City &'fi'&um of thexgrwere ‘wounded. Oth- ot Pittsburg left Cincinnati last Wednes- ‘ht for Memphis she had thirty-one lace are now guarded by troo) ::L:n}en and a crew of more than sixty- sl.eath\g at Malmoe was attended by men. The local officers of the packet com- | 15,000 persons. | Phillips, commander: Dana Scott, purser — Just preparing to go before the country for the election of a new House of Repre- sentatives. Apparently it will be 1890 over | again. How are we preparing for it? We seem to have no leader. The Republicans in the House are a leaderless mob. Th minority of Republicans there combine pany say that some of these passengers have since reached thelir ‘destination and others had been taken aboard during the past three days at points down the river. | Scme of the passengers were from Pitts- burg and other up-river points. Even the names of the passengers who started from Cincinnati are not obtainable, as the only register kept was in the purser’s office on the stcamer. The Pittsburg was built in Marietta in 1soy, and was valued at $30,000. She was 300 feet long and eighty feet wide and was | | ownea by “John M. Phillips and A. L. | Brahm of Pittsburg and Dana Scott of Zanesville. Mrs. Phillins, wife of the commander of the steamer, and her son remained here this trip, and she received a telegram from _her husband to-night { that he was not seriously hurt during the John M. ire. The Pittsburg’s officers were: Oliver Phillips of Pittsburg, clerk; Ben Bridges, Lo ville, third clerk; Arch Schriber, Moscow, O., _first mate; Tom Whitley, New Albany. Ind., second mate; i+ Harry Doss, Cincinnati, pilot: Al Pritch- ard, Memphis; pilot; C. Crawford, Ironton, engineer: Harry Clossen, Zanesville, sec- ond engineer; William Bollinger, Cincin- nati, steward: Fred Rentz, Newport, Ky., barkeeper; Harvey, Brown, Cincinnati, steersman. The following are known to have board- ed the City of Pittsburg at Cincinnati: John Allen, Mrs. John Alfen, their ten- year-old son, Pittsburg: Sylvester Doss, Cineinnati; Joseph Crag;, Grand View, Ind., grain_merchant; H. Bruner, Cleve- port, Ky.; Mrs. Arch Pritchard, Moscow, O.; Mrs. Al Pritchard, Memphls, Tenn.: Sarah Pritchard, 11, her daughter; Ella Pritchard, 6, her daughter. N Just prior to the boat's departure she underwent_her annual inspection by Unit- ed States Inspectors Comeron and Fearn, and was grapted first-class papers. e }01’1 party responsibility and party disci- ne. “Exactly_the same situation prevails in the Senate. There is no leader, and a few Senators who were elected as Republicans stand Feady to form an alliance with the Democrats—if, indeed, the alliance has not already been formed—to overthrow the policy of the administration and bid defiance to party authoricy. How is it to end? Unless the big men of the party come to their senses it will end in dis- aster after disaster and the loss of the Presidency in 1904.” These expressions are only in line with what ean be heard whenever two or three leading politicians get together. The gravity -of the situation Is growing. The sentiment for a tariff, Democratic unity and Republican discord—that is the situa- tion in a nutshell. Turn to the President. Since the breakdown of party power in the House on Friday there has been al- most a panic. This has been intensified by the duplication of this situation in the Senate. Administration Senators are all asking, ‘“What can be done? Will the Cuban_situation be duplicated on the canal bill? Will not this session of Con- gress end In a colossal failure, which will make defeat inevitable in the fall?"” Men who have much to do with mak- ing the policy of the Republican party declared that for the time being Congress had got into a position of antagonism to the administration, and it was for the ad- ministration to step in and assert itself. They point out that the Republicans have ceased to have leaders in elther branch of Congress, and that the Democrats, who have had no leadership for years and no fixity of purpose in a decade, are really molding legisiation. In some quarters there is a disposition | to criticize the President and to throw much of the blame upon him for the con- dition prevailing. Republican represeata- | tives said to-day that Mr. Roosevelt had not been as firm as he should have been in Cubtin situation from the first. Instead of that, they said, he had—not once or twice, but several times—declared that the Cuban difficulty was not of his liking, but was something he had inherited from the late President McKinley. One View of Situation. The color given to this was that the President wi indifferent to the Cuban cause and was seeking to get relief for Cuba in a perfunctory way, simply be- cause the late President was committed to it, and not because it was something that was right and to which the national honor was pledged. f No disguise 15 made of the Yeeling among Republicans that the party is in a critical state. The Congressional commit- tee, it is said on good authority, is feeling very nervous and is looking to the na- tional committee to take hold of the com- ing Congressional campaign and help out. It is doubtful if it can get any help from the national committee. The House has from the outset of the present session ignored the national committee. Its ad- vice, whether given by Senator Hanna, the ~chairman, ~or Postmaster General Payne, the vice chairman, has been con- temptuously rejected. ! NEW ADVERTISEMENT. COAST STEAMSHIP HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Alliance, With Thirteen Passengers Abbdard, Drifts on Mud in Humboldt Bay. EUREKA, April 20.—When the steamer Alllance started to leave the raflroad! Whart at 11 o'clock to go to Haughey’s shingle mill for a portion of her cargo, her propeller refused to.turn. The steam- er was helpless and in that condition drift- ed across the bay until she brought up on the anchors, just as she grounded on the soft mud. Frederick Wilkeson, a diver, was em- ployed to make an investigation. He dis- covered that the propeller arch was com- pletely blocked with a three-inch Manila cable wound around the sh. He cut through fourteen inches of the rope be- fore it could be cleared. Captain Hardwick says when backing away from the slip in San Francisco har- bor he heard a sound resembling the parting of a rope. He considers it prob- able that the steamer came all the way from San Francisco to Eureka with her propeller fouled. It was not until the en- gines were reversed that the cable reveal- ed f{tself. She had thirteen passengers aboard. PALACE OF KING OSCAR IS GUARDED BY TROOPS STOCKHOLM, April 20.—Mass meetings. in favor of universal suffrage were held to-day In" all the towns of Sweden— In Stockholm the meeting was attended with"| considerable disorder. The demonstrators tried to march to the palace of ~King They were charged by the police ers were arrested. The approaches to _}he ‘he about HOME TESTIMONY Can Any Be Stronger. Carry More Weight or Be More Convineing Than San Francisco Testi- mony? Make a mental note of it. This man is well known San Francisco. His veracity is unquestioned. You are reading local evidence. Investigating home testimony. San Francisco news for San Francisco people. It's not from Maine or Magtana. Suspicion car’t lurk around it." Honesty is its best characteristic. Home indorsement its salient point. J. E. Plamondon of J. E. Plamondon & Co.,. manufacturers’ agents, groceries, cigars, tobacco, fine stationery, ladies’ and gents' furnishings, 8 Eighth street, says: “Typhoid and malaria fever brought on kidney complaint some ten years ago, or at least, left my kidneys affected, ren- dering the-use of medical appliances nec- essary at times. Physicians advised an operation, but 1 would not consent to it as I had not suflicient faith in surgery and not a great deal in medicine. It was only through a rather convineing state- ment I read in the newspapers that I was induced to go to the No-Percentage Drug Store, 949 Market street, for Doan's Kidney Pills and try them. I was sur- prised at the result. I cannot gauge the future and positively state that there will not be a recurrence, but this I can con- scienticusly say, they removed the diffi- culty. If they had not I could not be in- duced to recommend the preparation, neither would I have mentioned the mat- ter to more than one personal friend. For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents, Foster-Milburn_Co., alo, N. Y., sole nis for the U. 8. Eemmber the name—Doan’s—and take no substitute. insisting. on giving a remedy for the | | ai ; them were business houses and the FIRE FIGHTERS ARE KEPT BUSY Many Valuable Buildings in Dallas Are Totdlly Destroyed. Police Authoritiess Believe That Incendiaries Are at Work. DALLAS, Tex., April 2.—Two persons ‘were fatally injured and a property loss of $370,000 caused by several fires which occurred here shortly after 3 @’clock this | morning. At that hour an alarm was]| turned in from the Dorsey printing estab- | lishment, and several other alarms from different parts of the city were turned in in quick succession. After fighting the fire for two hours Chief Magee was pros- trated and the command was turned over to an assistant. The Chief was rescued | from the flames by the police and was | unconscious for several hours, but was | later reorted out of danger. Fireman | ‘Will Spurr was struck in the face with a | brick and fatally injured. A young son of Chief lMagee was found on the floor of | the engine room at the Central station | with a fractured skull. It is suppossd tkat the lad attempted to slide from the | unk room to the erigine room on one of | he iron poles used by the firemen and | fell to the floor below. He probably will | ie. The Dorsey Printing Company's plant was totally about $200,000. | While the Dorsey fire was in progress | « fire broke out on Lamar street and | twenty buildings were destroyed. Half of | re- destroyed, the loss being { mainder boarding-houses and dwellings. | The Griffith Lumber Company is one of | the principal losers in that section of the | city, where it is estimated the loss will | aggregate 3$150,000, of which Griffith & Co. | sustain $30,000. The loss™ of the Keating Implement | | Company is not accurately known. About | a dozen smalier mercantile and manu- | facturing establishments were desrtoyed. | While the two big fires were raging . a | third one broke out in the residence dis- | trict at Fisher Lane, in South Dallas, two ! miles distant, which destroyed four cot- | tages worth $20,000. | Insurance men are positive that the fire | on Fisher Lane was incendlary and the | Police and Fire departments are strongly | inclined to believe that all were due to in- | cendiaries. | Ship Relief Not to Be Sold. ! SEATTLE, April 20.—The plans of the | War Department relative to the dispo- | sition of the hospital ship Relief, now at | Shanghai, have been changed. A few days ago_instructions were sent to the local | quartermaster to advertise for bids for | { | | the purchase of the vessel. A dispatch MILITARY PRISONERS 10 60 FREE Supreme Court Decision Likely to Release Hundreds. Offenders of Volunteer Army Await Action in the Deming Case. Lower Tribunal Holds That Court- Martial Should Not Have Been Conducted by Regulars. S T CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, April 20.—Several hun- dred military prisoners confined at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, are awaiting with impatience the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Peter C. Deming, for- merly captain in the subsistence depart- ment of the volunteer army. Deming was courtmartialed and found guilty of embezzlement, forgery and con- duct” unbecoming an officer and gentle- man, and Is now serving a term at Fort Leavenworth. The Circuit Court of Ap- peals for the district of Kansas ordered that a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Deming issue and that he be discharged from custody. This action was based upon Deming’s claim that he was tried by of- ficers of the regular army instead of voi- unteers. Because of the bad precedent es- tablished by the decision and its effect upon several hundred prisoners, the War Department determined to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Crowder, who has been given charge of the case, has just filed with the Supreme Court his brief, in which he asks that the judgment of the Court of Appeals be reversed. Lieu- tenant Colonel Crowder asserts that the history of early legislation in respect to the army establishes that its object was to prevent officers of the Federal army sitting in the trial of officers or soldiers belonging to troops raised under the sov- ereignty of the States. The second vol- unteer army raised for the Philippine in- | surreetion was authorized by an aet of May 2, 1899, and was the army to which Deming belonged at the time of his trial, conviction and sentence. Lieutenant Col- onel Crowder contends that the effect of the act was to invest the volunteer army raised under its provisions with a charac- ter essentially different from that of the volunteer armies of previous wars and to assimilate it to the regular army, to the extent of taking it out of the designation was received yesterday, however, that for | of “other forces,” which appears in the the present the department has concluded | following article of war, the basis of Dem- not to sell the Relief. The intention now is not to dispose of her until a suitable vessel has been obtained to take her place. 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