The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1902, Page 1

(i 4 Call. VOLUME XCII-NO. 14. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1902. e PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRAISES BRAVERY 1R JOfEPm Dir1fDRILE f Zo=c FiAyom - OoF XECUTIVE OF ENG- N S ROPOLIS, WHO \ ) AN ADDRESS | E NG - EDWARD J l King Edward Says Nice Things of Re- cent Enemies. PRAISES BOER GRIT. Wwn name 3 South Africa xpression of God for while our ancient uch to bring have been op- ve and determined people great difficulties. to encounter i cheerfully over- es were e our opponents will now, become our frien st hope is that mutual co- nd good will the bitter feeling v speedily be replaced by ip and that an era of | p may be in store for | Ecuth Africa | AUGURS WELL FOR FUTURE. Bubse is | n response to the addre s the King County Council we u for your expressions s toward myself and with you at the e victory which has | severance and bravery of the for the ex- | s newly added to my governnfent | will bring to | and prosperity | ter of the globe | shment. The readiness | cts throughout the | art in the ardu- ¥ at an end can- | more closely | v and affection, " | | | | of rejoice way believe that the gpod ing displayed by those ecently our opponents future of that vast ””” l Continued on Page Two. | ernor Taft the questions arising between REBELS DEFEAT CASTRO| Venezuela Insurgents | Now Claim the Victory. Belief Is Expressed That Caracas Is Captured. Colombian Govern-| ment Also Greatly Harassed. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, June 13.—A statement by the local Venezuelan committee is published | by the papers this morning claiming the | revolution in Venezuela has succeeded. The committee expresses the beiief that | | the insurgents have already captured | Caracas. | WASHINGTON, June 13.—Sécretar Hay has requested from Minidter Bowen Caracas, by cable, a statement of the dition of affairs of Venezuela, par- v with reference to shipping.. Some ago "the National Asphalt Company was considerably embarr: ed 1n its ef- | forts to provision and otherwise supply | force of employes at La Felicidad, by on of a clash between the Government | torces and the insurgents on the coast | that point. The Venezuela Consul at Willemstad, island of Trinidad, refused to clear the ne company’s ship Viking for the mainland because her destinalion was in the hands of the insurgenis and was in a state of blockade. With a good deal of difficulty Bowen succeeded in getting the wvessel through, it being especiaily ged that the company’s employes were | great ess for lack of supplies, Now the noco Trading Company s | having similar trouble in operating its| ships. between the Venezuelan pdrts | which are occupied indiscriminately by | Government and rebel fore and the Department is endeavoring to see can be done to end these annoy- PANAMA, Colombia, June 3.—A | schooner loaded by the launch Aurora | | vesterday landed 200 Government froops at Chorrera, fifteen mileé from Panama. | A telegraph inspector left overland to-day r Chorrera with the ebject of establish- | ing a line into the interidr. | A fiotilla of eight sailing vessels started | last night with reinforcements for Gen- eral Barti's troops at Pescaderias. Great | excitement prevails here and will con- | tinue until the result of the attack on the | rebels at Agua Dulce is known. Governor Salizar says he will send next week important Government official to construct civil administration of e recaptured province, and that he ex- pects to hear soon that the revolution confined to Chirlqui. | an the FLAMES SWEEP -~AWAY TOWN’S BUSINESS HOUSES; { Alexander City in Alabama’ Suffers Great Disaster and Appeals for | Food Are Made. ! OPELAKA, Ala., June The business portion of Alexander City, a place of 1500 abitants, wiped away to-day fire, the loss reaching at least $750,000, | which the insurance will not begin to| cover. The machine was re fire originated in a foundry and works. A light wind was blow- the fire spread from building to until the entire business séction was The place had no water- works and all the terror-stricken people do was to save what belongings v could and then flee from the awful The station of the Central of Geor- s burned, with all its con- egraph office, two hotels, livery stable, practic- e stores and eight residences, | with numerous law and other | were destroyed. The railroad has established its telegraph line under a tree and appeals for help and for food are go- ing ablaze. could hea gia Railway wi n The saloons, ether offices, CARDINALS ARE NAMED TO CONFER WITH TAFT Dignitaries of the Catholic Church Will Take Part in Philippine Discussion. ROME, June 13.—The commission ap- polnted by the Pope to discuss with Gov- | the church and state in the Philipines | consists of Cardinal Rampolla, president; | Cardinal Vannutelli, Cardinal Vives y Tuto, Cardinal Gotti, Cardinal Steinhuber and Monseigneur Lasparri, secretary. All the cardinals on the commission are | members of the congregation of extra- | ordinary ecclesiastical affairs. Ly New Invention by Marconi. LONDON, June 13.—In the course of a lecturk to-night before the Royal Institu- tion of Great Britain, Willlam Marconi announced that he had invented a highly sensitive magnetic detecter of electric waves, by which it was possible to read about thirty words per minute in wire- less telegraphy New Yorkers Die From Heat. NEW YORK, June 13.—Five deaths as a result of the intense heat were reported | in Greater New York to-day. A thunder- storm, accompanied by coplous rains, re- lieved the atmosphere to-night. At 3:30 p. m. the thermometer stood at 88 degrees. e Norwegians on .Str.ke. CHRISTIANA, Norway. June 13.—The Social Democrat says that 700 men who were working on the Dunder-Landalen Railroad have gone on strike and that troops have been called out to preserve order. KILAUEA SENDS FORTH GREAT SHEETS OF FLAME L Volcano on the Island of Hawaii Creates a Great Py rotechnic Display. Special Correspendence of The Call. ONOLULU, June 6.—On the night of Tuesday, June 3, the® volcano of Kilauea broke forth in majestic fury. This news was brought from the island of Hawail by the steamer Noeau, which arrived to- day. set in a circle of flery red and the vol- cano Increased its outpouring of dense black smoke. Flames burst forth from the crater at 10 p. m., continued through- out the night and had: not ceased on Thursday afternoon, June 5, when the | steamer Noeau left the island of Hawaii. On the Hamakua coast shocks of earth- quake were again felt on June 4 and 5. Officers and passengers could distinctly see -the reflection of the volcano's fire when at sea, and at every port at which the steamer called news of the outbreak was received by telephone. So far there has been no lava flow reported, the out- burst being limited to flames and fire, which leap up from the center of tha crater. There has been a peculiar calmness of the sea all this week, with intense heat and heavy -atmosphere, all of which are, ] according to old Kamaalnas, earthquake and voleanic conditions. Of courge it 1s impossible to say how long the outburst will last, but indications are, from there being no break between Tuesday and Thursday, that Kilauea has settled down for a long performance. VOLCANO WEATHER. The steamer Kinau, direct from . Hilo, will bring later and more detafled par- ticulars to-morrow morning. On Sunday, June 1, Manager Waldron of the Volcano House, telephoned to Pur- ser Simerson of the steamer Mauna Loa that there had been two exvlosions. : The first one occurred at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, when a large athount of red ashes, cinders and sulphur were emitted from the top of the crater. At noon the second explosion occurred, the noise of this one being much louder than the first and a ereater uantity of ashes and sul- After an intensely hot day the sun. phur being belched forth. These two ex- plosions were accompanied by slight trem- blings of the earth. Purser Beckle$: of the steamer Kinau brought news of two earthquake shocks in the Hamakua district, which were felt strongest at Honokaa.. Since -the ex- plosions occurred on Sunday, June 1, Hon- olulu has been visited by an unusual heat wave, with closeness of the atmosphere and considerable humidity, which is local- ly known as volcano weather. An unusual feature of Kilauea's present activity is that the volcano is sending up “clouds of red ashes. This has never been done before, Kilauea always vomiting lava. VISIT THE SOUFRIERE. KINGSTOWN, Island of St. Vincent, Wednesday, June 11.—Fleet Surgeon Tsaac H. Anderson of the British navy and the scientific commission appointed ' by the Royal Society to investigate the volcanic disturbances here arrived at Kingstown yesterday amd. left to-day for.Chateau Belair, intending to ascend the Soufriere voleano when possible. The general feeling’ of anxiety has not abated. There has been no big eruption since May 30, but the appearance of the volcano is not reassuring. There are fre- quent emissions of black steam. The American scientists, Professor Ed- mund O. Hovey, assistant curator of the American Museum .of Natural History, New York, and George C. Curtis of Har- vard University made another ascent of the Scufgiere from the east Monday last. They heard the rumbling of boiling water in the old crater when half a mile off, waitéed until the fog cleared and found the southeast crater quiescent.. The old riGge that used to run from the saddle to the bottom of the crater remained. There is no water imn this crater. - The Ameri- cans did not: venture to approach the old crater. Professor Hoveysays that apparently the crater of the 1812 cruption took ne part in the recent outbreak, and so - far as he and Mr. Curtis could sce no streams of 'molten rock, like those which issue irom Mount Vesuvius, have flowed, only ot | | | i SCENES AT OF THE KILAUEA. THE CRATER VOLCANO OF £ x I Crater Increases the Activity of Its _Eruptions. superheated- steam, old-lava, ashes, etc., baving beeh thrown out. et A R LIGHTS STARTLE NATIVES. REDDING, June 13.—Roy Frickey, a young man -“of Shasta County, who has Jjust returned from Honolulu, where he was superintendent for an electric com- pany, tells of the strange manifestations in ‘the sky there and.of.the effect upon the people preceding the eruption of Mont Pelee. = For five or six evenings- before the de- struction of Martinique the sky above Honolulu glowed with red light such as no one had ever witnessed before. They were most like the northern lights of the polar region. The lights began to show as soon as the sun disappeared each day. The people were amazed and the lower classes were dumfounded at the strange phenomenon in the heavens. Among the superstitious natives the be- lief quickly spread that the world was coming to an-end. They would watch for the lights to appear and then would fall upon their knees and faces and pray and shriek. They would go into throes of ab- ject terror and many would lie all night, by their huts, fearful and immovable. The hts. in the sky were no doubt reflected from the crater of Kilauea, on the island of Hawall, then prefring for a sympa- thetic eruption, but the people did not suspect this:and could not account for the rematkable phenomenon. CHINESE MUST BE DEPORTED | Republic of Cuba De- | nies Landing to Laborers. | 1 Havana Authorities | to Enforce Immi= | | gration Laws. One Route’ of Asiatic Invasion Is Now | | Closed. $! HAVANA, June 13.—The Board of Tm- migration decided to-day that forty-three Chinese laborers who came to Havana on beard the Ward line steamer Monterey from New York and reached here last Wednesday would have to be returned to New York by the steagnship company Heretofore Chinamen have been allowed to enter Havana without restriction and thousands have landed here in the course of the last three rs. An immigration law, however, milar to the one enforeei | in the United States went into force last i | | | | | May, and the case of these Chinamen has resulted in the first application of this law. The forty-three Chinamen in ques tion came direct from China and were ipped in bond from Vancouver through New York to Havana. of shipping the Chinamen to Mexico in- stead of returning them to New York, as the Chinamen themselves have requested to be sent to that country. The Board of Immigration has not yet given a decision | in the latter matter. Major Glenn, chief of the United States Marine Hospital Service in Cuba, says he has no doubt that many Chinamen have | entered the United States through Cuba during the last three years by means of sailing vessels running between Cuban and Southern ports. The Cubans take kindly to the new im- migrdtion law. The colored laborers of the island- are especially prejudiced against the introduction of any foreisn labor element. | WOMEN LEAP TO SAFETY FROM FACTORY WINDOWS Fire in Philadelphia Destroys Muck | Property and Many Persons | Are Injured. PHILADELPHIA, June 13.—Fire to-day | destroyed the novelty leather factory of | M. Lothenblatt & Co., a four-story brick | structure, at Second and Oxford streets and resulted in severe injuries to a dozen | persons. ' | The John Moffett School. opposite the [ leather works, was damaged, three dwell- ing houses adjoining the factory were de- “s(royed and nine others were slightly | | damaged. The ‘rapid spread of the| | flames gave rise to rumors that a num- | | ber of cmployes had met death in the | | | | i | burning factory, but those reports proved to be erroneous. Therg were many sensational and nar- row escapes, most of the 400 men and | women employed in the factory saving | their lives by leaping from the windows | | into nets held by firemen. Katie Sche- dell, aged 15 years, was carried down a { ladder by a-policeman. She was badly | injured and her condition is reported as | serious. | Others severely injured are: George Jer- | bert, aged 47, back injured; John Snyder, aged 22, shoulder dislocated and leg frac- August Schoeter; aged 49, leg frac- Samuel Trankerman, aged 25, | | tured | tured: | burned about the body. | Lothenblatt estimates his loss at $150,000 | | and the loss of the other properties is | | estimated at $150,000. SRR “HOPPERS” WILL BUY ENTERTAINMENT SEATS People in Utah Hit Upon a Novel Method of Exterminating a Pest. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 14.—The residents of Ephraim, Utah, the agricul- tural center of San Pete County, where the crops last year were completely ruined by grasshoppers, have adopted a novel method of exterminating the pest. which is again threatening the crops. A series of entertainments has been ar- ranged, the admission to which is one- half a bushel of grasshoppers. The first entertainment—a dance—was held last night and seventy-five half- bushels of grasshoppers were presented to the ticket man.at the door. After the dance the ‘“hoppers” furnished fuel for a bonfire to properly top off the oc- casion. Everything possible Is being done to catch the young insects before they be- gin to fly, and the citizens around Eph- raim have banded tdgether to fight them. A standing bounty of $1 a bushel has been offered by the city officials for the young “‘hoppers.” FAMOUS LEE’'S DAUGHTER PLACED UNDER ARREST Policemen Accuse Her of Having Violated a Washington Street- car Law, ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 13.—Mary Custis Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, was arrested to-night, charged with violating the law affecting the Wash- ington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Hlectric Railroad, which provides for the separatien of white and colored pas- sengers. Miss Lee boarded the car at Washington and without realizing had taken a seat in the portion reserved for colored people. She was comfortably seated and being encumbered with several bundles declined to move to the -forward part of the car, although the conductor explained the law on the subject 'to her and frequently re- quested her to move. At Washington street in this city she started to leave the car when she was Informed by officers who had boarded it that she was in cus- 1 tody. > The Ward line has asked the privilege ! : PLEADS FOR THE CUBANS ABOVE PICTURE, REPRO- DUCED FROM COLLIER'S WEEKLY, IS FROM LATEST COPYRIGHTED PHOTO- GRAPH BY CLINEDINST. 5t S Raosevelt Sends Mes= sage That May Make " or Mar Him. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 46 G STREET, N. W., WASH- INGTON, ¢June 13.—President Roosevelt sent to Congress to-day a special message onm the needs of Cuba, the moral effect of which will be very great, while the political consequences may make or mar him as the leader of his party. It is really the first aggressive step that has been taken by the administration to bring the rebellious Senators within the discipline of the party organization. It makes Inevitable a caucus of the Repub- lican Senators on a bill making recipro- cal trade arrangements with Cuba. It will place Senator Elkins, Senator Bur- rows and their twelve or fourteen follow- ers in a position where they must take a final stand. Hence the outcome of the next few days is of extreme importance. It Wwill mean a triumph.of the adminis- tration on a great issue, or party chaos. NOT DONE HASTILY. President Roosevelt's decision to sepd in a message was not taken hastily. He waited until the question had been be- fore Congress about six months and a half. - He - waited. until it became clear that' it was the settled purpose of the balance of power in the Senate to pre- vent legislation. Then he decided to send a message couched In_ language cal- culated not to be objectionable to any Senator or Representative, but which would place before the country the ac- tual facts:in_the controversy and set at rest any doubt as to his consisteney aga exact position. The plan of the administration and Sendte leaders is to have the Cuban'ecom- mittee. on Tyesday report the bill and then to call a caucus. If Senator ‘Elkins and - his followers should then stay’ out of the caucus, Cu- ban reciprocity is dead and the Repub- lican party is rent in twain. If enough of them go in to give the Republicans forty-five votes, then the administration plan is saved and the party holds to- gether. The Senators on ‘whom the beat sugar men confidently count are as fol- lows: Elkins and Scott, West Virginia; Burrows, Michigan; Gamble and Kitt- redge, South Dakota; Clapp and Neison, Minnesota; Bard and Perkins, Californi: Deitrich and Millard, Nebraska: Mason, Illinois; Kearns, Utah; Deboe, Kentuck; Burton, Kansas; Mitchell, Oregon. SENATOR - ELKINS' STAND. Senator Elkins, leader of the Repube lican minority, sald to-night: “My position can be plainly stated, and I believe it to be a plain common sense view of the situation. We afe expected to provide for a twenfy per cent redue- tion on Cuban sugar. All we ask is a guarantee that the money involved shall go to the Cuban producers. Under the pending bill there is nothing to show that the money involved will reach that des- tination. ‘:‘;lnw, it rtd‘e sugar producers in Cubs are not to elve the actual benefit of & twenty per cent reduction and the price of refined sugar to the consumer is not Continued on Page Two.