The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII—NO. 110. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I18, 1902, UNCLE SAM APPEALS TO POWERS IN BEHALF OF PERSECUTED JEWS MARINES GUARDING RAIFLROAD CincinnatiLands Men and a Gun at Colon. Government Patrols| Begin to Fight One Another. * United States Takes Steps to Keep the Road Clear. Special tch to The Call. , Sept e Panama Railroad passenger left Colon for this city this were landed from the before the train started, hore. A small rapid-fire d and was placed on track, protected by iron cruiser not I firty m gun was the railroad pl that all passenger trains nd Panama -will carry | an marines while mat- he present critical state. | rable excitement was caused in | a report that a| aken place between Government troops | only two miles from It was stated that the insurgents ter suffering great losses. | from Colon declare that the skirmish was a fight between patrole, which ran into each other and each of which mistook the other for a band of insurgents. The af- fair is reported as insignificant COLORED WOMAN XKILLED. Governmer roops found a small body Colon were defeated of insurgents near Mind{ station early in | the mmorming and scattered -them. A colore woman in the vicinity was killed | I mail steamer La Plata, which | n this afternoon from Bar- carried a large number of | he Government forces. | commandant of the | nt forces on the isthmus, and Acting United States Consul Ehrmann will confer to-morrow. The general was 1 the measure of placing trains could not be con- 1 act of hostility to Colom- t it was only taken under the ensuring uninterrupted traffic r has just received a from Colon saying that the first f General Perdomo’s army | d at the Navy Depart- Commander McLean of Instruetions were | afternoon, but their ma public. It is been given general in- Y out the duty of the T the treaty of New he railway clear at all bazards In that situation ment Department it was said 1 advices relative to the | d been recelved. The depart- is not inclined to regard the action PRESIDENT — CASTRO FLEES FROM REBELS Rule of the Dictator of Venezuela Appears to Be Nearing an End. | NN PRESTLe, CrPRiAre CasTmo ILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Sept. 17.—Presi- dent Castro of Venezue- la has retreated from Ocumare before the ad- vance of the revolution- ists. The Venezuelan Government’s situation is critical. Recent advices received from Venezue- la confirm the dispatches of the Asso- ciated Press from Willemstad of Friday, September 12. The battle which, as then announced, began September 11 in the vicinity of Tinaquillo, Venezuela, between about 4000 revolutionists under the com- mand of Generals Mendoza, Batalla and Rivera and Government forces of about the same strength, led by the Venezuelan Minister of War, General Garrido, result- ed in the defeat of the Government forces and not in a victory for the latter as an- nounced in a dispatch, from Torres Car- denas, Secretary’ to President Castro, which set forth that General Mendoza's army had been annihilated September 8 near Tinaquillo. RETREATS TO VALENCIA. The engagement of that date, as cabled from here September 12, was only an ad- vance guard fight of no importance. The real battle began September 11 and lasted Government troops in | rour days, after which Geueral Garrido by placing obstructions | retreated to Valencia and eventually en- on the track as an expression of the at- | tered that city on September 15 witn titude of the Colombian Government. It | oo : ¢ = 3 | about 1200 men,. leaving the road clear is belleved no further trouble will be eX- | for the further advance on Caracas for the revolutionary army under Generals Mendoza, Rivera and Batalla. The only other Government army in the field is the one which is under the person- al command of President Castro, who a perienced on this score. Navy Department officials do not re- | gard the situation as particularly critical, | although every one concedes that embar- | tassing international complications may easily result. D % < CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF VENE- ZUELA WHOSE RULE IS NEARLY ENDED., f— = -3 few days ago was at Ocumare, about forty-five mijles south of Caracas, and was sending out scouts looking for the advance guard of the army of General Matos, the revolutionary leader. PRESIDENT CASTRO FLEES. The President later abandoned his po- sition precipitately before the advance of the revolutionists, who occupied Ocumare. The President retreated to Charayava and then to Guyaba, about four hours’ march from Caracas. According to report, the President in- tends to move his army to a polnt near ‘Valencia, join forces with the troops un- Cer General Garrido and attack the rev- olutionary army commanded by General Mendoza. From all points are of Government soldiers o the eorol the revolutionists and the general impres- slon in Venezuela is that the last im- portant incident of the revols - proaching. T LIBERAL SYMPATHIZERS. | L e o i e e e !"l"H‘l"i‘H‘l-l‘l-l'l-l—l—-l-H-]—x-H. A disturbing factor in the situation on the isthmus, it is stated, is that the greater part of the officials and employes of the Panama raliroad are either Lib- erals outright or Liberal sympathizers, &nd in an emergency like the present one an excellent opportunity is accorded these raiiroad men, who are unfriendly to the Government, to strike a blow for the Liberal cause. Indeed, officials here re- call an occasion several months ago when traigs managed to run very slow- ly into Colon in order to hide from view a perty of revolutionists who were marching on foot along one side and who captured the town with little difficulty. The battleship Wisconsin left San Francisco for Panama this morning. It will probably take the ship all of two weeks to reach her destination, as the run is about 3200 miles. VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE ALABMS LIMA ?mm LIMA, Peru, Sept. 17.—Great alarm was caused in this city by a strong earth- quake shock to-day. The shock was so severe thzt an image of the Virgin in | a niche over the door of the Conception | Convent was ghaken Into pieges, the head and pert of the body of the statue fall- ing to the ground. St. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17.—Repeated violent earthquakes occurred throughout the entire eastern portion of Turkestan from August 2 to September 3. Numer- | ous ‘houses were destroyed in Kashgar | &nd in neighboring viliages, and a sum- | ber of fatalities have been | HOME OF ROCKEFELLER DESTROYED BY FIRE Beautiful Structure on the Hudson Lost in the Flames at Night. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 17.—Box- wood, the home of John D. Rockefeller, near Pocantico Hills, is a mass of ruins to-night, having been razed by fire. Some say a kerosene amp exploded, setting fire to the roomy structure, and others declare an electric light wire ignited the woodwork. On an emiuence two miles and a half from Tarrytown Station, on the New York Central Rallroad, this summer home of Rockefeller was situated. It com- manded an exceptional view of the Hud- son River and the distant mountains of New Jersey. A short distance from the house is a broad sweep of roadway bor- dered with a granite coping, from which there is a view of the Hudson for miles in elther direction. The house was reached by a road, winding and circuit- cus, Buflt by Rockefeller and extending nearly to the station. Rockefeller purchased his country resi- dence and the surrounding grounds of 500 2cres in 189 for $653,000. To this he added in 1897 $50,000 worth of land in Sleepy Hol- jow. Then in April, 1900, he bought 207 acres, comprising the Kingsland farm, for which he paid $200 an acre. Then through his agents he aeguired nearly all of the ferms and homesteads as they \ ROOSEVELT IN DANGER SAYS THE ASTROLOGER Hoboken Professor Announces That He Has Read Queer Things in Stars. NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Signs in the stars portend evil for President Roose- velt, Governor Odell and Mayor Low, ac- '}ordlng to Professor Gustave Meyer, an astrologer, of Hoboken. In a letter to the Herald Professor Meyer says he deems it advisable to warn President Roosevelt to guard against dan- ger for four days beginning to-day. He has read the stars and found, he says, in- dications of great evil. By a strange co- incidence the professor finds that 1l1-for- tune is also in store for Governor Odell and Mayor Low on the same days l;!d he warns them to guard themselves from danger. Likewise, under an evil sign is the general Government, according to As. trologer Meyer. He says much benefit will result if his warning is heeded, @ il @ were offered for sale. He spent millions of dollars in improvements and instead of tearing down more humble properties that | he bought, remodeled them and made them more artistic and comfortable, The cottage which was destroyed was the center point of interest, located on the highest land. On the vast property behind it are massive stone stables, cost- | Ing $100,000, and on the sides of the hin are greenhouses and gardens, containing most costly specimens of plant life. Strong Plea for Poor People. Roumaniathe Culprit in Case. Humanity Is Ground of Protest. —_— WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—With the double purpose of protecting the long- suffering Jews of the Balkan states and of averting the ever-present peril of the immigration into the United States of a horde of paupers, Secretary Hay has adopted the unusual course of appealing’ to the powers of Europe to force one of their children to observe the obligations of humanity in case of the Jews. The ap- peal takes the form of a state paper, re- markable in several respects, which has been dispatched in identical form to every Embassador and Minister of the United States residing in one of the countries which were parties to the famous treaty at Berlin of 1878, namely, Great Britain, Franck, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey, marking the termination of the Turko-Russian War and the creation by the direct act of the powers of the in- dependence of the Balkan states. Be- cause the powers are thus responsible for the existénce of Roumania, the culprit in the case, the Secretary of State has di- rected the note to them in the hope that they will bring this Government to a sense of its dutles toward civilization at large as well as to cause it to ameliorate the frightful condition of the Roumanian Jews. In a measure this action by the State Department may be traced to nu- merous petitions from - Jewish socleties and humanitarians geuerally, as well as to the warnings of publicists respecting the growing dangers of the immigration of degenerates. The document says: CHARACTER OF IMMIGRATION. “In the course of an Instruction recent- ly sent to the Minister accredited to the Government of Roumania, in regard to the Lasis of a negotiation begun with that Government looking to a convention of naturalization between the United States and Roumania, certaln considerations were set forth for the Minister's guidance concerning the character of the emigra- tion from that country, the causes which constrain it and the consequences so far as they adversely affect the United States. “It has seemed to the President appro- priate that these considerations, relating as they do to the obligations entered into by the signatories of the treaty of Ber- lin of July 13, 1878, should be brought to the attention of the Governments con- cerned and commended to their considera- tion in the hope that, if they are so for- tunate as to meet the approval of the several powers, such measures as to them may seem wise may be taken to persuade the Government of Roumania to recon- sider the subject of the grievance in ques- tion. CONDITIONS ARE FEW. “The United States welcomes now, as it has welcomeéd from the foundation of its Government, the voluntary immigra- tion of all aliens coming hither under conditions fitting them to become merged in the body politic of this land. Our laws provide the means for them to be- come incorporated indistinguishably in the mass of citizens, and prescribe their absolute equality with the native born, guaranteeing to them equal rights at home and equal protection abroad. The conditions are few, looking to their com- ing as free agents so circumstanced phys- ically and morally as to supply the Lealthful and intelligent material of free citizenhood. The pauper, the criminal, the contaglously or incurably diseased are excluded from the benefits of immi- gration only when they are llkely to become a source of danger or a burden upon the community. The voluntary PRESIDENT ASKS HENDERSON TO RECONSIDER WITHDRAWAL Party Leaders Also Appeal to the Speaker in Vain to Retain the Nemination and Remain in Rac e for Congress. o o lLLINOIS ) o W T ES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 17.— Speaker Henderson refused to reconsider - his withdrawal from the Congressional race in the Third District. This morning the following tele- graphic reply was received In response to a request to reconsider his action: “DUBUQUE, Sept. 16.—Messrs. Lafe Young and S. W. Rathbun, Des Moines, Towa: Your joint telegram sincerely ap- preciated, but cannot reconsider, for af- character of thelr coming is essential, hence we shut out all immigration as- sisted or constrained by foreign agencies. The purpose of our generous treatment of the allen’immigrant is to benefit us and him alike—not to afford to another state a fleld upon which to cast its own objectionable elements. “The foregoing considerations while pertinent to the examination of purpose and scope of a naturalization treaty have a larger alm. It behooves the state to scrutinize most jealously the character of immigration from a forelgn land, if it be obnoxious to examine the causes which render it so. Should those causes originate in-the act of another sovereign state to the detriment of its neighbors, it is the prerogative of an Injured state to point out the evil and to make remon- strance, for with nations as with indi- viduals the social law holds good that the right of each is bounded by the right cf a neighbor. SOURCE OF GRAVE CONCERN. “The condition of a large class of the inhabitants of Roumania has for many years been a source of grave concern to the United States. I refer to the Rou- manian Jews, numbering 400,000 Long Continued on Page 2, Colu;m‘;. N ter an age spent in fighting for my coun- try, State and district, I cannot acquiesce in administering free trade poison to cure the trust evil I abhor. “D. B. HENDERSON.” PRESIDENT SENDS PROTEST. The following telegram was received from the President to Speaker Hender- son: “OYSTER BAY, Sept. 17.—Most earnest- iy ask that you reconsider your deter- mination not to run. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT."” Congressman J. M. Babcock, chairman of the Republican Congressional Commit- tee, sent the following: “NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Am in receipt of telegram signed by you saying that you have declined nomination for Congress. We cannot belleve the telegram is gen- uine. Hepburn and Hull are here and all enter our earnest protest against action of this kind by you. The Republican party that you have served so long and faithfully cannot part with your services now."” Replying to these telegrams the Speak- er further explained his action, adhering to his position. He gave positive assur- ance that there was no danger to the Third District; that Governor Uoles is a very weak candidate; that the Republican candidate will be elected and he will do what he can- to insure his election. After these assurances the Speaker sald he must decline to reconsider his with- drawal. ,ROBERTS IS PUZZLED. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—George F. Roberts, Director of the Mint and editor of the Des Moines Register and Leader, to-day satd: “The Speaker’s action is unaccountable to me. His letter does not reveal any reason that seems sufficlent to justify 50 extraordinary an act. He says that he is out of harmony with a great many Republicans in the State on the tariff issuef” but he indicates that the State platform. is not unacceptable, and I ses no reason why he should be disturbed by the expressions of individuals. He attended a conference of Republican lead- ers at Des Moines two weeks ago, which was also attended by Governor Cummins and others who favor tariff revision, and they had a frank discussion of the situa- tion, which ended harmoniously. The Speaker invited the Governor to make several speeches in his district, and the latter agreed to do it. “The clause of the platform declaring for ‘any modification of the tariff sched- ules that may be required to prevent their affording shelter to monopoly’ has caused the discussion out there. The central thought of the platform is a declaration of loyalty to ‘the historic policy of pro- tection,” and the urgent indorsement of reciprocity as the ‘natural complement of protection.’” The ‘shelter to monopoly’ clause is in the trust resolution and, of course, to be read and interpreted in con- nection with the tariff resolution. To- — - el the party will adhere to the policy of protection and reciprocity, and that it will see that monopolies are not allowed to abuse the advantages given to home industries for the purpose of developing home industries and home competition. “General Henderson's action is very much to be regretted, for he has certain- 1y exaggerated the differences that exist between himself and the Iowa Republi- cans who favored the platform and given them a commanding appearance to which they are not entitled.” STAND NOT UNDERSTOOD. Secretary Shaw said to-day, in com- menting further upon Speaker Hender- son’s declination of a renomination, that * e TWO NOTED MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE THE LBADING CANDIDATES FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP IN SUCCESSION OF GENERAL HENDERSON, THE NOMINATION IN THE THIRD IOWA DISTRICT. WHO REFUSES TO ACCEPT e — while he refrained either from criticizing or justifying the speaker’s course, he con- cidered it of very great importance and due to Gereral Henderson that his posi- tlon be not misunderstood. Secretary Shaw sald: “Either many newspapers misunder- stand General Henderson’s position or I do. I understand him to stand pat on the tariff plank of the Iowa platform, which favors such revisions as changed condi- tions make advisable. In his address to the Republican voters of the Third Iowa District he says: ‘While I have been 2gainst a general revision I have never been oppesed to making needed changes, and I am not now.’ DIFFERS ON INTERPRETATION. “Nor do I understand him to object to the anti-trust plank, which is in a differ- ent section of the State platform and which only declares against allowing the tariff to become a shelter for trusts. It goes no further than Intimating that such a thing may occur. It does not say such a thing does exist. Commenting on this plank in his address, the general says: ‘It i3 a bold declaration that if modifications of the tariff are ‘requested to prevent monopoly from sheltering itself under the wings of protection, then the tariff shall be modified to prevent that condition.” “As I understand him, he finds himself unable to agree with the interpretation placed upon this plank by many of his constituents and firm party friends. To what extent, if any, the Republicans of Iowa are advocating a removal of the tariff on trust-made or controlled goods as a remedial measure, I am unable to speak. 1 think General Henderson's friends ough{ to see to it that his position gether they amount (o an assurance that, Continued on Page 2, Columa &