The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1902, Page 1

= B o VOLUME XCIHI-NO. 19, NCISCO, FRIDA DECEMBER 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALLIED POWERS WILL NOTIFY VENEZUELA OF WAR WHILE CASTRO AWAITS ANSWER ON OFFER FOR ARBITRATION ROOT GIVES FINAL WORD T0 WINDSOR Transport Service Will Not Now Be Changed. War Department Ofii-]1 cials to Have a Conference. / Secretary Hears President| of the Boston Steam- ship Company. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S. — Secretary | Root to-day gave a hearing to President Windsor of the Boston Steamship Com- | pany. Windsor advocated acceptance of the bid of that company for the trans- ' vortation of troops and military suppHes between the United States and the Philip- | pines by way of Seattle. ‘ In view of the fact that the Secretary | had objected to a stipulation in the bid that the company should be guaranteed three-fourths of the Government business across the Pacific, Windsor indicated his willingness to waive that stipulation. S v Root announced that he was not yet prej ared to announce his decision, n to say that there would be no ange in the present transportation ser- | Francisco. r conference between the of-| s of the War Department will be held | o-morrow. | President George A. Newhall of the | Chamber of Commerce received the fol- lowing telegram yesterday in reference to | the transport business from W. M. Bun- | the organization’s representative at | ngton, D. C.: I w Root to-day. Transport matter | mplex that it will take several days | ach conclusion. Says he will an- unce defirite result in about one week.” e PRETENDER TO THE THRONE | GAINS EASTERN TRIBES, Sultan of Morocco’s Troops Impeded in Their Advance by the Heavy Rains. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—A dispatch to the | nes from Fez, by of London, say tender to the throne has com. on of Tesa and the neighbor- | { der has appointed Viziers and ., and bhas set up a court ol of royalty. The tribes aumost without exeeption ac- the pr r as the Sultan 78 that very heavy | ogress of the imperial other offic ery The cor refns imy troops. R e DIAZ RECEIVED PAINFUL INJURIES IN A FALL Mexico’s President Has Given TUp His Long Contemplated Trip to Europe. 0, e 8. —President of a ago. | Rena- tained a sprained iento Theater and m and slight br No serious re- | t is feared atively an- punced that th s given up | e plan of v rope during the coming wi il probably not make the ong contemp retires from public life. ted trip until he T e, SCORES OF LIVES LOST IN ANDIJAN EARTHQUAKE More Than Nine Thousand Houses of Natives Destroyed in Turkis- tan Catastrophe. TASKEND, Asiatic Russia, Dec. 15— Three officials, two soldiers and 150 na- tives, mostly children, were killed by the earthquake which destroyed the town of | And Russian Central Asla, Tuesday. In ad 00 natives and seventeen sol- diers were injured and 9009 houses of na- | tives and 130 Russian residcnces were de- | stroyed . TR S Vanderbilt Not in Danger. | NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The physicians | in attendance upon Cornelius Vanderbilt | issued the following bulletin at 7:30 o'clock:” “Mr. Vanderbilt so far is standing the complication as well as we can reasoa- ably expect. He is no worse than he was at poon.” Dr. Janeway said at mid- pight: “Mr. Vanderbilt is in no immediate danger.” | AR ! Army Desertions Numerous. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 18.—The number of desertions from the United States army at Fort Leavenworth has be- come alarming. There were over forty desertions last month. Colonel Miner, | commandant, requested opinions of non-| commissioned officers as to the cause of | the trouble. Many attribute it to abolish- ment of the canteen and lack of amuse- | ‘ aent for enmlisted men. GRS e Nord Is Proclaimed President. PORT AU PRINCg, Hayti, Dec. 18— General Nord, having been proclaimed President of Hayti by the army, took pos- sessi. . of the national palace this morn- ing. | sides. jettte by reason of age. MB FIEATS COSSACKS STRIKE RIOTS Three Hundred Are Killed in Gory Conflict. Russian Town of Ros-| toff Is the Scene of Carnage. | | | Two Thousand Women Join WITNESSES REVIEW THE SUFFERING Impressive Stories| For Strike Ar- | bitrators. Chairman Gray Scores| the Practice of Boycott. Conditions During the Great the Men in Attack Upon the Soldiery. | Described. ; VIENNA, Dec. 18.—A dispatch to the Arbelter Zeitung says that bloodv fight- ing has occurred at Rostoff, an important town in Russia, troops. between strikers and The dispatch says 80,000 strikers and | | sympathizers were making a demonstra- tion against an obnoxious employer, when they were charged by Cossacks, who rode through the owd, slashing the people with whips. The mob attacked the Cossacks, unhors- ing them, stoning and beating them until they cried for mercy. More troops were called. The mob made barricades and re- | pulsed six onslaughts by the troops. There was terrible carnage on both and 1000 wounded. More than 2000 women fought on the side of the strikers. Many | of them were injured. e e Strike Is Averted. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Dec. 18.—The threatened strike in the General Electric | Works, it is now understood, has been averted. A proposition made by the unions is that an agreement be entered into between the General Electric Com- pany and the unions providing that if the company will not declare a lockout the men will not go on strike. P A e SENATOR ALGER SUPPORTS GENERAL STAFF 1!)1.11E Secretary Root Makes His Argumbnt Before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. WASHINGTON, Dec. I8. — Secretary Root to-day made an argument before the | Senate Committee on Military Affairs in support of” the bill for the creation of.a | Beneral staff, with the lieutenant general as the head of it. Senator Alger sat with | the committee for fhe first ~time. He asked a number of questions of his suc- cessor in office. Secretary Root renewed- his position that the bill should be amended so as to | postpone the date when it shall take ef- fect until after next August, when Gen- eral Miles, who opposes the measure, will | In the meeting of the committee Senator | Alger took a very decided position in sup- | port of the bill, saving that his experi- ence as Secretary of War had convinced him that only by the adoption of a system | like this could endless confusion be pre- | vented. lae exchange of views among members of the committee left no room for doubt that the bill w... be favorably | reported by the committee. LT PRINCE AND COUNTESS END LIVES TOGETHER Mysterious Doufife Tragedy at Genoa Casts Shadow on Families of Exalted Rank. { LONDON, Dec. 18—An unconfirmed dis- | patch from Genoa to a news agency here | says that Prince Reggio and Countess Uboldi were found dead in a room at the Hotel Lombardi at Genoa under circum- stances that indicated they had resolved to die together. Prince Reggio had shot | It is reported that 300 were killed | | here 1a | on a car. | and when the strike came on refused to | leave his work. He moved from one place Coal Mine Trouble Are || | SCRANTON, Dec. 18.—The Coal Strike | Commission listened to-day to further | testimony tending to show that a reign | | of terror existed in the anthracite coal | fields during the five and a half months | | of the mine workers' strike. About a | score of witnesses were called during the | | two sessions by the attorneys for the non- | | union men. They told of serious boyeotts, | brutal attacks’by crowds of men, women | and boys and an attempt to burn”the | house of a non-union man. | In most instances the witness testified | that the alleged offenders were members of the Miners' Union. The lawyers for the miners objected frequently to the ad- mission of hearsay testimony and some- | times objeoted because of irrelevancy of certain other statements. Chairman Gray | said the commission was not bound by | any strict rules of evidence, but asked | Counsel to confine themselves in examin- | ing witnesses as far as pessible to direct evidence. The commission, he said, | | wanted to know whether a relgn of terror | existed in the anthracite region and it | | could not get that information if the | strict rules of evidence were applied, | | “The coward who will go to the store- | keepers,” Chairman Gray continued, “and | | tell them not.to-¢ell the-uecessaries of life to a poor woman usually seeks the ob- scurity that the law of evidence throws around him. If a'girl is discharged from hér position in a store because she rode in a streetcar in inclement weather while |a streetcar strike was on, the coward who discharged ‘her is coward enough to refuse to testify.” John Doran, manager of the Wilkes- | barre Lace Mlls, testified that because he | | | would not discharge two girls who had | relatives working .in the mines, the 1100 | | emploves went on strike and stayed out | | eight weeks, until the matter was fixed | D. Another witness said he was a mem- | ber of the union and while under a phy- | sician’s care during the streetcar strike | t year he was compelled to ride His discharge was asked for by | the upion, but the mine superintendent refused. The union men made his occu- pation so unpleasant for him in the mines that he had to quit. He left the union to another and finally located at Pittston. | At that place the man who owned the | house, who was a union miner, orderedi him out and he had to leave. These witnesses and others that were called testified that their wives were in-| | sulted on the streets. their children were beaten by other children and could not | be safely sent to school; that local unjons | requested storekeepérs not to sell goods | to any one related to a man working in the minés; that their houses were stoned; | that they were stoned, shot at and hanged | in effigy, and that life was generally made miserable for them and . their families. | Most of the witnesses connected strikers with the offenses alleged. e BLOCKADE ARACAS, Dec. 18.---It has been learned from an official source that the allies to-day will notify the Venezuelan authorities at La Guaira of the blockade, to become effective Saturday, December 20, at 3 p. m., of the ports of La Guaira, Puerto Cabello, Coro, Maracaibo, Caru- pano and Barcelona. X ; e Alliance of the Debt-Collecting Nations the United States. a Menace to The commission will adjourn about noon | Saturday and will reconvene in Philadel- | phia January 5. { EKING'S COUSIN ARRESTED I iIN' A GAMBLING HOUSE| the Countess with a revolver and had | Challenges Prefect, Who Is Respon- then committed suicide. Prince Regglo was married to a woman of exalted rank in Naples. The husband of Countess Uboldi commands an infantry regiment attached to the Genoa garrison. CONGRESSMAN’S WIFE IS FATALLY INJURED SALT LAKE, Dec. 18.—A carriage con- taining Mrs. McRae and Miss Eunice Mec- Rae, wife and daughter of Representative Daniel McRae of this city, was struck by a Rio Grande Western train here to- night. The horse was killed, the carriage demolished and the two women thrown violently to the ground, sustaining serious injuries. Mrs. McRae lies in an unconscious eon- dition at St. Mark's Hospital and it is feared she cannot recover. It is thought the daughter's injuries will not prove fatal. § S g Postmaster General Payne I1l. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—While on his way to the White House to-day, shortly after noon to see the President, Post- master General Payne suffered an attack of acute indigestion. He was driven to his hotel and two physicians summoned. The patient was relieved this evening ana hopes to be at his office to-morrow. e K Bundesrath Approves Tariff Bill. BERLIN, Dec. 18.—The Bundesrath to- day approved the tariff biil in the form in which it passed its third reading in | the Reichstag. | sible for the Attempts to En- force the Law. MADRID, Dec. 18.—General Bourbon y de Tastelvi, cousin of King Alfonso, was 1 arrested yestérday evening in a gambling house. He was arraigned before the Cap- | tain Genepal and subsequently released. The general ‘has challenged the Prefect, who is responsible for the energetic at- tempts made to suppress club gambling. | FRENCH FENCERS PROVE | SUPERIOR TO ITALIANS 1 Vega and Pessina Are Both Wounded | | in the Duels Fought at 1 | Nice. * | NICE, Dec. 18.—The duels following the | | bombastic challenge of the Italian fenc- | | ing champions, Vega and Pessina, to the Their wounds are not dangerous. I S Indian Outbreak Is Feared. COVELO, Dec. 18.—The Indians of the | old Cahto reservation are alarmed. Each night the bushes near by their homes are | alive with robins and the bows and ar- | rows of the voung redskins have brought | down hundreds of the birds. The Indians | Lelieve that the birds are sent with baa | news to them. There is fear that an out- break may occur at any time, as the In- dians have their war dress in readiness and their faces bright with war paint. C ARACAS, Dec. 18.—Lopez Baralt, Venezuelan Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, | ATSIREEFTTIN = VALENCIA TUNITED STATES MINISTER WHO BECOMES PEACEMAKER BETWEEN | i i I ) ) SLRs e aklal VENEZUELA AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS, SCENES IN THE HA- RASSED COUNTRY AND RELIEF MAP SHOWING ROAD TO CAPITAL. | has- transmitted to United States Minister Bowen a document signed by Presi- dent Castro as constitutional President of the republic, French champions, Merignac and Kirch- | | offer, were fought here to-day and re- |- | sulted in both Italians being wounded. | | and countersigned by himself as Minister of Foreign Affairs, in | which Bowen is recognized as the only representative of Vene- zuela in the matter of effecting a settlement of the present dif- ficuity. b < According to the terms of this document Bowen may act without restriction and he is to use all means possible to pro- tect the interests of Venezuela. ~The State Department at Washington has been notified of the transmission of this instru- ment to Bowen. ¢ 3 i Events here are dependent upon the receipt, thfough the State Department, of the answers of the Governments of Great Britain, Germany and Italy to the proposal of arbitration -ad- vanced by Venezuela. These answers are expected to-morrow. Should they be favorable the Venezuelan Government strongly i desires that a conference of the Embassadors of Great Britain, Germany and Italy to the United States be held in Washington States on board the steamer Caracas, which is due to reach New York December 29. Mr. Bowen will meet with the Em- bassadors in Washington. No meeting to discuss terms of set- tlement is to be held on Venezuelan soil: El Mocho Hernandez, the revolutionary leader. | spects to Bowen. This afternoon President Castro, accampa- nied by his wife, also called at the legation, where he stayed for Continued on “Page 2, Gohmn’ 3. 3 e and that Bowen leave La Guaira December 23 for the United. called at the American legation to-day for the purpose of paying his re- - s SRERIDCex . " ASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Diplomatic and depart- mental circles-in Washington have all day long been guessing as to the identity of the high official whose interview- sent to The Call last night on the Vene- zuelan imbroglio has caused wide discussion. On inquiry among other important cfficials of the Government I find that the inter- view this morning by no means represents undivided views of. statesmen here in all respects. One important personage in the Government who also visits the White House and the State, War and Navy Department buildings frequently, gave his opinion, and it is exceedingly breezy. “I'am not an alarmist,” said this gentleman, “but I must pro- fess that T am profoundly impressed with the responsibilities rest- ing on the shoulders of the United States in this crisis. The_trou= ble, of course, is all over the Monroe doctrine. It is Ge ny’s hand that is delaying. this game, and so far it has been played very cleverly. -She has outgeneraled us by lulling us into fancied se- curity and she has outgeneraled England by getting her into a diplomatic trap from which she will have difficulty in extricating herself. ; “First we had a German yacht built over here. Then came a visit of Prince Henry to attend the christening, the daughter of the President to break the bottle of wine, the presentation of a statue of Frederick the Great to the United States and all the while a persistent campaign to revive love for the fatherland in the breasts in German-Americans. “Then we have England brought to act jointly with Germany. This proposition, of course, sounded very nice to us. The first thought. was that if Great Britain joined Germany in Venezuela it was a double guarantee that the Monroe doctrine would net be infringed. But now on sober second thought an entirely different Continued on Page 2, Column 1.