The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-NO. 76. 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL MILES WILL SUPPORT GENERAL B FOR HONORED POST OF COMMANDER:-IN-CHIEF OF GRAND ARMY AELINGUISHES HIS COMMAND OF THE ARAIY Young To-Day Be- comes Chief of Staff. President Will Be in| Direct Authority | in Future. I Secretary Root to Promul-| gate Order Concerning | New Law. assigned f staff. have been | of the army, DUTIES OF THE CHIEF. aperiiges Voo n order S of ot ns the the cond in | | ructions directly PERSONAL ACCORD. brigadier performance of | position requires what lation of absolute ance 5 al accord and sym- betwee the chief of staff and the e necessarily also between e of ff and the Secretary of n, with any reflec- on the officer detalled, every case cease unle ) on the day following n of the term of office of the the detail is made. the chief of staff con- no longer sustain to- nd Secretary of War | described, it will be to be relieved.” wil] become an ad- estigating body and will : organization and of the army, collect informa- »arations for plans of r actions. The officers igned to duty in be divided into divisions h as hay be directed by the chief of | car | the | the local efforts are inadequate. man was beheade: | have bee THOUSANDS IRE FACING STARVATION Acute Suffering on the Island of Jamaica. KINGSTON, Jarhaica, Aug. 14.—There are heartrending scenes throughout this island. At Port Antonio thousands of homeless and starving residents have ight sheiter In the old prison and the v other buildings which survived the rricane. Those who could. not be thus accommodated are cowering in the lee of ruined walls and dismantled plazzas. The 4 sheds and waiting-rooms are lled with women and children. The mer- chants are feeding the hungry to the best f their ability, byt the majority are sub- sisting on the unripe bananas knocked down by the storm. The bananas are boiled in oll cans over open fires made from the debris of destroved buildings. 3= s is their sole food supply and it will be exhausted in nine or ten days. Similar conditions prevall at other sea- por In the interior the distress is equally acute. rcely a peasant’s home is standing. Ev the planters’ dwellin which are built of stone, have been un- h few exceptions. homes and the belongings of the ts have been blown away and they are riving rude shelters from fallen trees, palm boughs and banana leaves. Owing to the continued unsettled weather, ] fonal torrential rains, these fford little protectiof. made at Kingston to relieve wants of some towns by food clothing, but Unless e shipments of foodstuffs come death by starvation is in- for many. The hospitals in the wind-swept regions are crowded with the injured, and the death list is increasing. sarters have not reported. One d at Port Antonio by a Many E roofe The peas col and fiying sheet of galvanized roofing. ' | were seriously injured by falling houses, and walls. Several houses on the of streams were carried away by flood water. The fate of their inmates »wn, but it is feared that there many deaths from this cause. The bulk of the Blue Mountain coffee as been ruined and the pinmento groves, which had stood for centuries, have been obliterated. tree: is w It is now thought that the loss on the | island will reach $15,000,000. FORT DE FRANCE, Aug. 14.—Little damage was done at Fort de France by the hurricane, compared to the destruc- | tion in the surrounding villages and other parts of the island, where houses were torn down, trees uprooted, crops ruined, vesels driven ashore and many persons killed or injured. A dozen houses Robert collapsed and many of the small houses in the neighborhoog were de- stroyed. Three persons were killed and eight injured —————— Seizure of Ammunition. BELGRADE, Servia, Aug. 14—A large quantity of ammunition, intended for the Macedonian insurgents, has been confis- cated in the custom-house here. It was packed in wooden cases, marked “hard- ware” and “nails.” L e o e e e e 2 ) staff. Officers of the general staff as- signed to divisions, departments and sep- arate brigades will serve under the im- mediate orders of the commander of such separate divisions and departments. Another general order has been issued amending the regulations of the army to meet the changed conditions which the general stafl law makes necessary. at | ]Crowds of Heroes HAre Arriving in City. Thousands Speed on Many Special Trains. arrival in San Francisco to- y of General Nelson A. Miles, | General John C. Black and Gen- eral Thomas J. Stewart will center attention of the entire | Grand Army upon the Civil War veteran | who will be elected as commander ‘in | chief of the great body of gallant men | who fought to uphold the union of this country. Despite many statements that General | Miles would be a candidate in opposition | to General Black for the position as chief | of the Civil War veterans, the statement | of General Miles to the contrary, made | yesterday at Salt Lake City, settles the | important matter. | General Miles stated in most positive | manner, while at Salt Lake City early yes- terday morning, that he would not be- {come a candidate for election as com- imamlcr in chief of the Grand Army and that he would support the nomination of General Black for the coveted honor. General Miles arrived at Salt Lake City |at 2 a. m. yesterday and he was met at the depot by a delegation of officers from | Fort Douglas. He was escorted to the | military and there entertained by | the army men. WILL WIN MANY VOTES. In Grand Army circles yesterday many of the war veterans were of opinion that even if General Miles was not a candi- date for the post of commander in chiet he would surely announce himself as a candldate on the Democratic ticket for the Presidency of the United States. It was argued that General Miles would have the entire support of the Grand Army- in his aspirations for the White | House by giving way to General Black as candidate for commander in chief of the veterans. The private car in which General Miles and his six tomrades of the Civil War are traveling left Salt Lake City yester- day morning and is due to arrive some time this afternoon. As soon as word is telegraphed from Bacramento to General Shafter of the re- ception committee that General Miles has left the capital city a delegation of the post | jlocal committees will go to Oakland u[ Continued on GENERAL THOMAS o) J7EWAR? = ol THREE DISTINGUISHED VET- ERANS WHO WILL ARRIVE IN THIS CITY TO-DAY. » o g Civil War Leade to Be Greeted To:Day. . o+ £ meet the distinguished soldier and escort him to the Palace Hotel. General Black, who will be the next commander in chief of the Grand Army, will arrive in San: Francisco early this morning. The special train in which he traveled' from Chicago was expected to arrive yesterday, but it was not until this evening that positive news. was learned of the whereabouts of the train. HAS DISTINGUISHED ESCORT. General Black is ‘escorted by Comman- der Benson Woods of the Department of Tilinois, G. A. R., and his entire staff, together with the Illinois delegation of veterans. The Women's Relief Corps of Illinois also traveled on the special train from Chicago. - General Thomas J. Stewart, the com- mander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will arrive this evening via the Santa Fe road. He is accompanied by his staff and will be met at Point Richmond by members of the local re- ception and executive committees of the encampment. A special ferryboat will leave at 4 p. m. to-day for Point Rich- mond with the escorting committeemen. A delegation of New Hampshire vet- erans arrived yesterday morning on the regular overland train and was headed by General Frank Battles, the depart- ment commander. The New Hampshire delegation included a number of ladles of the Women's Relief Corps, and they are all quartered at the Palace Hotel. 2 Three carloads, of delegates from South Dakota arrived yesterday at noon and proceeded to the quarters reserved for them at the Palace Hotel. rs Grand Army Chief Reviews Work of Year. General Stewart Is| Pleased With Outlook. ENERAL THOMAS J. STE“«'-! ART, commander in chief of the} Grand Army of the Republi®, who, | accompanied by Mrs. Stewart, | Colonel and Mrs. Thomas G.| Sample of Allegheny and other promi- | nent members of the order in Pennsyl- | vania, will arrive in this city this even-| ing, 'has come out.strongly in favor of the candidacy of General John C. Black | as his successor, and, in his interviews along the route to the coast he has been predicting that Black will be the choice | of -the . encampment. . Just before leaving | his home in Harrisburg, Pa., General | Stewart gave out a statement in which he reviewed the affairs of the Grand | Army for the past year during his| term a commander in chief. Since his | electior ne said he had made special er- forts to secure recruits, as he believed that ~it - was ~possible to - increase the strength of the army, the. theory being based upon the fact that of the nearly 900,000 survivors of the war less than one- third of these old soldiers were members of the organization. Continuing, the gen- eral said: GIVES INTERESTING DATA. Renewed interest seems to have been awak- | ened .in; some of the larger departments. In the New York department, with a membership | of 30,000, there was but a net loss for the year of 60.. The Department of Indlana gained up- ward of 800 and the departments of Minnesota and Tennessee gained about 200 each. Some of the larger departments, notably Ohio and Kan- sas, seemed to have lost heavily during the year on aceount of internal dissensions in the departments. The death rate in the organization increases each year and will be about 4 per cent for the year just closing. The net loss of membership for the year will be several thousand less than loss by death. This shows a healthy condition of the organization. The pension question that seems to have been an issue of great importance in the national en- campments of the past few years seems to have been adjusted Wwith a measure of satisfac- tion to the veterans of the country, but there is yet considerable fault found with the admin- istration of the pension laws. It is possible that at the coming encampment some action will be taken looking to what Is known as a “‘service pension,” or a pension of a fixed amount a month without an age limit, to be paid to honorably discharged soldiers, LACK AS CANDIDATE ICTOR'S WIFE 5 OVERCOME WTH EAIE News of Barlow’s Duplicity Pros- trates Her. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. CHARLESTON, Mo., Aug. M.—Mrs. Reginald Barlow is known in this city of her birth and marriage as Mrs. Regi- + nald G. Livingston, under which name Barlow married her here about three years ago. She was to-day apprised of the report that her husband had married a Milwaukee girl in California. She is prostrated and declines to discuss the matter. Only last Tuesday she received a letter from her husband, who is filling a theatrical engagement in Los Angeles, notifying her that his engagemecnt would | be concluded at the end of this week and i that she would at once thereafter start for Charleston. Mrs. Livingston is the daughter of L. D. Danforth, a prominent citizen, and niece of L. W. Danforth, Mayor of the city. She has been here about four weeks as the guest of her father and it was the original intention of ‘Barlow, alias Livingston, to accompany her here. The Los Angeles engagement disarranged this plan, however, and he was to follow later. With .her is her baby. ‘She is aware Livingston is also known as Barlow, which is’ his stage name. Livingston himself spent last summer | in Charleston and made many friends. He has traveled much and has had a varied experience in many parts of the world. The reported latest marriage of Livingston has prostrated his wife, who has only recently been discharged from a Chicago hospital, where she had been un- der medical care for several months after the birth of her chifld. WILTSEE AGAIN RESCUES BEAUTY IN DISTRESS Californian Gives Fight to “Masher” Who Thrusts Note Upon Mrs. Tevis. BAR HARBOR,K Me.,, Aug. 14.—Ernest Abraham Wiltsee, the San Francisco suit- or for the hand of Mrs. Hugh Tevis, the young California widow, is proving a “very parfait gentle knight” of ladies in distress these days. He gave another ex- ample besides the Edie affair of his chiv- alry at the Kelso Valley Club to-day when he and Mrs. Tevis were out walk- ing. An objectionable admirer of Mrs. Tevis who had persistently annoyed her joined them and attempted to thrust a note into Mrs. Tevis' hand. Not succeed- ing, the persevering masher attemipted to thrust it in the belt of her walst. She screamed, and Wiltsee without a word took the would-be Lothario by the collar and carrfed him at arm’'s length to a fence, saying: “T'd fight you. but you are too young and not my size. Now lean against that out of the way, and that's as near as you are ever to come to Mrs. Tevis again.” i e . BRIDGE IS BLOWN UP. Attempt to Destroy Village With Dynamite Fails. SALONICA, Aug. 14.—A railway bridge fifteen yards long, between Florina and Kensall, was blown up at midnight. sailors and marines who served during the War of the Rebellion and who may apply for the same. Such a policy would eliminate the med- fcal examination to ascertain degrees of dis- abllity and would also eliminate the necessity of furnishing evidence that it is impossble to secure so many years after the war. Page 7, Column 8-— Continued on Page 7, Column 6, It appears that the outbreak at the vil- lage of Gumenjo, reported to-day, was a fiasco, the bombs proving ineffectual. The 150 villagers were relieved by a Turkish battalion from Salonica, which stopped at Gumenjo. A revolutionary band numbering 1500 MASSAGRE OF KRUSHEVD CHRISTIAN Turks Slaughter Captives After Victory. Town Is Recaptured From Macedonian Insurgents. —— Albanians Take the Field fo Reinforce the Sultan’s Soldiers. I MRS LONDON, Aug. 15—The Daily Mail prints a dispatch from Belgrade which says that several thousand Albanians have marched to reinforce the Turkish troops, who have recaptured and have massacred the entire Christian population. The Mohammedans in sur- rounding villages surrendered their arms to the Bulgarians. The insurgents have killed many Wal- lachians at Kutza because they acted as Turkish spies. Albanians, in revenge for thé destruc- tlan of the Albanian villages of Salo and Zaitsha by the Insurgents, have burned the Christlan village of Karbonstza and have slaughtered its inhabitants. A Sofla dispatch to the Times says that the Bulgarian press severely censures the indifference which Prince Ferainand and the Government displays in regard to the insurrection and the extermination of Bulgarians' in Macedonia. The press strongly urges the Government to deliver the Macedonians from the Turkish yoke. [ — TURKS RETAKE KRUSHEVO. Fighting Continues in the Vicinity of the Town. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 4.—The im- pertal troops have occupled Krushevo, twenty-three miles north of Monastir, which was recently seized by the insur- gents. A force of 4000 troops besieged the place and bombarded it with artillery. The fighting with the revolutionists is still proceeding outside the town Consular advices from Monastir and Salonica indorse the belief that any overt movement in those towns on the part of the revolutionary committees will lead to a massacre of the Bulgarian inhabi- tants by the Mussulmans. The fighting continues at Monastir, where the shops are closed. A settlement of the indemnity for the murder of M. Rostkovski, the Russian Consul at Monastir, is imminent. The Government's offer of $50,000 to the widow appears to be satisfactory to Russia. Dispatches received by the Porte give particulars of a number of encounters with insurgents. The latter attacked the village of Gumenke, throwing bombs into it, but official dispatches say they wers repulsed. The foreign representatives have demanded of the Porte protection for the Consuls and foreign residents at Monastir. The Grand Vizier has promised effective measures of protection. The Mussulmans in the disturbed area are persistently demanding arms and am- munition to protect themselves against the Christians. This is considered a dan- gerous factor in the situation. Krushevo Bulgaria Prepares a Protest. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 4.—The Bulga- rian Government is preparing a memo- randum to the powers, giving statistics of the acts of oppression by the Turkish offi- cials in Macedonia since the institution of the reform programme three months age and other evidence in support of Bulgse ria’s bellef in the hopelessness of expect~ ing any good result from the Russo-Aus- trian reform plan. e e Consul’s Slayer Is Executed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 4.—A court martial held at Monastir yesterday con- demned the gendarme, Halim, to death for the murder of M. Rostkovski, the Russian Consul at Monastir. The sen- tence was immediately carried out. An- other gendarme was sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. e Would Give Turkey a Free Hand. ATHENS, Aug. 14.—Premier Ralll, in re- ceiving the representatives of the powers to-day, referred to the Maéedonian peril and pointed out the necessity of giving Turkey a free hand, advising stern meas- ures for the suppression of the revoit. Bk 5.1 st Passenger Train Leaves Rails. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 14.—An east- bound passenger train on the Pennsyl- vania Rallroad ran off the track to-day at the Cincinnati Northern Railway cross- ing at Vanwert, Ohio. Engineer Charles Eaton of Fort Wayne was killed; Fire- man A. W. Boggs of Fort Wayne was probably fatally injured, and several pos- tal clerks were Injured. The passengers were not hurt. —e————————— Praise From Ecuador’s President. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. M4.—Con gress convened to-day. President Plaza in his message warmly praised the actior of the American Government in fulfilling has appeared in the Czernarka district. l“‘ promise to grant Cuban Ind:pendentl