The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV=NO. 88. FRANCISCO, THUR SDA.VY. AUGUST 27 PRICE FIVE CENTS, DESUDI US BELCHES FIERY LAUA AND ALARMS TOWNS REVOLUTIONISTS SLAY SOLDIERS AND TURKEY PREPARES FOR WAR —_— Peculiar Eruptzon of the Italian 1, Dolcano. Red - I—iztyflones Hurled High in Air. JSpectators Flee| From a Scene of Pertl —The people of wit- environs th s has gone per- tour of the villages orde tu:reassure the nd any measures ¥ be Geemed neces. RIFLE SELECTED FOR AMERICAN TROOPS Officers Prepare a2 New and Lighter Weapon. Report ———— PLOTTING ARMY OFFICERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH Peter Is Determined press the Mil ¥y Ma tenits of Ser LONDON, A 27, —T King Sup- Des ywever, says the ob who % a UNREQUITED LOVE CAUSES THE SUICIDE OF A COUNT German Army Officer Shoots Himself and Then Jumps Into a River. Aug. ~The body of Coun ssen, an army officer at Ber the river at Hamb had shot himself and e water because of from POWERS WILL PROTECT ORANGE FREE STATE Certain That ance and Belgium Have Signed an Agreement to That End. ” NDON, Aug. 2I.—The Daily t at Brussels says t an agreement was for the protection of against any attack HISTERS WILL DEVOTE LIFE WORK TO LEPERS| Tvo Membeis of a Religious Order Prepare to Start for Ky s at the making pr Sister Mary this city, to the Hawalian Islands, where *hey will work among the lepers. accompany Leoida to le spectacle | Tele- | between France | 2. —Sister | Fran- | MUST SHERR 10 SUPPORT -~ CONSTITUTION ‘Order Is Issued by Public ‘ Printer. .| Direct Outgrowth of Trouble With Union. Instructions Believed to Have Come From the President. s Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Public Print- this afternoon issued an er diem and plece work Government printing of- iately take the regular ch embodies a vow to itution of the United almer admits that the order did e with him, but that he was retary mmerce and La Publie Print is the Miller c 1 employes of the g office and a number minor officials on the per diem scale been required to take the ozth of after every t the service will be required to tzke the oath. This means that there will be no room for doubt left- -in se possible ise In the future, the constitution of the ted States Is to be the first consld- eration and the constitution of the labor unione i to be held of secondary consid- eration. — e CREW OF THE NUNIVAK TELL OF HARDSHIPS Sailors Agree on ééory That on Sev- : eral Occasions There Was a * Food Shortage. Wash., . Aug. ? returned | TAacoma st from of the crew of teamship Nunivak tell ings during Nunivak was through the nd su e seven weeks that the | sicwly working her way ca and down the Alaskan coast | S From July 3 until last night the stcamer had been at the mercy of the we nd\heavy seas. Account agree that on several occasions food was short. Two anchors were lost overboard, At another time one of the vessel's life- boats was cut loose and sent adrift. One of the crew was compelled to jump over- m to the boat and bring it al times the Nunivak ran on flats close into the shore and dur- e change of tide was high and dry. left S8t. Michael she had but provisions aboard, necessi- 3004 News Bay, where procured from a fishing Lagoon, where the d with ducks and a supply Sand Point, at Prince Will- d and at Juneau chors were lost during a terrific The boat put back and the chors were found in shallow water Iragging The Nunivak’s crew claim they were told that no hard work would be asked of them on the trip down. Captain Tyler to them as “a bunch of kickers.” ivak was formerly used as a ue cutter on the Yukon, having been ed at St. Michael by the W. D, Hoft Co. for use on the Puget Sound. e men have refused to leave the ship ing th When days storm. by FRANCIS JOSEPH REFUSES TO RECEIVE LEOPOLD Emperor Gives Expression to Dis- | pleasure at King's Treatment | of Countess Lonyay. NA, Aug. 2.—The Weiner Allege- eitung says Emperor Francis Jo- has refused to receive, King Leo- pold, who proposed to come to Vienna. The quarrel is due to King Leopeld's treatment of his daughter, Countess Lon- whose first marriage was with the iperor’s second son, the late Duke Ru- dolph ———— . TREATY COMMIS-IONERS RECEIVE NOTIFICATION Wai Wu Pu Telegraphs Decision to Open Two Ports to For- eign Trade. SHANGHAI Aug. 26.—The Wai Wu Pu { (Foreign Board) has telegraphed to the Treaty Revision Commissioners notifying them of the decision to open Mukden and | Tatungkao to foreign trade October §. —_————— Box-Board Combine Planned. NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Charles R. Flint to-day announced that he is organizing a new combination of the box board indus- tries of the country. The new concern will take in the United Box Board Company and some fourteen other companies VENELUELANS PUN DEBT UNIFEHTION Effort Now Bemg Made to Merge the Bills. Negotiations Are Be- gun With a Bank in Paris. Castro May Reject Proposals and Vex the Foreign Governments. e —— to prom te it. He will not discuss the m in detall, but says tha ive came from an official | high in n By those familiar with the situatior this is held to mean that instructi lic Printer came from Pre: Cortelyou | employe of that ) the minds of empipyes of the bureau. that in | deé aifficulties which may | larder | In False Pass | an- | Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Information has been received here that the Venezu- elan Government is negotiating with the Banque de Paris for the unification of Venezuela's entire public debt, both for- eign and domestic, including all unpaid interest Venezuela’s debts amount to 258,000,000 francs, quoted at present at from twenty- three to thirty per cent. It is proposed to offer to holders of the different debts the opportunity to exchange thelr scrip two-fifths of-its value tor the serip of a new debt, which is to bear interest at 8 per cent and to be redeemable in | fifty years. The amount of the new debt to be created under the proposed plan would be about 215,000,000 franes, for the | service of which 12,000,000 franes would suffice, a sum inferior to that now carried on the Venezuelan budget. This 12,000,000 would become collectable in proportion to customs receipts by agents who would have an infernational character and would be appointed with the concurrence of all the powers inter- | ested {n the loans now existing and would be deposited in a special bank of new Toan. The sum of 135,000,600 francs would be handed to the halders of former loans and the balance out, 58,200,000 francs, would be purchased by the Banque de Paris and its syndicate at the rate of eighty per cent and be transmitted in gold to the Venezuelan Government, giv- | ing the latter 46,500,000 francs which would | put it in a position to pay the awards of | the mixed tribunals. The Banque de Paris and its associates \ would receive for obtaining the consent a | of the creditors and furnishing | 500,000 franc . ten per cent, pay- various | | able in scrip of the entire sum of 218,000- | | 000 francs. | | General Velutini, Venezuela’s Minister | to Paris, has, it is understood, signed | “ad referendum,” an agreement covering these points. Persons here who know | | President Castro’s character, declare that | | his hatred for everything foreign in the | ay of “control” will lead aim to reject | the agreement and the quest.on is asked— If he does so, how will the foreign claims | against Venezuela be paid? | —_——— CHICAGO FREIGHTHOUSE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Rock Island Rond Suffers a Loss | Amounting to About Half a Million. CHICAGO, Aug. 27.—At midnight fire started in the freighthouse of'the Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific Raflroad, situated at Polk and Sherman streets. The flames had secured quite a start when discovered, and by the time the first en- gine arrived the building, which is 250 feet | long and two stories high, was a mass of | lames. The firemen from the first had little hope of saving the structure or any of its contents. The loss Is principally on outgoing freight and is estimated at $500,- 000. ——————e SEEKING THE RELEASE OF CRUISER CHATTANOOGA Treasury Department Instructs Dis- trict Attorney to Take Neces- sary Legal Steps. NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 26.—Cortlandt Parker Jr., acting United States District Attorney for this district. to-day recetved instructions from the Solicitor of the Treasury to take the necessary steps to have released from the custody of Sherift Cordell of Union County the United States cruiser Chattanooga at the Crescent ship- yards at Elizabethport. The Sheriff seized the cruiser under writs of attachment is- sued oué of the Supreme Court of this State. —_———— Continued Disasters Frighten Miners. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 26.—Because of continued disasters resulting in loss of life, 100 men have quit work in the Tread- well mine on Douglas Island, Alaska. Forty returned on the steamer Dolphin, which brings the news of the wholesale desertion of the mine employes. The men intimate that the most famous quartz property in Alaska is “hoodooed.” In support of this contention they cite that seven miners met violent deaths within a week at Treadwell. —_—— Denies Application for a Reprieve. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 2.—The Governor to-night denfed the application for a re- prieve of John E. Sexton, sentenced by the El Dorado County Superior Court to two years' Imprisonment in the State prison at San Quentin for extortion. The application was made in order to permit Sexton to avpeal to tue Supreme Court before being taken to the State prison. ’ i FRON T/ER. o Tvesrsy ARIILLERY EN ROUVFE- ro HE B between Turkey and Greece. Macedonia, has been recalled. pointed to succeed him. p ONDON, Aug. 26.—A dispatch from Constantinople says that all the remaining European reserves belonging to the Second and Third Army corps, sixteen battalions of reserves in Asiatic Turkey and thirty-six battalions of re- serves will be called to the colors. * This will bring the number of Turkish troops on a war footing in Macedonia up to nearly 350 battalions, which would be an army of 322,700 men, which is almost double the force employed during the war The Turkish Government has apparently decided to use all possible energy to repress rebellion. Eumer Rushdi Pacha, commander of the Turkish troops in Ibrahim Pacha has been ap- — Wires Are Cut Near Salonica and Battles Are Reported. ALONICA, Aug. 26.—The telegraph wires have been cut between Sa- lonica and Vardor, twenty-five miles southwest of this city. .SOFIA, Aug. 26.—The Macedon- jan committee has issued a black border- ed list of seventy villages which have been pillaged and destroyed in the vila- yet of Monastir, to which are addeq in- stances of revolting. outrages perpetrat- ed. on women. The publication of this sheet has created a:sensation. i No news has been recelved in officlal ‘circles to-day from the interior of Mace- donia., The revolutionists at Kischevo are reported to have six quick-firing guns, In a fight which has just occurred in that distrist the ~ insurgents = defeated and slnughtared an entire detachment of eighty soldiers. A Turkish courier carry- ing 40,000 francs, intended for the pay of the troops, has been captured- by insur- gents near Surovitchovo. The rebels have blown up an iron bridge over a deep ra- vine on the high road between Losengrad and Demirdzehand. An immense mass meeting of Macedon- fans took place here to-day. The pro- ceedings were most enthusiastic. 3 was resolved - that a memorandum sho presented to the representatives of thQ great powers at Sofla urging thelr gov- ernments to’ take action, The recent visit of the Russian squad- ron to Turkish waters was -much com- mented upon at the meeting, It was de- Continued on Page 2, Column 5, . EUROPEAN RULERS WHO ARE SOON AMONG OTHER THINGS DISCUSS e AT VIENNA AND | SITUATION EX- TO MEET THE ALARMING ISTING IN THE BALKANS, WHICH THREATENS A TERRIBLE WAR. INEW NAVAL STATION FOR THE PAGIFIC Cruiser Squadron May Be Main- tained. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The re-estab- lishment of the South Pacific station and the maintenance in those waters of a cruiser squadron is the plan which the Navy Department expects to bring to fruition within a year. The fleet formerly maintained there was practically with- drawn several years ago and now the Pacific squadron’s radius of action in- cludes In addition to the United States and Mexican coasts, the coast of South American countries as far south as Chile, while the South Atlantic squadron is sup- posed to operate as far around the Horn as Valparaiso. This is not satisfactory, and the United States flag flying from formidable warships has not been seen as much on the South American Pacific coast as the Government thinks it would be at a time when relations with South American republics and the United States are so close and cordial, ‘Within ‘the next year the Denver, the Cleveland, the Des Moines, the Tacoma, and” possibly the Chattanooga and the ‘Galveston, protected cruisers of 3100 tons burden, elghteen knots speed and effec- tive armament, will be In commission. These ships will be easily handled, ad- mirable craft for South American ser- vice should the department declde to dis- tribute them on South Atlantic and Pa- cifio stationa. WATER POURS IN A FLOOD UPON A GITY Great Destruction by Two Cloud- bursts. COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Aug. 26~ Two cloudbursts, one at 5:30 this after- noon and the other at 9:30 to-night, have destroyed hundreds' of thousands of dol- lars’ worth of property in this city. The storm at 5:30 turned the streets of the ¢jty into torrents, and hundreds of fami- lies in the lower districts of the city were removed from their homes with gifficulty. Many business houses were flobded by the first storm, and the damage to stocks will amount to thousands. The storm at 9:30 raised the water high- er than the one earlier in the evening, and many ho that were not touched by the first flood have been badly dam- aged, so that the loss in this city alone is now estimated at half a million dollars. The rainfall here far the twenty-four hours ending at midight will amout to six inches. Onawa reported 475 inches at noon, with all streams out of their banks, and rain still falling. The Northwestern Railroad is not run- ning a train in nor out of the city and reports washouts between Ida Grove and Battle Creek, lowa, and between Maple- ton and Castana, lTowa. The Rock Island and Milwaukee are both tied up and not running trains in nor out of this"eity. Both roads have bad washouts & short | distance east of this city.