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VOLUME LXXVIII.— NO. 128.
JOHN BULL WORRIED
Begins the Turmoil by
Striking a Double
Blow.
AN ENTIRE CONFUSION.
Suspicion That the Bluffing
of China Concealed Other
Motives.
WORSE TROUBLES IN EUROPE.
England May Be Compelled to Do a
Little Free Fighting for the
Triple Alliance.
[Copyright, 1895, by the New York Timt«.J
LONDON, Esq., Oct. s.— The prevalent
Bense of an impending disturbance with'
which last week closed has had its prompt
and emphatic justification. England, it
was felt, had become ready to substitute
deeds for words, and was on the point of
delivering a blow somewhere. As it turned
out, she struck simultaneously with both
fists. Her demonstration of naval force
to back up her ultimatum to the Chinese
Government was so definite in outline an i
followed by so swift a surrender of t 0
menaced party that it monopolized ;n; :ic
attention. No one particularly not.eed
the quieter and much less dramatic for
ward movement of another British ?ieet to
within sight of the Hellespont.
Indeed few knew of it at the lime, for
there is always far greater mystery about
the whereabouts of squadrons in the Med
iterranean than in the Pacific; but. then
came the startling upheaval, disorder and
blcodshed in the streets of Stambonl, and
immediately the pendulur.i of popular in
terest swung back from Asia to Europe,
and the rest of the wet-k has been given
over entirely to reports, discussions, sen
sational rumors and predictions about the
violently reopened Eastern question. Both
in the Turkish and the Chinese waters
these British :!ce:s remain, however, very
prominently in view, and in each case it
may be surmised that they have by no
means finished what they came to do.
Continental and English comments on
the situation as it stands reveal an entire
confusion, not only as to what will hap
pen, but as to what has already occurred.
Here in London we have two sharply con
flicting accounts of the Constantinople
riots. One says that the Armenians are
wnolly to blame, the other pictures them
as lamb-like victims to Turkish ferocity.
In other words that natural partisan divis
ion among Englishmen on this whole ques
tion, which has been for a whole year re
pressed, has asserted itself as during last
October tnese dispatches pointed out that
it must. The English Tories, who in ior
eign affairs are a very large majority, like
the TurJi and loathe the Armenian by in
stinct and tradition.
Hence, when the Times, which, in this
respect, retains a strong leaven of its old
Liberalism, took up the Sassoun massacres
and raised a hot Armenian issue, there
•was a rather painful, hesitating silence
among them, but then the Tory papers,
■with one or two exceptions, followed "the
Times' example, partly because they
imagined it was good politics thus to force
Rosebery's hand, partly for reasons less
creditable to journalism, and the Tory
rank and file aruazedly found itself com
mitted to precisely that Gladstonian policy
of bullying the Sultan and encouraging his
turbulent small nationalties to mutiny
•which had formerly revolted its very soul.
Lord Salisbury, on • succeeding to the
Foreign Office, felt in duty bound to make
the best show of continuous Eastern
policy that he could, but his party was
under no such obligations, and the Tory
j>apers began at once to change their tone
about the Armenians. To-day the Times,
among them, remains almost a!one in
desiring to see the Porte humiliated and
the Mesopotamian Christians exalted. Its
contemporaries now have correspondents
in Constantinople who reflect their readers'
views and pa ; "t the Armenians in as bad a
light as possible, while the radical press
get reports after their own heart, which
make even* Moslem a demon and every
Levantine Christian a suffering angel.
60 the English parties are being released
from the artificial restrainst of the hybrid
Kosebery-Kimberly foreign policy ai;d
swung back into the natural positions
which Disraeli and Gladstone marked out
tor them twenty years ago.
it can be seen that all this will not sim
plify Lord Salisbury's very puzzling task.
His private predilections are those of his
party. His personal notion of sending a
fleet to the mouth of the Dardanelles
would be to warn off Russia and not to ter
rify the Sultan, and yet he finds himself
nominally working with Russia and using
British men-of-war against the Turk to
further aims which are ostensibly Russia's
as much as England's. If it were not so
full of sinister possibilities this position of
affairs would set all Europe roaring with
laughter. It is funnier than farce, but
eomehow no one smiles. This comedy has
no easy-minded spectators. Its audience
of to-day may all be called to the stage as
actors to-morrow, and the burlesque may
give place to a tragedy.
The visible facts are that Kiamil Pasha,
to whom the Sultan turned in his despair,
is the English nominee, and it is believed
that he may be trusted to follow the lines
that Pir Philip Currie lays down and that
Turkish otficialdoni has shown itself able
to deal, after its own fashion, with dis
order in the metropolis. All else is un
certain. Parisians pretend to believe that
the English furnished the Armenians with
revolvers and bribed them to provoke riot
in order to create a pretext for the British
fleet to enter the Dardanelles, and the
comment of other Continental papers is, if
less spiteful, scarcely more illuminating.
Nobody, in truth, understands his own
position, much less that of his neighbors,
In this dense fog of cross-purposes and
clusning interests. There is nothing for it
tut to stand still and wait for daylight or
the guiding light of detonators.
The Triple Alliance performs this wait
ing with a certain alertness of perception,
but no active concern. It is England's
affair to get on as best she can in the curi
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cms embroglio which she has fixed up for
herself, and to manage her new quarrel
with her old friend Turkey and her new
partnership with her old enemies— Russi a
and France — on her own hook. If she
emerges from the entanglement peacefully
things will be as they were. If, on the
other hand, matters come to blows Eng
land will be in the position of domp gratis
work which the Triple Alliance exists for
the sole purpose of having done. This
prospect of seeing England doing some
thing for nothing greatly warms the Ger
man heart, and will not fail of apprecia
tion in Vienna and Rome. Of course, in
such an event, which a week's occurrences
bring within the range of practical possi
bilities, England will not necessarily re
main single handed. She will have merely
to pny a long price for help.
Although the probability of a much more
threatening complication of the Chinese
matter has been thrust completely in the
background by the turmoil on the Bos
phorus it is perfectly understood among
the well informed that the business of ob
taining redress for the missionary massa
cres forms only a slight, perhaps the
slightest, part of the British fleet's mission.
The ultimatum of which so much was
made on paper, and before which the Chi
nese seem to grovel so promptly, is even
suspected of being a kind of dummy de
mand. The Viceroy whose degradation
was demanded and conceded with such
facility had been already degraded a year
before and was only remaining at his post
to ch-ar up his accounts. This is being
repr' senled as a fine joke at England's ex
pense, but I am assured that it was quite
unier«>tood between the British and Chi
nese officials and was intended merely as a
i;iask for an understanding of a far broad
er and more important nature.
Reports of a more curious character are
beginning to circulate among people who
are generally described as in diplomatic
circles about the German Emperor. I
find live or six public men, all more or less
in touch with German affairs, who have
heard within the past fortnight different
stories about him, which seem to indicate
that he is passing through another one of
those queer mental spells of his. His af
fection from his earliest boyhood for his
charming brother, Henry, has been writ
ten much of, and now he has quarreled
with him, and it is said that on the qestion
of naval management Henry has quitted
Germany under conditions not easily dis
tinguishable from banishment.
Minor eccentricities are related which, if
at all true, amply warrant what is heard of
the popular apprehension and distrust in
Germany. Thi3 is the most anxious
period that Europe has known for a long
time, and to have any of the many vital is
sues at stake in hands not under abso
lutely calm control necessarily increases
the peneial disquietude, but Germany has,
on the whole, more to risk or lose by war
than anybody else, and it is quite intelli
gible that rumors of this sort should fill
her with special alarm. However, it may
be remembered tnat they were heard often
before, and that no harm resulted.
Again the referendum in Switzerland
has worted in a way to disappoint those
■who hoped most from it. The conditions
of the match trade in the republic hare,
long constituted a public sea ndal; corape
titioo having driven wages to the starva
tion point, and, what is much worse,
beaten down all safeguards against phos
phoric poisoning among the workers,
which there is at its worst.
Factory inspection did no good and
finally it was decided by a large majority
of the Legislature that the true remedy
lay in the Government taking over the
manufacture as a monopoly. This was re
ferred to the popular vote with the result
that only half of the electorate took the
trouble to vote and that a few progressive,
educated cantons like Basle and Zurich,
which supported the project, were
overwhelmed by the rural parts. The
French districts are especially against it
and in the very communes where phossy
jaw among match-workers had become a
terrible and chronic scourge the owners of
small factories were able to Dile up im
mense majorities against the proposal.
The result, like that on the Jewish killing
of cattle, has furnished a text for a good
deal of smart writing on the general sub
ject of universal suffrage.
The South Carolina convention receives
considerable attention in the cable dis
patches and the general tone of British
comment is dispassionately casual, but
the Daily News, which went into hysterics
over Ida Wells' anti-lynching crusade and
since then has been the chief bleater in
the Armenian chorus, takes the Palmetto
State sternly by the ear.
The value of its opinions may be gleaned
by its belief that the constitutionality of
Mississippi's earlier experiment in limit
ing the black vote has not been brought to
test before the Supreme Court because the
negroes are too poor to find money for
la Ayers bills, but about the earnestness of
its emotions there can be no doubt. It re
calls proudly that it always championed
the human rights of the negro in America,
and adds: "The Daily News will cham
; pion bis civil rights as well." Whether it
is prepared to proceed to the length of
armed intervention is not clear, but at any
rate South Carolina ought to know that
the Daily News is watching it.
At last it seems that the ancient project
oi lriving a broad new thoroughfare from
Hi 1 born to the Strand is actually going
un> er way. The scheme now adopted will
swc. p away the Tudor slum of Clare Mar
ket md also weed out Holliwell street,
but 1 -eserve both of the old churches in
the t-rrand. Its cost, without provision
for the rehousing of 4000 people thus torn
up by the route, will be over $10,000,000.
As an example of the delays which re
tarded thif improvement, it is related that
in 1867 a big theatrical manager intended
taking a site in the district involved to
build a th<-ater. and was privately warned
by an official friend that the new street
was certain to be made across the property
in question during the coming year.
There is a rumor about among some of
my friends that William Ernest Henley is
to be made poet laureate. It is a selection
which always seemed to be the most fitting
to me, if Swineburne must be excluded,
but that surely is no reason why it should
be, and Henley has a certain Johnsonian
intractability, not to say mulishness of
temperament, which it is difficult to
imagine politicians find admirable. Edwin
Arnold would be more in their form.
The Duke of Marlborough's old family
solicitor sailed for America to-day to assist
In drawing up his marriage settlements in
the Midlands. A friend tells me that a
gr^at bustle of preparation has begun at
Blenheim, among other tilings the huge
pleasure lakes on the demesne being
dredged and cleaned, a work which willcost
fcW.OOO, and which, owing to the chronic
state of this particular ducal purse, was
not done before for ninety years.
Harold Frederic.
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD HAS TURNED HER TORCH TOWARD CUBA.
FIST IN AMERICA
An Engineer's Opinion
of the Valley Road's
Locomotives.
INSPECTION OF THE LINE.
Directors Will Visit Stockton
to Arrange for New
Buildings.
ROUNDHOUSE AND SHOPS.
Work Has Progressed 80 Rapidly
That They Have Become a
Necessity.
STOCKTON, Cal., Oct. s.— President
THE FIRST TRAIN TO RUN OVEB THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY RAILROAD AT STOCKTON.
Buell of the Commercial Association re
ceived a communication this afternoon
from the Valley railroad headquarters in
San Francisco requesting that there be no
public demonstration here next Monday,
on the occasion of the visit of inspection
by Vice-President Watt and the directors.
HENRY VOGELSANG, THE FIRS C. ENGINEER ON"TH3 : SAN'JOAQTJIN
VALLEY BAILEOAO, f WHO 'HANDLES THE • THBOTTLB JON ' THE
■ ENGINE CLAUB BPBECKEL9. _\ " ' \'\. .. / ! '' '*' *,'*-/« ' ],' T '*•' '
[Reproduced from a photograph.]
The communication stated that, while
highly pleased with the spirit of apprecia
tion evinced by the people of Stockton, the
directors woulu prefer to see the road com
plete in every detail before banquets were
given. In other words, the tenor of the
message was "business before pleasure,"
and it now appears that the railroad people
will have plenty to look after while here.
Besides the inspection of all the lines and
grades, they will locate and take the first
steps looking to the erection of a division
roundhouse and machine and repair shops.
The road has progressed now so far that
the machine-shops are needed, and it is
understood here that as soon as the loca
tion is decided upon and plans drawn bids
on the work will be called for. There is
every reason to believe that work on the
shops and roundhouses will be under way
soon. Both are needed, and judging from
the management displayed in other de
partments of the work the directors will
not let a necessity go unsatisfied.
A special meeting of the commercial as
sociation will be held Mxaiday evening in
order that the directors may discuss the
location of the shops with the business
men of the city.
The mechanics here are well pleased
with the outlook for work this winter, as
it is the custom of the Valley railroad
people to favor home firms and laborers
wherever possible.
A large shipment of coal from San Fran-
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Cisco is expected to arrive here to-morrow.
It will be used on the locomotives in con
struction work. Superintendent Wilbur
was busy to-day buying such other ma
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WITH ALL DUE HONOR
Funeral Services Over
the Body of Profes
sor Pasteur.
AN IMPOSING PAGEANT.
Great Was the Mourning in
tho Metropolis of
France.
CARS WITH FLORAL TRIBUTES.
Men of JAM Stations Turned Out to
Participate In the Sad Cere
monies.
PARIS, France, Oct. 6.— The funeral
services over the body of Professor Louis
Pasteur took place in the Cathedral of
Notre Dame to-day.
About 9 o'clock this morning the first
group of delegates arrived in the Rue
Dutot in front of the Pasteur institute,
where the body has been lying in state,
and thereafter there was a steady stream
of people come to take part in the ob
sequies.
At 1 o'clock the clergymen of the parish
church said prayers over the coffin, which
was then placed in the hearse. The Re
publican Guard headed the procession, and
were followed by General Saussier, Mili
tary Governor of Paris, and his staff, with
a numerically strong military escort. Then
came the delegates from the Alsatian so
cieties, the various municipalities and
trades, followed by delegations of monks
and students, all of them bearing impos
ing wreaths.
Five floral cars were in the procession,
all of them covered with wreaths. The band
of the Republican Guard played a dirge
as the procession started for the cathedral.
The hearse, drawn by six horses, was fol
lowed by M. Pasteur's son, his son-in-law
and his grandson. Then came the Presi
dent of the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies, Premier Ribot and M.
Travieux, Minister of Justice, followed
by the leading foreign diplomats and an
unending line of generals, admirals and
lesser military and naval officers; a dele
gation of members of the French Acad
emy, including Coppe, the celebrated
litterateur; M. Paul Bourget, the poet and
novelist; M. Leon Say, the famous econo
mist; red-robed Judges, physicians, and
representative members of every profes
sion.
The procession was about a mile long
and its rearguard was composed of a troop
of c&valry. The route near the Pasteur In
stitute was lined with silent crowds of men
and women who made the sign of thecrosß
as the body passed by.
As the hearse reached the cathedral of
Notre Dame wreaths were placed in the
square. The priests connected with the
late M. Pasteur's parish left the coffin at
the church door and it was tben taken in
charge by the priests attached to the cathe
dral.
Prince Lobanoff - Rostovsky, Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs; Baron Moh
renheim, Russian Embassador; United
States Embassador Enstis and Lord Duf
ferin, British Embassador, arrived in car
riages. Newton Eustis, secretary of the
United States Embassy, and Commander
Rogers, naval attache of the United States
Embassy, walked in the procession.
At noon President Faure arrived and
passed under the mourning drapery which
concealed the facade of the church. The
Grand Duke Constantine of Russia and
Prince Nicholas of Greece, were already in
the church. Abbe Marie celebrated the
mass and the choir sans: the liturgy.
In the meantime the catafalque was
hastily erected in the center of the square,
and a draped rostrum, from which M.
Poincare, Minister of Public Instruction,
delivered a funeral oration, was also
erected.
ArchbishoD Richard pronounced absolu
tion after the mass. President Faure
walked out of the cathedral between Grand
Duke Constantine and Prince Nicolas and
listened to M. Poincare's eulogy of M.
Pasteur, in which he reviewed the
scientist's career and lauded his modesty,
valor and charity.
Dense masses of people filled the square.
The troops denied half an hour before the
coffin, and the body was then placed in
the vault of the cathedral in the presence
of the family.
BU&TAMEXTE'S ARREST.
Will Be Punished for All the Faults of
Eeeta.
NEW YORK, N. V., Oct. 5.— A special
cable dispatch from San Salvador says:
Colonel Florentino Bustamente, arrested
recently on board the steamer City of Syd
ney by the Salvadorean authorities at
Puerto La Libertad, will be delivered to the
local authorities.
He is accused of robbery, incendiarism
and other crimes. Bustamente says his
arrest was an outrage and while he was on
board the Sydney he was under the pro
tection of the American flag, and while in
San Francisco last year, together with
Ezeta and other Salvadorean refugees, he
was tried, but there was not sufficient
evidence to cause his extradition back to
Salvador.
It is believed that President Gutierrez
will punish Bustamente for all the crimes
charged to Ezeta and his party, and will
order Bustamente shot.
It is generally believed that Bustamente
has be%n sacrificed by Antonio Ezeta. He
says the latter is without money, and
was only able to leave San Francisco
through advances made to him by a
Spaniard, Manuel Casin, on whom Ezeta
conferred the rank of general, and who
paid Ezeta' s hotel and steamer fare. Sal
vador Rodriguez, Charge d'Affaires of Sal
vador in Mexico during Ezeta'? regime,
has been compelled to leave the country
secretly through persecution, because he
was thought to be implicated in conspira
cies against the present administration.
WORK IE It TO THE CRAVE.
Suicide of a Defendant in Two Breach of
Promise Suits.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Oct. 5.—
Frederick Leutringer, one of the old resi
dents of this city, was found dead in bed
this morning, having committed suicide
by taking' a dose of carbolic acid. The
suicide was caused by worry over two
breach of promise damage suits that w6re
pending in the courts. Miss Clara Uhlen
holat of St. Louis asked $35,000 and Mollie
Graham of this city asked for $25,000.
Leutzinger was a wealthy retired baker,
who became complicated with the Graham
woman some months ago. A few days
ago she sent him word that she would kill
him unless he settled with her.
PAID FOR LOST PROPERTY.
Mrs. Foltz Taught the English
Steamship Officials a
Lesson.
An American Lady Lawyer Who
Refused to Submit to Ship
wreck Without Damages.
DENVER, Colo., Ocr. s.— Mrs. Clara
Shortridge-Foltz of San Francisco stopped
off in Denver to-day while en route home
after a vacation tour abroad. Mrs. Foltz
left for Europe in June. She was accom
panied by her daughter, Miss Virginia
Foltz, whom she took abroad for the pur
pose of having her voice tried before
prominent French teachers.
After touring the Continent they at
tempted to cross the English Channel on
the steamer Seaford. When a part of the
way across the boat collided with the
freighter Lyon. There were aboard 355
passengers and the Seaford was sunk. All
the passengers lost their baggage except
ing what they could carry in hand satchels,
and Mrs. Foltz lost three large trunks
filled with her handsome gowns and bric-a
brac and treasures which she had picked
up during her tour on the Continent.
Mrs. Foltz was told that she could not
get a cent of damages. But the English
officials did not take into consideration
that she was an American woman and a
lawyer as well, and she went before the
managers of the company and demanded
a settlement. She was paid in full for her
property and the payment was promptly
made, too.
"In America railway and steamship
companies are liable for damages in cases
of wreck," said Mrs. Foltz, in speaKing of
the matter, "and I pointed out that the
English law also covered this important
point. A woman lawyer was something of
a revelation to the English officials, and I
have never felt better over any suit that I
have won than I felt over my victory in
this case."
Killed by a Flywheel.
HOBOKEN, N. J., Oct. s.— The 50,000
--pound flywheel attachea to the 500-horse
power engine in the power-house of the
Hudson Electric Light Company burst
this morning. Carl Anderson, the head
engineer, was killed and his body was
found on a girder near the roof of the
engine-room. "William Coggeswell and
William Pierson, assistant engineers, were
badly injured.
Imprisoned for Lift.
GUTHRIE, 0. T., Oct. s.— Willis and
Harry "Welsh, convicted of robbing an old
man, were sentenced to life imprisonment.
They are the first to be convicted under
the law making train and highway robbery
capital crimes.
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POWERS OF BISHOPS
One Important Theme
at the Episcopalian
Convention.
DEPUTIES NOT AGREED.
Secret Sessions of the Upper
House Met With Some
Opposition.
REVISING THE CONSTITUTION.
It Is Apparent That the Changes
Cannot Be Completed This
Session.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. s.— For *
a short sixty minutes to-day there was a
brilliant forensic display between those
members of the lower house of the Episco
pal convention who are opposed to the re
linquishment of any of its prerogative and
the element that holds that the fathers of
the church are entitled to a little more lee
way and latitude than was given them a
century ago. It was the same story of the
first clause of the first paragraph of the
new constitution, and a large number o{
delegates are fighting to replace the stipu
lation in the old constitution preventing
the Bishops from pigeon-holing legisla
tion coming up from below.
It was not a threshing of old straw, how
ever, for amendment after amendment
was presented until the venerable Judge
Wilder of this State capped the climax by
submitting a resolution to the following
audacious effect:
"That so long as the Hou«e of Bishops
shall hold its legislative sessions with
closed doors the House of Bishops shall
signify to the House of Deputies their ap
probation or disapprobation, the latter
with objections in writing, in three days
after the proposed act shall be repotted to
them for concurrence."
This was the pending issue when tha.
committee rose. The first section in ques
tion has been under debate for an entire
day and two portions of days and seems to
be no nearer a final vote than when ii was
originally presented on Wednesday. To
still further complicate matters the House
of Bishops has entered upon a revision of
the new constitution and canons on its
own account. The result will be that about
the time the revised revision goes up to tha
Bishops from the deputies another revised
revision will come to the deputies from
the Bishops. Just where the prospective
changes will land the two houses neither
Bishops nor deputies seem to know.
The one thing apparent is that neither
house can get through the volume in the
two weeks of life that remain to the con
vention, and there seems to be no other
alternative than, after the wasting of much
valuable time, the postponement of the is
sue to the convention of IS9S. This will
probably be held in Louisville.
Just as soon as the convention had ap
proved the creation of new dioceses in
California, Maryland and Kentucky and
the magnificent copy of the revised prayer
book, approved at the last convention, had
been presented, the delegates took up the
constitutional pamphlet and settled back
in their seats to see what the day would
bring forth. Rev. J. B. Harrison of Spring
field moved an amendment providing that
each house should notify the other when
there was any legislation to which they
could not agree. This, he said, would put
the two houses on an equality of privilege.
Judge Wilder, in submitting his resolu
tion, said that so long as the Bishops held
their sessions with closed doors there was
no reason why special prerogative should
be granted to them. The deputies met
with everything wide open ; nobody knew
what the Bishops were doing unless they
chose to make it public themselves. The
result was that the deputies were placed at
a great disadvantage, and .the insertion of
the old-time clause was the only safeguard
upon which they could make a stand.
Delegate Fairbanks of Florida, who has
already received the designation of the
"Hoiman" of the body, insisted in a vigor
ous speech that it was decidedly unbecom
ing for them to attempt to hamper the
Bishops. They should have confidence
that the fathers of the church would do
their work as honestly and as conscien
tiously as the deputies. He earnestly pro
tested against politics being brought into
this matter.
Rev. John S. Lindsay of Massachusetts
admitted that some people, and altogether
too many, thought there were more con
cessions in the new constitution than the
Bishops were entitled to. This was a ques
tion that seriously affected their dignity.
It was a threat that possibly the Bishops
might pet frightened and approve legisla
tion without proper consideration. In
stirring tones he appealed to his hearers
to manifest their confidence in the Bishops
by voting down all the amendments.
Dr. Elliott of Maryland again brought
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