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VOLUME LXXVIH.— NO. 148.
VENEZUELA REFUSES TO SUBMIT TO ENGLAND
Expects Help From All
Central American
Countries,
brazil in particular.
Leaders in the Opposition to
Crespo Will Be Sent to
the Frontier.
GEE AT PREPARATION FOR WAR.
Already There Have Been
Fatal Encounters Between
Britons and Natives.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 25. — The
greatest excitement was caused here by
the news from England that that country
is determined to continue its course and
not to recede from the stand originally
adopted and in support of which England
ia sending warships to this coast and sev
eral vessels have lately arrived at Guiana
with war material.
News received through private channels
from the United States is not the least en
couraging, though the Government still
persists in positive assurances of help from
the United States and that the American
fleet is already coming. Added to this
is the news of fighting in different portions
of the country, where the Government was
generally worsted.
Letters from Georgetown say that the
British authorities there are not idle, send
ing larire quantities of ammunition toward
the frontier, where troops and settlers
have been newly armed, and the latter,
though not seeking a fight, are determined
to stand their ground. Throughout the
British colony there is a strong feeling
against Americans, who are called inter
meddlers.
Advices from the Cnyuni announce sev
eral frictions between natives and the
British, in which some were killed, though
•s yet no open battle has occurred. Vene
zuelan troops on the Cuyuni are being re
enforced and taking a stand on the
frontier, ready at a moment's notice to
take offensive measures, and are deter
mined to attack, burn and kill where they
can.
It is positively stated that Venezuela
hs? promises in case war breaks out that a
number of the Latin American countries
will join her, principally Brazil and
Ecuador, and that the former will then
test her case against Italy and England.
The work favoring a general Latin-Ameri
can alliance against European enroach
ments which commenced four years ago is
promising excellent results.
It is rumored that the leaders of the
Dresent opposition to President Crespo
will he sent to serve the Government on
the frontier. The Government has taken
precautions against an attack on English
residing in the country.
The Government is preparing to defend
the coast with torpedoes, and unaer no cir
cumstances accede to the demands of Ene
land. A watch has been ordered for Eng
lish spies. The British works of defense
at Uruan have been finished, and the
British are reeonnoitering Ymataca Mount
ains. Reports that the English are ad
vancing through Brazil are again current.
The Venezuela case is not identical with
Nicaragua, and it is believed that the
United States therefore cannot interfere.
It is reported that England will aid the
United States in Cuba against Spain for
ieaving England free here.
FURTHER TROUBLE AHEAD.
England May Try to Protect China From
ftntaia.
LONDON, Eng., Oct. 25.— The Pall Mall
Gazette prints a long article commenting
upon a dispatch published in toe Times
from its Hongkong correspondent stating
that a treaty had recently been concluded
between Russia and China, by the terms
of which Russia obtains the right of
anchorage for her fleet at Port Arthur, the
right to construct, and operate railways
and other great advantages. The Gazette
assumes that this practically means that
Russia has annexed China. If this con
clusion of the treaty be a fact, Japan, the
paper says, will certainly refuse to leave
Port Arthur, and England v.ill oppose it
to the death. The treaty also means the
presence of Russian warships off Van
couver and Sydney. England must act
vigorously and immediately, both by
means of diplomacy and by getting her
fleets ready for sea.
The Globe, in an article on the same sub
ject, says: "Neither England, the United
States, Japan nor Germany will sanction
the partition of China which would virtu
ally render the Pacific a Franco-Russian
lake and would seal the markets of China
against their commerce."
The St. James Gazette says: "It is obvi
ous that, if Russia has squeezed China into
such an agreement, we must intervene.
War with Russia, with all its risks and
possibilities, would De less disastrous than
to allow her, without striking a blow, to
get such a grip on China."
nki trsEX cms a axd Russia.
There Im Much Speculation Regarding
the Xew Treaty.
LONDON, ETC., Oct. 25.— Inquirers at
the Foreign Office are informed that the
officials there have no information that a
treaty has been concluded between China
and Russia, by which the latter is given
great commercial and other advantages.
The Daily News will to-morrow publish
a dispatch from St. Petersburg saying that
c Novoe Vremya's statement as to the
gravity of the situation in Korea and the
movements of the Russian fleet is much
exaggerated. The address adds that the
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augmenting of the Russian Pacific squad
ron was arranged before the recent out
break in Seoul.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 25.-While
nothing official can be learn ed in Wash
ington with reference to any alleged secret
treaty between Russia and China it is not
doubted that some understanding exists
between the two countries which wiil re
sult in their mutual advantage.
European dispatches of recent date con
tained the intelligence that Russia would
guarantee the Chinese indemnity of
30,000,000 taels, which will be paid to Japan
for the latter's evacuation of the Liao
Tung Peninsula. Those who are familiar
with Russian statecraft say that the Czar's
Government, which is noted for i'.s clever
intriguing qualities, would not so obligate
itself without a proper quid pro quo. For
this reason some importance is attached to
dispatches which state that Russia has se
cured rights from China which will enable
ncr to buiid a line of railway tnrough the
Liao Tung Peninsula connecting with the
Russian transcontinental railway at Vladi
vostok, thus giving Russia her long-de
sired outlet for this line.
PUNCTUATED WITH A PISTOL.
I Manager Nicol Compelled to Sign a Retrac
tion of Charges Against a Discharged
Railroad Man.
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 25.— About a week
ago Mrs. Alexander Nicol, wife of the man
! ager of the Anglo-American Packing and
j Provision Company, was returning from
! Kansas City to her home in this city, when
■ she had an alleged sensational experience
' with James Deatheridge, traveling passen
| ger agent of the Chicago, Rock Island and
! Pacific Railroad. The story which Mrs.
Nicol recounted to her husband reached
I the Rock Island officials ana Deatheridge
| was discharged. To-day Mr. Deatheridge
! walKed into Nicol's office in the Board of
I Trade building and presented Nicol a
j written retraction of the charges and
j asked him to sign it. Nicol refused to
| sicn it and Deatheridge drew a revolver
i with the remark, "If you don't sign that
t paper you will not get a chance to sign
j any other kind of paper." Nicol then
' signed the paper, and there was a lively
scuffle before Deatheridge could escape
from the office.
THE FALL OF A FACTORY WALL
At Least a Dozen Persons Were Buried in
the Debris and Two Were Fatally
Injured.
CLYDE, Ohio, Oct. 25.— About ninety
feet of the east wall of the Elmore Manu
facturing Company's bicycle factory fell
into the street to-day.
A dozpn persons were bnried in the
debris. Two were fatally injured and
seven others seriously hurt.
Joseph Becker, one of the proprietors,
was seriously injured about the head and
hips. Archie Holloway and Frank Cook
received internal injuries that will prove
fatal. The other injured were: Charles
Berhardt, seriously crushed; Clarence
Whaley, head cut and seriously bruised;
Ed King, head cut and bruised ; William
Snyder, leg broken; Roy Lemmon, head
cut ; William Hudson, lee; broken in two
places.
MINISTER TERRILL'S ACTS
An Indignant Denial That He
Has Neglected Missionary
Interests.
Americans Have Been Properly
Protected and Released
When Arrested.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 25.— 1n a
cablegram from Minister Terrill, dated at
Constantinople to-day, and addressed to
Senator Mills and Congressman Savers, Mr.
Terrii] makes the following statement:
The New York World publishes the charges
that I have neglected missionary interests.
Every American missionary in this city will
state it to be lane. Not an American mission
ary in Asia Minor has been injured during
this terrible strife, though more numerous
than those of Jill Kurope.
To protect them against a twofold danger I
have remained for months with leave of ab
sence granted. The attack on my personal re
lations with the Sultan deserves only con
tempt. They have not endangered the security
of missionaries. Such attacks are inspired by
secret societies of Armenians, whose methods
of assassination the Rev. Dr. Hamlin exposed
in the Independent of December, 1893. I have
for months kept a Turkish guard to protect
American professors in a missionary college
against threatened assassination by emissaries
oi the secret societies.
They cannot understand and resent my
observance of our established policy of non
intervention here. I have never failed to res
cue from prison every Armenian when ar
rested who bore an American passport. Among
them are known revolutionists. To expose the
assassins of reputation has become a duty.
For the misguided Armenian 1 have only pity,
but the American journal that publishes a
slander to Impair the influence of its country's
Minister at a distant court will be rebuked by
American patriotism and the American press
regardless of party. Such conduct is not
American, but perhaps natural in one who has
grown insolent with temporary prosperity
obtained by the devious methods of his paper
X.IEUTB.XAXT P AGUE'S AXTICB.
lirother- Officers Strengthen the Flea of
Insanity.
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 25.— Four brother
officers of Lieutenant Pague testified to-day
before the court-martial at Fort Sheridan
that in their opinion the accused was the
victim of chronic alcoholism and was not
responsible for his actions at the time he
attempted to kill Colonel Crofton. Their
evidence was very valuable for the defense
ana will materially strengthen the ploa of
insanity. Colonel Humphreys and Cap
tain Conrad, who had been intimately asso
ciated with Pague for some years, told of
many frtrange actions he had performed
when on duty, particularly after he had
taken the Keeley cure. The court ad
journed until to-morrow.
Sentence of an Ernbezzter.
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 25.— Ross C. Van
]?OKkelen, the embezzling teller of the
Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, to
aay entered a plea of guilty in the crim
inal court and was given an indeterminate
sentence. He was taken to the peniten
tiary at Joliet.
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1895.
The Genial Magnate Offers the Glad Right Hand to Sew Settlers, While the Shadow of His Sinister
Digits May Be Seen Overspreading and Blighting the Lives of Those Already Here.
A TRAIN TO START.
Valley Road Material
to Leave Stockton
To-Day,
work in the country.
The First Tie Outside of the
City Will Be Placed on
the Grade.
ON TOWAED THE STANISLAUS.
Tracklayers Will Follow Close
Upon the Heels of Grant's
Men.
• STOCKTON, Cal., Oct. 25.— T0-morrow
will be a red-letter day in the history of
the San Joaquin Valley and Stockton.
The first construction-train on the San
Joaquin Valley Railroad is now loaded
with ties and rails, and at 10 o'clock in the
morning it will start for the eastern end of
the city line and the first tie will be
placed on the county grade. On the train
will be prominent citizens, newspaper
men anil the superintendents of the
various departments of the work.
All day the strip of land known as
block 21 has been alive with workingmen,
loading the cars with rails and ties from
the big stacks along Mormon Channel. A
week ago the company came into posses
sion of the block and in thai short period
of time has graded it, laid the switches,
and last uigtit a big train of cars was
backed down by engine 2 for loading. The
train will reach the grade at noon and it is
probable that the ties will be first tnrown
down at that hour.
Farther down in the yards are several
carloads of telegraph poles, which will also
be moved to the front next week, in order
that the construction of the telegraph lines
may be begun. All pessimistic views of
DRIVING Pli lts FOB, , .THE SAN ' JOAftUIN VALLEY B-a-IWEtOAD'S NEW I/BAWBSIDQB ON EDISON
STREET, STOCKTON.
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the early completion of the people's road
are brushed aside.
A local newspaper has charged that the
Valley road had, in obtaining dirt for the
grades, left the country along the banks of
Mormon Channel in basins that would
have to be hlled in .at the expense of tax
payers. The statement is false in every
particular. The company let its contracts
to private parties, and was at no time re
sponsible for where they obtained the
earth. In fact, so far as was possible, the
company has forced the contractors to
better the levees where the forces were
working.
The Stanislaus River is now the ob
jective Doint, and people may not be sur
prised to see the track reacli the river with
the grades, as eighteen miles of the grade
is already finished.
MR. MORTON IS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Praises the Cotton States Exposit oi at
Atlanta as a Great Educational
Institution.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 25.—Secre
tary Morton is enthusiastic over the
Atlanta Exposition, which as an educa
tional institution, he says, is compara
tively superior to the Chicago World's
Fair. He says President Gilman of the
Johns Hopkins University, who sat next
to him at dinner in Atlanta, told him he
had visited all the great expositions and
none of them equaled Atlanta education
ally. The President's party was deeply
impressed with the prosperity of the
Southern country through which they
passed and the rapid improvement shown
on every hand. There were as many cot
ton-mills in process of erection along the
line as existed a year ago. The President's
reception in Atlanta, when he shook hands
with 8000 or 9000 people, was extremely
cordial.
"And every granger in the crowd," said
the Secretary, "insisted on saying a few
words, the general tune being, 'We've got
lots of 8-cent cotton and we want honest
money for it.' "
Sxiicidc of an Auditor.
CHATTANOOGA, Tmrcr., Oct. 25.—Colo
nel L. Dibrell, auditor of the money order
department in the general office of the
Southern Express Company, committed
suicide to-day. He had been in ill health
for some time.
One Person Wa» Killed.
BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 25.— A collision
occurred this morning on the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad at Bowie station,
midway between Baltimore and Washing
ton, in which one person was killed and
three injured.
"I think that if the Xational Convention should
come to California it would cost the people of the
State at leant a quarter of a million dollars: and
while the railroad company is willing to do almost
anything that even its enemies would ask it to do,
it would much rather see the money expended in
bringing good, practical farmers from the East to
California with the idea of their settling here."—C.
p. huntington's interview in" yestef.day's
"Call."
TACTICS OF CHICAGD.
Why There Is Prejudice
Against the Lake
City,
WANTS THE CONVENTION
But Committeemen Cannot For
get the Experience
OF 1888.
WAS PACKED BY THE BOWDIES.
When the Leaders Met to Pro
test They Were Raided by
the Police.
NEW YORK, N. V., Oct. 26.— The Sun
says : The Republicans who came to New
York to fix the time and place for the
meeting of the National Republican Con
vention were nearly all gone by yesterday.
They left behind, however, an interesting
story — one that has never been told and
one which will explain why the Republi
cans passed over Chicago in 1892 and went
to Minneapolis. The story will also go a
long way toward explaining why there is
bitter opposition now to holding the con
vention in Chicago next year.
The story of the opposition to Chicago
dates back to the convention of 1888, when
General Harrison was nominated there.
The facts are best told by a member of the
National Republican Committee, who waa
on the ground at the time, and said last
night:
"We selected Chicago in 1888, after the
fairest promises that the city was inter
ested in no candidate and that we would
have fair treatment. Like moat of Chi
cago's promises the pledges made to us
were empty.
"From the day we arrived there we as
certained that the whole city government
of Chicago had got up a great boom for
Gresham. Moreover, we ascertained that
there was an organized scheme to pack the
NEARLY $50,000 IS ALREADY SUBSCRIBED
galleries and every vacant spot in the
auditorium for Gresham. We did not ob
ject to the candidacy of Judge Gresham,
but we did draw the line at the work of
Chicago's municipal officers, backed up by
their police force, to pack the galleries and
to attempt to turn the convention into
pandemonium.
"It was necessary for the National Com
mittee to select doorkeepers and instruct
them not to admit anybody without a
ticket. These doorkeepers wore badges
announcing that they were the official
doorkeepers appointed by the National
Committee.
"On the first day of the convention the
police removed the badges from the coats
of the doorkeepers and threatened them
with all sorts of punishment if they per
sisted in admitting only persons with
tickets. Thousands of people were pushed
into the convention by these policemen at
the command of the municipal officers of
Chicago.
"The galleries were packed and the Na
tional Committeemen and the delegates to
the convention were violently opposed
when they protested against the perform
ance. For several days Chicago's police
men were the practical doorkeepers of the
convention.
"Finally the National Committee de
cided to attempt to stop the outrage. We
held a meeting behind closed doors to see
what we could do. The_ municipal officers
of Chicago got an inkling of the meeting
and the doors were burst open and every
member of the National Republican Com
mittee was put under arrest. Such men
as F. D. Jones of Pittsburg, Sam Fessen
den of Connecticut, J. S. Clarkson of lowa,
and in fact every member of the National
Committee felt the hand of a burly police
man on his shoulder.
"The police patrol wagons were driven
up to the doer ready to cart us away to the
'cooler.' The charge against us was a
purely technical one. It was that w« had
hired Pinkerton detectives to stand beside
our doorkeepers and to prevent the police
men from packing the galleries, It is true
that we hired Pinkerton detectives to pro
tect our doorkeepers. Ii was our only re
course.
"While all the National Republican
Committeemen were put under arrest on
that occasion we were not lugged off to
the 'cooler.' Certain Chicago citizens who
learned of the outrage stepped in and pro
tected us and told the authorities of the
THE CONVENTION SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DATE.
" THE CALL" $10,000
"THE EXAMINER" 7 ,c,00
" CHRONICLE" 7,500
PACIFIC COAST JOCKEY CLUB 2,500
PALACE HOTEL 2,000
CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB 2,000
COLUMBIA THEATER 1,000
JAMES D. PHELAN 1,000
BALDWIN HOTEL 1000
RAPHAEL'S 1,000
ORPHEUM 1,000
UNION IRON WORKS 1000
AL HAYMAN & CO 1 000
JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA C 0... 1,000
GEORGE C. PERKINS coo
CALIFORNIA HOTEL coo
M. A. GUNST coo
J. R. DONALDSON coo
JOHN D. SIEBE coo
C. F. CURRY r o o
NEUSTADTER BROS coo
ADOLPH SPRECKELS coo
LOUIS SLOSS & CO r O o
LEVI STRAUSS & CO 500
WM. WOLFF & CO., agents Pommery Sec coo
H. S. CROCKER & CO coo
F. H. BUSHNELL coo
CAFE ZINKAND 5 00
GOOD FELLOWS' GROTTO 300
SEA BEACH HOTEL 2^o
LICK HOUSE 250
POPULAR RESTAURANT 250
E. MARTIN & CO 200
SHAINWALD, BUCKBEE & CO 150
H. Z. OSBORNE (Los Angeles Express) 100
WM. T. BOOTHBY 100
HERMAN OELRICHS 100
DELLAMAND & CO 100
JOHNSON-LOCKE CO 100
W. W. FOOTE 100
HOTEL SAVOY 100
WILSON'S DINING PARLOR 100
A. W. WILSON • 100
THE CREAMERIE 100
SAMUEL DANNENBAUM 100
THE DEL MONTE 100
OLD LOUVRE 100
C. W. NEVIN 50
OBERON CAFE 50
EUGENE KAHN 50
GRAND TOTAL $49,350
shame that would come upon their city if
we were lugged off to jail. Naturally the
Chicago newspapers have been silent abont
this matter, but the National Republican
Committeemen have remembered it.
"I observe that Mr. Platt believes that
the convention should go to Chicago next
year. He is fully acquainted with our
treatment there in 1888. His only reason
for advocating Chicago is that pos
sibly it is the most central point. But
even Mr. Platt should remembar our treat
ment in Chicago. After he had sent the
World's Fair there and put into the coffers
of that city millions of dollars bed and
board was refused to him on the first night
that he got into Chicago to attend the fair.
"He had telegraphed weeks ahead for his
rooms and he had received word that they
had been saved for him. When he got
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
The Spirit of Generos
ity Pervades Cali
fornia,
editor osborxe's $100.
A Good Example Emanates
From the City of the
Angels.
"THE CALL'S" EDITOR AT WORK.
Favorable Comment and Encour*
aging Interviews From All
Over the United States.
To-day the entire State of California i 9
engaged in the commendable occupation of
trying to bring off the Republican National
Convention in San Francisco next June.
Every element that is able to exercise influence
is employed in the work. The guaranteed
subtcriptions to date almost touch $&),OOO t
which mm is exclusive of the separata
amount to be subscribed by the Union League
Club of San Francisco. The interior press,
representing one of the State's greatest powers r
has entered the lines and will stand by unfit
the fight is icon. The prospect of holding
the Democratic convention has been a double
incentive to the Democracy, and the password
to-day in this State is "We must have the
National conventions."
SAM FRANCISCANS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Pursestrrngs of the Masses United in <A»
Battle to Secure the National
Conventions.
There are others besides Chicago and
Pittsburg.
San Francisco is one of them.
The great convention boom started by
The Call has swept across the continent,
up and down the coast, and the chances of
San Francisco are now quivering in the
balance. That a sufficient amount of
money will be subscribed there is no
longer any doubt. Every interest that ia
represented in commerce and by profes
sions has come to the front with its assist
ance, and the whole coast is expectant
with the prospect of success.
The interior papers have caught the cry
and it goes echoing through the State like
the slogan of freedom. A population of
both Republicans and Democrats has ex
pressed its intention of showing the East
that we can bid, and the silver and gold
that was once given to save the country
from a money panic is again ready to buy
the Republican National Convention for
San Francisco.
San Francisco has never had such an
opportunity aa now presents itself to bet