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VOLUME LXXX.-NO. 175. WEYLER'S FORCES ON THE RETREAT Spaniards in Havana Very Indignant Over the Failure. Maceo's Army Divided Into Small Bands to Harass the Enemy. " Inability of the Bu cher Captain ' General to Suppress the Island Insurrection. KEY WEST, Fla.., Nov. 2L—Passen * gers who arrived from Havana reported .hat it is reported that Weyier has failed in his campaign against Maceo. Though no accurate data are obtainable as to the latter's movements all reports agree tha: lie has divided his force into small bands ■ who harass the Spanish troops, but fight no pitched battles. Weyler's marches have bdten painful, and his soldiers have suffered great hard ships. In consequence, 1300 soldiers have been sent to Candelaria sick. Most of Weyler's staff are sick and returning to Havana. He is also falling back, and will .establish headquarters near Artemisia at the estate Pillar, which he claims is a bet ter base of operations. The Spaniards in Havana are indignant at Weyler's Inability to crush the insur rection in Pinar del Rio, and mutterings ' are heard. General Pandor, who is com ing with re-enforcements, is indicated as Weyler's probable successor. All are despondent in Havana, and con sider tbe outlook gloomy. At the meet ing to take Dart in the popular loan of Epain no spirit was shown. All hei : back, and only through the nre-sure of the civil government was $55,(300 raised as a free gift to Spain. Not a cent has been added ' since. Luciano Ruise, a prominent hanker, and Senor Quesada, Mayor of the city, left the meeting without contributing to the fund. Rebels in other sections of the island continue active. It is said that the im portant town of Victoria de las Lunas, in Santiago province, is besieeed by a strong force of insurgents. The train starting from Carsenas yesterday was obliged to return on account of the masses of rebels stretched across the line. They belong to the command of General Gomez. mx is * - r-M, 1 jif .o vrx. .Httt ' ay a' thu Belligerency of Cuban* Should Be ItreognixedZ CHICAGO. 111., Nov. 21.— Congressman Robert R. Hitt, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations *nd a candidate for the Senate to succeed Sena tor Palmer, is at the Great Northern. When asked what action be believed the United States Government should take in regard to the Cubans' struggle for inde pendence Mr. Hitt said: "Our duty to the Cubans is a practical and pressing one. Our Government should act at once, recognizing the belligerency of a people carryine on so extensive a war. They have fought great armies for a year and a half with success. The Spanish people have really been on the defensive most of the time, ana have lost all oi'tue island except the fortified places and the lines they actually occupy. The Cubans are truly belligerents. Such action on the part of our country would be of great advantage to them. Recognition of bel ligerent rights is due under the practices of general international law and practice of the United States Government. We refuse to see that they are belligerent enough to dely and defeat 150,000 Spanisn troops. This is not a question of sympa thy, but of plain, pressing duty, that should be performed immediately. Tlie Nation, through Congress, has spoken. There is no need to fear a war. The en lightened opinion of the world expects such action on the part of our Republic and will approve it." IN THE CAUSE OF CUBA. BU Louis CiUtenw Hem and That the I'atriot* Br ItrcojniTrd. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 21.— The cause of Cuba Libre rece : ?d a noisy impetus here to-night at a mass-meeting in the City Hall. The attendance was large and the en thusiasm high. City Comptroller Sturgeon occupied the chair, and in his opening address referred to a similar meeting over which he presided on August 26, 1851, to advance the cause of Cuba. Lieutenant- Gorernor O'Meara made a stirring speech. Resolutions were passed demanding that the Cubans be recognized as beLiner ents, pledging material support and de nouncing the brutality of the Spanish soldiers. A permanent organization was effected and correspondence invited from similar bodies in other cities. A branch of the Spanish Patriotic L-aue was formed in this city to-day. The leapue was organized in the City of Mexico six months ago and has spread to every large city in the Western Hemi sphere. The purpose of the league, as an nounced in circulars issued, is to subscribe a fund of $50,000,000 to rehabilitate the Spanish navy. AS TO FRANCE AND RUSSIA. n the Chamber of Deputies Minister Hanoiaux Explains the Relations of the Two Nations. PARIS, Fbance, Not. 21.— 1n the Cham ; ber of Deputies to-day M. MUleraud, So cialist, asked the Government to explain the nature of tne understanding between France and Russia. M. Hanotaux, Minister of Foreign Af fairs, amid great applause, which was re newed as he concluded, read a declaration settingr forth that the Cabinets of France for several years pa~t had each followed the sume line toward Russia, the effect of which had been observed upon the re cent visit of the Czar, which visit had re sulted in cordiality which the whole world had felt. A. aolemu act, he ,«aid, had been accom The San Francisco Call SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1896— TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. plisbed throneh the affectionate meeting of a great sovereign and a great people. After enlarging upon the enthusiasm o: the 1 zar over the fetes given in his honor M. Hanotaux said: "I can only r^plv to M. Milleraud by recalling the precise concerted terms ex pressed by the Czar and the President of the republic at Cherbourg before the naval officers; at Paiis before the repre sentatives of the Government, and at Chalons before the military chiefs. The Chamber will appreciate the fact tnat duty imposes upon me the obligation to say nothing more concerning the entente up on wuich nobody now dreams of casting any doubt." MISERY SUPREME IN INDIA. Missionaries Write About the Havoc Wrougnt by the Famine and the Plague. BOSTON, Mass , Nov. 2L— Tlie Ameri can Board of Foreign Missions has re ceived tue following letter from Rev. R. A. Hume, D. D., dated at Abmednagar, India, October 16, 1896: "I am just enterine upon my twenty third year of missionary service in India. In these years I have been through many perplexities, but the end of the twenty second year finds me in greater pecuniary embarrassment than ever before in my life. Many is the day that there is not a dollar jn the house for the personal ex penses or for old, established, fruitful work, or for our theological seminary, nor any idea of where a dollar is to come from. And in the twenty-third year there seems the almost certain prospect of the Keenest and most trying suffering and perplexity, caused by widespread famine. "The Indian weather bureau foretold an inadeaate rainy season this year. The re sult is as foretold. From the Himalayas to Cape Comonn the rainy season has been inadequate. In this (Ahraednagar dis trict) the early rain in June and July was good. But since July there has been no rain, and now the prospect is for eight months more no rain will fall. In conse quence the first crops have not properly ripened, and for want of later rains the second crops cannot be even sowed in most places unless there are wells to be de pendel on. Even the water supply is now low. What will it be a few months hence? "I have been through one famine in In dia and the recollection of it is most sad. But that was not a general so much as a comparatively local famine. The coming famine seems likely to be very general for nearly the whole population, with its 300,000,000 people. Already grain riots are commencing. Grain merchants will no sell grain largely because they know the price will greatly increase, though even now prices are 300 per cent above normal. So people break open grain shops and granaries and threaten to kill the mer cnants if they interfere. They say: 'We shall have soon to die without doubt. If you interfere with our getting our bread and we kill you in tne struggle it will be all the same.' "Similarly these people say to the po lice and courts: 'Arrest us stealing and support us in jail. Then we shall not die irom starvation.' Wnen quiet, orderly people are aroused to such acts and words you can imagine their present conditi n. But this is only the beginning of our troubles. "N more rain seems likely to fall for eight full months, no seed can be sown for eii:ht and a half months, and no grain ripened for over ten months. What fear ful suffering seems to be in store! Al ready iv some places parents are deserting ihcr children. In some places cattle are being sold for the value of their hides. In many places farmers forcibly drive their cattle into lorest reserves and say to for est officers: 'You may put these cattle into pounds; tden they will at least get fed, but we shall not regard forest regula tions.' "Yesterday morning near the gate of Ahmednagar a cart with grain was stopped by hungry men, who held the driver tili some of them had carried off the grain. For two days my servants tried in vain to buy 50 cents' worth of grain for use. If they do this thins in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? The early part of October is theoretically a part of the rainy season; in ordinary years our water supply is most abundant now and the crops are at their best." The Rev. Edward Hume writes from Bombay und r date of October 10: "You have doubtless heard through the papers that Bombay is Buffering from tne pla ue. Yisitrday's report shows that during the past week there have been nearly 800 deaths, or 50 per cent above the normal for this time of the year. This excess is due to the presence of the plague, which the doctors technically call 'bubonic fever.' The sy^mptoras are swelling on the neck, in the armpits and groin*, ac companied by fever and vomiting, and the patients present a very noticeably sad and demented appearance. In one case which has been reported death took place after an illness of twenty-two hours, but in most cases the patients linger on ior two or three days. At first the mortality was very hieh, but the authorities assure us that not more than 60 per cent of the cases are fatal. Even exDerts cannot tell us w ence the disease came nor what the cause." POPE LEO REPORTED DYING. But Cardinal Vaughn Declares That the Rumors Are Without the SlighieSi. Foundation. LONDON. Eng., Nov. 21— The Rock, an Evangelical Church of En K land paper, re ports that the Pope is dying and that in consequence the holding of the consis tories lixed for near dates are likely to be postponed. Cardinal Vaughn, Archbishop of West minster, declares that the rumors regard ing the Pope are entirely baseless and that the report of his being in a dying condition is simply the recurrence of a rumor that is periodically put into circu lation. TRACING ARBUCKLE'S MOVEMENTS Detectives Follow a Clew That the Wealthy Coloradan Was Robbed and Murderea. NEW YORK, N. V., Nov. 21.-The four prisoners in tha Ar buckle case were brought to Ihe Harem court this mcrn int'. Central Office Detective Vallely nas traced Arbuckie to the St. Charles Hotel on Sixth avenue aud Forty- ourth street, which place tie left at 1:10 o'clock Thurs day morn r.g, taking the elevate i railroad train to Harlem. At that time he had a After Democratic Roosters for Three Years an Old-Fashioned Republican Turkey Will Go Well. watch, jewelry and money. He was found dying in Harlem an hour and% half later. Captain O'Brien informed a representa tive of the United Associated Presses to day that his men were more confused* at the outstart by the statement that a man who was presumed to be Mr. Arbuckie had been drinking in the Casino about 10 o'clock Wednesday evening. This was proved fnl*e when tne detectives found that Arbuckie was at a late hour in a saloon on Fourteenth street and had been drinking in the earlier part of the even ing. The police found that he was at the St. Charles Hotel in the evenine and left thereabout 1 o'clock on Thursday morn ing. The ticket-chopper on thp Sixtli avenue Elevated Railroad at Forty-second street station bap informed the police that he remembered a weil-dressed man who answered Mr.' Arbuckle's description in "THE ABLEST CONDUCTED AND CLEANEST DAILY JOURNAL" In the dignified discussions of the various subjects of public interest Town Talk has at times differed with THE Call, and criticized its opinions in what may have been considered very severe terms. But these little affairs only add spice to journalistic life, and do not reflect in the least upon the personal character or business ability of the journalists themselves. Town Talk knows, as does every intelligent citizen in this City and State, that the present proprietor of THE Call, and the gentlemen who are alleged to be its backers, are men of unquestioned honor, who have contributed largely to the commercial advancement of California ; and we consider THE CALL to be the ablest conducted and cleanest daily journal published in San Francisco. 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But this does not seem to have prevented the last-named journals from indulging in some harsh criticisms of Mr. Shortridge, and to set afloat malicious rumors regarding THE CALL'S future, with the evident hope tnat they could injure that journal in the public mind. Aside from the fact that such mean ness in journalism is despicable, it is also ineffectual for the reason that the real test of merit in a newspaper is what it contains. Upon this point THE Call is safe from the effect of idle rumors and adverse criticism. It gives the news. It speaks boldly and clearly upon the issues of the day. It treats discordant interests fairly. It blackmails nobody. It reflects the decencies and proprieties of daily journalism. Its internal business affairs and arrangements are the proper concern of nobody but its owners and are matters of no real interest to the reading public. During the past two years THE Call has made wonderful strides in the race with its rivals for both business and news, and as the mounting outlines of its new home cast daily a longer shadow up and dowm Market street, it is not surprising that newspapers which happen to fall within that shadow should make attempts to retard its increase and shadow the growing influence and success of their popular contemporary. Town Talk may continue to entertain contrary opinions to those expressed by Mr. Charles Shortridge, but it congratulates him and San Francisco upon his success, and we expect to always have only words of praise to say of his excellent journal. The public will see from the above article the estimate in which THE Call and its proprietor are held by one of the leading literary weeklies of the City. This estimate we do not doubt will be indorsed by the better element of the people, which is ably represented by Town Talk. THE Call has ever been free from fakes and vile sensations of all kinds. It has never been suspected even of blackmail. Its reputation like its character is clean and above reproach. It is the intention to keeD it so. — Editor of The Call. every respeot had come out on the platf orm and taken a train for Harlem at 1 : 10 a. m. The ticket-chopper said he was positive Arbuckie had his watch and chain then. He was intoxicated, but not help lessly so. The train which Arbuckie boarded at Forty-second street should have reached the terminus of the road at 1:60 a. m. It was 2:45 o'clock when a policeman fouud his body. This would leave the interval of r.n hour during which his movements hare not been traced. The hearing in ihe contempt case against Lawyer Friend, counsel for the men arreated in t c Arbuckie case, has been set down for Saturday, December 5. SUICIDE OF A GENERALISTE Being Out of Work ■ and r Destitute .;■ Ma - ".« • . Inhnl**' fiat. . . r.i PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 21.-Pen i nel C. Higgins, aged 45 years, a brother of ex- United States Senator Anthony Hig gins cf Delaware, also a brother of John j C. Higsins, the regular Republican candi j date for Governor in Delaware at ihe late | election, committed suicide to-day by in j haling illuminating gas at his bonrding j house, 405 South Eighth street. Mr. Hig j gins was a well-known newspaper man, his last engagement being on the local siaff of the Philadelphia Press. Two weeks | ago he lost his position and, being with ' out funds and in arrears at his boarding house, he ended his life. He was unmar ried. mind a Lynching /• Probable. LIBERTY, Mo., Nov. 22.— The Coro ner's jury investigation into the murder of Mrs. Betty Foley and her daughter on their farm near here on Tuesday last re turned their verdict this (Sunday) morn ing, and at 1 o'clock William Foley wus arrested charged with the murder of tin mother and sister. Excitement is in tense and a lynching is probable Of fibers will attempt to take him to Kansas City this morning. SENATOR ELK INS' DENIAL. Says He R fused fo Have Any Connection, Fraudulent or Otherwise, With the Harrison Company. NEW YORK, N. V., Nov. 21.— United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins, when seen to-night at his office in this city, made a statement in regard to the charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds of the Harrison International Telephone Company by the directors and stockhold ers o: the company. He said: "I know nothing wnatsoever about a suit whicn is said to have been Wrought for a receiver for the Harrison In erna national Company, nor do I know any thing about matters appertaining to that company. "At the earnest request of George R. Peck, general counsel of the St. Paul Rail way, and many of my Western friends, I agreed in 1595, providing that the com pany reduce the stock to $3 000,000 or $4,000,000 and move their office-, to New York, to become the president and di rector of the company. I was notified at the time that I would be given a certain amount of stock in the company for my services. This offer I absolutely re fused. I have never attended a meeting of tbe directors or stockholders of the company, either by proxy or otherwise, and have never received one penny's worth from them. "From the newspapers that I read here I have seen no allegations of fraud made against me, but do not know what stories the Western papers may have printed. I have instructed my lawyer in Chicago to look into the matter and upon his report, providing the occasion warrants it, I will make a more complete report, in which I will bring forth my resignation sent to tbe company and other correspondence which passed between the company and myself." He said that he had seen Mr. Harrison, the inventor of the telepnone which the International Telephone Company repre sents, but once. Senator Elkins will leave for Washington to-morrow morning. SATOLLI' S LETTER TO IRELAND. The Cardinal Tells the Pope How Sin- cerely and Loyally the Archbishop Works in America. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 2L— Archbishop Ireland received to-day a long letter from Cardinal Satolli containing a summary of the report presented by the cardinal to the Pope on the affairs of the American church. The letter is dated Home, No vembers. In vie . of the cardinal's re port, lately printed in SL w York, tho arenbishop gives to the pnti ".;. some of the matter in tha rept: ers to him self. Cardinal fcatc m: "I arrived in Rou e E uurday, October 31, and the following day Sunday, I had ihe great happiness t^ « Emitted to an audience with the H'->iy Father. Many things were discussed, b>*< 1 wish at once to repeat to yon whs', wue said about yourself. I did not fail & state fully to the Holy Father how sincerely and loyally you were devoted to the Holy See and to the person of the Holy Father him self; with what zeal and success you ceaselessly labor in all things t at turn to the advantage of the Catholic church in the United States. I added that this zeal and tbis success were sure to be increased in the future." In other parts of the letter the Cardinal congratulates !he Archbishop on the elec tion of McKinley to the Presidency, and also assures him that a bright fuiure is in reserve for Bishop Keane, the late rector of the university. SENATOR MORRISSEY' S SLAYER. Maud Loomis' Appeal Being in Vain She Will Serve Fifteen Tears' Imprisonment. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 2L— On the night of May 23, 1894, State Senator Peter Morrissey was shot and killed by his mistress, Maud Loomis, during a drunken quarrel at the latter's residence in this city. The Loomis woman has relatives prominent in local society circles and the best legal talent was employed in her defense. Her trial resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and the court sentenced her to fifteen years' imprisonment at Jefferson City. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and yesterday ihe decision of the lower court was affirmed. Pending the decision the woman was released on $10,000 bail. During the past twenty-four hours detectives were unable to locate her ana it was feared that she had fled the city. This morning Miss Loomis surrendered at police headquarters and sated that she would be ready to leave for Jefferson City at any time. MURDERER HERMANS LOCATED. Partly Identified as the Preacher in Jail at Topaka for Sending indecent Letters to His Wife. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 21.— Rev- A. Wynne Richmond, now in jail at Topeka, Kans., on a charge of sending indecent letters to Mrs. Richmond, his wife, who lives In Kansas City, Kans., is believed to be none other than Rev. Francis Hermans, who formerly lived in gait Lake City, where in 1895 he murdered his two house keepers and fled to this city, again going to Illinois, where he was lost sight of. His wife met him at a revival meeting in Kansas City, Kans., a year ago and they were married, after which he went on a preaching tour through Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. A photograph of Hermans, when shown to Mrs. Richmond this after noon, was pronounced by her as a very strong likeneßS of her husband. The descriptons of the preachers tally exactly in evt ry respect, especial'y in their mus taches. Both were fastidious in dress and both have sensual lips. John I:. Hoxie D»n&. CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 2L— John R. Hoxie died at 5 o'clock this morning at his h.me in this city. Mr. Hoxie was one of Chicago's best-tnown business men. He wa* a prominent director of the Stock Exchange, the local Board of Trade and director in the First National Bank and Chicago City Railway Compauy. He was aiso the owner of the San Gabriel (Tex.) ranch. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRINCETONS DOWN OLD ELI'S SONS Yale's Blue Is Vanquished by the Orange and Black. In a Glorious Combat the Brawn and Muscle ot Nassau Win the Battle. By a Score of 24 :o 6 the Tigers Are Victors in a Most Exciting Game of Football. NEW \ORK, N. V., Nov. 21.—"Prince ton! Princeton! Princeton!" and with a mighty shout that grew in volume and rolled like the flotsam and jetsam on the edge of the ncomin>; tide, thousands who lined the fence around Manhattan Held sen», the slogan up to the thousands on the stands, and from thence through the murky atmosphere the battle-cry reacned the tens of thousands who lined the via duct overlooking all — a waving, gorgeous yellow hue— tne Yale-Princeton game of '96 was over and the brawn and muscle of historic Nassau had trampled the mighty traditions of old Eli in the dust. It was a glorious combat, fought hand to hand and eye to eye, and Princeton came out triumphant to enter the tnird decade of her struggles with her friendly enemy on the score of 24 points to 6. It was a sweeping victory, but the van quished fought hard and died game. In vain did Murphy, Benjamin and Hine battle, until nature gave way and they were reluctantly forced off the field. In vain did those who took their places with the gallant remnant pußh and heave and pant. The tigers' blood was up ana all of the efforts of the gallant sons of Eli to counteract the battering-ram that was being hurled at their line were set at naueht. Their defense went down like ninepins before the assaults of the con quering heroes. Once and once only did the old familiar blue of Yale wave triumphantly over the fray. Seven minutes after Baird had started hostilities the Yale warriors had the ball on Princeton's twenty-five yard line. But despite the encouragement of their followers the Elis had to surrender possession after unavailing efforts to pierce the phalanx in front of them. Baird feil back for a punt out of danger, but the watchful Rodgers was on hand and bioc ked the kick. The ball roiled behind the goal line. There was a rush on both sides ; a confused mass slowly disintegrated. Bass had fallen on the ball and drawn first bloo*. for Yaie. Then the wearers of the blue had their chance ana nobly they re sponded to the call. Though outnum bered nearly two to one by the bearers of orange colors, they made up in volume of enthusiasm for lack of numbers. It was their last chance. Spurred on by the score of 6 to 0, the tigers rushed to the attack with a fierceness thai overturned all obstacles. The mighty weight of their rash line broke down Yale's defense. Yard by yard, the E;is fighting manfully every foot, the torrent broke down the de voted citadel. The ball was brought al most on the Yale goal line, and then with a mighty heave Baird and Kelley were sent through for touchdowns. Baird easily achieved the major points and the first half ended with tbe score of 12 to 6 in favor of the tigers. It was shortly before the half ended that the first and only "star" run of the guma wa« made. Yaie whs forced to kick on NEW TO-DAT. 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