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The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
WOMEN MAY BE
CATHOLIC KNIGHTS
Sudden and Overwhelming Reversal
of the Vote by Which They
Were Excluded

KANSAS CITY. Mo, May 1.-THE con-
troversy of ten years standing was set
tied by the Catholic Knights of America
to-day when the delegates meeting here
in annual convention voted to admit
women to the order. Yesterday the reso-
luton proposing this change in the con
stitution was voted down. failing by
thirty-four votes to receive the necessary
two-thirds majority To-day there was
a complete change of front. At this af-
ternoon's session reconsideration of yes
terday's action was moved and carried
and vote was retaken without debate.
The result was the surprising total of
432 votes in favor of the women to 2g
against. The convention greeted the
result with tremendous applause.
The Illinois delegates voted solidly
against the women, casting twenty-seven
votes. The other negative votes were
from South Carolina and Wisconsin.
Though women will be admitted under
the amended constitution they will be
permitted TO carry but $1,000 insurance. or
half the amount that is allowed to men.
Women will be permitted to join between
the ages of IS and 40 years.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12

nj EW YORK. May 1.-THE Her
nj aids Washington correspondent
VI sends the following: I learned
i that General Otis has practical
ly completed preparations for a
movement, which if successful will be
the master stroke of the campaign
against the insurgents.
Reinforcements have been sent to
General Macarthur. who is disposing
his troops, and General Lawton has
moved his column from Ballinag and
Maasin 10 a strategic position. The
whole purpose OF these movements is
to surround the 10000 insurgents be-
lieved to be intrenched at Bacolor.
crush the organized forces and make
prisoners of all who are not killed in
battle.
Bacolor is southwest of San Fernan-
do. where General MacArthur's head
quarters are established, and is ON the
line of the railroad It is connected
with San Fernando by a wagon road.
Macarthur is expected to send a col
umn to the west of BacOlOr, retaining
his main position on the north, and
General Lawton is believed to have
moved his column so as to protect
communication with Manila and at the
same time flank the insurgents at Ba-
color on the east.
General Luna's command, which was
last reported at Mexico. can be taken
care of, it is thought by a few troops
making a demonstration in their front.
1t is because of the necessity of hav-
ing a strong force for this present
movement that General Otis has not
withdrawn the volunteers from Mac
Arthur's and Lawtons command pre-
paratory to shipping them home.
AS a result of the arrival of the
Twenty-first Infantry and Light Bat
terry E of the First Artillery, thirty
nine officers and 1451 enlisted men in
all, il has been possible for General
Otis to send reinforcements to General
Macarthur, and at the same time
maintain a sufficiently strong force at
Manila to prevent the insurgents TO the
southwark from trying to carry it by
assault.
An encouraging feature Of the pres
ent movement is the fact that to the
southwark the inhabitants are friendly
to Americans, and on the Rio Grande
there are a number of army gun
boats. which will be useful in main
tanning communication and at the same
time attacking any insurgent bodies
that may come within range of their
guns.
1T is because of the preparations for
the proposed movement" said prom
inent official with whom I talked to-
day that we have had little news
from General Otis. President Schur-
man has not cabled the State Depart
ment since his message of last Friday,
but we suppose that he and his col
leagues have held further conferences
with Aguinaldo's emissaries regarding
the government which will be given to
the Filipinos. With the insurgent army
at Bacolor destroyed and its members
captured, Aguinaldo and his subordi-
mates will no doubt be more eager to
obtain the concessions the United
States is willing to give them than they
now appear to be-
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
CRIMES FIGURE
IN THE SMITH
DIVORCE CASE

NEW YORK. May 11-Incidental TO
an action for divorce brought by
Charles G. Smith, manufacturer of
lamps. against his wife, Dora H. Smith,
in which charges of misconduct are
made by each against the other. appear
many sensational features. such as at
tempted murder and suicide, threats to
kill and several love epistles.
The features of the case became pub
lie to-day when the wife made an ap-
plication for her support and mainte-
nance, and for the appointment of a
commission to go to Los Angeles, Cal,
to take evidence there. The motions
were submitted to Judge Scott in the
Supreme Court, the decision being re-
served.
The marriage of the Smiths took
place in Boston in 1885. They have two
Children-twinS-WhO are invaHds. a
separation occurred several years ago
because they could not agree. and
Smith stipulated to pay his wife $50
monthly. She has been keeping a
boarding house since her husband left
her He says she has been intimate
with William H Short and Arthur
Waldo Lewis. but Mrs. Smith declares
that these charges are unfounded and
nothing but the outcome Of con-
spiracy against her. and that the char
acter of these men is such that. the
charges should not be believed.
Mrs. Smith tells an interesting mar
rative through her counsel of the man
ner in which she discovered her nus
bands relations with Mrs. Bessie Stan
ley of Los Angeles. Her story is based
in part from facts that she obtained
from her husbands diary. which was
sent to her fl ON the Chief of Police of
nd
newspapers Of that city of April 26 and
q. 1895 These reports show that
Charles H. Stanley shot his wife Bes-
sic and Immediately afterward COM
mitted suicide as she had threatened to
leave him. They also stated that
Charles G. Smith, whom Mrs. Smith
SAYS is her husband, had induced Mrs.
Stanley to leave her husband, and had
made many extensive and eXtravagant
presents to her
At the time Stanley committed sui
eide Mrs. Smith says Smith left Los
Angeles so hurriedly that he left behind
his baggage and some personal effects,
including his diary and pocketbook.
These were taken care of by the police.
Smith made good his escape and his
effects. at her request, were sent on to
her. She charges that her husband
came East with woman whom she
believes TO be Mrs. Stanley, and that
thev lived for some time in Brooklyn.
When she accused him of being one of
the nersons concerned in the Los An
geles affair she says he admitted that
he was, but told her that ne was not
aware that the woman was married.
Counsel for Smith introduced an affi-
davit denying that he had been guilty
of improper conduct with Mrs. Stanley,
or that he had given her money and
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
TROUBLE GROWING AMONG
THE FREIGHT HANDLERS
The Strike at Buffalo Rapidly Assum-
ing a More Serious Aspect.

BUFFALO. \. Y, May 1.-THE strike
among the members of the Freight
handlers Union at this port is gradually
assuming serious aspect. There are
about 200O of these men pledged not TO
work for any contractor. and many of
these men are now on strike. Originally
few of them went out in sympathy with
the grain-shovelers, and tonight it is be-
leved that in case the scOopers gain their
point they will remain out until their diff
ferences have been satisfied.
Several managers of transporta ton
lines said to-day that if the contractors
did not speedily demonstrate their ability
to do the work of loading and unloading
freight-boats they would be compelled to
devise other means OF relieving the con-
gestion of traffic at the port.
At the Lehigh Valley docks the com
pany called in a lot of yard men and
other employees to take the place of the
strikers At the Central. Erie and other
big docks the work was practically at
a standstill the few freight
who were at work being non-union men.
The freight-handlers demand an in
crease of wages from % cents an
hour, the present rate, to 80 cents an
hour for work outside of the freight
houses. and 20 cents hour for inside
work They also ask for the abolition of
the contract system.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
GERMANS WHO
RID|CULE THE
CONFERENCE

BERLIN, May 1.-THE Tageblatt to-
day publishes the result of an investi-
cation among a number of leading
German professors relative to the sub
ject Of the peace conference which be-
gins next week at The Hague. The
majority of those interviewed express
the belief that the conference will be
without practical Importance. Pro-
fessor Mommsen. the jurist and his
torian, and Professor Kuno Vischer,
professor of philosophy in Heidelburg
University, ridicule the conference.
Professor La Baud says that he ex-
poets no material results. Professor
Westerkampf expresses the opinion
that such a conference can have no re-
suits before public opinion the world
over. He indorses the principle of in
ternational arbitration.
LONDON, May II. - Sir Julian
Paunceforte, the ambassador of Great
Britain to the United States and one of
the British delegates to the peace con-
ference at The Hague had a confer
ence to-day with President Seth Low
and Captain A. T. Mahan, members of
the American delegation. This afternon
F. w. Hollis, secretary of the American n
commission, visited A ]. Balfour, the
Government leader in the House of
Commons
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
PROBABLE PERSONNEL.
OF ITALY'S NEW CABINET
Marquis Visconti Venosta Has Ac-
cepted the Foreign Office
Portfolio

ROME. May n.-Although the compost
ton of the reconstruction Cabinet has
not yet been officially announced. it is
considered that the Ministerial crisis is
practically over. This evening Marquis
Visconti Venosta notified General Pelloux
of his acceptance of the Foreign Office
portfolio.
The new Ministry may probably be
made up as follows:
Premier and Minister of Interior, Lieu
tenant General Luigi Pelloux. Senator.
Minister of Foreign Affairs. Marquis
Emilio Visconti Venosta, Senator.
Minister of War, Lieutenant General
G. Mirri, commander of the Sixth Army
Corps and the Bologna Military Division.
Minister of Marine, Rear Admiral G.. B.
Bettolo, commander of the Levant squad
ron.
Minister Of Public Works, signor Pietro
Lagava. Deputy.
Minister of Public instruction, DIR.
Guido Bacceli, Deputy.
Minister of the Treasury, Professor
Paolo Bozelli, Deputy.
Minister of Finance, Signor Antonio
Salandra. Deputy.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
PLACES THE
BLAME ON
THE CONSUL
Kautz Holds German Official
Responsible for Samoan
Troubles.
COMMISSIONS WORK
Man Taken From San Diego as a
Steward on the Philadelphia
Said to Have Been a Spy.
COMMISSIONS WORK
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. May ia Washing
ton special to the Herald says: Secre-
tary Long will make public tomorrow
or Saturday the mail report received
from Rear Admiral Kautz, describing
the fighting which occurred on April l,
during which Lieutenant P. V. Lans-
dale, Ensign John r. Monaghan and
two enlisted men of the American navy
were killed.
Rear Admiral Kautz has also for
warded to the department copies of all
proclamations he has issued, which
have been transmitted to the tate De-
partment for its satisfaction.
There is reason to believe that
Kautz places the entire responsibility
for the trouble upon the German Con-
sui, aided and abetted by certain Ger
mans residing in Samoa.
The high commission will under its
instructions make an investigation of
kautz's conduct, as well as others TAX
ing part in the controversy, and place
the blame where it properly belongs, in
order that the home governments may
take proper action
SAN DIEGO, May lie. E. Clark OF
this city, who is in the engineering de-
partment aboard the United States
steamship Philadelphia, writes to his
father, John Clark. from Apia, under
date of April 19, saying:
There was a fellow shipped at Sar
Diego as a steward. He was a Ger
man. and when he got here he went
ashore to buy groceries, but never
came back They sav he was env
a eaman named St efer says he saw
the deserter in fight our mon nae
with the rebels. and shot him. He says
he is sure of it. and most of the fel-
lows aboard believe him"
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
"A SIMPLE ROMAN
CATHOLIC LAYMAN"
Rev. c. W. de L. Nichols, an Episcopal
Clergyman, Forsakes the Faith
of His Fathers.

NEW YORK. May 1.-THE Rev c. w.
de Lion Nichols to-day severed his con-
nection with the Protestant Episcopal
church. professed the Roman Catholic
faith and was received as n comrlunfcant
Of St Stephen's at the evening mass.
Rev. Mr.. Nichols, who is Of independ
ent means. is well known in this city. and
recently has been assistant rector in st.
Lulles Church. He gave his services
without salary.
Mr.. Nichols when seen tonight said
For three years 7 have been Studying
and debating reasons which have led me
finally 10 sever my relations with the
Episcopal church and become Roman
Catholic. ] find that spiritual light which
] sought could best be found for me in
the mother church. and so 7 resigned nv
priestly office in the Episcopal church and
am now simple Roman Catholic lay
man."
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
BISHOP POTTER MAY
0RDAIN DR.. BRIGGS
Uncertainty Deepens as the Day Set
Apart for the Ceremony Ap-
prOacheS

NEW YORK, May IL - Uncertainty
deepens as the day approaches which was
originally set for the ordination of Dr.
Briggs Opponents of the clergyman have
been firm in the belief that his ordination
will be indefinitely postponed To-day.
however. there were developed indications
which DR.. Briggs friends said appeared
to point to a determination on the part
of Bishop Potter to proceed with the cere-
mony Rev. Dr. Huntington of Grace
Church hinted that he had information
regarding the intentions of Bishop Potter,
but was not at liberty to make them pub
lie In an editorial the Churchman. Bish-
op Potter's official mouthpiece, to-day
says:
The church cannot be expected to pledge her
self to acquisitions of all kinds of scientific in
vestigaton. Scientific Bible study is really an
evidence of growth of religious feeling not of
its decline Archaeologists and critics are do
ing heroic work in making the Bible sources
and Bible contents more ineligible every day
Machinery and administration of church life of
our day should not be used to hamper progress
of research and carry US off from the pathway
Of truth to the byways Of observation and
prejudice
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12


N proclaimed a free and independ-
VI ent state to-day by a revolution
! ary party. which for three years
has been secretly al work
throughout the world.
Copies of a call to arms we're issued
by the thousand from headquarters of
the secret council. OF junta. Of this city.
This Revolutionary party has on its
rolls $4,000 men in this country alone.
who are willing % fight to free Syria
from the rule Of the Sultan Of Turkey.
Young SYRIA" as the society is
called. is the result Of gradual growth.
The success Of the Cubans has inspired
ii 10 take a bold stand. Members say
there VIII be a very sick man in
Europe before long for they assert
they viii have funds to equip armies
and vessels Of war.
The coast lines Of Syria, with it's
cov-s and inlets and neighboring isles.
have been carefully studied f~-n a
strategic point of view. The revolu-
touists they say have leaders with
naval and military training
Agents Of the junta, directed from
headquarters in this city, are active in
cities Of SYRIA, in London and in Paris.
Thousands in the mountainous dis
tricts Of Syria are counted upon to
flock To the standard Of the liberators.
All 0f the thirty members of the junta
here had a hand in the preparation OF
the call 10 arms issued to-day. The
proclamation is simply signed Young
Syria Toward the end of the docu-
ment stress is laid upon the assertion
that the revolutionary society known
as Young Turkey" may lend its CO.
operation.
When asRe1 r a similar society eK-
listed in Armenia. the president smiled
and asked to be excused from talking
upon the matter. He frankly said,
however. that in the event Of Syrian
uprisings. the Sultan would be so busy
attending 10 Young Turkey" that he
would not have time to give much at
tention to Young Syria"
Upon the condition that his name was
not 10 be used. and that no description
Of his personal appearance be printed.
the president Of the junta consented TO
give an interview to-day.
7 am convinced. said he, that the
United States is the birthplace OF re-
publics. Since your country has
brought liberty 70 Cuba and the Philip
pines I believe that upon American soil
we may form plans for the emancipa-
tion of Syria. The conditions of Syria
are terrible. The people are taxed be-
yond all reason. Property is subject to
confscation, and the home is not sa-
cred
This document is but a forerunner.
7 may say. as others will follow which
shall outline our policy more clearly. I
may say ours viii not be a talking
crusade but one Of actual warfare. We
shall have men, ships and money. too.
"Of the hundred thousand and more
Syrians in America. Of the many hun
dreds Of thousands throughout the
world as well as millions in our own
land. we shall choose the readiest to
our cause, and the first combined
stroke viii be to a finish And when
the blow falls Young Turkey which
IS as powerfully organized as we. will
give the Sultan's government all it can
attend to at home. while we shall found
on Syrian soil its first great republic
to be perpetuated there forever"
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
THE MISSION OF MAJOR
MARCHAND TO FASHODA
Government Charged With Having
Sent Him There to
Fail

PARIS. May lin the Petit Journal
Maurice Barras accuses the Government,
of having originally sent Major March
and to Fashoda only to have the appear
ance of acting, and of having hoped that
he would not succeed. He says: when
and's dispatches to Paris. NJ del Casse
(Foreign Minister) said to him: When
you found yourselves in the presence of
superior force you should have with
drawn
Captain Barratier replied, Monsieur.
military honor
m. del Casse shrugged his shoulders
and Captain Barratier bowed and retired.
The next day the Foreign Minister in
Vited Captain Barratier to luncheon, but
the latter declined"
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
CUBAN sTEvEDoREs ON STRIKE.
They Want More Wages and Tie Up
the Ships,

HAVANA. May 11.-More than seven
hundred Cuban stevedores are out on
strike and the work on ships in the harbor
is being done by Chinese under police
guard. The stevedores had been receiving
% cents an hour. and they are striking for
an increase of 10 cents. Many vessels are
delayed by the strike and the boats due to
leave tomorrow will not be able to sail
before next week.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
THOSE BLUEFIELDS CLAIMS.
Minister Merry Awaiting the Action
of the Nicaraguan Government.

WASHINGTON, May u.-United States
Minister Merry has further advised the
State Department respecting the claims
of American merchants al Bluefelds to
exemption from double payment of Gus
toms taxes. He reports that the entire
amount of money involved in the dispute
is about S19 600, and that he is now await
ing the further presentation of the Mica
raguan Government in the case.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
FINDLAY WILL NOT
FIGHT EXTRADITION
San Luis obispo Embezzler to Vol
UNFAIRLY Return From
Per11

Special Cable TO The Call and the New york
Herald Copyrighted 1889, by James Cor
don Bennett
LIMA, Peru. May T.-Samuel Findlay.
who was arrested here on a charge of
having embezzled public funds in San
Luis Obispo County California. has
waived examination proceeding and de-
clares he will return to California volun-
tariIy. He hopes thereby TO obtain
greater clemency.
= Findlay x9 Was formeriy ra Tax Collector Of
on November II. 1898. He is alleged 10
have embezzled between $4,000 and SIS 900.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
RUMORED APPOINTMENTS
MADE BY THE GOVERNOR
Include San Jose Normal School Trus-
tees and Agnews Asylum
Manager
e'AASA .

SAN JOSE. May lit is rumored here
that Governor Gage to-day appointed
George Sweigert and DR.. II. c. Brown Of
Leavitt of Oakland trustees of the San
lose State Normal School and A.
Greeninger of this city as manager of
AgnewS ASVlum.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12

y ANITA ROSA, May lin the
golden jubilee of the Baptist
churches of California, which is
~ to take place in San Francisco on
May "a, the Santa Rosa organi-
cation will play an important part. The
church here is next to the oldest in the
State. The Baptist State Convention
was organized here in 1888. The serv-
ices were held under the spreading
branches of a mammoth oak upon the
old Henry Hudson place, near town. a
number of relics of the occasion and
action connected with the early his
tory of the church in this S tie will be
sent to San Francisco for exhibition
during the jubilee.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
WHEN VOLUNTEERS WILL
RETURN FROM PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON. May lin reply to
the cable of Adjutant General Corbin last
night in regard to the return of volun-
teers General Otis cabled this morning:
MANILA May I--Adjutant General. Wash
i--to1. The volunteers who will be first to re-
urn are now at Negros and forty-five miles
from Manila at the front It is expected that
the TRANSPORTS now arriving Will take the re-
tItrning volunteers. The latter understand that
they will begin to leave for the United states
irnnortance of their presence here at this time
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
INTENDS TO
SURROUND THE
INSURGENTS
General Otis Completes Plans
for the Master Stroke of
the Campaign.
WILL TRAP AN ARMY
It Is Proposed to Capture 10000
FilipinOs Now Intrenched
at BacOlor.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


NEW YORK, May IA
special to the World from Hot
Springs, Va, says: Force the
fighting; penetrate far into
the interior and capture or de-
stroy every warning Filipino"
That is the pith of a long
cipher cablegram President
Mckinley sent to General Otis
at Manila to-day. 1t was
prompted by several dis
patches from General Otis,
transmitted by Secretary Al
ger, which greatly encouraged
the President.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
TWO HUNDRED BUILDINGS
BURNED IN AUSTRIAN TOWN

VIENNA Moy ll.-ID q great fire in tbe
town Of Guer0 HuDoro, province Of Pu-
koWiDo, 200 bulldogs, Including the prin-
cipu church, tbe toWD ball and other
public edifices, and oil the school-houses,
were destroyed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
POPE LEO DECLARES FOR
A UNIVERSAL JUBILEE

ROME, 1.-THE handed Mgr Marini
in the
promulgated according vbue of St Peters
preaes
audience The the doors of the
bas
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12
Secret Council in New York
Boldly Issues a Call
to Arms.
WILL FIGHT TURKEY
When the Blow Is Struck for Free.
dom, Aid Is Expected in All
Parts Of the World
Special D1spatoa to The Call

RTEW YORK. May 1.-Syria vas
N proclaimed a free and independ-
VI ent state to-day by revolution
airy party. which for three years
,1-orl-
The San Francisco call., 1899-05-12

T EW YORK. May 1.-THE Her
aids Washington correspondent
VI sends the following: l learned
that General Otis has practical