The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 10, 1897, Image 6
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Trc MEWS EPi"T Ci.iiZED.
Washington Items.
Mr. Tillman precipitated an exciting debate
in the Senate by his effort to have his
sugar investigation resolution recalled from
su committee.
Special advices from Havana. Cuba, state
that Mr. Calhoun will report to President |
McKinley that every means, even the most
extreme, should be used to stop the war in
the island.
Senators are said to have decided to
oppose the Tillman resolution for an in
aestivation of the charges that Senators
have speculated in sugar stock.
Senator Aldrich is ill from work and worry
over the Tariff bill. In his absence Senator
Allison had charge of the measure in the
Senate.
Speaker Reed has received a series of
letters threatening to take his life. The
j, 4 last one shows that the writer has arrived
in Washington. He is not amenable to
law. as the threats were made in an inclosed
letter and not on an envelope or a
postal card.
The President nominated Miguel A. Otero
!" for Governor of New Mexico and George
W. Wallace, a relative of his wife, for
!y Secretary of the TerritorV.
& The President sent the following nomina-,
tioDs to the Senate: William Haywood, of
the District of Columbia, to be Secretary
of the Legation and Consul-General at
Honolulu, H. I.; William L. Penfleld, of Ine*
diana, to be Solicitor for the Department
f:? of State; John K. Thompson, to be Marshal
for the District of West Virginia: John De
i ," Haven, to be United States District Judgo
for the Northern District of California.
K. The Sultan has withdrawn his objections
to the appointment of Dr. James B. Angel]
V t Minister to Turkey.
_ President McKinley pardoned Frederick
J?. EUgar, wao rooea uie irauesineu s j
?" v tional Bank, Sew York Citv, in 1894 ol $17,eoo.
8pecial Treasury Inspector Hampton has
reported to Washington that he was dis>v
armed and driven off the steamer Biscayne
jfr' ?b the Florida oast, as she was transferring
arms and ammunition to the filibuster
gr Dauntless. The arms were successfully
f. v transferred.
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Domestic.
k Synuel L. Post, Jr.. one of the best-known
(Tt\ v members of the Stock Exchange, New York
I City, was stricken with a fatal illness while
en the floor of the Exchange and expired in j
fifteen minutes. j
t The United States gunboat Princeton was
launched at John H. Dialogue A Son's shipk
yard. Camden, N. J. I
The Japanese Minister at Honolulu oxpresses
his dissatisfaction with Hawaii's reply
to Japan's demand, and intimates that
ne may return home unless the matter is:
adjusted.
Tenezuela asked Grover Cleveland to act
r as her counsel before tne Anglo-Venezuelan
arbitration tribunal. He declined.
I*' The report of the Special Senate Committee
appointed to investigate the affairs
of the defunct Globe Savings Bank of Chicago
shows that former Governor Altgeld
was a heavy borrower under suspicious
circumstances.
The June crop report by the Ohio State
' Board of Vkgrieolture, shows that wheat
prospects have increased four points since
the last report, the present per cent, befc*35
-i't The Democratic delegates of the Fourth
Congressional District met at Columbus,
gri lad., to nominate a successor to the late
Congressman Holman, and on the fourp'
'i teenth ballot F. M. Griffith, of Switzerland,
Ifcrmkr:whe ?ma aulanfa^ Tito ( oaolnfinna PPftfflrmftd
the Chicago platform and were specially
'y pronounced in favor of free silver
1 - The entire plant of Jones A Laugnlin, at
|JFv " Pittsburg. Penn., has closed down, on ae3;,
~ .count of the strike, throwing 3500 men out
M employment.
Ryy Two men were killed in the collapse of a
i . soap factory building at Fifty-flrst street
and Twelfth avenue. New York City. The
,V. "victims are William Frazer, Brooklyn, and
Jacob Jaeobson. a millwright. The archiBf
' tect of the building and contractors were
ft. attested cm a ohargo of manslaughter.
* f Thomas M. Early and Max Bernstein were
i,. arraigned before United States Commissi:
sioner Shields, in New York City, charged
with Mealing several cannon from West
Point.
L ' Little Whirlwind, the Cheyenne murderer
of the herder near Lame Deer Agency,in
Kf' Montana, was arrested by Agent Stouch,
Sfr, and this believed that the trouble there is
at anepd. ,
& v Pour flree, three of them believed to be
j.: Inoeadiary, caused great alarm in Key port,
Sf.J.
The silver Democrats of Kentucky held
their State Convention at Frankfort and in*y
dorsed the Chicago platform.
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary I
of the Navy, formally opened the Naval
WarCollege in Newport, R. I., with an ad- I
y dress in which he appealed for a formidable I
navy as the surest means of securing a permanent
peace,
'i' George Kauffm&n, the son of a farmer in
r Sterling, 111., was murdered and burned I
A while guarding his father's granary from
thieves.
I. Hoffman, of the firm of Hoffman. Alex- I
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UUUJL Or VUt, ViVVUiciO, VI v?u Amuviovv,
Cal., wa9 found shot in hi3 office. The last
* person to see him alive was probably his
bookkeeper, Theodore A. Flgle. The theory
of the police seems to be that of murder,
although many circumstances point to
suicide.
The family of ex-Secretary Hoke Smith,
f Atlanta, Ga., were saved from death by
lire by being awakened by a dog.
Captain Henry Komeyn, of the Fifth
United States Inrantry. stationed at Fort
UePherson, Atlanta, Ga., having reached
the age of sixty-four, formerly retired from
active service in the army. He left at once
for Nashville, Tenn., where ho will have
charge of the Chilean exhibit at tho Exposition.
The steamer Allianca, which arrived at
" % New York City from Colon, is detained at
Quarantine for disinfection. She had yellow
fever on board during the voyage, and
a yellow lever patient was taken" from the
ship.
The Board of Aldermen, by a vote of 2C
t - to 8, refuse to instruct Corporation Counsel
Scott to begin suits to establish New York
City's rights in the Sixth and Eighth avenut
railroad lines.
General Daniel Buggies,aged eightv-eight
years, a native of Massachusetts, graduate
'of the West Point class of 1832, and a Confederate
veteran of the Civil War. died at
Fredericksburg, Va. General Buggies was
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The Police Department had its annual
parade in New York City, and was reviewed
by Mayor Strong from the stand at
the Worth Monument. There were nearly
SOOO men in line, and Inspector McLaughlin
was loudly cheered by the crowds of
spectators.
The annual convocation of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of New York State was
opened In the Masonic Temple, New York
City.
The Forest Preserve Board has bought
250,000 acres of Adirondack laud for the
Sew York State Park at $1.50 an acre.
The taste for matrimony is acquired,
like the taste for olives.
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An Ohio Mob Lynches Its Man Af- i
ter a Battle With Militia.
CULPRIT BEATEN AND HANGED. !
Citizens of I'rbana Killed and Wounded
by Guardsmen Trying 40 rrowci
a Colored Man Who Had Assaulted
One of the Most Estimable Women
in the City?An All-Night Struggle.
Urban a, Ohio (Special).?Charles Mitchell,
colored. who recently made u criminal
assault upon Mrs. T. M. O. Gaumer, and
had been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment,
was taken from the jail at 7.20
o'clock Friday morning by *a mob and
hanged to the nearest tree. The jail had
been defended through the night by the
local militia company, who fired on tho
mob at 2.30 o'clock a. m., killing two men
and wounding eight others.
Just before the shooting occurred a crowd i
of a thousand people stood congregated j
around the jail. It seemed certain that an |
attempt would be made to take Mitchell !
from tho jail and hang him. The crowd !
was more boisterous than at any time since i
the prisoner had been confined. There were j
shouts and howls for the culprit. The mob !
had erowded into the jail yard and was '
pushing toward the jail.
Captain George W. Leonard, in command
of the militia, addressed the crowd and
gave them three minutes to disperse. There
was a general rush from the jail yard, but
the crowd soon returned.
When the shooting occurred an attempt
was being made by the moo to enter inu |
t'ail from tlie rear. The militia were in the
all on the second floor and standing at
the ^window. A man named Baker, of
West Liberty, and another man, had sledge
hammers in their hands and had broken
the glass in the door leading to the hall
from which the jail is entered.
Suddenly the militia opened Are without
warning and Baker feH back, crying, "I
am shot." Volley after volley was flred,
until as many as twenty rounds had been
discharged into the crowd. There was a
general panic, and the dead and wounded
were carried in every direction in search of
doctors' offices. After the smoke had i
cleared away and the victims had been |
identifled, the fatalities were found to be
as follows:
Killed?Harvey Bell, shot through the
head; Upton Baker, shot throngh the
body. Wounded?Dr. Charles Thompson,
North Lewisburg, shot in the head; West
Bowen, of Cable, shot in the hip; Bay
Dickerson, shot in the shoulder; Dennis
Graney, shot in the leg below the knee;
Zack Wank, shot in the arm; Sherman 8.
Deaton, shot in the hip; Ray McClure, shot
in the arm; Ralph McComb, shot in the
arm.
The Springfield troops arrived as reinforcements
at 7.10, and immediately
marched toward the Court House. Angry
citizens who were incensed over thek
killing of their fellow-townsmen by the
local militia at 2.80 a, m., were only further
irritated by the appearance of more troops.
Crowds gathered on the streets and
greeted the soldiers, who are colored men,
with hootings and all sorts of insulting
remarks. Next mud balls were thrown at
them. The fever of excitement raged more
^nd more fiercely. Women appeared on
the streets in large numbers, and their
presence seemed to be an incentive to the
mob to avenge in some manner the outrage
to Mrs. Gaumer.
In the jail yard the Springfield men, who
numbered thirty-six, and were under Captain
Bradbury, found 2000 people. Mayor
Ganson assured the militia that their services
were not wanted; that the people
were law-abiding and would assist him in
preserving order; that the company could
leave the court house yard, and when their 1
services were needed he would send for
them. The Springfield company, without
waiting for further orders, marched down
Street to the depot without so much as the
Sheriff seeing them.
The local military company had previ- ]
ously refused to serve longer, and went to (
the second story of the Sheriff's residence |
to attempt to sleep.
With no resistance offered, the crowd at (
once made a rush for the side door. Two
strong and determined men kicked it down ;
in short order and gained admission to the
jail, the crowd following. There were j
plenty of sledge hammers, chisels aud
nm/^T><? nmiri) nnA the men
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went to work.
Part of the crowd had previously forced
themselves upstairs into the private apartments
of the sheriff, and found the keys to
the jail, which had been hidden. The crowd
did not wait to unlock the door to Mitchell's
cell, but burst the lock with a sledge hammer,
and the door soon flew open.
Mitchell was standing in his cell. He offered
no resistance, and did not utter "a
word. Some one in the crowd had a rope.
It was placed over the neck of the victim
and the crowd made for the door, Mitchell
following at the end.
In going down theeteps on the outside of
the jail Mitchell fell down and the rope
slipped off his neck. The crowd surrounded
him, and he was kicked, beaten andjalmost
I killed. The rope was quickly slipped over
his head again, and a rush was made for a
tree in the southwestern corner of the
yard, in front of the Court House. The end
was thrown over a strong limb, and willing
hands pullod him up. The end was tied
to the iron fence, and Mitchell was left
hanging there in full view of several thousand
people.
The crime for which Mitchell paid the
penalty was a heinous ono. He criminally
assaulted Mrs. Eliza Gaumer, widow of the
publisher of the. Urbana Democrat. He
was arraigned, but his victim was too ill to
appear in court. The man was taken to her
home for identification. As he entered the
door she raised herself on her elbow and
exclaimed, "The brute! Hang him! How
dare you face me, yot\ brute?" That night
the jail was surrounded by a threatening
mob that was held back by
the Sheriff's posse and the local
company of the Ohio National Guard.
The Grand Jury was impaneled next
day and Mitchell was indicted for criminal
assault. Then the crowd was thrown off
the trail by bringing Mitchell into court in
a soldier's uniform. Mitchell was scared,
pleading guilty, and was sentenced to the
limit of twenty years. The trial lasted
only a few moments, and Mitchell wanted
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quickly, but when the car-iage drove up to
the jail the crowd rushed in, trying to
lynch him. Another crowd surrounded the
depot. The Sheriff remained fortified in
jail with his prisoner, while the militia
patrolled the ground.
Iowa Chooses the Wild Kose.
The Iowa Legislature has chosen the wild i
rose as the State Cower.
All it. & O. Men In Uniform.
It id probable that, in the near future,
every employe of the B. & 0. will have a
distinctive uniform. Train men are now
neatly attired, but the receivers desire that
each employe have either a badge, cap or
suit that will identify him as a B. & O.
man,
Executed by Law.
James Lewis, a colored man, who was recently
convicted of criminal assault on MrsReidel,
was hanged in the jail yard at Fairfax,
Ya., in the presence of about fifty people.
Lewis was quite cool, and walked to
the gallows without assistance.
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StNiOK Mt'THCDIST S.'SHOP.
l)r. Stephen M. Merrill, the Lawyer and
Parliamentarian of the Episcopacy,
Dr. Stephen 31. Merrill, the senior presiding
Bishop of the Episcopacy, has come
back from a tour of 6000 miles in the Methodist
church. He thinks that this fact
stands for a symbol of the wonderful
breadth of 3rethodism and a sign of the
work that falls to the lot of a bishop.
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BISHOP STEPHEN* M. MEEBILL.
Bishop Merrill is the lawyer and parliamentarian
of the Episcopacy. His book on
ecclesiastical law is the code in tho Methodist
church. It was his work in the church
literary world that brought to him the title
of Master of Arts from the Indiana Asbury
Fnivprfiltv.
His ordination in the Episcopacy dates I
from 1SJ2, and during the years since then I
he has visited most of the foreign missions.
His dress is of the old school?the high hat,
straight up and down, and the coat of conventional
ministerial black. His spectacles
are cut into two parts, and he looks sometimes
through the upper and sometimes
through the lower. His summer work takes
him from one end of the country'to the
other.
WORLD'S MODEL TOWN.
Pullman, 111., TVIna a Medal at the
Prague Exposition.
George M. Pullman has received from
Archduke llainer two magniflcent medals
and a richly wrought diploma as testimonials
of honor and merit in founding and
building the most perfect town in the
world.
This distinction for the suburb came as a
result of an exhibit in the international
hygienic and pharmaceutical exposition In
Prague, Bohemia.
The archduke was the projector of the
exposition. Pullman won against the settlements
created by Krupp, the gunman,
and Stumm, the great maker of stoel, land
Baron von Ringhofer.
The verdict of the jury was unanimous,
finding that Pullman was without a peer in
the matter of comfortable homes for worklngmen,
streets, sewers, water system,
shops, public halls, churches, grounds and
the rules and regulations governing them.
The verdict included the Pullman sleeping
car.
Big Fire In Alexandria, Vn.
The greatest Are that has ever visited
Alexandria, Va., broke out in Bryan's fertilizing
mill, on the river front, and raged
with great fury for about eight houra,
causing a total damage of from $450,000 to
*500 000 nnrtlv Insured. The entire block
bounded by the "Strand," Duke, Union and
Prince streets was Almost wiped out, only
one warehouse with its contents being
saved. A fierce wind was blowing, and for
a time the whole town was threatened.
Big Bank Defalcation.
William N. Boggs, paying teller of the
First National Bank of Dover, Del., is alleged
to be a defaulter in the sum of 338,XX).
The peculations are said to have extended
over a period of ten years, and have
been covered up by false entries that escaped
the eyes of the Bank Examiner. Mr.
Boggs had been employed in the bank for
over fifteen years, and has always been regarded
as perfectly honest and upright in
all his dealings.
Thrown From Her Wheel and Drownod.
At Oarrison-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., Susan
Duryea, the twelve-year-old grand-daughter
of Samuel Sloan, President of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
lost her life by an accident. She was riding
her bicycle, lost control of it, and was
thrown headlong into a small pond, which
only a few days before had been deepened.
She was drowned.
Lloyd for Congress.
Returns from the first Missouri Congressional
District indicate Lloyd, Democrat,
elected over Clark. Republican, by a
plurality of 5000. The total voto cast was
about eighty per cent, of that cast last
November. Lloyd carried Hannibal, Clark's
home, by 241 plurality, a Democratic gain
of 206 over the November election:
Starched to Death Singing.
At Morristown, N. J., David Wilson, the
colored man who murdered his wife a year
ago, was hanged in tho jail yard. He
walked to the gallows, apparently without
fear, between the pastor of the A. M. E.
Zion Church, who baptized him a day or
two before, and the President of the Y. II.
C. A. They were singing "I'm Going Homo
to Die No More." *
"No Transvaal for England."
The Transvaal exhibition was opened at
Berlin, Germany. Among the speakers
was Professor Kirchoff, of Hatle, who said:
"As formerly the cry went throughout
Germany 'the French shall not have the
Rhine,' 60 now the English shall not have
the Transvaal."
Boy Kill* His Two Sisters.
The fifteen-year-old son of L. Schwartz,
while attempting to unload a gun at
Greene, N. Y., discharged the weapon, killing
his two sisters. The bullot passed
through the nock of one sister and struck
the other just above the heart.
The Brooklyn at the Jubilee.
The armored cruiser Brooklyn sailed for
England, where she is to represent the
United States in the naval demonstration
attending tho Queen's Jubilee celebration.
Important Nominations.
The President made the following nomnations:
Ellis H. P.oberts, to be United
States Treasurer; Conrad N. Jordan, to bo
Assistant Treasurer of the United States at
New York; Lawrence Townsend, of Pennsylvania,
to be Ministe:: to Portugal.
Durable Steel Rails.
Thirty years ago the B. & O. bought steel
rails in England at a cost of $112 per ton in
gold. Some of this rail is still in use on
short branches and is in marvelously good
condition. It is pear-shaped and was intended
tQi use witn wooden splices.
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A Train Crashes Into a Coach Filled
with Pleasure Seekers.
MANY HURLED TO DESTRUCTION.
A Six-Horse Tally-no Loaded Inside and
on Top, Was Crowing the Ling Island
ICallroad Tracks Near Valley Stream,
L. I.?Coach Cat in Pieces?Bell Signal
Gave no Note of Warning to Victims.
Bhookltx, Y. (Special-).?A tragedy to
chill the blood occurred Monday afternoon,
when a tally-ho coach filled with merrymakers
was struck by a Long Island Railroad
train at a grade crossing near Valley
Stream. Tour people were killed outright
and another died soon after. Seventeen
others were injured. Only two persons es
capea injury in a party 01 iwem y-tnrw.
From evidence of witnesses ai d the statement
of the Coroner, the responsibility for
its horror apparently rests upon the Long
Island Railroad Company in its strange
neglect in allowing the gong at the crossing
to get out of order. The failure of this system
of warning at the crossing was complete,
according to the testimony of many
witnesses.
The dead, the dying and the injured
were co-workers in the Greene Avenue
Baptist Church, in Brooklyn, and all lived
in the city. The dead are,- Dora Burtsch,
twenty years old, killed instantly, her !
neck being broken and a large splinter of
shattered woodwork having penetrated
the skull; William Gilchrist Jr.,
twenty-one years old, killed outright;
Winslow W. Lewis, nineteen years old,
killed instantly, his skull being crushed;
George F. Pashley, twenty years old, killed
instantly, his skull having been crushed;
Lester W. Roberts, twenty-three years old,
killed instantly, his body being dismeml>ered.
Those fatally injured are: Lawrence
A. Barnes, Jr., skull fractured; Clara Stewart,
skull fractured, left arm broken and
head badly cut; Walter W. Wellbroek,
twenty-two years old on the day he w is
hurt, both legs broken and oni arm broken.
The accident happened at Valley Stream,
just about fifteen miles from Brooklyn. The
Montauk Division of the Lonp Island Rail
road runs inrougn ?auey nir;am, aim ia?
Mineola and Valley Stream branch leaves
that line there and shoots off to the north
toward Hempstead. For about three miles
after It leaves the Valley St ream station
It runs through a wood. A quarter
of a mile from the station of the Merrick
road, which is the chief bicycle road on
Long Island, crosses the sirgle track at
grade. On three corners of :his crossing
the wood is thick, and it is no: possible for
persons traveling along the r?ad, either in
vehicles or on foot, to see a train coming;
nor is it possible for the engineer or persons
on a train to see anything of the road
until the train is right upon it. Though
thousands of persons cross the track at that
point every day, the railroad company
maintains no flagman there, and the only
"thing to warn the people is a bell on an oldfashioned
"Look out for the locomotive"
sign poet, which sometimes rings and which
sometimes does not, and which, it is asserted
positively, did not ring on the day of the
accident.
When the edge of a grove to the east
was nearly reached little Harry Lewis, a
small bey to the left of the driver, looked
ahead and saw a man frantically waving
his hands from the top of a furniture van
that had crossed the railroad a moment before.
The shout could have hardly reached
them before the small boy from his vantage
seat caught sight of the oncoming train
from the north and cried to the driver:
"Look out for that trainl Turn quick!"
But the driver bad no time to turn. If
he bad turned the coach would have reeled
across the track. Instead, he threw a lash
on the horses and they leaped in the air
with the great lumbering coach behind.
It was the work of a second and scarcely
bad the horses crossed the rurtnest ran
when the train, with its terrible speed,
struck the coach.
There was a scene of awful carnage.
The coaeh and the holiday seekers were
lifted into the air by the engine as a great
bull would toss a child on its horns. The
psople were scattered with the fragment)
of the great vehicle, ground under tbo
ridges of the cowcatcher, or dropped
against the sharp sides of th^engine and
train moving at high speed.
The green trees and vines were stained
with blood. The train flew like a ghost
Sast the scene, scattering the evidence of
estructkm for fully two hundred yards
down the track to the east.
Two bodies lay at the right of the track,
cut and crushed almost beyond recognition.
At the left was another body beheaded.
And scattered between and heaped up in
5 laces were the ones who had escaped
eath only to suner tne torments of pain.
One woman, stripped of her clothing, lay
vrith broken limbs near a little pile of the
wreckage of the coach. Others, gashed
and seared with wounds, were unconscious
on the grass. The few who had escaped
more serious injury were dazed and helpless.
The ones who had been saved were in
pitiful distress. For when the first relief
arrived one young man was walking about
in a frenzy of insanity. He did not appreciate
the fearful situation. His brain had
been Jarred out of consciousness by the
shock, and he was crying out meaningless
words in a pitiful, choked voice.
The sufferings of the wounded were terrible
to witness. One poor fellow asked to
be put out of his misery- at once/ At least
200 people were' gathered at the scene in
less than ten minutes. The sight of the
dead and the moans of the wounded would
have been enough'to soften the heart of a
stone, but yet heartless ruffians were there
who robbed the dead before the very eyes
of a big crowd of witnesses.
A deputy sheriff from Inwood was there,
but he did nothing to protect the dead and
the injured from these scoundrels. For
nearly two hours the victims lay there in
the full glare of the sun.
Indians on the War Path.
A report comes from Helena that Cheyenne
Indians have gone on the war path in
Southern Montana, and that they have
murdered several settlers and killed five
United States cavalrymen. This report is
not credited by officers of the War and Interior
Departments, who have received no
such news.
Cnban Men-of-War.
It is said that the Cuban Junta has informed
the President that on the day of
the signing of a recognition resolution they
will have four well equipped men-of-war
flying the Cuban flag.
Mosquito Bite an Accident.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided
that the bite of a mosquito is an
accident, and that the United States Mutual
Association is liable for the $5000 accident
insurance policy on the life of a man whose
death was the result of a m osquito bite.
New Feed for Burses.
At a recent horse show in Boston a box
of American Beauty roses costing $1 each
was sen1: by a lady admirer to a mare
named Bu. i, and the blosioms were fed to
the fair ret.. lent, who nibbled them with a
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DECORATION DAY.
Paradea and Memorial Services In Honor I
of the Dead Heroes.
Memorial Day was generally observed In
"Washington. The Senate adjourned over
for the day and the House held only a
flfteen-niinute session. All the departments
and the business houses were closed
and the day was given up to patriotic observance
and tributes to the heroic dead.
The bronze statues of the Nation's heroes
on land and sea in the Government reservations
and parks were shrouded in the flags
under which they fought. The most imposing
ceremonies were held in the national
cemetery, at Arlington. The exercises
there were made particularly memorable
by the presence of President McKinley.
Exercises were subsequently held at the
Amphitheatre. Among the distinguished
guests on the stage besides the President
were Vice-President Hobart, Secretary of
State Sherman, Senator Allison and the
delegates to the International Postal Union.
Services were also conducted in the Sol
diers' Homo Cemetery, at tne tomD 01 ueneral
John A. Logan, and in the Congres
sional, St. Elizabeth's, Oak Hill, Holy
Hood and all of the other cemeteries in
and about Washington, where the Union
dead found resting places. A noticeable
feature of the exercises was the great inroads
the past few years have made in tho
ranks of the veterans. In several instances
the bands outnumbered the posts they
were escorting.
Battle Monument, at West Point, wds
dedicated on Memorial Day aad passed into
the hands of the Federal Government.
The splendid shaft was erected in memory
of the officers and men of the regular
army who fell in the late war.
The ceremonies incident to the dedication
were held in a temporary amphitheatre
of light timbers and bunting, in the
form of a semi-circle and #pen all around.
Associate Justice David J. Brewer, of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, was
the orator of the day. The monument
was presented to the army by Brigadier-General
John M. Wilson and was
received by Lieutenant-General John
M. Schofleld. retired, on behalf of the army,
who in turu presented it to the general
Government. Russell A. Alger, General
and Secretary of War, received the shaft
for the Government, and after his speech a
National salute was flred and the band
played "The Star Spangled Banner."
The Memorial Day of the war veterans
began in New York City with the parade of
the Grand Army posts and ended with the
exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House.
In the interval between these events 10,000
persons gamerea m untni s iuiuu iu ?jiness
the ceremonies there, under the
auspices of U. 8. Grant Post of
Brooklyn. The procession was the shortest
New York City has ever witnessed in honoi
of Memorial Day since the great rite was
established. The Memorial Day exercises
held at the Metropolitan Opera House in
the evening were largely attended. They
consisted of vocal and instrumental music,
a short address by Mayor Strong, who presided,
and an oration by General George B.
Loud.
Business was suspended almost entirely
in Brooklyn. There was an Immense outpouring
of people to the parks and various
suburban resorts and to the vantage points
from which to view the parade, which, as
usual, was the special feature in the celebration.
With the exception of a perceptible
thinning out in the ranks of tne veterans,
the demonstration was the equal of
any of its predecessors. In accordance with
a time-honored custom, tho column was
formed along the streets converging on the
fountain in Bedford avenue at the east,end
of the town.
The memorial structure on Boston Common,
in honor of Colonel Robert Gould
8haw and the colored' men of the Fifty-j
fourth Massachusetts Regiment, who fell at
Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863, was
dedicated on Decoration Day. Colonel
Shaw enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of
New York City in 1861, and it took part in
the parade in Boston.
An IcAmense assembly joined in the ceremonies
of Decoration Day at the National
Cemetery at Vicksburg, Miss. In accordance
with a custom of years a delegation
of Confederate veterans took offerings of
flowers to the cemetery in the afternoon
and scattered them over the graves. (
At Chattanooga, Tenn., graves 01 i4,wu
Union soldiers burled In the National Cemetery
were decorated with elaborate ceremonies.
Captain J . H. MacGowin, of
Washington, delivered the oration. An immense
throng of people were present.
SPAIN'S BUDCET STATEMENT.
Revenue and Expenditure*, and Plans to
Meet War Expense*.
8enor J. Navarro Reverter, Spanish Minister
of Finance, in the budget statement
to the Cortes, estimates the revenue at
8170,473^802 and the expenditures at 81G8,656,114.
In order to provide a revenue to meet
the extraordinary budget the Minister of
Finance proposes to raise a loan with Almaden
quicksilver mines as security and t<
obtain navigation dues to the amount of
twelve millions.
In order to meet the increased expenditures
and the ninety-two millions required '
to meet the interest and for the redemption
of the late loans guaranteed by the
customs, a temporary surtax of ten per
cent, on all taxes except land has been
proposed.
By this means it is expected that twenty
millions will be obtained. The Colonial
Department will contribute thirty-two
millions of the balanoe and forty millions
will be raised by a loan on the proposed
petroleum monopoly, giving the exclusive
privilege of dealing in this product during
the next twenty years.
Should the Colonial Department be unable
to pay its share of the increased expenditures
it is calculated that a portion
of another loan can be obtained by a
proposed monopoly on explosives.
Forecasts a Hot Summer.
Douglass Archibald, who was formerly
employed in India in the British meteorological
service and who visited San Francisco
recently en route to the East, where
he is now located, forecasts another hot
summer for the Northern hemisphere,
great masses of ice in the Atlantic indicating
an early polar spring. The abnormal
heat is attributed by him to solar conditions,
which he represents have been unsettled
since the maximum period of sun
spots in 1893.
Craze for Private Roof Garden*.
Dealers in Chinese lanterns, awnings and i
other goods of that kind in New York City
reDort that the craze for private roof gar
dens has created the greatest demand for
their goods that they have ever known.
Grows Lettnce to Sell.
John E. Garrell, residing near Wilmington,
N. C.. is reputed to bo the most exten- i
give single grower of lettuce in the South. He
expects to ship North this season from j
8000 to 10,000 barrels of this salad maker.
State Dispensary I.aw Void.
A decision was filed by Judge Simonton,
in the United States Circuit Court, at
Charleston, restraining the State of South
Carolina from preventing the sale of liquors !
brought into the State. This decision, if ]
sustained, it is said, will render nugatory
th9 State dispensary law. i
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Minor Mention.
Germany makes paper horseshoes. !
No almshouses in New South Wales.
Greater New York has 712 newspapers.
Arkansas has an ex-slaves' association.
It costs fl an acre tg Irrigate in Egypt. . j
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WISH EABfflET FiLll."
Prime MinisterCanovas and Colleagues. y
Have Resigned,
CUBAN FAILURE THE CAUSE. I
Crave Situation Created Nominally by
Tetuan's Cox on Comafs Ear, Bat Real1
r by the Failure to Settle the Cuban
Question?Wheels of the Governmenfi
1 Hocked by the Attitude of the Liberals.
M ideid, Spain fBy Cable).?The Spanish { i
Preraier, Senor Cancvas del Castillo, has
offered to the Queen Regent the resignation
of the Cabinet. This step has been taken ow- <1
Ing to the Uinicuity tne ministers ,-i;
encod in carrying on the Government, in |
riew of the Parliamentary situation caused
h7 the refusal of the Liberals to take part yin
the deliberations of the Cortes,
The attitude of the Liberals is due tb the
personal encounter between the Duke o* . ^
Tetuan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and Frofessor Comas, a Liberal Senator',, on '; }
May 21, when the Duke slapped the face of a
the Senator after a heated debate on the vafa
Morgan belligerency resolution adopted by
the United States Senate.
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SE503 CASOVA.8 DEL CASTILLO.
The real reasoo of the fall of the Cabinet 2?
was the failure of the Canovas Government : i
to settle the Cuban difficulty. Respond- ;v\?
tility for the safe conduct of the Govern- \
zaent now falls upon the Queen Regent, *;* , ,
whose dilemiAi is distressing. Like tbS^JS
majority of her subjects, the Queen folly ,"*?
comprehends that any change In policy and N'A
Government must be dictated chiefly byv <
colonial and international considerations,
Her Majesty knows beforehand that the V'
gravest significance will be attaohed at. '<J
home and abroad to her decision.
C ie of two things she most do.
She may keep lienor Canovas as Premise '^
With his Conservative Cabinet, Intact or
modified, and kf ; Gen. Weyler In Cuba to
persevere in his pr esent policy, with tbmjfts
ample means recently voted by the GortaL jVv
* Or she may call upon Senor Sagasta to .
form a Liberal Cabinet, In which Seaor ' . f
Moret probably would be Minister of >
Foreign Affairs, with opportunity to follow
his well-known inclination to coma
to an understanding with the United
States; Senor Mauca, the great home .
ruler, Minister of the Colonies; Marshal
Lopez Dominguez, War Minister; 8paltt>#HBH
best financier. Senior Gamazo, Minister of t
Finance, and which Cabinet probably would G
send Marshal Campos to Cuba with fuffU
Ever to conciliate the insurgents and-.
Hlists by establishing more radical hums
than Senor Canovas contemplated and
thus disarm the United States. e
UNITED STATES NOT AFFECTED. \ %
Secretary Sherman Thinks Our Relations T ,
With Spain Will Not Be Changed. . '
-n r fQnuiltll Affletal ?
VI AOaiilUAV^ | A/ w? ^wyw??i*/r M ?
and diplomatic circles in Washington warn 'd
greatly interested in the news from Madrid
that the Canovas Ministry has at lastS .'v
fallen.
It is accepted as a foregone conclusion "vl
that Senor Sagasta, the great Liberal lead- *
er, will be called upon to form a new Cab- .vj?
lnet and to assume the responsibility of un> * u1
dertaking the settlement of the Cuban que*- -Ofl
tion, involved as It is with possible compli- i
cations with the United States.
Secretary of State Sherman voiced vriiot w
undoubtedly is the general opinion wnensKH|
he said that the relations between the Gou?fv
ernment of Spain and the United State? /
would not be changed by the retirement of ,
Canovas.
The general opinion of publio men aa#?VP[
officials is that any change in the 8panlsk &??
Government mu.st make for peace, its occurrence
being directly consequent upon '
the disastrous failure of the attempt to J%
keep Cuba by war. Canovas hassubmittott^H
a new scheme of home rule for Cuba so
liberal as to meet Secretary Sherman's ap- *
proval. Minister De Lome's recall from
Washington Is confidently expected- A
change of ministry probably would be "
urged by Spain as a reason for delay in
pending negotiations with America.
SOLID SHOT AT THE VALENCIA. .Jll
The Ward Line Steamer Fired on by a ' , ''
Spanish Cruiser.
The Ward Line steamer Valencia, which .'*<21
has arrived at Clenfuegos, Cuba, report?
an exciting experience while off Quanta*
namo Bay.
The Spanish crniser Beina Mercedes signailed
to the Valencia to display her colon. .
As the Valencia did not immediately com*' .JS
ply, the Relna Mercedes fired a blank shot, 1
which was followed almost immediately by ' ?
a solid shot, falling out of range. The Ya- /
lencia then displayed h': colors.
It is understood that the United State?
Vice-Consul at Santiago de Cuba has lodged
a, formal protest against the act of the \
cruiser. Captain Quesada left Havana to ,1
Investigate the affair, which has serious'
aspects.
The Spanish Government has disavowed
responsibility for the action of the cruiser
Reina Mercedes In firing upon the Ward V.
line steamer Valencia. . >, Jgjfi
JtxSn
Two Disowned In the Hudson. . '' jiji
Mrs. Helen Wheattiey, of New York City, tJ
lumped from a high cliff at 197th street in- ?
to the Hudson Elver, In an effort to save
lier daughter Helen, six years old, who had _fli
[alien from the embankment into the ^$0
water, and both mother and child weld ' -
drowned. They were attending a picnic.
Crimes of an Insane Letter Carrier. ,
Edgar Harris, nn insane letter carrier,
shot and killed two of his children at his ^
home in Baltimore, Md. He then seriously '
wounded his eldest daughter, Elia, and*.<
afterward shot himself through the head, - *
Inflicting a dangerous wound. The children1 ' ^
killed are George, ten years old, and Ada,j
six years old. ^
Losses by the Floods.
Experts estimate that the losses restrtUt . !
ng from the recent floods In the Mississippi] ' 1
falley will aggregate about $13,000,000. 3 Jh
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