The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 3, 1898, Page 2

9 me rrmnemnemenmennemmnetaneetaenetm te Sehnert sh i Ses SESS Sai a M’KINLEY’S PLANS ARE FULLY MADE. President’s Course in the Span- ish Crisis Decided Upon. WILL BE NO DAYS OF GRACE. Washington, D. C, Feb. 23—| From a source s) near the president | that its correctness ean hardly be! questioned come the planus of the} administratiou. The preeident and his cabinet have eliminated from the discussion all but three propesitions, and serious consideration is really being given to but one. In their! order these propositions are: First—The Maine was destroyed by amine or a torpedo, either or both of which were part of the reg- ular defenses of the harbor. Second—She was destroyed by fanatics, who floated torpedoes against her hull. Third—The destruction was from an explosion within the ship, due to causes entirely without design. Practically the second and third propositions have been dropped, be cause neither is considered tenable in the face of the evidences being brought to light, but ifeither should be substantiated, then Spain would not be held respensible. SPAIN WILL BE HELD BESPONSIBLE. If it should be demonstrated, however, that the Maine was de- | way to Havana eight weeks ago. He | stated that the Sspanish government DID THEY LAY THE MINE? Mysterious Stories Told by Two Dynamite | Experts Who Were Called to Havana. Key West, Fla, Feb 24—It is; known that an expert dynamite op-| eratcr passed through here on his stopped in Key West for several days, and, while here, stated he had a large contract to complete in Ha- vana He was constantly in consultation with the Spanish authorities here. On his return from Havana, he had given him a big contract, that they hud laid plans that would cost thousands of dollars to earry out, and that the work was to be done in Havana harbor. His proposition for the work, was accepted, so he said, and he added that it would in- volve a special kind of engineering. He left for the north after staying ia Havana for a week or so. Shortly afterward an expert in explosives and artesian well work named Venadore of Johnson station, Ga, arrived in Key West and hada number of interviews with the Span- ish consul here. He left for Havana on New Year's eve. He spoke frequently of the other dynamite expert, who had been in Havana ahead of him, and appearei anxious to meet him He claimed on his return here to have seeured the contract with the Span- ish government to sink an artesian well in Havana. General Fitzhugh Lee Sedalia Sentenel. stroyed by a mine or a torpedo planted in the harbor long before the Maine was sent to Havana, then Spain will be held responsible. Prop- osition No. 1 is that whieh has been accepted by the people and borne out by all the evidence thus far brought out. Very reluctantly the president has been forced to also come to this conclusion, and to map out the course to be followed when the official report is made known. If the torpedo or mine which de- stroyed the Maine was placed by the Spanish as part of their regular harbor defenses, then this country will hold Spain responsible, no mat ter if she does disavow the act. The fact that Oaptain General Blanco achored the Maine over the mine or terpedo, knowing that it was there, puts the responsibility on Spain, eyen though the mine was not fired by anyone in authority. WOULD BLOCKADE HAVANA HARBOR. As soon as proposition No. 1 is corroborated the president will de- mand indemnity for the men killed and the loss of the ship from Spain. Probably ten days will be given the Spaniards to accede to or refuse the demand for indemnity, which will doubtless be fixed somewhere be- $10,000,000 and $20,000,000. Spain will undoubtedly refuse, and then the President will order the North Atlantic squadron te occupy Havana. That will be the formal opsning of hostilities. Spain is apparently aware of the probable course of this country, and is rushing war crafts of all sorts to Havana. Should the naval board report that the Havana harbor is mined the American fleet, when or- dered to occupy the city, would sim- ply blockade the harbor and keep the Spanish fleets busy, while the insurgeuts would operate in the in- terior with redoubled activity. Texas Tragedy. Reagan, Tex., Feb. 23.—H. N. De- walt was killed and Bois Dewalt was fatally wounded with a pistol by| Jesee Kelly yesterday. The De- walts had just finished planting corn and started to thehouse. Kel- ly stopped them. Bois Dewslt then said: “Jesse, you sent that valentine with sister’s name signed to it.” To which Kelly replied, “How do you kuow?” and pulled -his pistol. He fired one shot into Bois Dewalt’s left side, above the hip and one shot into H. N. Dewalt above the left! nipple, straight to the heart, causing instant death. Justice Byles beld an inquest. Kelly surrendered. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 23 — The Pacific mail steamship City of Pukin, which arrived from Yokoho ma and Hong Kong, via Honolulu, yesterday, brought news of a terri ble earthquake which occurred oa! the Island of Amboina, in the Mo-| lucea group, on January 6, as the! result of which 50 people were killed | and over 200 injured. | made at an early hour this morning to rob the Walker Bank. The front! Sigsbee came to where a number of | 8¢2Se4, leaving a small scab, which | Every trus American cannot but be proud of General Fitzhugh Lee, our chief represeatutive ut Havana. Few men of his age in this country have had a more varied and stirring career than he, and one which has so tested the strength of character and ability. But that he bas added to the lustre of the great Virginian family, of which he is a representa- tive, there may be none to deny. When peace came and the people of his state had passed through the period of reconstruction, they elect- ed him governor of Virginia—one of the best she ever had. Afterward he was appointed consul-general at Havana by Cleveland, and so ably and conscientiously did he perform his duties there that President Mc Kinley has retaiued him at his post. General Lee has thus been placed in a position of most trying charac- ter. He has made few, if any, mis- takes. His whcle endeavor has been te protect Americans and their in terests in Cuba. Ofttimes bis life has been imperilled, and yet with unflinching devotion to duty he has never lost an opportunity to fairly cepresent his government. He was elucated at West Point and trained for a soldier's stormy career. His record in the other army was a meritorious one snd when the clash of civil war broke over the Jand, he followed the for tunes of his illustrious uncle, Robert Edward Lse, and, without any fa voritism, earned by hard fighting and indomitable soldiership the stars of a confederate major general. Near the close of the war upon the death of Lieutenant General J E. B Stuart, he became chief com mander of the cavalry in the army in Northera Virginia, and brought te it all the chivalry aod dashing bra very of his celebrated ancestor “Light Horse Harry Lee.” Under existing circumstances his danger and _ responsibilities are greatly multiplied, but the people whose agent he is have unbounded faith in his honor and ability. He has seen too much of battle and faced peril too often to ba panie- stricken. Cool and calm and couvra- geous, he isan iavaluable mun for the hour and the crisis. Did Not Succeed. Walker, Mo, Feb. 24.—A bold and almost successful attempt was door was forced oper, the eafe cleared of all books and papers on the top, preparatory to anilling, | when it is presumed the robbers | were alarmed probably by the rail | way agent passing the depot for the! early train. The agent did net no-! !plosion had been caused by Span-} tice anything wrong. A number of strangers who have been kere fora day or two are gone. |FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR OMAHA EXPOSITION. President Sampson Empowered te Secure Desirable Space at Once. Republic, 25th. A business meeting of the Execu- tive Committee of the Omaha Expo- sition Commissioners was held yes- terday at the Planters Hotel. The ebject of the meeting was to make appropriations from a part of the funds raised for the furthering of the State exhibit President Clark H. Sampson was instructed to expend the sam of $3,100 in securing desirable space at the Exposition grounds on which to properly display the State’s exhibit. The sum of $5,000 was appropriated for a horticultural exhibit and a like sum for an agricultural exhibit. The matter of putting up a State build- ing was deferred until a later meet ing of the committee. The commission now has in band some $26,000 and hopes to raise about $25,000 more, as it is thought that this sum will be required to make anything like such an exhibit as should be expected from Missouri. Some have given quite liberally, but, agalways happens on such occasions, many who ought to contribute are hanging back and waiting fer more enterprising citizens to raise the necessary funds. It is anticipated that a good many of these skin-flints will be present at the Exposition, providing that they can work a pass out «f some railroad and be very fulsome in their criticisms of the commiseioners and the State's ex- hibit Mu -h of the money promised bas not yet beén collected, and no fears are entertained but what there are esouzh enterprising citizens in Missouri to come forward with their money and see that this State excels all others. In addition to the State’s exhibit, individuals and firms will add soma of the most magnificent exhibits that will be on the grounds. The officers of the commission and the Executive Committee are work ing hard to place Missouri shead of all other States, and they believe they will succeed in their Jaudable undertaking. It is expected that the mineral, agricultural, horticultural and manufacturing exhibits will far surpaes anything on the grounds A large number of farmers are intereeted in a fine dieplay of stock, and much of this will be furnished by individuals. When it comes toa mineral display no state can come apy ways vear Missouri. St. Louis will furnish the bulk of the manu- facturing exhibit for the State and this feature will be particulurly large and striking. Trade territory of St. Louis will largely be represented at the Exposition, and the enterprising manufacturers are very anxious to make a good impression on their o'd patrons, as well as on the prospect- ive ones. Another meeting of the Executive Committee will be held in the near future, when the question of a State building will be taken up and dis- posed of. All thiags considered, | none of the commissioners are at all disheartened with the outlook. Sigsbee Was Sure of It. Key West, Feb. 24—Additional information was received to day to verify the statement that Captain Sigebee claimed for some tine after | the explosion cn board the Maine, | that it was the work of Spanish. Not only was he heard to say on — the Maine at the time he was pre- paring to leave the ship that the ex- iards, but later, on board the City of | Washington, he repeated the remark, showing plainly that at the time be/ believed that the work was done by the authorities in Havana. Robert Hutchins,a landsman, who who wa3 badly burned about the arms and breast, was lying on the deck of the City of Washington! when Captain Sigsbee came | off. | | Hutchins said to a correspondent of | thes the Evening Journal today that} them were grouped about the deck | aud said to them: j “Cheer up, boys. We will have a. chance at them yet. We were blown up by the Spaniards without a chance to fight, but the day will) come and we will get back at them ge Sigsbee then told them to keep quiet and tals to no ons as they| would be witnesses at ths investiga. tion. a NOT AS BLACK AS PAINTED, Cole Younger Spoils Some Thrilling Stories Written About Himself and His Brothers. i Dallas, Tex., Feb. 20 —Chief of Police Arnold who was accidently killed recently by the Rev. G. W.) Truit, had been on the Dallas force ee ae for twenty four years, durng which THE BEST time he bad some thrilling experi- INFLAMMATORY CASES. ences. But the Dallas News num- bered among Arnold’s exploits the frequent subduing of the Younger The semi-weekly Republic, the best general es pr ss the world, come } $ twice-aweek, ar he Republi odel Magazine brothers when they would as the acine am News said, invade Dallas and shcot} ‘ | zina was the newspaper success of 18 jours up the town. | every week, 4 pages of fun, 14 pag brightest + more high-class pictures and ca ns than were has received a letter from Cole ation. Younger written in the Sti lwater | penitentiary, on Feb. 13, in vindi | cation of bimself and his brothers, Bob and Jim. [n this letter Cole Younger declares that no matter what their career may have been af- after they left Texas in the early seventies, they never committed a wrong act inthis state. Cole says that he soldiered for and from Texas during the civil war, and never did an act during that time that would reflect on a soldier or a gentleman. After the war he and Lis brothers not only seryed on the city police in Dallas, but also as deputy sheriffs in Dallas county and instead of being in league with the lawless element they helped to suppress that element and that they left Dallas and Texas before Chief Arnold became a mem- The Magazine will be sold onty inc A Dallas friend of the Youngers) | mailed separately each week. ; Address all orders to Sana To Test a Torpedo Boat. New York, Feb. 24.—The subma- rine torpedo boat which was built by John P. Holland, left Nixon's shipyard at Elizabethport and proceeded to Princess bay. to test her ability to run under water, and, while submerged, to attaek a vessel with her dynamite guns For a few days she will be run upon the surface until ber ma ber of the force, and consequently be and the Youngers never met in any capacity, here or elsewhere. Cole Younger pleads for justice The Holland was to a point near Sandy Hook bya for himself and brothers, and refers to many prominent men in Texas and Missouri to vouch for their up- rightness as soldiers and citizens during and immediately after the war. He proves by dates that he | — 3 = 5 and his brothers uever could bave met and known Ben Thompson, Jim Courtright, Luke Short, Sam Bass and other deeperadoes men- tioned in the newspaper story, as they came to T'exus long after he and his brothers were in Stillwater peniteotiary when most of these crimes their nam3s are connected with were committed. tugboat, to carry supplies for her crew and to afford them a sleeping filled with detectives. Bates Conuty, I have the beet FENCE in the world. He Saved Lincoln's Life. Hodgenville, Ky., Feb. 22.—Aus- tin Gollaher died to-day aged 93 years. Gollaher was the boyhood companion of Abraham Lincoln. They were born on adjoining farms and attended shool together. When Gollaher was eleven years old and Lincoln was eight the two boys were fishing in a crack that was swollen at the time by a heavy rain. Lincoln fell from a log into the water. Beiog unable to swim, Lincoln would have drow ned had Gollaber not pulled him out. At the time of the accident the boys were trying to “coon” across Warne;’s Common Sense Fence Barbed at Top and Bottom, for hogs and cattle I also have a good line of Hard- ware, Groceries, Dry Goods and No- tions which I eell at reasorable the ereek on the log, and it was/prices. (Poultry and eggs wanted) while they were io mid-stream that Lincoln fell overboard. Gollaher 0. M. DRYSDALE, used a sycamore branch to fish the |14-1m. Virginia, Mo. future President from the water. 00 Much Knife! The use of the surgeon’s knife is be- coming so general, resulting fatally in such a large number of cases, as to occasion generalalarm. 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