The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1897, Page 3

{ i PO e . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1897. ——————— e CUBANS CAPTURE | A SPANISH TRAIN Seventeen Officers Are Made Prisoners and One Is Hanged. | | The Unlucky One a Native of| the Island and a Traitor to the Cause. Sharp Lookout for General Fondelieu, Whose Head Must Pay for His Many Crimss. KEY WEST, Fra., Jan. 20.—Passengers | by the steamer Olivette to-night nmoni that the insurgents near Arranguren last | Saturday night stopped the train bound from Regla to Guanabacoa and made- prisoners of seventeen Spanish officers, | one of which was a Cuban. They carried | them to Jaruco, where they hanged the Cuban, and after three days Liberated the | Spaniards. The Spaniards are loud in their praise | accorded them by their treated them | of the treatment captors, whom they as guests and not as ners. | The insurgents were on the lookout for General Fonaelieu, the assassin who was | reported 1o be a passenger on that train. | They were, however, disappointed, as he had passed the day before. The | gents will make short shrift of this officer | if he should fall into their hands, on ac- caunt of the many murders he has com- mitted recently in Guanabacoa. Weyler left Havana yest to join Spanish column operating near Ha- . [ hiy-five pacificos were made prison- ers in Guanabacoa yesterday, | —_— | WOMEN MALTREATED, | Shocking Methods Adopted by Weyler in His Desperation. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. A Sun special from Washington sa Senor esada, Charge d’Affaires of the Cuban legation in this city, says Lie has received | suthoritative information that General | Weyler is following the tactics that he nployed in the last Cuban war, wher he all sorts of indignities upon Senor Quesada asserts that the idea that by seizing and | ing into prison the female relatives | CUBAN 0. r has Cuban leaders he can compel those | leaders to sue for peace. Acting under | his orders, Avecilla, the Governor of]| serto Principe, bas arrested four of the | most prominent ladies in Cuba. Quesada | this afternoon: ! ‘These ladies, who are the peers of any on earth, were dragged through ets of Puerto Principe by Spanisi | as if they were common crimi- | nd were thrown into prison. There ot a hole in the lowest slums of an | American city half so filthy or vile as a Spanish prison. The ladies were placed | in an apartment with disorderly women, | ¢ who had evidently been arrested in ad- | vance for the purpose of making the in- | dignity visited upon the ladies all the | more outrageo | “From this you can see what Wesler | means by his alleged policy of pacification. | And this o are informed, only | the beginring of a general arrest of every | decent woman in the Cuban cities now | der Spanish control who is either a rel- e of a Cuban vpatriot or who is known | 1spected or suspected of cherishing | v for the Cuban cause. | Can any one imagine for a moment,” | continued Quesada, “that men with a drop of honorable blood in their veins | ubmit to any proposals or overtures 0 a nation lize Spain, which makes war upon her women? Instead of bringing our leaders submissive 10 Spain's feet, | Weyler's present policy will make them | | 2il the more earnest and vigorous in their | efforts for freedom. “And our women would rise themselves | and denounce our leaders were they to al- low the indignities visited upon them to weaken the determination to wrest their | homes and liberties from Spanish control. I hope American men who have mothers | wives and sisters will ponder and | think over these terrible things and con- | sider whether such a thing shouid be al- | lowed at the very doors of the country.” | When questioned as to the blowing up | of the Spani: Quesada said: “That is the best answer | yet given to all the rumors regarding | propositions for home rule that have been | alleged to emanate from the Cuban lead- | Detemges CANOV.4S MAY RESIGN, Discouraged at Weylar’s Failure to | Crush the Eevolution. LONDON, Exa., Jan. The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Paris saying that it is reported there nhat Senor Canavos del Castillo, the Span- ish Premier, has stated to his friends that if General Weyler does not succeed in crushing the revolution in Cuba by the ttme the rainy season sets in he (Canovas) | will resign, | Tue writer of the dispatch adds that | pegotintions were being carried on be- | tween Washington and Spain for a settle- ment when the Premier was amazed and | dismayed by a dispatch from Washington | inuimating that Secretary Olney had not | time to settle the war and woula leave it | for the administration of President Mc- | Kinley. - HENKY DELG DWS DEATH, | Due to Exposure and (yuel Treatment in Cuban Prisons. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—The| desth of Henry Deleado, which is an- | rounced in a Havana dispatch received at | the State Department at Wasbhington to- day, was primarily due to exposureimme- diately after he landed in Cuba. He | tramped nearly 300 miles through the hilly country around Pinar del Rioand became so thoroughly extausted that he was taken down with fever. He sought refuge in oue of the huts which the insurgents used as field hos- pitals, where he was captured by the Spaniards under command of General Melgaizo. The Epanish general gave or- | ders that the correspondent should be killed on the spot, as two of hiscom- panions had been. He discovered the identity of the sick man, and fearing further complications with the United States Government—as he was the same soldier who assaulted the venerable Jose Delgado, which has resulted in a claim against the Spanish Government—the prisoner’s life was spared. He was sent 1o Havana with word that 1 gunboat Relam pago, Senor | s | the he might possibly ve Piers Delgado, one of Maceo’s lieutenants, for whom a reward ©of §5000 had been offered: The young man was sent to San Ambrosia Hospital, where he developed an abscess of the liver, and it was decided that the operation of laparat- omy would have to be performed as & last resort to save his life. The operation was performed, and thouzh Delgado sur- vived several days, he succambed as a result of the fever. Mr. Delgado was born in this city and lived nearly ail his life here in Brooklyn. He was educated in ihe Carlisle Institute. He married Miss Granger of Hudson, N. Y., some years ago. His widow is now in New York. They have one child. C. B. | Grone, a brother-in-law of Delgado, will see that the body is embalmed and sent to New York. e SINKING OF 1HE RELAMPAGO. Cubans Rejoicing Over the Destruction of the Spanish Gunboar. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Glad tid- ing to Cubans in this city were those which yesterday announced the sinking of the Spanish gunboat Relampago by means of atorpedo while the ship was burrying to the assistance of the garrison of Fort Guamo, on the Cuato River, the most important inland waterway of the island. Three weeks ago a letter was received in this city in which the writer said that the delay in beginning war upon Spain’s patrol fleet was due to the blunder of those who shipped the wire and the generator of electricity to be used in ex- ploding torpedoes. The mistake had been rectified, and that the material reacbed its destination safely is proved by the destruction of the Relampago on Saturday of last week. A gentleman who knows the electrician who accomplished the first marine victory for Cuba libre said last night: “The man under whose supervision the insurgents have begun war on Spain’s gunboats is thoroughly vroficient 1n elec- trical engineering, and I believe this new departure will result in the loss of many more of Spain’s gunboats.” Do you velieve that torpedces can be placed in waters adjacent to Havana?” “‘That will not be attempted. The field of operations is sufficiently broad without attempting what would be foolish. The torpedo service will devote its energy ex- | clusively to rivers navigated by the Span- ish gunboats and to the unprotected an- chorages to which they retreat at night. There are more than forty war vessels of different kinds in Cuban waters. They are seldom in Havana harbor. They will be easy game when once our torpedo ser- vice has become in a degree perfected. I shall be disappointed 1f we do not hear of other successful attacks upon Spain's fleet within the coming fortnight.” e SMALLPOX AND MALARIA, Alarming Conditions in Cuba That Menace This Countru. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Advices to the Sun from Havana say: There are 2 cases of smallpox in Havana. At Guanajay, in Pinar del Rey province, which has only 10,000 inhabitants, there are 4067 cases. Smallpox and malaria are also ravaging the country, and it may be safely Cuba is far a greater danger to the United States than the much-feared bubonic plague of India. Cuba is close to our coasts and there is daily communication between the island and the mainland. At the end of March the depressing warm weather begins here, and then ases of a contagious nature spread twice as fast as during the winter. Cuba is now a focus of diseases and may become a source of danger to the whole world. The smallpox was introduced here by the 200,000 soldiers from Spain. The Spanish common people are not cleanly in their habits, and, moreover, they come to Cuba crowded by thousands in tne dirty steamers of the Campania Trans- Atlantica, in which no well-bred Ameri- can would travel if he could possibly help it. Under such conditions, these soldiers land in this city, where there is no sewer- age system. There is no hope of improvement in this state of things under Spanish domi- nation. The municipal laws do not allow the city councils to take any stepsin the matter without authorization from the captain general, who must affix his signa- ture to any loan raised for sanitary works, and, furthermore, the municipalities are all in the hands of Spaniards, most of whom have not the least notion of hy- gienic requirements. - CALIFORAML AYMPATHY. Two Joint Resolutions Reported to the Zegislature, SACRAMENTO, CaL. Jan. 20.—The following joint resolution was to-day re- ported by the Assembly Committee on Federal Relations: Resolved, That while we extend our warmest mpathy to the Cubaus in their heroic strug- gle for independence we deen: it inopportune At this time to offer advica to the Federal Goy- ernment &s to the treatmentof a grave Na- tional question, but have full confidence that the National administration will deal with it | in a manner which will notonly secure the | desired end, but reflect honorand credit on the United States. Assemblyman Dryden reported a sub- stitute as a mnority report as follows: WHEREAS, The inhabitants of Cuba have for vears been struggling to achieve national in- dependence and to secure the free exercise of those inalienable rights to which all men are entitled unaer the laws of God and nature: and, whereas, under the principles which un- derlie the doctrine of human rights we recog- our duty as American citizens to extend sympathy and aid, if nesd bz, to all who oppose despotic oppression and strive to establish & republican form of government in the western hemisphere; and, whereas, the methods of wariare which have been and now are being carried on for the suppression of the Cubans are contrary to the established usage of war and a stigma upon the Christian civili- zation of the nineteenth century: therefore, be it Resolved, By the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate concurring therein, that we favor the recognition by the Government of the United States of the rights of the Cubans as belligerents, Resolved, That the chief clerk of this Assem- Dly transmit copies of these resolutions to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Californisa. Both resolutions were ordered trans- mitted to the printer. Corbett Finds a Giant. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—James J., Corbett, when he appears here next week, will have a new and interesting partner. He is William Ruhlins, a 24.year-old giant, who is 7 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. His home is at Akron, Ohio. He attrac- ted Corbett’s attention when walking streets at Toledo, Ruhlins is a first-class wrestler and ail - arouna athlete, and had been chosen as McVey’s assistant_in the training of the champion for his fight with Fitzsimmons. Heis now with Corbett’s company as a personal follower, and only occasionally takes light parts in the play. —— John I.’s Condition Improved. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 20.—John L. Sullivan, ex-chtampion pugilist, who is quite ill with tonsilitis, was better this morning. aid that the sanitary condition of | TURPIE RESUMES IS ARGUMENT Explains His Antagonism to the Nicaragua Canal Measure. Says Congress Should Not Loan $100,000,000 on Peter Funk Security. “An Unreasonable Demand, an Irra- tional Requ:st and a Lunatic Proposition.” ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.—In the Senate to-day Perkins (R.) of California introduced a joint resolution for the ap- pointment of a commission to collect sta- tistics on mines and mining. Referred. Hill (D.) of New York, on bebalf of his colleague (Murphy), asked unanimous consent to have the New York Custom- house bill taken up and put on its pas- sage. There was but one slight objection, by Pettigrew (8il.) of South Dakota, to Hill's request and the bill was taken up and passed. The bill as passed appoints five citizens of New York City as building commis- sioners at $5000 a year. The building isto be on the present Custom-kouse site. The Secretary of the Treasury is to lease suit- able premises for the temporary custom- bouse, §250,000 being appropriated for rental for the first year. The entire cost of the building is not to exceed $5,000,000. | Morgan’s bill as to the default on the part of the Pacific roads was permitted to go over without action. The resolution heretofore offered by Pettigrew (Sil.) of South Dakota, calling on the Secretary of State for a copy of the proceedings of the commission on the divisional line between Venezuela and Guiana, was called up and Pettigrew dis- cussed it. At the conctusion of Petti- grew’s speech it was referred to the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations. Ths Senate joint resolution as to the laying of electric subways in the District of Columbia, on which Hill (D.) of New York had spoken at length yesterday, was taken up, and Faulkner (D.)of West Vir- ginia, a member of the District commit- tee, addressed the Senate, defending the action of the committee and denying the charges made against it yesterday by Hill. There were several short and rather angry dialogues between Senators Faulk ner and Hill in the course ol Faulkner’s speech. At 2 o’clock the presiding officer Iaia be- fore the Senate the unfinished business— the Nicaragua canal bill—and Turpie (D.) of Indiana resumed his speech in opposi- tion to it. He likened the provisions of the bill to the case of bogus mortgages and to the successful looting of credulous people by such means. The operation proposed in the pending bull, he said, dif- ferea from the bogus mortgage case only in the fact thatthe canal company on the face of the bill submitted to the Senate had no title to the laands which it proposed to surrender; that it had no in- terest in thew and that it could not trans- fer them to any one. The company asked Congress, with its eyes open and knowing that the security was straw, to give it a hundred million dollars, guaranteeing payment by a lien on securities that were utterly without value—on *Peter Funk’ securities. Turpie asserted that through the failure of the compaay to complete within three vears the connecting link known as the Managua canal 1t had ready forfeited everything, had already surrendered everythin, at it had either voluntarily or negligently given up and abandoned its concession. It had not even pretended to construct the Munagua canal. No act of Congress could release the company from its obligation under the cession. It was an unreasonable de- mand, an irrational request, a thoroughly lunatic proposition, thut Congress should guarantee the performance ol the work, or should enter upon its construction, with- out having an estimate of the cost of the three principal items necessary 1o its prosecution—the Managua canal and the counstruction of two harbors. After speaking for two hours, Turpie closed his remarks for the day, but de- clined to promise that he would finish his speech to-morrow, and the bill went over. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire asked and obtained unanimous consent to nave the bill for representation ¢f the United States at an international monetary con- ference with foreign countries takén up after the morning hour on Tuesday next. | The District appropriation bilt and the provision as to the library of Congress was acted upon. The firstamendment offered by the committee was an appropriation of $5000 for the salary of the librarian, who 1s (0 be appointed by the President, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and providing that the lbrarian shall make rules and regulations for the government of the library to be approved by the L brary Committee. The admend- ment was approved. Another important amendment by the commiitee was the insertion of aniiem appointing a custodian of the building and grounds ata salary of $5000 and appro- priating $46,440 for the custody and care of the building and grounds. Other amendments “1n relation to the library were agreed to, and after Call (D.) of Florida had argued against the policy of leaving to the President the appointient of the librarian and superintendewnt, the bill was passed. A joint resolation, authorizing the Smithsonian Institution to particinate in the exhibition of gas apparatus in Madi- son-square Garden, New Y ity, January 27 to February 6, offered by Bryce (D.) of Onio, was paysed, and the Senate at 5 o’clock adjnnmet‘i e SESSION OF THE HOUSE, Interesting Debate Over the Yost-Tucker Contest for a Seat, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.—The Speaker laid before the House to-day a bill authorizing the Cairo and Tennessee River Railroad Company to build a bridge across the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers in Kentucky, with Senate amend- ments, which were concurred in. Under the call of committees, the Sen- ate resolution authorizing the Secretary of War 10 pension telezraph operators in the army during the war, orgiving repre- sentatives of deceased operators’ceriificates setting forth their term ana condition of service was considered and passed. The House bill to reduce from 10 to 15 cents per folio of 100 words the fees of the Land Office for taking depositions in con- tests, and reducing the fees of land offices in the Pacific and Rocky Mountain States to the same as are paid officers of the same Cclasses in other States (which are now 50 er cent higher), was passed. The same Eill practically was passed at the last ses- sion, and was vetoed by the President. 'he House then proceeded tg the sen- | | by a State statute. | all Federal laws relating to the regulations | launches, such as this bill now affects, sideration of the contested election ca e of Yost vs. Tucker for the seat in the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Tenth dis- trict of Virginia. The majority of the committee reported in favor of Tucker. Walker (R.) of Pennsylvania and Bur- rows (D.) of Michigan dissented and recommended the seating of Yost. The guestion at issue was as to the counting of certain imperfectly marked ballots. The election was the first one held under the walton Australian ballot law of Vir- inia. £ Codding (R.) of Pennsylvania made the first speecu in favor of the committee’s report. Codding was followed by the con- testant, Representative-elect Yost, who in concluding a fervent appeal for justice said: ‘The stigma of foul elections has dis- graced and debased the South for years; its yearly influence has paralyzed the public consci:nc’; but now, thank God, in Virginia at least, the shock of this election has roused the people from their stupor. “The fear of negro rule has disappeared, but despite the scourge of public opinion the guilty tricksters still dare to bring their infamy to the doors of Congress. 1f you accept the result of their machina- tions you prove their methods and give them fresh license.” Jenkins (R.) of Wisconsin said that he and_thres other Republican members of the Election Committee had come to the conclusion that the contestee (Tucker) was entitled to retain his seat, and this conclusion he intended to defend and maintain even if afterward he was called a Massachusetts mugwump. |Laughter.] Grosvenor (R.) of Ohios spoke for Yost. He argued that the House was not to be circumscribed in the exercise of its right to 1nquire into the election of its members He stated that the case was full of ifraud, despite the state- ments to the contrary, and he appealed to members not to sustain it by their votes. 1f they did they should never again prate of the lack of purity of elections in the South, His speech was frequently inter- rupted by applause on the part of his Re- publican colleagues. Danitel (R.) of New York, chairman of Eiections Committee 1, made a sirictly legal argument to sustain the conclusions of the minority of the committee that the House was justified in using the ballot to determine the intention of the voter, not- withstanding the requirements of the State law. o At the conclusion of Daniel’s speech the election case was temporarily set aside, and Hull (R.) of Iowa reported a partial agreement of the conferees on the army | appropriation bill. It was agreed to, and the House icsisted upon its disagreement | to the Senale amendments still in dis- pute. It was agreed that a vote on the con- tested election case be taken at4:30 o’clock to-morro At 5:05 the House adjourned until to- morrow. SENDS BUT FOUR NOTES. Secretary O/ney’s Response to the Senate’s Demand for Arbitration Treaty Correspondence. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.—In his | confidential message to the Senate trans- mitting the correspondence in connection | with the general treaty of arbitration, Secretary Olney sends but four notes, and he says that this is all the correspoadence petween the United States and - Great Britain relating to the general treaty of arbitration. He adds also that no corre- | spondence *in regard to the treaty has | taken place with other powers.” | Although the correspondence was sent to the Senate with the seal of secrecy and | is carefully guarded by the committee, it | can be authoritatively stated that there is | no need for Mr. Olney’s solicitude in this | respect. Every one of the four notes trans- mitted to the Senate has been given to the public in these dispatchnes, at least in sub- stance. The first of the quartet is Lord Salis- bury’s note to Sir Julian Pauncefote of March 5, 1896 in which, in connection with the Venezuelan question, he reopens the subject of a foreign treaty and sub- mits six heads for a treaty. Then follows Mr. Olney’s note of April | 11, 1896, in reply to which he rejects arti- cles IV and V of the proposed treaty, and substitutes a new article IV, which in its essential points agrees with that article in the treaty before the Senate. On May 18 Lord Salisbury, replying to | Sir Juiian, *ays after some reference to Veneznela and other questions that might be breught under a general treaty of arbi- tration: In this view I am plaesed toobserve thatI agree wita Mr. Olney, because I hold that in discussing the safeguards by which a general system of arbitration should be sanctioned it | is important 10 bear in mind that any system | adopted between our two nations ought to be such as can in principe be applied if neces. sary totheir relations with other civilized countries. Touching upon that article ot the treaty | with respect to the mode of dealing with | territorial claims, it was apparent in this note that the two Governments were still | apart. - Mr. Olney insisted that every claim to terrifory against another should go, as o right, before a tribunal of arbitration, save in certain cases, solemnly declared by the Legisla- ture of each country to involve the | National honor and integrity, and such | dispute shall be final and irrevocably de- cided without reservation of any further powers to either party to interfere. INPORTANT TO MARINERS. The President Signs a Bill of the Utmost Interest to Masters and Pilots in Large Harbors. B WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.—Presi- dent Cleyeland to-day signed a bill which is of the utmost interest to masters of all vessels in large harbors. It is the bill pro- viding that all vessels requiring engineers and pilots above fifteen tons burden, car- rying freight or passengers for hire ana propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, or elec- tric motors, shall be made subjsct to all Federal laws relating to the inspection of hulls and boilers and providing that all such vessels shall be made to conform to of steam vessels passing each other, and to such further relations regarding fog signals, lights, steering and sailing rules as the Board of Supervising Inspectors o f Steam Vessels shall deem necessrry. This new law will be welcomed by the masters and pilots of all vessels coming into or leaving large ports like San Fran- cisco. Heretofore steam or naphtha have been practically “free launches” entirely exempt from all duties or laws, and subject apparently to the whim of the man who was in command. They were constant sources of danger both to them- selves and to larger vessels which they met, and pilots and masters have for a long tfme been endeavoring to bring about some legislation which will fasten upon these little craft responsibilities equal to those now borne by large vessels. The law goes into eff2ct at once. e DIGNIFYING THE FLAG. Bill Intvoduced in New York Senate to Prevent Itsa Improper Use. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 20,—The Senate to-day passed Senator Lexow’s resolution providing for the appointment of a com- mittee of three Senators and four As- semblymen to investigate trusts and re- port remedial legislation. The resolution now goes to the Assembly for concurrence. Senator Grady to-day introduced a bill which is intended to prevent the desecra- tion, mautilation or improper use of United States or State flags. The intro- duction brought about by the use of the American flag by the Republicans during the recent campaign. The penalty fixed 13 a year's imprisonment or a fine-of $2530, or boih, HAWAIIS HOPE S IN CONGRESS Monthly Meetings of the Annexation Club at Honolulu. Immediate Assistance Not Ex- pected From President McKinley. Contract Labor to Be Abolished in Hawaii—Populaticn of Honolulu Is About 30,000 HONOLULU, Hawam, Jan. 13—The arst of a series of meetings under the auspices of the Annexation Club was held in the drill-shed last evening. Important speeches bearing on the annexation ques- tion were made by Hon. Henry E. Cooper, Minister of Foreign Affairs; L. A. Thurs- ton, ex-Hawaiian Minister at Washing- ton; Senator McCandless and Representa- tive Robertson of the Hawaiian Legisla- ture; P. C. Jones, ex-Minister of Finance, and others. President Dole, Attorney-General Smith and all the leading Government officials were present, together with about 400 lesding men of the city. The gathering was in no sense a mass- meeting, but only a called meeting of the club, which has about 2000 names on its membership roll. Minister Cooper said: The attitade of the Government has been and still is annexation to the United States of America. f While in the United"States recently I had he opportunity of hearing much that is en- couraging o those who believe in annexation. First of all, it s not likely that the question will become a party issue; the proposition will be advocated by Republicans and Democrats alike, while opponents will be found in the ranks of both parties. The question is likely to be heard upon its merits. There seems Do desire to recede from the Senate resolution of 1893, The division of opinion comes upon the question of annexation or the maintenancs of the present status. The lines seem to be more sharply drawn upon this question than ever before. The fact that we have shown ourselyes capable of seli-government has strengthened our position to a large extent. Although the danger has been that some might consider it best to let well enough alone, yet the more general view is that the question should not be left any longer in sbeyance and has finally settied in favor of annexation. While many of the opponents of annexation in the United States have based their opposi- tion upon the policy of the Government here- tofore, that no territory should be acquired which is not & purt of the American conti- nent, many now say that they consider that an exception to this rule should be made in the case of Hawail. The reason for this Is that Hawaii has become too important a factor in controlling the commerce of the Pacific to be left where it might go under the control of | another ower. The occupation of Pearl Harbor is considered by those who fayor & progressive foreign policy to be essential. Aunnexation isnowa | question of business, not of sentiment. It is most likely that a special session of Congress will be called soon after the inaug- uration of the new President and annexation brought forward. Senator McCandless made an important announcement, which foreshadows im- portant legislation. He said: Sugar men oppose annexation on account of contract labor. I wish tosay as a member of the Hawailan Senate, gentlemen, that in the next session of that body the contract law will be repealed, and from that time we will have free labor on the plan of American institutions and American industries. [Tremendous ap- plause.] When this has been accomplished I do not see how any sugar man can oppose annexation. The question has been asked, “Whet will annexation do for the Hawaiian?”’ This much: The Hawaiians have never been taught what Americans term self-respect, and what is called by the modern schoolmaster “character-building.”” The Hawailans are treeted as children to-day, precisely as they were three-quarters ofa century ago. We meet them and if the man strikes our fancy and asks for 1t we will give him & quarter, and he goes off and buys a mél. No man who has learned what sel{-respect is will receive money unless he has earned it or gives an equivalent. The Hawaiian is not to be blamed for this; he bas never yet been taught differently, but with the intusion of new blood which will follow annexation the rising generation will learn it by contact. President Hon. L. A. Thurston said: If any one class in this country needs an- nexation it is the suger-planters. The United States treasury is in need ot $30,000,000 to meet an annual deficit. Protection to sugar is bound to be in the tariff. A bounty will uot do, because it takes money out of the treasury. The sugar-planter in Hawaii to-day s like a man driving along the brink of a precipice. We had a reciprocity treaty which expired in 1894. It has been liable ever since to termi- nate at one year's notice from either side. According to the report of the superin- tendent of the census, made public to- day, the population of Honolulu by na- tionalities is: Americans 2074, British 1308, Germans 578, French 69, Norwegians 179, Portuguese 3833, other races 366, Japanese 2381, Chinese 7693, South Sea Islanders 63, Hawniians 7918, part Hawaiians 3468; total 29,830, DESPERATE RIOT IN HUNGARY. Troops Fire Upon Striking Rolling-Mill Employes, Killing Eight and Wound- ing Many. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 20.—The represent- ative of the United Associated Pressesin Vienna teiegraphs that the employes of the rolling-mill in Annia, Hungary, be- coming discontented with the new scale of wages, to-day became riotous and made and attack on the Prefect of Arms, who had been sent to restore order, and a des- perate fight ensued. The officer in charge of the gendarmes, becoming convinced that his force was not sufficient to quell the riots by other means, finally gave the order to fire upon the mob. As a result twenty of the rioters were seriously injured. A number of offi- cers were also seriously injured during the melee. A dispatch to the Central News says that eight of the rioters were killed and many were injured in the fight. i SRy TO CELEBRATE ARBITRATION, A Meeting Held in England to Make Suitable Arrangements, LONDON, Exe, Jan. 20.—A meeting was held in Birmingham to-day to perfect arrangemenis for a suitable celebration of the signing of the general arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Among the speakers was G. F.-Parker, United States Consul at Birmingham, who said that the treaty would undoubt- edly be ratified by the, United States . Senate and that the people of both coun- tries in the meantime must be patient. Mr. Parker said he bad recently made a tour of thirteen of the American States, and had not in .the course of his travels seen a single trace of anti-British feeling. B g The American Liner Paris Disabled. QUEENSTOWN, Ireraxp, Jan. 20— The White Star line steamer Majestic, which arrived here at an early hour yes- terday morning, reports that when she was 100 miles out from Sandy Hook she exchanged signals with the American line steamer Paris, for Southampton, from New York, with only one of her engines working. PROSPECTIVE NAVAL CHANGES. Captain Howison of the Oregon About fo Be Mads a Rear Admiral—His Probab’e Successor. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—A Herald special from Washington says: Nine offi- cers who are now in command of ships will be detached within the next few months ana given shore duty. The most importapt command that will become vacant is the battle-ship Oregon. Captain H. L. Howison, who now commands her, is No. 1 on the list of captains and will be promoted to flag rank when Rear Ad- miral J. G. Walker retires in March. He will be detached a few days before his promotion. It has not yet been de- cided where he will then be stationed. His friends are anxious that he should succeed Rear Admiral Beardslee in com- mand of Pacific station, but Commodore George Dewey, it is understood, has prac- tically beeu promised that assignment, and Commodore Howison will probably have to take a shore station until a sea billet becomes vacant. The officer most prominently mentioned to succeed Cap- tain Howison in command of the Oregon is Captain A. S. Barker. i BRYAN FETED IN TEXAS. Received by a Hundred Houston Ladies and Banqueted. HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 20.—Hon. W. J. Bryan, late Presidential candidate, who ar- rived here last evening, was drivan to the residence of Congressman C. I. Hutchin- son, where 100 ladies received him, and then tothe residence of Mrs. Bettie Bryan, who, although a namesake, is no relation to the Nebraskan, where another recep- tion was held. At 2:30 o’clock Mr. Bryan was escorted . by Mayor Rice from his quarters at the Bristol to the Capitol Ho- tel, where a banquet was given in his honor, a big crowd in front being eluded by using the back door. Rt Chicago Judge Kefuses Money. CHICAGO ILn., Jan. 20.—Charles H. Rathman, the billiard hall proprietor, was sentenced to jail for sixty days to-day by Judge Freeman for sending his Honor $100, and bis case will be taken before the Grand Jury. The judge sentenced him for contempt of court in sending a letter as well as the money which the Judge said was sent to bribe the court in Rath- man’s forthcoming divorce suit brought by his wile. e el ek New Officers of Civil Engineers’ Society. NEW YORK, N. Y. Jan. 20.—The American Society of Civil Engineers began its forty-fourth annual meeting here to- day. The election of officers resulted as foliows: President (to serve one yeat), Benjamin Morgan Harrod, New Orieans; vice-presidents (two years), George Henry Mendell, San Francisco, and John Findley Wallace, Chicago; treasurer (one year), John Thompson, New York; directors (three years)— Rudoiph Herring, New York; James Owen, Newark, N. J.; Henry Grant Morse, Wilmington, Del.; Henry Stevens Haines, Atianta, Ga.; Lorenzo M. Johnson, Eagle Pass, Texas. e 5 In Danger of Being Lynched. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan, 20.—At Jack- son, Ky., che examination of Jacob Neace and John Farler for the murder of Deputy United States Marshal Bird was concluded this morning. ‘The prisoners were held over to the United States Court without bail. They will be taken to Louisville to-morrow morning if they are not lynched to-night. Feeling is running high against them. e Ice Gorge and High Water. MUSKEGON, Mic., Jan., 20,—The dam- age by the ice gorge on the Muskegon River continues. Beans Island, nine miles up the stream, is covered by ice and water. The damage is great. The Mus- kegon River is now from four to five feet above its usual height. It fell only one inch last night. Union Pacific Foreclosure. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 20.—The Gov- ernment directors of the Union Pacific Ruilway Company will meet at 11 A, x. next Fridav for the purpose, it is said, of recommending a plan of foreclosure. S New Fork Murderer Electrocuted. AUBURN, N. Y., Jan. 20.—John Hoch was electrocuted at 12:08 p. M. to-day for the murder of Minnie Ingersoll at Mar!- linsburg, near Lowville, wis County, July 10, 1895. LYNCHERS FIND THREE VICTIMS A Mcb Lets Wrangling Negroes Fight, Then Hangs Every One. First Decided to Burn Them Alive, but Rope and Bullets Prevailed. Ghastly Night's Work in the Rain of Two Hundred Avengers in Louisiana. AMITE CITY, La., Jan. 20.—Three ne- gro murderers, John Johnson, Arch Joiner and Gus Williams, were taken from jail and lynched by a mob in this place about 3 o’clock this mornine. Johnson and Joiner, according to the confession of the former, were guilty of the murderof five members of the Cotton family some time ago. Williams was awaiting trial for murdering his wife. Early in the night, when it became known that John Johnson and Arch Joiner, charged with the Cotton family murders, would be lynched, groups of strangers from every section of this and adjoining parishes began to arrive. They held low conversations on the street cor- ners. The night was a most miserable one, rainy and gloomy. About 9 o’clock there wers perhaps 250 people on the street, when suddenly some 150 men on horses galloped up to the jail, and bhaving found the deputy who had charge, forced him to open the jail door and also open the steel cages. They then took from the cages the three colored men. The mob made no hostile demon- strations. After procuring their men they held a short consultation and decided to hang Gus Williams to an oak tree near the negro church, on the outer edge of town. A rope was quickly adjusted over alarge limb with one end around Wil- liems’ neck. Williams was made to get’ on a horse. The horse was struck with a whip and jumped from under Williams. His neck was broken and his body was jerked down. Wilhams disposed of, the crowd started on the long march to John Cotton’s house, where the murders were com- mitted. The distance traveled was twelve miles, through a heavy rain. There were nearly 200 in the crowd during the march. Arch Joiner prayed a great deal, but Johnson was quiet and sullen. After four hours the Cotton residence was reached, and all dismounted. Joiner made a desperate break for liberty, but was captured before he had gone very far. Joiner and Johnson began cursing each other, and asked permission from the crowd to settle their dispute in prize-ring style, which was granted. The fight lasted about five minutes. Johnson, although the smaller man, had considerably the test of the fight when they separated. They were then taken into the Cotton house and efforts were made to get a full confession from them. John Johnston stuck to his former statement that Arch Joiner was the man who committed the murders, Joiner stoutly maintained his innocence for & while, but finally confessed that he killed Mrs. John Cotton, Miss Agnes Mil- ler and Miss Lizzie Miller. A discussion then arose as to the best way to dispose of the murderers. Some were in favor of burning them, and fires were made for that purpose; but better judgment prevailed, and 1t was finally decided to hang them. This was done, and their bodies riddled with bul- lets. 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