Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 August 1898 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1808.
THIS ITEPUUUCAN ^TICKET.
For Representative, 'CAPT. A. M. SCOTT.' For Prosecuting Attorney,
WlLLlAMiM. REEVES. For Auditor, WILLIAM M. WHITE.
For Treasurer, HOWARD ONEAL. For Sheriff, GEORGE HULTZ.
For Surveyor,
JAMES A. HARDING. For Coroner, DR, T. Z. BALL. Commissioner—First District,
HANNIBAL TRODT.
For Commissioner—Third District, ALBERT T. HORNBAKER.
TuEjPresident is said to have at last made up his mind to instruct our peace commissioners that the whole island of Luzon, with the great city and bay of Manila and the important ports of Saal and Subig. must be absolutely ceded to the United States.
TJJE woolen manufacturers for the fall trade of 1898, under the operation of the Dingley bill have advanced the price of light weight woolenB to 10 per cent, in prices, qualities compared strictly with last year. There must be some business doing when factory people^ can get better priceB for their wares,
TfiK manufacturers of the United] States are congratulating themselves upon the fact that they have been ablei to clear away and dispose of the over-j stock or surplus of tiie great factory Bystem which had accumulated during the Democratic panic of 1893-4. New .jsontr&cts and new wares promise better wages and steady employment for the working people.
Tula Republican prosperity which has been ocupying the waste places of the country since March 4, 1897, haB managed to dispose of or consume about the last yard, or ton, of the Cleveland surplus of goodB and wares for which no market could be found during the years of Democratic oppression. The next yard and next ton will command better prices and set a pace for the future which will insure better prosperity.
LOUISVILLE Times: Ohio isn't yet quite "the whole thing." Senator Fairbanks, a Hoosier, is at the head of the American commissioners to the Quebec conference for the settlement of all disputes between Canada and the United States John W. Foster, another Hoosier, is a sort of diplomat-in-chief for Uncle Sam, and Charles Denby, still another Indiana statesman, is likely to be one of the commissioners to patch up a definitive treaty of peace between the United States and Spain. The war being over, Michigan must now take a back seat, while Ohio and Indiana run the affairs of the universe.
AS TO THE ARMY.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Democratic and Populist papers which are intimating that the regular army will soon be cut down to its old figure are astray. Nothing of this sort will take place. The regular army is not yet up to the 01,000 limit provided for by the act passed at the beginning- of the Snr.Dish war, and this act stipulated :M. the jump from the 25,000 to the G1,000 figure, was to continue only until the end of the war. Hut the war will not officially end until after the psaee treaty is ratified by the American senate and the Spanish cortes, and this may not be until January or February. Jiy that time congress is likely to not only knock out that foolish backaction provision of last. April's army increase law, but it will in all probability pass an act which will provide for a standing army of at least 100,000 men.* The Democratic and Populist folly in keeping the regular army down to the old 25,000 limit of a quarter of a century ago is responsible for the loss of many lives and for the expenditure of hundreds of millions of
dollars in the recent war. That particular sort of stupidity will never have a chance to be perptetrated again
AS TO THE AKMY.
The Democratic party, at its state convention at Galveston, Texas, August 3, by clause 12 of its platform, opposes any increase in the standing army of the United States. This paragraph is in striking contrast with clause 8, which favors the construction and control of the Nicaraugua canal by the United States, and with clause 9, which favors the carrying out of the letter and spirit of the resolution which congress passed relating to Cuba, incidentally favoring the annexation of the same after an experiment in the establishment of a permanent government. Clause 10 favors the annexation of Porto Rico and all its Spanish possessions in the western hemisphere. Just how the United States is to acquire the control of Porto Rico and establish a stable government in Cuba without the increase of the regular army, is one of the anomalous things that the ordinary citizens of this day can not comprehend. We are erecting fcrts and coast and harbor defenses at all prominent points on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard. In these forts and fortifications we are placing the latest improved modern guns with machinery so carefully adjusted that only an expert can be trusted in its management. It is safe to say that from 2,000 to 5,000 mca will be necessary for the care of these fortifications, guns and equipment in the time of profoundest peace. The regular army has been well employed in all the past years, and its effective strength has been tested on many occasions, and it is well known that a lack of sufficient force has many times been found for the emergencies that have confronted us at the time. These new complications, with the unsettled questions growing out of the war, are sufficient to guarantee a very large increase in the regular army. If the Democrats think they can make votes among the intelligent American pe6ple by opposing that great arm of our national government, let it be so The Republican party will declare that the regular army shall be increased whenever the necessities of the occasion require it. But one condition shall be considered, and that is the welfare of the nation.
TIIE opponents of "expansion," socalled, continue to harp on the
StateB,
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
Marriage Licenses.
Lee C. Perkins and Dora Charters. Wilbert A. Gulley and Maude Paxton.
Probate Court.
S. C. Graybill has been appointed administrator of the estate of J. F. France, deceased.
New Suits.
J. M. F. Erwin VB. William Britton. Complaint. Hary Hallett vs. Minerva C. Hardy et al. To quiet title.
Mattie A. Lane vs. Walter Lane. Divorce. Ezra C. Voris vs. R. W. Stump et al. On notes and chattel mortgages.
Georgie
BrBdy
vs. ThurberG. Grimes
and George E. Grimes. Appeal. D. M. Osborne ifc Co. vs. Wm. F. Shepherd et al. On notes.
K.INGSLEY CHAPEL!
Abe Caster will erect anew chicken house 40x20 feet. Joe Shaver and Homer Elmore traded horses this week.
Charles Cory has gone to Illinois to cut and husk corn. Wallace Cox delivered to Edwards & Linn of Mace 119 fat hogs Monday.
Frank Arnold, of Battle Ground, was here oa business the first of the week. Seth Crowder spent Saturday evening and Sunday with Ed Dykes near Colfax.
Ed Baker has returned home after spending the summer with hie brother ticiir Ladoga.
Otis Hall has hired to Joe Shaver for for an infinite time beginning on Monday morning last.
Charles Elmore, Carper Crowder, Joe Shaver, Earl Perry, Charley and Elmer Hall and Col. W. T. Riley attended the K. of P. encampment at Indianapolis Tuesday.
IxsiTiE with A. S. Clements "against fire and cyclone. Office, 107 north Greea et., Crawfordsville.
VERY UNFAVORABLE
Impression In Madrid Regarding President McKinley's Intentions-
SENATOR DAVIS' YfSIT
Chairmnn of ITor«it*n K*lat Ions Committoo Mas a. ConliTenoo With the I'residml at the White House—Xews From l*oi»e»—Spanish Commander Who Didn't.
Know tho War Was Over.
London, Aug. 25.—A dispatch to The Standard from Madrid by way of France, says: "A very unfavorable impression has boon caused- in Madrid by telegrams attributing to President McKinley the intention of instructing the peace commissioners to insist upon tho cession of Luzon, that American commerce should have tho same footing as Spanish in the Fhilppines, and that Spain should pledge itself that none of tho Spanish colonies should bo ceded to European powers. If snch are the intentions of tho United States government the negotiations are sure to bo laborious, even if an understanding is ever arrived at. Tho Spaniards consider tho cession of Luzou, their best, and most important island, to bo a death blow to their prestige and soverignty in these regions, and that this would be irretrivably weakened and crippled by the presence of Americans in the heart of their colonies. "Commercial equality with the United States
in
difli-
culty and danger of governing new countries, "not only separated from the United
but populated by
different races and accustomed to different institutipqij." They eeem to Overlook one fact in recent history which completely invalidates their objecti^s. Alaska was acquired by this C'oiiniry In 1867. It h&& an firea Of 500,000 square miles—more than three timeB as great as Cuba, Porto Rico, the Sandwich Islands and the Philippines combined. It is "separated from the United States," is "populated by different races" and "accustomed Ho different institutions." Yet during tlte thirty years it has been in our possession no trouble has been experienced in governing it, except the disputes with Great Britain over the seal fisheries, and every school child is as much accustomed to regarding Alaska as part of the United States territory as Arizona.
the archipelago would an
nul the only advantage and compensation which they might have expected to have derived from the cost ard sacrifices which have been necessary to maintain their rule in the archipelagoes. The separation of church and state would bo more unpalatable to most Spaniards and would create grave difficulties in their relations with the
Vati
can and the church, let alone the powerful religious orders in Spain, which are always disposed to side with Don Carlos against the present dynastj'. "Nothing could be better calculated than the pretensions attributed to America to develop in Spain tho visibly growing desire to cease all connection with the Philippines and thus oblige the United States government to assume the burden of the responsibilities of their government, which would likely create conflicts with European powers and tending, in any case, to entail for the United States more trouble and sacrifices in men and money even than the occupation and pacification of Cuba. Even the lower and middle classes seem to think this, and thus in both directions Spain would simply make America pay for the wrongs inflicted."
SENATOR DAVIS.
Chairman of the Foreign Committee Con With the 1'resident,
Washington, ASenator Oushman K. Davis.^hairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, and selected as a member of the commission to negotiate terms of peace with Spaiji^ arrived in Washington yesterday, He went to tiie white house very soon after his arrival and remained with the president for an hour. The conference was of a preliminary character and was devoted largely to the great question which the administration will have
to
settle of control of the Philippines. Afterward Senator Davis went to the State department and saw Secretary Day, who is also to be a member of the peace commission. "Senator Davis will remain in Washington two or three days, and the terms of peace for the
SESATOR C. K. DAVIS.
American side will be formulated as fax as possible the conference which will occur between the president, the secretary of state and chairman of the foreign relations committee. These preliminaries will be of great importance, as all the diplomatic questions, the examination of old treaties, tho many points to be involved in the new treaty, of necessity will have to be thoroughly considered by the commissioners.
Senator Davis refused absolutely to discuss with Jiewspuper men any of the questions growing out of the war or the subjects which might likely come before the commission.
CHICKAMAUGA.
Light Artillery to
l*o
Mustorrd Out.
Moving to Another Cuuip,
Chickamauga Park, A us*. 25.—The' Second brigade of tho Third division, First corps left for Lexington yesterday.
The First Illinois cavalry broke camp yesterday afternoon and marched to Ringgold, from which place it started today for Chicago to go into crimp at Fort Sheridan. This regiment will take its horses along. The regiments expect" ing to leave today are the Sixth Ohio
One Hundred and Fifty-eiglith Indiana and the First West Virginia, constituting the Second brigade, of the Second division, Third corps ordered to Knoxville.
General Breckinridge has received orders to prepare for the mustering out of the light artillery and the Second Nebraska infantry. It is General Breckinridge's understanding that they will be sent to their respective states before fore official action is taken. The Second Nebraska will bo mustered out at Omaha. The batteries to be mustered out are: Batteries A. 0. Hand of Uhio, Batteries A ana 3 of Georgia and the Twenty-eighth Indiana.
General Melvin Grigsby, commanding the Third United States volunteer cavalry, who has just returned from Washington, said that he had heard the president say that it would be tho policy to muster out all soldiers who did not wish to serve longer, now that tho war is ov'er, the idea being to retain those still desirous of service.
TOOK CHANCES.
Spanish Commander Who I3id Not. Know Whether Teuce or War Kxi.sted*
Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 25.—Tho coasting schooner Dolores, flying the Spanish flag, entered the harbor yesterday. Her captain was uncertain whether a state of peace or war existed, but decided to take his chances. Tho Dolores was not molested.
The Alamo, with supplies and clothing for General Henry's men has sailed for Arecibo, on tho north coast of Porto Rico.
General Brooko is still awaiting his credentials. On their arrival he will immediately leave for San Juan, a troop of the Sixth regular cavalry acting as escort.
Preparations are being made for the embarkation of the volunteers and cavalry order home.
The cavalry includes Troops A and of New York, and the following Pennsylvania troops: The Philadelphia city troop, the Sheridan troop and the Governor's troop. These are concentrated hero and at Guanica and will probably Bail on the transport Mississippi in the course of a few days. Tho men are delighted at the prospect.
HAVANA HARBOR.
Efforts to Have tho Mines Removed Be* lore IM.illitary Commission Meets,
Washington, Aug. 25.—Negotiations have been opened through diplomatic channels by which it is expected that the Spanish government will co-operate with tho authorities here in the removal of the mines and torpedoes in Havana harbor before the military commission assembles there, the naval authorities believing this to be a proper psecaution before any of our nava ships enter the harbor with the commissioners. The suggestion was made &r°n|£ 4^5. state depgrtnjgiit agsyjrjs been forwarded to the Spanish governthrough the French ambassador. There is little doubt that the matter will be arranged,
INSTRUCTIONS TO BLANCO.
He Must lie pel Attacks by Insurgeuts With Force.
Madrid, Aug. 25.—The minister of war, Lieutenant (General OoF^tfi, wheg asked what instructions had been giyen General Blanco in regard to opposing the insurgents in Cuba, replied that he had ordered the Captains general of Cuba and the Philippines to act in accord with the Americans, but if the Americans should prove unable to make the insurgents respect the armistice, then the instructions were to repeal by arms any attack up.on the Spaniards.
Relief Furnished Cubans.
Washington, Aug. 25.—In addition to the $50,000 appropriated by congress and distributed by ex-Consul General Lee for the relief of the people of Cuba, the central Cuban relief committee appointed by the president distributed foods, medicines and general supplies to the poor and suffering Cubans to the cash value of 1321,619. Of this amount $175,032 was in cash contributions and $146,5S7 in supplies.
Arms In Bud Condition.
Washington, Aug. 25.—General Fragler, chief of the ordnance bureau, has received further reports from the officers in charge of the captured Spanish arms at Santiago. They show that the number taken will be about 25,000, with "several million" rounds of ammunition, the exact number not stated. The reports say that these arms are Mauser and Remingtons, and for the most part are in bad condition, rusty and badly kept. The arms will be sent to New York and Springfield to be cleaned up and examined critically.
^lerritt Asked For Heroinmentations.
Washington, Aug. 25.—rlhe president has called upon General Merrier, commanding the military forces at Manila, for his recommendations regarding the .operations that resulted in the surrender of the capital oi' the Philippines. It is the president's purpose to promote the oflicers rendered conspicuously meritorious service the land lights at
Manila,-just- as^vaS done in the case ol the gitliairtrQlliiiexs at Santiago, ,^,.
Cbn'ii'tcrnVunded
the
Order.
San Francisoo. Aug. 25.—The mihtaary authorities here have received instructions froiu Adjutant General Corbin countermanding' previous orders to send a large body of soldiers to Honolulu. No more troops will leave here until further notice and the three steamers which were to have left early next Week will not go, at least not. as transport steamers.
1I««1
From Kolup-c.
Fort Thomas, Ky., Aug. '25.—Private Rudolph Schaezer of the Sixth United States cavalry Company I, died yesterday Trom a relapse after typhoid fever.
GEN.GARCIA REPORTS
His Headquarters at the Town of Gibara With 4,000 Troops.
HE CAPTURES A CONYOY
Securing? Arms auul Ammunition —Spaniards KviicrtuMng Towns atul Leaving Their Siok I'.chiml—General Luqui HUH
Twelvo Thousand Men and TwentyFour Cannon.
New York, Aug. 23.—The following report from General Garcia was received at tiie Cuban junta yesterday. The report was addressed to President T. Estrada Palma: "Gibara, Aug: 3.—On the 10th of July I held the last conference with the American General Shatter. He informed me that the American troops had captured Santiago de Cuba. Aware that my troops were no longer needed in that vicinity, while they were needed vety much iu other places still occupied by the enemy, I so informed General Shatter. He asked me to delay my departure two or three days, which 1 did,
S
ask
r—•
(II'.NKKAL C. Aia. IA.
starting on the 20th, toward Ilolguin by way of Jiguani. I am at present with my general headquarters iu the town of Gibara, where I arrived on the 30th of July. "On the 29th, while encamped in San Pedro Cacocum, I learned that General Luque had evacuated this town, and that General Luis de Feria, with the troops under him had occupied it. The Spanish left in tho hospitals over 600 sick and wounded, whom I have provided with beef. "There is perfect order in the town, new municipal authorities have been ejected, and everything is working regularly. The United States steamship Nashville was in the harbor when I enterecL I requested its commander tp
his government to open
This
port to
foreign commerce, or with the United States at least, for there is great scarcity of provisions. The Spaniards took everything they gjuld. General Luque ig in_HolgT\}Tj with i2,000 men and 24 cttUUOii, and 1 am trying to force him Out, although I caiijouly count on 4,000 men and Tour cannon with whicli to fight him. Volunteers and guerillas are daily joining us. About 1,500 have already joined us and if it continues the Spanish army will soon be dissolved. "Mayari, Fray Benita, Jururio and Jandiaga are garrisoned by our army. The first of these towns was evacuated on July 22, leaving 100 sick and wounded that we are caring for in the hospitals. When the Spaniards left Mayari we defeated them, capturing their convoy, consisting of 300 rifles, 150,000 Remington and Mauser cartridges, two cannon, with ammunition for them and provisions-and clothing. They suffered severe losses, not many arriving at Ilolguin. "I have received propositions for the surrender of Manzanillo under conditions which I refused to accept. Very soon all my department will be free from the dominion of Spain."
CALIXTO GAKCIA.
CARLISTS
Registering Their Property In Names of Other Persons.
London, Aug. 25.—The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "It is significant that the principal Carlists here are registering their property in the names of other persons to prevent its confiscation in the event of trouble. "The military judge at Barcelona has ordered a
CGurt
martial on a sergeant,
two corporals and several soldiers who were trying to recruit among the garrison for the Carlists. "Carlist disturbances are reported in several small towns in Aragon, caused by tho closing of the Carlist clubs."
Grimy finger marks
seem to
grow
GRASSHOPPER PEST
Myrids of Them Swarm the Fields of l£eu tueky Farmers. x-v'r1
May field, Ky., Aug. 25.—There is a plague of grasshoppers in Graves county, from which farmers are suffering a heavy loss to all kinds of growing crops. Millions of the insects infest the fields and lay waste the crops. Cornfields have been transformed injo unsightly stalks standing bare on the hills with only the ears of corn upon tho stalks, every vestige of fodder being eaten off by the grasshoppers. Kansas was never visited with more insects than now hop in the fields around here, and every fence is liter,ally covered with them. In driving along the country roads tho view of the road is often obscured by the flying of the grasshoppers across from one field to the other. They seem to travel in largo swarms and go from one field to another as fast as they complete their task of eating tho crop. Clover and pea fields are full of them as they can stick, and no seed can be saved this fall from them. Thousands of dollars' worth of produce has been ruined. No wheat can be sown early this fall till they have gone, as they would eat the young shoots as soon as thoy should show above the ground, and wheat will not take a second growth.
PRESS RULED OUT.
Joint Arbil raticn Commission Will Not .Miike I'nhlic Tlioir Work.
Quebec, Aug. 25.—No meeting of tho joint arbitration commission was held yesterday. Both the American and Canadian commission jrs are at work on plans for procedure and will compare" notes and decide upon a plan at tho joint meeting today. One point, however, has been determined. Nothing in detail of the commission's work will be given to the press until after its work is finished. This has been agreed upon by both sides. The, reason for this is to prevent as far as possible tho demands for hearings before the commission.
Sir Wilfrid Lanrier and Senator Fairbanks have botii »catud that it would be impossible for tho oomhiission to grant general hearings. They say the work of the commission would never be commenced if this were done. Both the Americans and Canadians have a groat amount of data and official information on questions to be considered and what* ever additional information is desired will be obtained from available sources* For theseTeasons it is thought a general discussion of the work in the press would tend to bring to Quebec daily delegations of persons anxious to be heard and result in great annoyance and, delay.
SENATOR^pANNA
Talks on the Problems to
13o
Solved
In
Cuba and Philippines*
St. Paul, Aug. 25.—Senator M. A. Hanna of Ohio has arrived in the city from Yellowstone park. Speaking of the annexation question, he said: -•~r- -A* "The Philippines is a question we caiinot solve in a hurry. We, of course, mnst retain a coaling station there, but I do not think it likely we shall want more than Manila and its harbor. "Cuba is another problem. I never was much of a Cuban and am not prepared to commit myself as to the policy we should pursue tnere. Wo propose to establish a stable government in that island, but what constitutes a stable government has not yet been defined. I think, however, Cuba will bo an evolution aud in about 20 years it will be so thoroughly Americanized that there will be no question as to what a stablegovernment, moans."
HIGHER PRICE
Demanded For Wheal and a Lower Price l*'or Mei?handi*tt.
iddv, Ky., Aug. 25.— O. L.'Tucker", a prominent merchant and grain dealer here, found posted on nis doors a noticewarning him that unless he paid a higher price for wheat aud sold his goods cheaper his stores and graiu elevators would be blown up with dynamite. The same intimidating notices have been left at tollgates iu the same vicinity, and it is believed an organized gang is at work.
•Nutlouul Convention of Greek Pruternitlex.
Lincoln, ISeb., Aug. 25.—A national convention of Greek letter fraternities began yesterday at the University of Nebraska with a large attendance from the leading universities of the central and western states as well of from the Atlantic and Pacific coast cities. Yesterday's session was secret.
Cedar Lake August 28.
The Monon Route will run an excursion to Monon Park, Cedar Lake, Sunday, August 2S. Special train will leave here 7:0? a. m.: returning leave 7 p. m. Fare for the round trip 81- Fine tianing and boating.
on the woodwork
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