Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 25 July 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL. RETREAT.

Bag Every Desirable Facility for ail Enjoyable Summer Sojourn. Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will find Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near ,8s$& Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretfifksi ty resort is site of Wi/.ona Assembly and

Summer school, the youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as HFSKS Spring Fountain Park. They ccnstitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here find rest and healtbgifing recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites are ytfc obtainable. Ia addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been made. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furn'-shing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college halls are used fo

Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurants and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large fleet of row boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pastim« to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations on these lines In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest. John M. mt Coulter, "of Lake Forest University,in confer! nection with the Assembly. For details dferegarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., ,/•apply to nearest Pennsylvania L'ne Ticket

Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information 1,4s concerning the resort should be addressed

to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

July 3—D&Wlmo.

PLEASURE TRIPS.

Numerous Excursions the Coming Summer at Reasonable Rates. Whether the tourist's fancy directs v. him to the New England States or the

Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this year. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Penn'S'ylvania Lines to Boston, account the

Knights Templar Conclave The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirable opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing .jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi Mid Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur sionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return-by steamer on Long Island Sound, •fter sight-seeing at Newport. Narragangett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod -resorts to New York and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and Iron regions of Western Pennsylvania. It is

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expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if. they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DITSEN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg,

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FOE SALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

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ELMER J. BINFORD, LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, settllnj estates, guardian business, conveyancing, etc Notary always in office.

Office—Wilson block, opposite court-house.

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UNDERTAKERS.

27 W. MAIN ST. Greenfield, Indiana.

MICHIGAN RESORTS.

Are directly on the line of the

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

EXCELLENT SERVICE TO

Traverse City, Ne-ah-ta-wan-ta, Omena, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay View, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, Harbor Point, Oden-Oden, Mackinac Island

pperPeninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on sale June 1st to Sept 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

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FIRED ON A SCHOONER

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An American Vessel's Experience in Cuban Waters.

CARRIE E. LANE, CAPTAIN QUICK.

Two Shots Fired on the Schooner by a Spanish Gunboat—The Affair Not Reported to Washington—Spain Taking

Severe Measures to Suppress the Insur

rection. BREAKWATER, Del., July 25.—Captain Quick of tlie American schooner Carrie E. Lane, upon her arrival here last night, had a tale to tell about a thrilling encounter in Cuban waters with a Spanish gunboat. Two shots were fired at the Lane by the nian-of war, and one of the schooner's crew narrowly escaped being killed by one of them. The vf.ssel was made to heave to and give an accouut of herself before being allowed to proceed.

The schooner was oft' Cape Antonio mid making good time before a stiff breeze, when, on the 14th inst., she sighted a steamer flying the Spanish flag, following her. Captain Quick at first paid no attention to the stranger, but after an hour or so noticed that she was signaling him to stop. He then examined her more closoly, but could only make out that she looked like a large tugboat, such as usually are in the harbor about Philadelphia, New York and other American seaports.

While he was making up his mind what course to pursue a puff of smoke curled up over the steamer port bow, and a round shot whistled uncomfortably close to the schooner's main mast and plunged into the water on the lee quarter. Captain Quick gave an order to haul in sail and bring the vessel too, and while this was being done one of the crew ran out on the bowsprit. As he stood there the gun on the Spanish warship boomed again and another shot sped on its way toward the American craft, this time coming so close to her that tho sailor on the bowsprit swears he distinctly felt the wind caused by its rapid flight.

The Lane soon came to a dead stop and the gunboat drew up under her quarter. A boat was lowered and four Spanish marines, under the command of a lieutenant in the Spanish navy, came aboard. They were fully armed and their leader very civily lifted his hat and demanded to know from what port the Lane had sailed and whither she was bound. Captain Quick gave the required information and produced his clearance papers in proof of his as sertions. No further search was made and the vessel was permitted to continue on her course without further molestation.

Captain Quick says that lie could not see the name of the gunboat, although he tried to do so, and can give no further description of her than that she resembled an American tugboat. Ho adds that after the first shot was fired at the Lane he caused the stars and stripes to be hoisted at the peak, but the only response the Spaniards made was a second shot. The gunboat did not- hoist her colors until after the first shot was fired.

As soon as Captain Quick reached here last night he wired his agents in Philadelphia and will await advices from them before determining npon what course to pursue in regard to what he considers an outrage. He thinks the Lane must have been mistaken for a filibustering craft, but insists that there is nothing in her appearance to justify this belief. Besides the vessel is well known to West Indian waters.

NOT REPORTED TO WASHINGTON.

It Is Thought That the Spanish Officer. Will Jfot Exceed Ilis Authority. WASHINGTON, July 25.—The government officials here have received no information in regard to the firing on the schooner Carrie E. Lane by a Spanish war vessel off Cape Antonio. The general opinion of naval officers who read the report of the affair as described by Captain Quick is that the Spaniard did not exceed his authority in overhauling the schooner, if the latter was in the territory of Cuba.

The Spanish government, it is held, is menaced by the danger of the landing of filibustering expedition on the Cuban coast, and in exerting itself to prevent such landing has aright to overhaul and learn the character of any vessel within the tlu-ee-mile limit that might be suspected of having dn board those entertaining designs against the government or a cargo intended tor the insurgents.

As Captain Quick's story shows he paid no attention to the man-of-war for au hour or more, this, it is said, probably caused the captain of the latter to believe that the schooner was engaged in filibustering methods, and prompted him to take decisive action in preventing her escape. One naval officer with whom a reporter talked was emphatic in his declaration that the captain of the man-of-war was perfectly justified in what he had done, assuming, of course, that the schooner was within the territorial limits of Cuba. It was the business of the Spanish government to intercept any vessels that might be tved by the insurgents.

The right of a cruiser of one natidp to know the national character of Wjr strange ship she may meet at sea is sustained by writers on international law. It is held that the party making the inquiry make himself folly known in some way before he can lawfully demand such knowledge from the other vessel. If this be refused, it is held that the inquiring vessel may fire a blank shot, and in case of further delay, a shotted gun may be fired across the l*6ws of the delinquent by way of positive summons. Any measure beyond the summoning shot, which the commander of an armed ship may take, for the purpose of ascertaining the nationality of another vessel, must be at his peril.

If any report of the affair be made to the state department, some steps will likely be taken by this government should the circumstances seem to warrant it. If the statement of Captain Quick that a solid shot was first fired directly at his vessel, is sustained, it may make his case a more serious one.

SEVERE MEASURES.

Spanish Officials In Cuba Trying to Cheek the Insurrection.

WASHINGTON, July 25.— Some idea of the severity of the measures whioh the Sbanisli officials in Cuba have been

obliged to adopt to check the spread af the insurrection may be gathered from the following proclamation issued by the governor of the province of Santa Clara, a copy of which has been transmitted to the state department by J.

Casaneva, vice consul at Cienfuegos. D. Augustin Lugue YJ Coca, brigadier general governor of the provinco.of Santa Clara: To the inhabitants of the same:

The savageness of those who apply the torch, who steal and murder under the cry of "Vive Cuba Libre," and to the propagators who disgrace the Cuban people, recruiting partisans for the hordes commanded by incendiaries and highwaymen compel me, with a most painful feeling, to adopt energetic -jneasusre which I frankly confess shall be carried out to the extreme if the noble war made by our valiant army is responded to by murder and pillage.

For the present I decree the following edict: Article 1.—Every countryman on entering or leaving the towns shall be provided with his personal certificate and with evidence of his ownership of the hor.se he may be riding and shall exhibit them to any agent of the government that might demand them.

Article 2.—It is prohibited to travel in the country or in the outskirts of the town t'rom sunset to sunrise, with the understanding that the patrols and forces in operation will detain and put at my disposal all persons infringing upon this rule who are not provided with the proper permit, which shall be issued to them by the military'of the demarcation of which they are residents.

Article 3.—All permits to carry arms, which are not countersigned by the mili-t-ary governor's office are null and void, Residents in the country who are in possession of any kind of arms shall deposit them within the period of 10 days with the posts of the civil guard or detachments nearest to their abodes, the chiefs of which shall issue them a proper voucher.

Article 4.—It is only for agricultural work that working "machetes" may be kept in their residences, but it is absolutely prohibited to carry the same outside of their respective landed property.

Article 5.—Those infringing these orders, as well as the agitators of opinion, and those who abet and harbor them, shall be indicted for the crime of rebellion, tried in accordance with the code of justice and punished with all the severity of the military laws.

Article (i.—The municipal mayors and mayors of circumspections shall publish widely this edict, and the said authorities, as well as all civil and military authorities of this province, I hold responsible for its full and punctual observance.

AUGUSTIN LUGUE.

Santa Clara, July 16, 1895.

SPANISH TROOPS MASSING.

Preparations Being Made For a Big Battle in the Near Future. MADRID, July 25.—Official advices received here from Havana announce that a gunboat has arrived at Santiago de Cuba from Manzauillo, bringing information that two columns of Spanish troops, one under General Navarro and the other under Colonel Aldave, commanded jointly by General La Charnbre, and comprising 4.000 infantry, 300 cavalry and three guns, arrived on Sunday last at Nuevitas, the port of Puerto Principe.

The dispatches add that the town of Bayamo, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, where Captain General Martinez De Campos is assembling troops, has been provided with fresh stores of ammunition and provisions.

As the reinforcements approached Bayamo, Maceo retired to the country. Previously he attempted an attack, which was without result.

Arms Transferred at Sea.

FERNANDINA, Fla., July 25.—Thetwomasted schooner yachts Emma B. and Sauncy Lass, with two Cuban patriots and a quantity of arms and ammunition, left this port yesterday. Six miles off the coast the yachts met the schooner Carrie E. Buckman, which sailed from King's ferry two days ago bound for the island of Curacoa, off the northern coast of Venezuela. The yachts remained alongside the Buckman long enough to transfer the passengers, arms and ammunition, which the Buckman will take to Cuba. The yachts left here ostensibly for th£ snapper fishing banks. They have not yet returned. The transfer was witnessed by Harbor Master Lohman through a marine glass.

USCD A TWO-EDGED DAGGER.

Tvro Women Killed by Another One Who Barely Kscape* Lynching. ARBOURS vims, Ky., July 25.—Late

Tuesday night Rosa Garden, a woman of bad charaoter living near Corbin, in this county, be^me involved in a difficulty with two Other women, named Mary Sullivan and Lizzie Brown, in which she used a two-edged dagger, cutting one of the girls in the heart and the other in the abdomen, from which they immediately died.

The murderess escaped to "Whitley county, Where ahe gave herself into the hands of the authorities just in time to save herself from the violence of a tremendous mob which was in olose pursuit with the intention of suspending her to the most convenient limb. Great excitement prevails throughout this entire county, and something of violence may yet result. The fight occurred over some men calling at the house, and was the direct outcome of jealousy.

Explosion os a Tugboat.

STAMFORD,

Conn., July 25.—The tug

Ambrose E. Burnside left Wilkins Point for New York Tuesday night. Off Greeuwioh an explosion occurred and the tug caught fire. Rockets were sent up which brought the tug Purcell and her crew were taken off. After the Burnside had burned to the water's edge the hull sank ofT Shippan Point. The Burnside was owned by James McWilliams of New York. No particulars regarding ti.e accident can be obtained, as none of the rescued crew has landed.

Pumping Out the Mine.

ANGELS CAMP, Cal., July 25.—Pumping is in progress at the Utica mine which was on fire for 86 hours. The water has been lowered two and a half feet in 12 hours. The mine officials have sent, for additional pumping apparatus. The water is still 35 feet deep in the mine.

Forest Fires Cheeked by Rain. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., July 25.—A

good rainbeg&n at 7 o'clock yesterday morning and continued steadily for several hours, putting an effectual check to forest fires. This is the first rain of any aonaequence in two months. fb?*

SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

He Is Mentioned as a Presidential Candidate.

HIS C00PEE INSTITUTE SPEECH.

Speaking In New England—Two Historic Rails—How He Received His Nomination—Deep and Unusual Emotion—Evolution of the Backwoodsman.

[From "The Life of Lincoln" by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weils. Copyright, 1888, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, byD. Appleton & Co.J

XX.

The opening of the year 1860 found Mr. Lincoln's name freely mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination for the presidency. To be classed with Seward, Chase, McLean and other celebrities was enough to stimulate any Illinois lawyer's pride, but in Mr. Lincoln's case, if it had any such effect, he was most artful in concealing it. Now and then some ardent friend, an editor, for example, would run his name up to the masthead, but in all cases he discouraged the attempt. "In regard to the matter you spoke of," he answered one man who proposed his name, "I beg that you will not givo it a further mention. Seriously, I do not think I^rni fit for the presidency."

The first effort in his behalf as a presidential aspirant was the action taken by his friends at a meeting held in the stateliou.se early in I860 in the rooms of O. M. Hatch, then secretary of state. Besides Hatch there were present Norman B. Judd, chairman of the Republican state committee Ebenezer Peck, Jackson Grinishaw and others of equal prominence in the party. "We all expressed a personal preference for Mr. Lincoln," relates one who was a participant in the meeting, "as the Illinois candidate for the presidency and asked him if his name might be used at once in connection with the nomination and election. With his characteristic mod-

RESIDENCE AT SPRINGFIELD.

esty he doubted whether he could get the nomination even if ho wished it and asked until the next morning to answer us whether his name might be announced. Late the next day he authorized us, if we thought proper to do so, to place him in the field." To the question from Mr. Grinishaw whether, if the nomination for president could not be obtained, he would accept the post of vice president he answered that he would not that his name having been used for the office of president he would not permit it to be used for any other office, however honorable it might be. This meeting was preliminary to the Decatur convention and was also the first concerted action in his behalf on the part of his friends.

A Great Speecli.

In the preceding October he came rushing into the office one morning with the letter from New York city inviting him to deliver a lecture there and asked my advice and that of other friends as to the subject and character of his address.

all recommended a speech on

the political situation. Remembering his poor success as a lecturer himself, be adopted our suggestions. He accepted the invitation of the New York committee, at the same time notifying them that his speech would deal entirely with political questions, and fixing a day late in February as the most convenient time. Meanwhile he spent the intervening time in careful preparation. He searched through the dusty volumes of congressional proceedings in the state library and dug deeply into political history. He was painstaking and thorough in the study of his subject, but when at last he left for New York we bad many misgivings—and he not a few himself—of his success in the great metropolis. What effect the unpretentious western lawyer would have on the wealthy and fashionable society of the great city could only be conjectured.

A description of the meeting at Cooper institute, a list of the names Qf the prominent men and women present or an account of Lincoln in the delivery of the address would be needless repetition of well known history. It only remains to say that his speech was devoid of all rhetorical imagery, with a marked suppression of the pyrotechnios of stamp oratory. It was constructed with a view to accuracy of statement, simplicity of language and unity of thought In some respects like a lawyer's brief, it was logical, temperate in tone, powerful, irresistibly driving conviction home to men's reasons and their souls. No former effort in the line of speechmaking had cost Lincoln so much time and thought as this one.

The day following the Cooper institute meeting the leading New York dailies published the speech in full and made favorable editorial mention of it and of the speaker as w«ll. It was plain now that Lincoln had oaptured the metropolis. From New York he traveled to New England to visit his son Robert, who was attending college. In answer to the many calls and invitations whioh showered on him he spoke at various places in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. In all these places he not only left deep impressions of his ability, but he convinced New England of his intense earnestness in the great i'tv Ji

cause. The newspapers treated him

the first half hour his opponents

with

no little consideration. One paper characterized his speech as one of "great fairness," delivered with "great apparent candor and wonderful interest.

For

would

agree with every word he uttered,

and

from that point he would lead them

off

little by little until it seemed as if

had got them all into his fold. He is far from prepossessing in personal appearance, and his voice is disagreeable, and yet he wins your attention from the start. He indulges in no flowers of rhetoric, no eloquent passages. He displays more shrewdness, more knowledge of the masses of mankind than any public speaker we have heard since

Long

Jim Wilson left for California." As a Politician. Lincoln's return to Springfield after his dazzling success in the east was the signal for earnest congratulations on the part of his friends. Seward was the great man of the day, but Lincoln had demonstrated to the satisfaction of his friends that he was tall enough and strong enough to measure swords with the Auburn statesman. His triumph in New York and New England had shown that the idea of a houso divided against itself induced as strong co-operation and hearty support in prevention of a great wrong in the east as the famous "irrepressible conflict" attracted warriors to Seward's standard in the Mississippi valley. It was apparent now to Lincoln that the presidential nomination was within his reach. He began gradually to lose his interest in the law and to trim his political sails s.t the same time. His recent success had stimulated his self confidence to unwonted proportions. He wrote to influential party workers everywhere. I know the idea prevails that Lincoln sat still in his chair in Springfield, and that one of those unlocked i'cr tides in human affairs came along and cast the nomination into his lap, but any man who has had experience in such things knows that great political prizes are not obtained in that way. The truth is, Lincoln was as vigilant as he was ambitious, and there is no denying the fact that he understood the situation perfectly from the start. In the management of his own interests he was obliged to rely almost entirely on his own resources. He had no money with which to maintain a political bureau, and he lacked any kind of personal organization whatever. A letter written by Lincoln about this time to a friend in Kansas serves to illustrate his methods and measures the extent of his ambition. The letter is dated March 10 and is now in my possession. For obvious reasons I withhold the friend's name: "As to your kind wishes for myself," writes Lincoln, "allow me to say I cannot enter the ring on the money basis, first, because in the main it is wrong, and, secondly, I have not and cannot get the money. I say in the main the use of money is wrong, but for certain objects in a political contest the use of some is both right and indispensable. With me, as with yourself, this long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. I now distinctly say this— if you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish $100 to bear the expenses of the trip."

Lincoln's friend, instead of securing that delegation for him, suffered the Seward men to outgeneral him, and the prospects were by no means flattering. "I see by the dispatches," writes Lincoln in a burst of surprise, "that, since you wrote, Kansas has appointed delegates and instructed for Seward. Don't stir them up to anger, but come along to the convention, and I will do as I said about expenses." Whether the friend ever accepted Lincoln's generous offer I do not know, but it may not be without interest to state that within ten days after the latter's inauguration he appointed him to a federal office with comfortable salary attached and even asked for his preferences as to other contemplated appointments in his own state. formal Notice of His Nomination.

The news of his nomination found Lincoln at Springfield in the office of The Journal. Naturally enough, he was nervous, restless and laboring under more or less suppressed excitement. He had been tossing ball, a pastime frequently indulged in by the lawyers of that day, and had played a few games of billiards to keep down, as another has expressed it, "the unnatural excitement that threatened to possess him." When the telegram containing the result of the last ballot came in, although apparently calm and undisturbed, a close observer could have detected in the compressed lip and serious countenance evidences of deep and unusual emotion.

AB the balloting progressed he had gone to the office of The Journal and was sitting in a large armchair there when the news of his nomination oame. What a line of smnes, stretching from the barren glade in Kentucky to the jubilant and enthusiastic throng in the Wigwam at Chicago, must have broken in upon his vision as he hastened from the newspaper office to "tell a little woman down the street the news I" In the evening his friends and neighbors called to congratulate him. He thanked tbem feelingly and shook them eaoh by the hand. A day later the committee from the convention, with George Ashmun of Massachusetts at its head, called and delivered formal notice of his noiui* nation. This meeting took place at hishouse. His response was couched polite and dignified language, and&WT of the committee, who now met him for the first time, departed with an improved impression of the new standard bearer. A few days later he wrote bis official letter of acceptance, in which he warmly indorsed the resolutions of the convention. His actions and utterances so far had begun to dissipate the erroneous notion prevalent in some of the more remote eastern states that he was more of a backwoods boor than a gentleman.

Lincoln to Friend.

"Douglas and I, for the first tim* this oanvass, crossed swords here yesterday. The fire flew some, and I an* glad to know I am yet alive."