Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 March 1896 — Page 4
A WAR
Such
A
Calamity Almost Sure to Occur.
DOWNTRODDEN CUBA THE CAUSE.
Pffce SfMish People Determined Go to War at Once With 1 the United State.
HOSTILITIES ALREADY BEGUN.
Urn VaiM States Consulate Office In
jBarvleea Stoned by a Mob The Spanish
C»ii in—nt Has Ordered a Training
SftuUiM to Prepare to Sail—All War-
Available Are Ordered to Be
rmtiiwlth Armed, Equipped and Put
Coadition For Active Service—In-
f„tij mm*. Cavalry Bo.h Belnf Equipped
far War—"Death to Uncle Sam I" "Viva t** M! "Loni Live the Army I"
Art the War Cries Throughout Spain.
jQ»i- Stiabtw'i life in Danger—The Ex-
fftfmimt Intense in Waslii ngton.
MADRID, March 2. (Copyrighted, 1806, by the Associated Press)—If one anay judge by the things that have been flsaid and some of the things that have jjnst been done, the Spanish people are (sathnsiastically determined to go to war forthwith with the United States, and fco speedily avenge the insult which, it is fancied, has been offered to the lismghty pride of Spain by the United States senate in determining to recogjnize the Unban provisional government IBS a belligerent power, and to ask the president to use his good offices with •Spain to obtain recognition of Cuban independence.
Some of the organs of public opinion declare that the bankruptcy of the ,'Spanish government would not prevent iShe Spanish people from taking up the •quarrel on their own account and fitfting oat expeditions and maintaining the selves at their own expense while «wmbatfcini» the insolence of the asser--tioiis of the United States.
Yesterday was characterized by many manifestations of public wrath rami excitement, and in Barcelona the '^Spaniards went to the extreme of using -jrk'.lenw upon the consulate of the United States and stoning it, breaking j«everal windows in the building. No feodily liari:i was done to anybody ex_*cppt certain members of the crowd, rvrhich was -charged by the police when •/fchfc! stones -were thrown at the United i££u£&s consulate. •There seems to be a notable increase ref excitement and patriotic ardor among people since Saturday, when the
SH3P-WS of the senate's action was first asssde known. How much this may be due to tlie fact of its being a Sunday, •with its accompanying absence of occujpsition and gathering of the people for cwhat amusement, entertainment or excsteinjenfc may be offered, can only be •^conjectured. Such a stress of feeling as 'pasted yesterday, if it continue for any jScngth of time, can not but afford a seriCOTS menace to the peaceful relations of two countries.
The Spanish authorities seem to have -jjEslt apprehensions of the form the peoasfe's wrath might take and provided ijpecial sa&gvtards for the suppression of and .especially for the protec&k>n of jmy official representative of the Wiaied States government. 'Ute preparations of the government «re mot aJi of a peaceful character hows&amr. Jt is significant that the minister •rtff Txaarme, Admiral Jose Maria Berhaw issued orders for the training /ngnadron
to
be prepared to sail. It is
.ssgjasdnd as probable that this squadron rviSI proceed Shortly to Cuba. It has •*&so been ordered that all other war•'&!3ps available be forthwith armed and tqgn^pped and put into condition for ..'•ekivB jK&'v^a. In addition to this about ./uBzmeTchaJit steamers available for the ^gffr«r3uaifait serrice will be provided •with naval armaments.
JRca* the rr.litaiy branch of .the service afresh exp* .it-ioji of 20,000 infantry and sajlSi00 cavait will be equipped and put stwji war -iuoaug, and will bo kept in -.mHsw&uiess to leave on the shortest no$k*e.
In view of the excited state of the ijmblk Blind lJie United States legation -Jm tfhis city Ua»s beeji placed under the v?^iecial«ui.,vt'iiiii!tce of the police.
The sludeji! class seems to form a lagge -3BKJportion o: jjii'j inflammatory elemewt •wMfh is uuij. i. jg so much noise. The ,*8aicL«ntrt of city are busily at work 4k» organize reat demonstration of
Tprcntest again.s: tho vote of the United (States senate. Valeiit sterday all the students •of s3ie um\tu:i,y paraded the streets msui then gathered before the United 'tfnfcates iconsulate, shouting: "Death to
Saml" "Viva Spain J" and
•*3*oug live the .-rmy g, Senor Canov&* Del Castillo, the prime "jjainihter, has informed a journalist who interviewed him that the government suew has sufficient resources for war jraxposes to last until the end of May, vxhea they will ask the cortes for a gfuBfih credit. The premier also wvd
fhaibe thought farther reinforeementoi
wouldnotb® wquiwd
lor tto prases*.
Lastevening ahowed"•» high degree of popular excitement in this city in all public places, The bands at the numerous cafes made it a point to play only national airs. And evidently they could hare chosen nothing more to the taste of their usually gay and careless customers, for the patriotic music unfailingly aroused the greatest enthusiasm, all within hearing arising and standing uncovered while it was played, amid shouts of "Long live Spain and "Down with the United States!"
If the Hon. Hannis Taylor, the United States minister to Spain, had gone to the opera Saturday evening, he would certainly have had a very unpleasant time. Evidently some persons thought he had done so, for they were waiting outside the opera house after the performance was over and had organized a hostile demonstration with which to greet Mr. Taylor. But whether he considered it unwise to inflame the public mind by an appearance, or for some other reason, the United States minister did not attend the opera as it was expected he would do, and so the hostile demonstration came to nothing. United States Minister Taylor, in fact, spent the evening at home.
The guard about the United States legation, so far as it is seen, consists only of a few policemen, but a force of 150 gendarmes is kept constantly ready in an adjacent house in case of any demonstration being made against the legation. In addition the authorities have tendered to Minister Taylor a guard of police at the entrance to his private residence, but Mr. Taylor has declined this offer.
The government has issued an order prohibiting the various demonstrations which have been planned by students. This order applies as well as to all similar demonstrations and is taken to mean that the government does not at all approve of the course the popular ardor has taken and sees in it danger of complications and embarrassments for it in its present delicate situation.
The customary Sunday bullfight occurred yesterday in the Plaza de Toros, and there were apprehensions felt lest, after the fight and its accompanying excitement, the keenest which a Spaniard knows, there should be a demonstration organized. With the vast throngs of all classes of people who attend the bull fights the consequences of awakening the mob spirit would have threatened most serious results. Consequently, every avenue to the Plaza de Toros was occupied by a force of gendarmes. As it turned out only a small knot of people raised shouts of "Viva Spain and they were quietly dispersed.
Others, however, proceeded to the barracks and military clubs, shouting for Spain and the army. The police were on the watch and prevented the demonstrations from becoming serious by dispersing the crowds at various points and arresting many persons.
It is understood that the Spanish minister in Washington, Senor Dupuy de Lome, has boon instructed to make diplomatic representations to the United States government regarding the action of the United States senate.
The Imparcial says on the crisis. "If things reach the goal which Americans desire, the whole of Spain will rise against the United States. Neither in the Mediterranean whose entrance wo command, nor in the Atlantic, will an American merchantman be safe, for we shall organize privateers on a great scale. We conquered Napoleon by guerilla warefare, and we shall employ a system of privateers to overcome a trading nation. Americans are wrong to judge Spain by her budget. There are things which are supei*ior to revenue. Some merchant captains have offered already to arm their steamers as privateers. A captain of Barcelona asks for letters of marque, offering to equip and maintain the fastest steamer at his own cost."
OUR CONSULATE ATTACKED.
Details of the Uprising Which Took Place in Barcelona.
BARCELONA, March 2.—(Copyrighted, 1896, by the Associated Press.)—The fever of indignation and hate against the United States, which seems to have taken possession of the heart of all Spain over the action of the United States senate in recognizing the provisional government of Cuba as belligerents and in calling upon President Cleveland to use his good offices with Spain to secure the independence of Cuba, culminated in violent scenes here yesterday and an attack upon the United States consulate.
The trouble did not arrise out of the spontaneous formation of the mob which did the violence, but was the outcome of a public meeting which had been influenced by fervid speeches.
The public demonstration to protest .against the United States senate's action was organized by the political leaders, including republicans and men of all shades of political sentiment. It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the meeting had assembled and there were fully 15,000 people present, all in a state of high patriotic enthusiasm and ripe for any manifestation of the emotions which possessed them. They were addressed by the orators provided for the purpose of the meeting explained as one of protest against the recognition of the Cuban government as a belligerent power by the United States senate. The spirit of the crowd took fire, and they /•et off for the United States consulate.
Tlie leaders who had originated the w&oo ting seemed to have realized the serious consequences that might follow upon a demonstration that took this direction, and they made every effort to dissuade the mob from its purpose. But their utmost efforts were of no avail and the crowd set off for the United States consulate.
The authorities of the city had, by this time, taken alarm and a force of police was sent to the consulate. The excited crowd was not intimidated by this show of force from gathering be-,
fan the ooamlat* and rftaratfnf "Loaf
kees." TheM verbal missiles fid not long satisfy the aroused passiops of the mob, and in a ,short time stones began flying from the crowd, which broke a number of windows in the United States consulate.
The force of police waited for no further manifestation, but charged the crowd under the orders of their officers and roughly dispersed them, wounding several. So far as learned there were no fatal results.
Being driven away from the United States consulate the crowd marched off to the prefecture of police and gathered at the newspaper offices. There they listened to more perfervid oratory and got themselves worked up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and patriotic spirit.
The Military club in the city was also a center of excitement and there were glowing speeches indulged in to the honor of the army, which were eagerly listened to and greeted with loud cheers.
The students publicly tore up a number of American flags which they had purchased in the town.
IN WASHINGTON.
Great Interest Being Manifested tn the Dispatches From Spain.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Intense interest centers here in the dispatches showing the demonstrative feelings existing in Spain against the Americans regarding the Cuban question and the statement that the government is increasing its naval force. Copies of the Associated Press dispatches were shown to public men interested in the question. No surprise was expressed at demonstrations which have occurred in fact, such were expected. The speeches in the senate, extracts of which have no doubt been published in the Spanish papers, have had their influence on the masses of the people, and they, impulsive, excited and inspired with patriotic feelings, have thrown them in an unfriendly feeling against the United States officials. The whole matter is regarded here simply as that of mob violence, of which the Spanish government has not in any manner been responsible.
So far as can be learned no official news has been received here by the government. Steps undoubtedly will be taken very promptly to ascertain the situation through state department channels if Minister Taylor at Madrid or Consul Bowen at Barcelona do not anticipate the officials and make a report.
The Spanish minister, Senor De Lome, heard of the happenings in Spain yesterday through the press and he was besieged by the reporters for an expression of his opinion. He diplomatically declined, however, to say anything for publication pending news from his country, which he expects to receive. The violation of the consulate of the United States at Barelona makes a disavowal necessary by Spain and the United States probably will inquire of the Spanish government what amends will be made.
The case finds an analagous one in an event which occurred in this country probably 60 years ago, when a mob of persons in New Orleans assaulted the Spanish consulate at a time when the Florida question was uppermost in the public mind. It was a case of mob violence and the government of the United States made compensation to Spain for the damage done.
More recent cases where the United States has paid or is about to pay indemnity for damages to foreigners for assaults committed on tlxem are the cases of the Chinese in Wyoming and the Italians at Waldsenburg. In these cases, however, the outrages were the work of mobs and on individuals, not officials.
COUGHED UP A LETTER.
Suspected Green Goods Alan Tries to Swallow a Tell-Tale Missive.
PARKEBSBUBG, W. Va., March 2.— Chester and Jesse Poling sold a farmer, Herman A. Witte of Calhoun county, a bundle of paper with a dollar bill on each side for $50. When C. L. Poling was placed under arrest, he crammed a letter into bis mouth and began to chew it up.
The officers choked him till he ejected it, and it was found to be from Cumberland, Md., signed by J. P. Doun, and directed to Poling. He was told to come to Weston and meet the writer if he wanted any more of what they had been dealing in before, evidently referring to green goods. The letter said that a big business was being done in Calhoun county. The men were put into jail. It is believed that the police have uncovered a gang of swindlers.
SHOT BY POLICEMAN.
Friends of Prisoner Attack an Officer and Are Worsted.
ELWOOD, Ind., March 2.—Intense excitement exists at Alexandria over the killing of John Worthington, a glass worker, by Policeman John Graham Saturday evening at 5 o'clock.
A disturbance was raised at Riverside addition and Graham arrested a man, locked him in jail and returned to arrest the others, when he was surrounded by a mob of the prisoner's friends, from whom he could not escape. He threatened to shoot, but they gave no heed, but closed in on him. He fired, and John Woithington, a leader, fell dead with a bullet in his heart. Graham gave himself up. Mob violence is feared.
Fire on Hoard a Steamer.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2.—Fire broke out early Sunday morning in the forward hold of the British steamship Capella. She was loading for Liverpool and had on board 5,000 bales of cotton 600 tons of oil cake, 800 tons of cottonseed and about 100 tons of sundries, and would have sailed on Tuesday next. The damage is estimated at $25,000 insured.
Reward For the Latest Comet. GENEVA, N. Y., March 2.—The As
tronomical society of the Pacific has just awarded to Professor William R. Brooks their medal for the discovery of Ids latest comet. This is the fifth' honor of the kind conferred upon Professor Brooks. He also received the .firit medal awarded by this society.
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NOTICE OF SALE
By Receiver of the
GreeDfield Iron and Nail Company
By yirtue of an order of the Hancoak Circuit Court of Hancock county in the State of Indiana, entered in the Order Book No. 48, at page 20). et s-eq,, ol said court, iu the cauwe wheiein I^elson BradWy is plaintiff and the Ureei.field Iron and Nail Company, et, al.,are defendants, No 7253, as eceiver of the -ueenfie!d Iron and Nail Co., I will ezpoite at Public Sale to the highest bidder
ON WEDNESDAY, the 25th DAY CF MARCH,
1896, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m., and4 o'clock p, m„ at the door of the court bouse ia Greenfield, Hancock county, Indiana, the followiDg describe® property to-wit:
Lots numbered 102, 140, 141, 145, 173, 174,177, 180,187, 188. 189,190, 203, 209, 212, 213, 216, 218,219, 223 224,225, 227, 258, 229, 232, 239, 248, 249, 251, 252 253,255,256, 257, 228, 259, 262 263, 264, 265, 266 270, 272, 286, 295, 296, 297- 298, 299, 300, 302, 305 306, 307, 309, 312, 313, 314, 315. 316, 326, 327, 328, 329, '330, 331, 335, 311, 336. 337, 3S8.3b9,340. 341, 342, 343, 844 34& 346 347 348 349 350 361 352 353 356 357 358 359 360, in Chandler's addition to the city of Ureerifieid, including »h« streets and alleys in the event the same are vacated: Also commencing oh the notth line of 9th street in Chandler'b addition to saideny 59 rods and 11% links west' of the east line of the south west quarter of the northeast quarter of Sectisin Tnii'tyihree (38) Township Sixteen ,16) north, range stven (7) east the same being the poiut where the north line of said 9th street intersects the center line of Bstreet in said addition thence north oue hundred and forty (140) feeti thence west p&rkliel with th€ ndtlh line of 9th street, four hundred and forty-five (445) feet tu the east line of A street in said addition thence south to the north line or said 9ih'street thence east alonu the North line of said 9th street lour hundred and
fortv-five
(145) feet to the place of begiuniug,
containing one and forty-oue oue huudredtb ilt and 41-100) acres more or less. Also, cotninen cing at the
South west corner of the Southeast
quarter of section 3M, township tixtcen (16) north, ange seven (7) east i.kence north forty-two (42) feet and ten (10) indies thence east paralled with the center
Of
the Nuiiunal road one hundred and
t«ent-five (126) feet. thence north oiie hundred aud seventy-two (172) ioel to the center of said road thence east with the center of said road one hou*and, six hundred and thirty-four (1634) feet aud live (o) inches thence soutn to the north line of the right of way of the U. & St. L.. K, K. thence wast OH the north line of said right of way lo the west lioc of tne .Northeast quarter of section lour (4), township fifteen [15J north range seven [7] east. theuee north to the Northwest Corner oi said I%ortheasl, quarter thence west with the township line number liiteen [15], nineteen [19J lints to he place of beginning, containing 26 92 100acres more or less, together with all and singular the .Nail plant thereon situate, consisting «r all the buildings, engines and machinery whatsoever, gas wells, pipe lines, attachments and uppliauces, iucludii.g boilers and rolling mills, improvements ana pipe lines thereon A!SO, including the pipe lines, gas wells and leasee in section twentyseven [271 township sixteen [16J north, range seven 17J east, and regulators, appliances and attachments connected therewith or used iu suVplj'iug natural gas to said Nail Mill or factory. Sold as the property of the Greeu field Iron and Nail Company. Terms of sale cash in band. gaid sale is subject to the approval and confirmation of the Hancock Circuit Court, as provided for in said order.
JASP3B
H.
Att'jii./or
MOULDEN,
Beceivcr of the Greenfield Iron and Kail Co. February 2'th, 189f, MARSH &
COOK,
Receiver. 944
MEETING!
There will be a Labor Meeting of the laboring men of Greenfield, under the auspices of the Labor Unions of this city, on
AT 7:30 P. M., AT THE
OPERA HOUSE.
A.
Gisss Bottle Blowers, Ass'oo and others The object of the meeting is to organize the unorganized, and to show the benefits to be derived from union labor over non-union, both to individuals and coaimunities.
"Trades-unions are the bulwarks of modern democracies."—W- E. Gladstone.
"Labor is capital. Labor Las the fame right to protect itself by trades unions, eto., as any other form, of capital might claim for ifoeli."—Cardinal Manning.
"Capital is the fruit of labor, and could not exist if labor had not first existed. Labor, therefore, deserves much ihe higher consideration."—Abraham Lincoln.
"I rejoice at every effort workirgmen make to organize. I hail the labor movement. It is. my only hope for democracy Organize, and stand together. Let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice."—Wendell Phillips.
Let each worker bear in mind the words of Longfellow:— In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
By Order of Committee.
B. & O. RECEIVER.
Tlie President aud Vice President Will Now Control the Road.
BALTIMORE, March 2.—Judge Goff of the circuit court of the United States and Judge Morris of the United States district court, sitting in chambers Saturday evening, upon application of General Attorney Hugh L. Bond of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, passed an order appointing President John K. Cowen and Yice President Oscar Murray receivers, to take charge of the property of the company and operate the road. This action was formally decided upon at the meeting of the board of directors, which lasted all afternoon, though it was generally known on the street early in the morning that such action was pending.
The newly appointed receivers were in consultation yesterday upon a plan of action for reorganizing the affairs of the company. Their plans are not sufficiently well formed as yet tp justify a full statement, but they say that the first effect of the receivership will be to enable the company to withhold payment of its pressing obligations now due or soon to beconie due. It is believed that the receivership will probably cover a period of about five years and that J. Pierpont Morgan & Company will be ateked to undertake it.
Prompt action haft been taken to file supplementary proceedings, asking for a receivership in the District of Columbia, the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. A special train has been started west carrying John D. McGibbin, Jr., and assistants bearing the documefnts.
Mr Cowen says the receivership extends over all lines and property owned, trolled or operated by the Baltimore and Ohio, except the following: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, extending from Parkersburg to St. Louis and Louisville Valley railroad of Virginia, extending from Harrisburg to Lexington, Va., 02 miles Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad company, operating a 16 mile railroad between Tottenville, N. Y., and Clifton, N. Y. the West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad com- I pany, 159 miles, leased by the Baitimore and Ohiy railroad.
Libel Ag'aTusJ at Vessel.
NEW YORK,- March 2.—United States District Attorney MacFarlane has filed a libel in the United States circuit court against the lighter J. S. T. Straiiahan, upon which the arms anil ammunition for the steamer Bermuda expedition were loaded. A process has been issued to the United States marshal, the writ being returnable March 17. The charges agaiiist the owners of the lighter are that she had no certificate allowing her to carry explosives that she was without special license for that purpose and that the packages of explosives Were not
marked as such
Hayes, Vice-President
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