Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — MANILA EDITORS AROUSED. [ARTICLE]

MANILA EDITORS AROUSED.

To Appeal to President Following Arrest for Sedition. Excitement prevails in Manila on account of the arrest of the editqr and proprietor of Freedom, a local publication, who is charged with sedition in publishing recently an article from an American periodical, to which the editor of Freedom agreed. He also added remarks of his own censuring the United States commission's rule. The editors of the Volcano have also been arrested on n suit of the government for demanding the removal of the judge who recently tried Senor Valdez (the editor of a local Spanish paper, who was fined 4,000 pesetas for libeling two Filipino members of the commission), and who is now trj'ln« the editor of Freedom under the sedition law. Frank Golden, a barber, was found dead in his shop at Haileyville, I. T. By his side was an empty bay rum bottle and it Is supposed that he committed suicide. Golden was alwit 30 years old.