Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — SPAIN IS MERCIFUL. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN IS MERCIFUL.

CAMPOS ISSUFS A PROCLAMATION OF MERCY. \ _____ "Tflico the Devil Was Sick, the Devil 1 Monk Would Bel When the Devil Got Well, the Devil a Monk Wat He.” Spain in a New Hole. ' Gen. Campos has issued a proclamation to the Spanish army in Cuba forbidding the summary execution or illtreatment of prisoners. The placing of Cuban women and children and prisoners in front of the “Squadron of Death,” Spain’s heartless convict company, as well as the atrocities of other Spanish leaders, who look upon Cubans as snakes and not as human beings, has excited the disgust of the world. The Spanish Cabinet, cognizant of., the effect such cruelties would have in exciting sympathy for Cubans, has instructed Campos to issue the proclamation in order to appease an international- wrath that might develop into the recognition of Cubans as belligerents. “We do not hope that Spanish cruelty will be any less vengeful than It has been, but it will be more secret, more discreet than in the past,” said the Cuban who brought the news to Jacksonville, Fla. “The day 1 left Havana scores of prisoners were taken from Moro Castle, pitiful, half-starved specimens of humanity, burdened with chains, and carried on j board ship to be -transported to Spain’s prisons iu Africa, never to be heard of again.” ' _—. .. _ Death of a Famous Woman. , Mrs. Clara Doty Bates died Monday morning at Chicago. -She was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec." 22,1838, and was the daughter of Samuel Itosecrans Doty, a cousin of General Itosecrans, who traced back his ancestry through Ethan /Allen to the first Doty of the Mityflowerr \Qn her mother’s side she was descended from the Lawrence family of Virginia, and she inherited the sturdy moral fiber of the Puritan with the graces of person of the cavalier. She was married in 1809 to Morgan Bates, a wcll-kno.vn trade paper publisher, and since 1877 they have made their home in Chicago. Mrs. Bates was always a close student of the best literature and a continuous, though not a voluminous, Writer of ix>etry and of stories and sketches, chiefly for the young. Her first verses were published before she was eight years old, and since, then she had written constantly for the best publishers. It is said of her that since the death of Louisa M. Alcott she had a wider circle of friends aud admirers among the youiig and among mothers who have grown tip to rear their children to the stories of hers that they lead themselves in childhood than any other woman in America. It is said of Mrs. Bates that she was a Puritan without being a bigot. Her character was beautiful aud lovable. One Mau KilleJ, Seven Injured. Two converters at the Attu-riuSii: Jr*,n Works of Jones & LangliTTfh* at Pittsburg overturned Monday morning and sixteen tons of molten* metal poured into the pit below, where t store—r more men were at work. One man \vas fatally burned/ three dangerously and four others sustained serious injuries. The injured were removed to the hospital, where everything possible was done to alleviate their suffering. The responsibility for the accident nas not yet beenplacet!, but it is said to have been unuvoidable. The damage to the mill was not very heavy. The acident occurred while the men were raising converter No. 1, which contained over eight tons of molten metal. It is elevated by com-pressed-air power. Samuel Love and John Tuimey were working at it, and before they got it raised the men working at converter No. 2. started to raise it also. The metal ran out of converter No. 1, and the men became so excited over the possibility of au-explos.oti that-they let go of the eompresed-air machine and allowed the converter to drop. The metal was thrown in every direction and enveloped nearly all the men employed in that portion of the mill. Lion Lashes His Tail. A telegram from Para, Brazil, has been received in Itio Janeiro, stating that an armed British force is marching through Brazilian territory to that part of Venezuela claimed by the British Government. The news will create a tremendous sensation when it, shall become generally! known. Officials of the State Department believe Great Britain has definitely decided to refuse arbitration of the Venezuelan boundary dispute. Thip belief leads to an uncomfortable feeing that serious trouble is in store for Us, add that Great Britain is likely to show stubborn resistance to tbe efforts of our government to apply the Monroe doctrine to this case. The President and his cabinet are in favor of enforcing the Monroe doctrine.