Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — VICTIMS OF WEYLER. [ARTICLE]

VICTIMS OF WEYLER.

HALF A MILLION INNOCENTS MASSACRED IN CUBA. Total Number of Deaths Since the “Bando” Order Katimated at Nearly a Million— United 'States Will Protest Against Germany’s Bullying Hayti. i Exposure and Starvation. The New York World’s first figures of Cube’s starvation were timidly moderate. They showed the death rate of only 200,000. But every painful fact unearthed tends to prove them nearly double that number. When the grim returns are all in it is now almost certain that this Cuban massacre of the innocents will reach 400,000. And this awful number does not include those killed in battle or the thousands and thousands of women and children who have died of exposure, disease and massacre in the “managuas” and swamps. It now seems certain that more than half a million people, for the most part loyal subjects of Spain, have been killed by Spanish war in Cuba. The figures of Spanish official reports show but a part of the mortality. They only give the number buried in consecrated ground —they do not give that fully. And yet ■these official ultra-Spanish reports of burial permits issued admit that in the Province of Santa Clara there have died and been buried since Weyler's fiat 71,.847 persons. The number of people for 'whose existence Weyler was directly responsible is 155,132 in Santa Clara Province. And of these he killed 86,216, or pver one-half of them.

Will Leave the Territory. ' The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, iwho have been in session at Antlers, I. T., have determined to organize a colony and emigrate to Mexico. They have been offered lands by the Mexican Government (very cheap. Not being able to agree on a leader to conduct them to the promised land in their own .nation, United States Agent Wisdom was finally selected. The Indians propose to sell their lands to the United States and with the proceeds purchase new homes. The Dawes commission is anthoTized to negotiate for the Indian lands. Agent Wisdom has not yet gfccided whether to accept the offer. Disgrace Killed Her. * A report has reached Bismarck, N. D., from the Standing Rock reservation that the mother of Philip Ireland, one of the young Indians recently lynched at Williamsport, has committed suicide because ©f the disgraceful death of her son. There is a belief among the Indians that any person who may be hanged will never reach the happy hunting grounds —the heaven of the Indian. This is the reason that the Indians at Standing Rock wanted the Indians shot and not hanged. Death in a Gale. A frightful hurricane has ravaged the coast of Great Britain. Ships without number have been driven upon the beach and broken to pieces by the waves, and great masses of wreckage were thrown up on Goodwin Sands, telling of other crafts gone down. No estimate of the loss of life and property is possible at present, but it is said to be unprecedented. A tidal wave drove up the Thames, inundating Woolwich arsenal and part of London.