Cortland Evening Standard, Monday,
December 24, 1894.
THE ORIENTAL
WAR.
NEWS OF
THE CONFLICT AND THE SITUATION IN COREA.
Japan's
Demands In the Event of a Treaty of Peace as Gathered From the Japanese Papers—Intrigue and Violence Continue in Corea—Japanese Win Another Decisive Victory—Other News From the East.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Recent newspaper mail
advices received here from Japan show that the question of the terms of peace
that Japan will demand from China is a fruitful subject of discussion by the
native press. Opinions, however, differ regarding these terms and while some
journals content themselves with speaking generally on the subject others are
more specific in their demands. One paper asserts that Formosa, so important
from a commercial and military point of view, must at all events be taken.
After detailing what an immense expenditure
must be incurred by Japan in supporting Corea and protecting Japanese interests
in the north of China following the war, the paper declares that Formosa will
have to be annexed as a resource from which to draw receipts at least equal to
these prospective expenditures.
Another paper enters a strong protest
against the claims advanced that China must surrender territory entirely out of
proportion to the objects for which the war was undertaken.
Assuming that the war is practically over,
the Japanese are already discussing the matter of Japan's prospects thereafter.
Mr. Kaneko, the vice-minister of state for agriculture and commerce, has been
looking into the history of the United States after the great civil war and to
that of Germany after the Franco-Prussian war for light on the subject and the
Noshomusho has been holding consultations about the matter for some time, but
the investigations are far from concluded.
The vice-minister is personally of the
opinion that the extension of facilities for direct exportation is of the
greatest importance. According to a Seoul correspondent affairs are again
becoming serious in Corea where there is trouble in which Tai Won Kun, who is
understood here to be practically prime minister, is involved. It had its
origin in the surrender of Li Heiki, a favorite of Tai Won Kun, to the Corean
police in whose custody he is now held.
Li Heiki, it appears, took part in all the deliberations
of the faction headed by the aged statesman and is therefore acquainted with
its secrets. Shortly afterward he was a police official and had frequent
occasion to meet members of the Japanese police now in the capital. Intercourse
with the latter gave him an insight into the real intentions entertained toward
Corea by Japanese.
Thus newly enlightened, says the
correspondent, his hatred of the crooked artifices and ignorant devices of the
faction with which he had been connected grew intense and conscience finally
drove him to confess to the police officials what he knew of the faction's
doings. He was placed in confinement and, although implored by several of the
parties against whom he had informed not to confess, he made a clean breast of
all he knew and had done.
Some objections were made by the Corean
government to the demands of the Japanese minister, Count Inouye, for the
examination of witnesses implicated in the affair, the Coreans asserting that
such proceedings would be contrary to the time-honored usage of the country.
The result of this first collision between
Count Inouye and the Corean government was not clearly known at the time the
correspondent wrote; letters by means of which the faction instigated the
Tonghak insurgents, together with other documents bearing on the same point,
secret dispatches sent by the Tai Won Kun to the Chinese generals in the Phyong
Yang, have all fallen into the hands of the Japanese authorities, and the
sinister project of the old gentleman and his followers against Japan, the
correspondent adds, is now an open secret.
Since these events transpired news has come
to the United States by telegraph to the effect that the Japanese government
has dispensed with the services of Tai Won Kun, and the natural presumption is
that this action was the result of the occurrences referred to.
Factional strife in the Corean court is said
by another paper to be the prime cause of all the evils now hampering the
country's progress along the path of reform. Lately another bone of contention
has been added to accentuate the political confusion already existing in the
field of politics. It is a question relating to the parentage of prominent
members of the government and the present trouble had its origin in the old
time Corean system of concubinage.
A Japanese paper gives a summary of the
losses of the Japanese and Chinese armies up to Nov. 23, exclusive of the
battles at Fung Wang Chang, Kinchan, Talienwan and at Port Arthur. It shows
that the Japanese lost about 380 killed and 835 wounded, while the Chinese lost
4,800 killed and 4,500 wounded and 1,018 of them were made captives, making a
total of 10,318.
The Chinese have also had 211 cannon taken
from them, 4,895 rifles, 8,384 cannon shot, 43,000,660 cartridges, besides
enough ammunition to last a month, firing with 20,000 rifles; 333 banners have
been taken, 3,400 tents, 1,000 horses, 3,000,000 taels worth of currency,
111,090 mace (coins), 2,413 koku of rice, 5,755 koku of unhulled rice and in
addition sufficient food to last an army of 20,000 men three days. The Chinese
have lost 13 vessels, a torpedo boat, [9] men-of-war sunk and one of their war
vessels captured, which makes a total tonnage of 9,850 tons.
The number of killed and wounded on the
Japanese side at Port Arthur is estimated at over 400 while those of the enemy
is estimated at nine times that number.
Japs
Defeat General Lung.
TOKIO, Dec. 24.—Advices received here confirm
the report of the defeat of General Lung after hard fighting that lasted five
hours. The Japanese are now about 10 miles from New Chwang, which it was expected
would be reached yesterday.
A dispatch from Antong says that the
Japanese force consisted of four regiments of infantry and five batteries of
artillery. The latter bombarded the Chinese, who had established themselves in
the village of Kung Wasai. The infantry then thrice charged the Chinese lines.
The fighting was stubborn, the combatants meeting hand-to-hand. The fight was
the fiercest that has yet taken place. The Chinese loss is estimated at 500
killed or wounded. The Japanese also suffered severely.
RACE WAR
IMMINENT.
SEVEN
NEGROES KILLED AND MORE BLOODSHED THREATENED.
Opposing
Armies of Blacks and Whites Approaching Each Other, Armed to the Teeth, and a
Battle Seems Inevitable—The Trouble Originated With the
Murder
of a White Man of Some Prominence.
QUITMAN, Ga., Dec. 24 —With seven negroes
dead and armed mobs of blacks and whites in close proximity to each other, the
outlook for a race war in this county is startling in its certainty.
The excitement is the result of the murder
of Joseph Isom, one of the most substantial farmers of this, Brooks county.
Seven negro lives were taken to pay the
penalty and this seems to be only the beginning of the end.
A correspondent visited the scene of action
and found a posse of 300 covering a space of about five miles.
The largest crowd was congregated a mile and
a half from Isom's house, consisting of 100 men armed to the teeth, and about
half a mile further on there was a mob of negroes, about the same number, armed
with Winchester rifles, pistols, axes, clubs and everything else conceivable, waiting
for the white mob to come on to them.
It has been discovered that a number of negroes
had conspired to kill every man that was in the posse that arrested Jerry Jeffreth
for the killing of T. Moulden a few weeks ago, and that the killing of Mr. Isom
was the commencement to carry out this awful conspiracy.
What the outcome of this will be in the next
24 hours cannot be foretold. No action has been taken to stop the progress of
the mob so far.
Captain Tillman, father-in-law of Mr. Isom,
is doing all in his power to prevent further trouble and is sending all over
the county for conservative men to come and assist him to control the mob.
The names of the killed are Sam Taylor, Eli
Fraser, Sam Pike, Harry Sherard and three whose names could not be learned.
No white men have been killed so far.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
Christmas
Old and New.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has drawn a picture
of an old-fashioned Christmas that makes one's mouth water. Perhaps it brings a
suspicious moisture around the eyes of old-timers too. Certain it is that only
in the farm districts can anything like such a Christmas be enjoyed now as that
pictured by Mrs. Stanton. Among the retainers of her family was a gigantic cook
and serving man, coal black, named Peter. Peter sang tenor, played the violin
and made the sum of the children's happiness at Christmas. They had a dance in
a great basement kitchen on Christmas eve. There Peter played for them. Then
they hung up their stockings and went to bed. In the morning before daylight
they darted down into the basement kitchen, barefoot, to see what Santa Claus had
brought them. The gifts were simple; they were inexpensive. A modern city child
would scorn them. Yet happiness, joy, danced all day in the hearts of those
rosy, healthy country children. Peter always took them for a great sleigh ride
in a long old lumber sled. Mrs. Stanton is now 80 years old, yet the
recollection of those rides remains as one of the shining spots in her memory.
And now, alas, the times! "Christmas and
wedding presents and flowers at funerals have come to be a tax and nuisance in
their extravagance and excess."
So they
have. Women work themselves into a
nervous illness straining to make and buy gifts for their acquaintances. Men
with families are taxed so heavily that it takes months to recover from the
drain.
It is time we reformed Christmas giving. This
holy and heavenly day ought to be made sacred to children because it is the
Christ child's day. They should be made perfectly happy from morning till night
in all reasonable ways that their parents and friends can devise. Presents
should indeed be given to them, but not extravagant dolls and toys unless their
parents are very rich. Games, rides and juvenile parties will make them happier
than expensive gifts.
As to grown people, Christmas will be more
honored by their ceasing to give presents to one another altogether than by
their striving to give what they cannot afford. Women especially ought to stop
boring their eyes out and sewing themselves into a hysterical state making
things which half the time are of no good to anybody after they are done.
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not to make people bankrupt themselves
in purse and health making Christmas gifts.
Of course, if one is a millionaire and is
spasmodically seized with remorse for getting so much richer than his fellow men,
then by all means let him ease his conscience by giving gifts to those whom he
can help. To such it will be pleasant to read what George W. Childs said about
Christmas giving:
When I was a boy, I made up my mind to be
rich, and also made up my mind that when I should be a man, I would give
Christmas presents to everyone I knew. If I have not been able to accomplish my
resolve, it has not been for lack of will. I can truthfully say that the
happiest week in each year of my life is the one which directly precedes
Christmas, when I feel that I am able to send presents to about 2,000 people
whom I know and feel are perfectly deserving of them.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.
PATRICK
QUINLAN STRUCK DOWN FRIDAY NIGHT.
The
Assailant Unknown—Robbery Was Doubtless the Motive—Details of a Dastardly Crime.
What proved to be a murderous assault was
committed last Friday night by parties unknown upon the person of Patrick
Quinlan, a prosperous farmer who lived with his son Thomas and a daughter upon
their farm of over two hundred acres about two miles west of Homer. The road
which leads to their house is one which branches off from the main road and
runs only to their farm house. It is about a half a mile in length and very
lonely even in the day time.
At about 6 o'clock Friday night Mr. Quinlan
started on foot for Homer. He is known to have left that village for his home
shortly after 8 o'clock, and that was the last seen of him till shortly after 7
o'clock Saturday morning, when his son started for Homer with the milk which is
regularly delivered at the milk station, and found him lying beside their private
road about half way between the house and the main road.
The old gentleman lay face downward with his
head on his hands. His son endeavored to rouse him, but all of his efforts to
do so were futile. On turning him over a ghastly sight met his gaze. Mr.
Quinlan had been lying in a pool of blood and was literally soaked with it, as
he had been bleeding from the nose and ears.
The young man turned his team around and
with considerable difficulty succeeded in dragging his father to it and lifting
him into the wagon. He could not have accomplished this had it not been that
his father's legs were rigid, after having lain there as is supposed all night.
The young man took his father to the
house, put him to bed, went on to Homer with the milk and returned home without
notifying anyone.
After dinner as his father still remained unconscious
the young man drove to Homer, arriving there at about 1 o'clock, and called on
Dr. L. T. White. The physician had an office full of patients, as it was his
office hour, and he told Mr. Quinlan that it would be two hours, at least,
before he would be able to get away. Mr. Quinlan urged him to come as soon as he
could and at about 3 o'clock the physician started.
On arriving at the house Dr. White found Mr.
Quinlan still unconscious and in a very bad state. His tongue was swelled to
double its size and he had sustained a fracture of the skull over his right
temple. His right eye was blackened and all that gave evidence of the fact that
he was alive was his heavy breathing. After dressing the wounds Dr. White told
the family that the injured man had not long to live. Rev. J. J. McLoughlin was immediately
summoned and remained with the patient part of the night.
A STANDARD reporter notified Sheriff Miller
of the assault Saturday evening, but it was impossible to do anything in the
dark. Early yesterday afternoon District Attorney Jerome Squires, Sheriff Miller
and a STANDARD reporter drove to the scene of the assault to look over the
ground. The son said in substance that he did the chores Friday evening as
usual at about 6 o'clock. He went to bed early and his sister did also, leaving
the door unlocked for their father. In the morning they found that he had not
returned, but did not worry, as they supposed that he had spent the night with
his brother, who lives above Brewery Hill, as he had previously done when he
was detained at Homer.
He discovered the body lying by a small tree
at the right side of the road going up the hill. In the road he found the old
gentleman's jack knife and a plug of tobacco. His pockets had been rifled and
some nails which he had carried in his pocket were scattered in the road. Mr.
Quinlan's belt had been torn from his waist and a fence post with marks which
resembled blood was found near the body. This might or might not have been the
instrument used in the assault.
The young man said that he had supposed his
father was intoxicated and had fallen and injured his head. He had thought it
nothing of a very serious nature till he did not regain consciousness in the
afternoon, and then he decided to call a physician. Mr. Quinlan is said to have
been a very moderate drinker and was never known to have been intoxicated. Had
he been in that condition—and there is good proof that he was not—Dr. White
said that it would have been impossible for him to have fallen in such a manner
as to cause the injuries he received. He was undoubtedly brutally struck
several blows upon the head, his money stolen, and the highwayman escaped. At
the time of the tragedy the ground was soft. The indications are that the
stalwart old man gave his assailant quite a struggle before being knocked
insensible. One of the impressions now frozen in the mud is that of a foot much
slimmer than that of Mr. Quinlan's. There are also foot marks of mud on the
fence, one of which proved without a doubt that some one climbed the fence from
the road to the field. It could not be ascertained in which direction the other
foot prints were going. When found, Mr. Quinlan's foot was under the fence in such
a manner that it was very difficult to extricate it.
Mr. Quinlan never rallied but lay breathing
heavily in the stupor in which he was found. It was hoped that if the pressure
of the skull which had been knocked into the brain was removed, the man might
regain consciousness for a long enough period to throw some light on the
mystery, Accordingly, late yesterday afternoon, Dr. F. W. Higgins of Cortland,
assisted by Drs. L. T. White and J. H. Robinson of Homer, removed a three-cornered piece of the skull two inches in length and about one and one-half
inches in width, and a quantity of blood clot from the brain. There was no
change after the operation. His pulse was as strong as before and it is thought
by the physicians that there were other clots of blood pressing against the
brain which it was impossible to remove. The injured man died at 7:15 o'clock
last evening.
It is not definitely known the exact amount
of money which was secured by the assailant. Mr. Quinlan had sold his daughter's
turkeys for over forty dollars but had turned the money over to her in the
afternoon. He always carried from fifteen to thirty dollars in his pocket and had
on or about December 20 received a check of about fifty dollars for his milk. He
also drew the money from a certificate of deposit at the bank. Out of this he
purchased two blankets for which he paid $8.50.
The last seen of him was at about 8 o'clock,
when he left the Central House, where he bought a drink and it was seen that he
had a big roll of bills. When taking his money out he had a secretive way of
getting it without making a great show of it.
Mr. Quinlan was 64 years of age and had been
a resident of Cortland county for thirty-five or forty years. He had not a
known enemy in the world. He was a large, robust, healthy man weighing about
two hundred pounds and his untimely death is regretted by a host of friends.
District Attorney Jerome Squires, Attorney Thomas
E. Courtney and a STANDARD reporter left this afternoon for a fuller
investigation of the case.
BREVITIES.
—A Merry Christmas to all the STANDARD readers.
No papers will be issued from this office to-morrow.
—The Player's club have in preparation a new
play which will be produced the latter part of January for the benefit of the
Cortland hospital.
—"Shore Acres" which is the
attraction at the Opera House Saturday night, Dec. 29,
is said to be one of the best plays upon the American stage.
—Evangelist M. S. Rees will conduct a men's
meeting in the Y. M. C. A. rooms Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. All men are
cordially invited.
—Mr. J. Eades left for New York this afternoon
with a fine pair of matched bay horses which Hon. O. U. Kellogg had sold to J.
T. Richards of that city for $500.
—The educated horses which appear at the
Opera House to-night and to-morrow night and at a matinee at 2:30 to-morrow
afternoon, made a parade on Main-st. to-day and attracted much attention.
—An Onondaga county justice of the peace in
deciding a suit in which the value of a
horse was in question decided that a horse was worth fifteen dollars less than
its former value for each year after it was fourteen years of age. This then is
the basis in Onondaga county for the depreciation in value of a horse as his
age increases.
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