ADVICES FROM HAWAII

Queen Liliuokalani.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, February 11, 1895.

ADVICES FROM HAWAII.

Only One American Sentenced to Death.

QUEEN LIL MUST STAND TRIAL.

The Ex-Queen to Be Tried For Treason. Death Sentences of Two of the Offenders Will Be Commuted—Minister Willis Changes His Attitude—Minister Thurston Makes a Statement In the Interest of the Republic.

   VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 11.—The steamship Warrimo arrived here bringing the latest news from Hawaii. The correspondent, writing up to Saturday last of the military courtmartial, says:

   Six leaders were sentenced to be hanged. They are Charles T. Gulick, William Rickard, William T. Seward, Robert W. Wilcox, Sam Noland and Henry Bartelman. Sentences in the last two cases will be commuted, as both men have furnished valuable evidence for the government. Gulick was born in this country, Rickard is an Englishman, Wilcox is a Hawaiian. The only one of the four entitled to the protection of the United States is William T. Seward.

   As yet no date has been set for the executions. The only important case tried before the military courts since the departure of the Australia was that of V. V. Ashford. He is charged with treason. A batch of 20 native rebels charged with treason is now occupying the attention of the courtmartial.

   United States Minister Willis has changed his attitude somewhat since the last advices and is not so belligerent in his demands. His latest communication to the government is a request that if the death penalty is imposed in the case of any American, that the execution be postponed until he can communicate with his government. The British minister has made a similar request. Queen Liliuokalani is to be tried for treason.

   Great interest is attached to the forthcoming trial of the ex-queen. The government claims to have more than sufficient evidence to convict her of treason. What her punishment will be in case of conviction is hard to conjecture. Her case will probably be up on next Monday.

   The charges against her are:

   First—Treason, by engaging in open rebellion against the republic of Hawaii; by attempting by force of arms to overthrow and destroy the same and by levying war against the same, and by adhering to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii, giving them aid and comfort within the Hawaiian islands and elsewhere.

   Second—Treason, by aiding, abetting, procuring, counselling, inciting, countenancing and encouraging others to commit treason and to engage in open rebellion against the republic of Hawaii, and to attempt force of arms in the overthrow of the same, and to adhere to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii in giving them aid and comfort in the Hawaiian Islands and elsewhere.

Lorrin A. Thurston.

THURSTON'S STATEMENT.

The Hawaiian Minister Defends the Action of His Government.

   WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Lorrin A. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister, being asked whether he had any information concerning the alleged sentencing to death of some of the leaders in the late Hawaiian insurrection, and whether, in his opinion, such sentences, if given, would be carried out, made the following statement:

   "I have received no direct communication concerning the sentences, nor do I know precisely what action will be taken, but from my intimate acquaintance with all Hawaiian authorities and their characters and methods, I can state positively that all trials will be open and fair; that the accused will be allowed the assistance of counsel of their own choosing, who will be allowed the fullest right of crossexamination and defense; that there will be no convictions which are not based upon the clearest evidence, and that the authorities will be as lenient in the infliction of punishment as is consistent with their duty to protect the community from further outbreak, with possibly far more bloodshed than attended the recent outbreak.

   "If there is any particular policy in which the Hawaiian government has erred during the past two years, it is in having been too lenient in dealing with those who have continuously schemed to overthrow it, first by strategic diplomacy and then by force.

   "From its inception, the government has exhibited a leniency toward its enemies that is unparalleled in history. This extreme leniency has been a feature of the administration of President Dole which has caused criticism from many of his strongest supporters.

   "I will state a few facts in substantiation of what I say: The penalty of treason, from the foundation to the overthrow of the monarchy, was death and confiscation of all property.

   "On Jan. 20, 1893, three days after its creation, the provisional government passed an act providing an alternative penalty for treason of fine and imprisonment and otherwise mitigating the harshness of the former law.

   "Was there ever before known a government, scarce seated in power, in the midst of enemies, involved in all the multitudinous duties attendant upon a reconstruction of the entire system of government, devoting its first moments to mitigating the penalties which might be visited upon its enemies if they undertook to overthrow it?

   "Again, although the revolution of 1893 was caused by the attempt of the queen to abrogate the constitution and disfranchise nearly every person connected with the new government, she has since been treated with the utmost consideration by that government. She has been allowed to occupy her comfortable residence in Honolulu, within a block of the executive building, in peace and without molestation, although she has unceasingly, publicly and privately, plotted therein for the overthrow of the government, and finally made it an arsenal in which were discovered last month 40 rifles, 23 dynamite bombs and pistols and ammunition in quantity.

   "Again, although Liliuokalani has no legal claim for compensation, the annexation commission in the interest of harmony and to avoid even the appearance of harshness, secured the insertion in the proposed annexation treaty of a clause giving her an annual pension of $20,000, and until she began to openly work for the overthrow of the government the salary which she had received as queen continued to be paid to her by the provisional government and until Princess Kaiulani came to Washington to work for restoration, she also continued to receive her former allowance.

   "The ex-queen has twice applied to the government for protection against supporters of the government, whom she feared might do her harm, one of the times being while she was in the act of negotiating with Mr. Willis for her restoration and the overthrow of the provisional government.

   "Upon both occasions a squad of police was detailed to guard her from harm for as long a period as she desired them.

   "The government has at all times been willing in the interest of peace, recognizing no obligation so to do, to grant the ex-queen an annual allowance on the one condition that she abandon her claims to the throne and agree to keep the peace.

   "Her only response to all this treatment has been the beheading proposition made to Mr. Willis and continuous plotting to overthrow the government, culminating in the insurrection last month.

   "Has any other government, great or small, ever treated a deposed sovereign with such continued patience, forbearance and courtesy?

   "In another direction the Hawaiian government has shown unprecedented moderation.

   "The provisional government and the republic of Hawaii have neither suppressed nor attempted to control a single newspaper in Hawaii and have not prevented the holding of a single public meeting in Honolulu.

   "The Royalists have been allowed, and have repeatedly availed themselves of the privilege to assemble unmolested in the public square.

   "What is the government of Hawaii to do? There have already during its short existence been two domestic conspiracies to overthrow it by force. Is the government to condone every offense that can be committed against a government, and upon capturing insurrectionists in the act of shooting down its own citizens allow them to again go free to repeat the operation at the first convenient opportunity?

   "The problem that has been forced upon President Dole, and which he and his advisers are now forced, unaided and in the presence of hostile influences, to solve, is one which would prove a task to greater men.

   "The problem is not how to achieve revenge. It is how to prevent Hawaii from gravitating into the catalogue of chronic revolution; how to eliminate the standing menace to peace, which hangs and will continue to hang, like a black cloud over Hawaii until the smugglers, the beachcombers and the soldiers of fortune, who infest Honolulu, shall be taught that they cannot with impunity plot murder, arouse the passions of race hatred and turn death and destruction upon the homes of Honolulu; it is how to preserve and perpetuate Hawaii as the paradise and prevent it from becoming the hell of the Pacific.

   "The men whom the government have now to deal with have no comprehension of liberality, of forbearance or generosity; they construe liberty to mean license; mistake patience for cowardice and mercy for weakness."

USS Philadelphia C-4.

UNITED STATES INTERFERES.

Message Concerning the Sentencing of Americans In Hawaii.

   WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Affairs in Hawaii have taken a turn that has caused the interference of the United States government again as is made evident by two telegrams sent to congress by the president.

   The first is from United States Minister Willis to Secretary Gresham, dated Honolulu, Jan. 30, wired from San Francisco, Feb. 6, reading as follows:

   Revolt over 9th. Casualties: Government one, royalists two; court-martial convened 17th; has tried 38 cases. Two hundred more to be tried and daily arrests. Gulick, former minister, and Seward minister, major in the Federal army, both Americans, and Rickard, Englishman, sentenced to death; all heretofore prominent in polities. T. B. Walker, formerly in the United States army, imprisonment for life and $5,000 fine. Other sentences not disclosed, but will probably be death.

   Requested copies of record for our government to determine its duty before final sentence, but no answer yet. Bitter feeling and threats of mob violence, which arrival of Philadelphia may prevent. Liliuokalani made prisoner 16th; on 24th relinquished all claims and swore allegiance to the republic, imploring clemency for Hawaiians. Government replies to Liliuokalani: "This document cannot be taken to exempt you in the slightest degree from personal and individual liability for complicity in late conspiracy." Denies that she had any rights since Jan 14, 1893, when she attempted a new constitution.

   Fully appreciates her call to disaffected to recognize the republic and will give full consideration to her unselfish appeal for clemency for participants.

   In response to the above Secretary Gresham addressed the following telegram:

   Mr. Cooper, United States Dispatch Agent, San Francisco. Forward following by first steamer to A. S. Willis, United States minister, Honolulu:

   "If American citizens were condemned to death by a military tribunal, not for actual participation in reported revolution, but for complicity only, or if condemned to death by such tribunal for actual participation, but not after open fair trial with opportunity for defense, demand delay of execution, and in either case report to your government evidence relied on to support death sentence."

   GRESHAM.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Lecture Age.

   It is quite gone by, Rev. E. P. Powell tells us in The New England Magazine. The main reason of it now is that we have people in every neighborhood who can speak as well as the distinguished individuals who used to come from a distance and talk for from $100 to $500 a night. Mr. Powell himself knew familiarly many of the old stars, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sojourner Truth. Once when Emerson was to lecture in Mr. Powell's town he had forgotten his notes and left them in a place ten miles away. He could not speak a word without them, and the audience had to wait an hour and a half till a messenger went on horseback and got them. When they did arrive, the people thought that Mr. Emerson gave from the notes the dryest lecture they had ever listened to.

   Mr. Powell's gossipy experiences are delightful reading:

   The lyceum, what is left of it, is no longer the New England conscience bound on a voyage to convert the world to political and social righteousness. Efforts are invariably made to book any one who has created a sensation either in political or criminal life. But while this detracts still farther from the character of the platform erected by Theodore Parker, William Lloyd Garrison, Richard S. Storrs, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner it does not succeed in establishing even a bad imitation of the original idea. Mr. Wendling, ex-Senator Ingalls, ex-Representative Wilson and Senator Gordon, all eloquent men, are not able to draw continuous crowds. The work is done. 
   The lyceum rose to great power and fell away and practically died inside a single quarter of a century. But it killed slavery, it broke the power of superstitious theology, it made women free, it created a universal demand for higher culture.

NO INQUEST NEEDED.

Oliver Baum Was Evidently Killed by the Snowplow.

   Coroner W. J. Moore went to Marathon on the evening train Saturday and returned on the first train yesterday morning. His errand was to inquire into the cause of the death of Oliver Baum who was found dead beside the D., L. & W. tracks that morning. The coroner had a hard time getting down to Mr. Baum's house, a mile and a half south of the village. He got a team and two men with shovels and they started out. It was 9 o'clock when they started and it was a long hour's ride, walk, plunge and shovel to get there.

   Dr. C. B. Trafford of Marathon had performed the post mortem examination. Mr. Baum had been found in a sitting posture beside the track. All of the particulars given in Saturday's paper were found to be correct. The left side of the face of the deceased was badly contused and the evidences all pointed to the fact that he was struck by the snowplow which was coming north. There was a gash five inches long at the back of the head and the skull was completely crushed. It is believed that the sharp prow of the plow struck the head. The sloping front of the plow evidently picked him up and pushed his feet forward while his head came back against the steel shod prow. There was no question in the mind of any of the physicians but that death was instantaneous. Coroner Moore decided that no inquest was necessary.

DR. HULL DEAD.

A Resident of Cortland for Twenty-five Years.

   Dr. George W. Hull, a dentist of Cortland for the past twenty-five years, died at his home on Monroe Heights at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon as a result of a brief illness from pneumonia and grip complications. One week ago to-day he was out riding. He had a hard cold and should have stayed in at the time. The progress of the disease was very rapid.

   Dr. Hull was born in Cazenovia May 28, 1831, and was one of a family of eight children, only two brothers of whom survive him—Lewis F. Hull of Rochester, N. Y. and Franklin Hull of Columbus, Neb. He was educated at Belfast, Allegany county, and studied dentistry in Rushford, in the same county. In 1860 he came to Cortland and opened his first office, and this place has been his home ever since.

   Dr. Hull was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ellen M. Darby of

Cortland and the date of their marriage was 1858. She died in April, 1877, leaving no children, and in 1878 the doctor married Miss Mary Cookingham of Cortland who survives him. They have one son, Lewis, seven years old.

   When sixteen years old the deceased united with the Baptist church at Belfast and he has been strong in the faith and active in work ever since.

   The date of the funeral cannot yet be named. Mrs. Hull has been at Oneida for some time for a serious operation. She has so far recovered as to be able to come home and is expected to reach Cortland to-night, accompanied by her physician.

BREVITIES.

   —The residence of Mr. John Garrity was to-day connected with the telephone exchange.

   —The delegates to the state grange at Albany, who were snowbound in that city the latter part of the week reached home on Saturday night.

   —Rev. W. S. H. Hermans, the new pastor at the M. E. church at Homer, will preach at the revival meeting at the First M. E. church to-morrow evening.

   —The snow drifted into the canal north of Cooper Brothers' foundry and piled it so full as to completely dam it and shut off the water supply so that the foundry had to be closed last Friday noon.

   —A regular meeting of Co. B., L. T. L. will be held in the W. C. T. U. rooms to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. All members are earnestly requested to be present. Examinations in No. 2, Vol. 1, will be given.

   —The second entertainment of the City Band Minstrels will be given tonight at the Opera House. The entertainment on Friday night was so good and so satisfactory in every respect that the house should be crowded to-night.

   —Every one should feel a local pride in keeping up and helping to support a fine band. The Cortland City band is an excellent one and there is an opportunity now to give them a lift by buying a ticket to the minstrel show and at the same time getting the full worth of one's money in the entertainment.

   —William Sprague died at Blodgett Mills Friday night, aged 73 years. The funeral will be held at the Baptist church in that place to-morrow at 1 o'clock. The roads have been so bad that it was not until this morning that the undertaker was able to get down to Blodgett Mills.

Chen Yuan.

BIG VICTORY FOR JAPAN.

China's Entire Fleet Wiped Out or Captured.

TERRIFIC ARTILLERY FIGHTING.

Further Details or the Battle of Wei Hai Wei—Two of China's Magnificent

Ironclads Sent to the Bottom—Celestials Fought to the Last Under Pain of

Death—Powers Asked to Intervene.

   LONDON, Feb. 8.—A dispatch from Wei Hai Wei, dated Feb. 5, says that the Chinese fleet has practically ceased to exist. The ironclad Chen Yuen and her sister ship, the Ting Yuen, have been sunk and the other vessels of the Chinese fleet are within the grasp of the Japanese.

   The dispatch adds that at daybreak on Sunday the Japanese fleet opened fire on the Lui Kung forts, which replied vigorously. The bombardment became terrible.

   The first Japanese division, including the flagship, directed its fire against the eastern island batteries, while the second division shelled Fort Zhih.

   The Chinese fleet soon came to the assistance of the forts. The Ting Yuen used her 37-ton guns without effect, but succeeded in diverting some of the Japanese fire from the forts to herself.

   The Lai Yuen, a smaller ship, was also fought well. She sustained much damage. There were many casualties. Two Chinese gunboats also assisted, but were not badly damaged. These four vessels fought desperately until dark, when the firing ceased on both sides.

   The Chinese forts, especially Fort Zhih, suffered immense damage. The slackening Chinese fire toward evening indicated that the guns were disabled, that the gunners were killed or that the ammunition was becoming scarce.

   The sea was rough Sunday night, but fearing that the Chinese would try to escape, the Japanese fleet did not take shelter, remaining to block the exits from the harbor.

   During the night the Japanese learned from a prisoner who had been captured that Admiral Ting, the Chinese naval commander, had ordered the captains of the various ships to remain inside the harbor, even if the island should be captured, and endeavor to destroy the Japanese fleet. Every officer was ordered to remain at his post until the last under pain of death or dishonor.

   The bombardment was resumed Monday, Sunday's operations being repeated. The fire from Fort Zhih continued weak.

   The Chinese men-of-war were so repeatedly and badly hit that their guns were handled with difficulty and with less spirit.

   Toward the close of the fight the Ting Yuen and Chen Yuen were disabled. They gradually settled down and foundered amid shouts of triumph from the Japanese both on land and sea.

   The other Chinese vessels were in distress.

   The dispatch concludes with the statement that the Japanese are preparing to carry Liu Kung by storm.