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Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday,
October 15, 1895.
COREAN QUEEN DEPOSED.
Driven From the Throne and Possibly Killed.
PENALTY
OF OPPOSING REFORMS.
American,
Russian and Probably British Naval Forces landed at Seoul to
Preserve
Order—Advices Received by the Japanese Minister.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Information of a
formidable uprising in Corea, resulting in the disappearance and probable death
of the queen and the landing of military forces by the United States and
European powers, has been received by Minister Kurino of Japan from the foreign
office at Tokio. It is quite sensational, indicating the landing of marines by
Russia, the United States and probably Great Britain.
The latest dispatch to Minister Kurino states
that a force of Russian marines, 40 in number, has been landed. Thus far they
have confined themselves to guarding the Russian legation at Seoul.
The dispatches come from Tokio and communicate
the substance of dispatches received from General Miura, the Japanese envoy at
Seoul. They are dated from the 9th to the 12th inst.
It appears in these dispatches that the trouble
had its inception at the queen's dislike of the newly organized soldiery of
Corea. The old soldiers had the primitive equipment of the Far East. But with the
progress of Japanese influence in Corea two battalions of Corean troops were
organized on modern methods. Each battalion numbered 600 men armed with modern weapons.
They were well drilled and officered.
When the queen showed her disfavor toward
these new troops they appealed to the tai won kun, a powerful chief who has
long been at enmity with the queen. He accepted the leadership of the new
troops and, at the head of one battalion, entered the queen's palace.
The native soldiers fled from the palace.
The Tokio dispatches do not state specifically what became of the queen,
further than that she has disappeared and cannot be located. The officials are
inclined to believe, however, that the unofficial reports of the queen's death
are true. The Japanese government, the dispatches further state, has acted
quickly on the reports and has appointed a commission to inquire into the
facts.
In the meantime it is emphatically denied
that the queen's death, if it has occurred, was due to the Japanese. One report
is that a Japanese Soshi killed the Queen. This is not yet confirmed in the dispatches
received here. The officials say that the Soshi are an irresponsible and
lawless class, and that their acts cannot be laid to the Japanese people or
government.
General
Miura's reports also cover the work of Japanese troops in preserving order. These
troops were stationed opposite the palace, having secured this point of vantage
some time since through the Corean government. They took no part in the attack
on the palace, but after it had occurred, when the native troops were fleeing
and the new battalions were enforcing their success in capturing the palace, the
Japanese troops aided in preventing bloodshed and disorder. It is probable that
some deaths occurred during the melee.
Following this came the landing of the United
States and Russian marines, and, as is believed, the landing of the British.
The latest Indications are that the tai won
kun and the king are in control of affairs at the Corean capital. The king has been
the nominal ruler, but the queen has heretofore been recognized as the real
ruler. The influence of the king and the tai won kun are distinctly favorable
to the Japanese.
At the Corean legation no word has been
received from the disturbed capital. The officials are much exercised and do not
doubt that the queen has met her death, although they are not ready to abandon
hope. In case official confirmation is received there will be such formal ceremony
as is usual on the death of a sovereign. The legation will go into mourning,
but there is not likely to be a funeral service, although this has been considered
as a further mark of respect.
CUBAN
DYNAMITERS.
General
de Campos Inaugurates Vigorous Measures to Suppress Them.
HAVANA, Oct. 15.—The recent use of dynamite
by the insurgents along the line of the railroad is causing the authorities
grave uneasiness and it has been considered necessary to employ some special
measure to suppress the practice.
It will be recalled that on several occasions
recently dynamite bombs have been hurled at railroad trains containing
passengers and details of troops and dynamite has also been found placed upon
the tracks. Considerable damage has been done in this manner and fears are felt
that greater harm may come from the practice.
With a view to checking it and of preventing
further attempts, Captain General Martinez de Campos has published an order that
all trees and bushes shall be cut down and all huts shall be removed within a
distance of 200 yards of the railroad track on either side.
It is further ordered that no one shall be allowed
to approach the trains. Violators of these orders are to be summarily court martialed.
Captain General de Campos also publishes an
order which proclaims that he will continue his practice of pardoning all
rebels who lay down their arms and surrender themselves to the authorities,
except the chiefs. These latter are to be subject to the decision of the
captain general, who will investigate to ascertain whether any of them have
been guilty of outrage in the conduct of the insurrection.
As a further warning against the use of dynamite
the severe Spanish laws enacted in Spain in 1894 as a result of the attempt at
the Liceo theater at Barcelona are to be published here.
FIRST PURITY CONGRESS.
Gathering
of Eminent People at Baltimore.
AMERICAN
PURITY ALLIANCE.
President
Aaron M. Powell Calls the Congress to Order and States the Objects of the New
Organization and of the Present Gathering,
BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.—The First National
Purity congress, under the auspices of the American Purity alliance, convened
in this city, and will continue in session for three days.
Social reformers from all parts of the
country are present as delegates, most of them with papers upon various
subjects, which they will read during the sessions. Among these are Julia Ward
Howe, Elbridge T. Gerry, Anthony Comstock, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell and
scores of others of almost equal prominence.
The session was held in the Friends meeting
house on Park avenue. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Joshua Levering,
president of the Baltimore Young Men's Christian association, and Mrs. A. C.
Robinson, president of the Baltimore Women's Christian Temperance union.
Responses were made by President A. M.
Powell of the American Purity alliance, and the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
of New Jersey.
President Powell in opening the meeting said
that the objects of the congress are:
''The repression of vice; the prevention of
its regulation by the states; the better protection of the young; the rescue of
the fallen; to extend the White Cross work among men, and to proclaim the law
of purity as equally binding upon men and women."
Vice, he said, is legalized in Europe, but
in few cases is it so in America, and in these cases it is nominally rather
than actually rendered lawful. He referred to Omaha, in which city he said,
fines are imposed which amounted in reality to a tax, the proceeds of which go
toward the maintenance of the public schools, a practice which he condemned in
the very severest terms.
He also spoke of the efforts made to legalize
the evil in Cleveland, St. Louis, New York city and "even the puritan city
of Boston.
The speaker dwelt upon the laws of the various
states concerning "the age of consent," of which he said: "These
so-called age of consent statutes discriminate against girlhood and in favor of
immoral men. They are for the most part a disgrace to the several states of the
Union."
In conclusion the speaker expressed the hope
that the present congress would have the effect of emphasizing the necessity
for a single standard of purity for both sexes.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell of New
Jersey read a paper on "The Immorality of the Regulation System," of
which she said, among other things, that:
"It accepts and condones wrong doing.
It shields men only. It is organized flagrant injustice to women; it tries to
make her the scapegoat for both; it proves inadequate to do what it attempts.
Statistics show that it has nowhere lessened; that it has often increased the
spread of disease. It increases the depravity of the depraved, tempting men to
deeper dishonor by helping them to hide their sins, and treating women with no
grain of personal consideration,
it destroyed
the remnants of their self-respect. It deludes and deceives the weak. It lays
snares for the young by making it easy to lure them to dishonor."
Rev. Dr. S. Virgin of New York addressed the
congress on the subject of "The Religious Aspects of the Purity
Movement."
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ Little Billee of Germany is absolutely
certain that he holds the whole empire of Germany up by the ears. The president
of the United States can go fishing a week and nobody outside of the boat on
which he lives meantime knows where he is, and the great republic moves on just
the same. But Emperor William most have a telephone car connecting him with his
ministers [who] follow him even if he goes off for a day's hunting. He thinks he
is really and truly the biggest man on this round earth. This disposition grows
on him. There is danger that it will result in insanity if he lives to old age.
Nothing short of a revolution and a German republic will then be the result.
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| Sokol 1895. |
◘ So long as boys and women and grown men
throng and press and tumble over one another to touch and kiss the old Liberty
bell, as they did when it left Philadelphia and all along its route to Atlanta,
there is no danger of patriotic republican sentiment dying out in the country.
It will live even though our millionaires only heap up fortunes to buy
foreign noblemen for their daughters' husbands.
◘ Booker T. Washington, the colored man who
was the oratorical hero of the day at the opening of the Atlanta exposition,
crowded as much common sense into his speech as any white man on this continent
could have done. "You must not expect overmuch from us," he said to
the white folk, "starting as we did 80 years ago with ownership in a few
quilts and pumpkins and chickens gathered from miscellaneous sources." He
knew how to pay graceful compliment as well as an accomplished courtier, too, thanking
both north and south for the help they had given the black people in preparing
for the exposition. It is interesting to know that he regards the agitation for
social equality of the races as the "extremest folly," in which he is
exactly right. The American negro now wants most of all to "saw wood and
say nothing." He needs to lay up money, to get an education, to get good
manners and good morals and to train himself to the habits of living common
among refined people, white or black. These are words of gold from the address,
"The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth
infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in as opera house."
Booker T. Washington is a man with a future. He is the founder and principal of
the colored people's industrial institute at Tuskeegee, Ala.
THE LAST
PIPE LAID.
Cortland
Sewer System Completed at 2 o'clock To-day.
The last pipe in the sewerage system of
Cortland was laid at 2 o'clock this afternoon and was just south of the bridge
on North Main-st. The trench was filled up this afternoon and the street
cleaning gang will require two or three days to clear up the streets not
already cleared, Mr. Peter Scott, the superintendent, discharged the full force
of Italians as he could use only a few on the remainder of the job and this
morning rehired twenty-five to complete the work.
Mr. Oll Delevan, to whom a bill of sale was
made by the contractors before their departure, is to-day gathering up the
picks, shovels, etc., which were used in the construction. It is expected that the
difficulty over the back pay due the Italians will be adjusted early next week.
Mr. Scott will remain in town two or three
weeks to put in connections before going to his home in Port Huron, Mich.
POSTOFFICE
ROBBED.
Marathon
the Victim—Safe Blown Open with Dynamite.
The postoffice at Marathon was broken into
last night and was robbed. The safe was blown open by dynamite and the door was
completely shattered. Money and stamps were taken, but the exact loss cannot be
determined until the inventory is completed. Postmaster Wilson is of the
opinion that it will not exceed $200, a large portion of which is in stamps.
John Boyd's blacksmith shop was entered and
the tools were taken from there which were used in the postoffice. Entrance to
the postoffice was made through the front door. M. M. Wingler and family occupy
the rooms over the postoffice, but they were all away from home and no one was
disturbed. The law office of Postmaster H. E. Wilson is in the rear of the
postoffice, but was not entered.
The robbery is supposed to be the work of a
gang of crooks known to have been in Binghamton last Friday. They were driving
through the country at that time and an attempt was made to arrest them there,
but they caught wind of the attempt and disappeared. Two explosions were heard
this morning about ten minutes apart near 3 o'clock, but no attempt was made to
investigate the cause of them. Dynamite was this morning found beside the safe
enclosed in a copy of a Binghamton paper bearing date of Oct. 12.
The robbers were doubtless disappointed in
not securing more plunder, but Postmaster Wilson keeps the most of his stamps
in the vault at the National bank and takes all his money home with him except
change. Papers and vouchers in the safe were badly torn and scattered by the
explosion.
Mrs.
Kittie Kennedy Wilcox.
Mrs. Kittie Kennedy Wilcox, wife of Mr. H.
C. Wilcox, died at her home, 66 Groton-ave. in Cortland last night at 8 o'clock,
after an illness of three weeks from typhoid fever. The deceased was born at
Hamilton, N. Y., and lived there until her marriage five years ago last
January. She was a graduate of the Hamilton high school and was a general
favorite in school and in that place. She was possessed of a sunny disposition and
had a host of friends wherever she went.
After her marriage she went to Binghamton
with her husband to live. Three years ago they moved to Cortland. Her health had
been good until attacked by typhoid fever. Her mother Mrs. F. J. Kennedy of
Hamilton, her sister Susie and her brother Emmet have been with her for the
past two weeks. Her brother, Mr. Cyrus Kennedy, came from Binghamton this
morning.
She leaves a husband and two children, besides
parents, one sister and two brothers.
The remains will be taken to Hamilton to-morrow
morning on the 7:20 train, E., C. & N. R. R., where the funeral will be
held in St. Mary's church. Many friends in Hamilton, as well as in Cortland,
will mourn her untimely death.
—The total registration of voters at McGrawville
Saturday was 397.
—A dancing school has been formed at
McGrawville which holds its first rehearsal to-night.
—The National bank is being treated to a new
coat of paint, straw color with white trimmings.
—Truant Officer I. W. Brown will, on Monday
next, begin taking the fall enumeration of school children in the village.
—Bennett & Hart well have a force of men at McGrawville to-day
placing a Perfect furnace in the People's cash store.
—The new motor and heavier wheels for the
baggage car of the Traction company arrived yesterday and are being fitted to
the car.
—Oneonta is working hard for a $30,000
hospital with a $7,000 endowment fund. The citizens have raised $1,000 toward
it.—Norwich Sun.
—Another name, Mrs. K., has been added to
the proposed Crosley list of fifty for the benefit of the hospital, making the
total number of subscribers up to date thirty.
—The maple trees in front of the residence of
E. H. Brewer on Port Watson-st. which were so badly damaged by the fire
across the street last winter were to-day cut down.
—Mr. Peter Scott has very generously donated
his services in putting in sewer pipe at the hospital, for which the hospital managers
wish to make due acknowledgment.
—Four first-class sets of second hand trucks
for the trailers on the electric railroad arrived this morning and are being
put under the cars. The new closed car for the McGrawville division is expected
to arrive in about a week.
—Barnum & Bailey's circus tents seem to
have met with an accident at Burlington, Ia. similar to that at Cortland some
years ago. The tents were all blown
down and the big tent was utterly wrecked so that for several days the performance
was given with only what is known to circus folks as the "side walls"
standing.
—The staying qualities of a lady's model 44
Columbia wheel were successfully demonstrated this morning at the D., L. &
W. station when the rider, a prominent grocery clerk on Railroad-st., attempted
to cross the tracks through the steam escaping from an engine. In the blinding
mist he met a brother rider and both were thrown to the ground. Wheel No. 1 received
only one puncture, and wheel No. 2 was considerably twisted out of shape.
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