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| Captain General Arsenio M. Campos. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday,
January 20, 1896.
NO MERCY FOR CUBANS.
Will Probably Be the Policy of
Weyler.
CUBA'S NEW CAPTAIN GENERAL.
De Campos' Lenient Treatment of
Insurgents the Cause of His Removal.
Small Skirmishes Continue In
Various Parts of the Island.
HAVANA,
Jan. 20.—A report comes from Santa Clara that the insurgent band of Alberto and
Pastor Rajas, which is a part of the force from the Eastern provinces which
Maximo Gomez ordered to the relief of the insurgents in the West, has made an
unsuccessful attempt to break through the military line of Trocha. The band
comes from Placetas, and they attacked the Spanish forces near Las Cruces on
the railroad running between Cienfuegos and Sagua la Grande, which approximately
marks the La Trocha military line.
The
insurgents have also attacked a fort on the plantation of Constancia in the
Cienfuegos district and, it is said, were repulsed, with a loss of six killed.
A train
from Nuevitas, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, was dynamited by the
insurgents and the engine destroyed. No details are given of the casualties.
In Havana
province the insurgents attacked a Spanish detachment at the plantation of
Averhoff, near Aguacate, and are reported to have been repulsed with heavy
loss. The troops had two killed and six wounded.
It is also
reported that Colonel Galbio has fought the forces of the insurgents which have
been in Pinar del Rio at Pozo Redando, north of Batabano, and on the railroad
between that point and Havana. The new military line which has been established
to keep the insurgents in the Vuelta Abajo district follows this railroad and
it is explained that the insurgents were endeavoring, though unsuccessfully, to
break through this line.
Maximo Gomez
was reported as moving from Alquizar and as having slept in the bed of the
Marques Davalos on the plantation of San Antonio.
There is to
be no change in the policy of the government in Cuba, it is announced, as the
result of the recent changes in the executive officers. It is also asserted
that political reforms will be inaugurated as soon as the progress of the war
will allow. No further specifications are given as to what the contemplated
reforms are or how far they will extend.
A dispatch
from Madrid asserts that General Duke Alumada is to be appointed centuron in
place of General Arderius.
Further
reports have now been received of the engagement between Colonel Galbis and the
insurgents near Batabano. It is said that the insurgent forces that attacked
him were those of Gomez. The troops met the attack of the insurgents on their
knees and withheld their fire until the enemy were within a short distance. The
report says that the insurgents left 11 killed on the field and nine more were
found in a cane field a short distance away. The Spanish artillery did good
execution. The insurgents retreated, it is reported, with a numerous loss,
while the loss of the troops was insignificant.
Although
the report thus states that Gomez was repulsed and defeated, it is reported
that he moved afterwards south of Melena upon Guines and in the direction of
the village of San Nicolas. These points are eastward of the military line of
Batabano and would indicate that Gomez was successful in his attempt through
that line.
During his
operations Gomez invaded Bario and Pueblo Nuevo, within the limits of Pinar del
Rio. The garrison made a heroic defense, the colonel taking part in the battle,
and upon being charged with the bayonet, the insurgents are reported to have
retreated with a numerous loss. The troops lost nine.
A large
force of the insurgents, consisting of the bands of Rabi and Jose Maceo, passed
the village of Manjuari.
The
insurgents have burned the railroad station at Caobas, only a few miles from
Matanzas.
The station
at San Cayetano, in Havana province, has been burned.
The mayor
of the village of San Nicolas has been hanged by the insurgents.
The column
of Major Cedeno fought the band of Leonico Vidal on the plantation of Natalia,
in the district of Sagua, the insurgents losing eight killed and five taken
prisoners, while the troops lost one killed and one taken prisoner.
General Campos will not accept the presidency of a supreme court of war, though he
thanks the government for its attentions and for the courtesies he received while
he was captain general.
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| General Valeriano Weyler. |
General Weyler Succeeds Campos.
MADRID,
Jan. 20.—General Valeriano Weyler has accepted the appointment to the
governorship of Cuba. He will sail for that island on Friday next. General
Suraez Valdes has been appointed second in command.
General
Gamir, governor of Porto Rico, has died of yellow fever.
A dispatch
from Havana reports an interview with General Marin, governor pro tempore of
Cuba, in which he said that the situation there was not dangerous, since the
insurgents were always defeated in every engagement in which they took part. He
intended, he said, to organize a fresh plan of campaign in Cuba.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs Interprets it Broadly.
WASHINGTON,
Jan. 20.—The foreign affairs committee of the senate has reported a resolution
upon the Monroe doctrine. It announces that any attempt on the part of foreign
powers to secure new or additional territory on this western continent or on
any islands adjacent to it either through force, cession, occupation, purchase,
colonization or otherwise will be looked upon as an infringement upon the
doctrine and that that doctrine will be asserted and maintained by the United
States. It also places the control of any canal between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans within the protection of this doctrine.
Playing to the Galleries.
NEW YORK,
Jan, 20 —A Washington dispatch to the Herald says: The action of the senate in
the Monroe doctrine resolution is expected here to exert little, if any,
unfavorable influence on the financial situation. Everybody in Washington
understands that the matter is being brought up at this time merely to allow
senators to work on speeches which they have been preparing and which they hope
to use to advantage in the coming political campaign.
It is a Menace.
BOSTON,
Jan. 20.—Rear Admiral Belknap, retired, says: "The British government, in
my opinion, is quietly but determinedly preparing to take what she claims
belongs to her in Venezuela. In my opinion, if the flying squadron does appear
in American waters, under existing conditions, it can only be construed as a
menace to the United States."
Prepared For a Long Cruise, but
Her Destination Remains Secret.
LONDON,
Jan. 30.—The flying squadron has now been completed and is lying off Spithead.
If the weather is favorable steam will be gotten up today to enable the admiral
to put the squadron in motion.
Tomorrow,
according to the present program, the lords of the admiralty will arrive at
Osborne in the admiralty yacht Enchantress. The fleet will then move down the
Cowes Roads to be inspected by the queen and by the lords of the admiralty. The
queen will not go afloat for this ceremony, but will witness the maneuvers from
Osborne House.
The
squadron will sail on Wednesday, probably for a long cruise, as no torpedo
boats have been commissioned to accompany it. Rear Admiral Drake, in command,
will only get his final orders for the cruise at the last moment.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The New
York chamber of commerce never made a bigger mistake than when it pronounced
the Venezuelan controversy a question in which the "American people have
now and probably can have no more than a sentimental and passing
interest." But that kind of judgment is what might have been expected of a
lot of commercial speculators and men who think more of selling goods than they
do of the honor and safety of their country. Shopkeeping is an eminently
commendable trade, but when a man lets his shopkeeping instincts override his
patriotism he is a coward.
Africa had
two kings up to a very recent date—Barney Barnato, the king of the Kaffirs, and
Cecil Rhodes, king of South Africa.
Really it
is time for England to begin to perceive that it is not right for her to hog
the earth.
HOW THEY WILL DO IT.
Brooklyn Women Band Together to
Abolish Spitting In Cars.
I hear that
the ladies of Brooklyn have organized themselves into an aggressive combination
for the purpose of abolishing the filthy habit of expectorating in street cars.
Brooklyn
women always were so dainty and so ingenuous.
They are
going to accomplish this wonderful reform by riding in the street cars and
watching every man's mouth, and just as soon as his jaws begin to move they are
going to range themselves in front of him, and when he expectorates they are
going to look at the expectoration and then at him, and if that doesn't cure
him then they are going to speak to him. God bless the ladies of Brooklyn!
I am sure
that no man, even with a mouthful of tobacco juice, would dare to expectorate
after he had been looked at by a company of Brooklyn women.—Cholly Knickerbocker
in New York Recorder.
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| Austin Corbin. |
More Railroad Gossip.
The
Watertown correspondent of the Syracuse Post says: "Gossip has it that
Austin Corbin is negotiating with the bondholders of
the street railway to get control of the road, to extend it to Dexter and form
a belt line in this city; also that the E., C, & N. road, which was recently leased by the Lehigh
Valley road, is to be extended through Watertown to the St. Lawrence. It is
asserted for a fact that Corbin has made a proposition to the New York
bondholders for the bonds of the street railway held by them. He owns some real
estate in this city that he purchased at the time that he tried to get the E.,
C. & N. extended to
this city a few years ago."
BREVITIES.
—A friend
has added $2 to the Galpin fund.
—Grover
Relief Corps, No. 96, will meet to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
—The excise
case of The People against Robert Crabb was Saturday in police court adjourned
to Jan. 28.
—The annual
meeting and election of officers of the Republican league occurs to-night at
the league rooms.
—A special
meeting of the Cortland Athletic association will be held at the club house
to-morrow night.
—The case
of C. O. Smith against M. H. McGraw which was to have been called before Justice
Dowd this morning was settled out of court.
—Mrs.
Hannah Robinson of 13 Madison-st., who slipped on the ice Friday and dislocated
a hip, is improving as fast as can be expected.
—New
advertisements to-day are—Bingham Bros., & Miller, clothing bargains, page
8; F. E. Brogden, Brogden's pleasant cough cordial, page 7.
—A special
United Press dispatch to The STANDARD from Washington this afternoon announces
that Mrs. F. A. Sanders, wife of Wilber Sanders, has just been reappointed
postmistress at South Cortland.
—Some
maliciously inclined persons Saturday night tipped the Cortland steam laundry
sign which stands in front of the City drug store into the north window of the
store cracking and spoiling the large plate glass.
—We are
informed that the sixty-foot lot on the south side of the lot of W. D. Riley on
Church-st. was bought by W. W. Kelsey and D. H. Bingham jointly, and that these
two gentlemen together will put up the new house on Church-st.
—D. S. Jones, formerly an employee of the STANDARD
job rooms, more recently foreman of the Chenango Telegraph at Norwich, has bought
the Mohawk Eagle and will take possession at once. The STANDARD wishes him
abundant success in his new field.
—Messrs. S.
B. Pierce, Newton Cone and E. W. Bates have formed a co-partnership and will do
a general real estate and insurance business in both life and fire insurance.
They have opened an office at 7 1/2 North Main-st. and took possession this
morning. The firm name is Pierce, Cone & Bates.
VARIOLOID AT CORNELL.
University may have to be Closed
for a Time.
The World
of Sunday has the following dispatch from Ithaca, dated Saturday: "The case of
supposed varioloid which was reported to the health board at Cornell a few days
ago to-day proved to be smallpox in a mild form. The person infected is a law
student who, evidently not knowing what ailed him, continued to attend
recitations and to go about the campus even after the disease had broken out on
him. Many students and professors have been exposed to the contagious disease.
"The
patient has been removed to the outskirts of the town at the head of Cayuga
lake, where he is now quarantined. If the disease develops in others the
university will have to be closed for an indefinite period. The students who
are hot protected by recent vaccination will be vaccinated tomorrow by Dr.
Hitchcock, the university physician. Some were to have been treated to-day, but
the vaccine point did not arrive in time."
HOMER.
Gleanings of News From Our Twin
Village.
The annual
meeting of the King's Daughters was held last Saturday at their rooms in the Murray
block. The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year:
President—Mrs.
George D. Daniels.
1st Vice-President—Mrs
J. J. Murray.
2nd
Vice-President—Mrs S. Z. Miner.
Secretary—Mrs.
O. B. Andrews.
Treasurer—Miss Kate McDiarmid.
The following
report for the past year was read by the secretary, Mrs. G. I. Pruden.
The every
day workers circle of King's Daughters has just completed its first year's work
on Jan, 16, 1895, the circle was organized with
Pres.—Mrs.
Geo. D. Daniels.
1st
Vice-Pres.—Mrs. John Murray.
2nd
Vice-Pres.—Mrs. S. Z. Miner.
3rd
Vice-Pres.—Mrs. H. Harrington.
Sec.—Mrs.
Anna Stone.
Treas.—Miss
Kate McDiarmid
Four
directors were appointed, one from each church whose duties were to look over
the garments donated and to prepare work for the circle. This committee has
found a great amount of work necessary in repairing of old garments and making
new. The Lookout committee consisted of the following persons: Mrs. O. B. Andrews,
Mrs. C. C. Carley, Mrs. Earl Fowler, Mrs. Merrill, Mrs. R. E. Wilmarth, Mrs.
Walter Briggs, Mrs. W. H. H. Rianey, Mrs. Henry Nixon, Mrs. Gates and Miss Anna
Daniels, whose duties were to look out for the sick and needy and to see that
all reasonable wants were supplied.
The work of
this committee is deserving of special mention. They have made 160 visits,
given out between 500 and 600 articles of clothing and bedding. Twenty-six
families have been made comfortable and much happier by the untiring zeal of
this committee. Many luxuries have been taken by these ladies and placed at the
disposal of those less fortunate without any reference to the work of the
society. Twenty-one regular meetings have been held either weekly, semi-weekly
or monthly as circumstances have required. Much of the sewing has been done at
these meetings. A deep interest has been shown throughout the year and the
deeper we look into the work the more we find to be done. [$83.88?] in money
has been received also liberal donations of clothing for all of which the
society is very grateful. The circle has given two oyster suppers during the
year, the receipts of which amounted to [$47.31?]. Bills paid for medical aid, care,
groceries and sundries $67.84. During the year we were obliged to accept the
resignation of president and secretary as more urgent duties called them, but
their interest are with us still.
Death has
entered our circle and taken our kind friend and sister, Mrs. O. A. Pierce. She
was a noble Christian and loved by all who knew her. Her loss is sincerely
mourned by the circle.
It is hoped
that our new officers will enter upon their duties with zeal and hearts full
for the work. Whatsoever their hands find to do may they do it with their might.
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