PROTEST DISREGARDED BY SPAIN

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, November 24, 1896.

PROTEST DISREGARDED.

Competitor Prisoners Again Courtmartialed.

NO COUNSEL OR INTERPRETER.

The Cuban Members Probably Doomed to Speedy Death and the Americans to Imprisonment—Consul General Lee's Protest Pigeonholed.

   NEW YORK, NOV. 24.—A dispatch to The World from Havana Nov. 20 (via Barton, Fla., Nov. 23) says:

   The Competitor prisoners have been tried by courtmartial in the Fortress La Cabana in spite of Consul General Lee's official protest, filed just before he left Havana.

   The exceptions taken by the prisoners were overruled by the naval courts. General Lee's note was pigeonholed, and in defiance of Secretary Olney's intimation of disapproval, the Competitor's crew and Mr. Melton, the American newspaper correspondent, have again been tried by a drumhead court, sitting within the walls of a Spanish fortress where, according to Captain General Weyler's orders, no representative of a United States consulate may enter.

   The prisoners were allowed neither interpreter nor counsel.

   Those partly acquainted with Spanish were compelled to interpret for the others.

   So quietly was the affair conducted that Acting Consul General Springer does not yet know that the case was virtually closed Nov. 14, on which day Melton, Maza, Dr. Vedia and the witness, George Ferran, were forced by Naval Judge Fernandez to sign statements admitting their complicity in the filibustering expedition which the Competitor is alleged to have brought under Monzon and Laborde to the Pinar del Rio coast. The written evidence is now under consideration by the court.

   Judge Saul said that a decision may be rendered at any moment.

   It is expected that all the members of the party whose American citizenship has not been clearly shown, will be shot. The bona fide Americans probably will be sentenced to from three to 10 years imprisonment in some Spanish penal station off the coast of Africa.

   The prisoners are much disappointed at the failure of the United States to obtain for them a civil trial and the right to employ counsel.

Capt. Gen. Valeriano Weyler.

BACK TO THE CAPITAL.

Weyler Returns to Havana From the Mountains.

HAILED WITH LOUD ACLAIM.

Citizens of Artemisa Welcome the Spanish Chief Enthusiastically—Made a Brief Stay In the Town and Hurried Back to Havana.

   HAVANA, NOV. 24. —Exploring trains left Artemisa for Candeleria and San Cristobal in order to prepare for the arrival at Artemisa of Captain General Weyler.

   Artemisa and its vicinity was in a state of considerable excitement when it became known that the captain general was at Mangas, five miles distant. General Arolas, accompanied by his staff and an escort of cavalry, started soon afterward for Mangas, and news was received at Artemisa that the cruiser Le Gaspi had arrived at Mariel, the port at the northern extremity of the military line across the province of Pinar Del Rio with instructions to her commander to place his vessel at the disposal of the captain general.

   General Weyler entered Artemisa with the columns commanded by Generals Aguilar and Arolas. It was seen that the captain general was considerably sunburned. He wore a field uniform with a Panama hat and rode a black horse. He put up at the house of a prominent citizen, whose large garden enabled the commander to receive there the staff officers and others and transmit orders in various directions. There he also transacted considerable business with his chief of staff .

   The captain general was received on arrival at Artemisa by the town authorities, crowds of people and bands of music. Trumpet salutes were sounded and the bells were rung in his honor.

   After visiting the military hospitals and breakfasting, the captain general started immediately for Mariel.

   Professor Jose Diaz of the university of Havana has been suspended on a political charge.

   A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba announces the arrest of Francisco Berenguer, Victoriano Reyes and Jose Carrera.

   Colonel Segura's troops have escorted to Candelaria, Pinar del Rio, a large number of families who were camping about in different parts of the country owing to the destruction of their homes by the insurgents and the burning of the prefectures and villages of that province.

   In an engagement at Damas, the insurgents left 13 killed on the field, buried 60 dead and retired with 130 wounded.

FATHER MURPHY'S ARREST.

Both Versions of the Gold Cure Trouble Given Out.

   MONTREAL, NOV. 24.—Father Murphy, proprietor of the Father Murphy Gold Cures institute in the United States and Canada, whose arrest at the instance of John Franklin on the charge of obtaining $5,000 under false pretences, has already been announced, was released on $4,000 bail. The trial of the case will proceed on Monday next.

   According to the statement of Franklin, the latter took over a gold cure institute at Jersey City, paying Father Murphy $5,000 for the use of his name and his good will in connection with it.

   Father Murphy, the complainant alleges, stated that he had been instructed by Archbishop Corrigan of New York and Bishop N. W. Wigger of Jersey City to erect a gold cure institute in that diocese, and the institution would have the active sympathy and support of those ecclesiastics. These statements Franklin has since been led to doubt, owing to complete failure of the venture in Jersey City. Franklin says that he lost in a short time there $3,000 in addition to $5,000 he had paid Father Murphy.

   Father Murphy's version is this: Franklin, he says, is himself a gold cure graduate. After having been cured he asked Father Murphy to install him as manager of some of his institutes in the United States. Father Murphy offered to give him the one at Jersey City in consideration of a payment of $5,000. He made, he says, no representations that were not perfectly true, however. Father Murphy says he has lost faith in reformed drunkards.    

   Father Murphy says he has lost faith in reformed drunkards.

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RECIPROCITY.

Mexico Swapping Her Oranges For Our Corn.

   The shortage in the crop of American oranges this year has opened up an opportunity to the orange growers of Mexico, who will send us supplies of that fruit.

   The shortage in the corn crop of Mexico this year has been met by the corn raisers of this country, who have already shipped large quantities of that grain to the republic which lies next to ours.

   In these exchanges there is a beautiful illustration of the operation of a principle advantageous to both countries. The yield of oranges in Florida, Louisiana and California has been inadequate, and so Mexico offers us hundreds of carloads of them. The yield of corn in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, Aguas Calientes and Vera Cruz has been inadequate, and so the United States stands ready to furnish them as much of it as they need. Load the ships with American corn for the Mexicans! Load the railroad cars with Mexican oranges for the Americans! It is a pleasing spectacle.

   On Wednesday we copied from the New Orleans Times-Democrat an interview with Mr. Joseph Ball, a New Orleans orange dealer, who said: "Mexico will furnish about 650 carloads of oranges, 300 boxes in each car, nearly its entire surplus crop. They are juicy and good oranges."

   All right; we need them.

   The exportation of American corn from Mobile and other southern ports to Tampico and Vera Cruz began about a month ago, and since that time more than 2,000,000 bushels have been shipped from Mobile alone. The Mexican government had temporarily remitted the customs duty upon corn importations and had made provisions for the sale of the grain at a very cheap price. That was shrewdness.—New York Sun.

THE NEW YORK PAPERS

Will Not Reach Cortland Till the 4:43 Train on the D., L. & W. R. R.

   The postmaster has received a notification that hereafter the New York papers will be sent to Cortland so as to arrive at 4:43 P. M. on the D., L. & W. R. R., and the carriers have all provided themselves with lanterns so as to be able to read the addresses on mail and will make their afternoon delivery after that time. A good half hour must be allowed for the transportation of the mail from the station to the office and for its distribution to the several carriers and arrangement for delivery, so that it will easily be 5:15 P. M. before the carriers can possibly start out.

   The reason for this change has not been stated and is not known. The local

postoffice officials have been trying to induce the department to send the papers to Cortland over the Lehigh Valley road so that they might arrive at 3:18 P. M., and all of the papers were sent so one day and part of them several times. The Lehigh Valley road is doubtless entirely willing and glad to carry the papers. It is stated that a change has been made in the New York leaving time of one train on that road so that it could carry the papers and that this train does carry the papers on all divisions of the road except this one.

   The arrangement and disposition of the mails is of course made by the postoffice department, and not by the local officials or by the railroads. We are of course not acquainted with all the facts in the case and do not know why the present arrangement, which is announced as permanent, has been made, but it seems strange that such trains and such roads should not be used as will rush the mails with greatest speed and celerity to their destination and accommodate the greatest number of people. The fact that the papers have come through all right one time on the Lehigh is conclusive proof that it can lie done if desired. As it is, the papers will arrive nearly an hour and a half later and the carriers will have the privilege of making a delivery trip wholly after dark.

Italo Camanini.

Campanini Is Dead.

   Italo Campanini, the well-known tenor singer, who appeared at Mahan's Music festival in Cortland in 1892, died at his birthplace and home in Parma, Italy, on Monday. He was born in 1846. He first appeared in America in 1873, with Christine Nilsson in New York. He returned to America in the season of 1879-80.

   Besides being the greatest tenor living at that time, he was remarkable for the immense scope of his repertory, which included nearly eighty operas, the tenor roles of which he could sing at a few hours' notice.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Don't Wait, page 6; G. J. Mager & Co., Dry Goods, page 6; F. Daehler, Red Ties, page 5.

   —The funeral of Mr. Bruce S. Aldrich who died yesterday will be held at his late home 432 S. Salina-st., Syracuse Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   —The funeral of Mrs. Hattie Seaman will be held from her late residence, 9 Winter-st., to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock and the remains will be taken to DeRuyter for interment.

   —Mr. Thomas McMahon and Miss Mary McAuliffe were married at St. Mary's church at 12 o'clock M. to-day by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin. They left on the 12:27 train over the Lehigh Valley for a short wedding trip.

   —A Cornell sophomore attempted to haze a freshman by forcing him to drink a concoction composed of milk, kerosene, cod-liver oil, castor oil and other substances. The faculty learned of it and the sophomore has been expelled. The university authorities are resolved at all hazards to break up once and forever the practice of hazing among the students.

   —Fresh eggs have become scarce and the price has taken a sudden jump. One advertiser of The STANDARD now offers 28 cents per dozen for brown eggs and 30 cents per dozen for white eggs. And yet people say and claim to believe that it does not pay to keep hens. With proper feeding and care they may be induced to lay just as well in this season of the year as in any other.