WYLER LOSING FAVOR IN SPAIN

Capt. Gen. Valeriano Weyler.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, December 16, 1896.

WEYLER LOSING FAVOR.

Displeasure Is Plainly Visible In Spain.

HIS EARLY RECALL EXPECTED.

Indications That General Marin Will Succeed Him as Captain General of Cuba—Latest News Prom Havana—Gossip of the War.

   MADRID, Dec. 10.—According to surface indications Captain General Wyler will shortly be relieved of all command in Cuba.

   The discontent with Weyler is noticeable even in the government organs. They say that instead of going to Havana to receive an unmerited ovation, he ought to have continued the military operations in the province of Pinar del Rio.

   A bad impression has also been created here by the dispatches of the Spanish correspondents at Havana announcing that General Weyler has suppressed all dispatches referring to the ovations in Spain in honor of Major Cirujeda. It is supposed that the captain general's action was due to jealousy, and it is currently reported that the government is disposed to replace Weyler by General Marin, now governor of Porto Rico.

   It is understood that the retrial of the case of Julio Sanguilly, sent back on appeal from the supreme court of Madrid, will not occur until Jan. 8.

   Captain Goneral Weyler has published a decree regarding the circumstances of Antonio Maceo's death, which fully confirms the reports heretofore sent from here. This decree says that Maceo's body is buried near Bejucal, between Santiago de las Vegas and Rincon in Havana province.

   The Spanish Transatlantic liner Alfonso Doce has arrived here with 1,246 recruits, being the last installment of the 25,000 reinforcements dispatched from Spain in the last three weeks.

   The fortifications of the town of Guanabacoa, just across the bay from Havana, upon which attacks have been made several times recently by raiding parties of insurgents, are being actively pushed.

   The name of Obispo street, the principal street in Havana, has been changed to Weyler, out of compliment to the captain general.

FIGHTING WEST OF THE TROCHA.

Rivera, Maceo's Successor, Takes the Field Against Weyler.

   CINCINNATI, Dec. 16.—A special from Key West says:

   Fighting is reported west of the trocha, in Pinar del Rio section, where the insurgents, under Maceo's successor, General Ruis Rivera, has taken the field against the Spanish forces left there by General Weyler. No details have been received yet, but 50 wounded soldiers came in from the neighborhood of Artomisa.

   It is stated in Havana that General Weyler has called in some of the troops now stationed outside of the city, fearing an attack by General Gomez, who is reported as coming eastward with a large force, well armed and provisioned.

   The insurgents have already occupied several small towns held by Spanish troops in the eastern part of the province of Havana and have had hardly any defeats.

   Two train loads of provisions and arms were captured by the insurgents on the Matanzas road Saturday or Sunday with slight loss.

   It is reported that an expedition from Honduras landed on the south side of the island Saturday with large supplies of ammunition and arms, and that the cargo was safely delivered into the possession of General Rivera.

Cubans Issue an Address.

   NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The New York council of revolutionary clubs, represented by Juan Fraza, president, has issued a lengthy address to the American people. In this address regrets are expressed because of the death of Maceo; the Spanish government is denounced and the insurgents are urged to carry forward the war.

Samuel Gompers.

Big Cuban Demonstration.

   NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Three thousand members of the organization known as the American Friends of Cuba, of which Franz Mayer, a veteran of the 10-years war, is the president, will march in a body next Monday evening to Cooper Union and participate in the demonstration to be held there in sympathy with the Cuban patriots.

   District Assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor, has announced a willingness to take part in the parade. Mr. Mayer has received word from President Gompers stating that a resolution on Cuba will be presented at the American Federation of Labor convention now in session in Cincinnati.

THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.

The Natives Fear the Japanese Who Are Overrunning the Island.

   SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.—A special to The Examiner from San Diego, Cal., says: Mr. Cooper, the Hawaiian minister of foreign affairs, who formerly lived in this city, is here. One of his most intimate friends said to-day: Mr. Cooper told me he came to the United States to urge annexation on account of fears that the Hawaiian government has of Japan.

   The situation is just this: In Hawaii, according to General Cooper, the Japanese far outnumber all other foreigners. The Americans are a handful in comparison. Hawaii has a treaty with Japan and cannot exclude the Japanese, who are pouring into the island steadily and pushing into every business. They are losing the humble demeanor that characterizes their countrymen on this coast and through their great numbers and the prestige of the Japanese-Chinese war are beginning to chafe for the elective franchise. If they force Hawaii to give them the right to vote, then American ascendancy will be at an end forever. Gen. Cooper informed me that he has laid the situation before influential men in the East and has so won upon their judgment that he believes great strides will be made during the next year toward annexation under the McKinley administration.

DIDN'T PAY TAXES.

Churches Sold to Pay the Cost of Public Sewers.

   ISHPENING, Mich., Dec. 16.—Grace Episcopal church, Calvary Baptist church and the First Methodist and Presbyterian churches have been sold for non-payment of taxes and twenty other churches here are in danger of a similar sale. Church circles are greatly agitated over the matter, the trustees claiming they had no notice of the delinquency, as the taxes were for special sewer improvements.

S. S. Knox.

COURT PROCEEDINGS.

A Jury Was Out All Night and Then Disagreed.

   The trial of the case in [Cortland] county court of Maria Mallery, respondent, vs. Henry Smith, appellant, which began Monday morning, was continued all through the day Tuesday, until 4 o'clock that afternoon when it was given to the jury. It was an action to recover $82 claimed for services as a nurse. The jury was out all night and finally disagreed. E. W. Hyatt for plaintiff, Fred Hatch for defendant.

   In the matter of the indictment found by the last grand jury against Joseph H. May of Harford Mills for alleged violation of the Raines law in selling cider,  a demurrer to the indictment was put in by Attorney John Courtney, Jr., and the demurrer was sustained, but the district attorney was authorized to present the case to the next grand jury.

   The demurrer to the indictment against John Bailey and Frank Burke, proprietors of the hotel at Harford Mills, for the same offense, was overruled. Attorney Courtney argued that selling cider was not within the prohibitive clause of the Raines law. These cases, however, were put over until the next term of the county court.

   Judge S. S. Knox was appointed a commissioner in lunacy with a jury to inquire into the sanity of Isaac Samson of DeRuyter.

   Court then adjourned sine die, all the matter before it having been disposed of.

Funeral of Miss McMahon.

   The funeral of Miss Katherine McMahon was held from her late home, 13 Monroe Heights, at 10 o'clock this morning and from St. Mary's church at 10:30. A solemn requiem high mass was celebrated, Rev. John McMahon, brother of the deceased, acting as celebrant, Rev. John McGrath as deacon, Rev. C. V. McGuire as sub-deacon and Rev. A. M. O'Neil as master of ceremonies.

   Rev. J. J. McLoghlin spoke in the highest terms of the exemplary life led by Miss McMahon and of the high esteem in which she was held. This was plainly shown by the unusually large number present at her funeral. The bearers were Messrs. T. H. Dowd, J. Conway, T. McCarthy, Walter A. Burn, Wm. Hartnett and Thos. Murphy. The floral offerings were many and beautiful.

   Among those present from out of town were Revs. John Maley and Wm. Mulherin, Auburn; Rev. A. M. O'Neil, Phelps; Revs. A. J. Evans and John Kelley, Ithaca; Rev. John McGrath, Moravia; Rev: C. V. McGuire, Marathon; Mr. and Mrs. John O'Herin, Frank O'Herin, Miss Annie O'Herin and Mr. and Mrs. James McMahon, Syracuse; Miss Anna Keefe, Miss Lizzie Seymour, Mrs. A. Costello, Thomas Murphy and Walter A. Burn of Auburn. There were also a large number present from Moravia and from Groton, where Rev. John McMahon is pastor.

Ordered Out of Town.

   Two tramps applied at the [Cortland] police station last night for lodging. This morning they gave their names as Frederick and Andrew Shaley, brothers, aged respectively 26 and 23 years. They said they were from Candor and were on their way to Hudson, where they hoped to get work cutting ice on the Hudson river. They were given one hour in which to get out of town.

"Mama and I use the Bissell."

BREVITIES.

   —Daniels' orchestra played at DeRuyter last night.

   —Regular meeting of Grover Post, No. 98, G. A. R. to-night,

   —Mr. A. Mahan shipped a style 16 Haines Brothers mahogany piano to Whiting, Ia., to-day.

   —The Santa Claus representation in Whiteson's window is attracting considerable attention.

   —The annual meeting and election of officers of the Cortland fire department occurs at Fireman's hall to-night at 8 o'clock.

   —The Gillette Skirt Co. was obliged to run its machines all through the evening last night in order to keep up with the orders that are fast accumulating.

   —The private dancing party given by the Eureka Dancing club to be held Friday night will be given in Taylor hall instead of in Empire hall as previously reported.

   —W. D. Waters, a truckman, left his horse standing at the Sager corner this morning, and in some way the horse became entangled in the harness and fell

to the ground, but no damage was done beyond the breaking of a few straps.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Maxson & Starin, Scranton Coal, page 6; A. Loisette, Memory, page 3; F. D. Smith, Quaker Bread Pan, page 4; C. F. Brown, Christmas Gifts, page 6; McKinney & Doubleday, Fine Art Goods, page 6.

   —Mrs. J. M. Wieting of Syracuse, sister of Mrs. James Fairchild of Cortland, has provided an independent scholarship in Syracuse university which will bear an income of $300 a year for five years. Chancellor Day has made a fitting acknowledgment of the gift.

   —Farmers in this vicinity, who have been selling their potatoes this year at

less than twenty cents per bushel would doubtless like to get some of them to Cuba, for at Havana potatoes bring $5 per bushel. American flour is also selling there for $11 in gold per barrel.

   —The funeral of the late Josiah Stephens, who died yesterday in Albany, will be held to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock at the home of his sister, Miss Editha Stephens, the residence of Mrs. L. K. Shankland, 36 Tompkins-st., and will be private. Mr. Stephens was 59 years of age instead of 49 years as erroneously stated yesterday.