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| Antonio Canovas del Castillo. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1897.
AN ACT OF VENGEANCE.
Canovas'
Death Avenges Barcelona Anarchists.
GOLLI IS
AN OLD OFFENDER.
Senor
Sagasta Says Canovas' Death Should Not Affect the Conservatives—Funeral Will
Take Place Thursday—Havana Excited Upon Receipt of the Information.
MADRID, Aug. 10.—Golli has confessed that he
killed Senor Canovas to avenge the Barcelona anarchists and the insurgent leader, Don Jose Rizal, who was executed at Manila, Philippine islands, on Dec. 30
last, as the instigator of the Philippine rebellion. Dr. Rizal denied that he was
a rebel leader, but he admitted that he had drawn upon the statutes of the Philippine
league.
In Golli's room the police found a large
double-barreled pistol. It appears that when he left the house he carried a
parcel, which is believed to have contained a bomb. The theory is that he hid
this somewhere in the fields.
A dispatch from Barcelona says that Golli arrived
there in December of 1895, coming from Marseilles. He was employed in the
printing office of The Review Ciencia Social, managed by the Anarchist
engineer, Tarrida Marmel, formerly imprisoned in Mont Juich fortress at
Barcelona.
Golli was implicated in the terrible crime
of the celebration of Corpus Christi, although he left Barcelona a few days
before it occurred.
He was denounced to the police for
complicity, but he had already disappeared.
It is thought in some quarters that the late
premier reposed too much confidence in the chief of the secret police, who
accompanied him to Santa Aguera, and who has since been dismissed.
The prisoner cannot be tried under the laws
providing for the trial and punishment of anarchists, as this law is so framed
that a person prosecuted under its provisions must have used, or attempted to
use, explosives in the commission of, or attempt to commit the crime charged against
him. However, there is no doubt Golli will be summarily tried and sentenced.
In the course of an interview Senator
Sagaste, the liberal leader said:
"The country's politics must not depend
upon an assassin. The Conservatives ought to remain in power under the guidance
of men like Marshal Campos, Senor Pical and Senor Elduayen. Nevertheless, if
the queen regent appeals to the Liberals, they are ready to respond."
The funeral of Senor Canovas will take place
probably on Thursday, meanwhile the
remains will lie here in state.
The Spanish newspapers without regard to
differences of political opinion express their horror and indignation at the
crime and their satisfaction that the assassin is not a Spaniard.
It is probable that the law for the
repression of anarchism which has hitherto been enforced only in Barcelona and
Madrid will be extended to the whole country.
There is a great deal of speculation as to
the effect of the loss of Canovas upon the Conservative party. General Azcarraga
has acquired great popularity and prestige through his skill in organizing the country's resources for the Cuban
and Philippine campaigns, and he may be able to keep the party together. But
many good judges take a gloomy view of the situation and lament the absence of
civil statesmen of the calibre of Canovas.
EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.
Two
Occur at Ithaca In a Single Day.
W. MEACHEN
STABS HIMSELF.
Found
Lying In a Pool of His Own Blood With Knife Protruding From the Wound
—Nicholas
Rundle Took the Strychnine Air Line.
ITHACA, N. Y., Aug. 2.—William Meachen died
at Slaterville Springs, this county, the result of wounds inflicted with intent
to commit suicide. The deceased was 71 years of age. He lived with a daughter,
Mrs. William Benjamin. He was found back of a barn on the premises, reclining
in a pool of blood with his throat cut and a deep wound in his abdomen from
which a knife protruded.
He was alive and conscious when found, and
said that he was tired of living. Death was caused by the abdominal wound.
Nicholas C. Rundle, proprietor of a small
hotel in this city, also committed suicide by taking strychnine. He had been an
inmate of the Willard asylum, and had previously attempted to take his own
life.
He procured the strychnine from a local
druggist under the plea that he wished to use it in killing rats. He left the
following note:
"No one is to blame for my rash act. May God
have mercy on you all. Good bye."
N. C. RUNDLE.
The coroner, upon investigating the case,
decided an inquest to be unnecessary.
BUSINESS
MAN'S SUICIDE.
Charles
S. Newburger Inhaled Gas Through a Rubber Tube.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Charles S. Newburger,
aged 50, of the lace manufacturing firm of Enden, Gerette & Co., committed
suicide by inhaling gas through a rubber tube.
He was well to do and no cause in assigned.
Mrs. Newburger and daughter are at Sharon
Springs, N. Y.
Suicide
by the Gas Line.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug. 10.—Eugene A.
Robinson, a despondent contractor of this city, killed himself by locking
himself in a room and turning on the gas.
WHIPPED
BY WHITECAPS.
Members
of Three Families Beaten and Ordered to Go Away.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 10.—The residents of
McKee, Jackson county, are greatly alarmed at the recent outbreak of the whitecaps. The present band takes its neighborhood gossip for proof of guilt, and
deals unmercifully with its victims. Some 10 persons were whipped during the last
week, and a general raid was made, during which three families living on Horselick
creek in the north edge of the county were the victims.
Going to the home of George Abrahams, the
men, who wore masks over their faces, took from their beds Abrahams, his wife, and
his niece.
They were led out in their nightclothes and
when taken into the woods the garments were removed and they were bound fast to
saplings with their backs exposed. They were whipped with hickory withes until
their blood came. Then they were released and warned to leave the county.
The family of Doc Miller was next visited and
Miller and his wife were whipped. William Collin's home was visited next and he
and his wife were beaten. It was charged that the three men and their wives had
persuaded Abraham's niece to leave her home and associate with disreputable persons.
The whitecap band consists of about 20 men,
and as the result of its work several families have moved from the county.
THE
ONONDAGA PAGANS.
Mrs.
Converse Exhorts the Indians to Be True to Their Old Religion.
The missionaries who have founded churches
and are trying to convert to
Christianity
the few hundred Indians that remain on the Onondaga reservation in New York
state, find themselves handicapped by the teachings of Mrs. Harriet Converse of
New York, who visits the red men occasionally in her capacity of the great
lawmaker and undoes all the work that the Christians have accomplished. The
reservation is just now stirred by a pagan revival.
Mrs. Convene visited the Indians the other
day and called a council at the cabin of Chief Daniel La Forte. She soon had the
pagan remnant of the nation about her and began her harangue. Dwindling in
numbers and detracted by the inroads of Christianity, the faithful few who still
worship the gods of nature are at their wits' ends to preserve the traditions
of their religion. Mrs. Converse knows the history of their religious worship
and makes periodical visits to help the poor pagans preserve their sacerdotal
worship. She was eagerly listened to as she exhorted the braves not to give up
their ancestral rites and ceremonies and to stand firm against the wiles of the
white faced missionaries.
Before she had done speaking a wild shout of
approval went up from the council, and a pact was entered into by which the
braves covenanted to stand by each other to preserve their ancient religion. It
was decided to ratify the oath by especial rites at the coming green corn
dance, which will be held early in September. It is intended to renew the
ceremony next January of burning the white dog, one of the most important of
the Onondaga rites. It is a sacrifice to the Great Spirit, whose wrath it is
hoped to appease. The dog was a most valuable animal in early days with the
Indian, and the sacrifice was therefore considered correspondingly great. The
white is not, as generally supposed, a mark of enmity toward the white man but
typifies purity.—New York Sun.
MILITARY
HONORS
To be
Accorded the Late Spanish Premier in Burial.
MADRID, Aug. 10. — The queen regent has
decreed that the military honors observed in the case of a funeral of a marshal
shall be accorded the remains of the late premier of Spain, Senor Conovas de
Castillo. Funeral services will take place simultaneously in all the churches
throughout the country and the official mourning will last three days. The
queen regent is greatly affected by the tragedy and is still confined to her
room.
IN AND
ABOUT BOSTON.
Dr.
Houghton Mentions Some of the Vacation Attractions of "The Hub."
To the Editor of the STANDARD:
SIR—I have been told that Oliver Wendell
Holmes looking one day upon the gilded dome of the state capitol building at
Boston called it the "Hub of the Universe," and from thence Boston
itself came to be called "The Hub." The universal recognition of the
fitness of the name accounts for its perpetuation. As every spoke of the wheel
centers in the hub, so every avenue of letters in this country leads back to
Boston. It is almost safe to assume with reference to any American author of
any repute whose birthplace or residence is unknown to you that he or she was
born or lived in Boston or its immediate vicinity. Such are the literary and
scholastic advantages, and so charged is the social life with the very
atmosphere of culture as to give rise to the remark that one born in Boston
needs not to be "born again."
Alas! This may be the serious defect of
Boston theology. It is marvelous what a list of scholars, poets and writers of every
kind and in every department of letters could be gathered who once lived in
Boston, to say nothing of musicians, actors, orators, agitators and reformers.
The homes they once owned or the houses they once occupied are pointed out with
pride, and their graves are the goal of many a modern pilgrimage.
Boston is also called the "Modern
Athens," and she has almost as many gods as ancient Athens. She is the
home of every religion and every heresy known to the western hemisphere.
Greater Boston includes the cities of her immediate vicinity, and so Cambridge
with Harvard college, the most justly renowned university in America.
Cambridge is the cleanest city in this land.
For many years no saloon has disgraced or polluted this municipality. The
prohibition of the liquor traffic is the fixed policy of the city, so fixed is
it in the hearts of the people that no politician dare hint even at a possible
return to the old license system. The multiplied and noble buildings of Harvard
university, the clean, broad streets, spacious lawns, elegant houses, parks,
monuments and churches distinguish it as one of the most elegant and desirable
residential cities in America.
But the special attraction and pride of
Greater Boston in this mid-summer season is her parks and drives. No city in
the world can boast such suburban elegance and loveliness. Greater Boston has
undoubtedly the finest park system in the world. This system includes 14,000
acres upon which already has been expended twenty millions of dollars ($20,000,000).
From Middleux Fells and the woods of Lynn on the north it extends to the Blue
hills on the south, the latter reservation of 3,953 acres is said to be the
largest recreation ground owned by any American city. Included in this system
is the Arnold Arboretum which is the only arboretum in the world not maintained
as an adjunct of some botanical institution. The finest group of oaks in this
country is on the Beaver brook reservation. The greater part of the work of
this extensive park system has been accomplished in the past ten years, during
which time many a noisome flat or marsh, breeding pestiferous insects, has been
transformed into a lawn or garden of beauty.
Many of these large reservations contain
wild and romantic regions through which smooth roads have been constructed
making them the very paradise of the bicyclist. These most beautiful roads
encircle pools, fountains, ponds and lakelets of pure water as well as verdant
fields and flower-decked lawns, while pavilions and rustic-seated nooks, and
wayside booths, dispensing soft drinks and light lunches, invite frequent rest
and refreshment. It is quite wonderful what a large trade in the latter line
has been created by the bicycle. Surely the coming generations of Greater
Boston will have good reason to bless the memory of their fathers for their
far-sighted wisdom and magnificent generosity in anticipating their comfort and
providing for it in advance.
Many of the trees on these parks are truly
remarkable for their strength and beauty. Nearly half a century ago one was cut
down that registered by its rings 750 years, and Prof. Agassiz estimated the age
of another still standing at over 1,000 years.
A preliminary park commission was appointed
by the state legislature in 1892. A year later a prominent commission was
established and a million dollars appropriated to further its plans. Additional
appropriations have been made every year. The last legislature appropriated
$2,300,000, making the entire appropriations of the state $6,600,000. So
thoroughly has this beneficent enterprise taken hold of the heart of the public
that none of these appropriations have ever met with any opposition in the state
legislature.
Well managed trolley lines extend in every
direction throughout this vast park system connecting also all the cities and
suburban towns of Greater Boston. Every railroad also running into Boston has
numerous suburban stations and it is marvelous what a ride one can take for a
nickel. Add to this the fact that all the points of interest and all of the
many summer resorts on Boston bay are easily reached by steamboat also, of
which there are many commodious and elegant boats, running almost every hour of
the day and one can see that Boston's facilities for pleasure and recreative
rest are unequalled.
There is no point on this continent where
one is within such short and easy reach of so many points of historical interest
as here. The public spirited people have taken pains to preserve these landmarks,
and monuments and tablets and artistic memorials of every description meet one
on every hand. Volumes could be written about Boston, and why should I attempt
to write it up in one short letter. I have but cast one pebble into the sea.
O. A. HOUGHTON.
Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 7, 1897.
A Piano
Department.
Miss Martha P. McGraw will be principal of a
piano department in the Cortland Conservatory of Music the coming year, making
a specialty of the new synthetic method of instruction. Miss McGraw is well
known as one of our best pianists and instructors.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F.
Brown, Cameras, page 4; Kellogg & Curtis, Special Sale, page 6.
—At a meeting of the directors of the
Tioughnioga club held last night Dr. F. W.
Higgins, Seymour S. Jones and Frank W. Smith were elected to membership of the
club.
—Robert H. Clark, the young man who has been
in jail some time on the charge of skipping a board bill at the hotel of W. F.
Rogers at McGrawville, pleaded guilty to the charge before Justice Dowd this
morning, and received a sentence of three days in jail.
—Teachers examinations for first, second and
third grade certificates and for admission to the Normal will be held at the
Normal building in Cortland for the First commissioner district of this county and
at the academy in Homer for the Second commissioner district Thursday and
Friday of this week.
—One of the happiest men in town is Mr. R.
Mills. As his business has increased of late he has been on the lookout for
extra help. There was a new arrival in town this morning and Mr. Mills secured
his services at once. He is passing around the cigars while he takes time to
consider in which department to put his new assistant. As he only weighs 9 pounds
Mr. Mills thinks it best to keep him at his home until he gets a little heavier.
—Mrs. H. B. Darling of 5 Argyle Place has
received from her cousin. Edward Knight of Leicestershire, England, a copy of
''the golden extra" of the London Daily Mail issued on June 23 to
commemorate the queen's diamond jubilee. It is a very handsome eight-page sheet
printed on heavy super-calendar paper in bronze ink making a gold effect. One
feature is a tall page illustration of the grand procession made from a sketch
by one of The Mail's artists who by special permission was stationed in the
hall of St. Paul's cathedral. The effect of the whole sheet is highly unique.
