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| P. Mateo Sagasta. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 17, 1898.
RUPTURE WITH SPAIN.
Peace Negotiations May Be Broken Off.
SAGASTA RISKS ANOTHER WAR.
American Commissioners Refuse to Consider Outside Subjects and Those Opposed to the Protocol—Spain Authorizes Her Commissioners to Quit Unless Successful.
PARIS, Oct. 17.—It is now learned that the last meeting of the peace commissioners was anything else than a harmonious one and an open rupture in the peace negotiations is now almost a certainty. When the American commissioners declined to talk about the Cuban debt, on the ground that the United States would not consider any question not included in the strict terms of the protocol, Montojo Rios demanded to know whether Spain was to surrender her sovereignty in Cuba to the United States or to the Cuban republic. Chairman Day replied that he could not discuss the point, as Spain had agreed in the protocol to relinquish her sovereignty in the island unconditionally.
Rios twisted and turned in his arguments. He declared that the United States must at least assume the debt of Porto Rico, and declared that the financial administration of Porto Rico was a separate thing from the Cuban treasury and had always been so treated by the Spanish colonial department.
The American commissioners refused to be drawn out. They said that Spain must get out of Cuba. The protocol said so, and the protocol said nothing else. The Spaniards then gave up the situation in despair.
The American commissioners, by a rigid interpretation of the protocol and by their persistent refusal to admit the discussion of outside points, have completely disconcerted Sagasta's plans and caused such bitter disappointment that those in position to know the facts no longer hesitate to say that, in apparent disregard of the possible grave consequences of such a step, instructions have been sent to the Spanish commissioners authorizing them to withdraw from the conference and return to Madrid if they find that upon the disputed points their role is limited to acceding without argument to the American demands.
It is even predicted that the Spanish commissioners are likely to take advantage of the authorization sooner than was expected and, with their task unfinished, they will be back in Madrid within 10 days.
It may be distinctly said that with such light as it now has, the United States commission will consistently and to the end refuse to assume all or any part of the Cuban debt. In the absence of reasoning more cogent than any yet advanced, the United States commission will, if it has not already done so, declare that the Cuban debt represents treasure chiefly spent by Spain in suppressing insurrection and possibly in warring on the United States. If they had not already been so informed, the Spaniards will be assured that the United States has expended enormous sums, not to acquire Cuba, but to free it from disastrous conditions for self-government, which presupposes the self- assumption of just obligation. The Spaniards will, if indeed it has not already been done, have pressed upon them the fact that by the signature of the protocol they utterly relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
If they have not yet heard it, the Spaniards will hear the expressions of American surprise that Spain, having so unconditionally and unequivocally surrendered Cuba, should now advance a claim or even a suggestion that the United States assume the debt of a territory which, though surrendered by Spain, was unsought by the United States as a conquest prize, is not now a possession of the United States and which has been freed by the United States, at a vast expense to the United States for independence now or when matured for self-government. Thus, possibly progress has been achieved negatively, for with the present light the Americans decline or will refuse the responsibility of a single peseta of the so-called Cuban debt.
A native American who has been 12 years in Madrid, has a Spanish learning and who is now in Paris, said: "Had Spain, when the protocol was drawn up, believed that the United States then intended or would subsequently consider taking the Philippine group, or any part of those islands except Manila, or a station to be conceded by her, Spain would not have signed the protocol, would have permitted the United States navy to reduce her coast cities and would herself have gone to extremities instead of agreeing to the document and giving up the archipelago."
"How then," he was asked, "arises the statement often heard and printed that the Spanish commission came to Paris to save, if possible, the Philippines?"
"Because," was the reply, "the reputed purpose of the United States to acquire the Philippine Islands developed after the protocol was signed and before the departure of the commission from Madrid."
This outlined the multiplying expressions of apparent surprise at the alleged sentiment in the United States to retain more than a coaling station in the Philippine islands, or at most Manila and the island of Luzon.
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| General Calixto Garcia. |
NOT WORKING FOR MONEY.
General Garcia Contradicts Statements Made in Newspapers.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, Oct. 17.—General Calixto Garcia desires to contradict the statement made by several newspapers that he is receiving pay from the United States government for his assistance in disbanding the Cuban troops. He declares that he is a patriot and is not in need of money.
General Garcia had a long interview with General Wood, requesting transportation to Santa Cruz del Sur. He told General Wood it was important for him to be there "in order to frustrate the plot to overthrow the supremacy of those who had fought for Cuba for three years and to put in their places non-combatants and immigrants." General Wood agreed to provide him with transportation by the Bessie on her next trip to Manzanillo.
General Wood has received orders from Washington to secure information as to such places in the province of Santiago as the Spaniards are evacuating and to send troops there immediately, as well as to take over the civil government. He is still awaiting news from Holguin before sending the second immune regiment there.
The ice plant presented to Santiago some time ago by citizens of New York is nearly ready for use. It has a capacity of seven tons daily and an annex for refrigerating meat.
Five American negro teamsters got into an altercation with three policemen with the result that one teamster was killed. Some time afterward the other teamsters attacked a policeman whom they disarmed and beat severely. The four are now under arrest. Owing to possible disturbances the military guards were quadrupled and all saloons were ordered closed.
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| Col. Theodore Roosevelt. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Get Out a Full Vote.
There is an old saying to the effect that "a full vote means a Republican victory." It has been proved true in a great many campaigns. The converse that a light vote means Republican defeat, may not always be true, but it is so nearly so that it may be assumed as a general rule. There is special need of a full vote this year, and want of it is the only thing that threatens Colonel Roosevelt's success. Some of our Republican friends in the rural districts do not seem to be awake to the fact that issues of great importance, both state and national, hang upon this year's election, and that they must hustle if they are to succeed. It will be a great shame to have Mr. Van Wyck elected governor instead of Colonel Roosevelt, and feel that a little more work in some of the country towns would have prevented it. It will be a subject for deep mortification to have Mr. Murphy sent back to misrepresent this state in the senate because one or two assemblymen have been lost for lack of a few votes. The whole nation will be injured if the house of representatives is found to be Democratic, because in some of the districts in the state of New York the Republicans were too careless or too lazy to get all their votes into the ballot box. If such a thing should happen it will be too late after election to mourn over it, and the only way to prevent it is to get to work now.
This ought to be a Republican year. All the signs point to it; all the necessities demand it; the people of the country are waiting for it. Whether it shall be or not depends more upon what is done in New York state within the next three weeks than upon any other one thing. Do the Republicans of the state understand this and are they aroused to its full import? We do not know just what New York City will do. All sorts and factions of Republicans are united there in favor of Roosevelt, but Tammany Hall is in the saddle and does not mean to lose a single point. The election will be decided up along the St. Lawrence, over in Chautauqua and along the southern tier. The farmers are the ones who will settle it. If all Republicans vote the victory will be worthy to follow that of 1896. If they do not it will be a very small one, and it may not be a Republican year at all.
◘ According to the Jewish Year Book, there are only about 11,000,000 of the race in this wide world of ours, half of whom still live in Russia. When we consider the astonishingly large number of those out of Russia and countries where the Hebrew is persecuted who are highly prosperous, we find such a ratio of general success in material affairs such as no other people can rival.
BASE BALL UNPOPULAR.
Most of the Clubs In the National League Lost Money.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The National League baseball season has closed and Boston again won the pennant. The majority of the managers of the teams have nothing but tales of woe to tell. There are these notable exceptions—Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati. These are away ahead financially, but the presidents refuse to state the exact amount of their profits. The rest of the clubs say that the war almost ruined them.
One of the heaviest losers is New York. Neither President Freedman nor Treasurer McCall will discuss the disastrous showing made by the Giants, but a man who is pretty close to both of them stated that the losses will amount to not less than $40,000. The attendance at the Polo grounds was the smallest by far ever known in New York and the management claims that the war had much to do with it. Brooklyn has not such an expensive team as Manhattan, but its losses are almost as great. Visiting teams invariably fared badly there.
MR. COOK WITHDRAWS.
Decision Was Reached at 4:30 o'clock This Afternoon—Smith is Substituted.
A meeting of the Democratic county committee was held this afternoon and at 4:30 o'clock it was announced that Mr. Walter A. Cook had decided to withdraw from his candidacy for member of assembly, the papers had been signed and filed at the [Cortland] county clerk's office, and that R. Bruce Smith's name had been put on the ticket in his place to fill the vacancy.
NEW POLLING PLACE
For District No. 4 will be in Hitchcock Building on Elm-st.
The town board of Cortlandville held a special meeting at the office of Supervisor D. F. Wallace this morning, and decided upon the new polling place for Dist. No. 4, made necessary by the fire at Bennett & Horton's shop Sunday morning.
The new place selected is in the shop owned by Keator, Wells & Co. on the south side of Elm-st., just west of the D., L. & W. tracks, in the quarters formerly occupied by Larabie's meat market. Town Clerk Pudney was authorized to fully equip the new polling place with booths, etc.
EARLY MORNING FIRE.
Bennett & Horton's Carriage Shop Was Burned Sunday.
The large wooden building at 22 Clinton-ave., erected ten years ago by J. L. Watrous and formerly occupied by him as a livery stable, but for the last year leased to Bennett & Horton as a carriage manufactory and repair shop, was almost totally destroyed by fire shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday morning.
Officer J. H. Corcoran was among the first to discover the flames issuing from the roof at the rear end of the building, and hastening to the enginehouse rang the bell, calling out the department. But the fire had gained such headway that all the efforts of the firemen could not save the building, which was gutted. A portion of the walls remains standing.
What wagons were in the building were saved, but Bennett & Horton had on hand a large amount of stock, which with the machinery constitutes a loss to them of $1,500. The firm carried an insurance of $1,000, half of which was placed in the Westchester company with Theodore Stevenson, and the rest with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes in the Baltimore company.
Mr. Watrous had an insurance of $1,000 with Theodore Stevenson in the Westchester company, and says that his loss exceeds this amount. W. H. Woolland conducted a bicycle repair shop on the first floor of the building, and estimates his loss at $500, on which he carried an insurance of $200.
The town board had rented one room on the first floor for election purposes in Dist. No. 4, and the registry board was in session there Friday and Saturday. One copy of the registry list was left there, as the law directs, but there are three other lists. The voting booths were stored on the second floor, and these were burned. The town board will probably have to designate another polling place, and new booths will have to be built.
The origin of the fire remains unexplained, but it undoubtedly started in the vicinity of the furnaces in the rear of the building.
VARIOLA.
MCLEAN EPIDEMIC CAUSED BY A MILD TYPE OF SMALLPOX.
Opinion of the Representative of the State Board of Health and Ithaca Physicians—Many People Have Been Exposed to the Disease.
(From the Ithaca Journal, Saturday.)
The epidemic at McLean proves to be, as suspected by Ithaca physicians, a mild form of smallpox. Dr. E. J. Morgan, health officer of Ithaca, and Dr. Hitchcock, a member of the health board, as stated in yesterday's Journal, went to McLean, expecting to meet the representative of the state board of health. The expert was late in arriving, however, and the Ithaca representatives decided to inspect a number of suspects without him. They stated to the local doctors that they came to McLean in the interests of the people of Ithaca.
They were courteously received and permitted to see a number of the patients. Dr. Morgan upon a first glance was thoroughly satisfied that the ailment was smallpox. The first patient was a lady who has been ill for six weeks. She has a sister who has had the same illness who was partially recovered and who is now teaching school. The doctors then saw a mother and child, both confined to bed and covered with the smallpox pustules. Impetigo contagiosa, which the local doctors pronounced the disease to be, is a skin disease but is confined mostly to children and consists of a slight breaking out on the face and arms, and generally disappears in a few days, leaving no marks. In the cases examined the doctors found the genuine smallpox marks. They deemed it unnecessary to examine any further suspects and gave their opinion to the local doctors that it was genuine smallpox of a mild form.
It appears that there have been all told about twenty-five cases of the disease, and with the exposure to which hundreds of people have been subjected, the number may run up still further. There have been many gatherings in McLean during the last two months and quite a number of people have undoubtedly been exposed.
One of the patients recently attended a small convention with the disease in full bloom. A number of the patients have recovered and at the present time there are, as near as can be learned, fourteen people sick. Upon returning to Ithaca Dr. Morgan received the following dispatch from the state board of health smallpox expert:
AUBURN, Oct. 14, '98, Dr. E. J. Morgan, Health Officer, Ithaca N. Y:
Sorry to miss you. Cases are variola. Will write particulars. F. C. CURTIS. M. D.
The following are the reports sent to The STANDARD by two of its special correspondents in that place.
MCLEAN, Oct. 17.—McLean has several mild cases of smallpox or variola. A few weeks ago a number of persons were taken sick and in a few days were completely covered with small sores no larger than a head of a pin. Since then other cases developed and Dr. F. C. Curtis of Albany, a member of the state board of health, arrived in town Friday to investigate. He at once called it variola and several houses are quarantined and steps are taken to prevent the spread of the disease. None of the cases have proved fatal, and the patients seem to be all doing well. The following places are quarantined at present: Homes of J. Fitts, James Corcoran and George Oakley.
MCLEAN, Oct. 17.—A representative of the state board of health was in town on Friday of last week and quarantined the homes of Mr. Corcoran, Mr. Geo. Oakley and Mr. Jerome C. Fitts, on account of a disease thought to be smallpox. There have been fourteen different cases in the vicinity, but no deaths have resulted. Some of the patients are not even confined to the bed.
THREATENED TO SHOOT.
Lady Attacked by a Negro Who Had Accompanied Her Husband Home.
Cries of murder startled and awakened the residents of Woodruff-st. and Maple-ave. between 1 and 2 o'clock Saturday night, and but for the assistance of neighbors, Mrs. Richard Dunlavey of 102 Maple-ave. might have suffered serious injuries at the hands of a burly negro who is engaged on the paving job.
The negro had come home with Mr. Dunlavey who was not feeling well, and after seeing him safely in bed, desired to reach his boarding place at Boston Hardy's on Lincoln-ave. Being a stranger in Cortland, the fellow claimed that he did not know which way to go, and asked Mrs. Dunlavey to show him which direction to take. Mrs. Dunlavey, realizing that the negro had done her husband a kindness, says she thought it to more than right that she should show him the direction and at her husband's suggestion went out on the street and up to Woodruff-st., where she stopped and began to point out to him the way to go to reach his destination. When she stopped, she says the negro grabbed her by the arm, and demanded that she accompany him farther. When she resisted, he said that if she did not go farther he would shoot her. At this she wrenched her arm from his grasp and started for home, pursued by the negro who struck her once or twice on the head, felling her to the ground.
At Mrs. Dunlavey's cries of "murder" the wretch ran away, and the whole neighborhood was awakened. She was somewhat dazed, but succeeded in reaching the residence of A. W. McNett, 20 Woodruff-st., where she was taken inside, and after a few minutes recovered from her fright sufficiently to return home.
Neighbors saw the negro dodge behind a Woodruff-st. house after striking Mrs. Dunlavey down, and after quiet had been resumed, footsteps supposed to be his were heard. It would seem that no blame whatever could be attached to Mrs. Dunlavey for leaving the house with the fellow, for she was simply returning what she believed to be an act of kindness.
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| Main Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
Paving Work Resumed.
Work on the paving job was resumed this morning by the laying of the binder course between Lincoln-ave. and Groton-ave. on the west side of the street. The binder had previously been laid on each side of the street on the north end as far south as Grant-st. This afternoon, this part of the work was being continued from Grant-st. south on the west side. The brick pavers have passed the Cortland House, and have reached Orchard-st. to-day.
Death of Mrs. Dimmick.
Mrs. Jamima Dimmick died on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Woman's Country Home, three miles west of Cortland, after a long and painful illness. Her age was 84 years, 5 months and 20 days. The funeral will be held at the Home Tuesday morning, Oct. 17, at 10 o'clock. All friends are invited. Burial at Sherburne.
BREVITIES.
—Grover post, No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, will meet this (Monday) evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Levi Butler, Stoves and Ranges, page 7.
—Owing to rain, the Normal football team did not play the Century club team at Binghamton Saturday.
—Miss Halbert's regular monthly recital will be held at her studio to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.
—The University Center meets to-night at 8 o'clock at the Normal building, and the leader will be Prof. E. C. Cleaves.
—Maj. McIntyre of Buffalo will conduct the meeting at Salvation Army hall to-night. Lieut. Clinch makes her farewell from Cortland to-night.
—Many Cortland friends of Rev. J. L. Robertson of Galveston, Tex., will be interested in a letter from him that appears in the McGraw column on the eighth page.
—Arthur O'Donnell of Solon who was on trial in Justice Dowd's court Saturday on the charge of cruelty to animals, was discharged at the close of the testimony for the prosecution.
—Mrs. Carrie L. Kelley of Groton-ave. has bought the house of Mr. D. C. Johnson which he recently purchased of Mr. C. Terpenning on Halbert-st. Mrs. Kelley will take possession Nov. 1.
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