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| Mario Garcia Menocal. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, January 12, 1899.
SKELETONS ARE FOUND.
Evidence of Horrible Murders by the Spaniards.
HUNDREDS OF DEAD BODIES.
Thrown In Wells While Yet Alive. Charges Made by a Havana Newspaper—A Civil Government For Havana Has Been Formed. Other Havana News.
HAVANA, Jan. 12.—Senor Perfecto Lacoste, who was president of the Havana Junta Patriotica, will be appointed alcalde, or mayor, of Havana by Major General Ludlow, military governor of the department of Havana. The Cuban General Mario Menocal will be chief of police, and Colonel John Gary Evans of the South Carolina volunteers, former governor of South Carolina, and now one of General Ludlow's staff officers, will be appointed superintendent of the department of corrections embracing the police, the minor courts and the correctional institutions. Ex-Chief McCullagh of New York city will remain here for a time to help carry out the police plan he had devised.
La Discusion describes the finding of 50 human skeletons in a well on a plantation near Manguito. The writer of the story asserts that those people were undoubtedly thrown in while alive. He says that in some cases, the finger bones are severed and the supposition is that this was due to the efforts of the victims to raise themselves out of the pit. The body of Senor Pedro Alayon, a prominent Cuban, who disappeared mysteriously during the insurrection, has been identified; La Discusion accuses the [Spanish] guerilla chief, Antonio Reyes, Sergeant Juan Peres and Vincent Galgo, a schoolmaster, of being the authors of a terrible crime.
La Discusion prints also a story from Matanzas of the finding there of the remains of from 200 to 300 persons in a well near the headquarters of the civil guard.
The United States hospital ship Missouri, Captain Luckhurst, which left Savannah on Jan. 8, has arrived here.
Organizing the Havana Police.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn made public through the division of customs and insular affairs the joint plan recently submitted to General F. V. Greene by Colonel George E. Mouton of the Second Illinois volunteer infantry, and John W. McCullagh, ex-chief of police of New York, for the organization of the Havana police. The territory of the city according to the plan is divided into six districts and the plan contemplates the organization of a police force aggregating 1,000 men.
POWER OF OUR MONEY.
New York Capitalists Are Now Financing All Europe.
LONDON, Jan. 12.—At the semi-annual meeting of the Union Bank of London, Mr. Schuester, the governor, during the course of his report, said the United States had become a most important factor, which must not be overlooked in forecasting the future.
He added that the remarkable activity of trade in the United States after a successful war and prospective new markets, together with abundant harvests had created an unprecedented trade balance in favor of that country, which had already made itself felt on this side and for the first time, he believed, it might be said that it was not Europe which had financed the United States, but New York which had financed Europe.
CONSUMPTIVES' HOSPITAL.
New York State Will Care For All Those Who Are Thus Afflicted.
ALBANY, Jan. 12.—The report of the special committee of the senate to investigate the question of the spread of consumption and the establishment of better sanitary conditions for consumptives and the protection of the public has been presented. Dr. Brush of Brooklyn wrote the report, which is concurred in by Senator Davis of Buffalo.
It finds that consumption is contagious and recommends that the state establish a hospital or hospitals for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis; the same to be located somewhere in the forest preserve in the Adirondack mountains, the site to be selected by the trustees approved by the forest preserve board.
An accompanying bill provides for an appropriation of $200,000, the appointment of a commission to locate a site, the governor to appoint; and the appointment of examining physicians, two in number, in each of the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Syracuse, to examine patients and commit them by certificate. Patients able to pay, or having relatives able, must do so.
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| Admiral George Dewey. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ "I have always considered," says Charles Dewey of Montpelier, brother of the admiral, "that George was a Republican." He entered the navy in 1854, and never since has been at home on Election day. The latest authentic data the family has of the admiral's politics are contained in a newspaper interview thirty years old. In that the Manila hero said: "I am a Republican. I came of old Vermont stock, rooted deep in the soil that faces the rugged tops of the Green mountains, but you know we navy officers are not inclined to discuss partisan questions aboard ship." The Utica Herald makes the above statement and then calls upon Democratic exchanges and platform writers to please copy.
◘ Possible alliances of all kinds are in order. The latest is put forth by Mr. John W. Bookwalter of Ohio, who has been traveling through Russia and inspecting the Trans-Siberian railway. He has published a statement that is of some interest, for he says that a great surprise is in store for the world in Russia, and before many years the world will see England, Russia and China combined for the partition of China. The alliance of these three powers, making two-thirds of the human race, will be such an alliance as history has never yet seen, and it will be one which will give peace to the world for centuries. Mr. Bookwalter says that Russia has done more in three years to give an open door to China than all the rest of the world together and that this open door faces America.
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| Major General Nelson Miles. |
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY.
GEN. MILES ARRAIGNED AT THE INVESTIGATION.
Commissary General Eagan on the Stand Uses Strong Language—Reads from a Written Statement—Calls General Miles a Liar Who Should be Drummed Out of the Service.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Most vigorous and sensational testimony was given before the war investigating commission to-day by Commissary General Eagan, who appeared unexpectedly to meet the allegations against the beef issued during the war. He vigorously arraigned Major General Miles, reading his testimony from a long written statement. He denied numerous statements of General Miles, and charged that the latter's testimony constituted severe reflections on the commanding generals of the several expeditions. He referred to him as "this same commanding general, Nelson A. Miles" and said whoever called the beef furnished "embalmed beef" was a "liar."
Commissary General Eagan in the course of his testimony called Major-General Miles, commanding the army, a liar who lied in his throat, lied in his heart, lied in every part of his body, who perpetrated a gross scandal and "who should be drummed out of the service and imprisoned," and "should be avoided by every honest man and barred by every club." He characterized his interviews as "filth."
BENEFIT OF HOSPITAL.
Palmer & Co. to Give Away a Percentage of Sales.
The following letters will explain themselves and will doubtless commend themselves to the public in general:
CORTLAND, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1899.
Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, President Cortland Hospital Association, Cortland, N. Y.:
DEAR MADAM—We beg leave to tender to the association, of which you have the honor of being president, 5 per cent of all drygoods and shoe sales and 2 per cent of all grocery sales for three days during our fifteen days clearance sale to commence to-morrow (Friday) morning. Should you accept our offer we will name and publish the days to be designated as hospital benefit days.
Very truly yours,
PALMER & Co.
CORTLAND, N. Y. Jan. 12 ,1899
Palmer & Co.:
GENTLEMEN—I am in receipt of your letter of Jan. 12, in which you tender to the hospital a percentage of the sales for three days during your clearance sale. In behalf of its managers, I thank you most heartily for this very generous offer and gladly accept the same.
Sincerely yours,
JULIA E. HYATT, Pres., Board of Managers.
We designate Monday, Jan. 16, Friday, Jan. 20, and Wednesday, Jan. 25, as days on which we pledge five per cent of all sales of drygoods, skirts, shoes and two per cent on all sales of groceries to the Cortland Hospital association.
PALMER & Co.
SHE CONFESSES ALL.
CHLOROFORMED BOARDERS, THEN ROBBED THEM.
A Remarkable Affidavit Made by Miss Hannah Jones of Syracuse, Formerly of Cortland.
Miss Hannah Jones, formerly of Cortland but now of Syracuse, seems to have been going to the bad with considerable rapidity according to a sworn confession which she has made to Chief of Police Charles R. Wright of Syracuse. Several days ago she was arrested in Syracuse and locked up on suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery of a watch from her employer, Mrs. Charles Barron. The girl confessed, and the affidavit which she made follows:
State of New York, County of Onondaga, City of Syracuse, S. S.
Hannah Jones, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 21 years of age, emigrated to this country from England with my father and mother when but 2 years of age, and settled in Cortland, N. Y. My father, George Jones, a teamster by occupation, died in Cortland, N. Y., in 1888 or 1889, after which I was obliged to go to work.
I first obtained work in the family of Mrs. Barron in Cortland, as nursemaid, worked for her quite a while, after which I obtained employment as a domestic in the family of Frank Doubleday, corner of Port Watson and Church-sts., Cortland, N. Y., and remained there until Oct. 21, 1896, when I came to Syracuse, N. Y. My father had died in the meantime and my mother had remarried to a man named Edward Leahey, who is employed in the gas works at Cortland, N. Y., and they reside at 59 Hamlin-st. in Cortland, N. Y., now with my younger brothers.
On my arrival in Syracuse, N. Y., I first obtained employment in the family of Frederick Bastable, 1,812 East Genesee-st.; remained there about three months, then obtained employment in the family of Oscar N. Caten at 404 West Willow-st., his wife, Alice Caten, keeping boarders.
I remained in the employ of the Catens and moved with them to 108 Harrison-st. in September, 1897, and in the latter part of June, 1898, one night during the absence of Mrs. Alice Caten (who had gone to Ticonderoga in the North Woods on a visit) I went to the drug store, corner of Gifford and West-sts., purchased 10 cents worth of chloroform, and returning to the house, I soaked a handkerchief with the chloroform and proceeded to the bedroom of Frederick Tallman, a boarder—placed the handkerchief under his nose, then went to the closet in his room and took from his pants pocket a gent's gold watch, with "G. A. R." and his full name on the dial, also some loose change, less than $1. I am not positive, but think there was a chain attached to the watch.
I then proceeded to the room occupied by Miss Palmer, one flight higher up, chloroformed her in the same manner as I had done to Mr. Tallman, and then took her watch, in plush case, and her pocketbook containing about $5 from the top of the dresser. The watch was a gold hunting case watch and had some initials on the outer case and a small diamond set in the back of the case.
I then proceeded to Mr. Caten's room on the ground floor of the house; did not chloroform him, as he was sleeping soundly; so I sneaked out his trousers, which lay on a chair, carried them out doors, and took something over $10 from the pockets, leaving the pants out doors.
I then went to the sideboard, got my own pocketbook, and took that and the watches and money I had stolen and hid the whole lot under some dead leaves in the back yard, near the flower bed in Doctor Greeley's yard, and placed the two empty pocketbooks, the empty watch case, the empty chloroform bottle and Mr. Caten's trousers on Dr. Greeley's steps, to make it appear as if the job had been done by an outsider, after which I returned to the house and went to bed after having unfastened and partly raised one of the front windows of the house, to make it appear as if burglars had entered that way.
On the following morning at about 6 o'clock Mr. Caten awoke and called me, asked me if I had left the sideboard drawer open. I said "No." He then asked me if my pocketbook was in that drawer and I said "Yes." He then went for his trousers and found them missing, and then told me that he thought the house must have been entered during the night, after which I went up to Mr. Tallman's room and stepped on his trousers lying on the floor, awoke Mr.Tallman and told him to see what was missing, and Tallman said that he had lost his watch and $28.
He then called to Miss Palmer and asked her to see if anything was missing, and she said her watch and pocketbook were gone.
Mrs. Palmer then telephoned for the police, and two detectives came to the house and made an investigation, and were shown the empty pocketbooks, trousers, watch case and chloroform bottle, which had in the meantime been discovered on Doctor Greeley's steps, by either Miss Palmer or Mr. Caten. They then questioned all the inmates of the house and asked me who I had been with the previous evening, and I told them with John Hoenan of Harrison-st., a currycomb maker, and friend of mine, and that we had been out for a walk. The detectives seemed to be satisfied with my story and left the house.
There was nothing particular said about the theft after that, and no one seemed to suspect me, and I left the plunder hid in the Greeley yard until I went away on my vacation, about the middle of August, 1898, when I went for it, and placed it in my satchel and bought a ticket for Buffalo with the intention of selling or pawning the two watches there. I took the Empire State express, arrived in Buffalo at about 5 P. M., put up in a small hotel on the street which runs by the depot there, over night, paid $1.50 for supper, lodging and breakfast, and after breakfast started out to sell or pawn the watches. Went into two different pawn shops, but they put so many pertinent questions to me about the watches and the initials on them, that I became frightened and concluded not to try to sell them any further. I then went down to the canal bridge and dropped the two watches into the canal.
I then returned to the hotel, remained there until time for the 1 P. M. train and returned to Syracuse. On my arrival here I met a couple of lady friends, Miss Mary Hafey, who is a domestic and lives in the Second ward and Nellie McDonald, who works in a shoe shop, and resides in Otisco-st. in the Fifth ward, and we went across the lake and remained there that evening, and on our return I went to 154 Gifford-st. and stopped all night with Mary Hafey, and the following day I went home to visit my folks at Cortland, and remained there about six weeks. I then returned to Syracuse and obtained employment in the family of Miss Laporte, 404 South Warren-st., as domestic, worked there for several weeks, and then obtained work at Hopkins' boarding house, 404 West Willow-st. I remained there just one week, then went home again and about three weeks ago I returned to this city and went to visit with Mrs. Barron at that time residing in Orange-st., and assisting her in moving to her present residence, corner Noxon and Clinton-st., and have been stopping there since, and looking about for employment.
On Tuesday forenoon, Jan. 3, 1899, I opened Mrs. Barron's bureau drawer in the diningroom and saw therein a paper box, which contained a watch and chain. I took the same box and all, and leaving the house I made my way to the canal and threw the box into the canal.
I then took the watch to the office of Frederick Bastable in the Bastable block, told him I was short of money, and asked him to let me have some money on it. He loaned me $15 on the watch and chain and I left it with him. I then returned to the Barron house, and have been there since. This morning I was out walking and was met by Detective Dorner, who requested me to come to police headquarters, and when we arrived there he questioned me about Mrs. Barron's watch, and I told him what I had done with it.
My steady company is John Hoenan, who is employed at making currycombs at the Frontenac Bicycle works In Leavenworth-ave., and resides at 605 Harrison-st.in the city of Syracuse. We have been keeping company for about one year past.
Mr. F. J. Doubleday of the firm of McKinney & Doubleday said to a STANDARD man this morning that he remembered Miss Jones, but his family had no such experience with her as she relates has taken place since she went to Syracuse.
CALLED TO BINGHAMTON.
PROF. D. L. BARDWELL ELECTED SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Offer Came Entirely Unsolicited, Prof. Bardwell Not Even Being a Candidate—Position a Very Desirable One—Belief That it Will be Accepted.
The Binghamton Republican this morning says:
On the recommendation of the committee on teachers, the board of education last evening appointed Prof. Darwin L. Bardwell of Cortland, superintendent of schools, to succeed Superintendent R. H. Halsey, who leaves the last of the mouth to become president of the Wisconsin State Normal school at Oshkosh.
Commissioners Rogers, Gennet, Weed, Ely, Stone and Smith were present, Commissioner Scott, being the only absentee.
President Rogers immediately after the reading of the minutes stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee on schools in regard to the selection of a superintendent of schools.
Commissioner Stone, chairman of the teachers' committee, at once arose and stated that after due consideration of the claims of thirty or forty applicants, the committee had decided to recommend for appointment, Prof. Darwin L. Bardwell of the state department. He moved that Prof. Bardwell be appointed at a salary of $3,000, his term to begin on Feb. 1.
Commissioner Weed raised the question as to whether Prof. Bardwell ought to be definitely elected when it was not known that he was a candidate. On the rollcall, all the commissioners present voted in the affirmative.
Prof. Bardwell was graduated from Amherst college in 1883. He was for five years supervising principal of the union school at Greenport, Suffolk county, after which he was assistant principal and instructor of sciences at the State Normal school at Cortland. Here he remained seven years, and a year ago he was appointed one of the state institute conductors, a position which he has filled with remarkable success. His rank among the conductors is very high. For four or five years previous to his last appointment he had from time to time been assisting the state conductors in their work.
Although traveling throughout the state in his work for the department, Prof. Bardwell has still made his home at Cortland. His present salary is $3,000, the same as he will receive in Binghamton.
The newly elected superintendent was in no sense an applicant for the position, having come to this city to confer with the committee only on their earnest request. "We had to go after him," said Chairman Stone, "he did not come after us. He was not one of the thirty or forty applicants whose claims were considered." Prof. Bardwell is acknowledged to be an unusually strong man, and those who know him predict that the board has made no mistake in selecting him.
There is little doubt that Prof. Bardwell will accept. His family consists of his wife and two children. He attended the convention of the New York State association of school commissioners and superintendents in this city in November and has frequently been in the city.
Superintendent Halsey will have to begin his new duties in Wisconsin on the 30th inst., so that it will be necessary for him to leave for the West on the 28th, the day his term expires.
BREVITIES.
—The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. F. Watson, 7 North Church-st., Friday, Jan. 13, at 3 P. M.
—First Past President Mary C. Maher last night installed in Empire hall the new officers of branch No. 317, Ladies' Catholic Benefit association.
—There was a fire at the George Junior Republic at Freeville last Sunday in the Rockerfeller cottage. It originated from the furnace but was extinguished by the heroic firemen of the department.—Ithaca Democrat.
—James H. Kellogg camp, No. 48, Sons of Veterans, meets in regular session to-morrow night at 7:30 o'clock and every member is requested to be in attendance. Candidates will be received in each of the three degrees.
—Mr. W. Nelson Owen, aged 75 years, died at 8:15 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clark H. Wadsworth, 80 Fitz-ave. The funeral will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock P. M., and burial will be made at Blodgett Mills.
MADE A LIVELY RUN.
Marvin Maine's Team Made Things Exciting This Morning.
Marvin Maine's young team of bays made a run through Main-st. this morning that would put to shame some trains of cars. Before they started they were attached to a pair of bobs. When they stopped they were attached to nothing and were widely separated. Mr. Maine left the team for a short time near the Messenger House and something started them. As they moved off they struck a row of barrels marking open gutters. These still further frightened the horses and because of the barrels the bobs separated and the rear one was left behind. On up the street the team sped with increasing rapidity. The street was comparatively free from teams and pedestrians, and the runaway pair had clear sailing. The next obstruction encountered was a pile of gutter plates at Court-st. When the bob struck this, it overturned and dangled at the horses' heels until they ran against the curbing opposite the drugstore of F. I. Graham. Here the animals freed themselves from the bob, and ran over the street showcase of Miss Kittie Gammel, the hair dresser, smashing its glass sides. The team then started up Groton-ave toward Mr. Maine's home, which is three miles west of the village. When opposite the residence of A. C. Stevens on Groton-ave., they ran against a tree. Here they separated, one going into the barn of Dr. Santee and the other going a short distance further up the street where it was stopped by Philip May. Neither animal seemed to be injured in the least but the fixtures to the sleigh, such as clevises, bolts, whiffletrees, etc., were promiscuously scattered along the street.
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