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| Major General Loyd Wheaton, USA. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, December 17, 1900.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Large Numbers of Natives Swearing Allegiance to United States.
MANILA, Dec. 17.—Advices from Iloilo, island of Panay, report that the American troops have been moving northward and westward for several days and that detachments of the Sixth, Eighteenth and Twenty-sixth regiments have been active near their stations. The insurgent losses during the last 10 days there have been five killed, several wounded and 40 taken prisoners. The Americans have lost two killed and three wounded. Large numbers of the natives, however, are swearing allegiance to the United States.
In various recent attacks and expeditions in Southern Luzon the insurgents have lost eight killed, seven wounded and about 20 captured. The Americans have lost one killed and two wounded.
General Wheaton reports that 430 natives have entered [Calasiao] for registration.
Most of the time of the Philippine commission is now devoted to the tariff bill. Judge Taft said that, generally speaking, the new rates would be about 40 per cent of the existing rates.
"It will be essentially a tariff for revenue," he remarked, "but some industries that are already established will be given protection. The commission is not considering the question of constitutionality of taxing United States products. The precedents have been established in the case of Porto Rico and by the military government of the Philippines.
"The bill requires the washing of cotton goods, so as to eliminate the clay used by European manufacturers, which increases the weight. This will incidentally favor American goods. The rate on kerosene will be reduced from 11 cents a gallon to 4. Some American goods will be admitted free, and almost all will come in at reduced figures."
Sentry Shot Corporal by Mistake.
BOSTON, Dec. 17.—The following was received by The Globe from James Sweeney, hospital steward with the Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry, at Catbalogan, Samar island:
"Corporal Herbert Chase, Company D, Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry, a brother of Frank Chase of Pleasant street, Marlboro, Mass., was shot and killed by Jake Henderson, private, Company C, Twenty-ninth infantry, at Catbalogan, Samar island, during the night of Oct. 27. About 300 American soldiers hold the town of Catbalogan, being constantly harassed by the insurrectos under General Lukbon on the surrounding hills. This led to strict orders to kill all natives out after dark. On Oct. 27 a rebel officer came into town under a flag of truce and delivered over Sergeant Rice and Corporal Allen of the Forty-third infantry, who were captured last May. These men reported that the force of Filipinos besieging the town numbered 2,300 and that they were boasting of coming into town to kill all Americans.
"About 10 o'clock that night the Filipinos opened a heavy fire on the town. It was Corporal Chase's duty to reinforce the Gatling gun squad and the Filipinos were repulsed after a lively half-hour's fight. When the firing had subsided, the corporal stepped into the bushes, telling the sentinel, it is said, not to shoot. The order was forgotten by the excited outpost and, as Chase started to return, he was shot down without being challenged, evidently being mistaken for the much dreaded boloman. Jake Henderson was put into the guard house and will be tried on the charge of manslaughter.
"Chase was buried with military honors on Oct. 28."
FIERCE FIGHT AT TUMACO.
Rebels Compelled to Evacuate Their Stronghold by Colombian Troops.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. 17.—Advices received from Colon, Colombia, regarding the recent fighting between the government troops and the insurgents at Tumaco, the rebel stronghold, which began Dec. 4 and lasted three days, the insurgents then evacuating the town, say that the withdrawing insurgent force was not dispersed.
On the contrary fears are entertained at Colon that this body of rebels will effect a junction with the force operating around Buena Ventura.
Telegraphic communication with the interior has been suspended by government order and fighting is proceeding at various points, although without important results.
Both sides lost heavily at the battle at Tumaco. When the government forces destroyed the rebel steamer Gaitan, they also destroyed a large supply of ammunition.
General Alban, governor of the state of Panama, who was in command of the government troops, left for Bogota after the evacuation of Tumaco and the destruction of the Gaitan.
MURDERERS LYNCHED.
Two Negroes Hanged and Riddled With Bullets.
MOB BATTERED DOWN JAIL WALL.
Bloodhounds furnished Proof of Victims' Guilt—Friend of Murdered Man Lost His Reason In the Excitement—Wife is Also Expected to Die of Shock.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 17.—A special to The Sentinel from Rockport, Ind., says: "Two negroes, Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands, who waylaid, brutally murdered and robbed Hollie Simmons, a white barber, early Saturday morning, were lynched in the jail yard by a mob of 1,000 frenzied citizens last night. The negroes were arrested early and although Rowland's clothing had blood stains on it, the men claimed they were innocent of the crime. In the meantime Sheriff Clemens of Union county, Kentucky, arrived with a trained bloodhound in response to a telegraphic summons.
When the dog was placed on the trail he followed it until he reached the house where Rowlands lived, six blocks from the scene of the murder, and went baying to the bed the negro had occupied. This was enough for the excited citizens. Within a few minutes a mob of 1,000 howling, blood-thirsty men with sledge hammers, ropes and guns were running to the jail. Sheriff Anderson and his two deputies made a stand and attempted to protect the prisoners. The officers were seized by the leaders of the mob, who disarmed them. The sheriff was then locked in a room and placed under guard but he stoutly refused to give up the keys or tell where the prisoners were hidden. Failing to get the keys the mob made a determined but unsuccessful attempt to batter in the jail door.
By this time the would-be lynchers were in a perfect frenzy and securing a telegraph pole they rushed it as a battering ram and caved in the side of the wall of the jail. The door of Rowlands' cell was then quickly broken in with sledges and he was dragged from the jail to the east side of the courtyard where a noose was placed about his neck. He was given time to make a statement, in which he implicated Jim Henderson and another negro. Rowlands then begged piteously for mercy but the mob swiftly swung the confessed murderer to a tree and riddled his body with bullets.
Leaving the body of Rowlands dangling from the limb of the tree the mob rushed back to the jail and attempted to burst open the cell occupied by Henderson but before the steel bars yielded to the blows of the sledges some one in the crowd fired upon the terrified negro as he crouched in the corner of his cell. A few moments more and the door of the cell was broken in.
The negro, more dead than alive, was dragged at a rope's end to the courthouse yard and swung on the tree beside the body of Rowlands. Then firing a parting volley at the swinging bodies, the mob, eager for another victim, hurried away to catch the other negro implicated by Rowlands in his confession. He was found at a hotel where he was employed as a porter.
The negro escaped to the roof of the building and Manager Debruler succeeded in convincing the mob that the porter had nothing to do with the crime, proving an alibi for him. The mob then dispersed, apparently satisfied with its awful work of vengeance.
The negroes' victim, Simons, was waylaid and murdered in the most brutal manner one square from the main street of the city as he was going to his home from his barber shop at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. As was customary with him he carried the receipts of the day of his place. The negroes were aware of this and evidently laid the plans accordingly.
Crouching behind a fence they awaited their victim and jumped from their place of concealment and attacked him from behind, striking him over the head with a heavy club with a large nail driven into the end of it.
Although terribly beaten, Simons made a desperate fight and his cries and struggles soon attracted two boys, who went to his assistance, but they were a moment too late, the victim of the two negroes having succumbed to the terrible beating, lying dead at their feet. The murderers then drove the would-be rescuers away and accomplished their original design—that of robbing Simons—securing a bag containing something over $40 from the prostrate form of their victim, and made their escape.
Simons was terribly beaten, his skull crushed in, his head and face being beaten into a pulp. Four gaping wounds showed where the spike on the club had punctured the dead man's skull and penetrated his brain.
Walter Evans, one of the young men who attempted to save Simons' life, and who afterward assisted in the removing of the dead man's body to his house, was greatly affected and almost suffered nervous collapse. He witnessed the tragedy last night and lost his reason.
The dead man's wife is prostrated and it is believed she will die from the shock. Hollie Simons came here from Winslow, Ind., three years ago and was a popular young man.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.
Lehigh Valley Engine Struck Rear of Otis Bates ' Sleigh.
Otis Bates of McLean drove to Cortland this morning with a half dozen bushels of apples in the rear end of his two-horse bob sleigh. Just before he reached the Lehigh Valley tracks on Tompkins-st. he heard the whistle of the locomotive of the 9:41 train from Elmira. He turned his head and saw the train coming but concluded that he had time enough to get across the track. He whipped up his horses and tried it. He failed to realize, as so many other people before him have done, that for every foot of progress which he made the train was making rods. Before he knew it the train was upon him. His team and the forward end of his sleigh got across, but the engine caught the hind bob about a foot from the end of the sleigh and threw it around with tremendous force. The runner was smashed and the sleighbox splintered. Mr. Bates was thrown violently into the forward end of the sleigh while the apples were spilled out of the crates and scattered promiscuously the length of the sleigh. That didn't make any difference to Mr. Bates though. He was simply glad to be alive. The horses were frightened and started into a full run toward Cortland, but were controlled after a little [run]. It was a narrow escape and Mr. Bates doesn't care to repeat the experience. He says next time he sees a train coming he will stop and wait for it to cross first and he will wait ten minutes or a half hour before he will try it again in front of an approaching train.
COUNTY COURT.
Two Defendants are Absent and Their Bonds are Estreated.
The adjourned term of county court convened at the courthouse this morning, Judge J. E. Eggleston presiding.
The first case called was that of The People vs. Geo. I. Crane, indicted for unlawfully selling liquor. This case was tried once before and the jury disagreed. The defendant through his attorney, H. L. Bronson, asked to have the case put over the term on the ground that a material witness was ill and unable to be present. The defendant himself took the stand and testified to this effect. The district attorney then called for Dr. Potter of Homer, the physician attending the witness and a subpoena was sent for him. The case is still held open pending the arrival of the physician. District Attorney Duffey for The People. O. U. Kellogg, assisted by H. L. Bronson, for defendant.
The case of The People vs. William Baker of Freetown was called. Defendant was indicted for the unlawful selling of liquor. He withdrew his former plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to the charge. Sentence has not yet been imposed. W. J. Mantanye appeared for the defendant and made a plea for clemency.
The People vs. E. D. Foote. Defendant was indicted for bigamy. The case was called; defendant did not appear; his bond was declared estreated and ordered prosecuted.
The People vs. Albert Taylor. Defendant was indicted for perjury. Defendant did not appear, and his bond was declared estreated and ordered prosecuted.
THE SCIENCE CLUB.
Instructive and Valuable Talk by Dr. F. W. Higgins on "Blood."
There was quite a full attendance of the members of the Cortland Science club at the meeting at Dr. F. W. Higgins' office on Saturday evening last, and more than the usual number of invited guests were also present. Mr. A. P. McGraw read a very carefully prepared and appreciative review of Dr. F. J. Cheney's article of two weeks previous on "The Ego."
Dr. Higgins then took up his subject for the evening. "Blood," and held the closest attention of his hearers for the full time limit allowed. Early medicine, he said, made much of the blood, but superstition obscured whatever results were gained. The last century saw the study of medicine divided into two schools, the Solidists, who maintained that the cause of disease was to be sought in the solid parts of the body, and the Fluidists, who would explain all aberrations by some change in the blood. This last class were in the ascendancy until Virchow, in the middle of this century, formulated the cell theory. It is only in the last decade that the blood is again receiving the attention that it deserves. The ancient idea persists in the common notion of the blood being out of order, and it being necessary to purify the blood in the spring. Scientific medicine derided such expressions, but it is only lately that it has begun itself to give something better.
Dr. Higgins then took up the matter of the physiology of the blood, and with the assistance of large colored charts explained very clearly and satisfactorily the composition of the human blood, and the various offices and functions which it performs in the human economy. The action of the blood in purifying the system and removing excrementitious [sic] matter, and the part which it plays in sustaining the warmth of the body, were considered at some length and fully explained. By means of prepared specimens and a number of microscopes the composition of the blood was also given additional illustration. The action of the vital, health-sustaining and disease resisting elements of the blood and their manner of operation were like-wise discussed. Also, the relation and proportions of the red and white corpuscles in the blood in health and disease. The medico-legal importance of the blood was briefly touched upon, and the fact noted that many criminals have been brought to justice by studying traces of blood. Nothing else resembles a blood corpuscle. If these corpuscles are found in the clothing of a suspected murderer, it may mean much. If the blood is too old and dry to study its corpuscles, there are crystals which form by the action of acetic acid upon it which are very characteristic. In summing up the physiology of the blood, the doctor said: "It is a fluid tissue, in bulk 1-13 of the whole body weight, complex, serving to nourish all the other cells by its plasma, a sewer for every other tissue, a carrier of oxygen without which no function could go on, transporting back to the lungs the carbonic acid gas resulting from combustion, and lastly and most interesting of all, the great defense of the body against accident and disease. Interesting as is the study of the blood in health, it is in disease that the attention is specially directed to it."
Disease, as attacking the blood directly, and its presence manifested in the blood by peculiar conditions, were next considered, including blood poisoning. The latest and best methods of treatment of blood diseases were also specified. One of the most interesting portions of the doctor's talk was that referring to malaria, and the recently established facts in reference to its spread as the results of mosquito bites. Almost equally interesting was the reference to the anti-toxin treatment of diphtheria. Also of tetanus or lockjaw. The modern method of diagnosing typhoid fever by examination of the blood was also described.
After enumerating the various diseases which may be successfully studied by an examination of a little blood taken from the patient, Dr. Higgins then extracted a few drops from the ear of one of the members of the club, showed the method of obtaining a count of the red corpuscles in a given amount of blood, illustrated the method of separating the red corpuscles of the blood by an electrically operated centrifugal machine, and fully explained the theory and method of operation of the various machines recently devised for purposes of blood examination and analysis.
The questions addressed to the doctor at the close of his remarks and the discussion which followed resulted in bringing out many facts of practical value. Dr. Higgins' paper had evidently been prepared with much care and was fruitful in suggestion as well as in information.
The next meeting of the club will be on Saturday evening, Dec. 29, when Supt. F. E. Smith will speak on "Geology of New York."
Setting Telephone Poles.
The Home Telephone company has decided not to wait for the decision of the courts in the matter of setting their poles upon the property of Mr. W. R. Randall on Main-st. and has obtained permission to set them on the other side of the street. The holes are now being dug. Each pole is set beside a trolley pole supporting the trolley wire and when the poles are up the trolley wires will be suspended from the new poles and the old poles will be taken out. The men report the ground frozen to a depth of about one foot.
DIED IN SYRACUSE.
A. K. Allen, formerly of Taylor—To be Buried at Marathon.
Alson K. Allen, who was born in Taylor and who about twelve years ago moved from that town to Syracuse, died at his home in that city, 106 Massena-st. Sunday morning after an illness of a week with typhoid pneumonia.
Mr. Allen was 51 years of age, and was employed at the Smith Premier typewriter works. Funeral services will occur on Thursday at 10 A. M., and the remains will be taken to Marathon for interment.
Survivors of Mr. Allen include his wife and adopted daughter, Miss Jennie Pollard; twin sons, Carroll and Karl; one brother, A. E. Allen; and two sisters, Mrs. Willis Stevens and Mrs. Eugene Griswold, all of Syracuse, besides a number of relatives living in Taylor.
LOST VALUABLE DIAMONDS.
Mrs. James M. Milne of Cortland Offers Reward for Return.
While shopping in this city on Thursday, Mrs. James M. Milne of Cortland lost a pair of diamonds earrings out of her shopping bag. The diamonds weighted two carats each, with a Tiffany setting. They were valued at $400. The jewels were in a buckskin pocket knife case. Mrs. Milne offers a liberal reward for the return of the jewels to Chief of Police Charles R. Wright.—Syracuse Herald.
A Silver Wedding.
About thirty of the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Price gave them a pleasant surprise at their home in Elm Stump on Friday evening, Dec. 14. The occasion was the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. Although the weather of that afternoon and evening was the coldest of the season so far, yet the warmth within was in marked contrast to that without. The time was very pleasantly passed in music, games, jokes and pleasant reminiscences. One thing worthy of note was the fact that the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of the couples, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reynolds, occurred the following day, Dec. 15. Refreshments being served the guests took their departure leaving behind them many good wishes for the coming years, also several tokens of silver and china and a small sum of money as mementoes of the occasion.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Irving Price, Mr. and Mrs. John Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Lang, Mr. and Mrs. George Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. John Park, Mr. and Mrs. George Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Freer, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Munson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gamel, Miss Maud Gee and Miss Pearl Price of Cortland; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reynolds of Blodgett Mills, Misses Helen Bliss, Edna Price, Pearl Lang and Lena Price and Messrs. Earl Price, Charles Price and Clarence Berry.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief Corps, No. 96, will be held to-morrow, Dec. 18, at 2:40 o'clock.
—The trees presented a very beautiful appearance this morning with their elaborate decorations of white frost.
—Residents of the city of Cortland who are entitled to orders of the town of Cortlandville will find them at the First National bank.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bosworth & Stillman, slippers, etc., page 6; W. W. Bennett, 10 per cent discount, page 4; McKinney & Doubleday, Books, page 2.
—An adjourned meeting of the Epworth league of the First M. E. church will be held at the church parlors this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at which time officers for the ensuing year will be elected.
—A reception to Rev. and Mrs. Robert Clements will be given in the Presbyterian church parlors Tuesday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. A cordial invitation to be present is extended to all members of the church and congregation and also to all friends of the pastor outside of that church.
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