i J I ‘ Please THE EVENI'NG'GAZ'ETTE“' ° - SPAIN’S LA_ST_0UTRAGE An American Bound by Soldiers, Then Shot and Left For Dead. WILLIAMS IS AFTER THEM. Investigation Will Be Made Promptly. The Idiotic Blunder by \Vhich Span- ish Troops Shot Their Own Men Down—lilaoeo on the G0. HAVANA, March 17.—Dr. Jose Manuel “ Delgado, the American citizen who is re- ported to have been shot and nearly killed by Spanish troops under the Command of General Melquiz, arrived here yesterday. He is so seriously injured that he had to be carried on a stretcher. The captain general has promised the promptest inquiry into the circumstances in the case, and has given assurances that the guilty persons will be, most severely punished. Dr. Delgado says that a number of the employees of the Delgado plantation, near Bainos. have been killed by the troops, in- cluding the brothers Tipia and the two Guerras, father and 50:3. The circumstances in the case, so far as they can be gathered at present, seem to 'point to a most gross and deliberate out- rage upon- the part of the Spanish sol- diery who were made aware that Dr. Del- gado and his aged father were both Amer- ican citizens. But this fact appears to have had no weight with the Spanish ofii- cars, and Dr. Delgado was said to have been bound and shot without trial and without any justification. The doctor was left for dead and eight of his father’s em- ployees Were killed. The United States consul general, Mr. Ramon 0. Williams, has taken the matter in hand, and no stone will be left un- turned to bring the Spaniards to justice. The Cano Disaster. ' Captain General Weyler has ordered a thorough investigation to be made into the disaster at Cano, seven miles from here, by which 12 soldiers belonging to the San Quintan battalion we" killed, and a captain, four lieutenants,a1...’27 soldiers belonging to the same corps were wound- ed by the Spanish garrison of that town. who mistook the Spaniards for a band of insurgents who had previously attacked the place. burned a plantation and had been repulsed. The burning plantation attracted the attention of the commander of the San Quintan battalion, who immediately hur- ried toward Cano in order to assist the garrison. The soldiers defending that scopes..saw..the. apnroach of. the trapps?" than? a? volley fivasf'fired from the towh’,’ and the firing was answered by the soldiers of the San Quintan battalion, who ABSOLUTELY PURE natulgilly beligved the enemy had captured , tE‘éIp'Ia'de. The—"’ad—vancin‘g WOO—psi then charged, and the mistake was eventually discovered by the cheers for Spain and the notes of the Spanish bugle sounding the charge. But the harm had been done, and there is little doubt but that the command- er of the garrison at Cano will be tried by court martial.' During the firing all the families of the town lay terror stricken on the floors, of their dwellings, which, being mostly of wood, were riddled with bullets. The insurgents have burned the fields, wharf and sugar depot of Dolores, in the .lcmadios district of the province of Santa - Clara, and they have also destroyed by fire the fields and splendid buildings of the Laberinto plantation. Insurgent Brigadier Dead. The insurgent brigadier, Perquito Perez, died recently in the vicinity of Barabas, in the Remedies district, in which neigh- borbood seven countrymen were recently hanged for supplying vegetables to detach- ments of Spar h troops. A dispmch from Violete says that sev- eral families of that place have been com- pelled to fly for protection to the neigh- boring towns ir. order to escape outrage at the hands of the insurgents. Maceo is described as marching rapidly through the province of Pinar del Rio. While passing through the Batabano district the insurgents plundered a num- ber of houses and stores and reduced a town to ashes. All the documents belong- ing to the municipality and the Spanish bank were burned. . About 60 families arrived here today seeking refuge from persecution upon the part of the insurgents, who are reported to be committing great depredations. Bernardo Fernandez, a prominent citi- zen and described as the “father” of the burned town, was killed by the insur- gents,who also burned the village of Guam. .Colonel Hernandez, at Waterloo and Calixto, south Of Artemisa, province of Pinar del Rio, has split into two a large band of insurgents which were following the route of his column. The insurgents lost four killed. The column of troops commanded by Colonel Lescano started in pursuit of one part of the insurgent force, and the Spanish forces from Neptune also took part in the pursuit. They caught up with the insurgents between Minerva and Neptuno. The insurgents, who wore marching westward, left six killed on the field, and the troops lost seven killed. A liladrid View. LONDON, March 17. —The Madrid cor- respondent Of The Standard says: ‘fIn political circles it is believed that even should the United States pass the concur- rent resolutiou, President Cleveland will sound Spain as to her intentions with re— gard to carrying out the Cuban home rule bill which the cortes passed in 1895 before proclaiming recognition of the insurgents. It is also rumored that an entente betWeen Spain and America with a view to grant- ing autonomy to the West Indies would be supplemented by a commercial reciprocity- treatv between the Spanish West Indies Advertise in the GAznr'rE. mg Fire In Cleveland. CLEVELAND, March 17.—Fire destroyed the four story brick building at 747 Cedar avenue, owned by the F. B. 16111!)le estate, and an adjoining residenli’ ownml by H. A. Vaughan. The Kimball build- ing was occupied by a number of manh- facturing concerns, all of whom lost every- thing. The loss will approximate $45,000. Editor Reiner’s Bail Reduced. TRENTON, March 17.—Judge Vansicklo in the supreme court today reduced from $13,000 to $5,200 the amount of the ball of Dr. Reiner, the Elizabeth (N. J.) edi- tor, who has been in the Union county prison for some time awaiting trial under 26 indictments found against him for libel- ing Mayor Rankin of Elizabeth. "Cherokee Bill to Be Hanged. FORT SMITH, Ark, March 17.—Dis- patches from Washington settle the fate of Cherokee Bill, the outlaw, and he will hang on St. Patrick’s day. On Nov. 18, 1894, Cherokee Bill and Verdigris Kid, another citizen of the territory, sacked the town of Lenapah, I. '1'. Cherokee Bill killed Ernest Melton. The Venezuelan thddle. LONDON, March 17.-—The undersecre- tary of state for foreign affairs, Mr. George N. Curzon, in the house of commons to- dayadmittcd that the government had re- ceived official proposals from the United States relative to the Venezuelan dispute, and that they were now under considera- tion. Socialists Give Trouble. LONDON, March 17.——A Vienna dispatch . reports that several scufiles occurred in that city owing to the demonstrations made by thousands of Socialists return- ing from the cemetery, where they went to place wreaths upon the graves of the victims of the revolution of 1848. Gold‘ and Silver Ratio. VIENNA, March 17.—In the rcichsrath today a resolution was adopted to the ef- fect that the government lend active sup- port to efforts which may be initiated by other governments with the object of fix- ing the value of gold and silver by inter- national agreement. , British In South Africa. LONDON, March l7.—'l'he Standard an- nounces that Admiral BaWSon, command er of the Cape Colony station, and General Goodenough, commander of the British forces in Cape Colony, are formulating an important scheme for coast defense in South Africa. Aggrievod Dr. Peters. BERLIN, March 17.—The National Zei- tung says that Dr. Peters has resigned the chairmanship of the Colonial society and has requested the foreign office to insti- tute an inquiry into his conduct while German imperial commissioner in Africa. _ ___-.__J_____.— A Steamer Blown Up. LONDON, March 17.——The British steam- or Matadi, which sailed from Sierra L‘eone on Feb. 5, has been totally de- stroyed by an explosion of gunpowder. Some of her passengers and crew were saved, but many are missing. ‘Wilhelm’s Latest Scheme. LONE-3N, March 17.—The correspondent of The Pall Mall Gazette at Berlir tele- graphs that he learns from a high c-igni- tary that the emperor will inaugurate notable changes in the reichsland after the coronation of the czar. - A. POINTER“ Is your plate glass or safe insured? If not, call on me and I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Sale lnsnr- ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite. a , In Cass of Fire You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance 01 Philadelphia; Phoenixgof Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific of ' New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State 01 Ports- mouth will protect you against the fire fiend. ., w. H. emanation, Real Estate and General Insurance, ROOM 1, GAZETTE BUILDING LOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE. \‘t “CORRESPONDENCE; SOL/CITED. ’ anchors illllL-S. A Powerful Address by Senator Lodge ' of Massachusetts. To KEEP our THE IGNORA NT. The Pending Bill “rill Nat Affect the In- telligent Mechanics “’ho Now Come Overt—Cuba Again to the Front. Routine in the House. WASHINGTON, March 17.—-Crowded sen- ate‘ galleries have become the rule since the Cuban debate began, and there was the usual full attendan, , today. In the opening prayer Rev. Isa. c Canter referred to the prei‘aiiing unrest and excitement and besought divine interposition for peace. Mr. Elkins (_ch.,'W. Va.) made early reference to the Cuban question by offer- ing-a resolution direct-ing the committee on foreign relations before the vote was taken 'on the Cuban resolutions to make a report to the senate of all material facts on the subject, stating specifically whether a state of war now exists in Cuba, how long it has been in existence, how many men are engaged onethe respective sides, whether the insurgents have adopted a constitutionand organized a government and at what place the seat of government is carried on, what News and ports are occupied by the insurgents, what rights the pending resolution would confer on the insurgents and to what extent they would affect our relations with Spain. Mr. Sherman asked that the resolution go over under the rules until tomorrow, and Mr. Elkins assented. Mr. Call (Darn, Fla.) secured the adop- tion of a resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury for information as to the detention of vessels supposed to be carry- ing arms to Cuba and the legal authority for such a course. Mr. Palmer (Dom. Ills.) offered a reso- lution, which wont 0"81', declaring that the unlimited coinage of silver by the United States would subvert existing legal and commercial values, Mr. Cannon, the new senator from Utah, made his first spcech, sharply criti- cising Secretary Hoke Smith for the lat- ter’s recent response to a senate resolu- tion as to the Indian lands. Mr. Cannon characterized the secretary’s course as discourieous, misleading and evasive and protested in behalf of the west at the lack of information and‘intelligent action by the secretary on matters affect- ing the western country. At 1 o’clock hlr. Lodge (Rep, Mass.) was recognized for a speech on immigra- tion'and in support of the resolution for additional immigration laws Senator Lodgc's Speech. Senator Lodge showed that by existing law‘paupers, diseased persons. convicts and contract laborers are now denied ad- mission to the United States. By the bill under consideration it was proposed to make a new class of excluded immigrants ——viz, the totally ignorant. Two ques- tions arose in connection with the hill-— first, as to the merits of this particular form of restrict-ion, and, second, as to the general policy of restricting immigra- tion at all. It was found as a result of investigation that the illiteracy test wohld bearr‘most heavily upon the‘Italians, Bus- sians,._ Poles, Hungarians, Greeks and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English speaking immigrants, or Germans, Scandinavians and French. “The races which would Suffer most seriously by exclusion under the proposed bill.” be said, “furnish the immigrants who do not go to the west or south, where immigration is needed. but who remain on the Atlantic seaboard, where immigra- tion is not needed and where their pres- ence is most injurious and undesirable. “The immigrants excluded by the il- literacy test are those who remain for the most part the longest, massing in our great cities. They furnish a large propor- tion. of the population of the slums.” The question of the advisability of re- stricting immigationwas a subject the senator thought of the greatest magnitude and the most iarrcaching importance. “If,” he continued, “we have any re- gard for the welfare, the wages or the standard of life of American workingmen, we should take immediate steps to restrict foreign immigration. There is no danger, at present at all events, to our working- meu from the coming of skilled mechanics ' or of trained and educated men with a settled occupation or pursuit. for immi- grants of this class will never seek to low- er the staudard of American life and wages. On the contrary, they desire the same standard for themselves. The Real Danger. “But here is an appalling danger -to the American wage earner from the flood Of low, unskilled, ignorant, foreign labor which has poured into the country for some years past, and which not only takes lower wages, but accepts astundard of life and living so low that the American workingman cannot compete with it. The injury of unrestricted immigration to American wages and American standards of living is sufficiently plain, and is bad enough, but the danger which this immi- gration threatens to the quality of our citizenship is far worse. “More precious even than forms of gov- ernment are the mental and moral quali- ties which make what we call our race. While those stand unimpaired all is safe. When those decline, all is imperiled. They are exposed to but asingle danger, and that is by changing the quality of our race and citizenship through the wholesale in- fusion of races whose traditions and in- heritance, whose thoughts and whose be- liefs are wholly alien to ours, and with whom we have never assimilated or even been associated in the pest. The danger has begun. It is small as yet, compara- tively speaking, but it is large enough to Warn us to act while there is yet time and while it can be done easily and efficiently. There lies the peril at the portals of our land, Where is pressing in the tide of un- restricted immigration. The time has certainly come, if not to stop, at least to check, to silt and to restrict those immi- grants.” ' Mr. Lodge sp'oke for an hour, and was followad by Mr. Pugh (Dem., Ala.) in SUPDOI‘t of the silver amendment to the tariff bill. Mr. Pugh argued that the economic troubles of the United States were caused by an insufficient and con- gested currency. ' ‘ In the House. ' This was suspension day in the house under the rules. A resolution was adopted directing the secretary of war to make a survey and es- timate the ‘cost of a breakwater at hier- quette Bay, Wis. A bill was'also passed granting to the C., B. and Q. Railroad company, lessees of the Atchison and Nebraska railroad, right of way through the Sac and Fox In- dian reservations. ' The State of California \Vins. WASHINGTON, March l7.——Chief Justice Fuller, in the supreme court, today hand. ed down the decision of the court in the cases of the people of the state of Cali- fornia against the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroad companies, in- volving the right of the state to tax the franchises of these roads. The decision was against the companies. Uncle Sam Beats Texas. WASHINGTON, March 17.—The case of the United States versus the State of Texas, involving the ownership of Greer county, was decided in the supreme court today in favor of the United States. Justice Har- lan handed down the opinion. The case in- volves 1,500,000 acres. I. Rusk ‘Vill Keep His Seat. WASHINGTON, March 17.-—Election com- mittee No. 2 today decided the contested election case of William S.’ Booze versus Harry W. Rusk from the third Maryland district. The committee voted unani- mously to allow Rusk to retain his seat. THE DISCOVERY OF CANADA. Discussion Aroused Over a. Bill to Cele- brate the Fourth Centennial. MONTREAL, March 17.—-In the Ontario legislature a discussion has occurred on Mr. Howland’s bill providing for the erec- tion of a commission to carry out the pro- posal to hold a historical exhibition in Toronto next year for the purpose of cele- brating the four hundredth year' of the discovery of. Canada. The bill gives the commissioners pOWer to issue debentures to the amount of not exceeding $250,000, bearing not exceeding 3 per cent per an- num interest. Mr. Evanturel of Prescott took exception to the bill because it was set forth in the preamble that John and Sebastian Cabot were the discoverers of Canada. He declared that the legislature as a body could not presume to settle a question about which the historians of the .country diflered. Mr. Howland denied any intention of depriving Jacques Cartier of the honor of having carried the first Eu- ropean flag to what were then the old pro- vinces of Canada, but said that in a sense it might be said that the Cabots Were the discoverers of Canada, because Cape Bret- on, where they landed, is now a part of . Canada. The bill was referred to a select committee. Favor \Vomen Delegates. ATCHISON, Kin” March 17.——The Meth— odist Episcopa: conference of Kansas, in annual session here, adopted resolutions favoring the admission of women as dele- gates to the general conference, express ing confidence in the prohibitory law of Kansas and favoring the proposed act now pending before congress to prohibit the issuing of liquor licenses in states hav- ing prohibitory laws. L‘x-Governor Ireland Dead. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 17.—Ex- Governor John Ireland of Seguin died here of neuralgia of the heart. He was born in Hart county, Ky., in 1827, came to Texas in 1853, served in the Confederate army, and after the war served in the leg- islature, on the supreme bench and two terms as governor.‘ Twice he came near being elected United States senator. Death of Rev. C. W. Sehaei’i‘er‘.‘ PHILADELPHIA, March 17.—Rev. Charles William Schaefi'er, professor of church history in the Lutheran theological semi- nary at Germantown, and one of the most prominent Lutheran divines in the state, died at his home in Germantown of heart failure. He was born in Hagerstown, hid, in 1815. . . Destructive Australian Hailstorm. - MELBOURNE, March 17. —A terrible hailstorm has Occurred here, the hailstones being the largest on record. Windows were smashed and buildings unroofed and wrecked by the force of the storm. Ship- ping also was damaged and sunk, and trees were uprooted. One woman is re- ported killed. Death of a St. Paul Newspaper Man. ST. PAUL, March 17.—Carl Neuheusen, a well known newspaper man, died here after several weeks’ illness. He was 56 years old and was a member of a noble German family. He had been activé in journalism, having worked in Wheeling, Pittsburg and St. Paul. IiIrs. Ashmead Bartlett Dead. LONDON, March l7.-—Mrs. Ashmead Bartlett, mother of Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett, M. P., and Mr. William Lehman Bartlett-Coutts, husband of Baroness Bur- dett Coutts. is dead. She was the widow of Mr. Ellis Bartlett, a dissenting minis- ter of Plymouth, Mass. VVill Go to Yale. OSWEGO, N. Y., March 17.—Benjamin W. Bacon, for many years rector of the Congregational church, has announced his retirement and his intended withdraw- al from the ministry to accept a position in the Yale Divinity school. The Advance on Dongola. CAIRO, March 17.——-The Egyptian troops have started for Wady Haifa, where the entire Sudan expeditionary force is ex- pected to lo assembled. on April 1, on which date the advance on Dongola will be commenced. , Ofl‘ertory to Pope Leo. ROME, March i7.-A commission from the diocese 9f Buffalo, consisting Of the Rev. Fathers Barlow, Brougham, Sullivan and Hamel, have presented a generous oifertory to the pope from the Catholics of ' Buffalo. tumor of a. Gift Unfoundcd. NEW YORK, March 17,—John D. Rocke- feller says there is no truth in the report current in Cleveland that he is about to give to that city property on Case and Prospect streets as a site for a proposed art gallery. ' Schooner Hastings Sunk. LEWES, Del., March 17,—Schooner B. F. Hastings, cargo oysters, Cbinooteague for Norfolk, struck a sunken wreck off Wachapreagus shoal and sunk. The crew barely escaped and saved nothing. Northern Pacific In England. LONDON, March 17. ~—'l‘he Pall Mall Ga- zette this afternoon says that the North- ern Pacific'railroad reorganization scheme is not appreciated here. Northern Pacific preferred declined 3% today. s Portugal’s Debt. - LISBON, March 17.—The minister of finance intends to ask the cortes for au« thority to convert the entire Portuguese debt. _ Advertise in the “omen... ” ) Colorado’s Rich Goldfields. CREEDE, Colo, March l7.——Great‘excitev men’t‘prevails here, caused by Anton Frank and O. H. Mayatt bringing in several rich samples of ore, containing free milling, gold. An assay showed $4,926 to the ten. No information can be obtained as to. the whereabouts of the claim, except that it is within three miles of Creede. The Salvation Army. WINNIPEG, March 17.—-Herbert Booth, the head of the Salvation Army in Can- ada, will give up his command and leave the country on June 1. - Salt Rheum Case. ; THOMAS WYANT, 365 Mon- roe Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes : “ November 27, 1805. “SALVA-CEA is the best friend I have had for six years. Having been a. sufferer—for that length of time with Salt Rheum, and after trying almost every remedy known, without getting any relief, I tried a box of S.ALi;A-CEA, and can honestly say I was cured before using the entire Lox. " In advertising SALvA-CEA we mention nothing but facts. We do not say it will do things that it will not do, and the public appreciate this. It is the best remedy for piles, ulcerations, old sores, WW WWW skin irritation,- c h i l bl ai n s , colds, and nasal catarrh. Two sizes, 25 and 50 cents per box. A: druggists, or by mai . For deefirmted 1min and rheumatism of t/zejaz‘nts use Salad-cm, “ Extra Strong." Sold in tins, at 75 cent: each. THE BRANDRETH Co., 274 Canal St, N. Y. NOTICE 0‘ Special ToliI Meeting. WW'WWNW-nnan....qg—.g. The inbabi ants cf the Town of Norwalk are hereby notified and warned that a special town 11' eeting will be held in the Town House in said Norwalk. 0n Monday-the 23d day of March, 1896. at 2 o‘clock in’ the afternoon. for the following purposes. to wit— - To repeal so much of the vote of said town passed at its annual business meeting held on the 20th day of J anuary, 1896. authorizmg and directing the Selectmen to cause to be im- . proved a certain highway according to the prov.sions of Chapter CCCXV of the Pubic Acts of this State‘of the year 1895, entitled “An Act to Provide for the Improvement of Public Roads." as reads as follow s. vim—a “that certain highway known as the Connecti- "cut Turnpike beginning at the city line "of the (.ity of South Norwalk about 140 "feet West of Taylor Avenue and extend- "ing Easterly as far as cm be done with "the sum of money appropriated therefor,” and in the place and stead thereof to designate and direct some other highway or section of highway to be improved according to the provisions of said vote and public Act. Dated at Norwalk. this 17th day of March. 1896. ISAAC SELLECK. Selectmen EPHRAIM '1 Hon“ 5, Town of FRANK H. ManaiLL, Norwalk. Tax Collector’s Sale. DI OTICE is hereby given that the under- _ Signed. Collector of Taxes, under and by Virtue of a certain tax warrant duly executed and Signed by proger authonty and directed to the underSIgne , commanding hllll to levy and collect of DANIEL STARR, Trustee of Estate of JOHN WISLEY BOUTON. and other persons named in the rate book, on the list to sand warrant annexed, their several proportions of the sum total as therein stated, sa1d sum bemg a tax or assessment laid upon the assessment list made 1n 1893 by the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk, regularly and legally assembled. to Wit.on the 28th day of DccemberA. D., 1893, met for. the purpose of provrdmg for the m- debtedness of said town, lev1es upon the fol- iowmg descrrbedreal estate of said Daniel Starr, Trustee, situated 1n town of Norwalk. at Cranbury Plains. so called, in quantity one and one-half acres, (1%) acres, mow or less. With bulldmas thereon. and bounded -" o 211‘ erly by land of Charles J. hyat' ; EaSI z-rl): by land now or formerly of the heirs of Lulu. its Olmstead, deceased; Southerly by land of F: eder1ck Bout-on and Westerly by the bow- town 'l‘urnp1ke. ' _ Andlshall sell at Publ1c Auction. on the premhes herembeiore descnbed. on the 19th day of May, A. D., 1896. at 10_o’clock. fore- noon. so much thereof as Will raise the sum of Twodollars, that being the proportion of said Daniel Starr, Trusses. of the sum total in said 11st, together With the charges of levy. sale, etc. GEORGE B. ST. JOHN. Tax Collector, List 1883. Dated at Norwalk March 14th. A. D.. 1896. Tax Collector’s Salr. QTICE is hereby given that the under: _ Signed, Collector of Taxes. under and by Virtue of a certain tax warrant, duly executed. and Signedby proper author1ty and directed to thfi ugdefrsrgned. commanding him to levy and co co 0 » DANIEL STARR, Trustee; of Estate of JOHN WESLEY BOUTON. and other persons named in the rate book, on the list to said warrant annexed. their several proportlousof Ihe sum total as therein stated, said sum being a. wax or assessment laid upon the assessment list made in 1894 by the inhabi- tants of the town of Norwalk. regularly an legally assembled. to wit. on the let day of Max ch. A. D., 805. met for the purpose of providing for the indebtedness of said town lev1es upon ihe followmg describedreal es- tate of said Daniel Starr. I’rustee, Sltuated in Town of Norwalk. at. Cranbury Plains, so called. in quantity one and one-half (1%) some. more or less. with buildings, thereon. an bounded Northwly by land of Lharles J. Hyatt; Easterly by land now or formerly of the heirs of Charles Olmstead, deceased; Southerly by land of FredenckBouton and Westerly by the heivtown Turnpike ' , . And I shallscll at Public Auction. on the premises herembefore described, on the 19th _ day of May. A. D.. 189b, at _10:15_ o’clock fore- noon. so much thereof as Will raise the sum of ‘1 wo dollars. that being the proportion of the said Paniel Starr. Trustee. of the sumtotal in said 1151:, together With the charges of levy, sale, etc. . . GEO. B. ST. J OHN. . . Tax Collector. List of 1894. Dated at Norwalk. March 14th, A. D., 1896 ‘ -
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