Newark Daily Advocate (Newspaper) - December 31, 1898, Newark, Ohio NEWARK DAILY GATE Volume 60 No 12 U 25 Cents a Month BANQUET And Reception to Col Bryan He Discussed Philippine Question CONSPIRACY SUIT AT LINCOLN LAST NIGHT In Responding to the Sentiment America's Col- Policy Unwise and Wrong in Other Notables Lincoln Dec 31 A banquet and complimentary reception to Colonel W J Bryan was tendered by the Nebraska Traveling Men's Bryan club at the Lincoln hotel Invitations were sent to 250 admirers of Mr Bryan which were with few exceptions accepted The only notable absentee was Con- gressman Bailey of who was to have responded to the toast but who telegraphed from Washington his inability to be ent The dining hall was thrown open at 9 o'clock and the speech ing began an hour later Mr Bryan responded to the sentiment ca's Let not the crimes of the east e'er crimson thy name be freedom and science and virtue thy fame After commending members of the club for their fidelity to the Chicago platform Mr Bryan proceeded to dis- cuss the Philippine question He insisted that a colonial policy was wrong in principle and unwise and he predicted that it would prove able in practice He said in You have labored diligently to prevent foreign financiers from disregarding the of the American people now you are called upon to use your influence to prevent the American people from garding the rights of others Self-restraint is a difficult virtue to practice Solomon says that he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city The American people have shown that they can take a city will they be able to re- strain the spirit of It has been the boast of our nation that right makes might Shall we abandon the motto of the republic and go back a tury to the monarchical motto which serts that makes right? Be not carried away by the excitement incident to war it will soon subside Our people will turn again to the paths of peace justice will resume her reign Be steadfast in the of the fathers Tour fight is for yourselves as well as for your country In the words of the Georgian Who saves his country saves himself and all things saved do bless him who lets his country die lets all things die dies himself things dying curse him Imperialism finds its inspiration in lars not in duty It is not our duty to burden our people with increased taxes In order to give a few speculators an for exploitation it is not our duty to sacrifice the best blood of our nation in tropical jungles in an attempt to stifle the very sentiments which have given vitality to American institutions it is not our duty to deny the people of the Philippines the rights for which our forefathers fought from Bunker Hill to Yorktown Our nation has a mission but it Is to erate those who are in to place shackles upon those who are Cling to be free We rejoice in the marvelous victory won by Dewey in Manilla bay we would give to him a sacred place in history and crown his memory with blessings To us he is a to the Filipinos he can be a savior him be known to posterity not as the subjugator of an alien race but as the re- deemer of an oppressed people not as a Lord Clire but as a Lafayette The of a people U better than a jeweled The second most notable address was that of Hon J G Johnson cratic national committeeman from Kansas who spoke to the sentiment No He took the position that the trust system of the country is the direct outgrowth of the protective tariff system without which to prevent foreign competition there could be no successful cornering of any of the ordinary manufactured products of the He claimed that there was no present financial activity except in industries and ed that the system had all of the worst elements of state socialism without any of its advantages to the public He closed by exhorting his hearers to assist in the overthrow of the lican party and thereby eliminate both the protective tariff and the trusts He thought there was no sent call to carry freedom 7.000 miles across the sea when there is such a crying need for financial commercial and industrial emancipation at home The other speakers were Governor Holcomb Governor-elect W A ter James Hanahan G M Hitchcock editor of the Omaha World Herald Deputy Attorney General W D han and General J B Wearer of Iowa National Cash er Companies in a Fight Deo worn issued and made in ises to be a big conspiracy suit against officers and of the National Cash Register company cf Dayton O The conspiracy suit was entered be- fore Alderman McMasters by W H Gill local agent of the Hallwood Cash Register company cf Columbus 0 as a representative of his company The National company it is alleged among other things have adopted all kinds of tactics to keep the Hallwood from doing business and besides ing warnings in newspapers have at- tempted to knock out Hallwood by false and fraudulent methods IMPRESSIVE HER SUN SETTING Sale Aside Toledo Dec Merchants National bank of Baltimore filed a petition in the case against Wellington R Burt and the Ann Ar- bor railroad asking the setting aside of the sale on the grounds of fraud The new parties brought into the suit are the Craig Shipping company cf Toledo the Farmers Trust company and the Central Trust company of New York It is claimed in the petition that they were interested in selling tht road New Columbus O Dec Globe company Cincinnati increase of tal stock from to the Board of Trade Minster Auglaize county the Union Paper and Twine company Cleveland capital stock Cleveland City Lodge No 33 Independent Order of Sons of min Cleveland the Savings ing and Loan company Cleveland of amendment reducing face value of shares from to each Ceremony Over Remains of Senator Morrill la Senate Chamber at Noon Today Remains Go to Vermont Sunday Washington Dec funeral the late Senator Morrill of Vermont took place at noon today in the Senate chamber The deceased as held in the highest esteem by the members of all parties and there was a great crowd present though it wad raining The remains were taken early this morning to the Senate chamber and placed in front of the presiding officer's dask The honorary pallbearers e I of senator and representatives bled at in the marble room Every government department was closed today by order of the President The funeral services were conducted by the Rev Dr Leavitt the pastor the All Souls Unitarian church which was Senator Merrill's church and by j the Rev Dr Milburn the blind ate chaplain For the first time in congressional funerals the remains were exposed to view President and Mrs McKinley arrived at this afternoon ed by the family friends and colored servants of the deceased The choir sang and Mr Leavitt eulogized the de- ceased The words were very sive and many were moved to tears The ceremonies were concluded this afternoon at The remains will be taken to Montpelier Vt tomorrow GOOD FEELING it Reversed Cincinnati Dec Hollister of the common pleas court reversed the judgment of the police court in a case involving the practice of Christian Science healing Harriet Evans had been convicted in the police court of violating the law regulating the tice of medicine The upper court re- versed this Engineer Injured Kenton 0 Dec bound train on the Big Four at was delayed eral hours by an accident at Richland The on the engine broke tearing off one side of the cab and in- juring Engineer Joe Allen severely Cut lu Two Gallipolis O Dec Johnson while at work in a sawmill was struck by a piece of timber and thrown astride the saw which split his body the parts falling on either side He leaves a wife and three children 5 Said to Be Restored as Cubans Will Have Celebration of Their Own Havana Cuba Dec celebration muddle is settled The Cubans are to hold a grand insur gent demonstration at Havana on February 24 the fourth sary of their uprising This new arrangement has restored good feeling among the formal disbandment of the Cuban army is scheduled for that date Struck It Rich Cadiz 0 Dec new oil wells have been drilled at Scio with a of about 100 barrels per day Eleven rigs are just completed and about 15 others started The town is full cf strangers Whole Prostrated Cedarville O Dec O thews wife and eight children are prostrated with trichinae from eating pork sausage The mother and one child are in a critical condition Found a Pearl Caldwell O Dec d Kee near this place found in Duck creek a highly polished pearl for which he has been offered A DRUNKEN MAN Shot Wife and Daughter and Then Himself This Morning Jersey City Dec may bz a triple tragedy was enacted here ly this morning Karl a saloon keeper went home drunk and was ordered by his wife to leave tho house For answer be shot his wife His sixteen year-old daughter to run from the house but a bullet brought her down then blew out his wife will die and the daughter is today in a critical condition Six Miners Killed Ishpeming Mich Dec landers were killed this afternoon by a falling car in a mine shaft The bodies have not yet been recovered After National Biscuit Company Columbus O Dec General this afternoon j a case in the supreme court under the act to oust the National j cuit trust This is not incorporated in Ohio but does business here Several Insurgent Revolts Manilla Dec people in the interior say that the insurgents ation is more onerous than that of the Spanish Several revolts against the insurgent government in tiie ies and Tarlac provinces are reported It is believed that dissatisfaction will make the American occupation easy Stamp Decision Washington Dec At- torney General Boyd has rendered an opinion in which he holds that all re- ceipts given for goods merchandise or property held in storage in a regular warehouse require the stamp provided for by the war revenue act The drunken man own brains The St Joseph Mich Dec dred Vaugh of Ky who it is claimed is vorth over was A famous Tine at Hampton Court privately married in parlors of the Palace now 130 years old contains View to Prank E Ball a bunches of fruit Celebration Abandoned Pretoria Dec tations have been made to President Kruger urging him to forbid the posed celebration on Jan 2 of de- feat of the Jameson raid when at the suggestion of the Pretoria the project was to burn Dr Jameson In effigy Owing to the paper's action the celebration has been abandoned There is no doubt that such an ob- servance of Ja day as has been planned would lead to serious riots Five of Crew Shot Southampton Dec shooting affray occurred this morning on the American liner St Paul Five of the crew were shot and another stabbed The origin of the quarrel is not known M order In Kentucky McKee son shot and killed Andrew Combs at a turkey shoot at Isaac's store near here He first knocked Combs down then shot him Cornelison was arrested and there is a possibility of his being lynched Memorable Year London Dec common con- sent all the annual reviews in the morning papers regard the year 1898 as memorable for the Spanish-American war and the manifest destiny con- of the ing people Joined the Lima Peru Dec to advices from La Paz capital of Bolivia it is rumored there that the advance guard of the troops under President Alonzo sent against has made common cause with them by Madrid Dec Liberal an interview with a minister Whose name is not known which resents him as declaring that the ad- Tent cf the Conservatives to power is only delayed by illness Barber's Good Fortune J barber of Beaton Harbor Mich Whole Family Poisoned Shelby Tex Dec mack wife and five children have poisoned by arsenic which was in their coffee by unknown Two of them are dead and the others are expected to die Mrs Ann Beard mother of Mrs E J Conley and Dr Beard has from a year's visit with her daughter Mrs John L Williams at Morgan Park The management of the Brunswick Bowling Alleys will give to the person making the highest score on Monday a regulation ball Spain Ready to Vacate the Island of Cuba New Year Brings Her No Joy as U S Soldiers Take Dons Will Withdraw Havana details or the evacuation day demonstration are ad At 11 on uu 1 I the will occupy the plan in front of i ace the j soldiers Jo die transports awaiting them Captain and the of his will remain in the captain nient-i in the of j United troops will enter Morro FOR PEACE Filipinos Reply to Report of U S Commissioner tie and Cabanas fort the troops withdraw ing to Iran ports with the exception of a of artillerymen who will remain behind to fire a to the raised military ers and their Major military ernor of the Major eral Lee governor the of Major tary of the city of Havana ami ohn of the States naval at with their join Captain General toward noon in the of the in the palace root be a officer probably of captain's rank ami a guard of with Major and a detail of United States infantry the of the American saline to tiie red and golden ft Spain the Spanish officer will lower flag and Major Butler will the and stripes the guns The latter salute will Us special n cance the brilliant company the palace and Captain in a few words will transfer the to Major General of Scares military who replying to the captain will it to Major General Brooke tary governor of Cuba i -As soon as these ceremonies are Captain General leave the palace escorted br the United States proceeding across the plaza to the steamer upon which he will embark fbr As the general Crosses the plaza the United States troops drawn up there will salute A short tion will follow in the state balon after which the American generals and laval will go to the Hotel review a column of United States troops Trade the SOB of Major Wade will raise the American flag over Morro castle and Lee Jr eyer Cabanas fortress Military Departments V Washington Dec war de- issued an order ing two departments in and about Havana namely the Department of Havana comprising the city proper suburbs and an area of about 10 square miles and the Department of the Province of Havana the territory outside of the city proper Major General is to command the department comprising the city suburbs and General Lee is assigned to the district out- side the city PAPERS Views on tions Incident to New Haven Dec Ci Probably the most important paper read during the sessions of the American Historical was that by Justice Simon E Baldwin of New Haven on The Constitutional Questions dent to the Acquisition and ment of Island Territory Professor Baldwin cited as one cf the first difficulties which would arise by the acquisition of the Philippines the question of the right of suffrage He As to children born in territory the ratification f now if it should will all citizens of tbc and under the fifteenth to the right of suffrage He The provisions of article of the constitution that all imposts and shall be uniform throughout the United States will also prove an obstacle any of our protective system if it is Prof Baldwin said that no tional authority can be found for the transfer of the Philippines to the pinos As to Tuba inn Spain has she has not it to is j Of a but the senate JO mains of ivn f c to the rest of tirt irv si 11 as to How with congress our 10 X onder military can b a til Into stales T- he riven to Ihp i r a m r Of as a of of Hje and TJ of th Til fi w-i they i must Tat Root Ryan Chicago Dec Root of cago gained a decision over Australian Jimmy Ryan in a go in the Seventh regiment armory Root ed great cleverness in ducking getting inside of Ryan's vicious swings and came out of the contest practically unmarked Ryan on the other band had his right eye cat and nearly closed Root's left hand con- nearly every time be used it Root forced the throughout Bota men weighed In at 151 pounds Filipino junta here has is follows to the report of Hank p who was sent to the by cf the Tinted States to report upon the conditions there pre- We deny hat will hf satisfied If a in of five native and lint if is done t ho be repeat our appeal for an Impartial by an aid and im- ploie the m people to from a decision views n la nil Hardi to impose hi America a unit Iloilo surrendered to the national which is the completion of tli of the inland of There is no In the reported establishment of an sition republic in the All the of- in the Visayas hold mi sion The Filipino nro yarning for a settlement of all To their ers across sea lie send ing and that with tho new year will come a of a new era of peace with the free and f the ed States but an infant yet are we if of tiie good will of die American nation Out Militia Pana Ills Dec to a re- port received by Lieutenant Colonel Wells that miners from southern and central Illinois mining towns heavily armed were en route to Pana to join the miners and assist in driving out the negroes the Gatling gun section in readiness for quick service was kept on duty together with an ally heavy provost guard Upon re- quest of Colonel Wells Ad- jutant General Reece ordered company H of Decatur to reinforce companies C and K of the Fifth regiment They arrived 60 strong at noon under com- mand of Captain Cassell Eastern Bowlers West New York Dec ments for the annual western of the Greater New York bowlers were completed After playing a series in Philadelphia the team will visit Harrisburg more Akron Delaware London Dayton ton Cincinnati Lima Lorain Kenton Toledo East Toledo and Marion O Indianapolis Lawrenceburg fort and porte Ind Newport Lexington and Covington Kv Chicago Lansing Jackson Bay City Detroit Saginaw and Ann Arbor ilich For Chiago Dec for jury bribing were voted against James Lynch and E K Powell by the grand Jury in a number of similar crises are being investigated Lynch is a court bailiff Powell is a cattle buyer and was a juror in one of the cases The jury is alleged to have been clone in the interest of a street railway company defendant in the cases In question Mail Boats Damaged Paris Dec weather is reported in the eastern Several mail boats have been damaged STRUCK A CLEW Dectective Ssys He Will Soon Clear New York Murder Mystery New York George McCluskey chief of the detective reau firmly believes that he has solved the mystery surrounding the attempt to kill Harry Cornish cal instructer of the bocker Athletic club by ing him poison through the mails Captain McCluskey stated that he would have the culprit in custody within 12 hours The name of the suspected murderer is withheld from publication lest its announcement should defeat the ends of justice The man under surveillance was formerly a member of the Knickerbocker Athletic club He was at one time a man of high social and financial ing in this city In later years through evil habits and evil tion his descent was rapid Atlanta Deo sentiment regarding of in President legislature has into an dv to ascertain th of all the Confederate grounds in 1 FOR LIFE Mrs Botkin Goes to Prison Acquittal or Disagreement Expected VERDICT BROUGHT DISMAY To the Prisoner and Her Counsel The Jury Spared the Woman's Life But Found Her Guilty of First Degree Murder Dec to the surprise of those who have followed the Botkin trial and to the entire dismay of the defendant and her attorneys Mrs Cordelia kin was found guilty of murder in the first degree for causing the death of Mrs John P Dunning by sending a box of poisoned candy to her rary home in Dover Del The con- murderess will be spared the ignominious death en the gallows however the jury that found her ty imposing also the penalty of life imprisonment The verdict was un- expected An acquittal was confidently awaited by the defense while the feared a disagreement At 9 p m word was sent to Judge Carroll Cook that the jury was prepared to make a report Court ately convened and the jury stated through its foreman that an ment had been reached the verdict being that Mrs Botkin accused of killing Mrs John P Dunning by means of poisoned candy sent through the mails was guilty of murder in the first degree In accordance with the laws of California which empowers the jury to decide between hanging and imprisonment in such cases penalty was fixed at imprisonment for life The courtroom was cleared when just after Mrs Botkin had announced to the deputy sheriff in a clear that she was ready to go him prison occurred the only sensational of the evening The con- woman attempted to rise when her highly strung nerves seemed to and suddenly she fell back into tiie arms of Mrs Roberts It was thought she had fainted but in a ment a glass of water revived her and she resumed her usual appearance though the intense nervous strain was still apparent in the twitching of her facial and the quick ment of her hands as her fingers drummed on the table In a few utes she apparently shock off all signs of excitement and quietly accompanied the deputy sheriff out of the room PROTESTS HER San Francisco Dec kin who has been convicted of der passed a bad night She sobbed continually and at times is hysterical Today she still declares her innocence She says that failure to convict in two recent murder trials influenced the jury and that she was made a goat of public opinion The Delaware witnesses left for the east today Ordered to Columbus Ga received from at con ordering the One Hundred and Sixtieth and the Third tucky regiments to gft into at once to gro to Cuba The Eighth Massachusetts now encamped at is also ordered to get in readiness Eight Men Entombed Pa Dec 31 Eight men were entombed by a cave-in in No 18 shaft of the Lehigh and Coal company at After a heroic rescue five of the men were taken out alive are still shot im but it is expected they will be rescued There is more than a possibility that may be Cubans Have Friends Washington Dec 31 More n 1 will be raided in congress than ever was raised n Cuba said a prominent Republican senator If the Cubans are not permitted to take part in the demonstration on the 1st of January was quite naturally averse io having his name published as the executive and tary powers of government have ordered the authorities in Cuba to ex- Cubans 1 is hard upon those ho went on to say I know there is a strong sentiment in this in vor of permitting the to and it seems to me that or Gomez his followers will re- shah treatment ii the order It to me that our forces are enough to preserve order at Havana In all the outrages there the have taken the initiative I do not believe the Cubans wonld a Now Governor Roosevelt Albany X Y Dec Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as governor of New York at 10 o'clock this afternoon The ceremonies will be held on Monday Weather Indications Washington Dec weather indications for Newark and vicinity Rain and clearing this fair and Sunday Colder
