Evening Democrat, The (Newspaper) - April 10, 1899, Warren, Pennsylvania ARREN is to have a Soldier Monument your m- w fluence to the project memory of our soldier is to be perpetuated Subscribe liberally to the monument fund VOL 10 30 WARREN PA MOM DAY 10 1899 PRICED WO SANTA Has Been Captured ty Gen Lawton's Forces While Our Casualties Were Only Six Wounded GOMEZ ELECTED Commander-in-Chief of Cuban As Trial Now on in Sensational Developments Special to the v WASHINGTON April follow ing official dispatch from Otis has been re- at the war MANIT A command Santa Cuz the chief city on Laguna de lUy this morning Our casualties were six wounded The in- surgent troops were out leaving 68 dead on the field and a large number of A c intolerable number weru captured Lawton will pursue the rebels westward The Crokers to Testify Special to the New YORK April tion committee resumed work this morning Attorney O representing the city de- pa m nt announced that Frank was and ready to testify whenever called He also stated that Richard Cr would be p esent whenever he was to testify prior to the whan he for was instructed to request Mi presence on next was The Senatorial Contest Special to the Democrat April a few bers of the legislature were in their seats at roon The talk was chiefly con ft i'd to discussing conspiracy trial Quay n Jenks io If vine Trial Berlin Special to the Democrat April The Irial of for- mer Senator Quay and his son Richard with conspiracy growing out of tht defunct People's Bank affair began in the criminal couit this Judge Craig on the bench The to the c art room was carefully and only those holding a special were allowed to enter and this only after the time of calling the cnse The prevailing impression tin something would develop to prevent the today was soon dissipated Nothing dramatic or pathetic characterized either the entrance 01 appearance of He v ns smiling when he took his seat beside his at- Up to eight jurors had been secured Tripp Gets an Appointment Special to the DEMOCRAT WASHING TON April The president has appointed the Hon Barllett Tripp United States representative on the Samoan vl commission Tripp vis minister to under the last Ch veland administration and is a lie resides at Yankton S D The state department has not yet learned whom Germany has appointed on the com- mission Gen Elected Special the DEMOCRAT HAVANA April 10 The Cuban now in command of troops yesterday officially notified Gomez of his to of chief of the Cuban aimy and to direct its disbandment Twelve Men in Mine to the DEMOCRAT Texas April 19 A mining ter has been reported at ing camp in Coahuila Mex Gas exploded setting lire to the Veda Rici mine and twelve men were unable to reach the exists FUNERAL SERVICES HELD War Department Think ton Will Take Santa Cruz LIKELY TO HEAR FROM HIM TODAY Starts Ont With an Cant lire and Destroy and Latest lime a q it ing the field Braves Purgers are in whole Dr Liver Pills at 10 cents a vial ate driving them out at all points Because tht y act gently more eft never pain and are easy to sick succumbs to one 74 For sale by Moms Mullen will be a supper given at the S V O on Anvil nth for the of the Danish cl urch April 4 8 at Try a b title of Pepsin sny i Bitter So'd utily by J H Gray 4 8 6t N April 10 war de- authorities look for important from Manila today announcing in probability the capture of tho city of Oraz a loading town in a country vs yet untouched by American forces and now in the hands of the pino forces No report of tho movement General men has been made to tho war department but ment in tho press dispatches occasioned no surprise for the move is looked upon is one of tho natural steps in General Otis carefully laid plans against the m- Banta Cruz is apparently an opening for tho country beyond From it lead highways in all directions to Manila by poms around tho shores of Lagoon and to tho important point if Batangas and tho well advanced province of Tayabas whoso capital city located 91 miles from Manila TAl however may not any material advance beyond junta Cruz at this time as tho region the south is a very broken country MANILA April expedition of men under Major which started night with the jiti of crossing de Bay the town of Bantu Cruz on the eastern shove ot tho lake and then tho country to the south con- of 200 picked sharpshooters sen from the various regiments mountain battery Gale's three troops of the Fourth unmounted with Iw ft aliens of the Fourteenth infantry battalion of Idaho infantry and battalion tho North Dakota infantry under General King Tho flotilla of 20 towed by tugs and convoyed by I he Luguna do Bay Ooste nnd Rapidan and preceded by the launch containing General Lawton nnd General Kins started from San Pedro on the river General Lawton's plan was to roach Santa OUK Sunday morning tit Ceremonies the Victims of Andrews of Ism NEW YORK April funeral services over the remains of the Six members of family of Wallace 0 Andrews and Gamaliel O St John who perished in Friday rific lire were held at the home of the Andrews family Sunday afternoon The funeral services were simple and none but the very intimate Mends relatives of the family were in ance Tho funeral oration was ered by Prof Felix Adier of the Cal Culture From 1 o'clock until after tile funeral had started on its why to the Grand Central station two hours later Fifth avenue ui the vicinity of the Andrews home was choked with a Surging curious crowd The caskets containing the regains of the dead six in all were placed in the back parlor and arranged ih the shape of a Covering the coffins and strewn about were floral tributes that had been scat to the house There were no ceremonies the oration delivered fry Prof Adler Nor was there any music All was plain and simple in accordance with the wishes of Mr St John At the con- of the services the crowd slowly out of tbo house and the caskets were placed in hearses and driven to the Grand Central station whence they wore taken to Woodlawn cemetery by a special train The caskets were taken to the station in six hearses driven two abreast Tho pallbearers Russell Sage General Robert G In- James V W J cock 0 E Mr tor T 0 Platt Horace A Hutchins and H S Ford Despite reticence on tap part of the police facts became public which make it appear that tho lire which destroyed 13 persons was oi incendiary origin A few hours before the flames were seen a policeman was bent for from the An- drews house and was mysteriously dis- missed by a servant who said he was not wanted Letters threatening the lives of the Andrews family and the children of Mrs St John wero found It is believed the motive for arism wan revenue and that the affair arose out of a quarrel among the ants Tho police are hard lit work in- the clues which chiefly rest upon Iho letters Mary the dead maid seems to have been the central figure in this plot and che chief object of the He Expired at His Home Washington In HIS PUBLIC CAREER During His Term on the Bench In the Supreme Court lie Was Concerned In Many Important Has Held Many Other Public Positions WASHINGTON April phen J Field of the United States court retired died at his home on Capitol hill in this city at o'clock Sunday evening of kidney com- About his bedside were his wife and her sister Mrs J Smith Mr Justice David J Brewer his nephew Mrs Edgerton of nia Mr Linton Ms private secretary the Rev Edward M rector of the Church of tho Advent and the family servants He had been unconscious since Saturday morning and death came painlessly Ever since Justice Field's retirement from the supreme court bench on Deo 1 1897 he had enjoyed comparatively good health About two weeks ago however he contracted a severe cold which rapidly developed kidney troubles The disease readily yielded to ment and on Thursday last he sat up for a time and seemed quite himself again but on Saturday morning a change for the worse took place and about noon he lost consciousness From that time ho sank rapidly No ments have yet been made for the neral Stephen Johnson Field was born at Haddam Nov 4 1810 He was tho ot David Dudley Field and one of four brothers who became so famous David Dudley Cyrus W and Henry M Field being the other members of the great quartette that made their names known throughout the world early boyhood was spent at Stockbridge Mass At tho age of 18 Stephen J Meld went to Smyrna where his sister had married a missionary the Rev Josiah Brewer Before 1st our entire stock must be moved To effect this clearance quickly we've marked all goods low enough to induce anyone with a present or prospect in Furniture need to buy at once Nothing reserved every piece reduced in price Carpet Sweepers worth sale Parlor Tables quartered oak worth sale 1.00 Woven Wire Bed Springs worth sale price Arm Rockers antique worth sale price 880 Umbrella Racks worth 25 sale price 880 Window Shades cloth worth sale price Window Shades paper worth lOc sate price Picture a worth sale price SSc One doz n Reed Rockers worth sale price 85 Call and see a ide Furniture Sale A J SMITH DIAMOND BLOCK then to scour the country to the of tho lake a district not yet ex- the Americans Tho tactics be hose tho old timo frontier lighting it is probable that tho will be divided into squads of 12 under In absence tho ond division is temporarily commanded by General whoso lines ex- tend irom tho beach near Malato south of Manila to the sliore of do Bay a distance of about seven miles Tho withdrawal of tho 18 companies constituting the expeditionary force made a gap in tho line from the beach lo just southwest of San Pedro which was subsequently filled oy the Fourth regular infantry The rebels on tho extreme right had evidently boeji of the with drawn 1 of the troops and they at- tempted to sneak through after fall but they mot with a warm tion and fell back in disorder on ering that tho line was still intact MADRID April following dispatch from Manila is published has a decree di- recting that Spanish shall bo the official language throughout the archipelago and protesting against tho American to force tho of English on tho natives who do not know it Cablegrams from General Otis at Manila wore received by the war de- yesterday giving this list of killed and a largo unmoor wounded March 23 infantry Company G Privates John Ingham son H Thomas P Morris Pennsylvania Company K Sergeant Frank Sharp ab- domen severe D Private Charles leg slight Following deaths have occurred since last March 81 Jacob ger private Company H Eighteenth infantry gunshot wounded ally April 4 George B Fargo private F First Washington dysentery GIFT TO anonym ons loiters which had sent to members of tho Adams household One was addressed to the servant Mary Flanagan FOE AID Street Railway Wants Mon In WHEELING April Although the Wheeling Railway company made no effort to operate its road Sunday did not pass without deeds of violence Last night tho largo barns just below the city line in Marshall county were at tacked by a small mob of boys and young men who fired brickbats stones and other through the windows and erected a barricade in front of the door out of which tho oars leave tho barn Tho police were called upon for protection but the response w as not satisfactory to the company whereupon Secretary Shirley called upon tho of Marshall county for protection This official left at once for the scene of hostilities He detailed several deputies for duty at the barns Long before this however the crowd had dispersed The company has secured 20 other men from Chicago who ar- rived at Bellaire Over half of tho men brought hero Saturday have de- and left for their homes some waking and others jumping freights The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor sembly in sessin Sunday endorsed the Neither side has sought a con- ference so far and it looks like a bitter fight STUDENTS IN A FIGHT Business In Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines Increasing WASHINGTON April of War Meiklejohn gave out for publication some interesting statistics regarding the trade of the United States with the islands of Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines prefacing thorn by calling attention to the fact that normal conditions of trade have not yet been fully restored between the islands named The returns for February show an in- crease of imports from the islands into this country amounting to and a corresponding increase of exports from the United States to the islands of 269 as compared with the same mouth a year ago Our trade with Porto Rico likewise shows an excess of imports over exports to that island with Cuba has been in the past several times as large as our trade with Porto Rico and the It Will Comes Up Before Judge Biddle In Philadelphia MANY STARTLING AFLOAT One Story His Comine Will Ask For a Ills the Will Depend on tho PHILADELPHIA April 10 trial of States Senator and his son Richard R Quay on charges oi conspiracy in alleged ol funds of tho People's bank of this city will be called up today Philippines combined and now is already iu tho conrt of showing wonderful gains over the older f f figures The exports to Cuba have also fw view tho many delays post prospered those of January and ruary showing an increase of over in value The trade of tho United States with the Philippines it is said begins to show the natural growth dne tu the direction of the attention of American exporters to the archipelago A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE JUSTICE FIELD Our STOCK PATTERN SAUCERS Per Dcz 24 PCS C WINDOW The City Crockery Store J K Two Sevres From Late Fa it re WASHINGTON April A notable ceremony took place in tho blue room of the executive mansion Saturday when the French ambassador M Cambon presented to the government and ean people as represented through President two magnificent Sevres from the National pottery ftt Sevres The gift was from the iato president of tho French republic Felix Faure and commemorated the opening tho new Franco- American cable on Aug 17 last Tho presentation was made the sion for a happy exchange of tional M Cambon making an address and tho president responding FOUR PERSONS DROWNED Are Missing Ice Gorge Stream to Over How Mou April ice gorge in tho Yellowstone river at this point caused that stream to overflow Candidates For West Point ami Village Hoys Have a Battle WEST POINT April fierce tle occurred at Highland Falls between candidates for admission to West Point as cadets on the one side and boys of the village on the other The candidates are attending the preparatory school at Highland Falls prior to being at West Point next Juno for admission to the academy There were about 80 of thorn in tho fight bat they were out- three to one by the boys of the town Tho trouble bogan with a hand encounter and the crowd soon in- creased to such an that stone throwing took thw place of fists eral of tnc candidates wero more or less injured tho most seriously hurt being S Grant III appointed at large by the president Tho services of the doctors in town wero required to dress the wounds of the injured Hostilities continued for nearly an Seriously Wounded In a Fight NEWPORT NEWS Va April Charles yard conductor of shot tn a 000 the Northern Pacific tracks are in- undated and possibly washed away for some distance and the loss to live stock by drowning will involve a large sum that Wilkerson was shot by a companion ot Bates though Bates shot at him once while Wilkerson was on top of him ball no material damage About a dozen friends oi the two principals blazed away at one another with ers 50 or GO times during the fight but no one save Wilkerson was Injured Wilkerson's wounds are serious who had undertaken an educational mission to the Greeks and he there quired a knowledge of Oriental Returning to this country after two and a half years he later en- tered Williams college from which he was graduated in 1837 at the head of his class He then went to New York where he entered the law office ol his brother David Dudley Field He waa admitted to the bar and became a ner in the firm In November 1849 he sailed for San Francisco around Cape Horn and entered upon the practice of the law in the occidental metropolis After a short timo he moved to ville a small mining camp and became one of tho founders of what afterward grew to bo a thriving town When the little city was organized Justice Field was elected of the place This office carried with it the dignity of mayor and at the same time imposed all the duties of she bench He was elected a judge of the supreme court of California in 1857 for the term of six years In 1859 he became chief justice succeeding Chief Justice David S Terry In 1863 President Lincoln appointed him associate judge of the court of the United States and he held that position until his ment on Dec 1 1897 During a term of than a third of a he was concerned itt some of the most important cases ever passed upon by the supreme court Among the prominent decisions was the famous case in which he gave the ing vote and wrote the opinion of the court annulling the validity of the ironclad His dissenting ions in the confiscation cases the legal tender cases and in the New Orleans slaughter house case attracted the widest attention He was a member of the electoral commission in 1877 and voted with the Democratic minority In 1880 he received 65 for the presidential nomination at the Cincinnati cratic convention on the first ballot In 1873 he was appointed by the governor of the state of California one of the com- mission to examine the code of laws of that state In 1889 one of the most sensational events of a remarkably active and career largely passed in a new country in process of development from a pioneer state to a highly civilized community brought his personality vividly before the public Sarah Althea Hill Terry had brought ft famous suit against Sharon a California Justice Field was on the bench The outcome of the case was unfavorable to the plaintiff and engendered in her feelings oi hatred of the jurist This culminated in her Fifty Passengers In a Kail road Wreck Hurt GREEN BAY Wis April passengers on an eastbound train on the Green Bay and Western railroad had a miraculous escape from death and in- jury two miles oast of Royalton Owing fo an unnoticed washout tho roadbed collapsed under the weight of the train which was running 40 miles per hour Fireman A Coppin jumped safely but Engineer J C Wigman was pinned in by debris of the engine which rolled down the He will re- cover The baggage car and coaches wero torn off the trucks and thrown forward Not one passenger was in- jured In Cane PARIS April testimony of General Billot former minister of war before the court of cassation in tho Dreyfus case did not contain any new facts except the assertion that the brothers of Dreyfus told General pn Dec 18 1894 that they were ready to offer their whole fortune for the discovery of tho real culprit This was the beginning of the Dreyfus taken up by Colonel Soldiers Under Arrest BOSTON April members the regiment of teers which arrived tho West Indies came as prisoners and were turned over to the commandant at Ft Warren to servo out terms of ment for violations of mutiny law or dissipation Much dissatisfaction was expressed by the men during tho voyage at quantity and quality of the sions furnished Last Friday evening hie trouble among the soldiers almost approached mutiny the public furniture exhibition at N Greenland's See ad in tho proceedings fore there is a general foe ling in tin public mind that there still bo an- other delay but District Attorney and counsel for tho state they are ready to proceed with tho trial and know of no to further post pone matters Mr and his son have been in city tho greater portion of the con- with thuir counsel relative to the case Tho air hero was full of rumors bearing on the trial fixed for to day Of mo one most persistently circulated was that tho trial would be continued and that within a 1 hours tho r senator withdraw name from tho list of candidates foi This rumor could be traced to no authentic source Mr was soon in his room at rue and asked what truth there was in tho report It's news to me I have had no mation to that the reply Will tho trial co on today I presume so though that matter is entirely in the hands of the attorneys Then there is no truth in the story that your counsel will ask for another postponement V As fur as I know there is not sonally I would have to have tho case after tho con test at has been decided There in a report that you will withdraw from the field as candidate this week Has it That depends entirely on tho people at My personality does no enter into the case at aU IP LOUR Journey NEW YORK April James Elsey the London messenger boy who left London April 1 for California to rival the recent trip of tho on ger boy sent to Chicago arrived hero on the Cunard liner lie lott for tho west over tho Lauka and Western raid Ho is to de a letter at ui in Oil BERMUDA April 10 The United States cruiser from nila to New hove All board are well Many Special Bargains This Week New lot Dress hams lOc quality 7 New lot White Goods 8 and lOc Bleached at 6 value 1 value 6c New Dress Goods New Silks New New Art Denims New Curtains New Dimities New Percales New Wash Goods O H Hunter The Of Goods Formerly Owned By Consisting Of READY MADE CLOTHING Elephant Killed Ita Keeper KANSAS CITY April a convention mammoth elephant owned by Lemen League of Press Clubs which will com Bros Circus company which has been wintering in Argentina Kan near killed its keeper Prank Fisher Judge Terry who had been her attorney in the suit against Sharon and who afterward married her interfered and when it seemed that he was ing to do violence to Justice Field's eon David Nagle a United States deputy marshal drew a revolver and Press Contention shot and killed Terry Nagle Fisner bad returned to the tent and tried to make different meuce tomorrow and continue fo Friday promises to be one of the most ful in the history About 800 delegates parts of the Smalt Vote Cart April the joint assembly Saturday only 85 were cast ae li 8 and FURNISHINGS Will be offered to the public at prices that will move them very quickly CALL AND SEE
