The herald., 1897-08-21
Causes Thrills of Horror
in Europe
LIBERAL LEADER sAGAsTA
SEES THAT CUBA rs LOST TO
SPAIN
Assassin Angiolillo Is Duly Choked
to Death-Azcarraga Appointed
to Succeed Canovas
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
| LONDON, Aug. 20.-The correspond
ent of the Daily Chronicle in a letter
from Cuba tells of further cruelty in that
island. He says the pacif1cos are dying
by the hundreds, their bodies tainting
the air close to a Spanish fort.
The Chronicle correspondent remarks
that a private letter has been received
at Havana from Senor Sagasta, the LIB
eral leader in Spain. in which he says:
1.-The atrocities are raising thrill Of
horror in Europe, and I fear 1t is i'm
possible to raise fresh loans, without
which we cannot retain Cuba
The correspondent further says: Ger
man syndicates are buying the devastat-
ed plantations at nominal sums and in
tend to raise coffee extensively, aban-
doning sugar. This will directly concern
the United States and French sugar
trusts, and will probably lead to extern
sive sugar growing in Georgia and Flor
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GOLLIS LAST HOURS
NEW YORK, August 20.-A dispatch
to the World from San Sebastian says:
AS the moment Of his doom approaches.
the assassin Golli or Angiolillo. listens
to the exhortations of the priests and
friars with his singular sardonic smile,
now and then shaking off his mask OF
atheistic incredulity to tell the priests:
"Ah, I heard that in the parish school.
That is what our priests in Naples said"
He hardens the expression of his face
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ever they speak Of his mother, father or
brothers, imploring him to repent. He
listens eagerly to every sound and stops
short in conversation or in his slow
pacing across his cell If he hears any
thing unusual, asking What is that?"
Especially in the morning is his anx-
iety very visible, for he knows enough OF
the ways of Spanish justice to fear that
some morning he will be bidden to pre-
pare for the executioner and for donning
the habit and the cross on the back
which is the dying criminals garb for
the twenty-four hours before he goes
to the scaffold.
Coli moves frequently and nervously,
his handcuffed wrists and fingers trail-
ing along the chain that connects his
arms and ankles. as he did on the day
he went to the court-martial. He has
grown thinner in the twelve days he
| has been in prison and his features Of
ten reveal the struggle between his iron
will and human nature apprehensive Of
the impending ordeal So anxious are
| the priests and friars to make him re-
cant his errors and be reconciled to the
Church that masses have been said and
the holy sacrament exposed daily since
Sunday to implore Providence to soften
the heart of the convict.
The people of Vergara are devoutly
praying in the churches for the soul Of
| the anarchist.
SENTENCE CARRIED OUT
SAN SEBASTIAN, August 20-Michel
Angiollilo, who shot and killed Senior
Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister Of
Spain, at the baths at Santa Agueda, on
Sunday, August S, was executed at IL
o'clock this morning according to the
sentence OF the court martial imposed
upon him Monday last, after trial on the
previous Sunday, which sentence was
confirmed by the Supreme Council Of
War yesterday
WOODFORD'S MISSION
LONDON, August 2o-The Daily
Graphic publishes the following from
| Ierlln. zen. STEWART w OOQlOlu, lnS
newly-appointed Minister to Spain from
the United States, has been instructed
by President Mckinley to ascertain the
limit of neutrality of the European pow.
ers in the event that the United States
should decide upon an offensive policy
toward Spain, and he has been in COM
munication with the various American
Il Ambass adors on the subject.
I'll How 10 G q mr. To
Great Britain, has received no encour-
agement from Lord Salisbury; M. Han
otaux. the French Foreign Minister, has
refused to discuss the matter with Hor-
ace Porter the American AMBASSADOR to
France, and for some days avoided
granting an audience to General Wood
ford.
AS the last recourse, General Woodford
and General Porter telegraphed for Mr..
White, who has joined them. Mr.. White,
who is the cleverest American diplomat
in Europe. knows better than anyone in
President McKinley's ca abinet the futility
of the step now being taken. He has
avoided even mentioning it to the Ger
man government and went to Paris re-
solved to do all in his power to dissuade
General Woodford and General Porter
from any course but one of moderation
towards Spain.
CANOvAS SUCCESSOR
SAN SEBASTIAN, August 20.-The
Queen Regent today conferred the Pre-
mership upon General Azcarraga, also
Minister of War. The Cabinet will not
be modified.
Heat and Humidity
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