Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-21

politan club where he was stopping,
saying merely that he was going to
New York. 1t Is probable that he will
join Senior De LONE either there or at
Lennox.
Col. A. A. Augura, who IL stopping In
Washington. said last night:
The assassination Of Conovas will
result In the d~ethronement OF the Span
ish monarchy and the freedom of Cuba.
The people OF Spain are ripe for a v
luton, being discontinued over the
high taxation which grinds them down,
In some cases to starvation. This Is the
beginning Of the revolutionary move-
ment and Is connected with the recent
attempt on the life Of the queen.
There Is great dissatisfaction over
the result of the war in Cuba and to
remove Canovas was the object Of well
laid plans. He was the supporter of
Weyler, who was sent to Cuba by him
and kept there by him. h W d.
vided the spolls OF Cubs n Spain. L
am Of the opinion he will be succeeded
by Sagasta, his political rival, and the
leader Of the liberal party. Sagasta
will undoubtedly take immediate steps
to conciliate the Cubans by granting
them reforms, but 1t will be too late.
/ expect to see Cuba free within ninety
days and the republic OF Spain estab-
lishcd Dor afterwards"
London IL shocked.
London, Aug. 1O.-The Spanish embas-
sy in London received two kilograms.
the first briefly stating the fact VI the
assassination and the second coming
llrn,tl.v frA,., Co.. 0y1aetta. .faNtax
tina Senior Canovas has been the object
of an infamous attack, but saying
nothing about his death, and conclud-
ing with the statement that IL the out
rage be Of anarchist origin 1t has no
political complications, with the addi-
tional assertion that the whole of Spain
is tranquil and that there is not the
least symptom OF any alteration In the
state OF public affairs.
This dispatch says the assassin IS APP
parently an Italian. For this reason
the Spanish ambassador, Count De
Casa V~elencia, in the course OF an in
terview, expressed the hope that the
news of the death was premature. He
said:
THE belief that the crime is not po-
~litical, but the work OF a fanatical an
archist. is borne out by the fact that
the criminal is an Italian. We all know
that of recent years Italian anarchists
have been very active. Witness the
assassination OF President Carnot and
the attempt on King Humbert, and
other similar crimes. They were all
committed by Italians"
The ambassador said he had wired for
details, but had received no reply.
rho news was communicated by the
Associated Press to Gen. Stewart l..
Woodford, United States minister to
Spain. in London en- route for a Sc
bastian, where he had expected to pre-
sent his credentials to the queen regent
in the presence OF Senior Canovas.
General Woodford was so overcome
that several minutes passed before he
could express his horror at the deed
and his profound sympathy for Spain
in her misfortune. When he recov-
cred from the shock of the intelligence
he said:
'"This is terrible, most unfortunate.
The Spanish government and people
will have the sincere sympathy of all
friends of constitutional government.
II is too soon To express any views as
tn the effect which the regretable
death of Senior Canovas viii have upon
current questions. 1t will not affect
my movements, however. unless IL be-
comes my duty to reach my post as
soon as possible in order TO express to
the Spanish government the sympathy
of the American government
The Daily News, in an editorial on
the assassination of Canovas saws:
"The deed follows quickly on the
pious i%nvocations to England as the
classic land of liberty, uttered by the
cxiled Spanish anarchists on their ar
rival at Liverpool. These are anarch-
list words. On the other hand, the
killing is one of their acts. Ii is i'm
possible to draw any moral but that
the militant anarchist is n beast o.
prey, without even a beasts discrim-
nation"
Commenting on the ability OF
Senior Canoyas to deal with the formid-
able task in Cuba, the Daily News
says:
Death. after all, has dealt kindly
by him in relieving him of the per-
sonal humiliation of an inevitable
failure. Tho instruction, If il makes
no progress. ut least marks time and
the United States is beginning to talk
Of Il time limit for the other side.
Brave words and ever brave deeds will
hardly meet a difficulty of. This sort,
unless they are right and wise ones
as well. The future is dark for Spain.
Barbarous murder has removed one of
the few men able to carry on the
queen regents government amid aw-
full difficulties. Italy has again sup
piled the executive agent of the be-
hests of anarchy. She deserves our
coincidence almost more han Spain"
The Times says editorially: 'The
crime appears to be an act of anarchist
revenge for the execution of the Bar
celona conspirators. The anarchists
have given mankind one more reason
to regard them as the implacable enc
mics OF their race. Spain loses in Sc
nor Canova del Castillo the best and
most capable of her living statesmen"
DE LONE Notified.
Lennox, Mass, Aug 10-Senor De-
puy de LONE, Spanish ambassador,
was seen by the Associated Press COR
respondent at the cottage in Lennox,
where he arrived Saturday. He said
that there was positively no political
connection to the assassination, that
coniPIcte oruer reigneu In opaln, anu
would not be disturbed. When
asked who he thought would
succeed Canovas, he said hat
the news was so unexpected
that he had not had time to think of
it, and of course did not know. lie
was not willing to discuss the politi-
cal influence that Canovas' death
would have on the government of
Spain, or on the Spanish policy toward
Cuba. He said, however, that it would
have no immediate effect, but as he
had had M TINA To raaacf nnon Il he