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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-08
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Montana stockmen are feeding horse
meat to hogs.
Hungarian wheat, rye and barley
crops are reported short.
Worms are denuding the trees in sew
eral sections of Minnesota.
Wisconsin won almost every event in
the intercollegiate athletic meet at Chi
cago.
A drug store at Rhinelander, Wis,
was robbed and the clerk shot and
wounded.
Boston's city debt is about 500, 900, 900,
on which the interest amounts to over
s2,000,00o.
David Law, former mayor of La
Crosse, Wis, and resident of that city
for almost 10 years, is dead.
Contracts for the Crows Nest Pass
railway, from Lethbridge to Robson,
has been let. The distance is 300 miles
The Argentine congress has been
asked for an appropriation of 81 100000
for the purpose of destroying the locust
plague i'll that country.
Emperor Francis Joseph has had an
apopiectic stroke which has caused con.
siderable alarm. 1t is said his health
has failed rapidly of late.
w. H. House, ex-assistant city attor.
ney of Pittsburg. convicted of embezzle-
ment Of city funds, has been sentenced
to two years imprisonment.
At Saunemin, Ills, a grain elevator
containing 10000 bushels of oats belong
ing to Bartlett Frazier & Co. of Chi
cago was burned to the ground.
Edward Penrose, a well known miner,
met terrible death by falling 700 feet
down shaft of the Gray Rock mine,
which he had been working under d
lease.
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RURAL PRISONERS
Spain Systematically Starving
Nearly a Quarter of a
Million Cubans.
Chicago Tribune Correspondent
Tells About Rural Prisoners
of War;"
An Appeal to the American Peo-
pie Not to Discriminate
in Charity.

CHICAGO, June S.-The Tribune spe-
cial correspondence dated Havana, Cuba,
June 2, says: Spain holds the rural
population of Cuba as prisoners of war
in prison camps.
Unlike any other nation which claims
to be civilized she does not feed her
prisoners of war.
This is q plain statement of the gath
ering of the peaceful country people, the
non-combatants in concentration settle
ments If it seems a harsh Judgment,
the facts Oh which it is based must speak
for themselves. 1t is not with any pur-
pose Of picturing more misery that these
lines are written. have been asked
whether the conditions were as bad as
they have been painted. My conclusion
is based on what have seen, not going
100 miles beyond Havana.
Nearly 100000 Of Them.
There is no means of learning the
exact number of the reconcentradoes. An
American consul who has made care
ful study says it is more than $4,000
He is well informed regarding the inte-
rior of the island, and declares that the
rural population has always been under
estimated.
A Spanish officer told me there were
more than 10000 of "these starving
country people," The best opinion places
the number between O,OOO and 200, 600.
1t is months since Weyler's order was
put in force, but they have not all been
brought in.
The accounts given Of the military
movements Of the troops tell mostly Of
the destruction of bahias. or palm huts.
Where the families are not murdered
they are driven in like cattle and herded
with the other ncificos.
Usually Means Women and Children.
In the daily lists of presenadoes or
persons who surrender to the military
authorities those without arms" are
the most numerous. This usually means
women and children. So the recruiting
of the poor people goes steadily on.
An inspection of a settlement Of the
pacificos shows just how they are held
as prisoners of war. In not all the
places are they hemmed in by bitches
and barb wire fences as at Campo Flor.
lido, but they are everywhere under mil.
itary guard. Those who are left Of the
men cannot go out into the country be-
yond certain line. Then it is with an
escort of soldiers. Usully these are the
guerillas and it is an even chance be.
tween death by starvation and getting
back without being murdered.
read in the government papers q
few days ago that during the month
there had been 10 deaths from starva
ton at Remedies. A sugar planter
whose plantation is within two hours OF
Havana told me of four pacificos who
had risked permit from the municipal
authorities of the village and gone into
the country. They We're overhauled by
the guerillas, who tore up the passes
and murdered them. These are simply
instances.
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ROASTED THEM.

Spanish Government Cremates Priests Who
sympathize With Philippine Rebels.
VANCOUVER, b. c., June S.-The Off
GERS of the steamer Hupeb, which has
just arrived from the Orient, states that
when in the Philippine islands on their
last trip it was learned that the Spanish
government had captured 25 Roman
Catholic priests supposed to be in SYM
pathy with the rebels and had roasted
them
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Adjourned to Thursday.

WASHINGTON, June S.-The house has
passed the senate bills to amend the act
to authorize the construction of a steel
bridge across the St. Louis river and to
authorize the construction of a bridge
across Pearl river, Mississippi. By a
vote Of 81 to 70 it then adjourned until
Thursday, the Democrats opposing an
adjournment in the interest of the Cuban
and bankruptcy questions.
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THREE FIREMEN DEAD.

Falling Walls Cause Disaster at a san
Francisco Fire.
SAN FRANCISCO, June S.-A fire in the
southeastern part of the city at noon
cost three tiremen their lives and en-
tailed property loss of 100000. The
dead are: John Mahoney of chemical
engine No. 6; Frank Keller, steward of
hose cart No. 2; James Hallinan, driver
of truck No. |.
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CALHOUN HAS RETURNED.

witnesses Were Not Very Plentiful in the
Ruiz Case, He says.
NEW YORK, June S.-William j. Cal
houn, who was sent to Cuba as special
commissioner to investigate the circum-
stances Of the death in prison of DR..
Ruiz an American citizen, has reached
this city on his return. He was accom-
panied by George w. Fishback, his sec
retary, and Charles NJ. Pepper, Wash
ington newspaper correspondent who
went to Cuba with the commissioner.
Ramon o. Williams, formerly United
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United States. Since the United States
government has begun measures for
the relief of American citizens in
Matanzas, the desperate plight of the
Cuban reconcentrados tlere has resulted
in a petition, signed by hundred OF
them, in which they beg in the name Of
common humanity, that they may be
included in the charity. The petition is
headed can Appeal to the United
States" 1t is now Oh its way to Wash
nDtop
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Copper Mine Found i'm Duluth.

DULUTH. June S.-Chicago men have
provided the money for development of
a copper location near Lakewood, III the
city limits of Duluth. The mine was
discovered by E. Faulkner Of this city.
Experts pronounce the property valu-
able and two shafts will be sunk at once.
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APPEAL FROM THE STARVING

RecOncentrados of Matanzas Ask Amer
leans to Help Them.
NEW YORK, June S.-A special from
Havana says: An appeal on behalf OF
the starving and dying reconcentrados
in Matanzas, who excited pity in the
hearts of General Lee and Mr.. Calhoun,
has been made, to the peonle Of the
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NEW YORK, June S.-A dispatch from
Buenos Ayres says: The American ex-
pedition which has been exploring in
Terra Del Fuego has been successful in
finding gold i'll quantities which will
yield large profits for the working.
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Tanner Will Hear Arguments.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, June S.-Governor
Tanner announces that he will hear
arguments for and against the Allen
street railway bill. The bill has not yet
been signed by the governor.
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SYMPATHIZES WITH SPAIN.
Duke of Tetuan Has Advices That Mckin-
ley Is with Him.

MADRID, June Sat II cabinet meet
ing the minister for foreign affairs, the
duke of Tetuan, read a dispatch from
Washington which announced that
President Mckinley had given assur-
ances of sympathy with Spain.
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The Herald Ice Fund umpo.,ure.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sux-Sir: Your revelation
in regard to the Herald Ice Fund is astounding. II
would seem almost incredible that Mr.. James Cor
don Bennett should collect $4,000 from the charita.
bly, disposed of this city and divert nve.sixths of the
sum from the purpose for which 1t 10 contributed, but
such seems to be tho fact on the Heralds own test.
mony.
have subscribed for some years to the Herald
Fund. and still believe that n charity which would
supply ice to the poor is a worthy one. As the Herald
has proved so delinquent an almoner. cannot you
suggest some trustw orthy medium for really accom-
~plishing what the Herald has pretended TO do?
New YORK, June +. SUBscnlpKR.
Certainly the Charity Organization Society.
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What Does 1t Mean?

What did the Hon. WHITEL.Aw REID
mean by his exhortation to MELVILLE Z.
STONE. head devil Of the Chicago Associ-
ated Press, to leave nothing undone to Grip
pie The SUM- How could he sit in the
warm sunshine of April beneath the beauti-
full live oaks of San Mateo county, which
should inspire nothing but truth and good
ness, and indite that winged messenger Of
maleic import Cripple THE SUNT'
What does he want to cripple THE Sun fort
Is 1t because he was once THE Suns part
ner in a fast bound compact which he did
not kept Is it because THE SUN continued
to pay and to meet it's cash obligations
while he fell by the wayside, and because
we kept on paying when he, WHITELAw,
had defaulted3 Or is he Of that altruistic
bent that, crippled himself, and his unhappy
Tribune tenfold crippled and cast down,
he would nave all his neighbors crippled,
too, and most of all that nearest and dear
est of %neighbors, THE SUM
1t is fun, WHITELAw, crippling THE SUN.
1t beats all hollow being Ambassador Ex-
traordinary to St. James's with three Sec
r~etaries, but without the confirmation of
the Senate.
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learned from her assembling Ministers.
No one who read the words for which
she became responsible, could think that
she had ever heard the truth about the
Cuban revolt. Can It be that the Queen
Regent knows of the savage character Of
WEYLER's rule in Cuba during the past
sixteen months, or Of the existing condition
of affairs there3 Would she permit him to
retain his place for a day IL h were nwar
Of his criminal misconduct, or OF his cruel
butcheries, or Of his dishonored name, or Of
his mendacity and ~pusillanimityf Her W
interests, and those Of the boy-King, are
opposed to his retention In Office. But the
official reports from Cuba tell her only Of
WEYLER's successes and the triumphs Of
the Spanish arms in a war wagcd for Span.
ish royalty.
The Queen Regent has so acted at times
as to lead us to believe that she is possessed
Of a good deal of the independence that be-
longs to the Austrian stock from which
she sprnng. II she would but make this
trait of mind manifest by Diminishing the
unworthy counsellors who surround her
and deceive her, she might possibly live to
see her royal son seated securely on the
throne of Spain.
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1t Is observed with interest that wide
circulation has been given to an impressive
story set afoat with n Mexican date limo by tho
Chicago Associated Press some time ago. In
the country reprints. the story is usually credited
to the "NetC Fork Tribune of April III" and
indeed It appeared. In all Its rotundity. in tho
Tribune Of that date. In this alleged despatch
from Mexico on the doings of an astronomical
observatory for the nrst three months OF this
year this statement occurs:
"Dr. Ike, who was in charge OF this observatory in
tho Southern Heavens. announces that since Jan. l
more than 500, 900 double and triple stars had been
measured. More than one-half wore new, having
never been reported by any astronomer"
There were 10000 minutes in the frat three
months Of this year. Tho measuring OF double
and triple stars was therefore in progress at the
rate OF two stars and one-third a minute. night
and day. This beats the record OF all mundane
observatories, though 1t may be merely an
average performance in an observatory situated
In the Southern Heavens"
How insignificant in comparison appears the
work Of the Lowell Observatory in Mexico for
identically the same period. 1t was described in
a long despatch from Mexico City printed In
THE SUN on April IS, one day before the 1rfb-
une's returns on double and triple stars wero
all in and ready for publication. Save in their
statistical features, there Ia a surprising simi-
larity between the above language from the
Tribune and the following extract from The
Suns article printed q day earlier:
"since Jan. 1 more than 300 double and triple
stars were measured. more than half of which were
new. having never been reported by any astronomer -
No wonder the Tribune adds: "In addition to
these discoveries his corroborative points of
gumen as to the formation OF heavenly
bodies will DO exceptionally interesting" What
else could be expected Of any remarks emanat.
ing from an astronomer Sin tho Southern
HeaYens T.
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Exhibition Of Stuaents' work nj tho schoo, =,
!Archttecture, CoiRmbia unixernIt,.


Tho annual exhibition OF tho work n, N.
students in the school OF architecture Of Colum,
bia University was opened yesterday in IN,
rooms Of tho school, and will continue thropvh,
out tho wcok. Tho drawings made in comment,
tion for the McKlm Travelling Fellowship Nrr.
announced to be exhibited. but those that wcr.
to como from Paris, whcro somc OF the gradu.
ates Of tho school are now studying, have been
delayed In arriving, and consequently, for m.
present, Mt least, the proposed exhibition ho,
been given up. The subject for the competItion
Is n students dormitory and club building.
The most important part Of this work OF m.
students which has been done during tho mas,
college yoar under the direction OF Prof. W n
Ware, chief OF the school, and Prof. A, n n
Hamlin, his adjunct, consists of thesis drawing,
by tho membcrs Of the graduating class. Each
student has taken n different subject, and 70,
each ono there are from four to seven or ciOh,
drawings shown. Tho perspectives are tho mos,
interesting to tho non-profossional visitor, Tn.
other drawings are ground plans. plans OF upper
floors and elevations. In some cases there ar,
construction plans also. Tho names Of tho
students and the subjects Of their drawings ar.
as follows: Henry Herr, a theatre; J.. Brncs
McClclland, q modern office building; Edwin
Kaufman. a school of flno arts: George A.
Boehm. a savings bank; w. A. Homer. a public
library; George w. Rappold. a railroad ter.
minus and hotel: II. d. weckes. a county club,
w. G. Kilian. a city hall; Herbert W Consdon.
q students clubhouse; b. L. Stern. a country
mansion; William f. Parsons, a country cour,
house; Oscar B. Smith. Jr., an institute Of na,u.
raj sciences. and A. s. O.. Taylor. n villa. Tho
work in general shows scholarly qualities, good
rendering, and In some cases a considerable do
gree Of invention. The designs for a theatre by
Henry Herr and for a country mansion by Il, F.
Stern seem especially worthy Of mention. Next
in importance to the thesis drawings is the ex.
hibition of the work in historical research nv
the fourth.year students. 1t is very full and
complete. Many OF the motives are taken from
French architecture OF the Middle Ages.
Some Of the classifcations of the work
are mouldings. piers, gables. and cornice,:
alters. pulpits, stalls. screens. tombs. and
ahrinea. oeonetricaI Hanhovant mud +,
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We are requested to call attention to q
and graceful effort which Is now max
ing for the preservation Of a part of Elmwood,
the residence of the late JAMES RUSSELL Low.
ELL at Cambridge. as a public park. which shall
be a memorial Of that distinguished figure In
American letters. The tract 1t is proposed to
reserve thus consists of three acres Of land,
beautifully situated. The Metropolitan Park
Commission Of Boston has agreed to give
one-third Of the amount required for tho
purchase, and Of the remainder, about
$4,000, the sum of $500 has already
been subscribed. chiefly in Cambridge
itself; and the committee of prominent ladies
and gentlemen having the project in charge ask
from Mr.. LowELLis many admirers in all parts
Of this country further contributions with which
to make up the necessary amount. 1t is suf-
fcient for us simply to make this announce
ment, and to add that contributions may be sent
to the Treasurer. Mr.. WILLIAM A. BULLARp,
First National Bank, Cambridge. Mass.
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An End-of-the-worI Prophet.

Thu Rev. JOHN CALLICOTT, an Afro-Ameri-
can preacher of much activity and repute In
Lafayette, Ind, has delivered his farewell
sermon, and Is now patiently awaiting on
the steps of the Court House Of that place
the end of the world, which event Is set down
in his almanac for Sunday, June 10. The
sincerity of this Hoosier chronologer seems
beyond question, but his dates cannot be
accepted. In every generation for the last
eighteen hundred years many worthy per
sons and sects have lived in the confident
In their time, but the planet continues to
do Its days work, careless of the calcula-
tions of mystical mathcmaticians and un-
awed by the fiery locks of comets. Middle
aged Americans can remember what a
rumpus WILLIAM MILLER of Low Hamp-
ton made by his lectures on the image of
NEBUCHADNEzZAR, the beasts of the apoca-
lypse. the $500 days of DANIELS vision,
and similar p~erpetually reconcile matters.
Mr.. MILLER selected the year 1894 from
March to March as the fatal period, and
subsequently compromised on the twenty
fourth to twenty-fifth day of October, "A,
and great number of people waited for the
end, but the world declined to end. Mr..
MILLER was an industrious person, but there
was a screw loose in his mathematics.
Since his time many minds have tangled
themselves in the briars of prophetic inter.
probation. Notable thirty years or SO ago
was the Scotchman. JoHS CUNNING, who
did q tremendous amount OF sounding OF
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Friends, based, we believe, on trips made
last September and December.
Some months ago the Three Friends was
seized under circumstance that looked
rather black for her, as she was accused
not only of violating our neutrality laws in
carrying m armed expedition to Cuba, but
of having a gun mounted on her deck.
Hence It was urged that her dilemma was
that of being an offender against our stat
utes or else n pirate. Judge LOCKE at that
time conducted the preliminary trial, and
held her to have been guilty of no violation
of the laws. The Supreme CourT overruled
his decision on the point that hostilities
existed in Cuba, although no formally rec.
ognized state Of war.
Now, therefore, once more the steamer has
found herself before the courts, and once
more she wins n victory. The instructions
from Washington to the District Attorney
show that an appeal is to DO taken from
Judge LoCKE's decision.
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lend himself to an attempt to force him on
that Convention, and he knows, too, that
such an effort ut bulldozlng would be likely
to defeat itself and leave the candidate In
q pitiful situation.
II the committee Of volunteers called the
Citizens Union, really desire to further the
candidacy of Mr.. SETH Low as Mayor Of
New York, they will decently and cour-
teously use their influence in his behalf
with the Republican Convention of next
August or next September. II both that
body and Mr.. Low are convinced that there
is n popular desire" for his candidacy,
there Is no doubt that he will get the nomi.
nation and will accept 1t. No other way is
consistent with the dignity Of Mr.. Low or
properly regardful Of the extreme gravity Of
the political situation.
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The Thirteenth Year OF War.

In n recent discussion of the Cuban ques-
tion In Congress, Senator TURPIE remarked
that we are now witnessing the thirteenth
year Of the war for independence in Cuba"
The point thus made Is a good one, be-
cause It puts our duties toward the patriots
in q clearer light. The war for Cuban in
dependence began in 1868, and lasted for
ten years, terminating in a truce, followed
by the agreement known as the treaty of
Zanjon. Under that treaty certain re-
forms were to be carried out in Cuba
by the end of ten years. The term was
waited for patiently, but the expected re-
lief did not come to pass. Seven years more
the people waited, not, however, without
rumors from time to time of an outbreak,
and then in 1891 the outbreak came.
Looking at events in this light, Mr..
TURPIE urges that the interval between
the two periods Of hostility is like that be-
tween the two Silesian wars prosecuted by
FREDERICK the Great. The cause to-day is
not a new cause, but the old one. and 1897
is the thirteenth year of armed revolu-
ton. 1t is well to keep this point in mind
when considering whether we have waited
long enough to determine whether Spain
car conquer Cuba.
One other point made by Mr.. TURPIE, the
undue stress laid on the fact that Spain holds
all the Cuban seaports, is worth recall
ing. Asthat Senator pertinently suggests,
Hayti and Santo Domingo won their indie
pendence without seaports, and MONROE
recognized the belligerency of Grenada, Bo-
livia, Peru, Chilli, Argentina and two other
Governments when every seaport of the
colonies was held by the Spanish navy"
He recognized Bolivia's belligerency when
her capital was in the camp of BOLIVAR,
and moved with his forces in the field.
Certainly Cubitas has not yet been threat
ened, and is not likely to be. From that
centre radiates a system of procedures,
while there is a regular mail-carrying ser.
vice of the Cuban republic through the
island. The States Of Santiago and Cana
guey and much of the State of Las Villas
have Cuban laws in operation. says Mr..
TURPIE, and even II the Government had
been "nomadlc," as Mr.. HALE suggested,
that objection could hardly weigh much
with us, in view Of the fact that our own
Congress, during the war Of the Revolution,
"met at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster,
York, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, and
New York"
But we specially recur now to tho length
of time during which the struggle for
Cuban independence has gone on. 1t is to,
day the same struggle that began nearly
thirty years ago, and 1t Is far stronger now
than then. Some of the leaders are the
same. The Cuban cause has been more
than twelve years in arms.
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Tho Three Friends

The Florida steam tug that was built at
Jacksonville. year before last, for the pur-
pose of towing vessels up the st. Johns
River, n has since more than cleared
her cost, it is said, in trips to Cuba, has
just given one more proof of her experiences
in steaming through the meshes of the law.
Judge LOCKE has dismissed one libel for
forfeiture which was based on her alleged
violation of the neutrality statutes. He
finds no evidence that, on her trip in May,
1896, she was aggressively armed within
our limits, or took on arms and ammunition
at Nayassa. which is an American island,
although she did touch there. Three other
suits are pending against the Three