The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-24

IL years. respectively, 1t or near hat place.
last Wednesday night.
Ton days ago, as stated, the two girls
received a notice" warning them TO leave
'the town and county but they paid no
attention to It. Wednesday evening they
retired carly, and during the night they
were awakened by band Of men, VINO
entered their room and dragged them
frem their beds In their night robes to the
road, where they were terribly whipped
with a cat-o'- nine tails. which was litter
wards found In the road After beating
the two girls. 1t IL added, the brave and
chivalrous company OF men gave them
q coat OF tar and feathers" and took them
back to the house, where they we're found
by the neighbors in the morning. Tie
younger, 1t Is further added, sis in crit
ical condition. her flesh being cut TO the
bone by the whip" A card containing ten
names was found tackled to the door. but
none OF the names are known about the
place, Blcodhounds were put IN the trail
OF the party. but, owing to noavy rains
and the trampling Of hundreds OF people
about the scene. the animals were unable
to follow the scent and no other clue can
be found"
We note the incident for the Information
OF some OF the great papers In that see
ton and in the Northeast. which seem to
have overlooked 1t, and call their I,,ilt.on
particularly to the fact that 1t did not
occur In the South. or in a region OF Ohio
That was settled by Southern Immigrants
but in the extreme northwestern part Of the
state. near the Michigan line, and Mt. far
from the city of Toledo. The Indicated pa
pels VIII note also that the ortraRes WIGS
of particularly shameful and ciuel char
acter. Inc party OF men invaded the Ltme
OF Two defenceless girls, in the dead hours
OF the night, and flogged them on the Iub-
lie highway evidently stripping them OF
their night clothes for the purpose Far
and feathers are not applied over night
robes, but to the skin. and they were APP
pied in this instance to the bruised end
broken flesh of the victims The logging
was not committed with Switches but
with the cruel cat which "cut to the
bone." The girls were first terribly
whipped and then their bleeding bodies
We're salved with tar.
We can readily imagine what would have
been said by our preaching contemporaries
II the savage incident had occurred south
OF the Ohio river. and II the girls had
been colored 1t would have been a shcck-
ing evidence Of "the low state o. c,yii,aa-
tion' prevailing between the Potomac Ind
the Rio Grande and 20 on.
III 1t had occurred in Cuba we should have
been treated to many columns OF Smeri-
can" denunciation of "Tpa lish ba' rarity"
AS IL happened, we shall probably lear
very little about It, Such .ne!le.'ts are
by no means rare in the North NJ iuber
oil them have been reported le'0re.
From the New York Mail ami Eyp, ess
THE RAGE OF WEYLER-The depused
slayer of non combatants. whose victims
are still dying In Cuba at the rate OF a
thousand day, reaches Spain at critical
moment in the domestic politics of that
distracted land He arrives tust as the
concessions that the Sagasta ministry has
made, in response to the friendly re.aon-
STRANGE of this country against MS inhu-
manities, have reached their cul nnator in
the release of the Competitor Prisoners.
This reversal of policy promises SOME re-
| lief TO the suffering Cubans whom the fero-
0ious Weyler herded in the garrisoned
| towns. 1t also promises to benefit our
trade by permitting the importation into
! Cuba OF American cattle and the eXpoTta-
| ton of tobacco to the United States. But
| in Spain these concessions and the further
offer of autonomy. spurious 'housh IT be,
have stimulated the opposition Ia Sagasta.
Weyler, therefore. is welcomed by all par
ties of the opposition. the conservatives,
| the Carlists and the republicans alike. who
see in him "a rallving point for all their
various forms of discomfort.
| 1t was the design OF the government to
exact from Weyer a specific explanation Of
his reported utterances upon leaving Hay
ana before no could have an opportunity
to confer with his adherents. He mas en-
tered IA general denial and affirmed his al
legiance to the government lie could do
no less He thus gains time TO learn more
of the attitude toward him of he queen
| and Sagasta. In the meantime, this mon
ster OF iniquity does not hesitate 20 defend
his crimes against civilization. He proudly
beasts that he has had many reople shot.
He declares that the pacihcos, old men.
women and children. whom he thus stary ed
and murdered are SPANS worst enemies,
because they sympathize with tito fathers
and brothens and sons who battle in the
Held fer Cuban liberty. With shocking hy-
| pocrisy he calls upon his hearers TO weep.
not fer the slaughtered pacificos but for
the mothers Of Spanish soldiers whom he
has sent to their death. and whose pay he
has stolen. He shows his anger at his re-
call by defiantly declaring that SPANS
new policy endnngers her domination over
Cuba apparently forgetting that Spain has
already lost that domination. and that she
is every day proving her inability to regain
lit
Weyler may continue to rage. II remains
to be seen how the government viii treat
his rebellious uIterances. or what effect
they Will have upon public opinion in
Spain, which is ripe for revolull,n. The
independence OF Cuba is inevitable. The
country has lessened the horrors of the
struggle and has but to await for natural
processes TO free the island from Spain :
relaxing grasp.
From the Kansas City Times.
| HANNAs DEFEAT is NO DREAM
The republican revolt is ON In Ohio. Fanna
has been marked fer slaughter by the fac
tionists in his own party. The opportunity
OF the latter is the small margin of the
republican majority in the Legislature. II
is possible for the defeat of the Cleveland
boss to be comprised by coalition te-
tween the anti Hanna republicans and the
democrats. The latter can not elect one
OF their own party to tbs senate. Then II
becomes their duty to accomplish the next
best thing by uniting TO defeat the one
{. man whose overthrow means for The DENT C.