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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
GROWING SLOWLY.
Five More Bodies from Inflated Portland
Recovered.

Recovered.
Proyincetown, Dec There was no
break last night IN the incessant pa
troll Of the coast from Race Point to
Chatham, which has been kept up since
the storm began Saturday evening
Few new facts bearing on the story
of the wreck have developed beyond
the evidence previously accumulated.
The conditions today were most favor
able for the recovery of the wreckAgS
and bodies. a strong northwest wind
followed yesterdays storm, and the day
was as clear and bright as young win
ter could afford
When the work Of the day was
summed up, however, it appeared that
five bodies only had been recovered, in
addition to those previously taken from
the water. One of these was found at
Nauset, some % miles from the place
near where it is believed the wreck
occurred, another came ashore at Or
leans, some four or five miles further
south, and three at Chatham.
These developments were most dis
couraging to those who have come
here prompted by fear or by certain
knowledge that they had friends
aboard the vessel and they seem to
give force to the statements made by
the old seamen in the vicinity that the
majority of the bodies which will be
found here already have come ashore.
The rest, it is believed by the expert
enced, have been carried far south and
lost in Nantucket sound or scattered
so widely that there is little hope that
they ever win be recovered. Moreover.
the belief that many bodies are still
within the hull of the steamer seems
to be growing wider. This theory 10
held by so many. in fact. that it Is
likely that tugs will be sent out to
patrol the section of the sea which has
been fixed upon as the probable scene
of the wreck, in an endeavor to locate
the hull as we'll as to obtain everything
that may be found afioat from her. in
Guiding bodies baggage, cargo, etc.
Agent c. T. Williams of the steam
boat company is among those who
think the Portland foundered, and that
many of her passengers and her freight
would be found in her, could the wreck
be located.
In answer to the question as to the
sailing of the Portland Agent Williams
bears out that made by Gen. Manager
Liscombe, that the captain vras or
dered not to sail, but that he disobeyed
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
AFTER THE CAROLINEs.

Report That Germany is Comforting With
Spain Concerning the lsIandsis Confirmed
Berlin Dec IA German govern
ment official in an interview with the
correspondent here of the Associated
Press confirms the report that Ger
many is comforting with Spain for the
purchase of the Caroline islands. 1t is
inferred that Spain expects to get ID =
900 600 francs for them, which Germany
considers excessive.
Germany also makes the proyiso that
negotiations shall be contingent upon
no international complications arising,
especially with the United states.
Prince Won Arenberg, president of the
Colonial Society, assures the correspon
dent of the Associated Press that the
acquisition of the Caroline islands Is
important less from the standpoint Of
commerce. which is insignificant there,
than from a naval view point"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
AN AWFUL CRIME.
A Mother Kills Her Daughter and Badly
Injuries Her Son.

Peabody, Dec. IA horrible murder
was revealed to the police this after
noon in singular way. During the
day, Mrs. Richard Hurley, wife of a
gardener employed by stephen Blaney
Of this town, murdered her 12-year-old
daughter Mary and seriously injured
her 7-year-old son.
The children had been terribly beaten
over the head by their mother who
used a large soup plate, Mrs Hurley
was formerly an inmate of the Dan
vers insane asylum, and was undoubt-
eddy insane when the murder was COM
nitted. The woman herself reported
the crime to the police, going to the
police station and coolly informing the
| officer in charge that she had murdered
| two of her children.
This Information did not surprise the
officer, as once before the woman had
called at the station and informed the
officers that she had made away with
two of the little ones, which an invest
igation proved was wrong. Today the
woman insisted that she had committed
!
police go to her house was so strong
that the officer at the station decided
to send a policeman to the Hurley
home.
The woman gave the police the key
to the house and when the police en-
tered the kitchen, a fearful scene was
presented The body of little Mary
Hurley lay on the floor in a pool of
blood, the head bearing marks of the
heaVy blows caused by some article OF
crockery ware. One glance was suffi-
Gent to show that the girl was dead
and near the body was Mrs. Hurley s
f-year-old son. He, too, was lying on
the floor and his head was covered with
| blood. At first the police thought he
was dead but when they examined
| him. they saw that life was not ex-
tinct. They picked him up and laid
him on a couch in the house. where he
soon recovered consciousness. and, al
though he was unable to speak. he nod
ded his head in acquiescence to the
query OF a policeman, Did your mother
mt Mary on the head with a plate?''
The kitchen was then in a remark
able state of disorder, showing that a
violent struggle had taken place be-
| tween the children and their insane
| mother The remains Of the midday
meal and the table crockery We're
strewn in disorder over the table and
floor A curtain rod of window was
badly twiL led, and the curtain had been
| torn from its place, indicating that the
| little boy had endeavored to reach the
window and call assistance, but had
| been seized by the Infatuated woman.
MIR. Hurley says that when he left
home at noon, his wife manifested nc
sign of mental trouble, and that he is
at a loss to account for the terrible
afi1iction except that his wife sudden
ly became insane.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
Death Roll of
the Portland.
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
1t Is Much Greater Than at
First Expected.

Provinoetown, Dec. Another day
has passed and the mystery of the
steamer Portland wreck has not been
given up by the ever-changing sea a!s
it dashed upon the Cape Cod shores.
Anxiety still hangs heavily on hun.
dreds of people, who have hurried to
help in the work of saving bodies from
the surf and after securing to identify
them.
A most beautiful day shone. in great
contrast to the terrible weather of the
past four days. and showed up moro
pitifully than ever the ravages of the
elements. 1t was day Of constant
watching of more than 30 miles of coast
line, and the sea begrudgingly held it's
victims within It's awful depths. only
surrendering a meagre five.
These, with the Is previously found
makes total Of only Il out of the
entire passenger I'D crew list. the ex-
act number of which is still unknown.
The number of people who went to
their death on the Portland will never
be known, but almost hourly missing
persons are reported from different
places in New England, until nov it
seems probably that the number was
over $50 The prospects were favorable
to it that the incoming tide tomorrow
would be accompanied by an undertow
which viii be likely to cast up great
quantities of wreckage all along the
coast. This would be favorable to the
recovery of bodies not only at Cape
God, but at other places where so many
sailors went to their death. of the
bodies recovered hereabouts, IA have
been identified and s remain to be
named.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
HAD NOTHING TO ADD.
shafter Appeared Much Disturbed at
SIMPSONS Criticism.

New York, Dec. 1.-Gen. w. z. Shaft
err was today shown a copy Of Admiral
SIMPSONS report on the operations Of
the United States feet at Santiago
after the destruction of the Spanish
squadron. in which the admiral de-
nounced as false the suggestion which
he attributed to Cen Shafter, that
the navy was unwilling to cooperate
in forcing an entrance to the harbor,
and intimated that the services of the
navy were not properly recognized by
the commander of the land forces
Gen. Shafter did not conceal the fact
that Admiral SIMPSONS criticisms an
noyed him greatly, but he declined 10
go into any extended reply to them.
This controversy has been fought
over before" he said. '"rhe results
speak for themselves. My letters and
dispatches to Admiral Sampson. as
given in his report, tell the story. 1
have nothing to add to them"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
CHICAGO GETS 1T.
Next Methodist General Conference to Be
Held in That City.

Chicago, Dec 1.-The Methodist
general conference of 1900 will be held
at Chicago The conference commit
tee having in charge the location of the
next quadrennial Methodist convention
held a meeting today with representa-
tives of Minneapolis and Chicago
Methodists and after a protracted dis
cussion of the inducements offered by
both cities Chicago was decided upon.
Chicago Methodists pledge $4,000 as a
guarantee that all expenses of the
conference win be met.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
SUNDAYS STORM.
Attempt Being Made to Fix Financial Loss
in and Around Hrovinoetown.

Provincetown, Dec. IAN attempt
to fix the financial loss of Sundays
storm in and around Provincetown, in
GLIDING the steamer Portland wreck,
was made today by several men, who
have large interests in coastwise ship
ping. The tabulations reached were as
follows: lives lost (probably), 150
loss of property on land, 10000: loss
of marine property, not including the
Portland, 100000; the Portland, $3.50. :
600; loss in money and effects of pas
000 ~
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
BY CHRISTMAS.
"oId Glory" May Float over Moro Cas-
tie, Havana, by That Time.


tie, Havana, by That Time.
Havana, Dec. lit is now believed,
judging from the rapidity with which
the Spaniards are pushing the evacua-
ton. that the province of Havana will
be turned over to the Americans on or
before Dee. a. and that by Christmas
day, old glory will be floating over
MORO Castle.
This morning Gen. Greene reviewed
at Mariana the cavalry division of the
Cuban forces under Gen. Marios Memo
cal over 800 men fell in line. Many
had no coats or shirts, but all had good
mounts we'll shOd.
The Spaniards today evacuated the
towns of Ceiba de Aqua and Alquizar,
in all four municipalities. 1t is prob
able that the United States evacuation
commissioners will visit Gov. Gen. Cas-
telIanos tomorrow.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
YALE SPEAKERS CHOSEN.
They Will Meet Princeton in the Annual
Debate at New Haven.

New Haven, CT, Dec. lat the final
debate this evening to decide the CON
testants to represent Yale in the for
ensic contest with Princeton in this
city December 8, the following three
men were picked: Cornelius H. Kichel.
1900, of East Liverpool, O.; Ashley c.
Leavitt, 1900, of Melrose, Mass, and
Philip c. Walcott 1900, of Rutherford,
N, j. Prof. A. T. Hadley and Prof V.
Reynolds, who have acted as coaches
for the debaters during the practice
work, were the judges who made the
choice. 1t is also announced that the
presiding officer of the debate will be
the Rev. DR.. Joseph H. Twitchell. Yale,
80. of Hartford. ct.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
EXPORTS FROM GERMANY.

Washington, Dec. 1.-The state de-
partment is informed that the exports
from Germany to the United States
during the quarter ending Sept 30.
amounted to $40, 7S9,007, an increase of
Schools over the exports during the
corresponding quarter of the previous
year.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02

Fan River Dec. 1.-EFint cloths have
been marked up by the selling committee
of the local manufacturers to 21sc., an
advance Of a sixteenth. Sales or trust
goods today and yesterday are reported
at about 100 600 pieces. all of them spots.
which sales clean out the surplus that has
accumulated since the large sales Of two
weeks ago. The market is firm.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
WILL BE UNOFFICIAL.
President to Meet Gen. Garcia and His
Associates Today.

Washington Dec. 1.-Senor Quesada,
charge d'affaires of the Cuban legation
in this city today, called at the White
House and arranged with the president
for an audience for Gen. Garcia and
his associates on the Cuban commits
sion. The president will meet the
commission tomorrow but the meeting
will be entirely informal and unofficial
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
OFF FOR CUBA.
Gen. Lee Announces Sailing of TWO
Transports with Troops.

Washington, Dec. 1s-Maj. Gen. Lee,
commanding at Savannah, has teleg-
raphed the war department as follows,
respecting the departure of the trans
ports Manitoba and Chester today, with
troops aboard, for Cuba:
Manitoba, with Gen. Snyder and the
Fourth Tennessee. cleared here at. s. As
this morning. Chester, with the Fiji
tenth infantry, left her anchorage, six
miles below the city, about the same
hour, and is probably now on top of
the sea, sailing for Cuba. She might
have been at the bottom of it if she
had gone out the day she started.
Panama still here
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH.

Perry, Oklahoma, Dec. 1.-The home
of Hiram Biggs, a farmer living seven
miles southeast of here. caught fire
this morning, and Biggs, his wife and
three small children were burned 10
death
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
WEATHER REPORT.

Washington, Dec. forecast for Fri
day: New England and eastern New
York: Increasing cloudiness; probably
showers Saturday; brisk westerly winds,
diminishing.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
YACHT LAUNCHED.
It Is the Largest One Ever Built in the
United States.

United States.
Bath, Me, Dec Col. Oliver II.
Payne's new steam yacht Amphrodi,e
was launched at the Bath Iron Works
this afternoon. She was christaned by
Miss Vivian, daughter of Capt. C. W
Scott, commander of the yacht. with
bottle OF American champagne.
The yacht is the largest ever buflt
in the United States, and as the speci-
fications demanded, the finest. Her dt-
mensions are: Length of hull, 300 feet.
inches; length on load water line 25a
feet; beam, 35 feet; depth of hold %
feet inches; mean draught. - feet
The yacht has triple expansion engines
the largest ever placed in a pleasure
craft, giving 5000 of indicated horse
power, which win drive the yacht IN
der ordinary conditions, at the rate OF
10 knots. She will be bark rugged.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
The Identified are.

The identified are:
James w. Flower, Lewiston
E. Dudley Freeman, Yarmouth. Me.
George w Delaney, Shawmut avenue,
Boston.
Miss Jennie G. Edmunds, East Bos-
ton
Mrs. Cornelia Mitchell, North East
ON,
Miss Madge Ingraham (colored),
Woodfofds, Me.
George Graham (coIored), porter,
steamer Portland.
Deck hand, steamer Portland, mama
unknown to Agent William, but iden-
titled by him as a deck hand
- Jones, second cook. identified
by Agent Williams
Solomon Cohen, junk dealer Port
land
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Collins, Portland.
Susan E. Kelly, Boston.
Walter L. Bemis, Auburn, Me. (found
off Chatham).
The unidentified are as follows:
Unknown man. now at Orleans
weight 1876 pounds. aged IS. height five
feet five inches, red moustache dark
eyes and hair, dark vest, white shirt,
brown necktie, congress shoes brown
suit, heavy black ovsrcoat, a passen-
ger.
Unknown man, So years old, at Prov
tencetown, five feet eight fRc}aeS, 1850
pounds, light complexion and NOUS
tache, finely dressed. AT first identified
as William Mosher Of Gorharn, Me-, but
later declared not to be his body.
Unknown colored man, at Province
town, supposed to be q porter, bunch Of
keys found in pocket marked "Pore-
land" About rs years old.
Unknown woman, at Provincetown,
As years old weight about 200 pounds,
five feet nine inches in height. dark
hair streaked with gray, ring on third
finger of right hand set with an eIner>-
aid and two pearls, RI. NJ. A @" large
double vaccination mark on left arm.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
CAPTURED IN MBxIco.
Reported at Stock Yards That the
Cattle King Had Been Appreciated.

Kansas City Mo, Dec lit was ru-
mored at the stock yards today that
Grant c. Gillett the absconding Kan
sas cattle king, had been captured in
Mexico. and 100000 in cash recovered
The report is generally discredited.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02

1t now seems probable that A. A.
Goggin was lost in the Portland disas-
ter. E. F. Goggin, a brother, visited
Brockton and Taunton today, and
learned that C. F. Wilson of Brockton
and A. A. Goggin visited one Dewey in
Brockton Saturday forenoon and babe
Dewey goodbye, saying they would
sail for Portland in the evening. They
also babe one John HARNESS good bye,
telling him the same story. 1t is now
feared that Marlboro had three vic
Tins on the Portland.
The herald., 1898-06-12
SPANISH HFREDITY

Our late dispatches from the seat of
speak of an order issued by the COM
mander of the district of Guantanamo to
burn the city of Caimancra before yield
ing it into the hands of the Americans"
The intention to destroy any Spanish shir.
of war, or, if necessary, to blow up the
whole Spanish fleet, rather than let the
victorious Americans profit by its cap
ture, has also been frequently reported
existence of this savage spirit. so fiercely
antagonistic to the loudly boasted
"honor" of the Dons, the conviction forces
itself upon the mind that the Spain of
today is the Spain of all time" to quot.
the words of James c. Fernald. in his re-
Gently published book entitled Tho
Spaniard in History"
1t is interesting to note that Mr.. Fer
nald believes that in the institution anc
workings of the tribunal of the inquisi-
ton he finds the key to the national char
acteristics of Spain, especially in their
foreign wars and their dealings with
Spanish colonies. He claims that the un-
speakabe horrors of that tribunal so
familiarized the Spanish mind with
human suffering that men accustomed to
see Christians tortured under the awful
sanction Of religion and in the august
presence Of monarchs and princes"
could have but little compassion for poor
ignorant heathens and savages. That
thus change came over the spirit of th>
Spanish troops, and that the once gallant
knights who achieved the conquest OF
Granada became the remorselessly cruel
and bloody instruments of despotism, and
that the change referred to has continued
! until this good day.
There seems to be much more than o
grain of truth in this assumption. And
IL this change-which seems untouched
The herald., 1898-06-12
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

At banquet given by Mayor Phelar
to General Merritt in San Francisco last
Friday the general. in response to toas.
in his honor, is reported to have said
among other things:
l believe in the new national policy of
the United States which looks to the
acquisition Of additional territory, rep
resented in outlying islands that are
requisite for the development of our
national strength and growth.
AS General Merritt is the accredited
United States military governor of the
Philippine Islands. this statement is sig
nificant as in all likelihood having beer
inspired by the administration. 1t ma,
be that the ''inexorabe logic of events
may compel radical departure from ths
purposes for which the present war with
Spain was begun, and that whore tenn.
porary possession only of territory, wol
by our arms, was at first intended, tn,
material interests of the United State.
may imperatively suggest permanent
control and ownership. At any rate, tn,
Philippine Islands are just now of grea
public interest, especially to Californians
80 many Of whose patriotic sons have al
The herald., 1898-06-12
THE NICARAGUA CANAL

There is sound policy in the following
words, which we take from the editoria
columns of The North American (Phila
delphia):
This war with Spain has opened our
eyes to many things. 1t has
given us standing among the nations of
the world that is filled with safety and
prestige; it has established union of
sympathy between this nation and Great
Britain that holds out rich promise for
the future OF the race; 1t has pointed out
our strength, and it has shown us, our
weaknesses, and the greatest of these is
the lack of swift and easy communica-
ton with our thousands of miles of sea-
coast. The remedy for this Is the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal at no
matter what cost. And If the war shall
result in sending the old fogies to the
rear and in the Inauguration of policy
that will ensure the construction of this
canal and the pursuit of all other ag-
gressive plans that reason, the age, and
our interests dictate, then the conflict
will not have been waged In vain.
Indeed the whole country, in the sym
pathetic feelings ELECTED by the magnifi
cent race half round the world of the bat
tleship Oregon-feelings often painful
The herald., 1898-06-12

by the hand of modern civilization and
and is but the blossoming and fruitage
of the bloody seed sown by the inquisi-
tion, what frightful harvest Of retribu-
tion has been reaped, all these centuries,
by Spain herself!
To devastate more than to fight has
seemed to be the mission of Spain in
Cuba, and largely, too, of the Cuban in
surgents themselves. And in this, as
manera, and the destruction Of Spanish
ships rather than have them fall into
American hands, the Spaniard of Santi-
ago de Cuba in 1898 but emulates the
the province of Granada in 1882. The
following brief reference to that cam
paign, quoted from Prescott, shows how
nearly parallel the war methids of Fer
dinand, in Granada in the fifteenth CEN
tury, were with those of General Weyler,
in Cuba, in the nineteenth:
From the second year of the war
thirty thousand foragers were reserved
for this service, which they effected by
demolishing farm houses. granaries
and mills (Which last were exceedingly
numerous in a land watered by many
small streams), by eradicating the
vines and laying waste the olive gar
dens and plantations of oranges, al
monds, mulberries and all the rich va
rieties that grew luxuriant in this
highly-favored region.
This, or such as this, is the approved
war methods of Spain. 1t will be well
for the human race when Spain. bereft
of every shred of her once widely ex-
tended foreign dominions, shall be shut
up within the narrow limits of her own
peninsula, where, let us hope, the result
ing malediction of the inquisition, OF
which she is the heir, will be at last lifted
from her devoted head, and the spirit
of modern Christian civilization descend
upon her instead.