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The age-herald., 1899-05-04
1899

A constitution that has fostered all this growth and development that has shell tered the homes and persons of our people so many years, should not be oYerthrown with impunity. The curse of holy writ is upon those who remove the ancient land marks.
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Uncle Sam is fast becoming the world S bridge builder. To the Atbara bridge in Egypt is now added dozen steel bridges for Russia.
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Various attempts to secure amendments to our organic lae have demonstrated that the very requirel ants of the constitution prevent any amendment.
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respectfully urge the general assembly to meet this issue now, honestly and fair Iy. and with a courage which comes only to those who have unbounded confidence in the patriotism and intelligence or the free men of Alabama. In conclusion per init me to assure you of my cordial CO., operation.
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treaty is an open-door affair after all, of fering all corners in all parts of China equal tariffs, equal harbor privileges, equal railway rates, equal charges of whatsoever kind, and equal opportunities for seeking and carrying out concessions. If that be its nature, then it is a good thing for an countries.
 All that America needs in China is chance to sell on equal terms agricultural and manufactured products from the base that Admiral George Dewey gathered in on the first day of last May. This country wants no spheres of influence in China, no territorial rights of any kind. Manila is close enough and good enough for all basic purposes. American capital and enterprise may continue to have equal chances in China, and the Chinese problem be solved peacefully and in accordance with the de- sires of the nations, even if China does not herself quite like the terms of settlement. Further particulars concerning the new treaty will be eagerly awaited, and the hope is that the integrity of China will be maintained, and that its ports will be open to all nations on equal terms.
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Messrs. Burkhalter, Huey and Houston were not selected by the people at primary elections. They do not represent the<senti- ment of Jefferson county.
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The general public is its own jury in the beef contract cases, and does not need the decision of a packed court.
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Iron and steel are having tussle in Eu- rope, and iron-plain old pig-is beginning to look up. Iron is still preferred for many purposes.
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And now Kansas, the home of Colonel Funston, proposes to build cotton mills over natural gas wells, and spin the Oklahoma staple.
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Copper, lead and zinc are up in the clouds, and silver is moving in that direction. The last-named has risen within ten days sev- eral points.
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It is now claimed that Colonel Funston accumulated his audacity while serving as a republican editor in Arkansas.
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Annapolis and West Point should have chairs devoted to correct letter-writing and after-dinner speech making.
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Colonel Funston does not eat canned roast beef of the Alger-Eagan brand.
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The new beef report finds the hot weather guilty and Alger truly great and innocent It was built that way. -------
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Historic Warwick is on the real estate market waiting for maudlin American millionaire.
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Tho volunteers in the Philippines have earned and will receive medals.
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The duty Is upon you to consider the ne- eessity for a new constitution for our state. That the present constitution has served its purpose and now embarra sses rather than promotes the objects 1t should subserve is manifest to all thinking men. It is essential that some of the Iron bands that have prevented our growth. and de- velopment should be struck off.
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 carried the state when they did not carry Baltimore city, and they probably never will. The state has therefore been taken out of the republican column, and listed in the democratic column. Mckinley can not carry the state next year any more than he can carry Kentucky. West Virginia alone of the states south of Mason and Dixon's line remains in the doubtful list, and 1t is believed that corporation-ridden state will cut loose from McKinleyism and AL gerism next year.
 The democratic victory in Baltimore has much to do with MT. Germans fortunes. Mayor-elect Hayes is MT. Germans friend and political associate, and it is not at all improbable that MT. German will be, the successor of the eccentric and unpopular Wellington. No one knows Maryland bet ter than MT. German does, and no one can excel him in finding weak points in the enemy's lines. It now looks as if Mir. Cor man would regain a senatorial seat, and 1t is pretty certain that if he does he will remain in the senate the rest of his act tive life.
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Our far-fiung battle line is resting in tho shade. The weather is becoming warm even in the Klondike.
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Gov. Johnston Again Answers Himself.

with political ambition John
  presented in
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calumpit was the Filipino Waterloo.
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
o The Cadsden Tribune,

Colonel Funston is a married man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17
Too Much Education Is Not
a Good Thing for the
Masses.
WASTETIMEON BOOKS
The New York Millionaire Says
Boys Should Begin to
Work Earlier.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, May 16.-Russell Sage
the speech of Coils P. Huntington in
which he declared that the masses We're
being over educated, and that he
thoroughly agreed with the San Fran
cisco millionaire's sentiments.
Mr. Huntington's speech is full of
common sense from start to finish, "
said Mr. Sage. "I am in favor of edu-
cation just as much as anybody.
have given money to colleges, but
don't believe in er-education, mind
you.
Il quit school and went into business
at eighteen. I have done very well.
think that young man should be able
to start in his life work by the time he
is eighteen or nineteen years old. Life
is too short for the period from four
teen to twenty-one years of age, as
Mr.. Huntington says, to be used up in
filling the mind with mere book knowl-
edge.
IF young men could only get the
idea that business life is just as hon
orable and respectable as professional
life more of our bright boys would go
into business. To make it short, I be-
lieve a young man should be thorough
ly educated in the business he intends
to follow, rather than have general and
surface knowledge of a great many
things. These are the days of special
ties, and unless the machinist and en-
gineer or banker knows his business
well he will not succeed. Young men
ought to he a bile to see too that a Der-
son who understands the mechanical
department of big business can COM
mand a better salary than a mere clerk
or bookkeeper. There are openings for
the most brilliant minds in the gigantic
business world of this country and the
sooner our young men recognize it and
act accordingly the better it will be for
them"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17
EX-GOVERNOR BOUTWELL,
SCORES MKINLEY

BOSTON, May 16.-Ex-Governor
Boutwell,, president Of the Anti-Imper-
ialistic League, was the chief speaker
at the meeting of the league here to-
day. Mr.. Boutwell, denied that the
league was engaged in improper deal
ings with the army in the Philippines.
1T is the purpose of the league" he
said, Ito bring the army out of the
Philippines by the quiet influence of
the American people at home, acting
through the ordinary channels of in
tercourse and communications; but,
failing in that effort, as fail we
may, we propose to so act as to
summon the army from the Philip
pines by the authority of the votes of
the American people and without
thought of the consequences to men,
to the administration, to political par
ties or to questions of domestic con-
Germ.
IF the opinion of one person upon the
question of whether the President of
the United States or Aguinaldo is in
the right is of any value to the advo-
Gates of Imperialism, l am prepared to
make answer The President asserts
the right to govern others, right
which has never been possessed law
fully by any one, and which has ever
force and war.
"As between Aguinaldo and the Pres
ident Aginaldo is in the right and the
President is in the wrong.
"Aguinaldo can only bring the war
to an end by the surrender of all right
to self government in himself and in
his people and by a recognition of the
right in the President to govern and
to tax 5000, 900 of Filipinos in whatever
manner shall to him seem expedient." "
Taking up Secretary Longs intima-
ton that the Philippines might be given
a government similar to that of the
Territories of the United States, Mr.
Boutwell, enumerated some of the priv
ileges which Territories enjoy and asked
what the reply of the American citi-
Zens would be to a proposition TO en-
dow 100000 Of Malays and their pos
terity through all time with a right of
competition and equality?
Mr.. Boutwell, held that the iniquity
of Imperialism was bearing a harvest
of evil in many quarters, in support of
which he cited recent events in Samoa
and Hawaii. The only possibility now
for peaceful conditions in the Philip
pines. he declared, was the abandon
ment of the claim to Jurisdiction and
rendering all aid without positive obli-
CATION in the establishment of an inde-
pendent government.
The league adopted a resolution de-
claring that the punishment of our
criminal aggression against this brave.
betrayed and unfortunate people is al
ready evident in the ominous usurpa-
ton of illegal powers by the President,
in uniustifiable censorship of the press
and in the threat of prosecution for
treason of an eminent and patriotic
citizen who was acting strictly within
his legal rights
Another resolution protests against
this attempt to degrade a great re-
public into a great empire, to destroy
it's moral leadership of the world, and
to make it succumb to ideas and prin-
ciples which it was born to oppose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17
SALISBURY AFFECTS
OFFICIAL IGNORANCE

LONDON, May 16.-The arrests at
Johannesburg are probably connected
with the mysterious dispatch received
at johannesburg from Pretoria on May
IL saying a special train fully equipped
with Boer artillerymen, guns and a
searchlight apparatus was being held
in readiness at the capital of the Trans
vaal. The statement was then declared
without significance, but to-day's news
throws a more serious light on the
movement and it is certain there will
be a great sensation in London when
the news of the arrests becomes gen.
orally known.
The afternoon newspapers to-day
print special dispatches from Cape
Town saying eight men have been ar
rested at johannesburg and have been
taken to Pretoria. The Government of
the Colony, it further appears, is con-
sidering the matter secretly. The news
has caused great excitement through
out South Africa.
The Standard and Diggers' News, the
Boer organ in London, has dispatch
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17

D RETORIA, May 16-Eight Off
GERS formerly in the British army
have been arrested at Johannes
i burg, charged with high treason.
The arrest has caused intense
excitement here. The prisoners We're
brought to Pretoria by special train
and after they had been lodged in Jail
they were visited by the British diplo-
matte agent.
The arrests were effected by de-
tective who joined the movement
which, it is asserted, was for the pur-
pose of enrolling men in order to cause
an outbreak of rebellion.
The officers arrested are Captain Pat
terson, formerly of the Lancers; Col
onel R. F. Nichols, Lieutenant J.
Tremlott, Lieutenant C. A. Ellis, lately
a private detective at johannesburg:
Lieutenant John Allen Mitchell, for
merly of the Horse Artillery; former
Sergeants j. Fries, R. P. Hooper and
Nichols. None of them have been in
the employ of the British South African
Chartered Company
1t is said that the Commissioner of
Police, who had the affair in hand, had
been wo king up the case four months.
Mr. Beatty, the detective who effected
the arrests, received his instructions
last week and secured the necessary
warrants yesterday.
The executive council of the Trans
vaal is sitting in secret session this
evening considering the arrests, and
several additional warrants have been
issued.
1t is asserted that the officers already
arrested were also preparing to organ
ize a corps in Natal, the British colony
between the Orange Free State and the
Indian Ocean, to assist the projected
movement at Johannesburg.
The charge against the prisoners is
that, while staying in the Rand pri-
vately, they are really engaged in en-
listing men for the purpose of rebel
lion when they were ready to give the
signal.
1t is said that the enlistment roster
included 1000 men and that number
of discriminating documents were found
at the time the arrests were made.
The British Agent and Charge DAT
faires, Cunningham Green. had an in
terview with President Kruger this af-
ternoon and expressed regret that men
who had worn the Queens uniform
should be concerned in such a move
ment.
President Kruger replied that he
would not believe the prisoners were
British officers until it has been proved.
adding that he hoped the affair would
not interfere with the proposed meet
ing between himself and Sir Alfred Mil
ner. Governor of Cape Colony and Brit
ish High Commissioner for South
Africa.
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terday and I intend to prove I was
right this time"
The convict hung back and had to be
dragged along until the two were just
inside the doorway of the mill, where
Michael Powers. the guard on the wall.
could not use his gun. Then Open
heimer sprang on Mcdonald without a
word and drawing an eight-inch dirk
Of prison manufacture sank it into the
guards bosom. Weakened by the shock,
the victim turned and feebly attempted
to grapple with his murderous assail-
ant. Placing his arm around McDon-
AIDS neck Oppenheimer stabbed him
again in the region of the heart. At
this blow the guard sank to one knee,
while the convict kept up his thrusts.
The scene was witnessed by another
convict, who ran up to Guard Samuel
YohO and told him that one of the
guards was being killed. Yoho turned
in time to see Mcdonald catch hold of
the blade of the knife. which was
jerked through his hand. nearly, sever
ing that member from the wrist Clear
ing the fifty feet of space between him
and the terrible scene as fast as he
knife again descend and pierce Nc
Donald's body under the left arm.
With one blow from his heavy cane
across the side of the head Yoho felled
Oppenheimer to the floor in an insen-
sible condition. He staggered a few feet
before falling and was followed by
Yoho, whose desire was to lay hands
on the knife. 1t was dropped and
picked up by a convict, several having
rushed to the vicinity of the struggle,
and was found in the evening in the
lavatory by a guard.
In the meantime Mcdonald had man
aged to regain his feet, and with up
lifted cane rushed at Oppenheimer.
Yoho held him and said Don't hit
him, jim; 1 have given him all he can
stand"
Chief Leahy was notified, and under
the direction of Warden Hale had Op-
penheimer placed in the dungeon. AS
sisted by Yoho and Leahy. the injured
man walked to the hospital and DR..
Lawlor was hastily summoned. He
found seven wounds. There were two
in the breast, which had pierced the
lung tissue and the wind whistled from
them at every breath. Another fearful
wound was under the left shoulder. A
deep wound had been made in the left
thigh. and one of a shallower nature in
the left calf, while the fingers of the
left hand were nearly severed.
The wounds were dressed and a
strengthening potion given Mcdonald,
who was soon able to receive the last
rites of his church from Rev. Father
Sheehy, who had been summoned from
San Rafael by Captain Birlem. Then
Mrs. Mcdonald and the three little
children of the wounded man We're ad-
mitted to see him. but the poor woman
was hysterical and had to be excluded.
AS she was assisted to leave the hos
pital by her friends, weeping and moan
ing, with her little ones clinging to her
and crying in alright, 1t made scene
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Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Cor
don Bennett.
HAVANA, May 16.-The situation of
affairs here is much clearer. The Gu
ban leaders are reconciled to the ar
rangement for the surrender of arms
to the civil authorities, but still believe
that all the officers are entitled to any
residue remaining from the 100000
grant. They will make no objection on
these grounds, but will issue notice to
their soldiers to give up their arms,
when ordered by General Brooke, to
the civil authorities, as recommended
by the assembly.
General Gomez worked on his mani
festo all day and will issue it to-mor-
row. He told me tonight that 1t would
contain advice to the soldiers to give
up their arms to the Mayors and go to
work The soldiers will probably be
allowed to give up their arms in
body and afterward will receive their
money.
General Brooke's new order drawn
up to-day revokes the previous distri-
button order and appoints American
commissioners only Lieutenant Col
ing the Fourth Corps of the Cuban
army in Santa Clara and Matanzas;
Colonel Randall will pay the Fifth
Corps in Havana and Matanzas. and
Colonel Bisbee will have charge of the
Sixth Corps in Pinar del Rio The
commissioners are instructed to con-
suit with the civil authorities of these
districts and arrange for reserving
arms The Mayors are instructed that
where the arms exceed five hundred
stands they shall appoint Cuban SOL
diers as armorerS. American soldiers
will accompany the commissioners in
the distribution.
The order says nothing in regard to
paying officers, but the understanding
between Brooke and Gomez is that
needy officers shall receive the residue
The commissioners will begin their
work Immediately.
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"
that brought the tears to the eyes of
the most hardened witness.
McDOnalds statement of the affair,
which was substantially as given in the
foregoing, was taken by District At
torney McIsaac and afterward signed.
Oppenheimer was then brought in by
a file of armed guards and identified by
the dying man.
Yes, that's the man who stabbed
me-" he exclaimed, "and l hope he'll
hang"
Oppenheimer scowled in a forbidding
manner, refused to say anything and
was led back to the dungeon.
DR.. Lawlor gave it as his belief that
it will be a miracle if Mcdonald is alive
tomorrow at noon. The unfortunate
sufferer was resting easy this evening
but is growing weaker all the time If
he dies Oppenheimer will surely hang,
but in case he RECEIVERS his brutal as
sassin can only be placed in the ''soli-
tary' cell and kept there at the discre-
ton of the Warden. It is asserted on
all sides that in case Mcdonald fails to
recover the convict murderer will never
be permitted to stand trial.
~
self sufficiently to keep from hitting
Oppenheimer two or three times and
settling him." said Guard Yoho this
evening The fiendish grin on Open
heimer's face as he drew the knife
through that defenseless mans fingers
and saw his hand drop to his side with
the blood squirting three feet simply
maddened me. AS it was l hit him so
hard the smile CONCEALED on his face
and did not leave it until he had re-
covered consciousness. The other con-
victs were greatly excited, but kept
good order and we had no trouble with
them whatever"
Oppenheimer is one of the most des-
perate and thoroughly distrusted con-
Victs at San Quentin. Though only 80
years old his career of crime has been
lengthy. 1t began in San Francisco
when boy employed by the American
District Telegraph Company as mes
! senger In May, 1892, he and a COM
panion named Lawless robbed John
Monahan, another messenger boy en-
| ployed in the office at 833 Sutter street
and because they got only So cents
nearly beat Monahan to death. Open
heimer was sent to the House of Cor
rection for eighteen months for his
crime, and three years later was con-
victed of robbery in Alameda, and with
a companion named Barry Harland
was sent to Folsom prison for fifty
| years.
on September 80, 1898, he stabbed a
convict named Walter Ross to death
because he believed the latter's brother
had been istrumental in his conviction
on the robbery charge. He received a
| life sentence on conviction, his neck be-
ing saved by the testimony of a number
of his gang that Ross was the assail-
ant He was removed to San Quentin
on February l and has since proved a
savage and intractable prisoner.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17
QUEEN VICTORIA Is
NOW ALMOST BLIND
oculist Decides That an Operation
Must Be Performed on Her
Right Eve.

NEW YORK. May ia cable to the
Journal says: Queen Victoria is almost
blind. She has completely lost the sight
of her left eye, and that of the right eye
is nearly obscured by a cataract This
alarming condition OF the Queens eyes
has been discovered by DR.. Pagenstecher,
the famous German oculist. He has adj
vised an immediate operation upon the
Queens right eye. An operation is said
to be the only thing that can prevent
total blindness.
That Queen Victoria has been made to
appreciate the gravity of her condition is
evident from the fact that she wore spec
tacles yesterday while driving at Ken
sington. 1t is contrary to the custom of
the Queen to appear in spectacles, and the
sight of them caused considerable com
ment among those in state attendance
upon her Now, as DR.. Pagenstecher has
so strongly advised an operation, it is be-
lieved that it may be accomplished with
out serious results He has assured the
royal family he would not have advised it
unless convinced that it would be per-
formed successfully.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-17
MANILA. May IL.
San ESidpO was Cap-
tured this morning by
LaWtOn'S VanC
column.

n n ANILA, May 16. =
MI Messrs. Carrick and
Holmes, the American
civilians captured at the Calu1n-
pit rice mills, have been released
by the rebel General Luna, who
saw them through his lines with
several Englishmen, who re-
ceived forty-eight hours notice
to leave rebel territory.
The United States cruiser
Charleston has arrived here from
Hongkong. She touched at
Aparri, communicating with the
United States gunboat Concord,
stationed at the mouth OF the
harbor.
The Charleston also spoke the
United States gunboat Wheeling
at Lingayan. All was quiet
there.
The Filipinos deny the state
ment that Aguinaldo is fugi-
tive, and declare his retirement
to the Carbollos Mountains is
part OF his strategic plans. They
say the mountains are almost in
accessible and are inhabited by
savages who use poisoned ar
rows, and that it is absolutely
impossible for the Americans
to follow him there.
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Lawyer Terrill Arraigned.

SAN JOSE, May 16.-Attorney S. B.
Terrill. who was recently eXtradited from
Arizona on a charge that he embeZzled
$500 from the Christopher Fault estate,
was before Judge Lorigan this. morning
to plead to indictments of embezzlement
and forgery returned by the Grand Jury.
These two charges are based on allega-
tions that Terrill fieeced Mrs. Clara A
Fread out of $500 by means of a bogus
mortgage. The point was raised that the
proceedings of the Grand Jury were ir-
regular, but this was overruled. A mo-
ton was made that the indictments be set
aside on the ground that Terrill had not
been served with copy or arraigned on
the charge This will be argued on
Wednesday.