Youngstown News, 1901-06-28

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. VOL. XXI. YOUNGSTOWN, N. Y., FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1901. NO. 21. CRIME IN THE PHILIPPINES Many Natives Punished For Various Acts of Violence ASSASSINATIONS ARE FREQUENT Xlght Members of a Band of MatlTe Mnr- derers Condemned to Heath—Organl■ation Consisted of an Executioner, Aaslstaats and Men to Dig Graves For Many Innocent Victims. ' Washington, D. C—A Philippine mail brings to the War Department the records In eleven cases wherein (Filipinos were tried by military commissions on charges Including murder, kidnaping, criminal assault, burglary and violation of the rules of war. An especially noteworthy case arose tout of the operations of a famous oath-bound band of Filipinos called the Society of the "Sandatahans." The principal officers of this society, next to a triumvirate of chiefs, are a chief executioner and assistants arid a requisite number of grave  ■who participate lu (the self-appointed W-.,™  , The leaders select their victim, capture and carry him away In the night to a secret rendezvous on a eandy beach covered with tall grass, •where the diggers already have prepared the grave. Here, in the presence of the assembled baud, helpless men and women from time to time liave been stabbed to death and tossed into the graves. The members of the band then disperse ami trust to the rise and fall of the nearby waters to hide the evidences of their ghastly work. Ten member! of the band, including two of the chiefs, were tried before a military commission and eight of them were sentenced to be hanged. In another case an armed band of about twenty-five Filipinos carried away nine of the inhabitants of the Barrio of Casantulaeinn. and, by repeated blows from the butts of their rifles, drove them to the Presidcneia of Ctibaruan. Here all hands drank freely of vino and the prisoners were made Crunk. Then, according to the testimony of two of the prisoners who escaped, tW other seven were led off in the direction of Ji grove of trees, whpre, two days later, their beheaded bodies were discovered. Tho members of the band who were captured received sentences of death in several cases and Imprisonment at hard labor for varying terms in others. .lose Baligod. tho President-elect of the Pueblo of Tuao under the system established by the American Government, while exercising the functions of his office became cognizant of the organization of a band in a neighboring barrio for the purpose of attacking the small garrison of nineteen Amex-- ican soldiers stationed in Tuao. Balleod traitorously co-operated wlrh tWe leader of the band, advised liim as to the most auspicious time to make an attack, intercepted a messenger sent to warn the Americans and otherwise treacherously abused the trust of his office. He was sentenced to be confined at hard labor for tw.-'ty years. THE AMERICAN PERIL AS VIEWED BY VARIOUS EUROPEAN JOURNALS. —From tbo New York Herald. A PARADISE FOR HUNTERS. Uganda Commissioner Describes the Bl Game There—Prehistoric Giraffe Found. London.—Sir Harry Hamilton Johneton, Special Commissioner for the Uganda Protectorate, has returned to London, after an absence of two years. He brings stories of Uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley's description of "Darkest Africa." Sir Harry relates that the country surrounding Moautelgon is totally depopulated as a result of inter-tribal •wars, and is consequently marvelously stocked with big game that are as tame as English park deer. Zebras :and antelopes can be approached to -within ten yeards, and there is no sport in killing them. Elephants and rhinoceroses are also abundant, and, according to Sir Harry, lions in Uganda are too busy eating hartebcesj: to notice a passing caravnn. The prehistoric fclraCe has been discovered by the Commissioner, who proposes to maintain the region referred to as a national park. Elr Harry photographed a race of epo-men in the Congo forest differing entirely from Stanley's pigmies and -phonograph records of their language .sx.nl music. PINGREE DEAD IN LONDON Former Governor of Michigan Saooumbs to Intestinal Disease. As Mayor of Detroit Hβ Fnntht For Mα* nlclpal Ownership — Gained Fum by Ills Potato Patch Plan. London.—Former Governor Hazen S. ringree, of Michigan, 19 dead. His son was the only one present at the time of his death. Mr. Plngree died peacefully, without speaking one word. His death was caused by ulceration of the intestines. Young Mr. Plngree wired to his mother and his uncle In the United States not to come to London. The body will lie embalmed and taken to Mr. Plngree's home. Detroit, Mich.—Hazen Senter Plnpree was boru in Denmark, Me., In 1840. At an early age he removed to Hopklnton, Mass., and found employment in a shoe factory. In 1802 lie enlisted in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, nnd served until the end of the Civil War, when he settled in Detroit and embarked in the manu- rapturing of shoes. He started in busl-IMMB In a email way, but was so sue-, was regarded ae a Very wealthy man".,' In 1889 the Republican party nominated Mr. Flngree for Mayor of Detroit, and ho was elected by over 2000 majority. He was re-elected In 1891, 1803, and 1895 by Increased majorities each time. In 1890 he was elected Governor of Michigan by 8°.,000 plurality, running ahead of the National ticket by 20,000 votes. He was reelected Governor in 1898 by about 100,- OOD plurality, and served out his term, which expired in 1900. Last March lie started on the journey abroad which ended in his death in London. While he was Mayor Mr. Plngree accomplished many municipal reforms. He forced the gas company to lower its rates, established the public lighting plant, organized the Detroit railway on a three-cent fare basis, lowered telephone rates, and broke up the sewer and paving rings that were thriving when he came Into office. His potato patch scheme for the relief of the poor of the city was extensively copied, and brought him National fame. Mr. Pingree is survived by a widow and two children, a sou and a daughter.UX7.F.I B. PINOREE. (Former Governor ol Michigan, who died In London while visiting Europt.) BAD PIES AND DESERTIONS. Poor Cooking Prompts Husbands to Leave Their Wives. Chicago.—Experts In domestic economy have found the reason why so many wives are deserted. Bad pies and poor cooking they say are the cause. Pies of the kind mother could not make with malice aforethought and pancakes that would serve as targets in a shooting gallery have driven the husbands to the bad. Superintendent Ernest P. BicUnell, of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, and J. M. Hanson, of the Kansas City organization, have come to tlie front with tule explanation. Both men believe that the conditions may be Improved by teaching wives to their responsibility. MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK The St. Elizabeth Government Asylum for Insane, near Washington, will be'extended at a coet of $1,000,000. The President's yacht the Bylph, was ordered Into dock at Norfolk, Va., to undergo repairs. A Red Book, reviewing foreign relations in the war -with Spain, was Issued by the State Department. In further retaliation for American Imposition of duties Russia raised her tariff rates on American products of resin and bicycles. The United States Civil Service Commission will hold an examination July 23 for farmers In the Indian service.President McKlnley disapproved a resolution of the Cherokee Indian Council for a new agreement with the Dawes Commission. A petition bigger than an nnabrldired dictionary was sent President Mc- Klnley, asking the appointment of John Albus as postmaster of St. Joseph, Mo. Julian Phelps, United States Consul tit Crefeld, Germany, resigned. Seeretnry Root raised tho standards of admission to tho West Tolnt Military Academy. The Industrial Commission adjourned until September, after hearing over 700 witnesses. WASHINGTON ITEMS. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A series of sppcl.il revenue stamps will Ik? made for Porto Itico. The Philippines Commission -will permit proceedings In the courts to be conducted in English and native dialects.Washington was asked for $10,OOC to defray the expenses of fifty Filipino teachers who are to study for a yeai ia normal schools of America. The election cf at least eight mayors will be reversed, as many frauds Inv the recent municipal elections In Cuba were brought to light. Surveys made of the Cuban coast,. under direction of the Navy Department, developed many desirable sites for naval stations. General Cailles. head of the Insurgents in Luzon. P. 1., signed terms o: surrender by proxy. The United States Philippine Copmission appointed seven Suprej Court judges. Arellano being nags Chief Justice. Jl All but $35 of the $80,000 ttolen from the First National Bank of Mineral Point, Wis., was recovered. A plot to kill game out of season in Colorado was unearthed at Denver, and many valuable skins seized. Kentucky oil producers are considering the formation of a protective combine.The 52,000,000 endowment fund being raised for Brown University, Providence, It. 1., was completed. The explanation of the double lynching of negroes at Shreveport, La., is that a conspiracy against whites had been discovered. The Massachusetts House sustained Uμ Governor's veto of the Boston sub\rny by a vote of 98 to 135. During a performance of Berwick's circus at Staples, Minn., the brother of the proprietor, who was acting as a clown, dropped dead. Heart failure was the cause. Free street gas lights are now furnished Chicago in lieu of three and a half per cent, of the company's gross earnings. All traco of Dr. Edward B. Evans, of Fargo, N. D., was lost since three weeks ago when he went to visit a patient.D. U. Fletcher was elected Mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., by a large majority.The postofflce at Chlckamauga, Tonn., was robbed. John D. Rockefeller made his first address to faculty and students of University of Chicago. Horses are ngaln being bought at New Orleans, La., by the British. Steps were taken at Kansas City, Mo,, to form a new party by Populists and Silver Republicans, who hope to make W. J. Bryan its candidate. Joe Harris, a negro, was hanged by a mob at Athens, Ala., on suspicion of burning a barn. A tornado passed over Beadle Com.- ty, S. D., injuring ten people and destroying property. Lightning killed three men at Scott Lake, Mich. The City Council of Omaha, Nebousted Fire Chief John Redell, charged with brutality toward his men. FOREIGN. A violent storm burst over a large area of Southern Russia, flooding several towns and greatly damaging crops. A monument to Frederick William I. was unveiled at Kiel, Germany. Two Czechs named Orsovle and Zaroa were arrested at Prague, Bohemia, on a charge of being implicated In a plot against Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. Yellow fever appeared at San Salvador.Four men were killed by soldiers who quelled a riot at Klo Janeiro. A torpedo engine, in the torpedo works at Frledrichport, near Kiel, Germany, exploded, killing an engineer and wounding a number of other persons. Sentenced to banishment, a Paris thief stabbed In a judge's room the woman whom be accused of tempting hlin_to a career of crlme.__._ ...... FIRE WORKS EXPLOSION KILLS DeadK Work of Flames and Concus-1 sion at Paterson, N. J. SOME MARVELOUS ESCAPES O»er i Score of Persons Were Killed or lat ired—Building In Which Explosion Oβ trred a Complete Wreck—Wife At■ Jted to Save Invalid Husband and DM I Pensheil—A Met of the Dead. Potfrson, X. J.—Exploding fireworks wrecMod the four-story frame build- Ing BM4O Main street, this city, killing a Amber of persons, and injuring many ethers. Twenty-one families wet* tendered homeless, all their household effects being destroyed in the flte which followed the explosion. were made and many narrow escapes were recorded. A partial list of the dead follows: Mrat Lucinria Adamson, Mrs. Bert Bninfeggg; Bamberg, baby; Mrs. Ann Burns, Clarence Burns, six years old; Mrs. Mary Duffy, Willie Eluaser, six weeks old; Mrs. Henry Elasser, Mrs. Andrew Elvln, Elvin, her two-year-old child; Mrs. Anne Fentman, mother of Mrs. Elvln; Elizabeth Llttenburg, Mrs. Anne Lannlgau, Harold Hittenbnrg, sleren months old; Charles Williams; Mrs. Charles Williams and Mrs. Paul dimmer, mother of Mrs. Klttenburg. In the cellar, under the wholesale and retail fireworks store of A. M. Klttenburg were stored tons of flre.vorfcs (or the sales preliminary to the (■'ourtU of July. No one knows the >rlgln of the catastrophe, but at 12.30 )'clock the whole neighborhood was shaken by a terrific explosion which jrough down almost immdlately the :Cnement bouse above the store and •■> shook the adjoining buildings of •:he same description that they qulcky fell Into the fire which followed. It U considered a miracle that any if those In the building over the store escaped, as the explosion blew out the front of the structure and shattered the entire house, which fell a few iniiiates later. Flames were leaping through the two bouses adjoining long before au llarm had been turned in, and by the time ♦he firemen arrived many easueii been recorded. No less tl »ttilrty-five persons were taken fci foue three buildings by the firein* aled by tenants who retained their (Hi ..>'inii» of mind. Intacestlng stories of escapes were told after the excitement hud subsid-2d, <>ne of the most thrilling of whlcj) w^:j taat of Charles Kaehler, who with his wife dug through piles of fallen plaster to reach their baby, saving It and tl> ;tnet'lves after three unsuccessful attempts to escape. i'erJhUM the most daring attempt at rescue auilug the fire wus unsuccessful, and au Invalid husband and the wi •-• who rushed into u room filled wii i flame, to save iiiin, were burned to UeatU. She wua Sirs. Charles Wlllluins, and wh-n ihu reached the street sue was tola that bur husband was in their apartment. The walls were tottering, and pie Interior of the apurtiueut was Jblaziutj furnace, but the devoted wife/lid not hesitate, but (sprung up me alalrs. Firemen rollowtu her uud dragged her body and that of her husoauu—they weie less thuu a toot apart—from tiiu liame-filled room. County Physician Mcßrlde, who is also the President of the Board of Health, said that thu health authorities will make an Investigation. W'Ullam Walker, the vwuer of the building. »ay«t hm loss is about $-'),- 000. i luis itt not fully covered by ln•uraftce. All ot the tenants lost everythin*, ao tbe loss will probably loot ub above 130.WW. and may be W,Wi. PIUNCIPALS IN TUB BAKKEK CASE BARKER IS FOUND GUILTY Jury Returns a Verdict of Assault With Intent to Kill. DELIBERATED EIGHT MINUTES After the Trial thn Rev. John Kellttr t«- sueil a Statement Denying; the Charge* or Mn. narker — Maximum Penalty Seven Years' Imprisonment and SS.- 000 Fine—Story of the Shooting. Jersey City, X. J.—Thomas G. Barker, who shot the Rev. John Koller, of Arlington, on February 3, was found guilty of assault with intent to kill, ns charged in the Indictment, In the Hudson County Court of Sessions. The Jury found a verdict on the first ballot after eight minutes' deliberation. The extreme penalty Is seven years in State's prison and $2000 fine. The trial occupied five days. Barker's bail was Increased from ?0000 to $10,000, anil he wan remanded to jail for sentence. His lawyers expected to appeal the cast,. Mr. Keller has issued a statement denying that he had over wronged or attempted to wrong Barker. He expects to take further action to vindicate hla reputation. The verdict, of the Jury brought to a close one of the most sensational and absorbing criminal trials of recent years, ami established once for all the fact that. In New Jersey at least there is no "unwritten law" that gives a husband the right to take Into Eta own hands the avenging of a vlolntion of his home. After nearly flve days of legal warfare, fought with stubborness and bitterness, during which a nameless crime upon the wife of the defendant by the victim of the Arlington tragedy wus brought out piecemeal in a mass of testimony, the case was Dually placed In the hands of the Jury by the presiding Justice, stripped of every detail except those which were directly concerned with the shooting and maiming for life of John Keller by Thomas O. liarker. When Barker, the prisoner, heard the verdict he said: "I don't want to criticise the Jury. I suppose they did their duty us they understood it. Probably every man on that jury would have acted as I did had he been in my place." The Shooting of Mr. Keller. The shooting of the Hev. John Keller by Thomas U. Burkcr occurred ou the morning of .Sumki.v, February 3, lu front of the clergyman's boarding house, in Arllugton, N. J. Mr. Keller left the house*S»bout b o'clock, uuil was on tlie sidewalk when Barker, who hud lulu lu wiUi. for him, opened Bra at clow; range with a revolver. The first bullet passed through Mr. Keller's right eye and through uie bridge of his nose, and lodgeu under ihe left eye. The clergyman tell senseless on the sidewalk. Barker stood over him and Ured three more shots, two bullets passing harmlessly through Mr. Keller s hat, and the lust one wounding the augers of hia right huud. Barker then placed the revolver in his pockei, went to a iiolice station ami surreuiiered hifflMU', saying he had shot Mr. Keller and wuuied 10 be locked up. Later he said he had been told by ills wile thai she had been assaulted by Mr. Keller more than a year before the shooting. Mr. Keller denied that ho had assaulted Mrs. Burker, us soon as he wus informed of the charge. For a time it was feared that nis wound would prove futui. His right eye wus entirely destroyed, and me sight ot bis left eye was weakened 10 taut bo Iβ nearly pllnd. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Professor Dcwnr Iβ after tho absolute iero. Elbrldge T. Gerry is credited with starting the melon-growing fad at Newport, It. I. Alfonso XIII. Iβ not n Mark Spanlard. He Is fair and haa blue eyes and curly hair. Ambassador Whlto has taken a houst, at Sassnltz. near Merlin. Germany, for throe months. S. K. Crockett, tho novelist, has a gnat collection of ladeMd sorapbooks from which to draw his material.The Pnke of Cambridge, rmiiiillnc ont hi.i tightr-second your, Is the first mentbor of the Brttklb royal family to attain that ajre. Vlce-Proslilent Roosevolt has premised to deliver nn addreai at the celeiirntlon of the (Barter centenary of Colorado's Stateliood. Secretary Loiifr has nooepted an Invltatlou tt> l>e present at the celebration of Old Hove Weak at Portland, Me.. Aujriist 10 to IT. Senator Allison, of lowa, says that he Is too old to lip a Presidential candidate in 1004, nnd names Governor ►Shaw ns I suitable uomiuei". froiuer Sonatov Towne. of Minnesota, and (Jovernor McMllllu, cf Tennessee, hnvi! into a ?2,500,000 conipmiy to hunt oil In Texas. Qeneral Bates, recently returned from tlx! Philippine!, has been ordered fo command the DepArtmeot of the Miaaearl, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb, "I am still a yountr man." said Kussi'll Sa.se the other day. "for a man is young .lust aa lout as he takos an active Interest In lilh own life and the life of the world at large." King Edward appears to have decided to secure worthy pictorial Illustrations of the Incidents of his relcn. He has Seymour I.ucaa to paint a picture of the royal recuntlou of the Moorish embassy. THE NATIONAL GAME. Sp.vmonr Is fining tlio t>lll to perfection In Baltimore'! right field. The New York learn iS WMk behind the bat, says u St. Louis critic. hns taken Matthowson"s place as New York's winning pitehor. The best pitching tins boon shown by the younger school of twirlers. American League outdrew the National 10,000 to 1500 at Boston on Buaker UUI Day. The Marlon Indlnnnpolls jrnme rras called at the end of the twelfth Inning with the store 0 to 0. Williams Is snld to be plnylng a better game at second base than be did at third, which Is saying a good deal. Keeler Is not now to third bnso, nnd Is not tin., only left hnuder who hns fired thorn across the diamond from the third corner. The Detroit team Is made up largely of little men, who make up In activity what they lnck In stature. Casey, Barrett, Holmes, Glcason nnd Elberfold lire undersized, but fast. John .1. UeGflur, uinnajier of the Baltimore American League Club, said that he hnd recelve<l !i telegram from Iln,'ii Jeuiilnxs, stating that hu would play with the Baltimore club. A number of the? present array of first basemen have been graduated from other positions. Teuney, Doyle and LaChance were catchers, McGaun was a second baseman, Everitt a third baseman, Delehanty and Anderson outfielders, Brauslleld u cutdier and Isbell a pitcher. Hans Wagner, sludger, descants as follows upon the pitching art: "I see very few benders coining up except In the cases of young pitchers. The seasoned League twlrler, of course, runs In a few curves at tines, but he generally depends on speed, change of pace and .sending over something that the batter Is not expecting." LABOR WORLD. The printers of Bristol, Va. have formed a union. There ur« 114.320 British fishermen owning 27,144 boats. France lias 2i)B collerlcs, with a Joint yield of U.">,000,000 tons a year. The stage hands un<l scene shifters of Klehuioud, Va., have formed a unlou. The paper mills strike nt Holyoke, Mas*., has been declared off, the striken* winning. Coal miners' wogea in Great Britain have advanced tifty to eighty per cent. In two years. President O'Connell lias been reelected by the International Machinists' Association. Work la the Woolwich arsenal, England, has now eotiuwhat slackened down, and many hunUu have been discharged.Onlyti&Out twenty per cent, of tha waltersTii German hotels and restaurants receive any wages, as they arc expected to ttff on their feus. The fishing industry of Francs has remained stationary fjr seventy years. There are V2.WO tishermeu to-day; just the HQO number aa ia 1830. OUlolals of tuu Trackmen's Union, at Montreal, (Juebcc, announce that iiOOO to iiotHJ of the Canadian TaelQe Railway trackmen havo struck for au increase of wages. This in ninety per cent, of the total. Judge Baker, la District Court, at Omaha, Neb., decided that the female labor law of Nebraska, prohibiting cci- I.loyers from working female employes for more than sixty hours a week, la constitutional. Tbo court held that Jc was necessary ia order to protect tha robUc beiia. Aβ Independent Re-{ publican Paper. ) f. OUTER FHICI,. Editor, t \ The Brightest and Best I County Paper. 0 11.00 Per Year in Adiaoe*. \ Adrattlalnc BatM on AppliaaUoa.