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CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY j6, 1094.

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THOUSANDS KILLED ^ the Philippines

St Petersburg Report of Great Japanese Defeat

USD ATTACK US PURI ARTHUR FAILS

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Man; pLaaea of tb*- PtalUpploe qoee Uod have Dwn arttlad by areola. Aiuomi tboae are our right t<» govafn tba Philippine* ami tbe power of tbe United State# to aubdue Inaum-ctlon

within tbe lalanda.

Tboae and many alwllar queatlona

celrtxl a uiewutxt- from tbe Uusalnn j are purely academic. There ara well conaal at t'lwfu lutyinc that the J«|>a- I lutmtiliiK and booeat t>eotile who gatbnene have made n Hand attack on 1’ort I (>r ever j year In London—and recently Arthur and that lu doing ao they loat tU<J , u Uo^o^to proU-ot agalnat the

! bebeadlns of fbarlea I., but Chariea I. waa beheaded 250 yeara ago. By hi* | death the chain# which bound a free ! i (Topic were broken, from well.

LOMKiN. May 24. — Advice# from et lVt«Taburjc aay It la report«-d that Foreign Mlntatcr 1 jimndorfr La* re-

THE OOOBSS OF OUR GOVERNMENT HAS SEEN STRICTLY HONORABLE.

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title the aorereljmty of :«<o yaaf# sad had removed the cloud upon her title by buying the claim* of Agnlnaldo'a government. T»* tranaactlon atanda unique In tha hlatory of govenunenta. If AgulnaIdo* authority couatltutgd a government. It la the flrat time In andent or modem day# when a power claiming aorereignty. asking for recognition from foreign stale#, for a vai nablr consMeraUon, which waa agreed to. Rare a <iultelalm of all It* right*. It* proprrttc# and IU power*. The 190.000,000 paid by the United State* to Spain for the reaatnn of her aover algnty and right* also purchased the rights. If any. qnltclalmed to Spain by

Agulnaldo.

Such ware the merit* of the Aguinakllat claim* in this country. i This la not a sordid view, nor can any right apprehension of our Itilltpplne p«>llcy or our relutlmi* to our laland colonies be sordid or purely com meO'iaL Commerce and clvlllaatton always go together. In *plte of our-»o-lves we have colonial |>owiwKloiia tVa have no policy to declare, no gllt-

iMHifd the battleship i *U hi* mUtake*. all hi* error* and all | K-rlng reaolutk.ua or procUmaUon* and that ten stok- j the InjuaUca which can he charged , make and lu the futum to embarraa*

. ... . . ■■■ W.. AtnrnfM^I tint the Insur.

15.U00 men killed or wounded. The Rtuudan loss l* placed at 8.tHK> The ultimate outcome of Ihc lighting la |

pot stated.

It la reported that there ha* ls*en

an explosion on boai Orel at Cron*null

or* were killwl. The vessel haa l>een | agalmrt him. creat.d that reign of In- ^ badly damaged, and it will take weeks ! dividual )udgment and conacleUce r ® c to elffs-t reiarir*. Tbe expl<*«l<in \»na , w jji c p eroluled Into glvll and ro-

the result of au ...-cumulation of gas lu4ou- |II*rty, which haa i-reated the ^ wU , in.um^th the w^U In the bunker*. commercial spirit of the EnglUh speak- | of u n j t «i sun** *«*urity for life X \lnkow rej*. *«v» | Jnjt p^pp,^ which haa made them ex- RU d property. fr.-«*dom of religion and

U.O river. i P>«** Iruvrlori muM* »1P»0 U>* IP- «l"*l ]“*• .<l«.lPl«n.Uvn »' II u now brth-v.vl ib»t tbrrv art. Im- | *»> '»»A “* “■“•i'' *“> ~l»ol»era. U»la».

mm~- aappUca at Xawcbwan, and and baa carrldd. wltb tbolr IndovB™. "ff"

Ib.l that idara 1- !b..rv.iiiblj- pr.dn.d- , avlf edrarnm.-..! aad lapraaenUHT, In- ^

We bare stamtM-d out the Insur-

rection and established a stable gov

We have organlxed local

government and constituted courts.

ed against any Incursion of tbe Japa- gtltutlou* all over

nese.

A Liaoyang dispatch aay* the Japanese camps are Infected with cholera.

the world It to rtlll ‘'J"* ,u » ,u P l, • for h * rier P«lwB*lbUldea the world. It to son .. mM . Dab | p . reapect for

an academic discussion whether I'm#- ^ Judk;tal dut ^. aD< ] for , consUnUr inklent Lincoln had the right to coerce cr<ra ,, lyf .diare In their local and "gen

sovereign state, but the exercise of i uawmblhe

- a , oral a**coii»wrw.

and there Is an average of loo d.-«tna j ^ rlght Mved nrM j ^-rtwlcd thto re- year of rule by tbe United Mate*

public and haa made it the foremost in Cuba Ufa convincing object lemon.

Uusalan patrols are successfully ha-raa-dng the left of the Japanese ad-

vance.

A Yinkow rejHirt ■ay*.

-A Japau.**.- third army is mobUixlng at Hiroshima. A change In the Japanese plan has arisen from the naval disaster Involving tbe utilizing of the

tmtobdl lawytm and .-mm upon pob- ] revolnUontaa con«dvuMv, dtlom.

dtfll dlKO« tbe pow- ! Onto- bu uk»n tb. pb.« of .nntvbj

lie queetiona

er of Abraham Lincoln to laaue the emancipation proclamation, hut he did Issue It, ala very' waa abolished, and tbe blessing* of tbe act are enjoyed by

second army for the redaction of Tort j owner nIk( j hodman equally, by the

Arthur, and therefore the first army to Intrenching at Fengwangcheng." Tbe Hqsslans are removing store# and provisions to Harbin. One hundred locomotive* and R00 cars art* collected at IJapyang In rejplin**** to convey iwaaengers and goods. The conclusion to that the Russian* arc pre-

paring to retreat.

Tbe battleship Orel. It was reported from tbe Itusslnn capital, was badly damaged on her way to^LTonatadt and narrowly e#ea;>ed sinking. Tbe story of the Bogatyr's wreck find* credent* In SL Petersburg despite official denial*. and It was reported from Kobe that she had been destroyed. Skirmishes took place north of Takushan. a Russian troop of cavalry sustaining heavy loss south of Fengwangcheng and north of Wonsan. The morementa of General Kurokl's army remain a puzzle to the Russian*. A PL Petersburg dispatch say# Gen era I Stoessel has made a successful sortie from Port Arthur, resulting In tbe defeat of the Japanese, with the loss of over a thousand killed or wounded. Tbe newt haa been received

by the government.

The Rtuaians at Port Arthur are In a deeper*te frame of mind; and they hare made their desperation an excuse to sow the whole strait of Pec hi 11 with floating blockade mines. These mines have drifted Into t\je high seas and Chinese water*, where they constitute the gravest danger to neutral ships. Several of them have been seen near WelhalweL Prom Mukden cornea a report' that tbe hostile armies are in toucb south east of Liaoyang. The Japanese force to estimated at 100.000 men. Advice* from Tokyo aay a report from Rear Admiral Dewa aaya that the cruisers Kasaga and Yoahlno collided during a fog off Port Arthur on May 15. Tbe Yosblno sank, only ninety of her crew being saved. On the same day the battleship Hatsuse struck a Russian mine and sank. Three hundred of her crew were saved. Tbe Hatause sank two minutes after running on the mine, and the Yosblno waa being towed away by a vessel of tbe bombarding fleet when she also

went down.

Only 390 of tbe crews of tbe vessels sunk have been saved out of a total complement of 1,041

free states and by those that wer* once known as the slave state*. We are In the Philippines. We are

and law of Ik-euae. Tbe Cabana are developing their Industries and rapidly acquiring habits of self government. Bo the uplifting of the people of the Philippine# to tbe comprehension and practice of orderly industry, respect for Individual rights, confidence and then participation In govern mi t will add enormously to their happiness and

we bear of tbe _ tic and the alleged assault upon It by tbe United State*. That Dewey, (bat Merritt, that Anderson, used tbe na'tive* for the purpose of fighting Spain only tbe president of tbe United States 'could bind tbe country and be only fclth the subsequent assent of tbe senate. Admiral Dewey most emphatically denies any committal whatever to Agulnaldo for tbe Independence of bis so callsd gov Tbe alleged government, called the de facto government of Agulnaldo, rested upon an equally flimsy basis. Spain had held these islands, with a slight Interruption, wbeh seised by Great Britain, for 800 yeara. Her gov-

over them

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Kethsefclld Klai NEW YORK. May 24 —Convicted of grand larceny in tbe first degree. David Rothschild, founder and wrecker tb# Federal bank, baa been senten to nine years In Sing Sing by Goff. Thto to one year leas than tbe maximum penally. Moses EL man of Hquse. Grossman Sc Yorhana. counsel for Hotbadilld. obtained a stay from Judge Gsynor of Brooklyn Immediately after Rothschild had been sen . which will prevent Rothschild

Cowardly Art ml Kveraal*. LOUISVILLE. Ky- May 24.-A o i from Hazard, Perry county, reof the French-

ed by all the powers of Europe. Her bad government prod need frequent ln-

whlch were always sup-

promoted. by tbe captain general atod officials for tbe purpose of #*- be larger appropriation# and expenditures which war permit and in order to exercise tbs powers of martial law for robbery and tbe confiscation of rebel property. Agulnaldo beaded one of these inaui red lone end formed a revolutionary government.' which, however, existed only on paper and governed nothing bat the camp which be bad In the at Blae Na Bate. After con and mainly g be fle

that at the Is tb* ■ by treaty gbe had as bar

stay by conquest and treaty reciprocally to tbe strength, proepriity

rights. AU that precedes the ratification of the treaty by tbe senate of tbs United State# I# an academic question. The most merciful way to prosecute war, the surest method of speedily enforcing peace, is to strike the enemy wherever be may be weak and vulnerable. To have permitted Spain port# foe her fleet and freedom of tbe seaa and tbe ability to concentrate all her effort# In Cuba would hare been tbe madness of sentiment and criminal folly. By capturing Porto Rico we dosed the harbor# where fleets of Spain could go outside of Cuba and cut off her sources of supply. By threatening with a flying squadron tbe coasts of Spain we kept troop* within her home fortification* and ship* within her own harbors. Tbe wisest of tb* many wise orders Issued during tbs war wa# that to Admiral Deway when at Hongkong. •Find tbe Bpanlsh fleet and destroy It" Tbe destruction of that fleet ended tbe power of Spain In tbe Pacific ocean. By tbe landing of our troop* and tbe

of Manila the United States

SHOULD "STAND PAT."

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not abandon, nor aan tbe Democrat# logically ask the people to abandon, to that policy of protection which haa given us superb control of our home

markets, an unrivaled prosperity and

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