Centre
CHAS. R. KURTZ,
PROOF GIVEN
IN ABUNDANCE
\prietor.
Showing That McKinley Knew the
Purpose of Philipinos
TO ESTABLISH A REPUBLIC
I'hat
Have
idee
Judge
Supreme Court Has Decided
I'he United States Cannot
Colonies— The by
Fancy.
I'he
Decision
A. S. Johnston has con
her
ber of extracts from official rej
show as a matter of offic
the Filipinos had estal
their islands when our troops
that they
in
there; were
treated as all
be recognized and maintained
i
Americans betrayed and deceived
fired the first shot in the present war,
and after hostilities had commenced re-
fused to for peace; that
they have beer al
drawn into t
l along, mis-
1¢
treated and deliberately
war is shown by the following extract
onc
from official document which any
may see for himsel
United States C
° . A \ :
an oficial “Ww . ) 381
Secretary Cridler, Febn
1, at Ma-
tant
stant
ymsul
nila, in
Senate Document 62.
“The
been able to
ee a Xv
ywn (St
said:
‘Large sug
for insurgent
Admiral De
0a
attend
; of insurgent i for t
ing leaders for the pi
of forming a civil government
has acted independently of the:
but has kept mie advised of his
which has been wonderful.
lowed him to pass, by water,
arms aod ammunition, and t
Spanish arms and ammunition frou
arsenal as he needed. Have
frequently to condact the war hun
which he has done invariably,’
Thomas M. Anderson,
communication to Aguinaldo, J
I have
rect
such
the
) lake
General
Senate Document 62, Page
st an
hav
I desire to have them
lations with you, an
your people to co-openate with u
Lary
ve had no re
a rent
honor to make requi
horses and 5
esent your
COD Ie
’
lows
*“ I have circulated orders in the prov.
inces in the proximity that in the short.
est time possible horses be brought for
sale. * * | have also ordered to be placed
at my disposal so carts that I shall place
at your dispositic 4
Before
Commission at Paris,
Commander B. B
States
and was asked the question by Senator
the Spanish-American Peace
October 14,
Bradford, of the |
Navy, was brought as a witness
Frye, one of President McKinley's Com.
missioners, and made the reply below
(see Senate Document 62, page 4
“Mr. Frye- * * * What kind of
a nation in the eyes Id would
we appear to be to er Aguinaldo
and his insurgents to Spain to
with as they please
“A. (Commander Bradford) We be-
came responsible for everything he has
done. He is our ally, and we are bound
to protect him
SOME
MORE PROOF
Admiral Dewey, ina |)
Lodge, February, 1900, said
“I never treated him as an ally, ex
cept to make use of him and the natives
to assist me in my operations against the
Spaniards.”
President McKinley's Philippine Com-
missioner, Mr. Denby, in the New York
Herald, iu November, 18¢9, said
“That his (Aguinaldo's) victories over
the Spaniards made our task casier is
true.”
The following extract from an article
in the Singapore Free Press, May 4,
etter to Senator
1898, giving an account of the arrange. |
ment with Admiral Dewey, through
United States Consul General Pratt, for
Aguinaldo’s aid, shows that the purposes
and hopes of the Filipinos for independ.
| ence were known tothe McKinley Ad. |
ministration the
in question having been sent to Secretary |
Day May 5, 189
ite Document 62, page $8
from the start, article |
by onsul (Sen
“General Aguinaldo’s policy embraces
the independence of the Phill gy, A
* * American would be
desirable temporarily, on the same |
which might be instituted
Cuba.”
protection
as that
after in
to Mr, McKinley
1ate Do
Filipinos
Aguinaldo,
lated lane
Ga jan i
which tru
lon it tothe
free
u make pea
i CRil,
a band
ming
wil
by the
igned by the
that after al
are prepared to shed
for the Iliherty and in
.
country.
his piece, when the argent troos
Santa Mesa opended as
there
was one
rt of the insurgent
August
Page
lepartment on
superior in er
Kg e and more capable of
ment than the natives of Cuba, and I am
familiar with both ra Further ot
with them has confirmed mic in
that opinion.”
The
the
en self gO
"ss
course
United States Supreme Court, in
f
case of Scott vs Sanford (19 How,,
446), opinion by Chief Ju
tice Taney, de-
clared
“There is certainly no power given by
the constitution to the Federal Govern
ment establish naintain colonies
bordering on the United States orat a
distance, to be ruled and governed at its
own pleasure, nor to enlarge its territor
ial limits in any way, except by the ad
mission of new states
This
has never been reversed,
he id by
a score
to or
the
but has
the Ss
construct. on of coustitntion
been
consistently uj reme
Court in nearly
notably when so great a lawyer as Chief
of other cases,
Justice Marshall was at the head of that
great tribunal.
Prisoners Attempt Escape.
Five prisoners who are in the jail at
Ridgway. for counterfeiting, almost suc. |
| ceeded fn making their escape Tuesday
night, Three saws were found in the
| possession of the prisoners, and one of
the steel bars of a window had been cut
off at both ends, when the sheriff discov
| ered what was going on,
“South Before the War'' at the bpera
| Furst, Col
{ and Hon, James Scarlet, of Danville, for
found for the |
| fourtee
plaintiff a sum of about five thousand. | buneen
house to night,
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thrown
tarted
damagt
ber loss
fences and bn
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favor of s plaid fs 1h resuit would
likely be that a number of other property
owners in all parts of the state, who
ifered in
many of wh
by sparks from |
Lyon Ca
On Monday a
down by the sup!
case from th
for it fluen ing
and alien.
attracted
Moyer ls
ating bis affection he trial
on, and,
much attention fought closely
by able counsel, Bower & Orvis
appeared for the plaintuff and Ex. Judge
WwW. F
the defendant, The jury
The supreme court reversed the verdict
owing to the rejection of Col, W. FP.
Reeder's testimony.
Weaver-Lykens,
W. FP. Taylor, Esq., at his home in
Tyrone, joined in marriage David A.
caver, of Benore, and Miss Nora
Alberta Lykeus, of near Warriorsmark,
War of Subjugaticn and Its Fearful Cost.
Reeder, of this place, |
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a raresight «
dition of the bir
Young Nimrod Gets Lost
, Aarons
went out rush mountain on
, & son of Lewis Mench
for pheasants and other sm
game, aller of
partaking
noon he
his noon lanchi
however
mountain all
early next morning, when he
reaching his home
-
Fell Down a Well
Mrs, Louis LaChance, of
fell through the covering of
Houtzdale
a dry we
feet Saturday oh and
came near dying of suffocation. She
was not badly hurt by the fall, but the
well was so full of gas that it almost prov
ed the death of Mrs, LaChance and res.
cuers, It was not until the fourth man
was let down into the well that it was
possible to get a rope around the unfor.
Innate woman, and dmw ber to the sur.
face,
deep
THE NEW FAIR
A SUCCESS
THE ATTENDANCE IS LARGE
ements Proy
All Kind
ed ar others came
2 ON ty and st . (31
ances Time and space
he men were
both married to sisters
Bar, of Cool Springs
Geers and his wile
ated and
Geers |
They had
after the church service,
When
Shaffer got up one of bis brothers shouted
Shaffer drew his
the cause of the separation
an altercalion
wd Geers knocked Shaffer down
te him to shoot Geers.
fired, the ball
Both young men are
scarcely past 321 years old and of good
families. Shaffer was arrested and
taken to Brookville jail,
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CENTRE counly can safely be put down
for an old fashioned democratic majority
pext onth, Stick a pin there.
revolver and entering
Geer's abdomen
rwood the
Underwood, of
oung men reside
at
ville were young 'nderwood was
i 1% 4
and his wonads was
that be
Tuesday he was a!
WAS DOS
et
gt reets Vau 3
son of Capt
1affer-Hess
» home of Michael He
town, Wedoesday moming Miss Sarah
Hess and Schaefler, of Belle.
fonte were married by Rev, C. T. Alkens,
They will locate
Bellefonte where the groom
Irwin & Son's hardware
Harvey
of Pine Grove Mills
in is em
ployed in D
store
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U. S. Weather Bureau.
Weekly Report Bellefonte Station,
DATE TEMPERATURE
10 Maximum Minimum
11, clear o su raseeess 11 ww
13, cloudy
15, part ©
14, cloudy
IN sles rT
Part elosdy .
AT, GUABE sees sainss -
Rainfall on the 13th at n
i jhe Mth at night, 08 neh;
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