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| Tioughnioga River north of Marathon, N. Y. |
FLOATING WITH THE STREAM.
Miss
Mary Monihan Jumped to Her Death.
(From the Binghamton Republican.)
Miss Mary Monihan committed suicide by drowning
at Lisle on Sunday morning. After performing her household duties she said she
was going out for a short walk. That was the last time she seen alive, at least
by any member of family.
Mary had lived with her mother, Mrs. Henry
Connelly, in a neat little cottage on the banks overlooking the Tioughnioga river.
Near her home the railroad bridge of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad
crosses the river at a height of about ten feet. The river at this point is not
very deep and the water flows sluggishly.
On Sunday morning, just before noon, Eli
Dyer and his brother, Justin, Steve White, William Van Duson and Howard Howland
were walking along the river bank, when they saw a body floating down the
stream at Peck's bridge and direct for the raceway. They enlisted the service of
James D. Hill and the latter waded out and pulled the body ashore, where all immediately
recognized it as that of Miss Monihan.
The news of the drowning and the finding of
the body spread through the neighborhood, and soon every one who could was hurrying
to the spot where the body lay. Among the first to arrive was the dead girl's
mother, just returning from church. An undertaker was summoned and the body
removed to the house.
Coroner P. D. Gridley, of this city, was then
notified and went to Lisle yesterday morning. After learning the particulars he
decided that no inquest was necessary and granted the customary burial certificate.
The dead girl is believed to have been of
unsound mind for some time and to have deliberately jumped from the railroad bridge.
Her parents say that there was no reason for her going to the railroad bridge,
and that she seldom went there. Burial was made yesterday in the village cemetery
at Lisle. The deceased was Catholic but under the rule of the church burial was
denied in the Catholic cemetery.
Look Out
for Her.
"A woman who claims to be a member of the
King's Daughters is operating in this vicinity and may visit Cortland any day,"
said a traveling man last evening. "She tells a very pitiful story of
being robbed on a railroad train of her pocketbook containing all her money and
her ticket. She professes to be on her way to a dying relative which she
sometimes locates in one city and sometimes in another, according to
circumstances. The woman is of rather pleasing address, good looking, of medium
height and dressed in light colored clothes with dark short jacket. It would be
well for Cortland King's Daughters to be on the lookout for her."
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| Lehigh Valley engine in yards. |
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FOUR—EDITORIALS.
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The strike on the Lehigh Valley road is
believed to be practically ended and trains are running nearly on time. The men
claim that the strike is not ended and intimate that it is likely to extend to
the Erie road.
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On our first page will be found a synopsis
of the new tariff bill proposed by Mr. Wilson of the ways and means committee in
the house. A careful examination of its provisions will disclose the fact that
the duty on goods necessary for the poor man has been reduced while it has been
raised on many of the luxuries which can only be afforded by the wealthy. It is
especially the working man's tariff and howls from the wealthy Republicans are
in order.
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| John Leavitt Stevens. |
HIS SIDE
OF THE STORY.
Queen
Liliuokalani's Marshal Handles Ex-Minister Stevens Without Gloves.—His
Statement to Blount.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Mr. G. B. Wilson, Queen
Lilioukalani's marshal and Chief of Police, gave Commander Blount his version
of the affair of the 16th of January last and it is embodied in the
correspondence to be laid before Congress. Mr. Wilson pays his respects to
Minister Stevens at the outset as follows:
"Troublous indeed were the scenes at
the opening of her (Lilioukalani's) reign, and now she had to meet trouble from
without as well as from within. His Excellency, John L. Stevens, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, had
by virtue of his office and official audience of the bereaved and mourning
sovereign in the palace on the day following the burial of the body of the late
King, on which he addressed her Majesty as follows.
Then he quotes from Mr. Steven's address to
the Queen on that occasion, urging upon her to make her reign a strictly
constitutional one and adds:
"From this time forward he showed by
every means in his power at every opportunity the determination to make himself
obnoxious to the Queen and her government by his high-handed and dictatorial actions
and speeches, both to herself personally and every one in her government that
he had to deal with officially."
Women's
Suffrage Question.
PORT HENRY, Nov. 24.—The question whether
women were legally entitled to vote at the late general election for the office
of school commissioner will be brought to a test in this county. Mr. Weeks, the
Republican candidate for that office, has been given the certificate of election
by the Essex county canvassers as having been chosen by twenty votes, against
the protests of Mr. Prime, the Democratic candidate, that over one hundred illegal
votes were cast for him by women included in the count. Mr. Prime will now
bring an action of quo warranto in the Supreme Court to contest the constitutionality
of the law.
Washington
Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
President Cleveland will not, I am informed
on good authority, go into the Hawaiian
matter in his annul message further than to say that it will be fully treated
in a special message later. He prefers to wait until the episode is closed
before dealing with it in a message to Congress.
Secretary Lamont's annual report was the first
to be made public, those of the other members of the cabinet, with the exception
of Secretary Carlisle will follow during this week. Secretary Carlisle's report
will probably go to Congress before it is published.
Why shouldn't the U. S. government print its
own postage stamps? Chief Johnson of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing isn't the first man who has asked that
question, but he has asked it in a very practical manner, by submitting figures
to the Postmaster General showing how much cheaper the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing could do the work than any of the private parties who have submitted bids
for printing the stamps during 1894. An unofficial estimate is that the government
could save at least $25,000 a year by printing its own postage stamps. There is
a doubt it seems as to whether the Postmaster General can under the present
laws give the contract to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the matter
is now being considered and will in a few days be decided.
Secretary Herbert thinks, notwithstanding
the present depressed condition of government finances, that we should continue
making additions to our navy, and his annual report will recommend the
construction during the next fiscal year of one battle ship and four torpedo
cruisers, and there is reason to believe that the recommendation will be
endorsed by the President's message. Representative Cummings, chairman of the
House committee on Naval Affairs, says there will be no trouble in getting a
bill favorably reported from that committee to carry out the Secretary's recommendations,
and that he hopes the bill will get through all right, but it is plain to see
that he has some doubts about it. There are a number of democrats in the House
who will oppose any further expenditures for new vessels at this time, some
because they think the navy already large enough, and others because think the
money cannot be spared.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
CHENANGO—Norwich is to have a gold cure. It
will be started next week. What next?
While workmen were drawing gravel from the
D. C. Case gravel bank in Sherburne the present fall, a number of skeletons, supposed
to be those of Indians, were dug from the bank. Many of them were in perfect
shape and only dropped apart when exposed to the air. All the skeletons were in
a sitting posture.
MADISON—Mumps is running amuck with the
Cazenovia kids.
John Griffith of Erieville, 75 years old,
has killed six foxes this year.
The postoffices at Earlville and DeRuyter, in
Madison county, have recently been raised from the fourth to the third class.
E. Pennock & Son of Chittenango harvested
over 50,000 bushels of onions from 200 acres, and are holding half of them for
a rise [in price.]
New York capitalists have paid $25,000 for
Frenchman's Island, in Oneida Lake and will make it a summer resort of the Coney
Island style.
One day last week O. Benjamin of DeRuyter,
saw a fox with one of his best hens in his mouth. Orville procured his rifle
and brought the fox down, and the hen came to the house unharmed. All who saw
the fox said it was the largest one they ever saw.
TOMPKINS.—The Ithaca electric street railway
has a baggage car.
Ithaca Fire Department has been called out
fifteen times this year.
A colored woman on West Green street has
been the mother of seventeen children.
Cornell University Military Band is said to
be a very fine organization, indeed. Its leader is Mr. Groom, of the Ithaca Conservatory
of Music.
The Cornell University football team has
disbanded. It has been the most disastrous and discouraging football season the
University has ever known.
Thirteen hundred people crowded into
Ithaca's new Lyceum Opera House, one night last week, to see Dockstader's minstrels
hold forth. The dandy new opera house is appreciated and gets the crowds.
The exempt property of the city of Ithaca,
says the Journal, amounts to
$3,027,175, of which the University comprises $2,448,750. The entire property of
the city subject to taxation is $3,146,127. The exempt nearly equaling the
non-exempt.
HERE AND
THERE.
Over 400 car loads or cabbage have been shipped
from Homer this fall.
The "Black Crook" will be
presented in the opera house next Monday evening.
Vesta Lodge I. O. O. F. will give a social in
their rooms this Friday evening.
A medal and diploma has been awarded the
Cortland Normal school for its exhibit at the World's Fair.
Miss Margaret May O'Donnell of this village
has been adjudged insane and taken to the Binghamton asylum.
Kellogg & Curtis, the dry goods
dealers have a new advertisement on this page which is well worth reading.
The colored people of this place talk strongly
of celebrating next 4th of July by a rousing demonstration in Cortland.
Mr. A. D. Kingsbury has sold his farm three
miles north-east of Cortland on the Truxton road to Mr. Henry F. Benton.
Several rehearsals each week are being held
in the opera house in preparation for the City Band minstrels, December 11 and 12.
There was a large attendance at the parade
held by the 45th separate company last Monday evening. Three members were dishonorably
discharged.
Mr. Jerome R. Hathway of this village has
purchased the farm formerly owned by John Scott, deceased, on the west road from
Homer to Little York. The farm consists of 210 acres of fine land handsomely located.
A delinquency court was in session at the
Armory last week to try members of the company alleged to have disobeyed orders
or to have been remiss in some of their individual duties. Capt. William Wilson
of the 34th Separate company of Geneva presided and Lieut. W. L. McKay of the
same company kept the record. Some twenty-six members were fined, the fines
running all the way from nothing to $82.25.
Earthquake
Shocks.
WATERTOWN, NOV. 27.— Dispatches from
Watertown, Governeur and other places in St. Lawrence County report a slight
earthquake shock at 11:45 A. M., today. Dishes in pantries were shaken and in
some instances broken. The shock is reported to have been more severe In Canada.
TROY, NOV. 27.—Earthquake shocks of 15 to 20
minutes duration were felt at 11:40 this, morning in Clinton County. The shocks
were quite severe, causing house bells to ring and crockery to rattle at
Plattsburg.
BOSTON, Nov. 27.—There was a heavy earthquake
shock felt all over Central Vermont
today.
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