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DO YOU WANT THE ROAD?
A Last Call in the Interest of the Erie
& Central N. Y. Railroad.
If the
citizens of this town will look to their own interests, they will seize the
present opportunity to secure the benefits which must enure to all in the
completion of the Erie & Central
N Y. Railroad from this village to Gee brook in the town of Cincinnatus. We
have the roadbed and the right of way, neither of which is worth a picayune unless
the road is put in operation. It will open up a very large and valuable tract
of country that will find its outlet in Cortland. The citizens of several
eastern towns who now go elsewhere to trade almost exclusively, would
come here to purchase their goods. Many thousands of dollars that find their
way into the pockets of tradesmen in other towns would come here. The town
would feel the impetus and real estate would advance in price.
The
larger the town the better the market, and farmers within five or ten miles of
Cortland would be benefited by its growth and prosperity, and they can well
afford to assist the enterprise. Every man who has $100 to invest should sign a
contract agreeing to take one of the bonds of the road when completed and in running
order. You are not asked to give away anything. Competent judges say the road
cannot help but pay, and if this is so the bonds will be worth par at least. It
is simply an investment with scarcely a possible risk of loss.
There are
many residents of this town who have money lying idle. They should have enough
enterprise about them to take one or more of these bonds without waiting to be
called upon by the committee. Only about 17,000 of the $25,000 remains to be subscribed. The matter must be
closed up at once or it goes by the board. Don't wait for your neighbor to do
what you ought to do yourself. Be public spirited and notify the committee that
you are ready to assist in this important enterprise. Remember, if the road is
not completed and in running order this season you are not obliged to pay a penny.
If it is completed you could well afford to lose the money on account of the increased
benefits the road will bring to the town.
We
believe the road will pay and pay well. The DEMOCRAT has taken some of the
bonds. It does not ask others to do what it is afraid to do for itself. Come,
do not delay longer.
RIOT AT
M'KEESPORT.
Mob of
5,000 Workmen Cause a Pile of Trouble—General Strike Situation.
M'KEESPORT, Pa., June 5.—The expected trouble
at the National Tube works has occurred. To-night a mob of 5,000 strikers broke
down the entrance to the mill yard and drove the workmen employed in the
various departments out of the plant. As the men were driven out of the works,
they were surrounded by another mob of strikers on the outside and beaten with
clubs and chased through the central part of the city. Several welders crossed
the Monongahela river. They were pursued by the strikers down the river. One of
the men was caught and severely stabbed by his pursuers. His condition is
critical.
The strikers intended to intercept the men
when they came out of the works at 6 o'clock to-night and try and induce them
to join their ranks. The officials of the company anticipated a move of this
kind and had a dining room erected in the works where the men at work could get
their meals without leaving the place. A foreigner came out of the shops
shortly after 6 o'clock. He was halted by the strikers. The man drew a knife
and in an instant at least twenty strikers jumped on him and would have killed
him but for the interference of the police officers. At 7:30 the mob broke into
the mill.
Charles Manlin and Joe Koberky, two of the
men beaten by the mob, are maimed for life and internally injured. Councilman
Watson was mistaken for one of the non-union men and badly beaten by the
strikers. The mob stopped a street car and took off a man who also received a
severe drubbing. No one was killed, but many of the non-union workers had
narrow escapes at the hands of the angry mob.
It is reported that deputies are coming early to-morrow from Pittsburg
and the strikers have pickets out to intercept them. At a late hour to-night
all is quiet.
A
Fortunate Delay.
On the 25th of May we published on account
of an operation which was to have been performed on Edward, the fourteen
year-old son of Mr. Wm. T. Dunlap of Reading, Pa., formerly of Cortland. From
letter just received, we learn that the operation was not performed on May 16,
but was delayed until May 29, when the lad was put under the influence of ether
at 10 o'clock A. M. and the operation was finished at 2 P. M. The surgeons
opened the leg on each side from the knee to the ankle, cutting clear to the
bone. The diseased bone was cut away with mallet and chisel, and to their
surprise they found that a new and healthy bone was growing in the centre of the
leg. The bones were thoroughly scraped clean and the openings closed and
properly dressed and owing to his youth and good health it is expected that the
bone will grow again. It was supposed that the entire bone was diseased and
would have to come out, and in that the case surgeons intended to pack the cavity
with prepared ox bone as related in our former article, which they believed in time
would take place of the original formation.
Fortunately for the boy, nature seems to be
doing its own work most satisfactorily and the lad is getting on nicely.
Peck—Keator.
On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Frank J. Peck,
Cashier of The National Bank of Cortland, was united in marriage to Miss Annie
C. Keator, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Keator at the home of the bride on South Main-st. Rev. J. L. Robertson performed
the ceremony. The near relatives of the contracting parties only were present.
The rooms were handsomely decorated with flowers and an elegant wedding dinner
was served after the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Peck left on the 4:23 train for
an extended wedding tour. As the party neared the station, Orlando Brother's harp
orchestra of Syracuse, played the wedding march. The senseless custom of showering
the bride with rice was omitted. On their return about July 1, they will occupy
the house on Church St., now occupied by Mr. F. B. Nourse.
Obituary.
A second time within the space of a little
over four months has the pleasant home of Messrs. Waterbury& Talmage been
visited by the messenger whose coming ever brings sorrow.
Eighteen weeks ago the venerable mother, Mrs.
Eliza Husted, bade good bye to earthly friends and scenes and with unfaltering feet
crossed the dark river, and on Friday
last Emma, the beloved wife of John Waterbury, peacefully closed her eyes and
went to be forever with that mother she had so missed and mourned, and other
loved ones who had passed on before. Few whose lives have been so essentially a
home life would be so widely missed. For many years an invalid, almost a
"shut-in," she still kept in touch with the outside world as few
invalids do. Of quick perceptions and superior intellect, her mind was stored
with useful information, making her a most entertaining and instructive
conversationalist. Speaking seldom of her own weakness and suffering she always
had a fund of sympathy for the sorrows and afflictions of others, and many who
have gone into her presence oppressed with grief or trouble, have left it comforted
by her kindly words and the pressure of her frail, white hand. Such beautiful,
useful hands! Looking so fragile, but accomplishing so many loving deeds for
others. Ever busy in the service of loved ones, or ready to respond to any call
for aid towards charitable objects.
The funeral services, which were held at the
family residence on Sunday afternoon, were, in accordance with an oft-expressed
wish of the deceased, conducted by Rev. O. Torrey, for many years an intimate friend
of the family. A large number of sympathizing friends were present and the
floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. By a touching coincidence she was
laid to rest beside her mother on the anniversary of that mother's birthday.
To the heart-broken invalid husband, and the
other members of the family circle who have so long enjoyed her love and
companionship and so tender and faithfully ministered to her weakness, we can only
extend our heartfelt sympathy, knowing how futile is all earthly consolation and
trusting that the hand of Faith may point to them beyond the clouds of sorrow, the
bright and glorious future when they "shall meet in the morning."
COM., Marathon, June 6, 1894.
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Did any one ever see a republican reform that
wasn't associated with a very large-sized humbug?
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Coxey's army is a thing of the past and the
last vestige of it has disappeared from the precincts of Washington. Other
small bands of these vagabonds are still on the march with Washington as their
objective point.
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Gov. Flower has removed Sheriff Beck of
Buffalo from office and appointed Mr. Isaac N. Taggert of the same city to the vacancy.
The appointment seems to give good satisfaction to the business men of Buffalo.
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The strike of the coal miners came in a very
bad time. The business depression which the country is laboring under is about
as much as the people have the patience to stand, and the sympathy which would
under ordinary circumstances be extended to the needy miners, is not
forthcoming to that degree that might be expected, because all the people are
made to suffer by the strike to a considerable extent.
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The republican papers are worrying terribly,
because they are unable to learn who will have Croker's place as leader of Tammany Hall. While they have selected Mayor Gilroy as a probable candidate for the
place, they admit that John McQuade, Henry D. Purroy and J. J. Martin are
either of them liable to be chosen. It is possible that neither of these will
be selected as the field has several good ones left. Fortunately, Tammany is
not compelled to take the candidate selected by the republicans. They will
undoubtedly select a competent leader without the aid of republicans.
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Sham economy is a staple product of the republican
party. The last legislature voted $250,000 to pay the expenses of the Constitutional
convention now in session in Albany. It is claimed that the sum appropriated will
only be sufficient to pay for the printing and that the Comptroller will be
obliged to borrow money from the Albany banks to pay the other expenses of the
convention which will be large. This money will have to be raised next year in
order to settle with the banks. In order to make the tax rate low this year, they
put off until next year the payment of bills that belong to this year, and for
the payment of which sufficient funds should have been provided. There is no
economy in borrowing money when there is no need of it. The tax rate next year
bids fair to be enormous.
PREBLE.
Milk is now 1 1/2 cents a quart delivered at
the depot.
Patsey Galvin and Rosell Knapp were in
Cuyler last week looking for new milk cows to buy.
Quite a number of the Preble grangers attended
the meeting of the County Council held at Cortland Tuesday of this week.
Everyone is pleased at our increased mail
service except the mail carrier, who gets about 5 1/2 cents a trip for carrying
the mail. Hardly enough to buy horse feed for the nag.
To-day, Tuesday, is the 20th day of our rain
storm. Fully half of the farmers have potatoes to plant and few have planted their
corn and those who have most of it has rotted. Farmers have been unable to do
scarcely any work for the past 20 days. The ground is full of water and running
over.
Some one is using a lot of horse feed. Last
Friday night about one o'clock parties stopped at Mrs. John Haviland's and
stole about $10. 00 worth of feed, oats and meal. Most of it belonged to Mrs.
Haviland, some to Morris Spore and some to Mr. Vosburg, who works Mrs.
Haviland's farm. The parties went from there east to Mr. Allen's place and took
a barrel of oats, barrel and all. They were tracked over the hill about 3
o'clock. The parties are known and will be properly dealt with in the near
future. Mrs. Haviland is an invalid and they have to be up with her all times
of night and the parties were very bold to stop at such a place to steal from a
widow woman. The thief may sometimes escape the hand of justice for a long
time, but sooner or later they are caught and sent to learn a trade— the sooner
the better.
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| Telegraph key and sounding kit. |
HERE AND
THERE.
June races will commence on the fair grounds
June 26.
A division of the Salvation Army opened up
in Zimmer's hall, Homer, last night.
The attendance at Mahan's music festival was
very large notwithstanding the fact that it rained every day.
Messrs. E. B. Richardson and F. W. Melvin
are entered in the tandem wheel race at Syracuse to-morrow.
The keys and sounders for the
through wire from New York to Oswego were put in at the D., L. & W. station last Monday.
Manager Bickford is thoroughly overhauling
the fire alarm system. Steel wire is being put up in place of the insulated
wire.
Walter L. Main's great circus, menagerie and
Hippodrome will exhibit in this place Tuesday June 26th, both afternoon and
evening.
Kellogg & Curtis are busy with a
special sale which commenced yesterday at their store. Read their advertisement
in another column.
The plant of the Cortland Plating company
has been removed from the building at the rear of the DEMOCRAT office to the
rooms formerly occupied by the Perfection Scale Co., in the Cortland Foundry
building on Port Watson-st.
Messrs. Burrows & Webster have donated a
handsome Ariel Titania ladies bicycle to the Hitchcock Hose Co., which will be
awarded to some lady in a contest at their fair to be held in the armory June
18-23. The wheel is a dandy and may be seen in Clark & Nourse's show
window.
It was a year ago last Monday night that the
11:30 train on the D., L. & W. was wrecked near the railroad bridge in this
village.
Railroad-st. business men and those of the
South end are selecting "nines" to cross bats on the fair grounds in
the near future.
Three lads were dumped into the river near
Kingman's bathing house while boat-riding last Sunday afternoon. The water was
about ten feet deep, but the boys managed to get ashore.
The sensational drama entitled "Master
and Man," will be presented in the opera house this evening. It is said to
be a capital performance and those who attend will undoubtedly be pleased with
it.
To
make hair grow apply headlight oil or kerosene to the roots of the hair twice
each week, rubbing it well with the tips of the fingers. This will often
produce a growth of hair when all other means fail.
Ryan Green of Preble, was arrested in this
place Tuesday evening on a warrant sworn out by James Becker of Syracuse,
charged with selling mortgaged property. An officer from Syracuse took him to
that city Wednesday morning.
On Friday last Fred Shapley shot a bald
Eagle on the farm of Miles Shapley, south of this village. The bird was in the
act of carrying off a lamb, and a well directed shot laid it low. He brought it
to this village, and exhibited it. It measured six feet and three-quarters from
the tip of one wing to the other tip.—Marathon Independent.
On Wednesday evening of last
week Edward R. Johnson of No. 16 Prospect-st. was taken suddenly ill with pain
in the bowels. He experienced no relief and on Thursday evening Dr. Reese was
called who pronounced it a case of stoppage of the bowels. Sunday afternoon a
council of physicians was held and it was decided that an operation must be
performed at once. He was removed to the hospital where Dr. Higgins, assisted
by Drs. Reese and White performed the operation. The patient died Wednesday
morning.
The board of managers of the
Cortland Hospital Association will hold a special meeting at the residence of
Mrs. Hugh Duffey on Port Watson-st., Saturday June 9th at 3 o'clock P. M. All
members of the board are requested to be present.
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