THE EASTERN WAR

Japanese troops crossing Yalu River and attacking Chinese troops.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, October 26, 1894.

THE EASTERN WAR.

Japan's Army Wins Another Fight on the Yalu River.

   LON DON, Oct. 26. — A dispatch from Tokio says that Field Marshal Count Yamagata has telegraphed to the war office that a detachment of 1,600 Japanese infantry crossed the Yalu river on Wednesday morning and attacked the enemy.

   The Chinese force consisted of 600 cavalry and 100 infantry with two guns. The enemy fled.

   The Japanese captured a Chinese fort, the two guns and many rifles.

   The Chinese loss was 30 killed and wounded. The Japanese sustained no loss.

   The dispatch adds that the Japanese advance columns are marching upon Lishiyen.

Big Battle Now In Progress.

   YOKOHAMA, Oct. 26.—Later advices from the front show that the Japanese army crossed the Yalu river on Wednesday without further opposition and immediately advanced to the attack of the Chinese at Kieulenste. The battle is now proceeding. What the result will be is unknown.

Brighton Beach Hotel and Race Course.

A GREAT STORM.

Coney Island Suffers—The Hotels Endangered.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Coney Island has been lashed by a storm for the past forty-eight, hours such as it has not experienced since the memorable one of 1887. The waves yesterday afternoon broke upon the beach or against the bulkheads in front of the Oriental, Manhattan and Brighton Beach hotels with a roar that could be heard far inland. Each receding wave carried away with it a few feet of beach, digging up piles and bulkheads, and undermining the smaller pavilions near the ocean. Where the trolley road turns from Sea Breeze-ave. into the old Coney Island road, in the rear of Hotel Brighton, half the street was washed away, and there was only one track left for the cars to operate upon. The bulkhead which was supposed to protect the street was destroyed.

   This morning's tide destroyed the entire street and is undermining the Ocean Hotel and ruining the Brighton Beach racetrack. The bulkhead in front of the Hotel Brighton was tottering last night. The Seidl music amphitheatre is in a bad condition, while the yard in the Sea View elevated railroad is out at sea. Manhattan Beach was not very badly washed. The marine railway at Brighton Beach has disappeared. The station at the Brighton Beach end may fall at any moment.

   At West Brighton the waves washed under the shelter houses at the foot of the Ocean parkway and carried out more of the ocean concourse. There is some fear that the sea will cut a channel from the ocean to Sheepshead bay between the Ocean Hotel and the Brighton Beach.

"CONVICT MADE" GOODS.

Judge Walter Lloyd Smith Renders an Important Decision.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—A Herald special from Elmira says: Judge Walter Lyoyd Smith has delivered a decision of much interest to business men of this state as well as to the public generally. The decision declares that the law passed by the last legislature requiring ail convict made goods brought into this state from other states for sale to be marked "convict made" is unconstitutional. An appeal will be taken to the general term of the supreme court. It will be argued the latter part of November.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

An Independent Ticket.

   The Independent Republican county ticket, which was so much talked about after the regular Republican convention and of which so much has since been said, does not make a very large showing with the single name of Harlow G. Borthwick for sheriff. Whoever may at first have had an idea of joining with Mr. Borthwick—if any such there were—they have evidently concluded that the game isn't worth the candle, and the conclusion is certainly a wise one.

   The regular Republican county convention this year was one of the fairest ever held. It even went beyond precedent in securing the deliberate and careful and honest consideration by the delegates of the claims of every candidate for a nomination. No one had any reason for a grievance or any ground for refusing to accept the result. That it was disappointing to many there is no doubt. The results of conventions are always more or less so to unsuccessful candidates, and cannot be otherwise.

   But it was clearly the duty of every Republican whose name came before that convention to give the ticket which was nominated a cordial and honest support. Above all things, an independent candidacy ought not to have been thought of by any one, and especially not by Mr. Borthwick, who has three times held the office of sheriff by virtue of Republican nominations, and who, therefore, more than any other man who was mentioned in connection with that office, owes a debt of unwavering loyalty to the ticket. He has, however, either chosen to consult what he mistakenly considered to be his own selfish interests, or else, which we can hardly believe, he has resolved to be a candidate out of spite. In either case the result will be equally disastrous to him.

   Mr. Bothwick's administrations as sheriff, and notably his last one, have not altogether commended themselves to public approval, and had he received the regular nomination this year it is questionable whether he would have run up with the rest of the ticket. As an independent candidate he will receive support from only a very small portion of his own party, and though he is likely to get as many Democratic as Republican votes he stands no chance of election—nor do we believe that he will at all endanger the election of the regular Republican nominee, Mr. Hilsinger.

   This is a Republican year on local as well as on state nominations, and there is, besides, no reason why every Republican should not give Mr. Hilsinger both support and vote. Cortland county has not in twenty years had a better sheriff than the present Republican nominee will make, and we doubt whether it has ever had. The only person whom Mr. Borthwick will hurt by his independent candidacy will be himself, and Republicans should look to it that the majority against him is so large as to leave no doubt as to the gravity of the mistake which he has made.

EGGLESTON AND DICKINSON.

Two Fine Speeches Delivered Before the Y. M. R. C.

   Nearly every seat was occupied in the Republican league rooms last evening at the meeting of the Young Men's Republican club. F. J. Peck presided in the absence of President Dowd, who is a member of the Republican Glee club and was at the rally at East Homer. Judge J. E. Eggleston delivered one of the best addresses of the campaign thus far. He showed how Maynard was downed last year and said that we had the same issue before us this year. He gave a brief history of Hill as a politician and asked if the Democrats could not find a better man than he. He showed why we oppose Hill, spoke of the present condition of the Democratic party, of the convicted state Democratic officers and queried if Hill were elected if he would not pardon his tools, who have been convicted of the greatest crime known to the state and are now serving their time in prison. He contrasted the honesty and integrity of every candidate upon the Republican ticket with the baseness of the members of the Democratic candidates. He gave a glowing tribute to Levi P. Morton. He spoke of his own boyhood days with "Charlie" Saxton and said that the same man who made that memorable affirmation, "I will call the roll" was the boy who belonged to the old Cortlandville Academy Debating club in 1867. He closed by congratulating the young men for taking the stand which they had in the Republican ranks.

   Justice of the Peace Henry A. Dickinson also made a fine speech which was cordially received and was listened to with much interest. He asked if the lessons of our fathers had been so far forgotten at the present day with the two great evils, partisanship and corruption. He said that with these evils we forget the greater national issues. He explained Hill's platform and showed Hill's hypocrisy in his opening speech at Syracuse. He compared Hill's apportionment, with the Republican apportionment, showing where a similar constitutional amendment had been made for the better in other states. When he had finished, the club tendered the speakers a vote of thanks, after which the meeting was adjourned.

Republicans at East Homer.

   Quite a number of Cortland Republicans went to East Homer last evening and attended the political mass meeting. Hon. R. T. Peck and Secretary N. L. Miller of the county committee made two fine speeches in the town hall which was packed by Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists and Populists. The seats were arranged in amphitheatre form and extended to the ceiling. The Cortland Glee club, consisting of Messrs. Charles F. Brown, J. B. Hunt, O. W. Lund and T. Harry Dowd, furnished the music.

PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE.

At the Home of the Misses Atkinson on Argyle Place.

   The home of the Misses Atkinson at 20 Argyle Place was last evening again the scene of a gay assemblage. A large number of their friends met there and spent the time in social intercourse till 9:30 o'clock, when all played progressive euchre. Fourteen tables were filled and all were unusually well entertained. Refreshments were served at midnight, after which the prizes were awarded. The two first prizes went to Mrs. A. M. Jewett and Mr. Floyd L. Perry. Miss Lizzie Phillips and Edward Allen were the recipients of the booby prizes. The young people tripped the light fantastic till 2:30 o'clock when the party broke up and its members adjourned to their several homes.

   Those who were entertained were Misses Clara Keator, Florence Van Bergen, Harriet Allen, Elizabeth Turner, Mabel Graves, Margaret Wood, Lizzie Phillips, May Duffey, Bessie O. McGraw, Franc Hudson, Bertha Baker, Leah Wallace, Lillian Call, Mary Ireland, Marion K. Weatherwax, Lura Husted, Mary R. Mahan, Grace K. Duffey, Maud Fitzgerald, Cornelia A. White, Marguerite Force, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jewett, Messrs. Fred L. McDowell, Thomas P. Bristol, E. Beach, Louis Graves, Fred D. Carr, Charles W. Barker, Horace Phillips, Hugh Maine, Charles S. Mead, Floyd L. Perry, Enos E. Mellon, Thomas K. Norris, Edward C. Alger, Thomas Phalan, Arthur H. Bennett, William Atkinson, Seymour S. Jones, Fay C. Parsons, William F. Seacord and G. Harry Garrison of Cortland and Lester P. and Fred Bennett of Homer.

OPPOSED TO HILL.

Franklin Pierce Defines his Position in the Campaign.

   Franklin Pierce of 120 Broadway, New York City, has sent an open letter to E. Ellery Anderson in which he defines his own position in the campaign, and gives the senior senator from New York a thorough scoring. The letter will be of particular interest to Cortland county people as Mr. Pierce was formerly a resident of Homer and is known to be a recent convert to tariff reform. It was yesterday published in the New York Tribune and is as follows:

   I have been reading your speech in Brooklyn last evening and I am pained and chagrined at your words. The men whom you describe in language of ridicule as ''the small band of Salvation Army politicians who ask us to vote for Everett P. Wheeler" are the very men who fought shoulder to shoulder with you in the battle for a reformed tariff. When you describe these men as politicians and impugn their motives you are at least ungenerous. The men, who will vote for Everett P. Wheeler, are to a man, men to whom truth is better than popularity and to whom right is superior to gain.

   Who is David B. Hill and what is his record that he should strut across the stage with the words "I am a Democrat" on his lips and find any sane man to believe him? He is a man of marked natural ability, able to lead in a good cause and insure its triumph, yet when the fate of the Wilson bill hung trembling in the balance last winter did he use those powers to insure its passage— did he strike a single blow for it? No, he fought it tooth and nail, and he enjoys the unenviable distinction of being the only Democrat in that body who, under no contingency, would vote for the measure which the Democratic party in its national platform pledged itself to support.

   Nor is Senator Hill's record in our state politics any more creditable to him than is his record in national politics. We have never during the Hill regime had a Democratic form of government. The Czar of Russia possesses no more absolute power over his subjects than David B. Hill has exercised for years in the state of New York. Louis Napoleon strangled the liberties of Franco in a nighttime. David B. Hill, taking more time for the accomplishment of his purposes, has just as affectively destroyed popular, spontaneous, intelligent action among the Democrats of his party. I believe in the principles of the Democratic party as declared in the last national platform, but I love my state better than I love any party, and I will not vote for any man for the high office of governor of this state who conceived and achieved a fraud whereby the voice of a majority of the people in a senatorial district in this state was stifled. Evils of this kind, Mr. Anderson, if not checked, will as surely destroy free government, as the moral law of God rules the universe.

MEMORIAL SERVICE.

For James D. Wilmarth by the Union Veteran Legion.

   The memorial services of the Union Veteran legion for Comrade James D. Wilmarth, the first of the charter members of Cortland encampment to die, were held last evening and were very impressive.

   The exercises opened with the beautiful and instructive opening ceremonies of the order, including the taking and saluting of the flag, followed by singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," with Miss Hakes of Norwich at the organ. The altar and the charter of the encampment were draped with black upon the national colors, and the vacant chair of the deceased comrade placed in front of the colonel was also heavily draped.

   The record of the deceased was then read by Adjutant E. M. Seacord and the chair of the deceased was then crowned with a laurel wreath tied with a cluster of white roses, by Acting Lieut. Col. G. S. Van Hoesen with the impressive words, "On behalf of encampment, No. 129, Union Veteran legion, I crown our departed comrade with this symbol of victory."

   After singing "Tenting To-night on the Old Camp Ground," the address was delivered by Col. Ashby. It was very impressive, full of good and patriotic thoughts and was most appropriate to to the occasion.

   The choir then sang "Nearer My God to Thee," after which a short address relating to the personal life and history of the deceased was delivered by the colonel of the encampment, Wm. J. Mantanye. He mentioned the fact that the deceased was born Oct. 25, 1827, and therefore had he lived until the occasion of this memorial he would have been with his comrades celebrating his 67th birthday. But the comrades now standing before the vacant chair crowned with its symbol of victory, could feel that it was a double remembrance—that of his birthday to the cares and marches and hardships of his earthly career brightened and strengthened by its band of comradeship, and also in remembrance of his new birth upon his muster out from the earthly career, and his muster in to a higher and more extended life and glory "with the stars." The patriotism of deceased—his enlistment "after the war had proved to be a stern reality and after the first 75,000 men who went to the front with dancing plumes and gaudy uniforms and banners to end the war in 90 days, had been driven back in bloody rout at Bull Run and the cannon of a determined enemy were pointed at the capitol itself," and his service with his regiment, the Seventy-sixth, N. Y., in many bloody battles was a glorious record. The love of the deceased for the old flag and particularly the shot, torn and blood-stained flag of his regiment now present to do honor to his life and death, was referred to and the good citizenship and ardent love of comrades of the army service was mentioned.

   The services closed with singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the usual beautiful closing ceremonies of the legion and the saluting of the flag. The long service of the members of the legion makes the bond of comradeship among them very strong, and the great teachings of the order were well illustrated. The family of the deceased comrade were present as also were many ladies and citizens and veterans.

The Great Powell.

   One of the best and most enjoyable attractions that will visit Cortland this season will be the appearance at the Opera House on Wednesday evening, Oct. 31, of the Great Powell, He is claimed to be one of the beet artists ever seen here and will doubtless attract a large audience.

BREVITIES.

   —Regular meeting Cortland Commandry, No. 50, to-night.

   —To-night the Merry Bachelors give a social at John L. Lewis lodgerooms. Music will be furnished by Conway's orchestra.

   —The David B . Hill club have leased Taylor Hall until election time and have hung a transparency from one of the windows in front.

   —The Young Ladies' Sodality served hundreds of people last night with a fine supper in Empire hall. A neat sum was added to their treasury.

   —On Wednesday evening, Nov. 14, Rev. Walter Gallant of Paterson, N. J. will deliver a lecture in the Homer-ave. church on "Atmospheres, Social, Domestic and Church."

   —Quite a large number of Cortland people left on the 10 o'clock train this morning for Syracuse to hear McKinley speak to-night. More went this afternoon on the 4:20 train.

   —A big Republican mass meeting will be held in Binghamton Monday, to be addressed by Levi P. Morton, Chas T. Saxton, Stewart L. Woodford, C. N. Bliss and other prominent party leaders.

   —Telephones are being placed in the new Normal building connecting the different rooms with the offices. Mr. Ketchum, of the Robinson Electrical company of Albany, is doing the work.—Oneonta Star.

   —According to the latest statistics there are 22,000,000 free masons in the world. Europe has 7,906,148, the United States 5,805,390, the rest of America 4,600,955, Asia and Oceanica 695,555 and Africa 87,882.

   —During the month of September, the shipments of the Groton Bridge & Manufacturing Co., to the different jobs they have under construction, amounted to 1,980,000 pounds or nearly one thousand tons of finished material.—Groton Journal.

   —There will be a campaign rally tonight at 8 o'clock at the rooms of the Democratic county committee in the Democrat building under the auspices of the Young Men's Democratic club. The speaker will be Attorney James Dougherty.

   —The case of C. N. Tyler vs. Mrs. John O'Connor for a grocery bill amounting to $41, which was finished in Justice Dorr C. Smith's court October 18 and upon which Justice Smith reserved decision till yesterday, has been decided in favor of Mr. Tyler, whom he awards the full amount of the bill.

   —"My Partner," which was presented Wednesday evening before a good-sized audience, was one of the most attractive plays that has been in Cortland for some time. The plot was unraveled in a deeply interesting manner and there was not a poor actor or actress in the entire cast. Just enough comedy was introduced and the piece was a treat.

   —Upon two executions aggregating $487.23 in favor of Louis Goldschmidt of Albany, the cigar factory of Richard C. Duell at 54 Franklin-st. was closed by Deputy Sheriff Hurd on Wednesday. The value of the stock of cigars and tobacco exceeds by several hundred dollars the amount of judgment. Mr. Duell lives in Cortland. The stock will be sold by the sheriff next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.—Syracuse Standard.

NIGHT LUNCH.

The White House Cafe Opened Saturday Night.

   Cortland is becoming more citified every day, and especially this year, with the electric road, sewers, etc. But the latest is a night cafe that will be on the street all night to furnish everything that can be found in a first-class restaurant. The name of it is the White House Café, and in charge of Mr. Bert Bosworth. For the present it will be located at the corner of Court and Main-sts. near The National bank and will be open for business Saturday night. The patronage of the public is solicited, and the manager assures all that everything will be the best of its kind and served neatly and quickly. The bill of fare for the present will consist of chicken, ham, sardine and cheese sandwiches, hot Frankfort sausages with rolls, apple, mince, custard and pumpkin pies, milk and hot coffee with cream, choice cigars. The prices will be reasonable. Try it on your way from the club or theater when in want of a lunch.