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CUBA'S NEW REPUBLIC.
Constitution
Proclaimed And Officers Appointed.
NAJASA
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Proposition
to Proclaim Maceo Dictator Rejected—Marquis of Santa Lucia Elected President—Autonomists Will Petition
Spain For Self Government.
LONDON, Sept. 4.—A Havana dispatch says that
the meeting of insurgent delegates at Najasa proclaimed a constitution for the
republic on a federal basis of five states.
They also elected the Marquis of Santa Lucia
president and approved various officers as well as confirming the nominations
of Antonio Maceo, to be general commanding in Santiago de Cuba; Maximo Gomez,
in Puerto Principe, and Roloff, in Santa Clara.
Najasa was proclaimed as the provisional
federal capital.
A resolution was adopted permitting farmers
to sell their produce in the towns on the payment of 25 per cent ad valorem
duty.
A proposal to declare Maceo dictator of Cuba
was discussed for six days and was finally withdrawn.
The Autonomist party intend to petition
Spain for self government on Canadian lines. It is stated that Maximo Gomez is
inclined to accept conditional autonomy, but Antonio Maceo declines any
compromise.
Cuban
Insurgents Deported.
HAVANA, Sept. 4.—A company of insurgents
under sentence of imprisonment in the fortress of Ceuta, Morocco, for rebellion
were deported on board the steamer Cataluna. Five are under sentence of life
imprisonment, while the balance are condemned to 30 years.
Spanish
Reinforcements Arrive.
HAVANA, Sept. 4.—The steamer Antonio Lopez
has arrived here from Spain, bringing the eleventh battalion of artillery, the
Arlaban field squadron and the Del Rey squadron, the re-enforcements
aggregating 57 officers and 1,300 men.
Spain's
Claim Against United States.
MADRID, Sept. 4.—The Correspondencia says
that a Spanish squadron is going to the Antilles, the principal object of the
expedition being to urge the claims of Spain against the United States in the
Allianca affair.
PROHIBITION
CONVENTION.
State
Ticket Will be Nominated To-day at Saratoga.
SARATOGA, Sept. 4.—The state Prohibition
convention was permanently organized with the election of Chairman Rev. C. H.
Mead of Hornellsville.
Amid much enthusiasm, a resolution was
adopted sending congratulations to Police Commissioners Roosevelt, Grant,
Parker and Andrews of New York city for enforcing the Sunday excise laws.
The committee on credentials reported 634
delegates in attendance. A state committee was appointed.
A resolution was adopted on the call of the
counties deferring the report of the committee on resolutions, and making
nominations until this morning.
A brief address was made by Professor Samuel
Dickie of Albion, Mich., chairman of the Prohibition national committee.
The Prohibitionists made a street parade,
followed by the second mass meeting of the convention. Addresses were made by
Professor Dickie and John G. Woolley of Chicago and music was furnished by the
Silver Lake quartette.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Was it
so in Cortland?
The following is from the Canastota Bee of
Aug. 31:
The honest independent Republican voter who
attends a caucus occasionally, and all the time stays at home and minds his own
business, is apt to look with alarm at the serious innuendoes made in various
county papers, concerning the selection of a delegate to the coming judicial
convention. There is nothing that will so quickly arouse the ire of a
respectable citizen, who is a Republican from principle, and not for personal
aggrandizement, than to hint that money is being used to further the
advancement of any man who aspires to a membership in our higher courts. The
politicians are supposed to keep their hands off our supreme court bench, that
the judges when elected will owe no man a favor, and can dispense justice in a
free and untrammeled manner. There are two candidates in this district for the
position to be filled this fall, one of whom is George F. Lyon of the city of
Binghamton, the other is B. F. Mattice of Oneonta. The respective merits of
these candidates are summed up in the statement that Lyons has the endorsement
of nearly every lawyer and jurist in the sixth judicial district, and
Binghamton, his home and its largest city, is now practically without a supreme
court justice. Mattice, on the other hand, has the powerful backing of the
millionaire congressman, D. F. Wilbur. A paper was circulated to be presented
to the convention, which bore the signature and endorsement of nearly every
member of the Madison county bar, endorsing the candidacy of Judge Lyon. This
document was entrusted to Attorney Jenkins of Oneida, of whom the Canastota
Journal says, "he conveniently forgot it and left it at home." The
Oneida Post, another Republican paper, is authority for the statement that
Wilbur money was quite plentiful throughout the county before the convention,
and the Chittenango Times further enlightens us by stating that "it was a
most degrading spectacle, the presence of DeForest Wilbur of Oneonta, at
Morrisville the day of the late Republican convention." The Lyon candidate
for delegate, Henry B. Coman, was badly beaten in the convention,
notwithstanding the endorsement of his associate members of the Madison county
bar. And now the question arises, are we to have a boughten judiciary?
The register of the Messenger House in this
village for the Saturday when the Republican caucus was held shows the name
"D. W. Wilber, N. Y." This Mr. Wilber was in close conference with
two prominent local politicians on that day. The question now is whether
"Wilbur money" was brought into this county, and if so, how much of
it, and how great a part it played in the Cortland caucus in
"creating sentiment?''
Waller.
If the fact that John L. Waller is a negro
had anything to do with this government's delay in seeing him righted,
then this government
disgraced itself. But in any case vigorous measures seem now
about to be taken by the authorities at Washington, so that all may yet
be well.
John L. Waller was a colored man of
Kansas City. He was born a slave at New Madrid, Mo., in 1850. He struggled on after the war till he
graduated at a high school. He was a live, brainy man and became a
lawyer. He was a journalist when President Harrison, in 1891,
appointed him consul at Tamatavo, Madagascar. Waller liked the Hovas,
and they liked him. They became great friends, and when, in 1894,
President Cleveland appointed Mr. Wetter of Georgia consul in Waller's
place, Waller remained among his new friends and entered into trade there.
It was his intention to go heavily into the
farming and lumber business. With American shrewdness he saw a chance for great
fortune in the rich soil and virgin forest of Madagascar. The Hovas made to him
on conditions of certain payments a lease for 30 years of a tract containing
144,000 square miles of land. It lay along the east coast of the big island and
contained many harbors. If Waller had been let alone by the French, he would
have become as rich as Monte Cristo. It was his intention to ship the wood,
fruits and other products of Madagascar to Europe and America. The execution of
the enterprise would have been an excellent thing for both Waller and the
Malagasy government.
Then came the French invasion of Madagascar.
The French determined that Waller should not have the rich concession granted
to him by the Malagasy government because they wanted it themselves. So they
trumped up a charge that Waller was inciting the Hovas to outrage, murder and
riot. He was arrested. A form of military trial was secretly gone through. Not a friend of Waller's was allowed
to be present. At the end of the trial, which occurred March 18 and lasted
three hours, Waller was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the old French
Chateau d'If. He was taken to France a prisoner in irons. It is charged that he
has suffered hardship and cruelty at the hands of the French. His friends say
he has consumption. The French government, when asked for explanations, put off
Ambassador Eustis with the excuse that the official report of the trial had not
yet arrived from Tamatave, and there could be no investigation. But now the United
States government must insist on a thorough investigation, and that very quick.
GRAND
GALA DAY.
Electric
Road to McGrawville to Be Opened To-morrow.
The
electric railroad to McGrawville will be completed and opened to-morrow. The
management is planning to have a little celebration on account of the event.
The presidents and trustees of the three villages of Cortland, Homer and
McGrawville are invited to meet at the park at 2 o'clock. There will be some
speaking. The Cortland City band and the McGrawville band will furnish music. Everybody
is invited. It is indeed an event worth celebrating.
KEENEY SETTLEMENT.
CENTENNIAL
OF ITS FOUNDING DRAWING NEAR.
Five
Connecticut Families Led the Way—They First Came in September, 1795.
Midway between the villages of Fabius, in
Onondaga county, and Cuyler, in Cortland
county, lies a broad and beautiful valley, through which wanders a pure stream
of water called the Tioughnioga creek, which follows the valleys through
Truxton, East Homer, Cortland, and empties into the Susquehanna. But it is not
to dwell upon the rural beauty of that region that we write this article,
though that were a worthy theme; but to call attention to a centennial which is
likely to be overlooked, and is certain not to be celebrated.
The facts are these. In the spring of 1795,
five men in East Hartford, Conn., sold their farms to "go West." All
five of the deeds are dated April 1, 1795. The men
were Simon Keeney, Benjamin Brown, Gurdin Woodruff, Sr., Samuel Fox and
Jonathan Webster. They were practically one family since Brown, Woodruff and
Fox had married sisters of Jonathan Webster, and Webster had married a sister
of Simon Keeney, thus: Simon Keeney married Margaret Keeney; Benjamin Brown
married Dorinda Webster; Gurdin Woodruff, Sr., married Anna Webster; Samuel Fox
married Mabel Webster, and Jonathan Webster married Thankful Keeney, sister of
Simon.
Early in the summer of 1795 the above five
men, with axes upon their shoulders followed the rough roads of that period as
far as Manlius, N. Y., at which point they deflected, and either marking the
trees or following marked trees they penetrated the wilderness to a point about
three miles south of Fabius. Selecting a suitable spot for building they felled
the trees and rolled up a log house. One account says they found a man by the
name of Bradford already engaged in the work and they bought him out. In
addition to building the house they cleared sufficient land to plant a small
field of potatoes.
This done they returned to Connecticut
occupying nineteen days in the journey. A day or two before their arrival in
Connecticut, Jonathan Webster was taken sick and soon after died. The writer recently
visited his grave in the Centre cemetery in Manchester, Conn., and found it in
a good state of preservation, and the tombstone marked, "In memory of Mr.
Jonathan Webster, who departed this life Sept, 18, 1795, in the 29th year of
his age." This shows that they reached Connecticut about the 18th as Mr.
Webster died soon after their arrival.
It is not likely that the widow of Jonathan
Webster and her two children accompanied the colony which the next spring took
possession of the log house in the Fabius wilderness. In dismissing this part
of the subject it is well to say that the widow afterward married Nathaniel
Bacon of Fabius, and their son, Albert Bacon, was a life-long resident of the
village and but recently died at that place. The two children of Jonathan
Webster lived to marry—the son Jared one Lydia Webster, and the daughter,
Ephraim Bennett. An aged son of the former is living at Asbury, N. Y., bearing
the name Jonathan, and descendants of the latter live chiefly in Steuben county
in this state, Mr. Theron M. Coon of Tyrone, Schuyler Co., N. Y., being one of
them.
The remaining four men, Keeney, Brown,
Woodruff and Fox, with their families and some others came from Connecticut the
following February, viz. 1796, and for a time lived in the log house erected the
previous summer, and subsisted in part upon the unharvested potatoes yet
remaining in the hills. It is said that twenty-eight persons lived temporarily under
the roof of that one house till others could be built. Samuel Webster, Jr., and
his brother Salmon, both unmarried, are said to have accompanied the
expedition, clearing land and erecting a house for their parents who followed
them in due time. "Joy," a slave, accompanied them. He was the property
of Mr. Keeney who had promised him his freedom at a certain date, over-partaken
of maple syrup and died, and his was the first grave of the new colony in the
valley.
Large families sprang from these pioneers.
The Keeneys still are represented in the town of Fabius, Mr. John Alonzo Keeney
still living near the village. The Browns, though widely scattered, are
represented in Mr. Marcus L. Brown of Apulia, N. Y. The Woodruffs have largely
removed, Mrs. Edwin Saunders of Keeney Settlement being one of the few who
remain near the old homestead. The Foxes removed in 1810 to West Dryden,
Tompkins county, N. Y., but the oldest son Edmund returned about 1820 and spent
his life in sight of the spot which his father cleared of the primeval forest.
Rev. Reuben Cadwell Fox of Onondaga Valley, N. Y., is a son, one of three
brothers all of whom were ministers. Most of the Fox family remained in
Tompkins county.
It is probably impracticable to ever
re-convene any considerable number of them on the old spot where the first
house was built a century ago, but at least a tablet bearing the names of those
five men could and ought to be erected.
Much might be said of this beautiful valley
and the Connecticut people who settled it. Others came later reinforcing the
original colony, most of whom were from the Nutmeg state. Their descendants are
now in nearly every state in the Union, and probably traditions of the above
event are fast fading from their minds, if indeed many of the later generations
ever knew it. In the hope of awakening interest and provoking further inquiry
we have written these facts, and invite contributions from any and every
source.
M. R. WEBSTER, D. D.
Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1895.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Mr. John H. Van Duyn of Syracuse was in town
yesterday.
E. B. Kenfield returned yesterday from a
week's poling trip through Oswego county.
E. M. Waller, who has been spending the
summer in town, returned to New York City last night.
The marriage of Mr. Chas. H. Dewey and Miss
Cora Salisbury took place at the home of the bride's parents near this village
this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The Living Issue club will hold a meeting at
the residence of Mrs. Alphonzo Stout on Cayuga-st. this evening. The subject of
the debate to be given then is: Resolved, That the temperance question is of
more importance than the financial question. All are invited to attend.
I. M. Norton of Whitewater, Wis., is
visiting his brother, Mr. L. P. Norton, in this village.
Z. T. Ney left town yesterday on a two
months' business trip in the interests of the Homer Mfg. company.
H. E. Hannum, the proprietor of the grocery
store at the corner of Main and James-sts., in this village is involved in a
little difficulty which the courts have been called upon to straighten. Some
time last September Hannum is claimed to have obtained a loan of $860 from Mrs.
Julia Hitchcock of this village. It is said that a written agreement was drawn
up, in which Hannum promised to use the money to buy a stock of groceries. It
is also said to have contained a promise on his part to render a monthly
accounting of the money to the loaner. Mrs. Hitchcock now charges Hannum with
grand larceny and last evening had him arrested. In her affidavit filed in
Justice Kingsbury's court she claims that the money has been diverted from the
use agreed upon and that no accounting has been given her during the time
intervening. Officer Jones served the warrant upon Hannum last evening and he
was taken before Justice Kingsbury who released him on $600 bail and adjourned
the examination for two weeks until Sept. 17. P. C. Cobb and Albert Wood of
Cortland furnished bail, E. W. Hyatt appeared for the plaintiff and O. U.
Kellogg for the defendant. The case promises to be an interesting one.
A Great
Managerial Trio.
The horses and horsemen of all nations, not
by the dozen or by the score, but by the hundred, will be seen in infinite
variety in the Great Wild West exhibition which is to be given here Sept. 16. In
this exhibition the wonderful West of the few years ago will be revived in all
its rugged and romantic splendor, with its plains, prairies and mountain
passes; with its log-cabin of the frontiersman, the wigwam of the Sioux, the
burly bison,, the pony express, and the lumbering treasury coach of the
Overland Route to Deadwood. The Mexican with his lariat, the cowboy with his
bronco, and the cavalry troops of the United States Army will all be here in
picturesque grouping.
With them will come also the rough-riding people
from many foreign lands. The
Cossack and the Russian steppes, the Ranchero of the Rio Grande, the Bedouin from
the Arabian Desert, and the trained horse-soldiery of the strongest European
nations, including the French Chasseur, the German Uhlan, and the English Irish
Lancers; and at the head of all this great aggregation, Col. William F. Cody,
ex-scout, ex-Indian fighter, and ex-legislator, the handsome, long-haired and
imperialed Buffalo Bill, deservedly the object of more hero worship by all
America than any other character in national history.
The Wild West exhibition, while entirely familiar
of late years in the great cities of Europe and later to the visitors to the
Columbian World's Fair in 1893, and in 1894 to New Yorkers, will be entirely
novel entertainment in this section, and will no doubt attract, as it merits, an
enormous attendance, as it will afford an opportunity of seeing a most novel, and
at the same time, truthful object lesson, portraying as it does, many of the
important incidents of pioneer history.
Of course every one will visit the great
Wild West, but this will not prevent them from enjoying a preliminary treat in
the shape of the free cavalcade which will appear in the morning, and will be
made up of detachments fro the various departments of the exhibition, and will
be enlivened by the music of three fine bands, not the least important of which
will be the famous mounted Cowboy band. The date fixed for the appearance of
Buffalo Bill and his Wild West here is Sept. 16.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a band concert at the park
to-night.
—Mr. J. B. Morris has changed his residence
from 7 to 11 Monroe Heights.
—The annual meeting and election of directors
of the Tioughnioga club occurs to-night.
—About seventy Cortland people went to Whitney
Point this morning to attend the fair.
—Holden & Bingham have received the
order for steam coal for the Normal school this year.
—The Cayuga lake steamer Laura A. Darragh
will cease its regular trips for this season after Sept. 8.
—Mr. Harry M. Butler will give a little
musical at his home on North Main-st. to-morrow evening.
—There will be preaching at the Free Methodist
church on Schermerhorn-st. to-night by Rev, H. L. Crockett from Kingfield, Me.
The public are invited to go and hear him.
—Dr. I. A. Beach, 83 Pendleton-st., has a night
blooming cereus that is expected to open about 8 o'clock this evening. He will
be glad to have his friends call and see it.
—The street commissioner is putting in some new
crosswalks on Main-st. and is
using some stone that for fine quality and thickness have rarely ever been equaled
in Cortland for such a purpose.
—Mr. A. M. Schermerhorn has sold his lot on
Port Watson-st., where his building was burned last spring, to Frank R. Haberle
of Syracuse. A two-story brick block and a large barn will be built o n the
premises, and will be devoted to the manufacture and bottling of light drinks.
THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Nearly
One Thousand Pupils are Registered Already.
The public schools of Cortland opened yesterday
and are very full indeed. There was a
grand rush for the Central school and many had to be refused admission or
transferred to the ward schools. In one room which has 54 sittings there were
just 80 applications for admission. Four or five more pupils can be received in
the preparatory academic room and about as many in Miss Snyder's fifth and
sixth grades, otherwise the school is full. There are a few sittings yet
remaining in the ward schools, Superintendent Coon and his able corps of assistants
have been very busy for the two days in getting all at work, but everything is
well under way.
The teachers in the several schools with the
pupils entered are as follows:
CENTRAL SCHOOL.
Miss E. K.
Miller, principal and academic department, 45.
Miss Ada
J. Wallace, preparatory academic 8th grade, 40.
Miss Mary
E. Williams, 7th grade, 53.
Miss Mary
A. Knapp, 6th grade A class, 54.
Miss
Fannie M. Galusha, 6th grade, B class and mathematics in academic department,
32.
Miss
Nettie E. Snyder, 6th grade, B class and 5th grade, 47.
Miss Lena
V. Lovell, 3rd and 4th grades, 55.
Miss Ella
M. Van Hoesen, 1st and 2nd grades, 55.
Total, 381.
SCHERMERHORN-ST. SCHOOL.
Miss Mary
S. Blackmer, principal, 3d and 4th grades, 50.
Mrs. J. E.
Perry, 2nd grade, 42.
Miss
Minnie Cleary, 1st grade, 50.
Miss
Jennie May Allen, 4th and 5th grades, 50.
Total, 192.
OWEGO ST. SCHOOL.
Miss
Nettle E. Cole, principal, 2nd grade, 40.
Miss Mary
Van Bergen, 1st grade, 63.
Miss Mary
McGowan, 3d and 4th grades, 43.
Miss Anna
W. Blackmer, 4th and 5th grades, 30.
Total, 176
POMEROY ST. SCHOOL.
Miss Lulu
M. Day, principal, 4th and 5th grades, 36.
Mrs. O. K.
George, 3d and 4th grades, 40.
Miss Ella
Garrity, 2nd grade, 45.
Miss Mabel
Graves, 1st grade, 50.
Total, 171
FITZ-AVE. SCHOOL.
Mrs. Clara
Benedict, 1st and 2nd grades, 36
Total in
all the schools, 956.
THE COUNTY
FAIR.
Entries
Coming With a Rush—It will be a Big Time.
Secretary Mellon of the Cortland County
Agricultural society attended the state fair
at Syracuse and obtained promises from a number of the exhibitors of stock
there to bring their stock to Cortland to the fair next week. Every day now he is
receiving inquiries about this thing and that connected with the fair and
already the entries are beginning to come in. It is unprecedented to have so
many entries so long a time in advance for a Cortland fair.
Everybody will be interested in this fair.
It is designed to interest all, and it will do so. The stockmen will find the
sheds at the upper end of the grounds full of cattle, sheep and swine. The horsemen
will see what Cortland county can do in this line, and it is well known that this
county is noted for its fine horses, The racing men will find horse races each
day, and bicycling races on Thursday. The gardeners and florists will find
displays that appeal to them in Floral hall. And here too the ladies will be
interested in the fancy and needle work, the paintings, drawings and sketches,
and out at the side will be all the poultry. Every one is interested in this.
Then too there will be the baby show, the
exhibition of stock on the track, the contests for ladies in horsemanship, pony
riding and driving. There will not be a dull moment on the grounds. And
everybody can go without fear. There will be no liquor sold on the grounds and
no gambling will be permitted. It is a safe place to let the children go to, but
still every parent will want to go along too, to see what the boys see. Let everybody
turn out.
POLLING
PLACES NAMED.
Everybody
Take Notice Where He Will Register to Vote.
The Cortlandville town board held a meeting
yesterday and fixed the following polling places for registration and election
on November 5:
Dist. No. 1.—Village hall, McGrawville.
Dist. No. 2.—M. E. Corwin's carpenter shop,
71 Pomeroy-st.
Dist. No. 3.—Cortland Steam laundry, 78
Clinton-ave.
Dist. No. 4.—J. L. Watrous' livery barn, 22
Clinton-ave.
Dist. No. 5.—Warner Rood's barn, 10
Madison-st.
Dist. No. 6.—Thomas Ellsworth's carpenter
shop, 75 Lincoln-ave.
Dist. No. 7.—Edwin M. Hulbert's block, West
Court-st.
Dist. No. 8.—George Allport's barn,
Tompkins-st.
Dist. No. 9.—Nottingham's shop, 185 Main-st,
Dist. No. 10.—John Hubbard's hall, Blodgett
Mills.
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