FELL FROM THE CAR

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 12, 1895.

FELL FROM THE CAR.

THOMAS WELCH HAD HIS FOOT SMASHED.

The Old Story—He Jumped From a Coal Car With the Usual Result.

   Last Saturday morning. Thomas Welch an employee in Wickwire's mills, jumped from a coal gondola on the D., L & W. road and had his right foot so badly smashed that amputation was necessary. Welch and Dennis McCarthy, another employee in Wickwire's mills took a walk to the junction of the D., L. & W. and E. C. & N. roads and while there, a coal train passed going north and they jumped on a car near the centre of the train, supposing the train would stop at the D. L. & W. station, but it was a special and instead of stopping, its speed increased as it approached the yards.

   Just after passing Port Watson-st., McCarthy jumped from the car and landed on his feet. Welch rode a few rods further and then attempted to jump from the car, but made a bad job of it and his right foot was run over by the wheels and terribly smashed. McCarthy ran to his assistance and telegraph operator V. R. Merrick and Charles Coleman, who were standing on the platform of the depot, soon reached the spot.

   A telephone message brought Beard & Peck's ambulance and he was taken to the hospital where Dr. Dana assisted by Drs. Didama, Sornberger and Moore amputated the foot just above the ankle. Welch is twenty-five years old and resides on Crawford-st. On July 4th, he marched with the Emeralds at Elmira when that company received the prize for being the finest appearing company in line. The operation was a successful one and the patient is doing nicely.

THE STATE FAIR.

Preparations for a Big Exposition Under Way.

   SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 6—Preparations for this year's State Fair are already well advanced, and have reached such a stage as to insure the largest and best Exposition in the history of the Society. Of the $30,000 allowed by the State, $20,000 will be given in premiums, and $10,000 has already been placed in improvements on the grounds. Unusual efforts will be made to make the fair attractive to those not interested entirely in the exhibits, which as usual, will embrace all classes of mechanical and agricultural excellence.

   Several noted speakers, including ex-President Harrison, Senator Hial, ex-Speaker Reed. Governor McKinley and Governor Morton are being corresponded with, and a leading representative of each of the great political parties will be secured to deliver addresses.

   The highest and cleanest class of vaudeville attractions will also be secured for the big Exposition, and the horse racing department, which has been placed in charge of Theo. H. Coleman of Hornellsville, will include four days of races in which many grand circuit flyers will contest. A big bicycle day and scores of minor attractions will swell the bill to proportions never before attained by any other Exposition ever held in this State. The dates are August 20-31.

Trolley in McGrawville.

Elm Street trolley bridge.

The Electric Road.

   The work of driving piles for the new bridge across the Tioughnioga river at Elm-st. is being rapidly pushed forward and will soon be finished. The Groton Bridge Co., are making arrangements to erect the iron bridge as soon as the piles are ready. Eighteen carloads of rails have already arrived and track-laying will be commenced in a day or two at the most. Holes for the trolley poles have been dug from Pomeroy-st. to the river. Ties have been strewn along the line nearly to the old Cowan place and the grading is finished for considerable more than half the distance.

   The park is being graded and put in shape and it will be but a very few days at most when McGrawville people can ride to Cortland and back in comfort and without spending much time on the way.

Bicycle Manufactory.

   Mr. W. O. Nivison, who has been general salesman for the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co. for the past seven years has resigned his situation and joined a company of New York capitalists who are about to start a bicycle factory. Elmira and Oneida have offered inducements for the new company to locate with them, but inducements have also been offered by the Cortland Board of Trade and citizens to have the enterprise located here. The proprietors have decided to locate here and will occupy the Cortland Desk company shops after Aug. 1. The men who are engaged in the enterprise have ample capital and intend to push the business from the start. The amount of capital stock is $25,000.

CORNELL ROWED ALONE.

Their Opponents Left at the Post in the Race for the Challenge Cup.

   HENLEY-ON-THAMES, July 9.—The Cornell crew won their trial heat for the Grand Challenge cup by default, simply rowing over the course.

   This they did leisurely, making the distance, one mile and 550 yards, in eight minutes and eleven seconds.

   Their rivals, against whom the Ithacans were drawn, the Leander eight, refused to take the word at the starting point and did not row.

   The word was given and Cornell took the water, rowing the full course.

A CHANCE FOR THE FINALS.

   Leander claims not to have been ready when the gun was fired, and a protest is probable.

   This will give the Ithaca crew an opportunity to start in the final or decisive heat of the race for the Grand Challenge cup, which will be rowed on Thursday.

   HENLEY-ON-THAMES, July 10.—In the race on Wednesday with Trinity college team, Fennell of the Cornell crew became exhausted while they were in the lead and the Trinity crew consequently passed them and won the race by ten lengths.

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

   CHENANGO—Ringling Bros.' circus will exhibit in Norwich, Saturday, July 27.

   Oxford farmers believe that hay will sell for $25 a ton next winter.

   While out with his wheel one day last week, Mahland N. Phetteplace of Haynes was thrown violently to the ground by the breaking of the frame of his wheel, and the whole front of his lip was torn from the jaw. He walked to his home at the creamery, and Dr. D. A. Gleason of Oxford was called, who dressed the wound, which required several stitches to hold the lip in place. He is doing well.

   An employee of the Norwich silk mill yesterday hired a horse of Elihu Hickok for the afternoon, and after taking in two companions, and all three getting drunk, drove the horse to Chenango Lake and back at break neck speed. They whipped the horse shamefully, tipped over several times, bruised and disabled the animal and smashed up the wagon to such an extent that Mr. Hickok had them arrested. They finally settled with the liveryman for $23 and paid costs, upon which Recorder Throop discharged them with a reprimand, Mr. Hickok withdrawing the complaint. They escaped very luckily, for the penalty in such offense is severe.

   MADISON—Leroy Sayles of Bridgeport had his nose broken by a kick from his horse the other day.

   St. Patrick's church of Oneida will erect a new parochial residence at a cost of $10,000.

   An eleven-year-old DeRuyter boy killed five live woodchucks and a hawk out of seven shots.

   Ellsworth Preston, an Oneida bridegroom of a month, is in the county jail in default of a small fine for kicking up a big row in his home while drunk.

   The Cazenovia and Canastota military bands furnish music for the hop growers' picnic held at Sylvan Beach July 27th.

   Melvin D. Langdon, better known as "Eli Perkins," the greatest platform liar of the world, is spending the summer at his ancestral home in Eaton.—DeRuyter Gleaner.

   Dr. C. B. Crandall, formerly of Brookfield, was tried at Utica last week on a charge of causing the death of Mrs. John McLaughlin by an abortion, and acquitted.

   Lake Earlville was stocked last week with pike and black bass. Some of the bass are quite large, and it is hoped that should a person catch one he will return it to the water. By so doing we will insure good fishing for the future.

   M. H. Cummings of Earlville is noted for veracity, but when it comes to the sea serpent question—well, he's in it. He visited Lake Earlville the other day, and while quietly angling for the finny denizens of the deep he saw an object arise to the surface which made each individual hair stand on end. "It had a snakelike head and the body, of which some four feet in length was visible, was dark or black in color on the back and light underneath. The body was four to six inches in diameter, and Mike thinks it was of enormous length.

   TOMPKINS—Freeville Knights of Pythias excursion to Sylvan Beach, Saturday, Aug. 10.

   Ithaca claims to have about $30,000 invested in bicycles.

   The Ithaca Electric Co. has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $300,000.

   The Ithaca glassworks will doubtless resume business early in the fall. There is already an advance in the price of glass.

   Neptune Hose, of Dryden, accompanied by the Dryden Cornet Band, will attend the firemen's convention at Owego in August.

   Judge Parker entered a judgment directing a sale of the Southern Central railroad last Friday and appointed F. C. Hill Esq., referee to sell. The sale is expected to be in Owego the latter part of August.

   The popular Ithaca preacher, Rev. C. E. Mogg, while coasting down West Hill in that city, Monday, on a wheel it became unmanageable and he received a severe fall, cutting his head and face and spraining his right arm severely. He was found unconscious by the roadside.

   John I. Bower, of Kings Ferry, last week brought home his bride, and a large company of hoodlums assembled on Friday night to give them an old fashioned serenade. The affair was conducted in a very disgraceful and indecent manner and considerable damage was done to the premises. We understand that warrants have been issued for the arrest of a number of the rioters.

   Last Saturday, John Reagin, in the employ of N. H. Mineah of Freeville, went to Ithaca with a load of cheese. His horses, it is said, were frightened by an electric car and became unmanageable and Reagin was thrown out, striking on his head and was so badly injured that be died on Monday. His home was south of Peruville. He was thirty-five years of age, we learn. The funeral was held from the Catholic church in this village on Wednesday, at 10 A. M.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

   On Sunday last a little baby girl was born to Mrs. Grover Cleveland at Gray Gables. Mother and child are doing well.

   The Saturday Review takes the Standard to task for advocating free trade doctrine. A discussion of the tariff between these exponents of republican doctrine might prove interesting to the readers of both papers. The Standard ought not to be scolded very hard for unintentionally advocating free trade, when the country is prospering under its reign. The old arguments in favor of high protection are useless now, when their weakness and falsity have been proven by prosperity under the Wilson tariff.

   The Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, who has been strutting up and down the country for several months past denouncing his discoverer, Tom Platt, now says there is "no real antagonism between Mr. Platt and myself and he is a most able and astute politician and an excellent leader." Mr. Fassett undoubtedly imagined that he was hatched by an incubator and that he was consequently independent of the old political hen, but as the prospect of some exceedingly frosty nights looms up in the near future, he is making overtures for a snug place under Mr. Platt's protecting wing.

   Never was there such a general advance in wages in the same length of time as since the Wilson tariff bill got into operation. That is the serious and solemn fact that confronts the advocates of the McKinley delusion—a fact that cannot be cut nor dragged out of the way or whistled down the wind by any amount of sophistry. It affords ample justification for the many who were actually driven out of the

Republican party because they refused to endorse the absurdly high tariff which resulted from a surrender to the day dreams and vagaries of Wm. McKinley. The Wilson bill is not perfection; but it is so much of an improvement upon McKinleyism that its effects will become more strongly marked as the days go by.—Cayuga Chief.

Political Notes.

   The Cortland Standard of Monday evening has an editorial upon prospective republican candidates for this fall. For County Judge it learns of no one opposed to Hon. J. E. Eggleston. For State Senator it announces the candidacy of Hon. Jas. H. Tripp of Marathon and the possible candidacy of Hon. R. T. Peck. Horace L. Bronson and T. E. Courtney are possibilities for the Supreme Court Judgeship. For Assembly Hon. Wilbur Holmes, of Cincinnatus, Hon. B. F. Lee, of Cuyler, Frank F. Saunders and John C. Barry of Cortland, are mentioned.

   Republicans who depend on the Standard for their local political news will find themselves as usual badly disappointed for, instead of giving the names of the actual candidates it mentions only those who would be satisfactory to its editors. Besides the candidates mentioned in the above list there are others, some of whom the Standard does not care to see nominated.  A little later the DEMOCRAT will print what it knows about the situation in the republican party, in order that our republican readers as well as the readers of the Standard may be fully informed.

HERE AND THERE.

   The Wire Drawers picnic at Renwick Park, Ithaca, takes place July 20th.

   Burgess, the clothier, has a new and very attractive advertisement on our last page.

   The Cortlands got away with the Tully boys on the fair grounds last Saturday. Score 17 to 6.

   The clothing stores in this place are now closed every evening at 6 o'clock, except on Saturdays and Mondays.

   Geo. Chamberlain of this place won the one mile novice bicycle race at Binghamton last Thursday. Time 2:31 4-5.

   Whenever there is an entertainment on the fair grounds the fare from Homer to the grounds will be only 5 cents on the electrics.

   The Cortlands downed the Shamrocks on the fair grounds, July 4th, by a score of 6 to 0, thus winning the amateur championship of Onondaga and Cortland counties.

   Last Saturday Dr. Angell removed a portion of a sewing machine needle from the index finger of Mrs. Eli Stafford's left hand. The needle had been in the finger five years.

   The Cortlands will meet the Marcellus Greys on the fair grounds to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Greys are by no means an easy mark and the champions will have to play ball.

   The secretaries of the Central New York [racing] circuit have been notified to meet in Syracuse tomorrow when it is expected that arrangements will be made for trotting meetings throughout the circuit.

   Last Saturday while Fred Winter was doing some plumbing for Robert Bushby, he slipped and cracked one of the bones of the right ankle. The physician in charge says it will be some weeks before he will be out again.

   School trustees should look out for a smooth-tongued chap who is going about with American flags to supply schools and claiming that he has special authority to furnish them and that districts are obliged to procure them of him. He is a fraud.

   Circuses and menageries are exhibiting in all the towns about us but they seem to give Cortland a wide berth and this has always been considered one of the best show towns in the country. Norwich has had three or four tent shows, Moravia two or three and Owego and Binghamton four or five each.

   Michael Cox, the fireman at the power house of the Traction Co., opened a valve on the exhaust pipe on the outside of the building last Tuesday and was badly scalded about the head and shoulders by steam and hot water. On removing his clothing pieces of flesh came off with it. He was taken to the hospital in Beard & Peck's ambulance and Dr. Angel dressed his injuries. He boarded at the North Cortland House. His physician thinks he will recover.

   Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald's brown mare, "Halo," won the 2:18 pacing race at Binghamton last Tuesday, taking the second, fourth and fifth heats. Best time 2:22.

   The last legislature passed a law exempting no man from jury duty until he has passed the age limit of seventy years. The act takes effect on the first of September next.

   The first picnic held in the new Tioughnioga Park occurred yesterday afternoon when Officer Frank Monroe and fifteen others repaired thither and partook of a supper of their own cooking.

   Ice cream and cake will be served at the W. C. T. U. rooms on Saturday evening, July 13, from 7 until 9 o'clock. All the friends of the East Side Reading Room kindly bear in mind that the patronage thus given helps to carry the good work along that is being done there.

   Mr. Isaac W. Brown, who has been taking an enumeration of the children of school age, reports that they number 2,400 which is an increase of over 400 from the enumeration of four years ago. He is also taking an enumeration of the inhabitants of the village which he informs us will show a very healthy increase.

   Last Saturday evening a horse driven by a stranger became frightened at an electric car near the post office and becoming somewhat unmanagable ran against Mr. Arthur Graham, of the firm of Graham & Chatterton, who was riding a bicycle. Mr. Graham was thrown to the ground but fortunately escaped with only a few bruises. One of the tires of his wheel was punctured.

   Last Tuesday morning as Mr. W. L Bean's delivery wagon turned from Mr. C. F. Wickwire's driveway on Tompkins-st., the snap on one of the holdbacks became loosened, letting the wagon on the heels of the horse which ran rapidly up the street and down Port Watson, and was finally stopped without doing much damage on Church-st. Mr. Bean is a gardener and resides near McGrawville.

   Last Monday evening a pair of young horses attached to a platform wagon turned the corner of Port Watson and Greenbush-sts. at a lively gait and were soon engaged in a lively run up the last named street. In front of Mr. H. S. Hudson's residence they straddled a young maple, tearing it up by the roots, but when they attempted to do the same with a large tree in front of Hon. R. T. Peck's house, they came to grief. One of the horses was thrown to the ground and the pair were secured by onlookers. The man was thrown headlong from the wagon but was not hurt. The harness and wagon were patched up and the man started off for his home in Cincinnatus. He declined to give his name.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   A female pedestrian walked from Oswego to New York in twenty days on a wager of $2,000.

   Seven steamers left New York for Europe last Saturday, taking out 5,000 people, 3,000 first saloon passengers.

   There was an accident on the Grand Trunk Railroad at Craig's Road, Quebec, Tuesday, and 13 persons were died.

   The Pope has promulgated a decree abolishing all days of fasting in the year, except Fridays, applicable to poor persons and their family.

   It is reported that the Cuban insurgents have been defeated near Manzanillo, with a loss of 280 killed. The Spanish loss was 50 killed and wounded.

   Russia has 23,110 miles of railroads, 13,452 being government lines and about 920 miles of Siberian railway are laid and 1,700 miles may be done by mid-winter.

   An applicant for the position of driver of the horse lawn mower at the Institution of the Blind at Batavia, was examined for proficiency in grammar, arithmetic, geography, spelling and civics—Exchange.

   New York State produces about 3,000,000 pounds of the 60,000,000 pounds of maple sugar made annually in the United States, and of this Delaware, Schoharie, Cortland and Otsego supply about one-fourth.

   A volcanic eruption has taken place on Batchewanna Island, sixty miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part of the shore, which had been under water, was thrown up with a series of ridges above water.

   Binghamton ministers have been interviewed as to the bloomer costume for lady bicyclists, and to their credit it can be said that but one opposed them. The Catholic priests dodged by saying it was a question the ladies ought to decide. At present but a dozen of the 1,500 lady riders wear bloomers, but a club is now being organized, the members of which are to appear simultaneously in bloomers.

   A long-distance electric railroad is now proposed—a line from New York to Chicago. Already a company has been incorporated, with a capitalization of $200,000,000 for an air-line railroad between the Atlantic coast metropolis and the lake metropolis. It is prophesied that electric lines will yet supersede steam cars, and that from 150 to 200 miles per hour can be made with electricity as a motive power. This would put New York and Chicago only about a half-day's journey apart. Truly we live in a marvellous age!