ENGLAND'S INTENTIONS

Puck cartoon.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 22, 1895.

ENGLAND'S INTENTIONS.

Plainly Evident She Means to Gobble All.

AMERICA'S REQUEST UNHEEDED.

Control of the Entire Country Surrounding the Mouth of the Orinoco River

Seems to Be Her Aim—Foreign Office Statement.

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Officials of the diplomatic corps, who are in a position to speak with full understanding and authority on the Venezuelan question, upon a careful reading of the official statement of the British foreign office made public in cables yesterday, say that it is a decisive rejection of the claims made by Venezuela and a negative answer to the requests of the United States that the subject be submitted to arbitration.

   The essential feature of the foreign office statement is pointed out to be that Great Britain "will not permit Venezuela to overstep the line made by the Amacura and Cuyuni rivers," but will submit to arbitration the other territory in dispute.

   It is stated that as there is no other territory in dispute, the British denial of arbitration is comprehensive and complete.

   The line made by the Amacura and Cuyuni rivers is practically what is known as the Schomburg line. Included within it is all the territory on the south bank and at the mouth of the Orinoco river. The British already occupy the north bank, so that the official assertion of this claim to the south bank gives them the entire entrance to the great waterway of South America.

   Included also within the line of the two rivers is a large part—probably one-half—of the tract recently granted by Venezuela to a United States syndicate.

   Under the foregoing circumstances, the statement of the foreign office is said to sweep aside all basis of compromise or arbitration, such as the United States has urged, and to be a final insistence of British sovereignty over the essential territory at issue covering and commanding the south bank of the Orinoco.

CANAL TROLLEY TEST.

First Experiment Not Entirely Successful and Others Will Follow.

   BUFFALO, Oct. 22.—A preliminary test of the trolley cableway for the propulsion of canal boats was made on the Erie canal at Tonawanda under the direction of F. W. Hawley of Rochester, vice president of the Cataract Construction company of Niagara Falls.

   After the current was turned on the motor moved along the cable for about 40 rods, when the cable sagged under the weight of the motor, the latter touching the ground and immediately flames shot out and enveloped it.

   The flames blazed for a couple of minutes and then died out and the preliminary test came to an end.

   Mr. Hawley said it would be necessary to procure machinery to prevent the cable from sagging before any further test could be made. Further preliminary tests will be made during the week, and the final and official test will be made on Saturday.

   Two boats were hauled the distance of 40 rods before the motor touched the ground. The boats were the William Yerkes and the Charles O'Dell.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Where Are We At?

   Have we a government at Washington? Is there a spark of true American feeling anywhere in the present administration? No one has forgotten the humiliation of the entire nation at the discovery that President Cleveland had been plotting to restore a barbarous and blood-thirsty savage to the throne of Hawaii, kill the infant republic and turn its leaders over to the dissolute queen who wanted to cut their heads off.

   No one has forgotten either how England was allowed to bully and rob Guatemala under our very nose, and seize her territory in rank violation of the most sacred principle of our foreign policy, the Monroe doctrine. Our navy is now doing police duty in behalf of Spain against the struggling insurgents who are trying to free Cuba from the hated despotism of Spain, and a member of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet is trying to shut the months of free American citizens and prevent the expression of sympathy and encouragement for the struggling patriots of this unhappy island.

   American missionaries in China have to avail themselves of British protection, and an American ex-consul to Madagascar is clapped into a French dungeon with hardly a form or pretense or justice, and without protest or prompt demand for redress from Washington.

   And now England is getting ready to insult and defy this nation and its oft declared maxim of foreign policy by trying to rob Venezuela of part of her territory, after refusing arbitration, and is preparing by force and Maxim guns to maintain her claims against a feeble American power. Citizens of the United States have received concessions from Venezuela in the very territory claimed [top line of column, print missing]… seems to ignore this fact.

   England has issued her ultimatum to Venezuela just as she did to Guatemala. How much longer is this bullying, insolent power to be allowed by the United States to outrage American soil? Is it not about time that we issued our "ultimatum" to England, and gave her to understand plainly that we shall resent promptly and forcibly any further trespasses by foreign powers on this continent? A bully is always a coward, and England is both. It is asserted, in the present instance, that she is testing the sincerity of the United States with reference to the Monroe doctrine, and if we stand idly by and see our feeble neighbor robbed, it will be only an encouragement to fresh and further robberies.

   A Washington dispatch says that it "is regarded as significant that Her Majesty's government should not have acted with reference to the Uruguayan incident until after Secretary Olney's memorandum to Lord Salisbury, in which he elaborated the interpretation put by this country upon the Monroe doctrine, had been received at the British Foreign office." Has this corporation attorney [Olney] been hauling down the American flag again, and assuring the Tory prime minister that England can work her sweet will on Venezuela?

   Oh for a Republican congress and a Republican president once more! Oh for an hour of Blaine or Harrison or some one something like either of them! Oh for one word from Washington which could make us feel that we are still a nation, commanding and enforcing respect from foreign powers, and sympathizing with downtrodden and struggling peoples everywhere!

   ◘ An eminent preacher has been badly poisoned by ivy while out gathering greens to decorate his church. He is a very eloquent man, believed to be fully competent to instruct men on all points moral and spiritual, and yet that distinguished divine did not understand nature well enough to know that the three leaved ivy is the poisonous one, while the five leaved is harmless. The five leaved ivy is the true "Virginia creeper," and its presence is a joy and a beauty, whether climbing over houses, walls or dead tree stumps. In autumn it is a glory with its vivid scarlet. We publish this information for the benefit of those who do not know the difference between the two kinds of ivy.

   ◘ A more severe drought than that which has this autumn prevailed among the middle Atlantic states has seldom been experienced. Salt fish, such as crabs and flounders, have been found in the Delaware river 80 miles farther up the stream than they have been ever before. The waters of the rivers have fallen so low that the ocean has encroached on them and turned their taste brackish. Serious inconvenience has resulted from this strange cause to the water supply of Philadelphia. Both the Delaware and the Schuykill river show the effects of the unprecedented low water.

   ◘ To President Cleveland and congress: The Association of Congregational Preachers at Chicago adopted a resolution asking the recognition of the Cuban patriots as belligerents.

SAFE BLOWN UP.

Two Hundred Dollars Taken—Four Men Did it.

   Mr. George W. Allen this afternoon received a telegram from his brother, Mr. J. W. Allen at Richford, who is one of the proprietors of the Wrench and Paper Cutter Co. of that place, saying that their safe was blown up last night and $200 was taken and asking him to notify the police to be on the lookout for four men. No other particulars have yet been learned.

   The company was burned out a few weeks ago. The factory was moved into a new location and the office was opened in a vacant store. The safe is a new one purchased since the fire.

In Justice Court.

   Three cases were on the calendar in Justice T. H. Dowd's court this morning.

   William Olmstead vs. William Hess, adjourned to Nov. 9 at 10 o'clock A. M. This is a case to determine which one of the parties is the owner of a certain bicycle. The trial is by jury.

   Beard & Peck vs. C. C. Hitchcock as endorser of a note. Adjourned to Oct. 25.

   L. M. Head & Co. vs. Hiram McKay on a note adjourned to Nov. 11.

  

Hospital Day at the Schools.

   The observance of Hospital day in the schools resulted in the following donations: 140 cakes laundry soap, 41 cakes of  toilet soap, 19 lbs. laundry starch, 11 lbs. corn starch, 88 lbs. sugar, 15 lbs. rice, 34 lbs. breakfast cereals, 4 lbs. tea, 4 lbs. coffee, 1 lbs. cocoa, 1 sack salt, 3 lbs. tapioca, 1 1/4  lb. baking powder, 1 lb. salaratus, 5 qts. beans, 2 lbs. popcorn, 1 lb. shredded wheat, 1 lb. cookies, 1 lb. graham wafers, 1 package wine jelly, 13 bushels potatoes, 1 bushel beets, 1 bushel apples, 1 peck pears, 1 peck onions, 2 qts. tomatoes, 7 heads cabbage, 15 squashes, 14 pumpkins, 16 cans fruit, 4 qts. pickles, 2 qts. catsup, 2 cups jelly, a wash bowl and pitcher and $21.09 in money.

   This generous response is very pleasing to the hospital managers, for which they wish to express their thanks. Thanks are also due the grocers for their services in delivering these supplies to the hospital and to the teachers for their assistance.

DeRuyter.

   DERUYTER, Oct. 22 —At about 2:30 Monday morning the barns of Chas. Wicks, one mile north of this village, were discovered to be on fire and before Mr. Wicks could get out to the barn the fire was under such headway that nothing could be saved. Two horses, two cows, one hog and 30 hens were burned and all the farm implements, hay, grain, etc.  A horse belonging to Seneca Smith of Truxton, who was visiting there, was also burned. The cause is unknown. There is some insurance on the buildings and contents with Agent Preston.

   Miss Bertha and Master Neil Annas gave a party to some twenty friends last Thursday evening in honor of Misses Agnes and Reba Bassett of Leonardsville. The evening was very pleasantly passed with music and games.

   Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bryant and Mr. and Mrs. F. Woodward spent Saturday with Prof. J. S. Sears.

   Miss Anna Root, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Root, died Friday evening of pneumonia. She was a bright little girl and will be missed by a large circle of friends. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, the primary department attending in a body. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community. This is the second child they have lost this year.

   Mr. A. Fred Ashley of Binghamton spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ashley. He sang a solo in the Baptist church Sunday evening which was greatly appreciated.

  Albert Randall has purchased the freight and bus business of E. F. Coon. He takes possession to-morrow morning.

Scott.

   SCOTT, Oct. 21.— Miss Nettie Stevens, who has been a guest at H. E. J. Potter's a few weeks, has returned to her home in New York.

   A large number of our townspeople went to Spafford to attend the funeral of Mr. Edwin Benschoten last Saturday. Mr. Benschoten was a resident of Scott in his youthful days.

   Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Potter and Master Harry Gaylord of Cortland, Mrs. S. Babcock of Homer, widow of the late Dr. L. H. Babcock of Scott, Mrs. Myron Babcock, Mrs. C. H. Stevens and another lady whose name we failed to get, all of Homer, were in town last Saturday and attended services at the S. D. B. church.

   Apple-picking is one of the orders of business when the weather is suitable, and several of the women engage quite earnestly in the work. One lady while picking apples felt the ladder, which she was on, moving from under her, but she locked her arms over a limb and hung there until her husband came to her assistance

   Mr. E. P. Burdick, while on a ladder picking apples, became unconscious and fell to the ground. When consciousness returned he was sitting by the fence. He went to the house and is nursing broken ribs.

   Mr. Charles Winchester went to DeRuyter last week in answer to a call from his sister Emma who is quite ill. The last news from her was that she is no better.

   Several apple buyers have been in town paying one dollar a barrel, and there seems to be quite a strife about who would get there first.

   Potatoes are mostly dug and a large amount of them have been taken to Homer at eighteen and twenty cents per bushel. Cabbage is ripening earlier than usual, and many lots have been cut and drawn to Homer at four dollars a ton. H. E. J. Potter has carried to Homer over twenty-one tons from an acre and left six or seven tons of damaged heads on the ground. Dandelions and June roses were in bloom last week on your correspondent's farm.

Truth In a Nutshell.

   The Utica Herald puts it very neatly and snugly as follows: "This appears to be about the way the treasury officials at Washington figure things: You owe A $10, and B owes you $5. B pays you, but you don't pay A anything. This leaves you with g 'surplus' of $5."

BREVITIES.

   —The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Degrundy was buried yesterday.

   —The St. Vitus dancing club give the second of their series of parties in Vesta lodge rooms Friday night.

   —The adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of Cortland village will be held at the office of the clerk this evening.

   —The Ladies' Aid society of the Universalist church will meet with Mrs. Van Ranselieur, 77 Homer-ave , to-morrow afternoon.

   —Chicken pie supper followed by a reception for the pastor at the Homer- ave. church Wednesday evening. Supper from 5 until 8. Reception from 8 until 10.

   —The Country Circus company which plays at the Opera House to-night arrived in town at 9:48 this morning over the E., C. & N. A fine street parade and concert was given at noon.

   —Fifty Odd Fellows from McGrawville came to Cortland last night and made Vesta lodge a surprise visit. The second degree was worked on two candidates, after which an oyster supper was served.

   —The Emerald Hose Co. have secured the services of Billy Walsh, talking and singing comedian, to appear at their fair next week. Mr. Walsh has for the past summer season been the feature of Sautelle's circus concert.

   —Postmaster and Supervisor W. A. Holton of Virgil has a potato in his possession which so far seems to hold the record in the matter of size and weight. It tips the scales at four pounds eight ounces, and was raised by O. J. Bays of Virgil.

   —Messrs. O'Brien Atkinson and John G. O'Neil of Port Huron, Mich., are in town representing the sewer contractors and are looking up the claims against the contractors. The Italians are standing about on the street corners waiting for their six weeks' back pay.

   —Herbert Callery of Homer finished serving a thirty-days sentence in the county jail Saturday for train jumping and was released. He was arrested in Homer again yesterday and before Justice Kingsbury pleaded guilty to the charge of assault upon Lee Son, the Chinese laundry man at Homer. He was sentenced to serve ten days in jail and was committed yesterday.