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THE SUPERVISORS



The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 15, 1895.

THE SUPERVISORS.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD.
The Annual Meeting—Last Year's Organization Continued.
   The board of supervisors of this county met in annual session in the rooms over the Surrogate's office at 1:30 last Monday afternoon. The board is made up as follows:
   Cincinnatus—Benjamin Kinyon.
   Cortlandville—R. Bruce Smith.
   Cuyler—Wells G. Cardner.
   Freetown—Oscar N. Gardner.
   Harford—Josiah Brown.
   Homer—William H. Crane.
   Lapeer—Frank M. Surdam.
   Marathon—Walter A. Brink.
   Preble—Albert H. Van Hoesen.
   Scott—Mills G. Frisbie.
   Solon—Johnson G. Bingham.
   Taylor—William H. DeLong.
   Truxton—John O'Donnell.
   Virgil—William A. Bolton.
   Willet—Jefferson Green.
   Republicans in Roman, Democrats in Italic.
   Because the members of the board were elected for two years, it was held that the officers of last year's board would hold over this year and the old organization was continued. The old board adjourned last year sine die, and it is not easy to see how this meeting can be a continuation of the last meeting. W. H. Crane of Homer is chairman and John C. Barry of Cortland is clerk. Every member of the board answered the roll call. The following standing committees were appointed:
   On Footing Assessment Rolls—Messrs. Bingham, Van Hoesen, Frisbie, Brink, Cardner, Surdam, O'Donnell.
   On Erroneous Assessments —Messrs. Brown, Holton, Van Hoesen.
   On Courthouse and Jail—Messrs. Surdam, Gardner, Greene.
   On Settling with County Treasurer—Messrs Frisbie, Kinyon, Brink.
   On Settling with County Clerk and Sheriff—Messrs. Brink, Holton, Frisbie.
   On Settling with School and Loan Commissioners—Messrs. Cardner, Bingham, Greene.
   On Settling with County Judge and Justices—Messrs. Van Hoesen, O'Donnell, Brown.
   On Constables' Bills—Messrs. Gardner, Kinyon, DeLong.
   On Miscellaneous Bills—Messrs. Smith, Holton, Gardner.
   On Public Printing—Messrs. Brown, Holton, DeLong.
   On Settling with Superintendent of the Poor—Messrs. Greene, DeLong, Bingham.
   On Coroners' Bills—Messrs. Kinyon Gardner, Surdam.
   On Settling with District Attorney—Messrs. O'Donnell, Smith, Cardner.
   On Equalization—Messrs. Brink, Smith, Kinyon, Bingham, Surdam, Van Hoesen, Cardner.
   On Jurisprudence—Messrs. O'Donnell, Frisbie, Bingham.
   On Applications—Messrs. Holton, Smith, Brown.
   On Settling with Supervisors and Clerks—Messrs DeLong, Greene, Frisbie.
   After transacting some unimportant business the board adjourned until 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.
SECOND DAY, TUESDAY, NOV. 12.
   The journal was read and approved.
   A communication from the comptroller was read, which informed the board that the aggregate valuation of land in Cortland county is fixed at $9,666,105, upon which a state tax of $31,318.18 must be levied, which is at the rate of [3.23] mills on one dollar. This is divided as follows; For schools $9,086.14; for state care of insane $9,660.10; for general purposes and for canals taken together $12,565.94. In addition, the sum of $394.90 must be raised for compensation of the stenographers of the Sixth Judicial District of the Supreme Court.
   The report of the U. S. loan commissioners was read and placed on file and the reports of the District attorney and the railroad commissioners of the town of Truxton and Cincinnatus were submitted and referred to the committee on appropriations.
   The following bills were presented:
   Syracuse Institute for Feeble-Minded children, for care of children $100.
   Matteawan State hospital for $195 for care of one patient one year at $3.75 per week.
   Onondaga Co. Penitentiary $404.06.
   LeCoutenir St. Mary's institution for instruction of deaf mutes $275 for one pupil one year.
   These bills were all referred to the committee on appropriations.
   A communication from the state commission of prisons, relating to the employment of prisoners on the highways in the counties from which they were sentenced, instead of sending them to the penitentiaries was read and referred to the committee on county buildings.
   Police Justice Bull submitted his statement showing that he had the village treasurer's receipt for $1,547,  the amount collected and turned over to that officer.
   On motion of Mr. Kinyon:
   Resolved, That we adopt the following order of business:
   1. Roll call.
   2. Reading of journal of previous day.
   3. Presenting petitions and communications.
   4. Reports of standing committees.
   5. Reports of select committees.
   6. Motions, resolutions and notices.
   7. Special orders of the day.
   8. General orders of the day.
   9. Unfinished business generally.
   And that the morning session be from 9 to 12 and the afternoon session from 1 to 4.
   Resolved, That the clerk be authorized to purchase the necessary supplies, stationery, etc., for the use of the board and the same shall be a county charge.
   Mr. Kinyon presented a matter of disputed highway tax in the town of Cincinnatus. After some discussion the same was referred to the committee on jurisprudence.
   On motion of Mr. Smith, the board adjourned until 9 A. M. Wednesday.
   The rest of the day was spent in canvassing the election returns in the county clerk's office.
THIRD DAY, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13.
   Board met pursuant to adjournment. Journal read and approved.
   Judge J. E. Eggleston appeared before the board and asked that the salary of the Surrogate's clerk be raised on account of additional duties required of him by recent legislation.
   On motion of Mr. O'Donnell:
   Resolved, That the salary of the Surrogate's clerk be fixed at $500 per annum and that all fees collected for certified papers in Surrogate's office shall be paid to the county. Carried.
   The board then considered several cases of alleged erroneous assessment and adjourned to 1 o'clock, P. M.
   At the afternoon session the board engaged in Committee work, and at 4 o'clock P. M. adjourned to the following morning.
FOURTH DAY, THURSDAY, NOV 14.
   Journal read and approved. A communication was read from the Secretary of the Fish, Game and Forrest Commission, relative to the appointment of special Fish and Game protectors. Referred to Messrs. Frisbie, Holton and DeLong as a committee to investigate and report.
   A communication from the State Committee on good roads was referred to same committee.
   The Railroad Commissioner of the town of Truxton submitted his report showing that it was necessary for the town to raise $2000 principal and $4808 interest to pay on bonds in 1896, less $98 in bank and available for that purpose.
   The surrogate presented his report which shows that he has collected in fees during the past year $80.75 which has been turned over to the clerk leaving a balance due him on salary of $319.25.
   The present bonded indebtedness of the town of Taylor is $34,500. Necessary to raise the ensuing year $1000 of principal and $1380 interest.
   The committee appointed at the last session of the board to settle with the outgoing Supt. of the Poor reported that his accounts were correct.
   The committee appointed to visit the County Alms house reported that they found everything in good order.
   On motion of Mr. Bingham the clerk was authorized to receive proposals for printing 3500 copies of the Supervisors Journal, to be printed in same style as last year. The proposals to be opened on Monday morning next.

BOILER EXPLODED.
CAUSED BY LOW WATER.
Four Men Killed by the Explosion of the Boiler of Lehigh Locomotive No. 13—The Accident Occurred Near Warwick, N. Y.
   NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—A special dispatch to the "Recorder" from Warwick, N. Y., says: With an awful roar Lehigh and Hudson engine No. 13 blew up to-day and caused the death of four men. The dead are.
   Herbert Beetneer, fireman, Easton.
   Wm. Cooper, engineer, Philadelphia.
   Martin O'Neill, conductor, Belvidere.
   James L. Sloane, brakeman, Phillipsburg.
   The force of the explosion was so great that the boiler was thrown from the trucks [sub-chassis], but the latter remained on the rails. The train that consisted of thirty cars, although it was running on a downgrade, was stopped by the brakeman, but not until it had run fully a mile and a half.
   The victims of the accident were hurled in all directions, their clothing stripped from their bodies and the tattered garments fell in branches of trees along the tracks where they remained hanging. The first body found was Cooper's. It was pinioned under the shattered boiler. He had been crushed to death by the mass of iron and steel.
   O'Neil had been blown on the rails and run over by the train, his body cut to pieces and otherwise horribly mutilated, while Sloane was hanging unconscious on a barb wire fence, fifty feet away. He lived only a few minutes, dying in great agony.
   Fireman Beetner was blown out of the cab and landed in an open field twenty yards from the explosion. His coat, vest and shirt were torn from his back and when he was found by the rescuing party he was wandering in a dazed condition, clad only in his shoes, stockings and trousers. He was taken to Easton; but he did not long survive.
   The train started from Maybrook without a conductor at 9:45 o'clock last night and ran to Hudson Junction before his absence was discovered. Then the engineer put the train on a siding, ran back and picked up the conductor. Conductor O'Neil remained on the engine, where he was joined by his head brakeman when the train was again started. The explosion occurred before the train had proceeded five miles further. No explanation of the cause of the accident has been advanced, but it is supposed to have been caused by low water.

THE E. & C. N. Y. R. R.
ACTIVE OPERATIONS DISCONTINUED.
Injunction Served on the Company—The Bridge Completed.
   Last week Frank C. Welch procured an injunction which prohibits the construction company from having their tracks across his farm situated between this place and McGrawville. The right of way had not been procured from him and the company refused to pay the price he asked. The injunction was served after we went to press last week, and unless some satisfactory arrangement can be made, the matter will have to be settled in the courts which will cause considerable delay.
   Twenty carloads of iron were on the side track at Bethlehem, Pa., and were about to start for Cortland, but when the injunction was served the construction company ordered them unloaded as it was thought to be unwise to tie up so much money without being able to use the iron.
   The bridge over the Tioughnioga has been completed and a construction train has been over the structure. The iron has been laid for some distance on the east side of the river. It is very unfortunate that this delay should occur at this time as the track would surely have been laid to Cincinnatus in a few weeks.

"The Mikado."
   The coming performance of Gilbert-Sullivan's most charming opera "The Mikado" to be given by our local talent some time in December, is likely to be head and shoulders ahead of anything of the kind ever done by our amateurs. The chorus of forty-five are all picked voices and the cast comprises some of our best musicians.
   Incidental to the opera will be introduced twenty Baby Japs who will appear before the Mikado in a series of tableaux and pretty dances. The costumes will be strikingly characteristic and a special set of scenery will be used for the occasion. The entire stage will be draped with Japanese lanterns and in the second act there will be an electrical display such as is seldom seen outside the large cities.
   Notwithstanding the large expense gone to in this production it has been decided to place the price of seats at popular rates, 25, 50 and 75 cents with a special matinee price of 50 and 25 cents.
   The preliminary tickets will be on sale in a few days by the members of the company.

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
   TOMPKINS.—The inmates of the county [alms] house number about sixty.
   A farmer in Ulysses had seven hundred barrels of apples.
   Ithaca is to have a new catholic church, to cost over $50,000.
   The oldest inmate of the county house is upwards of ninety years.
   Two carloads of fruit are being shipped daily by the Ithaca Canning Co.
   Two Ithaca sportsmen bagged fifteen partridges near Speedsville, one day last week.
   We learn that the Morse Chain Works at Trumansburg are preparing to run night and day.
   Three salt veins underlie Ithaca, between the surface and a depth of 2,200 feet, which aggregate 150 feet in thickness. What lies below nobody knows.
   Last week, Dixoneer, Dana Rhodes' colt, returned to Groton. Dixoneer has done good work on the track this season and has a record of 2:28 1/2. Good, indeed, for a three-year-old.
   Last Thursday a commission of lunacy made an examination of George H. Warner of Etna, as to the question of his sanity. He was declared insane and taken to Willard asylum.

Henry J. Coggeshall.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
   ◘ James K. McGuire was elected mayor of Syracuse last week by a plurality of over 2,000 votes. The entire democratic city ticket was elected. Mr. McGuire is a bright young man and will give the city what it has not had for many years, a good business administration.
  ◘ The Cortland Standard is deriving much solid comfort in contemplating the predictions alleged to have been made by prominent democrats before election, in case the republicans were successful at the polls. It is so seldom the Standard affects to believe anything that prominent democrats say, that its course in this instance becomes most noticeable. As a rule it would denounce any prediction made by a democrat as stuff and nonsense or a barefaced lie.
Does the Standard believe the predictions alleged to have been made by Senator Hill and other prominent democratic statesmen?
   Henry J. Coggeshall was elected Senator in the Oneida county district by a plurality of more than 4000 over his republican opponent. Coggeshall has represented the district for several terms, but he was too independent last winter so suit the republican politicians of his district and they turned him down and nominated Frederick G. Weaver. Coggeshall ran on an independent ticket and won. He is a republican but he is not now in good standing with the politicians of his party, who are threatening to ignore him entirely in the Senate. Coggeshall is too able a man to be downed easily.

HERE AND THERE.
   The Normal team will play the High school football team of Binghamton in that city to-morrow.
   W. J. Buchanan Hose Co. of McGrawville give their second annual party in that village Wednesday evening, Nov. 27.
   The case of the Village of Cortland vs. Mrs. Anna Bates charged with violating the excise laws has been adjourned to Nov. 20.
   The stockholders of the H. M Whitney wagon company will elect directors at their office in this place Nov. 21, at 2 o'clock P. M.
   Chestnut time has come and gone and still we are not happy, because the Industrial edition bids fair to "linger in the lap of spring."
   The Avalon Social club will have a private dance in Empire hall on Thanksgiving night. McDermott's orchestra will furnish the music.
   The lawyers of this county will meet in Judge Eggleston's office in this village Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 3 o'clock for the purpose of forming a county bar association.
   Joseph Jefferson will appear in "Rip Van Winkle" in the Lyceum theatre in Ithaca Saturday evening, Dec. 28. A large party of Cortland people are making arrangements to attend.
   The comedy "Eight Bells" as produced by the Byrne Bros. in the opera house last Saturday evening was an immense success. The large audience went home perfectly satisfied with the entertainment.
   The north end of Charles-st., which has never been opened to the public was last week thrown open to teams and pedestrians mainly owing to the efforts of Mr. H. F. Bliss. It is a great improvement.
   The case of The People agst. John H. Howard, charged with violating the excise law came up before Justice Bull on Monday morning. No one appearing for the prosecution, Mr. Howard was discharged.
   There were two games of football on the fair grounds last Saturday afternoon. The Normals beat the Binghamton High school team by a score of 32 to 0, and the Ithaca high school team worsted the Normal juniors by a score of 6 to 0.
   Mrs. John Palmer of South Cortland has to day given to the Cortland County Home for aged women the sum of $500. Mrs. Palmer has offered to do the same for the Cortland hospital and the transfer of the money is expected to be made on Thursday. The terms of both gifts are that the donor shall receive the interest on the money during her lifetime.—Standard.
   Mr. A. S. Burgess has had plans drawn for a new building to be erected on Railroad-st. in rear of his present quarters, as soon as the weather will permit next spring. It will cover his entire vacant lot on that street and will be three stories high. The interior of the rooms on the second floor of the old building will be changed and a bay window will project from that floor out on Railroad-st. The outside appearance of the entire building will be changed and improved. The walls are to be handsomely painted and penciled and the block will be a decided ornament to the street when finished. The change will give Mr. Burgess the extra room required for his increasing business and his immense stock of clothing.
 

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