CONGRESS, RUSSIA WILL RESTORE MANCHURIA, FIRE ALARM KEYS, PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, AND TRUXTON'S BUDGET

 

Senator F. M. Simmons.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 29, 1902.

OLEOMARGARINE BILL PASSED.

Agreement on Chinese Exclusion Bill Passed Both Houses.

   Washington, April 29.—-After a brief discussion the senate agreed to the house amendments to the oleomargarine bill as passed by the senate. The measure now goes to the president for his signature. An effort was made by Mr. Teller to have the measure amended so as to levy a tax of 10 per cent of the capital or assets on any butter trust which might be formed, but it was defeated.

   Mr. Simmons addressed the senate in opposition to the Philippine government bill. He declared the Philippines ought to be turned over to the inhabitants of the islands. He denounced the "cruelties and barbarities" which, it is alleged, have been committed on the Filipinos by the American army and said that he felt ''like calling upon the great, brave and humane man now in the White House to probe these things to the bottom and at least to make them odious.''

   The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was adopted.

 

In the House.

   Washington, April 29.—Representative Sibley created something of a sensation in the house during the general debate on the agricultural appropriation bill. He severely denounced General Jacob H. Smith for the orders he issued during the Samar campaign.  He declared that General Smith was a disgrace to the uniform he wore. He expressed the hope that the president would strip him of his uniform within 48 hours.

   Mr. Sibley's speech was enthusiastically applauded by the Democrats and was received with some evidences of approval on the Republican side. The speech was considered the more remarkable in that it came from a Republican who left the Democratic party on the issues raised by the Spanish war and who since has been an ardent expansionist.

   Mr. Williams, Democrat of Mississippi, endorsed what Mr. Sibley said.

   Upon the conclusion of the general debate slow progress was made with the bill, only 25 of the 49 pages being then disposed of.

   Mr. Roberts offered an amendment to permit city and county members of the house to elect whether they would receive flower or vegetable seed.

   The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was adopted without debate. This sends it to the president.

 

John Hay.

UNCLE SAM WINS OUT.

Russia Will Restore Manchuria to China Without Reserve.

SOLVES FAR EASTERN PROBLEM.

Result is a Triumph for American Diplomacy and Open Door Policy—By Terms of New Treaty Russia Will Evacuate Territory Within a Year and Surrender Exclusive Privileges.

   International news of the highest importance reached diplomatic Washington the other day. It indicates that the far eastern problem has been solved and that the menace to the world's peace which has so long held like a cloud on the Asiatic horizon has at last been removed. If this shall prove to be the case, and there seems little reason to doubt it, American diplomacy must be given credit for the great work.

   The news relates to the terms of the new treaty between Russia and China. Various reports concerning this important compact have been in circulation both in the United States and Europe, but Walter Wellman, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, is now able to give the salient contents of that document, a full copy of which is expected at Washington in a short time:

   First.—Russia agrees to restore the civil Administration of Manchuria without reserve to the Chinese empire.

   Second.—Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria completely, so far as military or civil control is concerned, within one year from the date of the treaty.

   Third.—Russia agrees to remove her army, with a reservation of a small force for guarding the Russian railway within one year, withdrawing a part of the troops in four months, another part in eight months and the final quota in twelve months.

    Fourth.—Russia surrenders all claim to exclusive railway and mining privileges in Manchuria and pledges herself and China to the "open door" principle in that province.

   The meaning of this is that Russia surrenders Manchuria and turns the whole province back to China. It has no other meaning in the eyes of the foreign office. This also is the view expressed by the Russian government and by Russian ambassadors in various capitals. The honor of the Russian government is pledged to this evacuation. And when the evacuation is accomplished and Manchuria has been turned over to the full sovereignty of the Chinese empire, as every one has a right to expect it will be according to the terms of the solemn agreement, the far eastern problem may be regarded as well nigh solved.

   It was Russia's persistent occupation of Manchuria that threatened the peace of the world, for Manchuria was the key to the whole Chinese situation. As long as Russia held that province in the grip of 90,000 soldiers, as long as Russia held not only military sway but administered the civil government, the integrity of the Chinese empire was threatened. If Russia could thus seize and hold Manchuria, Korea was not safe from a similar acquisition nor north China itself. Hence the agreement of Russia to surrender the province and withdraw her troops is taken throughout the world as a sign of peace, as an earnest [sign] that Muscovite ambition to overrun the most of eastern Asia and master the Chinese empire has at last been abandoned, temporarily if not permanently.

   "You should be very proud of your foreign office," said Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador to Washington, a few days ago, speaking to an American gentleman who called at the embassy. "Secretary Hay has done more than any other living man to solve the eastern problem. All the powers have now adopted his platform for the integrity of the Chinese empire and the "open door."

   Praise from Count Cassini is praise indeed. But other diplomatists echo it. They point out that it was Secretary Hay who injected into the controversy over China's future the moral idea which has proved to be the key to the whole complicated problem. This he did in October, 1899, when the world first learned that the principle of the open door had been proclaimed by the American government. That principle the United States has stuck to through all the changes and complications of the ensuing years.

   Since then China has passed through the throes of a revolution which for a time threatened the success of the American policy. Now and then appearances indicated that the cause was lost and that greed and spoliation would supplant the doctrine of equal rights for the nations in the Chinese empire. Germany has played a fast and loose game and France has consistently supported Russia. Great Britain seemed hopelessly involved elsewhere. Japan was not big enough to stem the tide alone. Ridicule was heaped upon the open door programme. It was everywhere predicted that in China's revolutionary turmoil Russia would find the opportunity not only to hold Manchuria, but to advance, step by step, to greater conquests.

   But there is tremendous power in a moral principle when it is constantly pushed to the front by an able statesman speaking for a nation like the United States. This is what Mr. Hay did. He did it not theatrically, not with bluster, but with tact and caution and always with persistence. As it was Russia's policy to creep with stealthy force and a combination of soldiery and railways over the coveted territory, so it was Mr. Hays policy to ever hold that moral principle up as a warning of "No thoroughfare."

   Step by step he secured pledges, insincere and meaningless perhaps at first, but serving as foundations to more valuable promises to be secured later. Thus he built up his fabric, securing the half hearted co-operation of some powers, the sincere support of others. But every expression of assent strengthened the case. Every new pledge on Russia's part, with whatever degree of good faith given, made it the more difficult to repudiate the underlying principle. Through the occupation of Peking by the allied troops and the long negotiations which followed the fate of China and of the American policy trembled in the balance. But firmness on the part of the United States government and the support of Great Britain and Japan found a way through that crisis.

   Early in the present year a second crisis was reached. Russia was seeking a firmer hold on Manchuria, indicative of a more aggressive policy as to the whole problem. A new treaty with China was under consideration, a treaty which if concluded would place in Russian hands absolute control of all railway, mining and commercial privileges of the province. At this juncture Secretary Hay came forward with his memorable note of Feb. 1. He defined the attitude of the United States with almost startling diplomatic frankness. He declared that an agreement "whereby China gave any corporation or company, a Russian device, the exclusive privilege of opening mines, establishing railroads or in any other way industrially developing Manchuria can but be viewed with the gravest concern by the government of the United States."

   He added that such an agreement constituted a monopoly, "which is a distinct breach of the stipulation of the treaties between China and the foreign powers." He called the attention of the Russian government to the repeated pledges which it had given and closed with an expression of the hope that the governments of China and Russia would take such measures as would "relieve the just and natural anxiety of the United States."

   This note produced a profound impression throughout the world. It was an application of the principle of equal rights and equal opportunity in a way so clear and unmistakable that it compelled attention.

   Soon there followed a third crisis. The United States had supplied the principle. Now Great Britain and Japan concluded an alliance which pledged to this principle a support almost threatening in its aspect. In plain language the allies threatened war if Russia did not give up her pretensions to Korea. Still Russia did not yield. She turned to the other powers to ascertain their attitude in case of hostilities. France, as usual, was pliant. Germany was looking out for German interests and stood ready to profit by any upheaval, to demand a price for any inaction that might be requested of her. But what would the United States do? Would the United States take any part in the struggle? Would the American government give material aid to the allied powers which stood for the American principle?

   Almost every day Count Cassini, the astute Russian ambassador, was at the state department. Tactfully, with diplomatic euphemisms, he pressed his inquiries. It is quite probable that the issue of peace or war hung upon the answer. If the United States was willing to declare its intention to pursue the traditional American policy and avoid all entanglements in the other world, Russia would have felt free to pursue her way in the far east even at the risk of war. With the United States surely out she could, with her allies, France and Germany probably, face the antagonistic alliance.

   But the answer of the United States was that it could give no pledges. Following its usual policy, this government declined to say what it would or would not do in a given emergency. It would be guided by self interest. It would watch events with great eagerness. When emergencies arose, it would meet them as in its judgment seemed best. Unable to reckon upon the probable course of the United States, Russia felt constrained to adopt a conservative course. She could not defy the world. The new treaty with China, which amounts to a surrender on the part of Russia, quickly followed.

   There is little reason to doubt that, for the present at least, peace in the far east has been secured, and the United States is entitled to the credit of it. Appearances indicate that Russia's change of policy is sincere and permanent. The new Russian policy is commercial rather than political and military.

   Incredulousness as to Russia's sincerity in her agreement to surrender political control of Manchuria is rife, it must be admitted. Many diplomats are utterly unable to believe the treaty will be honored in anything more than a nominal way. But such is the treaty, such are the obligations and such is the situation with which the Russian government is confronted. All the indications are that so far as this decade at least is concerned Russia's advance has been stopped, and the moral principle raised by the United States has proved stronger than an old world policy of selfishness. The European powers are not only standing on the platform of Secretary Hay, but they are using his language in the expression of their purposes and in the declaration of their adhesion to the "open door" principle of equal rights and equal opportunities.

 

FIRE ALARM KEYS.

Placed in Glass Cases Below the Boxes—Warning to Meddlers.

   The keys to the fire alarm boxes throughout the city [of Cortland] have been placed in cases with glass fronts directly beneath each box. In case of a fire the one about to ring in an alarm is directed to break the glass and secure the key and then ring in the alarm after the usual custom. This will expedite matters and obviate the difficulty and delay of trying to rouse the people at whose house the keys were kept, as in the past.

   The fact that the keys are now thus in plain sight may prove a temptation to mischievous boys to ring in false alarms. They should bear in mind the fact that there is a heavy penalty for such an offense and that any one found guilty of sending in false alarms will be prosecuted to the extent of the law.

   It might be well for parents to warn children in regard to this matter, as some might do it for fun, not knowing that it is a misdemeanor and that there is a penalty attached to this kind of fun.

 

A PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.

One of the Possibilities for St. Mary's Church.

   No definite arrangements have as yet been made in reference to the proposed improvements to St. Mary's church in this city, which were under discussion last fall. It is thought, however, that the work, which will greatly increase the capacity of the church, will be started before very long.

   The former plans for improving the church contemplated a steeper roof for the edifice and galleries, and it is quite probable that this work will be done in the near future.

   It is also quite probable that a parochial school will be established in Cortland, although plans for this are not by any means clearly defined. Should such a school be established in Cortland the society has plenty of land upon which to build and no additional property will have to be purchased.

 

TRUXTON'S BUDGET.

New Free Delivery Route up the Cheningo Valley.

CHARLES W. BEATTIE THE CARRIER.

Engagement Announced—A Pound Party—Sidepath to be Repaired­—New Buildings to go up—A String of Personal Items.

   Truxton, N. Y., April 28.—Mr. William C. Watson of Washington, D. C , an inspector of free rural mail delivery routes, was in town Friday to see about the proposed mail route which starts from the Truxton postoffice. In the afternoon the inspector went over the outlined route with which he gave a favorable report. In the evening he conducted a civil service examination. The only applicant for the position of mail carrier was Mr. Charles W. Beattie who took the examination. This route will be a great benefit to the people who live upon it. The residents of Cheningo will receive a daily mail where they now receive but three mails a week. With but two exceptions the signatures of all the families living on the proposed route was obtained to have the route established and all are heartily in favor of it. The route has also been endorsed by Congressman Sereno E. Payne, County Committeeman Nathan L. Miller, Town Committeeman Frank L. Hilton and Postmaster Thomas Dodd, Jr.

   The engagement is announced of Miss Iva M. Fenner to Mr. George Williams of Port Lyden, N. Y. Miss Fenner is a daughter of the late Rev. James W. Fenner, a former resident of Homer. She is a beautiful and highly accomplished young lady who is well known, having often visited here.

   The pound party held at the Baptist parsonage Thursday evening for the benefit of Rev. and Mrs. O. W. Cook was largely attended. It was a surprise to the pastor and his wife, who were the recipients of many gifts. Refreshments consisting of cake, coffee, biscuits and olives were served. All report a fine time.

   Wheelmen will be pleased to learn that the Cortland County Sidepath association have decided to repair the path between Cortland and this place. The [bicycle] path was badly damaged by the heavy floods and it will require much work and will be a considerable expense to put it in proper condition.

   We are glad to report the condition of Mr. Fred Youngs, who has been so seriously ill, as much improved, and his many friends hope for his speedy recovery. Dr. Stevens is his physician and Dr. Higgins of Cortland has been called in counsel several times.

   Mr. William McNeal, Jr., has taken a contract to erect a cottage at Little York lake for John Pierce of Cortland. Mr. McNeal will begin the work early in May.

   Mr. Frank B. Feeter, who lives near the town line (Cuyler) is soon to erect a large barn upon his farm. The basement is completed and work will be begun at once.

   The small tenant house located upon the lot of Jerry O'Connor on Main-st., has been moved across the street onto the lot in the rear of the Truxton House and will be used for a carriage barn. In moving this building the lot of Mr. O'Connor is greatly improved.

   Mr. Edward Jones of Ilion, who for the past year has been in the employ of Meldrim Brothers, has finished his work for the firm. He left Saturday for his home where he has accepted a position with the Remington Typewriter company.

   We wish to correct a statement that appeared in our letter several weeks ago, that William Webster was acting as correspondent of the Cortland Democrat. We were misinformed and gladly make the correction. Mr. Webster is the efficient correspondent and Truxton representative of the Syracuse Journal.

   Mr. Henry C. Wicks, who for the past year has been in the employ of the Merrill Soules company of Syracuse, has been appointed by Superintendent Elmer J. Clark of Syracuse a bridge tender on section 6 of the Erie canal at Syracuse, at a salary of $62 per month. Mr. Wicks is a former resident of this place and his many friends will be pleased to learn of his appointment.

   Mr. Patrick McDonald is very sick at his home on the West hill. Dr. P. M. Neary of Cortland was called to see him yesterday.

   Mr. Ernest Towle of Waterbury, Conn., was calling on old friends in town Wednesday. Mr. Towle was a former resident of this village.

   Miss Bertha Winnie has hired to Mrs. Henry D. Thompson and began her work Monday.

   Mr. Fred I. Woodward spent several days last week visiting relatives in Tully.

   Mrs. William Beattie is quite sick and is under the care of Dr. S. Halsey Stevens.

   Supervisor John O'Donnell was in Cortland on business Tuesday.

   Postmaster and Mrs. Frank F. Poole of Lincklaen were the pleasant guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Westcott Sunday.

   The price of milk at Samuel Levy's milk station dropped the 16th inst. to 84 cents per can of forty quarts.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Wide Awake Literary club will meet at the home of Mrs. W. M.  Smith, 27 Groton-ave., this evening.

   —New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; J. W. Cudworth, Optical Talks, page 6; Warren. Tanner & Co.,  Drygoods, page 4; Gas Light Co., Gas ranges, page 8; Mutual Life Insurance Co., Life  insurance, page 8.

   —The list of advertised letters at the Cortland postoffice this week numbers 119. It probably includes both people dead and long since moved away. It is the outgrowth of the fountain pen correspondence, so it appears that not only the local offices but the dead letter office as well will be affected by this marvelous craze.

 

GUEVARRA IN CUSTODY, NEGROS, SAUTELLE'S CIRCUS SATURDAY, FIGHT WITH A LION, ODD FELLOWS' DAY, AND TOO MUCH SPEED

 

General Claro Guevarra with sword.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, April 28, 1902.

GUEVARRA BROUGHT IN.

He and His Command Are In Custody.

GENERAL GRANT'S EXPEDITION.

Guevarra Succeeded Luckban in Samar When the Latter Was Captured Last February—Three Thousand Bolomen Surrendered Saturday—Another Band to Surrender Soon.

   Manila, April 28.—General Fred D. Grant has ascended the Gandara river in the island of Samar and has brought the insurgent leader Guevarra and his entire command down to the coast. General Grant's expedition went up the river in the gunboats Basco and Florida, several steam launches and native lighters.

   Guevarra's command consists of Rafael Sebastian Abaki and 38 other officers, 189 men and 161 rifles.

   Three hundred insurgents with 131 rifles are expected to arrive at Catbalogan, Samar, soon to surrender formally to the American authorities. Three thousand bolomen, 28 of them armed with rifles, surrendered Saturday at Sulat, also in Samar.

   Guevarra succeeded General Luckban in the command of the insurgent forces in Samar when the latter was captured last February. He announced his intention to surrender last March.

 

SUCCESS IN NEGROS.

Ladrone Leader Rufo With 158 Officers and Men Surrender.

   Manila, April 28.—Captain L. W. V. Kennon of the Sixth infantry reports from the island of Negros the surrender of the ladrone leader, Rufo, with 158 officers and men of his command, together with 12 guns, 140 bolos, seven spears and a few revolvers and daggers. Captain Kennon says this surrender means the opening up of the whole southern coast of the island of Negros.

   After Papa Isio, Rufo was the most important ladrone chief on the island. He promises to force Papa Isio and his few remaining followers to surrender. Papa Isio was appointed a colonel in the insurgent army by General Malvar one year ago.

 

Sig. Sautelle.

Sautelle's Circus Saturday.

   The local circus season will be ushered in Saturday, May 3, by Sig. Sautelle's new big 25 cent shows, which have maintained a pre-eminence over all other similar establishments in America, at a price to suit the purse of the most humblest citizen. That so grand a circus, which in its outfit and integral construction has absorbed vast capital and necessitating enormous daily expenses, can profitably exist and constantly increase in size, is a marvelous problem, only solved by the influence appertaining to the name of Sig. Sautelle. Spread far and wide, the name is identical with the assurances of an exhibition which has never failed to fulfill all words of promise to the public. With Mr. Sautelle there is nothing too good for the people's money, and his are emphatically the people's shows. See them.

 

FIGHT WITH A LION.

Dewey Attacked Mrs. Huftle, his Trainer, Saturday.

A PART OF SAUTELLE'S CIRCUS.

She had Only a Whip in Her Hand, but Subdued Him with it, Though he Made an Ugly Wound in her Breast with his Paw—Will Continue the Training as Soon as She Recovers.

   Saturday afternoon the lion trainer, Mrs. Nettie Huftle, who is employed at the Sautelle circus quarters, narrowly escaped death from one of the beasts. She was in a cage with three of the animals and had given them their regular exercise and was just leaving the cage when "Dewey," the largest of the three, she noticed was acting strangely. Being accustomed to their habits she knew she must face and subdue him then and there. Having only a whip as a weapon she advanced toward the beast which crouched behind its mates. Again she started to leave when quicker than a flash the animal again started for her, but Mrs. Huftle's keen eye met his, and once more he slunk away. The third time when she was about to leave, having reached the door, and being about to turn the lock, the beast sprang at her with all of his tiger-like ferocity and struck her an ugly blow upon the breast with his paw.

   With her body wedged against the iron bars of the cage and the hot breath of the animal in her face, still she didn't lose her nerve, and with her whole strength she began to beat the animal upon the head with the whip, her only weapon, and scream for help. Before any one arrived, however, she had subdued the brute and he had retreated to a corner. Mrs. Huftle, with blood streaming from the wound which the lion had inflicted, was taken from the cage and Dr. Goodell [of Cortland] was summoned and dressed the wound.

   Although severely injured Mrs. Huftle is not to discontinue her profession, but as soon as she recovers she intends to again conquer the brutes. It is customary to take into the cages a guard stick, but upon this occasion only the whip was taken. No doubt if she had had this heavy bar of wood she could have defended herself, but by her presence of mind, cool nerve and great strength she cowed the animal with the little whip and thereby saved life.

 

Rev. W. J. Howell.

ODD FELLOWS' DAY.

Anniversary Observed at the First Baptist Church.

MANY ODD FELLOWS PRESENT.

Rebekahs also Out in Force—Fine Addresses by Rev. W. J. Howell and Rev. G. E. T. Stevenson—Some Facts in Regard to the Founding of the Order.

   The eighty-third anniversary of the founding of Odd Fellowship in this country was celebrated by members of the fraternity in Cortland and McGraw and by members of Rebekah lodges of the two places at the First Baptist church of this city at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. More than 250 Odd Fellows and about fifty Rebekahs went in a body to the church, where they listened to excellent addresses by Rev. W. Jasper Howell, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Rev. George E. T. Stevenson, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, both of whom are Odd Fellows.

   The anniversary properly fell upon Saturday, the 26th day of April. It was upon that day in 1819 that American Odd Fellowship had its birth in the city of Baltimore. The order had existed in England for nearly a century before it was introduced into America. The Baltimore lodge was named very appropriately after the father of his country, ''The Washington lodge.''

   Schuyler Colfax, in 1857, was instrumental in organizing in Indianapolis the Rebekah degree, whereby the order of Odd Fellows became a combined brotherhood and sisterhood. Since that time its growth has been enormous, and it has been increasing, not only in membership, but in beneficence, in power and in all that is an aid to brotherly kindness and the welfare of suffering humanity. In the year 1900 the Odd Fellows of the United States, including the Rebekah lodges, disbursed for the relief of the members through insurance and beneficence about $3,500,000.

   The Odd Fellows yesterday assembled at the Vesta lodgerooms and marched to the John L. Lewis lodgerooms, where the Rebekahs were ready to fall into line at the head of the procession. There were nearly 300 in the line.

   The addresses of the day were very appropriate to the occasion, and the lodge members and others of the large congregation were deeply interested in the remarks. Friendship, love and truth, the trinity of forces which underlie the order of Odd Fellowship, formed the basis of Mr. Howell's remarks, while Mr. Stevenson confined himself to the first, friendship. Rev. A. Bergen Browe, pastor of the McGraw Baptist church, was present and offered prayer.

   The Odd Fellows' quartet, made up of Messrs. George W. Long, J. B. Hunt, C. R. Doolittle and A. W. McNett, furnished music.

 

Cortland Normal School and Soldiers' Monument.

BASEBALL AT THE NORMAL.

At Least Four Games to be Played in this City.

   The Normal school is preparing to place a strong baseball team on the diamond this season. There are more men eager to get on the team than ever before, and there is plenty of excellent material in the school. At least four games will be played by the team in Cortland. These will be with the Greene high school, Stiles' preparatory school of Ithaca, the Auburn high school and the Auburn business school.

   The association has issued season tickets, which are being sold for 50 cents, with the guaranty that four games will be played here. If there are more games played the holders of the season tickets will be entitled to attend. A date is in prospect for a game with Cascadilla in Cortland, and if this is secured there will be five games here.

 

ATHLETIC FIELD

To be Leased to the Y. M. C. A. for a Term of Four Years.

   The postal card vote of the stockholders of the [Cortland] Athletic Field association, upon the proposition to transfer the property of that association to the Y. M. C. A., was closed Saturday night. There was only one card marked unfavorable to the proposition and that card was not signed. The Y. M. C. A. will now lease Athletic field for a term of years.

 

TOO MUCH SPEED.

Too much Car Track—Boy, Dog, Wagon all Mixed Up.

   A runaway with a tip-over, resulting in the throwing of the driver to the pavement without serious injuries, was witnessed by a large number of people on South Main-st. today at a little before 1 o'clock. Many factory men were on their way back to their work, and these helped in straightening up the wagon and getting the driver on the seat again.

   The driver of the rig was Leslie Yager, the 6-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Yager, 7 Argyle Place, and his rig was made up of Duke, his small white dog, and an express wagon. Duke felt frisky today and as the turnout sped up the street from the Lehigh toward Argyle Place the holder of the one rein was in great glee. But as Duke kept increasing his speed until his feet seemed hardly to touch the smooth asphalt paving, Leslie began to think that he was going a bit too fast, especially as he kept working a little closer all the time to the street car track. At the one rein he tugged and pulled, but all in vain, for soon the wheels struck the track and everything, boy and all, went rolling over and over. The express wagon started the rolling procession and the lad was a close second. Duke, securely fastened in the thills, joined in the mix-up and was a worthy factor in it.

   An inventory of the effects, taken directly after the mix-up was straightened out, showed the following conditions: boy, slight abrasion of the skin on the right elbow, more scared than hurt; express wagon, cushions and equipment scattered, marred slightly; Duke, not a hair lost, all right he.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the second degree at their communication Tuesday evening.

   —The fifteenth musical service of the chorus choir of the First M. E. church under the direction of Mr. George Oscar Bowen will be given next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   —New display advertisements today are—S. Simmons, Clothing, page 4; Smith & Beaudry, Wall paper, page 8; C. F. Brown, Jap-a-lac, page 6; Gas Light Co., Gas ranges, page 8; New York Store, Millinery, dry goods, etc., page 6; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 7.

 

TYRANNY IN FINLAND, DISORDERS IN RUSSIA, CORTLAND HOSPITAL, AND THEY SURPRISED THE CLERK

 

Czar Nicolas II, Grand Duke of Finland.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, April 26, 1902.

TYRANNY IN FINLAND.

Finns Warned Against Failure to Obey Recruiting Laws.

GAVE THE COSSACKS FREE REIN.

Communes Refused to Co-Operate in Securing Recruits—Heavy Fines Imposed Upon Them—To Petition the Czar to Withdraw Cossacks—Heavy Emigration From Finland.

   St. Petersburg, April 26.—A representative of the Associated Press who has just returned from Hełsingfors, Finland, interviewed the patriotic leaders and others there, who declared the government was distorting every report of the disorders in Finland, with the view in the near future of proclaiming martial law.

   This opinion is apparently borne out by an imperial rescript, signed on Sunday last, in which the period for recruiting is extended, and the Finns are warned against failure to obey the military regulations, which will "convince us that the administrative method which became customary in the course of the last century does not guarantee calm progress of public affairs and subordination to the authorities."

   The recruiting law is the origin of the present trouble. The communes refused to co-operate, in failing to select representatives for the recruiting board, whereupon the governor arbitrarily imposed heavy fines on the communes. Tammerfors was fined 33,000 marks ($6,000); Hełsingfors 30,000 marks ($6,000), and six others from 14,000 marks $(2,800) to 22,500 marks ($4,300). Then Dr. Salzmann, chairman of the state medical board, and many members resigned rather than assist in what they declared was illegal recruiting.

   The reports show the unvarying failure of the recruits to take the oath and the attitude of the populace of Winborg resulted in riot and collisions similar to those which occurred at Hełsingfors. Out of 150 recruits enrolled only 32 appeared and they were all rejected for physical defects.

   In many of the communes nobody appeared and at NyKarlby only one man, a cripple, presented himself. Such is the practical working of the law which General Sobrikoff (the governor) declared the people welcomed with enthusiasm.

   The official report of the Hełsingfors riots minimized the injuries sustained by the citizens and exaggerated the casualties of the troops. Eye witnesses characterize the action of the Cossacks as being worse than their conduct at the time of the St. Petersburg riots in 1901. The authorities apparently gave the Cossacks free rein. They invaded private houses, in many cases far from the scene of the disturbances, beating and slashing indiscriminately. They rode through the porticos of the great Protestant church, forced a physician to jump out of a window of his own home, beat women and children and cripples, and nearly killed a cabman who was a mile from the scene of the riots.

   The people of Hełsingfors are preparing to petition the czar to withdraw the Cossacks.

   Emigration from Finland is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. It exceeded 15,000 persons during 1901 and the number of emigrants now ranges from 500 to 1,500 a week.

 

DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

Workmen Incensed Against Foreign Managers and Foremen.

   St. Petersburg, April 26.—The minister of the interior, M. Von Plehwe, has gone south in order to personally investigate the disorders in Southern Russia.

   Reliable information received here from Moscow shows that the labor movement there has assumed most dangerous forms. There have been many factory fires in Moscow and in the southern provinces, supposedly of incendiary origin, and factories have been placarded with Boxer-like posters, calling on the workmen to rise up against the "foreign devils" as the foreign managers and foremen are termed. These posters further declare that "cold steel and hot lead are cheap."

   The managers referred to have been subjected to various indignities on the part of their own employees. The English words "foreign devils" are frequently heard in the streets.

 

EGGS IS EGGS.

Family Must Have Food—The Magistrate Thought Him Excusable.

   New York, April 26.—Michael Brennan was brought into court yesterday charged with stealing eggs from the duck pond in Central park. It looked like a long term for the old man when in a rich Irish brogue he said, "I took the eggs, so I did, but times is hard with the likes o' me, what with being out of work and three children and the old woman to support. Sure the beef trust has took away our meat and we must have something to eat, and eggs is eggs, you know." The magistrate let him go.

 

Cortland Hospital on North Main Street.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Cortland Hospital.

   As announced in these columns a few days ago the financial affairs of the Cortland hospital have reached a crisis. The monthly expenses of conducting that institution exceed the receipts by from $80 to $100. The hospital property is now all paid for except for a mortgage of $1,000. The Hospital association has had a gift of some real estate in the West which would no doubt sell for $1,000 at forced sale and cancel the mortgage, so that practically the local real estate may be considered clear and unencumbered. All the outstanding accounts in this city are now settled.

   But the question arises, since the expenses constantly exceed the receipts, what shall be done for the future. In the past the annual deficit has been made up by holding fairs, and entertainments. The Crosley fund which was started a few years ago helped to tide over the situation, but those pledges have now all been paid and cannot be depended upon longer. The hospital has received some legacies and instead of laying these aside as should have been done as an endowment it has been necessary to use them to pay current expenses with.

   The sources of income for the hospital are receipts for care of patients in the hospital and wages paid to undergraduate nurses who are sent out from the training school to take cases in the city and vicinity. But the receipts from these two sources are inadequate to pay the bills, inasmuch as many of the cases received at the hospital are charity patients.

   The association tried to secure an appropriation from the supervisors of the county to pay for the charity patients, but the supervisors did not feel authorized by law to grant such an appropriation. An effort had previously been made to get the master before the voters of the town of Cortlandville to ask for an appropriation, but without success. An appeal has within a few months been made to the city to assist in caring for the poor, but under the provisions of the city charter this seemed to be impossible. There appears to be no way at present of securing public aid.

   Three courses are open. Either to go ahead as long as the credit is good and contract debts with the local grocers, druggists and others, and trust to luck to pay them, or trust to hard work in getting up entertainments with the possibility that they may not be financial successes and that in the end there will not be money enough to pay the bills. Or, in the second place, to mortgage the property to pay running expenses, and in two or three years have the whole institution sold out with nothing left and nothing to show for it. Or, in the third place, to simply close the doors and have no hospital in the city. It must be one of the three unless some extra money can be raised to cover the deficit.

   Common honesty forbids the first. The board of managers will not ask dealers to furnish supplies without having some intimation of where the money is coming from to pay the bills.

   Common sense forbids the second. The ladies who constitute the Hospital association have worked too hard to bring the institution up to its present state of efficiency and excellence to have it frittered away and vanish in thin air.

   Shall the hospital be closed? It must be and will be unless the management can raise $1,000 at once to cover the deficiency for the coming year. If they can do that, they feel sure they can meet the other bills.

   Within a few days a soliciting committee will go out among the residents of this city and county and ask for subscriptions. The pledges are to be conditioned upon the fact that the whole $1,000 is subscribed, otherwise they will be void. Five hundred dollars will not answer, $800 will not answer. The whole $1,000 will be required. This is not a large sum to raise if everyone will give a little, but it cannot be raised if three men out of four turn the solicitors down and the fourth gives but a dollar.

   It would be a great misfortune to this city to have the hospital closed. It would be a step fifteen years backward. It would be a change from a prosperous and growing city to the country village of two decades ago.

   Aside from its advantages as a place where the ill may go and be cared for; as a place where operations may be performed with all of the sanitary appurtenances and equipments of modern surgery: aside from the convenience to the public of being able to draw upon the hospital training school for nurses to assist in their own homes; aside from all of these, what would be done with the emergency cases of accident that are occurring all through the city and county where the unfortunate victims are now brought to the hospital for care?

   There was a collision on the Lackawanna railroad a few years ago. One man was killed, another dreadfully injured and was taken to the hospital. A citizen of Cortland was run over by the cars in the railroad yards two years or so ago. He was taken to the hospital, his foot amputated and he recovered. There was a collision between a train and a trolley car between Cortland and Homer. A resident of the latter place mortally wounded was taken to the hospital. There was a railroad accident at Preble a few weeks ago and several men badly injured were taken to the hospital and cared for. There was a man shot in Lapeer and he was brought to the hospital and after an operation and a week of suffering died there.

   There are accidents constantly happening in this city. Men are falling from roofs, being run over by teams, getting hurt in the factories, and they need immediate help. Where can they be taken? Who stands ready to open his house to have one, perhaps three or four, strangers brought in covered with blood, ready for a surgical operation—and needing all the equipments for it—perhaps unable to be moved for weeks afterward? Any one would do it from a humanitarian point of view if there were no other place. But there should be another place especially suited to it.

   But it is ridiculous to argue the question. The conclusion is as plain as daylight. There is not a man, woman or child in Cortland county old enough to have a thought who does not know that there ought to be a public hospital somewhere within the limits of this county. It is as necessary as a kitchen in a house. It is a part of the equipment of a city.

   But hospitals do not happen, they do not grow of themselves, they are not spontaneous, they will not run themselves. They need systematic, organized, regular and unfailing support.

   No one can take any exceptions to the conclusion the management has arrived at, that the hospital must close its doors unless it can pay its debts. But if it should be necessary to close up it would be an everlasting disgrace to the city.

   It is to be hoped, however, that no such step will be needed. It is earnestly to be desired that all who can aid in keeping it open lend their assistance when the subscription paper comes around. But it is $1,000 or nothing. Let no one forget that.

   Before another year is ended it is the idea that an effort should be made to have the city charter so amended that the proper authorities may be enabled to render needful assistance. It is but fair that the city should take care of its needy. The present charter limits very closely the way in which this can be done. There is no censure attaching to any official for the way in which he performs his duties under this charter, as it stands, but if it could be so amended that the city could be enabled to pay for the service it actually receives the course of the managers of the hospital would be greatly simplified and their way made much easier.

   ◘ A rooster in Brooklyn has been arrested and confined in jail for disturbing the neighborhood in the early morning. No one had enjoyed his morning greeting, but when a woman nearby fell sick his salutations became torture to her and complaint was made to the health officer who ordered his arrest. The New York Journal says: His voice is now heard at early dawn in the jail, where he awaits sentence. He is not in a death cell yet, and perhaps may escape with his life, but Dr. Walker has been ordered to see to it that none but dumb birds roost in back yards of houses on the Heights of Brooklyn.

 

AFTER THE FINES.

Cortland Board of Health Will not Clean up Premises for Nothing.

   At the meeting of the health board last night at the office of Dr. E. M. Santee, it was decided to collect the fine of $10 in every case where the city has been obliged to clean up, and in case a refusal to pay the fines is made the city attorney is directed to sue for the amount.

   Bills for the month were audited.

 

SURPRISED THE CLERK.

Mrs. Tuttle Knew of it in Advance, but Not Her Husband.

   Attorney W. D. Tuttle was last night the victim of a most skillfully devised and perfectly executed surprise. He learned among other things that a lady can keep a secret and that one of the ladies who have that faculty is a member of his own household. He has been the clerk of the First Congregational society of this city and of its board of trustees for the past eighteen years, and the regular monthly meeting of the board has all this time been held at his office.

   Yesterday was Mr. Tuttle's birthday anniversary and when he returned to his house at 26 Orchard-st., Cortland, he found a meeting of the board in session there which he had not called, and concerning which he had no previous knowledge. It also had this peculiarity, that there were ladies present—the wives of the members of the board, making nineteen in all. Mrs. Tuttle, however, assured him that she had been previously let into the secret and that it was all right even if she hadn't told him all of the particulars in advance.

   There didn't seem to be but one real matter of business to transact and that was the presentation to the clerk of a handsome black walnut Morris chair as a token of friendship and esteem. The presentation was made by B. T. Wright and Mr. Tuttle responded with much feeling. Refreshments which the party had brought with them were served and the evening was passed most delightfully in a social way.

BREVITIES.

   — Several bicycle riders have paid fines of $1 in city court today for sidewalk riding.

   —The work of grading and putting down cement sidewalks at the new Lackawanna station has been commenced.

   —Mrs. Wilson Amerman of Moravia, the mother of the Misses Kate M. and Jean K. Amerman, who are well known here, died of consumption at her home last Wednesday.

   — Street cars will run every fifteen minutes next Monday night between the Messenger House and the Gillette Skirt factory from 7:30 to 8:30 while the people are going to the latter place to attend the military whist.

   —New display advertisements today are: M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7; E. M. Mansur, Codfish, page 6; Gas Light Co., Gas ranges, page 6; Opera House, "Our New Minister," page 5.