REGRETTED EXCESSES, NO ULTIMATUM, TURKEY'S PRESS AGENT, PRIZE WINNERS, OLD VETERANS REUNITE, AND A PECK OF TROUBLE

 

Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 21, 1903.

REGRETTED EXCESSES.

Sultan's Interview With Russian and German Ministers.

FRESH INSTRUCTION TO VALIS.

Porte Promised to Announce Resumption of Reform Scheme—Turkish Official Dispatches Announce Numerous Encounters Resulting In Favor of the Government.

   Constantinople, Sept. 21.—In an audience with M. Zinovieff the Russian ambassador Friday, the sultan expressed his regret at the excesses committed by the Turkish troops in the vilayet of Monastir and Adrianople. He said that orders had been sent to the authorities concerned to prevent their repetition and he gave the Russian ambassador to understand that the guilty parties would be punished.

   The German ambassador, Baron Marschall Bon Bieberstein, also had an audience with the sultan, who showed himself most optimistic. The latter declared that the insurrection was drawing to a close. In fact, it had already been suppressed in some districts and the porte would, therefore, immediately issue proclamations announcing the resumption of the application of the reform scheme.

   After the granting of these audiences an extraordinary council of ministers was held at Yildiz Kiosk and the deliberations were continued on Saturday. It is understood that the council drew up fresh instructions to the valis in the sense of his majesty's declaration.

   Official dispatches from the valis of Salonika, Monastir and Adrianople report numerous encounters which resulted in favor of the Turks.

 

NOT AN ULTIMATUM.

Misapprehension as to Meaning of Bulgaria's Note to the Powers.

   Sofia, Sept. 21.—Some apprehension having apparently been created owing to a misunderstanding regarding the precise meaning of Bulgaria's last note to the powers, explanations have been given to some diplomatic agents here that the memorandum was not intended as an ultimatum but was rather in the nature of an appeal for the intervention of the great powers before that intervention should be too late.

   The Bulgarian ministry, it was stated, was determined to maintain its attitude of neutrality up to the last moment but it felt the impossibility of standing by indefinitely while the Turks exterminated the Bulgarian element in Macedonia.

   The government's position is rendered increasingly difficult by the attitude of the Macedonian population in Bulgaria, which vigorously backed up by the revolutionary committees, is persistently endeavoring to force the government's hand and provoke hostilities with Turkey.

   A special from the monastery of Rila, Bulgaria, says the condition of the Turkish garrison of Menlik, 66 miles northeast of Salonika, is believed be extremely critical. It is besieged by bands of insurgents. The Turks have withdrawn nearly all their forces from the districts of Danouml and Pazlog to send them to the relief of Monlik. As a consequence unusual tranquility prevails throughout the district of Pazlog.

   A company of Turkish soldiers and Bashi-Bazouks recently found the hiding place of a hundred families of refugees from the villages of Dupeni and Echla near Resen. They captured the party, violated the women and committed other atrocities.

   The united bands of Monassieff and Michailof have had an encounter with the troops near Demi-Kapu, 62 miles northwest of Salonika. The Turks had many killed, including two officers.

 

Denial by Turkish Government.

   Washington, Sept. 21.—Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, has received a dispatch from the government denying the reports that reserves are engaged in aggressions against the Christian inhabitants in certain districts.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Turkey's Press Agent.

   Now we shall know all about what is going on in Macedonia. The sultan of Turkey has hired a press agent: the sublime porte is to have a sublime reporter. "It is learned here," says a Washington dispatch, "that the sultan feels the need of having his government and its difficulties set before the world in a proper light, and for that reason he has hired an American, who is to be the press agent for the Turkish government."

   The sultan has long been accused of being an unprogressive tyrant who utterly lacked the up-to-dateness of the infidel occident and who was slower than the proverbial snail in introducing needed reforms. Let slander still her tongue and base calumny hide its hated head. The sultan has hired a hustling American press agent well gifted with imagination, and we shall soon have official notice that every reform has been carried out and that Abdul Hamid II is the kindest, most considerate, most humane ruler the world has ever known.

   It has long been suspected that the Macedonian committee, who are making trouble for the sultan, have in their employ a very talented press agent, and when he and the sublime reporter begin giving out rival massacre figures Macedonia, Salonika and other Turkish districts will speedily be depopulated. One day the murderous Turks will kill all the Macedonians and Bulgarians, and the next the same Macedonians and Bulgarians will massacre every Turk within a hundred miles of the seat of war.

   The Turk is not so slow, after all. He is well aware of the value of a good press agent, and just now he seems to need one very much, for Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister in Washington, says that there are more liars in Constantinople writing what purports to be the facts with regard to the troubles of Turkey than he imagined could ever be got together in so small a part of the earth's territory.

 

Negro and Chinese Prize Winners.

   It is a notable and significant fact that a negro and Chinaman won the two highest prizes announced at the recent anniversary of the exercises of the Yale law school. The Townsend prize of $100, awarded to the members of the senior class of the law school who writes and pronounces the best oration at the public anniversary exercises at graduation was given to George Williamson Crawford, a negro of Birmingham, Ala., and a graduate of Talladega college. Chung Hui Wang of Canton, China, won the degree of Summa Cum Laude. Wang is pronounced by Dean Theodore Woolsey of the law school to be a most remarkable scholar. He has been at the Yale law school only a year, having been graduated from Tien-Tsin university in his native land, and having spent one year at the university of California before coming to Yale.—Leslie's Weekly.

 

OLD VETERANS

Of the One Hundred Fifty-Seventh Regiment.

ANNUAL REUNION AT MCGRAW, N. Y.

Largest Reunion in History of Regiment,  108 Present—Fourteen Deaths Reported in Last Year—Officers Elected—Next Reunion at Canastota—Fine Business Meeting and Campfire.

   On Saturday, Sept. 19, the village of McGraw wore the dress of an old-fashioned Fourth of July, the Stars and Stripes being very much in evidence. And this was not all, for crowds upon the streets were a study. The occasion was the thirty-eighth annual reunion of the survivors of the gallant old One Hundred Fifty-seventh regiment of New York volunteers and, while it was a great day for the old boys, it was certainly an interesting sight to see the heroes of so many battles come together and talk over old times. That they were glad to see each other was plainly proven by the hearty handshakes and the expression upon their faces which each year show more and more the years that have passed since they marched and camped together.

The Roll Call.

   The business meeting was called in the village hall in the morning and the following members answered to roll call, being the largest in many years: W. H. Ahbert, Hamilton; A. W. Angell, Cortland; A. Ashley, Syracuse; L. F. Briggs, Eaton; R. W. Bourne, Willet; Charles S. Brown, Homer; Robert Bushby, Cortland; D. U. Brown, Elmwood, N. J.; C. H. Bouton, Marathon; E. Bisby, Smyrna; Charles Bliss, Georgetown; Reuben Butts, Scott; A. A. Borthwick, McGraw; J. W. Beattie, East Homer; G. W. Carpenter, Chittenango Station; Oscar Courtney. Marathon; D. C. Clark, DeRuyter; H. J. Collier, Earlville; H. Chapman, Homer; Wm. Connell, Truxton; A. W. Coloney, Scranton, Pa.; Solomon Carr, Blodgett Mills; Mott C. Dixon, New York; David DeVan, Peterboro; L, E. Darling, Pitcher; C. T. Dickinson, Binghamton; William Dyke, Cortland; I. O. Ellenwood, Utica; Norman Francis, McLean; M. J. Grady, Cortland; T. J. Getman, Preble; John Gartsie, Dryden; Dr. H. C. Hendrick, McGraw; J. D. Hammond, Cortland, Adelbert Holden, McGraw; Edward Hicks, Apulia; C. A. Hitchcock, Cortland; Edward Harrington, Cortland; Hiram Hawley, Harford; DeForest Hakes, Cortland; William P. Henry, McGraw; Samuel N. Holden, Cortland; P. L. Haskins, DeRuyter; Joseph Hart, Bouckville; Charles S. Hurd, Chittenango; J. H. Hill, Lavanna; C. H. Hitchcock, New Woodstock; C. C. Healey, Homer; C. J. Harris, Willet; Erastus Jones, Homer; Eugene Johnson, Marathon; A. W. Kingsbury, Homer; T. H. Kennedy, Homer; Ira Kinney, Cuyler; E. C. Kinney, Cortland; Henry D. Locke, Ellis; P. H. Lyon, Cortland, W. H. Morgan, Cortland; Jerry Murphy, Clockville; John Miller, Cortland; N. J. Messenger, Smyrna; George P. Miller, East Homer; H. S. Montgomery, Plymouth; William E. Matson, Peterboro; S. M. Marvin, Georgetown; Joseph McDargh, Cortland; C. O. Newton, Homer; James W. Newman, Scott; Harrison Neff, Killawog; Darius Owen, McGraw; Frank Place, Cortland; M. J. Pratt, Homer; E. A. Phillips, East Homer; Darius Phelps, McGraw; Robert Roantree, Canastota; H. M. Robinson, Cortland; Charles O. Ricker, Oneida Castle; H. C. Ransom, Syracuse; R. C. Shattuck, Homer; Charles H. Sweet, Scott; H. A. Smith, Cincinnatus; J. H. Sawdy, Whitney's Point; D. R. Shults, Cortland; Mitchell Sanford, McGraw; William Tegg, Kirkville; Lorenzo Thorington, Taylor Center; Lathel Thorington, Cheningo; G. S. Van Hoesen, Cortland; W. S. Van Vose, Cortland; George L. Warren, Cortland; Wellington Wood, Cortland; M. C. Wood, New Woodstock; G. G. Waldron, Albany; Lorenzo Widger, Cheningo; I. J. Walker, McGraw; C. C. Widger, Messengerville; S. S Wright, Preble; Chas. H. Waters, McGraw; Reuben Weeder, Binghamton; W. H. Burdick, McGraw; Dewitt Turner, McGraw; John P. Corbin, Harford; C. J. Sheppard, Preble; Walter Davis, Cheningo; Barney Barnes, McGraw; Alexander Lansing, Truxton; William Gilbert, McGraw; Hallett Shepard, Groton.

Fourteen Deaths Reported.

   Fourteen deaths were reported during the past year and one who died in 1897, and not previously noted were as follows: S. D. Allexander, Company G; A. M. Hazelton, Company C; A. W. Green, Company I; N. J. Snyder, Company G; Levi Wiser, Company K; John Phlaiger, Company G; Chauncey Getman, Company H; Stephen Harrington, Company G; J. H. McIntyre, Company B; O. A. Babcock, Company H; W. F. Brown, Company K; who died in 1897, Mablon Barren, Company I; Hale Moore, Company I; George Barnes, Company E; M. L. Foster, Company E.

Officers Elected.

   The following were the officers elected for the ensuing year.

   President—Robert Roantree, Canastota, N. Y.

   First Vice-President—Norman Francis, McLean, N. Y.

   Second Vice-President—Jerry Murphy, Clockville, N. Y.

  Third Vice-President—Charles O. Ricker, Oneida Castle, N. Y.

   Recording Secretary—George L. Warren, Cortland, N. Y.

   Corresponding Secretary—Dr. H. C. Hendrick, McGraw, N. Y.

   Treasurer—L. F. Briggs, Eaton, N. Y.

   It was voted to hold the next regimental reunion at Canastota. The ladies of the regiment held their session in the Odd Fellow's hall on the third floor of the village building.

The Camp Fire.

   A fine dinner was served by the local veterans and their friends in the M. E. church after which the public meeting was held in the Baptist church.

   Rev. A. M. Brown of the Presbyterian church made the address of welcome, which was responded to by T. Remsen. Judge J. E. Eggleston made the address of the day. The Corset City band furnished music. Master Robert Bushby sang "The Golden City," as only he can do it, and Master Henry Kennedy showed the old fellows that there were still drummer boys. Miss Brown of Homer gave a recitation "The Old Canteen," in a manner that won much praise. Every one seemed to be at their best and the exercises were of the finest character throughout.

   This regiment now numbers about 400. Fourteen deaths have been reported in the past year and but ninety-two in the past ten years.

   When mustered into the United States service Sept. 19, 1862, they numbered 1,000 strong. In 1863 and 1864 they received 242 more members in drafted men and recruits.

   The regiment was mustered out in August, 1865, having participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Va.; Gettysburg, Pa.; siege of Fort Sumpter; battles of First and Second John's island, Honey Hill, Tulifinny, Camp Milton, Devon's Neck, Dingle's Mill, Statesburg, and Camp Finnigan.

 

A PECK OF TROUBLE

Pocketbook Lost and Found—A Homer Lady's Experiences.

   Mrs. C. W. Negus of Homer, N. Y., will probably long remember a little shopping tour made to Syracuse last Saturday and, as it all ended happily, she can tell her friends about it and enjoy with them a hearty laugh at her own expense. Some details of this are given in the Syracuse Sunday Herald as follows:

   When Mrs. C. W. Negus of Homer, the wife of the Baptist minister of that village, came to this city yesterday morning to do a little shopping, as has been her custom, she little thought that the police would take a more than casual interest in her affairs. It all came from a sudden and for some time unexplainable disappearance of a pocketbook. Mrs. Negus had almost completed her shopping tour when the affair happened. She had gone to Edwards' store about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, making a purchase or two at the underwear counter. Then she went to another part of the store.

   Meanwhile two young ladies of this city visited the same store and the same counter. Here they also made purchases. As they were preparing to leave one was called back and given her pocketbook by the girl in charge. They then went home.

The Police Called In.

   About this time Mrs. Negus had noticed the loss of her purse. Supposing, of course, that it had been stolen she excitedly called up the police and informed them of the fact. Detective Geis was put on the case. After a little questioning he decided that the purse had been taken by the young ladies who had visited the counter a short time before. Learning their address he started out.

   When he called at their house, which happened to be the home of one of his friends, he was met at the door by one of the young ladies. She welcomed him with a handshake.

   After a moment's hesitation, Detective Geis asked the young lady if she and her sister had been down town. She replied that they had.

   "Did you take some one's purse by mistake?" said Geis.

   The ladies protested their innocence and went back to their room after the purse claimed to be that of Mrs. Negus. An examination proved their ownership.

   At the outset of the trouble, Mrs. Negus had informed the officer that she had the sum of $10 in bills and considerable change in her purse. The one Detective Geis examined had about 84 and a little change. Possibly they had spent the money, any way it would do no harm to take the purse along and show Mrs. Negus. So he departed, pocketbook and all.

Troubles of Her Own.

   When Detective Geis was busy looking up the missing purse, its owner, Mrs. Negus, was having troubles of her own. She went to the hotel where she was stopping, and as is usual the case, found the cause of all her trouble calmly reposing on the bureau. Hurrying back to the store, she told of her recovery of the missing purse, but failed to inform the police. The missing pocketbook contained a check for a large bundle which she had ordered sent to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western station. Whoever had taken the purse would surely call for the package. So an officer was sent over to the station with orders to nab the first one who should present the check for the property.

   Mrs. Negus was unknown to him. The train was nearly due when Mrs. Negus rushed into the station and presented her check for the package. The policeman did his duty and, amid the protestations that the package belonged to her and that she had a perfect right to obtain it, the train for Homer pulled out and Mrs. Negus remained in the hands of the law. A few minutes later Detective Geis came up and after a few words all things were once more righted. The woman took a later train for home.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Loyal circle of the King's Daughters will meet tomorrow at 3 o'clock at the W. C. T. U. rooms.

   —The Ladies' Literary club will meet with Miss M. L. Fairchild at the residence of G. L. Warren, 38 Greenbush-st., Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

   —The new display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7; City of Jerusalem, page 8; Lunetta, the Flying woman, page 4; Bosworth & Stillman, Easy Walking shoes, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dry goods, page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 6; L. & K. Freeman, Millinery, page 6; C. F. Brown, Olive oil, page 8; S. Simmons, clothing, page 7; Dey Brothers & Co., Silk, etc., page 8.

 

WAR REMINISCENCES CHAPTER 36

 

Captain William Saxton, Co. C, 157th Regiment, New York Volunteers.

Wikipedia map.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 19, 1903.

WAR REMINISCENCES.

By Captain Saxton of the 157th Regiment, New York Vols.

BEFORE A CONFEDERATE BATTERY.

Union Gunner Spikes their Guns by Plugging them In the Muzzles—Brave Sergeant Paddock—The Charge of this Regiment Through the Wheatfield—Regiment Reaches the Furthest Point in Front.

CHAPTER 36.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—Foxe's "Regimental Losses" says: "In the first day's fight Captain Tuttle's company of this regiment (Twenty-sixth North Carolina) went into action with three officers and eighty-four men. All of the officers and eighty-three men were killed or wounded". The regiment had only 216 left for duty at the end of the first day's fight and at the end of the battle it mustered only eighty men. It had eighty-six men killed and 502 wounded. Company C of the Eleventh North Carolina, same brigade, also suffered fearfully at the hands of Tuttle's men [sic]. It lost two officers killed and thirty-four out of thirty-eight men killed or wounded.

   All of the left wing of [our] First Corps, on account of superior numbers overlapping their flank, was compelled to fall back around the Seminary, where they hastily threw up barricades, and in connection with four batteries made a determined stand.

   While this was transpiring with the First Corps, the Eleventh Corps was having more than it could attend to. Barlow's division joined ours on the right and he extended his lines to Rock creek north east of town. Devin's cavalry was still further to the east along the York road. This made our line very thin. When Rhodes compelled the right brigades of [our] First Corps to change front and face north, he kept on moving south and east and soon struck the Eleventh Corps. Ewell had also moved Early's division forward and Gordon's brigade struck Von Gilsa's and Hays' and Hake's brigades passed entirely across his right and was about to enter town from the northeast. Devin's cavalry interposed and held them in check until Costar's brigade of Steinwebr's division was taken from the reserve on Cemetery Hill and rushed to the rescue.

   This move on the part of Ewell made it necessary for us to wheel to the right.

   I remember as we rushed down through the town on the double-quick, out past the Pennsylvania college, we swung into line facing north in the rear of our brigade battery (Dilger's Battery I, First Ohio). This was about the time that Confederate O'Neal was turning Paul's right on Oak Ridge. I can distinctly see Dilger now unlimbering his brass pieces and arranging them as we formed in his rear and lay down.

Spiked a Gun in Front.

   The shots from a Confederate battery near McLean's barn were flying just over our heads as we hugged close to mother earth. Colonel Brown's and Lieutenant Arrowsmith's horses became very uneasy and they dismounted and sent them to the rear.

   I think that Confederate battery was not over three-eighths of a mile distant, and they were on a hillside and we in the valley. Dilger fired a shot at them which flew over them. The next gun he himself sighted and as the lanyard was pulled he stepped aside to see the effect. A rebel gun was dismounted and a horse killed. He sighted the next one and not seeing the effect took out his field glass to observe more closely. "What effect, Captain Dilger?" asked Colonel Brown. "I have spiked a gun for them—plugged it in the muzzle," replied Captain Dilger. This gun was abandoned or captured subsequently, for I saw it taken to the rear on the fourth day, Dilger's shot being wedged into the muzzle a little crosswise.

Corporal Johnson Killed.

   The Confederate battery depressed their pieces a little and the shot struck in front and around Dilger. One came striking the ground and ricocheted over it and into our regiment, hitting Corporal Jerry Johnson of Company C in the head. Jerry belonged to the color guard and was in the center of the regiment. Company C was on the right. Poor Jerry lived a day or two, never regaining consciousness, and then died. His revolver was taken from his body and handed to me. I carried it back into Virginia and sent it to his father, if I remember rightly, by Harlan Thompson of the Tenth cavalry who was wounded and went home. Corporal Johnson lived in our village and was the first man killed in our regiment in this great battle.

   Dilger kept on firing and made it so hot for that battery that they were compelled to limber up and move out of range.

Brave Sergeant Paddock.

   Our brigade was then ordered forward and right here occurred one of the most heroic acts of the day. Our orderly, or first sergeant, Charles H. Paddock, had been taken sick on the march in Virginia and was sent to the hospital. He recovered, was forwarded on to Gettysburg in an ambulance and unloaded on Cemetery Hill south of town, while we were north of it fighting. Most soldiers would have considered themselves non-combatants under the circumstances and remained in the rear. Not so with First Sergeant Paddock. He ascertained where the First brigade of the Third division of the Eleventh Corps was engaged and marched down through town, hunted up the regiment and as we were moving forward walked up and took his place on the right of the company without gun or ammunition. He went through the fight with us, but in falling back through town was captured and taken to Belle Island in the James river and spent many weary, suffering, starving months in the detestable rebel prison, finally returning to us when we were in South Carolina. He was promoted to first lieutenant in another company. He is now and has been since the war a general salesman in the great Wholesale drygoods house of James H. Dunham & Co., 340 Broadway, New York City.

Charge Through the Wheatfield.

   As we moved forward we came in contact with a line of O'Neal's Third Alabama sharp shooters lying in the grass, who rose up and came into our lines and were sent to the rear. We then struck the Fifth Alabama and drove them back. Just now occurred another phase of the battle which I have already referred to. When it became necessary to change front to meet the oncoming forces of Ewell's Corps, the division on our right, Barlow's, was out-flanked and he was compelled, after a stubborn fight, to fall back to a new line farther in the rear, Barlow himself being terribly wounded and the command of the division succeeding to General Ames.

   In the general advance of Ewell's Corps, Rhodes' three right brigades, Iverson's, Ramseur's and O'Neal's had struck the right of the First Corps and turned it, and now on account of Barlow's retrograde movement, we found Dole's Georgia brigade of Rhodes' division, consisting of the Fourth, Twelfth, Twenty-first and Forty-fourth Georgia regiments, on our right and rear. This brigade was marching along the Carlisle road. This compelled a change of front and Colonel Brown gave the order "Charge front, forward on the first company—March." This took us through a splendid wheat field waist high all ready to harvest. The regiments on our right gave way in conformity with our right division, but the One Hundredth and Fifty-seventh kept straight ahead.   Colonel Brown says:

   "I was ordered by General Schimmelpfenning to move over some distance to the right and attack the enemy, who were driving the second brigade of our division. This order I at once proceeded to execute. In order to get my regiment in position to do effective service, I found it necessary to move up within fifty yards of the enemy who, by the time I had reached my position, had placed a whole brigade in line to resist my attack."

Under a Tornado of Lead.

   O! how those four Georgia regiments did pour the lead into us in that wheat field. Lieutenant Arrowsmith was killed right here in the rear of Company C. Lieutenants Coffin and Fitch of our company were wounded and the men fell like daisies before the mower's scythe. Buel Roropaugh fell just in front of me and I was struck with a ball on my left side, but fortunately my belt buckle, which was a solid cast New York State buckle, instead of a United States lead filled buckle, had worked around on my aide on which I carried my six-inch Colt's revolver. The bullet struck the brass nipple holding the flat of the holster, cutting it off, and passing through the leather struck the belt buckle I have spoken of.

   I supposed I was shot through the body. It knocked me down and must have dazed me a little. The first I remember was, I was getting up and Buel asked me if I was hit and I told him I guessed so, but the only injury it did me was to leave a large bruise on my [hide] the size of one's hand that turned black.

   General Schimmelpfennig sent Captain Klincker, his aide, to tell Colonel Brown to fall back, but Klincker's horse was shot under him and the order was not delivered. Finally the Twelfth and Twenty-first Georgia regiments began to swing around our flank and it was either retreat, be killed or captured. Then Colonel Brown ordered us to fall back.

Reached the Furthest Point Front.

   "The One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York of Von Amaberg's brigade was posted on the left of the Eleventh Corps. This regiment, lead by Colonel Philip P. Brown, Jr., encountered a severe fire from both infantry and artillery, which told with fearful effect upon its ranks. Over 200 of its men were struck down here and six officers, including Lieutenant-Colonel George Arrowsmith, were killed.

   In its encounter with Dole's Georgia brigade the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh fought its way forward to the farthest point reached by any regiment on the Eleventh Corps line."—Col. Wm. F. Foxe, Author of Foxe's "Regimental Losses.'' W. S.

 

PROTESTS BY POWERS, EIGHTEEN CHILDREN BURNED, CHINESE COMPELLED TO LEAVE, CORTLAND RURAL CEMETERY, AND STREET FAIR

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 19, 1903.

PROTEST BY POWERS.

Intervention to Prevent Massacres In Macedonia.

BULGARIAN MINISTERS PLEASED.

Insurgents Forced to Retire to Mountains Near Salonika—Desperate Fighting Between Turkish Troops and Bands Under General Zontcheff—Appeal of Sofia Young Men's Union.

   Sofia, Sept. 19.—A distinctly optimistic tone now pervades government and diplomatic circles here and hopes are again expressed that war may after all be averted. From London and Constantinople encouraging news has been received. From London it is reported that the British government will send a fleet to Turkish waters, while reports from Constantinople state that Great Britain, France and Italy have intervened to prevent the continuance of massacres in Macedonia.

   It was said that yesterday the representatives of these powers notified the sultan of their dissatisfaction with the methods of suppressing the outbreak and declared that the massacres must be stopped. It is stated that they made special reference to the excesses committed by the Turkish troops in the vilayet of Uskub, where the revolutionary outbreak is insignificant and affords no excuse to the soldiers for pillaging and burning the villages and killing the inhabitants. The porte is said to have replied that Turkey is simply carrying out the wishes expressed by the powers which urged the sultan's government to adopt energetic measures to suppress the revolution as speedily as possible. The report that these powers have taken such action has been received with great satisfaction by the Bulgarian ministry.

   The diplomatic corps here also appears to be more relieved that Turkey has taken the news of Bulgaria's mobilization steps much more quietly than was anticipated. At the present moment the whole situation is regarded as being distinctly better than at any time for some weeks past.

   A special dispatch from Rila says several Bulgarian bands under Captain Stoyanoff attacked Melnik, province of Seres, near Salonika. Two regiments of infantry, with cavalry and artillery in support, were sent from Djoumaia to relieve the garrison, and they forced the insurgents to retire to the mountains, where they are being pursued by the troops.

   Desperate fighting is reported to be proceeding in a defile of the valley of the Struma near Kresna, between Turkish troops and bands under General Zontcheff. Reinforcements of troops have been sent from Seres.

   Nazir Pasha, the Turkish commander at Monastir, is reported to have declared to the consuls there, "We have had one insurrection. It will be the last in this territory."

   The Young Men's Christian Union in Sofia has issued an appeal to the Christian Unions in Europe and America asking them to make September 27 a day of general intercession on behalf of the Macedonians.

   The Dnevnik in publishing the news of Mr. Chamberlain's resignation remarked that he always led the anti-Macedonian policy.

 

EIGHTEEN CHILDREN BURNED.

London Mail's Correspondent Verifies Tales of Turkish Atrocities.

   London, Sept. 19.—As a result of the intervention of the British ambassador the decree of expulsion has not been enforced against the Daily Mail's correspondent at Monastir, who under date of September 16 telegraphs:

   "A veritable reign of terror exists here. Suspected Christians vanish utterly, presumably to prison. Spies abound on every hand. The following are some tales of atrocities which I have thoroughly authenticated:

   "The Turks burned 18 children to death in a baking oven at Pisoder, near Armensko, on September 12. They massacred 200 women and children at Jervan in revenge for a defeat at the hands of the insurgents.

   "Fifty women and children, returning from the mountains to their devastated homes, were murdered by soldiers. Between September 10 and September 12 the Bashi-Bazouks destroyed four villages near Krushevo, in the presence of the kaimakan (the administrator) of Krushevo in person, massacring and mutilating the inhabitants."

   The Daily Mail's Constantinople correspondent says the porte is dissatisfied with Bulgarian assurances that the mobilization of the Bulgarian forces is only intended to prevent bands from passing the frontier, and a high military commission is now sitting in Yildiz Kiosk considering a plan for the invasion of Eastern Roumelia.

   The Turkish embassy in London is daily issuing reports of successes over Bulgarian bands in various districts. Today the embassy reports that Chikmanoff, one of the principal confederates of the Bulgarian revolutionary committee, has been arrested at Diza, 74 miles from Constantinople. Inquiries made by the Associated Press regarding the massacre at Kastoria tend to show that the number of killed has been exaggerated. Dispatches from Athens report that Greece is cordoning her frontier with troops to prevent the incursion of Bulgarian refugees.

 

COMPELLED TO LEAVE.

Attack Made on Chinamen In a Nevada Town.

SEVERAL BEATEN AND ROBBED.

All But One Returned and Notified the Officers—Body of a Washhouse Proprietor Found Three Miles From Town—Eighteen Arrests—Citizens Denounce the Mob.

   Tonopah, Nev., Sept. 19.—A mob of 12 or 15 men invaded Chinatown at this place Wednesday and at the point of guns compelled a number of Chinamen to leave town at once.

   Several did not comply and were badly beaten, dragged to the outskirts of the town and told to take the road to Sodaville. Later on all but one returned to town and notified the officers.

   They stated that Ping Ling, a 73 year old man and proprietor of a washhouse, was missing. Searching parties found his horribly mutilated body three miles west of town. The Chinamen were also robbed of several hundred dollars.

   Eighteen men have been arrested. Among the number is F. M. Arandall, president of a labor union. At a meeting of citizens resolutions denunciatory of the mob were adopted.

 

CLAIM AGAINST GOVERNMENT.

Chinese Minister Has Telegraphed to Learn the Particulars.

   Washington, Sept. 19.—The Chinese government will make a claim against the government of the United States on account of the injuries inflicted by residents of Tonopah, Nev., upon Chinese residents of that place last Wednesday.

   The Chinese minister has telegraphed the Chinese consul general at San Francisco to send him affidavits showing the names of the persons injured and the nature of their injuries, as well as any property loss they might have suffered. These affidavits will be used as the basis of the claim against this government.

   The governor of Nevada has ordered an investigation and will take action looking to the safety of the Chinese residents of Tonopah.

 

WARSHIPS TO REMAIN

Till Beirut Satisfies the American Demands in Full.

   Constantinople, Sept. 19.—It is understood that the American fleet, now at Beirut, will remain there until the remaining American demands are satisfied. These include the official recognition of the American schools, certain privileges for archaeological researches and the release of Professor Tenekedjian, of the American college at Kharput, who is held a prisoner on a charge of conspiracy. The porte is especially reluctant to grant the demand for recognition of the American colleges as the government regards them as hotbeds of revolution.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Root of All Evil.

   Paul the apostle in his charge to Timothy upon the latter's going over into Macedonia said: "For the love of money is the root of all evil which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

   According to Colonel Henry Watterson, the religion of Paul receives little support from the Christian civilization of twentieth century America. In an address before the graduates of a business college at Hoboken the other evening the veteran Kentucky editor said:

   "Each country has its crowns of glory and crowns of thorns. Find out a nation's sins and you find therein its dangers. What is the matter with America? Is it the race problem of the south? I know so much about that that I can say it is not. I have an unshaken belief in the powers above that makes me think that it will furnish its own solution.

   "Is it the labor question? That too, will settle itself. No. The real danger has its roots in human nature, is fostered by our peculiar conditions and lies in the effect of money upon the national moral sense. The brains of the country are all engaged in money making and money making alone.

   "It is the money devil we must fear and the money spirit of which we must beware."

 

THE RURAL CEMETERY

Now Looking its Best—Hydrangeas are in Full Bloom.

   One of the most beautiful places in Cortland at this time of the year is the Cortland Rural cemetery. The grounds are attractive and excellently kept up at all times, but are especially attractive now, on account of the hundreds of hydrangea bushes which are now in full bloom. Many people are averse to going to a cemetery except to honor the dead or through loving memory of friends or kin that may be buried there. A superstitious dread keeps many others away. The modern cemetery is really a most beautiful place and here one can find evidences of first class landscape gardening and the best examples of horticultural skill. Flowering trees and shrubs, shade trees and foliage plants of nearly every variety are to be found here and walks, drives and lawns are kept in the best possible condition.

   Scarcely ever does on find a prettier, better laid out or better kept cemetery than the Cortland Rural cemetery and Superintendent B. L. Gallagher deserves the warmest commendation for the attractive and well kept appearance of Cortland's city of the dead. Few people perhaps realize the amount of work that is necessary to keep the cemetery in its present condition. It contains fifty-five acres and all has to be gone over with lawn mowers at least once a week and some times twice. At other times the men have to trim around the monuments, fences, trees, shrubs, etc., with sickles and shears. The walks and driveways have to be kept in good condition, the shrubs and bushes trimmed, and a multitude of minor details that one would hardly think of need looking after. All this work can be done only under the management of a capable man of good executive ability, but the Cortland cemetery is in all respects really a model.

 

TWO LITTLE TAILORS

Samuel Katzen and A. Litka form a Partnership.

  Samuel Katzen, who has conducted a tailor shop in the Samson building for the past two years, and A. Litka, who has been with Bristol, the tailor, have formed a partnership and will conduct a general merchant tailoring business in the Samson building. The rooms occupied at present will be re-arranged and refitted and in addition to this three additional rooms have been rented across the hall which will be used by them.

   Mr. Litka is an expert workman and before coming to Cortland was employed for five years by the leading tailors of Ithaca. The new firm will make a specialty of ladies' and gentlemen's garments and will put in a fine stock of imported and domestic woolens. Mr. Katzen has gone to New York to purchase goods.

 

W. C. T. U. TO SERVE LUNCHES

At the Collins Store During the Week of the Street Fair.

   The W. C. T. U. will serve lunches and ice cream in C. W. Collins' store, 31 Main-st., during the week of the street fair. The sale will begin Monday evening. It is most earnestly desired that all members and friends of the union should contribute something in the way of supplies, labor, or money, to make this effort a success. The following ladies are the committee in charge and will gladly furnish any information: Mrs. Mary Watson, chairman; Mrs. J. L. Marritt, Mrs. Mary Polley, Mrs. Philo Mead, Mrs. W. A. Dunn, and Mrs. Wilfred Kelley.

 

A Venerable Post.

   A red cedar post which has been in continual use on the Randall farm for eighty-one years was sent to Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell university this morning. The post is in a remarkable state of preservation being fully as sound as when it was first set.

 

Store to be Closed.

   The store of S. Simmons will be closed Tuesday on account of the Hebrew New Years and will reopen Wednesday morning.

 

                                             THE STREET FAIR.

                    Program for Monday—Fair to Continue all the Week.

   Monday, Sept. 21, the Hatch-Adams Carnival Co., will be ready to entertain the people in the city and who contemplate visiting Cortland carnival week.

   At 8 o'clock p. m., the key of the city will be delivered into the carnival committee's hands by Major Brown, and the fun will begin at once.

   Presentation on the public streets on platform, response by Sanford, Sherwood and McNett, committee of Canton Cortland, No. 27, P. M., I. O. O. F., under whose auspices the carnival is given. At 5:30 a. m., the famous Hatch-Adams balloon with Prof. McSherley, will arise into space and this daring aerial navigator will make his famous parachute leap. Hatch-Adams military band in hourly band concerts at convenient locations. 10:30 p. m., the great Adams in the remarkable double breakaway, flying perch act.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The fairgrounds at Sherburne have been sold at foreclosure sale.

   —The gate receipts at the Dryden fair were this year the largest in the history of the society.

   —The annual reunion of the One Hundred Fifty-seventh regiment is today being held at McGraw.

   —The hours of service at the Free Methodist church are quite materially changed. They will be found in the column of church notices.

   —The entering class at Mt. Holyoke college for ladies at South Hadley, Mass., is this year 210. The total registration of the college this year is 690.

   —Two corn harvesters have been at work in the large corn fields on the Randall flats today. The corn is very tall and stands thick and is easily one of the best fields in this section. The harvesters attracted considerable attention.

   —The new display advertisements today are: L. Randall, Candy lovers, page 5; Bosworth & Stillman, Health shoes, page 5; Buck & Lane, Repairing stoves and furnaces, page 5: Katzen & Litka, Tailoring, page 5; Mitch, Choice meat, page 6; Opera House, Robert Emmet, page 5.