END HAS COME, PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, WENT THROUGH SEWER, CHARLES SCHWAB, A MATTER OF CHANGE, BARNUM CIRCUS, AND MRS. SYLVANUS SMITH

 

Pope Leo XIII.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 20, 1903.

THE END HAS COME.

The Pope Had Failed Very Rapidly During the Day.

DEATH WAS AT ONCE ANNOUNCED

And Then Canceled—Collapse Followed a Coughing Fit and then Came a Rally—Last Absolution Performed and Cardinals Summoned—Heart Failure at the Last and Death Came at 3:55 p. m.

   Rome, July 20—Pope Leo XIII passed away at 3:55 o'clock this afternoon.

   London, July 20.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company, dated Rome and timed 1:35 p. m, states that Pope Leo's death is imminent. The cardinals have been summoned. The dispatch declares that the government will hold up the entire telegraphic services for two or three hours and finally announce the death through the Stefani official agency.

   At noon it was really thought the Pope was dying of heart failure.  Cardinal Vanutelli gave the last absolution and all the members of the Sacred college and the diplomatic corps were admitted to the bed chamber.

   Suddenly the Pope rallied, but death is expected in the course of the day.

 

THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

Very Brief and Gives Very Little New Information.

   Rome, July 20.— Official bulletin regarding the Pope's condition, issued by his physicians this morning, giving but little information outside of the fact that his Holiness' condition continues grave The bulletin reads:

   "During the night his Holiness slept only at short intervals. His general condition remains constantly grave. Pulsation 94, respiration, 32, temperature, 36.2 Centigrade. (Signed) Lapponi and Mazzoni."

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

President's Message of Sympathy.

   Rome, July 20.—President Roosevelt has sent through Assistant Secretary of State Loomis to Cardinal Rampolla a telegram expressing the president's sincere sympathy for his holiness in this hour of supreme anxiety and asking to be informed of the condition of the venerable patient.

   The Vatican authorities are deeply appreciative of this expression of the American president and recall the cordial personal exchanges between the president and the pope when the volumes of presidential messages and papal encyclicals were exchanged.

   Cardinal Rampolla sent an answer to the message which contained the thanks of the Vatican authorities for the solicitude expressed by the president and also the latest information concerning the condition of the pope.

 

Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y.

WENT THROUGH SEWER.

Four Convicts Escaped From Clinton Prison.

DUG UNDER WALL FROM CELLAR.

Must Have Been Months In Digging Subterranean Passageway of Over 75 Feet— Left Their Striped Suits in the Sewer and Had Each a Pail Filled With Food.

   Plattsburg, N. Y., July 20.—One of the most daring escapes ever made from Clinton prison at Dannemora took place Saturday afternoon when four convicts, "all third term men," named Peter James, John Cummins, John Elliott and Edward Kennedy, succeeded in getting away.

   The men were at work in the cellar of the factory building which is near the prison wall, and were last seen at 2 o'clock. An hour and half later it was discovered that they had dug a passageway from the cellar of the factory under the wall and into the sewer which empties about a half mile from the prison.

   They left their striped suits in the sewer and it is believed that they have either been furnished with clothes or made clothes out of overalls material manufactured in the prison.

   Immediately after the discovery of their flight the big siren whistle was sounded notifying the farmers and other residents for miles around of the escape. Guards from the prison were hurriedly dispatched by team and train in every direction.

   James is serving a life sentence, while the other three each have from three to five years more to serve. All four are of slight build and have dark hair. So far not a trace of them has been found, although it is rumored that they are in the vicinity of Cadyville.

   After searching all night and all Sunday in a pouring rainstorm, Warden Deyo and his force of guards have been unable as yet to locate the four convicts who escaped from Clinton prison in Dannemora Saturday.

   Only one clue has been discovered and this was followed, but the police decline to give the details. The four men must have been at work for the past three or four months in digging the subterranean passageway, a distance of over 75 feet, and even now it is impossible to surmise what they did with the earth which they dug out.

   Each of the four men has a large tin pail which it is believed is filled with food. With this supply together with berries and vegetables they may secure, it is believed they can subsist for weeks.

   Superintendent of Prisons Collins was at Dannemora when the men escaped and has given his personal attention to the hunt.

   Peter James, one of the fugitives, was serving a life sentence for shooting a banker in Troy, N. Y., some years ago. He is a desperate criminal and is expected to fight to a finish before he is overpowered. The other three are also desperate fellows.

 

WE SHALL BE INDIANS.

London Biologist Says Starr is Right About It.

   London, July 20.—Peter C. Mitchell, lecturer on Biology at the London Hospital Medical college, confirms the statement of Prof. Starr, of the university of Chicago, that the Americans are reverting to the Indian type. He says it is often observable that English live among exotic races, such as the Chinese and the negroes, have gained a certain superficial resemblance to them, which is partly due to the climate. He does not doubt that if all races except the English were obliterated the English would slowly spread throughout the world and develop in time into different races.

 

Charles M. Schwab.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Steel Corporation Presidency.

   The appointment of an assistant, W. E. Corey, to President Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel corporation is taken as a text for many newspaper sermons on modern finance and financiers, because it is generally believed that Mr. Schwab, for well understood reasons, has been removed from control of the corporation.

   The New York Evening Post thinks that "the predominant feeling of right minds, in the presence of Mr. Charles M. Schwab's final breakdown, after receiving many rude buffets of fortune, is one of pity. He seems a victim. His generation and the system of great finance upon which it was his lot to fall have proved too much for him. The fine natural abilities with which he set out, the physical vigor, the mental energy, the technical training, the mastery of men—today they all appear but as so much splendid promise wrecked. The vast and remorseless machinery of financial speculation has drawn him in and left him bruised and bleeding.

   "But he has been unconsciously a powerful moral teacher. He has revealed to the observant the true nature of that world of 'high finance' into which he so rashly ventured, with all its desperate chances and wild audacity and gambler's passion, so destructive, as we see, to physical and moral life alike, He has shown us what comes of 'thinking in hundred millions' and living in a mad revelry of luxury. The get-rich-quick method of Wall street appears, in the light of Mr. Schwab's misfortunes, no better morally, and not even any more successful in the long run than fleecing schemes on the Bowery. And he has done not a little to remind us that the old fashioned moralities and the well tried rules of business are still supreme. Financial follies surely come home to roost. New syndicates cannot enact new laws of morality. The gambler remains a gambler still though he hazard millions."

 

A MATTER OF CHANGE.

Stranger Tried the Flim-Flam Game and Got Caught.

   Charles Sanders was the victim of a flim-flam change deal Saturday afternoon, which was worked in the following manner:

   A stranger entered the store and asked for a package of tobacco. When it was given him he threw down a $10 bill. Mr. Sanders asked him if he had nothing smaller and he replied that he had not. Mr. Sanders took the bill giving him in change a $5 bill and $4.95 in change. As the change was laid on the counter, the sharper discovered that he had some change in a vest pocket and presented a five cent piece in payment, asking if he could have his bill back. Mr. Sanders of course agreed and gave him the $10 bill, the stranger shoving the change across the counter to Mr. Sanders minus the $5 bill. As other customers were waiting Mr. Sanders took the money and hastened to attend to their wants. As soon as he had waited on them it occurred to him that he did not have his $5 bill and that the stranger had disappeared. He determined that he would not let the matter drop without trying to find the man and started out in search of him.

   After a short time be spotted his man entering Mills tailor shop and followed him in. Here the man tried to work the same game, but was unsuccessful, as Mr. Mills was unable to change the bill.

   On leaving Mills, the sharper went to the Brunswick hotel, followed by Mr. Sanders, who at once went to Judge Dougherty and swore out a warrant for the arrest of the sharp and gave it to Chief Barnes who soon had the man in custody. When arraigned before Judge Dougherty he gave the name of John Doe saying that he came from Hornellsville and was a railroad man, that he did not want to give his right name for fear of losing his job. On returning the $5 and paying the costs he was discharged.

   It has since been learned that he tried to work several other business men, but was unsuccessful except in this one instance and then only because Mr. Sanders was in a hurry to wait on other customers.

   The man is described as being a little above medium height, from 25 to 30 years of age, smooth faced and weighing about 160 pounds. When last seen he was making down South Main-st. toward the Lehigh [railroad] station at a rapid gait.

 

THE BARNUM CIRCUS.

First Advertising Car in Town—County Being Billed.

   The first advertising car for the Barnum & Bailey circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth," which is booked for Cortland on Aug. 10, arrived in the city Sunday and the city and all the surrounding country is now being billed. There are three advertising cars, which follow each other at intervals of about a week apart. R. F. Hamilton, the general advertising manager, says that the circus tries to cover eight roads extending out of the city in different directions, and with the three cars the total amount of country roads covered out from Cortland will amount to about 800 miles. The circus is now making its first tour of this country in five years, having spent that time abroad. It returns with many, new and novel features and will, without a doubt, be looked forward to with interest and anticipation by both young and old.

   The advertising car that is in Cortland today is one built especially for the business. It presents a very attractive appearance, being covered with gold leaf at an expense of $22,000.

   In the car, which is 60 feet long, is a general assembly room, office, kitchen, and diningroom, which together with bunks, posters [bills] and apparatus for putting up the same, boiler for cooking paste, etc., takes up the room to the last available inch.

   The regular circus train consists of 91 cars and is run in five sections, except when large engines can be obtained, when the train is made up in four sections, as will be the case when the circus is on the Lackawanna road. They exhibit today in Montpelier, Vt.

 

Death of Old Resident.

   Mrs. Sylvanus Smith of Blodgett Mills' was stricken with apoplexy last Thursday, and died Sunday morning. Her age was 71 years. All of her children were with her in the last moments of life. Besides her husband she is survived by eight children: James A. Smith, Amos Smith, Mrs. W. H.  Robertson, and Mrs. Frank Eades of this city, Edwin Smith of Virgil, Mrs. Clarence Craft of East Homer, Oscar D. Smith and Mrs. Theodore Shepard of Blodgett Mills. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church in Blodgett Mills tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2 p. m.

 

BREVITIES.

   —A sketch of the late Pope XIII appears on the third page.

   —Mrs. R. E. Allen, 11 Greenbush-st., slipped on the back piazza last Saturday spraining her ankle which proved very painful.

   —The new display advertisements today are—First National Bank, Bank accounts, page 5; McGraw & Elliott, Drugs, page 6; Cortland Steam Laundry, White Vests, etc., page 5; J. W. Cudworth, Optical goods, page 5; C. F. Brown, Toilet paper, page 5; Warren, Tanner & Co., Clearing up sale, of carpets, etc., page 6; Gardener's 5 and 10 cent store, Fresh Fudge, page 5; L. & K. Freeman, Summer Millinery, page 4.

 

WAR REMINISCENCES: CHAPTER 27

 

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

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 18, 1903.

WAR REMINISCENCES.

By Captain Saxton of the I57th Regiment, N. Y. Vołs.

A CONFEDERATE VIEW OF BATTLE.

Error of the Confederates Which Favored the Union Retreat—General Howard's Vain Attempt to Rally the Troops—At General Hooker's Headquarters—General Sickles' Position—A General Stampede.

CHAPTER 27.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—Here is what Confederate Gen. Doles says in regard to the battle where the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York participated.

   "My command moved forward at the double quick to assault the enemy who had taken up a strong position on the crest of a hill in the open field. He was soon driven from this position, the command pressing him. He made a stubborn resistance from behind a wattle fence on a hill thickly covered with pine. The whole command moved against this position, the Fourth and Forty-fourth Georgia in front and the Twenty-first and Twelfth on his left flank and rear. Here we captured one gun (a rifled piece).

   "We pursued his retreating force about 300 yards over an open field receiving a very severe fire from musketry and a battery of four pieces on the crest of a hill commanding the field below."

Position of the 157th.

   We had come out into the White House opening, behind the Second Corps and remained in line of battle till we were called to the rear of the Chancellor House, where we formed in close column by companies and lay down. This part of the battle had lasted about two hours.

   When Jackson had swept away the Eleventh Corps he halted in the open fields around Dowdalls, Hawkins and Talleys to reform his troops. Gen. Colston, the commander of his second line says, "The Federal writers have wondered why Jackson's Corps did not complete its work on the evening of May 2. They do not realize the condition of our troops after their successful charge on Howard. We had forced our way through brush so dense that the troops were nearly stripped of their uniforms. Brigades and regiments had become so mixed that they could not be handled; besides which, the darkness of the evening was so intensified by the shade of the woods that nothing could be seen a few yards off. The halt at that time was not a mistake but a necessity. So far from intending to stop, Jackson was hurrying A. P. Hill's division to the front to take the place of Rodes' and mine, to continue the attack when he was wounded."
                                    Confederates Made an Error.

   It was a very fortunate thing for the Eleventh Corps and, for that matter, for the whole Army of the Potomac that three brigades of Jackson's troops made a serious mistake. In the first movement the right brigade of Rodes' line, Colquit's and the right brigade of Colston's line, and Ramseur's, came to the plank road at Burton's farm where Paxton's brigade of infantry and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry were stationed.

   The Fifty-fifth Ohio had thrown out a strong picket there and as the Confederates advanced they opened out on them. Colquet observed some cavalry on the road to the southwest dressed in Federal uniforms and conceived that he was attacked on his flank by Union troops. He halted his brigade, faced about to the southwest and sent Ramseur some distance up the plank road to meet the attack. Ramseur found the mounted men to be Lee's cavalry and returned; then Colquet faced about and marched on; but he had detained seventeen regiments for an hour and when he arrived at Dowdall's we had fallen back and formed the new line spoken of. One can hardly conjecture what would have been the result had these seventeen regiments continued without a halt right down the plank road.

   Gen. Howard and his whole staff, and the rest of the Eleventh Corps might have been gobbled up almost entire.

At Corps Headąuarters.

   How was it at Corps headquarters? Gen. Howard in his defensive Century articles, twenty-three years after the war, says: "The guns and masses of the right brigade struck the second line of Devan's before McLean's front had given way and quicker than it could be told, with all the fury of the wildest hail storm, everything, every sort of organization that lay in the path of the mad current of panic stricken men had to give way and be broken into fragments." (Where was he for the last thirty minutes while his right division was being pulverized?)

   Continuing, he says: "My own horse seemed to catch the fury. He sprang, he rose high on his hind legs and fell over, throwing me to the ground; my aid-de-camp, Dessaur, was struck by shot and killed, and for a few moments I was as helpless as any of the men who were speeding by without arms to the rear; but faithful orderlies helped me to remount. Schurz was still doing all he could to face his regiments about and send them to Devan's northern flank."

   Gen. Schurz says: "I saw Gen. Devans, wounded, carried by, and he had long been in the rear, when we were overpowered and fell back on Bushbeck's position, where Gen. Howard in the meantime had been trying to rally the routed troops." It is a mile and a half from the angle of Von Gilsa's front to the Dowdall house, Howard's headquarters.

   You remember between 4 and 5 p. m., Howard, Steinwehr and Gen. Hooker's aid Capt. Moore had started south to the furnace and beyond, with Barlow's brigade to help Birney capture some regiments. It is 3 miles at least from where Barlow started to the Catherine furnace. I don't know how much below they went, but you can estimate the time it would take an infantry brigade to march the distance. Gen. Howard says, "we returned rapidly to our post and dismounted." What time do you suppose it was then? Jackson's move began at 5:15 and the attack at 5:30.

   Gen. Howard, in another place in his Century article says Dole says: "After a resistance of about ten minutes we drove him (Devans) from his position on the left and carried his battery of two guns, caissons and horses." This was the fire which Steinwehr and I heard shortly after our return from Barlow. Somebody's guns thundered away for a few short minutes, and then came the fitful rattle of musketry."

Over Forty Warnings.

   I can't imagine what our Corps commander was doing from the time he acknowledges he heard the guns of the first attack, till the first of his retreating division had fallen back a mile and a half and did not reach Howard's headquarters before 6 p. m. Howard had received over forty warnings of this attack which I shall refer to later.

   Gen. Howard did exhibit amount of personal bravery in striving to his utmost to rally his broken divisions and appealing to them "not to disgrace him by their flight." It was too late. He should have heeded the request of his subordinate officers of more military experience than he, to change front and contract his lines and entrench.

   It is possible we have here an example of wireless telegraphy, in that Gen. Howard's words to Gen. Graham the day before (I would send my compliments to the whole rebel army, and invite them to attack me in my present position) had been transmitted to Stonewall Jackson, and he had accepted the invitation with thanks.

At General Hooker's Quarters.

   As Gen. Hooker sat on the porch of the Chancellor house Saturday evening at 6:30 p.m., conversing with his aids, Col. Chandler and Capt. Russel, the sounds of distant cannonading came to their ears. Capt. Russel stepped out in front and looked down the road toward Dowdall's. ''My God, here they come," he shouted to Hooker. Hooker with his aides immediately mounted their horses and rode rapidly a little way down the pike and met the fugitives of Devan's division, from whom be first learned of Jackson's attack on his right Corps, which had been going on for nearly an hour.

In Order and Good Spirits.

   When Bushbeck's line fell back, our part of Schurz's division (the Twenty-sixth Wis., the Fifty-eighth New York, the Eighty-second Ohio, the Eighty-second Illinois, and the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York,) withdrew in order and good spirits, as I have before described, and halted and reformed in line of battle on the Bullock road northwest of the Chancellor house. The rest of Bushbeck's line, together with such fragments of other regiments as remained with him, marched up the pike to Fairview, west of the Chancellor house, turned south and formed a line facing west in front of some batteries that Capt. Best had arranged. Capt. Dilger slowly retired up the pike and with one gun, supported by two companies of the Sixty-first, Ohio's Irish boys, kept the road clear of the enemy. He joined Best on the left with the rest of his battery. Hooker ordered Berry, in reserve north of the Chancellor house, to face about and march west and form a line facing west on the west of Fairview. Slocum ordered Williams' division, which had been away with Sickles to move up, form a line in front of Bushbeck and the artillery, and connect with Berry. Williams' line extended south from the pike and Berry north. Back of Williams was Bushbeck, and back of him were forty-three pieces of artillery. Brig-Gen. Hayes of Couch's Second Corps was moved back of Berry, and we of Schurz's division were on Berry's right on the Bullock road, our right deflecting to the northwest. We remained here till about 9 or 10 p. m., when we were moved to the Chancellor house.

With General Sickles.

   Let us return to Gen. Sickles. Somewhere about 5 p. m. he sent to Gen. Pleasanton at Hazel Grove for some cavalry and Pleasanton himself rode south to see how it could be used. While down there Col. Huey of the Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry reported to him and Pleasanton ordered him to report to General Howard. Huey rode back to Hazel Grove where his cavalry was bivouacked and started north on the Vista (a cleared space 20 feet wide on each side of the road for an eighth of a mile) for Dowdalls to report to Howard, not knowing that the Eleventh Corps had been disastrously driven from there. The pack mule reserve ammunition train of Sickles' Corps with 70,000 rounds of ammunition under Col. Hall that had been parked at Hazel Grove followed the cavalry, thinking to resume their former position with Berry's division. On the Vista they passed some caissons, ambulances, wagons, etc., with accompanying soldiers and camp followers parked there belonging to the Third Corps, which had gone south, not knowing that the Eleventh Corps had retreated along the pike half a mile north of them. Dilger had passed down the pike, having ceased firing as he came into the woods, and was probably forming on Best's left at this time.

Charged in the Woods.

   When Col. Huey came to the forks of the road, one leading to Dowdalls and one straight north to the pike, he noticed some Confederates passing in his front toward Chancellorsville, and some approaching his left on the Dowdalls' road. He did the only thing he could in that narrow lane surrounded on each side with thick woods. He drew sabre, ordered a charge, and ran right into a body of rebel troops on the pike who opened a withering fire on him. Maj. Keenan was killed by his side, Capt. Arrowsmith and Capt. Haddock and about thirty men were shot down.

   Col. Huey obliqued to the left and rode around the enemies' left and the Union right and came in behind Best's artillery. The rear of the cavalry, hearing the attack in front, turned into the woods over by Williams' log works and joined the rest of the regiment.

   They had seen none of the fugitives of the Eleventh Corps who had passed down the pike before this.

   The Confederates also fired into the mule ammunition train. Col. Hall attempted to retreat, but the mules became hopelessly tangled up with the caissons, wagons and ambulances that were camped by the roadside and a regular stampede across Hazel grove occurred.

A Stampede.

   Not a man of the Eleventh Corps was in this stampede, with the possible exception of a few stragglers who had fallen in behind Williams' log works. There is a possibility of a very few being carried down through half a mile of dense woods when the Confederates reached these log works, but not a probability, as the natural  line of retreat would be back east toward the Chancellor house and not south across the enemies' front to Hazel grove. This stampede continued on across the north part of Hazel grove then into Fairview a little north of the Twelfth Corps to the Chancellor house. This has always been unjustly confounded with and assigned to the Eleventh Corps retreat and from this the Eleventh Corps has received no end of abuse by generals and historians. At the first sound of this stampede Maj. Huntington, chief of artillery of Whipple's division of Sickles' Corps, aligned his eighteen pieces of cannon and Pleasanton's four pieces of horse artillery to meet the attack supposed to be coming from the Confederates.

   Intelligence had come to Sickles of the Eleventh Corps disaster and he immediately recalled the forces under him and it was of William's division of the Twelfth Corps that came in behind the batteries at this time. In the cannonading that soon ensued, the One Hundred and Tenth Pa. got excited and sent a volley into the backs of these cannoneers. W. S.

POPE PHOTOGRAPHED, TORNADO, BIG FIRE, SITUATION IN MACEDONIA, TRADES ASSEMBLY, LONG CARRIAGE DRIVE, RED MEN, AND TWO WEDDINGS

 

Pope Leo XIII (1898).

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 18, 1903.

POPE PHOTOGRAPHED.

Dr. Mazzoni Took a Dozen Pictures or His Holiness.

HIS CONDITION IS STATIONARY.

Physicians Do Not Think His System Can Absorb the Pleuric Liquid—Pope Received Cardinal Rampolla—Installation of Cardinal Agliardi as Vice Chancellor of the Church.

   Rome, July 18.—From last night examination of the pope it appears that the liquid in the pleura remains at about the same level, which is marked with a dermographic pencil on the pontiff's side. The physicians think the liquid amounts to about 1,200 grams. Considering the physical condition of the pope the doctors do not believe it possible that his body can absorb it, as might a strong young well nourished organism.

   After the visit of the physicians the pope received Cardinal Rampolla, who remained in the sick room only a few minutes. He again gave the pontiff a full report of the prayers offered in his behalf all over the world. His holiness raising both hands said: "I bless all those who pray to God for me."

   In Vatican circles there is gossiping over the great reception given by Mgr. Ajati at Lisbon to celebrate his elevation to the cardinalate and also over the solemnity with which Cardinal Agliardi took possession of the new office of vice chancellor of the church. It is learned, however, that the pope himself in his last interview with Cardinal Agliardi urged the performance of the ceremony.

   In sharp contrast with these ceremonies are the continuous preparations at the Vatican for the death of the pontiff.

   A huge spit, 12 feet long, which has been used for roasting food for the conclaves since the time of Gregory XVI, was brought from an old storeroom and will be employed to roast quarters of beef for the isolated cardinals while they are deliberating in the conclave over the election of the successor to Leo XIII.

 

Mazzoni Photographed the Pope.

   Paris, July 18.—The Rome correspondent of the Gaulois says when Dr. Mazzoni entered the sick room yesterday morning and found the pope seated in his arm chair and feeling less exhausted he said: "What would you say, holy father, if the doctor transformed himself into a photographer?"

   "By all means, my good Mazzoni," replied Pope Leo, smiling. Dr. Mazzoni then produced a camera and took a dozen pictures of Pope Leo, who was taken seated with Dr. Lapponi standing beside him and his valet, Centra, kneeling at his feet.

 

DEATHS BY TORNADO.

Five Men Killed and Score of Others Injured.

A PROPERTY LOSS OF $2,000,000.

Four Deaths Occurred at Race Track, Where All the Buildings Were Demolished—Fifth Man Killed at Vulcain Company's Plant—Many Houses Unroofed at Streator, Ill.

   Streator, Ill., July 18.—A tornado killed five men, injured a score of others and caused a property loss of $2,000,000 here last night.

   Four were killed at the race track, where all the buildings were demolished. The ball ground amphitheater and Stauber's clothing factory were also wrecked.

   At the Vulcain Western company's plant which suffered heavily, the fifth man was killed.

   The Indiana, Illinois and Iowa bridge, costing $1,000,000, is nearly all gone, the hosting works and buildings at Spring Hill shaft were ruined, many buildings in Kangley four miles west of Streator were blown down and several persons were injured.

   Many houses were unroofed and otherwise damaged.

   Later returns show that sixteen persons were probably fatally injured and that a dozen more sustained broken bones.

   The dairy barn of A. J. Daugherty, on the edge of the town was blown down and several persons who were in it at the time were badly injured. At the Vulcain works fifty men had just stopped work when the tornado struck. The works had just been erected at a cost of $150,000.

 

BIG FIRE AT AUBURN, N. Y.

Loss Will Exceed $125,000—High School Burned.

   Auburn, N. Y, July 18.—One of the fiercest conflagrations that has visited Auburn in years broke out about 11:30 o'clock last night and the estimated damages are between $125,000 and $150,000. The flames spread to the High school and this was destroyed. It was constructed seventeen years ago at a cost of $75,000, and is heavily insured.

   The old frame building, formerly occupied by the Barber Shop company and owned by Okane & Aiken, was wiped out and with it the numerous industries that had homes within its walls. The loss on the building is estimated at $10,000, while those who occupied it were much heavier sufferers.

   These include the Auburn Soap and Chemical company, with a loss of $10,000; the planing mill of E. W. Webb and Francis Dobson, loss estimated at $8,000; the carpenter shop of Charles Hollingshead, loss $2,000.

   Buildings on either side of the big factory were burned down and the loss is complete. The Auburn Extract company is a heavy sufferer, the damage being estimated at $25,000. The building was occupied by the Extract company and A. J. Brinkerhoff's carpet cleaning works, which was also fully destroyed. The wood yard of Hickok Brothers was destroyed and there are eight other houses occupied by private families that were damaged more or less.

   The fire started in the Dobson planing shops and spread with remarkable rapidity. This building is on the south side of Garden-st., on the Oswasco river and a strong breeze fanned the flames. The heat was intense and the firemen were greatly handicapped. Buildings across the creek were threatened and heroic action alone saved them.

   After the Barber building was wiped out the buildings on either side ignited and were consumed. The High school caught and the flames spread too rapidly for the tired out fire fighters and, handicapped by the height of the building, the fire being in the roof, the men were forced back.

   The Central Grammar school, adjoining the High school was threatened. Bell's livery barns, to the west, were saved. Dwelling houses on Chapel-st., caught several times, but the fire was extinguished.

   Several carloads of lumber in the Central yards caught from the sparks and the Columbia Cordage company's plant was threatened, but the night force at the shops put this out.

 

Ellen Maria Stone.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Situation in Macedonia.

   No doubt the situation in Macedonia is bad enough, but of all the reports in circulation it is impossible to decide which are true and which false.

   A correspondent of the London Times has been wandering in the region around Strumitza, the district where  Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, was captured, and which is said to have been the scene of many recent encounters between revolutionary bands and Turkish troops and outrages by the latter. At a place called Smerelish it appears a band of fugitive villagers were mistaken for revolutionists by a Turkish detachment not long ago and annihilated. Turkish irregulars in search of revolutionists are not apt to be particular in the matter of identification. But the correspondent failed to discover here or in the neighborhood of Istib, which he also visited, any extended signs of the reign of terror which is supposed to prevail everywhere. Poverty and squalor prevailed on all sides, and there was a marked disinclination on the part of the natives to have anything to do with a foreigner, but the inhabitants of many of the villages were working tranquilly enough in their fields. In the town of Strumitza only twenty-three suspects had been arrested, and all of them except two were released after a fortnight's imprisonment.

 

FOR A TRADES ASSEMBLY.

Effort to Join the Several Unions of the City.

   A movement is on foot among Cortland's various labor organizations to form a trades assembly for the purpose of bettering the interests of the members of the unions and aid the general business welfare of the city. One meeting has been held which was attended by representatives of eight of the local labor organizations and much interest was shown. The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the secretary.

  The cities of Ithaca, Elmira, and Binghamton unite in the observance of Labor Day. The Cortland organizations have made application to become affiliated with them in observing the day and are at present awaiting a reply.

 

BENNETT'S HARDWARE.

Large Addition to be Built for Work Shop and Store.

   The large and constantly increasing volume of business which is being done by W. W. Bennett in the hardware and plumbing lines at 37 and 39 Railroad-st., Cortland, has made a demand for larger quarters. Work has already been begun and preliminary steps taken toward the erection of an addition 30 by 40 feet in the rear of the present store which will be of brick, two stories high with basement.

   The basement will be used for storing stoves, the second floor will be used for a stock room and storage and the ground floor will be fitted up for a work shop with all modern equipments.

   The partition between the store and what is now used for a shop will be removed and the entire front thrown into one large store. This will give ample room for the display of stores, refrigerators and other articles requiring a large amount of floor space and will also increase the facilities for carrying a large stock of general hardware.

   Beers & Warfield have the contract for the brick work and the carpenter work will be in charge of N. P. Meager. The building is to be completed by Sept. 1.

 

A LONG CARRIAGE DRIVE.

Coming from Colorado Springs to Attend the Cortland Fair.

   Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Weaver, formerly of Pomeroy-st., this city, who went to Colorado Springs, Colo., a year ago on account of the health of the former, are now homeward bound. They left Colorado Springs about three weeks ago with a one pair of horses and a carriage and intended to drive through. They planned to reach Cortland in August in time to attend the Cortland fair which occurs the last week in the month. The distance is about 1,800 miles.

 

Red Men's Installation.

   The following officers were installed by Pecos tribe, No. 357, Improved Order of Red Men, at their regular meeting Thursday evening:

   Sachem—John Whalen.

   Senior Sagamore—John Hayes.

   Junior Sagamore—Wm. Galpin.

   Prophet—F. J. Donegan.

   First Sannap—James McNiff.

   Seeond Sannap—Horace Walker.

   First Warrior—Maurice Lane.

   Second Warrior—Ed Hartnett.

   Third Warrior—James Riley.

   Fourth Warrior—Timothy Tehan.

   First Brave—Daniel McAuliffe.

   Second Brave —Wm. Hartnett.

   Third Brave—Richard Butler.

   Fourth Brave—Harry French.

   Guard of Wigwam—Martin McMahon.

   Guard of Forest—Jesse Vandenburg,

 

Gross-Hammond.

   Charles Andrew Gross and Miss Bertha S. Hammond of Cortland were married by Rev. Dr. Keppel at their future home, 191 South Main-st., Thursday evening in the presence of immediate relatives only. The bridal couple were the recipients of many handsome presents. Among those present from out of town were Mrs. Chas. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Chaplin, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Graham and Miss Sadie Gross, all of McGraw, N. Y.

  

Park-Crysler.

   The marriage of Harry B. Park of this city to Miss Ina Pearl Crysler of McGraw took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley A. Crysler, on Wednesday afternoon, July 15, at 2:30 o'clock. The wedding was an unpretending, but none the less pretty event. The bride was tastefully attired in light blue trimmed with white, and carried a bouquet of white roses. The bridegroom, a well-known young man of this city, resides with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Park, at 28 Elm-st. Besides those already named all whom were present, the guests were as follows: Miss Bessie Park, sister of the bridegroom, Miss Grace Hare, Miss Nellie Loope, Harry Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bingham and their fine baby boy Lawrence, all of Cortland, Miss Zoe Welch of McGraw, Mrs. J. F. Loope and W. H. DeLong of Polkville, Lee Crysler and Miss Edith L. Crysler, brother and sister of the bride, and the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Keppel.

   Miss Grace Hare, who presided at the organ, played the wedding march as the contracting parties took their station under an arch composed of ropes of daisies in the parlor of the home and, while the organ continued to sound softly, Dr. Keppel united the happy couple in the bonds of holy matrimony according to the ritual of the Methodist church. After hearty congratulations the bridal party sat down to an abundant repast, at the close of which the carriage bore the young couple to the Lehigh Valley railroad depot whence they left by the 5:30 train for a short trip, followed by the good wishes—and some other things—from the friends who hastened after them to the depot to see them off.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Grace church choir will meet for rehearsal at 7:30 this evening.

   —The new display advertisements today are: Perfection bakery, Fresh baked goods, page 5; E. E. Bates, Optical goods, page 5.